Now the GLBT folks are mad because they created their own private property, and the "big government" in the game said NO.
The GLBT folks were attempting to make use of space owned by the "big government" but made available as a (limited) public forum. This creates an easement, so to speak, against the hypothetical property rights. Thus, when the "big government" said the use was not acceptable, this makes the rights of Speech and Petition far more central than Property.
How long untill someone finds AT&T selling these secret documents in the open for $13 to anyone asking this time?
Heck, some of SlashDot may not have been born at the start of events from The Hacker Crackdown. For those who don't recall, BellCore claimed that the E911 document stolen and published in Phrack was worth almost $80,000... despite it later being shown that BellCore was selling documents containing all the same information with more detail for $13 to anyone who bothered to ask.
While it's great to suspect some extortion/conspiracy theory, the signed driver requirement is in place so that it'll be much harder for Hacker McPhee to install that driver rootkit on your machine. For a legitimate hardware manufacturer it is not difficult at all to get their drivers signed through a certificate authority.
...provided that the hardware you are trying to install is new, current, and from a manufacturer still in that business. This could be a problem for someone trying to add a piece of older hardware into a newer system (EG, for legacy/migration support). Not a big problem if the replacement cost of the hardware is small... but not possible for certain exotic hardware controllers.
Everybody here claims they don't want to waste the resources etc, but everybody gets all giggly and bouncy when there's new OSX or KDE screenshots.
It makes sense once you remember those screenshots are essentially geek porn. You'll drool over the pinup, fantasize with sleeping with her, maybe even do so if some miracle gives you the opportunity, but seldom would any geek want to permanently live with the whole reality behind the pretty pictures.
By the way, am I the only one to see the irony with the negative mod points about my take on global warming in a topic about Global Warming dissenters being unfairly moderated.
Yes, but it's probably irrelevant to the question of global climate change. The butterfly effect says that an arbitrarily small change in state (such as the wind from a butterfly flapping or not flapping a wing) can result in arbitrarily large separations within the system's normal state space over time. Climate change equates to a shift of the normal state space. While a butterfly flap may change (in a hypothetical season with hurricanes Augustine through Vincent) whether Betty or Helga makes the first US landfall, and how big each of the storms is, but is unlikely to change whether or not hurricane watchers will be forced to use the Japanese Kanji (after they finish the Greek alphabet) in order to make it throught the season.
Yes, the final camel straw may be some damned butterfly, but it's just as likely to be from hitting it with a swatter.
What if the problem wasn't just the fuel burning we use to heat the building, but the size and location of the building itself that was the problem? Most of us have stood between 2 manmade skyscrapers and been blown off our feet, that wind pattern has to directly affect the weather patterns in another part of the world
Have an effect on, yes; cause a state space shift in, no.
You seem perfectly comfortable using euphemisms ("an already full plate" vs. "too many things to do"), these are just new ones.
The difference (and problem) with much of corporate speak is that instead of trying to convey the substance of an idea (albeit in a culture-centric way), it is designed to hide the lack of substance behind an idea.
Would one of your non-IT corporate wonks understand if you told him you'd ping someone and get back to him?
Bad example; too many ex-navy around... although submariners usually don't turn into buzzword-spewing wonks.
[...] who would you rather have on your software security project? A nice programmer who might know a thing or two about breaking security, but has never done it, or a smart hacker who knows his way around every local and remote root exploit known to man and has done so?
Depends; did the "smart" hacker get caught flagrantly violating federal law? Perhaps doing something mindbogglingly stupid, like trying to social engineer his way into the FBI's systems? Then I'll take the nice one, because the "smart" one is nowhere near as smart as he thinks, and probably not as smart as he claims. Personally, when I need to dig through dirt, I find a shovel is more effective than a worm, and additionally lets you keep the crap at arms length.
"There is an unwritten rule among us, Richars; if you attempt any ploy on the far side of ethical, you'd damned well better be good enough at your game not to get caught. You're not good enough." — Count Falco Vorpatril in Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign.
Wretched analogy aside, I'd prefer a lawyer who routinely wins without having to resort to slimy tactics, just like I'd prefer a security expert who doesn't rely on security by obscurity; the tactic is usually still available as a last resort, but relying on it too often makes for sloppy work habits.
I had to download nvidia binary drivers to get fully accelerated OpenGL, just like Linux.
Actually, the entire OS X GUI is built on fully accelerated OpenGL last I checked.
Caution - OS X only comes with a special limited feature browser that doesn't support tabs, or anything.
Safari on 10.4 supports tabs very nicely.
OS X doesn't come with a compiler. You can download a free version, but the full featured "Visual Studio," costs a lot of money.
It's not installed by default on new machines; however, the 10.2 and 10.3 retail boxes included a seperate CD with the XCode developer tools, which include most of the standard compilers anyone used to Linux expects, and I suspect 10.4 is the same. XCode is also freely downloadable from the Apple Developer Connection, albeit the legalese is a lot less friendly than ANYTHING in the Linux world.
More to the point, "Visual Studio" is a Windows developer environment; the analog in Mac Land is "Project Builder" from the developer tools -- less powerful by far, but still perfectly serviceable.
Dude, if you're going to troll, at least put some effort into it. It isn't hard at ALL to complain about OS X gaming.
Patch them all; GOD@heaven.org will find his own.
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Alternatively, use the exploit to patch the hole and THEN alert the users. And, to get a start on that, spend $25 for a 10k machine botnet to start scanning for unpatched machines.
No, it's not remotely legal; it's not even vaguely close to ethical. However, it might work. Consider it akin to giving software makers only FOO weeks before the exploit is disclosed; users get only FOO weeks to apply patches against remote exploits before Grey Hats shove the patch up their computer's ass...embly, whether the user wants it or not. Perhaps do something like set the desktop background to a.gif saying "PATCH ME, MORON!" for good measure.
1. To inform the consumer of a problem/vulnerability so that action can be taken sooner.
You presume that Joe or Jane Consumer will necessarily:
a) Hear
b) Pay attention
c) Understand
d) Be able to do something
e) Do something
Color me skeptical.
3. To prevent underground organizations from creating secret exploits that might otherwise go unnoticed or unidentified.
No, this only means that when someone else finds the hole, you can check if their have been black hats using it. A few of the Black Hat groups are skilled enough to find holes, and clever enough to exploit them without telling anyone else.
Never have understood the whole argument, when one the one hand, yes we are polluting everything and need to clean things up, but on the other hand what about volcanoes, cow manure and all the other natural things we can't control? They contribute far more to global warming than cars do.
Picture someone with a credit card problem, who says: "Never have understood the whole argument, when one the one hand, yes I am spending too much on DVDs and Videogames, but on the other hand what about Income Tax, Medicare, and all the other government expenses I can't control? They suck up far more of my money than my buying a new laptop every three months."
What kind of a moron would you consider the latter person?
Not to draw TOO many parallels, but remember when Galileo et al gave scientific findings that the governing powers didn't like?
Yes, but he was dealing with a bunch of midaeval religious fanatics.
As science was removed from the political, innovation and creativity flourished.
Science has always been political; probably always will be. Perhaps you mean "as the supression of politically unacceptable experimental results decreased".
If you take out most of the urban infrastructure, it's an opportunity for competiting forms of infrastructure to move in, and potentially demonstrate superiority, just like any other hole in any other ecology.
Not that superior quality necessarily protects against superior lobbying...
Because email wasn't designed to deal with large binary files. It was meant to send text back of forth between two people. Kind of like paper letters, no pictures allowed.
Paper letters are fine with having included pictures, as most grandparents could tell you.
It takes a fairly large investment of resources to create a book, especially working out the various interactions between subsystems. Furthermore, publishers often only sell one copy per gaming group. As with software (or any other book) the marginal cost per copy is small, but the resource cost (in skilled labor) of that first copy is immense. At this point, most of the developers are in the business because of their love of it, not to get rich. Anyone who isn't partly driven by a love of gaming generally gets out and finds a more lucrative use of their talents.
Perhaps on the bright side, they haven't started getting into a patent war yet... probably because the business is small enough and interdependent enough that they realize the economic ecology won't support the associated legal expenses.
Myself, I haven't bought anything from WotC since... hm, 2nd ed MM. (Well, leaving aside the illegal first edition of Deities and Demigods I picked up used.) Most of my purchases have been from slightly smaller outfits: SJG (In Nomine) and West End (Paranoia). I've also noticed my circle (due to time constraints) are playing more card games, such as Munchkin, Sem Dej Mozek, and Chrononauts.
It's a pity that such interestingly creative people have trouble making a living, especially when Hollywood makes so much money on such monstrous amounts of crap.
Registering your pr0n site as a.com, etc would always be the preffered method, since you site would have a better chance of getting around filters.
Actually, I expect the preferred method would be much similar to the online casinos that use a.net for the legal-in-the-US no-money online poker, and a.com for the not-legal-in-the-US real-money online poker.
Porn sites would probably register (or maintain) their.com address, and keep the "clean" content there — probably a "WARNING: ADULT CONTENT" page, and maybe a copy of the TOS page. The main site with the adult content would then be on a.xxx address.
As others have noted, most porn sites want those who choose to do so to be able to filter them. They also want those who DON'T chose to filter them to be able to see them unfiltered. Of course, there are some bad apples out there — the sort of "gallery" metasites that only point to other metasites, or which attempt to install various trojans. The scammers and crooks probably won't care (nor move), but the bad apples are the minority.
No, the real bane in this effort is the Religious Conservatives who don't want ANYONE to be able to see smut, regardless of the individual's age or personal preference. Which, in the present US (or globabl) political climate, isn't a complete obstacle, but is a non-trivial problem.
Why should it be the responsiblity of corporations, who's only concern is to it's shareholders, and the almighty dollar, to pay for health insurance?
You forget one of the players. A corporation is a social construct created under the laws of the state in which it incorporated, with certain rights and privileges only as granted by the state. (EG: that creditors cannot usually go after shareholder's individual assets if the company cannot pay its debts.) It is equitable for the state to be able to impose duties, since it has granted rights.... duties such as requing them to pay for employee health insurance, since otherwise it will increase the state's medicare costs.
Alternatively, you can take a more practical answer. A corporation is a part of society. Large segments of society feel people should be able to get health insurance. If they get unhappy enough for long enough, you get a revolution, either legal or violent. If your corporate policies don't help the problem, you get viewed as part of the problem. If you're the target of the revolution's ill-will, that's bad for the corporation's continued prospects. Or survival. Or the survival of the major stockholders... depending on the nature of the revolution.
And thus "I welcome this publicity" gets added to the same category as "What could go wrong?", "He's just one man...", and "Of course she won't mind!"
Remember, everyone: always write your email as if there was a real risk that it could end up on the front page of the New York Times. Because there is a real risk. Fortunately, it wasn't a slower news day, or the AP might have picked it up, too.
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The GLBT folks were attempting to make use of space owned by the "big government" but made available as a (limited) public forum. This creates an easement, so to speak, against the hypothetical property rights. Thus, when the "big government" said the use was not acceptable, this makes the rights of Speech and Petition far more central than Property.
I am not a lawyer, but Pruneyard v. Robins and Lloyd v. Tanner sound more relevant than your, er... theories.
...to get more people to pay for a three-way calling service.
Heck, some of SlashDot may not have been born at the start of events from The Hacker Crackdown. For those who don't recall, BellCore claimed that the E911 document stolen and published in Phrack was worth almost $80,000... despite it later being shown that BellCore was selling documents containing all the same information with more detail for $13 to anyone who bothered to ask.
It makes sense once you remember those screenshots are essentially geek porn. You'll drool over the pinup, fantasize with sleeping with her, maybe even do so if some miracle gives you the opportunity, but seldom would any geek want to permanently live with the whole reality behind the pretty pictures.
Unfair is relative, as my .sig notes.
Yes, but it's probably irrelevant to the question of global climate change. The butterfly effect says that an arbitrarily small change in state (such as the wind from a butterfly flapping or not flapping a wing) can result in arbitrarily large separations within the system's normal state space over time. Climate change equates to a shift of the normal state space. While a butterfly flap may change (in a hypothetical season with hurricanes Augustine through Vincent) whether Betty or Helga makes the first US landfall, and how big each of the storms is, but is unlikely to change whether or not hurricane watchers will be forced to use the Japanese Kanji (after they finish the Greek alphabet) in order to make it throught the season.
Yes, the final camel straw may be some damned butterfly, but it's just as likely to be from hitting it with a swatter.
What if the problem wasn't just the fuel burning we use to heat the building, but the size and location of the building itself that was the problem? Most of us have stood between 2 manmade skyscrapers and been blown off our feet, that wind pattern has to directly affect the weather patterns in another part of the world
Have an effect on, yes; cause a state space shift in, no.
The difference (and problem) with much of corporate speak is that instead of trying to convey the substance of an idea (albeit in a culture-centric way), it is designed to hide the lack of substance behind an idea.
Would one of your non-IT corporate wonks understand if you told him you'd ping someone and get back to him?
Bad example; too many ex-navy around... although submariners usually don't turn into buzzword-spewing wonks.
Depends; did the "smart" hacker get caught flagrantly violating federal law? Perhaps doing something mindbogglingly stupid, like trying to social engineer his way into the FBI's systems? Then I'll take the nice one, because the "smart" one is nowhere near as smart as he thinks, and probably not as smart as he claims. Personally, when I need to dig through dirt, I find a shovel is more effective than a worm, and additionally lets you keep the crap at arms length.
Wretched analogy aside, I'd prefer a lawyer who routinely wins without having to resort to slimy tactics, just like I'd prefer a security expert who doesn't rely on security by obscurity; the tactic is usually still available as a last resort, but relying on it too often makes for sloppy work habits.Actually, the entire OS X GUI is built on fully accelerated OpenGL last I checked.
Caution - OS X only comes with a special limited feature browser that doesn't support tabs, or anything.
Safari on 10.4 supports tabs very nicely.
OS X doesn't come with a compiler. You can download a free version, but the full featured "Visual Studio," costs a lot of money.
It's not installed by default on new machines; however, the 10.2 and 10.3 retail boxes included a seperate CD with the XCode developer tools, which include most of the standard compilers anyone used to Linux expects, and I suspect 10.4 is the same. XCode is also freely downloadable from the Apple Developer Connection, albeit the legalese is a lot less friendly than ANYTHING in the Linux world.
More to the point, "Visual Studio" is a Windows developer environment; the analog in Mac Land is "Project Builder" from the developer tools -- less powerful by far, but still perfectly serviceable.
Dude, if you're going to troll, at least put some effort into it. It isn't hard at ALL to complain about OS X gaming.
No, it's not remotely legal; it's not even vaguely close to ethical. However, it might work. Consider it akin to giving software makers only FOO weeks before the exploit is disclosed; users get only FOO weeks to apply patches against remote exploits before Grey Hats shove the patch up their computer's ass...embly, whether the user wants it or not. Perhaps do something like set the desktop background to a .gif saying "PATCH ME, MORON!" for good measure.
You presume that Joe or Jane Consumer will necessarily:
a) Hear
b) Pay attention
c) Understand
d) Be able to do something
e) Do something
Color me skeptical.
3. To prevent underground organizations from creating secret exploits that might otherwise go unnoticed or unidentified.
No, this only means that when someone else finds the hole, you can check if their have been black hats using it. A few of the Black Hat groups are skilled enough to find holes, and clever enough to exploit them without telling anyone else.
Picture someone with a credit card problem, who says: "Never have understood the whole argument, when one the one hand, yes I am spending too much on DVDs and Videogames, but on the other hand what about Income Tax, Medicare, and all the other government expenses I can't control? They suck up far more of my money than my buying a new laptop every three months."
What kind of a moron would you consider the latter person?
(By the way... nice troll.)
A 100 foot drop-off will definitely take a toll on your car if you go over.
No, it was still right the first time....
Good question. If there are no further questions, this press conference is now finished.
Yes, but he was dealing with a bunch of midaeval religious fanatics.
As science was removed from the political, innovation and creativity flourished.
Science has always been political; probably always will be. Perhaps you mean "as the supression of politically unacceptable experimental results decreased".
Not that superior quality necessarily protects against superior lobbying...
Paper letters are fine with having included pictures, as most grandparents could tell you.
Better comparison: the telegram.
Perhaps on the bright side, they haven't started getting into a patent war yet... probably because the business is small enough and interdependent enough that they realize the economic ecology won't support the associated legal expenses.
Myself, I haven't bought anything from WotC since... hm, 2nd ed MM. (Well, leaving aside the illegal first edition of Deities and Demigods I picked up used.) Most of my purchases have been from slightly smaller outfits: SJG (In Nomine) and West End (Paranoia). I've also noticed my circle (due to time constraints) are playing more card games, such as Munchkin, Sem Dej Mozek, and Chrononauts.
It's a pity that such interestingly creative people have trouble making a living, especially when Hollywood makes so much money on such monstrous amounts of crap.
Actually, I expect the preferred method would be much similar to the online casinos that use a .net for the legal-in-the-US no-money online poker, and a .com for the not-legal-in-the-US real-money online poker.
Porn sites would probably register (or maintain) their .com address, and keep the "clean" content there — probably a "WARNING: ADULT CONTENT" page, and maybe a copy of the TOS page. The main site with the adult content would then be on a .xxx address.
As others have noted, most porn sites want those who choose to do so to be able to filter them. They also want those who DON'T chose to filter them to be able to see them unfiltered. Of course, there are some bad apples out there — the sort of "gallery" metasites that only point to other metasites, or which attempt to install various trojans. The scammers and crooks probably won't care (nor move), but the bad apples are the minority.
No, the real bane in this effort is the Religious Conservatives who don't want ANYONE to be able to see smut, regardless of the individual's age or personal preference. Which, in the present US (or globabl) political climate, isn't a complete obstacle, but is a non-trivial problem.
Presuming it thinks you like the opposite sex. Better cut back on searching shemale zoophile sites, everyone...
What's worse is that the only thing standing in the way of this happening is programmer time.
No, what's worse is that programmers likely to have the requisite time are correspondingly likely to have the motivation to work on the project.
Sorry, but both are historically valid descriptors.
You forget one of the players. A corporation is a social construct created under the laws of the state in which it incorporated, with certain rights and privileges only as granted by the state. (EG: that creditors cannot usually go after shareholder's individual assets if the company cannot pay its debts.) It is equitable for the state to be able to impose duties, since it has granted rights.... duties such as requing them to pay for employee health insurance, since otherwise it will increase the state's medicare costs.
Alternatively, you can take a more practical answer. A corporation is a part of society. Large segments of society feel people should be able to get health insurance. If they get unhappy enough for long enough, you get a revolution, either legal or violent. If your corporate policies don't help the problem, you get viewed as part of the problem. If you're the target of the revolution's ill-will, that's bad for the corporation's continued prospects. Or survival. Or the survival of the major stockholders... depending on the nature of the revolution.
Remember, everyone: always write your email as if there was a real risk that it could end up on the front page of the New York Times. Because there is a real risk. Fortunately, it wasn't a slower news day, or the AP might have picked it up, too.