McCain was hotlinking to his site without permission.
He made a perfectly legitimate change to the content of his own site. The fact that the image McCain's site was hotlinking was affected in the process is not his fault. (And it's theft of service in a way, because he's stealing bandwidth from the legitimate content owner's hosting to do it.)
I'm sorry, the idea of even someone like McCain pulling a stunt like that is too ridiculous to even think about. It's been tried too many times by too many clueless asshats to have any chance of success. Especially in the current DMCA-flavored IP culture. The fact that a site owner used a particularly creative form of DRM is no excuse to try to coerce him into putting content back onto his site that he chose to remove, and quite honestly, McCain or the staffer who decided to hotlink the image in the first place could actually face a DMCA charge for it. Serve him right, he voted for the damn thing..
(saying this mainly because the idea of being forced to keep content up on a site to support bottom feeding bandwidth leeches offends me to the very core of my being)
I wonder if this guy (I assume it is a guy) also gets that worked up over cordless drills. "Damn you Black & Decker scum!!"
We all know Milwaukee power tools are God, so it's only *right* to get worked up over B&D.:D
(because it's better to laugh than to cry..)
What if vote fraud has been widespread for decades, and if 2000 hadn't been so close we never would have caught it this time around?
What if this country woke up and realized we're not sure if ANY of our elected officials are in office legitimately, and we may never be sure?
Now can we have open source voter verifiable e-voting systems that can't be hacked just by ordinary back-door exploits in a certain very large monopoly's database software, and can't be hacked at all without leaving a paper audit trail?
Apple won't produce a PDA because that has no defined role, it's too nebulous and from that comes confusion.
Apple did produce a PDA. It was called a Newton.
Basically it was a painful lesson in how to spend millions in R&D and infrastructure investment so other vendors could capitalize on the idea and make all the profits. When was the last time you synced your MP2100 to your G5?
I would have suggested an 802.11b/g interface and some way to access radio streams dynamically while mobile, but I realized a device with that feature already exists.. it's called a radio. (shrug) Oh well..
will it be able to stream to multiple locations at once?
Doesn't look like it from the screen shots. It appears to be a drop-down menu, not checkboxes, so I would imagine one at a time.
I believe it will stream to multiple remote speakers (xor the computer's internal speakers) but only one computer can stream to a given set of speakers at a time.. I could be wrong though.
I think the radar/laser detectors are fine, but the devices which allow people to actually change the system should not be allowed.
So.. you're sitting at an intersection after midnight, no traffic anywhere in sight, and the controller on the traffic light only sees your car on the impedance sensors, and some idiot programmed it not to change for that lane until there are >2 cars waiting. You sit at the red light for five minutes or so and it's clear it ain't gonna change, so you finally get disgusted enough to run it.
And the cop that was sitting in the parking lot across the street just waiting for you to do that takes off after you and pulls you over, and gives you a half hour sanctimonious lecture about running red lights and hits you with a VERY expensive ticket.
Or..
You've been sitting at the light for 2-3 minutes and it's clear it's not going to change on its own. You discreetly hit the button and goose it over to green, drive safely through (since the other directions are red) and nobody's the wiser.
It's not wickedly fast, but I grew up with CP/M on a Z-80 so nothing these days looks *that* slow to me.. lol.
Seriously, though, 10.2.6 is passable. 256MB RAM definitely helped, and trading in my 233MHz processor card for a 300MHz version and cramming in a 20GB HD definitely helped some more. Like I tell people all day long, more RAM won't hurt.
There are a few twitches, some of which may have more to do with my used (and possibly slightly abused) machine than 10.2.6 itself. I had to do archive and installs at a couple of points in the process of getting upgraded from 10.1.5, most likely from some old root stuff that I knew might cause some trouble when I upgraded to 10.2, but once 10.2.6 gets settled it's quite stable. And with each update release it seems to get a little snappier.. more efficient, perhaps?
I will say that the Wallstreet's firmware is *barely* up to the job of running 10.2.x. I can keep my OS X clean enough to be stable, but from time to time I run into signs that I'm on the bleeding edge of what this hardware can do. 10.3 could go either way, and I'm going to wait and let someone else break the trail for a while on that one before I decide to take the plunge. It might be more efficient and a little easier on this machine's little brain, or it might load it down more and go back to a 10.1-era kind of crawl. Don't know.. will be watching for reports though. Definitely not trusting my carefully tuned user environment to it until I've seen more data on it, and probably will wait at least till it's out of developer previews..
1. Provide an inspiring goal. Choose one that average people can relate to. Landing men on Mars would be a good one.
Get people to believe in space exploration again. Find a better justification for it than sticking it to the Russians (or whoever our enemy is this week) by beating them to some specific objective. Get the public fired up about it, and the politicians will hopefully get the clue and start funding NASA again.
2. Stop all use of NASA for military work. Pass legislation prohibiting NASA from military missions. It's demoralizing and tends to many of those who are excited by the exploration of space.
Agreed. Most of the military payloads that need to go up nowadays can ride on an Titan II or a Thor-Delta.
3. Fund NASA adequately. We've spent far more in IRAQ and Afghanistan than NASA has seen in recent years. Wouldn't you be more proud of your country if it put a man on Mars rather than bombing a third-world country?
See my reply to 1.
4. Scrap the Space Shuttle. It's 1980's technology that was disappointing in its performance the day it was first launched. Even using NASA's own very low cost-per-flight figures in the 1980s, the cost to put a pound of payload into orbit on the shuttle was $6,000. That compares to an inflation-adjusted figure of only $3,800 for the Saturn V expendable launch vehicles that carried men to the moon.
It's actually late 1960's technology with incremental upgrades and mission creep mixed in over the first 20 years. It was in development as early as the Apollo era, and was originally supposed to roll out in 1976, I think, then got pushed back to 1977, then 1978, then 1980, then 1981. The basic article was 60's design. And don't get me started on the original "high tech" GPC and BFS..
The big problem with the Shuttle, however, is that it's designed around the "drive it from the ground" concept that was necessary for Mercury/Gemini/Apollo because the computers wouldn't FIT in the spacecraft. Believe it or not, there is no "intranet" in the spacecraft tying its systems together -- every subsystem is designed to be controlled from a console in the MCC -- and *this* is why the astronauts are treated like voice-controlled robots. A design that would make far more sense, in today's terms, would be one that starts with an integrated flight control and management system, onboard, with supervisory control over an "intranet" of dedicated control modules for specific functions. Use MCC to supervise and monitor the automated systems, but put the primary control in the spacecraft itself. Totally different focus, but necessary for the next generation of missions, such as manned Mars missions, etc.
.. was what Wally Schirra called it when the Apollo 1 fire woke everybody up. I believe the same phrase was resurrected for STS-51L. And if it hasn't been brought out again for STS-107, it should be.
It's contagious. It leads you to accept things you wouldn't if you were thinking straight. Most insidiously, it leads you to try something marginally dangerous, not get burned by it the first time, and be slightly more comfortable trying it again in the future.
The story is right there in the report.. the -Y bipod ramp, the chunk of foam that they're pretty sure punched the fatal hole in the RCC cap, had broken off on other launches. The first several times it happened it was ruled an In-Flight Anomaly and the program was put on hold until it was looked at. After about a half dozen of these, someone decided they'd been getting away with it for that long and it hadn't killed anyone, so it must not be as big a deal as they thought, and they stopped treating it as an IFA. This was so ingrained in the process by STS-107 that they didn't think much of it when the film showed the chunk from the bipod ramp hitting the wing leading edge.. someone even made the statement that the RCC was pretty much impervious to such a foam impact.
The chilling thing is.. when I first saw the now-famous thermogram that showed the anomalous bright spot on the left wing leading edge, I told everyone I knew that they had probably had a dislodged or penetrated section of RCC around panel 8 or 9 followed by a main spar burn through. The hairs came up on the back of my neck when I saw the CAIB's findings.. some days it's fun to be right, but today wasn't one of them..
Oi! Dip----! If it's all so ----ing obvious to you, how comes you can't even tell the difference between her views and other people's views? [remainder of rant snipped]
.. it's still the same old Windows engine at the core! Wake me up when they redesign *that*.. anything else is window dressing, no pun intended..
[previous gripes about the same thing concerning XP, NT, 98, and 95 omitted to save bandwidth]
At about 5 MB per song (typical for my library at any rate), 32000 tracks adds up to about 149 GB, using 2^30 for 1GB.
I may someday be able to use up 150 GB of HD space for my iTunes library, but it ain't gonna be soon. When it happens, I'll deal with it. If Apple hasn't released an update that raises this limit.. which I doubt will be left alone for long..
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Kevin broke the law, and did his time. Can't he just get a straight job like the rest of us and move on? Why must he be a hero? Why must/. get behind him?
I don't get it. Let it go. Kevin, please get a regular job and live like an ordinary citizen.
I thought that was the whole point.
Because of the two reasons you cited -- it costs a fortune to be sure that a) the holes are closed, and b) the kid didn't do any damage -- the best thing someone can do after a misspent youth of cracking into systems is to use the experience they gained to make it harder for others to follow. The system gets stronger by learning from those who cracked it, and even if the holes are only plugged after people find them, at least they're plugged. I don't see a reason for the judgmental tone in your reply, because the important thing is that we all learn, and right now, the best thing a cracker can do is teach people how to be more clueful about how to avoid being cracked.
To get back on topic.. LOL.. Kevin, my question would have to be how you respond to people who throw this kind of moral judgment at you, and how you feel about applying your experience to preventing the very sort of things you did -- how you feel about the system being made stronger by applying what you've learned from compromising it, even if only for the most cynical and practical reasons -- and how you feel about the necessity of protecting valuable resources against attack from people who don't understand it's far easier to destroy and vandalize than to create. How do you feel about those things now, and how have your feelings and perceptions of them evolved over the years you were away?
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McCain was hotlinking to his site without permission.
..
He made a perfectly legitimate change to the content of his own site. The fact that the image McCain's site was hotlinking was affected in the process is not his fault. (And it's theft of service in a way, because he's stealing bandwidth from the legitimate content owner's hosting to do it.)
I'm sorry, the idea of even someone like McCain pulling a stunt like that is too ridiculous to even think about. It's been tried too many times by too many clueless asshats to have any chance of success. Especially in the current DMCA-flavored IP culture. The fact that a site owner used a particularly creative form of DRM is no excuse to try to coerce him into putting content back onto his site that he chose to remove, and quite honestly, McCain or the staffer who decided to hotlink the image in the first place could actually face a DMCA charge for it. Serve him right, he voted for the damn thing
(saying this mainly because the idea of being forced to keep content up on a site to support bottom feeding bandwidth leeches offends me to the very core of my being)
I wonder if this guy (I assume it is a guy) also gets that worked up over cordless drills. "Damn you Black & Decker scum!!" We all know Milwaukee power tools are God, so it's only *right* to get worked up over B&D. :D
(because it's better to laugh than to cry ..)
What if vote fraud has been widespread for decades, and if 2000 hadn't been so close we never would have caught it this time around?
What if this country woke up and realized we're not sure if ANY of our elected officials are in office legitimately, and we may never be sure?
Now can we have open source voter verifiable e-voting systems that can't be hacked just by ordinary back-door exploits in a certain very large monopoly's database software, and can't be hacked at all without leaving a paper audit trail?
I can always hope, eh?
Apple won't produce a PDA because that has no defined role, it's too nebulous and from that comes confusion.
..
Apple did produce a PDA. It was called a Newton.
Basically it was a painful lesson in how to spend millions in R&D and infrastructure investment so other vendors could capitalize on the idea and make all the profits. When was the last time you synced your MP2100 to your G5?
Thought so
I would have suggested an 802.11b/g interface and some way to access radio streams dynamically while mobile, but I realized a device with that feature already exists .. it's called a radio. (shrug) Oh well ..
will it be able to stream to multiple locations at once?
.. I could be wrong though.
Doesn't look like it from the screen shots. It appears to be a drop-down menu, not checkboxes, so I would imagine one at a time.
I believe it will stream to multiple remote speakers (xor the computer's internal speakers) but only one computer can stream to a given set of speakers at a time
sweet f'ing christ. do people not see similarities to the Red Scare or McCarthyism? Are people really so dense?
That would be asking the average person to remember or think about stuff that happened 54 years ago.
A disturbingly large majority of "average people" have trouble worrying about stuff that happened last week,
"McCarthy? Wasn't he a first round draft pick this year?"
You know what Ford stands for, don't you? Fix it again, Tony.
No, that would be FIAT.
Fscking NOBODY got the King of the Hill reference! I'm disappointed. LOL -Rusty Shackelford
I think the radar/laser detectors are fine, but the devices which allow people to actually change the system should not be allowed.
.. you're sitting at an intersection after midnight, no traffic anywhere in sight, and the controller on the traffic light only sees your car on the impedance sensors, and some idiot programmed it not to change for that lane until there are >2 cars waiting. You sit at the red light for five minutes or so and it's clear it ain't gonna change, so you finally get disgusted enough to run it.
..
So
And the cop that was sitting in the parking lot across the street just waiting for you to do that takes off after you and pulls you over, and gives you a half hour sanctimonious lecture about running red lights and hits you with a VERY expensive ticket.
Or
You've been sitting at the light for 2-3 minutes and it's clear it's not going to change on its own. You discreetly hit the button and goose it over to green, drive safely through (since the other directions are red) and nobody's the wiser.
Still think it's bad, bad, bad?
It's not wickedly fast, but I grew up with CP/M on a Z-80 so nothing these days looks *that* slow to me .. lol.
.. more efficient, perhaps?
.. will be watching for reports though. Definitely not trusting my carefully tuned user environment to it until I've seen more data on it, and probably will wait at least till it's out of developer previews ..
Seriously, though, 10.2.6 is passable. 256MB RAM definitely helped, and trading in my 233MHz processor card for a 300MHz version and cramming in a 20GB HD definitely helped some more. Like I tell people all day long, more RAM won't hurt.
There are a few twitches, some of which may have more to do with my used (and possibly slightly abused) machine than 10.2.6 itself. I had to do archive and installs at a couple of points in the process of getting upgraded from 10.1.5, most likely from some old root stuff that I knew might cause some trouble when I upgraded to 10.2, but once 10.2.6 gets settled it's quite stable. And with each update release it seems to get a little snappier
I will say that the Wallstreet's firmware is *barely* up to the job of running 10.2.x. I can keep my OS X clean enough to be stable, but from time to time I run into signs that I'm on the bleeding edge of what this hardware can do. 10.3 could go either way, and I'm going to wait and let someone else break the trail for a while on that one before I decide to take the plunge. It might be more efficient and a little easier on this machine's little brain, or it might load it down more and go back to a 10.1-era kind of crawl. Don't know
1. Provide an inspiring goal. Choose one that average people can relate to. Landing men on Mars would be a good one.
..
.. sigh ..
Get people to believe in space exploration again. Find a better justification for it than sticking it to the Russians (or whoever our enemy is this week) by beating them to some specific objective. Get the public fired up about it, and the politicians will hopefully get the clue and start funding NASA again.
2. Stop all use of NASA for military work. Pass legislation prohibiting NASA from military missions. It's demoralizing and tends to many of those who are excited by the exploration of space.
Agreed. Most of the military payloads that need to go up nowadays can ride on an Titan II or a Thor-Delta.
3. Fund NASA adequately. We've spent far more in IRAQ and Afghanistan than NASA has seen in recent years. Wouldn't you be more proud of your country if it put a man on Mars rather than bombing a third-world country?
See my reply to 1.
4. Scrap the Space Shuttle. It's 1980's technology that was disappointing in its performance the day it was first launched. Even using NASA's own very low cost-per-flight figures in the 1980s, the cost to put a pound of payload into orbit on the shuttle was $6,000. That compares to an inflation-adjusted figure of only $3,800 for the Saturn V expendable launch vehicles that carried men to the moon.
It's actually late 1960's technology with incremental upgrades and mission creep mixed in over the first 20 years. It was in development as early as the Apollo era, and was originally supposed to roll out in 1976, I think, then got pushed back to 1977, then 1978, then 1980, then 1981. The basic article was 60's design. And don't get me started on the original "high tech" GPC and BFS
The big problem with the Shuttle, however, is that it's designed around the "drive it from the ground" concept that was necessary for Mercury/Gemini/Apollo because the computers wouldn't FIT in the spacecraft. Believe it or not, there is no "intranet" in the spacecraft tying its systems together -- every subsystem is designed to be controlled from a console in the MCC -- and *this* is why the astronauts are treated like voice-controlled robots. A design that would make far more sense, in today's terms, would be one that starts with an integrated flight control and management system, onboard, with supervisory control over an "intranet" of dedicated control modules for specific functions. Use MCC to supervise and monitor the automated systems, but put the primary control in the spacecraft itself. Totally different focus, but necessary for the next generation of missions, such as manned Mars missions, etc.
Yeah. Like that's gonna happen
.. was what Wally Schirra called it when the Apollo 1 fire woke everybody up. I believe the same phrase was resurrected for STS-51L. And if it hasn't been brought out again for STS-107, it should be.
.. the -Y bipod ramp, the chunk of foam that they're pretty sure punched the fatal hole in the RCC cap, had broken off on other launches. The first several times it happened it was ruled an In-Flight Anomaly and the program was put on hold until it was looked at. After about a half dozen of these, someone decided they'd been getting away with it for that long and it hadn't killed anyone, so it must not be as big a deal as they thought, and they stopped treating it as an IFA. This was so ingrained in the process by STS-107 that they didn't think much of it when the film showed the chunk from the bipod ramp hitting the wing leading edge .. someone even made the statement that the RCC was pretty much impervious to such a foam impact.
.. when I first saw the now-famous thermogram that showed the anomalous bright spot on the left wing leading edge, I told everyone I knew that they had probably had a dislodged or penetrated section of RCC around panel 8 or 9 followed by a main spar burn through. The hairs came up on the back of my neck when I saw the CAIB's findings .. some days it's fun to be right, but today wasn't one of them ..
It's contagious. It leads you to accept things you wouldn't if you were thinking straight. Most insidiously, it leads you to try something marginally dangerous, not get burned by it the first time, and be slightly more comfortable trying it again in the future.
The story is right there in the report
The chilling thing is
Oi! Dip----! If it's all so ----ing obvious to you, how comes you can't even tell the difference between her views and other people's views? [remainder of rant snipped]
..
Obviously I didn't set my threshold high enough
.. it's still the same old Windows engine at the core! Wake me up when they redesign *that* .. anything else is window dressing, no pun intended ..
[previous gripes about the same thing concerning XP, NT, 98, and 95 omitted to save bandwidth]
At about 5 MB per song (typical for my library at any rate), 32000 tracks adds up to about 149 GB, using 2^30 for 1GB. I may someday be able to use up 150 GB of HD space for my iTunes library, but it ain't gonna be soon. When it happens, I'll deal with it. If Apple hasn't released an update that raises this limit .. which I doubt will be left alone for long ..
Kevin broke the law, and did his time. Can't he just get a straight job like the rest of us and move on? Why must he be a hero? Why must /. get behind him?
.. LOL .. Kevin, my question would have to be how you respond to people who throw this kind of moral judgment at you, and how you feel about applying your experience to preventing the very sort of things you did -- how you feel about the system being made stronger by applying what you've learned from compromising it, even if only for the most cynical and practical reasons -- and how you feel about the necessity of protecting valuable resources against attack from people who don't understand it's far easier to destroy and vandalize than to create. How do you feel about those things now, and how have your feelings and perceptions of them evolved over the years you were away?
I don't get it. Let it go. Kevin, please get a regular job and live like an ordinary citizen. I thought that was the whole point.
Because of the two reasons you cited -- it costs a fortune to be sure that a) the holes are closed, and b) the kid didn't do any damage -- the best thing someone can do after a misspent youth of cracking into systems is to use the experience they gained to make it harder for others to follow. The system gets stronger by learning from those who cracked it, and even if the holes are only plugged after people find them, at least they're plugged. I don't see a reason for the judgmental tone in your reply, because the important thing is that we all learn, and right now, the best thing a cracker can do is teach people how to be more clueful about how to avoid being cracked.
To get back on topic