what a sad state of affairs when it's trivial to hijack a domain, but it takes an act of god to return it to its rightful owner. apparently, even law enforcement can't get verisign or melbourneit to do squat:>/I>
I think it's good that the response was what it was. After the lawsuits service providers like verisign will have learned an important lesson. Had they just put things back and said "opps" the chance to teach them them the importance of not letting this happen in the first place might have been lost.
What awful news. Instead of coming up with yet another new type of interface for hard drives that cost extra and most of us don't have systems that will support in either hardware or software, the drive makers will have to focus on improving reliability, capacity, and maybe even have to slash prices further. As users how will we survive this?
Lets take this insanity a step or two further. We have seem many times that a company doesn't even have to enforce their patent right away. They can wait until the "invention" is in wide use, and then go after lots of people. There seems nothing at all (except maybe common sense on the part of a jury, and that seems to be extremely rare) to stop Monsanto to knowing let their corn gene spread by pollen to other corn. If they wait a few years and then start searching for their gene they might very well find that their gene is in every seed corn harvest (it wouldn't even have to be in every seed, it would just have to be in a small percentage of the harvest to set up a situation where they could claim that anyone who planted from that see infringed on them and owned royalties).
Heck, who is to say that this isn't already happening? While one round-up resistant Monsanto corn gene is known to be tested for in some cases, they certainly own other gene pattents, and they could well be letting something spread so that in a few years they can claim that they own essentially all of some seed crop. If this seems far fetched and even insane, you only need to look at what has already happened to farmers who never bought Monsanto seed but have lost to Monsanto in court for planting from their own seed!
First of all, many people maintain that they never used Monsanto seeds. Their plants were very likely cross polinated by Monsanto crops growing nearby. And yet Monsanto is sueing them. Insane.
Second of all, I buy large bags of seed to feed to wild animals all of the time. There is nothing explicit or implicit in my purchase of these seeds that agrees that I will not replant the corn. However, if I were to plant this corn and it so happened to contain Monsanto seed (which I realistically have no way of knowing) how could I be legally lible to Monsanto, who I have had no dealing with? A the very least Monsanto should require that corn produced with their seeds be properly labeled so this does not happen, but instead of requiring it by contract to the farmers that they supply, they have agressive fought the labeling of corn produced by their seed.
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If they were located in the same place as our own Sun - at the centre of the Solar System - the stars would stretch out further than the orbit of Jupiter!"
Shows what little they know. If they were located in the same place as our own Sun, Jupiter would burn up and not have an orbit!
Of course webbased. It tests your system security. If your system can be scanned from across the web then you know an awful lot about the security of the system.
But really, what in the world could be wrong with a web based scanning system? You trust Bill Gates, don't you? You don't think he would do anything unethical while scanning your computer across the web, do you? You don't think there's a reason that the headline of this Slashdot article used the word Malicious as the first adjective to refer to this software, do you?
I was talking to someone who didn't even know how to find the Knoppix iso file without asking here. After seeing how many of these people post the same problems over and over again on the knoppix.net forums, I thought it was only wise, if I was going to point such a person at the source of the iso file, to give them a few tips for the problems I see over and over again. Sorry to have bothered you.
There are plenty of links for FTP and HTTP mirrors here.
Some cautions:
Not all mirrors have the current version (3.7), some only seem to have 3.6.
Get the version with EN in the name for the English version, the version with DE in the name for the German version.
Some mirrors are much slower than others, some may not be available at all.
Download and check the md5 sum. I have seem a lot of problems with corruption of Knoppix downloads from FTP and HTTP sites, if you can't be bothered to check the md5 sum then maybe you shouldn't be running Linux. And know how to burn an ISO properly and burn it at 4x.
I have an OS2 dik that I've nevr installed. So what's your point? Does Slackware boot live from the CD and auto-recognize the hardware nearly as well as Knoppix does? Is there anything that your slackware does that Knoppix doesn't do as well or better? What are you trying to suggest here?
If you want your system to start acting up, just boot that 3.8. Considering that 3.7 is the newest released, there is likely to be a big suprise waiting in whatever you downloaded marked Knoppix 3.8.
My experience with Belkin is this: I have an 802.11b router (that I got well after the 802.11b standards were eatablished). It never did work right. Tech support was useless. The firmware is, in theory, upgradeable. I waited for a firmware fix. Finally I found new firmware on the Belkin site; but it is for version V2 of the router model that I have. I, and many others, have version V1 of the hardware. No firmware fix is available, we're just screwed. I see no reason to expect Belkin to do better on a technology where there isn't even a standard yet.
As someone who has a Belkin 802.11b router that never did work right, found their tech suport completely useless, and when I waited for a firmware fix to show up on the website eventually found that they replaced my hardware with V2 hardware and that the new firmware was only for V2, I would say you are optomistic to even expect the v1 version of this new Belkin stuff to work on day one, let alone worry about it being useless later.
The really sad thing is this will be bought by some people who think it's going to give them speed improvements, but who will never use their wireless links for anything more than connecting to their 1.5 mb/s DSL links, that even (a different brand of) 802.11b can do just fine.
I hate to respond to a AC, but just in case anyone was stupid enough to believe you: The moon is in Virgo the two days in question (3rd and 4th). In fact, it's moving away from the comet each day and approaching being a new moon, so viewing based on the moon will be better on the 3rd and 4th than on the 1st and 2nd. And, from the Sky and Telescope atrticle: "Around the 16th, moonlight again begins to seriously intrude.", which marks the first impact this year that the moon will have on the viewing.
The comet will be able to be seen in the sky on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2 or Jan. 5 through 8.
What a bogus statement! The comet does not thake a few days off, it's going to be just as visable on January 3rd and 4th as on January 2nd and January 5th. There's a nice chart here that shows where in the sky to expect it each night.
Which leads to an interesting situation: Samsumg will be shipping all of their flawed displays outside of S. Korea. So rather than Samsung being the display that you should want to buy, it should be the display that you should avoid.
Yea, I question the wisdom of this wording too. On the one hand my first bad experience with spyware was a piece of software that had Internet supplied advertising in it. I didn't mind the advertising at all and welcomed the chance for the author to earn a few bucks, even occasionally clicked on an ad. But after a lot of users of the software started reporting very strange problems with it I investigated and found that the advertising company was Aureaut, and that the software did a lot more than just display ads. Worse, it contained a "feature" that would let Aureaut download and run any program on your machine. This was supposedly in there so they could update their software, but the potential for abuse was obvious and complete.
Unfortunately, I don't see how the ban on installation of software that can be used to take over another computer... can be enforced, without completely outlawing any software upgrade service. Maybe the law is better worded than the article, but from experience I have my doubts.
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Those of us in the U.S. may be interested in the Welcome to Mars tht will be broadcast next Tuesday, January 4th, on Nova.
One of the issues that concerned the poster was that the copycat site might show up (early) on search engine results. The probability of this would greatly increase if links were posted to it by people trying to bring the site down.
Not quite. Just the opposite really. If lots of people go to Google and search to try to find the fraud site, they certainly might raise the rating of the site and bring it closer to the top of the Google search results. But if the link had been posted here, then Google would not be aware of the high traffic to the site and would not increase the site's rating. And the thought that the one entry here might increase the site's sanking can be dismissed too, he would have just had to post it in a munged form (replace . with [dot] for example), it would have still got a good slashdotting and likely extra traffic charges, but not increase in ranking at all.
Besides, if he really believes his problem is over and the crook isn't going to sell the stuff any more, no problem. Personally I think he was way too easy on the crook, and the crook will likely respond by putting the product back on the site in a day or two after it was taken down.
Nuclear, despite disastrous exclusive franchises and government regulation, is still the cheapest and cleanest electricity available.
Nuclear is only cheap if you don't factor in the problem of disposing of the waste and the entire plant after it's rather limited life, and if you get the government to let you force the consumer to make the innitial investment in the plant but don't make them stock holders in return.
How do you control the Soyuz space craft during reentry?
The Soyoz is a lot more complex than aerobrake containers like a simplified version of the Mars landers. Heck, it's a lot more complex than the recent Mars Landers, let alone simplified versions of them. You want to build an entire Soyuz type craft, guidance and rockets and all, to get a rock back from space? And do this over and over again, to try to sell the rocks on E-bay? I sincerely hope that the extent of your exposure to business finance is to ask people if they want fries with that, but I fear you work for my government.
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This is not a real valid request. It is a bogus attempt to harvest information refered to as "airline phishing". It should be ignored.
I think you were confused here michael. I don't even think the Enterprise in the title is the Starship that all the nerds care about.
I think it's good that the response was what it was. After the lawsuits service providers like verisign will have learned an important lesson. Had they just put things back and said "opps" the chance to teach them them the importance of not letting this happen in the first place might have been lost.
What awful news. Instead of coming up with yet another new type of interface for hard drives that cost extra and most of us don't have systems that will support in either hardware or software, the drive makers will have to focus on improving reliability, capacity, and maybe even have to slash prices further. As users how will we survive this?
Heck, who is to say that this isn't already happening? While one round-up resistant Monsanto corn gene is known to be tested for in some cases, they certainly own other gene pattents, and they could well be letting something spread so that in a few years they can claim that they own essentially all of some seed crop. If this seems far fetched and even insane, you only need to look at what has already happened to farmers who never bought Monsanto seed but have lost to Monsanto in court for planting from their own seed!
First of all, many people maintain that they never used Monsanto seeds. Their plants were very likely cross polinated by Monsanto crops growing nearby. And yet Monsanto is sueing them. Insane.
Second of all, I buy large bags of seed to feed to wild animals all of the time. There is nothing explicit or implicit in my purchase of these seeds that agrees that I will not replant the corn. However, if I were to plant this corn and it so happened to contain Monsanto seed (which I realistically have no way of knowing) how could I be legally lible to Monsanto, who I have had no dealing with? A the very least Monsanto should require that corn produced with their seeds be properly labeled so this does not happen, but instead of requiring it by contract to the farmers that they supply, they have agressive fought the labeling of corn produced by their seed.
Doesn't that pretty much cover most things?
Shows what little they know. If they were located in the same place as our own Sun, Jupiter would burn up and not have an orbit!
But really, what in the world could be wrong with a web based scanning system? You trust Bill Gates, don't you? You don't think he would do anything unethical while scanning your computer across the web, do you? You don't think there's a reason that the headline of this Slashdot article used the word Malicious as the first adjective to refer to this software, do you?
opps! Hope my grammer doesn't see that I made that goof (she would be upset). But I like you're take on it.
It will all work out. Next time a virus writer gets caught he'll both sue Tegam and have their officer's arrested for reverse engineering his code.
I was talking to someone who didn't even know how to find the Knoppix iso file without asking here. After seeing how many of these people post the same problems over and over again on the knoppix.net forums, I thought it was only wise, if I was going to point such a person at the source of the iso file, to give them a few tips for the problems I see over and over again. Sorry to have bothered you.
Some cautions:
Not all mirrors have the current version (3.7), some only seem to have 3.6.
Get the version with EN in the name for the English version, the version with DE in the name for the German version.
Some mirrors are much slower than others, some may not be available at all.
Download and check the md5 sum. I have seem a lot of problems with corruption of Knoppix downloads from FTP and HTTP sites, if you can't be bothered to check the md5 sum then maybe you shouldn't be running Linux. And know how to burn an ISO properly and burn it at 4x.
I have an OS2 dik that I've nevr installed. So what's your point? Does Slackware boot live from the CD and auto-recognize the hardware nearly as well as Knoppix does? Is there anything that your slackware does that Knoppix doesn't do as well or better? What are you trying to suggest here?
If you want your system to start acting up, just boot that 3.8. Considering that 3.7 is the newest released, there is likely to be a big suprise waiting in whatever you downloaded marked Knoppix 3.8.
My experience with Belkin is this: I have an 802.11b router (that I got well after the 802.11b standards were eatablished). It never did work right. Tech support was useless. The firmware is, in theory, upgradeable. I waited for a firmware fix. Finally I found new firmware on the Belkin site; but it is for version V2 of the router model that I have. I, and many others, have version V1 of the hardware. No firmware fix is available, we're just screwed. I see no reason to expect Belkin to do better on a technology where there isn't even a standard yet.
The really sad thing is this will be bought by some people who think it's going to give them speed improvements, but who will never use their wireless links for anything more than connecting to their 1.5 mb/s DSL links, that even (a different brand of) 802.11b can do just fine.
I hate to respond to a AC, but just in case anyone was stupid enough to believe you: The moon is in Virgo the two days in question (3rd and 4th). In fact, it's moving away from the comet each day and approaching being a new moon, so viewing based on the moon will be better on the 3rd and 4th than on the 1st and 2nd. And, from the Sky and Telescope atrticle: "Around the 16th, moonlight again begins to seriously intrude.", which marks the first impact this year that the moon will have on the viewing.
What a bogus statement! The comet does not thake a few days off, it's going to be just as visable on January 3rd and 4th as on January 2nd and January 5th. There's a nice chart here that shows where in the sky to expect it each night.
Which leads to an interesting situation: Samsumg will be shipping all of their flawed displays outside of S. Korea. So rather than Samsung being the display that you should want to buy, it should be the display that you should avoid.
Unfortunately, I don't see how the ban on installation of software that can be used to take over another computer... can be enforced, without completely outlawing any software upgrade service. Maybe the law is better worded than the article, but from experience I have my doubts.
Those of us in the U.S. may be interested in the Welcome to Mars tht will be broadcast next Tuesday, January 4th, on Nova.
Not quite. Just the opposite really. If lots of people go to Google and search to try to find the fraud site, they certainly might raise the rating of the site and bring it closer to the top of the Google search results. But if the link had been posted here, then Google would not be aware of the high traffic to the site and would not increase the site's rating. And the thought that the one entry here might increase the site's sanking can be dismissed too, he would have just had to post it in a munged form (replace . with [dot] for example), it would have still got a good slashdotting and likely extra traffic charges, but not increase in ranking at all.
Besides, if he really believes his problem is over and the crook isn't going to sell the stuff any more, no problem. Personally I think he was way too easy on the crook, and the crook will likely respond by putting the product back on the site in a day or two after it was taken down.
Nuclear is only cheap if you don't factor in the problem of disposing of the waste and the entire plant after it's rather limited life, and if you get the government to let you force the consumer to make the innitial investment in the plant but don't make them stock holders in return.
The Soyoz is a lot more complex than aerobrake containers like a simplified version of the Mars landers. Heck, it's a lot more complex than the recent Mars Landers, let alone simplified versions of them. You want to build an entire Soyuz type craft, guidance and rockets and all, to get a rock back from space? And do this over and over again, to try to sell the rocks on E-bay? I sincerely hope that the extent of your exposure to business finance is to ask people if they want fries with that, but I fear you work for my government.