Is there any project to create a set of regression tests for the Linux kernel? This is not the first serious bug that would have been found with even the most basic set of regression tests.
The vast majority of the responses I have seen are saying that it will be difficult if not impossible to get your domain back. This is simply not true. The party that has the more "legitimate" need will win. Legitimate means corporate or profitable. Surely the porn-peddling domain hoarder will not be able to win over someone who controls an organization with a name very similar to the domain. Not when you consider all of the past domain disputes and how they were decided.
Commercial software has a different license for every different product and every different version. In my experience, companies never have their legal department review a license before purchasing software.
Ignoring that works of the U.S. government immediately go to public domain
Ignoring also that there are numerous state laws that are copyrighted, and which you need to pay a corporation a license fee to see the law. You are, of course, still subject to the law regardless of whether you bought a license to it.
my apartment and the one nextdoor are already doing this with cables. we share a cable modem and have 8 boxes linked together. no complaints
so far.
No complaints so far, because you havn't been caught yet (or, there aren't enough people doing this to make it worth making an example of them). You are no doubt violating your cable modem agreement, FCC regulations, and local building codes. And these are the sort of laws that will be used to shut down any attempt at large scale networks that threaten corporate profits.
Meeting Maker sucks. It's best feature is that it provides calendaring without requiring that you use Windows. But the non-Windows interface is a Java applet, and there is no good Unix web browser with decent Java support. (Compare the performance of IE's Java vs anything else). On top of that, Meeting Maker's user interface is terrible. I don't know if Exchange is better, but people certainly perceive it to be. And that's what matters. Unless a replacement can be as good or better than Exchange, it's not going to fly.
The only difference between a US drivers license and the European national ID cards is that we can't legally be asked for our ID without cause if we are not driving or in a bar.
Police do it anyway, but they have to make up a cause. You need a drivers license (or an ID card, which doesn't allow you to drive) to live a normal life.
The real fear is that the national ID systems is another step towards a police state where people can be stopped without cause to ask them where they are coming from, where they are going, and for their identification.
In fact, this has probably increased
society's paranoia about "hackers/crackers", the internet, and electronic commerce.
It certainly hasn't. If it had, people would be against encryption restrictions, instead of suddenly supporting them. One of the most serious negative effects of encryption restrictions is that it harms computer security. Primarily by making secure authentication impossible.
You're lucky that you're allowed to. Increasingly, ISPs are not allowing this, wanting to charge 5-10 times as much for business rates for customers that want such simple things as an e-mail address that will never change.
Comcast@home already censors USENET, both binary and non-binary groups, removing those which they deem inappropriate. I imagine other ISPs are doing the same. It doesn't really surprise me that they would expand this.
Someone loses their ability to work in their profession and, for most, participate in their hobby/mental
exercise/what-have-you then they are disabled. How does this not apply to typing? Unless someone wants to
get me a nerve implant right to my brain/spinal cord, Ima fight that if anything happens to my hands to where I
can't type.
So she chose a profession that she could not perform adequately, and now wants others to be forced to allow her to do it anyway. Does this apply to any skill, or just typing? Can I be a sprinter if I weigh 300 pounds and can't run? Can I be deaf and have a job that requires talking on the phone all day? Can I be blind and direct traffic?
Oh, but typing is different - it's a physical activity that some people can't perform a great deal of. OK, how about construction or garbage collection. Jobs that require constant physical exertion. Many people can't handle this. Should the ADA protect them?
The ADA was meant to protect people who, say, are in a wheelchair, and could do their job if only there were a ramp up the stairs so they can get into the office. That's a far stretch from someone who lacks a basic requirement for the job.
"It descended, hitting mach 20 and temperatures of 16,000 K!"
Considering that Carbon boils at 5100 K and the sun is right around 6000K, I must
be missing something.
While the surface of the sun, its coldest part, is about 5800K, other parts are much hotter. For instance, the corona is a million or two degrees, and the core - where fusion takes place - is about 15 million.
Anyone comparing a temperature to the surface of the sun is being deliberately deceptive. They are attempting to demonstrate how hot something is by comparing it to the sun - which we all know is very very hot - but they are comparing it to the sun's coldest part.
These 2,000 IIS servers are ones with broken clocks. They have no idea what the date is, so they are still in infection mode. The only good news here is that these machines never know to turn from infection to attack, either.
If the clocks are set wrong and the machines are currently in infection mode, the machines will switch to attack mode when the clock says to. Does he really think you can have a computer with a "broken clock" that literally means it doesn't increment time within at least a few percent of the correct rate?
I was answering people's questions on Compuserve, Prodigy, Fidonet, and USENET since I was 12. Computer-related, not law-related questions, though. I think a lot of people here can say the same. So this kid just happens to have an interest in law. This is typical of the media, a lengthy article about something that is reallly quite trivial.
You "never did anything to harm an IRC server", yet you had an "army of clonebots?"
A clonebot uses no more resources than a single legitimate client. Yes, this is abuse of the IRC server. But this is a minor abuse, compared to the events that this Slashdot is about. Clonebots do not in and of themselves harm the server. They simply use more than one person's fair share of resources. (resources being a TCP connection, bandwidth, and memory on the server and on the IRC network). IP flooding is so much more serious.
6 years ago, the DDoS attacks of
today weren't technically possible. If they were possible, they would have been used.
I disagree strongly. They were more difficult, available to a smaller group of people. And the group of people who had the ability to do this,
I would like to think, also had a certain ethic against doing it.
Well I hope your equally disgusted with yourself. Its shitheads like yourself who's antics set the stage for
this sort of thing.
How is that? When IRC wars moved out of IRC, I stopped. More than that, I vowed to never fight again. I have let the channel I hung out in for 8 years be taken over for months, because I refused to engage in any IRC wars.
Pingflooding had been considered lame for a long time. It hurts noncombatants. It hurts combatants in ways unrelated to IRC. It is unfair to those who have less bandwidth. It creates wars that escalate only through use of more bandwidth, which means hacking hundreds or thousands of machines. Then a new crowd moved in (along with Windows, WSIRC, and mIRC) that didn't see a problem with it. The collective morality changed. It wasn't individuals who's morality changed, it was a new group of people who did not have any respect for anything.
I used it a few years ago when I was at college, but even then it was just a bunch of jerks
Probably because you were in the wrong channels. Really, the best channels have names that are not obvious (e.g. #sex is obvious), and are either +s ("secret", so it does not show up in/list or/whois) or +i or +k (invite-only or key needed to join). This keeps out the clueless newbies, and the warrior spillover from wherever it is that they hang out now.
What is the point of attacking an IRC network with a DOS attack anyway?
To get ops. Timestamping makes this more difficult, it does not make this impossible. Consider the case where everyone in the channel is disconnected because their server is flooded off. Now that there are no ops, you can get ops on a split. And of course, you can cause a split by flooding one or more servers. As a bonus, you get to steal the nicks of your enemies.
I used to be a fearsome IRC warrior, in the days of nuke and flash. Not winnuke, mind you. Nobody on IRC used Windows then. Nobody at all.
I never did anything to harm an IRC server. Nobody did. #warez learned to fear my army of clonebots, and in fact clonebots were the only thing I ever did that upset IRCops.
Now, people don't care about IRC when they are involved in their IRC wars. Just like using nuclear/biological/chemical weapons in real-life wars, DoS attacks against servers harm innocent noncombatants. This is unconscionable.
DoS attacks against servers is destroying, and will ultimately destroy, EFNet. These people surely know this. They just don't care.
Couldn't I just erase the whole thing, write my own agreement, and click "I
Agree".
I always do that. As far as I'm concerned, that's the license that binds me. They offered me a license, I offered an alternative license, and they accepted it. If the license was not negotiable, then why was it put in an editable textbox?
Guess I have to make a crank call here... You prbably meant the word that could also mean
'structural surface defect' ie. crack?
"Crank" is American (that is United States of America) slang for d-methamphetamine, or (S)-N,a-Dimethylbenzene-ethanamine, or 1-phenyl-2-methylaminopropane.
I see a lot of criticism here for the fact that Slashdot posted this article, since the guy is obviously an idiot. Nobody has pointed out why this happened. For once, it's not a case of Slashdot posting an article that should never have seen the light of day. The category is "humor" - no other warantee-violating customization of proprietary hardware is categorized as humor. The editor's comments clearly are mocking the person who attempted to dye his GBA. The article itself is so preposterous that the person is either obviously an idiot, or has written this as a piece of fiction. (for the purpose of a troll, but the meaning of "troll" has been perverted on Slashdot so much that I wonder if anyone still knows what it means). He found it impossible to open up an unusually shaped screw!
There is still room for humor in our lives. I apologize for spoiling a joke by explaining why it is a joke.
Even though they claim you were sold only a license to the music, they will not sell you a new CD for only the media cost. Any software company will do this, however.
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Is there any project to create a set of regression tests for the Linux kernel? This is not the first serious bug that would have been found with even the most basic set of regression tests.
The vast majority of the responses I have seen are saying that it will be difficult if not impossible to get your domain back. This is simply not true. The party that has the more "legitimate" need will win. Legitimate means corporate or profitable. Surely the porn-peddling domain hoarder will not be able to win over someone who controls an organization with a name very similar to the domain. Not when you consider all of the past domain disputes and how they were decided.
Commercial software has a different license for every different product and every different version. In my experience, companies never have their legal department review a license before purchasing software.
I must say that this is so completely and utterly classic. It is similar to when people correct someone's "grammer".
Ignoring also that there are numerous state laws that are copyrighted, and which you need to pay a corporation a license fee to see the law. You are, of course, still subject to the law regardless of whether you bought a license to it.
One fan? That's not very redundant.
No complaints so far, because you havn't been caught yet (or, there aren't enough people doing this to make it worth making an example of them). You are no doubt violating your cable modem agreement, FCC regulations, and local building codes. And these are the sort of laws that will be used to shut down any attempt at large scale networks that threaten corporate profits.
Meeting Maker sucks. It's best feature is that it provides calendaring without requiring that you use Windows. But the non-Windows interface is a Java applet, and there is no good Unix web browser with decent Java support. (Compare the performance of IE's Java vs anything else). On top of that, Meeting Maker's user interface is terrible. I don't know if Exchange is better, but people certainly perceive it to be. And that's what matters. Unless a replacement can be as good or better than Exchange, it's not going to fly.
The only difference between a US drivers license and the European national ID cards is that we can't legally be asked for our ID without cause if we are not driving or in a bar.
Police do it anyway, but they have to make up a cause. You need a drivers license (or an ID card, which doesn't allow you to drive) to live a normal life.
The real fear is that the national ID systems is another step towards a police state where people can be stopped without cause to ask them where they are coming from, where they are going, and for their identification.
In fact, this has probably increased society's paranoia about "hackers/crackers", the internet, and electronic commerce. It certainly hasn't. If it had, people would be against encryption restrictions, instead of suddenly supporting them. One of the most serious negative effects of encryption restrictions is that it harms computer security. Primarily by making secure authentication impossible.
You're lucky that you're allowed to. Increasingly, ISPs are not allowing this, wanting to charge 5-10 times as much for business rates for customers that want such simple things as an e-mail address that will never change.
Comcast@home already censors USENET, both binary and non-binary groups, removing those which they deem inappropriate. I imagine other ISPs are doing the same. It doesn't really surprise me that they would expand this.
So she chose a profession that she could not perform adequately, and now wants others to be forced to allow her to do it anyway. Does this apply to any skill, or just typing? Can I be a sprinter if I weigh 300 pounds and can't run? Can I be deaf and have a job that requires talking on the phone all day? Can I be blind and direct traffic?
Oh, but typing is different - it's a physical activity that some people can't perform a great deal of. OK, how about construction or garbage collection. Jobs that require constant physical exertion. Many people can't handle this. Should the ADA protect them?
The ADA was meant to protect people who, say, are in a wheelchair, and could do their job if only there were a ramp up the stairs so they can get into the office. That's a far stretch from someone who lacks a basic requirement for the job.
While the surface of the sun, its coldest part, is about 5800K, other parts are much hotter. For instance, the corona is a million or two degrees, and the core - where fusion takes place - is about 15 million.
Anyone comparing a temperature to the surface of the sun is being deliberately deceptive. They are attempting to demonstrate how hot something is by comparing it to the sun - which we all know is very very hot - but they are comparing it to the sun's coldest part.
These 2,000 IIS servers are ones with broken clocks. They have no idea what the date is, so they are still in infection mode. The only good news here is that these machines never know to turn from infection to attack, either.
If the clocks are set wrong and the machines are currently in infection mode, the machines will switch to attack mode when the clock says to. Does he really think you can have a computer with a "broken clock" that literally means it doesn't increment time within at least a few percent of the correct rate?
I was answering people's questions on Compuserve, Prodigy, Fidonet, and USENET since I was 12. Computer-related, not law-related questions, though. I think a lot of people here can say the same. So this kid just happens to have an interest in law. This is typical of the media, a lengthy article about something that is reallly quite trivial.
A clonebot uses no more resources than a single legitimate client. Yes, this is abuse of the IRC server. But this is a minor abuse, compared to the events that this Slashdot is about. Clonebots do not in and of themselves harm the server. They simply use more than one person's fair share of resources. (resources being a TCP connection, bandwidth, and memory on the server and on the IRC network). IP flooding is so much more serious.
6 years ago, the DDoS attacks of today weren't technically possible. If they were possible, they would have been used.
I disagree strongly. They were more difficult, available to a smaller group of people. And the group of people who had the ability to do this, I would like to think, also had a certain ethic against doing it.
How is that? When IRC wars moved out of IRC, I stopped. More than that, I vowed to never fight again. I have let the channel I hung out in for 8 years be taken over for months, because I refused to engage in any IRC wars.
Pingflooding had been considered lame for a long time. It hurts noncombatants. It hurts combatants in ways unrelated to IRC. It is unfair to those who have less bandwidth. It creates wars that escalate only through use of more bandwidth, which means hacking hundreds or thousands of machines. Then a new crowd moved in (along with Windows, WSIRC, and mIRC) that didn't see a problem with it. The collective morality changed. It wasn't individuals who's morality changed, it was a new group of people who did not have any respect for anything.
Probably because you were in the wrong channels. Really, the best channels have names that are not obvious (e.g. #sex is obvious), and are either +s ("secret", so it does not show up in /list or /whois) or +i or +k (invite-only or key needed to join). This keeps out the clueless newbies, and the warrior spillover from wherever it is that they hang out now.
To get ops. Timestamping makes this more difficult, it does not make this impossible. Consider the case where everyone in the channel is disconnected because their server is flooded off. Now that there are no ops, you can get ops on a split. And of course, you can cause a split by flooding one or more servers. As a bonus, you get to steal the nicks of your enemies.
I never did anything to harm an IRC server. Nobody did. #warez learned to fear my army of clonebots, and in fact clonebots were the only thing I ever did that upset IRCops.
Now, people don't care about IRC when they are involved in their IRC wars. Just like using nuclear/biological/chemical weapons in real-life wars, DoS attacks against servers harm innocent noncombatants. This is unconscionable.
DoS attacks against servers is destroying, and will ultimately destroy, EFNet. These people surely know this. They just don't care.
I have never been so disgusted with mankind.
I always do that. As far as I'm concerned, that's the license that binds me. They offered me a license, I offered an alternative license, and they accepted it. If the license was not negotiable, then why was it put in an editable textbox?
"Crank" is American (that is United States of America) slang for d-methamphetamine, or (S)-N,a-Dimethylbenzene-ethanamine, or 1-phenyl-2-methylaminopropane.
I see a lot of criticism here for the fact that Slashdot posted this article, since the guy is obviously an idiot. Nobody has pointed out why this happened. For once, it's not a case of Slashdot posting an article that should never have seen the light of day. The category is "humor" - no other warantee-violating customization of proprietary hardware is categorized as humor. The editor's comments clearly are mocking the person who attempted to dye his GBA. The article itself is so preposterous that the person is either obviously an idiot, or has written this as a piece of fiction. (for the purpose of a troll, but the meaning of "troll" has been perverted on Slashdot so much that I wonder if anyone still knows what it means). He found it impossible to open up an unusually shaped screw!
There is still room for humor in our lives. I apologize for spoiling a joke by explaining why it is a joke.
Even though they claim you were sold only a license to the music, they will not sell you a new CD for only the media cost. Any software company will do this, however.