The review was in a reasonable tone and focused mostly on the data, so why did it provoke such a firebreathing response?
You're seriously joking right? This "review" was a biased advertisement stroking the right-wing conservatives egos that their missionary-position bi-monthly sex acts are acceptable and even encouraged while their co-workers' healthy and exciting sex life is deviant and unacceptable.
There is NOTHING worse than reading that someone else finds that your exciting sex-life is "bad" because you are a bad person.
Keep the right-wing ideals out of site and off of Slashdot.
Other than VCR/DVD/Internet (video in general), what other technologies has Porno driven?
Well, in addition to VCR/DVD you have to make content for that so you also have video and tape recorders that save content to tape, disc, film, and other digital media (stills).
Personally, the Internet itself (broadband and all that as well) is a *huge* technology and has changed the landscape and interactions of the world.
If you are going to say that the Internet isn't a "large number" of technologies I really suggest that you rethink what the Internet really is.
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What are these effects? The book devotes chapters to this, and I can summarize only very briefly. For many people, porn has quasi-addictive characteristics, requiring escalation to maintain a constant level of stimulation. It dampens empathy, it changes expectations, and it damages relationships. The interviews in the book back this up; it contains example after example of people who started with modest porn searching online, then graduated to more heinous stuff.
What the fuck is this garbage? I've been with the same woman for nearly five years and just married her this weekend. If anything, porn has STRENGTHENED our relationship through mutual viewing.
Are they trying to say that porno searching online is a "gateway" to become some sort of "sexual deviant"? Give me a fucking break. Just because people's conservative sexual knowledge and behavior is the prevailing behavior (and IMHO negative) it doesn't mean that "graduating" to a different behavior is heinous.
Mod -1 Flamebait/Troll
I'm sorry, but 100 people aren't going to tell the tale of ALL those that enjoy porn either in solitary viewing or in group situations. I'd like to read this pile of shit and actually give a true account of the book rather than an obviously biased and conservative viewpoint on it.
If their website failing under load is any indication of the level of service that *may* be provided by their alternative in the future, I must say that I wouldn't be using them.
The evacuation situation is bad, but they didn't know 36+ hours in advance that the levees were going to breach. Since NO got missed, the resources were likely diverted to where Katrina hit hardest.
The levees were not meant to handle a category 4 storm. Why? They should have been meant to handle above a C5. Why? So that this problem wouldn't happen.
If such devistation can occur due to people living twenty feet below sea level and it impacts the rest of the country so much -- the short term high-priced investments need to be made so that $100+ billion in losses along with 25+ billion in insurance losses won't occur.
They've had a long time to think about this. Not just 36+ hours.
With the response thus far, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole south broke into complete chaos. Might not happen this time, but the water is starting to boil, as is the blood of every American, uniformly.
The civil war is coming. Natural disasters are getting worse (a possible raise in the level of Hurricanes to 6?) and oil prices are rising.
We have an administration in place that has questionable tactics and a family tradition to uphold. It's becoming more of a royal family than our traditional view of the Presidency.
It's very possible that continuous war, raising inflation, and declining rights combined with natural disasters and oil prices may end up causing civil war.
You're right! It would have been really funny, compared to those other software vendors' dongles and whatnot that we had to use back then. Funny then in that "less annoyinng" sense of the word, anyway. Funny now in that "I don't have to use it if I don't want to," and "funny, I wasn't planning on P2Ping disk 6 of Lord Of The Rings to a thousand unknown 'best friends' anyway."
I'm not talking about that and you know it. This has nothing to do w/hardware dongles. It has to do with tying the BIOS, OS, and other hardware together to make sure that only signed code runs.
They would love to see the eventual loss of all unsigned network connectivity as well as software that wasn't pre-approved.
Please do not patronize me. I'm not some fucking Slashbotter retard that thinks the world is about getting free Coldplay MP3s.
Will people realize the things that Trusted Computing and DRM can do to them?
No, because it's a fucking calculated descision on the parts of hardware and software manufacturers, see here for my comments on this yesterday.
They have known all along that if they do it slowly and under the guise of it being "for your benefit" then people will accept it.
It's really fucking sad that people are willing to put control of everything into someone else's hands. I'm seriously waiting for the day when a corporation will inseminate a woman for you because it's "easier".
You think it's funny or tinfoilish now? Just wait, people will undoubtably get lazy enough that they won't even fuck.
Think of how funny it would have been to you 20 years ago if someone told you that you wouldn't be able to open a document or run a program on your computer because Microsoft didn't give you a code to do so.
Well, because the "staff" ignored my duplicate notification, as usual, here's a link to the previous story and here's my comment there.
Please note, just because the domain of a news site is different and someone included Schneier's URL this time doesn't mean that the story isn't a duplicate.
Thanks for helping to make Slashdot a better place.
You are free to block any addresses you want. However, I must ask what makes you so important that people must use the mail service you dictate in order to contact you? I think that doing what you have done would cause more inconvenience to myself than anything else. If people couldnt get through to me, they wouldn't switch providers, they would just stop emailing my pompous ass. The point is to block the bad, while letting the good stuff through.
Pompous? No, I'm just not concerned w/mail getting through. NOTHING is important enough for me to deal with spam, viruses, trojan, and spyware.
It's like anything else. If you want to contact me you do it my way, otherwise, I don't care. Believe me... The three people it might affect every year isn't a big deal. If anything, I did them, and everyone else, a favor.
Since we're generalizing here, you wouldn't by any chance be American, would you?
It's fairly apparent where I'm from. I didn't feel the need to state it -- if you'd like more info my post history and personal URL are there.
As far as America being full of hackers. This is true. They don't typically fuck with me from American IPs though. The main problems I see from America are morons running unpatched shit on residential connections.
Anyone else from America that is tryin to exploit me is generally coming from a foreign IP (to try and mask their accountability). It's been going on like that for years. Get over yourself.
Isolationism is alive and well in the homes of America as well as the White House!
Off-topic, but, I wish we were practicing Isolationism in the White House. We wouldn't be fucking shit up in Iraq.
What is your opinion of this and what do you propose to help correct this?
Correct what? The fact that other countries are full of hackers that constantly attack you and you have little recourse to stop it? I suggest blocking them. Duh.
Additionally, what sort of actions do other Slashdot users take to protect themselves from rogue IP space, be it national borders or even retail broadband/dialup providers such as wannadoo or comcast, roadrunner, etc?
I have an extensive ban list on my firewall including tons of/8 and/16's but mostly/24's. If someone cannot e-mail me it's because they are likely using a residential cable/DSL account and I suggest to them to either use AIM or a viable webmail service like GMail (hotmail and yahoo are banned).
I am an individual. I don't run a corporate network and I am not required to put up w/a bunch of shit from other people. Don't like it? Oh well, I'm unconcerned. This particular Ask Slashdot might be pertaining to something else but the blurb wasn't really clear.
If it were up to me, I would want entire countries in their own easy to block IP address space. Want to block.br? Here's the single block that does it. Want to block.kr,.cn, and.nz? Go for it. Right now it's entirely too difficult and it requires some real work to do what you need to do.
After moving off of Comcast for residential DSL through a respectable provider I find that I don't have worms constantly hitting my machine. I don't have as many attack attempts and I certainly am not blocking quite as much spam. I long for the day when I don't have to add another.0/24 to the firewall list.
The same system that protects spyware from accessing your data files might also stop you from copying audio and video files. The same system that ensures that all the patches you download are legitimate might also prevent you from, well, doing pretty much anything.
At least someone that is talking to a larger group of those not-in-the-know gets it.
The only reason I can think of for all this Machiavellian maneuvering is that the TCG board of directors is making sure that the document doesn't apply to Vista. If the document isn't published until after Vista is released, then obviously it doesn't apply.
If only that were the case! Unfortunately it's something that's calculated, malicious, and devious.
preserving privacy, backward compatibility, and owner control
This will accomplish NOTHING but promote an environment where people will continue to become accustomed to DRM being on their computers. It's not going to stop worms, spyware, viruses, and the like - they are going to continue to plague people's computers - it's all part of the desensitizing of DRM. Get people pissed off enough about spyware, etc, and they will be happy to accept DRM.
It's really sad that most people still don't know what spyware is or how to defeat it. When they do hear of it they see this "DRM" stuff in the future that will eliminate it. Instead of taking the 5 minutes daily to do routine maintenance that will keep their computers and themselves happy, they instead opt for having someone else do all the work for them at the loss of everything that was once great about computers.
I had a friend, located in Biloxi, MS contact me via SMS this morning to let me know that he and his family were all ok. Their house and their cars were flooded out. He had to turn off the mobile after a couple messages to conserve energy.
Now, I saw this story ahead of time (and t-mobile's site was already snail slow) but I got to the page for Mississippi. My SMS to him:
t-mobile is offering free wifi to hurricane victims: Flowood (Borders), Kinkos (Hattiesburg & Jackson), and Starbucks (Ridgeland & Southaven)
Now, after I sent it, I thought about it. In the entire state of MS they have *5* wifi hotspots? Are these locations operational? Will they offer some electric draw for those that need it?
I really think it's great that t-mobile is offering this to those people affected by the storm but so few locations and many w/o power? What good can it really do? Skype, where are you?
Most of these people would probably prefer telephone service over Internet access. Luckily this guy was able to e-mail via SMS and get in touch w/those that care about him.
I'm just glad that one of the people I know from the area is ok and I wish all those affected by the storm the best of luck for a speedy and safe recovery.
I have put up a mirror of locations in text format. Hopefully this will be easier to disseminate.
Jesus Christ how old are you? 5? Grow up. The world doesn't revolve around satisfying you.
Well, we aren't interviewing me, but I'll answer even though this won't be the top 10 moderated questions.
1. 26.
2. No, I might end up without a sense of humor like you.
3. No, it doesn't revolve around that. It revolves around humor. It isn't my fault that some of the moderators chose "+1 Insightful" "+1 Interesting" instead of "+1 Funny" like I had intended.
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The review was in a reasonable tone and focused mostly on the data, so why did it provoke such a firebreathing response?
You're seriously joking right? This "review" was a biased advertisement stroking the right-wing conservatives egos that their missionary-position bi-monthly sex acts are acceptable and even encouraged while their co-workers' healthy and exciting sex life is deviant and unacceptable.
There is NOTHING worse than reading that someone else finds that your exciting sex-life is "bad" because you are a bad person.
Keep the right-wing ideals out of site and off of Slashdot.
Other than VCR/DVD/Internet (video in general), what other technologies has Porno driven?
Well, in addition to VCR/DVD you have to make content for that so you also have video and tape recorders that save content to tape, disc, film, and other digital media (stills).
Personally, the Internet itself (broadband and all that as well) is a *huge* technology and has changed the landscape and interactions of the world.
If you are going to say that the Internet isn't a "large number" of technologies I really suggest that you rethink what the Internet really is.
What are these effects? The book devotes chapters to this, and I can summarize only very briefly. For many people, porn has quasi-addictive characteristics, requiring escalation to maintain a constant level of stimulation. It dampens empathy, it changes expectations, and it damages relationships. The interviews in the book back this up; it contains example after example of people who started with modest porn searching online, then graduated to more heinous stuff.
What the fuck is this garbage? I've been with the same woman for nearly five years and just married her this weekend. If anything, porn has STRENGTHENED our relationship through mutual viewing.
Are they trying to say that porno searching online is a "gateway" to become some sort of "sexual deviant"? Give me a fucking break. Just because people's conservative sexual knowledge and behavior is the prevailing behavior (and IMHO negative) it doesn't mean that "graduating" to a different behavior is heinous.
Mod -1 Flamebait/Troll
I'm sorry, but 100 people aren't going to tell the tale of ALL those that enjoy porn either in solitary viewing or in group situations. I'd like to read this pile of shit and actually give a true account of the book rather than an obviously biased and conservative viewpoint on it.
If their website failing under load is any indication of the level of service that *may* be provided by their alternative in the future, I must say that I wouldn't be using them.
YMMV.
The evacuation situation is bad, but they didn't know 36+ hours in advance that the levees were going to breach. Since NO got missed, the resources were likely diverted to where Katrina hit hardest.
The levees were not meant to handle a category 4 storm. Why? They should have been meant to handle above a C5. Why? So that this problem wouldn't happen.
If such devistation can occur due to people living twenty feet below sea level and it impacts the rest of the country so much -- the short term high-priced investments need to be made so that $100+ billion in losses along with 25+ billion in insurance losses won't occur.
They've had a long time to think about this. Not just 36+ hours.
With the response thus far, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole south broke into complete chaos. Might not happen this time, but the water is starting to boil, as is the blood of every American, uniformly.
The civil war is coming. Natural disasters are getting worse (a possible raise in the level of Hurricanes to 6?) and oil prices are rising.
We have an administration in place that has questionable tactics and a family tradition to uphold. It's becoming more of a royal family than our traditional view of the Presidency.
It's very possible that continuous war, raising inflation, and declining rights combined with natural disasters and oil prices may end up causing civil war.
I'm scared.
You're right! It would have been really funny, compared to those other software vendors' dongles and whatnot that we had to use back then. Funny then in that "less annoyinng" sense of the word, anyway. Funny now in that "I don't have to use it if I don't want to," and "funny, I wasn't planning on P2Ping disk 6 of Lord Of The Rings to a thousand unknown 'best friends' anyway."
I'm not talking about that and you know it. This has nothing to do w/hardware dongles. It has to do with tying the BIOS, OS, and other hardware together to make sure that only signed code runs.
They would love to see the eventual loss of all unsigned network connectivity as well as software that wasn't pre-approved.
Please do not patronize me. I'm not some fucking Slashbotter retard that thinks the world is about getting free Coldplay MP3s.
It's not as if Zonk isn't being notified.
Think I'll get modded redundant this time?
Well let's hope Zonk doesn't ignore the duplicate notice I just sent for the upcoming story.
1 2233&tid=220&tid=218 but it's duped at http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/ 30/0118252&tid=184&tid=220
Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus is linked to: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/01/13
To say I don't trust "Trusted Computing".
You don't have to trust it. I don't trust the government but I have to put up w/it. Sadly, that's what we have allowed the corporations to become.
Another layer of governance over us.
Will people realize the things that Trusted Computing and DRM can do to them?
No, because it's a fucking calculated descision on the parts of hardware and software manufacturers, see here for my comments on this yesterday.
They have known all along that if they do it slowly and under the guise of it being "for your benefit" then people will accept it.
It's really fucking sad that people are willing to put control of everything into someone else's hands. I'm seriously waiting for the day when a corporation will inseminate a woman for you because it's "easier".
You think it's funny or tinfoilish now? Just wait, people will undoubtably get lazy enough that they won't even fuck.
Think of how funny it would have been to you 20 years ago if someone told you that you wouldn't be able to open a document or run a program on your computer because Microsoft didn't give you a code to do so.
Exactly.
Oh you gotta love that "-1 Redundant" on a duplicate story. The fucking moronic irony of a moderator.
In the future, waste your mod points, positive or negative, on stories that aren't duplicates.
No, it means that *I* control my computer and content -- not someone or something else that isn't under my direct control.
They need to stop fucking twisting words around because it's good marketing doublespeak.
Call it what it is. A fucking privacy and ethics violation.
Well, because the "staff" ignored my duplicate notification, as usual, here's a link to the previous story and here's my comment there.
Please note, just because the domain of a news site is different and someone included Schneier's URL this time doesn't mean that the story isn't a duplicate.
Thanks for helping to make Slashdot a better place.
Dude, seriously, what are you doing on slashdot? Didn't you know that hot babes from all over the world are trying to email us all day every day?
Anyhow- good luck with the wedding.
Two lines that don't go together. Thanks though. I need it -- friends start arriving today -- family tomorrow.
You are free to block any addresses you want. However, I must ask what makes you so important that people must use the mail service you dictate in order to contact you? I think that doing what you have done would cause more inconvenience to myself than anything else. If people couldnt get through to me, they wouldn't switch providers, they would just stop emailing my pompous ass. The point is to block the bad, while letting the good stuff through.
Pompous? No, I'm just not concerned w/mail getting through. NOTHING is important enough for me to deal with spam, viruses, trojan, and spyware.
It's like anything else. If you want to contact me you do it my way, otherwise, I don't care. Believe me... The three people it might affect every year isn't a big deal. If anything, I did them, and everyone else, a favor.
Since we're generalizing here, you wouldn't by any chance be American, would you?
It's fairly apparent where I'm from. I didn't feel the need to state it -- if you'd like more info my post history and personal URL are there.
As far as America being full of hackers. This is true. They don't typically fuck with me from American IPs though. The main problems I see from America are morons running unpatched shit on residential connections.
Anyone else from America that is tryin to exploit me is generally coming from a foreign IP (to try and mask their accountability). It's been going on like that for years. Get over yourself.
Isolationism is alive and well in the homes of America as well as the White House!
Off-topic, but, I wish we were practicing Isolationism in the White House. We wouldn't be fucking shit up in Iraq.
What is your opinion of this and what do you propose to help correct this?
/8 and /16's but mostly /24's. If someone cannot e-mail me it's because they are likely using a residential cable/DSL account and I suggest to them to either use AIM or a viable webmail service like GMail (hotmail and yahoo are banned).
.br? Here's the single block that does it. Want to block .kr, .cn, and .nz? Go for it. Right now it's entirely too difficult and it requires some real work to do what you need to do.
.0/24 to the firewall list.
Correct what? The fact that other countries are full of hackers that constantly attack you and you have little recourse to stop it? I suggest blocking them. Duh.
Additionally, what sort of actions do other Slashdot users take to protect themselves from rogue IP space, be it national borders or even retail broadband/dialup providers such as wannadoo or comcast, roadrunner, etc?
I have an extensive ban list on my firewall including tons of
I am an individual. I don't run a corporate network and I am not required to put up w/a bunch of shit from other people. Don't like it? Oh well, I'm unconcerned. This particular Ask Slashdot might be pertaining to something else but the blurb wasn't really clear.
If it were up to me, I would want entire countries in their own easy to block IP address space. Want to block
After moving off of Comcast for residential DSL through a respectable provider I find that I don't have worms constantly hitting my machine. I don't have as many attack attempts and I certainly am not blocking quite as much spam. I long for the day when I don't have to add another
The same system that protects spyware from accessing your data files might also stop you from copying audio and video files. The same system that ensures that all the patches you download are legitimate might also prevent you from, well, doing pretty much anything.
At least someone that is talking to a larger group of those not-in-the-know gets it.
The only reason I can think of for all this Machiavellian maneuvering is that the TCG board of directors is making sure that the document doesn't apply to Vista. If the document isn't published until after Vista is released, then obviously it doesn't apply.
If only that were the case! Unfortunately it's something that's calculated, malicious, and devious.
From Best Practices Principles Document:
preserving privacy, backward compatibility, and owner control
This will accomplish NOTHING but promote an environment where people will continue to become accustomed to DRM being on their computers. It's not going to stop worms, spyware, viruses, and the like - they are going to continue to plague people's computers - it's all part of the desensitizing of DRM. Get people pissed off enough about spyware, etc, and they will be happy to accept DRM.
It's really sad that most people still don't know what spyware is or how to defeat it. When they do hear of it they see this "DRM" stuff in the future that will eliminate it. Instead of taking the 5 minutes daily to do routine maintenance that will keep their computers and themselves happy, they instead opt for having someone else do all the work for them at the loss of everything that was once great about computers.
I had a friend, located in Biloxi, MS contact me via SMS this morning to let me know that he and his family were all ok. Their house and their cars were flooded out. He had to turn off the mobile after a couple messages to conserve energy.
Now, I saw this story ahead of time (and t-mobile's site was already snail slow) but I got to the page for Mississippi. My SMS to him:
t-mobile is offering free wifi to hurricane victims: Flowood (Borders),
Kinkos (Hattiesburg & Jackson), and Starbucks (Ridgeland & Southaven)
Now, after I sent it, I thought about it. In the entire state of MS they have *5* wifi hotspots? Are these locations operational? Will they offer some electric draw for those that need it?
I really think it's great that t-mobile is offering this to those people affected by the storm but so few locations and many w/o power? What good can it really do? Skype, where are you?
Most of these people would probably prefer telephone service over Internet access. Luckily this guy was able to e-mail via SMS and get in touch w/those that care about him.
I'm just glad that one of the people I know from the area is ok and I wish all those affected by the storm the best of luck for a speedy and safe recovery.
I have put up a mirror of locations in text format. Hopefully this will be easier to disseminate.
Sorry, prior art goes to Google.
Why is an MP3 UI any different from any other computer program UI? I can sort any number of MP3 UIs by foo.
Yay, someone patented a sort function that displays the output on individual screens!
I'm glad that the Patent Office employs people to make sure that no one steals that idea.
Sorry, I can't believe any 6 digit UID Slashbotter. Especially one that says that whatever the Slashdot editors choose is ok! :)
have you considered contacting him using this newfangled technoloigy called email?
;)
Have you considered the newfangled technology called a spell checker?
Jesus Christ how old are you? 5? Grow up. The world doesn't revolve around satisfying you.
Well, we aren't interviewing me, but I'll answer even though this won't be the top 10 moderated questions.
1. 26.
2. No, I might end up without a sense of humor like you.
3. No, it doesn't revolve around that. It revolves around humor. It isn't my fault that some of the moderators chose "+1 Insightful" "+1 Interesting" instead of "+1 Funny" like I had intended.