excerpted from the current Gator (nee "Claria") license:
"You agree that you will not use, or encourage others to use, any unauthorized means for the removal of the GAIN Adserver, or any GAIN-supported software from a computer."
as long as click-through licenses are legal, so is this nonsense.
I've recently been blessed with the opportunity to purchase valuable st0ck at a sharp discount! I am going to invest some of the millions of dollars I have already made helping those nice men from Nigeria with their banking problems.
1. As previous posters pointed out, CTRL-N works. It's even listed in the menu with the rest.
2. The "Bookmarks Toolbar" folder can be removed by manually editing bookmarks.html in your profile directory.
Someone really should gin up a menu item in the bookmark manager to designate an arbitrary folder as the toolbar, and allow removal of the default.
That said, I have recently started using the bookmark bar after years of dispassionately ignoring it - and you know what? it's actually very useful for keeping commonly used links (i.e. webmail, ticketing system and admin pages at work) and RSS feeds. Give it a shot, you might even like it.
3. IE-specific sites are broken, not firefox. complain to the people that spit out the poor markup.
4. two options- either change your keyboard to launch firefox with the URIs as arguments (firefox.exe -remote "openURL http://foo") or complain at logitech to fix their software to pass the URIs to the OS' default handler. The blame here lies solely with them.
standard AT power connectors are black-black... which doesn't help for old IBM rigs, which have two spare connectors the same size for the backplane.. *grumble*
I had legos when I put my first 386sx25 together at age 10, I wish I'd thought of having them help... you wouldn't believe how silly I felt when I realized i had both the IDE and floppy ribbon cables in backwards. (and no, they weren't keyed, striped, or otherwise marked, pfeh.)
What has continued to surprise me is that no one seems to have caught on that this particular copy protection like this only affects DAE (digital audio extraction, isn't it?). Good ol' analog ripping - by way of the MPC/2/3 CD-Audio out from the CD-ROM drive, or even a 1/8" stereo mini plug, or better yet, a pair of composite RCA type plugs... into the line input of your sound card, or hell, any other recording device - would be a, perhaps inelegant, but still effective way to rip... and is that even circumventing anything? Is recording from a supposedly secure standalone CD player illegal yet?
I'm not bothered so much by purposefully garbled music as I am by the idea of authentication. Music that requires a certified legitimate player to show its papers, players that require music to do the same, all in the name of preserving the profit of record companies...
Read this great article by Jaron Lanier over at Discover Magazine. (first saw it on a/. post some time ago, no I don't remember where/when) It's a great what-if about the possible future of secured music, and he makes a damn good point - all of the mechanisms for effecting complete control over what and how you listen are being slowly and for the most part quietly put into place... and that scares me.
It's a windows box. Things like ipchains don't exist there.
Chances are it was ZoneAlarm, which seems to be one of the more popular personal firewalls... (it's free, go figure) This one blocks things on the application level, not port or service type.
So the alert the kid saw was something along the lines of "....doc.exe is trying to access the internet." then a choice to allow or deny it. So, actually, yes, it probably did require some actual ignorance on the part of whoever allowed it.
And by the way, 25 is just the default service port. The client port could be anything from 1024 to 65535.
Hm... Katz seems to be only half wrong this time, getting amazingly close to being clued in.
Unfortunately, Sklyarov is not a journalist in much of any sense of the word. He was not "acting" as a reporter when he gave his speech on the ebook security. I'd call him something along the lines of a "security expert"... but certainly not the "evil bad wicked naughty (Zoot for you Python types) hacker person" that adobe would have him be.
What really gets me is not him being mislabelled as a reporter, rather that Adobe is protecting its weak product and probably smaller-than-it-wants-to-admit market share of this ebook crap with litigation rather than actual security. CSS. Ebook. Starting to see a trend with shoddily secured products being cracked and those who did so being prosecuted instead of being thanked for finding a problem with a product?
Let's see if we can't draw an analogy that someone will most likely find fault with, but I think works anyway.... If I blab to the world that Ford's new Pinto(tm) has weak gas tank security, allowing me to circumvent the explosion prevention measures on the product, are they allowed under any law (no, not the DMCA, quit arguing with my analogy.) to prosecute me for revealing their trade secrets? Hell no, they damn well better recall the car. Pintos have broken gas tanks, Ebooks have broken encryption. Adobe is at fault, and Sklyarov is being blamed.
Nevermind the concept of fair use. Elcomsoft's product allowed for... sing along with me here, folks... decryption of ebooks ONLY if one had the original unlock password - which one must pay for. So he's allowing people to make perfectly legal copies of something they purchased the right to view. I see no illegality, do you?
The problem is that Adobe does. Thank god they woke up and realized that nobody agreed with them, but it's still legal for them to prosecute under.
Let's fix the law, people. Let us (and I'm one of 'em) lazy Americans tell our congressman what we think of Orrin Hatch's little DMCA... Bitching and whining and gnashing our teeth won't do much, but if we do it in their direction, they might be obliged to eventually listen. Call them. Write them. Email them. Junk-fax them. Send it pony express. http://www.house.gov/writerep/ for House contact information and http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm for Senate names and numbers.
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I use two 5ghz 802.11n access points with gig ethernet switchports as a wireless AP/bridge and stream HD video. YMMV.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116768/
don't laugh.
excerpted from the current Gator (nee "Claria") license:
"You agree that you will not use, or encourage others to use, any unauthorized means for the removal of the GAIN Adserver, or any GAIN-supported software from a computer."
as long as click-through licenses are legal, so is this nonsense.
I've recently been blessed with the opportunity to purchase valuable st0ck at a sharp discount! I am going to invest some of the millions of dollars I have already made helping those nice men from Nigeria with their banking problems.
1. As previous posters pointed out, CTRL-N works. It's even listed in the menu with the rest.
2. The "Bookmarks Toolbar" folder can be removed by manually editing bookmarks.html in your profile directory.
Someone really should gin up a menu item in the bookmark manager to designate an arbitrary folder as the toolbar, and allow removal of the default.
That said, I have recently started using the bookmark bar after years of dispassionately ignoring it - and you know what? it's actually very useful for keeping commonly used links (i.e. webmail, ticketing system and admin pages at work) and RSS feeds. Give it a shot, you might even like it.
3. IE-specific sites are broken, not firefox. complain to the people that spit out the poor markup.
4. two options- either change your keyboard to launch firefox with the URIs as arguments (firefox.exe -remote "openURL http://foo") or complain at logitech to fix their software to pass the URIs to the OS' default handler. The blame here lies solely with them.
"Possible Browser Hijack. Start page set to about:blank"
"Commercial Remote Control Software. RealVNC"
who do these people think they are?
sounds a lot like LUFS ( http://lufs.sf.net ) which lets you mount remote filesystems via SSH, FTP, and several other novel protocols.
Can't forget the MacII couch: here
standard AT power connectors are black-black... which doesn't help for old IBM rigs, which have two spare connectors the same size for the backplane.. *grumble*
I had legos when I put my first 386sx25 together at age 10, I wish I'd thought of having them help... you wouldn't believe how silly I felt when I realized i had both the IDE and floppy ribbon cables in backwards. (and no, they weren't keyed, striped, or otherwise marked, pfeh.)
What has continued to surprise me is that no one seems to have caught on that this particular copy protection like this only affects DAE (digital audio extraction, isn't it?). Good ol' analog ripping - by way of the MPC/2/3 CD-Audio out from the CD-ROM drive, or even a 1/8" stereo mini plug, or better yet, a pair of composite RCA type plugs... into the line input of your sound card, or hell, any other recording device - would be a, perhaps inelegant, but still effective way to rip... and is that even circumventing anything? Is recording from a supposedly secure standalone CD player illegal yet?
/. post some time ago, no I don't remember where/when) It's a great what-if about the possible future of secured music, and he makes a damn good point - all of the mechanisms for effecting complete control over what and how you listen are being slowly and for the most part quietly put into place... and that scares me.
I'm not bothered so much by purposefully garbled music as I am by the idea of authentication. Music that requires a certified legitimate player to show its papers, players that require music to do the same, all in the name of preserving the profit of record companies... Read this great article by Jaron Lanier over at Discover Magazine. (first saw it on a
It's a windows box. Things like ipchains don't exist there.
Chances are it was ZoneAlarm, which seems to be one of the more popular personal firewalls... (it's free, go figure) This one blocks things on the application level, not port or service type.
So the alert the kid saw was something along the lines of "....doc.exe is trying to access the internet." then a choice to allow or deny it. So, actually, yes, it probably did require some actual ignorance on the part of whoever allowed it.
And by the way, 25 is just the default service port. The client port could be anything from 1024 to 65535.
Hmph. It's been around for years... http://www.fu-fme.com :)
Can't wait for some Microsoftian to claim the GPL requires the voting district to open source the ballots... and suggest CE as an alternative?
"Invalid Page Fault: Microsoft certified candidate not found on ballot, please reboot the booth and vote again"
Hm... Katz seems to be only half wrong this time, getting amazingly close to being clued in.
Unfortunately, Sklyarov is not a journalist in much of any sense of the word. He was not "acting" as a reporter when he gave his speech on the ebook security. I'd call him something along the lines of a "security expert"... but certainly not the "evil bad wicked naughty (Zoot for you Python types) hacker person" that adobe would have him be.
What really gets me is not him being mislabelled as a reporter, rather that Adobe is protecting its weak product and probably smaller-than-it-wants-to-admit market share of this ebook crap with litigation rather than actual security. CSS. Ebook. Starting to see a trend with shoddily secured products being cracked and those who did so being prosecuted instead of being thanked for finding a problem with a product?
Let's see if we can't draw an analogy that someone will most likely find fault with, but I think works anyway.... If I blab to the world that Ford's new Pinto(tm) has weak gas tank security, allowing me to circumvent the explosion prevention measures on the product, are they allowed under any law (no, not the DMCA, quit arguing with my analogy.) to prosecute me for revealing their trade secrets? Hell no, they damn well better recall the car. Pintos have broken gas tanks, Ebooks have broken encryption. Adobe is at fault, and Sklyarov is being blamed.
Nevermind the concept of fair use. Elcomsoft's product allowed for... sing along with me here, folks... decryption of ebooks ONLY if one had the original unlock password - which one must pay for. So he's allowing people to make perfectly legal copies of something they purchased the right to view. I see no illegality, do you?
The problem is that Adobe does. Thank god they woke up and realized that nobody agreed with them, but it's still legal for them to prosecute under.
Let's fix the law, people. Let us (and I'm one of 'em) lazy Americans tell our congressman what we think of Orrin Hatch's little DMCA... Bitching and whining and gnashing our teeth won't do much, but if we do it in their direction, they might be obliged to eventually listen. Call them. Write them. Email them. Junk-fax them. Send it pony express. http://www.house.gov/writerep/ for House contact information and http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm for Senate names and numbers.
Have you yelled at your Congressman today?