I don't believe this story. It doesn't even come from the BBC, it comes from The Globe and Mail! Who are they, a Microsoft-owned "news" organization? Then again, the Globe and Mail is probably owned by/is part of/works with the BBC, and I will get modded down -1, non-sense.
You would think that server admins would know that responding to each worm would double traffic and take action to prevent it, by either using a better filter or reconfiguring the filter to not reply.
When turned on, Open Firmware Password Protection:
* blocks the ability to use the "C" key to start up from a CD-ROM disc.
* blocks the ability to use the "N" key to start up from a NetBoot server.
* blocks the ability to use the "T" key to start up in Target Disk Mode (on computers that offer this feature).
* blocks the ability to start up in Verbose mode by pressing the Command-V key combination during startup.
* block the ability to start up a system in Single-user mode by depressing the Command-S key combination during startup.
* blocks a reset of Parameter RAM (PRAM) by pressing the Command-Option-P-R key combination during startup.
* requires the password to use the Startup Manager, accessed by pressing the Option key during startup (Figure 1).
* requires the password to enter commands after starting up in Open Firmware, which is done by depressing the Command-Option-O-F key combination during startup.
Doesn't mention the U key in the features list, but I'm going speculate that something in the keyboard handling code is buggy...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Michael Fisher today agreed to halt
his behind-the-scenes effort to get Internet service providers to block
child pornography Web sites until a federal judge rules whether
Fisher's tactic violates the First Amendment by indiscriminately
blocking legitimate sites.
The decision was announced at a federal court hearing on a request
by civil rights groups for a temporary restraining order to stop
Fisher's year-old program.
U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois approved the compromise and set a
hearing for Nov. 21 on the merits of a lawsuit.
The suit against Fisher was filed earlier today by the Center for
Democracy and Technology, a Washington, D.C.-based Internet policy
group; the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia; and
PlantageNet Inc., a Doylestown Internet service provider, or ISP, that
provides local dial-up numbers for much of the Philadelphia region in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
John O.J. Shellenberger, chief of the Attorney General's Eastern
Regional Office, said his office may still move against child
pornography Web sites under state law by seeking a formal court order.
He also agreed that his office would contact the ACLU before seeking
such an order so that ACLU lawyers could protect the interests of
legitimate Web sites that might also be closed.
Pennsylvania is the first - and only - state to try to tackle the
thorny problem of fighting purveyors of illegal child pornography,
which has become as pervasive on the Internet as legal sexually
explicit sites.
The problem has confounded Congress and software developers because
the technology of the Internet makes it impossible to filter out, or
block, offensive Web sites without also blocking some legitimate sites
about sexual, medical or social issues.
Fisher spokesman Sean Connolly defended the law, which went into
effect in April 2002, and Fisher's informal policy of contacting ISPs
by letter, which advises of a child porn site and threatens legal
action if the ISP does not block the site.
An ISP that receives the warning has five days to block the Web site
from view by Internet users in Pennsylvania. Failure to do so could
result in fines of up to $30,000 and jail terms of up to seven years.
"This informal notification process was developed at the request of
ISPs," Connolly said. "We are perfectly willing to obtain a court
order. We've done it in the past and we're willing to do it again."
In Doylestown, the president of PlantageNet Internet Limited, James
Smallacombe, said that the way the law is written makes it "impossible"
for him and others to comply.
"If we received an order to block access to a particular IP address,
since we started outsourcing dial-up networks, we have no physical way
to prevent any user from accessing any site, because we don't control
the network that the users dial into," Smallacombe said. "But the way
the law is written, we can still be ordered to do this and, if we fail
to comply, suffer the consequences."
Stefan Presser, the ACLU's legal director, said Fisher's informal
process effectively blocks legitimate Web sites without the owners'
knowledge - or the chance for them to challenge the action in court.
"We do not support child pornography. Regardless of [Fisher's] goal,
he is not complying with what the legislature suggested be used,"
Presser said.
Fisher's informal policy does "little or nothing to combat the crime
of child pornography or the problem of child pornography on the
Internet," Presser said, because it does not go after the purveyors but
the communications links they and legitimate Web sites use.
Because of the Internet's technical architecture, in which multiple
Web sites share the same numerical Internet address, or IP number, the
lawsuit contends that numerous owners of legitimate Web sites have
found themselves blocked from custom
121 total comments, and it's still downloading at 210 K/sec. Either the/. effect has lost its might, or a large number of geeks have found other things to do tonight.
You must have not have bothered to look at the eBay item that was clearly listed in this story. If it was to sell now, he could buy 10 QuickTime 6 pro licenses.
How about making your own backups? If you did, you would have your own copies and not have to worry about other people's failure(s) to keep up with your stuff. You do have a good point though, since if you couldn't make your own backups of emails or whatever then it would be the responsibility of the provider to maintain a backup.
If you look at the pictures on the Tiger Direct link, a hard drive is installed. As long as it has an IDE controller for the cd-rom, which it does, yes, you should be able to add a hard drive, as long as the BIOS in this thing supports one. Or, you could add a SCSI, SerialATA, or another IDE controller to the system via the PCI slot.
The M16A2 is NOT a full-auto assault rifle. It can only fire in semi (1-round) and burst (3-round) modes. You must be thinking of the M16A1, which can fire full automatic.
Previous versions have always brought up the registration screen every time you load the damn thing until you report all your information to AOL. Using netstat -a shows connections to different AOL servers even after these screens are completed. What exactly is it reporting?
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone with a laptop=possible terrorist, subject to immense scrutiny and background check.
TO: daddypants@slashdot.org
SUBJECT: [DP] Linux Most Attacked Server?
sent in a stroy from the BBC that
Link doesn't appear to be from the BBC. Looks like The Globe and Mail. Then again I suppose the BBC could own this site.
I guess he didn't believe me.
I don't believe this story. It doesn't even come from the BBC, it comes from The Globe and Mail! Who are they, a Microsoft-owned "news" organization? Then again, the Globe and Mail is probably owned by/is part of/works with the BBC, and I will get modded down -1, non-sense.
You would think that server admins would know that responding to each worm would double traffic and take action to prevent it, by either using a better filter or reconfiguring the filter to not reply.
To use software and services that don't have the seal? Wouldn't you be supporting terrorism if you didn't use products the government approved?
What would be the standards used for this certification?
Fisher suspends tactic in fighting child porn
By Joseph A. Slobodzian
Inquirer Staff Writer
Pennsylvania Attorney General Michael Fisher today agreed to halt his behind-the-scenes effort to get Internet service providers to block child pornography Web sites until a federal judge rules whether Fisher's tactic violates the First Amendment by indiscriminately blocking legitimate sites.
The decision was announced at a federal court hearing on a request by civil rights groups for a temporary restraining order to stop Fisher's year-old program.
U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois approved the compromise and set a hearing for Nov. 21 on the merits of a lawsuit.
The suit against Fisher was filed earlier today by the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington, D.C.-based Internet policy group; the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia; and PlantageNet Inc., a Doylestown Internet service provider, or ISP, that provides local dial-up numbers for much of the Philadelphia region in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
John O.J. Shellenberger, chief of the Attorney General's Eastern Regional Office, said his office may still move against child pornography Web sites under state law by seeking a formal court order. He also agreed that his office would contact the ACLU before seeking such an order so that ACLU lawyers could protect the interests of legitimate Web sites that might also be closed.
Pennsylvania is the first - and only - state to try to tackle the thorny problem of fighting purveyors of illegal child pornography, which has become as pervasive on the Internet as legal sexually explicit sites.
The problem has confounded Congress and software developers because the technology of the Internet makes it impossible to filter out, or block, offensive Web sites without also blocking some legitimate sites about sexual, medical or social issues.
Fisher spokesman Sean Connolly defended the law, which went into effect in April 2002, and Fisher's informal policy of contacting ISPs by letter, which advises of a child porn site and threatens legal action if the ISP does not block the site.
An ISP that receives the warning has five days to block the Web site from view by Internet users in Pennsylvania. Failure to do so could result in fines of up to $30,000 and jail terms of up to seven years.
"This informal notification process was developed at the request of ISPs," Connolly said. "We are perfectly willing to obtain a court order. We've done it in the past and we're willing to do it again."
In Doylestown, the president of PlantageNet Internet Limited, James Smallacombe, said that the way the law is written makes it "impossible" for him and others to comply.
"If we received an order to block access to a particular IP address, since we started outsourcing dial-up networks, we have no physical way to prevent any user from accessing any site, because we don't control the network that the users dial into," Smallacombe said. "But the way the law is written, we can still be ordered to do this and, if we fail to comply, suffer the consequences."
Stefan Presser, the ACLU's legal director, said Fisher's informal process effectively blocks legitimate Web sites without the owners' knowledge - or the chance for them to challenge the action in court.
"We do not support child pornography. Regardless of [Fisher's] goal, he is not complying with what the legislature suggested be used," Presser said.
Fisher's informal policy does "little or nothing to combat the crime of child pornography or the problem of child pornography on the Internet," Presser said, because it does not go after the purveyors but the communications links they and legitimate Web sites use.
Because of the Internet's technical architecture, in which multiple Web sites share the same numerical Internet address, or IP number, the lawsuit contends that numerous owners of legitimate Web sites have found themselves blocked from custom
This guy has done pretty well, why don't you check out the secret to his success?
121 total comments, and it's still downloading at 210 K/sec. Either the /. effect has lost its might, or a large number of geeks have found other things to do tonight.
You must have not have bothered to look at the eBay item that was clearly listed in this story. If it was to sell now, he could buy 10 QuickTime 6 pro licenses.
How about making your own backups? If you did, you would have your own copies and not have to worry about other people's failure(s) to keep up with your stuff. You do have a good point though, since if you couldn't make your own backups of emails or whatever then it would be the responsibility of the provider to maintain a backup.
They seem to have a lot of the current advisories and stuff here.
If you look at the pictures on the Tiger Direct link, a hard drive is installed. As long as it has an IDE controller for the cd-rom, which it does, yes, you should be able to add a hard drive, as long as the BIOS in this thing supports one. Or, you could add a SCSI, SerialATA, or another IDE controller to the system via the PCI slot.
Apparently you didn't see this article...
Game companies going to follow the tune of other industries (music/movie) and blame this on piracy on P2P networks?
That would be better than RedHat XP...
Why don't we email the Vice President or First Lady? His email is still up on a direct link vice.president@whitehouse.gov, and her email is first.lady@whitehouse.gov.
The M16A2 is NOT a full-auto assault rifle. It can only fire in semi (1-round) and burst (3-round) modes. You must be thinking of the M16A1, which can fire full automatic.
What should the truth be modded as Flamebait?
You mean it isn't already monopolized by big corporations?
Since the EU is pushing this war, then the French won't back out of it.
Previous versions have always brought up the registration screen every time you load the damn thing until you report all your information to AOL. Using netstat -a shows connections to different AOL servers even after these screens are completed. What exactly is it reporting?