Urban Terror is a good example of a game that makes an effort to have "realistic" weapon damage effects. In the game—a free, open-source FPS—players square off using modern weapons and equipment. When you spray machine gun fire at your opponents, your accuracy degrades. When you get hit, you start bleeding, and you must bandage your wounds quickly before you bleed out. If you are shot in the leg, your movement speed decreases, and you also take damage to your legs if you fall from heights greater than one story. If you are shot in the arm, your accuracy decreases. Reloading your weapons takes time, and in the middle of combat it is usually more expedient to draw your trusty sidearm, rather than reload.
Unlike most FPSs, where players engage in running gunfights that can last for tens of seconds, the typical Urban Terror engagement is very short; players frequently die before they realize they are under attack. This turns the game into an unending quest for the perfect ambush—attacking with surprise, from behind, almost always ensures victory. Many players tend to be snipers or campers, since the gameplay mechanics make very difficult to "run and gun" effectively. With that being said, it is still possible to power-slide down a hallway, turn, and take out two alert enemies with well-placed bursts—it's just very, very difficult.
Nonetheless, UrT distinguishes itself for its reliance on teamwork. There are almost no plain Deathmatch servers, since UrT Deathmatches simply aren't interesting. Instead, it is all about the team-based gameplay: team-DM, CTF, and bombing run missions. A lone man is easy prey, but squad of two or three players can take and hold an enemy base for some time, provided they know what they're doing. In UrT, working with others is the key to victory, and your ability to score frags can increase exponentially if your team-mates are nearby. If you like teamwork, and don't mind the occasional insta-gib, then you should consider checking out UrT. The game is based on ioquake3 and will run on almost any Windows/Linux/Mac system that's less than ten years old.
Under Section 512 of the DMCA, all requests must include
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3))
The offenders can be prosecuted for sending false DMCA notices, since they made statements "under penalty of perjury." All it would take is for one judge to get annoyed and throw the rulebook at these people. Unfortunately, perjury is a criminal offense—not a civil one—so it is unlikely anyone could file suit to force the issue.
The parent is, of course, referring to one way hashing (crypt, MD5, SHA-1, and the like). Unix passwords were originally stored in the/etc/passwd file for all the world to see—any user could open the file and see everyone's password hashes.
One-way hashes keep systems secure by virtue of computational complexity: an attacker must blindly try passwords (either by brute force or word list) until he finds the one that produces the correct hash. However, there are many different possible passwords. How many? If users use no more than eight letters or numbers, the total number of possible passwords is the sum from i=0 to 8 of (26+26+10)^i = 2.2192 * 10^14. Even at 10 million checks per second, it would take 256 days to check them all.
Unfortunately, I've never seen a bank that allows you any more (or less) than four digit PINs, which is only 10^4 = 1000 combinations. This makes one-way hashes less than useless for encrypted PINs: Anyone who knows how to compute the hash and possesses a list of hashed PINs could easily crack PIN numbers very, very quickly.
3) Coup d'etat. Replace the paranoid, militaristic North Korean regime with a new government—possibly one backed by the United States or her allies. Since the North Korean population is unlikely to do this on their own initiative, they will need some assistance and logistical support from another world power. Another country could theoretically encourage a "friendly" general to seize power and then back him up militarily, politically, and economically when he does so. The U.S. has a long history of supporting anti-Communist coups via the Truman Doctrine, and we have even backed totalitarian dictatorships—so long as they weren't Communist.
A successfully executed coup could be relatively bloodless, would leave North Korea's infrastructure and population centers (such as they are) intact, and would certainly cost less money and manpower than a full-scale invasion. However, the outcome is entirely dependent on luck: military leaders might succeed in launching a WMD attack on South Korea before they are deposed, the new government might not be sustainable, or the coup might be a complete and utter failure. Additionally, U.S. involvement would require our intelligence agencies to demonstrate actual competence, and a U.S.-backed coup could seriously impact our relations with China. Still, I think a coup would be a better option than a full-scale attack.
Each live wire in the main feed to your house is only 120 volts relative to ground. It wouldn't be that bad, you'd probably drop the hammer.
Speaking as an Electrical Engineering student, that is woefully incorrect. To quote Bernstein, "Electrical Shock Hazards and Safety Standards," IEEE Transactions on Education 34.3 (Aug 1991): 216 - 22,
When dealing with electrocution (death caused by electricity), the discussion will primarily be concerned with the shock effects on the cardiovascular system as lethal electrical shocks usually cause death because of the effect on the heart. It is generally agreed that it is the magnitude and time duration of a continuous current which passes through the body which causes a given effect. The voltage in a circuit is only important insofar as it will produce a given current depending on the impedance in the circuit path.
The path the electricity takes through a shock victim's body is important. While a shock that passes through the fingertips might be painful and annoying, a shock that passes through the chest or head area can be lethal. Ordinary household current can induce ventricular fibrillation, which causes unconsciousness within 10 seconds and irreparable brain damage in about five minutes. The above article explains the conditions for lethal shocks in more detail.
When working around or with household current sources, always take electrical safety precautions. Turn off nearby wiring at the circuit breaker—and make sure it's off. Because prompt medical attention is the only thing that can save you from death by cardiac arrest, never work alone.
This would work quite well, but if you use very high-traffic public terminals, consider that someone may be monitoring it in real-time. In the worst case scenario, the terminal could have a hacked version of ssh running that allows someone to piggyback on your session and send their own commands over your session while it's still open. They could run anything they wanted, and you'd never notice.
Bringing your own ssh executable mitigates this risk, but there are other possibilities. A somewhat simpler exploit would be if someone had taken VNC control of the terminal and was ready to type a command, but you'd probably notice this (unless the monitor suddenly decided to "fail"). While the overall likelihood of this is remote, remember that the contents of your sessions may still be made public.
Instead of using root access, I recommend using a limited user that has no access to anything other than read/execute access to a set of administration scripts that will perform only "safe" operations—that is, won't allow someone to alter or obtain confidential information. The scripts could be setuid root to perform root-only operations. This guarantees that even if someone is able to send a command to your server over your session, he won't be able to do any critical damage.
One thing that neither the article nor GE's own press release mention is if these bulbs will last longer than their traditional incandescent counterparts. I have owned one particular CFL bulb for over four years. It has been one of my primary light sources—in operation for tens of thousands of hours—and still works almost as well as the day I bought it. Traditional incandescent bulbs don't last anywhere near that long.
In buying the CFL, I've saved not only in electricity but also in replacement parts. If HEI is more efficient than incandescent but just as short-lived, then this is just another attempt by bulb manufacturers to continue their practice of selling a product that is almost designed to fail—only now they can increase the cost because it's "energy efficient." Until I see data on how reliable HEI is, I'm not investing in the technology.
Since date and time information isn't included in TCP/IP packets, this kind of attack won't work for all services. Assuming that the "hidden servers" in question are HTTP servers, there is a rather simple workaround: simply disable sending the "Date" header. This can probably be accomplished with mod_headers in Apache, but I've never tried using it myself. Oddly enough, the server would still be standards compliant. Obviously, servers that leak the current time by some other means would still be vulnerable.
A simpler, less precise attack of this nature would simply be to continuously ping the suspected server via both Tor and the public internet. If they (reproducibly) fail at the same time (and we could launch a denial-of-service attack to make it fail), they're probably the same machine. Attacks of this nature might even be able to confirm if a hidden server is on the same network as another computer.... But any of these attacks require someone to suspect you of running the server in the first place—and if they do, you probably have bigger problems to worry about.
The bottom line is, as Tor's manual clearly indicates, having a hidden server machine accessible from both Tor and the internet is a bad thing. Operators of hidden services should use a dedicated machine and block all incoming traffic (on all TCP and UDP ports) that is not via Tor.
Recently, I've been developing a massive website with PHP-Nuke, and I've been modifying all of its modules extensively. Although the functions and variable names are self-documenting, since PHP is not a strongly typed language it is often difficult to see what a function accepts as a parameter and returns just by looking at its definition. I would have vastly preferred it if the developers had commented it.
The latest Security Update has (predictably) broken my rsyncX install. I was able to fix this by overwriting/usr/bin/rsync (Apple's rsync) with/usr/local/bin/rsync (which is where rsyncX installs by default). However, be sure to RTF-security information first the version of rsync that rsyncX uses (2.6.0) is not secure in daemon mode (use SSH mode instead).
So fair use in terms of copying to your computer, etc. doesn't apply as you haven't purchased anything.
That is simply not true. Traditionally, consumers have had the right to "time shift" or "media shift" copyrighted works. "Time shifting" is what allows you to legally record a T.V. show (either with a VHS tape or a PVR) for later viewing. The inclusion of a broadcast flag takes away this right. Yes, time-shifting can be used for copyright infringement, but that does not change the fact that the RIAA et. al are attempting to deprive consumers of their fair use rights.
From The Article: It's an inkjet style printer, and prints using one ink cartridge with 6 colors (emph. added).
Inkjet printers, due to how the printing process works, do not use the different colors of ink at the same rate. If your ink cartridges contain more than one color, the entire cartridge must be replaced when one color runs out even though there is still some useable ink left in the cartridge. This printer will most likely be even more of an ink ripoff than most of the inkjets in the market today.
Vonage 911 dialing is supposed to-- the keyword here is supposed to-- connect you to the same PSAP (Public Safety Answer Point) that you would be connected to if you dialed 911 from a landline.
In a normal 911 call from a landline, the call goes from the telco switch to the PSAP via a dedicated trunk that carries only 911 traffic. A data channel (ISDN) is provided that sends ANI/ALI information from the phone company, which uses various databases provided by Intrado and others to match up your phone number with your current address.
Dialing 911 from a Vonage connection, however, is equivalent to dialing the PSAP's 10-digit number. The call does not go through the 911 trunk, and no location information is sent other than standard Caller ID information. Depending on configuration of the PSAP, this line may also take non-emergency calls and your call may be answered with less priority than a normal 911 call. This 10-digit number is also the number used by alarm companies to report alarms to the police.
In the past, serious problems have been reported with the Vonage 911 service. One man tried to call "911" and got an insurance company instead. I highly recommend that you test Vonage's emergency dialing feature. Do not simply test it out, however. You will want to notify your local police department that you want to do this.
In case you didn't know, DSLReports.com maintains an active forum on VoIP providers. Official reps from Vonage frequent the site.
... Because there will be a mass migration to some other protocol, myself included. If everyone stops using SMTP, it becomes an unattractive way in which to post ads.
How do you define "email?" IMs and SMTP both serve much the same function, and the only real difference is that IMs are designed for near-instantaneous delivery. Does that make IMs email? What about CGI-based contact forms that deliver directly to a POP3 box? It has the same effect as an email, so is it email? If SMTP is taxed then people will move away from it and start using more non-traditional message delivery services. You would have to tax the whole internet to tax "email."
I am not willing to pay to send email messages, and (as always) the spammers will move out of jurisdiction and continue spamming for nearly-free.
Reuse old 'hit' episodes and plotlines in new series.
Add modern digital effects
???
Profit!
I started watching Star Trek: Ent myself and thought it had a very promising beginning. But the show quickly lost my interest. One day I tuned in and saw an episode (I forget the name) where Archer was being put on trial by the Klingons-- and sent to the Rura Penthe mining prison. Yes, true, continuity between the series, but I didn't feel like there was really much originality to that ep and turned off the T.V. in disgust, vowing never to watch that show again lest I sour my memories of the TNG/DS9 series.
It was the same way with Nemesis except on a much grander scale: After all, this was a movie: it's supposed to be original! After the first half or so there is no difference from ST:II really:
An epic battle with a long-standing enemy of the Federation (Khan, Shinzon)
An enemy who is out to get the Captain personally.
Weapons of mass destruction, their threat to Earth or the Federation in general and their use against the Enterprise.
An isolated battle between two ships with no hope for re-enforcements (except for Donatra's warbirds in Nemesis).
The villian's final decision to pursue the Captain even if it means his own death.
The last-minute sacrifice of the "unfeeling" character to save the rest of the crew.
The list goes on and on. The verdict: ST:II remake. We should expect better from the Star Trek series than this! If this is what I am going to see in the future, then it is not worth my money or time.
If you have Apache, mod_ssl, and a broadband connection, you can download a CGI proxy that can be configured on your server. Anyone observing the connection would only be aware that a connection between you and your machine was taking place, and have zero knowledge of your activities (other than the date/times). This would prevent them from filtering or changing anything.
... that I can sue passing motorists for damages they would have caused if they hit my car?
This is ridiculous. How could they have possibly calculated how many people would have bought the device, or what channels they would have decrypted (remember: Different service levels, different channels)? Real damages is one thing, but imaginary damages? The next time someone runs a red light where I have the right-of-way, I just might try to sue them!
This evidence is not credible or convincing proof that BigPond is selling customer email addresses. However, I would not put it past them.
The only way to find out for sure if an ISP sells subscriber addresses is to make a long, hard to guess address (such as jon4859493@bigpond.com) and give it to no one, just let it sit there. If you receive spam, it's a pretty good indication that your ISP is being rather loose with your contact info.
Throw a TiVo into the mix, and all the little pigs mix, and you don't know who is doing what and when! And the farm makes much less money.
This is not so. The TiVo collects information on who watches what when (reference: See this/. article). In fact, they (along with the companies who have agreed to buy the information) know a lot more about your viewing habits than if you just used "standard" analog cable without a PVR. To summarize: Your TiVo is infected with spyware. Do you really want everything you watch sitting in some database somewhere?
Free? Do you call this "free?" People imprisoned for exercising their rights specifically guaranteed to them-- rights designed to protect people from persecution by those in power.
Have we become so corrupt, so blinded, and so degraded by the pursuit of avarice that we must punish our fellow Man for innovation? For creativity? Or for simply posting information? Do we value an increased profit margin more than the lives of countless individuals? Just how far are we willing to go to protect our exclusive, absolute, and non-expiring right to "intellectual property?"
This blatant abuse of power does not affect the Mod-Chip community. Nor does it affect Slashdotters. It does affect the free world, and the meaning of freedom as we know it.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied-- chains us all, irrevocably" (Captain Picard, The Drumhead).
We have lost control of our internet. It was once a free community, one of the freest to be found. It was subject to no outside control, no censorship. Now look at us. We can't even keep the DNS system we designed from the control of tyrants, nor can we evade the constant digital surveillance we are each under.
Spam isn't a legal problem-- it's a social problem. It is the result uncontrolled avarice, of people wanting to make money at any ethical cost. There will always be these kinds of people who will steal our time (and our bandwidth) regardless of any laws against them. There are also people (Sysadmins of certain Far East networks come to mind) who are willing to look the other way for a few extra dollars.
But most importantly of all, we cannot forget that American consumers are responsible for spam. That's right, spam is OUR fault. It is our fault because no matter how many messages are filtered, and no matter how many websites are closed for spam complaints (or get DDoS'd by rampaging slashdotters), they still make money. They make money because of that infinitesimally small group of consumers who buy stuff from spammers. That small percent is what makes it all worth it to them.
The day that spammers' profit margins drop to nil because consumers refuse to buy from spammers is the day that spam vanishes from our inboxes forever. No laws, no filters, no problems.
Unfortunately, as P.T. Barnum would put it, "There's a sucker born every minute..."
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer!" (Thomas Paine, Common Sense).
It seems to me that Paine is correct after all. Any government, no matter how well set up, is a double-edged sword. Unfortunately, his dream for American democracy is dead. In it's place is the old adage, Might Makes Right. Money, it seems, is not without its drawbacks. We as a nation are still dealing with the affects of the Industrial Revolution: an era which marked the rise of the corporation, and a proportional decline of U.S. democracy.
Our legislature is bribed into passing laws that are not only unconstitutional, but also demonstrate an unconscionable degree of avarice. Our Courts, charged with the review of the law to determine its constitutionality, have declined to remove this blight from our lawbooks. Jefferson was understandably worried about creating a political machine which has so little room for direct democratic participation.
And what are we left with? A legislature more interested in furthering the interests of the multinational corporation then the general Public? An executive branch that has asserted autocratic powers (For Further Reading)? Law enforcement that has a careless disregard for the law? And a supreme court which is derelict in its duty? Something must be done to restore the American way, and put power back where it belongs: in the hands of the people. Paine would say that it is inevitable-- violations of the 'natural law' concerning government do not go uncorrected. As computer techs, we should understand this. When something is broken, you fix it. What we need is a debugger!
I wish to note however, that you do not use a sledgehammer on a PC that doesn't work, nor do you perform any unnecessary drive reformats. In this manner, I do not advocate a use of physical force to solve our current dilemma. (There ECHELON, you can rest easy now.)
It is with no small irony that I choose to quote from an author whose works are in the public domain. Copyright does not mean, "eternal money," nor does it mean, "absolute power." Unfortunately, there are some people that construe it as such.
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Urban Terror is a good example of a game that makes an effort to have "realistic" weapon damage effects. In the game—a free, open-source FPS—players square off using modern weapons and equipment. When you spray machine gun fire at your opponents, your accuracy degrades. When you get hit, you start bleeding, and you must bandage your wounds quickly before you bleed out. If you are shot in the leg, your movement speed decreases, and you also take damage to your legs if you fall from heights greater than one story. If you are shot in the arm, your accuracy decreases. Reloading your weapons takes time, and in the middle of combat it is usually more expedient to draw your trusty sidearm, rather than reload.
Unlike most FPSs, where players engage in running gunfights that can last for tens of seconds, the typical Urban Terror engagement is very short; players frequently die before they realize they are under attack. This turns the game into an unending quest for the perfect ambush—attacking with surprise, from behind, almost always ensures victory. Many players tend to be snipers or campers, since the gameplay mechanics make very difficult to "run and gun" effectively. With that being said, it is still possible to power-slide down a hallway, turn, and take out two alert enemies with well-placed bursts—it's just very, very difficult.
Nonetheless, UrT distinguishes itself for its reliance on teamwork. There are almost no plain Deathmatch servers, since UrT Deathmatches simply aren't interesting. Instead, it is all about the team-based gameplay: team-DM, CTF, and bombing run missions. A lone man is easy prey, but squad of two or three players can take and hold an enemy base for some time, provided they know what they're doing. In UrT, working with others is the key to victory, and your ability to score frags can increase exponentially if your team-mates are nearby. If you like teamwork, and don't mind the occasional insta-gib, then you should consider checking out UrT. The game is based on ioquake3 and will run on almost any Windows/Linux/Mac system that's less than ten years old.
Under Section 512 of the DMCA, all requests must include
The offenders can be prosecuted for sending false DMCA notices, since they made statements "under penalty of perjury." All it would take is for one judge to get annoyed and throw the rulebook at these people. Unfortunately, perjury is a criminal offense—not a civil one—so it is unlikely anyone could file suit to force the issue.
Not true. Unix passwords are never decrypted.
The parent is, of course, referring to one way hashing (crypt, MD5, SHA-1, and the like). Unix passwords were originally stored in the /etc/passwd file for all the world to see—any user could open the file and see everyone's password hashes.
One-way hashes keep systems secure by virtue of computational complexity: an attacker must blindly try passwords (either by brute force or word list) until he finds the one that produces the correct hash. However, there are many different possible passwords. How many? If users use no more than eight letters or numbers, the total number of possible passwords is the sum from i=0 to 8 of (26+26+10)^i = 2.2192 * 10^14. Even at 10 million checks per second, it would take 256 days to check them all.
Unfortunately, I've never seen a bank that allows you any more (or less) than four digit PINs, which is only 10^4 = 1000 combinations. This makes one-way hashes less than useless for encrypted PINs: Anyone who knows how to compute the hash and possesses a list of hashed PINs could easily crack PIN numbers very, very quickly.
There is another option
3) Coup d'etat. Replace the paranoid, militaristic North Korean regime with a new government—possibly one backed by the United States or her allies. Since the North Korean population is unlikely to do this on their own initiative, they will need some assistance and logistical support from another world power. Another country could theoretically encourage a "friendly" general to seize power and then back him up militarily, politically, and economically when he does so. The U.S. has a long history of supporting anti-Communist coups via the Truman Doctrine, and we have even backed totalitarian dictatorships—so long as they weren't Communist.
A successfully executed coup could be relatively bloodless, would leave North Korea's infrastructure and population centers (such as they are) intact, and would certainly cost less money and manpower than a full-scale invasion. However, the outcome is entirely dependent on luck: military leaders might succeed in launching a WMD attack on South Korea before they are deposed, the new government might not be sustainable, or the coup might be a complete and utter failure. Additionally, U.S. involvement would require our intelligence agencies to demonstrate actual competence, and a U.S.-backed coup could seriously impact our relations with China. Still, I think a coup would be a better option than a full-scale attack.
Each live wire in the main feed to your house is only 120 volts relative to ground. It wouldn't be that bad, you'd probably drop the hammer.
Speaking as an Electrical Engineering student, that is woefully incorrect. To quote Bernstein, "Electrical Shock Hazards and Safety Standards," IEEE Transactions on Education 34.3 (Aug 1991): 216 - 22,
The path the electricity takes through a shock victim's body is important. While a shock that passes through the fingertips might be painful and annoying, a shock that passes through the chest or head area can be lethal. Ordinary household current can induce ventricular fibrillation, which causes unconsciousness within 10 seconds and irreparable brain damage in about five minutes. The above article explains the conditions for lethal shocks in more detail.
When working around or with household current sources, always take electrical safety precautions. Turn off nearby wiring at the circuit breaker—and make sure it's off. Because prompt medical attention is the only thing that can save you from death by cardiac arrest, never work alone.
This would work quite well, but if you use very high-traffic public terminals, consider that someone may be monitoring it in real-time. In the worst case scenario, the terminal could have a hacked version of ssh running that allows someone to piggyback on your session and send their own commands over your session while it's still open. They could run anything they wanted, and you'd never notice.
Bringing your own ssh executable mitigates this risk, but there are other possibilities. A somewhat simpler exploit would be if someone had taken VNC control of the terminal and was ready to type a command, but you'd probably notice this (unless the monitor suddenly decided to "fail"). While the overall likelihood of this is remote, remember that the contents of your sessions may still be made public.
Instead of using root access, I recommend using a limited user that has no access to anything other than read/execute access to a set of administration scripts that will perform only "safe" operations—that is, won't allow someone to alter or obtain confidential information. The scripts could be setuid root to perform root-only operations. This guarantees that even if someone is able to send a command to your server over your session, he won't be able to do any critical damage.
One thing that neither the article nor GE's own press release mention is if these bulbs will last longer than their traditional incandescent counterparts. I have owned one particular CFL bulb for over four years. It has been one of my primary light sources—in operation for tens of thousands of hours—and still works almost as well as the day I bought it. Traditional incandescent bulbs don't last anywhere near that long.
In buying the CFL, I've saved not only in electricity but also in replacement parts. If HEI is more efficient than incandescent but just as short-lived, then this is just another attempt by bulb manufacturers to continue their practice of selling a product that is almost designed to fail—only now they can increase the cost because it's "energy efficient." Until I see data on how reliable HEI is, I'm not investing in the technology.
Since date and time information isn't included in TCP/IP packets, this kind of attack won't work for all services. Assuming that the "hidden servers" in question are HTTP servers, there is a rather simple workaround: simply disable sending the "Date" header. This can probably be accomplished with mod_headers in Apache, but I've never tried using it myself. Oddly enough, the server would still be standards compliant. Obviously, servers that leak the current time by some other means would still be vulnerable.
A simpler, less precise attack of this nature would simply be to continuously ping the suspected server via both Tor and the public internet. If they (reproducibly) fail at the same time (and we could launch a denial-of-service attack to make it fail), they're probably the same machine. Attacks of this nature might even be able to confirm if a hidden server is on the same network as another computer.... But any of these attacks require someone to suspect you of running the server in the first place—and if they do, you probably have bigger problems to worry about.
The bottom line is, as Tor's manual clearly indicates, having a hidden server machine accessible from both Tor and the internet is a bad thing. Operators of hidden services should use a dedicated machine and block all incoming traffic (on all TCP and UDP ports) that is not via Tor.
Recently, I've been developing a massive website with PHP-Nuke, and I've been modifying all of its modules extensively. Although the functions and variable names are self-documenting, since PHP is not a strongly typed language it is often difficult to see what a function accepts as a parameter and returns just by looking at its definition. I would have vastly preferred it if the developers had commented it.
The latest Security Update has (predictably) broken my rsyncX install. I was able to fix this by overwriting /usr/bin/rsync (Apple's rsync) with /usr/local/bin/rsync (which is where rsyncX installs by default). However, be sure to RTF-security information first the version of rsync that rsyncX uses (2.6.0) is not secure in daemon mode (use SSH mode instead).
As soon as I heard about the Appeal to Unqualified Authority fallacy.
DSLReports.com maintains a forum for VoIP providers as well as numerous reviews of Vonage, Packet8, and lots of others.
So fair use in terms of copying to your computer, etc. doesn't apply as you haven't purchased anything.
That is simply not true. Traditionally, consumers have had the right to "time shift" or "media shift" copyrighted works. "Time shifting" is what allows you to legally record a T.V. show (either with a VHS tape or a PVR) for later viewing. The inclusion of a broadcast flag takes away this right. Yes, time-shifting can be used for copyright infringement, but that does not change the fact that the RIAA et. al are attempting to deprive consumers of their fair use rights.
The EFF has more information on this here.
From The Article: It's an inkjet style printer, and prints using one ink cartridge with 6 colors (emph. added).
Inkjet printers, due to how the printing process works, do not use the different colors of ink at the same rate. If your ink cartridges contain more than one color, the entire cartridge must be replaced when one color runs out even though there is still some useable ink left in the cartridge. This printer will most likely be even more of an ink ripoff than most of the inkjets in the market today.
Vonage 911 dialing is supposed to-- the keyword here is supposed to-- connect you to the same PSAP (Public Safety Answer Point) that you would be connected to if you dialed 911 from a landline.
In a normal 911 call from a landline, the call goes from the telco switch to the PSAP via a dedicated trunk that carries only 911 traffic. A data channel (ISDN) is provided that sends ANI/ALI information from the phone company, which uses various databases provided by Intrado and others to match up your phone number with your current address.
Dialing 911 from a Vonage connection, however, is equivalent to dialing the PSAP's 10-digit number. The call does not go through the 911 trunk, and no location information is sent other than standard Caller ID information. Depending on configuration of the PSAP, this line may also take non-emergency calls and your call may be answered with less priority than a normal 911 call. This 10-digit number is also the number used by alarm companies to report alarms to the police.
In the past, serious problems have been reported with the Vonage 911 service. One man tried to call "911" and got an insurance company instead. I highly recommend that you test Vonage's emergency dialing feature. Do not simply test it out, however. You will want to notify your local police department that you want to do this.
In case you didn't know, DSLReports.com maintains an active forum on VoIP providers. Official reps from Vonage frequent the site.
... Because there will be a mass migration to some other protocol, myself included. If everyone stops using SMTP, it becomes an unattractive way in which to post ads.
How do you define "email?" IMs and SMTP both serve much the same function, and the only real difference is that IMs are designed for near-instantaneous delivery. Does that make IMs email? What about CGI-based contact forms that deliver directly to a POP3 box? It has the same effect as an email, so is it email? If SMTP is taxed then people will move away from it and start using more non-traditional message delivery services. You would have to tax the whole internet to tax "email."
I am not willing to pay to send email messages, and (as always) the spammers will move out of jurisdiction and continue spamming for nearly-free.
Paramount's plan for the Star Trek franchise:
I started watching Star Trek: Ent myself and thought it had a very promising beginning. But the show quickly lost my interest. One day I tuned in and saw an episode (I forget the name) where Archer was being put on trial by the Klingons-- and sent to the Rura Penthe mining prison. Yes, true, continuity between the series, but I didn't feel like there was really much originality to that ep and turned off the T.V. in disgust, vowing never to watch that show again lest I sour my memories of the TNG/DS9 series.
It was the same way with Nemesis except on a much grander scale: After all, this was a movie: it's supposed to be original! After the first half or so there is no difference from ST:II really:
- An epic battle with a long-standing enemy of the Federation (Khan, Shinzon)
- An enemy who is out to get the Captain personally.
- Weapons of mass destruction, their threat to Earth or the Federation in general and their use against the Enterprise.
- An isolated battle between two ships with no hope for re-enforcements (except for Donatra's warbirds in Nemesis).
- The villian's final decision to pursue the Captain even if it means his own death.
- The last-minute sacrifice of the "unfeeling" character to save the rest of the crew.
The list goes on and on. The verdict: ST:II remake. We should expect better from the Star Trek series than this! If this is what I am going to see in the future, then it is not worth my money or time.If you have Apache, mod_ssl, and a broadband connection, you can download a CGI proxy that can be configured on your server. Anyone observing the connection would only be aware that a connection between you and your machine was taking place, and have zero knowledge of your activities (other than the date/times). This would prevent them from filtering or changing anything.
This is ridiculous. How could they have possibly calculated how many people would have bought the device, or what channels they would have decrypted (remember: Different service levels, different channels)? Real damages is one thing, but imaginary damages? The next time someone runs a red light where I have the right-of-way, I just might try to sue them!
The only way to find out for sure if an ISP sells subscriber addresses is to make a long, hard to guess address (such as jon4859493@bigpond.com) and give it to no one, just let it sit there. If you receive spam, it's a pretty good indication that your ISP is being rather loose with your contact info.
This is not so. The TiVo collects information on who watches what when (reference: See this /. article). In fact, they (along with the companies who have agreed to buy the information) know a lot more about your viewing habits than if you just used "standard" analog cable without a PVR. To summarize: Your TiVo is infected with spyware. Do you really want everything you watch sitting in some database somewhere?
Have we become so corrupt, so blinded, and so degraded by the pursuit of avarice that we must punish our fellow Man for innovation? For creativity? Or for simply posting information? Do we value an increased profit margin more than the lives of countless individuals? Just how far are we willing to go to protect our exclusive, absolute, and non-expiring right to "intellectual property?"
This blatant abuse of power does not affect the Mod-Chip community. Nor does it affect Slashdotters. It does affect the free world, and the meaning of freedom as we know it.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied-- chains us all, irrevocably" (Captain Picard, The Drumhead).
We have lost control of our internet. It was once a free community, one of the freest to be found. It was subject to no outside control, no censorship. Now look at us. We can't even keep the DNS system we designed from the control of tyrants, nor can we evade the constant digital surveillance we are each under.
But most importantly of all, we cannot forget that American consumers are responsible for spam. That's right, spam is OUR fault. It is our fault because no matter how many messages are filtered, and no matter how many websites are closed for spam complaints (or get DDoS'd by rampaging slashdotters), they still make money. They make money because of that infinitesimally small group of consumers who buy stuff from spammers. That small percent is what makes it all worth it to them.
The day that spammers' profit margins drop to nil because consumers refuse to buy from spammers is the day that spam vanishes from our inboxes forever. No laws, no filters, no problems.
Unfortunately, as P.T. Barnum would put it, "There's a sucker born every minute..."
It seems to me that Paine is correct after all. Any government, no matter how well set up, is a double-edged sword. Unfortunately, his dream for American democracy is dead. In it's place is the old adage, Might Makes Right. Money, it seems, is not without its drawbacks. We as a nation are still dealing with the affects of the Industrial Revolution: an era which marked the rise of the corporation, and a proportional decline of U.S. democracy.
Our legislature is bribed into passing laws that are not only unconstitutional, but also demonstrate an unconscionable degree of avarice. Our Courts, charged with the review of the law to determine its constitutionality, have declined to remove this blight from our lawbooks. Jefferson was understandably worried about creating a political machine which has so little room for direct democratic participation.
And what are we left with? A legislature more interested in furthering the interests of the multinational corporation then the general Public? An executive branch that has asserted autocratic powers (For Further Reading)? Law enforcement that has a careless disregard for the law? And a supreme court which is derelict in its duty? Something must be done to restore the American way, and put power back where it belongs: in the hands of the people. Paine would say that it is inevitable-- violations of the 'natural law' concerning government do not go uncorrected. As computer techs, we should understand this. When something is broken, you fix it. What we need is a debugger!
I wish to note however, that you do not use a sledgehammer on a PC that doesn't work, nor do you perform any unnecessary drive reformats. In this manner, I do not advocate a use of physical force to solve our current dilemma. (There ECHELON, you can rest easy now.)
It is with no small irony that I choose to quote from an author whose works are in the public domain. Copyright does not mean, "eternal money," nor does it mean, "absolute power." Unfortunately, there are some people that construe it as such.