Here's a game for you: count the aces in a deck. Ace of hearts, ace of diamonds. Wait, let me count "again." Ace of hearts, ace of diamonds, ace of clubs. Wait, you are changing the rules! OK, so now we are changing the rules and counting a THIRD time? Ace of hearts, ace of diamonds, ace of clubs.
You just can't accept the result that there are three aces in a deck of cards!
You can't "subvert the election by legal means" retard. Go to fucking Cuba, you witless commie.
And apparently you are not only dyslexic, but mentally impaired. They didn't get the same result twice, they got radically different ones, results which suggested that if a full analysis were done, the CONCLUSION would have been different.
Scalia and his lackey Thomas will go down in history as the worst justices the court has seen.
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Here's a game for you: count the aces in a deck. Ace of hearts, ace of diamonds. Wait, let me count "again." Ace of hearts, ace of diamonds, ace of clubs. Wait, you are changing the rules! OK, so now we are changing the rules and counting a THIRD time? Ace of hearts, ace of diamonds, ace of clubs.
You just can't accept the result that there are three aces in a deck of cards!
You can't "subvert the election by legal means" retard. Go to fucking Cuba, you witless commie.
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Too bad you posted AC, because your point is the type that "get tha gummit off my college-loan-supported back" crowd misses. Domains only flow downstream to AOL because they choose to use the same root servers as the rest of the world. Should anyone as large as AOL screw with the DNS system, it dies a lonely, lonely death. And consumers get screwed. Don't like etoys.com now? Try liking them when you don't even know WHICH etoys.com you are looking at.
In fact, them weenies who have been suing over spurious trademark claims (e.g. Madonna) have really created the strongest support the current root servers could have. Should anyone challenge the DNS system with alternate root servers, the legal groundwork for burying them alive has already been laid, and they have done it to themselves.
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50K is a lot. But that's part of the reason why there's outrage - especially if there is even the mere appearance of favoritism. Hmm... maybe you should check who
contributes to the gTLD committee.
Even if you cut them the slack on the insider-related approvals, the applications leave so much about the actual operation of these new TLDs in the dark that it's hard to be enthusiastic about them.
That being said, the general principles behind the new TLDs are sound, if ignored by the slashdot hoi polloi. Primarily, they are selected to PREVENT further disputes over who gets what domain. Dot-pro is being limited to licensed professionals. Presumably, you will only be able to purchase dot-name for your own name. Not many people can pretend to be an airline, so dot-aero is pretty clear. The museum thing could be problematic. Dot-biz will be expensive, so it will be a "platinum card" option for businesses, making it good for e-commerce; presumably, less likely to be a fly-by-night company. And possibly, dot-biz was chosen to flex a little muscle against the folks who have already been registering them.
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I'm against government intervention as much as the next guy, probably more so, but I have to view it as preferable to having AOL be the de facto dictators of the Internet.
AOL says fuck ICANN, sets up own gTLDs, lets anyone pay, then next thing you know, the beast from Redmond buys "slashdot.org" for AOLs users and redirects the whole domain to MSN. That would be fair, wouldn't it.
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Your point is well made. In fact if you read the article, it's not that they government cares at all about citizens or the internet, but some VC-backed lobbyists for DotTV stirred up this mess.
That being said, it's probably a good idea to question ICANN's bias in making decisions.
But while I personally have nothing against seeing another unaccountable institution sacked and burned, I have to disagree with all the ill-conceived cries to get government oversight out of this business altogether.
If alternate root servers were chosen and the creation of new gTLDs created by anarchic, everyone-for-themselves choices, the result would be loss of globally unique web addresses. Worse, the people with the most eyeballs would get disproportionate power in creating order back out of the anarchy. In other words, the dot-biz folks would STILL be screwed, and AOL would create, administer, and own the EFFECTIVE dot-biz. You can see where this is going... AOL keywords or nothing, and... the DEATH OF THE INTERNET PREDICTED.
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I won't explain the "part fo BSDi" thing; do the reading yourself.
I will say, however, that so far I've noticed nothing in -stable. Still works great and is easy to maintain and administer, still doesn't support devices as broadly as linux. No changes significant enough to change anyone's reasons for using or not using FreeBSD, in my view.
In the -current version, however, there appear to be lots of changes afoot. FreeBSD 5 is supposedly going to come with a lot of the SMP stuff from BSDi merged in, which would be a huge plus for FreeBSD.
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Whenever elections have international monitors, they presume the ability to detect fraud or error in the first place. Who would know if a rogue sysadmin rigged an election?
A system that cannot be analyzed and understood cannot be trusted, and has no place in a society by/of/for the people. Putting election results beyond public analysis only serves those who wish to steal an election.
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Try checking up on web site hackings. Funny thing is, most of them are done by kiddies using tools they don't understand. Target system of choice? Windows NT.
Nice troll, though.
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The system is fucked up beyond all repair, and only partisan republican robots inside the US can't see that. Here's a standard the Bush campaign couldn't live with: count the votes until you get the same answer twice, something any two-toothed cretin who runs a cash register knows.
The election is the result of many people declaring the election over before it was over, shouting loudly, and getting backup from the highest court in the nation in what will go down in history as one of that court's lowest points.
To quote Herr Scalia, "If it turned out that Gore got more votes, it would be a cloud upon the Bush presidency."
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If Eminem PROMISES to stop writing music, I'll join the communist party and spend all day downloading Eminem files from Napster.
Until then, I'll just keep supporting the bands I like, f*** you very much. If you were really serious, you'd shut the hell up and buy direct from the artist. But no, you are too damn lazy, so you get the music from those horrible companies that rip off artists all day and night; that's right, the record labels! Which makes you so morally superior to those damn hippies with their "sharing."
I _will_ think it's funny, because I generally like music made by artists who do it because they need to make music, have to make music, love to make music, and don't have any other ideas about what to do with their lives. They have the talent, but not the ambition, to run the gauntlet of rip-offs that you call the music industry. Money-grubbing phonies who don't care or know about their audience or their music won't know what to do, and since no one will have giant promotional budgets any longer, people will listen to things that they and their friends actually like, not the things they are told to like by mass-marketed culture and coke-addled sleazebags whose real talent is bribing DJs. Then, more people will end up listening to music that I like because they won't be worrying that they've "never heard of it." The artists I like will make more money than they do now. They will get the same fan-based support they do now, plus some more, and yes, I will think it's funny. Not, like, girlfriend-in-the-car-trunk funny, but still pretty funny.
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Although EULAs don't apply in the case of patent-protected thingamashits like MP3 or GIF they way they do for a customer who purchases a piece of software, the end result is the same, and for the same reasons.
Dim-witted management types mistake the corporate body for the presence of a Responible Organization staffed by Experts doing Technically Advanced things. They think this confers on them the ability to do Big Stuff and think it means that they will be protected against acts of God and other programming errors.
More clear-headed souls recognize that these things are really the Man Behind the Curtain, who may be a terrible balloonist after all, and get on with picking technologies that are reliable and high quality in relation to their cost. If you are incautious or unlucky, you will be torn to pieces by flying monkeys, and no one will save you.
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But just in case he's on his way to a scheduling get-together for the pre-meeting meeting, (IOW, if he's too Damned to see the fiery bars that cage him) it stands for Pointy Haired Boss.
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Because without credit, you're all fucking peasants as far as she can see. No credit, no property. No right to credit, no right to property. The problem is that credit has become the de facto equivalent of citizenship, only without the "rule of law" as one might say, being applied to it in a satisfactory manner.
Unless, of course, you think peoples rights in reality should be far less than they are in theory, in which case you are a vicious statist with a sense of PR.
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Didn't think about the implications of running powerful administrative functions through a privileged account with a hardcoded password? Ouch. Well, that's reality for ya.
So why is it being claimed that the backdoor was there for years, and why does it appear (strings * | grep "politically") in interbase4 freebsd port?
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That seems to indicate that they DID just switch passwords.
In which case, it shouldn't take much more than applying "strings * | less" and some careful reading before and after the patch to find out the new backdoor account.
And yes, it is probably unencrypted; I just checked version 4 binaries on freebsd and these two files have it unencrypted:
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1145637 Oct 22 1998 gdslib.so.0.1
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1145835 Oct 22 1998 gdslib.so.1.0
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I think you are on to something with the Stirling-Cycle thing.
Or maybe I'm just in a credulous mood, or maybe it's too cool for me to care.
I am of course too lazy to look it up, but the bipedal walker thing is way too cool. This thing would make bipedal robots much more likely.
Of course, until they learn to design one that can get back up off the ground, you won't be putting many bike messengers out of work =)
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I have to agree with you - although, if you pay attention to euphemisms and the behavior of the MPAA, it's "Will Steve Jobs stop The Syndicate?"
I can almost see Jack Valenti pulling at the neck of his black turtleneck/grey wool blazer combo.
The best part is that by marketing it primarily as the way to make your home movies, he's already set the stage of the battle with MPAA et al in a very favorable configuration for him.
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Slashdot Mirror
You just can't accept the result that there are three aces in a deck of cards!
You can't "subvert the election by legal means" retard. Go to fucking Cuba, you witless commie.
And apparently you are not only dyslexic, but mentally impaired. They didn't get the same result twice, they got radically different ones, results which suggested that if a full analysis were done, the CONCLUSION would have been different.
Scalia and his lackey Thomas will go down in history as the worst justices the court has seen.
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You just can't accept the result that there are three aces in a deck of cards!
You can't "subvert the election by legal means" retard. Go to fucking Cuba, you witless commie.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
In fact, them weenies who have been suing over spurious trademark claims (e.g. Madonna) have really created the strongest support the current root servers could have. Should anyone challenge the DNS system with alternate root servers, the legal groundwork for burying them alive has already been laid, and they have done it to themselves.
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In Taiwan, twenty guys are going to pull a 747 with their penises
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Even if you cut them the slack on the insider-related approvals, the applications leave so much about the actual operation of these new TLDs in the dark that it's hard to be enthusiastic about them.
That being said, the general principles behind the new TLDs are sound, if ignored by the slashdot hoi polloi. Primarily, they are selected to PREVENT further disputes over who gets what domain. Dot-pro is being limited to licensed professionals. Presumably, you will only be able to purchase dot-name for your own name. Not many people can pretend to be an airline, so dot-aero is pretty clear. The museum thing could be problematic. Dot-biz will be expensive, so it will be a "platinum card" option for businesses, making it good for e-commerce; presumably, less likely to be a fly-by-night company. And possibly, dot-biz was chosen to flex a little muscle against the folks who have already been registering them.
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AOL says fuck ICANN, sets up own gTLDs, lets anyone pay, then next thing you know, the beast from Redmond buys "slashdot.org" for AOLs users and redirects the whole domain to MSN. That would be fair, wouldn't it.
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That being said, it's probably a good idea to question ICANN's bias in making decisions.
But while I personally have nothing against seeing another unaccountable institution sacked and burned, I have to disagree with all the ill-conceived cries to get government oversight out of this business altogether.
If alternate root servers were chosen and the creation of new gTLDs created by anarchic, everyone-for-themselves choices, the result would be loss of globally unique web addresses. Worse, the people with the most eyeballs would get disproportionate power in creating order back out of the anarchy. In other words, the dot-biz folks would STILL be screwed, and AOL would create, administer, and own the EFFECTIVE dot-biz. You can see where this is going... AOL keywords or nothing, and... the DEATH OF THE INTERNET PREDICTED.
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That's really funny. Yes, I suppose it would, although I really wish there were more people who got that joke.
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I will say, however, that so far I've noticed nothing in -stable. Still works great and is easy to maintain and administer, still doesn't support devices as broadly as linux. No changes significant enough to change anyone's reasons for using or not using FreeBSD, in my view.
In the -current version, however, there appear to be lots of changes afoot. FreeBSD 5 is supposedly going to come with a lot of the SMP stuff from BSDi merged in, which would be a huge plus for FreeBSD.
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Whenever elections have international monitors, they presume the ability to detect fraud or error in the first place. Who would know if a rogue sysadmin rigged an election?
A system that cannot be analyzed and understood cannot be trusted, and has no place in a society by/of/for the people. Putting election results beyond public analysis only serves those who wish to steal an election.
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Nice troll, though.
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The system is fucked up beyond all repair, and only partisan republican robots inside the US can't see that. Here's a standard the Bush campaign couldn't live with: count the votes until you get the same answer twice, something any two-toothed cretin who runs a cash register knows.
The election is the result of many people declaring the election over before it was over, shouting loudly, and getting backup from the highest court in the nation in what will go down in history as one of that court's lowest points.
To quote Herr Scalia, "If it turned out that Gore got more votes, it would be a cloud upon the Bush presidency."
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Until then, I'll just keep supporting the bands I like, f*** you very much. If you were really serious, you'd shut the hell up and buy direct from the artist. But no, you are too damn lazy, so you get the music from those horrible companies that rip off artists all day and night; that's right, the record labels! Which makes you so morally superior to those damn hippies with their "sharing."
I _will_ think it's funny, because I generally like music made by artists who do it because they need to make music, have to make music, love to make music, and don't have any other ideas about what to do with their lives. They have the talent, but not the ambition, to run the gauntlet of rip-offs that you call the music industry. Money-grubbing phonies who don't care or know about their audience or their music won't know what to do, and since no one will have giant promotional budgets any longer, people will listen to things that they and their friends actually like, not the things they are told to like by mass-marketed culture and coke-addled sleazebags whose real talent is bribing DJs. Then, more people will end up listening to music that I like because they won't be worrying that they've "never heard of it." The artists I like will make more money than they do now. They will get the same fan-based support they do now, plus some more, and yes, I will think it's funny. Not, like, girlfriend-in-the-car-trunk funny, but still pretty funny.
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Dim-witted management types mistake the corporate body for the presence of a Responible Organization staffed by Experts doing Technically Advanced things. They think this confers on them the ability to do Big Stuff and think it means that they will be protected against acts of God and other programming errors.
More clear-headed souls recognize that these things are really the Man Behind the Curtain, who may be a terrible balloonist after all, and get on with picking technologies that are reliable and high quality in relation to their cost. If you are incautious or unlucky, you will be torn to pieces by flying monkeys, and no one will save you.
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But just in case he's on his way to a scheduling get-together for the pre-meeting meeting, (IOW, if he's too Damned to see the fiery bars that cage him) it stands for Pointy Haired Boss.
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Why do you feel you have a right to own property?
Because without credit, you're all fucking peasants as far as she can see. No credit, no property. No right to credit, no right to property. The problem is that credit has become the de facto equivalent of citizenship, only without the "rule of law" as one might say, being applied to it in a satisfactory manner.
Unless, of course, you think peoples rights in reality should be far less than they are in theory, in which case you are a vicious statist with a sense of PR.
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So why is it being claimed that the backdoor was there for years, and why does it appear (strings * | grep "politically") in interbase4 freebsd port?
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In which case, it shouldn't take much more than applying "strings * | less" and some careful reading before and after the patch to find out the new backdoor account.
And yes, it is probably unencrypted; I just checked version 4 binaries on freebsd and these two files have it unencrypted:
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1145637 Oct 22 1998 gdslib.so.0.1
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1145835 Oct 22 1998 gdslib.so.1.0
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Or maybe I'm just in a credulous mood, or maybe it's too cool for me to care.
I am of course too lazy to look it up, but the bipedal walker thing is way too cool. This thing would make bipedal robots much more likely.
Of course, until they learn to design one that can get back up off the ground, you won't be putting many bike messengers out of work =)
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Even if it's bullshit, it's cool sounding bullshit and a mecha follows better from his stair-climbing wheelchair then a personal hovercraft.
Though the garbage-powered generator is the only other thing that fits the criteria.
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Yeah, but that doesn't make it funny.
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Other than personal hoverscooter, this is the only thing I've seen that makes sense.
RogueMod +2 Interesting
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Or, relentlessly re-educate users by constantly trumpeting how fast you are. That's the thinking behind calling the G4 a "supercomputer."
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I can almost see Jack Valenti pulling at the neck of his black turtleneck/grey wool blazer combo.
The best part is that by marketing it primarily as the way to make your home movies, he's already set the stage of the battle with MPAA et al in a very favorable configuration for him.
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What's that you said?
What?
I can't hear... I can't.. I... I SAID I... I SAID I.. CAN'T... HEAR... YOU...
WHAT?
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