these are the perpetrators of the Tiananmen massacre. do you really think they would hesitate to block a few websites?
I don't think anyone here doubts that they want to censor. But just because they would doesn't mean they can. All a Chinese person needs to access subversive information is to find a mirror, cache, or proxy server(?) to say nothing of forbidden information hosted within the country.
They will try, but while China is a big place, the rest of the world is even bigger.
Do they only block the http ports? Or do the block by IP or what?
Yea, Gopher is dead, but don't be insensitive. Gopher was pretty cool, especially considering some of the terrible backgrounds and colors you sometimes get in http.
Or is this just like suggesting lynx?
Maybe it is a good thing that Apache 2 supports Gopher.
Stop laughing, I'm serious. It wouldn't suprise me that the communist bastard politicians wouldn't know to block stuff outside http.
p2p is another possibility, but that's been discussed before I'm sure.
His criticism goes further to say that some security toolkits 'lack real security features altogether.' It comes as no surprise, then, that his recent book... is a 320-page paean documenting... his (own) security toolkit.
Wouldn't it be more helpful, not to mention better motivation to purchase his own security toolkit, if he were to go into more detail of what is wrong with other toolkits than just saying they 'lack real security features altogether.'
Why not write a short critique of other toolkits, ideally explaing advantages and disadvantages each one has..... or is this not supposed to be a book on Security in general, but just documentation on his own toolkit?
I suppose even if you don't want to buy his toolkit you can get ideas from reading about it.
But I may not fully understand the capabilities of the security policy scheme. Perhaps, when using Gutmann's cryptlib, it is impossible for the toolkit user to configure an incoherent policy. In George Orwell's 1984, the Party worked to deconstruct the English language so that only 'legal' speech could occur. As designed, Newspeak would make illegal statements unspeakable --- and in time, unthinkable. I'm unconvinced that Gutmann's security policy scheme is such a controlled means of expression, where only safe security policies can be spoken. Granted, one could always use the predefined policies, but this path undermines a chief design goal of the architecture: a flexible security policy.
Problem with this is that Managment who don't understand the software are often making the decisions, and that is why there are incoherent policies. Maybe if you have pre-defined policies to work with, all of which will work, then Management can choose from the pre-defined policy, resulting in much less hair pulling frustration to the admin.
Would it be possible to either speed up the video, or record it just slightly faster to shave off a few seconds? Not enough to be noticable, but enough to give you an edge?
Then again, do I really care? So why am I asking?
Is there a world record for beating Zork in record time?
Does anyone know where that number comes from? If one can charge a year's salary to fix one virus, I'm in the wrong job! Any input out there on the real, hard costs of things such as virus protection?"
It isn't just one person working on the virus. With really bad viruses it will take a week of work, if you are lucky and it doesn't spread too badly.
You probably have the entire server/desktop team working on the updated anti-virus software and how to deploy it.
You have the entire Tech Support team who actually go out to people's desks when they think they have the virus.
You have the entire helpdesk team swamped with calls, many of which are just asking questions about the virus, rather than even thinking they might have it.
You have the actual end-users who are getting paid to twittle their thumbs while they wait for tech support to check out their PC.
And you have all the managment in a huff and having lots of meetings to talk about the virus which they really don't understand while all the IT people do all the actual work.
Try to be more sensitive, those dollars add up!
Also, while they probably don't pay overtime, they probably count the cost as if they did.
Unless, of course, it only goes over the span of a few seconds, but since video/audio streams take up a ton of data, then it must have something like 512MB of ram built in to do it.
Well, I think the concept is to mix and scratch like you would LP records in hip hop music. Well, not really mix since you would need another player and the equivilant of a cross-fader, but that would be cool.
So really, you only need to handle the amount of memory to manipulate a few seconds. But why not do overkill?
Other things you could do with this is play at fast speed. The equivilant of playing a 33rpm record at 45rpms.... and with fine pitch control. Not to mention playing things backwards. For these you might need more memory.
In contract law there are certain things that you cannot sign away. For instance, you cannot sell yourself into slavery.
It is controversial whether EULAs even constitute a legal contract.
Why should companies get away writing software that if a script kiddy did he would be put in prison, or at least get a criminal trial?
Once software starts hijacking your computer then it is entering the realm of viruses. Among other things this definition should include being unable to uninstall the software without re-installing windows. Another is repeatedly resetting your password to goatse or other pr0n sites.
Internet Explorer uses patented Virus Transfer Protocol technology. It makes it so easy to install viruses on your PC that the user doesn't have to make any effort at all. Just think of all the pop-ups and viruses you are missing because you are using an inferior browser. That's internet content that is basically being censored. I mean if software cannot repeatedly change your homepage to goatse then what has happened to freedom of speech?
And won't somebody think of the pop-up software writers? Just because they create one of the most annoying things in the entire internet doesn't mean we should be insensitive to them.
But then I was taught to make a destinction between being naked (not being clothed) and being nekid (not having cloths on and being up to something). This woman was definitly nekid.
Well, then she clearly isn't violating public nudity laws as she was nekid, not nude.
The concept of reverse engineering just doesn't occure to politicians and people in management.
They don't understand how it is even possible to be more secure though good mathematics than hiding the code. Heck, I've even talked to some system admins that don't understand these concepts.
Does this mean that OSS cannot be considered secure but the government? Well, companies can still represent OSS, like Red Hat. So if Red Hat gets a license for a project and uses OSS, or something modified from OSS then they are responsible on how that has been licensed to be used.
Who do you think has a better chance of writing secure software: Microsoft or Red Hat?
They both have CEOs and they can both sign contracts.
Would you want your kid to accidentally stumble by her nude photo shoot? Or notice it from a distance? Think a little.
My gawd, you're right. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN! I was being insensitive to the children. I'm sorry.
Just out of curiosity, was she completely nude or just topless?
It won't matter what I say anyway, because you're obviously one of those ultra-hard liberal lefties judging by the URL you link to. "Sharing is caring?" Riiiigghht. Let's forget about the humans who made the music you're stealing by not paying for.
No, I just think it is funny, regardless of the implications of p2p.
How are public nudity laws stupid/archaic? What possible justification could you have for letting people take off their clothes right there in front of you?
Now who is being the liberal? Obviously it is the government's job to prevent people from being nude in public. If we don't like it, we must have a law against it!
IANAL but The article says the owner of the bar where one of the pictures was shot did in fact object to having the pictures taken...I would think this constitutes having a "victim" as you put it..
Unless bars are publically owned in Nebraska, isn't a bar private property? Wouldn't that make it more of a civil than a criminal case?
And if bars are considered "public" then why are malls allowed to expell public activities that they don't like? They are public meeting places in the same respect.
Don't be insensitive to Nebraska Vice cops. They spend hours every week searching for public nudity in Nebraska on the internet. (This is about as big as Vice gets in Nebraska I imagine.) They don't like looking at pr0n, but somebody has to do it to preserve the moral fiber of Nebraska!
Won't somebody think of the Nebraskans!
Nebraska Vice Squad: It's the toughest job you'll ever love.
While in general you have a point about slashdotting comments going up to 5, she seems to be enjoying the attention. At least yesterday she was enjoying it. Here's her logs on her front page regarding this:
12/30/2003 - I can't believe the amount of news coverage I'm getting out of all this! It's CRAZY!;-) I'm on the Front Page of CNN.com right now... I'm also on the front cover of the local News Paper!.... AND USA TODAY also has the story....
12/29/2003 - I can't believe it, I WON Gallery Magazine's Girl Next Door 2004!!!... I'm on the FRONT COVER of the January Issue! Click here to see the cover! If you are here in Lincoln... Go buy your copy of the Magazine at Priscilla's on "O" Street!... Or, if you want a signed copy, click on the on-line store on the left, or click here and order one! You can have anything written on it that you want!
12/29/2003 - Had a little run-in with the Lincoln Police Department today... It made the Associated Press Wire though... so it's not all bad... Here's the link to the article... MelissaLincoln in the news... I really don't know what I'm going to do about all of this... But I am going to fight it... If you would like to donate a few dollars to my legal defense fund... please either click the button below or send cash / check / or money order to:
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they will also be required to watch three minutes of TV style advertising for every hour of computer use and undertake to use the PC for a minimum of 30 hours per month.
As some people have already stated, it is easy to take a bathroom break once an our, like watching TV except in this respect you don't have to worry about missing anything.
The 30 hour minimum per month would probably be easy to get around. Just leave the computer on when you are not using it. The commercials would probably "air" whether you are there or not. Or will it track keyboard/mouse movements?
If someone were to "hack" this then maybe they could have the commercials run, but in the background, and with no sound? They probably have some way to account for the commercials and 30 hours of use per month. If you could figure out how it communicates then you could just have it send out fake communications with your ID. This might even be able to be done under Linux.
It is curious that IBM is doing this with XP instead of Linux. If they implimented it with Linux they could retain the root password which could make it a bit more difficult to get around the conditions.
You might be able to dual boot between Windows and XP. You would just have to let it run 30 hours a month in XP. But the EULA probably prohibits installing other operating systems. But it probably prohibits hacking the communication too.
I don't know, I might be crazy. When I first looked at the topic of this story, I read it as 'Viagra Arrests Man For Spamming'.
Not all that crazy considering there is a class action lawsuit against the makers of viagra by People Against Viagra Email Spam. And I for one think that we should be sensitive to their cause. With any luck Pfizer, the makers of Viagra, will be putting out contracts on spammers who use their trademarked name.
After all, the most sensitive way to deal with spammers is to hunt them down and kill them slowly and painfully.
Slashdot Mirror
It won't be long until they decide Slashdot is not something they should let their people see.
:)
That is if it isn't already blocked.
Is there a way to tell if a particular site is blocked?
Some sort of search engine of Censored Websites?
Then again, if slashdot was blocked there would have probably been a slashdot article about it
these are the perpetrators of the Tiananmen massacre. do you really think they would hesitate to block a few websites?
I don't think anyone here doubts that they want to censor. But just because they would doesn't mean they can. All a Chinese person needs to access subversive information is to find a mirror, cache, or proxy server(?) to say nothing of forbidden information hosted within the country.
They will try, but while China is a big place, the rest of the world is even bigger.
Do they only block the http ports?
Or do the block by IP or what?
Yea, Gopher is dead, but don't be insensitive.
Gopher was pretty cool, especially considering some of the terrible backgrounds and colors you sometimes get in http.
Or is this just like suggesting lynx?
Maybe it is a good thing that Apache 2 supports Gopher.
Stop laughing, I'm serious.
It wouldn't suprise me that the communist bastard politicians wouldn't know to block stuff outside http.
p2p is another possibility, but that's been discussed before I'm sure.
His criticism goes further to say that some security toolkits 'lack real security features altogether.' It comes as no surprise, then, that his recent book... is a 320-page paean documenting... his (own) security toolkit.
Wouldn't it be more helpful, not to mention better motivation to purchase his own security toolkit, if he were to go into more detail of what is wrong with other toolkits than just saying they 'lack real security features altogether.'
Why not write a short critique of other toolkits, ideally explaing advantages and disadvantages each one has..... or is this not supposed to be a book on Security in general, but just documentation on his own toolkit?
I suppose even if you don't want to buy his toolkit you can get ideas from reading about it.
But I may not fully understand the capabilities of the security policy scheme. Perhaps, when using Gutmann's cryptlib, it is impossible for the toolkit user to configure an incoherent policy. In George Orwell's 1984, the Party worked to deconstruct the English language so that only 'legal' speech could occur. As designed, Newspeak would make illegal statements unspeakable --- and in time, unthinkable. I'm unconvinced that Gutmann's security policy scheme is such a controlled means of expression, where only safe security policies can be spoken. Granted, one could always use the predefined policies, but this path undermines a chief design goal of the architecture: a flexible security policy.
Problem with this is that Managment who don't understand the software are often making the decisions, and that is why there are incoherent policies. Maybe if you have pre-defined policies to work with, all of which will work, then Management can choose from the pre-defined policy, resulting in much less hair pulling frustration to the admin.
If you look in the "Regions" settings, there's nowhere for Canadian users to check
Is Mexico in Central America?
I've always thought of Central America as that between Mexico and South America.
They should just say North America, or maybe Norte Americano. Eh?
Assuming that Venusians exist then I think you are being insensitive to them.
I just can't wait for Windows XP Revolutions to come out. Instead of the BSOD we will see Bill with a glowing cross from his chest. He is the one.
So, what will happen to Bill "The One" Gates at the end of XP Revolutions?
Would it be possible to either speed up the video, or record it just slightly faster to shave off a few seconds? Not enough to be noticable, but enough to give you an edge?
Then again, do I really care?
So why am I asking?
Is there a world record for beating Zork in record time?
Does anyone know where that number comes from? If one can charge a year's salary to fix one virus, I'm in the wrong job! Any input out there on the real, hard costs of things such as virus protection?"
It isn't just one person working on the virus.
With really bad viruses it will take a week of work, if you are lucky and it doesn't spread too badly.
You probably have the entire server/desktop team working on the updated anti-virus software and how to deploy it.
You have the entire Tech Support team who actually go out to people's desks when they think they have the virus.
You have the entire helpdesk team swamped with calls, many of which are just asking questions about the virus, rather than even thinking they might have it.
You have the actual end-users who are getting paid to twittle their thumbs while they wait for tech support to check out their PC.
And you have all the managment in a huff and having lots of meetings to talk about the virus which they really don't understand while all the IT people do all the actual work.
Try to be more sensitive, those dollars add up!
Also, while they probably don't pay overtime, they probably count the cost as if they did.
Unless, of course, it only goes over the span of a few seconds, but since video/audio streams take up a ton of data, then it must have something like 512MB of ram built in to do it.
Well, I think the concept is to mix and scratch like you would LP records in hip hop music. Well, not really mix since you would need another player and the equivilant of a cross-fader, but that would be cool.
So really, you only need to handle the amount of memory to manipulate a few seconds. But why not do overkill?
Other things you could do with this is play at fast speed. The equivilant of playing a 33rpm record at 45rpms.... and with fine pitch control. Not to mention playing things backwards. For these you might need more memory.
In contract law there are certain things that you cannot sign away. For instance, you cannot sell yourself into slavery.
It is controversial whether EULAs even constitute a legal contract.
Why should companies get away writing software that if a script kiddy did he would be put in prison, or at least get a criminal trial?
Once software starts hijacking your computer then it is entering the realm of viruses. Among other things this definition should include being unable to uninstall the software without re-installing windows. Another is repeatedly resetting your password to goatse or other pr0n sites.
And what is this Internet Explorer program?
Internet Explorer uses patented Virus Transfer Protocol technology.
It makes it so easy to install viruses on your PC that the user doesn't have to make any effort at all.
Just think of all the pop-ups and viruses you are missing because you are using an inferior browser.
That's internet content that is basically being censored. I mean if software cannot repeatedly change your homepage to goatse then what has happened to freedom of speech?
And won't somebody think of the pop-up software writers?
Just because they create one of the most annoying things in the entire internet doesn't mean we should be insensitive to them.
But then I was taught to make a destinction between being naked (not being clothed) and being nekid (not having cloths on and being up to something). This woman was definitly nekid.
Well, then she clearly isn't violating public nudity laws as she was nekid, not nude.
Good thing there are no public nekidity laws.
The concept of reverse engineering just doesn't occure to politicians and people in management.
They don't understand how it is even possible to be more secure though good mathematics than hiding the code. Heck, I've even talked to some system admins that don't understand these concepts.
Does this mean that OSS cannot be considered secure but the government? Well, companies can still represent OSS, like Red Hat. So if Red Hat gets a license for a project and uses OSS, or something modified from OSS then they are responsible on how that has been licensed to be used.
Who do you think has a better chance of writing secure software: Microsoft or Red Hat?
They both have CEOs and they can both sign contracts.
Would you want your kid to accidentally stumble by her nude photo shoot? Or notice it from a distance? Think a little.
My gawd, you're right. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!
I was being insensitive to the children. I'm sorry.
Just out of curiosity, was she completely nude or just topless?
It won't matter what I say anyway, because you're obviously one of those ultra-hard liberal lefties judging by the URL you link to. "Sharing is caring?" Riiiigghht. Let's forget about the humans who made the music you're stealing by not paying for.
No, I just think it is funny, regardless of the implications of p2p.
How are public nudity laws stupid/archaic? What possible justification could you have for letting people take off their clothes right there in front of you?
Now who is being the liberal?
Obviously it is the government's job to prevent people from being nude in public. If we don't like it, we must have a law against it!
IANAL but The article says the owner of the bar where one of the pictures was shot did in fact object to having the pictures taken...I would think this constitutes having a "victim" as you put it..
Unless bars are publically owned in Nebraska, isn't a bar private property? Wouldn't that make it more of a civil than a criminal case?
And if bars are considered "public" then why are malls allowed to expell public activities that they don't like? They are public meeting places in the same respect.
(Now I got Bob Marley stuck in my head.)
Maybe you should request she do a re-shoot?
And does being topless really count as nudity in Nebraska?
Are women not allowed to breast feed in Nebraska?
That just sounds insensitive to me.
Now Now!
Don't be insensitive to Nebraska Vice cops. They spend hours every week searching for public nudity in Nebraska on the internet. (This is about as big as Vice gets in Nebraska I imagine.) They don't like looking at pr0n, but somebody has to do it to preserve the moral fiber of Nebraska!
Won't somebody think of the Nebraskans!
Nebraska Vice Squad: It's the toughest job you'll ever love.
photoshop and psp put a digital 'watermark' into the file. So, if the file was ever saved within photoshop, you could tell...
:)
Maybe she is a linux geek and used GIMP
The CNN Article only mentions that she took pictures in a bar, and that was considered "public."
Isn't a bar private property?
Getting permission from the bar's owner is another matter, but I think that is more civil than criminal.
Smokinggun.com even has them. It shows her publicly nude, including on a motorcycle right by a baseball field.
GIF! GIF! GIF!
(ahem)
A public baseball field? Like a little league bassball field? Durring a game or at night?
Is the zen paradox of "If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?" acceptable as a legal argument?
I also wonder if she might use the argument that public nudity laws are stupid/archaic.
And because it is winter right now I'm thinking, why do they need laws against nudity in Nebraska?
they will also be required to watch three minutes of TV style advertising for every hour of computer use and undertake to use the PC for a minimum of 30 hours per month.
As some people have already stated, it is easy to take a bathroom break once an our, like watching TV except in this respect you don't have to worry about missing anything.
The 30 hour minimum per month would probably be easy to get around. Just leave the computer on when you are not using it. The commercials would probably "air" whether you are there or not. Or will it track keyboard/mouse movements?
If someone were to "hack" this then maybe they could have the commercials run, but in the background, and with no sound? They probably have some way to account for the commercials and 30 hours of use per month. If you could figure out how it communicates then you could just have it send out fake communications with your ID. This might even be able to be done under Linux.
It is curious that IBM is doing this with XP instead of Linux. If they implimented it with Linux they could retain the root password which could make it a bit more difficult to get around the conditions.
You might be able to dual boot between Windows and XP. You would just have to let it run 30 hours a month in XP. But the EULA probably prohibits installing other operating systems. But it probably prohibits hacking the communication too.
I find it an interesting coincidence that a lot of small businesses pay about 5% when you make purchases with a credit card.
I'm not saying it is fair or unfair or even insensitive, but interesting.
Heck, a lot of charities will skim 60% off the top of donations just for canvasing etc. In this respect 5% sound quite reasonable.
I don't know, I might be crazy. When I first looked at the topic of this story, I read it as 'Viagra Arrests Man For Spamming'.
Not all that crazy considering there is a class action lawsuit against the makers of viagra by People Against Viagra Email Spam. And I for one think that we should be sensitive to their cause. With any luck Pfizer, the makers of Viagra, will be putting out contracts on spammers who use their trademarked name.
After all, the most sensitive way to deal with spammers is to hunt them down and kill them slowly and painfully.
A lot of people on slashdot were hoping for an hour of Anakin slowly and painfully killing Jar Jar, followed by an hour of Natalie Portman pr0n.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Lucas thought this might be insensitive to the younger viewers.
But I have to ask the question, if he had given slashdot readers what they wanted, would he still have gotten the PG rating?
Sure, it wasn't Natural Born Killers. Did you really expect that from Lucas?
Anyone up for a parody?