Super cool to see this on/., I know one of the guys behind it from SF and seeing him around a few hack nights. Anything to get more people interested in codeing:)
OTR actually has deniability built in to it. Once the conversation is finished it impossible to prove what the conversation text was. Its really cool. It even has a built in tool to help you forge the logs:)
I don't know about you, but I find a lot of people use it. That could be because I'm at the University where Professor Goldberg is from:P. Continuing your thought however, I think OTR, and other encryption programs like it, could receive a substantial boost in usage if we could get popular distributions like Ubuntu to include and enable them by default. You and I may think about the security of our conversations, but the majority of people probably do not bother. I can't see much of a good reason to not make this the default.
I find his choice of CC license odd given his talk.... He spends most of the time talking about the importance of derivative works, but then releases his talk under a no-derivatives license. Oh well:(
Also, on a less than entirely random note, the Open Circulation edition of Xandros is not limmited to 30 days, but naturally it doesn't have all of the third party software that Xandros has licensed for inclusion with its for $ versions.
If a substantial percentage of people were blocking ads [to the point where it substantially impacted on the company], it would be fairly easy from a technical perspective to require people to access the ads. But, I think a lot of places avoid doing this on the basis that the people who block the ads are unlikely to respond to them anyways.
nothing like a public arrest to keep the populac in line. I'm not saying that this arrest was for those purposes, but if you have large gathering of people who are all on the fringes of the law, a not so sutble way to remind them that they are being watched is arresting someone with a relatively high profile within the group.
It would be sweet, everything goes down we just have to change the voicemail at work to "Internet down, please phone back tommorow" and I could go out for a drink (assuming the pubs were open). The last time we had a major failure (back in ottawa) I actually managed to completely unplug for a day, something which I have not managed to do for quite sometime.
I thought they chose there name from the OSI layer they brought the data up to. From the article "The name Level 5 refers to the network protocol stack where level 5 delivers data from the network to the application, according to Karr. "
Note: I am not a lawyer, but I did take and get a 70 in METHL100 (introduction to business law for math students). What you say is all well and good, but please keep in mind that in some places of the world giving your employer notice is manditory. In general in Ontario you are required to give your employer as much notice as they are required to give you, and this generally amounts to two weeks. Now I'm not sure about the laws where you are from, but it could very well effect the question asker.
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Super cool to see this on /., I know one of the guys behind it from SF and seeing him around a few hack nights. Anything to get more people interested in codeing :)
The organization that is serving the talk has a wecbcam ( http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/office/webcam.html ) in there office. Despite serving an avi file linked directly from the slashdot page, there doesn't seem to be fire :P
OTR actually has deniability built in to it. Once the conversation is finished it impossible to prove what the conversation text was. Its really cool. It even has a built in tool to help you forge the logs :)
I don't know about you, but I find a lot of people use it. That could be because I'm at the University where Professor Goldberg is from :P.
Continuing your thought however, I think OTR, and other encryption programs like it, could receive a substantial boost in usage if we could get popular distributions like Ubuntu to include and enable them by default. You and I may think about the security of our conversations, but the majority of people probably do not bother. I can't see much of a good reason to not make this the default.
Did you notice the bittorrent links? you can set it to download and come back to it later.
A remixed techno version of this talk would be awesome. MC++ where are you?
I ran all the way to the server room :) Fortunately someone else beet me to the csc :)
Its backup now, the main server kernel panicked.
but, if the discretion would net them more money, why wouldn't they then exercise that level of discretion?
I find his choice of CC license odd given his talk.... He spends most of the time talking about the importance of derivative works, but then releases his talk under a no-derivatives license. Oh well :(
Also, on a less than entirely random note, the Open Circulation edition of Xandros is not limmited to 30 days, but naturally it doesn't have all of the third party software that Xandros has licensed for inclusion with its for $ versions.
If a substantial percentage of people were blocking ads [to the point where it substantially impacted on the company], it would be fairly easy from a technical perspective to require people to access the ads. But, I think a lot of places avoid doing this on the basis that the people who block the ads are unlikely to respond to them anyways.
nothing like a public arrest to keep the populac in line.
I'm not saying that this arrest was for those purposes, but if you have large gathering of people who are all on the fringes of the law, a not so sutble way to remind them that they are being watched is arresting someone with a relatively high profile within the group.
Check out tehladies your source for teh ladies (some of them are CSC members even :-)).
You can clearly see from the webcam (hosted on a different machine) clearly shows the server is not yet on fire.
Or, you know, you could say lower the price when your left with X units that can't be sold.
One other way to look at this is all the publicity the Virgin name is getting thorugh this stunt. I'd say it would be worth quite a lot more than 20m
It would be sweet, everything goes down we just have to change the voicemail at work to "Internet down, please phone back tommorow" and I could go out for a drink (assuming the pubs were open).
The last time we had a major failure (back in ottawa) I actually managed to completely unplug for a day, something which I have not managed to do for quite sometime.
But your makeing them aware when you post the form back to them :-)
I thought they chose there name from the OSI layer they brought the data up to.
From the article "The name Level 5 refers to the network protocol stack where level 5 delivers data from the network to the application, according to Karr. "
Personally, I like CDE.
Note: I am not a lawyer, but I did take and get a 70 in METHL100 (introduction to business law for math students).
What you say is all well and good, but please keep in mind that in some places of the world giving your employer notice is manditory. In general in Ontario you are required to give your employer as much notice as they are required to give you, and this generally amounts to two weeks.
Now I'm not sure about the laws where you are from, but it could very well effect the question asker.
I'm under the impression that you can still get GSM service in ottawa from microcell (now owned by telus).
Well actually, its normally sent over another packet switched network (like datapac) :-)
Perhaps, although toronto has had its fair share of shootings during the past few years.