hey check it out , no number plates or tax either, all i need to do is stick a gun in your face and not only is your laptop ($2k),pda($250),cellphone ($500), watch+jewelerry ($1000) and wallets ($250 + cards) all mine but a $3000 scooter to ride off into the sunset with all my loot ! hah haaa
hmm or shall i just fall over in front of you , tell the police that you hit me with it as i was walking , then all i need to do is sue your pants off with a nice damages claim , bling bling mf !!
boy i just hope you got good insurance
i cant wait to see you on the sidewalk round my way with one of these !!
the BBC is not free, people in the UK pay £140 a year in the form of a television licence to have the services they provide
NY Times free ? nope you pay for that in the form of handing over some personal information in the form of registration in exchange for viewing the content within.
CNN free ? nope your content is paid for by advertisers who again take your information in the form of browser demographics and in return you get to read the content.
iam sure he is laughing at you right now while he sits in his air conditioned office reading your inane dribble
Sorry but do we have to be notified on every point release that this project makes, this makes the fourth story on Phoenix this month ! and its only a 0.point release sheesh
Phoenix 0.4 Released
On Wednesday October 30, @04:41AM with 302
comments
Phoenix 0.3 Is Out
On Wednesday October 16, @01:59AM with 432 comments
Phoenix 0.2 Web Browser: Lean, Mean Mozilla
On Monday October 07, @03:54PM with 561 comments
Slashback: Cinelerra, Dolphiname, Phoenix
On Thursday October 03, @06:59PM with 259 comments
| Jul.5.2002 | Last month, a Norwegian literary museum admitted losing access to their catalogue system after the database administrator died -- taking the password with him. Yesterday, my mother's computer died -- taking two years worth of email with it. The museum in Norway put out a radio call for hackers to help crack the code. My Mum? Well, she just cried into the phone for a while.
It might seem as though these two stories are only slightly related. To me, they both indicate a bigger problem.
Prior to the commercial internet and the arrival of cheap mass storage, computers were mostly used for pumping out paper documents. But with the explosion of email, web publishing and digital media in general, times are changing. Culture as we know it is going digital.
Constructing a history is fairly straightforward: In the physical world, works are tangible and rooted in time and place. Birth, death and marriage records maintained by governments allow us to trace who made what, and when. Mostly, stuff lasts.
Unfortunately, digital works aren't like that. Data is a commodity, stored in bulk on anonymous file systems, duplicated and destroyed by whoever has access. Every day hard drives fail, human-dependent backup systems fail. People die and their computers get wiped or thrown out. Passwords are lost and formats change. Corporate intranets are a mess -- if you've ever had the displeasure of using one, well, let's just say keeping everything is not the same as keeping everything organized.
Digital culture + geeks with attention deficit = uh oh.
In 2000 the University of California, Berkeley published a study showing that printed content represents only 0.003% of the world's total information -- most of the remainder is stored digitally. If that figure is correct, almost our entire output as a society is entrusted to one of several Microsoft operating systems and disks with twelve-month limited warranties.
*cue danger music*
Y2K, another problem brought about entirely by lack of forethought (plus a healthy dose of denial), has not served as a wake up call. Product development decisions continue to revolve around annual earnings. Technology uptake continues to be driven by novelty and the quest for cool. Even in the Open Source world, development is more about cloning commercial products than designing software to last a millennium.
Two hundred years from now, how will historians assess the early twenty-first century? They won't, because scarcely anything will be left to assess. That's right: Welcome, my friends, to the digital dark age.
A step backwards is not the solution, trees being in short supply and all. Besides, librarians and archivists have discovered that the books and papers we print now dissolve much more quickly than books printed a century ago. Paper isn't the answer: Our only viable option is to come up with a digital system that works.
To do this, we need to transform some of our ideas about computing.
Right now, files are stored on individual machines. It's up to the owners of those machines to make copies -- but individuals, until they lose something important to them, do not back up. We can look at P2P file-sharing systems, with multiple redundant copies of almost every file, for inspiration. Why not do the same with personal files, automatically creating mulitple copies of your recipe book across the network? You'd never have to back up again.
This isn't necessarily a new idea: Sun Microsystems is fond of suggesting that "the network is the computer" and the distributed computing concept has been around for a while. But people are understandably hesitant to store their personal files on a central server, much less someone else's personal computer. What of privacy, if your files are scattered all over the world?
That's where identity comes into play. The data and documents you create today are generic and anonymous -- they are not linked to your identity in the municipal records, nor are they proven to be authentically yours. In a lot of cases they aren't even datestamped accurately. This makes your files even on your own computer vulnerable -- a vulnerability that could be overcome by linking them to your official records. If you are going to be storing your files on someone else's computer, you'll want a foolproof way to identify that the files are yours.
It might seem abhorrent to think of some government program tagging and subsequently rifling through your digital stuff. But perhaps the government only needs to give us access to the citizenship records we've already paid them to maintain.
Unbreakable encryption is a viable solution, but only if data isn't locked down permanently. As morbid as it seems, a system that's aware of your death or permanent disablement can make sure those files are unencrypted at the appropriate time. The same system could make sure your files are released to the public domain, protected by copyright, or even deleted from the network for privacy reasons at the time of your demise.
We need a new universal storage mechanism: one that authenticates, protects and manages the data we create. In a future-conscious world, such functions would be a natural extension of the computing experience.
Finally, there is the issue of format. As proprietary data formats give way to XML, and XML gives way to whatever comes five years later, things are going to get lost in the shuffle. Who to call when you need to translate a fifty-year-old Word file? Not to mention the fact that binary storage will sooner or later be replaced with non-binary molecular or holographic storage.
By legislating in the interest of future generations, government could ensure that software companies publish closed formats to a public repository, forming the basis of a "universal file translator." Then, there would be some confidence in the accessibility of even the oldest data.
Regardless of what may or may not happen, nobody wants to be forgotten (at least, I know I don't). That's why a little danger music will hopefully be good for us, to get us thinking about how the storage decisions we make today are likely to affect the people that come afterward. And think about it we must, else what a great shame: To let the dawn of the Information Age turn slowly, and irreversibly, dark.
if we constantly re-invent things that already exist/known we will never progress.
Talking to ones peers may bring knowledge faster, its called effective communication, which is probably the reason we have travelled so far in such a short time (ie: last 100years)
Is this a moral judgement or a logical one ?
Fucked company Google Releases an API for Their Database
Ben Wills fuckin writes , those tossers at "Yahoo! announced that wankers Google Released a friggin bloated API last Thursday. "The service, launched Thursday, is called Google "shite-ster" Web APIs, for really crap application programming interfaces. These awful tools let non money making bastard software developers "query fags from more than 2 billion porn images directly from their own toilets," according to Google's ghey Web site. For now, the service is lame." Google just keeps pushing the limits of taste and decency.":p
"once its re-compiled and distributed on KaZaa, the modified version will spread like wildfire"
Go read my points again kids, is the average user going to know about recompiling and commenting out code ? to him/her free software is just that free the distinction is made on price not on wether its GNU,GPL,LGPL etc
open source is not the answer here user education is, but that isn't going to happen, speak to any technical support desk in a big corporation or isp and ask them if their users understand Open Source and get them to explain the difference between free software and free software.
_ _ _ _ "Just cos you don't agree doesnt mean im wrong"
We should praise Microsoft because if they didn't have these great operating systems and servers a lot of security professionals and techs would be without work!, nor hundreds of kids busy learning their skills hacking and fixing their parents and relatives computers.
it would be dull without them
its due to Redmonds foresight in creating numerous security "mistakes" that keeps us with cash in our pockets
Praise be to Bill (gates/dollar)
how by being open source going to save millions of non technical user privacy ?,
it wouldnt make any difference if it was OS or not, go ask your friends "not so computer literate" dad who downloads a bit of jazz on his computer if it would help him ? would he read all 500 lines of terms&conditions anyway ? would he examine all 100,000 lines of code looking for talkbacks ?
the average user who uses kazzaa has no-idea this is happening behind their backs ,
yeah it grants everything to kazzaa but the average user has no idea what any of that legal stuff does either, as you know as well as i do that they just blindly click "next" or "agree", to them installing software is boring trivual stuff that is a chore so they just want to get it done , the average user doesnt read any legal text on any software as its 500 lines long and doesn't look like a help file never mind the fact they didnt sign anything so they dont see any "agreements" as binding
I fail to see how "OS" would save them from the real reasons why they get "compromised" in the first place.
_ _ _ _ "Just cos you don't agree doesnt mean im wrong"
Mr Cringly obviously has no idea how much footage goes into a 1/2 hr program, i make documentaries (for a tv company) and on average we have 10 - 40 hrs of raw footage to produce a single edited hour program, this in data terms at full broadcast resolution equates from 200gig - 2tb, so how does he propose i distribute this footage my cable modem ? my t1 line ? who pays for the bandwidth ? what if 500 people try to download it,
should take you ooh six months to download the footage and even then you have no creative freedom over the camera and where to point it.
mr cringely is obviously more stupid than i though
Slashdot Mirror
hey check it out , no number plates or tax either, all i need to do is stick a gun in your face and not only is your laptop ($2k),pda($250),cellphone ($500), watch+jewelerry ($1000) and wallets ($250 + cards) all mine but a $3000 scooter to ride off into the sunset with all my loot ! hah haaa
hmm or shall i just fall over in front of you , tell the police that you hit me with it as i was walking , then all i need to do is sue your pants off with a nice damages claim , bling bling mf !!
boy i just hope you got good insurance
i cant wait to see you on the sidewalk round my way with one of these !!
You Have Twenty Seconds To Comply
My home network is comprized entirely of 100-160MHz Pentium machines running Win9x.
You have my condolences
You sir are for want of a better word an idiot
the BBC is not free, people in the UK pay £140 a year in the form of a television licence to have the services they provide
NY Times free ? nope you pay for that in the form of handing over some personal information in the form of registration in exchange for viewing the content within.
CNN free ? nope your content is paid for by advertisers who again take your information in the form of browser demographics and in return you get to read the content.
iam sure he is laughing at you right now while he sits in his air conditioned office reading your inane dribble
when there are lots of kits and plans to choose from http://www.starshipmodeler.com/trek/trekship.htm
looking in net.abuse there are various reports about anti leech including this one which states that Johan also owns and runs warezhangout.com
Johan Wennberg (WAREZHANGOUT-DOM)
Tanneforsvagen 17
Stockholm, Enskede S-122 47
SWEDEN
Domain Name: WAREZHANGOUT.COM
Administrative Contact:
Wennberg, Johan (JW10356) webmaster@SPACEGALAXY.COM
h0st internet services
Tanneforsvagen 17
Stockholm
12247
SE
555-555 555 (FAX) 555-555 555
the whois now is currently returning bogus info
Domain Name: WAREZHANGOUT.COM
Administrative Contact:
Tranzylvigqy, Bohola mmmjeay@jukpeersdfsdf.com
Intergalactic
Mars 328dkgj30
Planetz34
Mayhem, grxdgf 3455234343
BS
5555555555555
now a quick dig shows us that warezhangouts mail is currently handled by mail.wakenet.se and guess who owns wakenet.se ? our friend johan
funny how things turn out egh?
can you say ironic ?
Sorry but do we have to be notified on every point release that this project makes, this makes the fourth story on Phoenix this month ! and its only a 0.point release sheesh
Phoenix 0.4 Released
On Wednesday October 30, @04:41AM with 302 comments
Phoenix 0.3 Is Out
On Wednesday October 16, @01:59AM with 432 comments
Phoenix 0.2 Web Browser:
Lean, Mean Mozilla On Monday October 07, @03:54PM with 561 comments
Slashback: Cinelerra, Dolphiname, Phoenix
On Thursday October 03, @06:59PM with 259 comments
Editors please try using the F*****g search
call me when it reaches version 1 until then...
By David Emberton:
| Jul.5.2002 |
Last month, a Norwegian literary museum admitted losing access to their catalogue system after the database administrator died -- taking the password with him. Yesterday, my mother's computer died -- taking two years worth of email with it. The museum in Norway put out a radio call for hackers to help crack the code. My Mum? Well, she just cried into the phone for a while.
It might seem as though these two stories are only slightly related. To me, they both indicate a bigger problem.
Prior to the commercial internet and the arrival of cheap mass storage, computers were mostly used for pumping out paper documents. But with the explosion of email, web publishing and digital media in general, times are changing. Culture as we know it is going digital.
Constructing a history is fairly straightforward: In the physical world, works are tangible and rooted in time and place. Birth, death and marriage records maintained by governments allow us to trace who made what, and when. Mostly, stuff lasts.
Unfortunately, digital works aren't like that. Data is a commodity, stored in bulk on anonymous file systems, duplicated and destroyed by whoever has access. Every day hard drives fail, human-dependent backup systems fail. People die and their computers get wiped or thrown out. Passwords are lost and formats change. Corporate intranets are a mess -- if you've ever had the displeasure of using one, well, let's just say keeping everything is not the same as keeping everything organized.
Digital culture + geeks with attention deficit = uh oh.
In 2000 the University of California, Berkeley published a study showing that printed content represents only 0.003% of the world's total information -- most of the remainder is stored digitally. If that figure is correct, almost our entire output as a society is entrusted to one of several Microsoft operating systems and disks with twelve-month limited warranties.
*cue danger music*
Y2K, another problem brought about entirely by lack of forethought (plus a healthy dose of denial), has not served as a wake up call. Product development decisions continue to revolve around annual earnings. Technology uptake continues to be driven by novelty and the quest for cool. Even in the Open Source world, development is more about cloning commercial products than designing software to last a millennium.
Two hundred years from now, how will historians assess the early twenty-first century? They won't, because scarcely anything will be left to assess. That's right: Welcome, my friends, to the digital dark age.
A step backwards is not the solution, trees being in short supply and all. Besides, librarians and archivists have discovered that the books and papers we print now dissolve much more quickly than books printed a century ago. Paper isn't the answer: Our only viable option is to come up with a digital system that works.
To do this, we need to transform some of our ideas about computing.
Right now, files are stored on individual machines. It's up to the owners of those machines to make copies -- but individuals, until they lose something important to them, do not back up. We can look at P2P file-sharing systems, with multiple redundant copies of almost every file, for inspiration. Why not do the same with personal files, automatically creating mulitple copies of your recipe book across the network? You'd never have to back up again.
This isn't necessarily a new idea: Sun Microsystems is fond of suggesting that "the network is the computer" and the distributed computing concept has been around for a while. But people are understandably hesitant to store their personal files on a central server, much less someone else's personal computer. What of privacy, if your files are scattered all over the world?
That's where identity comes into play. The data and documents you create today are generic and anonymous -- they are not linked to your identity in the municipal records, nor are they proven to be authentically yours. In a lot of cases they aren't even datestamped accurately. This makes your files even on your own computer vulnerable -- a vulnerability that could be overcome by linking them to your official records. If you are going to be storing your files on someone else's computer, you'll want a foolproof way to identify that the files are yours.
It might seem abhorrent to think of some government program tagging and subsequently rifling through your digital stuff. But perhaps the government only needs to give us access to the citizenship records we've already paid them to maintain.
Unbreakable encryption is a viable solution, but only if data isn't locked down permanently. As morbid as it seems, a system that's aware of your death or permanent disablement can make sure those files are unencrypted at the appropriate time. The same system could make sure your files are released to the public domain, protected by copyright, or even deleted from the network for privacy reasons at the time of your demise.
We need a new universal storage mechanism: one that authenticates, protects and manages the data we create. In a future-conscious world, such functions would be a natural extension of the computing experience.
Finally, there is the issue of format. As proprietary data formats give way to XML, and XML gives way to whatever comes five years later, things are going to get lost in the shuffle. Who to call when you need to translate a fifty-year-old Word file? Not to mention the fact that binary storage will sooner or later be replaced with non-binary molecular or holographic storage.
By legislating in the interest of future generations, government could ensure that software companies publish closed formats to a public repository, forming the basis of a "universal file translator." Then, there would be some confidence in the accessibility of even the oldest data.
Regardless of what may or may not happen, nobody wants to be forgotten (at least, I know I don't). That's why a little danger music will hopefully be good for us, to get us thinking about how the storage decisions we make today are likely to affect the people that come afterward. And think about it we must, else what a great shame: To let the dawn of the Information Age turn slowly, and irreversibly, dark.
Sony MEX1 Japan (japanese but plenty of pics)
1064$
Even more info
http://www.caraudioexpress.com/SONY2001.htm (typo or just old?)
if we constantly re-invent things that already exist/known we will never progress. Talking to ones peers may bring knowledge faster, its called effective communication, which is probably the reason we have travelled so far in such a short time (ie: last 100years) Is this a moral judgement or a logical one ?
Fucked company Google Releases an API for Their Database Ben Wills fuckin writes , those tossers at "Yahoo! announced that wankers Google Released a friggin bloated API last Thursday. "The service, launched Thursday, is called Google "shite-ster" Web APIs, for really crap application programming interfaces. These awful tools let non money making bastard software developers "query fags from more than 2 billion porn images directly from their own toilets," according to Google's ghey Web site. For now, the service is lame." Google just keeps pushing the limits of taste and decency."
Dude do i know you ? you just desribed me perfectly, except i have a new star wars t-shirt now and the doctor said my acne would go
you mean this ? http://microsoft.com/unix/ie/
would be far easier and comes with a built in screen and batteries !!!
"once its re-compiled and distributed on KaZaa, the modified version will spread like wildfire"
Go read my points again kids, is the average user going to know about recompiling and commenting out code ? to him/her free software is just that free the distinction is made on price not on wether its GNU,GPL,LGPL etc
open source is not the answer here user education is, but that isn't going to happen,
speak to any technical support desk in a big corporation or isp and ask them if their users understand Open Source and get them to explain the difference between free software and free software.
_ _ _ _
"Just cos you don't agree doesnt mean im wrong"
We should praise Microsoft because if they didn't have these great operating systems and servers a lot of security professionals and techs would be without work!, nor hundreds of kids busy learning their skills hacking and fixing their parents and relatives computers. it would be dull without them its due to Redmonds foresight in creating numerous security "mistakes" that keeps us with cash in our pockets Praise be to Bill (gates/dollar)
how by being open source going to save millions of non technical user privacy ?,
it wouldnt make any difference if it was OS or not, go ask your friends "not so computer literate" dad who downloads a bit of jazz on his computer if it would help him ?
would he read all 500 lines of terms&conditions anyway ? would he examine all 100,000 lines of code looking for talkbacks ?
the average user who uses kazzaa has no-idea this is happening behind their backs ,
yeah it grants everything to kazzaa but the average user has no idea what any of that legal stuff does either, as you know as well as i do that they just blindly click "next" or "agree", to them installing software is boring trivual stuff that is a chore so they just want to get it done , the average user doesnt read any legal text on any software as its 500 lines long and doesn't look like a help file never mind the fact they didnt sign anything so they dont see any "agreements" as binding
I fail to see how "OS" would save them from the real reasons why they get "compromised" in the first place.
_ _ _ _
"Just cos you don't agree doesnt mean im wrong"
So it was on TV for the last 2 days so
Well ?
Why do you (private citizen joe) need it ?
to Hide illegal porn ? terrorist/political activities ?
hmm something about encryption used by the average joe user seems suspicious to me
chance would be a fine thing =:p)
Mr Cringly obviously has no idea how much footage goes into a 1/2 hr program, i make documentaries (for a tv company) and on average we have 10 - 40 hrs of raw footage to produce a single edited hour program, this in data terms at full broadcast resolution equates from 200gig - 2tb, so how does he propose i distribute this footage my cable modem ? my t1 line ? who pays for the bandwidth ? what if 500 people try to download it, should take you ooh six months to download the footage and even then you have no creative freedom over the camera and where to point it. mr cringely is obviously more stupid than i though
does it drink beer, have bad breath and swear loudly at passing humans ?
well i digress
fp ? hurrah for virus writers :)
...cos no one would pay for it ?