"So how do you explain that it is IIS and not apache that is being attacked?"
[*] Apache is more secure than IIS. That's a fact, but it's different to saying that all open-source software is more secure. It certainly doens't prove that linux is more secure than windows (although other evidence certainly does)
[*] Apache runs more websites, but lots of those are on the same computer. My website runs on the same Apache server as 2782 other websites. My sourceforge websites run on the same Apache server as 83000 other websites. Domain-squatters run tens of thousands of "websites" from one Apache server. So you only need one competent admin, and suddenly thousands of Apache websites are secure.
[*] I think IIS can tend to expose more services than Apache -- most people setting up Apache are running an HTTP or HTTPS server, and they think long and hard and read documentation before expanding it to run more services than that. I've not used IIS, but I imagine that it's easy and tempting to run everything from windows workgroups to DNS to email servers at the click of a checkbox and without any need to understand what's being created. Perhaps there's a lack of care among IIS admins contributing to the problem?
"And what about his visit to Lockheed Martin? He tries to suggest they make weapons there even though they make weather and communication satellites."
Would you like to assert, for the record, that Lockheed Martin do not make weapons of mass destruction? (regardless the location at which they are constructed)
"I have an issue with the film. How does he happen to have so much good interview footage with a woman from his hometown whose son happened to die in Iraq... before he died. Did Moore interview a ton of people and just got ahem.. lucky, or were the earlier interviews staged after the fact?"
Is that an issue with the film, or a question to the film-maker?
Google search turns up 853 US soliders killed in Iraq [but don't forget the 9436 ones we don't count]. US news channels report 180,000 US troops in Iraq. So the problem is that Moore got "lucky" with picking an interview, given a 0.47% probablity of any given US soldier being dead by the end?
Maybe he got "luckier" by picking someone in the front-line? Maybe he did enough interviews (211?) that one was bound to end up dead. Maybe it was coincidence. Maybe it was unintentional.
"Michael Moore is an extremist. Extreme left-wing in this case, if I recall correctly. I saw Bowling for Columbine and it was a a good movie, but always, ALWAYS remember that's just ONE side of the spectrum."
Because the extreme right-wing is so under-represented in american media -- you'd better be careful you're not getting a biased view by watching this!
"GFS (Global File System) is a cluster file system.. is incrementally scalable from one to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, and works with all standard Linux applications."
So is this useful for clusters (as the name implies), or will the $1000 per computer cost of RHEL prevent it from being used in any actual clusters?
Aside from the "we've paid for the data" argument (Ordnance Survey are thieves of our taxpayer-funded mapping), you can see some weather arriving by getting xplanet to download a cloud map (thankyou university of aberdeen and meteosat, for providing that), and have the current cloud image overlaid on maps as your deskop background.
Please avoid buying music from the following bands:
112, Paula Abdul, Adema, Air Control, Damon Albarn, Lee Alexander, Jerel Allen, Marshall Altman, Amen, Keith Andes, Deric Angeletti, Ron Aniello, Ira Antelis, Angie Aparo, Craig Armstrong, Aslyn, At The Drive-In, Dallas Austin, Avalanches, Avenged Sevenfold, The B-52's, Anders Bagge, Tony Banks, Travis Barker, Jimmy Barnes, John Barry, Alejandro Bassi, Battlecat, Rick Beato, Victoria Beckham, Beenie Man, Howard Benson, Eddie Berkeley, Bigpockets, BLM, Black Lab, Grant Black, Bleu, Blur, Shauna Bolton, Simon Boswell, James Bradshaw, Necia Bray, Breech, Danielle Brisebois, Meredith Brooks, Nick Brophy, Kerry Brothers Jr., Jocelyn Brown, Livingstone Brown, Bubba Sparxxx, Budda, Brooks Buford, Kate Bush, Busted, Ryan Cabrera, Café Tacuba, Joi Campbell, Gil Cang, Luciana Caporaso, Benny Cassette, Cannibal Corpse, Belinda Carlisle, Sue Ann Carwell, Caviar, Caviar (Kannon Cross), Guy Chambers, Tracy Chapman, Melanie C, Clem Snide, Jay Clifford, Citizen Cope, City High, Carlyton K.K. Clanton, The Clipse, Phil Collins, Armando Colon, Melvin Saint Nick Coleman, Sean P. Diddy Combs, Harry Connick Jr., Bernadette Cooper, Coral, Counting Crows, Deborah Cox, Graham Coxon, Shondrae Crawford, Kenneth Crouch, The Crystal Method, Curt & Bob, D-12, Da Brat, LeShawn Daniels, Danny D, Danny P, Terence Trent D'Arby (aka Sananda Maitreya), N'Dea Davenport, Iva Davies, John Deacon, Default, Darrell De-Lite Allamby, Cathy Dennis, Depeche Mode, Josh Deutsch, Chris Difford, Kara Dioguardi, Dirty Vegas, Divinyls, Antonio Dixon, DJ Clue & Duro, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Sheats, DJ Skribble, Johnny Dollar (aka Johnny Sharp), The Donnas, Doves, Terrance Dudley, Jerry Duplessis, Jermaine Dupri, Paul Durham, Ms. Dynamite, Tim Easton, JB Eckl, Jason Edmonds, Fil Eisler, Electric Soft Parade, Enya, Eristopher, Michelle Escoffery, Marquez Etheridge, Fabolous, Ricky Fante, The Federation, John Feldmann, Fergie, Filter, Fish, Five For Fighting, The Flaming Lips, Flaw, Flick, Keith Flint, Foo Fighters, Foster & McElroy, Amy Foster Gillies, Andrew Frampton, Giuliano Franco, Justine Frischmann, Fundisha, Sia Furler, Nelly Furtado, Julian Gallagher, James Gass (pka Pro-Jay), Gem, Antony Genn, Goo Goo Dolls, Good Charlotte, Missy Gibson, Howard Goodall, Qur'an Goodman, Karl Gordon (pka K-Gee), Martin Gore, Gorillaz, Graham Gouldman, George Green, Pat Green, Paul L. Green, Steve Greenberg, Greenwheel, Geri Halliwell, Ashley Hamilton, Ed Harcourt, Jeremy Harding, Ben Harper, Rich Harrison, Tammie L. Harris, Terry Harris, David Harrow (aka James Hardway) (aka Technova), Jimmy Harry, Paul Heard, Heavy D, Alex Heffes, Chris Henderson, Michael Henry, Vincent Herbert, Reynada Hill, Rupert Hine, Hod David, Hot Karl, Felix Howard, James Newton Howard, Liam Howlett, Mick Hucknall, Van Hunt, Angela Hunte, Chrissie Hynde, Icehouse, Idlewild, Enrique Iglesias, Ill Nino, Ima Robot, Incubus, Indigo Girls, J-Dub, J-Kwon, J-Praize, Jagged Edge, Jam & Lewis, Janet Jackson, Alex James, Jamiroquai, Jay-Z, Lemarquis Jefferson, Rodney Jerkins, Jewel, JIVEjones, Jodeci, Damon Johnson, Puff Johnson, Norah Jones, Theresa Jones, Tyrice Jones, Maurice Joshua, Kandi, Shawn Kane, Guyora Kats, Dave Katz, Jay Kay, KB & Spec, KC-I & Jo Jo, Kelis, Dave Kelly, Tom Kelly, Kenna, Alicia Keys, Stephen Kipner, Jack Knight, Savan Kotecha, Lenny Kravitz, Krucial, Jack Kugell, Ty Lacy, Eritza Laues, Patrick Leonard, Paul Leonard-Morgan, Andres Levin, Keri Lewis, LG, Libertines, Dave Lichens, Harold Lilly, David Lindsey, Lit, Angel Lopez, Lo-Pro, Lostpro
What seemed most odd was the "unanimous" part of it.
Every single person in congress agreed that recording a film was worth 10 years in prison. Just note, they're depriving the artist of approximately $10 in revenue per person who watches their copy. Take the number of people who watch such a film, divide it into the amount of money stolen by enron, and multiply by 10 years to get the correct prison sentance for enron execs. Will it happen? Is copying a CD still depriving the artist of $350,000 per CD copied? Do these numbers sound like they were made up by someone with a really bad grasp of mathematics?
While it's obviously necessary to share the bandwidth appropriately, and to throttle/disconnect viruses, having people forced to run Windows to run the software to prove they don't have a virus seems a bit odd really. If they didn't have to run Windows, they wouldn't get a virus.
"I don't trust you and your computer with unfettered access to the University Network(property)."
So call it a peering agreement. Your computer is peering with the university network, and you both need to work out mutually-agreeable terms and conditions. "You must do what we say or you lose your ability to do work" isn't mutually-agreeable, and neither is putting untrustworthy software on someone's computer.
"They'll also say that internet access is not a right, but rather a privelige, and if you want that privelige, you'll abide by their terms."
Did they say that in the glossy brochure with "internet access in all rooms" printed in 20-point black text on the second page?
"I don't suppose anyone is going to come up with an argument saying that they are in the theaters with their camcorders excersizing their right to time shift...:)"
So theoretically, would this make it worth your while to kill anyone who noticed you using the camcorder, if there was, say, a 60% chance that killing them allowed you to successfully escape? There must be some probability threshold before a "manslaughter-equivalent" jail sentance for videoing makes it worth your while to do bad things if you get caught...
How does the person sitting next to you in the cinema feel about this, compared to say, the managing director of the company who invested in the film?
"encription in EVERY protocol layer and then some encription in the software, that's runing trhu ssh... so i can safely read my mail that i protected with my birtday as the password."
and typed on a wireless keyboard attached to a computer running Windows.
"Go to the gunshop and you can buy kegs of gunpowder,even through the mail."
Go to a gas station and buy 10 liters of gasoline. The government can't regulate it because everyone is utterly addicted to the stuff to get from their home to pretty much anywhere in a car.
I seem to remember someone demonstrating (on TV) a method for projecting a bowling-ball far, far into the distance, using just a small amount of gasoline. I'm no expert, but that looks a lot more fun than firing rockets which as you say, are just tubes full of slow-burning propellant.
"Owners had to contact NTL to get their connections unblocked."
[For anyone who hasn't been an NTL customer], the words "you have to contact NTL" is a sentence which will probably absorb at least 4 hours of your life...
"Microsoft closed the account immediately, without investigating. Reply: They own the account! Not to mention, it's a free account...you get what you pay for. Caveat Emptor, Greg..."
"Forget the credit cards -- where did they get the "health data" from?"
Do you buy medical insurance or pay your doctor with a credit card?
I'm wondering when someone's going to correlate the idea of those toilets which do tests on your urine "samples" with the limited number of toilets available at an airport or on a plane...
""The problem is there's a need to balance privacy rights with a hightened level of security."
You assume the heightened level of security is justified
You probably assume the heightened level of security is temporary or somehow limited
You assume that security can be improved by reducing privacy
You assume that privacy can legally be reduced
You assume that reducing privacy in the search for security is so wholesome and benevolent that it can be assumed everyone will want it, without the need to consult them
You assume that the security arguments can be taken at face value, either by the airlines who'd love to stop people selling their airline tickets (hence identification needed), or by the government, who'd love to be able to track people (hence identification needed)
You assume that knowing who's on a plane will help when it blows up or is hijacked.
You assume that the next terrrorist attack will be against an airliner
You assume that terrorists will be easy to spot from their name and credit-card details. You assume that they haven't given the darstardly deed to whichever of their members is still allowed to fly on airliners.
(Okay, you don't assume any of these things because you're intelligent, but it's a sort of overview of what the people who do believe these things are thinking...)
"Right. You're thinking of pentameter which, as everyone knows is a military meter as costs much more than a typical meter, to cover "special projects.""
Unrelated to the perimeter which is also a military thing...
"It is a good start, but in the end not much will change. Your average consumer doesn't care much about copy-protected or not-copy-protected CDs"
Your average consumer buys iPods and nomads and MP3 car-radios, and 100MB MP3-players and CD MP3 players and they certainly own a computer with WinAmp and CD-ex; most of them used MP3.com, and since that closed are using Kazaa and eDonkey, and have most of their music collection in MP3 format, and most of them rarely if ever use their original CDs even where they're available.
MP3 isn't some L33T technology that only slashdotters know about...
If you can't convert a CD to an MP3, then you can't play it on your iPod, and plenty of "common consumers" with very expensive MP3 players and very expensive computers will notice when a CD they bought doesn't work with either...
From the interview: "In those times [1994], a nice PC had a i486 66 MHz, the distribution of choice was slackware (one a pile of floppies), the kernel was 1.1.X, and XFree86 was a pain to configure."
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"So how do you explain that it is IIS and not apache that is being attacked?"
[*] Apache is more secure than IIS. That's a fact, but it's different to saying that all open-source software is more secure. It certainly doens't prove that linux is more secure than windows (although other evidence certainly does)
[*] Apache runs more websites, but lots of those are on the same computer. My website runs on the same Apache server as 2782 other websites. My sourceforge websites run on the same Apache server as 83000 other websites. Domain-squatters run tens of thousands of "websites" from one Apache server. So you only need one competent admin, and suddenly thousands of Apache websites are secure.
[*] I think IIS can tend to expose more services than Apache -- most people setting up Apache are running an HTTP or HTTPS server, and they think long and hard and read documentation before expanding it to run more services than that. I've not used IIS, but I imagine that it's easy and tempting to run everything from windows workgroups to DNS to email servers at the click of a checkbox and without any need to understand what's being created. Perhaps there's a lack of care among IIS admins contributing to the problem?
"And what about his visit to Lockheed Martin? He tries to suggest they make weapons there even though they make weather and communication satellites."
Would you like to assert, for the record, that Lockheed Martin do not make weapons of mass destruction? (regardless the location at which they are constructed)
"I have an issue with the film.
How does he happen to have so much good interview footage with a woman from his hometown whose son happened to die in Iraq... before he died.
Did Moore interview a ton of people and just got ahem.. lucky, or were the earlier interviews staged after the fact?"
Is that an issue with the film, or a question to the film-maker?
Google search turns up 853 US soliders killed in Iraq [but don't forget the 9436 ones we don't count ]. US news channels report 180,000 US troops in Iraq. So the problem is that Moore got "lucky" with picking an interview, given a 0.47% probablity of any given US soldier being dead by the end?
Maybe he got "luckier" by picking someone in the front-line? Maybe he did enough interviews (211?) that one was bound to end up dead. Maybe it was coincidence. Maybe it was unintentional.
"Michael Moore is an extremist. Extreme left-wing in this case, if I recall correctly. I saw Bowling for Columbine and it was a a good movie, but always, ALWAYS remember that's just ONE side of the spectrum."
Because the extreme right-wing is so under-represented in american media -- you'd better be careful you're not getting a biased view by watching this!
"GFS (Global File System) is a cluster file system.. is incrementally scalable from one to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, and works with all standard Linux applications."
So is this useful for clusters (as the name implies), or will the $1000 per computer cost of RHEL prevent it from being used in any actual clusters?
Aside from the "we've paid for the data" argument (Ordnance Survey are thieves of our taxpayer-funded mapping), you can see some weather arriving by getting xplanet to download a cloud map (thankyou university of aberdeen and meteosat, for providing that), and have the current cloud image overlaid on maps as your deskop background.
"As long as DRM stays locked in the tealm of crap music, I don't mind. As soon as DRM cripples something of quality, then I'll be a sad clown."
Does it matter? Look at the label. It says "EMI".
Look at the press release. It says "The disk *IS* copy controlled in Europe - which is standard policy for all Capitol/EMI titles"
Look at the list of EMI artists
Please avoid buying music from the following bands:
112, Paula Abdul, Adema, Air Control, Damon Albarn, Lee Alexander, Jerel Allen, Marshall Altman, Amen, Keith Andes, Deric Angeletti, Ron Aniello, Ira Antelis, Angie Aparo, Craig Armstrong, Aslyn, At The Drive-In, Dallas Austin, Avalanches, Avenged Sevenfold, The B-52's, Anders Bagge, Tony Banks, Travis Barker, Jimmy Barnes, John Barry, Alejandro Bassi, Battlecat, Rick Beato, Victoria Beckham, Beenie Man, Howard Benson, Eddie Berkeley, Bigpockets, BLM, Black Lab, Grant Black, Bleu, Blur, Shauna Bolton, Simon Boswell, James Bradshaw, Necia Bray, Breech, Danielle Brisebois, Meredith Brooks, Nick Brophy, Kerry Brothers Jr., Jocelyn Brown, Livingstone Brown, Bubba Sparxxx, Budda, Brooks Buford, Kate Bush, Busted, Ryan Cabrera, Café Tacuba, Joi Campbell, Gil Cang, Luciana Caporaso, Benny Cassette, Cannibal Corpse, Belinda Carlisle, Sue Ann Carwell, Caviar, Caviar (Kannon Cross), Guy Chambers, Tracy Chapman, Melanie C, Clem Snide, Jay Clifford, Citizen Cope, City High, Carlyton K.K. Clanton, The Clipse, Phil Collins, Armando Colon, Melvin Saint Nick Coleman, Sean P. Diddy Combs, Harry Connick Jr., Bernadette Cooper, Coral, Counting Crows, Deborah Cox, Graham Coxon, Shondrae Crawford, Kenneth Crouch, The Crystal Method, Curt & Bob, D-12, Da Brat, LeShawn Daniels, Danny D, Danny P, Terence Trent D'Arby (aka Sananda Maitreya), N'Dea Davenport, Iva Davies, John Deacon, Default, Darrell De-Lite Allamby, Cathy Dennis, Depeche Mode, Josh Deutsch, Chris Difford, Kara Dioguardi, Dirty Vegas, Divinyls, Antonio Dixon, DJ Clue & Duro, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Sheats, DJ Skribble, Johnny Dollar (aka Johnny Sharp), The Donnas, Doves, Terrance Dudley, Jerry Duplessis, Jermaine Dupri, Paul Durham, Ms. Dynamite, Tim Easton, JB Eckl, Jason Edmonds, Fil Eisler, Electric Soft Parade, Enya, Eristopher, Michelle Escoffery, Marquez Etheridge, Fabolous, Ricky Fante, The Federation, John Feldmann, Fergie, Filter, Fish, Five For Fighting, The Flaming Lips, Flaw, Flick, Keith Flint, Foo Fighters, Foster & McElroy, Amy Foster Gillies, Andrew Frampton, Giuliano Franco, Justine Frischmann, Fundisha, Sia Furler, Nelly Furtado, Julian Gallagher, James Gass (pka Pro-Jay), Gem, Antony Genn, Goo Goo Dolls, Good Charlotte, Missy Gibson, Howard Goodall, Qur'an Goodman, Karl Gordon (pka K-Gee), Martin Gore, Gorillaz, Graham Gouldman, George Green, Pat Green, Paul L. Green, Steve Greenberg, Greenwheel, Geri Halliwell, Ashley Hamilton, Ed Harcourt, Jeremy Harding, Ben Harper, Rich Harrison, Tammie L. Harris, Terry Harris, David Harrow (aka James Hardway) (aka Technova), Jimmy Harry, Paul Heard, Heavy D, Alex Heffes, Chris Henderson, Michael Henry, Vincent Herbert, Reynada Hill, Rupert Hine, Hod David, Hot Karl, Felix Howard, James Newton Howard, Liam Howlett, Mick Hucknall, Van Hunt, Angela Hunte, Chrissie Hynde, Icehouse, Idlewild, Enrique Iglesias, Ill Nino, Ima Robot, Incubus, Indigo Girls, J-Dub, J-Kwon, J-Praize, Jagged Edge, Jam & Lewis, Janet Jackson, Alex James, Jamiroquai, Jay-Z, Lemarquis Jefferson, Rodney Jerkins, Jewel, JIVEjones, Jodeci, Damon Johnson, Puff Johnson, Norah Jones, Theresa Jones, Tyrice Jones, Maurice Joshua, Kandi, Shawn Kane, Guyora Kats, Dave Katz, Jay Kay, KB & Spec, KC-I & Jo Jo, Kelis, Dave Kelly, Tom Kelly, Kenna, Alicia Keys, Stephen Kipner, Jack Knight, Savan Kotecha, Lenny Kravitz, Krucial, Jack Kugell, Ty Lacy, Eritza Laues, Patrick Leonard, Paul Leonard-Morgan, Andres Levin, Keri Lewis, LG, Libertines, Dave Lichens, Harold Lilly, David Lindsey, Lit, Angel Lopez, Lo-Pro, Lostpro
What seemed most odd was the "unanimous" part of it.
Every single person in congress agreed that recording a film was worth 10 years in prison. Just note, they're depriving the artist of approximately $10 in revenue per person who watches their copy. Take the number of people who watch such a film, divide it into the amount of money stolen by enron, and multiply by 10 years to get the correct prison sentance for enron execs. Will it happen? Is copying a CD still depriving the artist of $350,000 per CD copied? Do these numbers sound like they were made up by someone with a really bad grasp of mathematics?
While it's obviously necessary to share the bandwidth appropriately, and to throttle/disconnect viruses, having people forced to run Windows to run the software to prove they don't have a virus seems a bit odd really. If they didn't have to run Windows, they wouldn't get a virus.
"I don't trust you and your computer with unfettered access to the University Network(property)."
So call it a peering agreement. Your computer is peering with the university network, and you both need to work out mutually-agreeable terms and conditions. "You must do what we say or you lose your ability to do work" isn't mutually-agreeable, and neither is putting untrustworthy software on someone's computer.
"They'll also say that internet access is not a right, but rather a privelige, and if you want that privelige, you'll abide by their terms."
Did they say that in the glossy brochure with "internet access in all rooms" printed in 20-point black text on the second page?
"I don't suppose anyone is going to come up with an argument saying that they are in the theaters with their camcorders excersizing their right to time shift... :)"
So theoretically, would this make it worth your while to kill anyone who noticed you using the camcorder, if there was, say, a 60% chance that killing them allowed you to successfully escape? There must be some probability threshold before a "manslaughter-equivalent" jail sentance for videoing makes it worth your while to do bad things if you get caught...
How does the person sitting next to you in the cinema feel about this, compared to say, the managing director of the company who invested in the film?
"encription in EVERY protocol layer and then some encription in the software, that's runing trhu ssh... so i can safely read my mail that i protected with my birtday as the password."
and typed on a wireless keyboard attached to a computer running Windows.
"Go to the gunshop and you can buy kegs of gunpowder,even through the mail."
Go to a gas station and buy 10 liters of gasoline. The government can't regulate it because everyone is utterly addicted to the stuff to get from their home to pretty much anywhere in a car.
I seem to remember someone demonstrating (on TV) a method for projecting a bowling-ball far, far into the distance, using just a small amount of gasoline. I'm no expert, but that looks a lot more fun than firing rockets which as you say, are just tubes full of slow-burning propellant.
"actually the rockets that are fired into israel are pretty much amaeur diy rockets."
As opposed to the official U.S. government rockets fired out of israel?
"Predicted it back in '71? That seems like something a smart person would do, shame the rest of us didn't follow up on it before 30 years later."
Okay, so who's predicting 2038?
$Today = floor(time() / 86400);
"Owners had to contact NTL to get their connections unblocked."
[For anyone who hasn't been an NTL customer], the words "you have to contact NTL" is a sentence which will probably absorb at least 4 hours of your life...
"Microsoft closed the account immediately, without investigating. Reply: They own the account! Not to mention, it's a free account...you get what you pay for. Caveat Emptor, Greg..."
Whoo! Easy way to shut-down friends on hotmail...
Dude, we deleted your email!
"Forget the credit cards -- where did they get the "health data" from?"
Do you buy medical insurance or pay your doctor with a credit card?
I'm wondering when someone's going to correlate the idea of those toilets which do tests on your urine "samples" with the limited number of toilets available at an airport or on a plane...
"privacy = terrorist...
/web/guide/myusername/public_html/terrorist.php on line 1
Errors:
Line 1: Type mismatch.
Line 1: Illegal lvalue."
Only on slashdot...
Okay, nevermind
PHP: Parse error: parse error in
Perl: Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at test line 1, near "terrorist;"
""The problem is there's a need to balance privacy rights with a hightened level of security."
You assume the heightened level of security is justified
You probably assume the heightened level of security is temporary or somehow limited
You assume that security can be improved by reducing privacy
You assume that privacy can legally be reduced
You assume that reducing privacy in the search for security is so wholesome and benevolent that it can be assumed everyone will want it, without the need to consult them
You assume that the security arguments can be taken at face value, either by the airlines who'd love to stop people selling their airline tickets (hence identification needed), or by the government, who'd love to be able to track people (hence identification needed)
You assume that knowing who's on a plane will help when it blows up or is hijacked.
You assume that the next terrrorist attack will be against an airliner
You assume that terrorists will be easy to spot from their name and credit-card details. You assume that they haven't given the darstardly deed to whichever of their members is still allowed to fly on airliners.
(Okay, you don't assume any of these things because you're intelligent, but it's a sort of overview of what the people who do believe these things are thinking...)
"Right. You're thinking of pentameter which, as everyone knows is a military meter as costs much more than a typical meter, to cover "special projects.""
Unrelated to the perimeter which is also a military thing...
"It is a good start, but in the end not much will change. Your average consumer doesn't care much about copy-protected or not-copy-protected CDs"
Your average consumer buys iPods and nomads and MP3 car-radios, and 100MB MP3-players and CD MP3 players and they certainly own a computer with WinAmp and CD-ex; most of them used MP3.com, and since that closed are using Kazaa and eDonkey, and have most of their music collection in MP3 format, and most of them rarely if ever use their original CDs even where they're available.
MP3 isn't some L33T technology that only slashdotters know about...
If you can't convert a CD to an MP3, then you can't play it on your iPod, and plenty of "common consumers" with very expensive MP3 players and very expensive computers will notice when a CD they bought doesn't work with either...
"They are a for profit organization."
According to the IPO papers, they're a "not for evil" organisation... It even mentioned that profit wouldn't be their core interest.
"In other news, Yahoo! announced it will be completely overhauling its search engine."
Don't Yahoo use Google for their search results anyway?
"In 2002 a group named exceed released a true 64KB demo (ok, it's 65536 bytes, close enough)"
That is 64KB -- octets 0 to 65535 inclusive
From the interview: "In those times [1994], a nice PC had a i486 66 MHz, the distribution of choice was slackware (one a pile of floppies), the kernel was 1.1.X, and XFree86 was a pain to configure."
One of those things hasn't changed...