What the internet really needs, it's sad to say, but is Microsoft to win the browser wars and create a standard that everybody will obey.
This is exactly what the internet doesn't need. When this happens the internet ceases to be the internet, it'll be MSN, and you can forget about surfing on you PDA, your Internet Appliance (unless it's Windows based) or your UN*X box. --
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
I could tell you what kind of person you are, but then you would be able to invoke Godwin, so I won't. Suffice to say that the fact that the FBI (or any other part of government) misbehaves doesn't mean you should be running scared and accept the situation. --
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
A country cannot take foreign territory by extending it's territorial water limits, no matter if it's Sealand or a big, powerful country. --
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
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Read the original post next time - the G4 was more than twice as fast per clock cycle than the PIII. 500MHz G4, 1GHz PIII, you do the math.
However, it doesn't really say much since Apple naturally picked the tasks the G4 does best compared to the PIII. --
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Why should Napster have a license? They aren't sharing the song with anyone.
You don't have a license either, does that mean you're committing a crime by letting someone copy a music file to someone else, somewhere?
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Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Since you are a slashdot poster, you infringe on Metallica's IP. Please stop it.
It's also so very unfair that Metallica, having investing so much effort in creating their music, aren't allowed to patent it so that no other band can play the same kind of music as them. Music should be patentable too. And books - it's horrible seeing all these authors writing books in a genre someone else have created without being recompensated for their hard toil.
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Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Since it's full of * characters where there should be whitespace it won't compile, so it's a pretty lousy DeCSS mirror. --
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
If you distributed a hardware DVD player based upon DeCSS you'd be bound by the GPL to distribute the source to DeCSS, which means that you'd be in the same situation as someone distributing a software DVD player based on DeCSS.
However, it seems that the DCMA wouldn't apply in either of these cases, since not even Judge Kaplan (OK, maybe Kaplan, if they paid him enough) can come to the conclusion that a complete DVD player is a device who's principal use is the circumvention of copy/access control. --
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
If you take a look at the site, they only offer the service to people living in the USA. Sounds like it has a really good chance of becoming the de facto standard for micropayments over the net. Right.
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Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
My current cell phone is approx 1/5 as big as the one I had 5 years ago. Todays all-singing, all-dancing, mp3-playing, coffee-making, Linux-running color PDAs are much smaller than the Apple Newton.
Merging the phone with the PDA might make it a bit bulky now, but as soon as they start developing commercial stuff they will rapidly shrink.
Although I'd prefer a phone like my Nokia 8210, but with bluetooth, and a separate PDA, since I don't want the same form factor on both. --
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
The RIAA doesn't sue Fraunhofer Institute, who created MPEG-1 layer 3 compression often called MP3, since they haven't done anything wrong. The American legal system is pretty fucked up, but that doesn't mean you can sue anyone you don't like and win. The RIAA tried to sue Diamond for creating an MP3 player, and lost because they didn't have a case.
Similarly, the RIAA doesn't sue the Department of Defense, who created the internet, or God, who allegedly created the world.
-- Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
A discussion between some users logged in as geekflav:
Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/16) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 07:59:59... At least you can't change the password easily Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/20) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:00:14... Is kill -9 -1 stupid enough? ;-) Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/6) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:00:21... well it took about 10 mins for someone to erase the index.html (spot the twit that can't read). [Mike] Message from geekflav on vux2 (pts/21) [ Tue Jul 25 08:00:21 ]...
Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/13) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:00:53... This takes me back 10 years! Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/4) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:03... And I was watching top hoping to see some major slashdotting.. har when there's no page Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/26) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:08... will you lot shut the fuck up! Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/13) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:22... Nah! Broadcast Message from ??? (pts/4) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:40... root pts/18 7:57am vi/etc/passwd oops Broadcast Message from ??? (pts/7) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:44... Hmm, root is editing/etc/passwd... Wonder why;) Received disconnect: Command terminated on signal 9.
Strange... I usually hack at machines all day long without doing anything illegal, maybe you could clarify in what way I can be busted for doing my job? Or maybe you should just quietly go away and come back when you know what hacking is.
FOLDOC on "hack", entry no. 4: 4. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO." In a general (time-extended) sense: "What do you do around here?" "I hack TECO." More generally, "I hack "foo"" is roughly equivalent to ""foo" is my major interest (or project)". "I hack solid-state physics."
And by the way, so you won't lose any sleep on it, none of the other definitions mention doing any cracking.
What America needs isn't the NRA to defend the 2nd amendment, what America needs is a sensible way to legally change it's constitution and remove things that makes no sense anymore (such as the 2nd amendment), and update it's wording (such as explicitely say what speech is/isn't in the first amendment). Only if America can change it's constitution in a democratic manner America can be said to be a democracy.
However, viewing the American public's tendency to vote for politicians wanting to take away their rights and freedoms, it might be that we should be happy that Americans can't change their constitution. If they could they would probably have completely abolished democracy by now.
To give them some undeserved credit, the patent was actually filed in 1996, but awarded in 1999. Which makes for a bit less prior art, but still enough for them to have an invalid patent, I'm sure.
I just mailed Passagen, the Swedish web space provider of the original cp4break homepage, and asked them whether it is their policy to comply with foreign courts asking them to censor pages, and whether this also extends to foreign dictatorships wanting to censor pages. -- %japh = ( 'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com', 'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
While reality-checking the book, Loyd Blankenship corresponded with a variety of people, from computer security experts to self-confessed computer crackers. From his home, he ran a legal BBS which discussed the "computer underground," and he knew many of its members. That was enough to put him on a federal List of Dangerous Hoodlums! The affidavit on which SJ Games were raided was unbelievably flimsy . . . Loyd Blankenship was suspect because he ran a technologically literate and politically irreverent BBS, because he wrote about hacking, and because he received and re-posted a copy of the/Phrack newsletter. The company was raided simply because Loyd worked there and used its (entirely different) BBS!
SJG seems to know the distinction between hackers and crackers.
If Victor is against software patents, as most of the free software community seems to be, he should give royalty free licenses to anyone - including Microsoft. Otherwise this patent will make it harder for us to convince people that software patents are wrong. I hope this isn't just because Victor wants to make a few bucks for himself... %japh = ( 'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com', 'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
Try configuring one Dell Inspiron 7500 on their web site with Linux (Weee! I'd sure like to have Linux 6.1 like those k-rad Dell guys got!), and one with Win98. Make sure you get the same warranty, the same amount of memory, harddrive space, modems, network cards and whatnot, and that you pick Office 2000 small business instead of the full version.
You'll see that Dell will charge you $99 extra if you want Linux instead of Win98+Office2000 small business... %japh = ( 'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com', 'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
Slashdot Mirror
This is exactly what the internet doesn't need. When this happens the internet ceases to be the internet, it'll be MSN, and you can forget about surfing on you PDA, your Internet Appliance (unless it's Windows based) or your UN*X box.
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Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
I could tell you what kind of person you are, but then you would be able to invoke Godwin, so I won't. Suffice to say that the fact that the FBI (or any other part of government) misbehaves doesn't mean you should be running scared and accept the situation.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
A country cannot take foreign territory by extending it's territorial water limits, no matter if it's Sealand or a big, powerful country.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
However, it doesn't really say much since Apple naturally picked the tasks the G4 does best compared to the PIII.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Why should Napster have a license? They aren't sharing the song with anyone.
You don't have a license either, does that mean you're committing a crime by letting someone copy a music file to someone else, somewhere?
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Since you are a slashdot poster, you infringe on Metallica's IP. Please stop it.
It's also so very unfair that Metallica, having investing so much effort in creating their music, aren't allowed to patent it so that no other band can play the same kind of music as them. Music should be patentable too. And books - it's horrible seeing all these authors writing books in a genre someone else have created without being recompensated for their hard toil.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Since it's full of * characters where there should be whitespace it won't compile, so it's a pretty lousy DeCSS mirror.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
If you distributed a hardware DVD player based upon DeCSS you'd be bound by the GPL to distribute the source to DeCSS, which means that you'd be in the same situation as someone distributing a software DVD player based on DeCSS.
However, it seems that the DCMA wouldn't apply in either of these cases, since not even Judge Kaplan (OK, maybe Kaplan, if they paid him enough) can come to the conclusion that a complete DVD player is a device who's principal use is the circumvention of copy/access control.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
I guess Napster users never upgrade the software when a new version is released, either.
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Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
If you take a look at the site, they only offer the service to people living in the USA. Sounds like it has a really good chance of becoming the de facto standard for micropayments over the net. Right.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Merging the phone with the PDA might make it a bit bulky now, but as soon as they start developing commercial stuff they will rapidly shrink. Although I'd prefer a phone like my Nokia 8210, but with bluetooth, and a separate PDA, since I don't want the same form factor on both.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
No. We would think it was a pretty cool gaming system if it weren't Microsoft on it.
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Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Similarly, the RIAA doesn't sue the Department of Defense, who created the internet, or God, who allegedly created the world.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Or My favourite web site was DOS'ed and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
--
Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
A discussion between some users logged in as geekflav:
...
/etc/passwd /etc/passwd... Wonder why ;)
/etc/passwd /usr/openwin/bin/xauth -q -
Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/16) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 07:59:59...
At least you can't change the password easily
Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/20) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:00:14...
Is kill -9 -1 stupid enough?
;-)
Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/6) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:00:21...
well it took about 10 mins for someone to erase the index.html (spot the twit that can't read). [Mike]
Message from geekflav on vux2 (pts/21) [ Tue Jul 25 08:00:21 ]
Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/13) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:00:53...
This takes me back 10 years!
Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/4) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:03...
And I was watching top hoping to see some major slashdotting.. har when there's no page
Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/26) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:08...
will you lot shut the fuck up!
Broadcast Message from geekflav (pts/13) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:22...
Nah!
Broadcast Message from ??? (pts/4) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:40...
root pts/18 7:57am vi
oops
Broadcast Message from ??? (pts/7) on vux2 Tue Jul 25 08:01:44...
Hmm, root is editing
Received disconnect: Command terminated on signal 9.
And here is some w(1) output:
8:01am up 19 day(s), 3:38, 28 users, load average: 1.27, 1.25, 0.90
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
amzmusic pts/1 10:21pm 9:26 -csh
geekflav pts/3 7:47am 1 2 -tcsh
geekflav pts/4 7:49am 16 w
geekflav pts/5 7:50am 10 -tcsh
geekflav pts/6 7:54am 1 -tcsh
geekflav pts/7 7:51am 1:06 -tcsh
geekflav pts/8 7:51am 1 2 -tcsh
geekflav pts/9 7:54am 3 more index.html
geekflav pts/10 7:53am 3 -tcsh
geekflav pts/11 7:53am 1 bash
geekflav pts/12 8:00am 1 -tcsh
geekflav pts/13 7:55am 1 wall
geekflav pts/14 7:56am -tcsh
geekflav pts/15 7:56am 2 1 -tcsh
geekflav pts/16 7:56am -tcsh
geekflav pts/17 8:00am vi index.html
root pts/18 7:57am vi
geekflav pts/19 7:57am 1 ftp ftp.bitchx.com
geekflav pts/21 7:58am 1 -tcsh
geekflav pts/20 7:58am -tcsh
geekflav pts/22 7:58am 2 -tcsh
geekflav pts/23 7:58am -tcsh
geekflav pts/24 7:59am -tcsh
geekflav pts/25 7:59am 1 -tcsh
geekflav pts/26 7:59am -tcsh
geekflav pts/27 7:59am vi index.html
geekflav pts/28 8:01am26days
geekflav pts/29 8:01am -tcsh
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Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Actually it's web designers who ruin the web as a whole.
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Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Try ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/bina ry-i386/web/apache_1.3.9-13.1.deb
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Niklas Nordebo | nino at sonox.com | +46-708-405095
Strange... I usually hack at machines all day long without doing anything illegal, maybe you could clarify in what way I can be busted for doing my job? Or maybe you should just quietly go away and come back when you know what hacking is.
FOLDOC on "hack", entry no. 4:
4. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO." In a general (time-extended) sense: "What do you do around here?" "I hack TECO." More generally, "I hack "foo"" is roughly equivalent to ""foo" is my major interest (or project)". "I hack solid-state physics."
And by the way, so you won't lose any sleep on it, none of the other definitions mention doing any cracking.
--
%japh = (
'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com',
'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
What America needs isn't the NRA to defend the 2nd amendment, what America needs is a sensible way to legally change it's constitution and remove things that makes no sense anymore (such as the 2nd amendment), and update it's wording (such as explicitely say what speech is/isn't in the first amendment). Only if America can change it's constitution in a democratic manner America can be said to be a democracy.
However, viewing the American public's tendency to vote for politicians wanting to take away their rights and freedoms, it might be that we should be happy that Americans can't change their constitution. If they could they would probably have completely abolished democracy by now.
--
%japh = (
'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com',
'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
To give them some undeserved credit, the patent was actually filed in 1996, but awarded in 1999. Which makes for a bit less prior art, but still enough for them to have an invalid patent, I'm sure.
--
%japh = (
'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com',
'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
I just mailed Passagen, the Swedish web space provider of the original cp4break homepage, and asked them whether it is their policy to comply with foreign courts asking them to censor pages, and whether this also extends to foreign dictatorships wanting to censor pages.
--
%japh = (
'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com',
'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
While reality-checking the book, Loyd Blankenship corresponded with a variety of people, from computer security experts to self-confessed computer crackers. From his home, he ran a legal BBS which discussed the "computer underground," and he knew many of its members. That was enough to put him on a federal List of Dangerous Hoodlums! The affidavit on which SJ Games were raided was unbelievably flimsy . . . Loyd Blankenship was suspect because he ran a technologically literate and politically irreverent BBS, because he wrote about hacking, and because he received and re-posted a copy of the /Phrack newsletter. The company was raided simply because Loyd worked there and used its (entirely different) BBS!
SJG seems to know the distinction between hackers and crackers.
--
%japh = (
'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com',
'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
If Victor is against software patents, as most of the free software community seems to be, he should give royalty free licenses to anyone - including Microsoft. Otherwise this patent will make it harder for us to convince people that software patents are wrong. I hope this isn't just because Victor wants to make a few bucks for himself...
%japh = (
'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com',
'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
The Crusoe processor emulates an x86 processor. You don't anything made for the Crusoe except Motherboard, BIOS and stuff.
%japh = (
'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com',
'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'
Try configuring one Dell Inspiron 7500 on their web site with Linux (Weee! I'd sure like to have Linux 6.1 like those k-rad Dell guys got!), and one with Win98. Make sure you get the same warranty, the same amount of memory, harddrive space, modems, network cards and whatnot, and that you pick Office 2000 small business instead of the full version.
You'll see that Dell will charge you $99 extra if you want Linux instead of Win98+Office2000 small business...
%japh = (
'name' => 'Niklas Nordebo', 'mail' => 'niklas@' . 'nordebo.com',
'work' => 'www.sonox.com', 'phone' => '+46-708-405095'