Only a problem if you never change clothes
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My browser (Opera) has an option for deleting all cookies on exit so to prevent tracking across sessions. Similarly, as the RFID tags are implanted in your clothes, you can only be identified uniquely, and tracked, if you never change your clothes...
It only takes *one* person out of millions of developers to write a destructive virus.
The article, however, paints a picture of an organised effort by the "open source community", despite the fact that *all* the leaders of said community have come out to condemn the virus, indeed pointing out that it would damage the community through stories such as this. I'll look forward to the articles on how "the entire Muslim world" is at war with the west; how the Republic of Ireland has once again, and with a single mind, bombed London.
I think the story can best be summed up in it's own words: "There's no proof, of course".
Most spam filters (on a per user basis) exist at the corporate or ISP level, rather than at the personal level. These are the filters that the spammers really want to get around - get around them, and you get to thousands of users in one shot (who aren't necessarily *YET* so anti-spam to have gone to the bother of training a personal filter).
Does this look like a twit? Seriously, though, this sort of thing happens all the time. We had this going on our server a few years ago. I seriously doubt that he had any conception that this was a sensitive facility. Hell, scratch that - I doubt this was in any way a sensitive break-in, likely just marginal computers that happen to be at the lab, with diskspace and bandwith. His punishment is quite in contrast with the RIAA suits however (and yes, the British equivalent has threatened the same tactics).
Eh - one big difference
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Repointing to 127.0.0.1 is fundamentally different than repointing to someone else's machine - as it is a loopback, each machine only has one machine "attacking" it, rather than a million other machines. Not so bad. And most of these machines wouldn't be trying to maintain availability on network services in any case.
I use Opera myself and absolutely detest IE, but that doesn't help with the fact that IE is embedded in both the OS and very many other products - Outlook is an obvious example, but there are countless others, such as Winamp's minibrowser. It's very easy for developers to embed IE (e.g. the MSHTML control) in a product.
Levi-Strauss vs Tesco was decided under trademark law, which has a specific provision against grey imports. BPI, however, were pursuing CD Wow under copyright law. There is no precedent in copyright law that what CD Wow was doing was illegal.
It's a surcharge added depending on delivery address - so unfortunately, ordering off the.com.hk site won't help.
Dear Member,
The UK Major record companies through their mouth piece the BPI* have unfortunately restricted the UK and Irish consumers right to enjoy the freedom of the World Wide Web.
As from this weekend, any CD ordered for delivery to the UK and Ireland will incur a surcharge as we are only able to deliver CDs manufactured within the EU (more expensive).
Delivery to the rest of the world will not be affected.
You only have a few days left - so order now!
Be quick to make the best of our current low low prices while you can still exercise your right to choose.
We will of course still be supplying UK and Irish customers but as of Sunday 25th January 2004 a surcharge of 3.00 Euros (2.00) per CD will apply.
Please Note - our prices of DVDs and Games will remain unaffected
Well my point was that it's not a very meaningful figure if it is shared. Saying that each Zeppelin has 120Mbit of total capacity is very different than touting speeds "a staggering 2000 faster than today's dial-up modems and more than 200 times faster than a typical "wired" broadband facility."
That's right - the memory card reader is an option, it doesn't come as standard. I've actually got 2 internal hard drives in mine, 1x 120gb and 1x 300gb, with a firewire external 250gb for backup (total 670gb) - but the potential is there for completely internal 600gb.
Britain is somewhat unique in Europe in that they still use miles. Here in Ireland we "converted" a few years ago and hence use a mix. Of course the road signs never indicate which unit they are in, you have to estimate the age of the sign to work it out.
I think that the scroll wheel patent would be a pretty minor point in Apple's
legal whacking of this device. Its design is an obvious copy of the iPod, and
would be actionable under industrial design law. Apple successfully
sued EMachines for ripping off the iMac design, and this looks like even
more of a rip-off than their machines did.
Firewire has been available on computers a lot longer than USB 2. For example, my last 4 laptops all had firewire, but none had USB 2.
USB 2 is popular now, but it is very new, especially on laptops.
South Korea and Japan already way ahead
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If? South Korea is number one in the world for broadband penetration, while in Japan, 10mbs is common and Yahoo recently launched a 26mbs service - for around $35/month.
Makes me sceptical - I wonder if it's shared bandwith?
This speed figure seemed to be just thrown out of a hat, with nothing to back it up. (It's also referenced on this CAPANINA project page, but again no more details.
These things fly in the stratosphere, "hovering at some 12 miles above the earth's surface, much higher than almost all air craft" - or birds for that matter.
While the article refers to microlights at the very start, the rest of the article and the other links concentrate on blimps. The air-traffic problem here comes not from the blimp itself, but rather from the cord tethering it to the ground.
Yeah, I posted that story too. I reckoned that mine had been rejected because I made it too long. In fairness, while Intervideo never released LinDVD, it is incorporated into this new product so it's not complete vaporware.
Amazon.co.uk will only deliver electronics (of any sort) within the UK and Ireland. It's possible the the DCMA outlaws region-free mods in the US, I'm not sure.
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My browser (Opera) has an option for deleting all cookies on exit so to prevent tracking across sessions. Similarly, as the RFID tags are implanted in your clothes, you can only be identified uniquely, and tracked, if you never change your clothes...
Ok, I forgot, this is Slashdot.
Reading Slashdot?
It only takes *one* person out of millions of developers to write a destructive virus.
The article, however, paints a picture of an organised effort by the "open source community", despite the fact that *all* the leaders of said community have come out to condemn the virus, indeed pointing out that it would damage the community through stories such as this. I'll look forward to the articles on how "the entire Muslim world" is at war with the west; how the Republic of Ireland has once again, and with a single mind, bombed London.
I think the story can best be summed up in it's own words: "There's no proof, of course".
Right?
Most spam filters (on a per user basis) exist at the corporate or ISP level, rather than at the personal level. These are the filters that the spammers really want to get around - get around them, and you get to thousands of users in one shot (who aren't necessarily *YET* so anti-spam to have gone to the bother of training a personal filter).
Does this look like a twit? Seriously, though, this sort of thing happens all the time. We had this going on our server a few years ago. I seriously doubt that he had any conception that this was a sensitive facility. Hell, scratch that - I doubt this was in any way a sensitive break-in, likely just marginal computers that happen to be at the lab, with diskspace and bandwith. His punishment is quite in contrast with the RIAA suits however (and yes, the British equivalent has threatened the same tactics).
Repointing to 127.0.0.1 is fundamentally different than repointing to someone else's machine - as it is a loopback, each machine only has one machine "attacking" it, rather than a million other machines. Not so bad. And most of these machines wouldn't be trying to maintain availability on network services in any case.
Half of Europe has. It's called alternatively 'old Europe', 'France', or 'having a different opinion'.
"I wonder if I could make a nice firewall with one of these for my home network..."
You could, but the latency would be a bitch.
Mozdev has some tips about completely disabling IE, even in other applications.
They should run them at a safe, drinkable temperature.
Indeed CD Wow don't AFAIK even have a base in Europe, so it is the consumer who is doing the importing, not CD Wow - and a CD is below the amount liable for import duty, (EUR25 for most "commerial shipments" into Ireland from outside the EU) no-one is breaking any laws.
See this Register article, and this follow-up.
Dear Member,
The UK Major record companies through their mouth piece the BPI* have unfortunately restricted the UK and Irish consumers right to enjoy the freedom of the World Wide Web.
As from this weekend, any CD ordered for delivery to the UK and Ireland will incur a surcharge as we are only able to deliver CDs manufactured within the EU (more expensive).
Delivery to the rest of the world will not be affected.
You only have a few days left - so order now!
Be quick to make the best of our current low low prices while you can still exercise your right to choose.
We will of course still be supplying UK and Irish customers but as of Sunday 25th January 2004 a surcharge of 3.00 Euros (2.00) per CD will apply.
Please Note - our prices of DVDs and Games will remain unaffected
Warmest Regards,
CD WOW!
"magnification".
Well my point was that it's not a very meaningful figure if it is shared. Saying that each Zeppelin has 120Mbit of total capacity is very different than touting speeds "a staggering 2000 faster than today's dial-up modems and more than 200 times faster than a typical "wired" broadband facility."
That's right - the memory card reader is an option, it doesn't come as standard. I've actually got 2 internal hard drives in mine, 1x 120gb and 1x 300gb, with a firewire external 250gb for backup (total 670gb) - but the potential is there for completely internal 600gb.
Britain is somewhat unique in Europe in that they still use miles. Here in Ireland we "converted" a few years ago and hence use a mix. Of course the road signs never indicate which unit they are in, you have to estimate the age of the sign to work it out.
I think that the scroll wheel patent would be a pretty minor point in Apple's legal whacking of this device. Its design is an obvious copy of the iPod, and would be actionable under industrial design law. Apple successfully sued EMachines for ripping off the iMac design, and this looks like even more of a rip-off than their machines did.
USB 2 is popular now, but it is very new, especially on laptops.
If? South Korea is number one in the world for broadband penetration, while in Japan, 10mbs is common and Yahoo recently launched a 26mbs service - for around $35/month.
This speed figure seemed to be just thrown out of a hat, with nothing to back it up. (It's also referenced on this CAPANINA project page, but again no more details.
These things fly in the stratosphere, "hovering at some 12 miles above the earth's surface, much higher than almost all air craft" - or birds for that matter. While the article refers to microlights at the very start, the rest of the article and the other links concentrate on blimps. The air-traffic problem here comes not from the blimp itself, but rather from the cord tethering it to the ground.
Yeah, I posted that story too. I reckoned that mine had been rejected because I made it too long. In fairness, while Intervideo never released LinDVD, it is incorporated into this new product so it's not complete vaporware.
And if you want to get around the $2.95 'premium archive' charge on that last article, simply add '_print' at the end of the URL, like this.
Amazon.co.uk will only deliver electronics (of any sort) within the UK and Ireland. It's possible the the DCMA outlaws region-free mods in the US, I'm not sure.