Apologies, but in my opinion massive page reloading to deny service is hardly "hacking". It's not even "cracking". What about reloading a page is innovative, clever, or technical?
Robotic combat has always been about rulesets. Even battle bots had a no-projectiles no-flames no-EMP type ruleset. Otherwise, robotic combat in a small enclosed space would be a contest as to whom could fire their 30-mm recoilless rifle first when the contest started:
Announcer: GO (boom) Announcer: And it looks like team Alphabot managed to fire first, team Betabot is a gigantic smoking hole in the ground! Exciting!
So, I have to say that limiting robots to a humanoid form and blunt impact weapons is a damned fine ruleset idea. Probably the most important part of this ruleset (besides being enourmously entertaining) is that instead of generating research into the best four wheeled dense flip-arm frisbee robot, it will generate research into highly articulated humaniform robots. Which would be, like, way more cool.
When I bought my Garmin Etrex, I wanted to use it to store mountain bike rides and overlay them with maps. Easy, right? Bah! I spent two weeks trying to find a way to do this on my Linux box before giving up. I ended up paying out of my rear end to buy expensive Garmin maps and closed source software. Even then, I couldn't mix and match tracks, let alone cut and paste sections of them together to make trail maps.
The other featuer I've always wanted is to do profile slices of my rides to see climbing and descending rates, especially during races.
All in all this toolkit sounds hugely promising, as the last time I looked at SF.net/Freshmeat the capabilities were nearly nil. All I want is a simple import module, track overlay over free downloadable maps, and a track editor...
I'm going to be spending the evening trying to get this stuff working, hopefully it will provide a replacement to my current Garmin/Microsoft solution!
So they added a firewall which asks you if a program can access the Internet, but allows all the Microsoft ET-Phone-Home software to bypass its own firewall, thereby giving all non-Microsoft software a built-in disadvantage to not being released by the monopoly.
Interestingly, this means that worms and malware authors need only make themselves appear to be Microsoft software (if Microsoft can bypass its own firewall, the credentials will be reverse engineered) in order to continue to spam from zombie boxes without informing the user.
Secure Computing, yay!
Wasn't this tried already?
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As I recall we all got the system, cancelled the contract and hacked the P.C. Sounds like this time we do the same thing, but we don't have to hack it.
Any ideas on how to make their contract unenforcable? I'm thinking pseudonym + PO Box personally.
It is a violation of the terms of the GPL to take code from nmap and place it directly into a commercial product without disclosing the source code of the commercial product. In addition, nmap has extended the GPL to cover their databases.
However, nmap can be purchased in a closed-source version that can be included into commercial products. This information can be found on their web page (insecure.org). I have not enquired as to pricing but the closed-source version of nmap probably costs about as much as a 40-50 foot cabin cruiser, appproximately. Also I would be very surprised if the updates are free.
Note that when you submit a signature to the nmap project, you forfeit copyright. This is so nmap can be sold closed-source as well as released under GPL. The Open Source, GPL authors of nmap have a good plan for becoming millionaires from the GPL model. If you are smart and innovative you can do the same.
Worse yet, though a project may have pedigreed and documented prior art that could easily convince a court to overturn a patent, the cost of such an action is out of reach for most developers -- and many companies.
The flipside to this is that frivolous, non-innovative patents can be attacked without an infringment case - out of the blue - as restraint of trade, provided you have the cash to do so. If someone were to patent something obvious, let's say ordering a list of files by date, anyone can file a restraint of trade suit agianst the patent holder.
Linux's new backer, Big Blue, does have the lawyer army required to attack frivolous patents. The patent war may mean the true end of non-business-backed Linux. It also may mean the doom of companies that are senselessly patenting other people's inventions, and future security for Linux.
When you say "horning in on your resources", do you mean that when GM fires a CAD engineer, they have the right to keep that CAD engineer from doing CAD for the next two years, thereby ruining his resume?
That seems odd... thanks for the case law info though!
Am I the only one reminded of a daughter with bio based holographic implants, and a father so desperate to leave his company that he has signed up to be extracted by a small team of ninja/mercenaries?
Damn, Seagate's lead man trying to leave the company, hopefully things aren't as bad as Gibson imagined. Right?
These exist on the very fringe of legal contract law. I would be very surprised if any of them have withstood a jury trial. Can a legal agreement which prevents a worker from working to feed his family be legal? Non-competes are valid even if you are fired, meaning they can fire you and prevent you from working for a competitor, which is basically contractually enforced unemployment. This would seem to be highly UnAmerican(tm) and I think the courts would frown on it.
I would guess that they are going to open source all their failed bombs from Google Research in the hopes that someone else can get them to work. Did anyone else here ever mess around with the phone search? You would open a window and then call in, and it would voice-recognize and give you your search results. What a dog. Like I'd say "Barney Smurf" and it would search for Blarney Stone. Great stuff, you know, for me to poop on.
Anyway I'll happily take their useless scraps, and their nonexpiring cookie and their unstoppable Orkut/Gmail social information gathering machine. Because when they dump all that stuff into a federal database at the request of USA/PATRIOT, I won't be in there.
Google in putting Social Darwinism into action. You're stupid enough to sign away your privacy for something as simple as email, you deserve the consequences.
Ok this is so yesterday. I got my waver at Baja, people, and I can't love it enough. It's phat because I can totally wave it in front of any of the bartenders and like bam I have a drink. It's even better in the summer because it's like totally hot right now (third day of this awful humidity) and so I can wear like anything hot that I want and I don't have to carry a PURSE or those lame KEYCHAIN WALLETS and stuff. So anyway at the library once this guy was all freaking out on me about how I got "implanted" and I was going to be "tracked and monitored" and said "don't you read Slashdot?". He was gross and I ran away but that's how I found out about this site.
Anyway I've read here long enough to know that no one here is going to want a waver but that's cool because I'm just guessing here that only uncool ugly people are going to get all wigged about being cool and not having to carry a wallet. Which just means more hot guys at Baja for me.
Well, a price hike sucks. But stepping back to look at the big
picture, I have to say that we are in the middle of a huge step in the
right direction. As Apple continues its pursuit of Playfair, I'm sure
everyone has noticed a subtle paradigm shift not just in the tone of
people here on Slashdot but in the technical community at large.
When the MPAA sued 2600 for linking to some source code, a lot
of technical people got very upset. How could source code be banned?
It's free speech, isn't it? While many flavors of speech (from fire in
a crowded theater to bomb-making instructions) have been illegal for
years, this was the first time that dangerous technical speech was
being regulated. And for many, this meant the onset of Chicken Little
histrionics.
But the digital crowbar that spawned a million T-shirts only hurt the
movie industry. Technical people were slow to empathize with the
enrichment of Scientologists like Tom Cruise. And the "tyranny of the
majority" was definitely hampering the effectiveness of the DMCA,
halting the prosection of reverse engineers like Skylarov and
spreading decryption software like DeCSS across the globe.
With the advent of PlayFair, however, the shoe is now on the other
foot. Geeks are walking a mile in Rosen's shoes, and they are not
happy. For the first time, the technical community has something to
lose because an encryption scheme is under attack: iTunes may be going
away, with geeks standing to lose everything from TMBG to Devo to
Whitney Houston (all for 99c+ a song!) just because some software
developer decided to piss in the public pool.
And the paradigm shift is now very evident. In place of Slashdot
stories decrying the "MPAA witchhunt", we now have highly moderated
comments in support of Apple for taking the fight to their
attackers using the DMCA. And why not? After all it is much easier to
understand the Israeli use of helicopter assassination after you've
lived through your first bombing at a West Bank disco.
I think that this paradigm shift represents a crucial "turning of the
majority" in favor of accepting the DMCA. Once groups like EFF get on
board I think the final stone will be in place for Microsoft to
release a cheap "convergence device" that will allow pay-per-use
movies, games, music and all other digital media on trusted hardware
all across the globe. And the consumer will benefit.
I mean, which of us wouldn't defend Lode Runner for 99c a game?
Owning, posessing, transmitting or thinking about those 6 lines of code is punishable by ten years in prison, by a law Jack wrote himself. He's saying "un-fucking-believable" because he realizes the kid he is talking to is a living circumvention device, and the only successful solution is to legalize killing such people.
FYI, this is the man that wrote the law that Apple is using to persecute PlayFair to the cheers of everyone at Slashdot. So stop making fun of him.
The best part is Mike praying for her...
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That's Christian for "I'd like to be buried with you. Up to the balls".
I definitely want the Al Queda fuckers to die. Miserably. I just don't believe that Iraq has anything to do with that, though the foreign guerillas streaming into Iraq to shoot at Americans can all fucking eat shit and die.
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Sometimes I play an "Ultimate Frisbee-er". You should try it.
Apologies, but in my opinion massive page reloading to deny service is hardly "hacking". It's not even "cracking". What about reloading a page is innovative, clever, or technical?
Reminds you of Voltron, no? Gotta love the Japanese.
Robotic combat has always been about rulesets. Even battle bots had a no-projectiles no-flames no-EMP type ruleset. Otherwise, robotic combat in a small enclosed space would be a contest as to whom could fire their 30-mm recoilless rifle first when the contest started:
Announcer: GO (boom)
Announcer: And it looks like team Alphabot managed to fire first, team Betabot is a gigantic smoking hole in the ground! Exciting!
So, I have to say that limiting robots to a humanoid form and blunt impact weapons is a damned fine ruleset idea. Probably the most important part of this ruleset (besides being enourmously entertaining) is that instead of generating research into the best four wheeled dense flip-arm frisbee robot, it will generate research into highly articulated humaniform robots. Which would be, like, way more cool.
And stuff.
When I bought my Garmin Etrex, I wanted to use it to store mountain bike rides and overlay them with maps. Easy, right? Bah! I spent two weeks trying to find a way to do this on my Linux box before giving up. I ended up paying out of my rear end to buy expensive Garmin maps and closed source software. Even then, I couldn't mix and match tracks, let alone cut and paste sections of them together to make trail maps.
The other featuer I've always wanted is to do profile slices of my rides to see climbing and descending rates, especially during races.
All in all this toolkit sounds hugely promising, as the last time I looked at SF.net/Freshmeat the capabilities were nearly nil. All I want is a simple import module, track overlay over free downloadable maps, and a track editor...
I'm going to be spending the evening trying to get this stuff working, hopefully it will provide a replacement to my current Garmin/Microsoft solution!
Slashdot is far from un-moderated, quite the reverse. Take a look at my signature!
So they added a firewall which asks you if a program can access the Internet, but allows all the Microsoft ET-Phone-Home software to bypass its own firewall, thereby giving all non-Microsoft software a built-in disadvantage to not being released by the monopoly.
Interestingly, this means that worms and malware authors need only make themselves appear to be Microsoft software (if Microsoft can bypass its own firewall, the credentials will be reverse engineered) in order to continue to spam from zombie boxes without informing the user.
Secure Computing, yay!
As I recall we all got the system, cancelled the contract and hacked the P.C. Sounds like this time we do the same thing, but we don't have to hack it.
Any ideas on how to make their contract unenforcable? I'm thinking pseudonym + PO Box personally.
It is a violation of the terms of the GPL to take code from nmap and place it directly into a commercial product without disclosing the source code of the commercial product. In addition, nmap has extended the GPL to cover their databases.
However, nmap can be purchased in a closed-source version that can be included into commercial products. This information can be found on their web page (insecure.org). I have not enquired as to pricing but the closed-source version of nmap probably costs about as much as a 40-50 foot cabin cruiser, appproximately. Also I would be very surprised if the updates are free.
Note that when you submit a signature to the nmap project, you forfeit copyright. This is so nmap can be sold closed-source as well as released under GPL. The Open Source, GPL authors of nmap have a good plan for becoming millionaires from the GPL model. If you are smart and innovative you can do the same.
Nmap, for instance, is GPL'd Open Source software, and it is also sold to security companies for large amounts of money under a different license.
Narrow thinking is for narrow minds.
So if you're going 16 in a 15mph zone, and I drive into the side of your car by running a stop sign while going 15mph, you're at fault?
Awesome. Where do you live?
The flipside to this is that frivolous, non-innovative patents can be attacked without an infringment case - out of the blue - as restraint of trade, provided you have the cash to do so. If someone were to patent something obvious, let's say ordering a list of files by date, anyone can file a restraint of trade suit agianst the patent holder.
Linux's new backer, Big Blue, does have the lawyer army required to attack frivolous patents. The patent war may mean the true end of non-business-backed Linux. It also may mean the doom of companies that are senselessly patenting other people's inventions, and future security for Linux.
When you say "horning in on your resources", do you mean that when GM fires a CAD engineer, they have the right to keep that CAD engineer from doing CAD for the next two years, thereby ruining his resume?
That seems odd... thanks for the case law info though!
Am I the only one reminded of a daughter with bio based holographic implants, and a father so desperate to leave his company that he has signed up to be extracted by a small team of ninja/mercenaries?
Damn, Seagate's lead man trying to leave the company, hopefully things aren't as bad as Gibson imagined. Right?
These exist on the very fringe of legal contract law. I would be very surprised if any of them have withstood a jury trial. Can a legal agreement which prevents a worker from working to feed his family be legal? Non-competes are valid even if you are fired, meaning they can fire you and prevent you from working for a competitor, which is basically contractually enforced unemployment. This would seem to be highly UnAmerican(tm) and I think the courts would frown on it.
What is the case law precendent?
hasn't Bush already implemented legislation to address this? I know he stopped the cell stem threat...
I would guess that they are going to open source all their failed bombs from Google Research in the hopes that someone else can get them to work. Did anyone else here ever mess around with the phone search? You would open a window and then call in, and it would voice-recognize and give you your search results. What a dog. Like I'd say "Barney Smurf" and it would search for Blarney Stone. Great stuff, you know, for me to poop on.
Anyway I'll happily take their useless scraps, and their nonexpiring cookie and their unstoppable Orkut/Gmail social information gathering machine. Because when they dump all that stuff into a federal database at the request of USA/PATRIOT, I won't be in there.
Google in putting Social Darwinism into action. You're stupid enough to sign away your privacy for something as simple as email, you deserve the consequences.
I bought a Honda Accord in 1994, and when I bought a new one in 2004, they raised the price by almost eight thousand dollars!
It seems like with anything you buy today, you're at the mercy of the people working to make the product and sell it.
Ok this is so yesterday. I got my waver at Baja, people, and I can't love it enough. It's phat because I can totally wave it in front of any of the bartenders and like bam I have a drink. It's even better in the summer because it's like totally hot right now (third day of this awful humidity) and so I can wear like anything hot that I want and I don't have to carry a PURSE or those lame KEYCHAIN WALLETS and stuff. So anyway at the library once this guy was all freaking out on me about how I got "implanted" and I was going to be "tracked and monitored" and said "don't you read Slashdot?". He was gross and I ran away but that's how I found out about this site.
Anyway I've read here long enough to know that no one here is going to want a waver but that's cool because I'm just guessing here that only uncool ugly people are going to get all wigged about being cool and not having to carry a wallet. Which just means more hot guys at Baja for me.
Smack that ass, boyfriend!
Well, a price hike sucks. But stepping back to look at the big picture, I have to say that we are in the middle of a huge step in the right direction. As Apple continues its pursuit of Playfair, I'm sure everyone has noticed a subtle paradigm shift not just in the tone of people here on Slashdot but in the technical community at large.
When the MPAA sued 2600 for linking to some source code, a lot of technical people got very upset. How could source code be banned? It's free speech, isn't it? While many flavors of speech (from fire in a crowded theater to bomb-making instructions) have been illegal for years, this was the first time that dangerous technical speech was being regulated. And for many, this meant the onset of Chicken Little histrionics.
But the digital crowbar that spawned a million T-shirts only hurt the movie industry. Technical people were slow to empathize with the enrichment of Scientologists like Tom Cruise. And the "tyranny of the majority" was definitely hampering the effectiveness of the DMCA, halting the prosection of reverse engineers like Skylarov and spreading decryption software like DeCSS across the globe.
With the advent of PlayFair, however, the shoe is now on the other foot. Geeks are walking a mile in Rosen's shoes, and they are not happy. For the first time, the technical community has something to lose because an encryption scheme is under attack: iTunes may be going away, with geeks standing to lose everything from TMBG to Devo to Whitney Houston (all for 99c+ a song!) just because some software developer decided to piss in the public pool.
And the paradigm shift is now very evident. In place of Slashdot stories decrying the "MPAA witchhunt", we now have highly moderated comments in support of Apple for taking the fight to their attackers using the DMCA. And why not? After all it is much easier to understand the Israeli use of helicopter assassination after you've lived through your first bombing at a West Bank disco.
I think that this paradigm shift represents a crucial "turning of the majority" in favor of accepting the DMCA. Once groups like EFF get on board I think the final stone will be in place for Microsoft to release a cheap "convergence device" that will allow pay-per-use movies, games, music and all other digital media on trusted hardware all across the globe. And the consumer will benefit.
I mean, which of us wouldn't defend Lode Runner for 99c a game?
It only raises your TCO if you connect a Windows computer to a network.
They should acquire BSD, which will teach them how to continue dying... forever.
Owning, posessing, transmitting or thinking about those 6 lines of code is punishable by ten years in prison, by a law Jack wrote himself. He's saying "un-fucking-believable" because he realizes the kid he is talking to is a living circumvention device, and the only successful solution is to legalize killing such people.
FYI, this is the man that wrote the law that Apple is using to persecute PlayFair to the cheers of everyone at Slashdot. So stop making fun of him.
That's Christian for "I'd like to be buried with you. Up to the balls".
It really works, you know.
I definitely want the Al Queda fuckers to die. Miserably. I just don't believe that Iraq has anything to do with that, though the foreign guerillas streaming into Iraq to shoot at Americans can all fucking eat shit and die.