Last November one of the programs, List, was disqualified for being suspected of using some of Crafty's source code.
Crafty may be open source but it looks like the rules won't allow competitors to use substantial parts of another competing program's code. So having the source available to everyone isn't a liability for Crafty.
I would like to see a firewall with features like ZoneAlarm that has the ability to notifiy you when programs try to access the network and allows you to stop them.
Being notified that a program is trying to connect to the network can clue you in that you have been infected by a worm, virus, trojan, or spyware. Sure, Linux has relatively few malicious programs now but in the future it may become a bigger target.
Actually you don't even have to register your new name anywhere. According to
this there are two ways to change your name:
1. Pick a name and start using it (called "common usage")
2. Register a new name with the courts
So I wonder if you can give any name that you want to a police officer. If they find out it isn't your real name you can always claim you have changed it under the "common usage" method. But my guess is if you give them any name other than what is on your driver's license they will just claim it is "fraudulant intent".
I've used Suse, Mandrake, Knoppix and Red Hat with varying degrees of success but my main complaint is that I don't have a drop down box that will let me adjust screen res, like I can in Windows.
I'm running Gnome 2.6 and I can go to the menu and select Applications->Desktop Preferences->Screen Resolution and up pops a window that lets me choose the screen resolution and refresh rate. Sounds like what you are looking for.
There are some states where a certain candidate is already pretty much guaranteed to win. For example, I can guarantee Bush will win in Indiana and Texas. So if you live in a state like this your vote won't matter.
So I encourage people to vote for Nader so the Green Party can get 5% of the vote and get equal funding from the government. At least that way your vote counts toward something. Even if you don't like the Green Party's views it would be the first step to breaking the two party system where the two parties are virtually indistinguishable.
If you are going to use a file shredder make sure you aren't using a journalling filesystem. From the shred manpage:
CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the filesystem overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way to do things, but many modern filesystem designs do not satisfy this assumption. The following are examples of filesystems on which shred is not effective:
* log-structured or journaled filesystems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)
* filesystems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes fail, such as RAID-based filesystems
* filesystems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server
* filesystems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS version 3 clients
I work for a company that writes software for engine control modules (though I don't work on them myself. I've always heard to it refered to as "limp home mode". A quick google search for that term turns up a lot more hits.
Any time they use a qoute from a book or movie online or in an email they would be violating this law. Same thing if they read a webpage or receive an email that contains such quotes.
Typically (in the U.S.) these are considered fair uses as long as you don't go overboard on the amount of material that you quote. But by the strict letter of this law it would be transmitting or recieving copyrighted content and therefore a violation of the law.
This law lets you mess with people you don't like. Use an anonymous email account to send them emails that contain such quotes. The instant they view the email they have violated the law.
Go mess with your favorite Italian politician today!
Go to the download page: http://secure.sixapart.com. On the right hand side is a green box that says MOVABLE TYPE FREE. You can download a free version there, but they require that you register and provide a valid email address.
You can't just give a false email address because they send a confirmation email to the address with a link in it that you need to click in order to complete your registration. I would suggest using a throw-away @yahoo.com address.
Though I don't doubt they were listening in on you, the 2+ second delay is because of the time it takes for the signal to be sent to and from a satellite. It is common on all telephone calls where the parties are halfway around the world from each other and have to be bounced off satellites.
For awhile there, the answer to everything, no matter how idiotic it seemed, was "9/11 this" and "terrorism that"..
It reminds me of the Salem witch trials and McCarthy's Red Scare. Back then the magic words were "witch" and "communist", now its "terrorist". When we look back at those times in history most people realize how out of control things got and see them as low points in the country's history. But somehow people failed to learn from past mistakes.
Personally, I'm voting for Kerry because he's from a different party than the majorities in Congress and the Supreme Court.
I would do the same, but I live in a state (Indiana) that Bush is essentially guaranteed to win. So I'm voting for Nader. That way my vote at least helps the Green Party get the 5% that is required to be recognized as an official party and have the benefits the other parties have. Anything to break this two-party system where the two parties are almost exactly alike.
I'm counting on political gridlock to prevent the Democrats AND Republicans from achieving anything close to their goals.
That would be nice. Somebody needs to tell Congress that their job is not to make as many laws as possible. They seem to think that the more laws they make, the better job they are doing.
I see it like they are maintaining a large stable software project. Adding to it shouldn't be their main focus. They should be reviewing the old stuff, making it more efficient, and removing the parts that aren't needed.
If I understand correctly, websites fall under the jurisdiction of where they are viewed from, not where they are served from. Doesn't this mean that they are subject to the sum of all the world's laws, since they can be viewed anywhere in the world?
It seems to me that websites should fall under the jurisdiction of the country they are hosted from. People who connect to the server should be subject to the laws of their individual country. This would prevent people like Sklyarov from being arrested for doing something that isn't illegal in their own country.
Exactly. They should restrict the use of marijuana just like they do alcohol. Their effects aren't very different.
Set a minimum smoking age
Make it illegal to operate a vehicle while under the influence
Make it illegal to use (or be stoned) in public
License and regulate growers and sellers to ensure quality control
The government will benefit because they get revenue from taxing it. It would also drastically reduce government spending on the prison system, as 500,000 of the 2,000,000 people in prison in the U.S. are non-violent drug offenders (I don't know how many of the 500,000 are there for marijuana related charges, but I suspect it is a lot).
I just graduated in May with a CS/Math double major and my starting salary was more than that. And they weren't the only company offering that much. If you are only paying college grads $35k, no wonder you get the shitty ones and have to fire them later.
Why do we still allow congressmen to attach riders on bills? Have they ever done any good?
All I've really seen them used for is to get stupid laws like this passed or to authorize pork-barrel projects for that congressman's district. They know they wouldn't be able to get these laws passed otherwise, so they attach them to a bill that's guaranteed to pass (like a finanical bill, which is what this one was attached to).
Two years ago the bank right next to my campus had an ATM with a fingerprint scanner. Instead of needing your ATM card on you at all times you could just use your thumprint to log in.
Its kind of scary that a fingerprint is so easy to forge. It would be so simple to wipe out someone's life savings.
I would have expected banks to adopt this technology only after it has been widely proven to be secure. Instead they are the guinea pigs risking your money. Something's wrong with this picture.
I'm glad I didn't have an account there. Would your money be federally insured if it were stolen by a forged fingerprint? How could you prove it was a forgery (assuming the forger hid his face from the camera above the ATM)?
Sontag says SCO has provided 1 million pages of documents to IBM and that IBM in return has provided only 100,000 pages to SCO. "The foot-dragging is on the part of IBM," he says.
100,000 pages is dragging your feet??? I'm glad this guy wasn't my literature professor. "Next week please turn in your 1,000 page paper on 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. And it must be single spaced".
Just minutes after reading this article, I ran across an article that gives a real-life example of how insecure the SMTP protocol is and what damage it can do.
I sincerely hope that Iraq beats the sh!t out of the US
I'm an American, and I completely agree with you. Our government needs to realize that they can't do anything they want, and that may be the only way to get the idea into their thick skulls.
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Of course there is a slant. Otherwise it would be called |.
Crafty may be open source but it looks like the rules won't allow competitors to use substantial parts of another competing program's code. So having the source available to everyone isn't a liability for Crafty.
Mebon
Oh, the irony! In a sentence arguing that people aren't idiots you misspell cretin and you use right instead of write.
Thanks for the laugh.
Being notified that a program is trying to connect to the network can clue you in that you have been infected by a worm, virus, trojan, or spyware. Sure, Linux has relatively few malicious programs now but in the future it may become a bigger target.
Mebon
1. Pick a name and start using it (called "common usage")
2. Register a new name with the courts
So I wonder if you can give any name that you want to a police officer. If they find out it isn't your real name you can always claim you have changed it under the "common usage" method. But my guess is if you give them any name other than what is on your driver's license they will just claim it is "fraudulant intent".
Mebon
I'm running Gnome 2.6 and I can go to the menu and select Applications->Desktop Preferences->Screen Resolution and up pops a window that lets me choose the screen resolution and refresh rate. Sounds like what you are looking for.
So I encourage people to vote for Nader so the Green Party can get 5% of the vote and get equal funding from the government. At least that way your vote counts toward something. Even if you don't like the Green Party's views it would be the first step to breaking the two party system where the two parties are virtually indistinguishable.
mebon
If you are going to use a file shredder make sure you aren't using a journalling filesystem. From the shred manpage:
I work for a company that writes software for engine control modules (though I don't work on them myself. I've always heard to it refered to as "limp home mode". A quick google search for that term turns up a lot more hits.
Any time they use a qoute from a book or movie online or in an email they would be violating this law. Same thing if they read a webpage or receive an email that contains such quotes. Typically (in the U.S.) these are considered fair uses as long as you don't go overboard on the amount of material that you quote. But by the strict letter of this law it would be transmitting or recieving copyrighted content and therefore a violation of the law.
This law lets you mess with people you don't like. Use an anonymous email account to send them emails that contain such quotes. The instant they view the email they have violated the law.
Go mess with your favorite Italian politician today!
You can't just give a false email address because they send a confirmation email to the address with a link in it that you need to click in order to complete your registration. I would suggest using a throw-away @yahoo.com address.
To a lot of slashdotters that would be a reason to do business with them.
Though I don't doubt they were listening in on you, the 2+ second delay is because of the time it takes for the signal to be sent to and from a satellite. It is common on all telephone calls where the parties are halfway around the world from each other and have to be bounced off satellites.
It reminds me of the Salem witch trials and McCarthy's Red Scare. Back then the magic words were "witch" and "communist", now its "terrorist". When we look back at those times in history most people realize how out of control things got and see them as low points in the country's history. But somehow people failed to learn from past mistakes.
I would do the same, but I live in a state (Indiana) that Bush is essentially guaranteed to win. So I'm voting for Nader. That way my vote at least helps the Green Party get the 5% that is required to be recognized as an official party and have the benefits the other parties have. Anything to break this two-party system where the two parties are almost exactly alike.
I'm counting on political gridlock to prevent the Democrats AND Republicans from achieving anything close to their goals.
That would be nice. Somebody needs to tell Congress that their job is not to make as many laws as possible. They seem to think that the more laws they make, the better job they are doing.
I see it like they are maintaining a large stable software project. Adding to it shouldn't be their main focus. They should be reviewing the old stuff, making it more efficient, and removing the parts that aren't needed.
It seems to me that websites should fall under the jurisdiction of the country they are hosted from. People who connect to the server should be subject to the laws of their individual country. This would prevent people like Sklyarov from being arrested for doing something that isn't illegal in their own country.
Set a minimum smoking age
Make it illegal to operate a vehicle while under the influence
Make it illegal to use (or be stoned) in public
License and regulate growers and sellers to ensure quality control
The government will benefit because they get revenue from taxing it. It would also drastically reduce government spending on the prison system, as 500,000 of the 2,000,000 people in prison in the U.S. are non-violent drug offenders (I don't know how many of the 500,000 are there for marijuana related charges, but I suspect it is a lot).
I just graduated in May with a CS/Math double major and my starting salary was more than that. And they weren't the only company offering that much. If you are only paying college grads $35k, no wonder you get the shitty ones and have to fire them later.
All I've really seen them used for is to get stupid laws like this passed or to authorize pork-barrel projects for that congressman's district. They know they wouldn't be able to get these laws passed otherwise, so they attach them to a bill that's guaranteed to pass (like a finanical bill, which is what this one was attached to).
Two, one to screw in the lightbulb and one to hold the penis...I mean ladder.
Its kind of scary that a fingerprint is so easy to forge. It would be so simple to wipe out someone's life savings.
I would have expected banks to adopt this technology only after it has been widely proven to be secure. Instead they are the guinea pigs risking your money. Something's wrong with this picture.
I'm glad I didn't have an account there. Would your money be federally insured if it were stolen by a forged fingerprint? How could you prove it was a forgery (assuming the forger hid his face from the camera above the ATM)?
Sontag says SCO has provided 1 million pages of documents to IBM and that IBM in return has provided only 100,000 pages to SCO. "The foot-dragging is on the part of IBM," he says.
100,000 pages is dragging your feet??? I'm glad this guy wasn't my literature professor. "Next week please turn in your 1,000 page paper on 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. And it must be single spaced".
How serendipitous!
They've had 120 (5 factorial) of these conferences?!!
I'm an American, and I completely agree with you. Our government needs to realize that they can't do anything they want, and that may be the only way to get the idea into their thick skulls.