OK, maybe "posse" isn't the correct term. But in the article it says that most of the information leading to an arrest of worm writers comes from people who happen to see the worm writers bragging, etc.
So what I'm wondering is if anyone has bothered to form an organization to do exactly that, maybe along the line of CyberAngels. Let's face it, the people who write these useless things, although they definitely aren't terrorists, are wasting other peoples' bandwidth, resources, and precious time. And they do deserve to be punished. But what's stopping the slew of arrests is a lack of manpower. Law enforcement officials can't be everywhere, they have their limits.
So what I'm suggesting is something based off of CyberAngels. The people volunteering there track down stalkers, harassers, child pornographers, and other "cybercrimes" that go beyond the Internet and into your personal life. They do good work. My idea then, is much the same. Get people with the necessary skills, who understand the net, understand the technology, and make use of those skills to help track down all those worm writers, script kiddies, and the like.
Personally, I think it may work. Anyone have any thoughts?
Indeed, blank CDs now outsell recorded discs in Europe and Canada, according to one label executive.
Will someone please tell me how this is relevant to music piracy? That could mean anything, as blank CDs are not used exclusively for burning pirated songs.
It could mean that people are making mix CDs of music they have purchased. They could be backing up their CDs. For that matter, they could be backing up their hard drives, which would explain the increase in sales because you'd need a lot of them to backup a 40-gig HD!
I hate it when people jump to conclusions like that... argh.
I personally am not a big fan of Microsoft, nor are many of the other people who frequent Slashdot, I think. The good behaviour committee is very much a good idea, but there are potential drawbacks in who is placed on this committee.
There are certain people that would be bad to include. Microsoft zealots or people who are extremely favourable to big business are not good candidates, as they would most likely be willing to let some of MS' possible future transgressions slide.
At the same time, Open Source zealots or Microsoft haters are also poor candidates because they may go towards the other extreme: punishing MS for the slightest problems or trying to dramatically change the way MS operates.
What is needed is a nice symbiosis of the two viewpoints, someone who is well-versed in such matters and isn't afraid to play the Devil's Advocate, so to speak, but is also objective. How do you see yourself on this scale, and if you're more one the side of one extreme, how do you justify your pursuit of this position?
It's a strange area. LA is more interested in combatting Passport but J2EE is more a solution to.NET... But.NET and Passport will be integrated eventually, IIRC... I could be wrong about this. I did get mixed up when I wrote this because I was intending to say J2EE. But the resulting question still stands. Just the stuff in the parentheses doesn't make sense:)
What is your opinion on things like Microsoft's.NET or the Liberty Alliance (I believe that's what it's called - the one being developed by AOL and other companies to counter.NET)? Do you see these as a potential problem in terms of a free online world?
This is definitely a good historical record for generations to come.
I mean, I'd love to know my great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be able to know through the USENET archives that I lived in a world where I could see BARELY LEGAL TEENS on THEIR WEBCAMS! Or that I could MAKE $50,000 in 10 WEEKS! Or I could have VIAGRA shipped to MY DOOR for REALLY LOW PRICES!
I was looking through the Wall of Shame on the PayPalWarning site, and saw this. It was just too funny... So I'm going to post it here for everyone else's amusement. It's entirely possible this is a hoax, but still...
I wonder... When did Linus Torvalds give up the rights to his OS?
Consumer reporting scam: Larry Lawrence (12/6/01)
PayPal continues to hold my $600. Illegally.
Several months ago I was offering the general public a free copy of the popular OS called Linux 8.0. This is a freely distributable program under the general license agreement. The customer only had to pay for shipping. ($5.00 US dollars)
I had hundreds of people that responded to the offer and I delivered the program as offered and according to the law. PayPal sent me an e-mail saying that they were going to suspend my account unless I could provide proof that I had permission to distribute this software.
Well, I e-mailed them back several times and explained to them that I did programming on my own and would never consider distributing software that was against any law. PayPal said that I had to prove that I had permission from Microsoft to distribute the software. Microsoft has nothing to do with Linux. Linux has always been to my knowledge, a free OS.
I am e-mailing you first before taking legal action as this is the professional way to do business.
They have closed my account, which is fine accept that they hold my funds without paying me interest on the funds and refuse to return the funds.
The Liberal and National parties, which currently form a coalition federal government, receive much of their funding from mining companies.
That may be, but Australia is bound by the Kyoto protocol to control its emissions:
But burning more brown coal would compromise Australia's obligation to reduce its greenhouse emissions under the Kyoto protocol, which requires it contain its emissions by 2010 to within an 8% increase of 1990 levels.
So basically building the tower would help the emissions situation, since building the tower instead of another coal plant (another power plant seems inevitable judging by the article) will be hitting two birds with one stone... New power plant, no extra emissions.
Also, we have this paragraph to consider as well:
By 2010, Australia's energy supply companies must purchase 10% of their electricity from renewable sources. The figure is now 8%, most of it from hydro-electric power. Emerging solar technologies are likely to provide much of the 2% increase.
Building another coal plant doesn't exactly help them reach this goal, now does it?
The Labor Party, which is the major opposition party and controls most of the state governments around the nation right now, is an offshoot of the union movement. Guess in which industries the union movement is strong, and thus which unions exert considerable clout in the ALP? Yep, that's right, mining and electricity.
OK, so the mining industry seems to have a chokehold on 80-90% of Australia's government. Whooptee-doo. What's the projected output of the tower? 200MW. According to the article, what's the overall output of Victoria's power plants?
...to replace Victoria's current 7672MW generation capacity.
So... 200MW from a solar tower vs. 7672MW from mostly coal plants, and the mining industry feels threatened? And remember, this is just for Victoria and its vicinity, never mind the rest of Australia.
I don't think the government or their mining industry friends need to worry. The government wants to build another plant to provide jobs, that's great. But building a solar tower will help Australia meet its other obligations, not to mention other benefits - tourism, potential farming opportunities in the greenhouse... I doubt there will be a sudden rush in the construction of the towers, but it'd be neat to see at least a few...
I live in Canada, and we're currently facing our own version of the DMCA... As if that wasn't bad enough.
Does anyone think contacting our government representatives will help? Who has to sign this treaty? Is there a way to encourage our elected leaders not to? (Do we stand a chance?)
I don't like things like the Registry, which is a database that frequently has errors that cannot be fixed with the tools Microsoft supplies. All settings for most programs are contained in the registry, and if there is bad error, it can be necessary to start over completely, and re-install all programs. For some people with a lot of programs, this can take 20 hours.
The registry isn't that much of a pain. I speak from experience. Earlier this year I put together my own computer with parts I chose myself, and installed Win98SE on it. 98 has never worked properly on that machine - I figure there is a driver problem. But what was happening, especially in the late summer, was I was routinely (i.e. once a day when I started the computer) getting registry errors! Win98 would load, and then a message would pop up saying that it had detected a problem in the registry then would proceed to restart the computer to restore the registry files.
Sometimes it didn't even load Windows. Sometimes it froze on bootup because of registry errors. Around August/September I called a friend over to help me find the problem, and it turns out it was an improper setting I had selected in the BIOS which was causing 98 to corrupt not only the registry files but the autoexec.bat file as well.
But, during those months when I was having the registry issues, I learned a few things about how to backup and restore those troublesome files. Win98SE, by the way, is far better equipped to handle these things than any previous version of 9x. You're able to make backups of the registry into CAB files with the program scanregw.exe. Just open the Run prompt and type that. It'll do a quick scan, then offer you the chance to back up the current files. I usually did this always after installing something so if I had a serious reg error I wouldn't be forced to reinstall it. (I lost a Black & White game that way) It's a good idea to do this regularly.
Now, when it comes to restoring the registry, 98SE should be able to handle it itself if the error isn't too serious. If the files are totally corrupt 98 may not even load. In that case you can boot to DOS by pressing F8 right before Windows starts loading or with a boot disk, and type SCANREG/RESTORE to restore the files. Failing that, there's one more route you can take. Boot to DOS, and go to the Windows directory. There is a hidden directory called SYSBCKUP which contains the CAB files for the last five registry backups. Check the dates on them to see which one is the best to restore from, and just use EXTRACT to place them back into the Windows directory (or is it Windows\System... don't recall. Easy to find out).
So basically it's not that big of a deal. I'm not familiar enough with NT/2000/XP to know how it works yet, but it's fairly easy to do in 98. Just some ways I described above are more time-consuming than others.
Of course, the other option is to use a disk imaging program like Norton Ghost, but that depends on how large your Windows partition is, if you have sufficient storage space for the image, etc.
My apologies for the flod (yes, flod. as in flawed) info about the GameGear. As I mentioned, I was Nintendo's loyal fanboy (still am, really) and up until recently never cared about other systems.
"The Age of Paine" in which I prophesied a utopian outpouring of digital pamphleteering, individualism and democracy, all sparked by the liberating powers of the Net.
Currently: "The Age of Pain", in which I see a hellish outpouring of digital marketing, censorship and draconian tactics, all sparked by liberating powers of the Net as used by idiots.
I'd actually never heard of the TurboExpress, which doesn't surprise me. I spent most of my early console-playing years playing Nintendo systems - I have the NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy... Only this past May did I buy something not of Nintendo, and that is my Dreamcast.
But as far as the Game Boy is concerned... Let's face it, Nintendo played its cards right. When the GB first came out it actually wasn't that expensive. It boasted the power of the NES (which was the only Nintendo console available) and a simple grayscale LCD screen. And it was cheap. When I got my GB, I bought it myself with money I had saved up (I was maybe 11 at the time), and it was maybe $150 CDN for me to buy. Plus I was able to afford a game or two.
Now, along comes Sega's Game Gear a few years later. Think Portable Genesis. That's all well and good, but the colour screen drove up the price enough to make it more inaccessible to some. And from what I understand from a couple of people who had them, they weren't that great for battery life.
Among the Nintendo users, people were always posing the question of when Nintendo would release a colour version of the GB, and the reply was when Nintendo could guarantee a similar price and similar battery life - two of the important factors for a good handheld console.
The Game Gear folded, maybe because it was too expensive. The TurboExpress was definitely a technical achievement for the time, but the price was definitely a little much, and out of the price range of its target audience.
Yes, Nintendo's taken its sweet time to producing a 16-bit colour handheld, but one thing I respect them for is their methodology. With the GB line, they tend to wait until they can guarantee that any new products meet price and performance requirements set by their original device... And it's been worth the wait.
Lately we've been seeing handhelds with all sorts of different OSes... Linux, QNX, and of course Windows.
I wonder if anyone will take up eComStation / OS/2 and turn it into a handheld device OS... Looking at the review its definitely fast and stable, and scalable. There are still applications available and alternatives as well (the X server, for example). If ATMs run OS/2, why not handhelds? (Yes, there's a big gap in functionality but both require a good OS.)
A company that I worked for earlier this year used Linux on the majority of its computers, servers included. The company (don't want to reveal too many details about what they do) designs chips for electronics, so there is a lot of CAD work involved for designing.
All but one of the servers they were using ran Linux (the remaining two were running Solaris and NT for software requirements). I worked under the network admin, and during the whole time I was there we never even had a glitch with the network.
All of the engineers were using Linux on their desktops and it worked beautifully. The remaining desktops were running Win98 for the HR, marketing and finance groups because the software they were using required it.
It's not quite the Windows-less office that the article was discussing, but it was pretty close. I've seen the wonders of the Linux-based network and I like it.
Hah. Gore's hopped on the bandwagon, so to speak. He sees Bush's approval rating going through the roof for what he's doing in the wake of 9/11, and trying to convince people that he can do as good a job as GW. Whether or not that makes him a better leader remains to be seen - if Gore was occupying the Oval Office he may not have done the same things.
It's pure politics, although this is a not-so-subtle attempt to boost popularity. This has shades of the "I created the Internet" thing all over it.
I really ought to leave well alone. But I also can't stand idiots.
You appear to have the moral belief that censorship is always, everwhere, inherently wrong. That sounds like a moral belief to me.
More of an opinion derived from a belief. Last I checked it was still good to express opinions.
Please stop shoving your moral belief down everyone else's throat.
Now, see, if I was actually doing that I'd be rallying for related legislation. Or holding a gun to your head telling you to agree with me. That would be force-feeding you my beliefs.
No, your Hollywood movies are NOT appreciated all all other cultures around the world.
Probably not, but what does that have to do with my comments? I live in Canada.:P
The annoying thing to all this is that the AC who posted probably isn't even going to read these remarks...
People don't share this "don't look at it" view because of their hystericaly and meddling nature - you wouldn't be a proper Christian Fundamentalist if you didn't tell other people how to live their lives (no, seriusly, its an expressed part of the deal).
This is why I try not to take my religion and practice thereof too seriously. And this is why I can't stand being around/hearing about/etc. religious fundamentalists or overly conservative people. I'm fairly sure that if it were up to them, we would have forgotten how to even make fire long ago.
Governments, on the other hand, need these techniques to maintain power - pure and simple.
This is what I was alluding to in my previous comment... Opinions other than the ones of your government are evil, I tell ya, EVIL! Although somehow I doubt governments like the Chinese gov't have to worry much.
One thing that I will probably never understand is why everyone feels the need to thrust their moral beliefs down everyone else's throats. I see this issue about blocking the net to be nothing more than that.
Yes, it's good that people have their beliefs. But I wish people would realize that not everyone shares in them. I also wish for a Beatles reunion tour, but that's not likely either.
If there's something that offends you terribly, don't look at it. It's as simple as that... I mean, there's no reason for the Harry Potter books to be banned in libraries. If people see the series as being evil because it promotes witchcraft, ignore it. Don't force your beliefs upon others through actions like banning books and deprive the people who have different beliefs than you of something they may like.
Unfortunately I don't think many people share this view. History's rife with force-fed beliefs and morals (read: Taliban - and that's the last I'll mention them). I disagree that it would be a (Insert-deity-name-here)-given right.
Governments also don't seem to share this view.
My comments here may seem a little pointless since things are unlikely to change overall, but it is an open net and hopefully opinions and thoughts of all kind are still welcome.
This just in from CBC news:
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien was shocked today to learn that the shipping company UPS declared Canada to be the 51st American state.
No one is sure when this happened, as UPS issued no notice of annexation to the Canadian government. "Since Ottawa is part of the new state, it looks like we'll have to move the Parliament Buildings somewhere up north," Chretien remarked. "I wonder if UPS would give us a discount rate for that." UPS later told the Prime Minister no, as that would be shipping to a foreign country.
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So what I'm wondering is if anyone has bothered to form an organization to do exactly that, maybe along the line of CyberAngels. Let's face it, the people who write these useless things, although they definitely aren't terrorists, are wasting other peoples' bandwidth, resources, and precious time. And they do deserve to be punished. But what's stopping the slew of arrests is a lack of manpower. Law enforcement officials can't be everywhere, they have their limits.
So what I'm suggesting is something based off of CyberAngels. The people volunteering there track down stalkers, harassers, child pornographers, and other "cybercrimes" that go beyond the Internet and into your personal life. They do good work. My idea then, is much the same. Get people with the necessary skills, who understand the net, understand the technology, and make use of those skills to help track down all those worm writers, script kiddies, and the like.
Personally, I think it may work. Anyone have any thoughts?
Will someone please tell me how this is relevant to music piracy? That could mean anything, as blank CDs are not used exclusively for burning pirated songs.
It could mean that people are making mix CDs of music they have purchased. They could be backing up their CDs. For that matter, they could be backing up their hard drives, which would explain the increase in sales because you'd need a lot of them to backup a 40-gig HD!
I hate it when people jump to conclusions like that... argh.
There are certain people that would be bad to include. Microsoft zealots or people who are extremely favourable to big business are not good candidates, as they would most likely be willing to let some of MS' possible future transgressions slide.
At the same time, Open Source zealots or Microsoft haters are also poor candidates because they may go towards the other extreme: punishing MS for the slightest problems or trying to dramatically change the way MS operates.
What is needed is a nice symbiosis of the two viewpoints, someone who is well-versed in such matters and isn't afraid to play the Devil's Advocate, so to speak, but is also objective. How do you see yourself on this scale, and if you're more one the side of one extreme, how do you justify your pursuit of this position?
It's a strange area. LA is more interested in combatting Passport but J2EE is more a solution to .NET... But .NET and Passport will be integrated eventually, IIRC... I could be wrong about this. I did get mixed up when I wrote this because I was intending to say J2EE. But the resulting question still stands. Just the stuff in the parentheses doesn't make sense :)
What is your opinion on things like Microsoft's .NET or the Liberty Alliance (I believe that's what it's called - the one being developed by AOL and other companies to counter .NET)? Do you see these as a potential problem in terms of a free online world?
I mean, I'd love to know my great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be able to know through the USENET archives that I lived in a world where I could see BARELY LEGAL TEENS on THEIR WEBCAMS! Or that I could MAKE $50,000 in 10 WEEKS! Or I could have VIAGRA shipped to MY DOOR for REALLY LOW PRICES!
Technology's amazing, ain't it?
That damn recursion strikes again.
I wonder... When did Linus Torvalds give up the rights to his OS?
Or if you prefer an Open Source, route there's always MIMEDefang...
That may be, but Australia is bound by the Kyoto protocol to control its emissions:
So basically building the tower would help the emissions situation, since building the tower instead of another coal plant (another power plant seems inevitable judging by the article) will be hitting two birds with one stone... New power plant, no extra emissions.Also, we have this paragraph to consider as well:
Building another coal plant doesn't exactly help them reach this goal, now does it?OK, so the mining industry seems to have a chokehold on 80-90% of Australia's government. Whooptee-doo. What's the projected output of the tower? 200MW. According to the article, what's the overall output of Victoria's power plants?
So... 200MW from a solar tower vs. 7672MW from mostly coal plants, and the mining industry feels threatened? And remember, this is just for Victoria and its vicinity, never mind the rest of Australia.I don't think the government or their mining industry friends need to worry. The government wants to build another plant to provide jobs, that's great. But building a solar tower will help Australia meet its other obligations, not to mention other benefits - tourism, potential farming opportunities in the greenhouse... I doubt there will be a sudden rush in the construction of the towers, but it'd be neat to see at least a few...
I live in Canada, and we're currently facing our own version of the DMCA... As if that wasn't bad enough.
Does anyone think contacting our government representatives will help? Who has to sign this treaty? Is there a way to encourage our elected leaders not to? (Do we stand a chance?)
Sometimes it didn't even load Windows. Sometimes it froze on bootup because of registry errors. Around August/September I called a friend over to help me find the problem, and it turns out it was an improper setting I had selected in the BIOS which was causing 98 to corrupt not only the registry files but the autoexec.bat file as well.
But, during those months when I was having the registry issues, I learned a few things about how to backup and restore those troublesome files. Win98SE, by the way, is far better equipped to handle these things than any previous version of 9x. You're able to make backups of the registry into CAB files with the program scanregw.exe. Just open the Run prompt and type that. It'll do a quick scan, then offer you the chance to back up the current files. I usually did this always after installing something so if I had a serious reg error I wouldn't be forced to reinstall it. (I lost a Black & White game that way) It's a good idea to do this regularly.
Now, when it comes to restoring the registry, 98SE should be able to handle it itself if the error isn't too serious. If the files are totally corrupt 98 may not even load. In that case you can boot to DOS by pressing F8 right before Windows starts loading or with a boot disk, and type SCANREG /RESTORE to restore the files. Failing that, there's one more route you can take. Boot to DOS, and go to the Windows directory. There is a hidden directory called SYSBCKUP which contains the CAB files for the last five registry backups. Check the dates on them to see which one is the best to restore from, and just use EXTRACT to place them back into the Windows directory (or is it Windows\System... don't recall. Easy to find out).
So basically it's not that big of a deal. I'm not familiar enough with NT/2000/XP to know how it works yet, but it's fairly easy to do in 98. Just some ways I described above are more time-consuming than others.
Of course, the other option is to use a disk imaging program like Norton Ghost, but that depends on how large your Windows partition is, if you have sufficient storage space for the image, etc.
My apologies for the flod (yes, flod. as in flawed) info about the GameGear. As I mentioned, I was Nintendo's loyal fanboy (still am, really) and up until recently never cared about other systems.
Currently: "The Age of Pain", in which I see a hellish outpouring of digital marketing, censorship and draconian tactics, all sparked by liberating powers of the Net as used by idiots.
Cynical? Nahhhhh...
But as far as the Game Boy is concerned... Let's face it, Nintendo played its cards right. When the GB first came out it actually wasn't that expensive. It boasted the power of the NES (which was the only Nintendo console available) and a simple grayscale LCD screen. And it was cheap. When I got my GB, I bought it myself with money I had saved up (I was maybe 11 at the time), and it was maybe $150 CDN for me to buy. Plus I was able to afford a game or two.
Now, along comes Sega's Game Gear a few years later. Think Portable Genesis. That's all well and good, but the colour screen drove up the price enough to make it more inaccessible to some. And from what I understand from a couple of people who had them, they weren't that great for battery life.
Among the Nintendo users, people were always posing the question of when Nintendo would release a colour version of the GB, and the reply was when Nintendo could guarantee a similar price and similar battery life - two of the important factors for a good handheld console.
The Game Gear folded, maybe because it was too expensive. The TurboExpress was definitely a technical achievement for the time, but the price was definitely a little much, and out of the price range of its target audience.
Yes, Nintendo's taken its sweet time to producing a 16-bit colour handheld, but one thing I respect them for is their methodology. With the GB line, they tend to wait until they can guarantee that any new products meet price and performance requirements set by their original device... And it's been worth the wait.
Not sure, but I think I heard some sysadmins planning to roast marshmallows in the server room in celebration of buying the new blades...
I wonder if anyone will take up eComStation / OS/2 and turn it into a handheld device OS... Looking at the review its definitely fast and stable, and scalable. There are still applications available and alternatives as well (the X server, for example). If ATMs run OS/2, why not handhelds? (Yes, there's a big gap in functionality but both require a good OS.)
All but one of the servers they were using ran Linux (the remaining two were running Solaris and NT for software requirements). I worked under the network admin, and during the whole time I was there we never even had a glitch with the network.
All of the engineers were using Linux on their desktops and it worked beautifully. The remaining desktops were running Win98 for the HR, marketing and finance groups because the software they were using required it.
It's not quite the Windows-less office that the article was discussing, but it was pretty close. I've seen the wonders of the Linux-based network and I like it.
It's pure politics, although this is a not-so-subtle attempt to boost popularity. This has shades of the "I created the Internet" thing all over it.
More of an opinion derived from a belief. Last I checked it was still good to express opinions.
Now, see, if I was actually doing that I'd be rallying for related legislation. Or holding a gun to your head telling you to agree with me. That would be force-feeding you my beliefs.
Probably not, but what does that have to do with my comments? I live in Canada. :P
The annoying thing to all this is that the AC who posted probably isn't even going to read these remarks...
This is why I try not to take my religion and practice thereof too seriously. And this is why I can't stand being around/hearing about/etc. religious fundamentalists or overly conservative people. I'm fairly sure that if it were up to them, we would have forgotten how to even make fire long ago.
This is what I was alluding to in my previous comment... Opinions other than the ones of your government are evil, I tell ya, EVIL! Although somehow I doubt governments like the Chinese gov't have to worry much.
Yes, it's good that people have their beliefs. But I wish people would realize that not everyone shares in them. I also wish for a Beatles reunion tour, but that's not likely either.
If there's something that offends you terribly, don't look at it. It's as simple as that... I mean, there's no reason for the Harry Potter books to be banned in libraries. If people see the series as being evil because it promotes witchcraft, ignore it. Don't force your beliefs upon others through actions like banning books and deprive the people who have different beliefs than you of something they may like.
Unfortunately I don't think many people share this view. History's rife with force-fed beliefs and morals (read: Taliban - and that's the last I'll mention them). I disagree that it would be a (Insert-deity-name-here)-given right.
Governments also don't seem to share this view.
My comments here may seem a little pointless since things are unlikely to change overall, but it is an open net and hopefully opinions and thoughts of all kind are still welcome.
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien was shocked today to learn that the shipping company UPS declared Canada to be the 51st American state.
No one is sure when this happened, as UPS issued no notice of annexation to the Canadian government. "Since Ottawa is part of the new state, it looks like we'll have to move the Parliament Buildings somewhere up north," Chretien remarked. "I wonder if UPS would give us a discount rate for that." UPS later told the Prime Minister no, as that would be shipping to a foreign country.
In other news, AMD abandons all current R&D to work on clockless chips so they can win the clock-speed wars against Intel...