The problem with GAIM and its encryption plug-ins are that they pretty-much only work with GAIM, and then only if you're using the same plug-in.
While the GAIM developers indicated a desire to work with Trillian when it was the only major encrypted-im game in town, I don't know why "they" don't implement a standard now, either de jure (JEP-0116, which admittedly isn't finalized) or more realistically at this point in time, de facto (as referenced in this message and used by several Jabber clients--e.g. Psi, Tkabber; even multi-protocol centericq and Kopete).
I haven't been following Pidgin development, so I don't know how easy it is to have a plug-in work for just one protocol, but the GAIM-only encryption methods seem counter-productive.
I used to have an email address, something like johnNOSPAM@altavista.net, and I don't know how well it actually worked since a lot of those free e-mail providers (iname in this case) sold you out anyway, and the altavista.net addresses dissappeared soon after anyway.
I have a junk address that is hidden from CSS compliant web browsers (display:none). The local part is something like "blah.foo.spam". It got harvested, no manipulation was done to it. It still gets spam with the full local part intact, so your proposal doesn't work in all cases. It does go straight into the spamassassin --spam training directory though.
The last time I checked, which admittedly was in August, before my LCD cracked, there was no way to have mplayer, vlc, xine or ogle play DVDs on the RPC2 drive that came with my AlBook--without setting the region on the drive.
Drive manufacturers are making things more difficult if not impossible without going through the ``accepted'' methods. Just saying ``use DeCSS'' doesn't always work, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work on the drives that are supported by vista.
I'm not sure if anyone had a valid reason to mod the parent flamebait, because it makes valid points.
First off, Vodafone JP uses the same frequency for UMTS as Europe (2.1GHz iirc). I used my rhomboid Nokia 7600 on their network. They do not use GSM 900/1800/1900 or CDMA2000 (although there is at least one other carrier that uses CDMA2000 in Japan).
Without reading the linked article, I just want to point out that GPS and GPRS are different. Re bluetooth: very few phones in Japan support it, it hasn't poicked up anywhere near the ame momentum as it has in Europe or even the U.S.
And as was mention $200 is the subsidized price with contract. The N90 with contract will undoubtedly be much cheaper than $900, probably around the same price point. The N90 will also probably be available unlocked, or even be unlockable. I have not heard of any successful unlocking of Japanese phones, and a lot of people have tried with the line the referenced one is from. It certainly won't work on Verizon as someone else desired.
+ case 'P': + file_output_block_size = output_block_size = (4 * 1024 * 1024); + break; + case 'i': print_inode = 1; break; @@ -3944,6 +3949,8 @@ -g like -l, but do not list owner\n\ -G, --no-group inhibit display of group information\n\ -h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)\n\ + --ipod-standard print sizes in approx. number of songs.\n + http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=119376&cid=100 74498 \n\ --si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024\n\ -H, --dereference-command-l
While I agree that it'd be cool to have new storylines, I'm sure a lot of new things will come with time.
As it is, Privateer is one of two* games that force me to keep dosbox and large ISO images around... the other being Syndicate. The awesome Ultima remakes fixed my need for carrying Ultima CDs around. System Shock is the only other game I'm currently running in emulation (and the tsshp project on sf migh address that).
So... anybody doing anything with the Syndicate series?
(Oh, and an Armada remake would be cool, but once the Privateer remake has multiplayer support I won't care so much).
It depends what you consider "the best deal", obviously. I know some people who bought an IBM laptop that had a 15" screen and an incredibly high resolution (I think somewhere between the one quoted for the 17" and the Dell 15.4") and complained because everything was too small (even after making lots of adjustments, some programs just won't display things larger). If you have to make everything bigger, you're not getting much benefit from the extra resolution. If you're running at a lower than native resolution, it will look like junk on the laptop display.
The PowerBook displays look nice. It's not the size of the max resolution, but how it looks given the screen. With that in mind, I'd rather have the appropriately sized PowerBook screens/resolutions than the Dell. Higher numbers aren't always better.
Those plus the TCP stack was corrupt on this machine...wouldn't renew the DHCP lease. Had to manually rebuild that as well.
Is this "normal" for MicroSoft machines? I'm asking because that is one of the things my last MicroSoft Windows(TM) machine did before I decided to kick it to the curb, and nobody I've mentioned it to had heard of anything like it. Is the cause generally just bit-rot? How would one go about rebuilding the stack?
As a 'furthermore', I found it interesting that I left OSX after it did a similar thing--it would renew the lease but wouldn't pick up the DNS servers. Two hours in the Apple store resulted in a more broken machine followed by a demonstration of the magical self-healing powers of OSX--but even then it only returned to the state it was in when I got there and a "You'll have to reinstall.":p
If someone could explain the likely cause of either problem, and possibly a solution, I might change my view on these operating systems. As it is, I don't feel they should just break like they seem to have--and in neither case has somebody I've asked seems to be able to tell me why.
cell phone: Motorola and DoCoMo both feature Linux based phones (I'm not sure where to get the source, but I don't have one of the phones so I'm not legally entitled to it. Anyone who buys one though is... does anyone have one of these and tried getting the source?)
That's why you reject it during the SMTP transaction.
Exim I'm told can be configured to do this easily, and I'd assume sendmail would be the same. (No idea about postfix).
Qmail, which I'm using, wasn't easy (I suppose the queue patch would have helped). As it is, I set up Mail Avenger (http://mailavenger.com/ ?) which allows custom rules per user and then rejects or accepts the message. It doesn't support TLS so I threw up Messagewall (in ports on FBSD, other package systems, but the project is now officially dead) in front of it. Messagewall handles all the RBL checks now, and the accept script for mail avenger handles SPF by looking at the headers from message wall. A small patch to mail avenger to make it not trust localhost implicitly and it was all set up.
For what it's worth, I've been running with mailavenger since August. During the past two weeks I've gotten on average one message a day that was spam to my address and was rejected at the transaction level. Nothing has gotten through.
I'm pretty sure the official is not afraid that providing its name would compromise the investigation (unless the official in question operated undercover, which is not the impression I got). I'm pretty sure the official is afraid of letting its tonque slip at some point during the interview and did not want its name to be published if it did, thus getting into trouble with superiors. This way, if anything got said that shouldn't have, the AC has a chance at avoiding blame.
I was thinking the same thing, only one of the re-made top loading ones since the slot loading NESes I have are both problematic, and they are impossible to find (at least cheap).
As it is, I play most of my 8-bit games on a famicom clone now, although I have a lot more games for the NES since I spent most of my life in the US.
There wasn't wireless coverage in the dorm where we were housed.
That depends on part on when you were there... if you were there when classes were in session then there should have been at least a dozen student-run acess points. Most people do not want the school to expand their wireless network into the dorms because then students can't run their own, and they'd rather not deal with the VPN client. [Some people want them to because some people who set up their own router/AP have no idea what they're doing, sometimes causing problems for others.]
Worse, to get on the wireless network seemed to require some windows-only tool (according to the confrence organizers),
Their network, as of a couple years ago, started using a Cisco VPN client, primarily to prevent random people from using the network. There are clients for MSWin, Linux-x86, and PPC-OSX. They are all closed, and when I tried using the Linux-x86 client it caused my machine to reboot. The VPN for OSX has also been slow to work when new versions of OSX come out. Linux-PPC (which I run) had no official solution. At one time there was a PPTP server that just did authentication, set up expressely for FreeBSD users (with a FreeBSD how-to and everything), so the VPN wasn't the only solution (I don't know if the PPTP server is still an option though).
Depending where you'll be on campus, you'll also have other options. The CS network is completely open, and covers the CS/Math/IT buildings. IT, Architecture, and a few others have WEP networks which I don't know how they're actually set up, I just saw them when I was near the appropriate building.
At $50 a pop, I'm inclined to agree with you, I only bought two NHL games,
I purchased '93-'95 for the SNES. '94 introduced five players, so it was worth the purchase. '95 wasn't that big of an improvement. I later purchased '96 used for $10. I also purchased NHL'9-something for GameGear so I could play on the road. I own one copy of Madden I got for $2, for the Game Cube. I'm a much bigger hockey fan than soccer.
I own FIFA '99 for MSWin. I loved the game. My sister loved the game. We played against each other over our home LAN. I bought a newer version (2k? maybe I skipped a year) and discovered it wouldn't play without the CD, and I couldn't easily make an ISO of it. I stopped buying EA games because of this.
Shortly thereafter I gave up on MSWin altogether, partly because of this. I'd gotten so frustrated by all the anti-user technology I just couldn't stand it and went almost entirely free software (there are some occasional exceptions which are for the most part consistent). Perhaps a large drop is also because EA just does things to piss off users like this? I don't know if ESPN's stuff is the same, but it could be.
And yes, EA had basically a monopoly with this franchise. In order to keep selling games they only offered one or two new, minor features a year. This really got frustrating, especially when they did this on the PC [consoles I could understand some limitations]. When I stopped playing their games, you still couldn't run a custom team through a full season, and the team creation was very limited as it was (but improving... slowly).
Maybe they want to control it from a standard cell phone, or PDA with bluetooth?
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My understanding of the situation is that ORBZ has been issued a search warrant in relation to potential criminal action, but that they have not been officialy accused of anything yet. As his own upstream provider, he was served a search and seizure and informed of a possible case.
I do not feel that he is acting irrationally given the situation in shutting down orbz. As he stated here, he does not want to face criminal charges repeatedly--nor should he be required to. He was willing to deal with civil suits, and I must agree that jail time is a different ball game than frivolous suits from annoyed admins.
Even if it looked like ORBZ were in the right [which I feel they are], it would not be illogical to take ORBZ down until after the trial. IANAL, but I am sure that the one advising ORBZ would advise the same, if at least to show ORBZ cooperation with the proceedings and desire to not cause further harm [there are other spamblocks which can be used in the mean time]. If ORBZ did want to continue during the trial, it would probably be a good idea to see have a lawyer carfully word a request to the judge [probably in the same sentence as requesting the case being dismissed].
On unrelated comment--and in regards to original poster's comments about having the company held liable:
I disagree with software liability [beyond clear malice, at least]. Negligence is difficult to prove, but as far has the issue is concerned, I feel that closed commercial products should be held to a higher standard than open source as open source products at least offer you the chance to fix bugs yourself even if they don't have the time to. If an Open Source developer is required to be liable for anything done with the source however, this is both stupid and impossible to manage [this would be the same as saying that K&R are responsible for anything written in C].
But to get back on topic, kind of, IBM itself should not be sued for having the faulty server [they have fixed it, actually--The Reg mentions this in their coverage--and the problem doesn't exist when correctly configured anyway, afaik]; but the admins and the corps should take responsibility for choosing the software and not configuring it properly.
This seems like just another example of the US mindset of blaming everybody else first because you don't want them to know that you messed up, and don't know what you're doing.
IN all seriousness, perhaps a developer who has licensed the CDDB data can explain this to
me. DO they provide as part of the license, some proprietary client or indexing algorythem to
be used and embedded into the media application? If this is the case, did Roxio remove such
a client, libraries, algorythem or whatever from their application when they switched vendors?
Is this what they're sueing for?
From what I understand in reading about the case, they (Gracenote) are claiming that Roxio/Adaptec developed the conectivity to Gracenote's service, and that they are now using the same code (i think this is the argument?) to connect to freedb. To paraphrase: they're still using the same protocol.
I'm not sure (though doubt) that Gracenote had anything to do with writing th actuall code (I don't think that they would own any copyright in the programs at least, but whatever). I still don't see where Gracenote hopes to go with this... time and again, the law has shown that protocols aren't protected to the degree that companies sometimes want them to be. . .
Emanuel Goldstein was the name of the person who 'escaped' in Orwell's (yet another alias) classic 1984. He wrote a manifesto explaining the realities of the world under Big Brother which O'Brian gives Winston to read. He was a symbol of 'the underground'.
If you want more info, check everything2 or search the web with your favorite search engine for more info . . .
You can also read this for a story similar to Orwells.
Well, it was, of course, "Never trust anyone over 30" but then I saw my own UID and realized that this would have been a problem (though it's certainly good advice).
Oh well . . . I wished I could still just post AC like I did before I got an account . . . but it's impossible with the noise and current moderation system. Add to this, that most posters start out with a 2pts above an AC, and it's impossible to be heard unless you're really early.
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I agree! There's nothing worse than throwing my mobile in anger, and *still* having the other person on the line.
Supposedly the iPhone has an accelerometer--it's probably hoping for too much for Apple to detect such a violent throw and hang-up.
Now *that* would be a killer app.
The problem with GAIM and its encryption plug-ins are that they pretty-much only work with GAIM, and then only if you're using the same plug-in.
While the GAIM developers indicated a desire to work with Trillian when it was the only major encrypted-im game in town, I don't know why "they" don't implement a standard now, either de jure (JEP-0116, which admittedly isn't finalized) or more realistically at this point in time, de facto (as referenced in this message and used by several Jabber clients--e.g. Psi, Tkabber; even multi-protocol centericq and Kopete).
I haven't been following Pidgin development, so I don't know how easy it is to have a plug-in work for just one protocol, but the GAIM-only encryption methods seem counter-productive.
I used to have an email address, something like johnNOSPAM@altavista.net, and I don't know how well it actually worked since a lot of those free e-mail providers (iname in this case) sold you out anyway, and the altavista.net addresses dissappeared soon after anyway.
I have a junk address that is hidden from CSS compliant web browsers (display:none). The local part is something like "blah.foo.spam". It got harvested, no manipulation was done to it. It still gets spam with the full local part intact, so your proposal doesn't work in all cases. It does go straight into the spamassassin --spam training directory though.
The last time I checked, which admittedly was in August, before my LCD cracked, there was no way to have mplayer, vlc, xine or ogle play DVDs on the RPC2 drive that came with my AlBook--without setting the region on the drive.
Drive manufacturers are making things more difficult if not impossible without going through the ``accepted'' methods. Just saying ``use DeCSS'' doesn't always work, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work on the drives that are supported by vista.
I'm not sure if anyone had a valid reason to mod the parent flamebait, because it makes valid points.
First off, Vodafone JP uses the same frequency for UMTS as Europe (2.1GHz iirc). I used my rhomboid Nokia 7600 on their network. They do not use GSM 900/1800/1900 or CDMA2000 (although there is at least one other carrier that uses CDMA2000 in Japan).
Without reading the linked article, I just want to point out that GPS and GPRS are different. Re bluetooth: very few phones in Japan support it, it hasn't poicked up anywhere near the ame momentum as it has in Europe or even the U.S.
And as was mention $200 is the subsidized price with contract. The N90 with contract will undoubtedly be much cheaper than $900, probably around the same price point. The N90 will also probably be available unlocked, or even be unlockable. I have not heard of any successful unlocking of Japanese phones, and a lot of people have tried with the line the referenced one is from. It certainly won't work on Verizon as someone else desired.
diff -Naur coreutils-5.2.0/src/df.c coreutils-5.2.0-ipod/src/df.c /* long form is obsolescent */ /* 4MB is one iPod song */ /* long form is obsolescent */
/* 4MB is one iPod song */ /* long form is obsolescent */
--- coreutils-5.2.0/src/df.c 2004-01-27 10:55:38.000000000 -0500
+++ coreutils-5.2.0-ipod/src/df.c 2004-08-26 06:04:57.360652050 -0400
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@
{"block-size", required_argument, NULL, 'B'},
{"inodes", no_argument, NULL, 'i'},
{"human-readable", no_argument, NULL, 'h'},
+ {"ipod-standard", no_argument, NULL, 'p'},
{"si", no_argument, NULL, 'H'},
{"kilobytes", no_argument, NULL, 'k'},
{"local", no_argument, NULL, 'l'},
@@ -737,6 +738,8 @@
-a, --all include filesystems having 0 blocks\n\
-B, --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks\n\
-h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)\n\
+ --ipod-standard print sizes in approx. number of songs.\n
+ http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=119376&cid=100 74498 \n\
-H, --si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
@@ -816,6 +819,9 @@
human_output_opts = human_autoscale | human_SI;
output_block_size = 1;
break;
+ case 'p':
+ output_block_size = (4*1024*1024);
+ break;
case 'k':
human_output_opts = 0;
output_block_size = 1024;
diff -Naur coreutils-5.2.0/src/du.c coreutils-5.2.0-ipod/src/du.c
--- coreutils-5.2.0/src/du.c 2004-01-21 17:27:02.000000000 -0500
+++ coreutils-5.2.0-ipod/src/du.c 2004-08-26 06:05:11.276316549 -0400
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
{"exclude", required_argument, 0, EXCLUDE_OPTION},
{"exclude-from", required_argument, 0, 'X'},
{"human-readable", no_argument, NULL, 'h'},
+ {"ipod-standard", no_argument, NULL, 'p'},
{"si", no_argument, 0, HUMAN_SI_OPTION},
{"kilobytes", no_argument, NULL, 'k'},
{"max-depth", required_argument, NULL, MAX_DEPTH_OPTION},
@@ -185,6 +186,8 @@
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)\n\
+ --ipod-standard print sizes in approx. number of songs.\n
+ http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=119376&cid=100 74498 \n\
-H, --si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024 (deprecated)\n\
-k like --block-size=1K\n\
-l, --count-links count sizes many times if hard linked\n\
@@ -609,6 +612,10 @@
output_block_size = 1;
break;
+ case 'p':
+ output_block_size = (4*1024*1024);
+ break;
+
case 'k':
human_output_opts = 0;
output_block_size = 1024;
diff -Naur coreutils-5.2.0/src/ls.c coreutils-5.2.0-ipod/src/ls.c
--- coreutils-5.2.0/src/ls.c 2004-02-01 14:31:00.000000000 -0500
+++ coreutils-5.2.0-ipod/src/ls.c 2004-08-26 06:05:17.217559146 -0400
@@ -687,6 +687,7 @@
{"dired", no_argument, 0, 'D'},
{"full-time", no_argument, 0, FULL_TIME_OPTION},
{"human-readable", no_argument, 0, 'h'},
+ {"ipod-standard", no_argument, 0, 'P'},
{"inode", no_argument, 0, 'i'},
{"kilobytes", no_argument, 0, 'k'},
{"numeric-uid-gid", no_argument, 0, 'n'},
@@ -1394,6 +1395,10 @@
file_output_block_size = output_block_size = 1;
break;
+ case 'P':
+ file_output_block_size = output_block_size = (4 * 1024 * 1024);
+ break;
+
case 'i':
print_inode = 1;
break;
@@ -3944,6 +3949,8 @@
-g like -l, but do not list owner\n\
-G, --no-group inhibit display of group information\n\
-h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)\n\
+ --ipod-standard print sizes in approx. number of songs.\n
+ http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=119376&cid=100 74498 \n\
--si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024\n\
-H, --dereference-command-l
Bah!
... anybody doing anything with the Syndicate series?
While I agree that it'd be cool to have new storylines, I'm sure a lot of new things will come with time.
As it is, Privateer is one of two* games that force me to keep dosbox and large ISO images around... the other being Syndicate. The awesome Ultima remakes fixed my need for carrying Ultima CDs around. System Shock is the only other game I'm currently running in emulation (and the tsshp project on sf migh address that).
So
(Oh, and an Armada remake would be cool, but once the Privateer remake has multiplayer support I won't care so much).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/19/mom_sues_r iaa_members/
It depends what you consider "the best deal", obviously. I know some people who bought an IBM laptop that had a 15" screen and an incredibly high resolution (I think somewhere between the one quoted for the 17" and the Dell 15.4") and complained because everything was too small (even after making lots of adjustments, some programs just won't display things larger). If you have to make everything bigger, you're not getting much benefit from the extra resolution. If you're running at a lower than native resolution, it will look like junk on the laptop display.
The PowerBook displays look nice. It's not the size of the max resolution, but how it looks given the screen. With that in mind, I'd rather have the appropriately sized PowerBook screens/resolutions than the Dell. Higher numbers aren't always better.
Is this "normal" for MicroSoft machines? I'm asking because that is one of the things my last MicroSoft Windows(TM) machine did before I decided to kick it to the curb, and nobody I've mentioned it to had heard of anything like it.
Is the cause generally just bit-rot? How would one go about rebuilding the stack?
As a 'furthermore', I found it interesting that I left OSX after it did a similar thing--it would renew the lease but wouldn't pick up the DNS servers. Two hours in the Apple store resulted in a more broken machine followed by a demonstration of the magical self-healing powers of OSX--but even then it only returned to the state it was in when I got there and a "You'll have to reinstall."
If someone could explain the likely cause of either problem, and possibly a solution, I might change my view on these operating systems. As it is, I don't feel they should just break like they seem to have--and in neither case has somebody I've asked seems to be able to tell me why.
Where indeed:
... does anyone have one of these and tried getting the source?)
cell phone: Motorola and DoCoMo both feature Linux based phones (I'm not sure where to get the source, but I don't have one of the phones so I'm not legally entitled to it. Anyone who buys one though is
Sony's Playstation 2: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/playstation2/
Apple's iPod: http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
That's why you reject it during the SMTP transaction.
Exim I'm told can be configured to do this easily, and I'd assume sendmail would be the same. (No idea about postfix).
Qmail, which I'm using, wasn't easy (I suppose the queue patch would have helped). As it is, I set up Mail Avenger (http://mailavenger.com/ ?) which allows custom rules per user and then rejects or accepts the message. It doesn't support TLS so I threw up Messagewall (in ports on FBSD, other package systems, but the project is now officially dead) in front of it. Messagewall handles all the RBL checks now, and the accept script for mail avenger handles SPF by looking at the headers from message wall. A small patch to mail avenger to make it not trust localhost implicitly and it was all set up.
For what it's worth, I've been running with mailavenger since August. During the past two weeks I've gotten on average one message a day that was spam to my address and was rejected at the transaction level. Nothing has gotten through.
I'm pretty sure the official is not afraid that providing its name would compromise the investigation (unless the official in question operated undercover, which is not the impression I got). I'm pretty sure the official is afraid of letting its tonque slip at some point during the interview and did not want its name to be published if it did, thus getting into trouble with superiors. This way, if anything got said that shouldn't have, the AC has a chance at avoiding blame.
I was thinking the same thing, only one of the re-made top loading ones since the slot loading NESes I have are both problematic, and they are impossible to find (at least cheap).
As it is, I play most of my 8-bit games on a famicom clone now, although I have a lot more games for the NES since I spent most of my life in the US.
Because Troy sure is nicer than Princeton, and damn if I don't love having it snow during commencement ceremonies in May!
That depends on part on when you were there ... if you were there when classes were in session then there should have been at least a dozen student-run acess points. Most people do not want the school to expand their wireless network into the dorms because then students can't run their own, and they'd rather not deal with the VPN client. [Some people want them to because some people who set up their own router/AP have no idea what they're doing, sometimes causing problems for others.]
Their network, as of a couple years ago, started using a Cisco VPN client, primarily to prevent random people from using the network. There are clients for MSWin, Linux-x86, and PPC-OSX. They are all closed, and when I tried using the Linux-x86 client it caused my machine to reboot. The VPN for OSX has also been slow to work when new versions of OSX come out. Linux-PPC (which I run) had no official solution. At one time there was a PPTP server that just did authentication, set up expressely for FreeBSD users (with a FreeBSD how-to and everything), so the VPN wasn't the only solution (I don't know if the PPTP server is still an option though).
Depending where you'll be on campus, you'll also have other options. The CS network is completely open, and covers the CS/Math/IT buildings. IT, Architecture, and a few others have WEP networks which I don't know how they're actually set up, I just saw them when I was near the appropriate building.
I suppose that's the same response for "am I the only one waiting for the next Katz article."
Well, I don't care so much about the article as the flaming that ensues. Ah, the good ol' days.
Maybe they want to control it from a standard cell phone, or PDA with bluetooth?
My understanding of the situation is that ORBZ has been issued a search warrant in relation to potential criminal action, but that they have not been officialy accused of anything yet. As his own upstream provider, he was served a search and seizure and informed of a possible case.
I do not feel that he is acting irrationally given the situation in shutting down orbz. As he stated here, he does not want to face criminal charges repeatedly--nor should he be required to. He was willing to deal with civil suits, and I must agree that jail time is a different ball game than frivolous suits from annoyed admins.
Even if it looked like ORBZ were in the right [which I feel they are], it would not be illogical to take ORBZ down until after the trial. IANAL, but I am sure that the one advising ORBZ would advise the same, if at least to show ORBZ cooperation with the proceedings and desire to not cause further harm [there are other spamblocks which can be used in the mean time]. If ORBZ did want to continue during the trial, it would probably be a good idea to see have a lawyer carfully word a request to the judge [probably in the same sentence as requesting the case being dismissed].
On unrelated comment--and in regards to original poster's comments about having the company held liable:
I disagree with software liability [beyond clear malice, at least]. Negligence is difficult to prove, but as far has the issue is concerned, I feel that closed commercial products should be held to a higher standard than open source as open source products at least offer you the chance to fix bugs yourself even if they don't have the time to. If an Open Source developer is required to be liable for anything done with the source however, this is both stupid and impossible to manage [this would be the same as saying that K&R are responsible for anything written in C].
But to get back on topic, kind of, IBM itself should not be sued for having the faulty server [they have fixed it, actually--The Reg mentions this in their coverage--and the problem doesn't exist when correctly configured anyway, afaik]; but the admins and the corps should take responsibility for choosing the software and not configuring it properly.
This seems like just another example of the US mindset of blaming everybody else first because you don't want them to know that you messed up, and don't know what you're doing.
From what I understand in reading about the case, they (Gracenote) are claiming that Roxio/Adaptec developed the conectivity to Gracenote's service, and that they are now using the same code (i think this is the argument?) to connect to freedb. To paraphrase: they're still using the same protocol.
I'm not sure (though doubt) that Gracenote had anything to do with writing th actuall code (I don't think that they would own any copyright in the programs at least, but whatever). I still don't see where Gracenote hopes to go with this... time and again, the law has shown that protocols aren't protected to the degree that companies sometimes want them to be. . .
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Emanuel Goldstein was the name of the person who 'escaped' in Orwell's (yet another alias) classic 1984. He wrote a manifesto explaining the realities of the world under Big Brother which O'Brian gives Winston to read. He was a symbol of 'the underground'.
If you want more info, check everything2 or search the web with your favorite search engine for more info . . .
You can also read this for a story similar to Orwells.
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No, but a paradox. Logic states:
A) if you follow it, you must regect it.
B) if you reject it, you are following it.
Of course, the path to follow is: Screw logic, and ignore it.
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heh . . .
Well, it was, of course, "Never trust anyone over 30" but then I saw my own UID and realized that this would have been a problem (though it's certainly good advice).
Oh well . . . I wished I could still just post AC like I did before I got an account . . . but it's impossible with the noise and current moderation system. Add to this, that most posters start out with a 2pts above an AC, and it's impossible to be heard unless you're really early.
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While we're naming others, DEC's OpenVMS Vax was also certified C2 (as well as many others). SGI's Trusted Irix was rated B1.
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