...Now I ask you, where else can a band attract over-weight white guys from another time zone to come to a club, buy some drinks, and pick up a waitress to take home?
From the article:.... Of course, many of these artists are "weekend warriors," whose music might have been heard by few people other than their hometown buddies before getting some exposure through an online distributor.
The article does not talk about any artist that has been harmed by this agreement.
Recently, I had buisness in Orlando, and was packing for my trip the next morning. I went to MP3.com to download some songs for the plane ride, and I found an artist that I kinda liked. As it turns out, the band was from the town I was visiting the next morning.
[click] over to the bands home page ..[click] over to there schedual [click] over to the bars home page [click] over to a mapquest link to get directions, and boom . . I'm there! I'm seeing them live!
Now I ask you, where else can a band attract over-weight white guys from another time zone to come to a club, buy some drinks, and pick up a CD to take home?
...as long as he has reasonable cause to believe it's relevant to a "security matter.
So if I have a co-worker I hate, I can ROT-13 his entire hard drive, call the police, and get him turned in? And he has to turn over all his public keys?
Under the new law, Australia's attorney general can authorize legal hacking into private computer systems, as well as copying or altering data, as long as he has reasonable cause to believe it's relevant to a "security matter."
I would suggest anyone else using Outlook/Outlook Express do the same. You can still enjoy the safe features of HTML Email (however pointless they may be) and be protected from most of the recent Outlook Exploits at the same time.
If you read the article, you'll find that you're still at risk with Outlook in 'Restricted Sites' Zone.
From the article In Netscape Messenger, the GET request looks like: GET/sync.gif?email=john@doe.com HTTP/1.0 Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; I) Host: www.mybannerads.com Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png Accept-Encoding: gzip Accept-Language: en Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 Cookie: id=c643640a
Both the Email address and cookie value is included in the Outlook and Messenger GET requests. When the GET request is processed by the MyBannerAds server. It first extracts the customer id number from the cookie and looks it up its database of "anonymous" profiles of Web surfers. Once it has located the profile, it then extracts the Email address from the URL query string, turning a once "anonymous" profile into an "identified" profile.
So where does MyBannerAds get the Email addresses in first place to send out a message which includes the SYNC.GIF file? The answer is quite simple, they "rent" the Email addresses. Or more specifically, the rent space in junk Email messages that are already being sent out. The IMG tags typically take less than 100 bytes, so they can easily be embedded in messages that are part of any Email ad campaign that is using HTML Email messages. Another interesting discusion about HTML Email and cookies can be found @: http://www.tiac.net/users/smiths/privacy/wbfaq.htm
This seems a little misleading, given that it takes so long (14 mins?) for the radio signals to travel in each direction. So it doesn't seem likely that there'd be quick enough response time for the craft to "align itself" or "lock on" on automatically. More likely, the JPL engineers would wait to hear something during the sweep, determine what the proper orientation was, and then send an explicit command to the lander to orient its antenna with those coordinates. In other words, JPL would know before the lander if and when the sweep crossed Earth's path.
I failed to type out the how this lock-on procedure actually works. It is very time consuming. Usually the high gain will raster from horizon to horizon and keep repeating, until it recieves an explicit command from JPL telling it where earth is.
I just hope the thing isn't upside down in a ditch somewhere.:)
An outtake from the full text: Platforms Included The evaluated hardware configuration includes Compaq Professional Workstation 5100, Compaq Professional Workstation 8000, Compaq Proliant 6500 Server, and Compaq Proliant 7000 Server. No other model may be substituted if the setup is to conform to the evaluated C2 configuration.
I'm sure many/.ers have read a little bit about how the probe works, but allow me to bring the rest of you up to date on the developments. This lander consists of 3 landing vehicles. The main landing vehicle (which they tried to communicate with last night) was suppose to make a 'soft touchdown' on the mars south pole. This main lander has a high gain communications sub-system that was suppose to land, and contact earth 20 minutes after touchdown.
After this failed, they sent out a signal to ask the main lander to 'raster' it's high gain across a large area of the sky (sending a signal out, then turn 5 degrees, then send another). sooner or later, in theory, the high gain would eventually align itself with earth, and lock on.
This procedure, so far, did not produce the desired results.
What's more disturbing is, while the main vehicle was descending, it split off 2 small 'impact probes' that were going to impact the mars surface at ballistic speed and dig into the mars soil.
The impact probes have there own UHF communications sub-system and act independently of the main lander. The impact probes (with a much weaker UHF ) relay there signals through the orbiting surveyor that passes overhead every 2 hours.
What's disturbing to me about this development is that even if the main landers high gain has it's own problems, the 2 impact probes act completely independent of the main lander, and should be able to relay there signals home.
What are the odds of both the main lander, and the impact probes having communications problems at the same time? Very slim. This leads me to believe that perhaps there was a problem during decent.
When the mars rover (remember that little dune buggy lookin thing?) descended into the atmosphere of mars, it send out a 'beacon' signal as it descended (allowing everyone here to track it's decent in real time). This decent of the polar lander was done in 'radio silence' thus, we have no telemetry on the decent and landing an any of the 3 landing vehicles.
It's my hope that the dedicated efforts of the many skilled people on the team pays off, and the rest of the mission is nominal.
It is also my hope that (because they are the only ones that have proven results for there work) the mission planers and engineers that did the "Mars Rover" mission get promoted, and there ideas get more funding, attention and authority.
They'll have plenty of time to think about what they've done while they spend there days waisting away in a jail, while trying to smuggle in an acoustic coupler that fits the payphone in the visitors lobby.
They'll be thinking about there offences against the state while they hack a palm III port to talk to the acoustic coupler.
They'll have all the time in the world to ponder there wrong doing while they fake email headers in a spam campain protesting there imprisonment.
They'll have time to think about it, as they email news agencies world wide(/.) calling attention to there plight.
They'll feel sorry for the offence against the people while world-wide public distain for there 'false imprisonment' builds into protests in the streets.
Under presure from the grown public protest, they'll be released and become heros to the hacker comunity in China.
But the causes weren't unrelated: they were nearly all connected, in one form or another, to perceptions of threats to freedom and to corporate greed and immorality, and to the failure of domestic or international governmental authorities to curb or respond to either. BS!
Techno-Idealism ? ? ? Pffft yeawhatever
Young skulls full of mush, the lot of them!
Re:who, technically, owns the net?
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No one entity owns or controls the act of internetworking. It's a combination of many services combined together to bring a user access to all.
Here's the short version:
Your local ISP gets a group of people together to pay them enough to get a peering agreement with a backbone provider. The backbone provider has many highspeed NAPs (Network Access Points), in hopes of attracting as many ISPs as posible. The content is owned by guys like Rob here at/. who put up content in order to attract end users and derive income from advertising revenue.
So most packets travel the following path:
ISP->backbone->the other ISP
The backbone could be replaced by anyone (MCI/Worldcom/AT&T/Sprint/Qwest..ect.) and the 2 ISP on either end are chosen by the the users/content publishers. As long as they all talk the same language (IPv4 or IPv6) it all works.:)
From the articleI miss those days, and I'm sure Bruce does too. You could say damn near anything on your freewheeling local BBS, and if you *really* put your foot in your mouth you could either delete your comment or ask your friendly sysop to delete it for you. But it didn't really matter.
This issue has nothing to do with the medium on which we speek.
This has everything to do with honesty in any relationship . . ..on-line or off.
I agree with: 250 hits per minute is only just over 4 hits per second- hardly a major burden on Apache even on a modest Pentium 166.
I would also posture a guess that at least 25% of the people experiencing the/. effect are indeed experiencing normal lag (packets dropped by routers a few hops away) combined with bad timing.
For example: Prime time (United state 7PM to 10PM) evening net use is 'spotty at best'.
My name is Dr. Vinnyboombas and I seek funding for the following research:
Building a quantitative model of Postmodern Slashdot Societies effect on Cultural Imperialism and Statistical Geekology. and ummm oh yea..can I have a supercolider and a mindstorm kit?
Thank you Santa, I've been a good boy this year.:)
These stats are shown in a 'slashbox' for registered users. A Custom Page that show these stats along with many other items.
What's missing from the/. stats is the average ratio between 'proccesses' and 'unique visits'. This number would prove valuable. Rob? are you reading this ?:)
On Jan 28th, around 1pm, Linux Today announced the article and published a text only version on their web site. Slashdot followed with an announcement of the article and a hyper link to the article at around 4pm. One can see the very impressive surge in hits after the Slashdot announcement in which the hit rate went from about 30 hits/minute up to over 250 hits/minute in about a 15 minute period.
250 hits per minute. Now we know how big the slashdot effect is. Has anyone else seen surges this big (from 30/min to 250/min) from other sources other that/.?
These two things are very important to the business model Intel currently enjoys. Deciding *when* #2 takes place is very important the bottom line.
Imagine, if you will, Microsoft adding code into the operating system that uses the distributed approach described in the patent. This, effectively puts the control over how fast a users computer appears to run for the user, in another companies hands (thus breaking rule #2). Plus, Intel has no interest on thousands of Merceds biting into the slice of server sales. So this is defensive. Take out the patent, sit on it, and defend it in court.
Slashdot Mirror
The article does not talk about any artist that has been harmed by this agreement.
Recently, I had buisness in Orlando, and was packing for my trip the next morning. I went to MP3.com to download some songs for the plane ride, and I found an artist that I kinda liked. As it turns out, the band was from the town I was visiting the next morning.
[click] over to the bands home page . .[click] over to there schedual [click] over to the bars home page [click] over to a mapquest link to get directions, and boom . . I'm there! I'm seeing them live!
Now I ask you, where else can a band attract over-weight white guys from another time zone to come to a club, buy some drinks, and pick up a CD to take home?
Sometimes people break into computers and break the law.
Sometimes people break into computer and they ARE the law.
Which would you prefer?
So if I have a co-worker I hate, I can ROT-13 his entire hard drive, call the police, and get him turned in? And he has to turn over all his public keys?
Under the new law, Australia's attorney general can authorize legal hacking into private computer systems, as well as copying or altering data, as long as he has reasonable cause to believe it's relevant to a "security matter."
If you like dumblaws.com, you'll love:
www.dumbcriminalacts.com/
If you read the article, you'll find that you're still at risk with Outlook in 'Restricted Sites' Zone.
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; I)
Host: www.mybannerads.com
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
Cookie: id=c643640a
Both the Email address and cookie value is included in the Outlook and Messenger GET requests. When the GET request is processed by the MyBannerAds server. It first extracts the customer id number from the cookie and looks it up its database of "anonymous" profiles of Web surfers. Once it has located the profile, it then extracts the Email address from the URL query string, turning a once "anonymous" profile into an "identified" profile.
So where does MyBannerAds get the Email addresses in first place to send out a message which includes the SYNC.GIF file? The answer is quite simple, they "rent" the Email addresses. Or more specifically, the rent space in junk Email messages that are already being sent out. The IMG tags typically take less than 100 bytes, so they can easily be embedded in messages that are part of any Email ad campaign that is using HTML Email messages. /privacy/wbfaq.htm
Another interesting discusion about HTML Email and cookies can be found @: http://www.tiac.net/users/smiths
This seems a little misleading, given that it takes so long (14 mins?) for the radio signals to travel in each direction. So it doesn't seem likely that there'd be quick enough response time for the craft to "align itself" or "lock on" on automatically. More likely, the JPL engineers would wait to hear something during the sweep, determine what the proper orientation was, and then send an explicit command to the lander to orient its antenna with those coordinates. In other words, JPL would know before the lander if and when the sweep crossed Earth's path.
I failed to type out the how this lock-on procedure actually works. It is very time consuming. Usually the high gain will raster from horizon to horizon and keep repeating, until it recieves an explicit command from JPL telling it where earth is.
I just hope the thing isn't upside down in a ditch somewhere. :)
That's amazing. Does this mean the big red brick holding the backdoor open is also C2 compliant?
it's funny. laugh
evaluated C2 configuration.
Your comments welcome!
This lander consists of 3 landing vehicles. The main landing vehicle (which they tried to communicate with last night) was suppose to make a 'soft touchdown' on the mars south pole. This main lander has a high gain communications sub-system that was suppose to land, and contact earth 20 minutes after touchdown.
After this failed, they sent out a signal to ask the main lander to 'raster' it's high gain across a large area of the sky (sending a signal out, then turn 5 degrees, then send another). sooner or later, in theory, the high gain would eventually align itself with earth, and lock on.
This procedure, so far, did not produce the desired results.
What's more disturbing is, while the main vehicle was descending, it split off 2 small 'impact probes' that were going to impact the mars surface at ballistic speed and dig into the mars soil.
The impact probes have there own UHF communications sub-system and act independently of the main lander. The impact probes (with a much weaker UHF ) relay there signals through the orbiting surveyor that passes overhead every 2 hours.
What's disturbing to me about this development is that even if the main landers high gain has it's own problems, the 2 impact probes act completely independent of the main lander, and should be able to relay there signals home.
What are the odds of both the main lander, and the impact probes having communications problems at the same time? Very slim. This leads me to believe that perhaps there was a problem during decent.
When the mars rover (remember that little dune buggy lookin thing?) descended into the atmosphere of mars, it send out a 'beacon' signal as it descended (allowing everyone here to track it's decent in real time). This decent of the polar lander was done in 'radio silence' thus, we have no telemetry on the decent and landing an any of the 3 landing vehicles.
It's my hope that the dedicated efforts of the many skilled people on the team pays off, and the rest of the mission is nominal.
It is also my hope that (because they are the only ones that have proven results for there work) the mission planers and engineers that did the "Mars Rover" mission get promoted, and there ideas get more funding, attention and authority.
They'll be thinking about there offences against the state while they hack a palm III port to talk to the acoustic coupler.
They'll have all the time in the world to ponder there wrong doing while they fake email headers in a spam campain protesting there imprisonment.
They'll have time to think about it, as they email news agencies world wide(/.) calling attention to there plight.
They'll feel sorry for the offence against the people while world-wide public distain for there 'false imprisonment' builds into protests in the streets.
Under presure from the grown public protest, they'll be released and become heros to the hacker comunity in China.
Techno-Idealism ? ? ? Pffft yeawhatever
Young skulls full of mush, the lot of them!
Here's the short version:
Your local ISP gets a group of people together to pay them enough to get a peering agreement with a backbone provider. The backbone provider has many highspeed NAPs (Network Access Points), in hopes of attracting as many ISPs as posible. The content is owned by guys like Rob here at /. who put up content in order to attract end users and derive income from advertising revenue.
So most packets travel the following path:
ISP->backbone->the other ISP
The backbone could be replaced by anyone (MCI/Worldcom/AT&T/Sprint/Qwest..ect.) and the 2 ISP on either end are chosen by the the users/content publishers. As long as they all talk the same language (IPv4 or IPv6) it all works. :)
I hope this sheds some light on the issue.
Bruce Has millions of bits running on computer systems worldwide.
Cher Is intstantly recognizable with just one name.
Bruce Is intstantly recognizable with just one name.
Cher Has great legs.
Bruce Has great Karma.
Cher Has a lot of devoted fans.
Bruce Has a lot of devoted fans.
Cher Has her own PR people.
Bruce Could use his own PR people.
This issue has nothing to do with the medium on which we speek.
This has everything to do with honesty in any relationship . . . .on-line or off.
I would also posture a guess that at least 25% of the people experiencing the /. effect are indeed experiencing normal lag (packets dropped by routers a few hops away) combined with bad timing.
For example: Prime time (United state 7PM to 10PM) evening net use is 'spotty at best'.
My name is Dr. Vinnyboombas and I seek funding for the following research:
Building a quantitative model of Postmodern Slashdot Societies effect on Cultural Imperialism and Statistical Geekology. and ummm oh yea..can I have a supercolider and a mindstorm kit?
Thank you Santa, I've been a good boy this year. :)
uptime: 50 days, 21:18, 1 user,
load average: 0.49, 0.35, 0.24
processes: 132
yesterday: 76525
today: 1
ever: 203679322
These stats are shown in a 'slashbox' for registered users. A Custom Page that show these stats along with many other items.
What's missing from the /. stats is the average ratio between 'proccesses' and 'unique visits'. This number would prove valuable. Rob? are you reading this ? :)
250 hits per minute. Now we know how big the slashdot effect is. Has anyone else seen surges this big (from 30/min to 250/min) from other sources other that /.?
1) Make processors fast
2) Make processors faster
These two things are very important to the business model Intel currently enjoys. Deciding *when* #2 takes place is very important the bottom line.
Imagine, if you will, Microsoft adding code into the operating system that uses the distributed approach described in the patent. This, effectively puts the control over how fast a users computer appears to run for the user, in another companies hands (thus breaking rule #2). Plus, Intel has no interest on thousands of Merceds biting into the slice of server sales. So this is defensive. Take out the patent, sit on it, and defend it in court.