Doing the same thing as spyware on your own can get you some years in jail. But if you act as beeing a company doing profit with this stuff then it's perfectly legal.
No, the opposite is true (by your own argumentation). If more people would start to use it for everyday communication it would become hard for them to notice you.
I cannot (or will not;-)) believe that more encryption would make it illegal for the average joe. How will they explain that gouvernments and corporations need encryption but you don't?
Why do we need to be actively threatened before we can improve our military?
No country in the world would ever try to take a fight into USA. It's because the US has enough nukes to make live on earth dissapear. So the only reason to build new weapons is to win "conventional" wars started by the US against some other country.
If this inititive makes our military SMALLER by reducing the number of active troops required, would it then make you happy?
You would not need such an amount of troops if not for invading other countries.
Actually it is technology and progress that has given us the ability to selectively kill so effectively, that the last 60 years have been among the most peaceful (statistically) in history.
Are you on crack? Or the ones who modded you up?
Go and
read about some wars, dumbass.
In this case it doesn't take a genius to get a exploit from the vulnerability.
Now tell me how one should possibly explain the vulnerability without giving a strong hint on how to build the exploit ?
How about:
Please change your browser because otherwise you will get rooted (i cannot explain why, please, please believe me).
Would you take this serious ? And what amount of time would it take to find a exploit for a explanation like this:
Found a serious buffer owerflow in IE when loading
a bitmap image...
This would result in exploits in a couple of hours and would give only the false impression that there are no exploits up to now...
The source code is leaked since friday and you don't gain anything by telling only Microsoft that this and that vulnerability exists. Till they fix it its to late. And without a proof of concept everyone could claim he found a serious bug.
Yes, its disgusting. People all over the world have to face the results of a global capitalism. Somewhere people are dying because of it.
If you want to whine about something than start with them.
I don't think we should punish virus writers at all. Try to see it this way. If not for virus writers todays systems would be far less secure. In the long run viruses improve the security. Hell, let them expoid every hole they find, so we know about it. And what is all this fuss about the costs of a virus. If a virus can cost millions than this is not the fault of the writer. In the real world you would not hide millions in a trashcan in front of your house and not expect it to be stolen by someone.
The scariest thing is this: if Yahoo! are not big enough to stand up to stupid patents about web application technology, then who is?
Maybe they have their own stupid patents waiting to be "used" one day. I think this is the main reasons why big companies pay for it. They have to be nice to each other because that's the only way to make a buissness with this crap. If they pay each other today will let us pay tomorrow.
A session ID can be used to track a user within a single session only. Cookies can be used to track users over multiple sessions. From multiple sessions one can build a profile. I think that's the difference.
Legislation for spam would just encourage the politicians to regulate more and more parts of the internet. In order to execute those laws the next thing they would demand is more control.
It is still our net and we should take care of it ourselves.
I would rather spend 10 minutes everyday to clean up my mailfolder than to give politicians the opportunity to get more control over the internet.
I am sure you are also glad that you are able to burn YOUR OWN cd's these days, are able to go 100 miles per hour with YOUR car, etc..
The point of the submission was not that everything should be free. If everybody provides some hardware it is not free. And the part with the fiber optics is how it is done today. The question was: if you try to think very hard can you imagine a way to do it without fiber optics (even if this way is not reasonable now)? Maybe there is no way to get around
fiber optics across the ocean any time soon. But it is definitly not necessary to put it in every house now. I am sure you could not have afforded a mobile like the one you have now 20 years ago or a computer like the one you are sitting in front of 10 years ago. Maybe you will have a tiny version of those big expensive radio transmitters in you living room 10 years from now. Got it ?
I am really surprised by this many oversmarts here. I thought beeing a slashdotter would somehow relate to beeing interested in new ideas even if they are not obvious as you said.
No, the article is not lame. Well maybe, but the question is not. It's far more interesting to think about a peer to peer internet that is not controlled centrally (even if submitter missed the networking class in college as someone else pointed out) than to read the latest about SCO, Microsoft is doing this or that or similar. It's not the story itself that makes a good submission (intelligence, forethought, and anything else), it's what the thousands of geeks are doing with it. After all you are not watching television here, are you ?
Not evil by itself but evil if it get's out of proportion or out of control. There must be a very good reason to ask for secrecy when it comes to law enforcement. And to get to know the source of spam you certainly don't need it. It's not even common law that spam is illegal (personally i think it is) so how can we talk about law enforcement anyway?
This idea that because something exists in a digital rather than a physical form means that by copying it you are not harming the industry is crazy.
What's wrong with harming this industry? You have to think of this industry as beeing unnatural these days.
Protecting this industry would require a rather unproportional (crazy) amount of control.
Before Gutenberg one could not make much money by writing books or copying them and before the invention of expensive machines to copy analog music there was not much money to gain by beeing a musician or by selling a musicians work.
Now the machines got even better (digital) and copying got affordable for the average joe (not only by means of the act of copying itself but also by the means of finding the stuff to copy).
So think of it as beeing in the pre-Gutenberg era again.
And don't be afraid. From what i've heard a lot of people did their own music back then...;-)
No, they don't feel save. They just don't know any more what it feels like. Actually they are so scared that they will desperatly do what you want them to. They are really fucked up.
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Today its a patent law, industrial monopoly, intellectual property and other bullshit discussion board. It's dead...
Doing the same thing as spyware on your own can get you some years in jail. But if you act as beeing a company doing profit with this stuff then it's perfectly legal.
No, the opposite is true (by your own argumentation). If more people would start to use it for everyday communication it would become hard for them to notice you.
;-)) believe that more encryption would make it illegal for the average joe. How will they explain that gouvernments and corporations need encryption but you don't?
I cannot (or will not
No country in the world would ever try to take a fight into USA. It's because the US has enough nukes to make live on earth dissapear. So the only reason to build new weapons is to win "conventional" wars started by the US against some other country.
If this inititive makes our military SMALLER by reducing the number of active troops required, would it then make you happy?
You would not need such an amount of troops if not for invading other countries.
Actually it is technology and progress that has given us the ability to selectively kill so effectively, that the last 60 years have been among the most peaceful (statistically) in history.
Are you on crack? Or the ones who modded you up? Go and read about some wars, dumbass.
Please change your browser because otherwise you will get rooted (i cannot explain why, please, please believe me).
Would you take this serious ? And what amount of time would it take to find a exploit for a explanation like this:
Found a serious buffer owerflow in IE when loading a bitmap image...
This would result in exploits in a couple of hours and would give only the false impression that there are no exploits up to now...
The source code is leaked since friday and you don't gain anything by telling only Microsoft that this and that vulnerability exists. Till they fix it its to late. And without a proof of concept everyone could claim he found a serious bug.
Yes, its disgusting. People all over the world have to face the results of a global capitalism. Somewhere people are dying because of it. If you want to whine about something than start with them.
I don't think we should punish virus writers at all.
Try to see it this way. If not for virus writers todays systems would be far less secure. In the long run viruses improve the security. Hell, let them expoid every hole they find, so we know about it.
And what is all this fuss about the costs of a virus. If a virus can cost millions than this is not the fault of the writer. In the real world you would not hide millions in a trashcan in front of your house and not expect it to be stolen by someone.
one knock = one bit.
and some additional bits for error correction...
Topics like "Idiot X proposes Y" or "X from SCO says..." should appear together in a stupidity/asshole ranking poll, that is all they deserve.
Maybe they have their own stupid patents waiting to be "used" one day. I think this is the main reasons why big companies pay for it. They have to be nice to each other because that's the only way to make a buissness with this crap. If they pay each other today will let us pay tomorrow.
A session ID can be used to track a user within a single session only. Cookies can be used to track users over multiple sessions. From multiple sessions one can build a profile. I think that's the difference.
Legislation for spam would just encourage the politicians to regulate more and more parts of the internet. In order to execute those laws the next thing they would demand is more control.
It is still our net and we should take care of it ourselves.
I would rather spend 10 minutes everyday to clean up my mailfolder than to give politicians the opportunity to get more control over the internet.
The parent is right:
Our internal notion of the truth is not text.Maybe I should start a buisness right now: "Red pills, tasty red pills (- all i offer is the truth -)! Wanna have a little red pill?"
I am sure you are also glad that you are able to burn YOUR OWN cd's these days, are able to go 100 miles per hour with YOUR car, etc.. The point of the submission was not that everything should be free. If everybody provides some hardware it is not free. And the part with the fiber optics is how it is done today. The question was: if you try to think very hard can you imagine a way to do it without fiber optics (even if this way is not reasonable now)? Maybe there is no way to get around fiber optics across the ocean any time soon. But it is definitly not necessary to put it in every house now. I am sure you could not have afforded a mobile like the one you have now 20 years ago or a computer like the one you are sitting in front of 10 years ago. Maybe you will have a tiny version of those big expensive radio transmitters in you living room 10 years from now. Got it ?
If i could only give you some mod points ;-).
I am really surprised by this many oversmarts here. I thought beeing a slashdotter would somehow relate to beeing interested in new ideas even if they are not obvious as you said.
No, the article is not lame. Well maybe, but the question is not. It's far more interesting to think about a peer to peer internet that is not controlled centrally (even if submitter missed the networking class in college as someone else pointed out) than to read the latest about SCO, Microsoft is doing this or that or similar. It's not the story itself that makes a good submission (intelligence, forethought, and anything else), it's what the thousands of geeks are doing with it. After all you are not watching television here, are you ?
Not evil by itself but evil if it get's out of proportion or out of control. There must be a very good reason to ask for secrecy when it comes to law enforcement. And to get to know the source of spam you certainly don't need it. It's not even common law that spam is illegal (personally i think it is) so how can we talk about law enforcement anyway?
What's wrong with harming this industry? You have to think of this industry as beeing unnatural these days.
Protecting this industry would require a rather unproportional (crazy) amount of control.
Before Gutenberg one could not make much money by writing books or copying them and before the invention of expensive machines to copy analog music there was not much money to gain by beeing a musician or by selling a musicians work.
Now the machines got even better (digital) and copying got affordable for the average joe (not only by means of the act of copying itself but also by the means of finding the stuff to copy).
So think of it as beeing in the pre-Gutenberg era again.
And don't be afraid. From what i've heard a lot of people did their own music back then... ;-)
it's like the dinosaurs. only in this case they think they can survive by arguing (actually lying, scaring,...).
has anyone seen evolution? we need it here right now...
it seems to be a common "concept" these days that one can fight evil with evil ,-)
it's like cutting your leg to save your finger...
No, they don't feel save. They just don't know any more what it feels like. Actually they are so scared that they will desperatly do what you want them to. They are really fucked up.
Who cares what algorithm they use? Why someone would support a 'No Fly' database is beyond me.
I think people are either criminal (means they should be kept in prison) or not.
Guys like you make me really afraid. For you it's only a technical problem, is it?
Hey moron. You wasted precious time. Or do you think you will get compensated for the lines you wrote?
Ok, then thank you for this information.
Anyhow,i think there must be a clear statement that www.al-jazeera.us is not related to Al-Jazeera TV.