For example when you walk in to your public library you don't expect to go to the magazine section and pick up a copy of the lastest Swank.
Actually, (at least in the UK) you can.
OK so your local public library may not carry it, but by law the British Library is required to keep a copy of everything published in the UK. Your local library can order it in (or a photocopy of the relevent article) for a small fee. If you have problems persuading your local librarian, point out that the porn and violent material is held in a British Library collection called the "private case". Although, in these enlightend times work is finding its way out of this collection and onto teh main shelves
When you have finished sniggering.... some people do have to do genuine reserch in porn.
Its not for your government (or vanilla libarian) to tell you otherwise.
I hope nobody reading this will rely on "pgp -m" for security
Thats why I said, you must still trust the recipiant not to take a screen shot!
This is a problem with ANY shreading system. Be it paper or electronic documents. There will always be somebody who takes a copy/screen shot to CYA (or is that CTA).
As I said, if you cant trust the recipiant, then you shouldn't be sending them sensative information in the first place!
When encrypting a message with PGP you can use the -m option (or sellect the 'secure viewer' if you are using one of the windoze versions)
Doing this prevents the recipiant from saving a plain text version on their disks
No, it isn't as good as "shreading" and there are ways to cercumvent this if the recipiant was so incliend, but it is a good substitute providing you trust the recipiant.
If you dont trust the recipiant then WTF are you doing sending them such an e-mail in the first place!
exploring the science and art from algorithms, robotics, quantum physics, coding, nanotechnologies, genetic and kinetic art to electrical music, telecommunications and A.I.
Mr Katz
If you can't distunguish between science and technology, what makes us think you can distungish between science and the arts!
BT are in a shitload of debt and the managers have been told to screw every last penny out of the consumers.
How do I know?
Because BT made a major cock up with its internet billing over a year ago and gave some customers free internet access. BT are now trying to claim back money from users who surfed for free, even though BT legaly havent got a leg to stand on.
They are hopeing that customers will just give in and pay money they dont legally have to by being heavy handed. Have a look at this BBC news article for details.
You, yourself, can buy a several watt (yes watt) IR diode
Jesus!
I hope anyone using that kind of power makes sure they know what they are doing.
Because the IR beam is invisible your eye will not have a blink reflex to bright IR light. The first you will know about getting an eyefull of a powerful IR laser is when you blind yourself (or someone else) You have no pain receptors on your retina.
Remember home made lasers can be an absolute bastard to align! A good staring point for information on home made lasers is Sams Laser FAQ
A good background to semicondutor lasers is Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics (Yep, its true! check out the link.)
Jay's a good friend of mine, I know he wouldn't log the actual keys.
Heh
My ex-wife was a good friend of mine.
She wouldn't tip brake fluid over my car:-/
Besides, when you go to the Privacy Policy on the page it mentions what Pulse will and won't do
And this privacy policy comes under European law also?
Is Jay open to bribes from unscrupulous bastards who will pay for the data he collects?
Can a melicious version of this code be put out there so a clueless windoze user downloads the wrong one? (one without a ''privacy policy'')
Even if your mate has the best intentions, encouraging people to install spyware like this is very bad karma. You are encouraging people to take stupid risks.
Agreed!
The reason the PS became the best selling console in the UK was because people could easliy pirate games onto a CD and play them with a mod chip.
No way could you easily pirate a Nintendo/sega cartrage.
Any market will have a stall selling dodgey pirate games, and any (indipendent) games shop will happily chip a PS for you.
In stopping this illegal trade, Sony are harming themselves not helping themselves!
somehow get a 5 x 5 x 1/16" piece of plastic outside a country
Why bother?
Just print the code in a book (or even use the 3-line RSA algoritham on a bit of paper) and it was perfectly legal to export it from the US (freedom of the press). This is how the international PGP versions were legitematley exported, and then scanned in using OCR to get the code in an electronic format again.
This was partly why the law was overturned. What is the point in banning the export of code in an electronic format, when it was perfectly legal (first amendment) to export in a writen format.
I gave up watching the x-files a long time ago.
Origionaly it was very good but the writers seemed to confined with the same plotlines and format of each episode.
Had the program been given a freer reign and alowed to evolve over time (think star-trek) I think I would be still watching it today.
Shame
First off, we all know *yawn* how easy it is for a big company to patent a blindingly obvious idea. The little guys then have to go thought a painful and long process to get the patent overturned. The patent process is abused and big buiness wins.
Also remember that any company can claim patent pending to sound good.
e.g. Say I run a company making bog-standard parts for a Ford Escort. I then get a patent out for putting a roof on a toaster to stop the toast being poped up too high(!). I can now legitamately claim patent-pending !
Trade marks are similar. In the UK at least, putting TM after your trade mark is regarded as 'totaly meeningless', as it carries no legal weight at all. However, it is easy to bully smaller companies into submission by claiming you have many 'registerd' trade marks.
PGP is a brillient tool for encryption (esp. e-mail) and PGP disk or Scramdisk are great for secure archiving on windoze machines. However the PGP wipe isn't very good.This link explains why and gives good alterantives for windoze users.
Linux users already have encrypted filesystems and secure file wipeing as standard in all(?) common distro's. (I know that SuSE even lets you overwite the wiped files with zeros to hide its very existance)
Off road SUV use (it might scratch the paint)
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The Ultimate S.U.V.
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· Score: 3, Funny
i have a friend of a friend who "claims" to have seen one in an off-road situation.
You must be joking right?
The average SUV driver would be so scared of scratching the metallic paint on there all terain vercle, they will never dare take it off road!
A friend of mine e-mailed the monopolies and merger commision (UK body designed to make sure no company abuses there monopoly) regarding what he belived was unfair use of videopluss codes
How did the impartial, UK government monopolies commision reply to his e-mail?
You guessed it
In propriatry M$ word format!!!
what is "unlawful" or "unfair" about buying personal information in a database as an asset from a liquidated company
The UK Data Protection act 1984 (1998) states that personal data MUST be "fairly" obtained.
Aquiring (eg) your personal data,
a) via a third party (liqudator), without your express permision,
b) for use other than its origional, stated intetion (eg, It's no longer used for aiding/. but for mailing you p0rn)
would almost cerainly be illegal (And rightly so).
If you gave permission on the other hand....
Data protection acts protect many Europeans
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Making It Personal
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· Score: 4, Insightful
If they do go under, won't Slashdot's entire database full of opinions, email addresses, etc, be up for grab at the asset auction?
But any company purchasing this information will be unable to use it to trade in most European countries.
eg. The UK data protection act says that personal data must be "lawfuly and fairly obtained"
To use personal details bought at an asset aution (therefore without the individuals consent) would be very illegal. They would not be allowed to use that information to trade in the UK
If memory serves, there have been articles on/. previously about this
Why don't US'ians get together and fight for a law like this?
Personalization starts when you remember whether someone prefers a window or an aisle seat.
Whoopee fuck !!!
The future looks brighter already!
Making It Personal explains how to implement meaningful personalization strategies
Based on the above I somewhat doubt this!
What would interest me though, is if the book discussed the case for a law similar to the UK data protection act. A law that very tightly regulates what companies can do with personal data you trust them with. As a result, consumers gain more confidence and privacy. A win-win situation
But is this "news for nerds, stuff that matters"
I think not!
I recokon this will have less and less of an impact here in Europe. Handheld "consoles" are going out of fassion in favour of mobile phones that are incresingly having better games built in. Some already offer basic multi-player 'online' games. Unless M$ gets into the movile phone market, I won't predict too much.
The law would have required minors to show parental consent before playing violent
or sexually explicit video games in public arcades.
It mazes me that the US imposes very little censorship on violence (as a rule), yet gets horrifed at the thought of sex appering on TV/video games.
Murder is very rare but is shown happily on prime-time TV. Sex is perfectly normal but is hevily censored. (Even to the extent that a woman cannot breast feed in public in the US!)
I lothe censorship, but I know that I find violence more repulsive than sex!
My PhD relies on doing reserch for one of the major comunications compnys here in the UK. At my university I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement saying I wouldn't publish any of my results without my sponsors consent.(Either that or no PhD)
This can only be a bad thing for science.
Not only is the company raking in all the profit, but suposing I find some data that casts them in a bad light?
(and no, publishing anonymously isn't as simple as it sounds)
In previous years, decent government funding would mean that my data was given away for the good of science. Now corporate funding meens one company proffits, the university gets by, and I get a bit of paper.
Slashdot Mirror
For example when you walk in to your public library you don't expect to go to the magazine section and pick up a copy of the lastest Swank.
Actually, (at least in the UK) you can.
OK so your local public library may not carry it, but by law the British Library is required to keep a copy of everything published in the UK.
Your local library can order it in (or a photocopy of the relevent article) for a small fee. If you have problems persuading your local librarian, point out that the porn and violent material is held in a British Library collection called the "private case". Although, in these enlightend times work is finding its way out of this collection and onto teh main shelves
When you have finished sniggering.... some people do have to do genuine reserch in porn.
Its not for your government (or vanilla libarian) to tell you otherwise.
I hope nobody reading this will rely on "pgp -m" for security
Thats why I said, you must still trust the recipiant not to take a screen shot!
This is a problem with ANY shreading system. Be it paper or electronic documents. There will always be somebody who takes a copy/screen shot to CYA (or is that CTA).
As I said, if you cant trust the recipiant, then you shouldn't be sending them sensative information in the first place!
When encrypting a message with PGP you can use the -m option (or sellect the 'secure viewer' if you are using one of the windoze versions) Doing this prevents the recipiant from saving a plain text version on their disks
No, it isn't as good as "shreading" and there are ways to cercumvent this if the recipiant was so incliend, but it is a good substitute providing you trust the recipiant.
If you dont trust the recipiant then WTF are you doing sending them such an e-mail in the first place!
exploring the science and art from algorithms, robotics, quantum physics, coding, nanotechnologies, genetic and kinetic art to electrical music, telecommunications and A.I.
Mr Katz
If you can't distunguish between science and technology,
what makes us think you can distungish between science and the arts!
BT are in a shitload of debt and the managers have been told to screw every last penny out of the consumers.
How do I know?
Because BT made a major cock up with its internet billing over a year ago and gave some customers free internet access.
BT are now trying to claim back money from users who surfed for free, even though BT legaly havent got a leg to stand on.
They are hopeing that customers will just give in and pay money they dont legally have to by being heavy handed. Have a look at this BBC news article for details.
You, yourself, can buy a several watt (yes watt) IR diode
Jesus!
I hope anyone using that kind of power makes sure they know what they are doing.
Because the IR beam is invisible your eye will not have a blink reflex to bright IR light. The first you will know about getting an eyefull of a powerful IR laser is when you blind yourself (or someone else)
You have no pain receptors on your retina.
Remember home made lasers can be an absolute bastard to align! A good staring point for information on home made lasers is Sams Laser FAQ
A good background to semicondutor lasers is Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics (Yep, its true! check out the link.)
This technology, based on transaction analysis, behavior analysis, gives us a pretty good idea of what's going on in a person's mind.
And when this happens, the days of Orwells Thought Police will truely be upon us.
Jay's a good friend of mine, I know he wouldn't log the actual keys.
Heh :- /
My ex-wife was a good friend of mine.
She wouldn't tip brake fluid over my car
Besides, when you go to the Privacy Policy on the page it mentions what Pulse will and won't do
And this privacy policy comes under European law also?
Is Jay open to bribes from unscrupulous bastards who will pay for the data he collects?
Can a melicious version of this code be put out there so a clueless windoze user downloads the wrong one? (one without a ''privacy policy'')
Even if your mate has the best intentions, encouraging people to install spyware like this is very bad karma. You are encouraging people to take stupid risks.
I can't see this as being good for PS2 sales
Agreed!
The reason the PS became the best selling console in the UK was because people could easliy pirate games onto a CD and play them with a mod chip.
No way could you easily pirate a Nintendo/sega cartrage.
Any market will have a stall selling dodgey pirate games, and any (indipendent) games shop will happily chip a PS for you.
In stopping this illegal trade, Sony are harming themselves not helping themselves!
I won't get one till it comes with a Microvision display.
And I wont get one until they can at least get there technical specifications in focus properly!
Sat in a stall taking a dump....
-And you thought leving a floater was bad enough.
(Although it could be useful..... "Dude, theres no paper")
I could just see the spam at the urinal though
*unzips*
WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER SIX INCHES!!!!!
Moderate: Toilet humour -1
somehow get a 5 x 5 x 1/16" piece of plastic outside a country
Why bother?
Just print the code in a book (or even use the 3-line RSA algoritham on a bit of paper) and it was perfectly legal to export it from the US (freedom of the press).
This is how the international PGP versions were legitematley exported, and then scanned in using OCR to get the code in an electronic format again.
This was partly why the law was overturned. What is the point in banning the export of code in an electronic format, when it was perfectly legal (first amendment) to export in a writen format.
should the US prohibit the export of high-encryption software?
Oh FFS!
Must we go over this again!
Its already been exported!
Look
-export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL
#!/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((
I gave up watching the x-files a long time ago.
Origionaly it was very good but the writers seemed to confined with the same plotlines and format of each episode.
Had the program been given a freer reign and alowed to evolve over time (think star-trek) I think I would be still watching it today.
Shame
First off, we all know *yawn* how easy it is for a big company to patent a blindingly obvious idea. The little guys then have to go thought a painful and long process to get the patent overturned. The patent process is abused and big buiness wins.
Also remember that any company can claim patent pending to sound good.
e.g. Say I run a company making bog-standard parts for a Ford Escort. I then get a patent out for putting a roof on a toaster to stop the toast being poped up too high(!). I can now legitamately claim patent-pending !
Trade marks are similar. In the UK at least, putting TM after your trade mark is regarded as 'totaly meeningless', as it carries no legal weight at all. However, it is easy to bully smaller companies into submission by claiming you have many 'registerd' trade marks.
PGP is a brillient tool for encryption (esp. e-mail) and PGP disk or Scramdisk are great for secure archiving on windoze machines. However the PGP wipe isn't very good. This link explains why and gives good alterantives for windoze users.
Linux users already have encrypted filesystems and secure file wipeing as standard in all(?) common distro's. (I know that SuSE even lets you overwite the wiped files with zeros to hide its very existance)
i have a friend of a friend who "claims" to have seen one in an off-road situation.
You must be joking right?
The average SUV driver would be so scared of scratching the metallic paint on there all terain vercle, they will never dare take it off road!
A friend of mine e-mailed the monopolies and merger commision (UK body designed to make sure no company abuses there monopoly) regarding what he belived was unfair use of videopluss codes
How did the impartial, UK government monopolies commision reply to his e-mail?
You guessed it
In propriatry M$ word format!!!
what is "unlawful" or "unfair" about buying personal information in a database as an asset from a liquidated company
The UK Data Protection act 1984 (1998) states that personal data MUST be "fairly" obtained.
Aquiring (eg) your personal data, /. but for mailing you p0rn)
a) via a third party (liqudator), without your express permision,
b) for use other than its origional, stated intetion (eg, It's no longer used for aiding
would almost cerainly be illegal (And rightly so).
If you gave permission on the other hand....
If they do go under, won't Slashdot's entire database full of opinions, email addresses, etc, be up for grab at the asset auction?
But any company purchasing this information will be unable to use it to trade in most European countries.
eg. The UK data protection act says that personal data must be "lawfuly and fairly obtained"
To use personal details bought at an asset aution (therefore without the individuals consent) would be very illegal. They would not be allowed to use that information to trade in the UK /. previously about this
If memory serves, there have been articles on
Why don't US'ians get together and fight for a law like this?
Whoopee fuck !!!
The future looks brighter already!
Based on the above I somewhat doubt this!
What would interest me though, is if the book discussed the case for a law similar to the UK data protection act. A law that very tightly regulates what companies can do with personal data you trust them with. As a result, consumers gain more confidence and privacy. A win-win situation
But is this "news for nerds, stuff that matters"
I think not!
I recokon this will have less and less of an impact here in Europe.
Handheld "consoles" are going out of fassion in favour of mobile phones that are incresingly having better games built in. Some already offer basic multi-player 'online' games. Unless M$ gets into the movile phone market, I won't predict too much.
It mazes me that the US imposes very little censorship on violence (as a rule), yet gets horrifed at the thought of sex appering on TV/video games.
Murder is very rare but is shown happily on prime-time TV. Sex is perfectly normal but is hevily censored. (Even to the extent that a woman cannot breast feed in public in the US!)
I lothe censorship, but I know that I find violence more repulsive than sex!
If you cannot make a profit out of it, there is no point in doing it..... right?
Makes you wonder why kids climb trees.
My PhD relies on doing reserch for one of the major comunications compnys here in the UK. At my university I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement saying I wouldn't publish any of my results without my sponsors consent.(Either that or no PhD)
This can only be a bad thing for science.
Not only is the company raking in all the profit, but suposing I find some data that casts them in a bad light?
(and no, publishing anonymously isn't as simple as it sounds)
In previous years, decent government funding would mean that my data was given away for the good of science. Now corporate funding meens one company proffits, the university gets by, and I get a bit of paper.