I am not affiliated with (or even a customer of) DomainsByProxy.com, but I think they have the right idea. You register domains through them with your accurate contact information, but they don't post it publically. Instead they act as a forwarding service.
But then if it turns out you're a spammer/phisher/etc, they shut you down and release your data.
I'd be happy to see IANA/ICANN/iAcronym enforce rules about accurate WHOIS info, combined with reasonable privacy protection for known valid sites.
to paraphrase "I am no longer competent to administer or help out with anything more complicated than a toaster
As someone with a similar support policy ("friends don't help friends use Windows"), I would paraphrase thusly: "it's the TCO, stupid". A properly set-up Mac will run unmanaged for a year or more without trouble. No viruses, no spyware, no bizarre gardening accidents with the registry. Which means after Xmas dinner I wake up my dad's iMac, make sure SoftwareUpdate is ok, install MacinTax, and run DiskWarrior.
FWIW, I would be willing to support Linux or BSD on a family PC, for political reasons. I have received exactly zero requests for this service so far.
This wasn't a case about "banned vs allowed". This is "allowed vs required". Unlike a gas station or daycare, these cyber cafes have been ordered to tape their customers. See where I'm going with this?
similar issue with forcing the hand of liquour stores to ID [...]
Law abiding citizens don't care if they're being monitored.
Except that ANY purchase of alcohol by a minor is illegal, whereas only some uses of internet access are. diablobynight, would you be okay if you were photographed every time you wanted to buy spray paint, bullets, or anything else that might be used to commit a crime?
And in any case, the surveillance has nothing to do with all that. It's being done because "gang kids" were hanging out at the cafes, maybe checking email and playing pre-installed video games, but mainly just hanging out and getting in real-world fights with each other. Garden Grove is not doing this to crack down on movie pirates or child porn. It's a pure crowd control ordinance at the shop owners' expense.
"A California appellate court has upheld, 2-1, a Garden Grove, California ordinance
requiring so-called 'cyber cafes' to impose a curfew, hire security guards, and install video surveillance cameras capable of identifying patrons. The opinion is a must-read; the dissenting judge called the law 'Orwellian,' and pointed out that 'even the government of Malaysia' was 'too ashamed to enforce' a similar proposal." It appears that the ordinances were enacted in part due to crime involving "gang activity" and to curtail school-children from using the facilities during school hours (unless accompanied by a guardian).
So to everyone who's saying "so what? my shop, my rules" : NO. Your shop, Government rules. This is a literal Big Brother situation.
As a Maryland resident, I've tried to do my part. I contacted my elected officials and warned them about Diebold. I sent another round of faxes and emails after we learned that Diebold planned to gouge us "out the yin-yang" if we wanted verified voting. Final results: a couple form letter replies amounting to diddly squat.
The most frustrating part is that my county already had perfectly good voting machines: paper-based scantron-type forms where you mark the appropriate rectangle and a simple scanner tabulates the results. Effective, verifiable, well-understood, and relatively inexpensive. In other words, the complete opposite of what the state just bought for us.
My favorite solution is to install Mozilla on nearby PCs, cover it with IE Skin, and replace their desktop/launchbar shortcuts for IE with Folgers crystals.
If the Computer Security team at the FBI uses alot of Macs, wouldn't you think they know them well enough to hack them??
He's talking about everyone else in law enforcement not knowing Mac. Local cops, DEA, etc, are generally Windows-only (with maybe one or two weird-Linux-guys).
If you buy hosting from an ISP that refuses to boot its spammers, then you are supporting spam and deserve to be blocked by SPEWS. I say this as someone who supports spam with $39 per month and whose home IP address is also blocked by SPEWS. I fully deserve that.
If you ever see SMTP requests coming from my IP address, feel free to drop them in the bit bucket. Then call the police, because a spammer has broken into my house and attached a PC to my router.
Because Avi Tevanian wrote Mach. When Apple rehired Steve Jobs, Steve appointed Avi to be head of the software division, which obviously was in charge of creating OS X. End of story.
PowerMacs and PowerBooks have standard DVI out, and come with a free (aka zero $$$) DVI to VGA adapter. iBooks come with a free VGA adapter. Putting a 3rd party display on an iMac is just plain tacky.
The article is conflating two different things - either an accidental mis-edit or an intentional oversimplification.
Carbon is based on the classic Mac APIs which go way back to 1984, while the Carbon API actually exists (and is available for calls) in MacOS 8.1 and higher via the CarbonLib classic extension.
we have a population problem, and the last thing we need to do is make it worse
Hmm... if we allow direct cloning, it might possibly result in a few thousand extra people on the planet in the next generation. Meanwhile, if we prevent people from having access to contraception, it is known to result in millions of extra people every year.
Consider first the probability that one vote will actually change the outcome of an election: it's nearly impossible.
Consider second: the most powerful political position in the world was decided by a margin that is substantially smaller than the number of/. lurkers currently nodding and saying "Yeah, Voting SUXX0RS".
A single vote isn't much, but a handful of moderately motivated people rounding up their non-voting friends could have changed history.
...who said "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year". Not a good thing to hear from the guy in charge of making the voting machines.
IMO, Google (and the other search engines) are being foolish to reject pharmacy adverts. They should take the money, record the personal data, and then forward a copy to the DEA (and of course make sure this is allowed in the AdWords contract).
If someone is going to be stupid enough to attach a big red light to their forehead saying "Hi, I'm doing something illegal right here!", why not let them hang themselves?
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C'mon Gerv, get with the program already
But then if it turns out you're a spammer/phisher/etc, they shut you down and release your data.
I'd be happy to see IANA/ICANN/iAcronym enforce rules about accurate WHOIS info, combined with reasonable privacy protection for known valid sites.As someone with a similar support policy ("friends don't help friends use Windows"), I would paraphrase thusly: "it's the TCO, stupid". A properly set-up Mac will run unmanaged for a year or more without trouble. No viruses, no spyware, no bizarre gardening accidents with the registry. Which means after Xmas dinner I wake up my dad's iMac, make sure SoftwareUpdate is ok, install MacinTax, and run DiskWarrior.
FWIW, I would be willing to support Linux or BSD on a family PC, for political reasons. I have received exactly zero requests for this service so far.
That doesn't sound like the cafe caused the crime. Heck, you may as well say the violent game made him do it.
Yes. In the wrong direction.
This wasn't a case about "banned vs allowed". This is "allowed vs required". Unlike a gas station or daycare, these cyber cafes have been ordered to tape their customers. See where I'm going with this?[...]
Law abiding citizens don't care if they're being monitored.
Except that ANY purchase of alcohol by a minor is illegal, whereas only some uses of internet access are. diablobynight, would you be okay if you were photographed every time you wanted to buy spray paint, bullets, or anything else that might be used to commit a crime?
And in any case, the surveillance has nothing to do with all that. It's being done because "gang kids" were hanging out at the cafes, maybe checking email and playing pre-installed video games, but mainly just hanging out and getting in real-world fights with each other. Garden Grove is not doing this to crack down on movie pirates or child porn. It's a pure crowd control ordinance at the shop owners' expense.
So to everyone who's saying "so what? my shop, my rules" : NO. Your shop, Government rules. This is a literal Big Brother situation.
I'd love to read the whole report, except that most of it was covered with black rectangles.
The most frustrating part is that my county already had perfectly good voting machines: paper-based scantron-type forms where you mark the appropriate rectangle and a simple scanner tabulates the results. Effective, verifiable, well-understood, and relatively inexpensive. In other words, the complete opposite of what the state just bought for us.
--Approve Approval Voting Now!
My favorite solution is to install Mozilla on nearby PCs, cover it with IE Skin, and replace their desktop/launchbar shortcuts for IE with Folgers crystals.
He's talking about everyone else in law enforcement not knowing Mac. Local cops, DEA, etc, are generally Windows-only (with maybe one or two weird-Linux-guys).
If you ever see SMTP requests coming from my IP address, feel free to drop them in the bit bucket. Then call the police, because a spammer has broken into my house and attached a PC to my router.
The page that AV links to is real. However, AV is not. He has nothing to do with that page; he is not Russel Nelson's friend. Amsterdam Vallon is a known impostor troll.
Because Avi Tevanian wrote Mach. When Apple rehired Steve Jobs, Steve appointed Avi to be head of the software division, which obviously was in charge of creating OS X. End of story.
PowerMacs and PowerBooks have standard DVI out, and come with a free (aka zero $$$) DVI to VGA adapter. iBooks come with a free VGA adapter. Putting a 3rd party display on an iMac is just plain tacky.
Go away, uneducated stupid comment maker guy.Carbon is based on the classic Mac APIs which go way back to 1984, while the Carbon API actually exists (and is available for calls) in MacOS 8.1 and higher via the CarbonLib classic extension.
HA HA HA. VFMF.
If you really want to talk about people using PowerPC chips in volume, you have to look at the guys over here.
Hmm... if we allow direct cloning, it might possibly result in a few thousand extra people on the planet in the next generation. Meanwhile, if we prevent people from having access to contraception, it is known to result in millions of extra people every year.
Priorities?- Number of Macs reported/suspected to be cracked by recent vulnerabilities: ZERO
- Number of Windows PCs known to be cracked by recent vulnerabilities: MILLIONS
So... I'm feeling pretty damn cocky, thanks for asking.Oh, you mean the Diebold ATMs that got infected earlier this year? No, don't worry, they're completely secure. Just like their voting machines.
Nope. Windows is the master of both of those domains, thanks to the power of spam-trojan viruses.
This article is interesting because it was a PHP exploit on a *nix/Apache box, but Windows is where the big-time spammers do their R00Ting.Unless, of course, the voting machines are rigged.
Consider second: the most powerful political position in the world was decided by a margin that is substantially smaller than the number of /. lurkers currently nodding and saying "Yeah, Voting SUXX0RS".
A single vote isn't much, but a handful of moderately motivated people rounding up their non-voting friends could have changed history....who said "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year". Not a good thing to hear from the guy in charge of making the voting machines.
If someone is going to be stupid enough to attach a big red light to their forehead saying "Hi, I'm doing something illegal right here!", why not let them hang themselves?