The justice department just kind of let them walk. They definitely abused their monopoly (see this thread). It seems the prosecution lost their witnesses. All of the companies pushing the U.S. Government to release Microsoft’s yoke suddenly have much more important things to worry about…like bankruptcy.

It’s times like these that make ‘cynic’ seem to be synonymous with ‘realist’. No sooner can you start to worry about civil rights infringement than you find more cases of it being proposed than you can count.

How is it that the notion of preventing honest citizens from using encryption somehow increases our freedom from attack? Does Congress truly believe that terrorists who will stop at nothing will make sure to use only legal, government-sanctioned software with backdoors neatly in place? I... [More]

I thought it was a shame that the guy was laughing at what sad bastards we are that we can’t even clean up his mess (for 3 months).

For future reference, here’s how you do it (only works in Windows NT/2000, for Windows 95, 98, use a DOS utility like ‘elim’):

dir /x

The /x switch shows short and long file names. All of the illegal folders had legible short file names. The first one was ~0200, where 20 is actually hexadecimal for 32, which is ‘space’ in ASCII.

Once you know the folder name,... [More]

Why did the tower collapse? How did it manage to collapse so neatly? Was it a lucky hit?

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The New Scientist also weighs in.

In the wake of the WTC attack, it is unfortunate to see the stirrings of government agencies that see this as an opportunity to legalize infringements of basic rights on Americans too shellshocked and/or frightened to resist.

Already, on Tuesday afternoon, the FBI was shopping their home-grown packet-sniffer, dubbed ‘Carnivore’, around to all the major ISPs again. This is a blatant, crude move that will likely work for many ISPs who don’t want to be seen as uncooperative or harboring terrorist... [More]

Domestic Spying and other wonderful stuff.

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Marco’s Tuesday commute.

The FBI has already started to push its Carnivore strategy again. Now that the nation is properly ‘terrified’, they figure we’re a much easier target for intruding on our rights of privacy. For most ISPs, the FBI was right.

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Added customization options. Change color scheme, font and size and use it throughout the site. (See Settings on the right.)

The FBI has been granted protection under the Classified Information Procedures Act. They don’t have to explain how a key-logging program was placed onto a private machine.

Check the Register for more information.

“I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense — I deserve it.”

Jean Louis Gassèe

See also an article on Byte on boot loaders.

Think you’re taking advantage of frequent flyer miles? Check this guy out.

http://www.snopes2.com/business/deals/pudding.htm

The well-known Dutch cryptographer claims to have broken Intel’s DVI (Digital Video Interface) encryption, but won’t publish for fear of being prosecuted under the DMCA as soon as he sets foot on American soil.

http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/article.html?id=236

There is a bug in scope resolution in IIS 5.0. When resolving a variable within a member function, precedence is given to a global constant instead of to a member variable of the same name. The problem does not occur with global variables. Paste the following code into a page:

<%
const name = 1
 
class A
 
  public name
 
  public function get_name
    get_name = name
  end function
 
end class
 
dim a1
set a1 = new A
 
a1.name = "test"
 
%>
<%=name%><br>
<%=a1.name%><br>
<%=a1.get_name%><br>

http://latimes.com/technology/la-000064605aug09.story

New (old) quake battle. malloc and dur in Urban Terror.

Added a style-chooser on the home page. Check out which styles you like. More coming soon…

Added 239 pictures to the Switzerland 1997 album.

From their article titled “AMD allies with Transmeta”

http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/05/25/technology/amd_transmeta/

“Most of today’s microprocessors are “32-bit,” which means they process data 32 bits at a time. It also refers to the size of the “pointer,” which determines how much data the processor can address directly. Current 32-bit processors can address 4 gigabytes of data.“

“The industry has been gradually moving toward a 64-bit architecture, which multiplies the amount of data the... [More]

Added AEStats to the Quake battles site. New battle: dur, joker, kavorka, malloc.

Finished the first version of the polling system.

More hacktivism from the Cult. This time their software aims to provide private, closed networks untouchable by prying eyes.

The last section ‘Some Truth about Peekabooty’ is the most interesting, I think.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19067.html
 

 

http://www.seanbaby.com/news/col-lawsuit.htm
 

This is a comparison of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with the GeForce2 GTS (slowest one) and Radeon (both 64MB cards). They tested 8 different games with different engines, including Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 and Serious Sam. Surprise, surprise, Quake and Serious Sam showed 0% change between platforms.
Looks like you can move safely over if you like….

Here’s the main chart:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422&p=12

and the whole review:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1422&p=1... [More]

Added the first earthli poll.

A (biased) description of a recent meeting of the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and
Foreign Judgments, discussing globalizing copyright laws.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/15/2138208&mode=nocomment

http://www.jargon.8hz.com/jargon_49.html

Added Christmas 2000 pictures to the photo album.

A look at what ‘big media’ is trying to get away with these days…
http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/05/11/

Grizz vs. dur quake battle.