You didn't listen to WBER when you were in Rochester? I lived up that way for a while and they certainly played a lot better stuff than the Never did. Of course if you were listening in the morning, you'd have to listen to Joey babble on about pancakes or toast or something inane like that, but anyways..
Basically all you need to do is monitor one or perhaps two hub servers. Of course if you have no users who are in a particular channel to make it route via your hub, get yourself an AOL account and join a client to the channel.
Often times I'm sure if the server admin had a warrant to allow monitoring of the server, do you think he is going to refuse? To protect script kiddies...I don't think so.
IRC by its nature is not a secure medimum of communication, nor is that the intention of IRC. If you *want* it to be a bit more secure, you'll need to do end-to-end encryption of all traffic between you and you and the person you are talking to. Of course this is the job of the client and not the server.
Of course people have a lot of misconceptions as to what IRC is supposed to be, the capabilities of the administrators. If you need to monitor some channel, if you have warrants handed too two or three of the admins on the major hub servers on the network, you have vibility to probably 90% of the traffic on the network.
Of course if all the users are on one server, this won't work. If somebody wants to see what you are saying bad enough on IRC, they'll be able to see it.
I think buying a $10 book in cash isn't doesn't so much warrant notice, as does, say buying a $1000 ticket in cash. Most people do not care that sort of money on their person, so it is worth investigating.
Otherwise, I think most of you people are making a bigger deal than necessary. If somebody really wants to do some damage, they are not going to need a book from the local bookstore to do it. Heck, they could just go into a public library, read, and take notes about what they need to do, and not check out a single book.
I swear some of you people are not the brightest crayons in the box.
I do not see how having cameras in public places really hurts anybody anyways. If you are in public, there is a good chance somebody can see what you are doing anyways. Consider people who happen to live in a large apartment building who could be looking down out of the window at you, and you wouldn't even know it. Consider it equivlent to having that many extra police officers just sitting there looking around for a lot less tax dollars.
Personally, I think the/. crowd is a bit on the paranoid side of things. I'm not saying that the police should have free reign to do whatever they damn well please, but I don't think cameras in public places are a great invasion to privacy that people think it is.
As for getting the list of books somebody has purchased, this is all information that bookstores have been selling for years. If you don't like it, don't use your 'discount card' and pay in cash.
I believe Linus was pretty against CVS from day one. He didn't like it at all, and wasn't a terribly huge fan of BitKeeper either. It almost seems like he is using moreso because he has been prodded in all directions regarding this.
USPTO = US Patent and Trademark office. Where do you see anything about *copyright*. Last I checked the US Copyright Office was a part of the Library of Congress
Don't you people know you people know the difference between patents, trademarks, and copyrights?
Patents: More or less a government enforced monopoly on the marketing of a unique idea or invention. The general idea is that, let the inventor make some money off of it, then once the patent expires, it becomes free for anybody to use the idea.
Copyright: Covers the publication or copying of materials, such as printed media, sound recordings, works of art, etc.
Trademark: This is protection of something such as a logo or a name that is unique in the owners field of business. Consider that nobody could use the slashdot name or the likeness of the slashdot logo in association with an online message board, as there is a trademark on it.
If you are spending in excess of 7 hours per day playing video games, you seriously are not going to find a girlfriend or anything. I think its safe to say most girls are not into the sort of guy who spends that much time playing video games. Go outside, get some fresh air, try to find a girlfriend or something. Life is just a little too short to spend most of it playing video games.
I doubt that they'll be anything like a 15 mile buffer zone around any airport in the near future. I personally have stopped noticing the noise from the airport here(here being, 2 or 3 miles north of Reagan National Airport). Of course its not the noise I'm concerned about, its moreso one of those damn things dropping out of the sky because the pilot is drunk or something.
Why does it matter if Microsoft has fuel for their propaganda machine. Its an operating system, not the freaking cold war. I'm sick of crap like that. Its not a war, and most of the real developers don't see it as such. And if it is a war, perhaps one of the best ways to win it, is to ignore the fact that the enemy exists.
It seems these folks decided that using the whois database for the companies location was a good idea.
It turns out that the registration for suse.com does point to an office in CA. But if this moron would do some real research, he'd find out that they are infact in Germany. Of course all of us knew this.
What particular workstation are they using. I've got gnome1.4 on a Sun Blade 100 and it works just fine, even with the transpartent xterms and the like...
Why not just use tmpfs for/tmp. This is what Solaris does, and is supported in 2.4.x. Basically tmpfs uses your swap partition for the/tmp filesystem. So, upon reboot/tmp is cleaned and you never have to worry aabout it.
By having voluntary rating systems, this is not technically censorship, its moreso an industry standard. While these standards can be shitty, it is obviously a feature that a majority of consumers in the US want. This in no way restricts people from saying want they want, it just categorizes the content of it. Of course, a responsible adult can choose to ignore these rating systems.
It is certainly a slippery slope, but I'd rather see this done in the private sector, rather than have some gumbment agency rating things..
Sun has been putting 8MB of L1 + L2 cache on the Ultrasparc 3 cpus. Of course..this cpu is really out there now and not just an idea on the drawing board..
This would be extremely painful considering the liberal use of inline assembly and the like. Nonetheless, the target compiler for the Linux kernel *is* gcc. It would be just silly to try to use anything else with gcc works.
Please don't take the comments from/. as the opinion of most Americans. Most of the dolts around here are socialist weenies and would be just as happy as bin Laden would be to see the US fall. But don't tell them this. These are the same people who want their civil liberties handed to them on a silver platter. I think these people forget that freedom and liberty has been won with the blood of dead men who were more than willing to fight and die for their country and the ideas it represents.
Congress did however pass a measure authorizing President Bush to take military action against those who are responsible. Not your traditional war declaration, but it was Congresss giving him the okay and the money to use the military in whatever way he felt necessary.
So technically not your declaration of war, but the same damn effect at the end of the day.
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You didn't listen to WBER when you were in Rochester?
I lived up that way for a while and they certainly played a lot better stuff than the Never did. Of course if you were listening in the morning, you'd have to listen to Joey babble on about pancakes or toast or something inane like that, but anyways..
Last I checked FreeBSD used GCC to compile itself too. So RMS wins again :P
You obviously aren't looking for restaurants in the right places. Pittsburgh is full of good places to eat.
Basically all you need to do is monitor one or perhaps two hub servers. Of course if you have no users who are in a particular channel to make it route via your hub, get yourself an AOL account and join a client to the channel.
Often times I'm sure if the server admin had a warrant to allow monitoring of the server, do you think he is going to refuse? To protect script kiddies...I don't think so.
IRC by its nature is not a secure medimum of communication, nor is that the intention of IRC. If you *want* it to be a bit more secure, you'll need to do end-to-end encryption of all traffic between you and you and the person you are talking to. Of course this is the job of the client and not the server.
Of course people have a lot of misconceptions as to what IRC is supposed to be, the capabilities of the administrators. If you need to monitor some channel, if you have warrants handed too two or three of the admins on the major hub servers on the network, you have vibility to probably 90% of the traffic on the network.
Of course if all the users are on one server, this won't work. If somebody wants to see what you are saying bad enough on IRC, they'll be able to see it.
-Aaron (Hybrid IRCd coder)
But, if you install monitoring software on one or more hub servers, you lose. Its trivial to monitor irc servers, *if* you know what you are doing.
We've (hybrid-ircd) team have ways of doing it already, but we don't hand out that code, as it is just for debugging purposes...
This was the original spelling of the company name. At some point that got changes to the current presentation..
I think buying a $10 book in cash isn't doesn't so much warrant notice, as does, say buying a $1000 ticket in cash. Most people do not care that sort of money on their person, so it is worth investigating.
Otherwise, I think most of you people are making a bigger deal than necessary. If somebody really wants to do some damage, they are not going to need a book from the local bookstore to do it. Heck, they could just go into a public library, read, and take notes about what they need to do, and not check out a single book.
I swear some of you people are not the brightest crayons in the box.
I do not see how having cameras in public places really hurts anybody anyways. If you are in public, there is a good chance somebody can see what you are doing anyways. Consider people who happen to live in a large apartment building who could be looking down out of the window at you, and you wouldn't even know it. Consider it equivlent to having that many extra police officers just sitting there looking around for a lot less tax dollars.
/. crowd is a bit on the paranoid side of things. I'm not saying that the police should have free reign to do whatever they damn well please, but I don't think cameras in public places are a great invasion to privacy that people think it is.
Personally, I think the
As for getting the list of books somebody has purchased, this is all information that bookstores have been selling for years. If you don't like it, don't use your 'discount card' and pay in cash.
I believe Linus was pretty against CVS from day one. He didn't like it at all, and wasn't a terribly huge fan of BitKeeper either. It almost seems like he is using moreso because he has been prodded in all directions regarding this.
USPTO = US Patent and Trademark office. Where do you see anything about *copyright*. Last I checked the US Copyright Office was a part of the Library of Congress
Don't you people know you people know the difference between patents, trademarks, and copyrights?
Patents: More or less a government enforced monopoly on the marketing of a unique idea or invention. The general idea is that, let the inventor make some money off of it, then once the patent expires, it becomes free for anybody to use the idea.
Copyright: Covers the publication or copying of materials, such as printed media, sound recordings, works of art, etc.
Trademark: This is protection of something such as a logo or a name that is unique in the owners field of business. Consider that nobody could use the slashdot name or the likeness of the slashdot logo in association with an online message board, as there is a trademark on it.
Now, that doesn't seem so damn complex does it???
If you are spending in excess of 7 hours per day playing video games, you seriously are not going to find a girlfriend or anything. I think its safe to say most girls are not into the sort of guy who spends that much time playing video games. Go outside, get some fresh air, try to find a girlfriend or something. Life is just a little too short to spend most of it playing video games.
If you read the article, you would have noticed that this satellite has no way to control its orbit at all. So, this was an issue from day one.
I doubt that they'll be anything like a 15 mile buffer zone around any airport in the near future. I personally have stopped noticing the noise from the airport here(here being, 2 or 3 miles north of Reagan National Airport). Of course its not the noise I'm concerned about, its moreso one of those damn things dropping out of the sky because the pilot is drunk or something.
Why does it matter if Microsoft has fuel for their propaganda machine. Its an operating system, not the freaking cold war. I'm sick of crap like that. Its not a war, and most of the real developers don't see it as such. And if it is a war, perhaps one of the best ways to win it, is to ignore the fact that the enemy exists.
It seems these folks decided that using the whois database for the companies location was a good idea.
It turns out that the registration for suse.com does point to an office in CA. But if this moron would do some real research, he'd find out that they are infact in Germany. Of course all of us knew this.
Then again most reporters are morons..
What particular workstation are they using. I've got gnome1.4 on a Sun Blade 100 and it works just fine, even with the transpartent xterms and the like...
Why not just use tmpfs for /tmp. This is what Solaris does, and is supported in 2.4.x. Basically tmpfs uses your swap partition for the /tmp filesystem. So, upon reboot /tmp is cleaned and you never have to worry aabout it.
What crack are you smoking. ext3fs can be fscked just fine by a recent version of e2fsck. As for other filesystems, build your own damn boot disk.
By having voluntary rating systems, this is not technically censorship, its moreso an industry standard. While these standards can be shitty, it is obviously a feature that a majority of consumers in the US want. This in no way restricts people from saying want they want, it just categorizes the content of it. Of course, a responsible adult can choose to ignore these rating systems.
It is certainly a slippery slope, but I'd rather see this done in the private sector, rather than have some gumbment agency rating things..
Sun has been putting 8MB of L1 + L2 cache on the Ultrasparc 3 cpus. Of course..this cpu is really out there now and not just an idea on the drawing board..
This would be extremely painful considering the liberal use of inline assembly and the like. Nonetheless, the target compiler for the Linux kernel *is* gcc. It would be just silly to try to use anything else with gcc works.
The Linux kernel cannot compile without GNU software. Ever hear of GCC or binutils?
Please don't take the comments from /. as the opinion of most Americans. Most of the dolts around here are socialist weenies and would be just as happy as bin Laden would be to see the US fall. But don't tell them this. These are the same people who want their civil liberties handed to them on a silver platter. I think these people forget that freedom and liberty has been won with the blood of dead men who were more than willing to fight and die for their country and the ideas it represents.
Congress did however pass a measure authorizing President Bush to take military action against those who are responsible. Not your traditional war declaration, but it was Congresss giving him the okay and the money to use the military in whatever way he felt necessary.
So technically not your declaration of war, but the same damn effect at the end of the day.
> SELECT * FROM citizens WHERE purchases="mp3 player"
Or you could just do something like:
SELECT * FROM purchase_history,credit_cards WHERE item = 'mp3 player' CCNUM = 'yourccnum';
We are already there dude. Just that nobody cares enough.