What an excellent idea! Software to help computer-inclined high school students (read: a healthy dose of Slashdot readers) complete those pesky English assigments.
Some of the evolutionary poetry is better than what I managed to type out at 0200 after playing Soldier of Fortune 2 for 6 hours straight.
A bit of explaination: the "timebomb" preference is a relic from the Netscape days. It provides a countdown until some final date, which when reached, the application will provide an expiration notice popup and request that the application stop working.
PGP International offers a nice, friendly, easy to use set of encryption tools. This includes a VPN (for a secure network layer) and nifty things like a quick encrypt for clipboard contents. PGP for Windows
...the initiative already gives free high-speed internet access to users in a 10sqkm catchment area in the city using five roof-mounted antennae.
Free broadband? Free wireless broadband? This could be put to great use, especially for dense urban areas. Its too bad that so many ISPs in North America are fighting wardriving, whilst overseas it seems to be a non-issue.
If the discussion draft were to become law, it would outlaw the possession of computer viruses, authorize police to order Internet providers to retain logs of all Web browsing for up to six months, and permit police to obtain a search warrant allowing them to find "hidden electronic and digital devices" that a suspect might be concealing.
Oh no! My BE-300 might become illgeal (and not for the valid reason of Casio shipping it with Windows CE 3.0.)
Seriously though, I doubt that any action will come of this in Canadian government. Speaking as a Canadian, hardly anything gets done nationally - if anything, the provincial government takes on a liberal or extremist form and enforces/creates what they want to.
Arguing that more and more communications take place in electronic form, Canadian officials say such laws are necessary to fight terrorism and combat even run-of-the-mill crimes.
I can say that monitoring gas stations for criminals is necessary, as the majority of criminals use cars. Besides, other things are necessary to fight terrorism and crimes, including proper funding for education and other non-invasive things.
The article does point out some truth; Canadian use of wireless and mobile electronics is significant and any database or cyberpolice created would kill anonimity. However, I feel that the average user (here, at least) is aware of the fragility of their situation, both with issues such as this (to 'prevent terrorism') and others, such as the DMCA and RIAA.
Remember the source of this 'unconstitutional' and 'freedom oppressing' news comes from the US Media, a source oft criticized as bloating, manipulating and sensationalizing otherwise mundane things. As an earlier comment noted, the article is a grand total of 5 sentences in length, resembling routine police activities if the word 'database' is removed. There is no mention of the situation or relationships of the subjects in question. Not ever drug dealer out there gets caught by the police, and more than enough of them manage to retain 'clean slates'. Perhaps this was just a way of tracking suspected associates that become a bit munged once the press started sniffing at it.
Or perhaps it is true. If so then yes, I do have strong opinions against such things. First off, how many street level police enforcers realize how the penal system works? As yet another earlier post stated, it doesn't, and the prison population is growing larger and larger each day because it continues to not work. Yet police still arrest people (minorities) based on societal bias, shove them away then let them out a few years later - for some reason. At most, it ensures that they will become repeat offenders, or if they're lucky, will scare them shitless out of fear of being digested by the system again. I am not an anthropologist, nor a judical figure, but this sounds like a badly flawed system.
My point is this: how is categorizing and (potentially) arresting more people going to help society? It won't, if the process is flawed and this action speeds up the process. How is more power, with full legal support mind you, going to weed out the supposedly corrupt? If anything, more power will turn the enforcers into the corrupted and the US into a divided zone of criminals and sheep.
No local rights, dumb Internet access terminals, and Draconian monitoring. That's what hundreds of thousands of students here have to face each school day.
In Toronto, a WAN is implemented, thus reducing the number of people (let alone teachers) with local admin access to around nil. This WAN only came into existance after several sub networks, divided geographically by the city, were coalesced into one big unwieldy one, which gives technicians (and probably the admins) a permanent headache. Phone lines inside the school are cut - no modem access, in fact the only way to gain Internet access is to sell the soul of your machine to the WAN (i.e. format it with NT and hope its still operable). Or tunnel an illict connection (NetBIOS is not implemented that well).
Running anything but IE on these systems is hard enough; hosting LAN parties are out of the question - unless you want to loose a few days of school or your job.
This article puts forth an odd proposition, as I'm probing that the locked-down WAN schema is the case in many other large cities.
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Alright. It's not a joke. It's a statement. I'm very, very tired. Forgive me. Ciao.
What an excellent idea! Software to help computer-inclined high school students (read: a healthy dose of Slashdot readers) complete those pesky English assigments.
Some of the evolutionary poetry is better than what I managed to type out at 0200 after playing Soldier of Fortune 2 for 6 hours straight.
A bit of explaination: the "timebomb" preference is a relic from the Netscape days. It provides a countdown until some final date, which when reached, the application will provide an expiration notice popup and request that the application stop working.
I always knew that IE had a built in crash timer, but Mozilla?
Good thing Palm stuck to Graffiti. That touch screen only looks wide enough for one chracter.
Actually, I think that this is every Slashdotter's vehicle...well, according to ThinkGeek.
In twenty minutes, it will be very hard to read a 50 MB log file.
Do not build hobbit holes in large metropolises with pre-existing transit systems. Cohabitation may occur.
PGP International offers a nice, friendly, easy to use set of encryption tools. This includes a VPN (for a secure network layer) and nifty things like a quick encrypt for clipboard contents.
PGP for Windows
...the initiative already gives free high-speed internet access to users in a 10sqkm catchment area in the city using five roof-mounted antennae.
Free broadband? Free wireless broadband? This could be put to great use, especially for dense urban areas. Its too bad that so many ISPs in North America are fighting wardriving, whilst overseas it seems to be a non-issue.
Finally! A way to install OpenBSD without printing the FAQ.
If the discussion draft were to become law, it would outlaw the possession of computer viruses, authorize police to order Internet providers to retain logs of all Web browsing for up to six months, and permit police to obtain a search warrant allowing them to find "hidden electronic and digital devices" that a suspect might be concealing.
Oh no! My BE-300 might become illgeal (and not for the valid reason of Casio shipping it with Windows CE 3.0.)
Seriously though, I doubt that any action will come of this in Canadian government. Speaking as a Canadian, hardly anything gets done nationally - if anything, the provincial government takes on a liberal or extremist form and enforces/creates what they want to.
Arguing that more and more communications take place in electronic form, Canadian officials say such laws are necessary to fight terrorism and combat even run-of-the-mill crimes.
I can say that monitoring gas stations for criminals is necessary, as the majority of criminals use cars. Besides, other things are necessary to fight terrorism and crimes, including proper funding for education and other non-invasive things.
The article does point out some truth; Canadian use of wireless and mobile electronics is significant and any database or cyberpolice created would kill anonimity. However, I feel that the average user (here, at least) is aware of the fragility of their situation, both with issues such as this (to 'prevent terrorism') and others, such as the DMCA and RIAA.
Remember the source of this 'unconstitutional' and 'freedom oppressing' news comes from the US Media, a source oft criticized as bloating, manipulating and sensationalizing otherwise mundane things. As an earlier comment noted, the article is a grand total of 5 sentences in length, resembling routine police activities if the word 'database' is removed. There is no mention of the situation or relationships of the subjects in question. Not ever drug dealer out there gets caught by the police, and more than enough of them manage to retain 'clean slates'. Perhaps this was just a way of tracking suspected associates that become a bit munged once the press started sniffing at it.
Or perhaps it is true. If so then yes, I do have strong opinions against such things. First off, how many street level police enforcers realize how the penal system works? As yet another earlier post stated, it doesn't, and the prison population is growing larger and larger each day because it continues to not work. Yet police still arrest people (minorities) based on societal bias, shove them away then let them out a few years later - for some reason. At most, it ensures that they will become repeat offenders, or if they're lucky, will scare them shitless out of fear of being digested by the system again. I am not an anthropologist, nor a judical figure, but this sounds like a badly flawed system.
My point is this: how is categorizing and (potentially) arresting more people going to help society? It won't, if the process is flawed and this action speeds up the process.
How is more power, with full legal support mind you, going to weed out the supposedly corrupt? If anything, more power will turn the enforcers into the corrupted and the US into a divided zone of criminals and sheep.
No local rights, dumb Internet access terminals, and Draconian monitoring. That's what hundreds of thousands of students here have to face each school day.
In Toronto, a WAN is implemented, thus reducing the number of people (let alone teachers) with local admin access to around nil. This WAN only came into existance after several sub networks, divided geographically by the city, were coalesced into one big unwieldy one, which gives technicians (and probably the admins) a permanent headache. Phone lines inside the school are cut - no modem access, in fact the only way to gain Internet access is to sell the soul of your machine to the WAN (i.e. format it with NT and hope its still operable). Or tunnel an illict connection (NetBIOS is not implemented that well).
Running anything but IE on these systems is hard enough; hosting LAN parties are out of the question - unless you want to loose a few days of school or your job.
This article puts forth an odd proposition, as I'm probing that the locked-down WAN schema is the case in many other large cities.
Hmm...
Sounds like kill9 and m0rla got into the true spirit of the competition.
According to Netcraft , www.kdworks.co.kr was running IIS 5.0 since April.
(or look here if you don't believe me)