The TOS reads: he following terms and conditions apply to all users who either registered for AIM services or downloaded AIM updates or software on or after February 5, 2004.
Many posts here are talking about using third party encryption tools to circumvent this.
This new TOS DOES NOT APPLY TO ME (nor to many of you). Why not? I didn't agree to their terms of service. I didn't sign up after 2/5/2004. I don't download AOL's AIM client. I use GAIM exclusively.
AOL, use the messages I haven't give you rights to, I dare you.
1. Send interesting messages 2. Wait until AOL uses one somehow. 3. Profit.
Take a look at http://www.lambdacs.com/debugger/debugger.html I'm sure a Hindsight sales person would (correctly) say this isn't a complete solution, but its the closest thing I've seen before this article.
During the debates in the US this year, we heard numerous questions about "should we be allowed to import drugs from Canda" rather than asking about the real problem: "Why should we even need to consider importing drugs from Canada?"
Why should the same drugs cost so much less in Canada?
Maybe one of the candidates would have actually spoken intelligently on patent law at that point.
We could drill through the ice on europa to determine if there's life in the sea underneath.
We could drill through the ice in the antarctic to determine if there's life in the lake underneath.
Lake vostok, deep beneath the antarctic ice, is the only place (we know of) on Earth with life which has been entirely isolated from human interference. we don't even know if life exists in it.
The alternate solution is to maintain the kernel interface in such a way that binary modules are compatible with ANY version of the core kernel. The driver is then compatible with ALL 2.6.X kernels. If a security bugfix (for example) needs to be made, so be it, but its perfectly reasonable to keep binary modules compatible across 90+% of kernel releases.
As much as I'd like to see all drivers open sourced, I think a consistent ABI for the kernel is more likely to lead to success.
JohnnyB, use your lightning powers to teach us ASM!
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I've watched a copy of the DVD, and really liked it. While it could have been better, it was still REALLY good. I haven't seen the movie in a couple of months, but the character in the movie is a WILLING corporate spy. However, there is alot about the movie that makes it clear he's not altogether happy with what he's doing.
I guess Elliot is now a more fitting epitaph for this sort of universe:
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
As opposed to the more uncertain Frost:
Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Hatch has released many original compositions of his own. He's got over 500 songs available on many many CDs. As a musician, certainly, he's got a strong opinion...
By Garfinkel's logic, we already have linux virii. Under Windows, the general feeling is "oh crap, I've executed some rogue code or let my browser or mail reader (or whatever) execute it for me, and now I'm infected." While Linux people think "That foolish sysadmin ran that as root, thats what you get. Let this be a lesson to you all." As someone else said, the general user population is much more sophisticated, but it's also worth noting that the general population is also much less forgiving.
Most people have the attitude "Unix is (relatively) secure, any virus is using an exploit and replicating itself (a worm) or it's user error."
A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4. Unless it is divisible by 100 and NOT divisble by 400 (1700,1800,1900,2100). 1600 and 2000 ARE leap years.
A woman in california took the same tactic with her visa bill with an online casino. and WON. Many thousands of dollars of gambled away credit card debt was forgiven.
How many pieces of software could NOT be used in an illegal way? I could write a ransom note in Word on my Windows 95 machine. I could then send it to you via E-mail. I guess that also implicates my AOL software, sendmail and the copy of Eudora you use to read it. I suppose that means we'd better round up their development teams and cart them off to jail. Grab the Mozilla team while you're at it... I just looked at some illegal pornography and those developers assisted me.
The user should ALWAYS be held responsible. Developers are blameless... unless they play another role in the problem (such as misrepresenting their software) "Oh yeah, run this 'internet_worm' program, it's even more fun than Zork!"
If I create an AI lifeform, and it commits a crime, who is at fault?
There are almost a half dozen implementations of the win32 API on *NIX platforms already. The only one I can think off the top of my head is (was) WINdu by Bristol Technologies. They tried to play rough with microsoft; ended up suing M$ and getting their source license taken away.
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The TOS reads:
he following terms and conditions apply to all users who either registered for AIM services or downloaded AIM updates or software on or after February 5, 2004.
Many posts here are talking about using third party encryption tools to circumvent this.
This new TOS DOES NOT APPLY TO ME (nor to many of you). Why not?
I didn't agree to their terms of service.
I didn't sign up after 2/5/2004.
I don't download AOL's AIM client. I use GAIM exclusively.
AOL, use the messages I haven't give you rights to, I dare you.
1. Send interesting messages
2. Wait until AOL uses one somehow.
3. Profit.
Take a look at
http://www.lambdacs.com/debugger/debugger.html I'm sure a Hindsight sales person would (correctly) say this isn't a complete solution, but its the closest thing I've seen before this article.
I, for one, welcome our new UNconcerned overlords.
During the debates in the US this year, we heard numerous questions about "should we be allowed to import drugs from Canda" rather than asking about the real problem: "Why should we even need to consider importing drugs from Canada?"
Why should the same drugs cost so much less in Canada?
Maybe one of the candidates would have actually spoken intelligently on patent law at that point.
There was some evidence that Viking found
life on Mars back in the 1970s.
Look, an X-box is invovled here...p g
http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead/mesa1.j
No text.
The best tip I can give anyone who is "unusually but non-traditionally 'bright'":
Shower regularly.
Then you're not nerdy enough. Go watch Colossus: The Forbin Project a couple of times.
Its powered by Tidal waves?
Really, how often do they have Tsunami there?
We could drill through the ice on europa to determine if there's life in the sea underneath.
We could drill through the ice in the antarctic to determine if there's life in the lake underneath.
Lake vostok, deep beneath the antarctic ice, is the only place (we know of) on Earth with life which has been entirely isolated from human interference. we don't even know if life exists in it.
Discuss.
The alternate solution is to maintain the kernel interface in such a way that binary modules are compatible with ANY version of the core kernel.
The driver is then compatible with ALL 2.6.X kernels. If a security bugfix (for example) needs to be made, so be it, but its perfectly reasonable to keep binary modules compatible across 90+% of kernel releases.
As much as I'd like to see all drivers open sourced, I think a consistent ABI for the kernel is more likely to lead to success.
JohnnyB, use your lightning powers to teach us ASM!
I've watched a copy of the DVD, and really liked it. While it could have been better, it was still REALLY good.
I haven't seen the movie in a couple of months, but the character in the movie is a WILLING corporate spy. However, there is alot about the movie that makes it clear he's not altogether happy with what he's doing.
I can't wait to buy the R1 DVD...
I guess Elliot is now a more fitting epitaph for this sort of universe: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper As opposed to the more uncertain Frost: Some say the world will end in fire; Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
Hatch has released many original compositions of his own. He's got over 500 songs available on many many CDs. As a musician, certainly, he's got a strong opinion...
By Garfinkel's logic, we already have linux virii. Under Windows, the general feeling is "oh crap, I've executed some rogue code or let my browser or mail reader (or whatever) execute it for me, and now I'm infected." While Linux people think "That foolish sysadmin ran that as root, thats what you get. Let this be a lesson to you all."
As someone else said, the general user population is much more sophisticated, but it's also worth noting that the general population is also much less forgiving.
Most people have the attitude "Unix is (relatively) secure, any virus is using an exploit and replicating itself (a worm) or it's user error."
finger and sendmail exploits, Morris gave us a two for one special.
The 2038 bug is sure to pull them out of that depression!
A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4. Unless it is divisible by 100 and NOT divisble by 400 (1700,1800,1900,2100). 1600 and 2000 ARE leap years.
When I was a boy, we had to use a red box if we wanted to get free long distance. They didn't have any of this fancy IP telephony stuff!
I wonder if the laws of various countries against reverse engineering apply to the genetic code?
A woman in california took the same tactic with her visa bill with an online casino. and WON.
Many thousands of dollars of gambled away credit card debt was forgiven.
How many pieces of software could NOT be used in an illegal way?
I could write a ransom note in Word on my Windows 95 machine. I could then send it to you via E-mail. I guess that also implicates my AOL software, sendmail and the copy of Eudora you use to read it. I suppose that means we'd better round up their development teams and cart them off to jail.
Grab the Mozilla team while you're at it... I just looked at some illegal pornography and those developers assisted me.
The user should ALWAYS be held responsible.
Developers are blameless... unless they play another role in the problem (such as misrepresenting their software) "Oh yeah, run this 'internet_worm' program, it's even more fun than Zork!"
If I create an AI lifeform, and it commits a crime, who is at fault?
There are almost a half dozen implementations of the win32 API on *NIX platforms already.
The only one I can think off the top of my head is (was) WINdu by Bristol Technologies. They tried to play rough with microsoft; ended up suing M$ and getting their source license taken away.