And Gandalf had no military experience? Or Aragorm the warrior king? Frodo was never alone until he reached the dark castle, at which point he had a hell of a lot of experience himself.
I also seem to remember the hobbits travelling alone only through the shire. Once they ventured abroad, the company of the ring was chosen, from warriors.
Interesting that they've had some serious linguists working on the film though - here's the discussion site for their languages.
I gave up waiting for their merchandise, and just had the ring poem printed on some of my own-design T-shirts. Much cooler than having corporate-inspired stuff!
I am very tempted by the replicas of Sting. Unfortunately they weigh far too much to fight with, and they're really easy to dint. Oh well...
maegnass ess nin, dagnir yngyl im (my name is Sting, I am slayer of spiders)
The other group who get upset, of course, are the poor.
No mind. They're forced to steal or sell drugs, so it's easy enough to put all the poor people in prison, where you can keep them from revolting.
It's interesting for me to finally read about the definitions of these areas. For me, when you say "Free software", I immediately think of "Free as in RealPlayer" (i.e. closed source, utterly commercial, probably spyware, but it costs nothing to download)
And yet when you say "Open source", it means to me, "Open as in Apache" (i.e.
something with which you can tinker, something you're free to distribute, something you can give to friends)
I realise you'll all slate me as being completely wrong, but if the distinction between Free Software and Freeware is too blurred even for me to see at a glance, what hope stand business users of understanding the philosophy?
Even given peoples' moans about outlook express, it is possible to do some very effective filtering.
I have filters for <<snowhite, casino, "i send you this file..." and the spanish equivalent, xxx, the inverted question mark, and the yen symbol>>.
Granted, this mailbox gets nowhere near the amount of crap thrown at it as does my yahoo account, but those filters do tend to delete most of it quite well.
<too much of> Anyone want a list of opt-in email addresses for $30?
It's good to see in the article that something is being done about it though - I'm sure we've all thought about the idea of a list of spammers/suspicious emails, but it seems that such a database is actually in serious use.
The problem is, corporate web designers don't care. They think that everyone uses IE5.5 in minimum-security mode, with everything enabled, and a whole raft of plug-ins.
I suppose it's almost as bad, in a similar kind of way, to the newbie sites with their "You must have IE5.5 to visit this site, here's a link to microsoft.com, go and get it now!"
Well, I went to have a look at the examples, but nothing happened. I guess that's what happens when you turn off scripting by default.
I did see something similar with my old email provider[another.com] - a picture of a cellphone popped up in front of my email message, and started looping crazily around the screen. I changed email providers and haven't visited them since.
However, it can get quite annoying to visit a site (mostly big corporations with "professional" web designers) to see nothing but a blank page... The number of times I've thought a website didn't exist, only to look at the source and see a list of JavaScript calls to display the page.
I'm working on a wrapper for IE5, where you can toggle pictures/popups/javascript/security zone at the touch of a button, so that should sort out most of the problems...
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
No restrictions shall be placed on the exercise of these rights other than such as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
In other words, the judge ought to defend their right to be part of a trade union, and to protect the right of that trade union to stand-up for their members
Unfortunately, the US has an extremist far-right government, who considers anyone standing up for the rights of workers to be somehow communist (read sub-human), hence the reason they choose to ignore international human-rights law (see Amnesty International's page on the US for more examples)
[Interviewer from] Palo Alto, CA: "in several cases, university researchers have shown security flaws in Microsoft products,and microsoft released a path. Why couldn't release a more product first time? In some cases, the releases are very buggy."
Howard Schmidt [Microsoft directory of security]: All software developers wish it could be done right the first time but with all of the different configurations,software packages and programs that might conflict it doesn't always happen the first time. We work closely with the universities to correct them ASAP "
Interesting because of course, new laws make it illegal to tell anyone about the security flaws in software products.
It does seem like a remarkably sensible system, just getting email clients to talk to each other about the emails they get.
You can tell if the same email has been sent to hundreds of people (and if you use hashes, you can do that without revealing the email)
You can click a "this is spam" button when you read an email, and anyone who trusts you (i.e. has your public key in their "trusted filtering friends" list) can look for similar messages and filter them.
But, there do seem to be a load of problems:
- Personalised email, as someone already mentioned
- Privacy problems with letting others into the secrets of your mailbox
- If you have the original of a message, you can calculate the hash, then see who else got the message (i.e. works for personal mail as well as spam)
- Relatively easy for malicious users to wrongly label someone as a spammer
While we talk about storing movies, don't forget that the manufacturers of a digital video recorder are being sued for "creating something which can infringe copyright"
How many thousands of companies are making how many millions of pounds selling normal video recorders. Bet the RIAA doesn't want to sue Sony for making video recorders...
...or MP3 players
...or CD Re-writers
...or blank CDs
Publishers often refer to prohibited copying as "piracy." In this way, they imply that illegal copying is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnaping and murdering the people on them.
If you don't believe that illegal copying is just like kidnaping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word "piracy" to describe it...
You are of course, quite right to raise the question of free speech in countries where it ought to be taken for granted, such as the US and UK.
Freedom of speech has long been under attack from all directions, from copyright law to national security, trade secrets, libel law, and even the new "intent to incite racial hatred" laws.
As most slashdotters know, one of the worst offenders has been the american DMCA act, which effectively outlaws encryption research, and even the mentioning of safety/security flaws.
Ed Foster wrote an excellent article on this at
which I suggest is readable enough to use as an introduction to the subject for outsiders.
And if international summits have their way, each country's law will be enforceable in any other. Never mind the arrest of Russian Skylarov, or of the Norweigan kid for breaking US law in their respective home countries, we shall soon be officially subjet to Chinese, US, French, German, and Arabic copyright laws in our own countries. (Read about it here)
We in the G8 take so much pride in our countries' laws, that we are such knights in shining armour that we can legitimitely tell other countries what is right and what is wrong, that we often lose sight of how far our countries have strayed from the ideals we expect from them.
How long until someone can be arrested at Speakers' Corner, for talking about encryption research?
I used to work at Sony, with windows NT. - "Windows is great" says the network monkey "people can't even change the clock without my password."
My clock was 10 minutes out, and no, I couln't change it - After the first 2 missed trains, I had to stick a post-it note over the corner of my screen to hide the clock...
Problem is, in the US, they're going to make it illegal to do anything which the police don't like.
Think about it, it's already illegal to send dusted letters in case the police think they've been poisoned. Even if they don't create a load of new laws, you'll still have "threatening behaviour" and "waste of police time" and "obstructing an investigation".
As I said, anything which annoys the police is by definition illegal.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly! You can't put scripting and cookies in a Slashdot comment, yet you're still allowed to format it with HTML.
I've never got an HTML email that wasn't advertising, and worse, most of them make your browser dial again to get the non-embedded images.
If email wants to be pretty, it should look at Yahoo's IMVironments for ideas.
(Sorry this was about outlook not IE!)
And Gandalf had no military experience? Or Aragorm the warrior king? Frodo was never alone until he reached the dark castle, at which point he had a hell of a lot of experience himself.
I also seem to remember the hobbits travelling alone only through the shire. Once they ventured abroad, the company of the ring was chosen, from warriors.
Ash nazg durbatulúk,
ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk
agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Interesting that they've had some serious linguists working on the film though - here's the discussion site for their languages.
I gave up waiting for their merchandise, and just had the ring poem printed on some of my own-design T-shirts. Much cooler than having corporate-inspired stuff!
I am very tempted by the replicas of Sting. Unfortunately they weigh far too much to fight with, and they're really easy to dint. Oh well...
maegnass ess nin, dagnir yngyl im (my name is Sting, I am slayer of spiders)
The other group who get upset, of course, are the poor.
No mind. They're forced to steal or sell drugs, so it's easy enough to put all the poor people in prison, where you can keep them from revolting.
Read about the system here
Oops, I guess that was slightly off-topic!
It's interesting for me to finally read about the definitions of these areas. For me, when you say "Free software", I immediately think of "Free as in RealPlayer" (i.e. closed source, utterly commercial, probably spyware, but it costs nothing to download)
And yet when you say "Open source", it means to me, "Open as in Apache" (i.e. something with which you can tinker, something you're free to distribute, something you can give to friends)
I realise you'll all slate me as being completely wrong, but if the distinction between Free Software and Freeware is too blurred even for me to see at a glance, what hope stand business users of understanding the philosophy?
Even given peoples' moans about outlook express, it is possible to do some very effective filtering.
I have filters for <<snowhite, casino, "i send you this file..." and the spanish equivalent, xxx, the inverted question mark, and the yen symbol>>.
Granted, this mailbox gets nowhere near the amount of crap thrown at it as does my yahoo account, but those filters do tend to delete most of it quite well.
<too much of>
Anyone want a list of opt-in email addresses for $30?
- awhite@yahoo.com
- bwhite@yahoo.com
- cwhite@yahoo.com
</too much of>It's good to see in the article that something is being done about it though - I'm sure we've all thought about the idea of a list of spammers/suspicious emails, but it seems that such a database is actually in serious use.
Keep up the good work.
The problem is, corporate web designers don't care. They think that everyone uses IE5.5 in minimum-security mode, with everything enabled, and a whole raft of plug-ins.
I suppose it's almost as bad, in a similar kind of way, to the newbie sites with their "You must have IE5.5 to visit this site, here's a link to microsoft.com, go and get it now!"
There's a good page about it here
Well, I went to have a look at the examples, but nothing happened. I guess that's what happens when you turn off scripting by default.
I did see something similar with my old email provider[another.com] - a picture of a cellphone popped up in front of my email message, and started looping crazily around the screen. I changed email providers and haven't visited them since.
However, it can get quite annoying to visit a site (mostly big corporations with "professional" web designers) to see nothing but a blank page... The number of times I've thought a website didn't exist, only to look at the source and see a list of JavaScript calls to display the page.
I'm working on a wrapper for IE5, where you can toggle pictures/popups/javascript/security zone at the touch of a button, so that should sort out most of the problems...
Ok, you're starting to talk about higher laws being required to revoke bad laws. How about this: the International Convention on Human Rights :
In other words, the judge ought to defend their right to be part of a trade union, and to protect the right of that trade union to stand-up for their members
Unfortunately, the US has an extremist far-right government, who considers anyone standing up for the rights of workers to be somehow communist (read sub-human), hence the reason they choose to ignore international human-rights law (see Amnesty International's page on the US for more examples)
Google provides the most extensive cache you could want
Is this the on-line equivalent of that age-old system, of the police choosing judges based on which causes each judge is sympathetic to?
"Right, we want someone done for having a nuisance dog. Let's take him to Judge X, she was bitten by a dog as a child."
Royal.gov.uk is back
And it's displaying M$'s default page...
Snapshot
It's interesting to read the 1998 interview:
Interesting because of course, new laws make it illegal to tell anyone about the security flaws in software products.
It does seem like a remarkably sensible system, just getting email clients to talk to each other about the emails they get.
You can tell if the same email has been sent to hundreds of people (and if you use hashes, you can do that without revealing the email)
You can click a "this is spam" button when you read an email, and anyone who trusts you (i.e. has your public key in their "trusted filtering friends" list) can look for similar messages and filter them.
But, there do seem to be a load of problems:
- Personalised email, as someone already mentioned
- Privacy problems with letting others into the secrets of your mailbox
- If you have the original of a message, you can calculate the hash, then see who else got the message (i.e. works for personal mail as well as spam)
- Relatively easy for malicious users to wrongly label someone as a spammer
Well worth investigating, though...
Does not the DMCA make it illegal for this researcher to tell Nokia about the fault in their phone, meaning that this bug cannot legally be fixed?
While we talk about storing movies, don't forget that the manufacturers of a digital video recorder are being sued for "creating something which can infringe copyright"
How many thousands of companies are making how many millions of pounds selling normal video recorders. Bet the RIAA doesn't want to sue Sony for making video recorders...
...or MP3 players
...or CD Re-writers
...or blank CDs
Publishers often refer to prohibited copying as "piracy." In this way, they imply that illegal copying is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnaping and murdering the people on them.
If you don't believe that illegal copying is just like kidnaping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word "piracy" to describe it...
Quoted from
"No wonder Santa Claus is so jolly...
he knows where all the bad girls live."
The FBI? Do anything illegal? Who would ever imagine that such a thing could happen?
<repressed_memory>
</repressed_memory>
Hmmm, I can't seem to think of any examples of how police spy powers have been abused in the past, can you?
You are of course, quite right to raise the question of free speech in countries where it ought to be taken for granted, such as the US and UK.
Freedom of speech has long been under attack from all directions, from copyright law to national security, trade secrets, libel law, and even the new "intent to incite racial hatred" laws.
As most slashdotters know, one of the worst offenders has been the american DMCA act, which effectively outlaws encryption research, and even the mentioning of safety/security flaws.
Ed Foster wrote an excellent article on this at which I suggest is readable enough to use as an introduction to the subject for outsiders.
And if international summits have their way, each country's law will be enforceable in any other. Never mind the arrest of Russian Skylarov, or of the Norweigan kid for breaking US law in their respective home countries, we shall soon be officially subjet to Chinese, US, French, German, and Arabic copyright laws in our own countries. (Read about it here)
We in the G8 take so much pride in our countries' laws, that we are such knights in shining armour that we can legitimitely tell other countries what is right and what is wrong, that we often lose sight of how far our countries have strayed from the ideals we expect from them.
How long until someone can be arrested at Speakers' Corner, for talking about encryption research?
I used to work at Sony, with windows NT. - "Windows is great" says the network monkey "people can't even change the clock without my password."
My clock was 10 minutes out, and no, I couln't change it - After the first 2 missed trains, I had to stick a post-it note over the corner of my screen to hide the clock...
or even whether it is in the US.
Finally, a way to get rid around the horrible US_orientated software!
Problem is, in the US, they're going to make it illegal to do anything which the police don't like.
Think about it, it's already illegal to send dusted letters in case the police think they've been poisoned. Even if they don't create a load of new laws, you'll still have "threatening behaviour" and "waste of police time" and "obstructing an investigation".
As I said, anything which annoys the police is by definition illegal.
It's always fun to go into the junk-mail folder and look at some of the crap that _somehow_ must seem believable to some people.
Here's what the site itself says:
"For entertainment purposes only. This is a FUN site. We make no claim that anyone will be completely satisfied with our product"