; -- societies can forever be divided by their secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets.
Uh huh... and you think the North's black-out is propaganda... It's actually against the law in DPRK to have lights on after dark because the country considers itself at war and still maintains blackout..
And of course "Juche" shows how to enlighten and free the people....
Uhm.. but an attachement would run as a unix user and be very limited... even if you scripted sudo into it the user would be prompted for this and figure hey...
this sort of malware would not be able to do anaweful lot except perhaps create some files and run some processes as a user. This would be very easy if not trivial to spot and remedy without invasive procedures. This contrary to malware on windows which is able to exploit the weaknesses in the filesystem (lack) security and the personality of script interfaced system calls. A vanilla OSX doesn't have a root user so I doubt that you could even attempt a rootkit type attack. Sure, you could come up with a program that can copy itself and perhaps even distribute itself but it would in essence be harmless. The weakness is always human and as the mac platform gains in popularity we will undoubtedly see more phishes and executable attachements but these are subject to the common sense of the user to be dealt with caution.
As for overflow attacks, these have mostly been dealt with in the BSD world and continue to be handled in that open source community. Lets not get over paranoid about hacking a stack pointer and inserting a new target address where malicious code is loaded and then run as the "smashed" code's privileges.. Methinks humbly that Darwin has sufficient pedigree in this level of security.
malloc()/free() overwrites are similarly dealt with in the BSD heritage and thus are unlikely candidates in existing Darwin software. printf("%s", buf) has replaced printf(buf) and hence a major part of the heap attakcs have been dealt with.
Except, everyone already can do anything with music. Almost every song you could want you can find through pirating, and when you pirate you don't have to deal with DRM
and there you have it. 8 Years ago no-one could point the criminal finger at digital downloaders, nowadays, you have a choice. In the end it is not about being free as in lunch but whether the deal is good. I don't particularly enjoy making some riaa execs wealthy, those folks earn too much money, they have no addedd value because their distribution method is outdated. Itunes will put them out of business, earn some money for the artist and force the market to work. This means cd's will have to drop in price if they are tobe sold. This is a good thing. I like cd's, I don't mind paying for them, I dislike getting ripped off and I hate it when the artist gets shafted by a record comany exec. Gimme the choice of the artist and let me pay a fair price. This is why I like Magnatune, it's more fair and it works like i do..
pluggin a drm hole in itunes is no major issue. I can still burn the track to cd for my car as I have not the money for a new ferarri with Ipod adapter..
Yep.. I abandoned my hotmail account years ago when they came with additional terms of use and mandatory passport... as for yahoo, I went to yahoo.co.uk as at the time they didn't register all that much and they are still certain that I am 89 years old living in antarctica and I have an avid interest in receiving free information about birdwatching, these free informational mails are forwarded to my hotmail account, which I haven't even thought about since 1998...
und jetzt they have semi-pop-over block the interface kindof thingies which irritate me even more. I make an issue to complain if it is a major vendor that uses them. I know, drop in the ocean but every drop counts..
Apart from the whole information wants to be free issue... I think that many prefer to pay for the paper and not for the electrons. Myself included, I dislike the idea of paying for a website access for a variety of reasons. One of them is that if you cancel, you get spammed. Another is that online registrations are invasive, you don't need to know my date of birth, really you don't. Furthermore, I buy my paper at the newsstand, it's fun, I like it. I am happy to throw some coins at the fat guy in the greasy shirt who runs the stand. In the long run I suppose we will all end up autmagically paying per-view but when that day arives, I think I may buy a printing press on ebay for dirt cheap and start up a newspaper.
*sean connery*
eeeuuuuuu gruesome...
*peter sellers*
grew some what?
*vincent price*
Veggy Mites Muahahahaa!!!
*Steve Irwin -aka- The crocodile man*
Awe mate, these guys are reaaaaaal dangerous, I'm just gonna stick my thumb up this Veggy Mite's arse and that's really gonna piss 'im off!
*laughtrack*
if authors don't want people copying their books, they shouldn't print them and sell them in bookstores,
essentially this is correct. Dunno bout the US but in the EU it is perfecctly legal to walk into a library and copy works for personal use or research. You can even consider the right to citation in this regard.
Anyway, so did you read the actual court opinion in which the court there found that looking at a website could be a copyright infringement? Or are you in fact as big a schmuck as you present yourself to be?
I read it, and I disagree with the idea that viewing a website is potential copyright infringement. In our legal system this would mean that anyone could abuse the law wilfully and basically entrap users. Abusing a law is illegal.
On a different but related note, there was a lady who posted a website warning people about the "church of Scientology", her website includedd portions of their documentation as citation and also in paraphrase so as to provide evidence to her claims. Scientology sued for blood but the courts stayed and her site is still up.
Much of it is in English, so enjoy
Or are you in fact as big a schmuck as you present yourself to be?
because you used a computer to read my post, you did copy it as far as copyright law is concerned.
ROFL!!
you have actually gone so far off topic here it astounds me. So you would prefer to have Brad Smith swallow his words, not have a big company take the initiative to reform USPTO and have nothing changed in the current patent system? You work for WIPO or such? C'mon man, how can you stand here and actually beleive that software patents can be stopped and that patents in general can be all but abolished? You planning a revolution? Which part of my post didn't you get?
I'll repeat and keep it simple:
Patents suck
You can't make 'em go away
make em suck less
Anyone who makes sometthing has a right to determine the use of his or her creation, within bounds of law and good taste.
If you don't want people copying your text, don't post it on a website outside of your control.
If you wish to make infantile comments intellectually equivalent to pre-teen "made you look" jokes then please, tell your mom to make you a PBJ sandwich and go watch bugs bunny.
now go find something shiny to look at.
And there we have it.. free free free..
Don't get me wrong, I am anti patent also but c'mon and get real, they will not go away, my point was, make em suck less..
anyway
That's not what patents are supposed to do
I would agree if you said "that's not all patents are supposed to do." Sure, by stopping abuse inventors must seek out new ways to get nifty things done that no-one has done before..
Well, let's see if you believe it. I wrote this post. I wish for you to give me a brand new car. Pay up, if you're so concerned about my wishes.
I think even a child understands that my statement pertains to the wishes of an author with regards to the usage of his creation. The statement is not bizarre, and I am concerned about your wishes with regards to your creations, no car though. Of course, infantile as your riposte is I suppose I would suggest you word your terms of use to read something like " you may copy this text if you buy me a new car"
Anyone who has read the article will have to concede (myself included) that Brad Smith has a serious point, mr. Anderson...
The logic:
patents suck
we cannot get rid of em
gotta make em suck less
What Smith proposes is not at shit. Congress should properly fund the USPTO if they want patents to do what they are supposed to do, protect inventors from egregious and abusive violation. The current situation where people abuse the patent system just to make a quick buck is jsut as wrong as domain-name hijacking and SCO's abuse of copyright law. If information cannot at this point in time be free, well then at least let it be policed by something more than an 800-pound gorilla.
I am the last man to be regarded as Microsofts friend but this article and the points made by Mr. Smith are sound and although they were given in front of a pea-brained NeoCon circle-jerk, I am willing to listen to the points of reform proposed. Especially the bit where he outlines getting the public at large involved..
"There is plainly a new generation of patent issues arising," he told the audience, "and it merits attention from a broad cross-section of the technology community, the legal profession and the public at large.
I guess at the end of the day people should respect the wishes of authors and creators, it is now up to the reformers to ensure that what is being enforced is indeed the will of the rightfull owner.
Nah!! Grandmaster Gary for President!! Imagine strategic armament talks between Bush and Gary!!
ROFL!
Gary will have Bush doin' the monkeyboy dance in no time!!
Seriously though, I cannot imagine they pulled this joke off without massivly reverse enginering the firmware on the I-pod !! And that will attract Job's Evil Eye..
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And of course "Juche" shows how to enlighten and free the people....
Uhm.. but an attachement would run as a unix user and be very limited... even if you scripted sudo into it the user would be prompted for this and figure hey...
this sort of malware would not be able to do anaweful lot except perhaps create some files and run some processes as a user. This would be very easy if not trivial to spot and remedy without invasive procedures. This contrary to malware on windows which is able to exploit the weaknesses in the filesystem (lack) security and the personality of script interfaced system calls. A vanilla OSX doesn't have a root user so I doubt that you could even attempt a rootkit type attack. Sure, you could come up with a program that can copy itself and perhaps even distribute itself but it would in essence be harmless. The weakness is always human and as the mac platform gains in popularity we will undoubtedly see more phishes and executable attachements but these are subject to the common sense of the user to be dealt with caution.
As for overflow attacks, these have mostly been dealt with in the BSD world and continue to be handled in that open source community. Lets not get over paranoid about hacking a stack pointer and inserting a new target address where malicious code is loaded and then run as the "smashed" code's privileges.. Methinks humbly that Darwin has sufficient pedigree in this level of security.
malloc()/free() overwrites are similarly dealt with in the BSD heritage and thus are unlikely candidates in existing Darwin software. printf("%s", buf) has replaced printf(buf) and hence a major part of the heap attakcs have been dealt with.
good resource
and there you have it. 8 Years ago no-one could point the criminal finger at digital downloaders, nowadays, you have a choice. In the end it is not about being free as in lunch but whether the deal is good. I don't particularly enjoy making some riaa execs wealthy, those folks earn too much money, they have no addedd value because their distribution method is outdated. Itunes will put them out of business, earn some money for the artist and force the market to work. This means cd's will have to drop in price if they are tobe sold. This is a good thing. I like cd's, I don't mind paying for them, I dislike getting ripped off and I hate it when the artist gets shafted by a record comany exec. Gimme the choice of the artist and let me pay a fair price. This is why I like Magnatune, it's more fair and it works like i do..
pluggin a drm hole in itunes is no major issue. I can still burn the track to cd for my car as I have not the money for a new ferarri with Ipod adapter..
Gee, I thought it was a reference to Jungian personality types..
Yep.. I abandoned my hotmail account years ago when they came with additional terms of use and mandatory passport... as for yahoo, I went to yahoo.co.uk as at the time they didn't register all that much and they are still certain that I am 89 years old living in antarctica and I have an avid interest in receiving free information about birdwatching, these free informational mails are forwarded to my hotmail account, which I haven't even thought about since 1998...
One button at a time...
/.
and in other news...
Microsoft to release windows source code to martian delegation...
Sun Microsystems to present plans for a low-fat chickenburger
McDonalds to deliver open source pizza
Sheessh!!
*cheech*
what man?
*chong*
uh.. I think it's dave
*dave*
yeah man open up I got the stuff
*cheech*
who?
*dave*
dave, its dave! now open up!!
Oh for cryin' out loud stay sober when reading
Yah.. Prior Art.. Sun Microsystems..
*cheesy 80's computer voice*
Would you like to play a game?
*kasparov*
sure, what you want to play?
*'puter* Thermonuclear war
und jetzt they have semi-pop-over block the interface kindof thingies which irritate me even more. I make an issue to complain if it is a major vendor that uses them. I know, drop in the ocean but every drop counts..
Is there another consumer PPC64 machine (widely and affodably) available?
Apart from the whole information wants to be free issue... I think that many prefer to pay for the paper and not for the electrons. Myself included, I dislike the idea of paying for a website access for a variety of reasons. One of them is that if you cancel, you get spammed. Another is that online registrations are invasive, you don't need to know my date of birth, really you don't. Furthermore, I buy my paper at the newsstand, it's fun, I like it. I am happy to throw some coins at the fat guy in the greasy shirt who runs the stand. In the long run I suppose we will all end up autmagically paying per-view but when that day arives, I think I may buy a printing press on ebay for dirt cheap and start up a newspaper.
eeeuuuuuu gruesome...
*peter sellers*
grew some what?
*vincent price*
Veggy Mites Muahahahaa!!!
*Steve Irwin -aka- The crocodile man*
Awe mate, these guys are reaaaaaal dangerous, I'm just gonna stick my thumb up this Veggy Mite's arse and that's really gonna piss 'im off!
*laughtrack*
On a different but related note, there was a lady who posted a website warning people about the "church of Scientology", her website includedd portions of their documentation as citation and also in paraphrase so as to provide evidence to her claims. Scientology sued for blood but the courts stayed and her site is still up.
Much of it is in English, so enjoy
ROFL!! I think your trolling can end right here..
Right.. infantile jurisprudence..
further reading.. and more.. ROFL!!
you have actually gone so far off topic here it astounds me. So you would prefer to have Brad Smith swallow his words, not have a big company take the initiative to reform USPTO and have nothing changed in the current patent system? You work for WIPO or such? C'mon man, how can you stand here and actually beleive that software patents can be stopped and that patents in general can be all but abolished? You planning a revolution? Which part of my post didn't you get? I'll repeat and keep it simple:
Patents suck
You can't make 'em go away
make em suck less
Anyone who makes sometthing has a right to determine the use of his or her creation, within bounds of law and good taste.
If you don't want people copying your text, don't post it on a website outside of your control.
If you wish to make infantile comments intellectually equivalent to pre-teen "made you look" jokes then please, tell your mom to make you a PBJ sandwich and go watch bugs bunny.
now go find something shiny to look at.
At least the Middle East would quiet down.. after he nuked every last one of em..
anyway I would agree if you said "that's not all patents are supposed to do." Sure, by stopping abuse inventors must seek out new ways to get nifty things done that no-one has done before..
I think even a child understands that my statement pertains to the wishes of an author with regards to the usage of his creation. The statement is not bizarre, and I am concerned about your wishes with regards to your creations, no car though. Of course, infantile as your riposte is I suppose I would suggest you word your terms of use to read something like " you may copy this text if you buy me a new car" LOL !!
ROFL! ___ it's because you are paranoid that they aren't out to get you! ___
The logic:
patents suck
we cannot get rid of em
gotta make em suck less
What Smith proposes is not at shit. Congress should properly fund the USPTO if they want patents to do what they are supposed to do, protect inventors from egregious and abusive violation. The current situation where people abuse the patent system just to make a quick buck is jsut as wrong as domain-name hijacking and SCO's abuse of copyright law. If information cannot at this point in time be free, well then at least let it be policed by something more than an 800-pound gorilla.
I am the last man to be regarded as Microsofts friend but this article and the points made by Mr. Smith are sound and although they were given in front of a pea-brained NeoCon circle-jerk, I am willing to listen to the points of reform proposed. Especially the bit where he outlines getting the public at large involved..
I guess at the end of the day people should respect the wishes of authors and creators, it is now up to the reformers to ensure that what is being enforced is indeed the will of the rightfull owner.
Nah!! Grandmaster Gary for President!! Imagine strategic armament talks between Bush and Gary!!
ROFL!
Gary will have Bush doin' the monkeyboy dance in no time!!
and who are you? the lady on the plane? ;)
*radio chirps*
we have 404 in progress
*chirp*
they've taken down the links
*chrip*
I'm goin' in
*chirp*
*crashing sounds*
*screams*
put down the network cable!
put your hands above your head!
Hey, you, in the greatfull dead tshirt and the
"fuck-you" hat! Ya you, drop the Peanut butter
and jelly sandwich right now!!
The tough jobs of tough men in law enforcement and the War on Torrent....
*sob*
I think the problem may lie in This man's behaviour..
So where is the torrent for it eh? LOL!!!
Seriously though, I cannot imagine they pulled this joke off without massivly reverse enginering the firmware on the I-pod !! And that will attract Job's Evil Eye..