This semms to be the case only in the US. In Europe, there is a very wide range of very diverse views about communism in general, and about each of the ex-communist states in particular.
Using P2P whith blocking blacklists makes absolutely no sense.
The point of P2P is sharing. So you are supposed to share, or eventually there is no P2P at all.
Yes, the blacklists are supposed to only block the "bad guys", and let you keep sharing with the "good guys". What an idiocy! Does anyone believe that people spying on P2P networks are SO stupid? It seems obvious that they will use plain DSL connections with dynamic IPs which are not on any blacklist, so you definitely won't block them.
An effective blacklist would block everyone, and if everyone used it, it would destroy the P2P network.
With a partial blacklist you can be pretty sure that you are NOT blocking the machines you would want to.
Look at the screenshot in the article. Yes, it was choosen carefully so that you can see Sony in there. The rest is mainly (European) Universities, and the like. Do you really think that RIAA sying on P2P would be from European universities?
Do you know what kind of precedant this would set?
Yes, it would wreak havoc in at least the whole intellectual property legal field. Too bad it won't happen.
Of course I don't believe they have a chance to "win" legally, but they surely have a much greater sense of humor than Chile bureaucrats and MS executives and I support these weird neo-anarchists.
This is a nice anecdote of a cultural clash in our globalized world. Viewed from afar, it may look silly and probably hopeless from a legal point of view, but in fact I believe they are right:
"We feel like Microsoft and the Chilean Education Ministry have overlooked us by deciding to set up a committee (to study the issue) without our consent, our participation and without the slightest consultation," said Aucan Huilcaman, one of the Mapuche leaders behind the legal action. "This is not the right road to go down."
Indeed. It seems pretty rude to decide such things in government and corporate offices in Santiago and the US, without asking the opinion of the authoritative people in that community. I wish they can extort a lot of money from Microsoft to settle the matter.
I would also quite enjoy seeing the debates in the courts between some folkloric Mapuches and MS executives and their lawyers. If the Mapuches do indeed have the pride this story suggest, the ones who will look silly in this absurd confrontation will be the MS executives. And maybe they will even be scared? "The Mapuche are renowned for their ferocity", after all...
They may not "own" their language, but I wish them well anyway...
It's a (perl) script which comes with libwww-perl which either is now part of the standard Perl distribution, or is installed by default in any decent Linux distribution.
If you don't have HEAD, you can type a bit more and get the server with LWP::Simple's head() method (then you don't need grep):
Either way is better than those useless 12 lines of ruby (I'm sure ruby can also do the same in a similarly simple way, but that author just doesn't have a clue)
Basically, the article gives you ruby and python examples of how to get web pages, and (badly) parse them for information. The same thing everyone has been doing for at least a decade with Perl and the appropriate modules, or whatever other tools, except that most know how to do it correctly.
The first script is merely ridiculous: 12 lines of code (not counting empty and comment lines) to do:
HEAD slashdot.org | grep 'Server: '
But it gets worse. To extract a quote from a page, the second script suggests this:
You don't need to know ruby to see what it does: it looks for the first occurence of 'class="price">' and just takes the 10 characters that follow. The author obviously never used that sort of thing for more than a couple of days, or he would know how quickly that will break and spit out rubbish.
Finally, there is a Python script. At first glance, it looks slightly better. It uses what appears to be the Python equivalent of HTML::Parse to get links. But a closer look reveals that, to find links, it just gets the first attribute of any a tag and uses that as the link. Never mind if the 1st attribute doesn't happen to be "href".
I suppose the only point of that article were the IBM links at the end:
Order the SEK for Linux, a two-DVD set containing the latest IBM trial software for Linux from DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere®.
And that is in a section for Linux developers on the IBM site? Maybe the did copy stuff from SCO after all?...
Yes, I'm afraid. Many users read neither the address, nor the bounce message they get. Sometimes, if I'm around, they ask me why some of their emails don't go through... That's how I know.
But maybe you don't want email from people like that...
That's about how it works in some European countries.
Each thing sold must be taxed
There is a specific recycling tax on electronics equipment, paid by the shop to the distributor, or directly by the end user to the supplier (in cases like direct orders from Dell, Apple, etc.).
The amount is small (around 1%).
However, you are not allowed to just throw the stuff away in a rubbish bin. It must be brought back either to a recycling place, or to any shop around the corner selling the same type of equipment.
The shops must collect the junk and organise to have it picked up for recycling. It is free (both for the people and the shops) since it was paid for through that specific tax.
instead of spending $$$ and time trying to prevent spam from arriving in our inbox we should spend that money and time educating the crowd
I see you don't know much about that part of "the crowd" who falls for the spammers/phishers/etc. tricks.
Even if you could educate them all, new suckers are born every day.
The sad thing about it is that among them, there are even nice and clever people, who just have the particularity to be ignorant and naive in front of a computer...
Use Thunderbird or another mail client that does not strip or mangle the original headers (like Outlook does).
It looks like your Thunderbird is configured to forward emails as attachments, but that is not the default setting, if I rememebr correctly.
In Thunderbird, others may have to go to "Message" -> "Forward As" -> "Attachment".
In Outlook 2003, I didn't find how to forward as attachment. You have to copy the headers from the properties window, and paste them in your forwarded message. Far too complicated to explain over the phone to someone who doesn't have a clue
Yes, I know (and agree, and do use them). But their absence is not the same thing as total tag soup. (Only a warning sign to the actual tag soup to expect in the rest of that page...:-))
Sorting the various errors into different menaingful classes, and givig us checkboxes to show/hide these errors in messed-up pages would be helpful.
I'm looking forward to improvements to the validators. Especially a better differentiation between different types of errors.
When troubleshooting old web pages, it is quite annoying to have to wade through hundreds of 'required attribute "ALT" not specified.' or 'there is no attribute "HEIGHT".' to find the real cause of problems, like 'document type does not allow element "TABLE" here; missing one of "TH", "TD" start-tag.'.
Also, when trying to explain to clients why their old web site is crap and needs to be redesigned before it becomes practical to do small changes, a link to the validator page could be useful. We could say something like "see, it is full of bugs; we need to repair the chassis before we can start the paint job". But for that, I would rather show a link to a page with 10 bad structural errors, than to a page with 200 'required attribute "ALT" not specified.' which will not be taken seriously.
though testing Apple's legal team and leaving your real name in a screenshot
Do you really think that Mr Albert Hofmann, who had his 100th birthday in January, spends his well deserved time as a happy pensioner cracking OSX?
I think that if Apple lawyers pay him a visit to ask about his activities, he might offer them a nice memorable drink, to help them enjoy the beauty of the Swiss countryside...
The article makes it quite clear that the proprietary software which is much better that open source is mission-critical software. A class of software where ensuring minimum bugs is a top priority, and also a class of software which mostly does just not exist in OSS. If you are an OSS developer, would you try to develop open source air traffic control software? And even if yes, how would you do it anyway?
Basically, my own conclusion from reading the article was that it IS possible to write excellent software with very few bugs, if that is a top priority. And, that the author seems to say that while mission-critical software (which happens to be proprietary) is fortunately much better than the rest, among all that other non-mission-critical software, open source tends to be better than proprietary.
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Well, don't the HD-DVD/Blue-Ray standards specifically make this "right to know" possible with some sort of "calling home" mechanism?
They can't think around it - communism == EVIL!
This semms to be the case only in the US. In Europe, there is a very wide range of very diverse views about communism in general, and about each of the ex-communist states in particular.
Using P2P whith blocking blacklists makes absolutely no sense.
The point of P2P is sharing. So you are supposed to share, or eventually there is no P2P at all.
Yes, the blacklists are supposed to only block the "bad guys", and let you keep sharing with the "good guys". What an idiocy! Does anyone believe that people spying on P2P networks are SO stupid? It seems obvious that they will use plain DSL connections with dynamic IPs which are not on any blacklist, so you definitely won't block them.
An effective blacklist would block everyone, and if everyone used it, it would destroy the P2P network.
With a partial blacklist you can be pretty sure that you are NOT blocking the machines you would want to.
Look at the screenshot in the article. Yes, it was choosen carefully so that you can see Sony in there. The rest is mainly (European) Universities, and the like. Do you really think that RIAA sying on P2P would be from European universities?
Either use P2P and share, or don't use P2P.
Do you know what kind of precedant this would set?
Yes, it would wreak havoc in at least the whole intellectual property legal field. Too bad it won't happen.
Of course I don't believe they have a chance to "win" legally, but they surely have a much greater sense of humor than Chile bureaucrats and MS executives and I support these weird neo-anarchists.
Indeed. It seems pretty rude to decide such things in government and corporate offices in Santiago and the US, without asking the opinion of the authoritative people in that community. I wish they can extort a lot of money from Microsoft to settle the matter.
I would also quite enjoy seeing the debates in the courts between some folkloric Mapuches and MS executives and their lawyers. If the Mapuches do indeed have the pride this story suggest, the ones who will look silly in this absurd confrontation will be the MS executives. And maybe they will even be scared? "The Mapuche are renowned for their ferocity", after all...
They may not "own" their language, but I wish them well anyway...
Programmers need to type in dozens of lines of code to express a single idea sometimes
Yes, that happened to me once, when I really needed to use VBA instead of Perl...
but because OpenSSL is, uh, open, we can verify that these kinds of attacks are indeed mitigated.
In fact, if I understood the article correctly, this particular attack is NOT mitigated by the protections that were implemented in OpenSSL.
what exactly is HEAD slashdot.org
It's a (perl) script which comes with libwww-perl which either is now part of the standard Perl distribution, or is installed by default in any decent Linux distribution.
If you don't have HEAD, you can type a bit more and get the server with LWP::Simple's head() method (then you don't need grep):
$ perl -MLWP::Simple -e '$s=(head "http://slashdot.org/" )[4]; print $s'
Either way is better than those useless 12 lines of ruby (I'm sure ruby can also do the same in a similarly simple way, but that author just doesn't have a clue)
Basically, the article gives you ruby and python examples of how to get web pages, and (badly) parse them for information. The same thing everyone has been doing for at least a decade with Perl and the appropriate modules, or whatever other tools, except that most know how to do it correctly.
The first script is merely ridiculous: 12 lines of code (not counting empty and comment lines) to do:
HEAD slashdot.org | grep 'Server: '
But it gets worse. To extract a quote from a page, the second script suggests this:
You don't need to know ruby to see what it does: it looks for the first occurence of 'class="price">' and just takes the 10 characters that follow. The author obviously never used that sort of thing for more than a couple of days, or he would know how quickly that will break and spit out rubbish.
Finally, there is a Python script. At first glance, it looks slightly better. It uses what appears to be the Python equivalent of HTML::Parse to get links. But a closer look reveals that, to find links, it just gets the first attribute of any a tag and uses that as the link. Never mind if the 1st attribute doesn't happen to be "href".
I suppose the only point of that article were the IBM links at the end:
And that is in a section for Linux developers on the IBM site? Maybe the did copy stuff from SCO after all?...
I don't think spammers crawl the net looking for addresses so much.
They do. I put a few honeypot addresses on a small personal web page, and most of them get spam daily.
Yes, I'm afraid. Many users read neither the address, nor the bounce message they get. Sometimes, if I'm around, they ask me why some of their emails don't go through... That's how I know.
But maybe you don't want email from people like that...
So maybe I should search for "I seldom search for images and don't want my results page cluttered with images just because someone on slashdot thinks it would be cool" to restore the feedback balance?
how lead that's locked in CRT glass can end up in the water table
Well, it isn't locked. Have you ever seen a monitor with a lock?
That's about how it works in some European countries.
Each thing sold must be taxed
There is a specific recycling tax on electronics equipment, paid by the shop to the distributor, or directly by the end user to the supplier (in cases like direct orders from Dell, Apple, etc.).
The amount is small (around 1%).
However, you are not allowed to just throw the stuff away in a rubbish bin. It must be brought back either to a recycling place, or to any shop around the corner selling the same type of equipment.
The shops must collect the junk and organise to have it picked up for recycling. It is free (both for the people and the shops) since it was paid for through that specific tax.
So, will this not work?
u lt\SystemExit\.Default\"u lt\SystemExit\.Current\"u lt\SystemStart\.Default\"u lt\SystemStart\.Current\"
wshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_USERS\.Default\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Defa
wshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_USERS\.Default\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Defa
wshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_USERS\.Default\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Defa
wshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_USERS\.Default\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Defa
(From Turn Off Tour Windows And Other Annoyances)
Or will we not dare to use it because Robert Fripp took 18 months of his life to give us these sounds?
instead of spending $$$ and time trying to prevent spam from arriving in our inbox we should spend that money and time educating the crowd
I see you don't know much about that part of "the crowd" who falls for the spammers/phishers/etc. tricks.
Even if you could educate them all, new suckers are born every day.
The sad thing about it is that among them, there are even nice and clever people, who just have the particularity to be ignorant and naive in front of a computer...
Use Thunderbird or another mail client that does not strip or mangle the original headers (like Outlook does).
It looks like your Thunderbird is configured to forward emails as attachments, but that is not the default setting, if I rememebr correctly.
In Thunderbird, others may have to go to "Message" -> "Forward As" -> "Attachment".
In Outlook 2003, I didn't find how to forward as attachment. You have to copy the headers from the properties window, and paste them in your forwarded message. Far too complicated to explain over the phone to someone who doesn't have a clue
I wonder how they would profile that middle school hacker who was suspended for three days (The 8th grader in question used the "net send" command to send a single word message ("Hey!") to the 80 machines tied to his school's network.)
For logs, I suppose a teacher would have sent in a screen capture of the messenger window?
Real Men Don't Click anyway...
Yes, I know (and agree, and do use them). But their absence is not the same thing as total tag soup. (Only a warning sign to the actual tag soup to expect in the rest of that page...:-))
Sorting the various errors into different menaingful classes, and givig us checkboxes to show/hide these errors in messed-up pages would be helpful.
I'm looking forward to improvements to the validators. Especially a better differentiation between different types of errors.
When troubleshooting old web pages, it is quite annoying to have to wade through hundreds of 'required attribute "ALT" not specified.' or 'there is no attribute "HEIGHT".' to find the real cause of problems, like 'document type does not allow element "TABLE" here; missing one of "TH", "TD" start-tag.'.
Also, when trying to explain to clients why their old web site is crap and needs to be redesigned before it becomes practical to do small changes, a link to the validator page could be useful. We could say something like "see, it is full of bugs; we need to repair the chassis before we can start the paint job". But for that, I would rather show a link to a page with 10 bad structural errors, than to a page with 200 'required attribute "ALT" not specified.' which will not be taken seriously.
though testing Apple's legal team and leaving your real name in a screenshot
Do you really think that Mr Albert Hofmann, who had his 100th birthday in January, spends his well deserved time as a happy pensioner cracking OSX?
I think that if Apple lawyers pay him a visit to ask about his activities, he might offer them a nice memorable drink, to help them enjoy the beauty of the Swiss countryside...
It does not apply to OEM versions.
He is not confusing anything. You obviously didn't read the article.
The idiot here is not the author of the article...
The article makes it quite clear that the proprietary software which is much better that open source is mission-critical software. A class of software where ensuring minimum bugs is a top priority, and also a class of software which mostly does just not exist in OSS. If you are an OSS developer, would you try to develop open source air traffic control software? And even if yes, how would you do it anyway?
Basically, my own conclusion from reading the article was that it IS possible to write excellent software with very few bugs, if that is a top priority. And, that the author seems to say that while mission-critical software (which happens to be proprietary) is fortunately much better than the rest, among all that other non-mission-critical software, open source tends to be better than proprietary.
Not surprising, and quite encouraging...