With Google coming up with their own PayPal, they're halfway to coming up with a full eBay-killer auction site. Imagine being able to create an auction that'd show up whenever somebody searches Google for the product's name....
Actually, the going speculation in the TechTV fan boards is that they may have broken up seeing that they haven't done anything recently to confirm that they're still together, and when an apparent troll started saying they had broken up, nobody stood up to challenge that statement. May be safer to downgrade it to a rumored relationship at this point.
Although the exact terms weren't released, it seems to be implied that Kevin actually had to "buy his way out" of his contract, as he refers to needing lawyers involved to get the contract terminated.
Actually, Kevin said in today's This Week in Tech podcast that the "Dark Tipper" character wasn't one he created for himself, it was an image created by Paul Block, the at-the-time executive producer of TSS. He'd rather be the producer setting up the segments Leo and Patrick did...
Whichever side you're on in the copyright debate, you have to agree this legislation is draconian and excessive, to say the least."
I'll disagree. You have no right to leak an unrelased movie to the Internet. If you've doing that, you are comitting a crime. This law is just upping the penalties for a crime that's being comitted far too often.
They're only telling the California residents because only California has a state law that requires notification... sound like a law that needs to be passed in 49 other states.
The correct solution to this problem, IMNSHO, is for the courts to determine that personal, financial, and credit records relating to an individual are the COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY OF THAT INDIVIDUAL, and may not be provided to any other party without the owner's explicit consent. Not a blanket consent to provide the data to anyone inquiring, but specific consent to provide it to XYZ Corporation.
Courts aren't going to help you with that at all. The copyright on information belongs to the writer, not the subject of the piece. Just think what your copyright concept would do to the news media...
and I took the chance during an open meeting to ask our regional Comcast rep whether he could state that his company would promise not discriminate against competing VoIP services...
He said he couldn't and wanted the next question.
Edited 10/18/2004: This blog has gained far more attention than I could have ever imagined when I decided to create a small personal blog devoted to security incident response. I never imagined my first ever post would be as controversial or as widely published / linked as it has become!
If he thought his little blog had gained all of the attention it could back in October...
One thing I just read in my MCSE study book... Windows 2000 and up support 127-character passwords, but Windows NT, Windows 9x and Windows ME only support 14-characters in a password. A user who has a Windows password greater than 14 characters simply cannot using the older operating systems even if they otherwise should be able to.
Therefore, if you have any legacy systems to support, these password tips don't apply to you, and that's got to be part of the reason there hasn't been much of a movement to suggest that users use longer passwords.
The satellite providers would love to get involved with the iPod, but why would Apple want to break its strangle-hold on locking out any competitors to the iTunes Music Store?
The killer app that the Firefox implementation leaves out is the ability to see the pagerank meter reading for the page that you're on.
It'd be nice if Google released an official Mozilla/Firefox version of their toolbar... I wonder if the existance of the popular immitator is discuraging them from doing it right?
Currently, Wikipedia is relying on charitable donations in order to get its funding... but why don't they just add the Google AdSense code into their pages?
Even their own Advertising on Wikipedia policy page admits ads are going to happen someday. Wouldn't this be the best way for them to go?
If the police randomly did a drug sniff at the local supermarket, they would get their asses handed to them.
That's not quite so certain. Police regularly send the drug dogs looking at school lockers. Students don't own their lockers, and part of having them is a consent to search.
If the supermarket were to call the police and tell them that they think drug deals are going down in their parking lot, the police just might be invited to run the dogs past everybody's cars to see what happens...
The current rules on Internet snooping are based on the metaphor of an envelope... anybody can look at the addressing data on the outside of an envelope, but the contents within are private. This is a pretty nice metaphor, considering the possible options...
- Dog search metaphor: This is what the article is suggesting, a binary test can be used to see if the packet needs more inspecting. If the binary test comes back positive, it represents probible cause to break the seal. - Postcard metaphor: An IP packet is really closer to a postcard, in that the datagram portion isn't really secured inside anything, it's out there for plain view. - Shopping mall metaphor: The Internet is like a shopping mall. The government doesn't own the mall, but the owners might invite the police to establish a checkpoint at the door because any possible crime is bad for their business. Anything they see/hear from their perch there is fair game, especially if everybody sees that there are officers there.
I don't care if I have to reboot my car... as long as I can reboot it as easily as my PC, thats fine.
That is a sad statement about how much trouble we accept from our computer software. Cars shouldn't have to be rebooted, they shouldn't have software failures in the first place.
I don't think we're ever going to see a car that can be rebooted while going down the highway... rebooting usually implies a stop.
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With Google coming up with their own PayPal, they're halfway to coming up with a full eBay-killer auction site. Imagine being able to create an auction that'd show up whenever somebody searches Google for the product's name....
sarah, his GF...
Actually, the going speculation in the TechTV fan boards is that they may have broken up seeing that they haven't done anything recently to confirm that they're still together, and when an apparent troll started saying they had broken up, nobody stood up to challenge that statement. May be safer to downgrade it to a rumored relationship at this point.
Although the exact terms weren't released, it seems to be implied that Kevin actually had to "buy his way out" of his contract, as he refers to needing lawyers involved to get the contract terminated.
Actually, Kevin said in today's This Week in Tech podcast that the "Dark Tipper" character wasn't one he created for himself, it was an image created by Paul Block, the at-the-time executive producer of TSS. He'd rather be the producer setting up the segments Leo and Patrick did...
Most likely Kevin and Dan will now have more time to restart this TheBroken, since they haven't published an episode of that since they left San Fran.
Whichever side you're on in the copyright debate, you have to agree this legislation is draconian and excessive, to say the least."
I'll disagree. You have no right to leak an unrelased movie to the Internet. If you've doing that, you are comitting a crime. This law is just upping the penalties for a crime that's being comitted far too often.
two bads make a good...
But why is it on Slashdot?
For the same reason that Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Star Trek gets covered here... it's what geeks watch.
Wouldn't be the first time that something meant to be Funny gets modded +5 Insightful... happens to me all the time.
I don't think the article says that the TDS team gets any freedom... they're just getting funding to do spin-offs.
They're only telling the California residents because only California has a state law that requires notification... sound like a law that needs to be passed in 49 other states.
The correct solution to this problem, IMNSHO, is for the courts to determine that personal, financial, and credit records relating to an individual are the COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY OF THAT INDIVIDUAL, and may not be provided to any other party without the owner's explicit consent. Not a blanket consent to provide the data to anyone inquiring, but specific consent to provide it to XYZ Corporation.
Courts aren't going to help you with that at all. The copyright on information belongs to the writer, not the subject of the piece. Just think what your copyright concept would do to the news media...
and I took the chance during an open meeting to ask our regional Comcast rep whether he could state that his company would promise not discriminate against competing VoIP services... He said he couldn't and wanted the next question.
I predict you'll soon get modded down as overrated... :)
That's why it's a black box. If we knew how it worked then it'd be a magic white box...
Edited 10/18/2004:
This blog has gained far more attention than I could have ever imagined when I decided to create a small personal blog devoted to security incident response. I never imagined my first ever post would be as controversial or as widely published / linked as it has become!
If he thought his little blog had gained all of the attention it could back in October...
One thing I just read in my MCSE study book... Windows 2000 and up support 127-character passwords, but Windows NT, Windows 9x and Windows ME only support 14-characters in a password. A user who has a Windows password greater than 14 characters simply cannot using the older operating systems even if they otherwise should be able to.
Therefore, if you have any legacy systems to support, these password tips don't apply to you, and that's got to be part of the reason there hasn't been much of a movement to suggest that users use longer passwords.
Sirius has 3 satelittes. XM has 1.
Wrong. XM has a satellite position on each coast. XM uses geostationary positions.
Sirius has three, but they're in Low Earth Orbit so at any given time one is on the opposite side of the world and useless.
I don't think so. In fact, I know it's not so.
XM's Hugh Panero has already spoken to Steve Jobs and nothing has come from that either.
The satellite providers would love to get involved with the iPod, but why would Apple want to break its strangle-hold on locking out any competitors to the iTunes Music Store?
The killer app that the Firefox implementation leaves out is the ability to see the pagerank meter reading for the page that you're on.
It'd be nice if Google released an official Mozilla/Firefox version of their toolbar... I wonder if the existance of the popular immitator is discuraging them from doing it right?
Currently, Wikipedia is relying on charitable donations in order to get its funding... but why don't they just add the Google AdSense code into their pages?
Even their own Advertising on Wikipedia policy page admits ads are going to happen someday. Wouldn't this be the best way for them to go?
If the police randomly did a drug sniff at the local supermarket, they would get their asses handed to them.
That's not quite so certain. Police regularly send the drug dogs looking at school lockers. Students don't own their lockers, and part of having them is a consent to search.
If the supermarket were to call the police and tell them that they think drug deals are going down in their parking lot, the police just might be invited to run the dogs past everybody's cars to see what happens...
The current rules on Internet snooping are based on the metaphor of an envelope... anybody can look at the addressing data on the outside of an envelope, but the contents within are private. This is a pretty nice metaphor, considering the possible options...
- Dog search metaphor: This is what the article is suggesting, a binary test can be used to see if the packet needs more inspecting. If the binary test comes back positive, it represents probible cause to break the seal.
- Postcard metaphor: An IP packet is really closer to a postcard, in that the datagram portion isn't really secured inside anything, it's out there for plain view.
- Shopping mall metaphor: The Internet is like a shopping mall. The government doesn't own the mall, but the owners might invite the police to establish a checkpoint at the door because any possible crime is bad for their business. Anything they see/hear from their perch there is fair game, especially if everybody sees that there are officers there.
Let me be the first to ask... what's Asterisk?
I don't care if I have to reboot my car... as long as I can reboot it as easily as my PC, thats fine.
That is a sad statement about how much trouble we accept from our computer software. Cars shouldn't have to be rebooted, they shouldn't have software failures in the first place.
I don't think we're ever going to see a car that can be rebooted while going down the highway... rebooting usually implies a stop.