The question shouldn't be: "Will Sony/Verant shut down SWG auctions, like they did the EverQuest Auctions?" The question should be did you guys get permission to use the name Sony/Verant.
No proposed technical protection measures are strong enough to sustain a determined attack. Only in combination with models where the incentives to circumvent are limited, can technical solutions succeed.
Odd how companies are spending so many resources in hopes that they'll score a home run. What I find strange is, that when other technologies which where hip where introduced (eg. cassettes, vhs tapes, etc), I don't recall the same effort as the 400lb gorillas running around with an attache of lawyer goons. Why not just go back to the basics and protest against those technologies, they're still being used... Odd...
What is the feasibility of legal enforcement, both domestically and internationally? It is easy for researchers and market actors to forget that a solution that requires significant government intervention and enforcement is inherently bound to the confines of country boundaries and international treaties.
Comments such as these rather scare me into thinking that at some point companies will come together and force their own private hell with a one world order rule on the net. Sure it would be a difficult task, but money talks, and I'm sure if the top ten companies in every country got together and lobbied for something like this, they might actually get it going.
What are the impacts on user privacy and fair use? Privacy concerns frequently run counter to desires for economic efficiency. Therefore, any proposed solutions must acknowledge that there is a trade-off to be made. Fair use is important on its social merits alone, however, a broader adoption of fair and private uses will also serve to reduce user incentives to circumvent.
Situations such as these make some purposely circumvent policies and rules. Especially when they're (rules and policies) shoved down someone's throat.
This gives me the impression that prodution can actually slow down when workers use this. Think about it for a second. Workers on a production line become familiarized with undertaking tasks in a fashion that's helpful to themselves, they often get accustomed to doing things they way they want to which is sometimes faster than going through steps 1 - 5. By having to be told how to do things they have to stop and listen for one (which takes up time slows down production), and they have to deal with the impersonal feeling of now becoming robotic (if you will and I'll try to explain).
I think we all agree with the statement technoolgy has made things better all around, however sometimes it's not in our best interest to have everything modernized with technology. For instance if you called a local police precint in New York you get the ever-so-rude press one for whatever: press two for whatever: and so forth. Get to what I'm saying? Maybe companies should instead opt to have a debriefer course of sorts with their employees to ensure they have an understanding of things instead of forcing them to hear some tech talk which (to me) is rather impersonal
Thanks I didn't even check to see if the link was broken. It was a typo so I moved it over, and added a TCP/IP stack tuning guide to the original document.
Many people still use IRC for many things trading coding tips in C++, developing OS's (#freebsd, #openbsd, etc.), assisting newer users of the OS (#linuxhelp, #freebsdhelp). Many friends also use it as a means to communicate, and it's sad you do have some shitty channels but you shouldn't generalize everyone on IRC as being warez kiddies.
I noticed most of these attacks happening in the summer time which can be attributed to kids being out of school and having too much time on their hands. I've written a paper on stopping DoS attacks which can be found here, which deals with network based (router level), firewall, and kernel tweaks, to minimize a DoS attack.
Some of these idiots should check into a local clinic for psychiatric assistance, and stop ruining things for people who just want to chat.
We all have to stop and admire how paranoid governments are getting which is clearly demonstrated through all their so called tough new laws. Paranoid I say because they never seem to get it right, and oppression of that nature (of information) is likely to lead to higher incidences of anarchy. e.g. Mischievious teens with too much time on their hands are now sentenced to ten years for learning about computer security... Guess that profession will be out of the question there.
I wonder what would/can the AU government do to say someone who has a shell in another country and performs `scans` and runs a security based website with Virii as content? AU laws definitely don't apply here so I don't see what they intend to do when instances like these arise. Wouldn't it be sort of similar to someone leaving AU and moving to another country? So what do they intend to do, shaft someone in hopes no one notices. (trust me it happens)
Aside from that who cares if a provider tells encryption methods. Create a PGP key on your machine, in fact create 2 signing keys, your provider can surely know you're using PGP, now should any message you send be decrypted by anyone other than the recipient, the entire security world would be turned upside down, and cypherpunks would be hitting the keys to create the next best thing.
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But a few weeks ago, our CFO left. Our financial reports are over a year out of date (that is, it has been more than a year since any accounting period was fully closed to show profit or loss). Our inventory is a mess. I have been writing personal checks to keep our bank account in the black. It is hard to describe the problem in more detail without using technical accounting terminology and really bad language.
I never understood why a company (and I have seen this happen before) hires incompetent personnel, and allows them to do whatever suits them. I honestly feel bad for the company, but how much of the blame can be pushed off the the CFO, if no one is managing the company, and its workers.
Now I've never owned my own company, so I don't know the ins and outs of running a business, but if I didn't have my books on point to show what I am spending on, what I am getting in returns on a quarterly basis (not yearly) heads would roll.
Its easy to cast blame on someone who's walked out, or been fired, but the ignorance, or negligence (take your pick) of not running a company properly is not an excuse to throw out when firing someone, personally I would rather hear a "Sorry but we're tight right now" and not some "Oops my bad I didn't watch so and so"
Way to go BSD. On a slight twist of it all though, I'd like to know why is it so difficult for some to just download source as well for certain "mission critical" things such as running daemons on say an ecommerce machine.
Sure pkg_add'ing is good since it eases things up, but how does this bode for those who like to scrutinize code, and check for bugs before installing something on their machine. Don't get me wrong now, not saying check line for line everything you download because $INSERT_SECURITY_PARANOIA_HERE , but it would be nice for people to get used to good old source again, as well as the easier ports, and pkg'ing programs.
Sounds off base a slight bit, but hopefully someone can compile my thought for me, 3hours sleep a day does a mind no good.
Someone contact the makers of all these nanobots, as well as "The Learning Channel" staff and create "Nanobot Wars"... Who can create the toughest meanest little fscker on the planet. Only problem is how would the cameramen/women feel about shooting this... What if !#$ What if... The Nanobots build their own Nanobots!
I guess all those people who're complaining know little about turning off java, and java script. I've managed to go months on end without seeing pop ups since I see no need for viewing sites with it enabled anyway.
Could it be those who are complaining are the ones who end up getting bombarded with spam from porn, warez, and geoshitties pages? Personally I see more problems with cookies than I do with pop ups.
The problem is, Microsoft wishes to deny me the choice to use anything else, by making sure Microsoft "standards" are more prevalent than any other "standards", real or perceived, and ensuring
you can only take advantage of MS "standards" on MS platforms. Individual actions alone may not be
"smoking guns," but the sum of their actions and behaviour towards any potential competitors and
developers leads me to believe they wish to deny me and millions of others a choice we don't begrudge their customers.
That is wrong.
Think to yourself about what you've just summed up for the rest of those who would want to argue your points: Microsoft wishes to deny me the choice to use anything else Microsoft may wish to deny you a choice, if they decided today taht anything MS compatible HAD TO use ONLY MS based products you know what, they're only trying to deny you a choice, of which you could easily move away from Microsoft.
Doesn't that seem more logical than to always tread along the same thought of an evil corporation "assimilating" everything in site? Move away, go find another OS, show MS that by you using another OS they mean little to you. Isn't that sweeter justice than moaning and groaning about something out of your reach (MS' so called monopolization)?
By constantly playing into the same "MS is evil", "MS is assimilating", "MS must die", or any other form of thinking along those terms, you're no better than they are. However as someone who has moved away from their (MS') products, you can show that their is life aside from MS, and by contributing positively without all the name calling, finger pointing tactics, people will take a closer look to why others have move away from MS.
It's a nice project to have the FreeBSD ports universally available to other nix variant users, but the comment does little more than annoy. Instead of focusing such negative vibes, people should try to simmer down, and make positive moves under the nix community. Make standards, improve on existing ones, instead of waisting time with the childish games.
What possible significance could.NET have in such a world, where thousands of free software applications can be readily downloaded and configured especially for you, especially for a computer that is optimized according to your own personal needs and desires and none other? This
is the world where the user operates the distribution building tools, and we now have all of the components at hand, which are required to make this world real.
It's instances like this which will push MS over Unix in the end. "we now have all of the components at hand, which are required to make this world real." For business that have been using MS based products for years, many have made money using Windows so why would they want to switch when people keep up with the name calling and finger pointing? (re: GPL arguments vs. MS and vice versa)
This week, Microsoft announced that it will work with Corel to port the.NET Common Language Infrastructure and the C# programming language to open-source OS FreeBSD, a Linux competitor. Microsoft submitted the Common Language Infrastructure and C# to the ECMA standards body last October, and the company says that the FreeBSD implementation will be the first on a platform other than Windows. The company believes these tools will be used for academic, research, debugging, and learning purposes on FreeBSD.
For a company so evil, at least they're extending a hand, but according to some this is viewed as MS looking to stir up troubles in the open source community. Maybe so, but how is this comment any different from stirring up the same type of bias "What possible significance could.NET have in such a world, where thousands of free software applications can be readily downloaded and configured especially for you" hasn't anyone ever thought that there are Windows programmers who develop things on their own, post them at sites like Tucows, and are actually happy with using Windows.
All the more power to them, however the community should focus on creating, and making things better, not trying to pick fights. I used FreeBSD at home and Open for my server, and have a laptop with W2K that hasn't been used in eons, and each serve their own purpose, bottom line. Comments and write ups so biased to little to sway my vote of confidence in any OS just because someone claims it to be so much better. No sirs I'll be the judge of that as will most others, so why waste time beating a dead horse. It's these same comments used against the open source community.
Everyone wants to jump in on the action, and post why they're better, and oh by the way here are 30,000 more free programs. Yes 30,000 more free programs, 30,000 more comments, and now the whole concept is lost isn't it. Meanwhile MS stands out because they focus. So please focus on making things better not worse with such biasedness
Personally I feel that the thought of living in a "free world" was killed off long ago at the inception of government. Call me a loon conspiracy theorist if you will, but again let's look at the reality of tracking: Facial Recognition in Tampa, ease of tunnel toll devices to track speeding, Echelon, Digital Angel, and the countless others. So why does would anyone want a chip in government? My thoughts on this would be simple, they expect to catch tax cheats and criminals with it, however what's going to be done when we live in a society where we've become drones who can't think for ourselves?
Take a look at what the Secret Service did to Gold Age, a raid with no charges all because they cannot monitor what people do with their currency, which scares Big Brother since they don't have control of the situation at any given time.
Is monitoring currency good for you? No because of the abuse that could take place behind it. What happens to a business man say Bill Gates should he have an affair and pass some cash (which until now is untraceable, sure there's serial numbers but that wouldn't work) to say a call girl. Can you imagine the joy in someone's eye should they feel like blackmailing Bill because they tracked him. Sure it's not right to cheat but open your eyes and get an honest look at where things could go.
Meanwhile, narcissistic, me-to-me media have become fashionable online, the newest example of the confusion between what's neat and what's significant.
I beg to differ, most people according to survey's aren't browsing sites like Salon.com, Slashdot.org, Microsoft.com, for things. The majority of people aside from Slashdot'ers, and those involved with some form of computing related work, are searching for things on sites like Yahoo. Many others use the net for learning, many simply browse blindy. To compare above average Internet users is biased.
As good as many of them are, outside of their creators they don't command much attention. But modern corporations like Microsoft and AOL Time-Warner manufacture attention as much as anything else.
It's called marketing, and that's the only way these businesses will survive. What's so different about MS or AOL-TW advertising, than those who come around and leave a menu fliers near your door for their restaurant? If they had the same amount of money they'd do the same. Does it mean they're whoring their restaurant? Everyone does it, and it does not mean every company is a narcisst. Business, it's what makes the world go round.
They can do this by advertising, by the sales of synergistic products, or by political and media lobbying. They have the skills to manipulate regulators, elected officials and journalists and the money to bombard our consciousness with advertising and marketing.
They don't have any skills that others don't possess. They have money, and to state they have money to manipulate politicians although it may be correct, is a bit biased. Companies are companies, if a politician has stock in a company do you think he would honestly manipulate it in such a way to lose on his/her investment? By dealing with people like these, you should point them out, since it has nothing to do with the company entirely. Sure some companies do some back handed dealings, but that doesn't mean all politicians are underhanded scum.
Af if that stops working, they may be the first to start sending us checks.
They already do so via way of rebates, where have you been? There's nothing wrong with doing so either. There is no law against offering someone cash back for trying a product, or offering them rebates. If it makes people happy, all the better more power to the company for thinking it up.
For hundreds of years, attention has been a luxury or a by-product. Now it's become one of the most valuable commodities in the world. That suggests the people who will be the most successful at gaining attention are those with the deepest pockets to pay for it.
Attention will never be a luxury or commodity. Information on the other hand ALWAYS WAS and ALWAYS WILL BE. Companies come and go, bottom line, it's all about who generates revenue. Just because companies like MS, and AOL-TW may have someones attention now, if they disappeared tomorrow, they'll be forgotten due to some other company taking their place. However information is always useful, and always worth much more.
With news reports which claim that Sony's PS2 threatens the Department of Defense, I'm glad there's no way someone could say h4x0rs were to blame for a buffer overflow which caused Dick Cheney to have a heart attack or something
The first week after installing Zonealarm, you really get a feal for how many stupid pieces in you computer connect to whereever. Especially the windows components (with not-so-clear names) often send me off to check out a lot of stuff.
Isn't everyone an expert. I've been a firewall engineer while I studied (and still study) for my CCIE, and I can determing what's what. I've used Cisco Pix, Gauntlet, CP-1, Netscreens, you name it, and not once have I decided to ring the alarm because of connection attempts.
This is typical of people who don't understand networking, and security, period. Look before you leap is the old saying. So how is a simple connection, remember they're not a complete handshaking connection, going to cause you security issues? I've been so tired of hearing the typical bs. It's like when I'm on IRC, and some jackass swears someone is portscanning them for checking ports 8080, 3128, 80, when all thats being done is a quick proxy check,
Solution, don't get on the net if you're paranoid. Many things can seem to be intrusions, if you don't know how to weed them out, and especially if it's your job too, maybe you should take some classes in networking, and or security.
An exiled Chinese doctor says he had been forced to skin corpses of more than 100 executed prisoners and one convict who was still alive before escaping what he branded China's "evil" but lucrative organ harvesting trade.
Wang Guoqi, 38, a former army doctor and burns specialist, says in grisly testimony to a key United States congressional committee, that he was a member of teams of doctors who removed organs moments after convicts were put to death and passed them on for sale.
His testimony is the most public evidence yet presented in the United States by medical professionals and Chinese dissidents, of a practice which Chinese authorities insist is outlawed.
With all this tracking going on (Facial recognition in Tampa Bay, EZ-Pass for speeding, etc.) companies with these so called "new and hi tech" gadgets are going to end up making criminals look to hi tech gadgets in the future. Something law enforcement will end up dreading more than radar detectors.
Or we'll all end up zombies who won't learn the difference between right and wrong, since tech will end up deciding for us, and law enforcement will end up becoming a large military since crime won't exist, so many will end up getting replaced by a gadget. I'm glad to see that politicians have started acting out against what's being done nowadays. There's a lot of room for abuse in tech too. (Echelon used to spy against Japan, Echelong used to spy on Airbus for Boeing [10.7], etc.)
Anyone ever watch the movie Patriot Games, when Harrison Ford is watching thermal imaging of an assassination taking place, or Enemy of the State? Last Saturday I was watching "Eyes in the Sky" on Discovery Channel about Satellite Communications, and the things they stated were scary.
So what's next for government? Implants to monitor your every move, heartbeat, body temp, all connected via GPS? Spoke too soon
First it was port-scanning, now it seems that admins are crying wolf at any unknown client that connects to their network. Now I'm all for a dose of healthy paranoia, but is this going overboard?
You should have included somewhere on your documents, perhaps the FAQ, as to what exactly is being done by the client to ease the fears of clueless admins who ph34r j00. Seriously, place a quick Q&A as to why it connects to your site, for those who are too stupid to lsof|grep TCP && lsof|grep UDP to see nothing is happening.
After than make an autoresponder that points them to the url, after that case closed. Should they continue to harass you, then create a template complaint letter including what your program does, then fire it off to them and their upstream, and or bosses, to let them know your program is not some uber 31337 h4x0rspyw4r3 program on a mission.
I'm sure after they realize how stupid their concerns are, they'll piss off, or their bosses will rip em for being clueless admins.
2001-07-03 01:42:34 Lagest "object" in existence discovered (articles,space)
I was reading about this on BBC which posted a peculiar comment. First they said "a large planet was found..." then they stated it was not a planet but an object. Well hopefully if we ever received visitors they wouldn't say something like. "We've seen aliens... " and then "We're not sure if they're from another planet..." in the same article.
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The question shouldn't be: "Will Sony/Verant shut down SWG auctions, like they did the EverQuest Auctions?" The question should be did you guys get permission to use the name Sony/Verant.
No proposed technical protection measures are strong enough to sustain a determined attack. Only in combination with models where the incentives to circumvent are limited, can technical solutions succeed.
Odd how companies are spending so many resources in hopes that they'll score a home run. What I find strange is, that when other technologies which where hip where introduced (eg. cassettes, vhs tapes, etc), I don't recall the same effort as the 400lb gorillas running around with an attache of lawyer goons. Why not just go back to the basics and protest against those technologies, they're still being used... Odd...
What is the feasibility of legal enforcement, both domestically and internationally? It is easy for researchers and market actors to forget that a solution that requires significant government intervention and enforcement is inherently bound to the confines of country boundaries and international treaties.
Comments such as these rather scare me into thinking that at some point companies will come together and force their own private hell with a one world order rule on the net. Sure it would be a difficult task, but money talks, and I'm sure if the top ten companies in every country got together and lobbied for something like this, they might actually get it going.
What are the impacts on user privacy and fair use?
Privacy concerns frequently run counter to desires for economic efficiency. Therefore, any proposed solutions must acknowledge that there is a trade-off to be made. Fair use is important on its social merits alone, however, a broader adoption of fair and private uses will also serve to reduce user incentives to circumvent.
Situations such as these make some purposely circumvent policies and rules. Especially when they're (rules and policies) shoved down someone's throat.
This gives me the impression that prodution can actually slow down when workers use this. Think about it for a second. Workers on a production line become familiarized with undertaking tasks in a fashion that's helpful to themselves, they often get accustomed to doing things they way they want to which is sometimes faster than going through steps 1 - 5. By having to be told how to do things they have to stop and listen for one (which takes up time slows down production), and they have to deal with the impersonal feeling of now becoming robotic (if you will and I'll try to explain).
I think we all agree with the statement technoolgy has made things better all around, however sometimes it's not in our best interest to have everything modernized with technology. For instance if you called a local police precint in New York you get the ever-so-rude press one for whatever: press two for whatever: and so forth. Get to what I'm saying? Maybe companies should instead opt to have a debriefer course of sorts with their employees to ensure they have an understanding of things instead of forcing them to hear some tech talk which (to me) is rather impersonal
Jimmy Hoffa is buried in dem things der tuff guy
Thanks I didn't even check to see if the link was broken. It was a typo so I moved it over, and added a TCP/IP stack tuning guide to the original document.
Many people still use IRC for many things trading coding tips in C++, developing OS's (#freebsd, #openbsd, etc.), assisting newer users of the OS (#linuxhelp, #freebsdhelp). Many friends also use it as a means to communicate, and it's sad you do have some shitty channels but you shouldn't generalize everyone on IRC as being warez kiddies.
I noticed most of these attacks happening in the summer time which can be attributed to kids being out of school and having too much time on their hands. I've written a paper on stopping DoS attacks which can be found here, which deals with network based (router level), firewall, and kernel tweaks, to minimize a DoS attack.
Some of these idiots should check into a local clinic for psychiatric assistance, and stop ruining things for people who just want to chat.
We all have to stop and admire how paranoid governments are getting which is clearly demonstrated through all their so called tough new laws. Paranoid I say because they never seem to get it right, and oppression of that nature (of information) is likely to lead to higher incidences of anarchy. e.g. Mischievious teens with too much time on their hands are now sentenced to ten years for learning about computer security... Guess that profession will be out of the question there.
I wonder what would/can the AU government do to say someone who has a shell in another country and performs `scans` and runs a security based website with Virii as content? AU laws definitely don't apply here so I don't see what they intend to do when instances like these arise. Wouldn't it be sort of similar to someone leaving AU and moving to another country? So what do they intend to do, shaft someone in hopes no one notices. (trust me it happens)
Aside from that who cares if a provider tells encryption methods. Create a PGP key on your machine, in fact create 2 signing keys, your provider can surely know you're using PGP, now should any message you send be decrypted by anyone other than the recipient, the entire security world would be turned upside down, and cypherpunks would be hitting the keys to create the next best thing.
But a few weeks ago, our CFO left. Our financial reports are over a year out of date (that is, it has been more than a year since any accounting period was fully closed to show profit or loss). Our inventory is a mess. I have been writing personal checks to keep our bank account in the black. It is hard to describe the problem in more detail without using technical accounting terminology and really bad language.
I never understood why a company (and I have seen this happen before) hires incompetent personnel, and allows them to do whatever suits them. I honestly feel bad for the company, but how much of the blame can be pushed off the the CFO, if no one is managing the company, and its workers.
Now I've never owned my own company, so I don't know the ins and outs of running a business, but if I didn't have my books on point to show what I am spending on, what I am getting in returns on a quarterly basis (not yearly) heads would roll.
Its easy to cast blame on someone who's walked out, or been fired, but the ignorance, or negligence (take your pick) of not running a company properly is not an excuse to throw out when firing someone, personally I would rather hear a "Sorry but we're tight right now" and not some "Oops my bad I didn't watch so and so"
Way to go BSD. On a slight twist of it all though, I'd like to know why is it so difficult for some to just download source as well for certain "mission critical" things such as running daemons on say an ecommerce machine.
Sure pkg_add'ing is good since it eases things up, but how does this bode for those who like to scrutinize code, and check for bugs before installing something on their machine. Don't get me wrong now, not saying check line for line everything you download because $INSERT_SECURITY_PARANOIA_HERE , but it would be nice for people to get used to good old source again, as well as the easier ports, and pkg'ing programs.
Sounds off base a slight bit, but hopefully someone can compile my thought for me, 3hours sleep a day does a mind no good.
google cache (site was down it. URL too long to post one line for verification as well)
http://www.foresight.org/SciAmDebate/Round3.html
http://www.tcom.co.uk/hpnet/jt4.htm
Someone contact the makers of all these nanobots, as well as "The Learning Channel" staff and create "Nanobot Wars"
I guess all those people who're complaining know little about turning off java, and java script. I've managed to go months on end without seeing pop ups since I see no need for viewing sites with it enabled anyway.
Could it be those who are complaining are the ones who end up getting bombarded with spam from porn, warez, and geoshitties pages? Personally I see more problems with cookies than I do with pop ups.
The problem is, Microsoft wishes to deny me the choice to use anything else, by making sure Microsoft "standards" are more prevalent than any other "standards", real or perceived, and ensuring
you can only take advantage of MS "standards" on MS platforms. Individual actions alone may not be
"smoking guns," but the sum of their actions and behaviour towards any potential competitors and
developers leads me to believe they wish to deny me and millions of others a choice we don't begrudge their customers.
That is wrong.
Think to yourself about what you've just summed up for the rest of those who would want to argue your points: Microsoft wishes to deny me the choice to use anything else Microsoft may wish to deny you a choice, if they decided today taht anything MS compatible HAD TO use ONLY MS based products you know what, they're only trying to deny you a choice, of which you could easily move away from Microsoft.
Doesn't that seem more logical than to always tread along the same thought of an evil corporation "assimilating" everything in site? Move away, go find another OS, show MS that by you using another OS they mean little to you. Isn't that sweeter justice than moaning and groaning about something out of your reach (MS' so called monopolization)?
By constantly playing into the same "MS is evil", "MS is assimilating", "MS must die", or any other form of thinking along those terms, you're no better than they are. However as someone who has moved away from their (MS') products, you can show that their is life aside from MS, and by contributing positively without all the name calling, finger pointing tactics, people will take a closer look to why others have move away from MS.
It's a nice project to have the FreeBSD ports universally available to other nix variant users, but the comment does little more than annoy. Instead of focusing such negative vibes, people should try to simmer down, and make positive moves under the nix community. Make standards, improve on existing ones, instead of waisting time with the childish games.
My two cents on it all
is the world where the user operates the distribution building tools, and we now have all of the components at hand, which are required to make this world real.
It's instances like this which will push MS over Unix in the end. " we now have all of the components at hand, which are required to make this world real. " For business that have been using MS based products for years, many have made money using Windows so why would they want to switch when people keep up with the name calling and finger pointing? (re: GPL arguments vs. MS and vice versa)For a company so evil, at least they're extending a hand, but according to some this is viewed as MS looking to stir up troubles in the open source community. Maybe so, but how is this comment any different from stirring up the same type of bias "What possible significance could
All the more power to them, however the community should focus on creating, and making things better, not trying to pick fights. I used FreeBSD at home and Open for my server, and have a laptop with W2K that hasn't been used in eons, and each serve their own purpose, bottom line. Comments and write ups so biased to little to sway my vote of confidence in any OS just because someone claims it to be so much better. No sirs I'll be the judge of that as will most others, so why waste time beating a dead horse. It's these same comments used against the open source community.
Everyone wants to jump in on the action, and post why they're better, and oh by the way here are 30,000 more free programs. Yes 30,000 more free programs, 30,000 more comments, and now the whole concept is lost isn't it. Meanwhile MS stands out because they focus. So please focus on making things better not worse with such biasedness
Personally I feel that the thought of living in a "free world" was killed off long ago at the inception of government. Call me a loon conspiracy theorist if you will, but again let's look at the reality of tracking: Facial Recognition in Tampa, ease of tunnel toll devices to track speeding, Echelon, Digital Angel, and the countless others. So why does would anyone want a chip in government? My thoughts on this would be simple, they expect to catch tax cheats and criminals with it, however what's going to be done when we live in a society where we've become drones who can't think for ourselves?
Take a look at what the Secret Service did to Gold Age, a raid with no charges all because they cannot monitor what people do with their currency, which scares Big Brother since they don't have control of the situation at any given time.
Is monitoring currency good for you? No because of the abuse that could take place behind it. What happens to a business man say Bill Gates should he have an affair and pass some cash (which until now is untraceable, sure there's serial numbers but that wouldn't work) to say a call girl. Can you imagine the joy in someone's eye should they feel like blackmailing Bill because they tracked him. Sure it's not right to cheat but open your eyes and get an honest look at where things could go.
For those who want a lesson in politics and money I suggest reading "The End of Ordinary Money
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Meanwhile, narcissistic, me-to-me media have become fashionable online, the newest example of the confusion between what's neat and what's significant.
I beg to differ, most people according to survey's aren't browsing sites like Salon.com, Slashdot.org, Microsoft.com, for things. The majority of people aside from Slashdot'ers, and those involved with some form of computing related work, are searching for things on sites like Yahoo. Many others use the net for learning, many simply browse blindy. To compare above average Internet users is biased.
As good as many of them are, outside of their creators they don't command much attention. But modern corporations like Microsoft and AOL Time-Warner manufacture attention as much as anything else.
It's called marketing, and that's the only way these businesses will survive. What's so different about MS or AOL-TW advertising, than those who come around and leave a menu fliers near your door for their restaurant? If they had the same amount of money they'd do the same. Does it mean they're whoring their restaurant? Everyone does it, and it does not mean every company is a narcisst. Business, it's what makes the world go round.
They can do this by advertising, by the sales of synergistic products, or by political and media lobbying. They have the skills to manipulate regulators, elected officials and journalists and the money to bombard our consciousness with advertising and marketing.
They don't have any skills that others don't possess. They have money, and to state they have money to manipulate politicians although it may be correct, is a bit biased. Companies are companies, if a politician has stock in a company do you think he would honestly manipulate it in such a way to lose on his/her investment? By dealing with people like these, you should point them out, since it has nothing to do with the company entirely. Sure some companies do some back handed dealings, but that doesn't mean all politicians are underhanded scum.
Af if that stops working, they may be the first to start sending us checks.
They already do so via way of rebates, where have you been? There's nothing wrong with doing so either. There is no law against offering someone cash back for trying a product, or offering them rebates. If it makes people happy, all the better more power to the company for thinking it up.
For hundreds of years, attention has been a luxury or a by-product. Now it's become one of the most valuable commodities in the world. That suggests the people who will be the most successful at gaining attention are those with the deepest pockets to pay for it.
Attention will never be a luxury or commodity. Information on the other hand ALWAYS WAS and ALWAYS WILL BE. Companies come and go, bottom line, it's all about who generates revenue. Just because companies like MS, and AOL-TW may have someones attention now, if they disappeared tomorrow, they'll be forgotten due to some other company taking their place. However information is always useful, and always worth much more.
With news reports which claim that Sony's PS2 threatens the Department of Defense, I'm glad there's no way someone could say h4x0rs were to blame for a buffer overflow which caused Dick Cheney to have a heart attack or something
The first week after installing Zonealarm, you really get a feal for how many stupid pieces in you computer connect to whereever. Especially the windows components (with not-so-clear names) often send me off to check out a lot of stuff.
Isn't everyone an expert. I've been a firewall engineer while I studied (and still study) for my CCIE, and I can determing what's what. I've used Cisco Pix, Gauntlet, CP-1, Netscreens, you name it, and not once have I decided to ring the alarm because of connection attempts.
This is typical of people who don't understand networking, and security, period. Look before you leap is the old saying. So how is a simple connection, remember they're not a complete handshaking connection, going to cause you security issues? I've been so tired of hearing the typical bs. It's like when I'm on IRC, and some jackass swears someone is portscanning them for checking ports 8080, 3128, 80, when all thats being done is a quick proxy check,
Solution, don't get on the net if you're paranoid. Many things can seem to be intrusions, if you don't know how to weed them out, and especially if it's your job too, maybe you should take some classes in networking, and or security.
An exiled Chinese doctor says he had been forced to skin corpses of more than 100 executed prisoners and one convict who was still alive before escaping what he branded China's "evil" but lucrative organ harvesting trade.
Wang Guoqi, 38, a former army doctor and burns specialist, says in grisly testimony to a key United States congressional committee, that he was a member of teams of doctors who removed organs moments after convicts were put to death and passed them on for sale.
His testimony is the most public evidence yet presented in the United States by medical professionals and Chinese dissidents, of a practice which Chinese authorities insist is outlawed.
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Should have double checked... Lesson to be learned: NEVER POST WITHOUT having your coffee.
http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep.htm#10 Ref: 10.7
With all this tracking going on (Facial recognition in Tampa Bay, EZ-Pass for speeding, etc.) companies with these so called "new and hi tech" gadgets are going to end up making criminals look to hi tech gadgets in the future. Something law enforcement will end up dreading more than radar detectors.
Or we'll all end up zombies who won't learn the difference between right and wrong, since tech will end up deciding for us, and law enforcement will end up becoming a large military since crime won't exist, so many will end up getting replaced by a gadget. I'm glad to see that politicians have started acting out against what's being done nowadays. There's a lot of room for abuse in tech too. (Echelon used to spy against Japan, Echelong used to spy on Airbus for Boeing [10.7], etc.)
Anyone ever watch the movie Patriot Games, when Harrison Ford is watching thermal imaging of an assassination taking place, or Enemy of the State? Last Saturday I was watching "Eyes in the Sky" on Discovery Channel about Satellite Communications, and the things they stated were scary.
So what's next for government? Implants to monitor your every move, heartbeat, body temp, all connected via GPS? Spoke too soon
First it was port-scanning, now it seems that admins are crying wolf at any unknown client that connects to their network. Now I'm all for a dose of healthy paranoia, but is this going overboard?
You should have included somewhere on your documents, perhaps the FAQ, as to what exactly is being done by the client to ease the fears of clueless admins who ph34r j00. Seriously, place a quick Q&A as to why it connects to your site, for those who are too stupid to lsof|grep TCP && lsof|grep UDP to see nothing is happening.
After than make an autoresponder that points them to the url, after that case closed. Should they continue to harass you, then create a template complaint letter including what your program does, then fire it off to them and their upstream, and or bosses, to let them know your program is not some uber 31337 h4x0rspyw4r3 program on a mission.
I'm sure after they realize how stupid their concerns are, they'll piss off, or their bosses will rip em for being clueless admins.
2001-07-03 01:42:34 Lagest "object" in existence discovered (articles,space)
..." then they stated it was not a planet but an object. Well hopefully if we ever received visitors they wouldn't say something like. "We've seen aliens ... " and then "We're not sure if they're from another planet ..." in the same article.
I was reading about this on BBC which posted a peculiar comment. First they said "a large planet was found