Perhaps the place to put such a study if you happen to find one is the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis (that is, the statement of the ordinary which an experiment attempts to show is significantly less likely than an alternative hypothesis.)
I love the JASNH, even though it doesn't publish very frequently. They publish such varied and wonderful experiments as the one in which 'females showed overall preferences for strong mates, as well as for mates who were 7.7" taller and 44.5 pounds heavier than themselves' irrespective of fear-priming. Another favorite was the one where they proved that ugly babies aren't more likely to be neglected by caregivers.
While the JASNH is primarily focused on psychological studies, they've published papers on HIV risk and immunodepressants. If you're a research scientist who happens to be reading/., and you have a drawer full of useless results, consider writing it up and submitting it. (Carcinogen research would be especially interesting as per this article, as would *duck* global warming studies.)
Reactions on Slashdot, arguably the largest discussion board for technophiles, displayed a cathartic wave of pleasure, "Finally a worthwhile virus!" exclaims one poster. While another adds, "So, uh where can I download a copy?" (Robyn here included links to relevant/. comments)
While the person who gets paid to write this for a living (wtf?) ignores that the majority of the +4/5 comments that aren't rated "Funny" are
1) Reminding people that DDoSing is always stupid and silly
2) Anticipating this kind of silly article
and 3) yelling at people who post unsupported theories about SCO.
But hold on, Robyn has more to say:
Another Slashdot poster goes as far as saying, "SCO has used past denial of service attacks as 'the dog ate my homework' type of excuses in court." It went on to suggest that "SCO's next court date is in early February, maybe they haven't done all their homework this time," implying that SCO itself released the worm. (Robyn will report next month on the inability of SCO to find evidence because IBM is being a big meanie.)
I know it's an advertising publication, but some people read eWeek and expect some of the things in it to be true. Rather than mention the tangible allegations against SCO with regards to insider trading, lying to stockholders, and inconsistent policies, Robyn reports what he's paid to. And that's fine - a half-truth is not quite libel - but it's kind of disturbing to read.
Bad Robyn Peterson, robyn_peterson@ziffdavis.com. Bad.
1) Wow, it's even more cliquey than C2! Well, almost.
2) The Orkut website is really pretty. This is typical for Google. How do they get the text to fade in on page load? It's really neat. Look at the TOS page for an example - you see the pink/purple orkut.com's for a while, and then the rest of the text fades in. Is this just a simple CSS thing I should know but don't because I'm stupid?
3) Check out the "golden key" icon (at their privacy policy). It's amazing! lol
I just heard NPR reporting on this UCLA study tonight. (Ha! Slashdot beat NPR by a day!) The researchers they interviewed took an interesting look at the results; by focusing on cross-cultural similarities, they found that almost everywhere there was a gender gap, 8% on average, in favor of men using the Internet. What that has to say about a patriarchal technological world and the increased male access to or fascination with technology, we should leave to the radical feminists - but it was a remarkable result.
This probably goes for nations where porn is illegal and therefore not the main purpose (object, I should say, in keeping with its association with 'objectification') of one's Internet use. Wait, what am I saying? When does that happen?
www.slashdot.nu is still available! Only 60euro/2 years! Think of the fun we could have. Uh, we could make, um. hm. A fresh nu slashdot. That'd be fun.
Maybe I read the wrong article, but I don't think he said that at all. The gist of the article is this:
1) I will define 'IP' for you now
2) This is why we need more Internet addresses (something above and beyond IPv4)
3) One problem with IPv6 is that no one uses it now. So the best thing to do is to make dual v4/v6 machines. But then you can never make v6 only because someone will always have v4. (wtf? 'we can never adopt v6 because we have not yet adopted v6'?)
4) NAT is super evil because its security is "a mirage"
5) The RIAA and MPAA will probably hate IPv6 because people can connect to each other more
6) IPv6 will only be introduced in the US when a government supplier wants it
I think that timothy must've posted this without reading the article itself -- or I've read the wrong article -- but the article author _NEVER_ says 'untested and therefore insecure', only talks about the increase in p2p applications as 'interesting' and likely to be opposed by the *AA, and the problems posed by inertia in the US as opposed to adoption in Asia.
NOWHERE does he slam IPv6 - he seems rather happy about it, in fact.
Hey, I've seen this -exact scenario- happen in my high school and the school's treatment was equally stupid. Honestly, though, I think they just had no idea what to do.
A boy was playing with net send on the school machines. He showed a girl how to do it and with * she wound up sending to the entire domain (high school, middle school, elementary school, and bus garage, amounting to at least several hundred and maybe a thousand computers). The message sent contained his name: "[boyname spelled with l33t w0rds] is dumb".
This was sufficient reason for the school to kick the boy out of the computer lab for the rest of the year (while, because the girl's name didn't appear anywhere, she got off scot-free). They really didn't know what to do with these disruptive kids; luckily, they weren't as stupid and crazy as they could've been.
If you want to read amusing (bordering on depressing) accounts of whacked-out high school administrators, check the Letters section of any issue of 2600 (the print magazine). It's not exactly unbiased but it's very disturbing.
but did you also search the Slashdot archives before you posted this dupe? Check out the comments on that story for an explanation of why this law is super duper crazy.
40 Big music, follow the money 8 of 9 adults beyond student age still pay for songs instead of ripping them.
Some people do both. Way to keep your readers clued, Wired. Remember that the main objection of record labels to "Rip. Mix. Burn" was that they thought "rip" meant "steal" - and Wired seems to like to propagate this fallacy.
But Gigli and Kangaroo Jack takes the cake for the worst ones..
Not exactly. Actually, according to the IMDB bottom 100 films listing, From Justin to Kelly (the American Idol movie) is the #1 hands-down worst movie of all time. AND IT DESERVES IT. cf. review here or on IMDB. Or..wow.
I am proud to have fought hard to get low votes for that movie. It was like Mary Poppins without Mary (or popping); like The Sound of Music without any Sound or Music worth re-hearing; like Oklahoma! only set on a god-awful Florida beach.
That said, if you want something to laugh at and have a friend who was foolish enough to pay for a copy of this tripe and you have free time and want to stare off into space for a while, From Justin to Kelly is the movie for you.
Elbridge Gerry, governor of Massachusetts from 1810-12, signed a law that blatantly redrew districts to give his party an advantage (think 90% in one district of the opposition, 55% of your own party in the other x districts -- if you work the math out, it's a safe way for the ruling party to increase its representation.) Here's the link and a picture of the "Gerry Mander" editorial cartoon which we still remember: http://www2.uiuc.edu/ro/observer/archive/vol11/iss ue5/gerry.html
Doing this stuff by computer is -scary-. It means that it's no more than an afterthought for a lawmaker to manipulate the rules of the electoral system.
At the same time, even "safe" incumbents have to do case work and at least occasionally vote the way their constituency wants; otherwise, the media will notice, the citizens will notice, and they'll get kicked out of office. We often underestimate the intelligence of the average voter.
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"Over a 4% drop"? That seems practically insignificant.
The thing that really bugs me is what goes on with financial news all the time - they'll interpret market movements as the obvious effect of X news event without demonstrating any link. "Microsoft issued two new security patches today, and so happy investors raised stock values 4%." It's exceptionally naive to assume that only the events you care about affect what happens to stock prices.
Correlation does not imply causality. It could just as easily be that the SCO-execs-and-cohorts are pulling stock prices to refill their pump-and-dump tanks - it's really all speculation.
Doesn't this mean that anyone can post anything regardless of it being true?
Actually, the FAQ elaborates on this possibility quite well. I've been watching this project for at least a month now, and I'm very excited by the prospects. To quote verbatim from model explanation page:
GIA contains many kinds of information, including data from public sources, images culled automatically in real time, as well as contributions from any individual who cares to help. If you contribute information, you'll do so with a "screen name," which helps to protect your identity, but also ensures that all of your submissions are linked to their source. Others will grow to trust or mistrust your information as it does or does not convince them over time. Likewise, when you are looking at information -- as with any community -- you will have to decide which sources you trust.
To help ensure credibility, when you submit information about a particular individual or organization they will be contacted, allowing them to confirm or deny the information you submitted. Much like an FBI file, the information remains whether or not it turned out to be true.
Basically, it shouldn't be difficult to figure out if there are any troll postings; and they make an insightful connection (if it's true, that is) between FBI files on citizens that retain even proven-wrong data and Open Government files on politicians that retain even denied information.
Moreover, when you submit information you're encouraged to submit a source. So, no, the possibility for abuse isn't out of the question, but I have no doubt that steps will be taken to minimize it.
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Yeah, because there's a huge audience of 3D golf afficiandos with $3300 spare. (On the other hand, the integrated hybrid DVD-writer is pretty. It'd be neat if they had software for partial 3D rendering of DVD movies.
So, uh, any guesses on how many years before this technology hits the $500 price point?
Here's a link that addresses the issue with some real numbers. 75% for 9th circuit, 100% for several others. The pundits who say "most overturned court" are looking at number of cases selected by the Supreme Court, not percentages - it's about as silly as Michael Moore's use of numbers instead of percentages for gun deaths in "Bowling for Columbine", and it smacks of the same yellow journalism to report that kind of figure.
Oh, there's a comparison all right. He compares Windows data recovery ("Windows writes to the hard drive when it boots up! It's evil!" -- ignoring the ability to boot from another drive and have the drive-to-be-recovered-from as, say, the secondary IDE slave) and DOS data recovery ("requires l33t low level programming sk1llz which only our employees have!"). And he ignores Linux data recovery software entirely - I actually haven't seen much in this regard, but it seems like all you'd really need is 'dd' and 'cp' and a robust file system driver.
I definitely concur with your recommendation of R-Studio on Windows. It's been invaluable to me for recovering data from partly-broken drives and for recovering deleted data.
-3 points to self for misspelling "forums" and missing it. http://forums.es5.com
FORUMS not formus. stupid self stupid.
Also I dug up the post wherein "Share_Pro" posts the alleged personal details (home address but no phone number). It's on page 32 of the above thread, the fifth post down. If you want to read really funny trollish material, read the rest of that one; he goes on about how ZeroPaid.com is "OWNED AND CONTROLLED by Digital Rights Management" and "their" allegations that EarthStation5 is a front for the RIAA are baseless because "We do in fact give you guys direct downloads from our servers so obviously we dont work with the RIAA. We stream movies for free, so obviously the same person who gives you TERMINATOR3 doesnt work with the MPAA."
Really rather a horrid response by this administrator; it was a little more than necessary to post his full name, home address, etc. and later implicitly threaten his family's life. Hm.
The forums can be accessed at http://formus.es5.com. It requires a username/password; I set up an account with u/p slashdot/slashdot, and that should work.
The quote in question is from the user "SharePro" in the thread "Danger do not use ES5, ES5 too easy to hack"; at present, it's on page 36 of the thread and it's the fourth post from the top. I can't find the home address of Random_nut (the person being berated by this fellow SharePro, a person who has 2666 posts on the EarthStation5 boards and is in "Group: Admin"); but one user has the address in his/her.sig - search for "Shaun AND Aberdeen" to see what I mean.
For context, here is the whole message (I have emboldened the part quoted by AC):
QUOTE (spinkmonkey @ Oct 3 2003, 06:58 PM)
If he had told you about the vulnerability you would have denied it and (like you have now) secretly modified the installer, I think that much is perfectly obvious to anyone. What he's done isn't about being good for ES5, in fact your right its completely the opposite, its good for the ES5 USERS because no one will trust this program anymore. Posting his details is the lowest of the low, quite frankly you are scum
You obviously dont know me very well if you think I am the type to deny shit. I have answered much more harder questions.
Obviously (and you can quote me), if I know about a breach in security, then its not an issue of denying it, its an issue of fixing it. Since now that Filehoover obviously got a message before I did, and its fixed, there is nothing to deny. I was not here today, and everybody on this board knows that I am here everyday, so if I wasnt here, then I WASNT HERE!
Should I just let the breach sit there and say "Hey everybody, here is a breach in security"? C'mon, you do have brains. So you really dont make sense. Filehoover may have re-compiled without that specific code, and not changed the build number. So what? What is your point? A cover up? What cover up?
I wasnt here today, and Filehoover isnt here now. It appears that he found out about it, and fixed it and now cased closed. ES5 is still the most securist P2P program.
Kazaa had an exploit not so long ago and it was also fixed that left their entire network vulnerable to be turned down. There is a difference between somebody hacking and something that was left over accidentily. Random Nut didnt hack ES5, all he did was see some extra code.
According to the build numbers he posted, he has spent months on this program and that is the most he can find? Code that is not in use and that was accidently left over? I would have expected more.
I agree and can be quoted as saying that it should not have been there. I WILL EVEN SCREAM THAT IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE. Deny? Wtf should I deny?
I think its pretty fucking pathetic that he made a crack instead of a patch, so like I said, if I were him, I'd look behind my back. You attack me or my users, and yes, I will send people to your front door. I dont fuck around because the responsibility that I have to my users does not allow me to fuck around. Rules changed, and he probably doesnt know how to play them. My identity is sealed, so again, he doesnt know who his enemy is. He is not anonymous nor is his family.
I have known who Random Nut is for a while. Did you know that Kazaa wants his address to sue the fuck out of him for manipulating their code and making a derivative out of it? I wouldnt give it to them because why should I? I'm not Random Slut, I dont fuck people simply to fuck them.
Did you know that the RIAA / MPAA wants his address to sue him? The list goes on including various law orgnizations. I wouldnt give it to the RIAA either because I hate the RIAA. I handle my own problems. But in reality, now that I am printing it, you can bet that it will appear everywhere by various people. I will also be printing pictures of him and
In the Phantom followup:
"that the company did not even have physical offices"
So what's the https://slashdot.org/admin.pl?op=edit&sid=03/09/18/1544229 ?
check out that crossword on the right. What does "3. Take music off the computer" correspond to -- "Digital theft" or "Download" or "Piracy"? And "14. Online Stealing"? Is that "Piracy" too? Arr, matey!
Good lord. "4. Software that traces a person's usage" must be "Spyware" -- are they teaching that Kazaa is evil (must not sleep, clowns will eat me), too?
Not a curriculum for me, thankyouverymuch. Unless it's in a lesson about corporate control of American schools, and they buy all the kids free Pepsis out of the vending machines with which the school has an exclusive contract.
Warning in advance: this comment is sorely off-topic with regard to the story. It's meaningful in context of the above comment/^\.
If you read the majority of the +5, Funny comments, the Newspeak aspects of Slashdot society become apparent. Instead of posing concrete, meaningful arguments, people write:
1) (corporate action taken to be unfavorable)
2) (another bad thing)
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
Or, in a Linux/SCO article, they make a bad SCO pun (SCOurge! Stupid Corporate Organization! et cetera).
Or see the above "In Soviet Russia / Kazaa sues the record companies" comment.
Or (I confess) in a Microsoft-sues-John-Ashcroft article, they make a "dude, who do we trust now?" comment. Metacommentary can get trite too.
You're absolutely right that nothing's black and white. Indeed, that was my point--and, if you look at many of the above comments on this story, they've missed that point. ("Its about fucking time. / I'm glad there's some legal action going the other way for once.")
The point is that Kazaa (which has done some pretty messy things in the past, like the aforementioned C&D letter to Google) is using bad legislation (DMCA) for a good purpose (screw with the RIAA). It's kind of like when the US government used the PATRIOT Act against PayPal -- one infringes civil liberties, the other launders money; what do you do?
If you're Kazaa Lite and you want any legitimacy within the US (I'm not sure they do), you pray that the RIAA wins this case. Yikes.
Also offtopic: I call Godwin's Law, but Hitler wasn't much of an artist. Check this out, and the main link.
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Perhaps the place to put such a study if you happen to find one is the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis (that is, the statement of the ordinary which an experiment attempts to show is significantly less likely than an alternative hypothesis.)
I love the JASNH, even though it doesn't publish very frequently. They publish such varied and wonderful experiments as the one in which 'females showed overall preferences for strong mates, as well as for mates who were 7.7" taller and 44.5 pounds heavier than themselves' irrespective of fear-priming. Another favorite was the one where they proved that ugly babies aren't more likely to be neglected by caregivers.
While the JASNH is primarily focused on psychological studies, they've published papers on HIV risk and immunodepressants. If you're a research scientist who happens to be reading /., and you have a drawer full of useless results, consider writing it up and submitting it. (Carcinogen research would be especially interesting as per this article, as would *duck* global warming studies.)
Robyn Peterson, robyn_peterson@ziffdavis.com, is probably pretty safe to ignore at this point.
From eWeek's (heh) "Online Jubilation About MyDoom's SCO Attack" article:Reactions on Slashdot, arguably the largest discussion board for technophiles, displayed a cathartic wave of pleasure, "Finally a worthwhile virus!" exclaims one poster. While another adds, "So, uh where can I download a copy?" (Robyn here included links to relevant /. comments)
While the person who gets paid to write this for a living (wtf?) ignores that the majority of the +4/5 comments that aren't rated "Funny" are
1) Reminding people that DDoSing is always stupid and silly2) Anticipating this kind of silly article
and 3) yelling at people who post unsupported theories about SCO.
But hold on, Robyn has more to say:
Another Slashdot poster goes as far as saying, "SCO has used past denial of service attacks as 'the dog ate my homework' type of excuses in court." It went on to suggest that "SCO's next court date is in early February, maybe they haven't done all their homework this time," implying that SCO itself released the worm. (Robyn will report next month on the inability of SCO to find evidence because IBM is being a big meanie.)
I know it's an advertising publication, but some people read eWeek and expect some of the things in it to be true. Rather than mention the tangible allegations against SCO with regards to insider trading, lying to stockholders, and inconsistent policies, Robyn reports what he's paid to. And that's fine - a half-truth is not quite libel - but it's kind of disturbing to read.
Bad Robyn Peterson, robyn_peterson@ziffdavis.com. Bad.
Sir Haxedalot!
So that's who that was!
1) Wow, it's even more cliquey than C2! Well, almost.
2) The Orkut website is really pretty.
This is typical for Google. How do they get the text to fade in on page load? It's really neat. Look at the TOS page for an example - you see the pink/purple orkut.com's for a while, and then the rest of the text fades in. Is this just a simple CSS thing I should know but don't because I'm stupid?
3) Check out the "golden key" icon (at their privacy policy). It's amazing! lol
I just heard NPR reporting on this UCLA study tonight. (Ha! Slashdot beat NPR by a day!) The researchers they interviewed took an interesting look at the results; by focusing on cross-cultural similarities, they found that almost everywhere there was a gender gap, 8% on average, in favor of men using the Internet. What that has to say about a patriarchal technological world and the increased male access to or fascination with technology, we should leave to the radical feminists - but it was a remarkable result.
This probably goes for nations where porn is illegal and therefore not the main purpose (object, I should say, in keeping with its association with 'objectification') of one's Internet use. Wait, what am I saying? When does that happen?
www.slashdot.nu is still available! Only 60euro/2 years! Think of the fun we could have. Uh, we could make, um. hm. A fresh nu slashdot. That'd be fun.
Maybe I read the wrong article, but I don't think he said that at all. The gist of the article is this:
1) I will define 'IP' for you now
2) This is why we need more Internet addresses (something above and beyond IPv4)
3) One problem with IPv6 is that no one uses it now. So the best thing to do is to make dual v4/v6 machines. But then you can never make v6 only because someone will always have v4. (wtf? 'we can never adopt v6 because we have not yet adopted v6'?)
4) NAT is super evil because its security is "a mirage"
5) The RIAA and MPAA will probably hate IPv6 because people can connect to each other more
6) IPv6 will only be introduced in the US when a government supplier wants it
I think that timothy must've posted this without reading the article itself -- or I've read the wrong article -- but the article author _NEVER_ says 'untested and therefore insecure', only talks about the increase in p2p applications as 'interesting' and likely to be opposed by the *AA, and the problems posed by inertia in the US as opposed to adoption in Asia.
NOWHERE does he slam IPv6 - he seems rather happy about it, in fact.
Hey, I've seen this -exact scenario- happen in my high school and the school's treatment was equally stupid. Honestly, though, I think they just had no idea what to do.
A boy was playing with net send on the school machines. He showed a girl how to do it and with * she wound up sending to the entire domain (high school, middle school, elementary school, and bus garage, amounting to at least several hundred and maybe a thousand computers). The message sent contained his name: "[boyname spelled with l33t w0rds] is dumb".
This was sufficient reason for the school to kick the boy out of the computer lab for the rest of the year (while, because the girl's name didn't appear anywhere, she got off scot-free). They really didn't know what to do with these disruptive kids; luckily, they weren't as stupid and crazy as they could've been.
If you want to read amusing (bordering on depressing) accounts of whacked-out high school administrators, check the Letters section of any issue of 2600 (the print magazine). It's not exactly unbiased but it's very disturbing.
that's correct. That was a year and a half ago, though, so maybe new people will see it.
but did you also search the Slashdot archives before you posted this dupe? Check out the comments on that story for an explanation of why this law is super duper crazy.
40 Big music, follow the money 8 of 9 adults beyond student age still pay for songs instead of ripping them.
Some people do both. Way to keep your readers clued, Wired. Remember that the main objection of record labels to "Rip. Mix. Burn" was that they thought "rip" meant "steal" - and Wired seems to like to propagate this fallacy.
But Gigli and Kangaroo Jack takes the cake for the worst ones..
Not exactly. Actually, according to the IMDB bottom 100 films listing, From Justin to Kelly (the American Idol movie) is the #1 hands-down worst movie of all time. AND IT DESERVES IT. cf. review here or on IMDB. Or..wow.
I am proud to have fought hard to get low votes for that movie. It was like Mary Poppins without Mary (or popping); like The Sound of Music without any Sound or Music worth re-hearing; like Oklahoma! only set on a god-awful Florida beach.
That said, if you want something to laugh at and have a friend who was foolish enough to pay for a copy of this tripe and you have free time and want to stare off into space for a while, From Justin to Kelly is the movie for you.
Elbridge Gerry, governor of Massachusetts from 1810-12, signed a law that blatantly redrew districts to give his party an advantage (think 90% in one district of the opposition, 55% of your own party in the other x districts -- if you work the math out, it's a safe way for the ruling party to increase its representation.) Here's the link and a picture of the "Gerry Mander" editorial cartoon which we still remember: http://www2.uiuc.edu/ro/observer/archive/vol11/iss ue5/gerry.html
Doing this stuff by computer is -scary-. It means that it's no more than an afterthought for a lawmaker to manipulate the rules of the electoral system.
At the same time, even "safe" incumbents have to do case work and at least occasionally vote the way their constituency wants; otherwise, the media will notice, the citizens will notice, and they'll get kicked out of office. We often underestimate the intelligence of the average voter.
cache here (as of 10 Nov 2003 20:43 EST):
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"Over a 4% drop"? That seems practically insignificant.
The thing that really bugs me is what goes on with financial news all the time - they'll interpret market movements as the obvious effect of X news event without demonstrating any link. "Microsoft issued two new security patches today, and so happy investors raised stock values 4%." It's exceptionally naive to assume that only the events you care about affect what happens to stock prices.
Correlation does not imply causality. It could just as easily be that the SCO-execs-and-cohorts are pulling stock prices to refill their pump-and-dump tanks - it's really all speculation.
Doesn't this mean that anyone can post anything regardless of it being true?
Actually, the FAQ elaborates on this possibility quite well. I've been watching this project for at least a month now, and I'm very excited by the prospects. To quote verbatim from model explanation page:
Basically, it shouldn't be difficult to figure out if there are any troll postings; and they make an insightful connection (if it's true, that is) between FBI files on citizens that retain even proven-wrong data and Open Government files on politicians that retain even denied information.
Moreover, when you submit information you're encouraged to submit a source. So, no, the possibility for abuse isn't out of the question, but I have no doubt that steps will be taken to minimize it.
From the details on Sharp's website:
Includes 3 free Electronic ArtsTM games to showcase the capabilities of the RD3D! Test your cool with James Bond 007: Nightfire, hit the road with Need for SpeedTM Hot Pursuit 2 or putt for dough in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR(R) 2003. All 3 are yours when you order the new RD3D for a limited time.
Yeah, because there's a huge audience of 3D golf afficiandos with $3300 spare. (On the other hand, the integrated hybrid DVD-writer is pretty. It'd be neat if they had software for partial 3D rendering of DVD movies.
So, uh, any guesses on how many years before this technology hits the $500 price point?
Here's a link that addresses the issue with some real numbers. 75% for 9th circuit, 100% for several others. The pundits who say "most overturned court" are looking at number of cases selected by the Supreme Court, not percentages - it's about as silly as Michael Moore's use of numbers instead of percentages for gun deaths in "Bowling for Columbine", and it smacks of the same yellow journalism to report that kind of figure.
Oh, there's a comparison all right. He compares Windows data recovery ("Windows writes to the hard drive when it boots up! It's evil!" -- ignoring the ability to boot from another drive and have the drive-to-be-recovered-from as, say, the secondary IDE slave) and DOS data recovery ("requires l33t low level programming sk1llz which only our employees have!"). And he ignores Linux data recovery software entirely - I actually haven't seen much in this regard, but it seems like all you'd really need is 'dd' and 'cp' and a robust file system driver.
I definitely concur with your recommendation of R-Studio on Windows. It's been invaluable to me for recovering data from partly-broken drives and for recovering deleted data.
http://forums.es5.com
FORUMS not formus. stupid self stupid.
Also I dug up the post wherein "Share_Pro" posts the alleged personal details (home address but no phone number). It's on page 32 of the above thread, the fifth post down. If you want to read really funny trollish material, read the rest of that one; he goes on about how ZeroPaid.com is "OWNED AND CONTROLLED by Digital Rights Management" and "their" allegations that EarthStation5 is a front for the RIAA are baseless because "We do in fact give you guys direct downloads from our servers so obviously we dont work with the RIAA. We stream movies for free, so obviously the same person who gives you TERMINATOR3 doesnt work with the MPAA."
Really rather a horrid response by this administrator; it was a little more than necessary to post his full name, home address, etc. and later implicitly threaten his family's life. Hm.
The forums can be accessed at http://formus.es5.com. It requires a username/password; I set up an account with u/p slashdot/slashdot, and that should work.
The quote in question is from the user "SharePro" in the thread "Danger do not use ES5, ES5 too easy to hack"; at present, it's on page 36 of the thread and it's the fourth post from the top. I can't find the home address of Random_nut (the person being berated by this fellow SharePro, a person who has 2666 posts on the EarthStation5 boards and is in "Group: Admin"); but one user has the address in his/her .sig - search for "Shaun AND Aberdeen" to see what I mean.
For context, here is the whole message (I have emboldened the part quoted by AC):
You obviously dont know me very well if you think I am the type to deny shit. I have answered much more harder questions.
Obviously (and you can quote me), if I know about a breach in security, then its not an issue of denying it, its an issue of fixing it. Since now that Filehoover obviously got a message before I did, and its fixed, there is nothing to deny. I was not here today, and everybody on this board knows that I am here everyday, so if I wasnt here, then I WASNT HERE!
Should I just let the breach sit there and say "Hey everybody, here is a breach in security"? C'mon, you do have brains. So you really dont make sense. Filehoover may have re-compiled without that specific code, and not changed the build number. So what? What is your point? A cover up? What cover up?
I wasnt here today, and Filehoover isnt here now. It appears that he found out about it, and fixed it and now cased closed. ES5 is still the most securist P2P program.
Kazaa had an exploit not so long ago and it was also fixed that left their entire network vulnerable to be turned down. There is a difference between somebody hacking and something that was left over accidentily. Random Nut didnt hack ES5, all he did was see some extra code.
According to the build numbers he posted, he has spent months on this program and that is the most he can find? Code that is not in use and that was accidently left over? I would have expected more.
I agree and can be quoted as saying that it should not have been there. I WILL EVEN SCREAM THAT IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE. Deny? Wtf should I deny?
I think its pretty fucking pathetic that he made a crack instead of a patch, so like I said, if I were him, I'd look behind my back. You attack me or my users, and yes, I will send people to your front door. I dont fuck around because the responsibility that I have to my users does not allow me to fuck around. Rules changed, and he probably doesnt know how to play them. My identity is sealed, so again, he doesnt know who his enemy is. He is not anonymous nor is his family.
I have known who Random Nut is for a while. Did you know that Kazaa wants his address to sue the fuck out of him for manipulating their code and making a derivative out of it? I wouldnt give it to them because why should I? I'm not Random Slut, I dont fuck people simply to fuck them.
Did you know that the RIAA / MPAA wants his address to sue him? The list goes on including various law orgnizations. I wouldnt give it to the RIAA either because I hate the RIAA. I handle my own problems. But in reality, now that I am printing it, you can bet that it will appear everywhere by various people. I will also be printing pictures of him and
In the Phantom followup:8 /1544229 ?
"that the company did not even have physical offices"
So what's the https://slashdot.org/admin.pl?op=edit&sid=03/09/1
check out that crossword on the right. What does "3. Take music off the computer" correspond to -- "Digital theft" or "Download" or "Piracy"? And "14. Online Stealing"? Is that "Piracy" too? Arr, matey!
Good lord. "4. Software that traces a person's usage" must be "Spyware" -- are they teaching that Kazaa is evil (must not sleep, clowns will eat me), too?
Not a curriculum for me, thankyouverymuch. Unless it's in a lesson about corporate control of American schools, and they buy all the kids free Pepsis out of the vending machines with which the school has an exclusive contract.
Warning in advance: this comment is sorely off-topic with regard to the story. It's meaningful in context of the above comment /^\.
If you read the majority of the +5, Funny comments, the Newspeak aspects of Slashdot society become apparent. Instead of posing concrete, meaningful arguments, people write:
1) (corporate action taken to be unfavorable)
2) (another bad thing)
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
Or, in a Linux/SCO article, they make a bad SCO pun (SCOurge! Stupid Corporate Organization! et cetera).
Or see the above "In Soviet Russia / Kazaa sues the record companies" comment.
Or (I confess) in a Microsoft-sues-John-Ashcroft article, they make a "dude, who do we trust now?" comment. Metacommentary can get trite too.
You're absolutely right that nothing's black and white. Indeed, that was my point--and, if you look at many of the above comments on this story, they've missed that point. ("Its about fucking time. / I'm glad there's some legal action going the other way for once.")
The point is that Kazaa (which has done some pretty messy things in the past, like the aforementioned C&D letter to Google) is using bad legislation (DMCA) for a good purpose (screw with the RIAA). It's kind of like when the US government used the PATRIOT Act against PayPal -- one infringes civil liberties, the other launders money; what do you do?
If you're Kazaa Lite and you want any legitimacy within the US (I'm not sure they do), you pray that the RIAA wins this case. Yikes.
Also offtopic: I call Godwin's Law, but Hitler wasn't much of an artist. Check this out, and the main link.
I swear to God it's like 1984-esque Newspeak. Think one thing. OK, now think the other.
Kazaa sues Google because of Kazaa Lite! Kazaa evil!
Kazaa sues recording industry because they improperly accessed the network! Kazaa good!
Somebody please give me a chart or visual reference for when Kazaa is bad and when the RIAA is bad.
(Alternatively, it's fun to see two evil corporations duking it out, because either way a badguy's going to lose. But that's just my inner optimist.)