Rep. Boucher has been championing this issue for some time now.
Aaahhhhh democracy at it's finest! It's just like an auction, whoever bids the most gets the legislation passed!
Auctionist:Do I hear $100,000 for "Anti-DMCA Bill" Boucher raises hand. Auctionist: Thank you Mr. Boucher. $100,000 going once, $100,000 going twice... $500,000 by the DMCA filial-group!
Do I hear $550,000...
I don't know if it's legal, but it's certainly unethical.
Well not really! This is like the "No Solicitors" sign you see everywhere nowdays. I guess it's part of their right to block invitations, but blocking "customer service" because of ethnicity or originthat's unethical!
Have you ever tried it? What it actually does is "masquerade" on the DHCP level but not the physical link level. The DHCP will try to send to 01:02:03:04:05:06 but the physical link doesn't know were that is!
It hasn't worked for me at least...
Unfortunately you have to lobby for that and donate approximately $10,000 (on top of my head) to $PARTY_OF_YOUR_CHOICE in order to have any slight chance of passing that law one day (maybe, since somebody else might be donating $100,000 against it).
By the people, for the people... blah blah blah democracy blah blah blah *yawn* blah blah blah freedom blah blah blah *serious yawning* blah blah blah greatest nation of all blah blah blah God bless blah blah blah Founding Fathers blah blah blah...
Freedom will soon be a far memory into the corner of our heads, a diluted concept of something we are sure it is precious but we can't quite remember what it is, or used to be.
One thing is certain though. Every president's speech will be full of it. Every general's orders will be based on preserving it, while blatantly violating it. Every law enforcing agency will be acting according to it and in the spirit of preserving and guarding it while flat out denying, violating and persecuting it.
It's so sad to admit that the true enemies of it have been winning hands down!
When does the next galactic bus leave? Does anybody have the schedule?
I think he overqualifies for a DoD or DoS position, especially one responsible to report on WMD capabilities of foreign (potential members of the axis of evil) countries!
why not write a letter to the author or editor of Phys. Rev. B?
You see I am just a graduate student. If the scientific community doesn't care about such things, why should a graduate student begin to make enemies so early?
Nobody likes that and it appears that the prevailing tendency is to publish as much as possible, regardless of the quality of work done. If the journals don't set their standards and religiously follow them, there isn't much to be done, I think!
Current physics grad here! I'd like to add a few points here and there.
I am currently studying a Phys. Rev. B article (which of course I will not disclose) that is full of typos, the kind of typos that are OBVIOUS to the eye, the kind of typos that any self-respecting editor should catch with no problem, let alone the referees that read the article (supposedly). This article got published!
Additionally to the typos, there are formulas that are completely wrong (this is easily checked because the paper is based on an older paper with the same kind of calculation done right).
In short here we have a paper full of typos and inconsistencies that passed through the "referee" and "editor" bus-stops and got published in a prestigious magazine. The same kind of magazine that you need to subscribe in order to view.
This is only one of the many similar examples that show a pattern formulating. If the corporate scientific magazines can not even keep up with what they are supposed to do, safeguard the integrity and accuracy of the published information, what's their use anymore?
Answer:
The "prestigious" publications are the current measure of scientific "success". The more crap you publish the more "successful" you are!
Elvis was seen naked sunbathing on southern beach.
Jimmy Hoffa found hiding in a condo...
Batman and Superman were seen having branch at an uptown cafe. They said they were turned down by Survivor Show...
Isn't that exciting news? You can now purchase the value pack for a cruise to Atlandis for only $859+tax with free volcanic erruption simulation included! For more details call:
1-800-I-AM-SO-BORED or
1-800-WITH-MY-LIFE
We appreciate your business!
Well let us not forget the statistical probability that those users might have a pirated copy of XP so they can't apply all patches maybe?
I am not sure if the security patches go through for pirated copies.
Then again they might "deserve" it since they didn't pay money to get legaly infected...
Hmmm wait a second...
We finally reached an agreement with this Nigerean wife of an ex-general that she found $10,000,000 in a hidden vault behind the ex'es private toilet bin and agreed to give me 10% if I provide them with my checking account number.
Darn Canadian Bank, now the whole deal might not go through...
Now we'll start hearing about new improved "Air filters" that remove the new threat of "PBDE"...Only four monthly payments of $69.99!
Amen brother! Finally somebody got it right! It's always very interesting to trace the money (gives kinda good perspective ya know). Who ordered the research study and paid for it?
What is an interesting trend here on/. is that all this M$ hype gets moderated as +5 (by the buddies/coworkers I would assume?) and is presented as respectable impartial research or "a devil's advocate" argument or what not.
Very interesting. Now as a typical conspiracy theorist myself, I would dare to say that M$ actually hires people to do that on/.
What I find interesting is that in the land of freedom and democracy you had to post your comment anonymously.
Does it have to do with some Patriot Act thing? Or somehow you've grown a certain disbelief for your elementary school teachings about what your country really stands for?
Last words spoken as I run with my tail between my legs...
I am curious, is there anyone who takes ANY analyst seriously ?
I lost my faith in analysts when I heard one say (must have been a year ago):
I am not sure if the President (yes he meant the current president) is a brilliant person or just lucky!
After that I knew they are just having fun trying to make a living. Just like the mercenaries in Iraq, that they are not there for the money (OH NO!) they are building democracy, spreading freedom, protecting the life of a person, pretty much been heroes...
We'd only haveto do it once to get the message across.
And while we are at it we should reexamine the whole legal system and introduce capital punishments to everything! YEAH!!! You stepped on my foot... you should die by leathal injection! Uga Buga (jumping up an down in my hairy hunched-down body and banging a large piece of wood on the ground sometime in 45,000 BC)
How about killing him and his family and his pets as well? How about you do that on public TV?
I agree with you that there is an international legal void that gets slowly filled when it comes to IT related crimes and severe penalties should apply to cases like Sasser for example. But I think implementing this will not deter or reduce significantly the number of people that practice cracking/hacking/or-how-ever-you-call-it.
Same reason that the death penelty has not reduced homicides in US.
When was the last time that anybody precalculated the jail time he/she will get as a deterrent to a certain illegal activity?
In fact in this case I think it will act as a boost, since elite/defiant behavior to the law can be considered very c()()()()l!
Cheers!
what experiences does people have with using DVD+RW for packet-writing under Linux
I use dvd+rw-tools
but still have to find proper DVD+RW media for my drive. See previous post on same issue...
I use cdrecord
for CD+RW and have no problem even doing multisessions.
My main concern is to find the proper DVD+RW media that my drive will support...
Cheers!
I have a SONY CD+RW/DVD+RW combo and lo and behold I bought a SONY DVD+RW disk last week and suprise suprise the drive could not write on it!
I get buffer underuns and all that...
Mind you that I tested this with Roxio on my XP boot side, and with dvd+rw-tools on my RH9 boot side.
Same problem!
Way to go SONY! Thanks for the support!
Thank god DVD+R works on the drive...
Cheers!
What is it with these comments anyway? Whenever somebody has a different opinion the "infected" party has to "grow up to adulthood", "get over him/herself" or what else!
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Rep. Boucher has been championing this issue for some time now.
Aaahhhhh democracy at it's finest! It's just like an auction, whoever bids the most gets the legislation passed!
Auctionist:Do I hear $100,000 for "Anti-DMCA Bill"
Boucher raises hand.
Auctionist: Thank you Mr. Boucher. $100,000 going once, $100,000 going twice... $500,000 by the DMCA filial-group!
Do I hear $550,000...
I don't know if it's legal, but it's certainly unethical.
Well not really! This is like the "No Solicitors" sign you see everywhere nowdays. I guess it's part of their right to block invitations, but blocking "customer service" because of ethnicity or origin that's unethical!
ifconfig wi0 lladdr 01:02:03:04:05:06
Have you ever tried it? What it actually does is "masquerade" on the DHCP level but not the physical link level. The DHCP will try to send to 01:02:03:04:05:06 but the physical link doesn't know were that is!
It hasn't worked for me at least...
Unfortunately you have to lobby for that and donate approximately $10,000 (on top of my head) to $PARTY_OF_YOUR_CHOICE in order to have any slight chance of passing that law one day (maybe, since somebody else might be donating $100,000 against it).
By the people, for the people... blah blah blah democracy blah blah blah *yawn* blah blah blah freedom blah blah blah *serious yawning* blah blah blah greatest nation of all blah blah blah God bless blah blah blah Founding Fathers blah blah blah...
Freedom will soon be a far memory into the corner of our heads, a diluted concept of something we are sure it is precious but we can't quite remember what it is, or used to be.
One thing is certain though. Every president's speech will be full of it. Every general's orders will be based on preserving it, while blatantly violating it. Every law enforcing agency will be acting according to it and in the spirit of preserving and guarding it while flat out denying, violating and persecuting it.
It's so sad to admit that the true enemies of it have been winning hands down!
When does the next galactic bus leave? Does anybody have the schedule?
I see it more and more everywhere
And there are some people using the word boxen as well!
I don't know where this world is heading at anymore!
Aha! Thus, "a box" rendered in norwegian grammar would be "boxen". Simple as that!
Gotcha! It makes sense now!
+1 for Informative.
+1 for Interesting.
Somebody gave mod-power to teenagers?
Or is this all part of the collective psychology, the oh-so-powerful:
"we all belong to the same guilt/cult/group/$PREFERENCE_HERE so we should all think/act the same?"
Hmmmm!
Isn't that psychosis responsible for the greatest disasters in human history?
I need more coffee please...
I think he overqualifies for a DoD or DoS position, especially one responsible to report on WMD capabilities of foreign (potential members of the axis of evil) countries!
Does anybody know if they hire?
why not write a letter to the author or editor of Phys. Rev. B?
You see I am just a graduate student. If the scientific community doesn't care about such things, why should a graduate student begin to make enemies so early?
Nobody likes that and it appears that the prevailing tendency is to publish as much as possible, regardless of the quality of work done. If the journals don't set their standards and religiously follow them, there isn't much to be done, I think!
Current physics grad here! I'd like to add a few points here and there.
I am currently studying a Phys. Rev. B article (which of course I will not disclose) that is full of typos, the kind of typos that are OBVIOUS to the eye, the kind of typos that any self-respecting editor should catch with no problem, let alone the referees that read the article (supposedly). This article got published!
Additionally to the typos, there are formulas that are completely wrong (this is easily checked because the paper is based on an older paper with the same kind of calculation done right).
In short here we have a paper full of typos and inconsistencies that passed through the "referee" and "editor" bus-stops and got published in a prestigious magazine. The same kind of magazine that you need to subscribe in order to view.
This is only one of the many similar examples that show a pattern formulating. If the corporate scientific magazines can not even keep up with what they are supposed to do, safeguard the integrity and accuracy of the published information, what's their use anymore?
Answer:
The "prestigious" publications are the current measure of scientific "success". The more crap you publish the more "successful" you are!
ATLANTIS FINALLY FOUND
Sadam's WMD's discovered as well.
Elvis was seen naked sunbathing on southern beach.
Jimmy Hoffa found hiding in a condo...
Batman and Superman were seen having branch at an uptown cafe. They said they were turned down by Survivor Show...
Isn't that exciting news? You can now purchase the value pack for a cruise to Atlandis for only $859+tax with free volcanic erruption simulation included! For more details call:
1-800-I-AM-SO-BORED or
1-800-WITH-MY-LIFE
We appreciate your business!
they almost deserve it...
Well let us not forget the statistical probability that those users might have a pirated copy of XP so they can't apply all patches maybe?
I am not sure if the security patches go through for pirated copies.
Then again they might "deserve" it since they didn't pay money to get legaly infected...
Hmmm wait a second...
We finally reached an agreement with this Nigerean wife of an ex-general that she found $10,000,000 in a hidden vault behind the ex'es private toilet bin and agreed to give me 10% if I provide them with my checking account number.
Darn Canadian Bank, now the whole deal might not go through...
Now we'll start hearing about new improved "Air filters" that remove the new threat of "PBDE"...Only four monthly payments of $69.99!
Amen brother! Finally somebody got it right! It's always very interesting to trace the money (gives kinda good perspective ya know). Who ordered the research study and paid for it?
hmmmmm...
Sceptic level: Paranoid (and proud of it)
What is an interesting trend here on /. is that all this M$ hype gets moderated as +5 (by the buddies/coworkers I would assume?) and is presented as respectable impartial research or "a devil's advocate" argument or what not.
/.
:-)
Very interesting. Now as a typical conspiracy theorist myself, I would dare to say that M$ actually hires people to do that on
See I said it!
What I find interesting is that in the land of freedom and democracy you had to post your comment anonymously. Does it have to do with some Patriot Act thing? Or somehow you've grown a certain disbelief for your elementary school teachings about what your country really stands for?
Last words spoken as I run with my tail between my legs...
I am curious, is there anyone who takes ANY analyst seriously ?
I lost my faith in analysts when I heard one say (must have been a year ago):
I am not sure if the President (yes he meant the current president) is a brilliant person or just lucky!
After that I knew they are just having fun trying to make a living. Just like the mercenaries in Iraq, that they are not there for the money (OH NO!) they are building democracy, spreading freedom, protecting the life of a person, pretty much been heroes...
Does it stink in here or is it me??
Yet another example of how the EU's internal structure can be undemocratic.
... while we here in US...
Please don't tell me you meant to continue by:
I suggest the people who modded this comment funny go and look at what the Irish did to London in 1993
As always what the... "British" did to the "Irish" is besides the question...
Funny logic that never seizes to amaze me!
We'd only haveto do it once to get the message across.
And while we are at it we should reexamine the whole legal system and introduce capital punishments to everything!
YEAH!!! You stepped on my foot... you should die by leathal injection!
Uga Buga (jumping up an down in my hairy hunched-down body and banging a large piece of wood on the ground sometime in 45,000 BC)
How about killing him and his family and his pets as well? How about you do that on public TV?
I agree with you that there is an international legal void that gets slowly filled when it comes to IT related crimes and severe penalties should apply to cases like Sasser for example.
But I think implementing this will not deter or reduce significantly the number of people that practice cracking/hacking/or-how-ever-you-call-it.
Same reason that the death penelty has not reduced homicides in US.
When was the last time that anybody precalculated the jail time he/she will get as a deterrent to a certain illegal activity?
In fact in this case I think it will act as a boost, since elite/defiant behavior to the law can be considered very c()()()()l!
Cheers!
what experiences does people have with using DVD+RW for packet-writing under Linux
I use dvd+rw-tools but still have to find proper DVD+RW media for my drive. See previous post on same issue...
I use cdrecord for CD+RW and have no problem even doing multisessions.
My main concern is to find the proper DVD+RW media that my drive will support...
Cheers!
I have a SONY CD+RW/DVD+RW combo and lo and behold I bought a SONY DVD+RW disk last week and suprise suprise the drive could not write on it!
I get buffer underuns and all that...
Mind you that I tested this with Roxio on my XP boot side, and with dvd+rw-tools on my RH9 boot side. Same problem!
Way to go SONY! Thanks for the support!
Thank god DVD+R works on the drive...
Cheers!
Grow up
What is it with these comments anyway? Whenever somebody has a different opinion the "infected" party has to "grow up to adulthood", "get over him/herself" or what else!
Grow up and get over yourselves!