Any exploit that is found by someone malicious will be quickly fixed by the overwhelming majority that belongs to the benevolent OSS community.
Patches will be released as soon as vulnerabilities are found? And then users will install these patches before the viruses can do any harm.
That sounds an awful lot like the way Microsoft currently does things. You know, the one they get slammed for regularly because it's such a PITA to install updates that most end users don't bother....
What we need is a way to automatically reply to these phishing scams with bogus information.
The next time a banking official from Nigeria requests your assistance in getting some money out of the country, explain that you need to verify that he's "on the up and up" and ask him for whatever information the phishing site wants....
My life is already quite cartoonishly silly. The only way software could make it more so would be to automatically drop an anvil on me as I fell off a cliff like Wylie Coyote.
It seems to me like NAC can comply with that by simply not assigning the addresses to anybody else. Messing up the upstream provider's routing tables such that it actually works isn't something NAC can do.
My previous comment may have been influenced by slashdot's title for the article. It's a bit sensational. (Just a little.)
You're right, the judges order doesn't actually give permission to move the IP addresses. It just requires NAC to continue providing whatever services they've been providing since April 2003.
It's temporary, to make sure neither party suffers to greatly until the Actual Judgement gets made.
Granted, it's not permanent, but here's judge's order, from the article:
"NAC shall permit CUSTOMER to continue utilization through any
carrier or carriers of CUSTOMER's choice of any IP addresses that were
utilized by, through or on behalf of CUSTOMER under the April 2003
Agreement....
So NAC is required to allow this, regardless of how much grief it causes.
Sounds to me like someone took the concept of phone number portability and tried to apply it to another problem domain.
What I find strange is that the guy in the article does almost all highway driving and he is getting 32MPG. Honda has been no help.
Well.... It does mention that the Honda dealership has verified that the car is operating properly. The lack of response from higher up in the company is a bit baffling, but there's also no mention of how long he waited for a response.
I'm kinda curious about the details of Consumer Reports testing methodology. Before buying my Civic, I read a Consumer Reports review and there was no mention of these problems. Surely they didn't review the car without actually testing it!
I didn't see it mentioned in the article (that would have made it less sensational), but I suspect the answer is a big yes.
I drive a Honda Civic Hybrid and my experience has been that, if you alternate between stamping on the gas and stamping on the brakes, then your mileage will drop to around 30. Of course, do that in a conventional engine car and your mileage will also drop drastically.
Driving conservatively (i.e. The way you're taught to drive), I routinely get 46 MPG in heavy local traffic and 50+ on the open highway.
As with any other type of car, your particular driving style has a tremendous impact on your gas mileage.
Well now, there is that one drawback to the Low-tech solution.... You'd have to license the papyrus patent from the Ancient Egyptians. And unfortunately, they sold those rights to a company operating out of Utah...:-p
A few years ago I went hiking in Vermont and came across a campsite where someone had left a notebook in a somewhat weather-resistant box. There was a note attached encouraging people coming through the area to leave their names and the date/time and any comments they felt like leaving. (Mostly folks saying who they were and where they were from, but a few were inspired to write some poetry.)
Putting similar logbooks at your "critical trail junctions" would probably fit your needs while remaining completely voluntary. Plus you wouldn't have to worry about a power supply.
And yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead and make your own joke about how amazing it is to find someone on/. who goes hiking without coercion.:-p
is it willingly redundant or did the submitter write it twice because it went from the states laws to the ftc requirement
From the article, it appears that CAN SPAM merely says that sexually explicit material has to be labeled. The new FTC rule is where the label is actually defined.
Explain to me again how this bill promotes safety.
Oh, this will promote public safetey one way or another. On the one hand, anyone stupid enough to re-elect the people who passed this bill shouldn't be driving in the first place. On the other hand, if the public is smart enough to elect a new set of leaders, public safety will again be served by getting the idiots out of office.
I have no idea about property rights in low earth orbit but i've seen tons of cheesy sci-fi movies that seem to support the possiblity.
I am not a space lawyer (nor do I intend to play one on Slashdot), but you've now got me thinking about Harry Broderick and the rest of the crew at Jettison Salvage. Maybe The Vulture could do future servicing missions?:-)
Even if you do, finding a new ISP or smarthost is a five minute job. Whereas deleting and filtering spam takes millions of people a significant amount of time every single day.
Five minutes? You're joking, right?
For me with a small, single virtual-server website, moving to a new hosting service would be a relatively simple task. But I'd still be down for a week waiting for the DNS change to propogate. Now multiply that by the several hundred to several thousand people impacted by this "burn down the house to kill a cockroach" method.... Now suppose I have several co-located machines. That means a large investment of time setting up new machines at the new location.
Black-holing an entire subnet puts a lot of financial burden on innocent people. Of course, it costs SPEWS nothing to do this. They're simply shifting costs, just like the spammers.
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The real reason the RFID chips would be used is so that if you skip out on a bet, say for instance The "over" on the Reds @ Phillies game, they can send 'Uncle Guido' out with a GPS to break your legs.
Assuming they want to go to the trouble of sweeping the entire town to find out where the chips are (remember, the range on those things is fairly limited), then I suppose Guido could break the chips' legs.:-) But since they don't really know who has the chips, that probably wouldn't be enough to track you personally. Of course, if they get someone with an RFID blow dart shooting patrons as they come in....:-)
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Why would anyone even take the chips out of the casino anyway?
I doubt they care too much if you take the chips out of the casino. After all, chips that go away don't have to be converted back into cash -- it's just that much extra profit.
What they don't want is for you to walk out the door with a stack of $1 chips and bring them back made to look like $100 chips. Presumably the RFID would also make it easier for them to detect fake chips that had never been in any casino before.
I gave up caffeine for about six months at one point for fear that it was exacerbating another problem. (It turned out to be unrelated, but that's way off topic.)
What worked for me was to stop the caffeine intake on a Friday evening. For me, it was easy to drink water on Saturday and Sunday. By Monday, the caffeine was out of my system.
There's a couple things to be aware of though.
First, I suppose this should be obvious, but you're gonna need to sleep more. Get in the habit of going to bed before midnight. It gets easier after a while.
Next, find something else to drink. Ice water's a good place to start, but it gets boring. I'd suggest you avoid the non-caffienated sodas, that makes it too tempting to grab a caffienated one.
Finally, tell your friends you're quitting caffiene. If they're good friends, they'll make sure you stay on the straight and narrow.
Governments want traceability and backups in case the something goes wrong.
What I think the government wants varies according to how paranoid I'm feeling on any particular day. As a voter however, I want traceability and backups so I can be assured that the vote wasn't tampered with.
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A quick Google search says it's a StarOffice "Impress" presentation file. (Open Source answer to Power Point?)
Patches will be released as soon as vulnerabilities are found? And then users will install these patches before the viruses can do any harm.
That sounds an awful lot like the way Microsoft currently does things. You know, the one they get slammed for regularly because it's such a PITA to install updates that most end users don't bother....
The next time a banking official from Nigeria requests your assistance in getting some money out of the country, explain that you need to verify that he's "on the up and up" and ask him for whatever information the phishing site wants....
My life is already quite cartoonishly silly. The only way software could make it more so would be to automatically drop an anvil on me as I fell off a cliff like Wylie Coyote.
Perhaps also consider sending a note to Penguin Books, LTD. They have convenient email addresses for both Customer Service and International Sales
You can also slashdot their website
It seems to me like NAC can comply with that by simply not assigning the addresses to anybody else. Messing up the upstream provider's routing tables such that it actually works isn't something NAC can do.
My previous comment may have been influenced by slashdot's title for the article. It's a bit sensational. (Just a little.)
You're right, the judges order doesn't actually give permission to move the IP addresses. It just requires NAC to continue providing whatever services they've been providing since April 2003.
It's temporary, to make sure neither party suffers to greatly until the Actual Judgement gets made.
Granted, it's not permanent, but here's judge's order, from the article: "NAC shall permit CUSTOMER to continue utilization through any carrier or carriers of CUSTOMER's choice of any IP addresses that were utilized by, through or on behalf of CUSTOMER under the April 2003 Agreement....
So NAC is required to allow this, regardless of how much grief it causes.
Sounds to me like someone took the concept of phone number portability and tried to apply it to another problem domain.
This is not a delayed lawsuit. This is the hearing on an appeal.
According to the article, the original infringment suit was filed in 2001. At that time, Blackberry was only beginning to see widespread use.
The conviction had nothing to do with spamming. That's just the activity he engaged in while using the stolen identities.
Of course, one has to wonder how long it'll take him to pay off the $16 million civil settlement while working in the prison laundry.
Informative it is not. Off-topic and wrong it is.
Yoda posts as an AC???
What I find strange is that the guy in the article does almost all highway driving and he is getting 32MPG. Honda has been no help.
Well.... It does mention that the Honda dealership has verified that the car is operating properly. The lack of response from higher up in the company is a bit baffling, but there's also no mention of how long he waited for a response.
I'm kinda curious about the details of Consumer Reports testing methodology. Before buying my Civic, I read a Consumer Reports review and there was no mention of these problems. Surely they didn't review the car without actually testing it!
are other gasoline-only autos also overrated?
I didn't see it mentioned in the article (that would have made it less sensational), but I suspect the answer is a big yes.
I drive a Honda Civic Hybrid and my experience has been that, if you alternate between stamping on the gas and stamping on the brakes, then your mileage will drop to around 30. Of course, do that in a conventional engine car and your mileage will also drop drastically.
Driving conservatively (i.e. The way you're taught to drive), I routinely get 46 MPG in heavy local traffic and 50+ on the open highway.
As with any other type of car, your particular driving style has a tremendous impact on your gas mileage.
They use a system like this in upstate new york. Last year, I went on a 7-day canoe trek. Before the trek, we logged our travel plans with the ranger.
It's not just New York. I've seen similar "sign in" points at trail heads in Vermont, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and South Carolina.
Will your system be open source...
Well now, there is that one drawback to the Low-tech solution.... You'd have to license the papyrus patent from the Ancient Egyptians. And unfortunately, they sold those rights to a company operating out of Utah... :-p
A few years ago I went hiking in Vermont and came across a campsite where someone had left a notebook in a somewhat weather-resistant box. There was a note attached encouraging people coming through the area to leave their names and the date/time and any comments they felt like leaving. (Mostly folks saying who they were and where they were from, but a few were inspired to write some poetry.)
Putting similar logbooks at your "critical trail junctions" would probably fit your needs while remaining completely voluntary. Plus you wouldn't have to worry about a power supply.
And yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead and make your own joke about how amazing it is to find someone on /. who goes hiking without coercion. :-p
It's not exactly office equipment, but I've seen more than one automotive sunshade with the instructions, "Remove shade before operating vehicle."
From the article, it appears that CAN SPAM merely says that sexually explicit material has to be labeled. The new FTC rule is where the label is actually defined.
I wonder if perhaps that's a sign that the small hobbyist sites are the only ones doing "cool" stuff anymore.
Oh, this will promote public safetey one way or another. On the one hand, anyone stupid enough to re-elect the people who passed this bill shouldn't be driving in the first place. On the other hand, if the public is smart enough to elect a new set of leaders, public safety will again be served by getting the idiots out of office.
I am not a space lawyer (nor do I intend to play one on Slashdot), but you've now got me thinking about Harry Broderick and the rest of the crew at Jettison Salvage. Maybe The Vulture could do future servicing missions? :-)
Once upon a time, a junkman had a dream...
Five minutes? You're joking, right?
For me with a small, single virtual-server website, moving to a new hosting service would be a relatively simple task. But I'd still be down for a week waiting for the DNS change to propogate. Now multiply that by the several hundred to several thousand people impacted by this "burn down the house to kill a cockroach" method.... Now suppose I have several co-located machines. That means a large investment of time setting up new machines at the new location.
Black-holing an entire subnet puts a lot of financial burden on innocent people. Of course, it costs SPEWS nothing to do this. They're simply shifting costs, just like the spammers.
The real reason the RFID chips would be used is so that if you skip out on a bet, say for instance The "over" on the Reds @ Phillies game, they can send 'Uncle Guido' out with a GPS to break your legs.
Assuming they want to go to the trouble of sweeping the entire town to find out where the chips are (remember, the range on those things is fairly limited), then I suppose Guido could break the chips' legs. :-) But since they don't really know who has the chips, that probably wouldn't be enough to track you personally. Of course, if they get someone with an RFID blow dart shooting patrons as they come in.... :-)
I doubt they care too much if you take the chips out of the casino. After all, chips that go away don't have to be converted back into cash -- it's just that much extra profit.
What they don't want is for you to walk out the door with a stack of $1 chips and bring them back made to look like $100 chips. Presumably the RFID would also make it easier for them to detect fake chips that had never been in any casino before.
It's not easy, but you can do it.
I gave up caffeine for about six months at one point for fear that it was exacerbating another problem. (It turned out to be unrelated, but that's way off topic.)
What worked for me was to stop the caffeine intake on a Friday evening. For me, it was easy to drink water on Saturday and Sunday. By Monday, the caffeine was out of my system.
There's a couple things to be aware of though. First, I suppose this should be obvious, but you're gonna need to sleep more. Get in the habit of going to bed before midnight. It gets easier after a while.
Next, find something else to drink. Ice water's a good place to start, but it gets boring. I'd suggest you avoid the non-caffienated sodas, that makes it too tempting to grab a caffienated one.
Finally, tell your friends you're quitting caffiene. If they're good friends, they'll make sure you stay on the straight and narrow.
Good luck.
Governments want traceability and backups in case the something goes wrong.
What I think the government wants varies according to how paranoid I'm feeling on any particular day. As a voter however, I want traceability and backups so I can be assured that the vote wasn't tampered with.