Can all this technology help? i don't know, but seeing as you sold half of it to the taliban already, i'd say your pretty f*cked. I don't think Bin Laden took the energy to plan all these attacks for nothing. War works like chess, and it looks like he has thought several moves ahead, but bush (like the ape he is) is having difficulty just thinking of one. All the accidental plane crashes and anthrax cases seem a bit to co-incidental? Not to mention blair, who is risking our lives by joining in with it.
They had: Some mobile phones, a few laptops, and some determined people.
The Feds had: Advanced evesdropping systems, weapons, super-computers.
Who one that one?
The Army/Airforce's have: Planes, Guns, Tanks, Night-vision, and pretty much any kind of blowy uppy thing they want.
The taliban has the advantage of homeground, loads of caves (no they don't have back doors) and i wouldn't be surprised if all the terrorist hangouts the US just hit were actually fakes (does no-one in the gov. play Red-Alert?:) I mean, if you knew your camps were about to be cruised' would you not move them??
And the number 1, all time best weapon the they have:
They have members living all around the world right now, and for all you know, they could be living next door to you...
America, land of freedom... freedom to carry around big guns and shoot in 'self defence', freedom to hi-jack stuff. But if for a minute you think you have a right to bring down big false economies, or replace the old outdated ways with new ones that push civilization forward (but don't make afew people filthy rich) then you must be mad, for America is based on money and bribes and bent officials.
Does no-one think it strange that the people (senators?) who came up with these laws (DMCA,SSSCA) even think that they have a right to do this? Just putting these ideas forward should get them suspended and force them to undergo psych. testing. They should be under suspiction of corruption or fraud. Forget the implications of time wasting. (And forget the implications of my spelling):)
As far as dumb ideas go, i've seen my share. This defiantly belongs on the list, specifically in the category of "Ideas that are Dumb, infringe on your rights and are by-passable by the real criminals"
I don't care what anyone says, no-matter how good the recognition system is, if you wear dark-glasses, change your hair, grow/loose facial hair and put some ear muffs on, your own mother won't recognise you, and certainly not badly written software (Microsoft PeopleCheck(tm) 2000). ID cards can be faked, terrorists can come from clean crime-less backgrounds and low resolution cameras can't pick out every face at every angle in a crowed. Therefore, most people in the street will have their rights infringed with big databases marking everywhere they go, every shop they enter, every person they stop to talk too and every transaction they make. Meanwhile, the terrorists, who make the effort to get past the system (and its not much of an effort to make) will get through.
Cameras are a good idea in some places (high crime areas etc..) where the video tapes are only reviewed and used as evidence, when someone reports a crime. But its not in the public interest to go this far. If people say they want ID cards and face recognition then they have probably been misinformed - but then, thats what the politicians do best.
Dumb Ideas Hall Of Fame v0.5
-CueCat
-DMCA
-CPRM (the hard drive thing)
-SSSCA
-Cactus (copy protection)
-SafeAudio (")
-Macrovision (the company and everything)
-CSS (and anything like it)
-eBook
-Teathered downloads/crippled data/selling said data
-Crypto Backdoors
-Face Recognition on the street
-WMA (Digital Rights Management)
-Tivo 'upgrading' its non subscribers
-Bush (and anything he says)
-Blair (for sucking up to bush and bill.g)
-The Taliban (their ideas/beliefs) (they should do lunch with Bill Gates and Bush)
-Windows XP
-Building Tall Buildings With Lots Of People In Them (eggs in one basket??)
-G3 (or is it 3G??)
American Flag - Fade to whitehouse, and bush sitting in his chair.
(Que background music)
Bush: God bless America - where speech is free (unless its owned by a big company) (or the government) and justice is served fairly (along as it makes money [dmca]). But now, now its being changed! changed by a small people, people who will do anything to harm the freedom. These people are called 'file sharers' They are evilhackers who roam the sea of the Internet pirating as they go. The use their ships of software to go from point2point. They steal from the poorest artists and the companies that represent them (poor artists like Jackson and struggling companies like Warner, Polydor etc.) They trade sick and pornographic images that no human should be subjected to (because no-one actually _wants_ to see Alysa Milano lesbian action) and whats more, they send plans of terrorism! Yes, thats right, Bin-Laden and the Taliban used these systems to swap images and files containing hidden plans for their terrorist attacks! These people must be stopped, they are as guilty as Bin-Laden himself! To save America you, the citizens, must vigil and report these people. Do your duty for your country and your family. If you see anyone using file sharing programs, report them to the authorities (who will have their equipment destroyed and them put in prison for a long long time) and save America. Everyone must decide: You are either against file sharing, or your with Bin Laden!! No amount of bolding and repeating, repeating! can do enough to stress the importance of this.
Thank You, and, goodnight.
Fade Out, titles
"this presidential speech is protected under federal copyright laws, reproducing it in any form without prior consent is a federal offence carrying penalties of upto (15) years imprisonment."
Microsoft gets the prize for the dumbest software 'features' Like vbscripts in outlook, letting java control your browser and running binaries without asking. Personally i like the vb scripts: bringing down entire mail-servers with a language that was designed for 8-year olds just does it for me... or though, theres allot to be said about browser-controlling you can give people heart attacks from just simple java-scripting with multiple pop-up windows, Bin-Laden should be taking notes.
You all know the way out - don't use IE or Outlook (or Office)
Microsoft is either the most innovative, or the most incompetent.
Not sure about where you are, but here we have a silly little thing called trading standards, which means if you sell/advertise something.. it better do what you say it does.
"is it a reasonable expectation on the part of the browser developer that you are not going to trust the code written by the webpage author?"
Yes. Allot of sites are out to get you in any way possible. So far i have yet to see a page that opens a new window for anything useful, however i would still like to have that function available in case i find a site that does. I want a list of functions on the side of my screen that i can disable/enable as i need.
Web-sites should be viewed in a sandbox where they have absolutely no control of anything outside, microsoft seems to think otherwise which is the main reason that we have outlook virii. microsoft are releasing bad code and mis-advertising it.
OMG governments are dumb. They don't bother dealing with the major problems (like the DMCA, and peoples rights going down the drain) but when something happens that affects them in their little worlds (someone was browsing pr0n and got caught by a 'trap') they finally deal with it, but they manage to screw it up by targeting the _wrong_ group. Why deal with this at the widest point by shutting down sites that are run by idiots? why not target the bottleneck - i.e the few browsers that allow this sort of thing to happen.
After browsing with opera for the last year, i haven't had any trouble with right-click scripts, source hiding, or trapping... As soon as i open IE, i loose control of my own computer. Why does microsoft (its mainly them) seem to think that anyone else should have any sort of access to my computer? Only i decide what goes on in there. This sort of thing plays on the fact that most people don't know whats going on on their computer and for most that do, its to complicated and not worth the effort to fix. Its like conning people. I think closed source is generally the theme here, as microsoft would just love to have an internet where everything is closed ms binaries and if the designer doesn't want you to print something... you can't unless you dump the screen to printer or reverse engineer everything.
Personally i find web-designers the scum of the earth. I question even letting them decide what colours to use on a page (yellow text on white. WHY?) and wait for the day when a nice proxy will filter the web and convert _everything_ into a format similar to gnu.org (the way html should be) stripping all the pointless java menus and gimmicks.
The web-designers have a right to put up what they want. Microsoft has an obligation to either write software that doesn't allow such massive security holes, or advertise their software as flawed.
The feds took the enigma machine because they wanted the advanced crypto technology. If you look in side a carnivore you'll see cogs and bombe wheels and stuff... oh and it also has a little colossus emulator too. But then someone explained that terrorists genrally use quadruple-rot13 cyphers to plan their attacks, so the feds gave it back and now they use 'Bob's ROT-13 v1.0 Freeware'
How long until the press write a story linking Bin Laden and the terrorists, Crypto Backdoors, and blaim it on the Enigma machine?
you'd think that they just put on a nice smiley face in front of the public and then when no-one was looking: "bah hahhahhahaha, now we will make those mortals pay!"
whatever happened to sayings like: "the customer is always right", and "don't piss-off a customer before they've handed over the money (or until the money-back runs out)." and "If you make the customer happy, they might come back for more" I think they've been replaced with: "if(customer_has_money, GetCustomerMoneyAtAllCosts)" and "while(customer_looking) insert_adverts"
what if we could get ISP's to install ad-filtering proxies on their hardware that would still download the banner ad (and send it to dev/null) thus registering a hit with the advertisers, while not sending the advert (or the html for it) to the customer. Obviously this has to be an optional opt-in thing where the customer updates their browser proxy settings, that will keep the advertisers at bay. (at eBay! rofl... ok, no, sorry that wasn't funny, sorry:( )
Web advertising is a stupid idea and a bad business model. The entire advertising industry could be brought down over night if people started widely using ad-busting proxies for what ever reason. Developers could bundle anti-adware with their stuff, or someone could write a virus. Maybe if some creative PR people could use the terrorist attacks as an anti-web-ad's campaign: "Bin Laden used banner adverts to subliminally message people into hi-jacking!! install junk buster today." It would just be so funny to see an entire industry crash... imagine all the jumpers from the stock-exchanges lol:)
(don't forget to include slashdot and your fav. warez sites from the junk proxies (you can have the images covered up/replaced, but make sure they are downloaded so it registers as a page hit and the site still gets the money from the advertisers (even though its a fake hit and the advertisers are loosing money)
40GB?? thats 'bout 10 dvds? if you divx them, maybe you can fit enough pirate stuff on a disk to make the price of that disk worthwhile... unless you break the disk:(
I wonder how long it will take for the price fixing on blank media to stop.
Slashdot readers _do_ have better taste than the average person. The slash code should replace congress in america, everyone should watch startrek (if not just to see ezri and 7). Someone should set up a group to break into houses at night and replace windows installations with linux (and install replacement software/fix drivers/modules) and then leave before the owner wakes up.
This happens with _every_ new series "oh no, you can't have a woman captin" "whats the point if the ship doesn't move" "how can you remake the originals", but in the end people settle down. I havn't seen enterprise yet (the studios have to finish selling it out in the US first to get every penny before they come to england lol:) Was the music non trek?!?! if so they should change it lol. ("omg! they hated the music, we have to change it before next weeks show, bob, i need you to write a fresh 2min intro for a full orchestra by tommorow so we can get it in rehersal and record it, you might want some caffine 2)
Bush is using this to get as much attention as he can.. plenty of propaganda speeches, Blair is just sucking up to bush, he doesn't want to seem left out so he made London a no-fly zone for a few days just to get some news coverage off the yanks. I'm sure we'll soon see more propaganda films "Do your duty, and fight against freedom.. oops.. i mean, _for_ freedom, yeah, thats it"
Maybe the rest of the world should follow the example of the Taliban and ban the internet. This would solve a world of problems for governments, record companies and security agencies. Think about it, no more pr0n, no more music, film or software pirating, no problem with distributing hacks cracks and bypasses for copy protection systems. No one could send messages with secret plans in them.
The world would be a much safer place. Finally the poor record companies could start making big money again. DVDs could sell for more and no one could 'compare prices'. Microsoft wouldn't have to worry about the IE/anti-trust thing. Banks and governments would get hacked less and virii wouldn't spread so fast.
The internet isn't making any money - just look at all the dot-coms that have gone. Projects like Linux that are stealing from Microsoft would die out and people would forget the silly idea of 'open source'. With no mass communication media left, the people wouldn't be able to break out of line and cause trouble. Everyone would be able to work and play, do their duty for their country and generally serve the government.
The reason we have such Draconian laws is that there are so many evil people in the world. People that would sooner fight for 'freedom' than accept their life and serve their countries to rid the world of these 'freedom fighters'
I don't know where people get this selfish idea that they should be able to roam free on this earth, we are here to make the rich richer, to keep the poor in check, and to serve our superiors. So next time your thinking about pirating a CD or DVD, just think about the people you are depriving - the record producers who have enjoyed a life in the sun with a cool drink, the singers who live in the spot light loved by all, snorting cocaine. You are depriving these people of [more] money. They could loose all this glory just because you are too selfish to think of their needs. We are not your enemies, we are your friends. Thank you.
If you take the 'BEGIN PGP MESSAGE' from a PGP encrypted message your just left with some rubbish that could be anything VbSOIf08ASzMb/EdpF2+SzOr8cfpt56U1S3NQn/wF6Iu could be an encrypted message, or it could be a random string, or something in anyone of 1000's of different formats. I wonder how Bush/Blair will twist the facts to tell the people that random numbers are now illigal (lol, quantum physics). The same goes for demanding keys, what if i've lost/forgotten the key? what are you going to do about it.
BTW, i'm going to the park on friday at about 9am... on the bus.
(where 'park' read whitehouse, where 'bus' read plane. where 'going' read crashing.)
No mention in USA Today about how encryption, or other methods of cyphering/scrambling information have been around since ancient times. How restricting it would be as draconian as arresting someone for disagreeing with the government on a chat room. Or even how its used in so many everyday situations.
"Who ever thought that sending encrypted streams of data
across the Internet could produce a map on the other end saying 'this is where
your target is' or 'here's how to kill them'?" says Paul Beaver, spokesman for
Jane's Defense Weekly in London, which reports on defense and cyberterrorism
issues. "And who ever thought it could be done with near perfect security? The
Internet has proven to be a boon for terrorists."
Thats as bad as the US gov. saying "how could we have imagined that someone would hi-jack a plane and try to smash it into something." Its called getting off your fat arse and doing some work.
Allot of hacks happen because companies have bad security. If there was an out-break of bank robberies that happened to coincide with most banks switching to a new type of vault called MS-Safe(tm) then the police would advise them to improve security.
You should be able to do whatever you like in your own home (or endangering lives), with your own computer, as long as your not accessing another machine outside your house with out permission. That means cracking DSS, eBook and anything else - If these people can't produce a decent system (eBook cp system would never work anyway) then thats their problem.
Why should he have to explain himself to anyone? All he did was figure out some math. You could just as easily blame Boeing, the pilot instructers, or Bic (the biro). Personally id like to blaime that little t[a/u]rd Bush (i don't have to have a valid reason do i?). I think Zimmermann should sue someone for harassment.
The problem is, most induhviduals play their cds on normal players or in the car and have no idea what copy-protection is. They won't bother with any boycott and CDs will become like DVDs: -> full of stupid CP systems that have all been cracked, and just add pointless complexity in quality loss to the format.
Judd Gregg is incompetent and shouldn't be allowed such a high position. To get rid of him, use the media. Tell them that he is trying to make a law that will effectively ban what math you can do in your own home. which is technically true. You might want a picture of a little kid watching as his teacher is dragged away by the police with the blackboard in the background showing sums (1+1 = 2), get a newspaper to show it on the front page with the caption:
"Judd Gregg Bans Maths, Is HE In League With The Taliban??
Don't forget to include the bold bits. Then on the next page, put a picture of johnny (the little kid from page 1) being taken away by the police because he added 103400595 to 1004340350 in his book, (effectively encrypting the first number, using the second as a key (yes i know, but its all i could think of)). Ok, the last photo should show johnny's school being shut down and circled in yellow tape by the FBI, because they found a copy of 'Bobs secret messages puzzle book" in the library.
The induhviduals don't understand so you have to explain to them in terms they can get...
Soon Bin Laden and the Taliban will be on your side. They'll be praising the US gov. for finally seeing the light, that no one should have any rights because they are just not worthy of them. The Taliban have already banned the Internet, floppy disks and music, so they're way ahead of you guys. But i'm sure you can teach them a thing or two with the SSSCA, and maybe even help them to impliment their own version of it (i.e the AK-47 CA, that ensures that all AK-47s are equipped with serial numbered bullets with the owners' name and religon on them).
Oh, and for people planning to write to Hollings, don't forget to include payment, otherwise he won't be able to bring it up in congress (he doesn't take discover: unmarked bills in small dinominations only)
If you want to stop terrorism you have to find the bottle neck - the place were there are the fewest things to control. Encryption is one of the furthest things from the bottle neck, blaming encryption would almost be like blaming speech. And controlling it would be no different. In this case, airline security is the bottle neck, there are fewer planes in the air than their are encrypted messages, therefore, planes should be controlled as to make them harder to hijack and crash into stuff. For example putting a camera outside the door so the pilots can see whos knocking, and train the pilots to turn off the camera, wear headphones and ignore the terrorists while they land.
Blaming Phil Zimmermann for this is even worse than attacking a paediatrician because your so dumb you think they are a pedophile (happened in england) people like this should not be allowed to vote. (bush is one of these people)
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Can all this technology help? i don't know, but seeing as you sold half of it to the taliban already, i'd say your pretty f*cked. I don't think Bin Laden took the energy to plan all these attacks for nothing. War works like chess, and it looks like he has thought several moves ahead, but bush (like the ape he is) is having difficulty just thinking of one. All the accidental plane crashes and anthrax cases seem a bit to co-incidental? Not to mention blair, who is risking our lives by joining in with it.
:) I mean, if you knew your camps were about to be cruised' would you not move them??
They had: Some mobile phones, a few laptops, and some determined people.
The Feds had: Advanced evesdropping systems, weapons, super-computers.
Who one that one?
The Army/Airforce's have: Planes, Guns, Tanks, Night-vision, and pretty much any kind of blowy uppy thing they want.
The taliban has the advantage of homeground, loads of caves (no they don't have back doors) and i wouldn't be surprised if all the terrorist hangouts the US just hit were actually fakes (does no-one in the gov. play Red-Alert?
And the number 1, all time best weapon the they have:
They have members living all around the world right now, and for all you know, they could be living next door to you...
America, land of freedom... freedom to carry around big guns and shoot in 'self defence', freedom to hi-jack stuff. But if for a minute you think you have a right to bring down big false economies, or replace the old outdated ways with new ones that push civilization forward (but don't make afew people filthy rich) then you must be mad, for America is based on money and bribes and bent officials.
:)
Does no-one think it strange that the people (senators?) who came up with these laws (DMCA,SSSCA) even think that they have a right to do this? Just putting these ideas forward should get them suspended and force them to undergo psych. testing. They should be under suspiction of corruption or fraud. Forget the implications of time wasting. (And forget the implications of my spelling)
As far as dumb ideas go, i've seen my share. This defiantly belongs on the list, specifically in the category of "Ideas that are Dumb, infringe on your rights and are by-passable by the real criminals"
I don't care what anyone says, no-matter how good the recognition system is, if you wear dark-glasses, change your hair, grow/loose facial hair and put some ear muffs on, your own mother won't recognise you, and certainly not badly written software (Microsoft PeopleCheck(tm) 2000). ID cards can be faked, terrorists can come from clean crime-less backgrounds and low resolution cameras can't pick out every face at every angle in a crowed. Therefore, most people in the street will have their rights infringed with big databases marking everywhere they go, every shop they enter, every person they stop to talk too and every transaction they make. Meanwhile, the terrorists, who make the effort to get past the system (and its not much of an effort to make) will get through.
Cameras are a good idea in some places (high crime areas etc..) where the video tapes are only reviewed and used as evidence, when someone reports a crime. But its not in the public interest to go this far. If people say they want ID cards and face recognition then they have probably been misinformed - but then, thats what the politicians do best.
Dumb Ideas Hall Of Fame v0.5
-CueCat
-DMCA
-CPRM (the hard drive thing)
-SSSCA
-Cactus (copy protection)
-SafeAudio (")
-Macrovision (the company and everything)
-CSS (and anything like it)
-eBook
-Teathered downloads/crippled data/selling said data
-Crypto Backdoors
-Face Recognition on the street
-WMA (Digital Rights Management)
-Tivo 'upgrading' its non subscribers
-Bush (and anything he says)
-Blair (for sucking up to bush and bill.g)
-The Taliban (their ideas/beliefs) (they should do lunch with Bill Gates and Bush)
-Windows XP
-Building Tall Buildings With Lots Of People In Them (eggs in one basket??)
-G3 (or is it 3G??)
anything else??
American Flag - Fade to whitehouse, and bush sitting in his chair.
(Que background music)
Bush: God bless America - where speech is free (unless its owned by a big company) (or the government) and justice is served fairly (along as it makes money [dmca]). But now, now its being changed! changed by a small people, people who will do anything to harm the freedom. These people are called 'file sharers' They are evil hackers who roam the sea of the Internet pirating as they go. The use their ships of software to go from point2point. They steal from the poorest artists and the companies that represent them (poor artists like Jackson and struggling companies like Warner, Polydor etc.) They trade sick and pornographic images that no human should be subjected to (because no-one actually _wants_ to see Alysa Milano lesbian action) and whats more, they send plans of terrorism! Yes, thats right, Bin-Laden and the Taliban used these systems to swap images and files containing hidden plans for their terrorist attacks! These people must be stopped, they are as guilty as Bin-Laden himself! To save America you, the citizens, must vigil and report these people. Do your duty for your country and your family. If you see anyone using file sharing programs, report them to the authorities (who will have their equipment destroyed and them put in prison for a long long time) and save America. Everyone must decide: You are either against file sharing, or your with Bin Laden!! No amount of bolding and repeating, repeating! can do enough to stress the importance of this.
Thank You, and, goodnight.
Fade Out, titles
"this presidential speech is protected under federal copyright laws, reproducing it in any form without prior consent is a federal offence carrying penalties of upto (15) years imprisonment."
Microsoft gets the prize for the dumbest software 'features' Like vbscripts in outlook, letting java control your browser and running binaries without asking. Personally i like the vb scripts: bringing down entire mail-servers with a language that was designed for 8-year olds just does it for me... or though, theres allot to be said about browser-controlling you can give people heart attacks from just simple java-scripting with multiple pop-up windows, Bin-Laden should be taking notes.
You all know the way out - don't use IE or Outlook (or Office)
Microsoft is either the most innovative, or the most incompetent.
Not sure about where you are, but here we have a silly little thing called trading standards, which means if you sell/advertise something.. it better do what you say it does.
"is it a reasonable expectation on the part of the browser developer that you are not going to trust the code written by the webpage author?"
Yes. Allot of sites are out to get you in any way possible. So far i have yet to see a page that opens a new window for anything useful, however i would still like to have that function available in case i find a site that does. I want a list of functions on the side of my screen that i can disable/enable as i need.
Web-sites should be viewed in a sandbox where they have absolutely no control of anything outside, microsoft seems to think otherwise which is the main reason that we have outlook virii. microsoft are releasing bad code and mis-advertising it.
or...
tell microsoft to fix it _now_ (and fix outlook) or advertise that their software contains massive security holes (trading standards).
or...
Use Opera (www.opera.com)
OMG governments are dumb. They don't bother dealing with the major problems (like the DMCA, and peoples rights going down the drain) but when something happens that affects them in their little worlds (someone was browsing pr0n and got caught by a 'trap') they finally deal with it, but they manage to screw it up by targeting the _wrong_ group. Why deal with this at the widest point by shutting down sites that are run by idiots? why not target the bottleneck - i.e the few browsers that allow this sort of thing to happen.
After browsing with opera for the last year, i haven't had any trouble with right-click scripts, source hiding, or trapping... As soon as i open IE, i loose control of my own computer. Why does microsoft (its mainly them) seem to think that anyone else should have any sort of access to my computer? Only i decide what goes on in there. This sort of thing plays on the fact that most people don't know whats going on on their computer and for most that do, its to complicated and not worth the effort to fix. Its like conning people. I think closed source is generally the theme here, as microsoft would just love to have an internet where everything is closed ms binaries and if the designer doesn't want you to print something... you can't unless you dump the screen to printer or reverse engineer everything.
Personally i find web-designers the scum of the earth. I question even letting them decide what colours to use on a page (yellow text on white. WHY?) and wait for the day when a nice proxy will filter the web and convert _everything_ into a format similar to gnu.org (the way html should be) stripping all the pointless java menus and gimmicks.
The web-designers have a right to put up what they want. Microsoft has an obligation to either write software that doesn't allow such massive security holes, or advertise their software as flawed.
The feds took the enigma machine because they wanted the advanced crypto technology. If you look in side a carnivore you'll see cogs and bombe wheels and stuff... oh and it also has a little colossus emulator too. But then someone explained that terrorists genrally use quadruple-rot13 cyphers to plan their attacks, so the feds gave it back and now they use 'Bob's ROT-13 v1.0 Freeware'
How long until the press write a story linking Bin Laden and the terrorists, Crypto Backdoors, and blaim it on the Enigma machine?
you'd think that they just put on a nice smiley face in front of the public and then when no-one was looking: "bah hahhahhahaha, now we will make those mortals pay!"
:( )
whatever happened to sayings like: "the customer is always right", and "don't piss-off a customer before they've handed over the money (or until the money-back runs out)." and "If you make the customer happy, they might come back for more" I think they've been replaced with: "if(customer_has_money, GetCustomerMoneyAtAllCosts)" and "while(customer_looking) insert_adverts"
what if we could get ISP's to install ad-filtering proxies on their hardware that would still download the banner ad (and send it to dev/null) thus registering a hit with the advertisers, while not sending the advert (or the html for it) to the customer. Obviously this has to be an optional opt-in thing where the customer updates their browser proxy settings, that will keep the advertisers at bay. (at eBay! rofl... ok, no, sorry that wasn't funny, sorry
exclude, i ment exclude not include
Web advertising is a stupid idea and a bad business model. The entire advertising industry could be brought down over night if people started widely using ad-busting proxies for what ever reason. Developers could bundle anti-adware with their stuff, or someone could write a virus. Maybe if some creative PR people could use the terrorist attacks as an anti-web-ad's campaign: "Bin Laden used banner adverts to subliminally message people into hi-jacking!! install junk buster today." It would just be so funny to see an entire industry crash... imagine all the jumpers from the stock-exchanges lol :)
(don't forget to include slashdot and your fav. warez sites from the junk proxies (you can have the images covered up/replaced, but make sure they are downloaded so it registers as a page hit and the site still gets the money from the advertisers (even though its a fake hit and the advertisers are loosing money)
40GB?? thats 'bout 10 dvds? if you divx them, maybe you can fit enough pirate stuff on a disk to make the price of that disk worthwhile... unless you break the disk :(
I wonder how long it will take for the price fixing on blank media to stop.
Troll, Flaimebait take your pick.
Slashdot readers _do_ have better taste than the average person. The slash code should replace congress in america, everyone should watch startrek (if not just to see ezri and 7). Someone should set up a group to break into houses at night and replace windows installations with linux (and install replacement software/fix drivers/modules) and then leave before the owner wakes up.
This happens with _every_ new series "oh no, you can't have a woman captin" "whats the point if the ship doesn't move" "how can you remake the originals", but in the end people settle down. I havn't seen enterprise yet (the studios have to finish selling it out in the US first to get every penny before they come to england lol:) Was the music non trek?!?! if so they should change it lol. ("omg! they hated the music, we have to change it before next weeks show, bob, i need you to write a fresh 2min intro for a full orchestra by tommorow so we can get it in rehersal and record it, you might want some caffine 2)
Too true..
Bush is using this to get as much attention as he can.. plenty of propaganda speeches, Blair is just sucking up to bush, he doesn't want to seem left out so he made London a no-fly zone for a few days just to get some news coverage off the yanks. I'm sure we'll soon see more propaganda films "Do your duty, and fight against freedom.. oops.. i mean, _for_ freedom, yeah, thats it"
Maybe the rest of the world should follow the example of the Taliban and ban the internet. This would solve a world of problems for governments, record companies and security agencies. Think about it, no more pr0n, no more music, film or software pirating, no problem with distributing hacks cracks and bypasses for copy protection systems. No one could send messages with secret plans in them.
The world would be a much safer place. Finally the poor record companies could start making big money again. DVDs could sell for more and no one could 'compare prices'. Microsoft wouldn't have to worry about the IE/anti-trust thing. Banks and governments would get hacked less and virii wouldn't spread so fast.
The internet isn't making any money - just look at all the dot-coms that have gone. Projects like Linux that are stealing from Microsoft would die out and people would forget the silly idea of 'open source'. With no mass communication media left, the people wouldn't be able to break out of line and cause trouble. Everyone would be able to work and play, do their duty for their country and generally serve the government.
The reason we have such Draconian laws is that there are so many evil people in the world. People that would sooner fight for 'freedom' than accept their life and serve their countries to rid the world of these 'freedom fighters'
I don't know where people get this selfish idea that they should be able to roam free on this earth, we are here to make the rich richer, to keep the poor in check, and to serve our superiors. So next time your thinking about pirating a CD or DVD, just think about the people you are depriving - the record producers who have enjoyed a life in the sun with a cool drink, the singers who live in the spot light loved by all, snorting cocaine. You are depriving these people of [more] money. They could loose all this glory just because you are too selfish to think of their needs. We are not your enemies, we are your friends. Thank you.
Yours
George W. Bush
(co signed Tony Blair.)
How can you prove that some data is encrypted?
If you take the 'BEGIN PGP MESSAGE' from a PGP encrypted message your just left with some rubbish that could be anything VbSOIf08ASzMb/EdpF2+SzOr8cfpt56U1S3NQn/wF6Iu could be an encrypted message, or it could be a random string, or something in anyone of 1000's of different formats. I wonder how Bush/Blair will twist the facts to tell the people that random numbers are now illigal (lol, quantum physics). The same goes for demanding keys, what if i've lost/forgotten the key? what are you going to do about it.
BTW, i'm going to the park on friday at about 9am... on the bus.
(where 'park' read whitehouse, where 'bus' read plane. where 'going' read crashing.)
No mention in USA Today about how encryption, or other methods of cyphering/scrambling information have been around since ancient times. How restricting it would be as draconian as arresting someone for disagreeing with the government on a chat room. Or even how its used in so many everyday situations.
"Who ever thought that sending encrypted streams of data
across the Internet could produce a map on the other end saying 'this is where
your target is' or 'here's how to kill them'?" says Paul Beaver, spokesman for
Jane's Defense Weekly in London, which reports on defense and cyberterrorism
issues. "And who ever thought it could be done with near perfect security? The
Internet has proven to be a boon for terrorists."
Thats as bad as the US gov. saying "how could we have imagined that someone would hi-jack a plane and try to smash it into something." Its called getting off your fat arse and doing some work.
Allot of hacks happen because companies have bad security. If there was an out-break of bank robberies that happened to coincide with most banks switching to a new type of vault called MS-Safe(tm) then the police would advise them to improve security.
You should be able to do whatever you like in your own home (or endangering lives), with your own computer, as long as your not accessing another machine outside your house with out permission. That means cracking DSS, eBook and anything else - If these people can't produce a decent system (eBook cp system would never work anyway) then thats their problem.
Why should he have to explain himself to anyone? All he did was figure out some math. You could just as easily blame Boeing, the pilot instructers, or Bic (the biro). Personally id like to blaime that little t[a/u]rd Bush (i don't have to have a valid reason do i?). I think Zimmermann should sue someone for harassment.
The problem is, most induhviduals play their cds on normal players or in the car and have no idea what copy-protection is. They won't bother with any boycott and CDs will become like DVDs: -> full of stupid CP systems that have all been cracked, and just add pointless complexity in quality loss to the format.
Judd Gregg is incompetent and shouldn't be allowed such a high position. To get rid of him, use the media. Tell them that he is trying to make a law that will effectively ban what math you can do in your own home. which is technically true. You might want a picture of a little kid watching as his teacher is dragged away by the police with the blackboard in the background showing sums (1+1 = 2), get a newspaper to show it on the front page with the caption:
"Judd Gregg Bans Maths, Is HE In League With The Taliban??
Don't forget to include the bold bits. Then on the next page, put a picture of johnny (the little kid from page 1) being taken away by the police because he added 103400595 to 1004340350 in his book, (effectively encrypting the first number, using the second as a key (yes i know, but its all i could think of)). Ok, the last photo should show johnny's school being shut down and circled in yellow tape by the FBI, because they found a copy of 'Bobs secret messages puzzle book" in the library.
The induhviduals don't understand so you have to explain to them in terms they can get...
Soon Bin Laden and the Taliban will be on your side. They'll be praising the US gov. for finally seeing the light, that no one should have any rights because they are just not worthy of them. The Taliban have already banned the Internet, floppy disks and music, so they're way ahead of you guys. But i'm sure you can teach them a thing or two with the SSSCA, and maybe even help them to impliment their own version of it (i.e the AK-47 CA, that ensures that all AK-47s are equipped with serial numbered bullets with the owners' name and religon on them).
Oh, and for people planning to write to Hollings, don't forget to include payment, otherwise he won't be able to bring it up in congress (he doesn't take discover: unmarked bills in small dinominations only)
If you want to stop terrorism you have to find the bottle neck - the place were there are the fewest things to control. Encryption is one of the furthest things from the bottle neck, blaming encryption would almost be like blaming speech. And controlling it would be no different. In this case, airline security is the bottle neck, there are fewer planes in the air than their are encrypted messages, therefore, planes should be controlled as to make them harder to hijack and crash into stuff. For example putting a camera outside the door so the pilots can see whos knocking, and train the pilots to turn off the camera, wear headphones and ignore the terrorists while they land.
Blaming Phil Zimmermann for this is even worse than attacking a paediatrician because your so dumb you think they are a pedophile (happened in england) people like this should not be allowed to vote. (bush is one of these people)