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Stumbled onto a VMS/DECNet machine and want to explore a little? First try "show known nodes", and then... our friends at Phrack have a HOWTO guide, including a copy of the all-important "TELL.COM".
And if you're having a little trouble stumbling into a DECnet machine, the http://www.openvms-rocks.com domain mentioned in the submission is hosted on the Deathrow Cluster where you can get free access and an @openvms-rocks.com email address.
But what about the so called "bullet proof" hosting that you can get in China?
That's exactly what I was thinking when I read this. China isn't such a big problem with regards to the spam I see and report to SpamCop, it is the URLs within the spam. You'll see the same damn email address as the abuse contact for days, sub-domains off some site that has fairly non-contentious or spammy content, and it takes forever for them to get taken down.
Honestly, sometimes rather than report the spammers to SpamCop I just follow their "unsubscribe" link and tell them not to send mail to uce@ftc.gov. I'm sure they don't want to get in trouble by spamming the US government.
The Nat. Geographic article hints at how this works, basically all the DNA from the female is eliminated from the egg by the male DNA.
The way the submitter, and the New Scientist teaser worded it you were left wondering exactly how the male ants cloned themselves. Little ant laboratories perhaps? Being a matriarchy, I'm sure their government disapproves.:)
Anti-Christian rhetoric on this board is fairly free flowing and thick and utterly without redeeming value.
There's a reason for that. Quiet non-evangelical Christians accept the rights of others not to hold a Christian viewpoint, and consequently don't go around trying to tell people they're bound for eternal damnation. I don't know if they're in the majority, but the Christians that are high-profile are, well, more than a little intolerant. When you've been exposed to that for a while you tend to come to the conclusion that Christianity has very few redeeming features.
Besides, non-Christian geeks tend to have heard things like this...
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
-- Sigmund Freud
Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.
-- Noam Chomsky
Notice the bold bit in the above? If it wasn't for that pesky Constitution of yours, it would be the Christian States of America, and there would be similar forms of censorship on net-access in the States. Don't believe me? You've obviously not seen this page of quotes from the The American Taliban.
if the system is so obscure that hardly anyone can use it, it will be trivial to compromise to anyone who knows what he is doing.
Have you looked at the documentation for OpenVMS? Is is most definitely not security through obscurity in the sense that you appear to mean.
This is the last really major security problem OpenVMS had. Unlike Microsoft there weren't a million and one variants of this, or occurrences of the same problem in different places.
Now, if OpenVMS seems obscure to you, I'm sure these guys will be happy to help make it less obscure. Just log into the DEMO account (the password is USER) and type HELP to start getting around. I mean, they must be insane letting any random person log in and compile and run any code they feel like.
[It is sad that American Companies have decided...]... that the dollar is more important than freedom or principles.
If you think there's many examples of where American companies have thought freedom or principles were more important than money, you're being naive. Examples of what we might consider far worse can easily be found through history.
As it is, people in China will find ways round the censorship, but the Tiananmen Square protests pointed out to their government that they need to improve the standard of living. Enough so that their people will be as disinterested in the governance of their country as those in many western democracies.
That's why I'm disgusted that Microsoft is eagerly cooperating with their censorship.
As to the Skype idea, I have no clue how the blogger came up with the idea that Morse with Skype would be any use whatsoever. The point of Skype is to provide a VoIP application that anyone can use.
... even the BBC have admitted that they have had hundreds of complaints...
No surprise there.
The new "service" has been introduced on BBC World as well as in the UK. It looks horrible. It might be good if you're a climate scientist and want to watch animations of weather patterns. As far as I'm concerned, it's absolutely bloody useless for delivering information about the weather.
I really couldn't care less what they're running it on, the end result is that the Beeb is presenting something that emulates CNN Weather.
Oh, and the Forecast Cafe has some entertaining discussion.
So how about the new series of Doctor Who, aired on the BBC (so no advertisements)?
Can I, as a license paying Brit, download episodes which have already been broadcast without fear of legal action?
That'd be a problem for material licensed from others to be used in Doctor Who. For example, the episode The End of The World includes a couple of snippets from pop songs.
Other than the lawyers, the folks at the BBC probably don't care.
So I guess if this were the 1960's Microsoft should have not supported legislation that ended racial discrimination too?
It's implied in the quoted email that it would be more akin to Microsoft having non-discriminatory policies in the sixties.
The grandparent raises a good point, there is still a lot of prejudice against homosexuals. Just look at what - or should I say who - pressured to get this response. "... Rev. Ken Hutcherson... He also sought a variety of other things, such as firing of the two employees and a public statement by Microsoft that the bill was not necessary."
Expect to see this kook run for office at some point in the future.
I'm sorry, but isn't the actual 911 (not 9/11) emergency services network considered prior art?
Forget that, the whole thing is hopefully just another MS patent attorney on crack.
People are supposed to give up a system that works, even in pretty adverse conditions, and rely on a piece of technology that is easily broken? What about a service for the blind? For the deaf? Remember, if this is just Microsoft adding a GUI to emergency services, you as a taxpayer will end up footing the bill for it.
Emergency services are a critical piece of infrastructure. They're not something you can just slap a Microsoft label on, the entire system needs to be designed with fail-over systems right back to despatchers using paper and pencil. If they use a computer system for any part of it, they're looking for something that gives 99.999% uptime.
Admittedly, what is shown in the Register article is what Joe Public will have to deal with, but for the whole thing to work there has to be a back office system. Do you seriously think people are going to replace things like OpenVMS clusters with the operating system they daily see get infested with ad- and spy-ware?
Why not put more effort into knowing ways not to break up? on reentry its not like we have to die. So why not put the effort into fixing things beforehand unstead of how to find out how we killed people?
Just like in aircraft, the more data you can retrieve from any accident, the better your chances of preventing the next one.
Besides, they are planning on attaching these to unmanned craft first. This will give them a great deal of information about how the materials used react to reentry. This helps make things safer for people on the ground as they really can design craft that disintegrate on reentry.
Yeah it is insane, but it's just the latest in a long line of insanity. Notice how a lot of the technologies that are being touted recently are all about restricting what people can do with content. It's a growing trend, and I don't think it's right.
It really does seem pointless, the warped ways these folks come up with schemes to try and hide something from you.
All it is going to take with this is for one Chinese company to decide to make a player where you can easily change the key. What will they do then? I suppose establishing the key from a player bought in the United States will be illegal under the DMCA, but that doesn't apply elsewhere.
There is a 30 cm porthole in the floor of the forward-left section of the cockpit. It is often opened either for fresh air, or if the pilot needs to relieve himself while flying the aircraft.
Was this modded underated because there's no "-1 disgusting"?
As with the Bible, you need to work around the problem of the term being (I guess) frequently used in other books they've indexed. Try searching for book translation koran.
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Honestly, sometimes rather than report the spammers to SpamCop I just follow their "unsubscribe" link and tell them not to send mail to uce@ftc.gov. I'm sure they don't want to get in trouble by spamming the US government.
The Nat. Geographic article hints at how this works, basically all the DNA from the female is eliminated from the egg by the male DNA.
:)
The way the submitter, and the New Scientist teaser worded it you were left wondering exactly how the male ants cloned themselves. Little ant laboratories perhaps? Being a matriarchy, I'm sure their government disapproves.
Besides, non-Christian geeks tend to have heard things like this... Notice the bold bit in the above? If it wasn't for that pesky Constitution of yours, it would be the Christian States of America, and there would be similar forms of censorship on net-access in the States. Don't believe me? You've obviously not seen this page of quotes from the The American Taliban.
We want millions and millions
We're coming to get you
We're offensive with lawyers
So don't let it upset you
With apologies to Frank Zappa. He would obviously have come up with some far more scathing criticism of spammers.
Particularly for a robots.txt like this.
Well, their picture looks like a giant Anderson Shelter
Are their competitors likely to try and bomb the truck?
This is the last really major security problem OpenVMS had. Unlike Microsoft there weren't a million and one variants of this, or occurrences of the same problem in different places.
Now, if OpenVMS seems obscure to you, I'm sure these guys will be happy to help make it less obscure. Just log into the DEMO account (the password is USER) and type HELP to start getting around. I mean, they must be insane letting any random person log in and compile and run any code they feel like.
As it is, people in China will find ways round the censorship, but the Tiananmen Square protests pointed out to their government that they need to improve the standard of living. Enough so that their people will be as disinterested in the governance of their country as those in many western democracies.
That's why I'm disgusted that Microsoft is eagerly cooperating with their censorship.
Yes, those cunning editors have done it again.
Here's the original submission.
As to the Skype idea, I have no clue how the blogger came up with the idea that Morse with Skype would be any use whatsoever. The point of Skype is to provide a VoIP application that anyone can use.
The new "service" has been introduced on BBC World as well as in the UK. It looks horrible. It might be good if you're a climate scientist and want to watch animations of weather patterns. As far as I'm concerned, it's absolutely bloody useless for delivering information about the weather.
I really couldn't care less what they're running it on, the end result is that the Beeb is presenting something that emulates CNN Weather.
Oh, and the Forecast Cafe has some entertaining discussion.
Other than the lawyers, the folks at the BBC probably don't care.
Despite common belief, e-mail actually pre-dates the Internet; in fact, existing e-mail systems were a crucial tool in creating the Internet.
Email originated before I was born, and I'm old enough to remember the introduction of the Post-It.
The grandparent raises a good point, there is still a lot of prejudice against homosexuals. Just look at what - or should I say who - pressured to get this response. "... Rev. Ken Hutcherson
Expect to see this kook run for office at some point in the future.
People are supposed to give up a system that works, even in pretty adverse conditions, and rely on a piece of technology that is easily broken? What about a service for the blind? For the deaf? Remember, if this is just Microsoft adding a GUI to emergency services, you as a taxpayer will end up footing the bill for it.
Emergency services are a critical piece of infrastructure. They're not something you can just slap a Microsoft label on, the entire system needs to be designed with fail-over systems right back to despatchers using paper and pencil. If they use a computer system for any part of it, they're looking for something that gives 99.999% uptime.
Admittedly, what is shown in the Register article is what Joe Public will have to deal with, but for the whole thing to work there has to be a back office system. Do you seriously think people are going to replace things like OpenVMS clusters with the operating system they daily see get infested with ad- and spy-ware?
Besides, they are planning on attaching these to unmanned craft first. This will give them a great deal of information about how the materials used react to reentry. This helps make things safer for people on the ground as they really can design craft that disintegrate on reentry.
All it is going to take with this is for one Chinese company to decide to make a player where you can easily change the key. What will they do then? I suppose establishing the key from a player bought in the United States will be illegal under the DMCA, but that doesn't apply elsewhere.
I don't know about other parts of the world, but if I void where prohibited I'm liable to be arrested.
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