Gloves?
Knuckles?
Or, with kudos to Dr Scott Wolfe (of Sun Micro, the last I knew) use Lick-Screen technology. Oh, and punt on drop-down menus, switch to rotary (as in rotary phone dialing)
Now "I'm a Computer Operator" becomes a pick-up line.
You can have fraud using any medium, but when you throw computers into the mix it's a heck of a lot easier to have fraud on a grand scale.
And indeed, when you throw computers with un-secured 802.11 networking between the polling stations and the local server, it's a heck of a lot easier to have fraud on a grand scale, from a van across the street using a directional antenna.
That said, please try to excercise some restraint when you do this. If the polling place shows 100% for Howard Dean then someone's gonna get suspicious. Aim for 62% instead.
So, do we have a link? A reference? How can we confirm this? Who posted this? This sort of news item sucks. Very little information and no links to reference the news item.
The Sept 12 dead tree edition of the Wall Street Journal had an interesting article on companies that deploy billboards that change throughout the day -- one intended application for these digital ink billboards.
The most interesting variant uses a roadside scanner that detects which radio stations are tuned in on the various cars going by the sign. snip
Are you sure that this wasn't the April 1 edition?
Poor comparison. There are other directories and search engines on the Web that list registered sites, not just Whois, but these don't list personal information. People should have the option to have their contact info "unlisted" as in the phone book, especially if their sites are personal (and thus, the info listed in Whois being largely irrelevant to the general public).
I don't follow this line of reasoning. There are all kinds of references to web sites -- directories and search engines, as well as "Look at my list of links" pages -- but that's not what WHOIS is.
Domain registrars' databases are very much like phone directories. They are datasets which correlate an assigned number (telephone number or IP address) to a human-friendly name (person's name or domain name.) Your line of reasoning seems (to me) to say that individuals should be allowed to have their own rolodex of phone-number-to-name mappings, but phone books shouldn't exist, since any particular individual's phone number is largely irrelevant to the general public.
If I'm misrepresenting your post, please correct me. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I really don't see (yet) how the phone book analogy breaks down.
I feel like I'm playing devil's advocate a bit here, but here goes:
The WHOIS data is a problem because it ties personal information to information that may not be very popular on the web. If you run an anti-DMCA site, for instance, or anti-anything for that matter, and your personal information is tied to that site, then it leaves you open to harrassment by organizations or individuals that you're campaigning against
While the constitution certainly gives you the right to speak freely (e.g. running an anti-DMCA site) it doesn't explictly say that you can do so anonymously. Harrassing the person based on her/his protected speech is already illegal. If that's the problem, then we have existing laws to punish the offenders.
I fail to see how the current domain registration system infringes on privacy. The current system requires that the domain have a reachable contact person. There are reasonable uses for that requirement (Hey buddy, did you realize that your website had been defaced and now links to child porn sites?) and as you point out the requirement isn't rigorously enforced.
As for the option of an unlisted phone number -- as I mentioned to the previous poster who brought this up, you can also have an unlisted web site. Just use your IP address and don't register a domain name.
I'm not saying the phone book is the perfect analogy, but so far I haven't seen a decent argument against it.
But the phone book allows you to unlist your number.
If you unlist your phone number then the only people who can reach you are those who know your magic 10-digit code, or those who happen across your magic 10-digit code by chance.
So un-reg your domain name. Then the only people who can reach your site are those who happen to know your magic 4-octet code, or those who happen across your magic 4-octet code by chance.
Late yesterday, privacy activists raised the National Privacy Threat level to Purple, citing the public availability of a "Phone Book" which disclosed personal information for hundreds of thousands of individuals, including full name, home address and home phone number.
(end sarcastic rant)
YAWN! Call me when WHOIS data includes SSN. As it is, this info is already widely available for the vast majority of the population.
I actually saw Adm. Hopper (ret.) on the Dave Letterman show quite a few years ago. Even in her old age, she was very animated and lucid. She brought with her a bundle of wires cut to about 30 cm in length. Dave asked her what they were, and she said that they were "nanoseconds" (i.e. light-nanoseconds).
Hence her death was announced that "Adm Grace Hopper is now 6 nanoseconds under."
I suspect she would have enjoyed the joke
Also, what happens to my music library when I am dead? How can I leave my music to my loved ones?
Dude, you're planning on taking your Mac with you? I know you Apple geeks love them and all, but c'mon!
Heh heh -- My employer at the time was fat-pipe connected and one of the Sun machines had a floppy drive.
I downloaded the SLS floppies from tsx-11 over the course of a few days, then dd'ed them to a giant stack of floppies.
When all was said and done, the cobbled-together 386 (with 387-16 co-pro! w00t!) had a whopping 4Meg of ram and a 120Meg hard drive, but it ran X windows, dialed in at 2400b via SLIP, and registered itself on the work network.
NFS over dialup, on the other hand, wasn't that great of an idea.
ps: Joe, if you're reading this, thanks for the memories and get back to work. *(slacker)*
I prefer the opposite theft. IIRC, two guys in grey coveralls wheel a new ATM into the local mall and lock it to a lamp post in a main courtyard. After weeks of complaints that the damn thing doesn't work, two guys in grey coveralls come and unlock it to cart it away. In the meantime, the PC and card reader inside (programmed to do the usual ATM dialog, then print "Your transaction cannot be completed at this time") has been gathering mag-strip data and PINs for hundreds of cards.
One mag-strip writer later, you've got access to hundreds of accounts.
See ATM Spoofing here for something along those lines.
Whedon is producing the film through his Mutant Enemy Inc. along with studio-based producer Barry Mendell. Mendell, a former agent at UTA, used to represent Whedon. Mutant Enemy president Christopher Buchanan is executive producing. Universal production president Mary Parent is shepherding the project.
I read it and re-read it. Are you sure there's not TrollText subtitution going on here somewhere?
2^96 is not nearly enough for every molecule on earth. Avogadro's number is 6 * 10^23, which is approximately the number of protons that weigh 1 kilogram together. Most molecules weigh less than 100 protons. 2^96 = 8 * 10^28. So at most 10^7 kilogram can be tagged uniquely with ECP. The earth weighs approximately 6 * 10^24 kilograms. Yeah, those "MIT boys" are really smart...
No no no, silly. They mean every molecule on Earth, not every molecule in the Earth.
Slashdot Mirror
Gloves?
Knuckles?
Or, with kudos to Dr Scott Wolfe (of Sun Micro, the last I knew) use Lick-Screen technology. Oh, and punt on drop-down menus, switch to rotary (as in rotary phone dialing)
Now "I'm a Computer Operator" becomes a pick-up line.
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You can have fraud using any medium, but when you throw computers into the mix it's a heck of a lot easier to have fraud on a grand scale.
And indeed, when you throw computers with un-secured 802.11 networking between the polling stations and the local server, it's a heck of a lot easier to have fraud on a grand scale, from a van across the street using a directional antenna.
That said, please try to excercise some restraint when you do this. If the polling place shows 100% for Howard Dean then someone's gonna get suspicious.
Aim for 62% instead.
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I read it on Slashdot!
Twice!
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So, do we have a link? A reference? How can we confirm this? Who posted this? This sort of news item sucks. Very little information and no links to reference the news item.
Well, you could bitch and moan about it, or you could just use Google News and find your own damn references
Ever heard of the IBM PC Convertible?
Why yes, yes I have. It was about ten minutes before your post.
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laughing so hard I wipe the tear from my eye.
Sigh, and I just burned my last mod point a few stories ago.
At least I can still befriend you.
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Never heard of em
/. after all
Base premise false; skip article
But post a new comment anyway, 'cause this is
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use a .org
.uk, or any TLD except .com and .net
or a
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Are you sure that this wasn't the April 1 edition?
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Domain registrars' databases are very much like phone directories. They are datasets which correlate an assigned number (telephone number or IP address) to a human-friendly name (person's name or domain name.)
Your line of reasoning seems (to me) to say that individuals should be allowed to have their own rolodex of phone-number-to-name mappings, but phone books shouldn't exist, since any particular individual's phone number is largely irrelevant to the general public.
If I'm misrepresenting your post, please correct me. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I really don't see (yet) how the phone book analogy breaks down.
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I feel like I'm playing devil's advocate a bit here, but here goes:
The WHOIS data is a problem because it ties personal information to information that may not be very popular on the web. If you run an anti-DMCA site, for instance, or anti-anything for that matter, and your personal information is tied to that site, then it leaves you open to harrassment by organizations or individuals that you're campaigning against
While the constitution certainly gives you the right to speak freely (e.g. running an anti-DMCA site) it doesn't explictly say that you can do so anonymously.
Harrassing the person based on her/his protected speech is already illegal. If that's the problem, then we have existing laws to punish the offenders.
I fail to see how the current domain registration system infringes on privacy. The current system requires that the domain have a reachable contact person. There are reasonable uses for that requirement (Hey buddy, did you realize that your website had been defaced and now links to child porn sites?) and as you point out the requirement isn't rigorously enforced.
As for the option of an unlisted phone number -- as I mentioned to the previous poster who brought this up, you can also have an unlisted web site. Just use your IP address and don't register a domain name.
I'm not saying the phone book is the perfect analogy, but so far I haven't seen a decent argument against it.
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But the phone book allows you to unlist your number.
If you unlist your phone number then the only people who can reach you are those who know your magic 10-digit code, or those who happen across your magic 10-digit code by chance.
So un-reg your domain name. Then the only people who can reach your site are those who happen to know your magic 4-octet code, or those who happen across your magic 4-octet code by chance.
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Late yesterday, privacy activists raised the National Privacy Threat level to Purple, citing the public availability of a "Phone Book" which disclosed personal information for hundreds of thousands of individuals, including full name, home address and home phone number.
(end sarcastic rant)
YAWN! Call me when WHOIS data includes SSN. As it is, this info is already widely available for the vast majority of the population.
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I actually saw Adm. Hopper (ret.) on the Dave Letterman show quite a few years ago. Even in her old age, she was very animated and lucid. She brought with her a bundle of wires cut to about 30 cm in length. Dave asked her what they were, and she said that they were "nanoseconds" (i.e. light-nanoseconds).
Hence her death was announced that "Adm Grace Hopper is now 6 nanoseconds under."
I suspect she would have enjoyed the joke
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Comma? Period? Does it really matter THAT much?
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Also, what happens to my music library when I am dead? How can I leave my music to my loved ones?
Dude, you're planning on taking your Mac with you? I know you Apple geeks love them and all, but c'mon!
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Heh heh -- My employer at the time was fat-pipe connected and one of the Sun machines had a floppy drive.
I downloaded the SLS floppies from tsx-11 over the course of a few days, then dd'ed them to a giant stack of floppies.
When all was said and done, the cobbled-together 386 (with 387-16 co-pro! w00t!) had a whopping 4Meg of ram and a 120Meg hard drive, but it ran X windows, dialed in at 2400b via SLIP, and registered itself on the work network.
NFS over dialup, on the other hand, wasn't that great of an idea.
ps: Joe, if you're reading this, thanks for the memories and get back to work. *(slacker)*
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So much for the "extra something" we lefties can bring...
Not at all -- you can still fetch coffee for your dextrous overlords.
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Java portable? Isn't that an urban legend?
Symantec used to have a debugger marketed as "Write once, debug everywhere!"
The thing is, I don't think they understood just how funny that was.
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I prefer the opposite theft. IIRC, two guys in grey coveralls wheel a new ATM into the local mall and lock it to a lamp post in a main courtyard. After weeks of complaints that the damn thing doesn't work, two guys in grey coveralls come and unlock it to cart it away.
In the meantime, the PC and card reader inside (programmed to do the usual ATM dialog, then print "Your transaction cannot be completed at this time") has been gathering mag-strip data and PINs for hundreds of cards.
One mag-strip writer later, you've got access to hundreds of accounts.
See ATM Spoofing here for something along those lines.
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... I wondered why he didn't say anything about the Penguin.
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... The 2nd character will be a 1-2' tall furry creature with a really "cute" name that always seems to get into trouble.
Alf?
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Keep in mind, you're taking advice from a postal worker named Crazieeman.
Isn't that -1 Redundant?
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