Like with the WTC thing, atleast one neighbour of one of the highjackers had been so concerned about the strange comings and goings that see phoned the CIA, and what did they do? Nothing, zip, nada, everyone is covering their arse right now by trying to pass lots of laws that look good and will punish people who do what amounts to pin pricks of damage, rather than reforming the lazy, half arsed security services over there. Over here in the UK, atleast we have had one guy, David Shayler (ex-MI5) stand up and say they are a bunch of idiots making lots of noise and not much else, hope you have someone over there who has the guts to do the same.
xmedar has a bad keyboard at this time, if you with to send me a new one, please contact me and I'll give you the address to send it to, thanks in advance
There was one James Bond film I forget which one, where he used stick on figerprints, maybe that would be enough to do the job, certainly much less painful than burtning them off.
Joseph K: My ID card is not functioning and I've been arrested.
Oracle Support: Sounds like you need one of our consultants, the charge is $1,500 per diem, minimum 5 day consultancy, if you give me your credit card details I will debt your account now.
Thats an old idea, Hitler, the famed innovator had the same scheme going, for some reason, we didnt like it then, and neither did our governments, well I guess the times have changed, I'm putting all my money in Xyclon B futures, how about you?
We cannot, however, prevent our people from doing so unless certain legal findings have been made..
Where were the legal findings about the groups supporting the Real IRA, I have seen none, they were made a proscribed terrorist group by the administratio nover there, something that never happened with the Provos, again I'd like to stress that its all the same really, terrorism is terrorism, oh and no one seems to have mentioned yet that the weapons that were being tested by the IRA members in the jungles cntrolled by FARC were FUEL bombs, testing there distructive capacity, hows that for a coincidence? Like I said before terrosism is global, groups exchange information and training, and those that have and continue to support terrorism in Northern Ireland, of any political or relegous persuasion are indirectly helping ALL terrorist activity including this horrible act, I know that the truth is unpalatable, to many but its there, and you should be offended that this has been allowed to continue for so long, I again hope that you will ensure that your politicians now take the steps necessary to help us all build a peaceful and secure world for us and for our children.
Sorry but thats not true, the US recently outlawed fundraising for groups that support the Real IRA which is basically a bunch of IRA members that no longer report to the Provisional IRA heirachy they are the ones still bombing us in London, if they can ban fundraising for a group not under there "appoved" bunch of terrorists then they could have banned the fundraising for the Provisional IRA long ago, the US has been giving tacit approval for the Provisionals for years as the US politicals want the votes of Irish Americans, I'm sorry that the hypocracy of your politicains has come home to roost in such a terrible way on your population, I hope more Americans will now realise what you have created, remember the IRA members detained in South America recently, terrorism is global and they share information, they have done for a long time, going back to WWII the Irish gave some tacit support to Hitler including intelligence, as Irishmen could blend into British society even tho they were supposed to be neutral, and they all share supporters like Gaddafi, by allowing the support of violence in our country your "leaders" have helped bring about the current catastrophy, maybe you need to start asking your leaders some serious questions before its too late.
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And when did they ever prove that any attack on Russia was organised by Chechians? There has never been a court case, no evidence was produced, Russia needed a war, so they got one, the Chechian gangs are still some of the most feared in Russis, invading Chechnya solved nothing, but was a damn good PR exercise, MS would have been proud.
there really is no other response than to turn to God
Sorry to be the one to point this out, but it maybe that those responsible did it in the name of a God, I would urge everyone to turn to each other, himan being to human being and not to some deity that they use to elevate themselves above others.
Very true, American politicians have for years let the IRA raise money in the US through well known groups to fund atrocities over here in the UK, tho I am sad to see the murder of so many innocent people maybe the US will at last stop allowing American citizens to openly support terrorism in my country.
Don't know about bonds for completion but I would be interested in a futures market for developers... can you imagine the cries of "Buy December ESR"???
Exactly, my thoughts and if you look at history when justice is not done in the courtroom its done on the streets, so the American courts have now given yet another reason for the Tim McVies and Osma Bin Ladins of the world, America is going the way of Rome before it, as a non American I feel very sorry for all the innocents who will be the victims today and tommorrow, goodbye America...
Thats exactly what they are doing, infact here in the UK they even made a TV series of them doing it called "Popstars" which finishes tonight, the really sad thing is that it looks like they are going to be number 1 in the charts this week, oh the irony, and to think it wasnt that any years ago that the KLF released their guide to how to make a number 1 hit, which can be found here I guess you really can't stop people from being sheep.
I agree, however Hackers did have some good scenes that kind of got pin pricks of recognition from non-geek freinds, a) the bit with Cereal selling the tapes of musicians that affixiated on their own vomit, a really good example of being so free as to be able to formulate such a perpendicular view of reality b) the rainbow books scene which prompted some questions from people c) the Hacker Manifesto scene in the car, gace a few people copies as they were interested and the scene I liked where Joey says hes not an addict yet has a cup of coffee and a cigerette in his hands, some amount of self recognition there methinks. As for the Matrix that was IMHO more about us humans than it was about the tech, although the tech was cool and it was really beautiful, esp the the lobby and copter crash...hmmm fractals! BTW what about interviewing the brothers W on/. as the actors are now in training for the sequel, or how about an interview with Keanu, then maybe/. would get/.ed??
If I recall correctly smart card tech is worth ~$4BN year in sales although a lot of that is security systems for buildings etc. My Platinum Visa card has a chip so does my Mondex card although I still have to punch in numbers manually into the office security system at the moment.
Albert Einstein famously placed a sign on the wall of his office with the words "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
Quick summary for nikka20 and any others who are at work and not able to watch the webcast.
DeCSS, the difficulty of being able to have a technological solution to stop copyright infringement and at the same time be able to continue the practice of fair use. and the fact that in the DMCA the government made a choice that meant fair use was sacrificied in an attempt to maintain copyright by use of technology such as CSS.
Napster et al, which was contrasted with the library system where in a library the people who have access to a work do so in a serial manner as opposed to Napster and other sharing systems that allow parallel consumption of a work.
Business models, the fact that business models for copyright works are likely to change and no one yet knows what business models might be, and in the meantime copyright expiration is being pushed ever further into the future by the government responding to the interests of the large copyright holders such as movie studios.
Thats just a quick overview of the 1hr16min webcast, I've already seen these items covered on/. and elsewhere in the tech press, but its nice to see lawyers and media people actually start to grapple with the implications of the new laws and technologies.
For all clarity, none of this is available yet! (No driver, no specs, no firmware.) At the moment, Alcatel is awaiting internal paperwork. As soon as this is available this will be announced in the linux-usb mailing list.
Alcatel have not given approval for the driver to be released, for the last 6 months or so they have been blocking its release.
I was a trialist for BTs ADSL for the last 2 years, in the beginning we had 2Mbps for £30 (~$45) / month, and everything worked fairly well, then about a year ago they completely screwed the system and uped the price while decreasing the bandwidth to 0.5Mbps, and its been flakey ever since. Heres a quick run down of the isssues -
a) Bad hardware, BTs wholesale division, BT-Ignite chose to use the Alcatel USB SpeedTouch modem for its Home ADSL service. unfortunately the modem can draw more than the USB speced 500mA current, some machines will shut the USB port down when it draws too much current, this is a serious problem.
b) Bad drivers, the SpeedTouch drivers for Win98 are not MS approved / digitally signed, this is due to the fact that they do not handle power management correctly, power management cannot be used under Win98 / Win2K with the current drivers. Also they will not handle dual processor configurations under Win2K so you have to go back to the single processor HAL, and Win ME craps out on shutdown due to the drivers. There are no Linux drivers, nor are there Mac / BeOS / BSD etx drivers either.
c) Bad network, flakey exchanges, old copper (more than 40% of BTs copper is unusable for DSL) and ping spikes in the ATM network are all causing users much grief.
Also on the BTOPenworld ISP service there are issues with flakey RADIUS servers adn a transparent web cache that delivers a hlarge percentage of stale objects and slows the users down to a web service thats no better than a dial up. After spending 2 years as a trialist trying to get BT to provide a decent level of service its now got to the point that everyone from ISPs to end users are starting to form a legal action group as OFTEL and our government have done nothing to prevent BT from deploying a service they know to not be up to the legal standards of "merchantible quality" and "fit for purpose", I am persoanlly very sad that its come to this, but what must be done will be done.
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Like with the WTC thing, atleast one neighbour of one of the highjackers had been so concerned about the strange comings and goings that see phoned the CIA, and what did they do? Nothing, zip, nada, everyone is covering their arse right now by trying to pass lots of laws that look good and will punish people who do what amounts to pin pricks of damage, rather than reforming the lazy, half arsed security services over there. Over here in the UK, atleast we have had one guy, David Shayler (ex-MI5) stand up and say they are a bunch of idiots making lots of noise and not much else, hope you have someone over there who has the guts to do the same.
xmedar has a bad keyboard at this time, if you with to send me a new one, please contact me and I'll give you the address to send it to, thanks in advance
There was one James Bond film I forget which one, where he used stick on figerprints, maybe that would be enough to do the job, certainly much less painful than burtning them off.
You're right of course, remember IBM was the choice for Nazi Germany.. wonder if Oracle is the new Big Blue?
Thats because hes the LarryBot, which is a functionally equivalent to a BillBot but with facial hair and a bigger boat.
I can see it now ....
Oracle Support: What seems to be the problem?
Joseph K: My ID card is not functioning and I've been arrested.
Oracle Support: Sounds like you need one of our consultants, the charge is $1,500 per diem, minimum 5 day consultancy, if you give me your credit card details I will debt your account now.
Joseph K: ARGHHHH!
Thats an old idea, Hitler, the famed innovator had the same scheme going, for some reason, we didnt like it then, and neither did our governments, well I guess the times have changed, I'm putting all my money in Xyclon B futures, how about you?
How about 10 nodes in 3U for Linux?
here
And why didI get the "Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. " ???
We cannot, however, prevent our people from doing so unless certain legal findings have been made..
Where were the legal findings about the groups supporting the Real IRA, I have seen none, they were made a proscribed terrorist group by the administratio nover there, something that never happened with the Provos, again I'd like to stress that its all the same really, terrorism is terrorism, oh and no one seems to have mentioned yet that the weapons that were being tested by the IRA members in the jungles cntrolled by FARC were FUEL bombs, testing there distructive capacity, hows that for a coincidence? Like I said before terrosism is global, groups exchange information and training, and those that have and continue to support terrorism in Northern Ireland, of any political or relegous persuasion are indirectly helping ALL terrorist activity including this horrible act, I know that the truth is unpalatable, to many but its there, and you should be offended that this has been allowed to continue for so long, I again hope that you will ensure that your politicians now take the steps necessary to help us all build a peaceful and secure world for us and for our children.
Sorry but thats not true, the US recently outlawed fundraising for groups that support the Real IRA which is basically a bunch of IRA members that no longer report to the Provisional IRA heirachy they are the ones still bombing us in London, if they can ban fundraising for a group not under there "appoved" bunch of terrorists then they could have banned the fundraising for the Provisional IRA long ago, the US has been giving tacit approval for the Provisionals for years as the US politicals want the votes of Irish Americans, I'm sorry that the hypocracy of your politicains has come home to roost in such a terrible way on your population, I hope more Americans will now realise what you have created, remember the IRA members detained in South America recently, terrorism is global and they share information, they have done for a long time, going back to WWII the Irish gave some tacit support to Hitler including intelligence, as Irishmen could blend into British society even tho they were supposed to be neutral, and they all share supporters like Gaddafi, by allowing the support of violence in our country your "leaders" have helped bring about the current catastrophy, maybe you need to start asking your leaders some serious questions before its too late.
And when did they ever prove that any attack on Russia was organised by Chechians? There has never been a court case, no evidence was produced, Russia needed a war, so they got one, the Chechian gangs are still some of the most feared in Russis, invading Chechnya solved nothing, but was a damn good PR exercise, MS would have been proud.
there really is no other response than to turn to God
Sorry to be the one to point this out, but it maybe that those responsible did it in the name of a God, I would urge everyone to turn to each other, himan being to human being and not to some deity that they use to elevate themselves above others.
The US has tried many things to answer terrorism.
Very true, American politicians have for years let the IRA raise money in the US through well known groups to fund atrocities over here in the UK, tho I am sad to see the murder of so many innocent people maybe the US will at last stop allowing American citizens to openly support terrorism in my country.
Don't know about bonds for completion but I would be interested in a futures market for developers... can you imagine the cries of "Buy December ESR"???
Check the Registers take ojn things here
Exactly, my thoughts and if you look at history when justice is not done in the courtroom its done on the streets, so the American courts have now given yet another reason for the Tim McVies and Osma Bin Ladins of the world, America is going the way of Rome before it, as a non American I feel very sorry for all the innocents who will be the victims today and tommorrow, goodbye America...
Thats exactly what they are doing, infact here in the UK they even made a TV series of them doing it called "Popstars" which finishes tonight, the really sad thing is that it looks like they are going to be number 1 in the charts this week, oh the irony, and to think it wasnt that any years ago that the KLF released their guide to how to make a number 1 hit, which can be found here I guess you really can't stop people from being sheep.
I agree, however Hackers did have some good scenes that kind of got pin pricks of recognition from non-geek freinds, a) the bit with Cereal selling the tapes of musicians that affixiated on their own vomit, a really good example of being so free as to be able to formulate such a perpendicular view of reality b) the rainbow books scene which prompted some questions from people c) the Hacker Manifesto scene in the car, gace a few people copies as they were interested and the scene I liked where Joey says hes not an addict yet has a cup of coffee and a cigerette in his hands, some amount of self recognition there methinks. As for the Matrix that was IMHO more about us humans than it was about the tech, although the tech was cool and it was really beautiful, esp the the lobby and copter crash...hmmm fractals! BTW what about interviewing the brothers W on /. as the actors are now in training for the sequel, or how about an interview with Keanu, then maybe /. would get /.ed??
If I recall correctly smart card tech is worth ~$4BN year in sales although a lot of that is security systems for buildings etc. My Platinum Visa card has a chip so does my Mondex card although I still have to punch in numbers manually into the office security system at the moment.
Albert Einstein famously placed a sign on the wall of his office with the words "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
Except that what alien worth it salt would measure their monolith in feet?
Yeah, if it was NASA they'd measure different sides in different units...
Quick summary for nikka20 and any others who are at work and not able to watch the webcast.
/. and elsewhere in the tech press, but its nice to see lawyers and media people actually start to grapple with the implications of the new laws and technologies.
DeCSS, the difficulty of being able to have a technological solution to stop copyright infringement and at the same time be able to continue the practice of fair use. and the fact that in the DMCA the government made a choice that meant fair use was sacrificied in an attempt to maintain copyright by use of technology such as CSS.
Napster et al, which was contrasted with the library system where in a library the people who have access to a work do so in a serial manner as opposed to Napster and other sharing systems that allow parallel consumption of a work.
Business models, the fact that business models for copyright works are likely to change and no one yet knows what business models might be, and in the meantime copyright expiration is being pushed ever further into the future by the government responding to the interests of the large copyright holders such as movie studios.
Thats just a quick overview of the 1hr16min webcast, I've already seen these items covered on
From the page -
For all clarity, none of this is available yet! (No driver, no specs, no firmware.) At the moment, Alcatel is awaiting internal paperwork. As soon as this is available this will be announced in the linux-usb mailing list.
Alcatel have not given approval for the driver to be released, for the last 6 months or so they have been blocking its release.
I was a trialist for BTs ADSL for the last 2 years, in the beginning we had 2Mbps for £30 (~$45) / month, and everything worked fairly well, then about a year ago they completely screwed the system and uped the price while decreasing the bandwidth to 0.5Mbps, and its been flakey ever since. Heres a quick run down of the isssues -
a) Bad hardware, BTs wholesale division, BT-Ignite chose to use the Alcatel USB SpeedTouch modem for its Home ADSL service. unfortunately the modem can draw more than the USB speced 500mA current, some machines will shut the USB port down when it draws too much current, this is a serious problem.
b) Bad drivers, the SpeedTouch drivers for Win98 are not MS approved / digitally signed, this is due to the fact that they do not handle power management correctly, power management cannot be used under Win98 / Win2K with the current drivers. Also they will not handle dual processor configurations under Win2K so you have to go back to the single processor HAL, and Win ME craps out on shutdown due to the drivers. There are no Linux drivers, nor are there Mac / BeOS / BSD etx drivers either.
c) Bad network, flakey exchanges, old copper (more than 40% of BTs copper is unusable for DSL) and ping spikes in the ATM network are all causing users much grief.
Also on the BTOPenworld ISP service there are issues with flakey RADIUS servers adn a transparent web cache that delivers a hlarge percentage of stale objects and slows the users down to a web service thats no better than a dial up. After spending 2 years as a trialist trying to get BT to provide a decent level of service its now got to the point that everyone from ISPs to end users are starting to form a legal action group as OFTEL and our government have done nothing to prevent BT from deploying a service they know to not be up to the legal standards of "merchantible quality" and "fit for purpose", I am persoanlly very sad that its come to this, but what must be done will be done.