I live in West Virginia and I can tell you from experience (though I never saw one blow up) that a much bigger threat here is people smoking at the gas pump...
I think they mean people with keys that have been passed around a lot. Service Pack 1 for Windows XP wouldn't install with many keys that were distributed online.
Of course you can simply generate your own key if you use Corporate Edition.
However, this isn't another situation and, if their machines had been properly firewalled
It would appear it only takes one infected system, and the worm can then spread on the internal network as well. This happened at my school, and it is causing quite a headache. Don't give them the benefit of the doubt, though; they weren't testing out the patches, they were waiting a year to install them.
Wired is reporting about Georgia Tech researchers who want thousands of computer users to install their program to help them monitor traffic patterns on the Internet.
It'll be really neat to see Internet radio receivers with WiFi connectivity. I can picture these as part of stereo systems picking up Shoutcast (or other) radio stations. Unless the RIAA gets their way.
And yet... don't the owners of intellectual property rights -- such as Linus Torvalds -- have the right to expect sufficient attention to be paid to their own law enforcement needs?
Yes, but they never will if they aren't a large corporation.
If the Linux kernel got hijacked and put into, say, some other Well Known OS illegally, can you tell me that nobody around here would making any "John Ashcroft should drop the hammer on these guys" remarks?
John Ashcroft should drop the hammer, but he would not. The crime is excessive enforcement to the point of liberty infringement when it comes to some copyrights and little to know enforcement when it comes to others. Fair? Hardly.
Slashdot Mirror
What's the status on the copyrighted materials on the site? If I mirror it as well, will I be also liable?
You underevolved simian!
Obligatory Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quote!
So what is that, 4000+?
I live in West Virginia and I can tell you from experience (though I never saw one blow up) that a much bigger threat here is people smoking at the gas pump...
Oh come on, that's just pathetic. It takes me more than three minutes when I'm by myself!
This is Slashdot, so I'm going to assume you mean all the time.
I think they mean people with keys that have been passed around a lot. Service Pack 1 for Windows XP wouldn't install with many keys that were distributed online.
Of course you can simply generate your own key if you use Corporate Edition.
Whoever is the sysadmin at your school really needs to learn about internet security.
Heh. I'm pretty sure there's some inherent irony there, but I don't quite know what it is yet.
However, this isn't another situation and, if their machines had been properly firewalled
It would appear it only takes one infected system, and the worm can then spread on the internal network as well. This happened at my school, and it is causing quite a headache. Don't give them the benefit of the doubt, though; they weren't testing out the patches, they were waiting a year to install them.
I thought that stuff was dead.
but Soviet Russia wasn't communist.
I don't remember anything in the Constitution about inalienable rights.
Gotta love Booble! Err, Google
Calling Slashdot a weblog software is somewhat like calling Windows an image editing program because it includes the Paint and Imaging programs.
Yeah! That's just like calling Emacs a text editor too!
Sounds like the US.
This is all strangely familiar.
;)
Wired is reporting about Georgia Tech researchers who want thousands of computer users to install their program to help them monitor traffic patterns on the Internet.
...isn't that the foundation for spyware?
I hope this doesn't mean no more free calls ;)
This will be quite useful! It will make playground trolling that much easier! I haven't gone wardriving for a while but I may have to do it now!
I dunno about all that but I sure am glad they're working on this just in time for Operation Fastlink! :)
Open Source? Are you some kind of communist??!
It'll be really neat to see Internet radio receivers with WiFi connectivity. I can picture these as part of stereo systems picking up Shoutcast (or other) radio stations. Unless the RIAA gets their way.
And yet... don't the owners of intellectual property rights -- such as Linus Torvalds -- have the right to expect sufficient attention to be paid to their own law enforcement needs?
Yes, but they never will if they aren't a large corporation.
If the Linux kernel got hijacked and put into, say, some other Well Known OS illegally, can you tell me that nobody around here would making any "John Ashcroft should drop the hammer on these guys" remarks?
John Ashcroft should drop the hammer, but he would not. The crime is excessive enforcement to the point of liberty infringement when it comes to some copyrights and little to know enforcement when it comes to others. Fair? Hardly.