Did you actually read the complaint?!
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This isn't a lawsuit over spam or CAN-SPAM. This OSU student contacted mulitple ISPs of the ATRIKS folks and...
* called the President a "criminal"
* stated that his "personal mission is to stop ATRIKS whenever he can"
* called them a "notorious spam gang"
So if he can't argue that the president is not in fact a criminal, he is in trouble. The spam gang thing, well that probably passes legal muster.
Let this be a lesson to those writting to abuse@some-isp.net. Keep it civil.
The FBI is just turning to contractors and newer technology than maintaining the old Carnivore.
McAfee Inc has sold its McAfee Research assets to US defense contractor Sparta Inc for an undisclosed sum, after post-9/11 politics made much of its research output classified.
13 Jan 2005, 09:39 GMT -
"In response to rapidly changing national directions, much of the content of McAfee Research's efforts has transitioned from historically unclassified research to classified R&D activities," the firm said.
The unit has previously worked with government agencies such as DARPA and the NSA on projects including technologies such as forensics, intrusion prevention and malicious code defense.
Also, the budget for FBI Carnivore is probably now under Homeland Security who is outsourcing such activites.
According to leading market analyst Input Inc., the federal government will increase its spending on information technology in 2005 for the eleventh consecutive year in a row.
Outsourcing, homeland security, and the nation's global war on terrorism are driving a significant increase in spending. For that reason, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security alone will be spending in excess of $32 billion this year on information technology,"
FOSE 2005 kicks off the buying season for the 25,000 government IT and acquisition professionals who plan their major buys for the year.
Also, you would think the FBI looks into child pornography, but...
Child pornography has become a huge problem for DoD investigators, accounting for as much as 50 percent of the criminal digital evidence processing work done by the DoD's Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3). The DoD blocked and traced 60,000 intrusion attempts on its unclassified networks in 2004, and wrestles with spam, illicit pornography and other common Internet threats.
Because that AP in bridging or repeating mode acts as a wireless client on the neighbor's wireless.
You place a router off of the bridge and set it up with whatever routing rules you want. So your laptop would go out over the internet. Your servers are plugged into the router and you can restrict access to them however you want.
Interesting? really...
So birth defects for you and your neighbors is interesting? I hope you don't think everything you read on the internet is interesting.
I thought all you had to do was install Windows unpatched and it became it's own P2P program sharing worms & the such with clients all around the world.
It's hard to take the "we don't need to send humans to Mars, we can explore with rovers" crowd seriously when our best and brightest rover covers only two miles of ground in an entire year.
I find it funny that on old planet Earth, we are doing exactly this, remote controlled robot / pilot / cameras / sensors / RFID / etc. instead of human powered. Yet if people suggest that is the way to go on Mars everyone flips out and calls them a "rover crowd". The military is making war robots, unmanned combat vehicles, urban theatre command and control, etc. instead of sending in humans, who could clearly react better, faster, smarter, more flexible, cover more territory, etc. The way of the future is distributed wireless sensor networks and swarms that can achieve more than the sum of its parts. It's smaller and cheaper and lighter than sending humans. (and no, they weren't thinking of sending *you* to Mars, so don't take it all so personally)
Everything is running fine until some moderators feel obligated to let the unwashed masses in on the secret of SuprNova.
Next time there is good working P2P systems up and running, please don't WRITE ARTICLES ABOUT HOW GOOD THEY ARE.
Seriously, can we let the lawyers find out about The-Next-Best-Thing(tm) on their own. Do we have to spoon-feed it to them and put a big bullseye on everything good?
I always listen to warnings like that! Y2K, update to SP2, don't download anything from the internet.
BitTorrent is inherently "safer" than any P2P (like KaZaa). Can you be busted for sharing illegal files? Sure. But.. You are at most only in trouble for the ONE copyright violation from one.torrent on one tracker. I'm not giving any legal advice here, but if you were to download one file for what you believe to be fair use, then they won't be able to come after you like they did with KaZaa users. Instead of the hundreds of shared files, your IP address is now only associated with one.
Could they monitor EVERY tracker and EVERY torrent on those trackers and log EVERY IP address, maybe.. But don't forget torrents are time based, ie. you are only sharing file for a certain percentage of the time that.torrent is being shared. Someone would have to look for all new torrents and connect to the tracker and start logging IP addresses for the lifetime of the.torrent, plus who is to say you have the whole file? Are you a criminal for sharing part of file, a chunk that is useless on its own?
Cube farms will be replaced with phonebooth farms. Many employess are in fact poking the walls in a vain attempt to escape, some employees, however, are actually working on their computers.
See visible light (which is I'm assuming what you plan to take pictures of) have a fixed frequency and wavelength. An image sensor (let's say CMOS, since CCD seems it will be overtaken) is a basically photo-diode.
So you have some diode region on your chip that is being hit with photons. They penetrate the surface a certain distance down vertically, depending on their energy (IR, blue, red, etc.). One factor is that as the geometries shrink, the electrons are generated some fixed depth down vertically in the silicon and then have to be collected in one pixel, and not the neighboring pixels. Think of bubbles rising up to the top of a fish tank and you are trying to make smaller and smaller collection grid on the surface to determine where each one originated.
The second factor is the same that effects lithography, the pixels (photodiodes) can't be smaller than some percentage of a wavelength of the light. So you are fixed at some point on a minium pixel size depending on what color light.
I know.. IHBT.. and your only goal is to troll people, but I do feel you should at least lie about things that are not so obviously wrong.
I do "hate hearing the truth" when it comes from liars and trolls. (I'm also glad you *are* on Bush's side)
Enrontimelines
Enron wasn't that big before Bush's term and didn't start breaking the law until they got help from their Texas buddies. Look at their stock prices and decline. Enron restated financials and went under after 2001.
Enron and Kenneth Lay each donated $100,000 to incoming President Bush's inaugural committee fund, early in 2001. The incoming president invited Mr Lay to become and advisor to his transition team.
Mr Lay and other Enron directors met Mr Cheney and others three times in the first half of the year, the last meeting a month before he published his conclusions on 17 May 2001.
Sept. 10, 2000: Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay contributes more than $290,000 to George W. Bush's election campaign.
As to "Democrats will do anything to keep their buddies' companies alive".. you might want to scroll back up and re-read it again. And don't forget Governor Bush's proclaimation making an official day in June known as "Jesus Day"
Free speech from inside barbwire containment areas isn't what the First Amendment had in mind (nor is it freedom).
If there are tens of thousands of protestors then obviously we have problems in our government and their voices, rage, and violence needs to be heard.
This country wasn't founded with peaceful protests from Free-Speech Zones and I'm sure the British would have been happy to be just trying to "control the mobs" as you put it. If someone would have thought about these new GOP ideas back in the 60s (Patriot Act, Free-Speech Zones, etc.) the Civil Rights Movement would have greatly benefitted from them.
Yes, all relatives of Ted Bundy should be horrified and not mention the family connection. Did you know Hitler's last surving heir (nephew) is in New York and named his kid with middle name of Adolf (obviously they changed the Hilter part). I was very disappointed that Moore didn't tackle more important questions, like:
(a) if most of the terrorists are Saudis, if Osama is a Saudi, if the royal family is still supporting him, why did no one ever mention going to Saudi Arabia? (In truth, the answer besides being Bush family friends, is Mecca and Medina)
(b) The head of Pak's ISI was FOUND TO HAVE wired $100,000 to Atta. This man had regular meetings with Bush's cabinet and was in the White House a few month before 9-11
(c) Explain to me why Cheney was "carried" off by secret service after the first plane (definately after the 2nd plane)... But here's Bush sitting with his Curious George book in a publicly known appearance location (AP report the night before).. and NO ONE makes him leave. One of the hijacked planes could have been headed for the school. How the hell did the secret service leave him there?
(d) How did NORAD get away with NOT following SOP?? There is a reason for standard operating procedures and launching interceptor jets in a certain time window
(e) At the G8 summit a few months before, they restricted air-space, put anti-aircraft guns on the top of buildings, on the threat of airplanes being crashed into the summit. How does the administration get away with claiming that no one could foresee an attack like this.
The only way to stop them, since the are willing to give away these nonsense patents.. is to overwhelm the patent process. Everyone needs to start submitting patents and maybe there will be some many that nothing gets done.
Ever hear of ADA???!!? As public policy, we make every building a LOT more expensive. Every public works more expensive (yes replacing every street corner ramp in large cities is expensive).
"SCO defines these written materials as part of the "Copyrighted Materials" that includes various versions of the UNIX code..... [snip]... If SCO is alleging that the written materials served as the inspiration for Linux, SCO's claims would be subject to dismissal under the Copyright Act because the copying of ideas is not actionable under the Copyright Act. 17 U.S.C. 102(b)
So if you have software copyrights, I can claim I didn't steal your code, just your ideas!?! (I'm not talking about Linux in this case, just in general, that seems to be what the lawyers are saying)
SCO's "hide-the-eight-ball" tactics in the IBM case leave AutoZone with little realistic belief that SCO will voluntarily identify the basis for its claims without this Court's intervention. SCO filed its Complaint against IBM more than a year ago; yet, at least as of April 18, 2004, SCO still had not provided IBM with any reasonable identification of its claims.
I would like to play a little "hide-the-eight-ball" with.... oh, forget it, too easy.
..going to change the driving habits of some of the brain-dead, tail-gating idiots I often have to share the roads with... Perhaps intelligent road studs with assault weaponry to take out bad drivers would be more useful!
Maybe if you'd stop driving too slow in the left lane, you wouldn't have to worry about tailgaters. I have yet to see a speed demon come up on a car in the furthest right lane and tailgate them when the passing lanes are wide open. I'm willing to bet a front mounted loud speaker system that says "LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING, MORON" would be more useful.
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Wow, so YOU (one person) has figured out how to actually get the free download. How many tries did it take you? Never had to click back and curse at Real? Assuming you did use your psychic ability to infer the correct button pushes to get to the CORRECT place, the majority of people have Real(TM) trouble finding the hidden free download link.
There is a concept of truth in advertising and clicking on "FREE REAL PLAYER" should in fact take you there. Bait-and-Switch is another concept to comes to mind, and even assuming you do install the free player, you'll be sure to be hit up regularly to 'upgrade'. Not to mention the check boxes you have to hunt for to turn off. The folks at Real are sleazy peddlers and every/. story reflects this sentiment in the responses from the majority of folks.
Hardly IBM, since they seem to be rapidly converting themselves into good guys
Don't worry about that... There's a plot twist in Act III where once-villian-turned-good-guy indeed backstabs everyone with new hiring policies... Also look for the spin-off sequel movie, "Dude, Where's My Job?"
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This isn't a lawsuit over spam or CAN-SPAM. This OSU student contacted mulitple ISPs of the ATRIKS folks and...
* called the President a "criminal"
* stated that his "personal mission is to stop ATRIKS whenever he can"
* called them a "notorious spam gang"
So if he can't argue that the president is not in fact a criminal, he is in trouble. The spam gang thing, well that probably passes legal muster.
Let this be a lesson to those writting to abuse@some-isp.net. Keep it civil.
FBI agents lugged it with them to ISPs that lacked their own spying capability.
Are people going to realize that everyone (good & bad & corporate) are spying on you? Or at the very least, they are logging everything you do.
Why doesn't MPAA & RIAA just get it over with and buy the rest of the ISPs?
Because that AP in bridging or repeating mode acts as a wireless client on the neighbor's wireless.
You place a router off of the bridge and set it up with whatever routing rules you want. So your laptop would go out over the internet. Your servers are plugged into the router and you can restrict access to them however you want.
Interesting? really...
So birth defects for you and your neighbors is interesting? I hope you don't think everything you read on the internet is interesting.
Illegal, yes.
Stupid, yes.
Dangerous, yes.
Ignorant, yes.
Interesting, no.
I thought all you had to do was install Windows unpatched and it became it's own P2P program sharing worms & the such with clients all around the world.
It's hard to take the "we don't need to send humans to Mars, we can explore with rovers" crowd seriously when our best and brightest rover covers only two miles of ground in an entire year.
I find it funny that on old planet Earth, we are doing exactly this, remote controlled robot / pilot / cameras / sensors / RFID / etc. instead of human powered. Yet if people suggest that is the way to go on Mars everyone flips out and calls them a "rover crowd". The military is making war robots, unmanned combat vehicles, urban theatre command and control, etc. instead of sending in humans, who could clearly react better, faster, smarter, more flexible, cover more territory, etc. The way of the future is distributed wireless sensor networks and swarms that can achieve more than the sum of its parts. It's smaller and cheaper and lighter than sending humans. (and no, they weren't thinking of sending *you* to Mars, so don't take it all so personally)
Everything is running fine until some moderators feel obligated to let the unwashed masses in on the secret of SuprNova.
Next time there is good working P2P systems up and running, please don't WRITE ARTICLES ABOUT HOW GOOD THEY ARE.
Seriously, can we let the lawyers find out about The-Next-Best-Thing(tm) on their own. Do we have to spoon-feed it to them and put a big bullseye on everything good?
*HUGE* anonymous investigations!!
.torrent on one tracker. I'm not giving any legal advice here, but if you were to download one file for what you believe to be fair use, then they won't be able to come after you like they did with KaZaa users. Instead of the hundreds of shared files, your IP address is now only associated with one.
.torrent is being shared. Someone would have to look for all new torrents and connect to the tracker and start logging IP addresses for the lifetime of the .torrent, plus who is to say you have the whole file? Are you a criminal for sharing part of file, a chunk that is useless on its own?
I always listen to warnings like that! Y2K, update to SP2, don't download anything from the internet.
BitTorrent is inherently "safer" than any P2P (like KaZaa). Can you be busted for sharing illegal files? Sure. But.. You are at most only in trouble for the ONE copyright violation from one
Could they monitor EVERY tracker and EVERY torrent on those trackers and log EVERY IP address, maybe.. But don't forget torrents are time based, ie. you are only sharing file for a certain percentage of the time that
Cube farms will be replaced with phonebooth farms. Many employess are in fact poking the walls in a vain attempt to escape, some employees, however, are actually working on their computers.
Moore's law may not apply.
See visible light (which is I'm assuming what you plan to take pictures of) have a fixed frequency and wavelength. An image sensor (let's say CMOS, since CCD seems it will be overtaken) is a basically photo-diode.
So you have some diode region on your chip that is being hit with photons. They penetrate the surface a certain distance down vertically, depending on their energy (IR, blue, red, etc.). One factor is that as the geometries shrink, the electrons are generated some fixed depth down vertically in the silicon and then have to be collected in one pixel, and not the neighboring pixels. Think of bubbles rising up to the top of a fish tank and you are trying to make smaller and smaller collection grid on the surface to determine where each one originated.
The second factor is the same that effects lithography, the pixels (photodiodes) can't be smaller than some percentage of a wavelength of the light. So you are fixed at some point on a minium pixel size depending on what color light.
Enron timelines
Enron wasn't that big before Bush's term and didn't start breaking the law until they got help from their Texas buddies. Look at their stock prices and decline. Enron restated financials and went under after 2001.
As to "Democrats will do anything to keep their buddies' companies alive".. you might want to scroll back up and re-read it again. And don't forget Governor Bush's proclaimation making an official day in June known as "Jesus Day"
Free speech from inside barbwire containment areas isn't what the First Amendment had in mind (nor is it freedom). If there are tens of thousands of protestors then obviously we have problems in our government and their voices, rage, and violence needs to be heard. This country wasn't founded with peaceful protests from Free-Speech Zones and I'm sure the British would have been happy to be just trying to "control the mobs" as you put it. If someone would have thought about these new GOP ideas back in the 60s (Patriot Act, Free-Speech Zones, etc.) the Civil Rights Movement would have greatly benefitted from them.
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HC: 71d61b14"
hmm... maybe the server can't handle the slashdot effect. What are they gonna do when Janet Jackson's breast pops out again?
Yes, all relatives of Ted Bundy should be horrified and not mention the family connection. Did you know Hitler's last surving heir (nephew) is in New York and named his kid with middle name of Adolf (obviously they changed the Hilter part). I was very disappointed that Moore didn't tackle more important questions, like:
(a) if most of the terrorists are Saudis, if Osama is a Saudi, if the royal family is still supporting him, why did no one ever mention going to Saudi Arabia? (In truth, the answer besides being Bush family friends, is Mecca and Medina)
(b) The head of Pak's ISI was FOUND TO HAVE wired $100,000 to Atta. This man had regular meetings with Bush's cabinet and was in the White House a few month before 9-11
(c) Explain to me why Cheney was "carried" off by secret service after the first plane (definately after the 2nd plane)... But here's Bush sitting with his Curious George book in a publicly known appearance location (AP report the night before).. and NO ONE makes him leave. One of the hijacked planes could have been headed for the school. How the hell did the secret service leave him there?
(d) How did NORAD get away with NOT following SOP?? There is a reason for standard operating procedures and launching interceptor jets in a certain time window
(e) At the G8 summit a few months before, they restricted air-space, put anti-aircraft guns on the top of buildings, on the threat of airplanes being crashed into the summit. How does the administration get away with claiming that no one could foresee an attack like this.
The only way to stop them, since the are willing to give away these nonsense patents.. is to overwhelm the patent process. Everyone needs to start submitting patents and maybe there will be some many that nothing gets done.
Then, why were they too cheap to make their own background graphics, or pay for the rights of Klowner's graphics?
They should have said, "this guy makes good stuff, let's ask him to make some stuff for our new ad"
Ever hear of ADA???!!? As public policy, we make every building a LOT more expensive. Every public works more expensive (yes replacing every street corner ramp in large cities is expensive).
So if you have software copyrights, I can claim I didn't steal your code, just your ideas!?! (I'm not talking about Linux in this case, just in general, that seems to be what the lawyers are saying)
(I'm still waiting for this to make a poll)
What about "Not_Stolen_From_Xerox_Or_Apple"
Meee Saa Thinkssa Itsssa Gonnna Succkssaa
Wow, so YOU (one person) has figured out how to actually get the free download. How many tries did it take you? Never had to click back and curse at Real? Assuming you did use your psychic ability to infer the correct button pushes to get to the CORRECT place, the majority of people have Real(TM) trouble finding the hidden free download link.
/. story reflects this sentiment in the responses from the majority of folks.
There is a concept of truth in advertising and clicking on "FREE REAL PLAYER" should in fact take you there. Bait-and-Switch is another concept to comes to mind, and even assuming you do install the free player, you'll be sure to be hit up regularly to 'upgrade'. Not to mention the check boxes you have to hunt for to turn off. The folks at Real are sleazy peddlers and every
Hardly IBM, since they seem to be rapidly converting themselves into good guys
Don't worry about that... There's a plot twist in Act III where once-villian-turned-good-guy indeed backstabs everyone with new hiring policies... Also look for the spin-off sequel movie, "Dude, Where's My Job?"