P.S. Okay, I admit I'm stupid to state this, but here's my first post to/. from my new Linux box. Worked out how to make PPP & PAP work despite Red Hat's crummy documentation. And I am proud of this achievement!
I had the same problem. It's really just a matter of configuring/etc/ppp/pap-secrets correctly, but the documentation is horrid. It's one of the first things I did with my shiny new linux box too. It took almost 6 months before I could do anything really useful (besides "chown sig11.sig11./.* -R" -- oops), but eventually you'll get the hang of it.
I've converted most of my friends, drop me a line if you need any help. Always willing to seduce people to 'da dark side. Oh yeah, and hopefully we'll be able to work out the problem with ppp that's causing your posts to be all out of whack and non-linear. *smirk*;) I'd seriously recommend going with one of the Mandrake betas - it's very easy to setup and the partitioning (one of the harder things to understand in a linux install) is vastly simplified. E-mail me for the 411 if you want to go that route and I can give you some step-by-step - I do tech support by day.. and hack code by night.
Norway is cool with crypto, but they're also a member of the WIPO - that means they're about as ugly as the US when it comes to stepping on SuperMegaCorp's toes. Most governments are - it's how they encourage businesses to do business in their country.
I think the misconception you, and many slashdotters, are having is that Norway is known for it's loose crypto laws.
Mirror the source. Nobody's knocked on my door yet, and I've made a dozen offers for people to mirror from my site. The RIAA does not read slashdot. =) Join the EFF and pay attention to the action alerts. Alert the press! Get our side out there! They think we're pirates - this isn't about piracy, it's about interoperability. Start a legal defense fund for *all* DeCSS victims.
That being said, here's why they're doing it: Scare tactic. They want to "get tough" on the "pirates" and scare people into submission. Ain't gonna happen - don't let them. Fight back - we're talking about something central to the open source community: the right to reverse-engineer to promote interoperability and open standards. This just reeks of proprietary do-it-our-way-or-the-highway. Fight back! I know alot of us aren't political enough - but consider donating a few bucks and also mirroring the source. Post to slashdot. Sign up to become a DOE for the case. But do something - get involved.. or we may wind up with another kevin mitnick - en masse.
This is a full-fledged war now against the open source movement: they're trying to stop reverse-engineering and black-box everything. They can justify and rationalize all they want - but it's really about them trying to gain/maintain their monopoly on distribution. It's high-time we kicked our ass into gear and get people like Ralph Nader on board. This is about consumer rights - something any average joe on the street should understand. WRITE TO THE PRESS NOW. Give a counter-point, make it so your mom can understand the key points.
Just wait until the media gets ahold of this and declares the chemists who created it "irresponsible". Wait until the FBI goes and busts down their lab door looking for "leftist radicals". Oh yes, it could happen.
I love it - "super-explosive". Yeah... since when did exothermic reactions get to be more potent than nuclear explosives? Just wait... once it hits the cover of Wired and the NY Times it'll be potent enough to destroy entire *cities* with just a few drops of this stuff (Fact checking, what's that?). Mark my words - this'll get blown out of proportion (pun intended) by the media.
For example, the Japanese have integrated the beef industry from feedlot to shipping to wholesalers leaving minimal profits at earlier stages and consolidating all real profits in their home country. Guess what this does to developing countries?
Well, unless you're inferring that the Japanese killed the "manufacturing" side of things in these foreign countries by buying them all out, I'm not sure I see where you're going with this. Does competition not exist in these developing countries? It would seem to me that putting the "manufacturing" (which in this example means livestock / breeding) into 3rd world countries you could cut costs - both in terms of production/feeding and land value. How does this destroy the local economies there? The company is effectively utilizing resources that otherwise would go unused, and the workers get an economic incentive (money!) that otherwise wouldn't have been injected into the local economy.
Keep in mind this is a vertical, not horizontal, monopoly. They're working on creating a complete manufacturing-to-distribution channel - they create the content, produce it, and sell it. End-to-end control. This is not bad! It allows them to produce/sell at a lower rate - no middle-men. This does not threaten the industry per-se, nor is it a monopoly in the way most slashdotters think of one.
The RIAA today announced it's new initiative, SHAFT, or Stopping Hackers Again For Trespassing. The SHAFTing action has already been filed in federal court. Also as part of it's initiative is a new program designed to promote legitimate works.. called PIMP, or Poor Industry Manufacturers Payment will be initiated on behalf of thousands of artists worldwide. The response was enthusiastic. The RIAA, pleased with it's current progress, will also shortly be filing SNAFU lawsuits in several courts across the country.
Legal analysts are pleased as well: "We thought after Y2K flopped we'd be out of work come March 1st, but now we've got plenty to do" said Dir T. Lawyer.
Hmmmm... suing a COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE site and depriving musicians of a valuable channel for their works. Yeah.. this is gonna go over well... about as well as a lead balloon. Let me be the first to welcome mp3.com to the battle. Bad move for the music industry - they just nailed an entire business. It's not just individuals and "DOEs" anymore, they're sparing no expense!
The dialog in question is that AOL asks you "Do you want to make AOL your default browser?" I have a friend on AOL that passed this on to me. I'll be working with him to help remove it.
I consider this a glorified virus. AOL has no right to mess with the internals of Windows... if it wasn't for MS' anti-trust lawsuit and their cozy relationship with AOL.. and if I was Bill Gates, I'd be calling for AOL's head right now.
*RANT* When companies take it upon themselves to make modifications to *YOUR* *PERSONAL* computer, that's where I draw the line. There ought to be civil liability for stuff like this - I wish I could come up with a good strawman case to try out on AOL... some way of demonstrating how harmful this kind of behavior is. Atleast a virus can be detected and removed - try getting McAfee to release a patch to scrub AOL off your system.
Did you try wading through the whole damn thing? I got interrupted 3 times at work trying to read it. Don't be so hard on me, I'm just trying to be helpful - we both know all too well the damage a flame can do for "the cause".
Making something crack-proof. I think the big "D" tried that. *cough* Anyway, while we're listening for intelligent life on other planets, try to ignore that recurring "hack,hack,hack" sound that's coming from your machine. =)
Keep in mind that snail-mailing it to them will be a hundred times more effective than e-mail. It only takes a minute to write a letter in word, print out the envelope, slap a sticker on it, and throw it in the mailbox. PLEASE DO SO. There is a huge gaping distance between the written word and the electronic one - while geeks take e-mail as seriously (sometimes moreso) than realworld, the realworld holds electronic mail in the same regard. Keep this in mind if you're trying to make a difference!
Yes, but I was planning on colocating a server outside the US (some place like LIBYA(sp?)) that doesn't care about copyright and just base operations out of there. The mirroring system would basically be "set it up wherever, and give us an expiration time". I can't police whether it's legal or not, nor would I try. The expiration is how often my crawler goes to the site to verify if it's there (and intact). Reason being mirrors would have a tendancy to disappear quickly. When you go to my site, you request the download, and then it redirects you to *one* *random* mirror. you cannot request more than 1 mirror, and it rotates on it's own schedule (ie, 5+n minutes where n is random) to spit out a new mirror.
Effective immediately, a full and complete ban is in effect on all FUN with use of University facilities.
Expressly forbidden is expressing enthusiasm for FUN. Also including, but not limited to, are the following: beer drinking, using a computer to download anything, or upload Shaping electrons in a suspicious manner, etc. Any violation will result in a nasty letter from the dean and suspension of computer privs. Note: we've also decided to let the RIAA on campus to go into your machines. Your continued compliance is appreciated (and not optional).
Reminds me of a game called "whack the mole". I made a post about this earlier, but I'm too lazy to go dig it up. For now, just post mirrors under this thread. I want to get my name on this lawsuit too... I figure with several thousand defendants we can't lose.:) "Yeah, the RIAA just sued the ENTIRE internet, film at 11!"
Considering he "invented" the idea of charging for software back in the homebrew computing club days, this makes perfect sense. It also shines alot of light in some dark places. This guy is one of society's role models. Whatever else we may think of him, he's popular. People want to be Bill Gates.
I wonder if they're aware of the price they must pay to be Bill Gates. Maybe we should create a movie: "Being Bill Gates"... ought to be an interesting surreal world. We'd start with the UNIX Ewoks and just go from there. Bill payed a steep price for his dollars.. I'm not sure it's the way I'd want to make my millions, if I made them at all. Just some food for thought...
Why wouldn't altering existing social structures be a good thing? Are you happy with the present? If you really are serious about this then you should consider that while this attitude makes you merely smug and complacent it also makes a lot of people hungry, cold, nauseous, bitter, tortured and sad.
I'll skip the personal slams and get to the heart of the matter. I have about 8 million years of evolution behind my position which states that this is the best system we have. Feel free to argue with mother nature. I don't think you'll get very far, however. Now, if you can get God on your side *that* would be a debate.
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Really now, tampering with biological genes which have withstood thousands of years of evolution may destroy large sections of our world. It's no joke - imagine if they "switched off" the gene that makes us violent. We'd be completely defenseless - we wouldn't respond to violence, and hence the few genetic mutants that emerged would quickly dominate. Oh joy. How about this - make everybody intelligent. That's not such a bright idea either. With intelligence comes and increased desire to alter existing social structures. Get enough entropy stirred into the pool and the whole thing collapses into anarchy.
How many "good ideas" are out there by well-intentioned people? How about we turn everybody into "super" humans with fast reflexes, strong muscles, and longevity? Sure.. that'll only spawn a deep chasm between the genetic haves and the have-nots and might very well spark a war.
There are very serious and very dire decisions to be made with such technology. I hardly think such decisions belong in the hands of people making these decisions. We simply are not at the point socially or otherwise to start tinkering with human genetics. Understanding is one thing, modification is quite another!
So long as the content isn't altered, like another broadcasting company did on new years, I have no objections. Infact, I'd say it's fair use - I can tape the evening news broadcast, right? Why can't I show it to other people? It's not like I altered it or sold it for a profit. And therein lies the problem - iCrave is a commercial entity. Just imagine if somebody grabbed your web content, slapped a banner ad across the top, and redistributed it. I'd be pissed, wouldn't you?
Slashdot Mirror
I had the same problem. It's really just a matter of configuring /etc/ppp/pap-secrets correctly, but the documentation is horrid. It's one of the first things I did with my shiny new linux box too. It took almost 6 months before I could do anything really useful (besides "chown sig11.sig11 ./.* -R" -- oops), but eventually you'll get the hang of it.
I've converted most of my friends, drop me a line if you need any help. Always willing to seduce people to 'da dark side. Oh yeah, and hopefully we'll be able to work out the problem with ppp that's causing your posts to be all out of whack and non-linear. *smirk* ;) I'd seriously recommend going with one of the Mandrake betas - it's very easy to setup and the partitioning (one of the harder things to understand in a linux install) is vastly simplified. E-mail me for the 411 if you want to go that route and I can give you some step-by-step - I do tech support by day.. and hack code by night.
I think the misconception you, and many slashdotters, are having is that Norway is known for it's loose crypto laws.
Mirror the source. Nobody's knocked on my door yet, and I've made a dozen offers for people to mirror from my site. The RIAA does not read slashdot. =)
Join the EFF and pay attention to the action alerts.
Alert the press! Get our side out there! They think we're pirates - this isn't about piracy, it's about interoperability.
Start a legal defense fund for *all* DeCSS victims.
That being said, here's why they're doing it: Scare tactic. They want to "get tough" on the "pirates" and scare people into submission. Ain't gonna happen - don't let them. Fight back - we're talking about something central to the open source community: the right to reverse-engineer to promote interoperability and open standards. This just reeks of proprietary do-it-our-way-or-the-highway. Fight back! I know alot of us aren't political enough - but consider donating a few bucks and also mirroring the source. Post to slashdot. Sign up to become a DOE for the case. But do something - get involved.. or we may wind up with another kevin mitnick - en masse.
This is a full-fledged war now against the open source movement: they're trying to stop reverse-engineering and black-box everything. They can justify and rationalize all they want - but it's really about them trying to gain/maintain their monopoly on distribution. It's high-time we kicked our ass into gear and get people like Ralph Nader on board. This is about consumer rights - something any average joe on the street should understand. WRITE TO THE PRESS NOW. Give a counter-point, make it so your mom can understand the key points.
Nuts.
-- Lieutennant of the 101st Airborne, surrounded by german divisions.
Yeah, but you make the choice: "environmentally friendly fuel discovered" or "New explosive used by college kids". Hmmm, I wonder..... :\
I love it - "super-explosive". Yeah... since when did exothermic reactions get to be more potent than nuclear explosives? Just wait... once it hits the cover of Wired and the NY Times it'll be potent enough to destroy entire *cities* with just a few drops of this stuff (Fact checking, what's that?). Mark my words - this'll get blown out of proportion (pun intended) by the media.
Well, unless you're inferring that the Japanese killed the "manufacturing" side of things in these foreign countries by buying them all out, I'm not sure I see where you're going with this. Does competition not exist in these developing countries? It would seem to me that putting the "manufacturing" (which in this example means livestock / breeding) into 3rd world countries you could cut costs - both in terms of production/feeding and land value. How does this destroy the local economies there? The company is effectively utilizing resources that otherwise would go unused, and the workers get an economic incentive (money!) that otherwise wouldn't have been injected into the local economy.
Keep in mind this is a vertical, not horizontal, monopoly. They're working on creating a complete manufacturing-to-distribution channel - they create the content, produce it, and sell it. End-to-end control. This is not bad! It allows them to produce/sell at a lower rate - no middle-men. This does not threaten the industry per-se, nor is it a monopoly in the way most slashdotters think of one.
HEY! I patented whack-a-mole, pay me $0.35 and I won't prosecute. ;)
Legal analysts are pleased as well: "We thought after Y2K flopped we'd be out of work come March 1st, but now we've got plenty to do" said Dir T. Lawyer.
Hmmmm... suing a COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE site and depriving musicians of a valuable channel for their works. Yeah.. this is gonna go over well... about as well as a lead balloon. Let me be the first to welcome mp3.com to the battle. Bad move for the music industry - they just nailed an entire business. It's not just individuals and "DOEs" anymore, they're sparing no expense!
I consider this a glorified virus. AOL has no right to mess with the internals of Windows... if it wasn't for MS' anti-trust lawsuit and their cozy relationship with AOL.. and if I was Bill Gates, I'd be calling for AOL's head right now.
*RANT*
When companies take it upon themselves to make modifications to *YOUR* *PERSONAL* computer, that's where I draw the line. There ought to be civil liability for stuff like this - I wish I could come up with a good strawman case to try out on AOL... some way of demonstrating how harmful this kind of behavior is. Atleast a virus can be detected and removed - try getting McAfee to release a patch to scrub AOL off your system.
Did you try wading through the whole damn thing? I got interrupted 3 times at work trying to read it. Don't be so hard on me, I'm just trying to be helpful - we both know all too well the damage a flame can do for "the cause".
Making something crack-proof. I think the big "D" tried that. *cough* Anyway, while we're listening for intelligent life on other planets, try to ignore that recurring "hack,hack,hack" sound that's coming from your machine. =)
Keep in mind that snail-mailing it to them will be a hundred times more effective than e-mail. It only takes a minute to write a letter in word, print out the envelope, slap a sticker on it, and throw it in the mailbox. PLEASE DO SO. There is a huge gaping distance between the written word and the electronic one - while geeks take e-mail as seriously (sometimes moreso) than realworld, the realworld holds electronic mail in the same regard. Keep this in mind if you're trying to make a difference!
Yes, but I was planning on colocating a server outside the US (some place like LIBYA(sp?)) that doesn't care about copyright and just base operations out of there. The mirroring system would basically be "set it up wherever, and give us an expiration time". I can't police whether it's legal or not, nor would I try. The expiration is how often my crawler goes to the site to verify if it's there (and intact). Reason being mirrors would have a tendancy to disappear quickly. When you go to my site, you request the download, and then it redirects you to *one* *random* mirror. you cannot request more than 1 mirror, and it rotates on it's own schedule (ie, 5+n minutes where n is random) to spit out a new mirror.
Expressly forbidden is expressing enthusiasm for FUN. Also including, but not limited to, are the following: beer drinking, using a computer to download anything, or upload Shaping electrons in a suspicious manner, etc. Any violation will result in a nasty letter from the dean and suspension of computer privs. Note: we've also decided to let the RIAA on campus to go into your machines. Your continued compliance is appreciated (and not optional).
Enjoy our NEW attitude towards higher learning!
Reminds me of a game called "whack the mole". I made a post about this earlier, but I'm too lazy to go dig it up. For now, just post mirrors under this thread. I want to get my name on this lawsuit too... I figure with several thousand defendants we can't lose. :) "Yeah, the RIAA just sued the ENTIRE internet, film at 11!"
I wonder if they're aware of the price they must pay to be Bill Gates. Maybe we should create a movie: "Being Bill Gates"... ought to be an interesting surreal world. We'd start with the UNIX Ewoks and just go from there. Bill payed a steep price for his dollars.. I'm not sure it's the way I'd want to make my millions, if I made them at all. Just some food for thought...
I'll skip the personal slams and get to the heart of the matter. I have about 8 million years of evolution behind my position which states that this is the best system we have. Feel free to argue with mother nature. I don't think you'll get very far, however. Now, if you can get God on your side *that* would be a debate.
NO CARRIER
Really now, tampering with biological genes which have withstood thousands of years of evolution may destroy large sections of our world. It's no joke - imagine if they "switched off" the gene that makes us violent. We'd be completely defenseless - we wouldn't respond to violence, and hence the few genetic mutants that emerged would quickly dominate. Oh joy. How about this - make everybody intelligent. That's not such a bright idea either. With intelligence comes and increased desire to alter existing social structures. Get enough entropy stirred into the pool and the whole thing collapses into anarchy.
How many "good ideas" are out there by well-intentioned people? How about we turn everybody into "super" humans with fast reflexes, strong muscles, and longevity? Sure.. that'll only spawn a deep chasm between the genetic haves and the have-nots and might very well spark a war.
There are very serious and very dire decisions to be made with such technology. I hardly think such decisions belong in the hands of people making these decisions. We simply are not at the point socially or otherwise to start tinkering with human genetics. Understanding is one thing, modification is quite another!
So long as the content isn't altered, like another broadcasting company did on new years, I have no objections. Infact, I'd say it's fair use - I can tape the evening news broadcast, right? Why can't I show it to other people? It's not like I altered it or sold it for a profit. And therein lies the problem - iCrave is a commercial entity. Just imagine if somebody grabbed your web content, slapped a banner ad across the top, and redistributed it. I'd be pissed, wouldn't you?
Today must be Revenge of the Patents day. Wow. Maybe it's related to that blood-red moon we're getting tonight....