He'll surely read any comments you post to this article
Dan read's slashdot, and knows the kind of idiot trolls we get on here, yet is still brave enough to put himself up for questioning, good man!
Though I suppose that as an IT journalist, more people will respect him and refrain from posting "Dan is a moron" or something equally immature.
I would wonder how many times, as an IT journalist, he gets shot down or pushed around while searching for information. A lot of the larger IT companies I know are anything but forthcoming, so perhaps idiotic behavior is something he's used to:-)
Our alien friends are sighing in relief as SETI@home misses them due to skewed results. Or would this actually affect the work being done, other that to put overemphasis on certain results?
Something like when you know dialing "0" in an automated phone system often leads to a direct operator. The annoy-a-voice prompter may not tell you that 0 works (or at least not until later), but you can still hit it beforehand...
Obtaining the website adddress if there wasn't a publicly visible URL: No hacking
Obtaining the website if it came through a call-home frm google toolbar or similar tool: no hacking (has discalimer providing info on what it does)
If somebody used a vulnerability in a site or PC to obtain information on the address in question: There is the hacking
All the rest would go somewhere else in the legal areas, perhaps damages for compromising their financial information before release time (with demerits to Intentia for stupidity in not sticking an.htaccess or something on the directory)
To follow this analogy:
It would be like catching a bunch of people skinnydipping in the local river/lake/whatever (someplace public) and yelling it out to everyone, perhaps calling it in to the radio etc.
As for legality (ignoring the non-issue legality of public nudity Vs public website) I'm not sure if it would be illegal to let this info out
Forget the "linux Vs windows" attitude for a moment, and lets just hope that the new linux kernel works nicely with the windows (bad or otherwise) implementation of IPSec for VPN, etc.
You'll probably snag a lot more users by showing cross-OS compatability as opposed to desktop replacement. As in most cases, it would likely be linux server, windows desktop, with VPN being a nice communication feature in both.I know that I would like my VPN's to work properly between OS's, without the half-baked configurations in FreeSwan.
How would it stay within the community (unless perhaps it were linux-only)? It's not really a worm if it's voluntary, then it's a form of distributed application such as been mentioned in previous articles.
I'd very much like to see another Stargate movie. While the TV-series was cool, it didn't have quite the impact of the precluding movie. We've had enough same-ol-same-ol trek movies, perhaps Stargate could throw a new spin into things (hopefully without making it just a long episode).
Unless the robot gets some big gnashing teeth and a good lunging procedure programmeded in, somehow I think that - for security measures - a guard dog is still better.
Will there be a sign like: caution, guard robot.
The problem is, that until somebody steps within our little metal friend's perimeter, they can happily plunder your house. Even if the robot grabs them quickly, they're still able to get away for some smash and grab.
Meanwhilst, fido (with the sign indicating the house is guarded, to hopefully dissuade idiotic US lawsuits) with his dagger-sharp teeth and strong appetite for crooks is still going to be a much better deterrent.
Of course, if we could get some robots with laser beams or something equally cool. Maybe you could program it to make the groin area an optimal aim-point... good deterrant indeed!
As mentioned previous, I've had dealings with this group. They're nothing but a bunch of crooks.
What the really got nailed for though, was using logos which looked similar enough to the Canadian government as to indicate affiliation.
Realistically though, this was only one factor in the duping of many people who get shafted by the Domain/Internet Registry of SomeCountry.
In the letter I read, the main thing that I noticed was the constant use of the word "renew" in reference to the domain. Generally, a renewal would indicate a reinstatement with the previous agent, which likely led many people to believe the DROC was renewing their domain with the original registrar. A twice-over made it quite clear that this wasn't the case, but the only reason I looked at the letter so closely is that I had once worked for a company that hosted websites and provided domain registration, and therefore knew of these such slimey tactics.
Score one for the Canadian government, every now and again they surprise me by actually nailing slimeball companies like this oen.
Anyelse else who thinks it would be rather cool to have military personnel who were able to on-the-fly merge themselves with the backdrop due to nano-camoflague jackets.
Well actually, I really just want one for myself, to heck with the military.:-)
Just the other day, I found that one of my audio CD's had made its way out of the case and rolled in beside the seat of my car. On its journey it seems to have acquired a rather nasty scar spanning the circular length of the CD.
Luckily, I have an MP3CD deck and had previously ripped all my audio CD's on to Mp3 disc.
If the original had been copy-crippled, my songs would have been lost. As it is, I retain an original copy (damaged or otherwise), and thus should be able to legally play my Mp3 disc to my heart's content.
The same theory applies to my software when I go out gaming, etc and usually use copies. If I accidentally leave a CD at a friend's, or a drunk somebody coats it in tequila, no problemo. The originals are all happily sitting on a carousel at home, unharmed, and again - quite legal.
Don't suspend the privileges of the whole due to the actions of the few - phorm
It's clear that there is some second motive for the US to attack Iraq.
Whilst government is at war, people may then focus on the war instead of the problems within their own country. War also tends to stimulate production and to a certain extent employment in particular areas of the economy.
My college program involved several co-op workterms, in which students would be placed in paying jobs as part of their education. One of our teachers regaled us with stories of co-op placements gone bad. In one case, a student at the local lottery office (where the prof used to work) apparently sat on a keyboard and apparently managed to butt-type a sequence of keys that knocked out the lottery system for awhile across the province (apparently while trying to flirt with a female co-workers).
From what I remember, he was blacklisted for quite a while with local employers, probably didn't get a date from the female co-worker either...
Chances are it would be something built into either the file or the player. How else would they control the file's expiry once it is on your PC? In this case, 24 hour from the time the complete ISO has been downloaded, or perhaps from the first play?
It would be fun if it turned out to be as dumb as many of the older expiry settings for shareware... changing the date on your fixed those pretty handily.
With the amount of data being transferred for movies? Get a few users and your server would be cooked faster than those unfortunate enough to have their personal servers linked through/.
IP spoofing would probably work better in this case, I wouldn't want to pipe 700mb downloads through my proxy...
Except if you can't get the content because you're in an invalid IP zone etc, which is why people region-hack their DVD players in the first place.
Of course, you could probably IP spoof etc. For those that don't know enough to do so, well, they're no worse than they were before the service came around.
However, I could see a lot of fallthrough on this service. Capturing applications would be made to capture the movie streams, and then they'd probably end up on kazaa, etc anyways prompting a big I-told-you-so.
Also, with ISP's already capping users due to kazaa bandwidth usage etc, somehow I don't think a dedicated movie-through-internet system would please them much more...
How many people would actually classify a money-grubbing organization such as many banks are as a saint? Except for managers, even bank employees often detest them (this coming from people I know, some family members, who have been employed by banks).
Somehow I don't think that having an netscape-compatible website is going to make many people switch to any bank in particular...
All my games run.
All my software run. I still have to add a little more RAM but windows boots quickly enough (read line 1 for reason why I'm running windows not linux).
I *could* overclock the chip. In fact my motherboard is made to allow this to be easy. But the question is this... "if it's not slow, why risk making it a coaster?"
All you overclockers, we read a new overclock story every 2 weeks or so. It's not really that cool anymore. In fact, many of us just find you wasteful and silly.
Find a way to build your PC into a car, or a robot or something, then we'll pay attention.
Recognition is about doing something new or at least out-of-the-ordinary
For some reason I can't access blizzard.com properly (did we manage to slashdot it or is it the screwy gateway on my host being weird again). On the trailer it mentioned all three consoles, but not PC. I assume this is because there's no logo for PC (unless we're going windows symbol and tux for linux, etc), or would they be so cruel as to release it for console before PC?
There's too much marketing going out to console games right now. I need something other than NWN to test my CPU and video card to the edge.
(and while they're at it, can they get the Squaresoft guys to bring out FFX for PC too?)
Yes, and I stopped browsing there because some carry content of very questionable legality. Some even seem to be dedicated to providing illegal content (alt.???.toofrickingyoung). How do the ISP's get away with providing these, and more importantly, WHY?
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He'll surely read any comments you post to this article
:-)
Dan read's slashdot, and knows the kind of idiot trolls we get on here, yet is still brave enough to put himself up for questioning, good man!
Though I suppose that as an IT journalist, more people will respect him and refrain from posting "Dan is a moron" or something equally immature.
I would wonder how many times, as an IT journalist, he gets shot down or pushed around while searching for information. A lot of the larger IT companies I know are anything but forthcoming, so perhaps idiotic behavior is something he's used to
Our alien friends are sighing in relief as SETI@home misses them due to skewed results. Or would this actually affect the work being done, other that to put overemphasis on certain results?
Something like when you know dialing "0" in an automated phone system often leads to a direct operator. The annoy-a-voice prompter may not tell you that 0 works (or at least not until later), but you can still hit it beforehand...
- Publishing the website address: No hacking.
- Obtaining the website adddress if there wasn't a publicly visible URL: No hacking
- Obtaining the website if it came through a call-home frm google toolbar or similar tool: no hacking (has discalimer providing info on what it does)
- If somebody used a vulnerability in a site or PC to obtain information on the address in question: There is the hacking
All the rest would go somewhere else in the legal areas, perhaps damages for compromising their financial information before release time (with demerits to Intentia for stupidity in not sticking anTo follow this analogy:
It would be like catching a bunch of people skinnydipping in the local river/lake/whatever (someplace public) and yelling it out to everyone, perhaps calling it in to the radio etc.
As for legality (ignoring the non-issue legality of public nudity Vs public website) I'm not sure if it would be illegal to let this info out
Forget the "linux Vs windows" attitude for a moment, and lets just hope that the new linux kernel works nicely with the windows (bad or otherwise) implementation of IPSec for VPN, etc.
You'll probably snag a lot more users by showing cross-OS compatability as opposed to desktop replacement. As in most cases, it would likely be linux server, windows desktop, with VPN being a nice communication feature in both.I know that I would like my VPN's to work properly between OS's, without the half-baked configurations in FreeSwan.
How would it stay within the community (unless perhaps it were linux-only)? It's not really a worm if it's voluntary, then it's a form of distributed application such as been mentioned in previous articles.
I'd very much like to see another Stargate movie. While the TV-series was cool, it didn't have quite the impact of the precluding movie. We've had enough same-ol-same-ol trek movies, perhaps Stargate could throw a new spin into things (hopefully without making it just a long episode).
Unless the robot gets some big gnashing teeth and a good lunging procedure programmeded in, somehow I think that - for security measures - a guard dog is still better.
Will there be a sign like: caution, guard robot.
The problem is, that until somebody steps within our little metal friend's perimeter, they can happily plunder your house. Even if the robot grabs them quickly, they're still able to get away for some smash and grab.
Meanwhilst, fido (with the sign indicating the house is guarded, to hopefully dissuade idiotic US lawsuits) with his dagger-sharp teeth and strong appetite for crooks is still going to be a much better deterrent.
Of course, if we could get some robots with laser beams or something equally cool. Maybe you could program it to make the groin area an optimal aim-point... good deterrant indeed!
I don't have the exact line but in any case it's recycled from many others anyhow:
One thing humans like more than a hero is seeing a hero fall.
You can bet a lot of people would enjoy this. Why do you think all the kids in the school gather round to watch a big fight?
Use it all the time when downloading drivers, etc for my linux box. We should take a poll on lynx/links and who likes it.
As mentioned previous, I've had dealings with this group. They're nothing but a bunch of crooks.
What the really got nailed for though, was using logos which looked similar enough to the Canadian government as to indicate affiliation.
Realistically though, this was only one factor in the duping of many people who get shafted by the Domain/Internet Registry of SomeCountry.
In the letter I read, the main thing that I noticed was the constant use of the word "renew" in reference to the domain. Generally, a renewal would indicate a reinstatement with the previous agent, which likely led many people to believe the DROC was renewing their domain with the original registrar. A twice-over made it quite clear that this wasn't the case, but the only reason I looked at the letter so closely is that I had once worked for a company that hosted websites and provided domain registration, and therefore knew of these such slimey tactics.
Score one for the Canadian government, every now and again they surprise me by actually nailing slimeball companies like this oen.
Anyelse else who thinks it would be rather cool to have military personnel who were able to on-the-fly merge themselves with the backdrop due to nano-camoflague jackets.
:-)
Well actually, I really just want one for myself, to heck with the military.
Just the other day, I found that one of my audio CD's had made its way out of the case and rolled in beside the seat of my car. On its journey it seems to have acquired a rather nasty scar spanning the circular length of the CD.
Luckily, I have an MP3CD deck and had previously ripped all my audio CD's on to Mp3 disc.
If the original had been copy-crippled, my songs would have been lost. As it is, I retain an original copy (damaged or otherwise), and thus should be able to legally play my Mp3 disc to my heart's content.
The same theory applies to my software when I go out gaming, etc and usually use copies. If I accidentally leave a CD at a friend's, or a drunk somebody coats it in tequila, no problemo. The originals are all happily sitting on a carousel at home, unharmed, and again - quite legal.
Don't suspend the privileges of the whole due to the actions of the few - phorm
It's clear that there is some second motive for the US to attack Iraq.
Whilst government is at war, people may then focus on the war instead of the problems within their own country. War also tends to stimulate production and to a certain extent employment in particular areas of the economy.
My college program involved several co-op workterms, in which students would be placed in paying jobs as part of their education. One of our teachers regaled us with stories of co-op placements gone bad. In one case, a student at the local lottery office (where the prof used to work) apparently sat on a keyboard and apparently managed to butt-type a sequence of keys that knocked out the lottery system for awhile across the province (apparently while trying to flirt with a female co-workers).
From what I remember, he was blacklisted for quite a while with local employers, probably didn't get a date from the female co-worker either...
You would already know what math sounds like
Teacher: Class, today we're going to have a pop quiz
Students: Groaaannn, whiinne, snifffle
Depends on the audience though, a room full of geeks with a math fetish would probably make much more disturbing "music"...
Disclaimer: I like math, but it's not a fetish - phorm
Chances are it would be something built into either the file or the player. How else would they control the file's expiry once it is on your PC? In this case, 24 hour from the time the complete ISO has been downloaded, or perhaps from the first play?
It would be fun if it turned out to be as dumb as many of the older expiry settings for shareware... changing the date on your fixed those pretty handily.
With the amount of data being transferred for movies? Get a few users and your server would be cooked faster than those unfortunate enough to have their personal servers linked through /.
IP spoofing would probably work better in this case, I wouldn't want to pipe 700mb downloads through my proxy...
Except if you can't get the content because you're in an invalid IP zone etc, which is why people region-hack their DVD players in the first place.
Of course, you could probably IP spoof etc. For those that don't know enough to do so, well, they're no worse than they were before the service came around.
However, I could see a lot of fallthrough on this service. Capturing applications would be made to capture the movie streams, and then they'd probably end up on kazaa, etc anyways prompting a big I-told-you-so.
Also, with ISP's already capping users due to kazaa bandwidth usage etc, somehow I don't think a dedicated movie-through-internet system would please them much more...
How many people would actually classify a money-grubbing organization such as many banks are as a saint? Except for managers, even bank employees often detest them (this coming from people I know, some family members, who have been employed by banks).
Somehow I don't think that having an netscape-compatible website is going to make many people switch to any bank in particular...
Really, what is it on a car that needs such little power and is in a place where you can't run wiring?
Many things that just wouldn't be as fun to run from a customized cap array.
All my games run.
All my software run. I still have to add a little more RAM but windows boots quickly enough (read line 1 for reason why I'm running windows not linux).
I *could* overclock the chip. In fact my motherboard is made to allow this to be easy. But the question is this... "if it's not slow, why risk making it a coaster?"
All you overclockers, we read a new overclock story every 2 weeks or so. It's not really that cool anymore. In fact, many of us just find you wasteful and silly.
Find a way to build your PC into a car, or a robot or something, then we'll pay attention.
Recognition is about doing something new or at least out-of-the-ordinary
For some reason I can't access blizzard.com properly (did we manage to slashdot it or is it the screwy gateway on my host being weird again). On the trailer it mentioned all three consoles, but not PC. I assume this is because there's no logo for PC (unless we're going windows symbol and tux for linux, etc), or would they be so cruel as to release it for console before PC?
There's too much marketing going out to console games right now. I need something other than NWN to test my CPU and video card to the edge.
(and while they're at it, can they get the Squaresoft guys to bring out FFX for PC too?)
Yes, and I stopped browsing there because some carry content of very questionable legality. Some even seem to be dedicated to providing illegal content (alt.???.toofrickingyoung). How do the ISP's get away with providing these, and more importantly, WHY?