Mildly related, the aptly named www.piratebay.org (locared in Sweden) has fallen under the internationally long arm of the MPAA. Remember, they were the ones with the great legal threat responses, including invitations to lawyers to sodomize themselves with retractable batons.
BTW, the blood bank is on a freeway access road. Only a fool would try to bike/walk there.
Are you an experienced cyclist? I've been bike commuting for 30+ years. Some people think I'm foolish, but I have very sound knowledge of what is and is not safe for me. Not knowing your particular freeway access road, I can't say for sure, but I've never seen a freeway access road before that wasn't safe. Unless traffic is >50mph, or the lanes illegally narrow, I'd be fine.
It's also possible that someone could be a passenger. You don't have to drive a car to get somewhere.
Lastly, I have a DL even though I don't have a car, but for anything other than a driving related situation, I wouldn't provide it as ID. If a law is ever passed requiring a Cycling license, fine, I'll carry one. As yet there isn't, nor is there a pedestrian license.
I can accept the argument "although we didn't find any child porn on his computer, we did find lots of encrypted files that we could not decrypt"
But if a suspect refuses to talk until they have a lawyer present is that relevant? "although he didn't confess, he didn't say anything until his lawyer was there".
I can see the existence of encryption as being a way of explaining the absence of some piece of evidence, but the judicial system in general will be VERY careful about the existence of encryption being presented as evidence. Without knowing the Judges actuall instructions, I don't know that the thinking slashdotter can have an intelligent INFORMED decision on this one.
"But you don't have to send SMTP traffic over port 25."
The confusion is that it's not really 'over port X', but 'to port X', but I think I understand you now. You're not the ISP, but you are relaying email for customers, so they need to send you SMTP traffic. Your company runs SMTP servers on both 3535 and 80.
That bit about not web browsing at the same time is certainly wrong, but I understand having to pass on stupid info:-)
I'm confused- you mean you act as a relay and run SMTP servers on 3535 and 80? Or you mean source port 25 is blocked, which makes no sense, and would have no effect on web browsing?
The way to block zombies would be to block the customer from port 25 dst for all IP but the ISP.
Nothing the customer could do (short getting the receiver to accept SMTP on some other port) could change that.
If the customer decided to send to port 80, (and assuming they convinced the receiving end to run an SMTP server on 80) it would have no effect on web browsing.
I'm not sure what you're really telling your customers, but what you're telling us is confused.
That's easy. You should never use the same password on multiple systems, because quite simply, you don't know where your password is going. You are giving a secret to the keeper of the system you want access to. That keeper might keep it safe, or that keeper might use it to log into your bank account.
The only time I use the same password on multiple systems is when I REALLY don't care if it gets compromised. That is, the kinds of passowrds I'd be happy to give to bugmenot.com for everyone and his dog to use.
1) P4$$w0rd is a really bad password. 2) The same password for your bank and for warezRus.com is a bad idea.
Forcing people to change their passwords all the time encourages bad passwords and passwords on stickys.
Regular password changes are: a) because you think someone is brue forcing them (so fix that problem, changing the password part way through the brute force sequence doesn't buy you anything. b) because you think it has been compromised (if it has, it's too late).
So you basically have one password. If it's compromised in two versions, it's toast. That's fine for things like NY Times registration, but I wouldn't trust my Bank of America account to it.
I've given up trying to remember- I have no idea how many passwords I have. Some I use maybe once per yeaer. They're all in http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
So I also have only one password, but I only use it in password safe. And I only use that on my machine (no keyboard loggers).
Actually, a theater will generally refund your money if you really didn't like the movie. It helps if you don't wait until the end to decide it sucks.
I worked at a theater when 'Pinochio' came out (The 'Life is Beautiful' guy version, not the Disney version). A LOT of people wanted refunds for that one.
Maybe that says something about a) the insane money spent to make a movie- do top stars really need 20 million? and b) the quality of what's being made.
This is akin to the law which prohibited "Applied Cryptography" to be exported with the floppy disk, which had source code listings from the book. The book (with the text version of the source) was fine, just not the disk with the magnetic version.
Because we all know foreigners are too dumb to use an OCR scanner...
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Nobody is promising anything, unless you have a 3rd party support contract.
I see three options:
1) forget about it and keep paying Microsoft for the promise of support.
2) find a 3rd party to do your patches and upgrades for you.
3) invenst some time in learning how to keep up with latest stable versions.
Nothing is free as in beer. BSD is older than windows, and the patches/new versions will keep coming for a long time to come. If you want a feel-good promise, you'll have to pay someone for a support contract.
OLN flooded us with 'Lance' coverage last year, and this year have cut back severely on bike racing coverage. Cycling fans don't need to see 'Le Tour' 5 times a day, but we do like to see other races, like the current running Giro d'Italia (today's stage won by American David Zabriskie, fyi).
OLN is now offering streaming coverage of the Giro. Only $5.95 for all weekday stages, but I'm guessing you can't (easily) keep a copy. So I can pay for it (happy to do so) but if I want to watch it again, I have to re-stream it. And hope they keep in on their servers.
I wouldn't even mind a pay-per-download 'legal' torrent site, if I could pay a reasonable amount for shows I WANT. I don't like the idea of paying for 50 cable channels, when I want about 5.
it should be obvious that we'll have to give up a few civil liberties in the interest of safety. When the threat of terrorism is gone, and we're back at 'green', then sure, we can get our freedoms back.
Until then, well, this is a different world, after all.
I'm sure the Departement of Homeland Security wil let us know when it's safe to be free again.
Until then, we should all keep our mouths shut and thank our DHS overlords for doing so much to keep our beloved Democracy Free! Er, um, Free once the Evildoers are caught and brough to Justice! Well, not exactly Justice, but a secret military tribunal.
It is not 'communism' that prevents people from leaving a country. It is 'totalitarianism'.
To get real Soviet style internal passports, we need to list the citizen's address, and not let them live at a different address without permission. That way we can optimally locate the population. Too many people want to live in California. We're relocate some of them to, say, Kansas.
That's known as Pascal's wager. The problem is that it assumes a bilateral choice, God or no God. What do you do about choosing between multiple Gods all of whom claim to be the only God?
But I agree, arguments like that, although interesting, aren't very good reasons to 'believe' in anything.
"Suing Apple over 'Tiger'? Yeesh, that's like Apple Records suing Apple over 'Apple'. 'Apple' and 'Tiger' are common names. If you don't want any confusion, call yourselves 'Butthead Computer Stuff'.
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I don't have the overhead of a PT Cruiser (or a Mini Cooper, as is the fleet car in this neighborhood).
Anyone who isn't "all about the customer" won't be in business for long. That's a self correcting problem.
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Mildly related, the aptly named www.piratebay.org (locared in Sweden) has fallen under the internationally long arm of the MPAA. Remember, they were the ones with the great legal threat responses, including invitations to lawyers to sodomize themselves with retractable batons.
No, the MPAA are not 'giving up' anything.
BTW, the blood bank is on a freeway access road. Only a fool would try to bike/walk there.
Are you an experienced cyclist? I've been bike commuting for 30+ years. Some people think I'm foolish, but I have very sound knowledge of what is and is not safe for me. Not knowing your particular freeway access road, I can't say for sure, but I've never seen a freeway access road before that wasn't safe. Unless traffic is >50mph, or the lanes illegally narrow, I'd be fine.
It's also possible that someone could be a passenger. You don't have to drive a car to get somewhere.
Lastly, I have a DL even though I don't have a car, but for anything other than a driving related situation, I wouldn't provide it as ID. If a law is ever passed requiring a Cycling license, fine, I'll carry one. As yet there isn't, nor is there a pedestrian license.
How did this get modded 'offtopic' and the parent not? Yeesh, my kngdom for mod points today.
Dude, you scored a 'funny' in my book.
I can accept the argument "although we didn't find any child porn on his computer, we did find lots of encrypted files that we could not decrypt"
But if a suspect refuses to talk until they have a lawyer present is that relevant? "although he didn't confess, he didn't say anything until his lawyer was there".
I can see the existence of encryption as being a way of explaining the absence of some piece of evidence, but the judicial system in general will be VERY careful about the existence of encryption being presented as evidence. Without knowing the Judges actuall instructions, I don't know that the thinking slashdotter can have an intelligent INFORMED decision on this one.
"But you don't have to send SMTP traffic over port 25."
:-)
The confusion is that it's not really 'over port X', but 'to port X', but I think I understand you now. You're not the ISP, but you are relaying email for customers, so they need to send you SMTP traffic. Your company runs SMTP servers on both 3535 and 80.
That bit about not web browsing at the same time is certainly wrong, but I understand having to pass on stupid info
I'm confused- you mean you act as a relay and run SMTP servers on 3535 and 80? Or you mean source port 25 is blocked, which makes no sense, and would have no effect on web browsing?
The way to block zombies would be to block the customer from port 25 dst for all IP but the ISP.
Nothing the customer could do (short getting the receiver to accept SMTP on some other port) could change that.
If the customer decided to send to port 80, (and assuming they convinced the receiving end to run an SMTP server on 80) it would have no effect on web browsing.
I'm not sure what you're really telling your customers, but what you're telling us is confused.
That's easy. You should never use the same password on multiple systems, because quite simply, you don't know where your password is going. You are giving a secret to the keeper of the system you want access to. That keeper might keep it safe, or that keeper might use it to log into your bank account.
The only time I use the same password on multiple systems is when I REALLY don't care if it gets compromised. That is, the kinds of passowrds I'd be happy to give to bugmenot.com for everyone and his dog to use.
It's impossible to FORCE good passwords.
1) P4$$w0rd is a really bad password.
2) The same password for your bank and for warezRus.com is a bad idea.
Forcing people to change their passwords all the time encourages bad passwords and passwords on stickys.
Regular password changes are:
a) because you think someone is brue forcing them (so fix that problem, changing the password part way through the brute force sequence doesn't buy you anything.
b) because you think it has been compromised (if it has, it's too late).
So you basically have one password. If it's compromised in two versions, it's toast. That's fine for things like NY Times registration, but I wouldn't trust my Bank of America account to it.
I've given up trying to remember- I have no idea how many passwords I have. Some I use maybe once per yeaer. They're all in http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
So I also have only one password, but I only use it in password safe. And I only use that on my machine (no keyboard loggers).
Actually, a theater will generally refund your money if you really didn't like the movie. It helps if you don't wait until the end to decide it sucks.
I worked at a theater when 'Pinochio' came out (The 'Life is Beautiful' guy version, not the Disney version). A LOT of people wanted refunds for that one.
$140 an hour
You mean $340 an hour?
Maybe that says something about a) the insane money spent to make a movie- do top stars really need 20 million? and b) the quality of what's being made.
How many movies each year have an original idea?
Exacty. What, we have the 'right' to more episodes?!?!
Please tell me this was mis-edited.
This is akin to the law which prohibited "Applied Cryptography" to be exported with the floppy disk, which had source code listings from the book. The book (with the text version of the source) was fine, just not the disk with the magnetic version.
Because we all know foreigners are too dumb to use an OCR scanner...
Nobody is promising anything, unless you have a 3rd party support contract.
I see three options:
1) forget about it and keep paying Microsoft for the promise of support.
2) find a 3rd party to do your patches and upgrades for you.
3) invenst some time in learning how to keep up with latest stable versions.
Nothing is free as in beer. BSD is older than windows, and the patches/new versions will keep coming for a long time to come. If you want a feel-good promise, you'll have to pay someone for a support contract.
ok, how about this option- your player refuses to play it after 7 days. You can keep the file, it will just be encrypted. Think of it as a rental.
And yes, I know, the encryption will be broken etc etc. But for the sake of argument- if you beef is with the auto delete, that's not a big problem.
As for wanting to watch it more than a week later, I agree completely. I'd want that too. The providers are thinking of it more as a rental.
OLN flooded us with 'Lance' coverage last year, and this year have cut back severely on bike racing coverage. Cycling fans don't need to see 'Le Tour' 5 times a day, but we do like to see other races, like the current running Giro d'Italia (today's stage won by American David Zabriskie, fyi).
OLN is now offering streaming coverage of the Giro. Only $5.95 for all weekday stages, but I'm guessing you can't (easily) keep a copy. So I can pay for it (happy to do so) but if I want to watch it again, I have to re-stream it. And hope they keep in on their servers.
I wouldn't even mind a pay-per-download 'legal' torrent site, if I could pay a reasonable amount for shows I WANT. I don't like the idea of paying for 50 cable channels, when I want about 5.
God I hope you don't actually think that could be serious!
it should be obvious that we'll have to give up a few civil liberties in the interest of safety. When the threat of terrorism is gone, and we're back at 'green', then sure, we can get our freedoms back.
Until then, well, this is a different world, after all.
I'm sure the Departement of Homeland Security wil let us know when it's safe to be free again.
Until then, we should all keep our mouths shut and thank our DHS overlords for doing so much to keep our beloved Democracy Free! Er, um, Free once the Evildoers are caught and brough to Justice! Well, not exactly Justice, but a secret military tribunal.
THEN we'll have Freedom!!!
Depends on what you call 'online'. BBSes with a 300baud modem- I don't think that's a stretch.
Access to THE Internet? No.
It is not 'communism' that prevents people from leaving a country. It is 'totalitarianism'.
To get real Soviet style internal passports, we need to list the citizen's address, and not let them live at a different address without permission. That way we can optimally locate the population. Too many people want to live in California. We're relocate some of them to, say, Kansas.
That's known as Pascal's wager. The problem is that it assumes a bilateral choice, God or no God. What do you do about choosing between multiple Gods all of whom claim to be the only God?
But I agree, arguments like that, although interesting, aren't very good reasons to 'believe' in anything.
to TigerDirect.com
"Suing Apple over 'Tiger'? Yeesh, that's like Apple Records suing Apple over 'Apple'. 'Apple' and 'Tiger' are common names. If you don't want any confusion, call yourselves 'Butthead Computer Stuff'.
From now on I'll order from Newegg."
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