Personally I have my server room garded by a small band of 1337 hobbits, whose job it is, at the slightest sign of evil intervention, to take all the hard drives/ram etc and throw them in the crack of doom.
If even a tiny dust particle gets between the read/write head and the platter while it is spinning at 3600 RPM or faster, Bad Things Happen
Which would lead to quite a nice way of trashing your drive if you had the ability to modify it yourself, or even better if some company wants to make 'secure' drive.
all thats needed is a nice row of diamond tipped styli that can be triggered and play the disk.
It might be possible to get the data from a hammered disk, but from a case full of steel wool? also if you had something to ignite it (and possibly some oxidant), well steel wool burns pretty good...
hmm as a thought, given that cases a small and at least semi-sealed you might not want to be near it when you did this:)
except of course that they charge a shitload more than Nominet, I'd really hope that gnu.org would be willing to give (ok maybe reasonable setup costs) the 3rd level domains to any valid gpl project. haha Nominet the not for profit domain registrar, bet there's some serious self kicking going on at Sandford Gate. Though I gotta say it WORKS, I've had to call them quite a few times, and I don't just get bounced from waiting to call to waiting to call all day, and they are helpful!?!?! Now NSI, it's gonna be a footnote in my will, 'don't forget to check if blah.com has been released yet'
might be worth a try if you aren't too greedy (charge less than taking you to court, and unless you had a lot of dosh or a good law degree you would lose).
In the end most big companies are going to buy up all the TLD's to protect their brandname, and it makes sense, if you have hotelbookings.net, what is the chance you are going to lose half your customers the second time they visit and type.com instead. Same with any other TLD that comes along.
ccTLDs make some sense, and a lot of good could be done by scrapping the current.us one and replacing it with something slightly more sensible than company.town.state.us (or whatever it is).
Personally though I think the Usenet hierarchy makes more sense, for a start it drills down e.g. comp.lang.perl (2000/07/12 not 12/07/2000) and it is expandable to allow for future additions. Although it has it's problems too, I'd say that if anyone can come up with a really good alternative, well...
...ok, probably everyone's going to ignore them and they will die poor and bitter, but you never know.
errr I think that as Mozart died in 1791, and Chopin in 1849, then they would both be out of copyright by now, although then again if they had done something REALLY artistic, like; to pick a wild idea out of nowhere, say draw a cartoon of a mouse, then it may still be copyright by the company^h^h^h^h^h^h^h ummm estate.
Afford doesn't really have anything to do with it, you can pick up a 'pirate' CD with windows as cheaply as you can get a CD 'copy' of Linux.
Actually China and much of S.E. Asia really proves software as price isn't a factor.
Well it proves how good the marketing department is anyway "Anytime people can have their freedom"
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They do have pretty heavy duty laws against porn (even by US standards), and I'd imagine what isn't blocked is logged, always useful for future reference...
I guess you have never heard the phrase 'we destroy that that we love the most' umm or sumfin'
LINUX IS DEAD. It was good because it gave a real alternative, but now, more and more it is not an alternative, it is a option.
Know your enemy, become your enemy...
I really don't know what to say, Linux is good becuase it lets you do what you want, if you know how, but to compete with windows it has to be an OS that lets you do what you want with a couple of days in college.
But the more it gets easier the more it's going to lose, 10 years from now we may be all booting straight into gnome/KDE but we are still going have the same options we have now...
Realy I belive, just as you do, but what when the the revolution is over? when there is no one left to fight.
In the end only the names change (pathetic but true).
well since no one really seemed to get that, let's make it clearer.
THE IMPORT TAX IS ON BEEF - i.fucking.e. beef from France to the US
THE EXPORT TAX IS ON FRENCH DELICACIES - like Roquefort from the us to France.
anybody remember the banananas? the US wasn't happy that the UK put a tax on their bananas, so they put a prohibative tax on woolen jumpers, whisky etc from the UK.
The US bananas were from corporate owned farms, the ones before were from small farms.
Now: you want a banana, it's a Chiquita Banana.
The UK backed down, I'm glad someone didn't
Titus-G, celebrating the 4th of July, I don't want that guilt.
I want a BMW 750 (and a EVO VI, hmm actually 2 of them, one with the traction control & stuff, and one of the ones that have the 0 -> 60 that means you can drive all day and arrive yesterday, oh and a Lotus Carlton, and an M5 err I digress). (ooh S500 as well, & another Series III SWB).
I still have the same PC I had 3 years ago, same CPU/RAM/HD, you couldn't even buy it now, and my stereo is one I won about 8 years ago. If I had the money I would go for the car/s. I mean I HAVE a text editor, 3 years later it still works!
And just for the record, the main reason I've noticed that girls are dissuaded from becoming geeks is because they are better at it and this unerves some people.
How about slashdot getting some space there, and sticking an SSL gateway to the news/forums so that the Anonymous Coward non login was more than token security?
err although actually there would be no need to have that on a havenco site. ho hum
Anyway/. falls under US Jurisdiction, therefore they can be got for what they post, no matter where they post it.
The main protection is anonyimity (purchase/posting etc.).
Something similar is happening right now (son of star wars), the only difference is that it is actually the US that is conveniently assuming that the agreement is no longer binding.
This is semi relevant to the privacy thing, small company has privacy agreement, has to stick to it or the publicity would kill it (how long would/. last if they sold our emails?), small company bought by bigger one for whome a few lawsuits are a minor irritation, and can use their marketing to get more new users in a week than they are going to lose in a year through dodgy practises.
hmm now is that a crap analogy or what? basically when you get to a certain size country/company you can write your own rules.
I already get offers for 'free DSL'/US only type things here in the UK, I'd imagine most other people here with email addresses also do.
Does the Data Protection Act actually cover the sale of data? Equifax etc. still seem to get on ok here, all you can do is get a copy of what they have on you.
It doesn't apply if you deal with a non EU company anyway, although the US was trying to implement something similar IIRC in order to improve US EU commerce. I think it probably does apply however if you are from the US and buy from the EU.
One thing I used to do (before I got too lazy) was use a different email address for every site I gave my address to, e.g. for Amazon -> amazon@my-domain.com, then if I suddenly start getting spam at that address I know who did it, also that the address is dead and that it's time to put it on a server side autoresponder with a 50M attachment.
umm that was actually meant to be a punne or play on words:P
I seem to remember when I did register under the DPA all those years ago that I ticked most of the boxes I thought I should ever need to use data for, including the ones 'industrial espionage' & 'overthrowing the Goverment of The Unintended States of America'
It's possible that junkbuster does identify itself in the HTTP_USER_AGENT field, although you'd of thunk they would have gone for identifying it as MSIE 5 or something to avoid that.
Apart from that I guess it is possible that they are using Javascript to load the info on the page, could try turning it off and looking for references to.js files in the code. makes things complicated though, as you then have to get the.js files and read through the code to find what you were looking for.
Another thing (most probable) it could be is that the links are made via an ad server e.g. http://ad.doubleclick.net?click.pl?sender=some.sit e&goingto=another.site this stops the link from working as you can't get the redirect from the ad server. http://www.x10.com (wireless web cam) is a good example of this all their images and links are via an ad server.
errr why do I get this feeling that there are probably some seriously panicked sysadmins over at DN right about now?
/. effect is bad enough when it is just http, but port scans & ppl ftping (er maybe that was just me, not to mention/server-info ing -doesn't work, no surprise there)
man dig:)) or. 224.207.209.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 2h54m49s IN SOA ns1.dn.net. dnsadmin.dn.net. ( 1999112401 ; serial 3H ; refresh 1H ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ) ; minimum or . . . $ ftp 209.207.224.245 Connected to 209.207.224.245. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre8 Server (linux335) [linux338.dn.net] I ^c'd it then so I don't know what's on there. of if it allows anon logins.
this sounds like they haven't entered the image size, although that shouldn't stop the page loading entirely.
if you have your own web server you can fix this by pointing all the ad domains to it and setting for e.g.
ErrorDocument 404/b.gif
in Apache anyway, if you have this setup as a v.host you can give it it's own referrer logfile and get a nice record of who has been sending you ads/web bugs
umm you might not want to do this if you are browsing a lot of porn sites of course, better/dev/null it instead.
you can use the/etc/hosts method to block sites on pretty much any computer, even if you are dialled up direct with no proxies etc.
There is a nice list of ad server already set up in a hosts file format here#, along with instructions to set it up on *N*X, Mac, & Windows, according to page it is even tailored to slashdot readers.
one proviso is that you may have do disable javascript occasionally, or when you load a page with an ad on sometimes it will bounce you to a 404 on you local machine. Naming no names, but you actually have to disable Javascript to get to netscape's Javascript manuals (from the front page, may be ok if you go straight there).
I guess no language actually has many bugs, in that a language is theoreticl kind of thing.
All languages do have bugs in the implementation though (ok, you can probably prove me wrong intelligent-arses thinking about replying (not u CMiYC - hey I'm just repeating what you said, almost, mostly, blah), but not statistically:P), for instance the fact that many web pages were last edited circa 1/1/70 in the case of Javascript.
(shit fuck bugger - previous paragraphs way to wordy, injecting healthy dose of reality)
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that they are still using Windows 3.1???????????????????????????????????????
Slashdot Mirror
Works every time....
Which would lead to quite a nice way of trashing your drive if you had the ability to modify it yourself, or even better if some company wants to make 'secure' drive.
all thats needed is a nice row of diamond tipped styli that can be triggered and play the disk.
It might be possible to get the data from a hammered disk, but from a case full of steel wool? also if you had something to ignite it (and possibly some oxidant), well steel wool burns pretty good...
hmm as a thought, given that cases a small and at least semi-sealed you might not want to be near it when you did this :)
a .parody TLD might be a better solution, then we can slag ppl off and it's legaly defensible (maybe).
microsoft.parody
BT.parody
AOL.parody
Oh yeaaaaaah....
except of course that they charge a shitload more than Nominet, I'd really hope that gnu.org would be willing to give (ok maybe reasonable setup costs) the 3rd level domains to any valid gpl project. haha Nominet the not for profit domain registrar, bet there's some serious self kicking going on at Sandford Gate. Though I gotta say it WORKS, I've had to call them quite a few times, and I don't just get bounced from waiting to call to waiting to call all day, and they are helpful!?!?! Now NSI, it's gonna be a footnote in my will, 'don't forget to check if blah.com has been released yet'
might be worth a try if you aren't too greedy (charge less than taking you to court, and unless you had a lot of dosh or a good law degree you would lose).
.com instead. Same with any other TLD that comes along.
.us one and replacing it with something slightly more sensible than company.town.state.us (or whatever it is).
.gnu that is just silly
In the end most big companies are going to buy up all the TLD's to protect their brandname, and it makes sense, if you have hotelbookings.net, what is the chance you are going to lose half your customers the second time they visit and type
ccTLDs make some sense, and a lot of good could be done by scrapping the current
Personally though I think the Usenet hierarchy makes more sense, for a start it drills down e.g. comp.lang.perl (2000/07/12 not 12/07/2000) and it is expandable to allow for future additions. Although it has it's problems too, I'd say that if anyone can come up with a really good alternative, well...
...ok, probably everyone's going to ignore them and they will die poor and bitter, but you never know.
oh yeah,
errr I think that as Mozart died in 1791, and Chopin in 1849, then they would both be out of copyright by now, although then again if they had done something REALLY artistic, like; to pick a wild idea out of nowhere, say draw a cartoon of a mouse, then it may still be copyright by the company^h^h^h^h^h^h^h ummm estate.
Actually China and much of S.E. Asia really proves software as price isn't a factor.
Well it proves how good the marketing department is anyway "Anytime people can have their freedom"
They do have pretty heavy duty laws against porn (even by US standards), and I'd imagine what isn't blocked is logged, always useful for future reference...
LINUX IS DEAD. It was good because it gave a real alternative, but now, more and more it is not an alternative, it is a option.
Know your enemy, become your enemy...
I really don't know what to say, Linux is good becuase it lets you do what you want, if you know how, but to compete with windows it has to be an OS that lets you do what you want with a couple of days in college.
But the more it gets easier the more it's going to lose, 10 years from now we may be all booting straight into gnome/KDE but we are still going have the same options we have now...
Realy I belive, just as you do, but what when the the revolution is over? when there is no one left to fight.
In the end only the names change (pathetic but true).
compacency sucks. (to put it simply)
as you said if there is no challange there's no need to play.
Titus-g: Games free since 1992 & proud of it :)
THE IMPORT TAX IS ON BEEF - i.fucking.e. beef from France to the US
THE EXPORT TAX IS ON FRENCH DELICACIES - like Roquefort from the us to France.
anybody remember the banananas? the US wasn't happy that the UK put a tax on their bananas, so they put a prohibative tax on woolen jumpers, whisky etc from the UK.
The US bananas were from corporate owned farms, the ones before were from small farms.
Now: you want a banana, it's a Chiquita Banana.
The UK backed down, I'm glad someone didn't
Titus-G, celebrating the 4th of July, I don't want that guilt.
I want a BMW 750 (and a EVO VI, hmm actually 2 of them, one with the traction control & stuff, and one of the ones that have the 0 -> 60 that means you can drive all day and arrive yesterday, oh and a Lotus Carlton, and an M5 err I digress). (ooh S500 as well, & another Series III SWB).
I still have the same PC I had 3 years ago, same CPU/RAM/HD, you couldn't even buy it now, and my stereo is one I won about 8 years ago. If I had the money I would go for the car/s. I mean I HAVE a text editor, 3 years later it still works!
And just for the record, the main reason I've noticed that girls are dissuaded from becoming geeks is because they are better at it and this unerves some people.
How about slashdot getting some space there, and sticking an SSL gateway to the news/forums so that the Anonymous Coward non login was more than token security?
err although actually there would be no need to have that on a havenco site. ho hum
Anyway /. falls under US Jurisdiction, therefore they can be got for what they post, no matter where they post it.
The main protection is anonyimity (purchase/posting etc.).
This is semi relevant to the privacy thing, small company has privacy agreement, has to stick to it or the publicity would kill it (how long would /. last if they sold our emails?), small company bought by bigger one for whome a few lawsuits are a minor irritation, and can use their marketing to get more new users in a week than they are going to lose in a year through dodgy practises.
hmm now is that a crap analogy or what? basically when you get to a certain size country/company you can write your own rules.
Does the Data Protection Act actually cover the sale of data? Equifax etc. still seem to get on ok here, all you can do is get a copy of what they have on you.
It doesn't apply if you deal with a non EU company anyway, although the US was trying to implement something similar IIRC in order to improve US EU commerce. I think it probably does apply however if you are from the US and buy from the EU.
One thing I used to do (before I got too lazy) was use a different email address for every site I gave my address to, e.g. for Amazon -> amazon@my-domain.com, then if I suddenly start getting spam at that address I know who did it, also that the address is dead and that it's time to put it on a server side autoresponder with a 50M attachment.
I seem to remember when I did register under the DPA all those years ago that I ticked most of the boxes I thought I should ever need to use data for, including the ones 'industrial espionage' & 'overthrowing the Goverment of The Unintended States of America'
Apart from that I guess it is possible that they are using Javascript to load the info on the page, could try turning it off and looking for references to .js files in the code. makes things complicated though, as you then have to get the .js files and read through the code to find what you were looking for.
Another thing (most probable) it could be is that the links are made via an ad server e.g. http://ad.doubleclick.net?click.pl?sender=some.sit e&goingto=another.site this stops the link from working as you can't get the redirect from the ad server. http://www.x10.com (wireless web cam) is a good example of this all their images and links are via an ad server.
/. effect is bad enough when it is just http, but port scans & ppl ftping (er maybe that was just me, not to mention /server-info ing -doesn't work, no surprise there)
man dig :)) or. 224.207.209.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 2h54m49s IN SOA ns1.dn.net. dnsadmin.dn.net. ( 1999112401 ; serial 3H ; refresh 1H ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ) ; minimum or . . . $ ftp 209.207.224.245 Connected to 209.207.224.245. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre8 Server (linux335) [linux338.dn.net] I ^c'd it then so I don't know what's on there. of if it allows anon logins.
it just doesn't get any easier . . . :)
209.207.224.245 aka linux338.dn.net, owned || run by Digital Nation fwiw.
if you have your own web server you can fix this by pointing all the ad domains to it and setting for e.g.
ErrorDocument 404 /b.gif
in Apache anyway, if you have this setup as a v.host you can give it it's own referrer logfile and get a nice record of who has been sending you ads/web bugs
umm you might not want to do this if you are browsing a lot of porn sites of course, better /dev/null it instead.
There is a nice list of ad server already set up in a hosts file format here#, along with instructions to set it up on *N*X, Mac, & Windows, according to page it is even tailored to slashdot readers.
one proviso is that you may have do disable javascript occasionally, or when you load a page with an ad on sometimes it will bounce you to a 404 on you local machine. Naming no names, but you actually have to disable Javascript to get to netscape's Javascript manuals (from the front page, may be ok if you go straight there).
All languages do have bugs in the implementation though (ok, you can probably prove me wrong intelligent-arses thinking about replying (not u CMiYC - hey I'm just repeating what you said, almost, mostly, blah), but not statistically :P), for instance the fact that many web pages were last edited circa 1/1/70 in the case of Javascript.
(shit fuck bugger - previous paragraphs way to wordy, injecting healthy dose of reality)
Goshen