I recently read an article describing how an unscrupulous individual could use a felt-tip marker to defeat the copyright protection on a CD. Being an artist, I have a large number of felt-tip markers in my possession. Do I risk being sued under the DMCA for being in possession of a device for circumventing copyright protection? What if I lend one to a friend? Is this considered distributing a device for circumventing copyright protection? I'd appreciate an answer on this... I want nothing more than to be an upstanding citizen.
When I was 19 I accepted a full time tech position at a university. It's fairly easy to move up the ranks... you can double your salary in less than 3 years. They also pay for two classes a semester. Granted, you might be a bit older than you originally planned when you get your piece of paper, but you'll have a degree, PLUS a great amount of experience. Most universities also tend to encourage new ideas... it's almost like corporate america with a brain.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped or turned back, for their private benefit." --Robert Henlein
Unlike 99% of the other operating systems out there, Mandrake 8.2 actually included updates as part of the install process. When Joe User goes to install 8.2 six months from now after X number of holes have been found, it'll automatically bring the system up to the current patch level _before_ bringing the entire system online.
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Tired of applying patches to IIS? Tired of checking if your machine is infected with CodeRed? I've found the cure-all. And best of all, it's free!
FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD running their mail servers on a linux box.
Oracle using Microsoft SQL to power their site.
Sun having a server powered by FreeBSD.
These companies all believe in their product. What does this say about Microsoft? I don't ever remember a time that they tried to convince me to run a FreeBSD server...
One of the major problems I had running XFree86 on a laptop was having to switch between a port replicator (aka docking station) and using the laptop's display. For those of you that don't know, a port replicator lets you use a standard monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. Switching between various XF86Config files got to be a royal pain in the arse.
So... those with laptops give this option a try in XF86Config: Option "UseBIOSDisplay"
It lets you switch between monitors without changing the config file. Haven't had a problem yet.
This seems more and more to apply to the government today...
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and
to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To
prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Before all the comments start to fly about how it is good that Microsoft is willing to use products other than their own, I'd like to remind everyone of the theory of eating your own dog food. Companies, no matter how large or small, should all be willing to use their own product if they insist other people should use it. I had (had being they key word here) done WinNT support for quite some time and never once did I hear Microsoft customer support say anything along the lines of "it might be better if you used Oracle instead of Microsoft SQL for this project." Microsoft has constantly pushed their products, no matter how unstable or under-equipped, as the end all be all solution for every problem. The fact that they are unable to use their own products to support services that they own and administer clearly illustrates the poor quality of their products. How much faith would you have in Apache if you learned that they were running IIS on their webservers instead of their own product? Articles such as this should be staple reading for anyone wishing to switch to an NT shop.
I can see it now: Quake map designer sues nVidia for violation of the DMCA. "They circumvented my protection I placed on the other players by putting walls in the map." Gawd damn, go call Jack Valenti.
Wow, didn't mean to touch the sacred cow. Just a funny little quip on my part, didn't mean to offend you. As for stability, you obviously never administered a 250+ NT domain. It was daily practice to walk around every morning and reboot BSOD'd machines, which usually numbered between 5 - 10. I'm sure the X-Box will be the pinnacle of stability and reliablity, and many toasters and microwaves will have their rom based off of it.
Hmmmm, let's think here. I'm sure Microsoft goes through a very thorough and controlled (in their mind) testing phase, and look where it gets them. I don't know about you, but if my car got recalled 6a times (soon to be seven), it would be deemed unsafe to drive. 99% of the time the most controlled and tested products still have all of the same bugs. You need to throw in a chaos factor for a product to eventually become stable.
After reading this article, I'd have to come to two conclusions:
1. This article was designed in order to generate traffic and earn revenue.
2. The guy that wrote it has never ventured past the Microsoft environment.
I've been on both sides of the fences- NT administration and *NIX administration, and have seen this opinion expressed a million times by the Microsoft guys. They'll see you working at the command line, somehow associate it with DOS, and then jump to the conclusion that since NT is "better" than DOS, NT is also better than whatever command line you're working at. I couldn't tell you how many time I've heard "No GUI? It must suck then." or "Windows 2000 can do it." When you start thinking from the perspective that most NT guys are _amazed_ that Windows 2000 has an ftp and telnet server, you start to understand how this article was written. Apache doesn't have some huge chunky GUI to configure it (a few good ones though), so a large majority of uninformed people tend to think IIS is superior. This pretty much applies to all open-sourced software that is considered standard by the *NIX people- they don't see any pretty login screens so they assume theirs is better. Note the _only_ software he gave any props to was mozilla- which happens to be a nice, graphical app.
For those of you unaware of the dispute that has been constantly going on between attrition and antionline, it serves as a prime example how how JayPee attempts to deal with those that go against him. Threat of lawsuit after lawsuit, attempts to destroy any credibility, and constant slander are all commonplace with him. His website is no longer used as a "security portal", as he likes to call it, but as a tool to promote himself and nothing else. JayPee took advantage of the fact that the media is almost completely ignorant when it comes to cracking and website defacements. He realized that they would latch on to anyone that claimed to be an "expert" in this field. Want to know what antionline is really about? Go to http://www.attrition.org/negation and READ. They do one hell of a job creating logical, rational arguements and proving their point. Anyways, over & out.
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If I wrote for the auto industry and intentionally tried to scare the shit out of people Detroit would sue me off the map.
;).
Sue you off the map? Hell no, we'll just beat the crap out of you
The military, which has invested $25 million in Cyc, is testing it as an intelligence tool in the war against terrorism.
I seriously hope they aren't going to allow George W. Bush to input any intelligence into this thing.
Comments/questions/etc can be made here.
Subject: Copyright
I recently read an article describing how an unscrupulous individual could use a felt-tip marker to defeat the copyright protection on a CD. Being an artist, I have a large number of felt-tip markers in my possession. Do I risk being sued under the DMCA for being in possession of a device for circumventing copyright protection? What if I lend one to a friend? Is this considered distributing a device for circumventing copyright protection? I'd appreciate an answer on this... I want nothing more than to be an upstanding citizen.
Sincerely,
Nathan Labadie
When I was 19 I accepted a full time tech position at a university. It's fairly easy to move up the ranks... you can double your salary in less than 3 years. They also pay for two classes a semester. Granted, you might be a bit older than you originally planned when you get your piece of paper, but you'll have a degree, PLUS a great amount of experience. Most universities also tend to encourage new ideas... it's almost like corporate america with a brain.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped or turned back, for their private benefit." --Robert Henlein
Unlike 99% of the other operating systems out there, Mandrake 8.2 actually included updates as part of the install process. When Joe User goes to install 8.2 six months from now after X number of holes have been found, it'll automatically bring the system up to the current patch level _before_ bringing the entire system online.
Tired of applying patches to IIS? Tired of checking if your machine is infected with CodeRed? I've found the cure-all. And best of all, it's free!
When was the last time you heard of...
These companies all believe in their product. What does this say about Microsoft? I don't ever remember a time that they tried to convince me to run a FreeBSD server...
One of the major problems I had running XFree86 on a laptop was having to switch between a port replicator (aka docking station) and using the laptop's display. For those of you that don't know, a port replicator lets you use a standard monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. Switching between various XF86Config files got to be a royal pain in the arse.
So... those with laptops give this option a try in XF86Config:
Option "UseBIOSDisplay"
It lets you switch between monitors without changing the config file. Haven't had a problem yet.
Has anyone seen SLC Punk? It basically sums up this entire state. There's nothing like religious opression to keep the engineers away ;).
For those who haven't seen it yet, this is a great resource for reporting spam.
http://www.spamcop.net
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
What the hell is the stupid *&$%#*% TNEF/Windmail.dat garbage that you keep sending me?
Before all the comments start to fly about how it is good that Microsoft is willing to use products other than their own, I'd like to remind everyone of the theory of eating your own dog food. Companies, no matter how large or small, should all be willing to use their own product if they insist other people should use it. I had (had being they key word here) done WinNT support for quite some time and never once did I hear Microsoft customer support say anything along the lines of "it might be better if you used Oracle instead of Microsoft SQL for this project." Microsoft has constantly pushed their products, no matter how unstable or under-equipped, as the end all be all solution for every problem. The fact that they are unable to use their own products to support services that they own and administer clearly illustrates the poor quality of their products. How much faith would you have in Apache if you learned that they were running IIS on their webservers instead of their own product? Articles such as this should be staple reading for anyone wishing to switch to an NT shop.
I can see it now: Quake map designer sues nVidia for violation of the DMCA. "They circumvented my protection I placed on the other players by putting walls in the map." Gawd damn, go call Jack Valenti.
Wow, didn't mean to touch the sacred cow. Just a funny little quip on my part, didn't mean to offend you. As for stability, you obviously never administered a 250+ NT domain. It was daily practice to walk around every morning and reboot BSOD'd machines, which usually numbered between 5 - 10. I'm sure the X-Box will be the pinnacle of stability and reliablity, and many toasters and microwaves will have their rom based off of it.
- A Microsoft logo at boot.
- A blue screen.
- A white font, no anti-aliasing necessary.
Other than that, there's not a whole lot that the card has to do. Expect maybe be replaced when a virus overwrites it's flash biosHmmmm, let's think here. I'm sure Microsoft goes through a very thorough and controlled (in their mind) testing phase, and look where it gets them. I don't know about you, but if my car got recalled 6a times (soon to be seven), it would be deemed unsafe to drive. 99% of the time the most controlled and tested products still have all of the same bugs. You need to throw in a chaos factor for a product to eventually become stable.
After reading this article, I'd have to come to two conclusions:
1. This article was designed in order to generate traffic and earn revenue.
2. The guy that wrote it has never ventured past the Microsoft environment.
I've been on both sides of the fences- NT administration and *NIX administration, and have seen this opinion expressed a million times by the Microsoft guys. They'll see you working at the command line, somehow associate it with DOS, and then jump to the conclusion that since NT is "better" than DOS, NT is also better than whatever command line you're working at. I couldn't tell you how many time I've heard "No GUI? It must suck then." or "Windows 2000 can do it." When you start thinking from the perspective that most NT guys are _amazed_ that Windows 2000 has an ftp and telnet server, you start to understand how this article was written. Apache doesn't have some huge chunky GUI to configure it (a few good ones though), so a large majority of uninformed people tend to think IIS is superior. This pretty much applies to all open-sourced software that is considered standard by the *NIX people- they don't see any pretty login screens so they assume theirs is better. Note the _only_ software he gave any props to was mozilla- which happens to be a nice, graphical app.
For those of you unaware of the dispute that has been constantly going on between attrition and antionline, it serves as a prime example how how JayPee attempts to deal with those that go against him. Threat of lawsuit after lawsuit, attempts to destroy any credibility, and constant slander are all commonplace with him. His website is no longer used as a "security portal", as he likes to call it, but as a tool to promote himself and nothing else. JayPee took advantage of the fact that the media is almost completely ignorant when it comes to cracking and website defacements. He realized that they would latch on to anyone that claimed to be an "expert" in this field. Want to know what antionline is really about? Go to http://www.attrition.org/negation and READ. They do one hell of a job creating logical, rational arguements and proving their point. Anyways, over & out.