You have the right to make archival copies. The DMCA has taken away this right if you buy materials that have a copy protection scheme in place, but this has yet to be challenged in court. I find it hard to believe that a court challenge would allow this new law to continue, but of course challenging the law would require having lawyers who could stand up to the RIAA.
Basically, it's another case of corporations purchasing "illegal" legislation through lobbying, while knowing full well that even if they're passing unconstitutional laws, they're economically untouchable.
Until we get some campaign finance reform rolling in this country, it's only going to get worse.
For its part, the RIAA is still trying to get a copy of its revised amendment -- that it would not provide a copy of -- included in the anti-terrorism bill called the USA Act.
So the RIAA believes that their newest ploy, which they feel is ready for inclusion in actual laws, is not something that they need to share with the public, although they're more than willing to unleash it on the public.
It's lobbying like this that is completely destroying our government. Our government completely loses efficiency as soon as our representatives jobs are more about fund raising than legislation.
Of course, with all of the war hullabaloo, we're not going to hear about any of the other new legislation that is being passed for the next 6 months to a year, if not longer -- Condit distracted us while they killed off campaign finance reform, Lewinsky distracted us while they made the initial changes necessary to open up the Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling -- the only thing I fear more than the physical repercussions of this war are the things that they will try to slip past us while the media is dancing on a pin trying to dig up any news from the middle east -- we need homeland security against our own government -- it should be the media, but we can't trust them.
I think most of Oregon is ripe for Libertarians. It seems like it would galvanize a lot of disparate, disenfranchised people that I've met out there, people from both parties who can't stand how similar and greedy they've both become.
Well, I can tell you from personal experience that they already search international mail anyway.
Gambling, tho? Gotta love that shit. "No, Mr. Feingold, we don't have time to discuss your concerns, but we open the floor to debate on internet gambling."
While it's sad to see our elected officials behaving like this, at least they're doing it while the nation is actually paying attention for once. The schmucks that we put into office really, REALLY don't represent us. Except Feingold.
I've had MSNBC andCNN on pretty constantly during the day when I'm wokring, and I've heard a LOT of things that I cannot corroborate with the Internet resources, even for MSNBC, FoxNews and CNN.
I heard 3 or 4 times today on the TV that they busted 3 Pakistani men at the Hudson Valley Water Treatment Plant. I can't find any mention of it on the net from any major news outlet.
I heard of a couple of hijackings on the TV yesterday that I've seen nowhere on the web.
With telelvision, they have talking heads sitting there live, and if information comes in it is handed to them and read on the air. The websites seem to be far slower to update.
As far as long-term information goes, however, there is nothing like the internet. I have been able to study the history of Saudi Arabia, Israel, Afghanistan, Oman and the foreign relations between all of them and the US. A couple of web searches, and you've got historical information.
I wish more Americans would stop obsessing over knowing *exactly* what the military is up to at the moment and start concentrating on why we have troops there in the first place. As a nation we are rather uninformed on what's going on over there. Yes, we are more informed than many other nations, but we also meddle more than most of those nations.
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Again, there isn't a windows update for IIS on NT4. There are a massive number of NT4 machines out there still, and there will be for years to come.
5 Minutes to run Windows Update, plus reboot time, which must be done outside of business hours, which is the big thing.
There's no "Stop Service, Patch, Restart Service" with IIS, everything requires a reboot. You can't just do that very often on a mission-critical server.
"Another site, for Windows NT 4.0 users, offers a Security Rollup Package. An SRP has all the patches needed for the NT wrapped up into one nifty download --including the Code Red patch -- except for the two most recent ones. To get those, you have to find the latest update to the SRP, posted July 26. But none of this will do much good without Service Pack 6a.
Confused yet? So was Cooper. Rather than taking any chances, he went to every site and downloaded the bulletin lists, then read each bulletin -- 78 in all -- just to be sure he had them all. He eliminated the ones that were redundant or outdated (some patches negate earlier patches)."
Index Server is part of IIS. The problem is that IIS encompasses a large number of seervices that are enabled by default, and 90% of the people using it will never use them.
Also, if you're running NT4, there is no windows update for IIS.
They'd probably just consider Orwell to be a Left-wing Liberal Hippy. And an alarmist.
Everyone is an alarmist until it's to late. That's just the way life goes.
I wish that 90% of the people screaming "liberal" had the faintest clue of what "liberal" actually means in a political sense. It's not really a catch-all for everything the Dittoheads hate.
You're also pointing out another issue -- I have yet to get a credit report back that didn't have an errant issue on it.
It became far too easy for people and companies to report this information -- well, it is at least becoming too easy for them to abuse this information.
I cringe to think of how a national, fingerprinted ID system would eventually be abused.
we get frothing at the mouth from unbathed hippies
Fuck you and your pompous self-importance. Your generalizations do wonders for civil discourse.
Personally, I'm against 24/7 surveillance and tracking. I don't really see how anyone could want the government to have this much power, but if you're willing to live with it, go ahead and volunteer.
``Well, this privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion,'' he said. ``All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy. Right now, you can go onto the Internet and get a credit report about your neighbor and find out where your neighbor works, how much they earn and if they had a late mortgage payment and tons of other information.''
Getting credit reports is a far cry from having a system in place to fingerprint every American and track all of their movements.
Yes, he's only talking about airports, but that would change VERY quickly once the system is in place.
I like to work in a darkened (not dark) room as well. Out of the 8 flourescent bulbs in my office, 7 are unscrewed.
I'm just staring at a monitor all day, and it creates its own light. There's lots of natural light in th offiec already.
It amusing, our whole office is on a single light switch. If engineering gets in first, they work without the lights on until a salesperson or executive gets there and turns on all the lights.
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"The intellectual side of me is satisfied with the decision, but the pain that we all feel because of all the deaths mixes with this," he said. "It has been a horrific few days."
Look -- I really don't care about your opinions on why I behave the way I do. You have no idea who I am, although how I feel about the issue has been pretty well covered in this thread at this point.
I'm not interested in aspiring to your personal idea of "good form" on/., nor am I interested in everyone's apparent worship of karma.
Mods mean nothing, and really, if you peruse the thread, there were some good discussions that came out of it.
I'm sure that the self-important/. crowd will continue to try to rectify my behavior on this, but you all need to keep in mind -- this isn't some holy shrine, this isn't some amazing cultural tool with a system of mores and codes of ethics, it's a fucking DISCUSSION BOARD.
Christ, get over yourselves already. Nothing ruins a public forum quite like individuals who decide to impart their own rules upon it.
Yes, you said before boarding a plane, but that's not what they're talking about.
They're using it on the streets already. As the technology gets better, it'll become more widespread long before there is any legislation to deal with it.
Already they've come up with false positives from the system. They busted the wrong guy on a child support issue. In other words, this isn't just for terrorists.
Because a surveillance society is not a free society. If your every move and word is recorded and can be used against you later, in our out of context, you do not live in a free country.
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You have the right to make archival copies. The DMCA has taken away this right if you buy materials that have a copy protection scheme in place, but this has yet to be challenged in court. I find it hard to believe that a court challenge would allow this new law to continue, but of course challenging the law would require having lawyers who could stand up to the RIAA.
Basically, it's another case of corporations purchasing "illegal" legislation through lobbying, while knowing full well that even if they're passing unconstitutional laws, they're economically untouchable.
Until we get some campaign finance reform rolling in this country, it's only going to get worse.
For its part, the RIAA is still trying to get a copy of its revised amendment -- that it would not provide a copy of -- included in the anti-terrorism bill called the USA Act.
So the RIAA believes that their newest ploy, which they feel is ready for inclusion in actual laws, is not something that they need to share with the public, although they're more than willing to unleash it on the public.
It's lobbying like this that is completely destroying our government. Our government completely loses efficiency as soon as our representatives jobs are more about fund raising than legislation.
Of course, with all of the war hullabaloo, we're not going to hear about any of the other new legislation that is being passed for the next 6 months to a year, if not longer -- Condit distracted us while they killed off campaign finance reform, Lewinsky distracted us while they made the initial changes necessary to open up the Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling -- the only thing I fear more than the physical repercussions of this war are the things that they will try to slip past us while the media is dancing on a pin trying to dig up any news from the middle east -- we need homeland security against our own government -- it should be the media, but we can't trust them.
It's MAJORITY rule, and obviously, the MAJORITY supports this. Deal with it.
Which majority? The public voting majority or the senate majority?
These people are supposed to represent us, and they're doing a very poor job of it lately if you ask me.
I think most of Oregon is ripe for Libertarians. It seems like it would galvanize a lot of disparate, disenfranchised people that I've met out there, people from both parties who can't stand how similar and greedy they've both become.
Well, I can tell you from personal experience that they already search international mail anyway.
Gambling, tho? Gotta love that shit. "No, Mr. Feingold, we don't have time to discuss your concerns, but we open the floor to debate on internet gambling."
While it's sad to see our elected officials behaving like this, at least they're doing it while the nation is actually paying attention for once. The schmucks that we put into office really, REALLY don't represent us. Except Feingold.
I like that man more every day.
I've had MSNBC andCNN on pretty constantly during the day when I'm wokring, and I've heard a LOT of things that I cannot corroborate with the Internet resources, even for MSNBC, FoxNews and CNN.
I heard 3 or 4 times today on the TV that they busted 3 Pakistani men at the Hudson Valley Water Treatment Plant. I can't find any mention of it on the net from any major news outlet.
I heard of a couple of hijackings on the TV yesterday that I've seen nowhere on the web.
With telelvision, they have talking heads sitting there live, and if information comes in it is handed to them and read on the air. The websites seem to be far slower to update.
As far as long-term information goes, however, there is nothing like the internet. I have been able to study the history of Saudi Arabia, Israel, Afghanistan, Oman and the foreign relations between all of them and the US. A couple of web searches, and you've got historical information.
I wish more Americans would stop obsessing over knowing *exactly* what the military is up to at the moment and start concentrating on why we have troops there in the first place. As a nation we are rather uninformed on what's going on over there. Yes, we are more informed than many other nations, but we also meddle more than most of those nations.
fileplanet is ludicrous.
Again, there isn't a windows update for IIS on NT4. There are a massive number of NT4 machines out there still, and there will be for years to come.
5 Minutes to run Windows Update, plus reboot time, which must be done outside of business hours, which is the big thing.
There's no "Stop Service, Patch, Restart Service" with IIS, everything requires a reboot. You can't just do that very often on a mission-critical server.
If you have to set up a new NT4/IIS web server and make sure that every patch has been installed, how long do you think it would take?
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There are answers here:
http://wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,4576
Quote (from Russ Cooper of NTBugTraq):
"Another site, for Windows NT 4.0 users, offers a Security Rollup Package. An SRP has all the patches needed for the NT wrapped up into one nifty download --including the Code Red patch -- except for the two most recent ones. To get those, you have to find the latest update to the SRP, posted July 26. But none of this will do much good without Service Pack 6a.
Confused yet? So was Cooper. Rather than taking any chances, he went to every site and downloaded the bulletin lists, then read each bulletin -- 78 in all -- just to be sure he had them all. He eliminated the ones that were redundant or outdated (some patches negate earlier patches)."
Index Server is part of IIS. The problem is that IIS encompasses a large number of seervices that are enabled by default, and 90% of the people using it will never use them.
Also, if you're running NT4, there is no windows update for IIS.
They'd probably just consider Orwell to be a Left-wing Liberal Hippy. And an alarmist.
Everyone is an alarmist until it's to late. That's just the way life goes.
I wish that 90% of the people screaming "liberal" had the faintest clue of what "liberal" actually means in a political sense. It's not really a catch-all for everything the Dittoheads hate.
You're also pointing out another issue -- I have yet to get a credit report back that didn't have an errant issue on it.
It became far too easy for people and companies to report this information -- well, it is at least becoming too easy for them to abuse this information.
I cringe to think of how a national, fingerprinted ID system would eventually be abused.
we get frothing at the mouth from unbathed hippies
Fuck you and your pompous self-importance. Your generalizations do wonders for civil discourse.
Personally, I'm against 24/7 surveillance and tracking. I don't really see how anyone could want the government to have this much power, but if you're willing to live with it, go ahead and volunteer.
``Well, this privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion,'' he said. ``All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy. Right now, you can go onto the Internet and get a credit report about your neighbor and find out where your neighbor works, how much they earn and if they had a late mortgage payment and tons of other information.''
Getting credit reports is a far cry from having a system in place to fingerprint every American and track all of their movements.
Yes, he's only talking about airports, but that would change VERY quickly once the system is in place.
I like to work in a darkened (not dark) room as well. Out of the 8 flourescent bulbs in my office, 7 are unscrewed.
I'm just staring at a monitor all day, and it creates its own light. There's lots of natural light in th offiec already.
It amusing, our whole office is on a single light switch. If engineering gets in first, they work without the lights on until a salesperson or executive gets there and turns on all the lights.
It'll still be out before Duke Nukem Forever.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/632133.asp?0dm=C13OT
"The intellectual side of me is satisfied with the decision, but the pain that we all feel because of all the deaths mixes with this," he said. "It has been a horrific few days."
Uh, dont you think that this is also getting a bit redundant? I mean, I hadn't read the other articles. You've obviously seen all the like posts.
I've also said quite a lot about the matter in the thread. Feel free to continue to ignore it though, if you wish to continue feeling self-righteous.
Sorry, GPS was the wrong acronym. It's GSM.
You can check it out here.
Do a search for "mandatory cell phone gsm" with your favorite search engine to find out more.
I stand corrected, thanks for the info.
Look -- I really don't care about your opinions on why I behave the way I do. You have no idea who I am, although how I feel about the issue has been pretty well covered in this thread at this point.
/., nor am I interested in everyone's apparent worship of karma.
/. crowd will continue to try to rectify my behavior on this, but you all need to keep in mind -- this isn't some holy shrine, this isn't some amazing cultural tool with a system of mores and codes of ethics, it's a fucking DISCUSSION BOARD.
I'm not interested in aspiring to your personal idea of "good form" on
Mods mean nothing, and really, if you peruse the thread, there were some good discussions that came out of it.
I'm sure that the self-important
Christ, get over yourselves already. Nothing ruins a public forum quite like individuals who decide to impart their own rules upon it.
I'm sure he didn't mean that Yahoo was the CIA's sole source of information, but it was pretty funny to hear him say that they use it!
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure they check against Fox News too.
Yes, you said before boarding a plane, but that's not what they're talking about.
They're using it on the streets already. As the technology gets better, it'll become more widespread long before there is any legislation to deal with it.
Already they've come up with false positives from the system. They busted the wrong guy on a child support issue. In other words, this isn't just for terrorists.
Because a surveillance society is not a free society. If your every move and word is recorded and can be used against you later, in our out of context, you do not live in a free country.
My stating that I don't care about it proves it. I like to engage in discussions here, and somewhere along the line I got some moderation points.
I just don't understand why anyone would give a shit about karma, which is why I'm just stunned how many people accuse me of karma whoring.