Too bad Miramax thinks their distribution rights on these Asian flicks for the U.S. gives them the rights to c&d people linking to imports. Kind of hard to buy a movie like "Hero" when the distributor tries to use the laws to keep you from purchasing your legal copy. And since we're here, here's an honest question: is it actually legal to buy multi-region DVD players in the U.S.? Does anyone sell them, or do you have to order them from the web? Is using one to view your legitimate version of an import DVD considered a DMCA violation, for circumventing the movie industry's price fixing mechanisms?
I'm not even finished yet, and it's easily one of the funniest things I've ever read. Perhaps more amusing to me is that I work in a print shop with easy access to both a dye sub printer and padding compound. I think I'm off to find some uncut sheets of two dollar bills on my lunch break...
Wow, a picture of the "void". Kinda funny to see a goatse.cx link actually being on topic! My hat tips to the mod who scored this one "+1, Insightful".
Personally, I plan to head out into a busy downtown area, take fistfulls of drugs, get strung out, and wander the streets acting sketchy. Of course when a friendly officer stops me, I'm going to tell them that I was dodging ghosts, and that I got the idea to eat pills and avoid spectres after playing Pac-Man. The first person to tell me that it's not the video game's fault, buy my own mental imbalance...they win the prize.
Not to get you started or anything, but the good folk at The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language seem to think that incentivize is a perfectly cromulent word. That's American english for you...
ok, seriously, accolades and all for standing up for what you believe in, but I wouldn't think any less of anyone for staying in the same situation. Unemployment sucks. Nobody wants to lose their house/car/whatever. I just can't see how you can hold an employee responsible for the actions of their employer. I can't blame SCO's programmers for Darl's little fishing trip any more than I could blame you for your ex-bosses drug problem, nor could I blame a secretary at a Chinese government building for that nation's human rights attrocities. Although in your case, with it being a small company, you quitting is more likely to be noticed by the boss.
Nice view, from way up there on your high horse, but put yourself in the same situation. The economy is in the shitter. You quitting wouldn't change a damn thing. Hell, every coder in the place could leave and it wouldn't change a thing. Sometimes you do what you have to to keep food on the table for your family. It's not like they're committing genocide - it's a fucking law suit. If I was in HR I'd be *more* likely to hire these guys after SCO crashes. It's hard to find loyal employees these days, who are willing to trust that maybe, just maybe, management knows what they're doing (even if the rest of us can see they're on drugs...)
It'll be like all other battles. They'll lobby to get the DMCA rewritten to close up this loophole that they never foresaw, and someone will come up with a new distribution method that can weasel through the new laws. Just like things moved from centralized p2p to decentralized p2p, so it'll move again. What worries me now is the bastards who are mass-rooting unsecured Win boxes and turning them into irc f-servers...
And why are you posting to slashdot when you could be out curing AIDS? What's that? You think you can do as you please with your own time and resources? Well then, fuck you! So can I!
I hope you're joking. Your 'either-or' assertion is utter bullshit. Hell, there are earthlings interested in finding intelligent life, yet none of us has ever travelled beyond our own moon. What makes you so sure that there aren't millions of other life forms in the universe in the exact same predicament?
The point isn't to make it untapable. The point is that any observation will change the spin (polarization) of the photons. So while you can't keep someone from viewing, you can know when someone has. Or something like that...
You call this tight lipped? It's a full step-by-step guide to doing just what you want, including source or links to who has it. Unless I'm misunderstanding you...
...MS exploits being "explained away" because of lackluster or no admin.
But that's it. Almost every instance we see of "new trojan/virus X compromises thousands of windows machines" is taking advantage of weeks or months old exploits, automated, and set loose. The Debian job must have taken a good bit of legwork to sniff out a user account/pass then get in and drop the exploit, which was essentially custom-written for that specific purpose. The big linux breaches seem to be about days old, or even unknown holes, because most linux admins know how to keep their machines up to date. But when you start offering certification-in-a-cereal-box style MCSE (not that ALL MCSEs are clueless...) then you end up with admins who don't patch quickly enough, and who wouldn't know a breakin if it was humping their leg. Couple that with an OS as widely deployed as Windows, and you're just asking for trouble...
I don't really think authentication will help with a DDOS attack. Regardless of whether or not the client can authenticate, it's still filling the pipe and using system resources.
I'm definitely not an expert on this topic, but hey, this is/. and everyone gets their $0.02, so here goes. A spam blacklist needs to be up to date. Every time someone tries to add to that list, the update would need to be pushed out to all of the nodes on the net. And all of the machines using that blacklist would still need to get the updated blacklist from one of those nodes, so they'd need to connect to some central server to at least be redirected to one of those nodes. So some central server still has to exist to tie all the nodes together, or so I'd assume. And that central server is the one that would get raped. And now, time for everyone who knows more about this than I do to tell me I'm wrong!
maybe incentivizing
was what the submitter was after. Oh, and by the way, don't rag on someone for not "no"ing the right word to use if you can't do it yourself;)
yeah, but a 13 yr old is gonna get bored after a few hours of mayhem in Vice City, and walk away none the worse. I'd bet that a few listens through an Eminem cd where he talks about hating women and homosexuals leaves a more pronounced lasting effect. Kids look up to musicians as real people and role models a hell of a lot more than they'd look up to a nameless character in a video game. Not that I think music or movies should be censored - I think the parents need to oversee all of the media that their children are exposed to. And I don't think it's a good idea for 12 yr olds to play hours and hours of bloody video games. I just don't think that those games are the root of all evil.
Sure, just like minors in college get all of their cigarettes, porn and liquor purchased for them by their parents. Or, they could spend their time at school "learning". Or, they'll pirate the games, or have a legal-aged friend buy it for them. Or hey - go without! This'll be just what the "someone please think of the children!" types are asking for - keep GTA3 away from 12 yr olds. Now they'll have nobody to blame but the parents, just like with porn and booze. And the rest of us won't even notice.
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Too bad Miramax thinks their distribution rights on these Asian flicks for the U.S. gives them the rights to c&d people linking to imports. Kind of hard to buy a movie like "Hero" when the distributor tries to use the laws to keep you from purchasing your legal copy. And since we're here, here's an honest question: is it actually legal to buy multi-region DVD players in the U.S.? Does anyone sell them, or do you have to order them from the web? Is using one to view your legitimate version of an import DVD considered a DMCA violation, for circumventing the movie industry's price fixing mechanisms?
I'm not even finished yet, and it's easily one of the funniest things I've ever read. Perhaps more amusing to me is that I work in a print shop with easy access to both a dye sub printer and padding compound. I think I'm off to find some uncut sheets of two dollar bills on my lunch break...
Wow, a picture of the "void". Kinda funny to see a goatse.cx link actually being on topic! My hat tips to the mod who scored this one "+1, Insightful".
5. Add fourth bullet to list of "three ways to get on America's Dumbest". Forget to change title of said list to reflect addition of new bullet.
Personally, I plan to head out into a busy downtown area, take fistfulls of drugs, get strung out, and wander the streets acting sketchy. Of course when a friendly officer stops me, I'm going to tell them that I was dodging ghosts, and that I got the idea to eat pills and avoid spectres after playing Pac-Man. The first person to tell me that it's not the video game's fault, buy my own mental imbalance...they win the prize.
Not to get you started or anything, but the good folk at The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language seem to think that incentivize is a perfectly cromulent word. That's American english for you...
I didn't believe the article absolutely. Then again, I didn't read it, but hey, that's how things are done around here...
You worked for SCO?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ok, seriously, accolades and all for standing up for what you believe in, but I wouldn't think any less of anyone for staying in the same situation. Unemployment sucks. Nobody wants to lose their house/car/whatever. I just can't see how you can hold an employee responsible for the actions of their employer. I can't blame SCO's programmers for Darl's little fishing trip any more than I could blame you for your ex-bosses drug problem, nor could I blame a secretary at a Chinese government building for that nation's human rights attrocities. Although in your case, with it being a small company, you quitting is more likely to be noticed by the boss.
Nice view, from way up there on your high horse, but put yourself in the same situation. The economy is in the shitter. You quitting wouldn't change a damn thing. Hell, every coder in the place could leave and it wouldn't change a thing. Sometimes you do what you have to to keep food on the table for your family. It's not like they're committing genocide - it's a fucking law suit. If I was in HR I'd be *more* likely to hire these guys after SCO crashes. It's hard to find loyal employees these days, who are willing to trust that maybe, just maybe, management knows what they're doing (even if the rest of us can see they're on drugs...)
Technically, the trademarked names here are "Microsoft Windows" and "LindowsOS". So, um, yeah...not really the same at all.
It'll be like all other battles. They'll lobby to get the DMCA rewritten to close up this loophole that they never foresaw, and someone will come up with a new distribution method that can weasel through the new laws. Just like things moved from centralized p2p to decentralized p2p, so it'll move again. What worries me now is the bastards who are mass-rooting unsecured Win boxes and turning them into irc f-servers...
And why are you posting to slashdot when you could be out curing AIDS? What's that? You think you can do as you please with your own time and resources? Well then, fuck you! So can I!
I hope you're joking. Your 'either-or' assertion is utter bullshit. Hell, there are earthlings interested in finding intelligent life, yet none of us has ever travelled beyond our own moon. What makes you so sure that there aren't millions of other life forms in the universe in the exact same predicament?
The point isn't to make it untapable. The point is that any observation will change the spin (polarization) of the photons. So while you can't keep someone from viewing, you can know when someone has. Or something like that...
You call this tight lipped? It's a full step-by-step guide to doing just what you want, including source or links to who has it. Unless I'm misunderstanding you...
And if he does we can always just have him nailed to a cross or something...
I'm just kidding! We're talking about Linux users here, not a bunch of zealo...oh, wait...
intelligent beings from other galaxies using radio
Obviously *not* the work of ClearChannel.
No self respecting web designer would have that stupid-ass mouse trailer on their own website.
When my mom bought a new computer she asked me to install the internet for her.
...MS exploits being "explained away" because of lackluster or no admin.
But that's it. Almost every instance we see of "new trojan/virus X compromises thousands of windows machines" is taking advantage of weeks or months old exploits, automated, and set loose. The Debian job must have taken a good bit of legwork to sniff out a user account/pass then get in and drop the exploit, which was essentially custom-written for that specific purpose. The big linux breaches seem to be about days old, or even unknown holes, because most linux admins know how to keep their machines up to date. But when you start offering certification-in-a-cereal-box style MCSE (not that ALL MCSEs are clueless...) then you end up with admins who don't patch quickly enough, and who wouldn't know a breakin if it was humping their leg. Couple that with an OS as widely deployed as Windows, and you're just asking for trouble...
I don't really think authentication will help with a DDOS attack. Regardless of whether or not the client can authenticate, it's still filling the pipe and using system resources.
I'm definitely not an expert on this topic, but hey, this is /. and everyone gets their $0.02, so here goes. A spam blacklist needs to be up to date. Every time someone tries to add to that list, the update would need to be pushed out to all of the nodes on the net. And all of the machines using that blacklist would still need to get the updated blacklist from one of those nodes, so they'd need to connect to some central server to at least be redirected to one of those nodes. So some central server still has to exist to tie all the nodes together, or so I'd assume. And that central server is the one that would get raped. And now, time for everyone who knows more about this than I do to tell me I'm wrong!
maybe incentivizing was what the submitter was after. Oh, and by the way, don't rag on someone for not "no"ing the right word to use if you can't do it yourself ;)
yeah, but a 13 yr old is gonna get bored after a few hours of mayhem in Vice City, and walk away none the worse. I'd bet that a few listens through an Eminem cd where he talks about hating women and homosexuals leaves a more pronounced lasting effect. Kids look up to musicians as real people and role models a hell of a lot more than they'd look up to a nameless character in a video game. Not that I think music or movies should be censored - I think the parents need to oversee all of the media that their children are exposed to. And I don't think it's a good idea for 12 yr olds to play hours and hours of bloody video games. I just don't think that those games are the root of all evil.
Sure, just like minors in college get all of their cigarettes, porn and liquor purchased for them by their parents. Or, they could spend their time at school "learning". Or, they'll pirate the games, or have a legal-aged friend buy it for them. Or hey - go without! This'll be just what the "someone please think of the children!" types are asking for - keep GTA3 away from 12 yr olds. Now they'll have nobody to blame but the parents, just like with porn and booze. And the rest of us won't even notice.