"However, most scanners cannot scan inside a rar archive."
All of the current Symantec products can scan inside RAR archives including NAV2005, Symantec Corp. Ed. 9.0 and the e-mail gateways.
I am sure of this because I tested them all when NAV2005 had a bug where the scanner process would die on RAR 1.51-1.55 archives including SFX. This did not affect any other apps.
The scanning is done by the AV itself not by spawning an external RAR process. The code that accomplished this for NAV2005 is DEC2RAR.DLL which is in the Decomposers folder.
"May I ask why the hell Where's Waldo? was banned?"
I would imagine as it's wordless/pictorial, so may be removed from school libraries as it has no educational value as it doesn't help students with their reading comprehension. Time spent finding Waldo is time not spent learning anything.
There's at least one instance, "Amish Paradise ", where the original artist (Coolio) denied permission and Weird Al went ahead with it anyway...."
Subtle difference: permission was granted, but by the label and not by the artist, and the artist did not express disapproval until it was too late (at least according to Weird Al.) So it wasn't a case of him knowing it was not approved but going ahead regardless.
"That was a very unfortunate case of misunderstanding between Al's people and Coolio's people. Short version of the story: Al recorded "Amish Paradise" after being told by his record label that Coolio had given his permission for the parody. When Al's album came out, Coolio publicly contended that he had never given his blessing..."
The Rogers transition instructions (for me at least) are wrong. The demo shows the POP server as just "pop", SMTP as "smtp" and NNTP as "nntp" but are missing the remainder, which in my case was ".ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com" with the "ym" being whatever router you are on. The intro password is the last 8 digits of your account number. Neither of these handy tidbits were on the transition instructions, so they may have just configured the servers to allow mail retrieval without a password to alleviate four days without being able to get through to their tech. support.
I think it's just a matter of (little) time before hordes of enterprising geeks figure out how to get the pics out and reuse it without paying the fee, or simply gut the camera for parts..."
All the manufacturer has to do is "encrypt" the camera's internal memory by XOR'ing it with 0xFF and then getting the data out of it is a DMCA violation, at least in the U. S. of A.
Argh... why did I miss this thread until it was pushed into the sidebar.
I'm surprised no one mentioned this: does this mean that the U.S. goverment is going to do as some Slashdotters have suggested? They have, after all, found Microsoft guilty of breaking certain anti-trust laws. Perhaps this is the first move in divesting the government from being a customer of a convicted corporation.
Before Linux is ready for the U.S. government's sensitive information, time for a security overhaul. What better group to give that job to than the NSA? And they will play by the book and release the source, as they of all groups know the value of security through obscurity (none.) They might even get a few tips from Linux kernel hax0rs on possible 'sploits they disregarded, as they also know where the know-how (and the willingness to help out) is.
Now that one U.S. government agency will have a certified secure OS that they were able to review and alter the source code of, which doesn't have any backdoors and has true modular security (none of which can be said of closed-source Windows, where there is not six but one degree of separation and a bug in a minor support.DLL can be exploited for full root) how many other departments will we see switch in the next few years?
"Does the government have backdoors on our safes? Do the cops have a key to my appartment's door?"
They have oxyacetylene torches for your safe, and a battering ram for your door. This is why they are considering the legislation: there is no way of realiably cracking properly-done strong crypto in a reasonable amount of time (less than billions of years.) You can't force your way to a key, or buy it, like you can force a door or buy a better torch to get into safes faster.
The feds had Mitnick's laptop(?) for five years and made no progress in breaking the encryption he used...
Simply, that the only way to prove that something was encrypted "legally" would be to automatically break it, all of it, as it passes through various communications channels.
But this is too large of a job for just one person, or a (fiscally feasible) number of people, as much traffic may not pass through a central point. Machines will have to do it automatically, and there will ave to be many o them. Who will make the machines? How will they guarantee that the backdoor isn't released? What if the machines themselves take a walk?
Steganography would be the only way around this, by hiding an encrypted snippet well enough that it doesn't look encrypted. What if someone posts a badly-encoded GIF of their cat on their personal page, and the so-called "Stego detectors" pick it up. Of course, the "message" isn't there. Therefore it can't be decrypted, and they will be flagged as a criminal... scary prospect.
As the technology progresses, only poorly done stego and innocent media would be caught. It's already possible to encode messages to be indecipherable from quantization noise by any theoretically possible system.
Hehe... they banned two of Pink Floyd's from The Wall: "Mother" because of a single "Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?" line and "Run Like Hell" because it deals with organized brutality ala Nazism but completely missed the one from The Wall that I expected that they would target: "Goodbye Blue Sky"
Did-did-did-did you see the frightened ones?
Did-did-did-did you hear the falling bombs?
Did-did-did-did you ever wonder why we had to run to run for shelter when the promise of a Brave New World unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?
Did-did-did-did you see the frightened ones?
Did-did-did-did you hear the falling bombs?
The flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on.
Goodbye, blue sky...
Goodbye, blue sky...
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye...
(This is from memory.) Yes, I had a little listen after the events of September 11th.
You could try here but unfortunately the original article at Buzzflash.com can no longer be found, nor can the two articles in Yahoo and the Guardian. Both, rather conveniently, have expired, but when I found this I can verify that the link to the Guardian worked and it is quite genuine. You can also find it in an archive here.
You won't be hearing much of this on CNN, I can imagine. It's all but disappeared from the internet, and from the public memory...
Mr. Vonnegut is an ironic choice for a publisher to convert the works of to e-format. Many of his works deal with dehumanization through technology. The most prominent of these is Player Piano.
It describes a world in which everything has been mechanized and computerized. Because of this, there are few required jobs left, and most of the population has to work for government programs, or join the army. Eventually, the former director of the largest automated mass production facility becomes the de facto leader of the rebellion against the machines. Published in 1952, this puts it comfortably in the "way ahead of its time" league.
Interspersed in the novel are examples (a mechanized tavern goes flat broke when a "germ trap of a Victorian bar" opens up next door, and the soon-to-be-rebellious director falls in love with an old farmhouse with well-water and no electricity) that the most advanced way of doing things is not always the best, or the most appealing. It's a good read... on paper, of course.
From: Hilly Rosebud
To: Henry Waxman
cc: Steve Largent
Subj.: A Commendation For Your Efforts
I, Hilly Rosebud, president of the PIAA (Pornographic Industry Association of America) would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of all of our membership, to thank you for your diligence and leadership in this situation.
Our membership has been suffering a disturbing downturn in sales and revenues for the past five years in comparison to the amount of pornographic material currently possessed by the public. Currently, pornography in the United States is only an eight billion dollar per year industry. With recent studies of public possession, we now estimate that 80% to 90% of current distribution is though illegal means, either through peer-to-peer sharing on the internet, tape-duplication, treehouses, or other means.
Now, due to recent legislation and this investigation, the pornographic industry may finally be in a position to collect the revenues it is entitled to. Not only will elimination of peer-to-peer trading in pornography force consumers to pay for the right to view it, but the wisely written DMCA, which has just been given its first test of legal power, will allow our members to move to the new EBoink standard within one year. Printed or videotaped pornography will be eliminated, and all pornography will only be available in secure electronic formats, either on DVD discs, or paid for on the internet, locked to the machines it is downloaded on, and illegal to decrypt or remove the protections from. Extrapolating from the amount of our material that is circulating illegally, we expect that our revenues will increase by 500% to 1000%, from five to ten times their current amount.
Our membership will then earn from forty to eighty billion dollars in revenue annually. Pornography will become one of the largest industrial groups in the country, comparable in earnings to that of the construction sector.
We therefore take great pride in announcing that you have both shared in the annual awarding of this year's Pornographer Of The Year award. As well as being enshrined for eternity as a great contributor to the pornographic industry in the Pornography Hall Of Fame, invitations bearing your titles as Pornographer Of The Year have been sent out to you so that you may attend our award ceremony, at our annual convention in Las Vegas which will take place less than a month from now. Mr. Waxman's wife has already indicated that she has received his invitation in a telephone call to us, and it was touching how much she was like the typical lady winner of a contest the way she screamed and screamed.
We look forward to your continuing support of our industry in the future. With our profits increasing to five or ten times their current levels, our political contributions will be increased similarly to ensure that America is always a good place for pornographers to do business. Unfortunately, due to your party's statements on pornography, those millions will have to be directed to the Democrats and the Libertarians, but we thank you for your support regardless and will ensure that you are rewarded.
Sincerely,
Hilly Rosebud, President
Pornographic Industry Association Of America
Children's Access To Pornography Through Peer-To-Peer Multi-Level-Infrastructure Information Sharing Locations (Treehouses)
Recent studies have shown that some unsure high percentage (but we know that it's high) of U.S. homes have trees in their backyards. With the decline of the "Drugstore Soda Fountain", young people trying to escape the authority of their parents are constructing said "treehouses" in their backyards. These "treehouses" unfortunately have no centralized controls in place.
Children, especially male children approaching adolescence, can be exposed the peer-to-peer sharing of pornographic materials in these "treehouses." Even a simple querying of the peers to see if they want to play the card games "Poker" or "Go Fish!" can result in the display of pornographic material.
As well, these "treehouses" operate in a subdomain space removed from parental control. Sophisticated access control measures such as "the Secret Knock" or "pulling up the ladder" or saying "Careful, your old man's approaching!" effectively allow unrestricted trading and viewing of uncensored pornographic material. Even a restrictive active filtering system such as the Tattle-Tale Sister will not stop peer-to-peer sharing in these domains as this system is restricted by the security controls in this subdomain. The pornographic material is also hidden from an outside search by an obfuscation system known as "the hidden box under the loose panel in the floor."
As a parent, and a grandparent, and a great-grandparent, and a complete old fart, I am deeply jealous that the young people of today may have access to things that they enjoy that I was denied. The "treehouse" was used for... er... intellectual conversation... when I was young, and for peer-pressuring colleagues into smoking cigarettes.
Parental Tips
- Don't permit "the hidden box under the floor panel"
- Enforce access of Tattle-Tale Sister to all subdomains
- Root access is not good enough. "Treehouses" are never built at the roots. Ladders should be permanently affixed.
You would think that Norton AntiVirus 2001 7.0 would filter it as well. After all, that's what it's designed to do.
Yet, if you have a look at Symantec's Discussion Forums you will see many NAV2001 users complain that their e-mail scanner does not pick up SirCam attachments. Detaching those same attachments and running a manual scan of them then does find SirCam. Thois has been an issue since day 1 of SirCam (six days now) and Symantec still has yet to acknowledge it.
So you're a corporate user. You have a locked-down image with hidden extensions. Your NAV templates are up-to-date. E-mail scanning is active. You receive an e-mail from your boss with the title and attachment as a.DOC Word file that you know he's been working on, and he's usually too busy to check his spelling and grammar for every quick note. Your NAV scanner clearly checks it (there is an animated system tray icon that shows it working.) So you open it...
...that if this recycled gadget happens to use anything more than the barebones chassis, motor, spindle and laser of the CD-ROM unit (ie the electronics, which I can't find out as the site is badly slashdotted) then should SunComm's copy protection scheme be widely adopted, none of the discs will be playable in this player, nor will you get the option of downloading "secure" MP3/WMA files of them as you supposedly will if you play the protected disc in a netified PC.
Perhaps this is a good thing. A few thousand angry customers who can't play their discs in their car player demanding their money back will be a good shot in the arm for fair use. The European copy-protection scheme along the same lines only failed in 3% of CD players, but this was enough that it was immediately withdrawn and shelved.
Joe and Jane Paycheck live in a relatively obscure hubspace in the The Microsoft Christian States Of America. Like other Americans, they work about 70 hours a week to pay for software leases and tithe taxes. Joe doesn't have to worry about shaving anymore, as the Levitican beard requirement was reintroduced in MS Bible v. 4.0 (Sunday Service Pack 4) and he's too broke from upgrading to afford a razor. Besides, since razors are now licensed and have to be renewed every day, he was halfway there already.
Jane has had 14 children by Joe, most since the 2038 repeal of abortion and contraceptive rights, but tithe taxes contribute to the development of their large family. Their children (all named after variants of "William") will each spend ten years in Approved Viewpoint Training, which is funded by Time/Warner/AOL/Disney/Duke Energy/Exxon (T.W.A.D.D.L.E.) which means that Joe and Jane pay nothing. "They are nice.." says Joe. "Nice. They teach kids good. Willy said first word yesterday: 'subscription'. Maybe he makes software someday."
Did anyone not save a copy of this document or download the Zip provided?
Most wouldn't probably have cared much otherwise. I would have read it and moved on myself. Now how many copies of it are out there?
When will these groups realize that as soon as they threaten legal action, it's both an incentive to make as many copies of the "infringing" documents as possible, and find out exactly what it is and how it works? If it's to be censored, it must a) work and b) be interesting.
Probably never...they didn't learn it with DeCSS, nor with CP4Hack (The CyberPatrol URL list cracker,) nor now with this article.
Monsanto: The very same company that brought us the chemical defoliant called Agent Orange. In manufacturing Agent Orange, large quantities of dioxin were leached into the soil.
When Monsanto pulled out of Niagara Falls, N.Y., the toxicity of the leftover dioxin made itself known to families there. A federal investigation into the cause led to the most expensive environmental cleanup of the 1970's. The neighbourhood's name: Love Canal. To anyone who grew up in the 70's, this name has an ominous ring to it.
Need I add saccharine to the list...Monsanto never performed sufficient testing on it and left it to the federal government to declare it a carcinogen and restrict its distribution and consumption.
Not a modified BG engine at all. BG's engine (Infinity) is 2-D isometric view with bitmapped cel sprites. The "3-D" in the Infinity engine just provides a few special effects such as animated water and spell effects. The NWN engine (I believe it is called Aurora) is completely texture-mapped polygonal 3-D, rewritten from the ground up. And it is at least one of possibly two sequels to BG2 as it will allow importation of your BG2 character file.
Companies worried about their bottom line as much as Microsoft are not going to open source that easily. Thinking as they would: someone could easily obfuscate it and then recompile it under a different compiler (so the binaries would not be the same.) The UCITA and DMCA they themselves lobbied for could then be used make it illegal to reverse-engineer the binary (a la "reduce to human-readable form") and thus trace back the code to its source. (Of course, thinking along other lines...their code may not be worth recompiling.):^P
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"However, most scanners cannot scan inside a rar archive."
All of the current Symantec products can scan inside RAR archives including NAV2005, Symantec Corp. Ed. 9.0 and the e-mail gateways.
I am sure of this because I tested them all when NAV2005 had a bug where the scanner process would die on RAR 1.51-1.55 archives including SFX. This did not affect any other apps.
The scanning is done by the AV itself not by spawning an external RAR process. The code that accomplished this for NAV2005 is DEC2RAR.DLL which is in the Decomposers folder.
"May I ask why the hell Where's Waldo? was banned?"
I would imagine as it's wordless/pictorial, so may be removed from school libraries as it has no educational value as it doesn't help students with their reading comprehension. Time spent finding Waldo is time not spent learning anything.
There's at least one instance, "Amish Paradise ", where the original artist (Coolio) denied permission and Weird Al went ahead with it anyway...."
Subtle difference: permission was granted, but by the label and not by the artist, and the artist did not express disapproval until it was too late (at least according to Weird Al.) So it wasn't a case of him knowing it was not approved but going ahead regardless.
From Weird Al's FAQ:
"That was a very unfortunate case of misunderstanding between Al's people and Coolio's people. Short version of the story: Al recorded "Amish Paradise" after being told by his record label that Coolio had given his permission for the parody. When Al's album came out, Coolio publicly contended that he had never given his blessing..."
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Released in 2002. Screenshot
"...You agree not to post this EULA in a EULA database..."
The Rogers transition instructions (for me at least) are wrong. The demo shows the POP server as just "pop", SMTP as "smtp" and NNTP as "nntp" but are missing the remainder, which in my case was ".ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com" with the "ym" being whatever router you are on. The intro password is the last 8 digits of your account number. Neither of these handy tidbits were on the transition instructions, so they may have just configured the servers to allow mail retrieval without a password to alleviate four days without being able to get through to their tech. support.
Why does it always have to be like this?
I think it's just a matter of (little) time before hordes of enterprising geeks figure out how to get the pics out and reuse it without paying the fee, or simply gut the camera for parts..."
All the manufacturer has to do is "encrypt" the camera's internal memory by XOR'ing it with 0xFF and then getting the data out of it is a DMCA violation, at least in the U. S. of A.
Argh... why did I miss this thread until it was pushed into the sidebar.
.DLL can be exploited for full root) how many other departments will we see switch in the next few years?
I'm surprised no one mentioned this: does this mean that the U.S. goverment is going to do as some Slashdotters have suggested? They have, after all, found Microsoft guilty of breaking certain anti-trust laws. Perhaps this is the first move in divesting the government from being a customer of a convicted corporation.
Before Linux is ready for the U.S. government's sensitive information, time for a security overhaul. What better group to give that job to than the NSA? And they will play by the book and release the source, as they of all groups know the value of security through obscurity (none.) They might even get a few tips from Linux kernel hax0rs on possible 'sploits they disregarded, as they also know where the know-how (and the willingness to help out) is.
Now that one U.S. government agency will have a certified secure OS that they were able to review and alter the source code of, which doesn't have any backdoors and has true modular security (none of which can be said of closed-source Windows, where there is not six but one degree of separation and a bug in a minor support
"Does the government have backdoors on our safes? Do the cops have a key to my appartment's door?"
They have oxyacetylene torches for your safe, and a battering ram for your door. This is why they are considering the legislation: there is no way of realiably cracking properly-done strong crypto in a reasonable amount of time (less than billions of years.) You can't force your way to a key, or buy it, like you can force a door or buy a better torch to get into safes faster.
The feds had Mitnick's laptop(?) for five years and made no progress in breaking the encryption he used...
Simply, that the only way to prove that something was encrypted "legally" would be to automatically break it, all of it, as it passes through various communications channels.
But this is too large of a job for just one person, or a (fiscally feasible) number of people, as much traffic may not pass through a central point. Machines will have to do it automatically, and there will ave to be many o them. Who will make the machines? How will they guarantee that the backdoor isn't released? What if the machines themselves take a walk?
Steganography would be the only way around this, by hiding an encrypted snippet well enough that it doesn't look encrypted. What if someone posts a badly-encoded GIF of their cat on their personal page, and the so-called "Stego detectors" pick it up. Of course, the "message" isn't there. Therefore it can't be decrypted, and they will be flagged as a criminal... scary prospect.
As the technology progresses, only poorly done stego and innocent media would be caught. It's already possible to encode messages to be indecipherable from quantization noise by any theoretically possible system.
Hehe... they banned two of Pink Floyd's from The Wall: "Mother" because of a single "Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?" line and "Run Like Hell" because it deals with organized brutality ala Nazism but completely missed the one from The Wall that I expected that they would target: "Goodbye Blue Sky"
Did-did-did-did you see the frightened ones?
Did-did-did-did you hear the falling bombs?
Did-did-did-did you ever wonder why we had to run to run for shelter when the promise of a Brave New World unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?
Did-did-did-did you see the frightened ones?
Did-did-did-did you hear the falling bombs?
The flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on.
Goodbye, blue sky...
Goodbye, blue sky...
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye...
(This is from memory.) Yes, I had a little listen after the events of September 11th.
You could try here but unfortunately the original article at Buzzflash.com can no longer be found, nor can the two articles in Yahoo and the Guardian. Both, rather conveniently, have expired, but when I found this I can verify that the link to the Guardian worked and it is quite genuine. You can also find it in an archive here.
You won't be hearing much of this on CNN, I can imagine. It's all but disappeared from the internet, and from the public memory...
Mr. Vonnegut is an ironic choice for a publisher to convert the works of to e-format. Many of his works deal with dehumanization through technology. The most prominent of these is Player Piano.
It describes a world in which everything has been mechanized and computerized. Because of this, there are few required jobs left, and most of the population has to work for government programs, or join the army. Eventually, the former director of the largest automated mass production facility becomes the de facto leader of the rebellion against the machines. Published in 1952, this puts it comfortably in the "way ahead of its time" league.
Interspersed in the novel are examples (a mechanized tavern goes flat broke when a "germ trap of a Victorian bar" opens up next door, and the soon-to-be-rebellious director falls in love with an old farmhouse with well-water and no electricity) that the most advanced way of doing things is not always the best, or the most appealing. It's a good read... on paper, of course.
There's a space in the URL that prevented it from working. Take it out and it works. The story is here.
From: Hilly Rosebud
To: Henry Waxman
cc: Steve Largent
Subj.: A Commendation For Your Efforts
I, Hilly Rosebud, president of the PIAA (Pornographic Industry Association of America) would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of all of our membership, to thank you for your diligence and leadership in this situation.
Our membership has been suffering a disturbing downturn in sales and revenues for the past five years in comparison to the amount of pornographic material currently possessed by the public. Currently, pornography in the United States is only an eight billion dollar per year industry. With recent studies of public possession, we now estimate that 80% to 90% of current distribution is though illegal means, either through peer-to-peer sharing on the internet, tape-duplication, treehouses, or other means.
Now, due to recent legislation and this investigation, the pornographic industry may finally be in a position to collect the revenues it is entitled to. Not only will elimination of peer-to-peer trading in pornography force consumers to pay for the right to view it, but the wisely written DMCA, which has just been given its first test of legal power, will allow our members to move to the new EBoink standard within one year. Printed or videotaped pornography will be eliminated, and all pornography will only be available in secure electronic formats, either on DVD discs, or paid for on the internet, locked to the machines it is downloaded on, and illegal to decrypt or remove the protections from. Extrapolating from the amount of our material that is circulating illegally, we expect that our revenues will increase by 500% to 1000%, from five to ten times their current amount.
Our membership will then earn from forty to eighty billion dollars in revenue annually. Pornography will become one of the largest industrial groups in the country, comparable in earnings to that of the construction sector.
We therefore take great pride in announcing that you have both shared in the annual awarding of this year's Pornographer Of The Year award. As well as being enshrined for eternity as a great contributor to the pornographic industry in the Pornography Hall Of Fame, invitations bearing your titles as Pornographer Of The Year have been sent out to you so that you may attend our award ceremony, at our annual convention in Las Vegas which will take place less than a month from now. Mr. Waxman's wife has already indicated that she has received his invitation in a telephone call to us, and it was touching how much she was like the typical lady winner of a contest the way she screamed and screamed.
We look forward to your continuing support of our industry in the future. With our profits increasing to five or ten times their current levels, our political contributions will be increased similarly to ensure that America is always a good place for pornographers to do business. Unfortunately, due to your party's statements on pornography, those millions will have to be directed to the Democrats and the Libertarians, but we thank you for your support regardless and will ensure that you are rewarded.
Sincerely,
Hilly Rosebud, President
Pornographic Industry Association Of America
Children's Access To Pornography Through Peer-To-Peer Multi-Level-Infrastructure Information Sharing Locations (Treehouses)
Recent studies have shown that some unsure high percentage (but we know that it's high) of U.S. homes have trees in their backyards. With the decline of the "Drugstore Soda Fountain", young people trying to escape the authority of their parents are constructing said "treehouses" in their backyards. These "treehouses" unfortunately have no centralized controls in place.
Children, especially male children approaching adolescence, can be exposed the peer-to-peer sharing of pornographic materials in these "treehouses." Even a simple querying of the peers to see if they want to play the card games "Poker" or "Go Fish!" can result in the display of pornographic material.
As well, these "treehouses" operate in a subdomain space removed from parental control. Sophisticated access control measures such as "the Secret Knock" or "pulling up the ladder" or saying "Careful, your old man's approaching!" effectively allow unrestricted trading and viewing of uncensored pornographic material. Even a restrictive active filtering system such as the Tattle-Tale Sister will not stop peer-to-peer sharing in these domains as this system is restricted by the security controls in this subdomain. The pornographic material is also hidden from an outside search by an obfuscation system known as "the hidden box under the loose panel in the floor."
As a parent, and a grandparent, and a great-grandparent, and a complete old fart, I am deeply jealous that the young people of today may have access to things that they enjoy that I was denied. The "treehouse" was used for... er... intellectual conversation... when I was young, and for peer-pressuring colleagues into smoking cigarettes.
Parental Tips
- Don't permit "the hidden box under the floor panel"
- Enforce access of Tattle-Tale Sister to all subdomains
- Root access is not good enough. "Treehouses" are never built at the roots. Ladders should be permanently affixed.
You would think that Norton AntiVirus 2001 7.0 would filter it as well. After all, that's what it's designed to do.
.DOC Word file that you know he's been working on, and he's usually too busy to check his spelling and grammar for every quick note. Your NAV scanner clearly checks it (there is an animated system tray icon that shows it working.) So you open it...
Yet, if you have a look at Symantec's Discussion Forums you will see many NAV2001 users complain that their e-mail scanner does not pick up SirCam attachments. Detaching those same attachments and running a manual scan of them then does find SirCam. Thois has been an issue since day 1 of SirCam (six days now) and Symantec still has yet to acknowledge it.
So you're a corporate user. You have a locked-down image with hidden extensions. Your NAV templates are up-to-date. E-mail scanning is active. You receive an e-mail from your boss with the title and attachment as a
Sometimes it's not always the user's fault.
But I suspect since sourceforge hosts MANY CVS based projects, that open-source software could be injected with outside code...
Will they be changing their name to ForgedSource, then?
Just what the world needs: a billion more AOL newbies. At least their English will be better than the ones we've got now.
...that if this recycled gadget happens to use anything more than the barebones chassis, motor, spindle and laser of the CD-ROM unit (ie the electronics, which I can't find out as the site is badly slashdotted) then should SunComm's copy protection scheme be widely adopted, none of the discs will be playable in this player, nor will you get the option of downloading "secure" MP3/WMA files of them as you supposedly will if you play the protected disc in a netified PC.
Perhaps this is a good thing. A few thousand angry customers who can't play their discs in their car player demanding their money back will be a good shot in the arm for fair use. The European copy-protection scheme along the same lines only failed in 3% of CD players, but this was enough that it was immediately withdrawn and shelved.
Joe and Jane Paycheck live in a relatively obscure hubspace in the The Microsoft Christian States Of America. Like other Americans, they work about 70 hours a week to pay for software leases and tithe taxes. Joe doesn't have to worry about shaving anymore, as the Levitican beard requirement was reintroduced in MS Bible v. 4.0 (Sunday Service Pack 4) and he's too broke from upgrading to afford a razor. Besides, since razors are now licensed and have to be renewed every day, he was halfway there already.
Jane has had 14 children by Joe, most since the 2038 repeal of abortion and contraceptive rights, but tithe taxes contribute to the development of their large family. Their children (all named after variants of "William") will each spend ten years in Approved Viewpoint Training, which is funded by Time/Warner/AOL/Disney/Duke Energy/Exxon (T.W.A.D.D.L.E.) which means that Joe and Jane pay nothing. "They are nice.." says Joe. "Nice. They teach kids good. Willy said first word yesterday: 'subscription'. Maybe he makes software someday."
Did anyone not save a copy of this document or download the Zip provided? Most wouldn't probably have cared much otherwise. I would have read it and moved on myself. Now how many copies of it are out there? When will these groups realize that as soon as they threaten legal action, it's both an incentive to make as many copies of the "infringing" documents as possible, and find out exactly what it is and how it works? If it's to be censored, it must a) work and b) be interesting. Probably never...they didn't learn it with DeCSS, nor with CP4Hack (The CyberPatrol URL list cracker,) nor now with this article.
Monsanto: The very same company that brought us the chemical defoliant called Agent Orange. In manufacturing Agent Orange, large quantities of dioxin were leached into the soil.
When Monsanto pulled out of Niagara Falls, N.Y., the toxicity of the leftover dioxin made itself known to families there. A federal investigation into the cause led to the most expensive environmental cleanup of the 1970's. The neighbourhood's name: Love Canal. To anyone who grew up in the 70's, this name has an ominous ring to it.
Need I add saccharine to the list...Monsanto never performed sufficient testing on it and left it to the federal government to declare it a carcinogen and restrict its distribution and consumption.
Not a modified BG engine at all. BG's engine (Infinity) is 2-D isometric view with bitmapped cel sprites. The "3-D" in the Infinity engine just provides a few special effects such as animated water and spell effects. The NWN engine (I believe it is called Aurora) is completely texture-mapped polygonal 3-D, rewritten from the ground up. And it is at least one of possibly two sequels to BG2 as it will allow importation of your BG2 character file.
Companies worried about their bottom line as much as Microsoft are not going to open source that easily. Thinking as they would: someone could easily obfuscate it and then recompile it under a different compiler (so the binaries would not be the same.) The UCITA and DMCA they themselves lobbied for could then be used make it illegal to reverse-engineer the binary (a la "reduce to human-readable form") and thus trace back the code to its source. (Of course, thinking along other lines...their code may not be worth recompiling.):^P