"What, exactly, is the problem with encasing it in a block of concrete and burrying it somewhere? Am I missing something?"
That's the kind of reasoning you hear from the US government, which creates storage caskets they claim will last until the statutory minimum (of 10% of one half-life), even while the environmentalists who looked at the design thought that more likely they wouldn't last half as long as that, and experts agreed.
Can someone with a slide-rule calculate how much radiation these materials will be giving off after 10% of a half-life?
There are some people who do take a bit of care storing nuclear waste, using brass and steel cannisters, buried in cement-lined shafts deep in ancient granite seabeds. It doesn't cost too much more, but the people using such systems don't have nearly so much crap to dispose of as the US sytems, so they can afford to spend a bit more per unit disposed.
Plus, they expect people to still be living there in a thousand years when the US nuclear waste starts to leak.
Of course, it could be worse... you could simply put all the nuclear waste into a big hole, and continue doing so until it blows up. Not that anybody would be silly enough to do that for real...;-)
Sharing files is not against the law... Distributing copyrighted works is.
Sometimes... if you're not the author, if you're not a librarian or a lawyer, if the copyright is valid in your country and hasn't expired, and there's no implicit permission or explicit license... and if you do actually make copies, rather than distributing the same copyrighted work that you received...
Why do people make out that copyright is so simple as the DRM people say it it? It's a complex subject, and contains more information than you can contain in a 1-bit "copyrighted? Y/N" flag.
This text I just wrote is copyrighted. Your browser just copied it. Why? because there's implicit permission.
"Imagine the cost of getting the materials safely to Earth..."
Why spend that money, when you could simply cause the first shipment to land in North Korea? (or in Washington, depending on whose space-program is doing the mining...)
"If the Federal Government is going to pass any law that addresses spam, it should be a law that says that every user of email is required to use a Bayesian filter. That would lead to a virtually zero response rate within months"
That would assume that bayesian filters continue to be effective. They aren't. The filters match words, so the spammers stopped using words, which is why your email titles now read "G@t G.E.n.E.r.I.C. V1agra", and contain not a single full word in the entire email, nor the same randomised spelling on any two emails.
The arms race can only go on for so long before someone decides to remove the source of the problem. And once Alan Ralsky is gone, make sure it's in such a way that other spammers realise they won't be able to continue living in comfy california if they use stolen credit cards, write viruses, hijack networks, and whatever other lawbreaking they use to get internet access.
PGPi itself always had the PGPFone module, which can either encrypt a telephone line (your modem dials their modem) or handle internet calls (useful for people whose families are abroad)
"Put it this way: SCOX stock had been in free-fall for days (opened today around $13.5); after a phone-in, that was announced at 10:30pm last night, they declare that they will sue Novell; stock rises (now over $14.5)....And this has been going on for months."
There's a remote exploit it in the free market, whereby you can boot the price of something by talking crap. It was reported to Bugtraq yesterday, and I'd post a link to bugzilla.nyse.ftc.gov, but they don't allow links from slashdot.
Find me a linux app that integrates with the most popular and widespread office suite in the world
Why do you want to control your email program from OpenOffice? Can't you just save the file and then email it? Or save the attachment before opening it with OOo? At the least, you should have less viruses to clean-up that way.
(2) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), copyright expires -
(a) at the end of the period of 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the recording is made, or
(b) if during that period the recording is published, 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which it is first published, or
(c) if during that period the recording is not published but is made available to the public by being played in public or communicated to the public, 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which it is first so made available,
"It's basically a super DMCA act. It kills your right to make personal backups and prohibits copyright circumvention of any kind. How nice of them."
The article also mentions that the use of iPods, Nomads, and other MP3 players will become impractical, as it would be illegal to convert your CDs into suitable formats.
As someone about to buy such a device, I'm going to have to ask the manufacturers, and possibly an MP or two for advice, as the last thing we want is a $400 device being confiscated for holding a copy of the music I purchased at full retail price.
I presume that Apple, Creative, Dell, and other manufacturers are writing to the government to enquire whether they mean to deprive UK customers of these products? And no "the Europeans told us to do it" doesn't count as an excuse.
"The key is carefully screening what we will download, searching out reviews, reading the EULA before the install, and basically being intelligent."
Try only running software without an EULA. It tends to work better, and in general it's less of a worry.
When an installation program starts up, the first few words should be "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991", and you can be pretty sure that the software is good to install. (all we need now is GPL'd malware to really put people off, but for now it's safe!)
"Remember when MS made Intenet Explorer and Windows Explorer into a single program? They then claimed that the web browser was an intergral part of the OS and could not be removed."
Which integral part of the operating system is IE for MacOS?
The google results can vary depending on per-country censorship rules (French and German laws are the ones discussed here, but other examples include China and the US where the results may be less than expected)
"2. Encrypt your data. You can do this on your own machine or the family one, doesn't matter. GPG is available for Windows, Mac, and loads of Unices. It's also a simple, unobtrusive command-line tool that you can use to pretty well scramble anything."
When you're installing Mandrake GNU/Linux, simply specify an additional file partition when you get to the "setup the file partitions" bit of the installation, and select "encrypted" from the drop-down list of types.
When you're using the computer, you can then just type "sudo mount/mnt/secure" or whatever you called it, and it'll ask you for the password it needs to access that area of disk.
Anyone using MS-Windows, if you download PGPi version 6.5 (it's still available as free download) rather than the newer version 7.1, you'll find that it comes with a program called PGPDisk. You can use it to create a 100Mb (e.g.) file on your hard disk, which you can then double-click on that file and type your password to get a new Z:\ drive containing your secret files.
Both of these methods are much easier than encrypting file-by-file, and have the advantage of not revealing the directories and filenames you're using.
Of course, encrypted email is trivial, and supported by default in all good email programs.
67% HTTP/TCP connections on port 80
- 40% from image: triangleboy.exe
- 25% from image: crowds.pl
- 2% from image: mozilla.exe 33% HTTPS/TCP connections, of which:
- 37,148,224 to www.anonymizer.com, path unknown.
- 5 to members.eff.org, path unknown
Slashdot Mirror
"What, exactly, is the problem with encasing it in a block of concrete and burrying it somewhere? Am I missing something?"
;-)
That's the kind of reasoning you hear from the US government, which creates storage caskets they claim will last until the statutory minimum (of 10% of one half-life), even while the environmentalists who looked at the design thought that more likely they wouldn't last half as long as that, and experts agreed.
Can someone with a slide-rule calculate how much radiation these materials will be giving off after 10% of a half-life?
There are some people who do take a bit of care storing nuclear waste, using brass and steel cannisters, buried in cement-lined shafts deep in ancient granite seabeds. It doesn't cost too much more, but the people using such systems don't have nearly so much crap to dispose of as the US sytems, so they can afford to spend a bit more per unit disposed.
Plus, they expect people to still be living there in a thousand years when the US nuclear waste starts to leak.
Of course, it could be worse... you could simply put all the nuclear waste into a big hole, and continue doing so until it blows up. Not that anybody would be silly enough to do that for real...
Sharing files is not against the law...
Distributing copyrighted works is.
Sometimes... if you're not the author, if you're not a librarian or a lawyer, if the copyright is valid in your country and hasn't expired, and there's no implicit permission or explicit license... and if you do actually make copies, rather than distributing the same copyrighted work that you received...
Why do people make out that copyright is so simple as the DRM people say it it? It's a complex subject, and contains more information than you can contain in a 1-bit "copyrighted? Y/N" flag.
This text I just wrote is copyrighted. Your browser just copied it. Why? because there's implicit permission.
"Imagine the cost of getting the materials safely to Earth..."
Why spend that money, when you could simply cause the first shipment to land in North Korea? (or in Washington, depending on whose space-program is doing the mining...)
"If the Federal Government is going to pass any law that addresses spam, it should be a law that says that every user of email is required to use a Bayesian filter. That would lead to a virtually zero response rate within months"
That would assume that bayesian filters continue to be effective. They aren't. The filters match words, so the spammers stopped using words, which is why your email titles now read "G@t G.E.n.E.r.I.C. V1agra", and contain not a single full word in the entire email, nor the same randomised spelling on any two emails.
The arms race can only go on for so long before someone decides to remove the source of the problem. And once Alan Ralsky is gone, make sure it's in such a way that other spammers realise they won't be able to continue living in comfy california if they use stolen credit cards, write viruses, hijack networks, and whatever other lawbreaking they use to get internet access.
"for doing a PGP extension to Mailman."
PGPi itself always had the PGPFone module, which can either encrypt a telephone line (your modem dials their modem) or handle internet calls (useful for people whose families are abroad)
Download it here, including source-code.
"Aww shucks! This thread was just getting started and already someone has to mention Hitler!"
This thread has been active for 4 months...
"This crap has continued long enough. It's high time that we the people start punishing the people who use SCO software."
What, both of them?
"Put it this way: SCOX stock had been in free-fall for days (opened today around $13.5); after a phone-in, that was announced at 10:30pm last night, they declare that they will sue Novell; stock rises (now over $14.5)....And this has been going on for months."
There's a remote exploit it in the free market, whereby you can boot the price of something by talking crap. It was reported to Bugtraq yesterday, and I'd post a link to bugzilla.nyse.ftc.gov, but they don't allow links from slashdot.
"It's a win-win situation from the company's viewpoint."
Until you book 500 hours retrospectively on your timesheet and book it to the budget of whoever claimed the project...
Find me a linux app that integrates with the most popular and widespread office suite in the world
Why do you want to control your email program from OpenOffice? Can't you just save the file and then email it? Or save the attachment before opening it with OOo? At the least, you should have less viruses to clean-up that way.
that allows me to assign tasks,
Kroupware, ximian, korganiser, moregroupware, Phprojekt, tutos, sourceforge, gforge
share calendars
Kroupware, kcalendar, mozilla, moregroupware, Phprojekt, tutos, sourceforge, gforge, reefknot
keep track of documents/revisions
Sourceforge, gforge, CVS, subversion, versioning file systems
and has a zero learning curve for the entire office staff that's already standardized on an existing product
"Hi, I'm an english speaker. I'd like to speak japanese without having to learn anything"
"Fingerprints just are not unique enought and only work in small sample sets."
4-digit PINs just are not unique enoughh and only work in small sample sets.
Brasil is described as "the land of samba and Carnival" in the article... just have to figure out if they're being technical or not...
"Radio galaxies rule! Just as long as the RIAA doesn't hear they are operating without a license."
Slashdot poll: most boring radio transmission
- 4C 11.71
- DA240
- 3C386
- Britney Spears
- Cowboyneal
"And that is why Fritz sent a Terminator back in time, to get rid of Kasparov before he was born."
They already did. That's why we've only got Kasparov to play for us, as the robots already went back in time to kill O'Leary before he was born.
"As other posters have said, you never have had the "fair use" rights in the UK. As no-one so far has ever been prosecuted for it, I wouldn't worry."
Or until someone tries to prosecute a person for listening to their music, and the judge responds "W.T.F.? Leave now." and sets a case-law.
"I don't see the problem with ID cards"
They make it easier for people to forge a new identity. Your identity.
Is this a change to copyright length?
(2) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), copyright expires -
(a) at the end of the period of 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the recording is made, or
(b) if during that period the recording is published, 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which it is first published, or
(c) if during that period the recording is not published but is made available to the public by being played in public or communicated to the public, 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which it is first so made available,
"It's basically a super DMCA act. It kills your right to make personal backups and prohibits copyright circumvention of any kind. How nice of them."
The article also mentions that the use of iPods, Nomads, and other MP3 players will become impractical, as it would be illegal to convert your CDs into suitable formats.
As someone about to buy such a device, I'm going to have to ask the manufacturers, and possibly an MP or two for advice, as the last thing we want is a $400 device being confiscated for holding a copy of the music I purchased at full retail price.
I presume that Apple, Creative, Dell, and other manufacturers are writing to the government to enquire whether they mean to deprive UK customers of these products? And no "the Europeans told us to do it" doesn't count as an excuse.
"Why should we look at this product as opposed to AdAware, a good firewall and a good AV program?"
Because you don't always have control of the computers which will be running the virus?
"How do you plan to adapt your hardware once the creators of Malware adapt to yours?"
The article mentioned that it took less than 9 minutes for someone familiar with the web interface to add a new rule.
"How much will this *really* slow down a LAN or Intranet?"
Read the article (or the linked paper) for precise figures. It's less than a router, and comparable to a hardware firewall
"The key is carefully screening what we will download, searching out reviews, reading the EULA before the install, and basically being intelligent."
Try only running software without an EULA. It tends to work better, and in general it's less of a worry.
When an installation program starts up, the first few words should be "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991", and you can be pretty sure that the software is good to install. (all we need now is GPL'd malware to really put people off, but for now it's safe!)
"Remember when MS made Intenet Explorer and Windows Explorer into a single program? They then claimed that the web browser was an intergral part of the OS and could not be removed."
Which integral part of the operating system is IE for MacOS?
"I got 9.3M in 0.11 secs at Google, did someone add 1.2M links this morning? ;)"
It depends on the country you're viewing from
The google results can vary depending on per-country censorship rules (French and German laws are the ones discussed here, but other examples include China and the US where the results may be less than expected)
"2. Encrypt your data. You can do this on your own machine or the family one, doesn't matter. GPG is available for Windows, Mac, and loads of Unices. It's also a simple, unobtrusive command-line tool that you can use to pretty well scramble anything."
/mnt/secure" or whatever you called it, and it'll ask you for the password it needs to access that area of disk.
When you're installing Mandrake GNU/Linux, simply specify an additional file partition when you get to the "setup the file partitions" bit of the installation, and select "encrypted" from the drop-down list of types.
When you're using the computer, you can then just type "sudo mount
Anyone using MS-Windows, if you download PGPi version 6.5 (it's still available as free download) rather than the newer version 7.1, you'll find that it comes with a program called PGPDisk. You can use it to create a 100Mb (e.g.) file on your hard disk, which you can then double-click on that file and type your password to get a new Z:\ drive containing your secret files.
Both of these methods are much easier than encrypting file-by-file, and have the advantage of not revealing the directories and filenames you're using.
Of course, encrypted email is trivial, and supported by default in all good email programs.
"I'm a recently-on-my-own "new Adult". I'm 19, and I'm a freshman in college."
Didn't you just email me?