If you allow access to data without first password protecting it, as was the case, you are asking for trouble. It's the most obvious form of security. While breaking into it was wrong, and leaking it to the press asking to get raided, whoever admins these computer systems ought to be held accountable. Instead of pissing away money taking away rights in the name of the war on terrorism and throwing around our military might, the government ought to spend the money conducting audits on our computer systems and increasing our own security.
Actually the first game to use sound (AFAIK) was zpong on the TI-85. TI calculators generate sound by plugging a speaker into the link port, or an earphone if you prefer. This is unlike the HP calculators which have a built in speaker.
While we wait for the settlement to be reached, and there's talk of it dragging out, it leaves Microsoft more time to violate antitrust laws. XP shows they haven't learned anything from the proceedings. While the settlement proposed between the DOJ and Microsoft wasn't really what we wanted, it would be better than no remedies like while we're waiting for more legal proceedings.
It's the same liberals that forced Ashcroft to say he will uphold the laws and enforce him whether he agrees with them or not that now condemn him for upholding the laws which they disagree with. Give the man a fair chance, I think so far he's done a good job as the Attorney General and surely he has the qualifications for the job. And the only times Ashcroft has really been in the news after congress approved him were when he uncovered mistakes of the previous administration, such as not turning over evidence to McVeigh's defense team, something which is probably for the better that he's not making the news.
As for the DMCA, you can't expect judges that don't understand technology to overturn a law that congress passed and large corporations support. It's just a shame that companies can appoint lobbyists and make donations and those who oppose what they support don't have the resources nor the organization to do the same. Perhaps those who understand technology and support open source should form their own organizations, collect donations, hire lawyers and members and do the same. You'd think the ACLU would be eager to support this cause but they have more in common with the conservative capitalists than they'd like to admit. It's not going to be possible to overturn things without an organized effort, and currently such an effort doesn't exist. I'm not saying I don't somewhat agree with the voice of the corporations and those who have the money and the ACLU but it would be nice to have a voice of the opposing viewpoint with money and power to provide a formidable opponent to keep the powers in check.
This is probably the best way to get something done, but if you want someone to blame, make it those who don't understand the technology and are making the laws to govern it and ruling on it in the courts, but don't blame the man you, the liberal community, forced to swear he would uphold the laws.
EFnet is popular in large part because of the lack of services. As for invisible hubs, there are several hubs on the network (exodus, hub.uk to name a couple) which don't have their actual IPs shown in the C/N lines. And this attack seemed to hit _every_ client server or just about, so your solution wouldn't work anyway.
The majority of posts to that forum seem to be complaints about not being able to connect, usually because they can't get ident to work. There are many places to get help, but they are too lazy to look for those. If you have ident, you can almost always connect to several servers.
Just incase the rumours are true and somebody's attacked all the servers dianora opers on, can I point out that Diane hasnt been opered on irc.ins.net.uk for about a week... If you're going to DOS servers because you dont like their opers, at least/stats o first;P
Well, there are a couple of things I heard. First, I heard that some kiddie vowed he'd hold down all the servers for 12 hours. Supposedly this comes from opers. The other one I heard, and is a rumor posted by madmax (irc.ins.net.uk admin) to efnet.org that it was because of Dianora. There's always allegations of oper abuse and from time to time, servers probably do get hit for that, but at last I heard, that was just a rumor.
If EFnet didn't want you going to their page, they woudln't be using it to post news about their network and the DoS attacks. Last night, nearly every server was hit at one time or another and the page stayed up. As for EFnet, the servers that seemed to have been hit the hardest were ins (Cable & Wireless INS, UK), solidstreaming, and lightning. And at this hour, it seems to be pretty much back up, though solidstreaming is still down. By the way, I submitted this much earlier in the day and it was promptly rejected.
Could this be applied to the terms and services links that are common at the bottom of some websites? It seems that if you don't have to view them, they might not be valid. I understand the ruling here, but it could be applied to some other things which aren't necessarily good.
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If you allow access to data without first password protecting it, as was the case, you are asking for trouble. It's the most obvious form of security. While breaking into it was wrong, and leaking it to the press asking to get raided, whoever admins these computer systems ought to be held accountable. Instead of pissing away money taking away rights in the name of the war on terrorism and throwing around our military might, the government ought to spend the money conducting audits on our computer systems and increasing our own security.
Actually the first game to use sound (AFAIK) was zpong on the TI-85. TI calculators generate sound by plugging a speaker into the link port, or an earphone if you prefer. This is unlike the HP calculators which have a built in speaker.
Microsoft didn't invent packet switching.
Microsoft innovated packet switching.
There's also a rather interesting like here at The Register. It discusses the good and the bad of the proposed DOJ settlement.
While we wait for the settlement to be reached, and there's talk of it dragging out, it leaves Microsoft more time to violate antitrust laws. XP shows they haven't learned anything from the proceedings. While the settlement proposed between the DOJ and Microsoft wasn't really what we wanted, it would be better than no remedies like while we're waiting for more legal proceedings.
It's the same liberals that forced Ashcroft to say he will uphold the laws and enforce him whether he agrees with them or not that now condemn him for upholding the laws which they disagree with. Give the man a fair chance, I think so far he's done a good job as the Attorney General and surely he has the qualifications for the job. And the only times Ashcroft has really been in the news after congress approved him were when he uncovered mistakes of the previous administration, such as not turning over evidence to McVeigh's defense team, something which is probably for the better that he's not making the news.
As for the DMCA, you can't expect judges that don't understand technology to overturn a law that congress passed and large corporations support. It's just a shame that companies can appoint lobbyists and make donations and those who oppose what they support don't have the resources nor the organization to do the same. Perhaps those who understand technology and support open source should form their own organizations, collect donations, hire lawyers and members and do the same. You'd think the ACLU would be eager to support this cause but they have more in common with the conservative capitalists than they'd like to admit. It's not going to be possible to overturn things without an organized effort, and currently such an effort doesn't exist. I'm not saying I don't somewhat agree with the voice of the corporations and those who have the money and the ACLU but it would be nice to have a voice of the opposing viewpoint with money and power to provide a formidable opponent to keep the powers in check.
This is probably the best way to get something done, but if you want someone to blame, make it those who don't understand the technology and are making the laws to govern it and ruling on it in the courts, but don't blame the man you, the liberal community, forced to swear he would uphold the laws.
EFnet is popular in large part because of the lack of services. As for invisible hubs, there are several hubs on the network (exodus, hub.uk to name a couple) which don't have their actual IPs shown in the C/N lines. And this attack seemed to hit _every_ client server or just about, so your solution wouldn't work anyway.
The majority of posts to that forum seem to be complaints about not being able to connect, usually because they can't get ident to work. There are many places to get help, but they are too lazy to look for those. If you have ident, you can almost always connect to several servers.
It even says it's a rumor on the site.
/stats o first ;P
madmax @ 2001/07/11 21.16 irc.ins.net.uk / dianora
Just incase the rumours are true and somebody's attacked all the servers dianora opers on, can I point out that Diane hasnt been opered on irc.ins.net.uk for about a week... If you're going to DOS servers because you dont like their opers, at least
Well, there are a couple of things I heard. First, I heard that some kiddie vowed he'd hold down all the servers for 12 hours. Supposedly this comes from opers. The other one I heard, and is a rumor posted by madmax (irc.ins.net.uk admin) to efnet.org that it was because of Dianora. There's always allegations of oper abuse and from time to time, servers probably do get hit for that, but at last I heard, that was just a rumor.
If EFnet didn't want you going to their page, they woudln't be using it to post news about their network and the DoS attacks. Last night, nearly every server was hit at one time or another and the page stayed up. As for EFnet, the servers that seemed to have been hit the hardest were ins (Cable & Wireless INS, UK), solidstreaming, and lightning. And at this hour, it seems to be pretty much back up, though solidstreaming is still down. By the way, I submitted this much earlier in the day and it was promptly rejected.
Could this be applied to the terms and services links that are common at the bottom of some websites? It seems that if you don't have to view them, they might not be valid. I understand the ruling here, but it could be applied to some other things which aren't necessarily good.