'"Those industry fat cats try to put a price on my music, but it wants to be free," the canine bard says in a dialogue bubble at the bottom of the screen, after performing and giving away "copies" of a tune.'
The article comments this as: "A Nintendo video game includes a character that seems to advocate an illegal form of music file-sharing."
When was giving your OWN music away for free illegal?
Also: 'That last insight and its implications for the young people in Professor Brown's vision of the future notwithstanding, it's a bit disorienting to find an "information wants to be free" message embedded in a video game - particularly one aimed at young children and teenagers.'
Why? Good values should be taught in childhood. Sharing is good! Openness is good! Those are the values you want to teach children, not greed.
The last straw: "After all, video game industry representatives, along with their brethren in the music, film and computer software industries, have long complained that this is precisely the kind of thinking that is eating away at their business models - and maybe civilization itself."
In other words, if you don't sell us your soul, you're going to hell! Where did we hear this already?
The article mixes nonsensical stuff in the writeup, like: 'A user called Yams also added "Yams yams yams yams yams."'
Seriously, who cares? The article is a mess mixed with propaganda. It reads the end of the world into probably an innocent thing.
Possibly some tool friend of his at the ISP. This kind of thing is usually not publicly advertised though and he probably made up that IP tool story to cover for the employee who gave out confidential information.
"James Bond may use the fanciest, most expensive and high-tech devices to thwart would-be eavesdroppers, but in a pinch, the super-spy can use one Texas A&M engineer's simple, low-cost scheme to keep data secure from the bad guys."
This is the first sentence from the article. I'm sorry, but I cannot take anything in that article seriously. On another note the guy has an interestingly hungarian sounding name.
I have been called a HIJACKER - PodJacker - RSS Hijacker - Extortionist - and more.
All (every word untrue) The issue has to do with a GIANT MISUNDERSTANDING!
But since it got slashdotted today... it will get worse.
The idiot podcaster - signed up for my free search engine that I did last year.
He admits - showing up - and signing up!
( a fact omitted in the original news )
He asked to be removed - and was removed without question!
he lost 1000 of 1500 visitors because he asked me too.
He asked me to put them back I told him that he could do it himself,
but that I would not change the code without negociating fees.
Erik took this as extortion and took it to a lawyer and the press.
The articles started flying... and I have been all over the press since.
I have been on national us radio programs - podcasts news articles in europe - former USSR - china - australia and more.
Unreal....
gets worse actually - but could use some ideas...
Need to get the story straight...
but the flood of articles may be too much for me to personally keep up with."
So there you have it. The guy belongs to the same organization as I do. Before someone criticises me for that, we are a group of IT enthusiasts and nothing to do with script kiddies as shown by our mission statement.
Because they are different in spirit. SELinux is something that gives the necessary features for an organization like NSA where they require a level C or B or higher classified system.
Grsecurity is more like for the common user wanting to make their system more secure.
I'm aware that this is very vague like this, but it gives the general idea I hope. Personally I use Grsec for my home box, but an organization wanting to replace old mainframes needs to look into a bit different solutions, like SELinux.
"I know you're joking, but many Europeans find it hilarious how those in the US who go on the most about bringing "freedom" to Iraq and Afghanistan are often amongst the leaders in wanting to limit freedom in America."
I don't find it hilarious, not even a bit. I find it sad.
The difference between a Microsoft security issue and the Sony rootkit is earth and sky.
If F-Secure would have identified a flaw in Microsoft's software, then it's ok if they give the company a grace period to get a patch ready.
There was no such patch to be prepared in the case of Sony.
The following things are sensible to be done when someone finds a new rootkit spreading in the wild:
Identify it's source [Sony DRM on cd's - CHECK]
Find a way to stop the infections/prevent further infections - this can be only done by forcing Sony to stop shipping infected cds - a public disclosure is essential. Also adding the rootkit to the signature file is required. [FAIL]
Clean up the infections - most anti-virus companies write even small utilities to remove rootkits/viruses/trojans. [???]
Let's face it: By telling Sony about it and not going for public disclosure F-Secure accomplished nothing but let even more users get infected by this rootkit. Sony is not a software company, there wasn't a flaw in a software that needed to be fixed, but the software itself removed! That requires no cooperation on behalf of Sony.
When the Sony rootkit case first hit the news, I considered F-Secure to be quite good for an anti-virus company because they were reasonably quick adding the rootkit to their signature file.
They've just lost that credit for me. They knew for a month and were sitting on it! That is not acceptable. There should have been no warning to Sony, just a public statement from F-Secure at the beginning of October about the rootkit.
The biggest blip on the slashdot radar over the Thanksgiving holiday was the realization by the editorial community that a slow news problem first identified six months ago was a lot worse than it appeared, as what appeared to be only a short blip of news vulnerability now also allows for execution of arbitrary stories as portraid by Beatles Beatles. The realization caused CmdrTaco to issue a rare 'Extremely Dupical' advisory.
Let's assume, that by some miracle, some subcontractor, ShitSoft (MS) manages to break a deal to sell shit (Windows) for food (OS) for McDonalds (IBM) customers for their fastfood restaurants (PC) sometime in the late 80ies so ShitSoft gains monopoly on fastfood restaurants and thus the food market.
There are 12'000 people involved in devising the best methods to fling shit at the customers, to feed them with shit, to serve shit in the most appetizing way.
Because people don't know anything better, people buy ShitSoft's "product". ShitSoft must be producing a huge market many hungry people rely on, right?
ShitSoft is a nice friendly company, so it donates less than 1% of its profits to help combat diseases, so this is why we should keep eating shit.
Also, ShitSoft also has around 12'000 employees, whom are contractually obliged to eat shit.
ShitSoft has been on the top for a while, they clearly created a product that everyone LIKES, because they don't know any better. That product has created jobs for millions of food specialists, contractors and plastic cutlery producers. (Because they would be totally out of their jobs if people would eat something different, right?)
But as in every fairy tale the bad, ugly guy appeared: community owned greenhouses started producing quality vegetables. They gave it away the plans of building such greenhouses and the seeds for the vegetables, only asking to share them with everyone who wants those plans and seeds.
ShitSoft had to do something: they started their "Get the feces" campaign, where they involved several independent researchers, with only a few million shares from ShitSoft or being a board member at ShitSoft. Those researchers claimed that everyone who uses community owned greenhouses must be a communist for not supporting Real hard working American produced quality branded shit wrapped in nice shiny package, but preferred vegetables. They explained that shit has a much lower Total Caloric Overall, than vegetables and that ShitSoft's shit is produced by a trustable american corporation while the vegetables are clearly on the way to ruin the american economy.
The campaign is still undecided to be effective or not, but let's not forget another issue: ShitSoft's product created a huge industry to modify some of the product's erm, "features". Some customers wanted to decrease the value of the quality shit (no idea why would they want to do that), by buying products from third party companies to make shit lose it's smell and taste, and to drive away the flies. Can you not see how ShitSoft helps the economy?
There have been certain allegations before, that ShitSoft's product is not adequate for human consumption. Such a nonsense! It is a shame that we can't disprove that since ShitSoft's End User Shit Agreement specifically forbids the analysis of their latest, "eXPerience the Shit" product and all former versions. Some people slandered ShitSoft before by claiming that shit causes diarrhea and infections and that generally everyone just should refrain from eating shit, but ShitSoft dismissed such scandalous claims.
Be patriotic, support ShitSoft, down with vegetables!
Slashdot Mirror
Yet Another Meaningless Sentence.
'"Those industry fat cats try to put a price on my music, but it wants to be free," the canine bard says in a dialogue bubble at the bottom of the screen, after performing and giving away "copies" of a tune.'
The article comments this as: "A Nintendo video game includes a character that seems to advocate an illegal form of music file-sharing."
When was giving your OWN music away for free illegal?
Also: 'That last insight and its implications for the young people in Professor Brown's vision of the future notwithstanding, it's a bit disorienting to find an "information wants to be free" message embedded in a video game - particularly one aimed at young children and teenagers.'
Why? Good values should be taught in childhood. Sharing is good! Openness is good! Those are the values you want to teach children, not greed.
The last straw: "After all, video game industry representatives, along with their brethren in the music, film and computer software industries, have long complained that this is precisely the kind of thinking that is eating away at their business models - and maybe civilization itself. "
In other words, if you don't sell us your soul, you're going to hell! Where did we hear this already?
The article mixes nonsensical stuff in the writeup, like: 'A user called Yams also added "Yams yams yams yams yams."'
Seriously, who cares? The article is a mess mixed with propaganda. It reads the end of the world into probably an innocent thing.
There are some pleasure derived/activated from doing repetitive movement.
If you see a lion move around in the zoo in a repetitive way, this is why.
If this is a way to sell games according to some companies, they should go bankrupt.
Parent may be a troll, but I was laughing five minutes on his post...
I can't say that, no, that'd be blatantly obvious...
Tinfoil hats!
I couldn't resist...
Yeah. In related quote, "Arbeit mach frei!".
Possibly some tool friend of his at the ISP. This kind of thing is usually not publicly advertised though and he probably made up that IP tool story to cover for the employee who gave out confidential information.
Alice.
"James Bond may use the fanciest, most expensive and high-tech devices to thwart would-be eavesdroppers, but in a pinch, the super-spy can use one Texas A&M engineer's simple, low-cost scheme to keep data secure from the bad guys."
This is the first sentence from the article. I'm sorry, but I cannot take anything in that article seriously. On another note the guy has an interestingly hungarian sounding name.
Marx or Rove? Actually, doesn't matter. Two times a six a dozen...
It was too early. When slashdot's reputation is at stake editors gotta be careful.
"I have spent the last week in the press.
I have been called a HIJACKER - PodJacker - RSS Hijacker - Extortionist - and more.
All (every word untrue) The issue has to do with a GIANT MISUNDERSTANDING!
But since it got slashdotted today... it will get worse.
The idiot podcaster - signed up for my free search engine that I did last year.
He admits - showing up - and signing up!
( a fact omitted in the original news )
He asked to be removed - and was removed without question!
he lost 1000 of 1500 visitors because he asked me too.
He asked me to put them back I told him that he could do it himself, but that I would not change the code without negociating fees.
Erik took this as extortion and took it to a lawyer and the press.
The articles started flying... and I have been all over the press since.
I have been on national us radio programs - podcasts news articles in europe - former USSR - china - australia and more.
Unreal....
gets worse actually - but could use some ideas...
Need to get the story straight...
but the flood of articles may be too much for me to personally keep up with."
So there you have it. The guy belongs to the same organization as I do. Before someone criticises me for that, we are a group of IT enthusiasts and nothing to do with script kiddies as shown by our mission statement.
Because they are different in spirit. SELinux is something that gives the necessary features for an organization like NSA where they require a level C or B or higher classified system.
Grsecurity is more like for the common user wanting to make their system more secure.
I'm aware that this is very vague like this, but it gives the general idea I hope. Personally I use Grsec for my home box, but an organization wanting to replace old mainframes needs to look into a bit different solutions, like SELinux.
You obviously don't have the schwartz in you.
Yes, the ninja nazis will shortly arrive from the black helicopthers.
Please wait patiently until that happens.
Party officer^W^WFreedom Officer from the free Oceania^WUnited States of America.
Thank you for your cooperation.
"I know you're joking, but many Europeans find it hilarious how those in the US who go on the most about bringing "freedom" to Iraq and Afghanistan are often amongst the leaders in wanting to limit freedom in America."
I don't find it hilarious, not even a bit. I find it sad.
The difference between a Microsoft security issue and the Sony rootkit is earth and sky.
If F-Secure would have identified a flaw in Microsoft's software, then it's ok if they give the company a grace period to get a patch ready.
There was no such patch to be prepared in the case of Sony.
The following things are sensible to be done when someone finds a new rootkit spreading in the wild:
Let's face it: By telling Sony about it and not going for public disclosure F-Secure accomplished nothing but let even more users get infected by this rootkit. Sony is not a software company, there wasn't a flaw in a software that needed to be fixed, but the software itself removed! That requires no cooperation on behalf of Sony.
No, the law doesn't work that way, similarly you can't enforce/consider valid a NDA covering up a murder, for example.
When the Sony rootkit case first hit the news, I considered F-Secure to be quite good for an anti-virus company because they were reasonably quick adding the rootkit to their signature file.
They've just lost that credit for me. They knew for a month and were sitting on it! That is not acceptable. There should have been no warning to Sony, just a public statement from F-Secure at the beginning of October about the rootkit.
The biggest blip on the slashdot radar over the Thanksgiving holiday was the realization by the editorial community that a slow news problem first identified six months ago was a lot worse than it appeared, as what appeared to be only a short blip of news vulnerability now also allows for execution of arbitrary stories as portraid by Beatles Beatles. The realization caused CmdrTaco to issue a rare 'Extremely Dupical' advisory.
"When, exactly (or even generally!), is Microsoft supposed to buckle under the pressure?"
They already did, many times whenever a government/city threatened to go Linux/BSD/Solaris.
Let's assume, that by some miracle, some subcontractor, ShitSoft (MS) manages to break a deal to sell shit (Windows) for food (OS) for McDonalds (IBM) customers for their fastfood restaurants (PC) sometime in the late 80ies so ShitSoft gains monopoly on fastfood restaurants and thus the food market.
There are 12'000 people involved in devising the best methods to fling shit at the customers, to feed them with shit, to serve shit in the most appetizing way.
Because people don't know anything better, people buy ShitSoft's "product". ShitSoft must be producing a huge market many hungry people rely on, right?
ShitSoft is a nice friendly company, so it donates less than 1% of its profits to help combat diseases, so this is why we should keep eating shit.
Also, ShitSoft also has around 12'000 employees, whom are contractually obliged to eat shit.
ShitSoft has been on the top for a while, they clearly created a product that everyone LIKES, because they don't know any better. That product has created jobs for millions of food specialists, contractors and plastic cutlery producers. (Because they would be totally out of their jobs if people would eat something different, right?)
But as in every fairy tale the bad, ugly guy appeared: community owned greenhouses started producing quality vegetables. They gave it away the plans of building such greenhouses and the seeds for the vegetables, only asking to share them with everyone who wants those plans and seeds.
ShitSoft had to do something: they started their "Get the feces" campaign, where they involved several independent researchers, with only a few million shares from ShitSoft or being a board member at ShitSoft. Those researchers claimed that everyone who uses community owned greenhouses must be a communist for not supporting Real hard working American produced quality branded shit wrapped in nice shiny package, but preferred vegetables. They explained that shit has a much lower Total Caloric Overall, than vegetables and that ShitSoft's shit is produced by a trustable american corporation while the vegetables are clearly on the way to ruin the american economy.
The campaign is still undecided to be effective or not, but let's not forget another issue: ShitSoft's product created a huge industry to modify some of the product's erm, "features". Some customers wanted to decrease the value of the quality shit (no idea why would they want to do that), by buying products from third party companies to make shit lose it's smell and taste, and to drive away the flies. Can you not see how ShitSoft helps the economy?
There have been certain allegations before, that ShitSoft's product is not adequate for human consumption. Such a nonsense! It is a shame that we can't disprove that since ShitSoft's End User Shit Agreement specifically forbids the analysis of their latest, "eXPerience the Shit" product and all former versions. Some people slandered ShitSoft before by claiming that shit causes diarrhea and infections and that generally everyone just should refrain from eating shit, but ShitSoft dismissed such scandalous claims.
Be patriotic, support ShitSoft, down with vegetables!
I guess you mean 35 degree Fahrenheit?
;)
I default to SI when people don't specify what kind of system they count things in.
Aren't you some NASA engineer by any chance?
Holy shit batman, GP made me laugh for minutes.
Yes, I'm hungarian.
"Sorry, pal. This is a Microsoft product."
Exactly. Microsoft products use evolution. In other words, it takes JUST A FEW MILLION YEARS to get them right - almost.