People bitch about the DMCA on slashdot.
Some even come up with good arguments why the DMCA is bad and their arguments are moderated up and everyone else agrees with their point of view.
However, these readers fail to forward these same arguments to the people who need to read them.
Same for the dmitry case. Lots of people have come up with ideas on what dmitry should do or should not do. DMITRY has bigger things to do than read slashdot! If you come up with ideas on how to help him, make sure your message gets to him or his lawyer. Getting modded to +5 here does not help him directly.
Got any ideas how 2600 can fight back in the MPAA lawsuit? Email the ideas to them!
So please, aside posting to slashdot, do the necessary to send your messages to the relevant people.
Of course you will not see the effect that MAPS and other anti-spam services.
How would you define darkness, if there were no such thing as light?
Similarly, we do not know what the email system will feel like, once these services disappear.
We then tend to believe that they did not have much influence.
This event will completely overshadow the release of kernel 388472466124525.27324.212
I am sure everyone will forget to update their kernel when the galaxies collide.
On a less humorous note, has anyone read that a scientist claims that the Earth can be gradually moved away from the Sun, using the gravitational force of a comet? The side effect will be that we may lose the Moon in the process...
I would have thought that Britney Spears or Cindy Margolis might be on top of the Celebrity queries. I wonder what people want to see about Jenna Bush... The Loana phenomenon is logical tho'
Another thing that striked me is how Napster is so popular despite it was nailed so hard lately. Upon thinking, the best explanation would be that users are searching for Napster alternatives.
"Arts" took 22% of the pie chart distribution, only 2% more than "Computers". I am happy to see that I am living in a world with lots of people with artistic tastes.
Figure this, I live in Mauritius which is a small island of a million and a few thousand inhabitants and I first read about this tree on Slashdot.
I think I need to take a break from the WWW.
Mauritius is the island where the Dodo bird lived, before being hunt to extinction by the early visitors to the island.
Mauritius and its neighbouring isles are homes for many rare trees and animals, among which are the VERY rare Pink Pigeon, Echo Parakeet and the Mauritian Kestrel which was once, the World's rarest bird.
Dear ProcessTree Network suppliers,
It is with sadness that I have to announce that this will be the last newsletter you receive from Distributed Science, Inc.
etc etc etc...
We will diligently negotiate the sale of the supplier database, with emphasis on the privacy policy under which you signed up. As soon as we came to a result, the new owners will be informing you about any changes they might plan, including an opt-out for those concerned about their privacy under new management.
Software:
Z/VM
VM PRF
C Runtime Library
REXX Compiler and Library
VM TCPIP (FL32A with SSL support)
DIRMAINT
Tivoli Storage Manager Version 4.1
VM TCPIP NFS feature
VM EREP
(No clue what most of the above mean)
Not Panasonic, Panoramtech.
on
PanQuake
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· Score: 2
As we saw in the Red Hat pirahna saga, you should not assume that because something is open source, it must be secure. People assumed that because pirahna was open sourced, someone would have noticed the obvious password flaw within hours or just a few days after it was released. But NO, it took longer than that.
Do not rely only on peer review. If you want to be sure about what you are using, especially in environments needing ultimate security, do your own damn auditing and testing or pay someone to do it.
Ok, this is not a big problem. Bugtraq readers can still write their own version of the issue and post it to bugtraq. Their complete advisory is copyrighted. They own it and can ask you not to post it in its complete form.
The real evil thing will happen when it will be ILLEGAL to report a security flaw to lists such as Bugtraq. UCITA has provisions for this right?
No, this is not a warez advert.
I found this while searching the FTP server for a full download because I cannot use the net to download an installer which will in turn download other components.
Here is how things go along in Mauritius where software is heavily pirated and used in commerce.
A friend of mine turned in a cybercafe owner because he refused to pay his wages and did some other evil things to him.
He went to a Microsoft office, and met a guy in charge of Piracy. He was advised to contact their lawyer, and he signed an official 'turning in' paper. Because the cybercafe owner was also selling computers will pirated versions of windows pre-installed, the lawyer sent someone to the shop who really BOUGHT a computer to check whether pirated software is really being delivered and to use this as evidence.
After a few days, the lawyer, a guy from the BSA, an independent technician, and members of the local police raided the place and confiscated nearly everything. The owner gave the lamest excuse of all: he was the victim of a theft and the robbers stole all his licenses!!!
In addition to running a cybercafe with pirated software and selling computers with pirated software, the owner was also detained for giving computer courses on pirated versions of Novell.
My friend was rewarded a few weeks after with a good sum of money.
Remember that its not straightforward, people dont just enter the BSA office and say "Hey, ABC company is using pirated software and the BSA people come rushing in with the police"
Remember, the BSA officials are NOT law enforcement agents. They do NOT have the right to come search your office, unaccompanied by the police and they won't and yes, a search warrant is required, at least where I live.
Dont put your employer in an embarassing situation. Dont use pirated software at office ok?
Maybe he sucks but you get your salary from him.
Ok, what happens to people who have signed for an account *before* this change in policy?
As far as I know, when you sign up for such a service, you agree to the terms of usage displayed to you at that time. You are not forced to agree to the change in policy later on. Call up Amazon and request for an IMMEDIATE deletion of your account or change of personal info.
Of course, Amazon might tell you its done and still sell your info afterwards, when it goes bankrupt(yay!). The question is: How do you know your info has been deleted? What will prevent Amazon from selling information about customers who signed up *before* the change in policy?
Slashdot Mirror
Dave Letterman can now blame the long lasting defeats of the "Fighting Cardinals" on Linux too
Heh.
" The implication is that the Milky Way is slowly spiraling down into a giant galactic drain... "
Do we get to see Mozilla 1.0 before that happens ?
Heh.
Thats the problem!
People bitch about the DMCA on slashdot.
Some even come up with good arguments why the DMCA is bad and their arguments are moderated up and everyone else agrees with their point of view.
However, these readers fail to forward these same arguments to the people who need to read them.
Same for the dmitry case. Lots of people have come up with ideas on what dmitry should do or should not do. DMITRY has bigger things to do than read slashdot! If you come up with ideas on how to help him, make sure your message gets to him or his lawyer. Getting modded to +5 here does not help him directly.
Got any ideas how 2600 can fight back in the MPAA lawsuit? Email the ideas to them!
So please, aside posting to slashdot, do the necessary to send your messages to the relevant people.
Thank you.
How long till cdparanoia will be declared an illegal circumvention device that breaks protection on copyrighted works and has the author jailed?
It just happened. It can happen again...
Of course you will not see the effect that MAPS and other anti-spam services.
How would you define darkness, if there were no such thing as light?
Similarly, we do not know what the email system will feel like, once these services disappear.
We then tend to believe that they did not have much influence.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/ earth_move_010207.html
This event will completely overshadow the release of kernel 388472466124525.27324.212
I am sure everyone will forget to update their kernel when the galaxies collide.
On a less humorous note, has anyone read that a scientist claims that the Earth can be gradually moved away from the Sun, using the gravitational force of a comet? The side effect will be that we may lose the Moon in the process...
I would have thought that Britney Spears or Cindy Margolis might be on top of the Celebrity queries. I wonder what people want to see about Jenna Bush... The Loana phenomenon is logical tho'
Another thing that striked me is how Napster is so popular despite it was nailed so hard lately. Upon thinking, the best explanation would be that users are searching for Napster alternatives.
"Arts" took 22% of the pie chart distribution, only 2% more than "Computers". I am happy to see that I am living in a world with lots of people with artistic tastes.
I read somewhere that Cameron Diaz hates deodorant and anti-perspirant. I am willing to bet money she will pet some of these bacteria :)
Mmmm, me wants to become sweat-eating bacteria on her now !#%
Allow me to remind you not to download the WHOLE kernel tarball over and over again.
Use the kernel patches and patch your kernel source as described in the Kernel HOWTO.
This will save you precious time, bandwidth and will cause less load on the servers.
Figure this, I live in Mauritius which is a small island of a million and a few thousand inhabitants and I first read about this tree on Slashdot.
I think I need to take a break from the WWW.
Mauritius is the island where the Dodo bird lived, before being hunt to extinction by the early visitors to the island.
Mauritius and its neighbouring isles are homes for many rare trees and animals, among which are the VERY rare Pink Pigeon, Echo Parakeet and the Mauritian Kestrel which was once, the World's rarest bird.
For those who care to know more visit
http://www.maurinet.com/wildlife.html
http://www.themyp.com
http://www.mauritian-wildlife.org
Can someone please mirror the DT-MiCrOMoNeY-Generator-1.0.rar please?
:)
Sorry, I had to pull this out of my bag of 'funny comments'
May 2001
Dear ProcessTree Network suppliers,
It is with sadness that I have to announce that this will be the last newsletter you receive from Distributed Science, Inc.
etc etc etc...
We will diligently negotiate the sale of the supplier database, with emphasis on the privacy policy under which you signed up. As soon as we came to a result, the new owners will be informing you about any changes they might plan, including an opt-out for those concerned about their privacy under new management.
EEP!
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/li nux/lcds/index.html
9672 G6 Model ZX7 (10 way processor)
Memory:
32GB
Storage:
Shark 2105-F20 (2.1 terabytes)
Software:
Z/VM
VM PRF
C Runtime Library
REXX Compiler and Library
VM TCPIP (FL32A with SSL support)
DIRMAINT
Tivoli Storage Manager Version 4.1
VM TCPIP NFS feature
VM EREP
(No clue what most of the above mean)
I believe the monitor in question is
http://www.panoramtech.com/pv290dsk.htm
Its Price $22,750
Ok how many weeks till we read a story on slashdot along those lines:
"Foobar Inc. has threatedned to sue Opera because Opera browser is using their patented NaturalNav(tm) technology without permission."
Will all the patent insanities happening lately, this will not surprise me.
...so Bush ain't using it!
As we saw in the Red Hat pirahna saga, you should not assume that because something is open source, it must be secure. People assumed that because pirahna was open sourced, someone would have noticed the obvious password flaw within hours or just a few days after it was released. But NO, it took longer than that.
Do not rely only on peer review. If you want to be sure about what you are using, especially in environments needing ultimate security, do your own damn auditing and testing or pay someone to do it.
Oh, and Merry Christmas.
Ok, this is not a big problem. Bugtraq readers can still write their own version of the issue and post it to bugtraq. Their complete advisory is copyrighted. They own it and can ask you not to post it in its complete form.
The real evil thing will happen when it will be ILLEGAL to report a security flaw to lists such as Bugtraq. UCITA has provisions for this right?
It could have been worse.
Remember that for every elite technique someone creates, there is another eliter person who will find ways around it.
This has always happened and will always happen.
No, this is not a warez advert.
0 /windows/win32/sea/N6Setup.exe
0 /unix/linux22/sea/netscape-i686-pc-linux-g nu-sea.tar.gz
I found this while searching the FTP server for a full download because I cannot use the net to download an installer which will in turn download other components.
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.
Check the URLs for spaces, I don't know why they are inserted when I post.
Try ftp1,ftp2. Mirror if you can. Thanks
Here is how things go along in Mauritius where software is heavily pirated and used in commerce.
A friend of mine turned in a cybercafe owner because he refused to pay his wages and did some other evil things to him.
He went to a Microsoft office, and met a guy in charge of Piracy. He was advised to contact their lawyer, and he signed an official 'turning in' paper. Because the cybercafe owner was also selling computers will pirated versions of windows pre-installed, the lawyer sent someone to the shop who really BOUGHT a computer to check whether pirated software is really being delivered and to use this as evidence.
After a few days, the lawyer, a guy from the BSA, an independent technician, and members of the local police raided the place and confiscated nearly everything. The owner gave the lamest excuse of all: he was the victim of a theft and the robbers stole all his licenses!!!
In addition to running a cybercafe with pirated software and selling computers with pirated software, the owner was also detained for giving computer courses on pirated versions of Novell.
My friend was rewarded a few weeks after with a good sum of money.
Remember that its not straightforward, people dont just enter the BSA office and say "Hey, ABC company is using pirated software and the BSA people come rushing in with the police"
Remember, the BSA officials are NOT law enforcement agents. They do NOT have the right to come search your office, unaccompanied by the police and they won't and yes, a search warrant is required, at least where I live.
Dont put your employer in an embarassing situation. Dont use pirated software at office ok?
Maybe he sucks but you get your salary from him.
Ok, when I signed up to deja, I agreed to its privacy policy presented to me at that time.
/. today?
Now that deja will be owned by someone else and that includes its 'customer' databse, what happens to my personal information and yours?
Anyone feel like playing a lawyer on
If they did not get a lesson from their EULA stupidity and the Windows Refund Day, just too bad for them.
:)
MS will see another horde of users showing up in Redmond to get their refund
Ok, what happens to people who have signed for an account *before* this change in policy?
As far as I know, when you sign up for such a service, you agree to the terms of usage displayed to you at that time. You are not forced to agree to the change in policy later on. Call up Amazon and request for an IMMEDIATE deletion of your account or change of personal info.
Of course, Amazon might tell you its done and still sell your info afterwards, when it goes bankrupt(yay!). The question is: How do you know your info has been deleted? What will prevent Amazon from selling information about customers who signed up *before* the change in policy?
Do you Americans have some law that can help ?
Thanks for reading