Our rights as Americans are being destroyed, slowly through the use of legislature. Why do you think they don't want us to see what's on there? Because they have something to HIDE. Maybe I'm paranoid, maybe this is a matter of 'national security' that excuse seems to get anything through the house and the senate. If the government does not want us to know what laws we cannot break, maybe the laws are outlandish, maybe they're blatent violations of personal rights. Who knows, since that information is not allowed to the public. Not lettin people know what the government is allowed to do, reminds me of Soviet Russia under Stalin. They lived in fear. We do not yet live in a totalitarian government, but not letting people know what laws we have, is one small step twoards it.
The Patriot Act was enacted right after September 11'th. This was when there was fear in everybody. But, "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither"
If spam was illegal, this case would never hold up. But seeing as unsolicited e-mail is still totally legal, this case just might make it through.
Sidenote: In america, our first ammendment (Freedom of speech) rights SHOULD protect spammers. It will be up to the private sector to create efficient ways of blocking spam. Enacting new laws to regulate spam, only regulate more of our lives, when a companies could compete to stop spam.
Other sidenote: AOL does not want to stop spam. Hotmail limits you to 100 messages a day. My server no longer gets ANY hotmail spam. AOL has not taken this route, ovbiously they are pro-spam
There is going to be a rush to get the more common names on gMail. Such as 'john' and 'al', I bet they get a mild version of the/. effect, because it seems like a lot of people are looking foward to gMail
If this actually comes to pass, this will set a horrible precident for the future. To be allowed to intrude into private computers should be against the law, unless a search warrant is granted. Allowing this to be implemented in an actual setting would be disastrious. Not to mention that THEY get to decide what is copyrighted and what is not protected.
--Those who would trade in freedom for security deserve neither. -- Jefferson
My family runs their own mailserver (Sendmail). There is a perl script on our server (self-made) that denies mail for a number of reasons. If a reverse DNS lookup does not work, then the mail is rejected, if the mail is in NJABHL, then the mail gets rejected. Then, if we have ever gotten spam from that IP before, the mail is rejected. If we get mail from more than one IP in a subnet, the entire subnet is blacklisted. And finally, we have a few key-words that if found in piece of mail, it will be rejected.
It takes a lot of programming to make a game truly "open ended". Baulders Gate I and II did this quite well, although there is simply no match for the imagination of the human mind. There may be 'open ended quest' but today that only means that there are a few endings, that could perhaps change later events in your game.
But for intigrating the rules, it seems simple, but when you add the rules to the open-endedness of pencil and paper games, it becomes that much harder.
There is always the possibility, that your loved ones will not accually be sent up into space. If the company only TOLD you that your loved one got sent up into space, they could easily make a larger profit margin.
This could pose a problem if you live in a dense neighborhood. Everybody will see (in reverse) what you are seeing. This could pose a problem to those nerds who watch pr0n.
This is just another example how profit and money is always put before the customer satisfaction, and customer in general.
In Soviet russia, You spy on the spyware.
A system is only as secure as it's weakest link. Voting is mostly secure because everything is done physically. And to change the votes all over america physically would be impossible. But if you could controll votes from your home computer, you are more dangerous. I dont believe that electronic voting should be used unless it's on a closed network, off of the internet. Even then there is a risk that somebody could tamper with the process.
That looser is at fault. He is the one who could not keep his own domain name safe from hijacking. He should be eaten to death by a horde of rabid weasles.
Use Mozilla? Block all unrequested Pop-Up ad's. Or maby you should pay ATTENTION to what you click. Common sense helps too. An example what not to do:
(Bob see's a pop up ad offering free money)
Bob: "This is awesome! This is my lucky break!!!"
*click*
Computer: --Crash--
Just pay attention to what you click on, be aware of different browsers that can annihalate Pop up's. And don't click links that you don't trust.
If we let companies use these tag's, we are saying to them "We are ok with this." And of cource in the future (near or far) they will click it up a notch. Sooner or later, they will invade more of our privacy, under the guise of "targeted advertising". Weather there is much privacy lost or not is not an issure, the fact than we are allowing this to happen shows the companies our mindset. We are not going to fight back aganst these kinds of intrustions. Or are we?
ohh oohh, and next they'll have the "Internet on DVD!!!" Yeah, only 20k per month, with 100k DVD's per month, cancel anytime!
In other words, there is no replacement for the internet, nothing can really beat it. Except you know.. maby the internet on DVD, for long car rides through nevada?
P0rn. At least watch their pings some, so that they have a fear of being caught. You can be responsible for what the view during class time, unless you make a "contract" in which their parents sign and it specifies what they can and cannot do. And there might be some skript kiddies too, so make sure they cant install any foregn software such as... nmap and ping flooders. If they can figure it out themselvs, how to DOS someone, or hack into a program. DO NOT TAKE AWAY THEIR COMPTUER RIGHTS!!! Explain to them why it is wrong, and then teach the class about what that child did, and how to make sure it does not happen again. Don't make a child loose privelages because he hacked someone, just make some backups, and use it as a teaching oppertunity.
Next, you don't want to make the interface too complicated, not everyone wants to learn about computers and how they work. (nobody important anyways...) Make sure that if they absolutely hate computers, that it wont be too hard for them to do their work. Have some tutorials and README's on hand on a server for their access should the get in a bind. And make sure you're understanding to those who have trouble, not eveyone knows a lot about computers, and we need to integrate them in a friendly enviornment. Most of all, make sure they have some fun learning, because then they'll retain all that you teach them.
Oh yes! my prayers have been recieved! I can now look like a total geek-fool in front of many people by shooting them with my mobile phone wee!!! This is going to be a good thing for the geek culture though. Instead of fat geeks, we'll get super thin, fast reaction, quick thinking, tactical geeks. The superhumans of tomorrow!
This article is like.. well.. like drinking a coke, (or pepsi) after a long session of coding. Refreshing, and very satisfactory, and giddy in a way of what one has accopmlished. The satisfaction of seeing him caught at his own game is awesome. Uh oh, underwear check!
I really hope that irc.slashnet.org has a big enough pipe that they can hande the minions of slashdot. It is an intresting thought though, that slashdot itself could become a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. If of cource, you can post something interesting about a site...
But back to what i was saying before, the server better be top notch, and how are they going to regulate who says what and when? Wont CmdrTaco get a little confused? I'm assuming this is where the operators come in, but from my experence on that network they dont do a whole lot of operating, they're there to kick the occasional spammer.
And THIS is why there are black hat hackers. Watch the RIAA lobby and help pass some bogus law that lets them either
1) Hack "suspects" computers
2) shut down p2p
Just like right after 9/11, the terrorist sites went down, if the RIAA did something that provoked people enough, their site would.. Cease to exzist.
The Government is afraid of the Open Source movement because it implies WORK. Work to make things work, to make them function and be compatable. they are very much a lazy bunch. They would rather sit down and have Microsloth do the programming for them, then trust a bunch of smart people *gasp*!. When someone can do it for you, and when it doesent work you can complain to one entity, instead of a community, it makes your life much easier. Plus Microsloth is rich, and everybody knows who has poer, the Almighty Buck!
After a long night of coding or sleeping for that matter, it is hard to focus on the text on the screen. Scrolling down is another matter, i end up putting text up to 200% zoom in Mozilla. So now we can all print out these digatized copies and read them. This is neat stuff sure, but reading from a screen is hard, and most people will print it out anyways. The good thing is that people can now download it from the net. Assuming it is hosted on a site.
Slashdot Mirror
this is a ascii sword:
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Perhaps the government will put a large one in space, and fry you on the spot if you don't pay your taxes!
Perhaps some Rodents Of Unusual Size will be used explosion dampening devices.
Our rights as Americans are being destroyed, slowly through the use of legislature. Why do you think they don't want us to see what's on there? Because they have something to HIDE. Maybe I'm paranoid, maybe this is a matter of 'national security' that excuse seems to get anything through the house and the senate. If the government does not want us to know what laws we cannot break, maybe the laws are outlandish, maybe they're blatent violations of personal rights. Who knows, since that information is not allowed to the public. Not lettin people know what the government is allowed to do, reminds me of Soviet Russia under Stalin. They lived in fear. We do not yet live in a totalitarian government, but not letting people know what laws we have, is one small step twoards it.
The Patriot Act was enacted right after September 11'th. This was when there was fear in everybody. But, "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither"
If spam was illegal, this case would never hold up. But seeing as unsolicited e-mail is still totally legal, this case just might make it through.
Sidenote: In america, our first ammendment (Freedom of speech) rights SHOULD protect spammers. It will be up to the private sector to create efficient ways of blocking spam. Enacting new laws to regulate spam, only regulate more of our lives, when a companies could compete to stop spam.
Other sidenote: AOL does not want to stop spam. Hotmail limits you to 100 messages a day. My server no longer gets ANY hotmail spam. AOL has not taken this route, ovbiously they are pro-spam
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There is going to be a rush to get the more common names on gMail. Such as 'john' and 'al', I bet they get a mild version of the /. effect, because it seems like a lot of people are looking foward to gMail
If this actually comes to pass, this will set a horrible precident for the future. To be allowed to intrude into private computers should be against the law, unless a search warrant is granted. Allowing this to be implemented in an actual setting would be disastrious. Not to mention that THEY get to decide what is copyrighted and what is not protected. --Those who would trade in freedom for security deserve neither. -- Jefferson
My family runs their own mailserver (Sendmail). There is a perl script on our server (self-made) that denies mail for a number of reasons. If a reverse DNS lookup does not work, then the mail is rejected, if the mail is in NJABHL, then the mail gets rejected. Then, if we have ever gotten spam from that IP before, the mail is rejected. If we get mail from more than one IP in a subnet, the entire subnet is blacklisted. And finally, we have a few key-words that if found in piece of mail, it will be rejected.
It takes a lot of programming to make a game truly "open ended". Baulders Gate I and II did this quite well, although there is simply no match for the imagination of the human mind. There may be 'open ended quest' but today that only means that there are a few endings, that could perhaps change later events in your game. But for intigrating the rules, it seems simple, but when you add the rules to the open-endedness of pencil and paper games, it becomes that much harder.
There is always the possibility, that your loved ones will not accually be sent up into space. If the company only TOLD you that your loved one got sent up into space, they could easily make a larger profit margin.
This could pose a problem if you live in a dense neighborhood. Everybody will see (in reverse) what you are seeing. This could pose a problem to those nerds who watch pr0n.
This is just another example how profit and money is always put before the customer satisfaction, and customer in general. In Soviet russia, You spy on the spyware.
A system is only as secure as it's weakest link. Voting is mostly secure because everything is done physically. And to change the votes all over america physically would be impossible. But if you could controll votes from your home computer, you are more dangerous. I dont believe that electronic voting should be used unless it's on a closed network, off of the internet. Even then there is a risk that somebody could tamper with the process.
That looser is at fault. He is the one who could not keep his own domain name safe from hijacking. He should be eaten to death by a horde of rabid weasles.
Use Mozilla? Block all unrequested Pop-Up ad's. Or maby you should pay ATTENTION to what you click. Common sense helps too. An example what not to do: (Bob see's a pop up ad offering free money) Bob: "This is awesome! This is my lucky break!!!" *click* Computer: --Crash-- Just pay attention to what you click on, be aware of different browsers that can annihalate Pop up's. And don't click links that you don't trust.
If we let companies use these tag's, we are saying to them "We are ok with this." And of cource in the future (near or far) they will click it up a notch. Sooner or later, they will invade more of our privacy, under the guise of "targeted advertising". Weather there is much privacy lost or not is not an issure, the fact than we are allowing this to happen shows the companies our mindset. We are not going to fight back aganst these kinds of intrustions. Or are we?
ohh oohh, and next they'll have the "Internet on DVD!!!" Yeah, only 20k per month, with 100k DVD's per month, cancel anytime! In other words, there is no replacement for the internet, nothing can really beat it. Except you know.. maby the internet on DVD, for long car rides through nevada?
P0rn. At least watch their pings some, so that they have a fear of being caught. You can be responsible for what the view during class time, unless you make a "contract" in which their parents sign and it specifies what they can and cannot do. And there might be some skript kiddies too, so make sure they cant install any foregn software such as... nmap and ping flooders. If they can figure it out themselvs, how to DOS someone, or hack into a program. DO NOT TAKE AWAY THEIR COMPTUER RIGHTS!!! Explain to them why it is wrong, and then teach the class about what that child did, and how to make sure it does not happen again. Don't make a child loose privelages because he hacked someone, just make some backups, and use it as a teaching oppertunity. Next, you don't want to make the interface too complicated, not everyone wants to learn about computers and how they work. (nobody important anyways...) Make sure that if they absolutely hate computers, that it wont be too hard for them to do their work. Have some tutorials and README's on hand on a server for their access should the get in a bind. And make sure you're understanding to those who have trouble, not eveyone knows a lot about computers, and we need to integrate them in a friendly enviornment. Most of all, make sure they have some fun learning, because then they'll retain all that you teach them.
Oh yes! my prayers have been recieved! I can now look like a total geek-fool in front of many people by shooting them with my mobile phone wee!!! This is going to be a good thing for the geek culture though. Instead of fat geeks, we'll get super thin, fast reaction, quick thinking, tactical geeks. The superhumans of tomorrow!
This article is like.. well.. like drinking a coke, (or pepsi) after a long session of coding. Refreshing, and very satisfactory, and giddy in a way of what one has accopmlished. The satisfaction of seeing him caught at his own game is awesome. Uh oh, underwear check!
I really hope that irc.slashnet.org has a big enough pipe that they can hande the minions of slashdot. It is an intresting thought though, that slashdot itself could become a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. If of cource, you can post something interesting about a site... But back to what i was saying before, the server better be top notch, and how are they going to regulate who says what and when? Wont CmdrTaco get a little confused? I'm assuming this is where the operators come in, but from my experence on that network they dont do a whole lot of operating, they're there to kick the occasional spammer.
And THIS is why there are black hat hackers. Watch the RIAA lobby and help pass some bogus law that lets them either 1) Hack "suspects" computers 2) shut down p2p Just like right after 9/11, the terrorist sites went down, if the RIAA did something that provoked people enough, their site would.. Cease to exzist.
The Government is afraid of the Open Source movement because it implies WORK. Work to make things work, to make them function and be compatable. they are very much a lazy bunch. They would rather sit down and have Microsloth do the programming for them, then trust a bunch of smart people *gasp*!. When someone can do it for you, and when it doesent work you can complain to one entity, instead of a community, it makes your life much easier. Plus Microsloth is rich, and everybody knows who has poer, the Almighty Buck!
After a long night of coding or sleeping for that matter, it is hard to focus on the text on the screen. Scrolling down is another matter, i end up putting text up to 200% zoom in Mozilla. So now we can all print out these digatized copies and read them. This is neat stuff sure, but reading from a screen is hard, and most people will print it out anyways. The good thing is that people can now download it from the net. Assuming it is hosted on a site.