Now compare that to many other countries, even other Western countries such as the UK, German...etc which don't even garuntee freedom of speech and you can see how it is quite correct to call the US, civilized.
The UK and Germany are signatories of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and have both integrated the chapters into their respective legislatures. See Article Ten of the ECHR, which concerns itself with, and is entitled, the right to freedom of expression, and Article Three, which prohibits torture regardless of nationality.
His assailants held what felt like a semi-automatic weapon to the back of Cocker's head . . .
Whatever the influence of iPods on UK street crime, the back of Cocker's head has to be commended for being able to determine whether a gun is semi-automatic or not, especially given the duress he felt he was under at the time.
On a more serious note, no one in their right mind would use a real gun to steal an iPod in the UK. The sentences for gun crime in the UK are disproportionate - ten year sentences are not uncommon - to the financial gain involved in the theft of an iPod. That's not to say the back of Cocker's head was mistaken, or that the inside of his head was functioning when he handed over the iPod--pistol-whipping hurts whether the firearm is real or fake, automatic or otherwise.
At present I'm running a dual boot powerpc mac with Ubuntu, and, of course, OS X. While I was excited at first, I soon became a little wary of the powerpc versions (and I've found this using powerpc debian also), because I was getting some weird results with software I use regularly. For instance, using Snort, same versions, same config file, with Ubuntu as I was using in OS X, would not trigger alerts on certain events. I tested this using pcap files with know alerts. I'm not sure if its something specific to the debian powerpc derivatives or whether its in the powerpc kernel tree or what. So I'm back using OS X for most things. Because, while Linux has a greater range of tools available for it than OS X, I simply cannot trust them to be working adequately on the linux distros for powerpc architecture.
Surely, it's whether the kernel is the reason why OS X is slow, or whether OS X is slow for some other implied but undefined reason (something outwith the scope of the article; which is, after all, about the kernel). Hence the apostrophised "it's" (specifically, the kernel) followed by plain old "its" (generally speaking, OS X).
The reclusive thing has more to do with CNN self-aggrandisement, than any quantifiable reclusivity inherent in Torvalds. Maybe if they had an interview with J.D. Salinger, I'd sit up and take notice. Type Linus Torvalds in Google image and you'll see just how reclusive the guy is. There's one photo of him topless, drinking beer. By the turn of the next century, language will have all the meaning of a dog's bark. Woof. Whatever, Move-on, Get-over-it.
From the article: From his experience, the man knew instantly that he was dealing with a wireless router that was using a factory configuration.
That kind of experience is breathtaking, gained from years and years, or even minutes, of reading the Kismet FAQ.
I'm going across the road to see if any of my neighbours want me to set up their Wireless Routers for them. If they aren't going to read the manual, they certainly wont have read that article. Which begs the question, who exactly is supposed to read that article?
I've got a friend who works for the UK MoD, at a purely administrative level, it has to be said, and he was telling me they don't have external email or internet connections on any of their networks. It strikes me as odd, where Military networks are concerned, that US DoD departments would have anything but the most pedestrian information accessible from the outside, like for instance which catering company is getting awarded the doughnut contract (maybe Gary mistook a closeup of a doughnut). It doesn't make sense for them to have anything else online. The US military has the highest budget of something like the next ten closest states combined, and has the preponderance of the elite IT education centres from which to handpick network security staff.
Gary McKinnon is obviously a few pakora short of the full bhoona, and I doubt he accessed anything noteworthy at all. He should be tried accordingly, with distain but with restraint. Personally I'd like to see him tried under the 1990 (UK) Computer Misuse Act, as I'm interested in the law as it stands in my own country, and there have been no really juicy cases prosecuted under this act. If he is tried in the US it'll probably be more because of the damage to prestige factor of the US military, in PR terms, than any quantative damage done to national security. As for flying saucers, if they existed don't you think the US would use them to beam themselves out of Iraq ASAP.
Culturally, suicide in Japan doesn't have anywhere near the same taboo factor that it has in the west for a long, long time. In fact, in a lot of Japanese art and literature, suicide is idealised.
If the iLoo and the iSmell people had got together they would have created a right old stink. This has to be a joke, right? It reminds me of the time I first marvelled at the ability to take my mobile phone into the crapper, then thought better of it.
It really is experimental, all it does is give the tv listings for the programme, a bit like an old newspaper on the bottom of a drawer. I was hoping they'd put "The Computer Programme" online, so I could look at those hulking great modems with the suckers for the earpiece and receiver.
If this allegation has any basis in fact, then the games up for Microsoft:
The other violation under review next week involves the Commission's finding that Microsoft made certain its own work group server software ran better with desktop and laptop computers than that of rivals.
While I agree with most of the comments posted about Ubuntu being a kind of shrink wrapped Debian, I've found some issues with it.
First of all I should say I'm using 5.10 powerpc, so maybe these issues only apply to the powerpc version.
For the last few days I've been trying to recreate an analysis of a pcap file from the Real Digital Forensics DVD using snort. I've been mucking about with snort.conf trying all sorts of configurations to trigger a IIS.printer alert. Because I'm dual booting with OS X, as a last resort I copied all the snort rules and snort.conf from my Ubuntu partition and tried running the same snort scan of the pcap file, and lo and behold it triggered the alert I'd been trying to reproduce for days at the first attempt. This was using the same conf, same rules, same version of snort and everything, and yet Ubuntu couldn't find it, despite the IIS.printer rule being enabled and the ethereal output showing the content in the form that should have triggered it.
And it doesn't stop with snort. Take sleuthkit for instance. It builts fine, no./configure errors, no make errors, and all seems well, but try running fsstat on a linux_partition.dd and it wont give any output, and just keeps spitting out usage info. No libary errors, no segmentation faults, nothing. The very same version on OS X works perfectly.
The very reason I was dual booting linux was to take advantage of the plethora of linux-only forensics and network analysis tools which haven't been ported to OS X yet. And I rather liked Ubuntu's more responsive UI to OS X's bloat.
Which brings me to Ubuntu's strengths. The synaptic package manager is great for tracking down stray lib-devs when you don't know the exact name to put into apt-get install. And for ninety percent of my requirements it works fine. I like the fact it comes with a default install that is eminently usable without too much tweaking. And it looks good.
But if they are already pushing Dapper when even Breezy hasn't ironed out these issues yet, granted only when it comes to the kind of software that most Ubuntu users wont find strictly necessary, people should be aware of the limitations of the distro.
From memory I didn't find these same problems with Debian Powerpc, so I doubt its anything to do with powerpc kernel support within sleuthkit or snort. Still I'd recomend Ubuntu for anyone who doesn't require too much specialised software. But for anyone else I'd be careful. The troubling aspect of the snort problem was that it was triggering other alerts fine, so it took me a while to begin to suspect it might have something to do with the distro. I'm sure it could be fixed with a little bit of hammering, but then again, the whole point of installing Ubuntu in avoid that kind of hair-pulling?
We had one of the first betamax videos when they came out. We had it for a couple of months... during the world cup in Mexico my father sat up until 2am programming the thing to record every game. Then a few weeks later some ****ers broke into the house and stole the thing, along with all my father's world cup tapes. By that time VHS was taking over, and since we didn't know anyone who'd had a VHS stolen, we replaced those lovely DAT-like betamax tapes for the horror, the horror, of chewed VHS tape.
Tape rules, bring back the audio cassette (only this time clean yer heads and don't use anything bigger than a C60).
There would be a lot of "how can fight something like that?" discussions going on that night.
Until, at some point during the "night" the term "improvised explosive device" entered into the conversation.
This so called force-field is another example of billion-dollar weapon development completely ignoring the current asymmetric battlefield. Conventional head-on attacks against tanks are a thing of WWII.
The problem with this article is that it presents IW as a new phenomenon, like its going to happen for the first time, tommorrow. This kind of stuff has been buzzing around the think tanks for years.
Take this RAND publication from 1996, for example:
I've looked at your post above and I can't find where you mention the folklore story until now. And I don't think anyone is disputing that Apple may have copied the idea from a Beatles record. I just don't think that the 1991 agreement proves it.
If the 1991 agreement was a license agreement then there would be a disclaimer on every Apple Computer product, to the effect that the Apple Trademark is owned by Apple Corp and licensed to Apple Computers.
Apple Corp had the Trademark first, and the 1991 court would probably have ruled accordingly, so it stands to reason Apple Computers would pay to settle the dispute. But all this is moot, since the contents of the agreement (with the exception of the issues made public by the present case) remain private to the parties of the agreement. IANAL, but I'm sure licenses have to be made public at some government body.
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I hope apple wins, and says to the other apple (I'm not saying which is which), "How do you like them apples?"
Apple Computers licensed their name from Apple Records. That's all the proof anyone needs.
Apple Computers struck an agreement (not a license) with Apple Corp. in 1991, after a lengthy dispute.
Apple Computers have used the Apple name since 1976. I don't see how an agreement struck in 1991 proves that Apple Computers took the idea from a Beatles record.
What citizens should demand to combat Orwell's dystopia is transparency in the process' and records of their government.
It seems to me that there is plenty of transparency at the moment. It's almost a joke that everyone knows - and no one denies - the litany of judicial oversights, wiretaps, renditions - it's so well known I don't even have to go on. AND, I think this is where the comparisons to totalitarian states end. This is more frightening, in a way, because it's happening in front of our eyes, by administrations we supposedly chose and there seems to be nothing anyone can do about it.
Couldn't this story have been picked up when it was posted on Groklaw seven days ago. Or is the actual story more to do with the fact Zdnet is now citing the article, than any issue surrounding the substance of the article itself?
Snort for logging and doing rudimentary programmed capture, but it really depends on what you want to snoop on, ethereal or tcpdump are more useful for closer analysis.
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They may anticipate that any side by side comparison with another OS may (!) have an impact on future sales.
The UK and Germany are signatories of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and have both integrated the chapters into their respective legislatures. See Article Ten of the ECHR, which concerns itself with, and is entitled, the right to freedom of expression, and Article Three, which prohibits torture regardless of nationality.
Whatever the influence of iPods on UK street crime, the back of Cocker's head has to be commended for being able to determine whether a gun is semi-automatic or not, especially given the duress he felt he was under at the time.
On a more serious note, no one in their right mind would use a real gun to steal an iPod in the UK. The sentences for gun crime in the UK are disproportionate - ten year sentences are not uncommon - to the financial gain involved in the theft of an iPod. That's not to say the back of Cocker's head was mistaken, or that the inside of his head was functioning when he handed over the iPod--pistol-whipping hurts whether the firearm is real or fake, automatic or otherwise.
At present I'm running a dual boot powerpc mac with Ubuntu, and, of course, OS X. While I was excited at first, I soon became a little wary of the powerpc versions (and I've found this using powerpc debian also), because I was getting some weird results with software I use regularly. For instance, using Snort, same versions, same config file, with Ubuntu as I was using in OS X, would not trigger alerts on certain events. I tested this using pcap files with know alerts. I'm not sure if its something specific to the debian powerpc derivatives or whether its in the powerpc kernel tree or what. So I'm back using OS X for most things. Because, while Linux has a greater range of tools available for it than OS X, I simply cannot trust them to be working adequately on the linux distros for powerpc architecture.
He only won in reality. Whereas we won in irony.
Surely, it's whether the kernel is the reason why OS X is slow, or whether OS X is slow for some other implied but undefined reason (something outwith the scope of the article; which is, after all, about the kernel). Hence the apostrophised "it's" (specifically, the kernel) followed by plain old "its" (generally speaking, OS X).
The reclusive thing has more to do with CNN self-aggrandisement, than any quantifiable reclusivity inherent in Torvalds. Maybe if they had an interview with J.D. Salinger, I'd sit up and take notice. Type Linus Torvalds in Google image and you'll see just how reclusive the guy is. There's one photo of him topless, drinking beer. By the turn of the next century, language will have all the meaning of a dog's bark. Woof. Whatever, Move-on, Get-over-it.
That kind of experience is breathtaking, gained from years and years, or even minutes, of reading the Kismet FAQ.
I'm going across the road to see if any of my neighbours want me to set up their Wireless Routers for them. If they aren't going to read the manual, they certainly wont have read that article. Which begs the question, who exactly is supposed to read that article?
I've got a friend who works for the UK MoD, at a purely administrative level, it has to be said, and he was telling me they don't have external email or internet connections on any of their networks. It strikes me as odd, where Military networks are concerned, that US DoD departments would have anything but the most pedestrian information accessible from the outside, like for instance which catering company is getting awarded the doughnut contract (maybe Gary mistook a closeup of a doughnut). It doesn't make sense for them to have anything else online. The US military has the highest budget of something like the next ten closest states combined, and has the preponderance of the elite IT education centres from which to handpick network security staff.
Gary McKinnon is obviously a few pakora short of the full bhoona, and I doubt he accessed anything noteworthy at all. He should be tried accordingly, with distain but with restraint. Personally I'd like to see him tried under the 1990 (UK) Computer Misuse Act, as I'm interested in the law as it stands in my own country, and there have been no really juicy cases prosecuted under this act. If he is tried in the US it'll probably be more because of the damage to prestige factor of the US military, in PR terms, than any quantative damage done to national security. As for flying saucers, if they existed don't you think the US would use them to beam themselves out of Iraq ASAP.
Culturally, suicide in Japan doesn't have anywhere near the same taboo factor that it has in the west for a long, long time. In fact, in a lot of Japanese art and literature, suicide is idealised.
If the iLoo and the iSmell people had got together they would have created a right old stink. This has to be a joke, right? It reminds me of the time I first marvelled at the ability to take my mobile phone into the crapper, then thought better of it.
It really is experimental, all it does is give the tv listings for the programme, a bit like an old newspaper on the bottom of a drawer. I was hoping they'd put "The Computer Programme" online, so I could look at those hulking great modems with the suckers for the earpiece and receiver.
The other violation under review next week involves the Commission's finding that Microsoft made certain its own work group server software ran better with desktop and laptop computers than that of rivals.
While I agree with most of the comments posted about Ubuntu being a kind of shrink wrapped Debian, I've found some issues with it.
.printer alert. Because I'm dual booting with OS X, as a last resort I copied all the snort rules and snort.conf from my Ubuntu partition and tried running the same snort scan of the pcap file, and lo and behold it triggered the alert I'd been trying to reproduce for days at the first attempt. This was using the same conf, same rules, same version of snort and everything, and yet Ubuntu couldn't find it, despite the IIS .printer rule being enabled and the ethereal output showing the content in the form that should have triggered it.
./configure errors, no make errors, and all seems well, but try running fsstat on a linux_partition.dd and it wont give any output, and just keeps spitting out usage info. No libary errors, no segmentation faults, nothing. The very same version on OS X works perfectly.
First of all I should say I'm using 5.10 powerpc, so maybe these issues only apply to the powerpc version.
For the last few days I've been trying to recreate an analysis of a pcap file from the Real Digital Forensics DVD using snort. I've been mucking about with snort.conf trying all sorts of configurations to trigger a IIS
And it doesn't stop with snort. Take sleuthkit for instance. It builts fine, no
The very reason I was dual booting linux was to take advantage of the plethora of linux-only forensics and network analysis tools which haven't been ported to OS X yet. And I rather liked Ubuntu's more responsive UI to OS X's bloat.
Which brings me to Ubuntu's strengths. The synaptic package manager is great for tracking down stray lib-devs when you don't know the exact name to put into apt-get install. And for ninety percent of my requirements it works fine. I like the fact it comes with a default install that is eminently usable without too much tweaking. And it looks good.
But if they are already pushing Dapper when even Breezy hasn't ironed out these issues yet, granted only when it comes to the kind of software that most Ubuntu users wont find strictly necessary, people should be aware of the limitations of the distro.
From memory I didn't find these same problems with Debian Powerpc, so I doubt its anything to do with powerpc kernel support within sleuthkit or snort. Still I'd recomend Ubuntu for anyone who doesn't require too much specialised software. But for anyone else I'd be careful. The troubling aspect of the snort problem was that it was triggering other alerts fine, so it took me a while to begin to suspect it might have something to do with the distro. I'm sure it could be fixed with a little bit of hammering, but then again, the whole point of installing Ubuntu in avoid that kind of hair-pulling?
We had one of the first betamax videos when they came out. We had it for a couple of months ... during the world cup in Mexico my father sat up until 2am programming the thing to record every game. Then a few weeks later some ****ers broke into the house and stole the thing, along with all my father's world cup tapes. By that time VHS was taking over, and since we didn't know anyone who'd had a VHS stolen, we replaced those lovely DAT-like betamax tapes for the horror, the horror, of chewed VHS tape.
Tape rules, bring back the audio cassette (only this time clean yer heads and don't use anything bigger than a C60).
Until, at some point during the "night" the term "improvised explosive device" entered into the conversation.
This so called force-field is another example of billion-dollar weapon development completely ignoring the current asymmetric battlefield. Conventional head-on attacks against tanks are a thing of WWII.
Take this RAND publication from 1996, for example:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR661/
Citizens of western countries like ours should be very familiar with Information Warfare, our states have been practicing it upon us for years.
If the 1991 agreement was a license agreement then there would be a disclaimer on every Apple Computer product, to the effect that the Apple Trademark is owned by Apple Corp and licensed to Apple Computers.
Apple Corp had the Trademark first, and the 1991 court would probably have ruled accordingly, so it stands to reason Apple Computers would pay to settle the dispute. But all this is moot, since the contents of the agreement (with the exception of the issues made public by the present case) remain private to the parties of the agreement. IANAL, but I'm sure licenses have to be made public at some government body.
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I hope apple wins, and says to the other apple (I'm not saying which is which), "How do you like them apples?"
Apple Computers struck an agreement (not a license) with Apple Corp. in 1991, after a lengthy dispute.
Apple Computers have used the Apple name since 1976. I don't see how an agreement struck in 1991 proves that Apple Computers took the idea from a Beatles record.
In the UK, at least, the hoax part of April Fools Day is only effective until 12 noon. After that it's considered illegitimate.
It seems to me that there is plenty of transparency at the moment. It's almost a joke that everyone knows - and no one denies - the litany of judicial oversights, wiretaps, renditions - it's so well known I don't even have to go on. AND, I think this is where the comparisons to totalitarian states end. This is more frightening, in a way, because it's happening in front of our eyes, by administrations we supposedly chose and there seems to be nothing anyone can do about it.
I'm tired tonight, hence the gripe.
I think I'll check out the Glasgow branch tomorrow.
Just don't use it on OSX, or you'll have to kill off all those top-tails when you're done.
Snort for logging and doing rudimentary programmed capture, but it really depends on what you want to snoop on, ethereal or tcpdump are more useful for closer analysis.