If you live in the U.S., consider youself very lucky when it comes to terrorism. Before the destruction of the WTC, your chances of being the vitim of a terrorist attack were 0. In 2001, your chances were 1 in 100,000 (makes sense). From then 'til now your chances were... 0.
Most terrorism is domestic and is not happening in North America.
This sure seems like "The American Way", though... how do you tell if someone is trustworthy enough to have one of these r00t cards? Charge a lot of money! If they're rich, they have only the interests of the American people at heart.
Actually, Osama bin Laden's got about $30 million kicking around...
No support for WMA, some of my media collection is WMA, so that's a big problem.
I think the expectation is that you will re-purchase all of your old songs (because if you have a ripped copy of your song is must be there illegally).
Government-owned power is great! You get it all at cost, and if you need extra capacity the government can take out a loan to build another one (and pay lower interest than any private company).
Here in Ontario the government started to slowly chop up our publically-owned power generation company and sell it off, bit by bit. As soon as profiteers got involved, rates began to soar. Fearing public outcry, they quietly induced a rate freeze (by using tax dollars to fill in the profit margin) until privatization was completed.
Fortunately they were put to a stop, but our new (8-day-old) "Liberal" (centrist) government sees privatization as a quick and easy way to pay for their campaign promises.
Although I never got SF working (guess why? NATs), I'd always admired it for including encryption. Maybe now's our chance to write a portable clone of PGPfone.
Call it GPGfone... but more clever.
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I picked up a new Logitech optical wheel mouse at last year's ComputerFest for about $10 Canadian. It's probably the best mouse I've ever owned - I just wish I'd bought a couple.:P
As a Canadian, I consider the Democrats to also be right-wing. I mean, it was the Democrats who wanted to drill for oil in Alaska (34 Republicans voted against the party line, but it's okay because 36 Democrats did the same thing!)
Diceware is definitely the best passphrase solution that I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, a lot of systems require passwords. A strong Diceware passphrase is about 5 words long, with maybe four to six characters per word (including spaces). So what do you do when you're at a Novell-enabled Windows 2000 machine (which limits you to 14 characters)?
Generate a weak (~3 word) Diceware passphrase, generate a cryptic and hard-to-remember password, or just use "password" itself.
Because anyone ignorant enough to do anything irrational upon hearing the news probably didn't hear it. They were too busy watching Frasier, Temptation Island, 700 Club, etc. Most people don't watch the news unless it has something to do with Iraq, somebody getting shot or murdered, or one of their favourite TV shows.
Of course, a skilled preacher may be able to whip up a nice mob this Sunday. "THE END IS UPON US!"
You're assuming that the majority of humans living outside of the United States are not people.
For fuck's sake, we're living in an automated society - it's just that the robots doing all the work are people, given less care than most machines receive, worked to death, and barely making enough money to feed themselves, let alone their families!
For the love of God, if you care at all for the well-being of your fellow human, elect a government that will take away some power from big business. They're enslaving people - they know it, and you know it, too, except that you've been conditioned not to care.
Oh, I'm sure that the FBI aren't (quite) dumb enough to announce this without doing some investigation
I doubt it matters to them whether he's done anything wrong, they'll just throw the book at him anyway. The US government's got to say it's done something right.
The world's most powerful millitary faces off with the weakest to go get Osama bin Laden and... they can't find him. So they enter Iraq to distract people from their failure and... they can't find the WMD or Hussein.
If they can't "get it right" abroad then they'll do it at home.
Hurrah! Some kid was arrested! Now there will be no more viruses or worms! Next we'll outlaw spam and that will stop, too!
If it's set in space, the future, or both, it's sci-fi. If it's set in the past and there are monsters, it's fantasy.
There is no science to back up Star Wars. Up until Episode 1, light sabres had "special crystals" in them, and the Force was just the Force. There is no science in the Star Wars movies. That doesn't make them bad sci-fi, it leaves them as what they are: good fantasy.
I heard this explained really well one year at Toronto Trek.
If you can strip out all of the characters and plot from a story and it's still interesting, it's probably sci-fi.
You read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to hear Captain Nemo explain how they fuel the submarine, how they feed the crew, etc. But you don't watch Star Wars to learn about ion engines, blasters or light sabres work.
She cracks it, reveals the expoit to them, they thank her, put fixing it on a "to do list", then knock her into prison with the mighty DMCA!
I can already hear the local news station: "Computer hackers are trying to steal your votes! Politicans are asking that if you know ANYONE who both likes computers and is interested in voting that you report them to the police immediately. Film at eleven."
The free software (or open-source) movement isn't standing in my way. On the contrary, it's given me more choice than I ever had on Windows.
I could use any number of multi-protocol clients (centericq, Gaim, etc) or choose a Jabber client.
What's standing in my way is Microsoft and its hatred for the free software community. They could've hammered out a deal that says, "here's our new MSN protocol, you're all free to implement it as long as you agree to show our ads". I'd deem that fair - the ads showing now are generally unobtrusive.
Since they want to ban people like me, without discussing options with the community that has formed around their service, they've forced me to move on to a superior solution.
I'm using Psi for Jabber. I have 4 MSN-using friends who I talk to through an MSN transport. The rest of my roster entries are using ICQ or Jabber. When the MSN transport stops working, I still have e-mail, IRC, VoIP, long-distance phone calls, snail mail and, if they feel adventurous, Jabber.
Gaim/Trillian and Jabber are out to solve different problems. The last thing the Jabber developers want is for it to become just another multi-protocol IM client.
It's like WINE. If it gets too good, people will just stop writing GNU/Linux programs. It, like Jabber transports, has to be a bit less than good enough.
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If you live in the U.S., consider youself very lucky when it comes to terrorism. Before the destruction of the WTC, your chances of being the vitim of a terrorist attack were 0. In 2001, your chances were 1 in 100,000 (makes sense). From then 'til now your chances were... 0.
Most terrorism is domestic and is not happening in North America.
This sure seems like "The American Way", though... how do you tell if someone is trustworthy enough to have one of these r00t cards? Charge a lot of money! If they're rich, they have only the interests of the American people at heart.
Actually, Osama bin Laden's got about $30 million kicking around...
when superior alternatives are available?
Wouldn't it be great if the country was set up for the well-being of its citizens and not its corporations? Oh well.
No support for WMA, some of my media collection is WMA, so that's a big problem.
I think the expectation is that you will re-purchase all of your old songs (because if you have a ripped copy of your song is must be there illegally).
Government-owned power is great! You get it all at cost, and if you need extra capacity the government can take out a loan to build another one (and pay lower interest than any private company).
Here in Ontario the government started to slowly chop up our publically-owned power generation company and sell it off, bit by bit. As soon as profiteers got involved, rates began to soar.
Fearing public outcry, they quietly induced a rate freeze (by using tax dollars to fill in the profit margin) until privatization was completed.
Fortunately they were put to a stop, but our new (8-day-old) "Liberal" (centrist) government sees privatization as a quick and easy way to pay for their campaign promises.
Oh well. Looks like it's off to Finland for me!
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total lack of interest shown by law enforcement
If a MMORPG gets cracked and the rich owners get inconvenienced for half a day, the FBI flips out and immediately mounts an investigation.
However, these guys are repeatedly DDoS'd and nobody cares.
It would seem that the government only cares about cybercrime when big cash is involved.
Although I never got SF working (guess why? NATs), I'd always admired it for including encryption. Maybe now's our chance to write a portable clone of PGPfone.
Call it GPGfone... but more clever.
I thought that all new music is a work for hire.
I picked up a new Logitech optical wheel mouse at last year's ComputerFest for about $10 Canadian. It's probably the best mouse I've ever owned - I just wish I'd bought a couple. :P
As a Canadian, I consider the Democrats to also be right-wing. I mean, it was the Democrats who wanted to drill for oil in Alaska (34 Republicans voted against the party line, but it's okay because 36 Democrats did the same thing!)
I'd call Slashdot a right-wing community because it looks like most of them voted for Bush or Gore.
Yeah yeah, don't do anything serious with the results...
still, people get the government they deserve.
Well, that's just about the Google-ist thing I've ever heard!
Diceware is definitely the best passphrase solution that I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, a lot of systems require passwords. A strong Diceware passphrase is about 5 words long, with maybe four to six characters per word (including spaces). So what do you do when you're at a Novell-enabled Windows 2000 machine (which limits you to 14 characters)?
Generate a weak (~3 word) Diceware passphrase, generate a cryptic and hard-to-remember password, or just use "password" itself.
Because anyone ignorant enough to do anything irrational upon hearing the news probably didn't hear it. They were too busy watching Frasier, Temptation Island, 700 Club, etc.
Most people don't watch the news unless it has something to do with Iraq, somebody getting shot or murdered, or one of their favourite TV shows.
Of course, a skilled preacher may be able to whip up a nice mob this Sunday. "THE END IS UPON US!"
Actually, they could've used kilolight-nanoseconds (light travels about 30 centimetres in a nanosecond, which is close enough to a foot).
Very few people actually make anything anymore.
You're assuming that the majority of humans living outside of the United States are not people.
For fuck's sake, we're living in an automated society - it's just that the robots doing all the work are people, given less care than most machines receive, worked to death, and barely making enough money to feed themselves, let alone their families!
For the love of God, if you care at all for the well-being of your fellow human, elect a government that will take away some power from big business. They're enslaving people - they know it, and you know it, too, except that you've been conditioned not to care.
Oh, I'm sure that the FBI aren't (quite) dumb enough to announce this without doing some investigation
I doubt it matters to them whether he's done anything wrong, they'll just throw the book at him anyway. The US government's got to say it's done something right.
The world's most powerful millitary faces off with the weakest to go get Osama bin Laden and... they can't find him.
So they enter Iraq to distract people from their failure and... they can't find the WMD or Hussein.
If they can't "get it right" abroad then they'll do it at home.
Hurrah! Some kid was arrested! Now there will be no more viruses or worms! Next we'll outlaw spam and that will stop, too!
Because the current gauge is:
If it's set in space, the future, or both, it's sci-fi.
If it's set in the past and there are monsters, it's fantasy.
There is no science to back up Star Wars. Up until Episode 1, light sabres had "special crystals" in them, and the Force was just the Force.
There is no science in the Star Wars movies. That doesn't make them bad sci-fi, it leaves them as what they are: good fantasy.
Yes, I cheerfully refer to myself as a gun nut. Because after I've done that myself, idiots can't bash me with the phrase. Since it doesn't take most people very long to notice that I am not in fact crazy, this maneuver has the effect of discrediting the idiots.
- Eric S. Raymond
Woah... the last thing I'd want after me is a pissed-off hacker with an AK-47.
I heard this explained really well one year at Toronto Trek.
If you can strip out all of the characters and plot from a story and it's still interesting, it's probably sci-fi.
You read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to hear Captain Nemo explain how they fuel the submarine, how they feed the crew, etc. But you don't watch Star Wars to learn about ion engines, blasters or light sabres work.
"Making your mark on the world / etc". No one cares what you have to say, and no one probably reads it.
Then what's the point of posting on Slashdot? Cancel your account immediately.
She cracks it, reveals the expoit to them, they thank her, put fixing it on a "to do list", then knock her into prison with the mighty DMCA!
I can already hear the local news station:
"Computer hackers are trying to steal your votes! Politicans are asking that if you know ANYONE who both likes computers and is interested in voting that you report them to the police immediately. Film at eleven."
The free software (or open-source) movement isn't standing in my way. On the contrary, it's given me more choice than I ever had on Windows.
I could use any number of multi-protocol clients (centericq, Gaim, etc) or choose a Jabber client.
What's standing in my way is Microsoft and its hatred for the free software community. They could've hammered out a deal that says, "here's our new MSN protocol, you're all free to implement it as long as you agree to show our ads". I'd deem that fair - the ads showing now are generally unobtrusive.
Since they want to ban people like me, without discussing options with the community that has formed around their service, they've forced me to move on to a superior solution.
I'm using Psi for Jabber. I have 4 MSN-using friends who I talk to through an MSN transport. The rest of my roster entries are using ICQ or Jabber. When the MSN transport stops working, I still have e-mail, IRC, VoIP, long-distance phone calls, snail mail and, if they feel adventurous, Jabber.
Always check RIAA Radar before buying any music.
Of course, if you hate software patents, too, you should not buy from Amazon like magnetbox.com suggests.
I can only think of one or two artists that are published by RIAA members, and I can live without them.
Gaim/Trillian and Jabber are out to solve different problems. The last thing the Jabber developers want is for it to become just another multi-protocol IM client.
It's like WINE. If it gets too good, people will just stop writing GNU/Linux programs. It, like Jabber transports, has to be a bit less than good enough.