I don't think people realize exactly how much effort IBM is putting into Java. I work for IBM, and have access to the internal Java sites and source code. IBM is doing a complete rewrite of Java. The programmers cannot have even looked at Sun's code, because IBM is afraid that anyone who has seen Sun's code may produce code that infringes on Sun's copyrights. So the IBM Java programmers (theoretically) have never seen any of Sun's source, just the specs. Pretty damn impressive. Plus the IBM jdk is much faster and more reliable than Blackdown's (I can consistently produce a seg fault with Blackdown's native thread 1.1.8 while IBM's has no problems).
The National Authority of Fraud Investigation(ØKOKRIM) yesterday searched the home of a 16-year old student in Vestfold.
Two personal computers were confiscated. Both Jon Johnsen and his father were taken in for questioning last night, after they had been reported to the police by several large US multimedia companies. Jon Johnsen became internationally known, after he cracked the code for copying DVD-films just before Christmas. Both father and son are charged with violating the copyright laws, and could face up to 2-3 years in jail, according to VG. Jon Johnsen was questioned for eight hours, and had to turn in his mobile phone, his pass words and several discettes. He claimss that the charges are wrong. -The DVD codes are not copy-protection, but replay-protection, he says, claiming the companies are trying to infringe on his right to fredom of expression.
While e-mail is okay, snail mail is better, so spend some money on stamps.
No, snail mail is not better in this case, they specifically said in the link that they are posting all submissions to their website and they really prefer email! If you send snail mail you have to send 15 (that's FIFTEEN) copies and it probably WILL NOT make it to the website, so they are saying PLEASE PLEASE SEND EMAIL NOT SNAIL MAIL!!
From the link: 1. Written Comments
The Copyright Office will be placing all comments and reply comments that are submitted in electronic form on its Website (http:// lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201). Because of this, the Office prefers that comments and reply comments be submitted in electronic form, in one of the following formats: If by electronic mail: Send to ``1201@loc.gov' '' a message containing the name of the person making the submission, his or her title, organization, mailing address, telephone number, telefax number and e-mail address. The message should also identify the document clearly as either a comment or reply comment. The document itself must be sent as a MIME attachment, and must be in a single file in either Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) format (preferred), or in Microsoft Word Version 7.0 or earlier, or in WordPerfect 7 or earlier. If by regular mail or hand delivery: Send, to the appropriate address listed above, two copies, each on a 3.5-inch write-protected diskette, labeled with the name of the person making the submission, his or her title and organization. The document itself must be in a single file in either Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) format (preferred), or in Microsoft Word Version 7.0 or earlier, or in WordPerfect Version 7 or earlier. Anyone who is unable to submit a comment in electronic form should submit an original and fifteen paper copies by hand or by mail to the appropriate address listed above. It may not be feasible for the Office to place these comments on its website. All written comments (in electronic or nonelectronic form) should contain the name of the person making the submission, his or her title, organization, mailing address, telephone number, telefax number and e- mail address.
Misspelling normal words or bad grammar is one thing. Misspelling kernel would be ok if it was a typo, but in this case he really thought it was spelled with an 'a'. Since he didn't know how to spell kernel, that means (to me) that he has never visited http://kernel.org, which means he does not know what he is talking about. I am not criticizing him for misspelling, which seems to be about all you could understand from my post, but saying that not knowing what the spelling of kernel is indicates a lack of knowledge. Also, his reaction to criticism (flaming) indicates he is insecure with his knowledge and/or authority.
Maybe you now understand what I am talking about. If not, then I'll try to explain it real simple for you: Typos, ok, ignorance, bad. Clear...?
Well, it doesn't matter who is at fault, it's a Y2K bug anyway. Having said that: it's actually always a coder.
No, it's not a Y2K bug. The code(r) didn't either add 1900 or prepend 19 to the string. So in 1999, it would appear as the year 99. A Y2K bug is one that works before 2000, but not after. Clearly, this would not work at any time. So it IS the coders fault (not a Y2K bug - that was the comparison I was making, coder vs. Y2K, not between the code and coder.)
which starting 1/1/2000, is going to be in fact 100
Yeah, and before that would be 0-99, so I guess if this page was up yesterday the date would have read Dec 31, 99? Obviously if the method of generating this year generates 100 now, it wouldn't have added a '19' previously. The coder (if this date is truly generated and not hardcoded) is at fault, not the software; if a 0-99 was expected before, a 100 should be expected now. That's what they got.
An easy way to remove unwanted cookies is directly edit the cookie file (Under *nix that is, I don't know about Windows). For netscape (edit it while netscape isn't up), the file is $HOME/.netscape/cookies
Each cookie is a line, starting with the domain. I edit it occasionally and delete entire lines. Works great for me.
As far as disabling cookies (not just removing them occasionally), is that some pages require cookies to work, which is bad design in my opinion. In most cases. Sometimes you need cookies; eg. slashdot.
In fact, there are many root nameservers; one for each country out there (.de,.uk,.ie,.au, etc) and the US government and military do their own thing too.
I'm assuming that either NSI points requests to them, or local nameservers know to ask them (based on the top-level of the request). So this kind of this is already happening, it's just that alternic.org is not in the 'official list' or whatever. Maybe ICANN has something to do with it.
Alternic.org has been around a long time. The problem is, you need to use their nameserver, since your local (ISP) nameserver won't be checking their DNS registry. So other people would have a hard time finding your site.
Apparently everyone on the West Coast has T1... Over in Raleigh (RTP, NC) DSL is cheap. $50 from BellSouth. Granted, the BW is not guaranteed, but it's at least as good as ISDN. Compared to the significant cost of a T1 (1.528M bits/sec), DSL seems pretty cost efficient. But a T3 (~45M bits/sec) would be nice...!
As was previously reported here on/. this whole thing can't be considered as a real chess match. I think M$ can't seem to do anything right, as they are the cause of all the problems in this 'match'.
This can't be legal. First, you can't possess drugs. Ok, now you can't talk about drugs! While we're at it, you can't talk about anything illegal! That's where they're going with crap like this.
`(2) PROHIBITION- It shall be unlawful for any person--
`(A) to teach or demonstrate the manufacture of a controlled substance, or to distribute by any means information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of a controlled substance, with the intent that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime; or
`(B) to teach or demonstrate to any person the manufacture of a controlled substance, or to distribute to any person, by any means, information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of a controlled substance, knowing that such person intends to use the teaching, demonstration, or information for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime.
`(b) PENALTY- Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.'.
You're receiving this note because you asked for QuickTime for Linux, QuickTime for UNIX, or QuickTime for Amiga.
QuickTime is available for Mac OS http://www.apple.com/macos, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4. The next platform to be supported will be Mac OS X http://www.apple.com/macosx (including Mac OS X Server), which is Mach/BSD-based.
If you're interested in QuickTime for platforms other than Mac or Windows, contact your platform vendor and let them know that you would like them to license QuickTime from Apple.
If you're interested in QuickTime as it relates to servers, be sure to check out the standards-based Darwin streaming server project http://publicsource.apple.com (which works with any standards-based streaming media client).
I know Ken Williams, and although I didn't see the material in question or talk to him yet about all this, I do not think he would put the kind of content being described on his site. It seems (from Harvard's email) that he is getting his data back, which is good - I know that he has put a LOT of time into it.
If I knew more about this, I would comment on it, but PacketStorm is no longer up, so I can't see what JP alleged was on the site. The 'public letter' that JP refers to is at his old site, which is now inoperative.
It's too bad Vranesevich didn't contact Ken directly instead of Harvard. If he wanted the offending material removed, Ken could have done that, not Harvard. No, he wanted the ENTIRE SITE removed. That's pretty selfish; there was so much more to the site that just the small part the he had a problem with.
It's also interesting that Vranesevich describes AntiOnline's mission as 'putting an end to malicious hackers', but does any of the material that offended him really have anything to do with hacking? From his (JP's) description of it, it doesn't seem so. Assuming, of course, that what he said was on the site really was - which I am not convinced of. Perhaps a better question is, is Ken a malicious hacker? Not as far as I know, and in fact it seems that since he provided for free a very large and useful website that took much of his time to maintain, he definately NOT a 'malicious hacker'. In fact, I believe Ken (and PacketStorm) were (and hopefully will be again) very useful to many people around the world. I certainly don't think PacketStorm was getting 400,000+ hits/day because of AntiOnline insults/threats (if there were any there in the first place). Maybe JP should define what exactly a 'malicious hacker' is.
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I don't think people realize exactly how much effort IBM is putting into Java. I work for IBM, and have access to the internal Java sites and source code. IBM is doing a complete rewrite of Java. The programmers cannot have even looked at Sun's code, because IBM is afraid that anyone who has seen Sun's code may produce code that infringes on Sun's copyrights. So the IBM Java programmers (theoretically) have never seen any of Sun's source, just the specs. Pretty damn impressive. Plus the IBM jdk is much faster and more reliable than Blackdown's (I can consistently produce a seg fault with Blackdown's native thread 1.1.8 while IBM's has no problems).
The Norway Post has a (very) short article in English.
The National Authority of Fraud Investigation(ØKOKRIM) yesterday searched the home of a 16-year old student in Vestfold.
Two personal computers were confiscated.
Both Jon Johnsen and his father were taken in for questioning last night, after they had been reported to the police by several large US multimedia companies.
Jon Johnsen became internationally known, after he cracked the code for copying DVD-films just before Christmas.
Both father and son are charged with violating the copyright laws, and could face up to 2-3 years in jail, according to VG.
Jon Johnsen was questioned for eight hours, and had to turn in his mobile phone, his pass words and several discettes.
He claimss that the charges are wrong. -The DVD codes are not copy-protection, but replay-protection, he says, claiming the companies are trying to infringe on his right to fredom of expression.
While e-mail is okay, snail mail is better, so spend some money on stamps.
No, snail mail is not better in this case, they specifically said in the link that they are posting all submissions to their website and they really prefer email! If you send snail mail you have to send 15 (that's FIFTEEN) copies and it probably WILL NOT make it to the website, so they are saying PLEASE PLEASE SEND EMAIL NOT SNAIL MAIL!!
From the link:
1. Written Comments
The Copyright Office will be placing all comments and reply comments that are submitted in electronic form on its Website (http:// lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201). Because of this, the Office prefers that comments and reply comments be submitted in electronic form, in one of the following formats: If by electronic mail: Send to ``1201@loc.gov' '' a message containing the name of the person making the submission, his or her title, organization, mailing address, telephone number, telefax number and e-mail address. The message should also identify the document clearly as either a comment or reply comment. The document itself must be sent as a MIME attachment, and must be in a single file in either Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) format (preferred), or in Microsoft Word Version 7.0 or earlier, or in WordPerfect 7 or earlier.
If by regular mail or hand delivery: Send, to the appropriate address listed above, two copies, each on a 3.5-inch write-protected diskette, labeled with the name of the person making the submission, his or her title and organization. The document itself must be in a single file in either Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) format (preferred), or in Microsoft Word Version 7.0 or earlier, or in WordPerfect Version 7 or earlier.
Anyone who is unable to submit a comment in electronic form should submit an original and fifteen paper copies by hand or by mail to the appropriate address listed above. It may not be feasible for the Office to place these comments on its website.
All written comments (in electronic or nonelectronic form) should contain the name of the person making the submission, his or her title, organization, mailing address, telephone number, telefax number and e- mail address.
Misspelling normal words or bad grammar is one thing. Misspelling kernel would be ok if it was a typo, but in this case he really thought it was spelled with an 'a'. Since he didn't know how to spell kernel, that means (to me) that he has never visited http://kernel.org, which means he does not know what he is talking about. I am not criticizing him for misspelling, which seems to be about all you could understand from my post, but saying that not knowing what the spelling of kernel is indicates a lack of knowledge. Also, his reaction to criticism (flaming) indicates he is insecure with his knowledge and/or authority.
Maybe you now understand what I am talking about. If not, then I'll try to explain it real simple for you: Typos, ok, ignorance, bad. Clear...?
Thanks.
Well, it doesn't matter who is at fault, it's a Y2K bug anyway. Having said that: it's actually always a coder.
No, it's not a Y2K bug. The code(r) didn't either add 1900 or prepend 19 to the string. So in 1999, it would appear as the year 99. A Y2K bug is one that works before 2000, but not after. Clearly, this would not work at any time. So it IS the coders fault (not a Y2K bug - that was the comparison I was making, coder vs. Y2K, not between the code and coder.)
which starting 1/1/2000, is going to be in fact 100
Yeah, and before that would be 0-99, so I guess if this page was up yesterday the date would have read Dec 31, 99? Obviously if the method of generating this year generates 100 now, it wouldn't have added a '19' previously. The coder (if this date is truly generated and not hardcoded) is at fault, not the software; if a 0-99 was expected before, a 100 should be expected now. That's what they got.
An easy way to remove unwanted cookies is directly edit the cookie file (Under *nix that is, I don't know about Windows). For netscape (edit it while netscape isn't up), the file is $HOME/.netscape/cookies
Each cookie is a line, starting with the domain. I edit it occasionally and delete entire lines. Works great for me.
As far as disabling cookies (not just removing them occasionally), is that some pages require cookies to work, which is bad design in my opinion. In most cases. Sometimes you need cookies; eg. slashdot.
In fact, there are many root nameservers; one for each country out there (.de, .uk, .ie, .au, etc) and the US government and military do their own thing too.
http://nic.gov
http://nic.mil
I'm assuming that either NSI points requests to them, or local nameservers know to ask them (based on the top-level of the request). So this kind of this is already happening, it's just that alternic.org is not in the 'official list' or whatever. Maybe ICANN has something to do with it.
Alternic.org has been around a long time. The problem is, you need to use their nameserver, since your local (ISP) nameserver won't be checking their DNS registry. So other people would have a hard time finding your site.
Apparently everyone on the West Coast has T1... Over in Raleigh (RTP, NC) DSL is cheap. $50 from BellSouth. Granted, the BW is not guaranteed, but it's at least as good as ISDN. Compared to the significant cost of a T1 (1.528M bits/sec), DSL seems pretty cost efficient. But a T3 (~45M bits/sec) would be nice...!
As was previously reported here on /. this whole thing can't be considered as a real chess match. I think M$ can't seem to do anything right, as they are the cause of all the problems in this 'match'.
This can't be legal. First, you can't possess drugs. Ok, now you can't talk about drugs! While we're at it, you can't talk about anything illegal! That's where they're going with crap like this.
`(2) PROHIBITION- It shall be unlawful for any person--
`(A) to teach or demonstrate the manufacture of a controlled substance, or to distribute by any means information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of a controlled substance, with the intent that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime; or
`(B) to teach or demonstrate to any person the manufacture of a controlled substance, or to distribute to any person, by any means, information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of a controlled substance, knowing that such person intends to use the teaching, demonstration, or information for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime.
`(b) PENALTY- Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.'.
I emailed Apple and Sorenson about working with Mark Podlipec (Xanim's creator) and below is the email I got back.
If we all email them maybe they will get a clue.
For reference, Xanim's home page (and mirrors)
http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html
http://smurfland.cit.buffalo.edu/xanim/home.html
http://xanim.resnet.gatech.edu/home.html
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If you're interested in QuickTime for platforms other than Mac or Windows, contact your platform vendor and let them know that you would like them to license QuickTime from Apple.
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Here's a lot of MP stuff.
http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/mainpage.htm
All I did to find this was search for 602P from the www.usps.gov web site.
Email rumor completely untrue
Postal News - Email rumor completely untrue
I know Ken Williams, and although I didn't see the material in question or talk to him yet about all this, I do not think he would put the kind of content being described on his site. It seems (from Harvard's email) that he is getting his data back, which is good - I know that he has put a LOT of time into it.
If I knew more about this, I would comment on it, but PacketStorm is no longer up, so I can't see what JP alleged was on the site. The 'public letter' that JP refers to is at his old site, which is now inoperative.
It's too bad Vranesevich didn't contact Ken directly instead of Harvard. If he wanted the offending material removed, Ken could have done that, not Harvard. No, he wanted the ENTIRE SITE removed. That's pretty selfish; there was so much more to the site that just the small part the he had a problem with.
It's also interesting that Vranesevich describes AntiOnline's mission as 'putting an end to malicious hackers', but does any of the material that offended him really have anything to do with hacking? From his (JP's) description of it, it doesn't seem so. Assuming, of course, that what he said was on the site really was - which I am not convinced of. Perhaps a better question is, is Ken a malicious hacker? Not as far as I know, and in fact it seems that since he provided for free a very large and useful website that took much of his time to maintain, he definately NOT a 'malicious hacker'. In fact, I believe Ken (and PacketStorm) were (and hopefully will be again) very useful to many people around the world. I certainly don't think PacketStorm was getting 400,000+ hits/day because of AntiOnline insults/threats (if there were any there in the first place). Maybe JP should define what exactly a 'malicious hacker' is.
-Dan Streetmanddstreet@eos.ncsu.edu