at least to my satisfaction - I see the flu virus evolve every year
news at 11 - hackers shut down all M$ computers ..
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so they put in the magic hooks that let you shutdown WinOhOh or whatever remotely... and what do the hackers do? half of them reverse engineer it and ship patches to disable that 'feature'.... the other half reverse engineer it and start shutting down random Win00 machines, maybe they shut them all down.... only the trusted, open source OSs are left running..... heh and they're worried about Y2K.... just you wait.... I bet they shut down ALL the machines at M$ first....
In the on-going Scientology (spit) vs. the Internet skirmish at least one court (in Holland) has found that linking to copyrighted material is a breach of copyright.
Of course this sets no precedent in the US... but you may never know when you're pointing to a site that happens to be situated in Holland and find yourself under their juristiction (where's the/. server for example - anyone know or care? maybe we would if one state in the US created such a precedent in a state court).
For more information on the (now very long running ) Scientology vs. the Net free-speech fight check out www.xenu.net [hint: it gets wonderfully funny at times such as when their lawyers are trying to determine the real identity of "Major Domo" so they can supoena him... and when they discover that their opponents know of an FTP site that has all their secret files (ftp://127.0.0.1)]
This sort of thing isn't that uncommon - offering access to an IPO to 'friends of the company' but it's usually done quietly and not quite as widely
Last time I got offered this it was with 3 hours warning and I passed - the stock went to 100 - I coulda taken a year off and just written open-source stuff:-(
They're using some mailing list to generate this, I hope it's from the maintainers of all the stuff in their distributions, this would not only be cool but somewhat appropriate
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at least to my satisfaction - I see the
flu virus evolve every year
so they put in the magic hooks that let you shutdown WinOhOh or whatever remotely ... and what do the hackers do? half of them reverse engineer it and ship patches to disable that 'feature' .... the other half reverse engineer it and start shutting down random Win00 machines, maybe they shut them all down .... only the trusted, open source OSs are left running ..... heh and they're worried about Y2K .... just you wait .... I bet they shut down ALL the machines at M$ first ....
Of course this sets no precedent in the US ... but you may never know when you're pointing to a site that happens to be situated in Holland and find yourself under their juristiction (where's the /. server for example - anyone know or care? maybe we would if one state in the US created such a precedent in a state court).
For more information on the (now very long running ) Scientology vs. the Net free-speech fight check out www.xenu.net [hint: it gets wonderfully funny at times such as when their lawyers are trying to determine the real identity of "Major Domo" so they can supoena him ... and when they discover that their opponents know of an FTP site that has all their secret files (ftp://127.0.0.1)]
Last time I got offered this it was with 3 hours warning and I passed - the stock went to 100 - I coulda taken a year off and just written open-source stuff :-(
They're using some mailing list to generate this, I hope it's from the maintainers of all the stuff in their distributions, this would not only be cool but somewhat appropriate