A lot of the posts here have been saying that all the "censored" stories on the site are all liberal, ant-american, etc, and wondering why they don't print another story. The site isn't purporting to have EVERY single censored or underreported story-just the ones that they find important.
Even if the site has a liberal slanting, which it probably does, that has NO effect on whether those stories they linked to are accurate, or whether they're accurate in saying that they were censored or underreported.
So, if you disagree with the authors of this site, provide proof that the content of the stories is false. Even if this was posted on the Liberal Anti-American Web Site, that doesn't affect the validity of their opinion and those linked to.
Any passably competent cracker should be able to take control of a Windows box in short order.
How the heck do you figure that? Just because there's been one exploit in the last week or so (No, if the user consents to it, it's not an exploit) doesn't mean that every Windows box can be cracked. Sure, I bet if you got a very skilled hacker he could probably control the box in a couple days, assuming the person administering the machine wasn't very skillful. But, short of a recently-dsicovered, not-yet-patched exploit being found, if the machine is well patched and had minimal services running, what is said cracker going to do, Will it to send him the password by just his sense of superiority?
I mean, I realize that there are exploits that get discovered every so often, but a Sysadmin who patches the boxes on a regular basis shouldn't have much trouble.
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It's a neat idea, but if you find a way to get the OSS community to donate 125 million dollars, you'd prolly be better off writing a new GPL'd version from scratch.
I can't say that I'v read the GPL, but from reading these comments it seems that if you do not distribute something, you don't need to release the source code for the changes.
If that is correct, why could some corporation not take code licensed under the GPL, use a "compiler" that would replace the unmodified GPL'd code with their own modified code and then compile that? The code compiled would technically be the old, unmodified code, which the company would freely provide the source code for. The company wouldn't have to provide the code for their "compiler" since it wouldn't be distributed.
Net result? End of the GPL.
Any ideas on whether this would work?
-Neil
Something I've wondered about: If the RIAA sues you, you defend yourself with a lawyer and win, couldn't you counter-sue to pay for the lawyer's fees,and also some damages due to defamation? Otherwise, I would imagine the RIAA would just sue everyone in America and make trillions.
-Neil
Although I don't support the MPAA's style of attacking P2P and filesharing in general because of piracy, you've got to admit that the MPAA isn't as bad as the RIAA in the prices of media. You can pretty much either:
Spend $20 to buy a DVD of a movie, or
Spend $20 to buy a cd in which you probably will like 2-3 songs.
In that aspect, I don't think the MPAA is doing such a bad job in pricing their products appropriately. -Neil
I read O'Reilly's Learning Java (1st Edition) and really liked the way the book is written. Its no-bs way of shwoing the concepts is useful for beginners who want to learn the structure of the language, and for experts, who use it as a reference for the advanced concepts. All in all, I'd recommend it thoroughly.
-Neil
It looked like in graphic at the site that the no-fly areas were defined by GPS coordinates. So, what is to prevent the terrorists, once they are in control of the plane, to alter the GPS receiver, so that the area they are not allowed to fly in is the north pole?
Also, couldn't this system normally be off and only turned on if contact was lost with the presumably hijacked plane? The pilots would certainly appreciate that.
-Neil
My guess would be that it would have a small memory containing an identifier for the each ink cartridge that had been used. Each ink cartridge would have a very small chip containing this identifier. If the printer saw a cartridge's amount go up (refilled) then it would "ban" that cartridge from being used. However, you would still be able to refill then swap with your friends, if you have any. -Neil
Let's see, a little math: 2^2048 is about 3.23 x 10^616 They've tried about 17 billion keys, which is approximately none of that. There are, as a higher estimate, 10^81 atoms in the universe. If they tried 10 trillion keys a day, it would take them only 8.85 x 10^597 years. There becomes a point where hope should be considered idiocricy.
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A lot of the posts here have been saying that all the "censored" stories on the site are all liberal, ant-american, etc, and wondering why they don't print another story. The site isn't purporting to have EVERY single censored or underreported story-just the ones that they find important.
Even if the site has a liberal slanting, which it probably does, that has NO effect on whether those stories they linked to are accurate, or whether they're accurate in saying that they were censored or underreported.
So, if you disagree with the authors of this site, provide proof that the content of the stories is false. Even if this was posted on the Liberal Anti-American Web Site, that doesn't affect the validity of their opinion and those linked to.
-Neil
Any passably competent cracker should be able to take control of a Windows box in short order.
How the heck do you figure that? Just because there's been one exploit in the last week or so (No, if the user consents to it, it's not an exploit) doesn't mean that every Windows box can be cracked. Sure, I bet if you got a very skilled hacker he could probably control the box in a couple days, assuming the person administering the machine wasn't very skillful. But, short of a recently-dsicovered, not-yet-patched exploit being found, if the machine is well patched and had minimal services running, what is said cracker going to do, Will it to send him the password by just his sense of superiority?
I mean, I realize that there are exploits that get discovered every so often, but a Sysadmin who patches the boxes on a regular basis shouldn't have much trouble.
It's a neat idea, but if you find a way to get the OSS community to donate 125 million dollars, you'd prolly be better off writing a new GPL'd version from scratch.
I can't say that I'v read the GPL, but from reading these comments it seems that if you do not distribute something, you don't need to release the source code for the changes.
If that is correct, why could some corporation not take code licensed under the GPL, use a "compiler" that would replace the unmodified GPL'd code with their own modified code and then compile that? The code compiled would technically be the old, unmodified code, which the company would freely provide the source code for. The company wouldn't have to provide the code for their "compiler" since it wouldn't be distributed.
Net result? End of the GPL.
Any ideas on whether this would work?
-Neil
Something I've wondered about:
If the RIAA sues you, you defend yourself with a lawyer and win, couldn't you counter-sue to pay for the lawyer's fees,and also some damages due to defamation? Otherwise, I would imagine the RIAA would just sue everyone in America and make trillions.
-Neil
Although I don't support the MPAA's style of attacking P2P and filesharing in general because of piracy, you've got to admit that the MPAA isn't as bad as the RIAA in the prices of media. You can pretty much either:
Spend $20 to buy a DVD of a movie, or
Spend $20 to buy a cd in which you probably will like 2-3 songs.
In that aspect, I don't think the MPAA is doing such a bad job in pricing their products appropriately.
-Neil
I read O'Reilly's Learning Java (1st Edition) and really liked the way the book is written. Its no-bs way of shwoing the concepts is useful for beginners who want to learn the structure of the language, and for experts, who use it as a reference for the advanced concepts. All in all, I'd recommend it thoroughly. -Neil
It looked like in graphic at the site that the no-fly areas were defined by GPS coordinates. So, what is to prevent the terrorists, once they are in control of the plane, to alter the GPS receiver, so that the area they are not allowed to fly in is the north pole? Also, couldn't this system normally be off and only turned on if contact was lost with the presumably hijacked plane? The pilots would certainly appreciate that. -Neil
My guess would be that it would have a small memory containing an identifier for the each ink cartridge that had been used. Each ink cartridge would have a very small chip containing this identifier. If the printer saw a cartridge's amount go up (refilled) then it would "ban" that cartridge from being used. However, you would still be able to refill then swap with your friends, if you have any.
-Neil
Let's see, a little math:
2^2048 is about 3.23 x 10^616
They've tried about 17 billion keys, which is approximately none of that.
There are, as a higher estimate, 10^81 atoms in the universe.
If they tried 10 trillion keys a day, it would take them only 8.85 x 10^597 years.
There becomes a point where hope should be considered idiocricy.