Not necessarily. The convention of putting sendmail.cf in/etc/mail is a relatively new one. There's plenty of UNIX machines out there with an/etc/sendmail.cf
Mozilla has always been the "code name" for the Netscape web browser, and was thusly named because it was a competitor to NCSA's "Mosaic."
"Mosaic meets Godzilla" perhaps?
Instead of voting/moderating the servers, how about moderating the individual files? I imagine that unless implemented very carefully, this could easily reach cpu and bandwidth limitations, but, at least on gnutella, all files carry SHA1 checksums, right? What if the protocol were modified to carry dynamic metainformation about each file/checksum? That way, if I download a phony file, I can quickly propagate the information, and let other file sharers decide for themselves.
Of course, in this oversimplified model/example, it would be very easy for somebody from the RIAA, MPAA, or BSA to flood the network with bogus metainformation and convince users that the good files are actually bad, and vice versa, but I'm sure somebody with more talent than me can figure out how to work around that issue. Perhaps using PGP signatures? *shrug*
What exactly does the RIAA do to help the individual artists, anyhow? To me, it appears that their business model is to protect the record companies at all costs, and do very little for the actual creators.
Either way, I would like to break your fucking nose. 'Nuff said.
That's not a "threat." It's an opinion.
And personally, I wish more people would threaten kicking each other's asses, and less people threatening to sue. Society needs to revert back go "Good ol' fashioned ass whoopins." But once again, that's just my opinion.
Ladies and gentlemen! I present to you, Another Slashdot Moron!!... by the name of slashnot007
Gnutella is mostly for the sector of slash dot populated by "free love free lunch" imbeciles who think is is "okay" to steal because they can.
For the 10 millionth time.... it isn't theft unless it's depriving it's rightful owners of it's use. For example, if I steal your tennis shoes, you can no longer use them. However, if I "steal" your software, or your music, then the only way I would be "depriving" you of anything (income) is if it stopped me from buying the software or the music. But alas, this isn't the case. I have nearly 300 CDs in my collection, roughly half of these I wouldn't have bought if it weren't for me having the capability to "steal" the music from the internet. The only case where I can think of, on a personal level, where my being able to download MP3s from the net resulted in a loss of a sale, was when the Andrew WK CD and video came out, and after downloading a couple of his MP3s I decided it was trash and didn't buy it.
As for software, if it's useful enough to me to justify the cost, I will buy it. However, some software, such as Adobe Photoshop and Framemaker, are just too high priced for my budget, and since I would not profit directly from using either of these pieces of software, I would not be purchasing them, regardless of whether or not they were "freely" available on the net.
I suspect that you're either an entertainment lawyer, or a troll from the SPA or BSA. Either way, I would like to break your fucking nose. 'Nuff said.
In a posting appearing Tuesday August 27, 2002 on the Web site 'slashdot.org,' an individual cited a change in the mp3 license fee structure of Thomson and Fraunhofer. The writer of the post apparently misread the mp3 licensing conditions, as Thomson's mp3 licensing policy has not experienced any change.
To clarify, since the beginning of our mp3 licensing program in 1995, Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed software decoders. For commercially sold decoders - primarily hardware mp3 players - the per-unit royalty has always been in place since the beginning of the program.
Therefore, there is no change in our licensing policy and we continue to believe that the royalty fees of.75 cents per mp3 player (on average selling over $200 dollars) has no measurable impact on the consumer experience.
Stefan Geyersberger Business Manager - Audio & Multimedia
So why the hell is everybody freaking out? I agree, just like GIFs, the MP3 format is encumbered by patents, and it's probably a good idea to start transitioning to a format that doesn't have this problem. However, the sky hasn't fallen yet.
Sounds like this is a golden opportunity for us to get on our soapboxes and literally "be heard". Instead of completely fake files, how about recording diatribes and verbal assaults against the RIAA in mp3 format and distributing those under phony filenames? They'll have to listen to the files to see if they're actual copyright violations, right?
To the best of my knowledge this is true, somewhat. A "stub network" ISP doesn't have common carrier status, however, a lot (all?) backbone providers, to the best of my knowledge, do have common carrier status. Think UUNet, Sprint, AT&T, Qwest, Level 3, etc. Joe's Bait Shop and ISP is a completely different ballgame, though. I applaud this ISP for taking such a measure. Does anybody know if they're going to publish the list of IP addresses they block? This would be great to add to an RBL type service for the rest of us to use.
Serves the sons of bitches right, after they pulled this bullshit.
I've tested this from Cable and Wireless, BellSouth, and AT&T's networks and below is what I get. It might be interesting to note that traceroutes do end up in China, so it looks like the packets are making it there unmolested, but the web server on the other end is what's making the redirect:
$ host www.listen4ever.com www.listen4ever.com has address 61.136.61.40 $ telnet www.listen4ever.com 80 Trying 61.136.61.40... Connected to www.listen4ever.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.listen4ever.com
<head><title>Object moved</title></head> <body><h1>Object Moved</h1>This object may be found <a HREF="http://www.mp3mediaworld.com">here</a>.</bod y>
It's also interesting to note that it appears that BellSouth uses UUNet for *all* of their transit. At least every traceroute I've done out of BellSouthLand has gone through UUNet's network, and the traceroute to www.listen4ever.com is no exception.
As for www.mp3mediaworld.com. I don't see anything there that's worth the RIAA getting their panties in a bunch except for some links to sites that can help find MP3s.
-Jeff
You know, it's a damn good thing I don't live in or near Hollywood, because if so, I would be in prison right now. I would be killing every goddamned entertainment lawyer and executive I could get my sights on. This is insane. I agree with you 100%, DP. I am an employee of one of the defendants in this suit[1], and can guarantee you that we in no way endorse piracy. However, even your smallest ISP cannot inspect and control every packet that comes into it's network from the outside. Yes, you can, and probably should do this if you've got the office LAN hooked to the internet, but it becomes impossible whenever you are providing public transit. The RIAA are slimeballs, and this proves it. I oughta sue you for pissing me off so badly and so often with your garbage. Die, already, will you? Jesus Fucking Christ.
[1] Although, of course, I do not represent them on Slashdot....ever.
If anybody is interested in pulling something like this together in this area, let me know. I can get some people together who would at least be willing to hand out flyers, etc.
It's shame that software like this is even necessary, but with the way things are going, we'll soon need this software here in the good ol' US of A as well.
How's this for an idea? If you have the space, create a bunch of MPEG and AVI files of various sizes between 300-700 MB of zeroes, give them names like "Office Space [DivX].avi" and the like. Or, if you wanted to be really creative, find the most obtuse bestiality porn you can find, and rename it to look like a box office hit. If enough people do that, then maybe they'll give up.
Why are you blaming RPM?
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Ladies and gentlemen, I hate to be the one to inform you, but this isn't RPM's fault, this is the individual distro vendors' faults for not standardizing on a filesystem hierarchy.
I also blame the users who don't have enough sense to build thier own rpms. It's not *that* hard, if you have a SRPM, to build an RPM that works on your system where the binary may have failed. In fact, I recommend that if you use RPMs that don't come from your distribution vendor, you get the source RPM, edit the spec file as appropriate, and build your own...this way you're linking against *your* version of whatever libraries you have installed. It's not *that* hard, trust me.
Yes, mounting/home noexec will prevent a lot of scripting, but will also bring much wailing and gnashing of teeth from your users if you run a large multiuser system or network. Plus you would also have to make sure that/tmp,/var/tmp, et cetera were also protected as well.
The users did authenticate through RADIUS, but the RADIUS server was just a Solaris box. Don't ask me, I didn't implement it. It was there when I got there, and it was already in the process of getting sold so I didn't spend much time trying to improve it.
Agreed! What good does the latest, greatest super-whizbang password hashing scheme do when users pick easily guessed usernames? I used to work for a dialup ISP who had approximately 10,000 entries in/etc/passwd. Just for the heck of it not long after I started working there, I ran Crack against it, and in a matter of about 30 minutes I had myself a nice little list of about 1,500 passwords.
-J
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Not necessarily. The convention of putting sendmail.cf in /etc/mail is a relatively new one. There's plenty of UNIX machines out there with an /etc/sendmail.cf
-J
Mozilla has always been the "code name" for the Netscape web browser, and was thusly named because it was a competitor to NCSA's "Mosaic." "Mosaic meets Godzilla" perhaps?
Instead of voting/moderating the servers, how about moderating the individual files? I imagine that unless implemented very carefully, this could easily reach cpu and bandwidth limitations, but, at least on gnutella, all files carry SHA1 checksums, right? What if the protocol were modified to carry dynamic metainformation about each file/checksum? That way, if I download a phony file, I can quickly propagate the information, and let other file sharers decide for themselves.
Of course, in this oversimplified model/example, it would be very easy for somebody from the RIAA, MPAA, or BSA to flood the network with bogus metainformation and convince users that the good files are actually bad, and vice versa, but I'm sure somebody with more talent than me can figure out how to work around that issue. Perhaps using PGP signatures? *shrug*
-Jeff
What exactly does the RIAA do to help the individual artists, anyhow? To me, it appears that their business model is to protect the record companies at all costs, and do very little for the actual creators.
So if i said i would like to kill you, you wouldn't take that as a threat?
I'd tell you to take a number.
It was a fucking clueless statement, threat OR opinion.
And damn! I thought that I was the barbaric, foul-mouthed one in this discussion. I thought you limeys were above that?
-Jeff
Reread what I wrote, fucknut:
Either way, I would like to break your fucking nose. 'Nuff said.
That's not a "threat." It's an opinion.
And personally, I wish more people would threaten kicking each other's asses, and less people threatening to sue. Society needs to revert back go "Good ol' fashioned ass whoopins." But once again, that's just my opinion.
-Jeff
Ladies and gentlemen! I present to you, Another Slashdot Moron!!... by the name of slashnot007
Gnutella is mostly for the sector of slash dot populated by "free love free lunch" imbeciles who think is is "okay" to steal because they can.
For the 10 millionth time.... it isn't theft unless it's depriving it's rightful owners of it's use. For example, if I steal your tennis shoes, you can no longer use them. However, if I "steal" your software, or your music, then the only way I would be "depriving" you of anything (income) is if it stopped me from buying the software or the music. But alas, this isn't the case. I have nearly 300 CDs in my collection, roughly half of these I wouldn't have bought if it weren't for me having the capability to "steal" the music from the internet. The only case where I can think of, on a personal level, where my being able to download MP3s from the net resulted in a loss of a sale, was when the Andrew WK CD and video came out, and after downloading a couple of his MP3s I decided it was trash and didn't buy it.
As for software, if it's useful enough to me to justify the cost, I will buy it. However, some software, such as Adobe Photoshop and Framemaker, are just too high priced for my budget, and since I would not profit directly from using either of these pieces of software, I would not be purchasing them, regardless of whether or not they were "freely" available on the net.
I suspect that you're either an entertainment lawyer, or a troll from the SPA or BSA. Either way, I would like to break your fucking nose. 'Nuff said.
-Jeff
So why the hell is everybody freaking out? I agree, just like GIFs, the MP3 format is encumbered by patents, and it's probably a good idea to start transitioning to a format that doesn't have this problem. However, the sky hasn't fallen yet.
-J
Sounds like this is a golden opportunity for us to get on our soapboxes and literally "be heard". Instead of completely fake files, how about recording diatribes and verbal assaults against the RIAA in mp3 format and distributing those under phony filenames? They'll have to listen to the files to see if they're actual copyright violations, right?
To the best of my knowledge this is true, somewhat. A "stub network" ISP doesn't have common carrier status, however, a lot (all?) backbone providers, to the best of my knowledge, do have common carrier status. Think UUNet, Sprint, AT&T, Qwest, Level 3, etc. Joe's Bait Shop and ISP is a completely different ballgame, though. I applaud this ISP for taking such a measure. Does anybody know if they're going to publish the list of IP addresses they block? This would be great to add to an RBL type service for the rest of us to use.
Serves the sons of bitches right, after they pulled this bullshit.
No, this is AT&T as well. They're suing *backbone* providers, which AT&T is.
You know, it's a damn good thing I don't live in or near Hollywood, because if so, I would be in prison right now. I would be killing every goddamned entertainment lawyer and executive I could get my sights on. This is insane. I agree with you 100%, DP. I am an employee of one of the defendants in this suit[1], and can guarantee you that we in no way endorse piracy. However, even your smallest ISP cannot inspect and control every packet that comes into it's network from the outside. Yes, you can, and probably should do this if you've got the office LAN hooked to the internet, but it becomes impossible whenever you are providing public transit. The RIAA are slimeballs, and this proves it. I oughta sue you for pissing me off so badly and so often with your garbage. Die, already, will you? Jesus Fucking Christ.
[1] Although, of course, I do not represent them on Slashdot....ever.
Ah yes, but the shareware WAD works fine with the open source Doom.
If anybody is interested in pulling something like this together in this area, let me know. I can get some people together who would at least be willing to hand out flyers, etc.
It's shame that software like this is even necessary, but with the way things are going, we'll soon need this software here in the good ol' US of A as well.
Wonder how long it'll be before Apple sues them for "look and feel" infringement, though?
How's this for an idea? If you have the space, create a bunch of MPEG and AVI files of various sizes between 300-700 MB of zeroes, give them names like "Office Space [DivX].avi" and the like. Or, if you wanted to be really creative, find the most obtuse bestiality porn you can find, and rename it to look like a box office hit. If enough people do that, then maybe they'll give up.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hate to be the one to inform you, but this isn't RPM's fault, this is the individual distro vendors' faults for not standardizing on a filesystem hierarchy.
I also blame the users who don't have enough sense to build thier own rpms. It's not *that* hard, if you have a SRPM, to build an RPM that works on your system where the binary may have failed. In fact, I recommend that if you use RPMs that don't come from your distribution vendor, you get the source RPM, edit the spec file as appropriate, and build your own...this way you're linking against *your* version of whatever libraries you have installed. It's not *that* hard, trust me.
-Jeff
Hrmm...odd...I've never seen a chessboard with shrimp pieces on it. :-)
Yes, mounting /home noexec will prevent a lot of scripting, but will also bring much wailing and gnashing of teeth from your users if you run a large multiuser system or network. Plus you would also have to make sure that /tmp, /var/tmp, et cetera were also protected as well.
For that matter how are they going to have a hard drive from which to delete files?
The users did authenticate through RADIUS, but the RADIUS server was just a Solaris box. Don't ask me, I didn't implement it. It was there when I got there, and it was already in the process of getting sold so I didn't spend much time trying to improve it.
Agreed! What good does the latest, greatest super-whizbang password hashing scheme do when users pick easily guessed usernames? I used to work for a dialup ISP who had approximately 10,000 entries in /etc/passwd. Just for the heck of it not long after I started working there, I ran Crack against it, and in a matter of about 30 minutes I had myself a nice little list of about 1,500 passwords.
-J
Seriously though, It's good to see that people with influence are finally realizing that copyright extensions are bad.