A very valid point. My supposition at the time was that the South Koreans wanted to know who was expressing an interest in the North, possibly even to monitor their own citizens, but it's just a guess.
Could even have been entirely coincidental and nothing to do with the website we were viewing.
This may be purely coincidental, but some months ago a friend pointed me toward the official website of North Korea out of amusement (its very much a dictatorial-regime website)
Seconds he and I both received warnings from our firewalls that we were under attack by a variety of means. The originating IP addresses were in Seoul.
Based on that, I wonder if the South Koreans have/had compromised a North Korean web-server.
Amusingly, though.. despite many Slashdotters having already seen this review, one of the review pages for a cat breed to which it links has been slashdotted !
Have we seen second-level slashdotting before? Normally its just the page we link to that goes under.
And what happens when you want to upgrade your tivo to a new or competing model? I'd give good odds you can't just copy the movies across.....
Tivo/Netflix =! iTunes parallel: Burn to disk
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I believe iTunes was such a big thing due to their liberal licencing, they permtted the user to "own" the tracks by copying them permanently to an unprotected CD.
A Tivo may be a nice, reliable bit of kit but ultimately, its a hard drive and as such will eventually fail or be upgraded. If this service locks the media file to the tivo unit - as it certainly will do - then it is more illiberal than iTunes.
Services of this sort really need to recognise that the licence to play the file has passed to the purchaser by allowing backup of the file to unprotected physical media. I love the idea and the convenience but I won't buy into these services until they offer me the kind of long-term security that the uneven pile of DVD cases by my TV offers. If I can play the movie on my PC over a network connection, in a player of my choice, even better.
Until then, DRM encumbers my usage and I take my right as a consumer not to buy, as I may wish to take my DVDs to a friends house to watch them but I draw the line at lugging my Tivo around.
I believe the tradition is that a glass used to remember a lost friend may never again be used for a lesser purpose. It is placed upside-down, so it cannot be refilled.
The phrase is used in many places, among them, Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the 10th-century Persian poetry of Omar Khaiyyam.
The Russian tradition of smashing a shot glass after a toast stems from the same source
To be honest, I didn't think I was being as clever as some of those who replied and modded me up.. I even wondered if I'd get flamebaited down to -1.
Its just a counterpoint to their argument that porn is a direct cause of undesirable behaviour. I would say, like religion, that the effects on the individual stem more from the workings of their mind, and as a result their personality, than from the material itself.
Religion has created monsters as well as martyrs, while in societies where clothing isn't habitually worn sexual deviancy doesn't seem to be any more common than in our straight-laced Westernised societies.
One could argue that pornography is religion for the faithless. A picture of a person engaged in a sexual act is no more erotic than a book telling of the martyrdom of a quixotic rebel is holy
The significance of both are constructs in the mind of the viewer.. to the porn-seeker, the woman in the pic becomes a part-player in his imagination, to the believer, the suffering of Jesus becomes an atonement for our sins and his way becomes a path to enlightenment.
So a fit response to this would be to ban access to all religious sites.......
Back then it was all ASCII though - and it took forever on a compuprint line-printer. The risks of discovery were high and it took ages for the models to draw themselves in Wordperfect...
(Speaking of failed oil and gas exploration company Fan Energy (Quiet Tiger) - "They had no prospects before."
On a more serious note, I'd say this story tells a lot about how much the board of a failing company can get away with in the interests of turning a profit. One of the many good reasons for becoming a Public company is to give greater oversight to the public over the company's actions in exchange for an influx of capital. It appears that Desert Wind/sunnComm came charging in with a lot of glitz (perhaps picked up in Vegas?) and very little substance, and the shareholders were completely suckered.
I have considerable familiarity with the Whitby, Yorks location chosen by Dark Noise - I lived there for a while. It's a tiny backwater made famous by fishing, an ancient abbey, dracula and tourism..not somewhere likely to be host to an up-and-coming technology company.
the register's interview seems to show Jacobs as an honest guy.. but someone's got to be held responsible for all this!
I see links to the usual *nix builds. There was some talk a while ago, sparked by Eugenia's interview on osnews.com with Miguel de Icaza, that Evolution 2.0 would be fully cross-platform.
A hypersonic "spacecraft" which blasts into low earth orbit can probably make a landing on a different continent after a pleasurable period in free-fall... somewhat faster than a Boeing jetliner flying in the stratosphere at 600mph.
Virgin tend to show sound commercial sense, I suspect the tagline of pleasure flights to orbit is a cover for development of more efficient long-haul aircraft which travel outside the atmosphere
BT, here in the UK, have been doing some similar actions recently although on a less extreme scale.(One of which is maximum cost control, they refuse to route any call where the cost is higher than the maximum cost for an inland premium-rate call in the UK).
Its good to see regulators and firms acting to protect the more clueless users from themselves, as long as it doesn't prevent people requesting a line be opened.
I recenived an email from MyPoints asking me to activate an account set up on my Gmail address a few days ago, and hit the CAN-spam opt-out link (I hadn't signed up for it)
Since then I'm getting a LOT of spam, I received none prior. All have the same recipient name as the Mypoints mail and some other common characteristics, but none of the opt-out stuff. Thankfully, gmail is autofiltering them without any need for intervention, but I can't help but feel MyPoints are behind it.
Yahoo got in trouble as an auction site they run had items on it which are illegal in France. Maybe Google are just trying to comply with local laws rather than be censored completely...
OK, we're obviously both speaking English but there's a lack of communication going on.
I know Linksys = Cisco
My point in referring to Linksys was to point out that I know this so nobody would need to tell me.
The reason for doing this was so I wouldn't have to comment, again, that Linksys may be build by Cisco but they aren't anywhere near as good as a real Cisco
Still not working, apparently.
For a minute I wondered if this was the other NASA's contribution and they meant following the galactic path of the sun through interstellar space.....
My point in referring to Linksys / Cisco was to stop some smart-alec jumping up and saying "OMG Linksys = Cisco!!!! They are teh B0mb!!!!!", because, frankly, they are no better than Netgear ones.
Didn't quite work, did it...?
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A very valid point. My supposition at the time was that the South Koreans wanted to know who was expressing an interest in the North, possibly even to monitor their own citizens, but it's just a guess.
Could even have been entirely coincidental and nothing to do with the website we were viewing.
This may be purely coincidental, but some months ago a friend pointed me toward the official website of North Korea out of amusement (its very much a dictatorial-regime website)
Seconds he and I both received warnings from our firewalls that we were under attack by a variety of means. The originating IP addresses were in Seoul.
Based on that, I wonder if the South Koreans have/had compromised a North Korean web-server.
Amusingly, though.. despite many Slashdotters having already seen this review, one of the review pages for a cat breed to which it links has been slashdotted !
Have we seen second-level slashdotting before? Normally its just the page we link to that goes under.
And what happens when you want to upgrade your tivo to a new or competing model? I'd give good odds you can't just copy the movies across.....
I believe iTunes was such a big thing due to their liberal licencing, they permtted the user to "own" the tracks by copying them permanently to an unprotected CD.
A Tivo may be a nice, reliable bit of kit but ultimately, its a hard drive and as such will eventually fail or be upgraded. If this service locks the media file to the tivo unit - as it certainly will do - then it is more illiberal than iTunes.
Services of this sort really need to recognise that the licence to play the file has passed to the purchaser by allowing backup of the file to unprotected physical media. I love the idea and the convenience but I won't buy into these services until they offer me the kind of long-term security that the uneven pile of DVD cases by my TV offers. If I can play the movie on my PC over a network connection, in a player of my choice, even better.
Until then, DRM encumbers my usage and I take my right as a consumer not to buy, as I may wish to take my DVDs to a friends house to watch them but I draw the line at lugging my Tivo around.
I believe the tradition is that a glass used to remember a lost friend may never again be used for a lesser purpose. It is placed upside-down, so it cannot be refilled.
The phrase is used in many places, among them, Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the 10th-century Persian poetry of Omar Khaiyyam.
The Russian tradition of smashing a shot glass after a toast stems from the same source
What I was really trying to say, was said somewhat better by an AC poster in this message
To be honest, I didn't think I was being as clever as some of those who replied and modded me up.. I even wondered if I'd get flamebaited down to -1.
Its just a counterpoint to their argument that porn is a direct cause of undesirable behaviour. I would say, like religion, that the effects on the individual stem more from the workings of their mind, and as a result their personality, than from the material itself.
Religion has created monsters as well as martyrs, while in societies where clothing isn't habitually worn sexual deviancy doesn't seem to be any more common than in our straight-laced Westernised societies.
One could argue that pornography is religion for the faithless. A picture of a person engaged in a sexual act is no more erotic than a book telling of the martyrdom of a quixotic rebel is holy
The significance of both are constructs in the mind of the viewer.. to the porn-seeker, the woman in the pic becomes a part-player in his imagination, to the believer, the suffering of Jesus becomes an atonement for our sins and his way becomes a path to enlightenment.
So a fit response to this would be to ban access to all religious sites.......
Back then it was all ASCII though - and it took forever on a compuprint line-printer. The risks of discovery were high and it took ages for the models to draw themselves in Wordperfect...
(Speaking of failed oil and gas exploration company Fan Energy (Quiet Tiger) - "They had no prospects before."
On a more serious note, I'd say this story tells a lot about how much the board of a failing company can get away with in the interests of turning a profit. One of the many good reasons for becoming a Public company is to give greater oversight to the public over the company's actions in exchange for an influx of capital. It appears that Desert Wind/sunnComm came charging in with a lot of glitz (perhaps picked up in Vegas?) and very little substance, and the shareholders were completely suckered.
I have considerable familiarity with the Whitby, Yorks location chosen by Dark Noise - I lived there for a while. It's a tiny backwater made famous by fishing, an ancient abbey, dracula and tourism..not somewhere likely to be host to an up-and-coming technology company.
the register's interview seems to show Jacobs as an honest guy.. but someone's got to be held responsible for all this!
I see links to the usual *nix builds. There was some talk a while ago, sparked by Eugenia's interview on osnews.com with Miguel de Icaza, that Evolution 2.0 would be fully cross-platform.
Oh well. Guess I stay with Thunderbird.
A hypersonic "spacecraft" which blasts into low earth orbit can probably make a landing on a different continent after a pleasurable period in free-fall... somewhat faster than a Boeing jetliner flying in the stratosphere at 600mph.
Virgin tend to show sound commercial sense, I suspect the tagline of pleasure flights to orbit is a cover for development of more efficient long-haul aircraft which travel outside the atmosphere
Virgins don't go all the way, and to grind to a stop in a vacuum would.. erm.. really suck.
I would have to be pronounced Gee-nome (genome)
That's software evolution for you.
That school of thought hasn't worked so far, has it? Look at the size of current networks of compromised PCs for evidence...
Lesson One. Be a European regulatory authority!
BT, here in the UK, have been doing some similar actions recently although on a less extreme scale.(One of which is maximum cost control, they refuse to route any call where the cost is higher than the maximum cost for an inland premium-rate call in the UK).
Its good to see regulators and firms acting to protect the more clueless users from themselves, as long as it doesn't prevent people requesting a line be opened.
No. it's just on the second page of the two-page article... PS :-p
I recenived an email from MyPoints asking me to activate an account set up on my Gmail address a few days ago, and hit the CAN-spam opt-out link (I hadn't signed up for it)
Since then I'm getting a LOT of spam, I received none prior. All have the same recipient name as the Mypoints mail and some other common characteristics, but none of the opt-out stuff. Thankfully, gmail is autofiltering them without any need for intervention, but I can't help but feel MyPoints are behind it.
Has anyone else had the same thing happen?
Yahoo got in trouble as an auction site they run had items on it which are illegal in France. Maybe Google are just trying to comply with local laws rather than be censored completely...
Is this the same Alexa habitually detected by Spybot as the "Alexa related" link?
Guybrush Threepwood doesn't even feature in the list, so I bet you have a lot of mod points left...
Oh look, I mentioned him.
OK, we're obviously both speaking English but there's a lack of communication going on.
I know Linksys = Cisco
My point in referring to Linksys was to point out that I know this so nobody would need to tell me.
The reason for doing this was so I wouldn't have to comment, again, that Linksys may be build by Cisco but they aren't anywhere near as good as a real Cisco
Still not working, apparently.
For a minute I wondered if this was the other NASA's contribution and they meant following the galactic path of the sun through interstellar space.....
My point in referring to Linksys / Cisco was to stop some smart-alec jumping up and saying "OMG Linksys = Cisco!!!! They are teh B0mb!!!!!", because, frankly, they are no better than Netgear ones.
Didn't quite work, did it...?