I believe it has been some security feature on slashdot once as well that a redirect can also redirect you to a PUT URL. Say you log in on your etrade.com account in the morning and you never log out... later you go search for something on Lycos, you *THINK* you found what you want, *click* and before you know it you've purchased some stock on etrade. Ofcourse this one is just an example.
*shrug* why is it that always 'somebodys mother' needs to be able to do something AND understand it? There's a saying 'you get what you expect'. If you expect stupid users who can't memorise that a coffeemachine is addressed like http://coffeepot.mydomain.com:10000, well then yeah, you'll get stupid users doing exactly that. I'm sure somebody made some nice law about the entropy of stupidity or something.
Ofcourse, unfortunately, I would only be able to use 65535 or so portnumbers... Hums hums.. BUMMER! 'Mom, you cannot put more than 60k devices on our home network damnit! How many times do I have to repeat this, your hairdryer just CAN'T be controlled through the internet, you will REALLY have to control it through the local LAN.
Ofcourse, as another poster suggested, a name based HTTP proxy on the 'router' would also be cool. So let the proxy server decide which IP address on the local LAN to forward requests for http://coffeepot.mydomain.com to! That'd kick ass, I bet Linksys could fairly easily put such functionality in their little box. Ofcourse when you have a Linux internet gateway that's trivial to set up anyway.
However, wasting 'numbers' is not so harmfull as the more typical American waste, so why the hell not implement IPv6 and have a plethora of numbers available. Hmmm. Hey it would probably be good for the IT work opportunities in the future, all those routers that will have to be replaces 'n all, all those computers that'll need to be reconfigured. Hmm. I like it. Let's do it!
I thought Europeans liked bush on their women. I mean bushes, Argh. You know what I mean.
heh:) well, you raise a good point there. But I'm sure that you'll see that an American Dick is not an option, and since the Bush is pretty Chaineyed up to the Dick, thanks but no thanks.
Hah! Isn't the British Heritage that got the USA where they are now?? Tell ya what, I'm quite sure that if you ask the Dutch people nicely and promise them to rename New York back to New Amsterdam (damn British certainly lacked originality didn't they?) then the Dutch will be more than happy to give you some civilisation and culture back in return!
We'll even give back the apple that New York was sold for I'm sure.
Standard Disclaimer: My opinions do not neccesarily represent the opinion of my country.
This is the subject of the 'most popular' (most voted) petition on www.petitionsite.com.
There is no petition on there regarding Dmytri. Ofcourse there's Chris DiBona's site at dibona.com/dmca/index.shtml. It seems that 8625 people signed Chris' declaration.
19854 people signed the petition to not let eBay have animal hunt auctions.... Are we nerds so few in numbers?
But how the hell will your personal organizer connect DIRECTLY to your fridge to tell it to order groceries?
Uhm, simple. I tell my (Linux) firewall to do port forwarding. Let's say my coffeebrewer by default listens to port 443 (it's OBVIOUS ofcourse that it won't have a telnet interface, ridiculous, and it better be encrypted since my wife may be sniffing the coffee)
Now my personal caffeine measure device (which obviously needs to be told which coffee machine to connect to) gets configured to connect to mydomain.com:10000. mydomain.com is the only static IP address I have, but when something comes in on port 10000, it knows it needs to send it to port 443 on coffee.mydomain.com. Pretty simple. Most silly DSL routers (Linksys) can do such things by default.
Always wanted to be a toplevel registrar and dang I'd love to hand out moon.os, mars.os, satellite.os etc. There were never enough IP addresses for such forward looking vision ofcourse but in a few years the outerspace domains will be booming. Sealand is already planning their move to the Moon since they're being surrounded by tin-soldier DMCA laws.
There have been MANY MANY articles on slashdot about UCE, Unsollicited COMMERCIAL Email. We all despise spammers, we try everything to block them, we have ORBS, RBL, laws even.
I don't think a flyer about Dmytri's destiny (so far) would be 'COMMERCIAL'. So laws regarding UCE would not apply to it. We would only be using our 1st amendment right of free speech if we would embark on a MASSIVE MASSIVE email campaign to let the ENTIRE WORLD know about what's happening, right?
I mean, c'mon, we RUN the internet, we CREATE it, and we're handing out FLYERS at demonstrations that involve 10 people here, 50 people there? That's silly. We should USE our strength to make sure that the media CANNOT cover this up because of their own vested interest in the DMCA. Let's contact the ORB people to ask them for a few MPAA/RIAA open relays and use those relays to convey to the ENTIRE planet Dmytri's destiny!
Why in heck do I get funny visuals of a tin soldier loaded to the teeth with heavy armament, with shaking knees, and then a little baby walks up, *blows* and the Soldier Boy falls over... Hmmm.
I guess you are volunteering for a few hours of sunbathing here in California. I keep hearing that people are getting fun little skindiseases here due to excessive UV. Ofcourse, here in Los Angeles that doesn't matter so much since you die of lungdisease (no, not because of smoking) before those nasty skindiseases can get ya.
I can see your point... strangely enough humans have been evolving for a long time, but you have apparently on your own account decided 'until here and no further, we will remain stupid from now on'. Ofcourse coming from a Soldier Boy that's not entirely unexpected. I guess it's a good thing that you volunteer not to procreate, perhaps you could be the first to get a Darwin Award while you're still alive.
You said 'Kyoto'! You lose. According to people on here (in reply to an earlier post of mine), the Kyoto treaty is 1) boring 2) obscure 3) not a single developped country has signed it.
Yeah some fall IBM made. Don't be silly. IBM probably figured they're better at superior technology and they left the 'toy market' for Microsoft. (OK that was their BIG mistake, I don't think anybody would have anticipated at the time that EVERYBODY and their mother would want to have such a toy)
Economy down
Government investment in military up
Foreigners out
Economy up
Start again
With the unemployment going up and up and up, somehow jobs must be created. What better way than to beef up the military budget, create a bunch of jobs that require security clearance (hey! citizenship!) and ship back the H1B workers? That sounds like Bush to me!
It's an official use. You'd be surprised how many.mil people, and contractors, read slashdot.
Nooooo! Tell me this isn't happening! Mwahaha, the army uses slashdot now to broadcast messages to employees, what, is the Exchange server uhhh a bit slow or something? I'm going to write a virus and kill myself before I die laughing:):)
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Ofcourse, unfortunately, I would only be able to use 65535 or so portnumbers... Hums hums.. BUMMER! 'Mom, you cannot put more than 60k devices on our home network damnit! How many times do I have to repeat this, your hairdryer just CAN'T be controlled through the internet, you will REALLY have to control it through the local LAN.
Ofcourse, as another poster suggested, a name based HTTP proxy on the 'router' would also be cool. So let the proxy server decide which IP address on the local LAN to forward requests for http://coffeepot.mydomain.com to! That'd kick ass, I bet Linksys could fairly easily put such functionality in their little box. Ofcourse when you have a Linux internet gateway that's trivial to set up anyway.
However, wasting 'numbers' is not so harmfull as the more typical American waste, so why the hell not implement IPv6 and have a plethora of numbers available. Hmmm. Hey it would probably be good for the IT work opportunities in the future, all those routers that will have to be replaces 'n all, all those computers that'll need to be reconfigured. Hmm. I like it. Let's do it!
heh :) well, you raise a good point there. But I'm sure that you'll see that an American Dick is not an option, and since the Bush is pretty Chaineyed up to the Dick, thanks but no thanks.
We'll even give back the apple that New York was sold for I'm sure.
Standard Disclaimer: My opinions do not neccesarily represent the opinion of my country.
There is no petition on there regarding Dmytri. Ofcourse there's Chris DiBona's site at dibona.com/dmca/index.shtml. It seems that 8625 people signed Chris' declaration.
19854 people signed the petition to not let eBay have animal hunt auctions.... Are we nerds so few in numbers?
Uhm, simple. I tell my (Linux) firewall to do port forwarding. Let's say my coffeebrewer by default listens to port 443 (it's OBVIOUS ofcourse that it won't have a telnet interface, ridiculous, and it better be encrypted since my wife may be sniffing the coffee)
Now my personal caffeine measure device (which obviously needs to be told which coffee machine to connect to) gets configured to connect to mydomain.com:10000. mydomain.com is the only static IP address I have, but when something comes in on port 10000, it knows it needs to send it to port 443 on coffee.mydomain.com. Pretty simple. Most silly DSL routers (Linksys) can do such things by default.
``The public is outraged,'' said Gross. ``It's creating a huge international incident between the U.S. and Russian governments.''"
I don't think a flyer about Dmytri's destiny (so far) would be 'COMMERCIAL'. So laws regarding UCE would not apply to it. We would only be using our 1st amendment right of free speech if we would embark on a MASSIVE MASSIVE email campaign to let the ENTIRE WORLD know about what's happening, right?
I mean, c'mon, we RUN the internet, we CREATE it, and we're handing out FLYERS at demonstrations that involve 10 people here, 50 people there? That's silly. We should USE our strength to make sure that the media CANNOT cover this up because of their own vested interest in the DMCA. Let's contact the ORB people to ask them for a few MPAA/RIAA open relays and use those relays to convey to the ENTIRE planet Dmytri's destiny!
Before you whistle your patriotism tune, wait what will be the verdict by the judge or the supreme court (if it ever gets there)
It would be a bit upleasant for you if you'd have to say
A Russian gets arrested by a bad American law, and who comes to his aid? Americans. ... and they lose
Then what will 'we' do?
Oh.. wait..
I can see your point... strangely enough humans have been evolving for a long time, but you have apparently on your own account decided 'until here and no further, we will remain stupid from now on'. Ofcourse coming from a Soldier Boy that's not entirely unexpected. I guess it's a good thing that you volunteer not to procreate, perhaps you could be the first to get a Darwin Award while you're still alive.
Government investment in military up
Foreigners out
Economy up
Start again
With the unemployment going up and up and up, somehow jobs must be created. What better way than to beef up the military budget, create a bunch of jobs that require security clearance (hey! citizenship!) and ship back the H1B workers? That sounds like Bush to me!
Nooooo! Tell me this isn't happening! Mwahaha, the army uses slashdot now to broadcast messages to employees, what, is the Exchange server uhhh a bit slow or something? I'm going to write a virus and kill myself before I die laughing :) :)
200 countries have signed the treaty. But thank God that the "developped" USA that locks underdevelopped foreigners in jail comes to the rescue.