When will some of you guys learn it's not about the act, nor the group, nor the victim, nor the attacker. It's about the ability to control perception. The spookier the 'villain' the more money gets funneled to 'groups' like the Department of Homeland Insignificance. It's how they justify their budgets at the end of the year. "By golly Mabel them be terrorists, maybe we should pay more taxes to them mighty fine boys at the DOJ they be tough on terrorists" Nothing less, nothing more. It's about stats. Sure the guy was moronic, and now he will pay for being an idiot, and the sinful part is many - if he goes to a jury - will be blinded by pseudo sympathy spin on terror. To quote that old annoying song "It's all about the Benjamins baby"
failure on your DSL either means a) nosync caused by static on your lines meaning either your wiring is bad or the telco sucks, in either case the line can be adjusted and the noise level brought down. Unless of course your provider is using ghetto DSLAMS, b) your modem or eth cards are garbage or c) you're using shoddy wiring (rj45's phone cords, etc.) or shoddy splitters, or have some crazy ass fax/phone/^* set up that's give you linenoise. Heck housealarms can do that, so can vibrations on the line if you live near like a train or something.
Just because it could be one of the choices though does not mean VoIP is a bad idea, as far as the entire VoIP 9/11 argument, I see it as being useless considering even 11 year olds have cell phones. Don't tell me you're like one of those people in a horror movie, where they fall and stay on the ground screaming. Pick up another line of communication. Think of it in terms of everyday normality, you catch a flat, there's a spare, etc.
As for disruption tolerant, it would be literally impossible. That's asking for a vendor to create the ultmite failsafe product. Anything can happen, sadly look at 9/11 for example. To ask for something perfect would be to ask for the impossible, to not have a failover implementation of sorts is mere stupidity, and should not be blamed on technology whatsoever. Hell if I were trapped in the desert with no phone, etc., bet your ass I'm trying to make some smoke signals.
Ahh the good old days of funny assed spoofs. Too bad the Department of Homeland Sec'll be ready to call you bin Laden for doing this shit nowadays.. My favs:
No company in the United States would truly want to do that because they wouldn't be able to compete with the pricing. So what they would do is buy from a chinese sweatshop and have them relabel the tags with "Made in America" ones.
Wal-Mart and Sweatshops
Many Americans believe the clothing purchased in U.S. Wal-Mart stores is manufactured in America. In fact, the majority of its private label clothing is manufactured in at least 48 countries around the world, but not in the U.S.
In his autobiography, Made in America: My Story founding Wal-Mart President, Sam Walton, proselytized "Buy American." USA Today, August 14, 2001, reported that, "Wal-Mart has more than 1,107 international operations." The newspaper also reports that, "Bangladesh workers earn as little as nine cents an hour making shirts for Wal-Mart.
Hypocritically, Wal-Mart ran a "Buy American" and "Buy Mexican" marketing campaigns simultaneously, all the while reinvesting its all-American dollars overseas.
Wal-Mart is the largest importer of Chinese goods. 10% of all Chinese imports are imported by Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart even established its own global procurement division this year, abandoning the pretense to its traditional "buy American" campaign. This team searches the globe for the cheapest raw materials, manufacturers and shipping routes. They allow Wal-Mart to relocate factories from one country to the next in its endless quest to squeeze countries for lower wages and cheaper goods. (LA Times 12/03) (source)
It may all look good on paper, but this is nothing short of typical politics: "You pressure us, we pressure you" and with an economy like China which is still immature, someone is going to bend, and I don't think it would be China
While it may seem like a cool idea I would be curious to know what the stats are on losses coming from China theyve got to be costing MS at least a couple of hundred million. I don't think any government would be truly reluctant to throw that type of money away. Sure it sounds underhanded, but think about it, if they could get away with it I'm sure they would.
As a native NY'er (29+ yrs), I've known for the longest those buttons don't work, and I'm almost sure every NY'er knows the same too. Hell half of those red fire department boxes don't even work the city knows and hasn't done anything about those, so little attention will be paid to those funky looking buttons.
Now on the flip side of things, for those who live in the boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, SI, if you take a good old trip to city hall and the places where the money is flowing what do you find? Operating buttons, clean streets, subways with bathrooms, and spikes to keep those pigeons from pooping all over the place. The boroughs... What are you kidding?
But isn't/wasn't this what BeOS intended to do? On the one hand it would be nice, it would be compact as opposed to having 3! cd's full of stuff, yet at the same time, they'd better have a squadron full of developers who would change things on the fly considering the speed at which things change.
Now I won't seem like a perve asking every Californian chick to hop in my car so I could adjust her knobs! I'll say it's so we don't get pulled over for speeding.
Its interesting to know no company has really done something like this already. In the US we have the Lo Jack system for tracking stolen cars, but a company would have to wonder whether someone would be willing to pay anything over 200.00 for a laptop that'll probably be worth that much in a few months judging by the insane prices of comp stuff.
Governments and companies might be interested in this stuff, but to the ordinary joe blow user I don't think it means much. I think most people would take care of their personal laptops much more than they would something they didn't pay for. Aside from that, one could probably do something with an RFID tag on their own with some success if they can find some way to get their RFID tag to interact with a GPS system.
Another alternative would be a good old fashioned mechanism of tracking down MAC addresses, which would be painful but that is already doable.
actually you're wrong. Colorado ADSX is called Supermax because it's a 24/7 lock down. There is no contact with anyone, no other contact period. Your mail even, is scanned and shown to you. Think Hannibal Lecter like shit, and you have your ADSX. There is also a Supermax in Baltimore, that one however allows for one hour worth of rec time. Put it like this, ADSX is pretty much your pre-coffin place to go. All of the higher ups like the Aryan Nation, Nation of Islam, terrorist from the original WTC bombing go there. There is no however meeting up to plot anything between anyone in Co., Lompoc, Lewisburgh, Atlanta USP would be the clubfeds of choice for that activity. USP Allenwood is another place for high profilers, a lot of gov spies end up there. Hanssen is there, and ironically the medium custody (lower than the USP security wise), is a lot more dangerous. In places where people have a mandatory life, most just want to go on and live the measley life because they know there is nothing left. In the medium security places, you're likely to find the most violence. People there are frustrated waiting for their day to come, and there is a lot of jealousy especially when it comes time for someone to go. Someone is liable to try to kill you because you're on the way out, and they have about 10 to go.
Again, I say this out of experience. The lower security places called FCI's, are where people go for lower class cases, but keep in mind that as time goes on, people get their classifications lowered, so you end up seeing people who have done 20 years in a camp or a low who are on their way out in as much as 10 years. For the most part though, you won't find anyone with a 10 year sentence in a low, and someone with more than 5 years in a camp (no gate prison). So it goes like this... ADSX/Supermax = Kiss your ass goodbye. USP = 10+ years mainly violent cases, drug cases, ^*other, Mediums 10-* years (most violent), FCI's (low security) mainly on mil bases 1 month - 10 years, Camps = 1 month - 5 years. Heavy white collar crimes no security risks. Pedophiles, sex offenders, anyone with violence could never go to one of these because you have to have what's called community custody, and you don't get that if you pose a threat to society.
Been there done that. There is no money worth staying in prison for. I know guys who defrauded banks for millions who would have turned the other way if it meant saving their families the embarrassment, and hardships they'd suffered by being locked up. So you mean to tell me you would put a price on your wife and kids, family, dignity? If so, then you my friend will be a lonely sad person in the future. "making you a bitch" is reserved for prisons, not white collar places, you'd have to be in a USP for something like that to happen. Club Fed as we called it is Camp Cupcake, think of a college with no chicks, and no gates (for the camps), for the lows, same shit. Medium - High you'd run into things here and there, but what your thinking of via conditioning you've seen or read about is limited to high security prisons, and state prisons. Club Fed is as they call it Club Fed.
2004-02-09 21:24:36 False whois information may lead to legal troubles (yro,privacy) (rejected)
You know... For all those who troll about the USA PATRIOT ACT only being a law and You name me one example of the PATRIOT ACT doing something illegal!" trollers, let this be an example of what happens with laws when they're in their infancy stage, it leads to abuse. Sure I can see the need to want to stop abusers, but what about sites that could benefit from anonyminity. Sites such as a woman who's been raped registering a rape crisis like site, maybe she doesn't want society to know out of feeling guilt that she's been raped, surely she deserves privacy.
What about those who become Whistleblowers, exposing corruption, they place themselves in great danger, shouldn't they be allowed to have their anonyminity.
So far all I see is small talk and little actions coming from the majority. "Cry cry cry... foo foo foo government government foo foo foo" But yet no one is willing to take a stand, and for those that do, instant ridicule. It's funny how perception works, being if this attitude was shown in the so called "Fair and Balanced" media, we'd have lesser gestapo laws coming into play, instead we have to depend on groups like the ACLU, EFF, and EPIC fighting for us, while again the majority close their eyes and whine "foo foo foo cry cry cry" Sure I see the need for halting certain crimes, but specify those crimes, instead of making it a broad law which can lead to abuse. Again, shall I point out how whistleblowers can stand to be held liable for speaking out of touch? Example Katherine Gun.
However, you can't have your cake and eat it too, so in order for the government to so called halt crimes, this means they have to take your liberties, and freedoms away... But do they really? How easy would it be for them to fix this law to affect solely those who would commit crimes. E.g., with my Politrix site, supposing I decided to carry information from someone who wanted to blow the whistle on some huge government corruption, I should be able to make the public aware of these crimes, however in doing so I would place myself at risk. Maybe I should remove my whois information... Wait I can't that would be criminal now. Get it?
How long will it be before it's pretty much a given that no one will have any more free speech, liberties before some of you wake up and say, "You know what, these laws really suck" and do something instead of "wah wah wah"
that last blockquote is from a document called "Disappearing the Dead" In some circumstances, attention to collateral damage is more urgent than in others. Its importance may vary inversely with the perceived necessity of a war, for instance. When war is literally forced on a nation -- as it was on the Alliance powers in the Second World War -- the prospect of suffering casualties and adding to collateral damage may not be pivotal in the decision to take up arms. A threat to national survival trumps all other considerations. But when a prospective threat does not immediately imperil national survival, or when a contest turns on the need to broadly win hearts and minds (as does the war on terrorism), then the issue of collateral damage (as well as other war costs) may loom larger in debates about how to proceed.Document
The chapters alone should tell you more or less what its about... "How to shape the public's mind and hope forget the truth 101"
1. War and perception: the battle to enable American power
1.1 The evolving American calculus of war
1.2 The media, casualty intolerance, and asymmetric warfare
1.3 The public information battlespace after 9/11
1.4 Perception management in support of Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom
2. Shaping the public discourse on civilian casualties: case studies
2.1 Spinning the Iraqi market place bombings
2.2 Framing the air attack on Baghdad Waging lawfare Strategic bombing and the illegality of air defense
3. Framework propositions on war casualties and collateral damage
3.1 Claims about "precision attack" and the "new warfare"
3.2 Claims about damage limitation efforts
There are too many to list. I have docs along these lines pertaining to compsec, ecommerce, you name it. I'm just too tired to look through my entire FOIA which is why I pointed this one out, it was just written last week. When I find it, if I remember when I wake up I'll post it for anyone interested in how the gov tries to shape your mind while they fiddle with policies, standards, and laws.
I wouldn't even worry about the DMCA affecting any outcome of law more than I would the governments of every country trying to capitalize on which gets to control what via which regulations they want to impose. Now I know it sounds like a trollish rant, but take a look at the so called war on terror where anything that happens is automagically al Qaeda. it stirs the emotions and leads people to believe more needs to be done to fight these terrorists, hence somebody has to do something, hence the abuse of corporations, Halliburton, Bechtel, nuff said. Hear me out before you truly think I'm trolling.
Considering the gov in the US started the entire FUD based game on hackers in the mid 80's and steroided it up, what do you see now...? Let me give you an example...
All studies pointing to the same thing read the titles... A Primer on E-Government: Sectors, Stages, Opportunities, and Challenges of Online Governance, throw that in with consortiums like CALEA, and you get a handful of companies that get to dictate what is "law" now it sounds fair but law according to whom? It the UK tried to pass their law here, Americans would be in an uproar (or too busy looking at Martha Stewart), so what makes you think other countries should/will stand for our rules. Talk about the potential for fallout.
So if you think it's about the DMCA only, or MS only, you're really short sighted. It's about anyone willing to kick up some cash for those in office. Hey one hand washes the other. And for those who don't believe or think it's some "tin foil on the head" -what you misconstrue and call - conspiracy, I suggest you look into the words perception management, cognitive dissonance on google. There are studies done daily in hopes of finding a way to make you believe whatever they'd like:
1.4. Perception management in support of Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom
With or without the OSI, the US Defense Department, State Department, and White House conducted large-scale "perception management" or "strategic influence" campaigns in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom as well as in support of the broader war on terrorism.
...
2. Shaping the public discourse on civilian casualties: case studies from the Iraq war
In the remainder of this report, we analyze key aspects of the US public discourse on collateral damage in the Afghan and Iraqi wars, with special attention to those concepts advanced by the US defense establishment to define and explicate the issue.
Looks like someone forgot to grease the palms of big brother with a couple of stock certificates, egold, paypal payments, payola. Silly Ellison, when will you learn to follow others' lead to get what you want.
I was looking at some comp magazine, PC Weekly or one of those mags, can't recall, but I remember seeing like a two page fold out - which would have equaled 4 pages - with an MS advertising touting how easy it is for you to share music. "Microsoft where do you want to go after you by our product, rip mp3's, share them, and then get arrested because you didn't know it was illegal. But don't let that stop you from buying our products. After all clarifying the legalities of music sharing is not our job" would be too long a slogan I guess.
Nevertheless, judging from all types of RIAA gestapo tactics, it's surprising they haven't gone after companies like MS, you know the big boys, who are promoting "sharing music" without clarifying (there was no disclaimer that I can recall) the legalities of legal and non legal music swapping.
Every encounter I've seen or heard of with the BSA has seemed more X-Filesish You would be that way to if you wanted your cookie money (BSA Nation Council homepage)
Hasnt anyone noticed that anything bad that happens get s/^/al Qaeda/g attached to it. Sure they're some shitty losers, but heck I'm starting to think our own gov is just as much of a loser for a) using al Qaeda for every damn excuse to justify some shoddy law b) claiming al Qaeda any time something happens. Now there silly little slashdotters if you don't follow our terrorists color coded M&M system, go against RFID tags that watch you while you shit, create disharmony because your VoIP, PPP, DHCP, connections are monitored, hell your whole life is monitored... you just might be a terrorist.
Get real. "There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain
BPL has already been rejected in Japan and Austria, yet the PRO BPL lobby seem never to stop and in fact don't seem to care if it causes massive interference to HF as they view it as "OLD" technology. Well all you Pro BPL lobbyists out there, what will happen when the Satellite Network is knocked out by a meteor storm or severe solar storm, what will happen when the Internet is so full of Spam, Pirated Software (Warez), Pirated DVD's and CD's, Pornography, and streaming Audio and Video that the Net slows down to a crawl and an email takes longer than a conventional written letter to get to its destination. I''ll tell you what will happen, HF will be needed to get world-wide communications back on track quickly. The people who propose BPL have no idea about HF, don't care about HF and think Drake is a duck, Kenwood make toasters and Sony only makes MP3 players with Heavy Double Bass Boost... Stop BPL over Power Lines Information Page
Shit if I wasn't running off to work I would ramble on as I always do...
Slashdot Mirror
I think I'll make a webcam page of my wall and paint it so people can watch it dry.
# nslookup ihavenolife.com
Server: ns1.nac.net
Address: 207.99.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ihavenolife.com
Address: 69.15.89.66
bastards stole my idea
yar! thar be terrorist in ye cyberspace
Looks like they'll have to add 'WebTV' to the next Computer Attack and Cyber Terrorism: Vulnerabilities and Policy Issues for Congress revision.
When will some of you guys learn it's not about the act, nor the group, nor the victim, nor the attacker. It's about the ability to control perception. The spookier the 'villain' the more money gets funneled to 'groups' like the Department of Homeland Insignificance. It's how they justify their budgets at the end of the year. "By golly Mabel them be terrorists, maybe we should pay more taxes to them mighty fine boys at the DOJ they be tough on terrorists" Nothing less, nothing more. It's about stats. Sure the guy was moronic, and now he will pay for being an idiot, and the sinful part is many - if he goes to a jury - will be blinded by pseudo sympathy spin on terror. To quote that old annoying song "It's all about the Benjamins baby"
Just because it could be one of the choices though does not mean VoIP is a bad idea, as far as the entire VoIP 9/11 argument, I see it as being useless considering even 11 year olds have cell phones. Don't tell me you're like one of those people in a horror movie, where they fall and stay on the ground screaming. Pick up another line of communication. Think of it in terms of everyday normality, you catch a flat, there's a spare, etc.
As for disruption tolerant, it would be literally impossible. That's asking for a vendor to create the ultmite failsafe product. Anything can happen, sadly look at 9/11 for example. To ask for something perfect would be to ask for the impossible, to not have a failover implementation of sorts is mere stupidity, and should not be blamed on technology whatsoever. Hell if I were trapped in the desert with no phone, etc., bet your ass I'm trying to make some smoke signals.
they were really worried too
Ahh the good old days of funny assed spoofs. Too bad the Department of Homeland Sec'll be ready to call you bin Laden for doing this shit nowadays.. My favs:
FreeBSD Security Advisory
FreeBSD Advisory
Another FreeBSD Advisory (note comments)
OpenBSD Advisory
While it may seem like a cool idea I would be curious to know what the stats are on losses coming from China theyve got to be costing MS at least a couple of hundred million. I don't think any government would be truly reluctant to throw that type of money away. Sure it sounds underhanded, but think about it, if they could get away with it I'm sure they would.
someone set us up the bomb... ALL YOUR CODEC... (need I say more)
Now on the flip side of things, for those who live in the boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, SI, if you take a good old trip to city hall and the places where the money is flowing what do you find? Operating buttons, clean streets, subways with bathrooms, and spikes to keep those pigeons from pooping all over the place. The boroughs... What are you kidding?
But isn't/wasn't this what BeOS intended to do? On the one hand it would be nice, it would be compact as opposed to having 3! cd's full of stuff, yet at the same time, they'd better have a squadron full of developers who would change things on the fly considering the speed at which things change.
Now I won't seem like a perve asking every Californian chick to hop in my car so I could adjust her knobs! I'll say it's so we don't get pulled over for speeding.
Its interesting to know no company has really done something like this already. In the US we have the Lo Jack system for tracking stolen cars, but a company would have to wonder whether someone would be willing to pay anything over 200.00 for a laptop that'll probably be worth that much in a few months judging by the insane prices of comp stuff.
Governments and companies might be interested in this stuff, but to the ordinary joe blow user I don't think it means much. I think most people would take care of their personal laptops much more than they would something they didn't pay for. Aside from that, one could probably do something with an RFID tag on their own with some success if they can find some way to get their RFID tag to interact with a GPS system.
Another alternative would be a good old fashioned mechanism of tracking down MAC addresses, which would be painful but that is already doable.
Again, I say this out of experience. The lower security places called FCI's, are where people go for lower class cases, but keep in mind that as time goes on, people get their classifications lowered, so you end up seeing people who have done 20 years in a camp or a low who are on their way out in as much as 10 years. For the most part though, you won't find anyone with a 10 year sentence in a low, and someone with more than 5 years in a camp (no gate prison). So it goes like this... ADSX/Supermax = Kiss your ass goodbye. USP = 10+ years mainly violent cases, drug cases, ^*other, Mediums 10-* years (most violent), FCI's (low security) mainly on mil bases 1 month - 10 years, Camps = 1 month - 5 years. Heavy white collar crimes no security risks. Pedophiles, sex offenders, anyone with violence could never go to one of these because you have to have what's called community custody, and you don't get that if you pose a threat to society.
So while offtopic, this is club fed 101.
Been there done that. There is no money worth staying in prison for. I know guys who defrauded banks for millions who would have turned the other way if it meant saving their families the embarrassment, and hardships they'd suffered by being locked up. So you mean to tell me you would put a price on your wife and kids, family, dignity? If so, then you my friend will be a lonely sad person in the future. "making you a bitch" is reserved for prisons, not white collar places, you'd have to be in a USP for something like that to happen. Club Fed as we called it is Camp Cupcake, think of a college with no chicks, and no gates (for the camps), for the lows, same shit. Medium - High you'd run into things here and there, but what your thinking of via conditioning you've seen or read about is limited to high security prisons, and state prisons. Club Fed is as they call it Club Fed.
You know... For all those who troll about the USA PATRIOT ACT only being a law and You name me one example of the PATRIOT ACT doing something illegal!" trollers, let this be an example of what happens with laws when they're in their infancy stage, it leads to abuse. Sure I can see the need to want to stop abusers, but what about sites that could benefit from anonyminity. Sites such as a woman who's been raped registering a rape crisis like site, maybe she doesn't want society to know out of feeling guilt that she's been raped, surely she deserves privacy.
What about those who become Whistleblowers, exposing corruption, they place themselves in great danger, shouldn't they be allowed to have their anonyminity.
So far all I see is small talk and little actions coming from the majority. "Cry cry cry ... foo foo foo government government foo foo foo" But yet no one is willing to take a stand, and for those that do, instant ridicule. It's funny how perception works, being if this attitude was shown in the so called "Fair and Balanced" media, we'd have lesser gestapo laws coming into play, instead we have to depend on groups like the ACLU, EFF, and EPIC fighting for us, while again the majority close their eyes and whine "foo foo foo cry cry cry" Sure I see the need for halting certain crimes, but specify those crimes, instead of making it a broad law which can lead to abuse. Again, shall I point out how whistleblowers can stand to be held liable for speaking out of touch? Example Katherine Gun.
However, you can't have your cake and eat it too, so in order for the government to so called halt crimes, this means they have to take your liberties, and freedoms away... But do they really? How easy would it be for them to fix this law to affect solely those who would commit crimes. E.g., with my Politrix site, supposing I decided to carry information from someone who wanted to blow the whistle on some huge government corruption, I should be able to make the public aware of these crimes, however in doing so I would place myself at risk. Maybe I should remove my whois information... Wait I can't that would be criminal now. Get it?
How long will it be before it's pretty much a given that no one will have any more free speech, liberties before some of you wake up and say, "You know what, these laws really suck" and do something instead of "wah wah wah"
The chapters alone should tell you more or less what its about... "How to shape the public's mind and hope forget the truth 101"
1. War and perception: the battle to enable American power
1.1 The evolving American calculus of war
1.2 The media, casualty intolerance, and asymmetric warfare
1.3 The public information battlespace after 9/11
1.4 Perception management in support of Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom
2. Shaping the public discourse on civilian casualties: case studies
2.1 Spinning the Iraqi market place bombings
2.2 Framing the air attack on Baghdad Waging lawfare Strategic bombing and the illegality of air defense
3. Framework propositions on war casualties and collateral damage
3.1 Claims about "precision attack" and the "new warfare"
3.2 Claims about damage limitation efforts
There are too many to list. I have docs along these lines pertaining to compsec, ecommerce, you name it. I'm just too tired to look through my entire FOIA which is why I pointed this one out, it was just written last week. When I find it, if I remember when I wake up I'll post it for anyone interested in how the gov tries to shape your mind while they fiddle with policies, standards, and laws.
Considering the gov in the US started the entire FUD based game on hackers in the mid 80's and steroided it up, what do you see now...? Let me give you an example...
- High Performance Computers and Export Control Policy: Issues for Congress
- A Primer on E-Government: Sectors, Stages, Opportunities, and Challenges of Online Governance
- Computer Attack and Cyber Terrorism: Vulnerabilities and Policy Issues for Congress
All studies pointing to the same thing read the titles... A Primer on E-Government: Sectors, Stages, Opportunities, and Challenges of Online Governance, throw that in with consortiums like CALEA, and you get a handful of companies that get to dictate what is "law" now it sounds fair but law according to whom? It the UK tried to pass their law here, Americans would be in an uproar (or too busy looking at Martha Stewart), so what makes you think other countries should/will stand for our rules. Talk about the potential for fallout.So if you think it's about the DMCA only, or MS only, you're really short sighted. It's about anyone willing to kick up some cash for those in office. Hey one hand washes the other. And for those who don't believe or think it's some "tin foil on the head" -what you misconstrue and call - conspiracy, I suggest you look into the words perception management, cognitive dissonance on google. There are studies done daily in hopes of finding a way to make you believe whatever they'd like:
Looks like someone forgot to grease the palms of big brother with a couple of stock certificates, egold, paypal payments, payola. Silly Ellison, when will you learn to follow others' lead to get what you want.
ipf/ipchain/$* or chmod it. I don't see what the big deal is.
I was looking at some comp magazine, PC Weekly or one of those mags, can't recall, but I remember seeing like a two page fold out - which would have equaled 4 pages - with an MS advertising touting how easy it is for you to share music. "Microsoft where do you want to go after you by our product, rip mp3's, share them, and then get arrested because you didn't know it was illegal. But don't let that stop you from buying our products. After all clarifying the legalities of music sharing is not our job" would be too long a slogan I guess.
Nevertheless, judging from all types of RIAA gestapo tactics, it's surprising they haven't gone after companies like MS, you know the big boys, who are promoting "sharing music" without clarifying (there was no disclaimer that I can recall) the legalities of legal and non legal music swapping.
Every encounter I've seen or heard of with the BSA has seemed more X-Filesish You would be that way to if you wanted your cookie money (BSA Nation Council homepage)
Hasnt anyone noticed that anything bad that happens get s/^/al Qaeda/g attached to it. Sure they're some shitty losers, but heck I'm starting to think our own gov is just as much of a loser for a) using al Qaeda for every damn excuse to justify some shoddy law b) claiming al Qaeda any time something happens. Now there silly little slashdotters if you don't follow our terrorists color coded M&M system, go against RFID tags that watch you while you shit, create disharmony because your VoIP, PPP, DHCP, connections are monitored, hell your whole life is monitored... you just might be a terrorist.
Get real. "There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain
Shit if I wasn't running off to work I would ramble on as I always do...
excuse me I thought I posted b52's. So sue me