> Seeing how a spyware company executive is appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's privacy advisory board, I think you can guess the answer.
Yeah, but Gator's not spyware. Take it up with chick from Doubleclick, who now serves as HomeSec's Chief Privacy Officer.
Since we're now talking about a security position, can any of you Microsofties tell us if the guy who came up with Internet Explorer's zone-based security architecture is the same guy as the one who came up with the idea of integrating the web browser into the desktop? Because if they're the same person, I think we know who the cybersecurity czar's gonna be.
> SCO engineer: I compared the codes they are different. >
SCO lawyer: You mean they are the same. >
SCO engineer: No, I mean they are different. >
SCO lawyer: You mean they are the same. >
(Repeat the above 4000 times) >
SCO engineer: Yes... they are the same master!
Linus: Different.
Darl: Same.
Linus: Different.
Darl: Same!
Linus: Same!
Darl: Different!
Judge: *slams gavel on Darl's beak* Case dismissed!
Darl: [twisting his beak from his jaw to the front of his face] Let's run through that again.
Linus: Same.
Darl: DIFFERENT! SUE THE TUX! SUE THE TUX!
Judge: *slams gavel on Darl's beak again*
Darl: [picking his beak off the floor] You're... dethpicable.
> > No, you had it right the first time, it's "F*cking lawyers"..
> >
Christ Almighty! You mean we're letting them breed???? Have we learned nothing from the Black Death?
...that there are some things even a flea on a rat's ass won't do?
> The UN doesn't claim to "own" the Internet. It, like the ITU, is the closest we have to a global forum for administering global registries like the Internet. By what right does anyone claim that the US "owns the Internet", or even is the best administrator of it? Myself, I'd give it to the Dutch. Even though they have a queen.
On a serious note, if ICANN were making politically-motivated decisions, I'd be for taking that power away from ICANN and handing it over to someone less susceptible to political influence.
Even to the extent that ICANN may be tainted, the track record of the UN indicates (to me, anyway) that a UN-controlled 'net would be vastly more prone to political manipulation.
Personally, the scenario of fragmented roots would be just fine for me. You want the Chinaweb, use a DNS server that believes in China. You want the Amerinet, stick with the current servers. You want the Jesusnet, there'll probably be a root server in Kansas. You want the Afronet, go with the root servers controlled by Mugabe and his friends. Live in Saudi Arabia, no b00bies for j00. (And no j00z either:)
The networks with good policies ("good" being defined as "best able to serve the needs of their users") will survive. The bad ones won't. People lucky enough to live in free countries will be able to choose whichever network is "best" for them.
Eventually, some crazy loon will decide that they want to access all the networks. They'll come up with some sort of way of mediating requests between all the different root servers out there. It'll be a network of networks - sort of an inter-net, if you will. I'd probably pay a few bucks a month to access a network like that. Might even catch on outside the universities and research labs:)
> Its turned into a giant Ponzi scheme that will end up with a lot of money going down the toilet, which could potentially bring a lot of other things down with it too.
> According to the new study, about a third of all major studies from the last 15 years were subsequently shown to be inaccurate or overblown.
According to a recent study involving 100 clones based on DNA fragments of Karl Popper, a statistically significant number of the clones agree that this is pretty goddamn good result, considering that that's how science is supposed to work.
You know - that silly process whereby you make a falsifiable claim, run an experiment, report your results, and encourage others to add to the store of scientific knowledge by attempting to falsify your original hypothesis?
> > How many birds would be saved by replacing coal burning powerplants with wind turbines?
> >Most of them. In 100 years when greenhouse gasses kill everything, birds will wish they had windmills.
All of them. In 100 years when nuclear power stations have contributed zero CO2, the birds will be doing just fine.
Or none of them. Because the radioactive waste produced by the nuclear plants is vastly less than the radioactive waste dumped straight into the atmosphere as fly ash from the coal plants, even those birds living directly downwind of the nukes won't have mutated enough in 100 years to achieve sentience sufficient to offer us their thanks.
(Well, with the possible exception of the parrots, who are already developing mathematics:)
Rumor spreadin' round, Colorado town,
'Bout that chokepoint at Lagrange,
(Burt knows what I'm talkin' about)
Just let me know - if you wanna go,
To that station on the range
(Branson gotta hotel fulla nice girls there)
A-hmm, how, how, ho--*CLANG*owww!
"Gawddamn, Billy, ah know our guitars look fuzzier in zero-G, an' ah know we can grow us beards longer without trippin' on 'em alla time like back on Earth, but howinnahell's we s'posed to play guitar like this?"
"Hey Dusty, get the beard outa yer guitar while I sing a verse of
Home on LaGrange!"
Home, home on Lagrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
(screeching of guitars and shifting of gears as Billy breaks into the next track and Frank figures out how to use drums in zero-G...)
Clean slate, O2
Past low-earth orbit's where I'm goin' to,
Space suit, peroxide,
Got Allen's funding and my reason why,
They're buyin' tickets just as fast as they can,
'Cause every geek's crazy 'bout an L-5 man...
Top coat, top hat,
An overfunded NASA's budget fat.
Black tiles, white knight,
Lookin' sharp, ready for flight,
They're buyin' tickets just as fast as they can,
'Cause every geek's crazy 'bout an L-5 man...
Call it.mobi. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely -- having little or no clue in my head, and nothing particular to interest me at the coding keyboard, I thought I would write a few RFCs and see the committee-driven part of the Internet...
[...104 Slashdot posts later... ]
"AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE" -
Job.
The meeting is done. Why then here does any new TLD step forth? -- Because one did survive the wreck.
> Because a simulation is supposed to be an objective replication of reality.
In other news, Rearden, Inc said to be interested in working with engineers from Pontifex and Railroad Tycoon as part of next-generation simulator to be coded in Objective C!
> All the money is being spent on "tech in schools". At the end of the day, a bad teacher will be bad given a set of textbooks or laptops. Imo, this money should go towards more teacher training/more teachers.
The previous slashdot post contains material on teaching. Teaching is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of knowledge. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.
Anyone who wouldn't think that every packet on such a network wouldn't be logged, needs to have their head examined - and is probably crazy enough that they should have their packet stream examined too.
Don't like it? Buy your own plane. Glue a Pringles can into a nicely-formed chunk of fiberglass, and glue the fiberglass onto the bottom of its fuselage. Paint the word "Experimental" near the cockpit. Your plane, your can, your network provider , your rules. (Of course, unless you own an offshore ISP, your provider is still subject to CALEA.)
But back to this article - if you board a taxpayer-subsidized airline's plane (let's be honest here, there are no private airlines in the strictest sense of the word), and you use that taxpayer-subsidized airline's network connectivity, then you surf by whatever rules your taxpayer-subsidized government chooses to impose on them.
[Boss] Blimey, somebody up and set us the bloody bomb!
[Admin] New users logging onto secure network.
[Boss] WTF?
[Admin] Turn on the fookin' telly!
[Boss] It's you!
[m4d4r4b] HOW ARE YOU, GENTLEMEN? ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION. YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME.
[m4d4r4b] HA HA HA!
[Admin] Sir?
[Boss] Tally-ho, old chap! We're ready for this, clear the damn runway and get those Spitfires in the air! God Save the Queen!
D. Reed Freeman, the "Chief Privacy Officer" of Claria Networks (formerly Gator), the creators of the pervasive spyware package GAIN, has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's "Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee"
Legitimized by Microsoft and with representation on HomeSec DPIAC, Gator is now officially securityware, Citizen!
And if you've got some sort of problem with that, take it up with the boss, namely HomeSec's Chief Privacy Officer. She's none other than Nuala O'Connor-Kelly, formerly of Doubleclick.
What's with the head-on-desk-thumping motion? I'm not demented enough to make this shit up!
> Both strategies are based on the fact that the number of TVs dwarfs the number of PCs in China, which won't change in six years. What is different is that we have faster hardware, more Internet content and users
What is the same is that unless the Shanda folks are assuming that the number of HDTVs is going to also dwarf the number of PCs in China, it doesn't matter how fast the set-top box is: Surfing teh Intarweb, whether you do it in NTSC, PAL, or SECAM, is going to be teh suck. It's bad enough trying to read ASCII characters at resolutions comparable to 640x480 -- can you imagine trying to read Chinese characters?
Sometimes you can leapfrog technology - as China did with wireless telephones vs. land lines.
Problem is, you can only do it when it's cheaper to set up the new technology (cheap transmission towers in the middle of nowhere) than the old one (a hunk of fiber or copper, to every home, multiplied by a billion users).
Barring a miracle in materials science, we're not going to see HDTV sets eclipsing TV in China. We're therefore, I think, not going to see "Internet TV" taking off in any big way, either.
> > The player is cast as a visiting longtime friend of Grace and Trip, a couple in their early thirties, and ends up in a verbal crossfire resulting from their failing marriage. > >If the AI is advanced enough, maybe I can seduce Grace, talk her into killing Trip, and then turn her in for the virtual reward!
GRACE, HOW LONG HAVE YOU WANTED TO KILL -9 TRIP?
"Ever since he asked me how it made me feel about our failing marriage. And that he could see why I might ask him that. That's when I knew he was banging that slut ELIZA's keys."
> People are making use of Google's new free API to show the location of stuff on a map.
I don't care how well-documented the API happens to be, or whether it's a hack, it's an app, or it's a map. This is not Fark, you are not Admiral Ackbar, and we are not going here!
> I think Richard Stallman put it quite nicely:
> >
"I would describe programming as a craft, which is a kind of art, but not a fine art. Craft means making useful objects with perhaps decorative touches. Fine art means making things purely for their beauty."
> >
When you have to take functionality into account, it often kills the artistic side of the creation.
Depends on the code. Depends on the art.
I'd consider every entrant into contests like the IOOOC (or obfuscated-your-language-of-choice), to be art. I'd consider any esoteric computer language (a whole line of 'em including INTERCAL, Brainf*ck, Ook, and so on) to be art for art's sake.
But as for functionality "killing" the artistic side of the equation -- sometimes the most functional things are the most beautiful. Lamborghini, Ferrari, Aston-Martin, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, XB-70 Valkyrie, SR-71 Blackbird, Concorde. Very functional machines, designed to perform very different functions, for very different people.
And all very beautiful.
> > so the spammers.. sign a pact to not spam? How does that work? The Chinese government is having enough trouble censoring normal internet traffic as it is. With 100 million internet users in the country, how big do those gateway mail relays need to be to be effectively blocking spam?
It's even less than a "pact not to spam".
Read between the lines of the "protocol" they've signed onto. It's basically an agreement between a bunch of bureaucrats to get together with fellow bureaucrats and gab at each other about how spam's bad, mmmmmkay. Not a damn thing on the list that could possibly result in the slightest hint of policy, let alone legislation or any other form of action.
> 1. Designate a point of contact
"which in the case of our country, happens to be/dev/null".
>
2. Encourage communication and coordination among the
different Agencies...
"Hi Joe, how's things in your neck of the bureaucracy? Pretty cool too, huh? Great! Kthxbye!"
>
3. Take part in periodic conference calls, at least quarterly,
with other appropriate participants to...
"See #2. Well, see #2 in 90 days. Reading this post out loud means we're already done for this quarter."
>
4. Encourage dialogue between...
"When we talk, we'll even say we'd like other people to talk to!"
>
5. Prioritize cases based on harm to victims when requesting
international assistance.
"This guy pissed off a campaign contributor of a buddy of mine,
so his folder goes to the top of the stack
of papers in the disused lavatory at the bottom of the stairs
with the sign on it saying 'Beware of the Leopard'. But it's due to get our attention faster than the ones at the bottom of the stack."
>
6. Complete the OECD Questionaire on...
"If we can host one conference call per
quarter, I suppose we can also approve funding for a #2 pencil."
>
Encourage and support the involvement of less-developed countries
in spam enforcement cooperation.
I could read that as...
"J0IN N0W! MAKE L0BBY1ST FA$T! WOR-K IN UR OWN PVT GOVER|\|MENT OFF1CE! All u need is 2 fill out paper and be SITTING IN ON ONE FONE CALL EVRY 90 DAYS!"
...but you might think I'm cynical or something. *sigh*
"SCO Versus Novell - case to go the distance"
From the mysterious future.
"Novell wins", "SCO defeated in Novell Case", and "Novell victorious over SCO" can't even appear in the mysterious future until after the trial is over.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but Gator's not spyware. Take it up with chick from Doubleclick, who now serves as HomeSec's Chief Privacy Officer.
Since we're now talking about a security position, can any of you Microsofties tell us if the guy who came up with Internet Explorer's zone-based security architecture is the same guy as the one who came up with the idea of integrating the web browser into the desktop? Because if they're the same person, I think we know who the cybersecurity czar's gonna be.
> SCO lawyer: You mean they are the same.
> SCO engineer: No, I mean they are different.
> SCO lawyer: You mean they are the same.
> (Repeat the above 4000 times)
> SCO engineer: Yes... they are the same master!
Linus: Different.
Darl: Same.
Linus: Different.
Darl: Same!
Linus: Same!
Darl: Different!
Judge: *slams gavel on Darl's beak* Case dismissed!
Darl: [twisting his beak from his jaw to the front of his face] Let's run through that again.
Linus: Same.
Darl: DIFFERENT! SUE THE TUX! SUE THE TUX!
Judge: *slams gavel on Darl's beak again*
Darl: [picking his beak off the floor] You're... dethpicable.
There's a goatse joke in there somewhere, folks.
(Preferably behind the event horizon. You really don't want to see the naked singularity.)
>
> Christ Almighty! You mean we're letting them breed???? Have we learned nothing from the Black Death?
fk
On a serious note, if ICANN were making politically-motivated decisions, I'd be for taking that power away from ICANN and handing it over to someone less susceptible to political influence.
Even to the extent that ICANN may be tainted, the track record of the UN indicates (to me, anyway) that a UN-controlled 'net would be vastly more prone to political manipulation.
Personally, the scenario of fragmented roots would be just fine for me. You want the Chinaweb, use a DNS server that believes in China. You want the Amerinet, stick with the current servers. You want the Jesusnet, there'll probably be a root server in Kansas. You want the Afronet, go with the root servers controlled by Mugabe and his friends. Live in Saudi Arabia, no b00bies for j00. (And no j00z either :)
The networks with good policies ("good" being defined as "best able to serve the needs of their users") will survive. The bad ones won't. People lucky enough to live in free countries will be able to choose whichever network is "best" for them.
Eventually, some crazy loon will decide that they want to access all the networks. They'll come up with some sort of way of mediating requests between all the different root servers out there. It'll be a network of networks - sort of an inter-net, if you will. I'd probably pay a few bucks a month to access a network like that. Might even catch on outside the universities and research labs :)
By what right does the UN claim ownership of everything in the world?
Listen, if I went around sayin' I owned the Intarweb just because some oil-moistened bint lobbed a DNS server at me, they'd null-route me.
Oh, right, you don't vote for kings.
According to a recent study involving 100 clones based on DNA fragments of Karl Popper, a statistically significant number of the clones agree that this is pretty goddamn good result, considering that that's how science is supposed to work.
You know - that silly process whereby you make a falsifiable claim, run an experiment, report your results, and encourage others to add to the store of scientific knowledge by attempting to falsify your original hypothesis?
>
>Most of them. In 100 years when greenhouse gasses kill everything, birds will wish they had windmills.
All of them. In 100 years when nuclear power stations have contributed zero CO2, the birds will be doing just fine.
Or none of them. Because the radioactive waste produced by the nuclear plants is vastly less than the radioactive waste dumped straight into the atmosphere as fly ash from the coal plants, even those birds living directly downwind of the nukes won't have mutated enough in 100 years to achieve sentience sufficient to offer us their thanks.
(Well, with the possible exception of the parrots, who are already developing mathematics :)
Rumor spreadin' round, Colorado town,
'Bout that chokepoint at Lagrange,
(Burt knows what I'm talkin' about)
Just let me know - if you wanna go,
To that station on the range
(Branson gotta hotel fulla nice girls there)
A-hmm, how, how, ho--*CLANG*owww!
"Gawddamn, Billy, ah know our guitars look fuzzier in zero-G, an' ah know we can grow us beards longer without trippin' on 'em alla time like back on Earth, but howinnahell's we s'posed to play guitar like this?"
"Hey Dusty, get the beard outa yer guitar while I sing a verse of Home on LaGrange!"
(screeching of guitars and shifting of gears as Billy breaks into the next track and Frank figures out how to use drums in zero-G...)
Clean slate, O2
Past low-earth orbit's where I'm goin' to,
Space suit, peroxide,
Got Allen's funding and my reason why,
They're buyin' tickets just as fast as they can,
'Cause every geek's crazy 'bout an L-5 man...
Top coat, top hat,
An overfunded NASA's budget fat.
Black tiles, white knight,
Lookin' sharp, ready for flight,
They're buyin' tickets just as fast as they can,
'Cause every geek's crazy 'bout an L-5 man...
Call it .mobi. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely -- having little or no clue in my head, and nothing particular to interest me at the coding keyboard, I thought I would write a few RFCs and see the committee-driven part of the Internet...
[ ...104 Slashdot posts later... ]
"AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE"
- Job.
The meeting is done. Why then here does any new TLD step forth? -- Because one did survive the wreck.
In other news, Rearden, Inc said to be interested in working with engineers from Pontifex and Railroad Tycoon as part of next-generation simulator to be coded in Objective C!
The previous slashdot post contains material on teaching. Teaching is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of knowledge. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.
Their network, their rules.
Anyone who wouldn't think that every packet on such a network wouldn't be logged, needs to have their head examined - and is probably crazy enough that they should have their packet stream examined too.
Don't like it? Buy your own plane. Glue a Pringles can into a nicely-formed chunk of fiberglass, and glue the fiberglass onto the bottom of its fuselage. Paint the word "Experimental" near the cockpit. Your plane, your can, your network provider , your rules. (Of course, unless you own an offshore ISP, your provider is still subject to CALEA.)
But back to this article - if you board a taxpayer-subsidized airline's plane (let's be honest here, there are no private airlines in the strictest sense of the word), and you use that taxpayer-subsidized airline's network connectivity, then you surf by whatever rules your taxpayer-subsidized government chooses to impose on them.
[Boss] Blimey, somebody up and set us the bloody bomb!
[Admin] New users logging onto secure network.
[Boss] WTF?
[Admin] Turn on the fookin' telly!
[Boss] It's you!
[m4d4r4b] HOW ARE YOU, GENTLEMEN? ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION. YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME.
[m4d4r4b] HA HA HA!
[Admin] Sir?
[Boss] Tally-ho, old chap! We're ready for this, clear the damn runway and get those Spitfires in the air! God Save the Queen!
>
> or in the case of
And sometimes chymps?
(It's not my fault. If only I'd upgraded to Office 12 with the new s00per-s33kr1t vendor-lock-fu, the form would have screened out "chemps".)
Scientists discover new substances that offer progress in the fight against cancer and HIV.
Still no cure for bartenders who put fruit in beer.
Zonk submitted these stories to Fark many hours ago, with less-funny headlines?
Gator, er, Claria, is not spyware.
Gator CPO at the Department of Homeland Security.
Legitimized by Microsoft and with representation on HomeSec DPIAC, Gator is now officially securityware, Citizen!
And if you've got some sort of problem with that, take it up with the boss, namely HomeSec's Chief Privacy Officer. She's none other than Nuala O'Connor-Kelly, formerly of Doubleclick.
What's with the head-on-desk-thumping motion? I'm not demented enough to make this shit up!
What is the same is that unless the Shanda folks are assuming that the number of HDTVs is going to also dwarf the number of PCs in China, it doesn't matter how fast the set-top box is: Surfing teh Intarweb, whether you do it in NTSC, PAL, or SECAM, is going to be teh suck. It's bad enough trying to read ASCII characters at resolutions comparable to 640x480 -- can you imagine trying to read Chinese characters?
Sometimes you can leapfrog technology - as China did with wireless telephones vs. land lines.
Problem is, you can only do it when it's cheaper to set up the new technology (cheap transmission towers in the middle of nowhere) than the old one (a hunk of fiber or copper, to every home, multiplied by a billion users).
Barring a miracle in materials science, we're not going to see HDTV sets eclipsing TV in China. We're therefore, I think, not going to see "Internet TV" taking off in any big way, either.
>
>If the AI is advanced enough, maybe I can seduce Grace, talk her into killing Trip, and then turn her in for the virtual reward!
GRACE, HOW LONG HAVE YOU WANTED TO KILL -9 TRIP?
"Ever since he asked me how it made me feel about our failing marriage. And that he could see why I might ask him that. That's when I knew he was banging that slut ELIZA's keys."
I don't care how well-documented the API happens to be, or whether it's a hack, it's an app, or it's a map. This is not Fark, you are not Admiral Ackbar, and we are not going here!
>
> "I would describe programming as a craft, which is a kind of art, but not a fine art. Craft means making useful objects with perhaps decorative touches. Fine art means making things purely for their beauty."
>
> When you have to take functionality into account, it often kills the artistic side of the creation.
Depends on the code. Depends on the art.
I'd consider every entrant into contests like the IOOOC (or obfuscated-your-language-of-choice), to be art. I'd consider any esoteric computer language (a whole line of 'em including INTERCAL, Brainf*ck, Ook, and so on) to be art for art's sake.
But as for functionality "killing" the artistic side of the equation -- sometimes the most functional things are the most beautiful. Lamborghini, Ferrari, Aston-Martin, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, XB-70 Valkyrie, SR-71 Blackbird, Concorde. Very functional machines, designed to perform very different functions, for very different people. And all very beautiful.
It's even less than a "pact not to spam".
Read between the lines of the "protocol" they've signed onto. It's basically an agreement between a bunch of bureaucrats to get together with fellow bureaucrats and gab at each other about how spam's bad, mmmmmkay. Not a damn thing on the list that could possibly result in the slightest hint of policy, let alone legislation or any other form of action.
> 1. Designate a point of contact
"which in the case of our country, happens to be /dev/null".
> 2. Encourage communication and coordination among the different Agencies...
"Hi Joe, how's things in your neck of the bureaucracy? Pretty cool too, huh? Great! Kthxbye!"
> 3. Take part in periodic conference calls, at least quarterly, with other appropriate participants to...
"See #2. Well, see #2 in 90 days. Reading this post out loud means we're already done for this quarter."
> 4. Encourage dialogue between...
"When we talk, we'll even say we'd like other people to talk to!"
> 5. Prioritize cases based on harm to victims when requesting international assistance.
"This guy pissed off a campaign contributor of a buddy of mine, so his folder goes to the top of the stack of papers in the disused lavatory at the bottom of the stairs with the sign on it saying 'Beware of the Leopard'. But it's due to get our attention faster than the ones at the bottom of the stack."
> 6. Complete the OECD Questionaire on ...
"If we can host one conference call per quarter, I suppose we can also approve funding for a #2 pencil."
> Encourage and support the involvement of less-developed countries in spam enforcement cooperation.
I could read that as...
"J0IN N0W! MAKE L0BBY1ST FA$T! WOR-K IN UR OWN PVT GOVER|\|MENT OFF1CE! All u need is 2 fill out paper and be SITTING IN ON ONE FONE CALL EVRY 90 DAYS!"
>
> From the mysterious future.
Nuh-uh.
"SCO Versus Novell - case to go the distance"
From the mysterious future.
"Novell wins", "SCO defeated in Novell Case", and "Novell victorious over SCO" can't even appear in the mysterious future until after the trial is over.