RTFA. They aren't "altering" the work, to do that they'd have to be changing it, right?
At worst, using five seconds from a copyrighted work easily falls under fair use, especially as there is a parody / criticism edge to some of what he appears to be doing.
IIRC, this was a secure-ified Debian with encrypted swap, encrypted partitions, running VMWare which ran Win2K as a guest o/s. The idea was to run Windows while treating it as a small child that keeps burning itself on the stove. Everything was filtered thru the Linux host o/s, including network and hardware access.
Also, I believe the encryption key was provided in two parts: a dongle containing part of the key, and then also a key requested of the user during boot.
My take: anything American conservatives don't agree with is usually labeled "Liberal" or "Ultra-Left Wing." They don't listen or engage with people or points of view they don't agree with; instead, they heap ridicule and scorn.
This is what over a decade of Rush Limbaugh has done: retrained the neural nets of many millions of Americans to accept that, whatever is done to them or on their behalf, by government or corporations, is alright, so long as it's done by a "Republican."
As others have said, the median is a throwaway number. A much better indicator of how various segments of the population are doing can be found in the 'Share of Aggregate Income' table-
But most people don't have to live paycheck to paycheck. It's a choice for those people.
Not wanting to quote you out of context, here, but are you saying that people who live paycheck to paycheck have a choice about it? Living in a highly idealized society (which we don't), that may be possible. It takes an extraordinary individual to rise above poverty. Some do it. It takes personal power and education - something the poverty-stricken don't necessarily have ready access to.
When you're worried about where your next meal or rent payment's coming from, you don't necessarily have enough money to get educated to increase your income. Not especially with the Republicans slashing funds for public education.
The U.S. spends tens of billions of dollars attacking a stone-age nation, using the highest tech weapons, to eliminate the Taliban. And what happens? The Taliban slips through the U.S. military's grasp, only to resurface as warlords and "terrorists" again.
It's futile. The U.S. will continue running down every little "terrorist" at great cost - and guess what? The U.S. doesn't own enough hardware or soldiers to put em all down. It's 300 million against 5.7 billion people, and there's no winning that war.
Yes... the same Taliban the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in order to put down... the same Taliban that escaped only to reform and attack again.
The same Taliban that had so much to do with the attacks on 9/11 - what's that? They didn't have anything to do with 9/11? Most of the hijackers were Saudi nationals? Oh.
I'm down south of you here in the U.S. Anything called "left," "leftist," or "liberal" has been targeted for extinction by the right-wing corporate raiders, taking over the government for their own profit.
It's no secret that labor has been villified in the extreme by corporations and their PR lapdogs since the early 20th century. Anything that interferes with the ability to make a profit here is in the crosshairs.
Ahh, so Moore has a special way with the truth... which somehow prevents you from making specific counterpoint to his assertions?
Please. It's kind of amusing to see conservatives act helpless in the face of the truth, but it's pathetic to use abstractions to justify your point of view when specifics are called for. This is what Rush Limbaugh is known for, falling back on grand generalizations in avoidance of the truth.
Not this Sarin. They're no longer WMD if they don't do the job they were designed for. Sarin has an approximately two month shelf life, wheras mustard gas can last for decades if stored properly. From the conservative-beloved Fox News:
Tests conducted by the Iraqi Survey Group (search) -- a U.S. organization searching for weapons of mass destruction -- and others concluded the mustard gas was "stored improperly," which made the gas
"ineffective."
Forgetting that, in their main legal point in pushing for war, Bush/Rice/Powell made *extravagant* claims as to tens of thousands of liters of chemical and biological weapons - literal warehouses full of thousands of shells of ready-to-use WMDs. Where are they?
Where is the proof that all those WMD were shipped out of the country? If we know they were shipped, why wasn't anything done to stop it, or at least document it so we could put the pliers on Syria?
he won't tell us which parts or what makes them untrue.
In the free market of ideas, there's truth to counter untruths. Apart from sweeping blanket denials by the Bush administration and family, I've not yet seen any counterpoint from conservatives about Moore's assertions in this film.
If you believe you know where Moore's lying or fictionalizing, then tell us the truth.
Since you're asking "how do I disinfect these boxes" (essentially), you make it pretty clear you don't already know how. You could download Nessus and chkrootkit, and maybe get lucky - e.g. the cracker who's built a nest inside your server doesn't detect your attempts to detect him.
The worst case scenario here is that you detect a problem, attempt to fix it yourself, and trigger Something Bad[tm] in the process: the cracker retaliates, or you break a working app because you upgraded something out-of-sync with glibc (or whatever), or you otherwise become the catalyst for noticeable downtime that will piss off your boss and get you fired, or worse - they turn you into a scapegoat (see the Intel case against that security chap.)
Just make sure you cover your ass. You've notified your boss, copy those emails to a nice safe place (headers and all), and don't do anything stupid.
Best scenario is to build a fresh box, backup the old box's data, restore it to the new box (clean! no code! only data!) Don't bother trying to salvage a compromised O/S installation. Too many things to miss. And, when you're building fresh, don't ssh via one of the infected boxes! Don't inadvertently give *any* info to the crackers that you're setting up a new machine. Better yet, build it with the ethernet cable unplugged, if possible. Do it from CDs.
It is essential not to profess to know, or seem to know, or accept that someone else knows, that which is unknown. Almost without exception, the things that end up coming back to haunt you..."
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
That, or some Mid-Cretaceous Dinosaur rockers like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Doors - would really let your customers know that your software's inspired by organic product.
For what it's worth- the Scaled guys I find intriguing because they've taken their high-tech composites and avionics experience and built a goddamn cool space plane!
But Carmack is fascinating becaues he's blogging every little washer and bolt experience learned, and the guy's genius just shines right through.
Also, I'd much rather pay for something up-front than borrow and pay interest on it for years and years, which seems to be the conservative approach: borrow and spend. That comes back as taxes, interest and principal - much more costly than tax and spend.
We'll all get the privilege of paying back the Bush II tax cut for many years.
http://webjay.org - Calls itself "Listener Created Radio", and it aggregates quite a bit of radio and non-radio MP3, Real and windows content. You can create playlists of audio/video content already hosted someplace. When you click "play" on a playlist, it generates a playlist for your player. Worth checking out.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: connived, conniving, connives 1. To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude: The dealers connived with customs officials to bring in narcotics. 2. To scheme; plot. 3. To feign ignorance of or fail to take measures against a wrong, thus implying tacit encouragement or consent: The guards were suspected of conniving at the prisoner's escape. ETYMOLOGY:Latin cnvre, connvre, to close the eyes.OTHER FORMS:conniver --NOUN connivery --NOUN
Best to just steer clear of the Internet bottom feeders.
Wow, that's a bit harsh... one web forum does not represent lefty opinion, particularly one that names itself the "underground."
That'd be like me stereotyping you based on your statements... "hey, you look like one a them ultra-right wingers! Jimmy, quick git yer camera, I bet this one's gonna connive to steal our pension checks, or maybe borrow large sums of money against our names to start a war on sum stone-age nation!"
And good riddance to the man who funded the Central American death squads, shepherded in and oversaw the collapse of the S&Ls, which continues to cost us hundreds of billions in taxes.... something he has in common with Bush II. Time to end the era of borrow-and-spend republicans.
This one puzzles me because it's so geeky and yet so tastefully done. It's like someone spending $100K to hire an artist, do preprint work, and print up a large poster just to say, "We Code in Perl".
iirc Apple built a *lot* of software with Pascal. The main alternatives were BASIC and 6502 / 68000 assembler, as C had not caught on in a critical mass sort of way (talking late 70s-mid 80s here.)
Gathering together databases of all your info and tracking it for habits that might identify you as a potential criminal or terrorist is a whole hell of a lot different than using those databases after the crime was committed.
Are we so terrified that crimes must now be prevented before they occur? Kryzt, give me a fuckin' break.
The govt's databases are nowhere near as fine-grained as the private sector's. Your spending habits, travel habits, job history, crime history - it's all there, more than the G-men could ever organize on their own.
This is warrantless search and seizure in my view. Looking for patterns to identify you as a potential criminal or terrorist? Is this what it's come to?
"breach of contract" is a civil matter, not criminal. You haven't violated any laws, therefore what you're doing it ain't illegal. You can only be accused by the other party(ies) to the contract of breach - not by any officials of an executive branch of a government (in the US.)
Furthermore, the breach has to be declared by a civil court judge - lawsuits must be filed, and your case has to make its way through the system before that judgement (and/or injunction) can be declared.
OTOH, if it were criminal, you could be ARRESTED.
This is precisely why the DMCA was conjured - to apply criminal treatment to what was previously a either (or both) a civil infraction or a minor criminal matter (misdemeanor) - copyright infringement. Now it's felony material.
It's been widelyheldby police intelligence that protesters coordinate their demonstrations by cellphone.
Maybe, just maybe, this absurd bomb detonation thing is being set up as a pretense now, so that when terrorists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H protestors arrive in NYC at the end of August, they will not have the use of their cell phone during demonstrations outside RNC meetings.
Ironically, the thing they fear could theoretically be accomplished using surplus police radios with CTCSS or DCS. Using the NYPD's own repeaters, the person pushing the button could be anywhere in the metro area.
Though I doubt that cellphone jamming will change protesters' plans one iota, it wouldn't surprise me if they jammed parts of NYC come August. I'm pessimistic about our government's plans for reducing or eliminating freedom of speech, and this is just another strike against G.W.
During pre-911 times, while the police got heavy-handed with protesters at times, I'm now expecting them to pull out all the stops and take whatever steps are necessary to finish building the image in the public's mind that protesters really are, somehow, terrorists. End this silly desire for free speech, public assembly and right to redress grievences. What were they thinking ~230 years ago, anyway?!?
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altering a copyrighted work
RTFA. They aren't "altering" the work, to do that they'd have to be changing it, right?
At worst, using five seconds from a copyrighted work easily falls under fair use, especially as there is a parody / criticism edge to some of what he appears to be doing.
Aww.. apparently someone hasn't been invited onto Orkut! Poor kid.. don't feel jealous - hey, drop me a line and I'll send you an invite.
Although Rop has moved on to other projects, Secure Notebook was a pretty good idea. The software may still be useful (documentation here, check the page for file signatures.)
IIRC, this was a secure-ified Debian with encrypted swap, encrypted partitions, running VMWare which ran Win2K as a guest o/s. The idea was to run Windows while treating it as a small child that keeps burning itself on the stove. Everything was filtered thru the Linux host o/s, including network and hardware access.
Also, I believe the encryption key was provided in two parts: a dongle containing part of the key, and then also a key requested of the user during boot.
Worth a look.
My take: anything American conservatives don't agree with is usually labeled "Liberal" or "Ultra-Left Wing." They don't listen or engage with people or points of view they don't agree with; instead, they heap ridicule and scorn.
This is what over a decade of Rush Limbaugh has done: retrained the neural nets of many millions of Americans to accept that, whatever is done to them or on their behalf, by government or corporations, is alright, so long as it's done by a "Republican."
As others have said, the median is a throwaway number. A much better indicator of how various segments of the population are doing can be found in the 'Share of Aggregate Income' table-
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http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h02.htm
Which you can plainly see shows a decreasing percentage of overall U.S. income for all fifths, except the top fifth and the top 5 percent.
But most people don't have to live paycheck to paycheck. It's a choice for those people.
Not wanting to quote you out of context, here, but are you saying that people who live paycheck to paycheck have a choice about it? Living in a highly idealized society (which we don't), that may be possible. It takes an extraordinary individual to rise above poverty. Some do it. It takes personal power and education - something the poverty-stricken don't necessarily have ready access to.
When you're worried about where your next meal or rent payment's coming from, you don't necessarily have enough money to get educated to increase your income. Not especially with the Republicans slashing funds for public education.
You emphasize my point perfectly, AC.
The U.S. spends tens of billions of dollars attacking a stone-age nation, using the highest tech weapons, to eliminate the Taliban. And what happens? The Taliban slips through the U.S. military's grasp, only to resurface as warlords and "terrorists" again.
It's futile. The U.S. will continue running down every little "terrorist" at great cost - and guess what? The U.S. doesn't own enough hardware or soldiers to put em all down. It's 300 million against 5.7 billion people, and there's no winning that war.
Yes... the same Taliban the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in order to put down... the same Taliban that escaped only to reform and attack again.
The same Taliban that had so much to do with the attacks on 9/11 - what's that? They didn't have anything to do with 9/11? Most of the hijackers were Saudi nationals? Oh.
Why'd we attack Afghanistan?
I'm down south of you here in the U.S. Anything called "left," "leftist," or "liberal" has been targeted for extinction by the right-wing corporate raiders, taking over the government for their own profit.
It's no secret that labor has been villified in the extreme by corporations and their PR lapdogs since the early 20th century. Anything that interferes with the ability to make a profit here is in the crosshairs.
Ahh, so Moore has a special way with the truth... which somehow prevents you from making specific counterpoint to his assertions?
Please. It's kind of amusing to see conservatives act helpless in the face of the truth, but it's pathetic to use abstractions to justify your point of view when specifics are called for. This is what Rush Limbaugh is known for, falling back on grand generalizations in avoidance of the truth.
Forgetting that, in their main legal point in pushing for war, Bush/Rice/Powell made *extravagant* claims as to tens of thousands of liters of chemical and biological weapons - literal warehouses full of thousands of shells of ready-to-use WMDs. Where are they?
Where is the proof that all those WMD were shipped out of the country? If we know they were shipped, why wasn't anything done to stop it, or at least document it so we could put the pliers on Syria?
Because they don't exist?
he won't tell us which parts or what makes them untrue.
In the free market of ideas, there's truth to counter untruths. Apart from sweeping blanket denials by the Bush administration and family, I've not yet seen any counterpoint from conservatives about Moore's assertions in this film.
If you believe you know where Moore's lying or fictionalizing, then tell us the truth.
Since you're asking "how do I disinfect these boxes" (essentially), you make it pretty clear you don't already know how. You could download Nessus and chkrootkit, and maybe get lucky - e.g. the cracker who's built a nest inside your server doesn't detect your attempts to detect him.
The worst case scenario here is that you detect a problem, attempt to fix it yourself, and trigger Something Bad[tm] in the process: the cracker retaliates, or you break a working app because you upgraded something out-of-sync with glibc (or whatever), or you otherwise become the catalyst for noticeable downtime that will piss off your boss and get you fired, or worse - they turn you into a scapegoat (see the Intel case against that security chap.)
Just make sure you cover your ass. You've notified your boss, copy those emails to a nice safe place (headers and all), and don't do anything stupid.
Best scenario is to build a fresh box, backup the old box's data, restore it to the new box (clean! no code! only data!) Don't bother trying to salvage a compromised O/S installation. Too many things to miss. And, when you're building fresh, don't ssh via one of the infected boxes! Don't inadvertently give *any* info to the crackers that you're setting up a new machine. Better yet, build it with the ethernet cable unplugged, if possible. Do it from CDs.
"1. Don't know what you don't know.
It is essential not to profess to know, or seem to know, or accept that someone else knows, that which is unknown. Almost without exception, the things that end up coming back to haunt you..."
Did anyone else think of Rumsfeld's infamous mindfart (for which he won a Foot in Mouth award) --
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Eerie.
for your business. I'd suggest a mix of open-source or musician-posted streaming audio direct off the internet.
That, or some Mid-Cretaceous Dinosaur rockers like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Doors - would really let your customers know that your software's inspired by organic product.
For what it's worth- the Scaled guys I find intriguing because they've taken their high-tech composites and avionics experience and built a goddamn cool space plane!
But Carmack is fascinating becaues he's blogging every little washer and bolt experience learned, and the guy's genius just shines right through.
heh, pretty funny, except that NPR isn't exactly a leftist organization anymore...
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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/nprs_liberal_m
Also, I'd much rather pay for something up-front than borrow and pay interest on it for years and years, which seems to be the conservative approach: borrow and spend. That comes back as taxes, interest and principal - much more costly than tax and spend.
We'll all get the privilege of paying back the Bush II tax cut for many years.
http://webjay.org - Calls itself "Listener Created Radio", and it aggregates quite a bit of radio and non-radio MP3, Real and windows content. You can create playlists of audio/video content already hosted someplace. When you click "play" on a playlist, it generates a playlist for your player. Worth checking out.
http://www.radio-locator.com/ - They track radio stations and list their stream links too
http://www.radio4all.net/ - Anybody can submit radio content to them, it's sort of a precursor to PRX but a lot less middle-of-the-road.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
connive
SYLLABICATION:
con*nive
PRONUNCIATION:
AUDIO: k-nvKEY
INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: connived, conniving, connives
1. To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude: The dealers connived with customs officials to bring in narcotics.
2. To scheme; plot.
3. To feign ignorance of or fail to take measures against a wrong, thus implying tacit encouragement or consent: The guards were suspected of conniving at the prisoner's escape. ETYMOLOGY:Latin cnvre, connvre, to close the eyes.OTHER FORMS:conniver --NOUN
connivery --NOUN
Best to just steer clear of the Internet bottom feeders.
... "hey, you look like one a them ultra-right wingers! Jimmy, quick git yer camera, I bet this one's gonna connive to steal our pension checks, or maybe borrow large sums of money against our names to start a war on sum stone-age nation!"
Wow, that's a bit harsh... one web forum does not represent lefty opinion, particularly one that names itself the "underground."
That'd be like me stereotyping you based on your statements
And good riddance to the man who funded the Central American death squads, shepherded in and oversaw the collapse of the S&Ls, which continues to cost us hundreds of billions in taxes.... something he has in common with Bush II. Time to end the era of borrow-and-spend republicans.
This one puzzles me because it's so geeky and yet so tastefully done. It's like someone spending $100K to hire an artist, do preprint work, and print up a large poster just to say, "We Code in Perl".
iirc Apple built a *lot* of software with Pascal. The main alternatives were BASIC and 6502 / 68000 assembler, as C had not caught on in a critical mass sort of way (talking late 70s-mid 80s here.)
Perhaps the equivalent today would be the profitless spending of $$$ to build websites declaring your affection for a certain system or language.
Gathering together databases of all your info and tracking it for habits that might identify you as a potential criminal or terrorist is a whole hell of a lot different than using those databases after the crime was committed.
Are we so terrified that crimes must now be prevented before they occur? Kryzt, give me a fuckin' break.
The govt's databases are nowhere near as fine-grained as the private sector's. Your spending habits, travel habits, job history, crime history - it's all there, more than the G-men could ever organize on their own.
This is warrantless search and seizure in my view. Looking for patterns to identify you as a potential criminal or terrorist? Is this what it's come to?
"breach of contract" is a civil matter, not criminal. You haven't violated any laws, therefore what you're doing it ain't illegal. You can only be accused by the other party(ies) to the contract of breach - not by any officials of an executive branch of a government (in the US.)
Furthermore, the breach has to be declared by a civil court judge - lawsuits must be filed, and your case has to make its way through the system before that judgement (and/or injunction) can be declared.
OTOH, if it were criminal, you could be ARRESTED.
This is precisely why the DMCA was conjured - to apply criminal treatment to what was previously a either (or both) a civil infraction or a minor criminal matter (misdemeanor) - copyright infringement. Now it's felony material.
It's been widely held by police intelligence that protesters coordinate their demonstrations by cellphone.
Maybe, just maybe, this absurd bomb detonation thing is being set up as a pretense now, so that when terrorists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H protestors arrive in NYC at the end of August, they will not have the use of their cell phone during demonstrations outside RNC meetings.
Ironically, the thing they fear could theoretically be accomplished using surplus police radios with CTCSS or DCS. Using the NYPD's own repeaters, the person pushing the button could be anywhere in the metro area.
Though I doubt that cellphone jamming will change protesters' plans one iota, it wouldn't surprise me if they jammed parts of NYC come August. I'm pessimistic about our government's plans for reducing or eliminating freedom of speech, and this is just another strike against G.W.
During pre-911 times, while the police got heavy-handed with protesters at times, I'm now expecting them to pull out all the stops and take whatever steps are necessary to finish building the image in the public's mind that protesters really are, somehow, terrorists. End this silly desire for free speech, public assembly and right to redress grievences. What were they thinking ~230 years ago, anyway?!?