The site was taken down because a professor complained about comments made against him, and threatened to sue.
No. The site was taken down because the site owner caved (temporarily) in the face of a potential lawsuit. There was no legal decision, no jackbooted thugs at the door, no massive DoS attack, no trashing the First Amendment.
The site owner took it down himself. And it appears it will be coming back online, with some form of moderation.
Take plane spotters. Some guys/aircraft geeks take it upon themselves to log sightings of individual aircraft. For instance, every flyable F-16 serial number. All it takes is sitting outside the various bases for a few weeks, watching takeoffs and recording tail numbers. And then they share this info with their spotter buddies online.
Is this info put out by the DoD? No. But these guys will. Same with ships. Kind of hard to disguise a ship deploying. They are quite large.
The USS Cole, which was blown up in the Port of Aden, was tracked in a similar manner by Al Queda bombers.
What? I doubt it. Docking info, if and when it bleeds out into the web, is a couple of days late. The Cole was a big freakin ship, moored in a harbor frequented by US ships. No way to hide it.I seriously doubt that they tracked that ship in particular.
More along the lines of..."Abdul...we'll target the next US Navy ship that docks here."
How long before private information like credit histories, medical records etc. is leaked out from some company in Bangalore?
Your info is already offshore. Quite a lot of banks use services offshore for data entry. Buying a car a couple of years ago, I overheard "It needs to be written that way so the people in Mexico can transcribe it correctly." I still went through with the deal, but it is already happening.
And this is one of the main objections I have to such deals as EzPass, GPS locators, etc.
Not so much gubbmint abuse (although that IS a potential problem) but accidental, or stupid, releasing of the data. And once it's out there, you can't get it back.
Exactly. This was not a 'mistake', but pure stupidity.
A few years ago, I headed off a somewhat similar situation.
We got rid of our call center (now done in a subsidiary in Canada). Company B took over all the equipment, the building, servers, etc. And they were goin to hire most of our old phone people. Most, but obviously not 'all'.
They also wanted the personel database. "Fine. Let me scrub the data, and give them the empty shell." "We can't do that! Not all these people are going to the new company. I can't release names, addresses, SSAN, etc. to a company they know nothing about."
The bosses pushed, I pushed back.
"OK..I'll do it on one condition. I need a signed statemt from HR, Legal, the CEO, the operations VP, and the IT VP saying this is OK"
They saw the light, and I sent the now-blank database structure and GUI.
As to the issue of punishing minors as adults, I will accept this only at such time as the legally defined as adults. To deny a person of youth the franchise as a full citizen because he is too young, ignorant and immature, but hold him responsible, without the proper rights and benfits of full citizenship and representation, because he "is old enough to know the difference between right and wrong" is hypocritical, unjust and undemocratic.
in some cases, it is warranted. Consider this 'kid':
Steals his first car at 14 Minor crack posession at 15 A couple of muggings at 16 Armed robbery at a liquor store at 17 Fathers a couple of kids along the way. His parents haven't seen him for a year and a half. He spends several periods in juvenile detenion along the way.
Finally, at 17 1/2, he mugs and beats an old woman, and she dies as a result.
Would you consider him still a 'child', simply because he is a few months away from the magic age of 18?
Maybe it would help if you described some anonymous forms of unsolicited free speech that existed and were used before the internet.
Too easy.
TO: CEO, BigBox, Inc. Sir, you may not be aware of it, but the manager of your store in central Chicago, Joe Smith, has been routinely stealing hours and funds his employees and money from the daily receipts. I write this only to bring your attention to this matter.
Signed, An employee
cc: Human Relations VP
Finance VP MyUnionShopSteward MyState AttyGeneral
Address, put it in an envelope, and drop it in any mail box. Repeat as necessary.
Replace "An Employee" with your name, and the outcome might be different.
You miss my point. "One person, one vote" means just that. There should be no dispute about 'how the votes were counted'. Ever.
If we count it this way, A wins, if we count it that way, B wins. Nonsense.
Dismissing military absentee ballots is flat out wrong. Multiple registrations is flat out wrong. Discounting an entire county, because they can't verify something is flat out wrong. Registering deceased persons is flat out wrong. Along with all the other discrepancies.
Fix all those things, and then we can begin to talk about refoming the entire process.
Umm, yeah, if that were the case, then Gore would have won hands down. There's no doubt that he won the popular vote in 2K.
By a slight, but measurable margin, yes he did. But...we cannot say with certainty that Gore would have won had the election process been structured around 'popular vote'. Go back two steps in the process. Campaining would have been totally different. Different areas would have been targeted, depending on influence. And so people might have voted differently.
The electoral college *should* be abandoned.
I'm not so sure about that. We might end up with a situation whereby voters in NY, CA, FL, and TX alone determine the election results. Should New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago combined have as much influence over who is elected as Wyoming, Wash DC, Vermont, Alaska, N & S Dakota, Deleware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, Nebraska, and W Virginia combined? In terms of straight population count, they would. Why bother with all those states, when the candidate could go to 3 cities and talk to the same number of people?
The 15 million NYC, LA, and Chicago residents alone would determine the outcome of the entire election. Along with their urban demographics.
I'm not sure the electoral college is the right answer in this century. But neither am I convinced that straight popular vote is the way to go either.
No it's not. Case in point, our entire business relies on a product called QPS. It's a content management system for Quark.. hundreds of newspapers use it. Yours probably uses it too.
Well, the makers of QPS have dropped it completely, and have replaced it with something completely different.
Ok, and where was/is the OSS alternative to this? What else is there to use, that actually works? And why aren't you using it already?
Needless to say, we're going to try. But if QPS was opensource, we'd be able to put together an upgrade path that wasn't as painful as "scrap the current system, switch to the new system at all once".
No, you'd still end up the same way. Either you use A, or you use B. As you say...you can't run the paper 1/2 on one, and 1/2 on the other. And you are not a software development house. Whatever it is you use, it will come from outside. Changing your operating system from OS9 to OSX involves a LOT of things, one of which is your CMS system.
You are currently using QPS, in its current incarnation. Because the supplier drops it, does not mean you have to change your whole business at the same time. You continue along, until you can afford, in time and money, to change to something else.
I've used Access and/or VB to talk to a backend Oracle or SQLServer DB. Different office has needs for different views/functionality? Deploy them a different MDB, talking to the same tableset.
n the other hand, my current fieldwork database (at the point we were switching from access to mysql) was a 50mb Access file, but a 200kb mysql dumpfile.
You are talking about two different things. How large would the Access mdb be if it were only the table structure and data? Your 50mb Access file presumably contained all the front end junk as well. Which can be quite large. Especially if you don't Compact once in a while.
An Access.mdb can hold both the 'back end' tables/views, and the 'front end' GUI, code, SQL statements, procedures, reports, etc.
Although, a better way to deploy an application in Access is two mdb's. One containing the backend table structure & data, and one containing the front end GUI. That way, when you want to implement new features in the GUI, you don't have to screw with the data. Simply delete the prev version front end, ad drop in the new one. Via code, this can be automatic & seamless to the user.
Case screws are not bought, as much as gathered. They simply show up, unasked. Volunteer screws. "Hey...here I am, what can I screw into!?!"
They breed in desk drawers, behind PC cases, on the floor. Eventually, your vacuum eats them (or they eat it. They fall out of old PC's of their own accord. Rebuilding a PC for your friend is always a good source. There's always a few left over.
Bottom line...if you need to buy PC screws, obviously, you're not tinkering enough.
Unfortunatly this isn't fixed as it should be, ie you're shown the entire link in the address bar and maybe even given a warning when you go to the site.
To Joe Average, that might not have been enough. http://www.ebay.com@http://128.6.52.124/default.html still looks like an official ebay site. Nothing in that (fake) URL is obviously "not ebay.com". Disallowing the @ in this instance takes that option away altogether.
Of course, other things will be broken:
of course the example they give is username:password but I can't see any real site displaying the password in plaintext in the url, does anyone have an example of where this is used and what the effects will be?
Oracle Forms/Reports uses this construct to pass the current username:pwd to the middle tier. Useful in a corporate environment. Clueful developers/DBAs encrypt the username:pwd, but still the same format. De-encryption happens at the server. Methinks Larry and Bill will have words over this.
Col. Vetrov, aka Farewell, died because of the CIA involvement (If I remember well, he was caught communicating to American agents after the big explosion mentioned), and before DGSE could smuggle him and his family out of the USSR. In short, he paid the price for American incompetence.
That does not necessarily point to American incompetence.
"because of CIA involvement" means nothing.
1. Yes, he was killed while communicating with US agents
2. Yes, he was killed before DGSE could get him out of the USSR.
That could just as easily point to DSGE incompetence in not getting him out sooner. Or it could have been due to something else entirely. Or it could actually have been due to a screwup in the CIA.
But nothing in your statement would lead one to assume that he was killed due to any particular party screwing up.
Fedora+Mozilla works just fine. Well...as fine as the MSN search engine is, anyway.
MSN does appear to bring up more retail type links first.
Search on "recumbent" (as in recumbent bicycles). Not a really common search, but not 'weird'.
Google shows more informational links, whereas MSN brings up eBay, DealTime, Sears, Amazon, etc. among the first set of links, along with a few informational ones.
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The extorters *are* the mob. One set of criminals ripping off other ones.
Flexplay disks start out red, and then turn to black as the playing surface degrades. Takes about 48-72 hours to become unplayable.
And watching, then resealing in a vacuum bag does not work. We tested this at work. The vaccuum bagged disks still degraded, although slower than one fully exposed to air.
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The site was taken down because a professor complained about comments made against him, and threatened to sue.
No. The site was taken down because the site owner caved (temporarily) in the face of a potential lawsuit. There was no legal decision, no jackbooted thugs at the door, no massive DoS attack, no trashing the First Amendment.
The site owner took it down himself. And it appears it will be coming back online, with some form of moderation.
The moment it is painted in the plane or ship it is public.
The critical information is "where is it now?"
what reason there is to paint in big bright letters this kind of information?
Aircraft ID in times of radio silence.
Keven Mitnick will be interviewed for three hours tonight on Coast to Coast AM radio.
Well...there goes any shred of credibility Kevin may have had left.
It's not always *your* info.
Take plane spotters. Some guys/aircraft geeks take it upon themselves to log sightings of individual aircraft. For instance, every flyable F-16 serial number. All it takes is sitting outside the various bases for a few weeks, watching takeoffs and recording tail numbers. And then they share this info with their spotter buddies online.
Is this info put out by the DoD? No. But these guys will. Same with ships. Kind of hard to disguise a ship deploying. They are quite large.
The USS Cole, which was blown up in the Port of Aden, was tracked in a similar manner by Al Queda bombers.
What?
I doubt it. Docking info, if and when it bleeds out into the web, is a couple of days late. The Cole was a big freakin ship, moored in a harbor frequented by US ships. No way to hide it.I seriously doubt that they tracked that ship in particular.
More along the lines of..."Abdul...we'll target the next US Navy ship that docks here."
If the kids were under 13yo,...
IF? Part of this data was for a daycare center. "Under 13" is a given.
How long before private information like credit histories, medical records etc. is leaked out from some company in Bangalore?
Your info is already offshore. Quite a lot of banks use services offshore for data entry. Buying a car a couple of years ago, I overheard "It needs to be written that way so the people in Mexico can transcribe it correctly."
I still went through with the deal, but it is already happening.
And this is one of the main objections I have to such deals as EzPass, GPS locators, etc.
Not so much gubbmint abuse (although that IS a potential problem) but accidental, or stupid, releasing of the data. And once it's out there, you can't get it back.
Exactly. This was not a 'mistake', but pure stupidity.
A few years ago, I headed off a somewhat similar situation.
We got rid of our call center (now done in a subsidiary in Canada). Company B took over all the equipment, the building, servers, etc. And they were goin to hire most of our old phone people. Most, but obviously not 'all'.
They also wanted the personel database.
"Fine. Let me scrub the data, and give them the empty shell."
"We can't do that! Not all these people are going to the new company. I can't release names, addresses, SSAN, etc. to a company they know nothing about."
The bosses pushed, I pushed back.
"OK..I'll do it on one condition.
I need a signed statemt from HR, Legal, the CEO, the operations VP, and the IT VP saying this is OK"
They saw the light, and I sent the now-blank database structure and GUI.
Integrity.
just don't forget to store a nice picture of you on it! (Will make a nice surprise the first time he uses the drive)...
...at work.
"OOPS!!. You guys weren't supposed to see that!"
As to the issue of punishing minors as adults, I will accept this only at such time as the legally defined as adults. To deny a person of youth the franchise as a full citizen because he is too young, ignorant and immature, but hold him responsible, without the proper rights and benfits of full citizenship and representation, because he "is old enough to know the difference between right and wrong" is hypocritical, unjust and undemocratic.
in some cases, it is warranted. Consider this 'kid':
Steals his first car at 14
Minor crack posession at 15
A couple of muggings at 16
Armed robbery at a liquor store at 17
Fathers a couple of kids along the way.
His parents haven't seen him for a year and a half. He spends several periods in juvenile detenion along the way.
Finally, at 17 1/2, he mugs and beats an old woman, and she dies as a result.
Would you consider him still a 'child', simply because he is a few months away from the magic age of 18?
Maybe it would help if you described some anonymous forms of unsolicited free speech that existed and were used before the internet.
Too easy.
TO: CEO, BigBox, Inc.
Sir, you may not be aware of it, but the manager of your store in central Chicago, Joe Smith, has been routinely stealing hours and funds his employees and money from the daily receipts. I write this only to bring your attention to this matter.
Signed,
An employee
cc: Human Relations VP
Finance VP
MyUnionShopSteward
MyState AttyGeneral
Address, put it in an envelope, and drop it in any mail box. Repeat as necessary.
Replace "An Employee" with your name, and the outcome might be different.
You miss my point. "One person, one vote" means just that. There should be no dispute about 'how the votes were counted'. Ever.
If we count it this way, A wins, if we count it that way, B wins. Nonsense.
Dismissing military absentee ballots is flat out wrong. Multiple registrations is flat out wrong. Discounting an entire county, because they can't verify something is flat out wrong. Registering deceased persons is flat out wrong. Along with all the other discrepancies.
Fix all those things, and then we can begin to talk about refoming the entire process.
Umm, yeah, if that were the case, then Gore would have won hands down. There's no doubt that he won the popular vote in 2K.
By a slight, but measurable margin, yes he did. But...we cannot say with certainty that Gore would have won had the election process been structured around 'popular vote'. Go back two steps in the process. Campaining would have been totally different. Different areas would have been targeted, depending on influence. And so people might have voted differently.
The electoral college *should* be abandoned.
I'm not so sure about that. We might end up with a situation whereby voters in NY, CA, FL, and TX alone determine the election results. Should New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago combined have as much influence over who is elected as Wyoming, Wash DC, Vermont, Alaska, N & S Dakota, Deleware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, Nebraska, and W Virginia combined? In terms of straight population count, they would. Why bother with all those states, when the candidate could go to 3 cities and talk to the same number of people?
The 15 million NYC, LA, and Chicago residents alone would determine the outcome of the entire election. Along with their urban demographics.
I'm not sure the electoral college is the right answer in this century. But neither am I convinced that straight popular vote is the way to go either.
No it's not. Case in point, our entire business relies on a product called QPS. It's a content management system for Quark.. hundreds of newspapers use it. Yours probably uses it too.
Well, the makers of QPS have dropped it completely, and have replaced it with something completely different.
Ok, and where was/is the OSS alternative to this? What else is there to use, that actually works? And why aren't you using it already?
Needless to say, we're going to try. But if QPS was opensource, we'd be able to put together an upgrade path that wasn't as painful as "scrap the current system, switch to the new system at all once".
No, you'd still end up the same way. Either you use A, or you use B. As you say...you can't run the paper 1/2 on one, and 1/2 on the other. And you are not a software development house. Whatever it is you use, it will come from outside. Changing your operating system from OS9 to OSX involves a LOT of things, one of which is your CMS system.
You are currently using QPS, in its current incarnation. Because the supplier drops it, does not mean you have to change your whole business at the same time. You continue along, until you can afford, in time and money, to change to something else.
depending on how the vote was counted.
One person, one vote. Nothing more, nothing less.
Finally..some rational thought in here.
I've used Access and/or VB to talk to a backend Oracle or SQLServer DB. Different office has needs for different views/functionality? Deploy them a different MDB, talking to the same tableset.
n the other hand, my current fieldwork database (at the point we were switching from access to mysql) was a 50mb Access file, but a 200kb mysql dumpfile.
You are talking about two different things. How large would the Access mdb be if it were only the table structure and data? Your 50mb Access file presumably contained all the front end junk as well. Which can be quite large. Especially if you don't Compact once in a while.
No. A single Access mdb can support mutliple users. More than about 10 or so concurrent users, though, and it starts to bog down.
So, deploy multiple front ends, all talking to the central back end DB.
An Access .mdb can hold both the 'back end' tables/views, and the 'front end' GUI, code, SQL statements, procedures, reports, etc.
Although, a better way to deploy an application in Access is two mdb's. One containing the backend table structure & data, and one containing the front end GUI. That way, when you want to implement new features in the GUI, you don't have to screw with the data. Simply delete the prev version front end, ad drop in the new one. Via code, this can be automatic & seamless to the user.
Case screws are not bought, as much as gathered. They simply show up, unasked. Volunteer screws. "Hey...here I am, what can I screw into!?!"
They breed in desk drawers, behind PC cases, on the floor. Eventually, your vacuum eats them (or they eat it.
They fall out of old PC's of their own accord.
Rebuilding a PC for your friend is always a good source. There's always a few left over.
Bottom line...if you need to buy PC screws, obviously, you're not tinkering enough.
Unfortunatly this isn't fixed as it should be, ie you're shown the entire link in the address bar and maybe even given a warning when you go to the site.
/default.html still looks like an official ebay site. Nothing in that (fake) URL is obviously "not ebay.com". Disallowing the @ in this instance takes that option away altogether.
To Joe Average, that might not have been enough.
http://www.ebay.com@http://128.6.52.124
Of course, other things will be broken:
of course the example they give is username:password but I can't see any real site displaying the password in plaintext in the url, does anyone have an example of where this is used and what the effects will be?
Oracle Forms/Reports uses this construct to pass the current username:pwd to the middle tier. Useful in a corporate environment. Clueful developers/DBAs encrypt the username:pwd, but still the same format. De-encryption happens at the server.
Methinks Larry and Bill will have words over this.
Col. Vetrov, aka Farewell, died because of the CIA involvement (If I remember well, he was caught communicating to American agents after the big explosion mentioned), and before DGSE could smuggle him and his family out of the USSR. In short, he paid the price for American incompetence.
That does not necessarily point to American incompetence.
"because of CIA involvement" means nothing.
1. Yes, he was killed while communicating with US agents
2. Yes, he was killed before DGSE could get him out of the USSR.
That could just as easily point to DSGE incompetence in not getting him out sooner. Or it could have been due to something else entirely. Or it could actually have been due to a screwup in the CIA.
But nothing in your statement would lead one to assume that he was killed due to any particular party screwing up.
Fedora+Mozilla works just fine. Well...as fine as the MSN search engine is, anyway.
MSN does appear to bring up more retail type links first.
Search on "recumbent" (as in recumbent bicycles). Not a really common search, but not 'weird'.
Google shows more informational links, whereas MSN brings up eBay, DealTime, Sears, Amazon, etc. among the first set of links, along with a few informational ones.
The extorters *are* the mob. One set of criminals ripping off other ones.
Flexplay disks start out red, and then turn to black as the playing surface degrades. Takes about 48-72 hours to become unplayable.
And watching, then resealing in a vacuum bag does not work. We tested this at work. The vaccuum bagged disks still degraded, although slower than one fully exposed to air.