Doesn't anyone go to the movies for things other than a intricate, complex plot that would satisfy any geek's craving for a fantasy Mars?
When the movie sells itself as being in the science fiction genre? The answer is, "No."
I guess that since I enjoy most movies, I'm either stupid and ignorant, or I'm simply not part of the/. community.
Aw, c'mon don't be so hard on yourself! You can be the one geek who's the exception to the rule. Besides, you probably just haven't been around long enough yet to get really cynical. Just give yourself time... in another four or five years you'll probably be decidedly jaded.
There's three types of people in the world: Young idealists, young cynics, and old cynics.
By using a system of copy rights, publishers (to anachronize things for a moment) could govern the books being printed, try to prevent piracy, and create some credibility for what was being printed.
Yeah, but here in the electronic age, we've got digital signatures and encryption and such so we don't need copyright to verify authorship.
Also, it's so easy to electronically, anonymously make a billion copies of a slighty modified version of <whatever>, and then claim that it's the original, unaltered work that the law which is supposed to prevent such things becomes fairly unenforceble.
As one of the other replies mentions, it goes back farther.
I can't tell for sure if this story refers to the FMD-ROM, but this one (the older one) certainly does (we can tell because it mentions the company's name).
Yeah, I've gotten several emails about cable descramblers. There are two flavors. There's one where they want me to buy the descramber and there's another kind where they want to sell me the instructions for how to build it.
Don't they realize what this kind of thing does to bandwidth? I mean granted, people like me waste it with useless replies like this one, but I'm only wasteing a little bit.
When big corporations give spammers big bandwidth, it wreaks havock with the whole 'net.
Actually, in the long run, it will be self-destructive for them. I have a mental image of one of the executives trying to get through to a website, and he can't b/c, unbeknownst to him, a router in the path from his computer to the computer the web page is served from is overloaded with spam that his company let someone send.
I can't say about #1, 2, and 4, but #3 and 5 seem insane.
Facetiously speaking, if you criminalize spoofed packets and scanning, only criminals will spoof packets and scan ports.
Anyway, as someone else pointed out, it's difficult to understand how you'd make port scanning illegal without destroying people's legitimate right to do things like connect to port 80 for http...(it'd be kinda hard to read/. then.):-)
If the events of the passed couple of weeks are any indication, I wouldn't worry too much. It doesn't seem like Microsloth is paying much attention to their security. People can probably keep (cr|h)acking them for quite some time without them responding. It could be a fun game.
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There's three types of people in the world: Young idealists, young cynics, and old cynics.
Also, it's so easy to electronically, anonymously make a billion copies of a slighty modified version of <whatever>, and then claim that it's the original, unaltered work that the law which is supposed to prevent such things becomes fairly unenforceble.
I can't tell for sure if this story refers to the FMD-ROM, but this one (the older one) certainly does (we can tell because it mentions the company's name).
Yeah, I've gotten several emails about cable descramblers. There are two flavors. There's one where they want me to buy the descramber and there's another kind where they want to sell me the instructions for how to build it.
Don't they realize what this kind of thing does to bandwidth? I mean granted, people like me waste it with useless replies like this one, but I'm only wasteing a little bit.
When big corporations give spammers big bandwidth, it wreaks havock with the whole 'net.
Actually, in the long run, it will be self-destructive for them. I have a mental image of one of the executives trying to get through to a website, and he can't b/c, unbeknownst to him, a router in the path from his computer to the computer the web page is served from is overloaded with spam that his company let someone send.
I can't say about #1, 2, and 4, but #3 and 5 seem insane.
/. then.) :-)
Facetiously speaking, if you criminalize spoofed packets and scanning, only criminals will spoof packets and scan ports.
Anyway, as someone else pointed out, it's difficult to understand how you'd make port scanning illegal without destroying people's legitimate right to do things like connect to port 80 for http...(it'd be kinda hard to read
If the events of the passed couple of weeks are any indication, I wouldn't worry too much. It doesn't seem like Microsloth is paying much attention to their security. People can probably keep (cr|h)acking them for quite some time without them responding. It could be a fun game.
If GIF format is so dangerous to use/evil (because of legal reasons), how come /. still has GIFs all over their site?
At least the site for PNG uses PNG files.