an unchecked exec() call allowed a minor defacement, not a hack. the integrity of the server was not compromised, some script kiddie just changed a web page. it was quickly fixed.
you can put xhost +localhost in your.xinitrc script, and the export DISPLAY=... in you/etc/profile and that should take care of those problems (without having to play with xauth)
this could be a viable option. but imagine playing quake with mouselook on using this... look to the right... your screen follows but you're looking to the right of your monitor. move your head to look back at the screen... you're right back to where you started. How would you overcome this little quirk other than developing really really good perephrial vision?
Funny, have you ever noticed how most responses to a slashdot post in which the person posting in response who seems to have taken offense, never has ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the original post? Do we see your kid shooting up his school? Did I ever tell you you needed to devote 100% of your time to police your kids? Did I ever call all parents hypocrites? No. As I have said, there is just too much possibility of abuse for a tool thats really only of much use to overprotective or negligent parents.
Spoken as a highschool senior, without kids, still a kid myself. I personally believe that kids should be allowed to watch what they want to watch as long as parents also parent -- thats their number one priority, not their careers, not their selves. As my parents tell me everytime they have to put myself or anyone of my siblings before their own immediacies, when you have kids your life is no longer your own. Reading your response though, you dont seem to really have a problem with anything I say excepting my 'flippant' remarks and my fear of when can be done if the chip is misused or places in parents a false confidence that may lead them to use television as a substitute for real parenting.
From the people who brought you content filters for china, now presenting: Canadian Television for Parents who are too busy to be parents. Seriously, the possibility for abuse of such a system by those in control of it far outweighs any perceived gains. In reality does it do anything more than allow a parent to ignore their children just that much more? Gosh, I didnt know johnny was building pipe bombs, i thought he was safely plastered to the tube with nary an evil thought allowed to enter his innocent little head, eh. What we need isnt content 'safeguards' what we need is parents to sit down with their children and teach them right and wrong. Dont expect little sally to get her morals from 90210 reruns, and fashion tips from britney spears.
how is this law onerous? wouldn't the manufacturers not selling to pa residents be telling you that they EXPECT their kit not to work? that their product is crap and the chance that it will breakdown high? im not understanding what you're saying... how is it unfair for a manufacturer producing an inferior product to be held accountable?
i wonder if this law would provide protection against chips that were advertised as one thing but actually over clocked versions of lower-end chips like what was occurring in australia. pennsylvania seems to be one of the only states attempting to be 'nerd-friendly' with its tax expempt holiday (a month or two in pennsylvania you could buy PCs tax-free) and now this Computer Lemon Law, well... bill. is this some attempt to attract hi-tech users to the east coast, an attempt to make a philadelphia bay area... it makes one wonder.
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i can picture that now, mom walking through the grocery store with junior and they stop in the cereal isle. "psst, hey Kid! You love me right?", says a loveably cartoon character to the kid, "then why dont you ask mommy really nicely to buy me?". Of course the parents cant hear this conversation because its aimed at around their knees... Suddenly the little kid needs the box of cereal because he doesn't want mr.[insert cereal mascot here] not to like him anymore. you did that, you'd probably make a fortune... until people found out that is...
...how Mr.Heckler (the one who made the fascist comment about how Sony was going to 'firewall Napster at every point imaginable') feels about his company helping to support Napster in the case to shut it down. It makes you think... On the other hand it also shows how fractured this issue really is. Personally I hope that they somehow manage to get the supreme court to acknowledge the fact that the DMCA is unconstitutional.
Of course, thats just my opinion, i could be wrong.
ScudYuppies... Its a new idea from the DOD. Enough of them flying around and we don't have to worry about intercepting ballistic missiles before they hit major urban centers... the ScudYuppies will do it for us.
but with the spin they put on it its not censoring, its filtering... just like they are trying to institute in all public schools, just like they are trying to put in the whitehouse, just like they tried to put in your local library.
the library isn't responsible if you circumvent their blocking software you are, just like the ISP's who subscribe to the anti-spam groups, they aren't held liable for the spam that does get through are they?
What you call 'their property' is actually the property of artist... those who create the craft for which the music industry was made to distribute. Napster changes the means of distrubtion, ergo eliminating the need for the music industry as it exists today. I pay $16 for a cd: how much does the actual cd cost to make? pennies; how much does the actual artist make? pennies; how much do those who steal the artists rights and whore their craft all over america making and breaking people over market share? billions of dollars.
wasn't it courtney love who said something similar... an artist who was involved with the system, saw how it works and more importantly how it didn't? well we have something new, and its better, cheaper, and more competitive than the RIAA and THAT my friend is how laissez faire capitolism works, not 'forcing kiddies to ask mom and dad for money to buy their over priced cds'. you have it one hundred percent correct when you say that noone should deny you of income, so why then does the RIAA and the music distribution industry still exist? That my friend is piracy and theft of intellectual property.
Those are just my opinions, i could be wrong... but im most likely right.
He is also showing his hand, how much future technology is going to change things such as media distribution... Things most slashdotters already know, may not agree with, but things that are just dawning on this sony executive. He is showing his fear of his job no longer being necessary, there no longer being a spot for a middle man when artists can sell their craft directly to their fans... makes one think.
Although the facist remarks made by Mr.Heckler seem to be over the top, in light of the recent decision against 2600, the original injunction against napster, as well as the DMCA, the Methamphetamines act, Carnivore, and everything else... maybe im paranoid but there does seem to be a possibilty that what he says will happen. the recent study that found the majority of internet traffic traveling through a small number of servers (6 main ones i believe the number was, correct me if im wrong.) what happens when sony goes to them and offers the people in charge of those boxen some very large figure to install their filters into the stream?
Of course it also shows you how scared they are of this new technolgy... These strategies, Heckler said, are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake. Makes you think.
It seems that the main reason that the article states for Unix not being an OS is that they believe that the "User Experience" is part of the OS.
I personally wonder when the user experience becomes so much of a factor that the operating systems ceases to be an operating system and is only a user interface. If we had linus and the open source community working on the operating system, jobs and woz working on the interface, and gates on the marketing... wouldnt that be interesting...
i think in the future we'll use our minds to control the computers... like this cartoon from Real Life Comics. How productive would it be to write a paper, or code, directly from your head to the page nothing lost in the translation. Aside from the privacy issues (and the technology issues despite what the people at Princeton's Engineering Anomalies Research would tell you).
i especially like the idea of the eff or 2600 walking to their desks and using biometrics to login to their computers... uhm, no. Talk about incredibly invasive, next they'll have those blood samplers like in Gattica.
FYI, the original Lost in Space took place in 1998. Danger Will Robinson, Danger.
Remember, snowcrash was origianlly designed as a VISUAL multimedia project.
Batman beyond, if it follows the kickass cartoon added with some of Stephensons techno-themes will be a very cool movie... think batman as badass as Hiro and a villian as wacked out as Raven...
of course, thats just my opinion, i could be wrong.
(make all that one line, change xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to either your static IP or a mask for whatever range of IP's you're assigned by the modem... make and entry for each port (10xx = {1030,1031,...,1040}) all better).
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im surprised that i haven't seen some speculation as to a linux company such as RH buying SCO and changing the license to the open source model so that the community may make use of some of the better points of SCO unix. it would make sense, especially with some of these companies and the economic clout they are acquiring.
Along the same lines, here is the CNN article on the subject... With a little of the recent stock action at the end. Its good seeing a pro-mp3 news item compared to things like "napster looses shirt" and whatever.
Isn't this considered a bot, which napster expressly forbids users from running in their agreement as well as their login messages? So this software is being used to 'prevent piracy' while being unethical in and of itself. Just my $.02 ----------- #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
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an unchecked exec() call allowed a minor defacement, not a hack. the integrity of the server was not compromised, some script kiddie just changed a web page. it was quickly fixed.
... its called autoslack
and on your second point
you can put xhost +localhost in your .xinitrc script, and the export DISPLAY=... in you /etc/profile and that should take care of those problems (without having to play with xauth)
this could be a viable option. but imagine playing quake with mouselook on using this... look to the right... your screen follows but you're looking to the right of your monitor. move your head to look back at the screen... you're right back to where you started. How would you overcome this little quirk other than developing really really good perephrial vision?
Funny, have you ever noticed how most responses to a slashdot post in which the person posting in response who seems to have taken offense, never has ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the original post? Do we see your kid shooting up his school? Did I ever tell you you needed to devote 100% of your time to police your kids? Did I ever call all parents hypocrites? No. As I have said, there is just too much possibility of abuse for a tool thats really only of much use to overprotective or negligent parents.
Spoken as a highschool senior, without kids, still a kid myself. I personally believe that kids should be allowed to watch what they want to watch as long as parents also parent -- thats their number one priority, not their careers, not their selves. As my parents tell me everytime they have to put myself or anyone of my siblings before their own immediacies, when you have kids your life is no longer your own. Reading your response though, you dont seem to really have a problem with anything I say excepting my 'flippant' remarks and my fear of when can be done if the chip is misused or places in parents a false confidence that may lead them to use television as a substitute for real parenting.
From the people who brought you content filters for china, now presenting:
Canadian Television for Parents who are too busy to be parents. Seriously,
the possibility for abuse of such a system by those in control of it far outweighs
any perceived gains. In reality does it do anything more than allow a parent
to ignore their children just that much more? Gosh, I didnt know johnny was
building pipe bombs, i thought he was safely plastered to the tube with nary
an evil thought allowed to enter his innocent little head, eh. What we need
isnt content 'safeguards' what we need is parents to sit down with their
children and teach them right and wrong. Dont expect little sally to get her
morals from 90210 reruns, and fashion tips from britney spears.
just my $.02
how is this law onerous? wouldn't the manufacturers not selling to pa residents be telling you that they EXPECT their kit not to work? that their product is crap and the chance that it will breakdown high? im not understanding what you're saying... how is it unfair for a manufacturer producing an inferior product to be held accountable?
i wonder if this law would provide protection against chips that were advertised as one thing but actually over clocked versions of lower-end chips like what was occurring in australia. pennsylvania seems to be one of the only states attempting to be 'nerd-friendly' with its tax expempt holiday (a month or two in pennsylvania you could buy PCs tax-free) and now this Computer Lemon Law, well... bill. is this some attempt to attract hi-tech users to the east coast, an attempt to make a philadelphia bay area... it makes one wonder.
i can picture that now, mom walking through the grocery store with junior and they stop in the cereal isle. "psst, hey Kid! You love me right?", says a loveably cartoon character to the kid, "then why dont you ask mommy really nicely to buy me?". Of course the parents cant hear this conversation because its aimed at around their knees... Suddenly the little kid needs the box of cereal because he doesn't want mr.[insert cereal mascot here] not to like him anymore. you did that, you'd probably make a fortune... until people found out that is...
...how Mr.Heckler (the one who made the fascist comment about how Sony was going to 'firewall Napster at every point imaginable') feels about his company helping to support Napster in the case to shut it down. It makes you think... On the other hand it also shows how fractured this issue really is. Personally I hope that they somehow manage to get the supreme court to acknowledge the fact that the DMCA is unconstitutional.
Of course, thats just my opinion, i could be wrong.
ScudYuppies... Its a new idea from the DOD. Enough of them flying around and we don't have to worry about intercepting ballistic missiles before they hit major urban centers... the ScudYuppies will do it for us.
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but with the spin they put on it its not censoring, its filtering... just like they are trying to institute in all public schools, just like they are trying to put in the whitehouse, just like they tried to put in your local library.
the library isn't responsible if you circumvent their blocking software you are, just like the ISP's who subscribe to the anti-spam groups, they aren't held liable for the spam that does get through are they?
What you call 'their property' is actually the property of artist... those who create the craft for which the music industry was made to distribute. Napster changes the means of distrubtion, ergo eliminating the need for the music industry as it exists today. I pay $16 for a cd: how much does the actual cd cost to make? pennies; how much does the actual artist make? pennies; how much do those who steal the artists rights and whore their craft all over america making and breaking people over market share? billions of dollars.
wasn't it courtney love who said something similar... an artist who was involved with the system, saw how it works and more importantly how it didn't? well we have something new, and its better, cheaper, and more competitive than the RIAA and THAT my friend is how laissez faire capitolism works, not 'forcing kiddies to ask mom and dad for money to buy their over priced cds'. you have it one hundred percent correct when you say that noone should deny you of income, so why then does the RIAA and the music distribution industry still exist? That my friend is piracy and theft of intellectual property.
Those are just my opinions, i could be wrong... but im most likely right.
He is also showing his hand, how much future technology is going to change things such as media distribution... Things most slashdotters already know, may not agree with, but things that are just dawning on this sony executive. He is showing his fear of his job no longer being necessary, there no longer being a spot for a middle man when artists can sell their craft directly to their fans... makes one think.
Although the facist remarks made by Mr.Heckler seem to be over the top, in light of the recent decision against 2600, the original injunction against napster, as well as the DMCA, the Methamphetamines act, Carnivore, and everything else... maybe im paranoid but there does seem to be a possibilty that what he says will happen. the recent study that found the majority of internet traffic traveling through a small number of servers (6 main ones i believe the number was, correct me if im wrong.) what happens when sony goes to them and offers the people in charge of those boxen some very large figure to install their filters into the stream?
Of course it also shows you how scared they are of this new technolgy... These strategies, Heckler said, are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake. Makes you think.
thats just my opinion, i could be wrong.
It seems that the main reason that the article states for Unix not being an OS is that they believe that the "User Experience" is part of the OS.
I personally wonder when the user experience becomes so much of a factor that the operating systems ceases to be an operating system and is only a user interface. If we had linus and the open source community working on the operating system, jobs and woz working on the interface, and gates on the marketing... wouldnt that be interesting...
i think in the future we'll use our minds to control the computers... like this cartoon from Real Life Comics. How productive would it be to write a paper, or code, directly from your head to the page nothing lost in the translation. Aside from the privacy issues (and the technology issues despite what the people at Princeton's Engineering Anomalies Research would tell you).
thats just my opinion, i could be wrong.
i especially like the idea of the eff or 2600 walking to their desks and using biometrics to login to their computers... uhm, no. Talk about incredibly invasive, next they'll have those blood samplers like in Gattica.
FYI, the original Lost in Space took place in 1998. Danger Will Robinson, Danger.
but wouldn't it be awesome to see stephenson pull some of the crypto theme from cryptonomicon... as long as they dont use Finux, ill be happy.
Remember, snowcrash was origianlly designed as a VISUAL multimedia project.
Batman beyond, if it follows the kickass cartoon added with some of Stephensons techno-themes will be a very cool movie... think batman as badass as Hiro and a villian as wacked out as Raven...
of course, thats just my opinion, i could be wrong.
/sbin/ipchains -A input ! -s 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 10xx -j REJECT
(make all that one line, change xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to either your static IP or a mask for whatever range of IP's you're assigned by the modem... make and entry for each port (10xx = {1030,1031,...,1040}) all better).
im surprised that i haven't seen some speculation as to a linux company such as RH buying SCO and changing the license to the open source model so that the community may make use of some of the better points of SCO unix. it would make sense, especially with some of these companies and the economic clout they are acquiring.
just my $0.02
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
Along the same lines, here is the CNN article on the subject... With a little of the recent stock action at the end.
Its good seeing a pro-mp3 news item compared to things like "napster looses shirt" and whatever.
-invictus
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
Isn't this considered a bot, which napster expressly forbids users from running in their agreement as well as their login messages? So this software is being used to 'prevent piracy' while being unethical in and of itself.
Just my $.02
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1