DMOZ-Editor sentenced to imprisonment for KADEK propaganda
Ankara - Construction engineer H. Ertas has been sentenced to 10 months in prison and fined after being found guilty of "Propaganda for KADEK".
Ertas' lawyer, Suna Coskun, explained that his client had worked as a voluntary editor at the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) during his studies at the Euphrat-University and had been responsible for the Kurdish category. At the same time he became interested in Kurds and undertook his own research into the subject.
As a voluntary editor he had sorted the directory submissions but could not be responsible for their content. Therefore there could be no penalty under international law, according to Coskun. His activities could in no way be understood as "support for a terrorist organisation" and thus Ertas' release was appropriate.
The court sentenced Ertas to 10 months in prison and a fine of 416 million Turkish lire ($293). The sentence is not eligible for probation.
The technology has been around for ages but it hasn't been implemented due to legal concerns.
...and then just when it looks like reality mobile computing comes in...so I wonder: are we going to be blocking phone calls only or will PDA functions in general get blocked? How about SMS?
It's alphabetical by formal specise name, which is why Acridotheres tristis is number 3, and Rattus rattus is near Salmo trutta!
Wow! There are no flies on you are there? (are flies on the list?) Why didn't they say that? All they say by way of methodology is "It is very difficult to choose 100 invasive species, from around the world,... The one hundred species aim to collectively illustrate the range of impacts caused by biological invasion."
Loveliness != good for the environment!
The indictment http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?s i=108&fr=1&sts= seems to mention New Zealand a lot. It states that in Singapore, where they cheered me up no end as I walked to work every morning, they are no problem. This list is some kind of Kiwi consipiracy. And in that part of the world they don't have a particularly good record with animals do they?
Gone are the days when laptops took a significant step down in terms of performance. Now even discarded ones are pretty sweet so they tend to make very good servers for the at home tinkerer. If you've got the kind of space I've got you don't want to fill it with a full desktop machine. Heaven forbid adding a CRT monitor on top.
I also recommend this if you're the one that's paying the electricity bill.
...but in reality, this is just another stopgap until homes, curbs, etc. have better last-mile wiring capabilities
The article shifts around in emphasis between WiMax as a solution for connecting homes and offices (surely not such an issue any more?) and for people who are on the go, in the park, using whatever device.
I think the latter is the focus of the technology.
By they way, they were talking of connecting remote areas of the UK using balloons and blimps. Is this a related or totally different thing?
I suspect that was a throw-away to catch out people who don't rtfa. It actually links to "Excited state"..."An excited state of an atom, molecule or nucleus possesses more energy than the ground state... The lifetime of an atom, molecule or nucleus in an excited state is usually short. Molecules return to the ground state from an excited state by releasing energy. Its true!"
Yes, this is the "Spy Act", as opposed to the "I-Spy" act (4661).
Looking at the provisions it seems the attribution "Spyware" is more a case of hype though. The act is much wider in its scope than what a/. reader would define as spyware.
1B,C,D,E could be paraphrased in a nanosecond by the average/. reader. Leaving the most important provision: "utilizing such computer to send unsolicited information or material from the protected computer to others".
And yes it does contain a provision banning "Collecting personally identifiable information through the use of a keystroke logging function or similar function."
This part, "Removing, disabling, or rendering inoperative a security, anti-spyware, or anti-virus technology installed on the computer."...would be easy to break. I suppose the action has to be "wilful".
Theoretically the cookie set by/. when you read this is spyware, while the gator and 30 browserhijacks/toolbars/etc you volunteerly installed and accepted thru a 30 pages long eula isnt ?
Yes, I always get annoyed when a friend, who is just technically literate enough to be dangerous, says "you've gotta try such and such a spyware removal utility, it's great!".
I try and it reports "You've got 235 nasty, nefarious, bugs infesting your computer". You decide to review them (the button will be placed well away from the main "Kill them all now" button)...and they're all cookies.
The "spyware" scene looks like the Salem witch trials sometimes.
Its imho a good thing to ban spyware, but im just really unsure what to ban..
Agree. As the article notes "secretly recording a person's computer keystrokes or mouse clicks -- are already illegal under U.S. wiretap and consumer protection laws."...so I suppose the bill is targetted at other nasties.
I doubt it's targetted at the likes of Gator and the "click ok to accept this agreement and install this nice little utility" type wares.
It's just to stop software doing nefarious things without any kind of agreement or documentation whatsoever.
As a software developer, I now have to worry about certain "phone home" feature. It's useful to integrate functions to track usage and bugs. Often these measures are useful from an anti-pircacy standpoint so you don't want an option to disable. I suppose we've all got to get writing that 30 page EULA.
In any case, it's probably not in their best interest to go through with it.
Yes. I'm in Vietnam and the quality of their comrades here is nothing to be frightened of.
Key word is "trained". Trained by whom? You're not going to learn much when you don't have the equipment, you're hungry, and you have to spend six hours a day in political indoctrination classes.
Anyone with talent *and* internet access will be busy looking over their shoulders because they'll naturally be on the "highly susupicious" list at the Ministry of Culture. And they'll want to devote at least of few hours' worth of that talent to making some extra cash to make sure their families can put an extra cabbage in the pot.
Then remember it'll be easy to know which direction to look for these hackers. The only place a North Korean hacker is not going to stick out, or the only place he can afford to live, is China.
This article is just trying to scare us. They had nothing better to write about. Nothing to worry about; nothing to see here.
...since the horizon on flat ground is 25 miles away, how did they manage 55 miles? Must have been some hills involved? If so, then the distance as the crow flies would perhaps be less than 55.1 miles...
Some pics here http://www.wifi-toys.com/wi-fi.php?a=articles&id=2 3 give you a clue.
And this caption from the comic strip: "I've got it! There's a secondary road up a canyon that should get you 55 miles away"
Seriously though, we're never going to be talking about inclinations of greater than 10 degrees are we?
Music today is so uninspiring it would make Martin Luther King want to watch Friends. The patriotic act is merely protecting shitty music, shitty movies, and other contemporary shit designed to make money. Who cares.
This is the Patriot act; not the DMCA.
I guess it's a lovely proof of concept but...
How many missiles could one of these 747s destroy in one "sortie"? My guess is very low. It wouldn't be much use for any country-sized adversary. Countries like North Korea have a limited supply of plutonium; they have no trouble producing missiles. All the have to do is fire off a conventional missile every couple of minutes then fire the live ones.
This lovely new system would just serve to ensure that LA got 20-30 minutes more warning than it would have had?
Any spacewalk to fix the gyroscope circuit breaker would be only the second time both station crew members would be outside the space station, leaving no one inside.
I hope they remember the key.
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increased business and royalty
... don't want them ... you'd have a never-ending smell of wet paint around the place.
Nah
No trolls. It's not funny (currently moderated F=3) either. It hightlights the ineptitude that is the Slashdot editors these days...
http://www.mhanews.com/modules.php?name=News&file
Translation:
DMOZ-Editor sentenced to imprisonment for KADEK propaganda
Ankara - Construction engineer H. Ertas has been sentenced to 10 months in prison and fined after being found guilty of "Propaganda for KADEK".
Ertas' lawyer, Suna Coskun, explained that his client had worked as a voluntary editor at the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) during his studies at the Euphrat-University and had been responsible for the Kurdish category. At the same time he became interested in Kurds and undertook his own research into the subject.
As a voluntary editor he had sorted the directory submissions but could not be responsible for their content. Therefore there could be no penalty under international law, according to Coskun. His activities could in no way be understood as "support for a terrorist organisation" and thus Ertas' release was appropriate.
The court sentenced Ertas to 10 months in prison and a fine of 416 million Turkish lire ($293). The sentence is not eligible for probation.
Mesopotamia News Agency
The technology has been around for ages but it hasn't been implemented due to legal concerns.
...and then just when it looks like reality mobile computing comes in ...so I wonder: are we going to be blocking phone calls only or will PDA functions in general get blocked? How about SMS?
Slashdot usually gets knocked for being way behind.
& q=suse+9.2&btnG=Search+News this thread is the second of the two results, with the first (group) being "1 hour ago".
Well done, here http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8
It's alphabetical by formal specise name, which is why Acridotheres tristis is number 3, and Rattus rattus is near Salmo trutta!
... The one hundred species aim to collectively illustrate the range of impacts caused by biological invasion."
s i=108&fr=1&sts= seems to mention New Zealand a lot. It states that in Singapore, where they cheered me up no end as I walked to work every morning, they are no problem. This list is some kind of Kiwi consipiracy. And in that part of the world they don't have a particularly good record with animals do they?
Wow! There are no flies on you are there? (are flies on the list?) Why didn't they say that? All they say by way of methodology is "It is very difficult to choose 100 invasive species, from around the world,
Loveliness != good for the environment!
The indictment http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?
New Zealand? Oh, wait a minute! http://www.issg.org/people.html#Contacts
Gone are the days when laptops took a significant step down in terms of performance. Now even discarded ones are pretty sweet so they tend to make very good servers for the at home tinkerer. If you've got the kind of space I've got you don't want to fill it with a full desktop machine. Heaven forbid adding a CRT monitor on top. I also recommend this if you're the one that's paying the electricity bill.
No3 is the lovely myna bird. Rattus rattus us down at 80, near the brown trout. Seems like a strange list to me...
The article shifts around in emphasis between WiMax as a solution for connecting homes and offices (surely not such an issue any more?) and for people who are on the go, in the park, using whatever device.
I think the latter is the focus of the technology.
By they way, they were talking of connecting remote areas of the UK using balloons and blimps. Is this a related or totally different thing?
I suspect that was a throw-away to catch out people who don't rtfa. It actually links to "Excited state" ..."An excited state of an atom, molecule or nucleus possesses more energy than the ground state ... The lifetime of an atom, molecule or nucleus in an excited state is usually short. Molecules return to the ground state from an excited state by releasing energy. Its true!"
Yes, this is the "Spy Act", as opposed to the "I-Spy" act (4661).
Looking at the provisions it seems the attribution "Spyware" is more a case of hype though. The act is much wider in its scope than what a /. reader would define as spyware.
1B,C,D,E could be paraphrased in a nanosecond by the average /. reader. Leaving the most important provision: "utilizing such computer to send unsolicited information or material from the protected computer to others".
And yes it does contain a provision banning "Collecting personally identifiable information through the use of a keystroke logging function or similar function."
This part, "Removing, disabling, or rendering inoperative a security, anti-spyware, or anti-virus technology installed on the computer." ...would be easy to break. I suppose the action has to be "wilful".
Theoretically the cookie set by /. when you read this is spyware, while the gator and 30 browserhijacks/toolbars/etc you volunteerly installed and accepted thru a 30 pages long eula isnt ?
...and they're all cookies.
Yes, I always get annoyed when a friend, who is just technically literate enough to be dangerous, says "you've gotta try such and such a spyware removal utility, it's great!".
I try and it reports "You've got 235 nasty, nefarious, bugs infesting your computer". You decide to review them (the button will be placed well away from the main "Kill them all now" button)
The "spyware" scene looks like the Salem witch trials sometimes.
Its imho a good thing to ban spyware, but im just really unsure what to ban..
...so I suppose the bill is targetted at other nasties.
...now where did I put Gator?
Agree. As the article notes "secretly recording a person's computer keystrokes or mouse clicks -- are already illegal under U.S. wiretap and consumer protection laws."
I doubt it's targetted at the likes of Gator and the "click ok to accept this agreement and install this nice little utility" type wares.
It's just to stop software doing nefarious things without any kind of agreement or documentation whatsoever.
As a software developer, I now have to worry about certain "phone home" feature. It's useful to integrate functions to track usage and bugs. Often these measures are useful from an anti-pircacy standpoint so you don't want an option to disable. I suppose we've all got to get writing that 30 page EULA.
In the DRPK annyone with internet access at all is already part of the state's techno elite and de facto an agent.
Will have connections, yes. The thing to remember is that these regimes spy on, and distrust, their own much more than the populace in general.
In any case, it's probably not in their best interest to go through with it.
Yes. I'm in Vietnam and the quality of their comrades here is nothing to be frightened of.
Key word is "trained". Trained by whom? You're not going to learn much when you don't have the equipment, you're hungry, and you have to spend six hours a day in political indoctrination classes.
Anyone with talent *and* internet access will be busy looking over their shoulders because they'll naturally be on the "highly susupicious" list at the Ministry of Culture. And they'll want to devote at least of few hours' worth of that talent to making some extra cash to make sure their families can put an extra cabbage in the pot.
Then remember it'll be easy to know which direction to look for these hackers. The only place a North Korean hacker is not going to stick out, or the only place he can afford to live, is China.
This article is just trying to scare us. They had nothing better to write about. Nothing to worry about; nothing to see here.
The cartoon sucks and the story is pointless. Are people really paying to see this early?
It isn't a mere "cartoon"; it's a "captivating 8-panel comic suitable for any Sunday Edition (or cubicle wall)."
Some can sniff but I'm busy building myself a cubicle wall so I can pin this up...
...since the horizon on flat ground is 25 miles away, how did they manage 55 miles? Must have been some hills involved? If so, then the distance as the crow flies would perhaps be less than 55.1 miles...
2 3 give you a clue.
And this caption from the comic strip: "I've got it! There's a secondary road up a canyon that should get you 55 miles away"
Some pics here http://www.wifi-toys.com/wi-fi.php?a=articles&id=
Seriously though, we're never going to be talking about inclinations of greater than 10 degrees are we?
Music today is so uninspiring it would make Martin Luther King want to watch Friends. The patriotic act is merely protecting shitty music, shitty movies, and other contemporary shit designed to make money. Who cares.
This is the Patriot act; not the DMCA.
Here's more on the White Knight craft. An important but much overlooked part of the proceedings. http://science.howstuffworks.com/spaceshipone3.htm
http://www.x-plane.org/Detailed/3881.shtml
I thought the dog was a cell phone? ..."dog & bone" ... = "phone"?
Yes but they had Tom Hanks
I guess it's a lovely proof of concept but... How many missiles could one of these 747s destroy in one "sortie"? My guess is very low. It wouldn't be much use for any country-sized adversary. Countries like North Korea have a limited supply of plutonium; they have no trouble producing missiles. All the have to do is fire off a conventional missile every couple of minutes then fire the live ones. This lovely new system would just serve to ensure that LA got 20-30 minutes more warning than it would have had?
This has been modded redundant. Of course it is; that's the subject...
Any spacewalk to fix the gyroscope circuit breaker would be only the second time both station crew members would be outside the space station, leaving no one inside. I hope they remember the key.