From: James Nylen ------------------------------------------------------ I was having this issue with EPB earlier today: james@computron:~$ time sudo ifup eth0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Sending on LPF/eth0/00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER of my.dhcp.ip.addr from epb.gateway.subnet.2 DHCPREQUEST of my.dhcp.ip.addr on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST of my.dhcp.ip.addr on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER of my.dhcp.ip.addr from epb.gateway.subnet.3 DHCPREQUEST of my.dhcp.ip.addr on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST of my.dhcp.ip.addr on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST of my.dhcp.ip.addr on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER of my.dhcp.ip.addr from epb.gateway.subnet.2 DHCPREQUEST of my.dhcp.ip.addr on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK of my.dhcp.ip.addr from epb.gateway.subnet.3 bound to my.dhcp.ip.addr -- renewal in 41467 seconds. ssh stop/waiting ssh start/running, process 25501 real 0m31.420s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.020s Any thoughts on what may have been going on? I thought it was odd that it took so long for me to get an address (waiting after DHCPREQUEST sent each time), and that the DHCPOFFERs came from two different addresses (x.x.x.2 and x.x.x.3). ..more..

From: Dee Holtsclaw ------------------------------------------------------ Noticed this on /. over the weekend ... http://www.reghardware.com/2011/12/05/swiss ..more..

From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ All, Below is the response I got back from Rep. Chuck Fleischmann or someone from his office on my inquiry on SOPA. It looks as if taking a more balanced approach at the legislation. You can be the judge. Note: My first name is Gary, so that is why its addressed as it is. ------------------BEGIN COPY-PASTA------------------------------- Dear Gary: Thank you for contacting me with your concerns about the Stop Online Piracy Act. I appreciate hearing your thoughts about online intellectual property,and I am honored to be your Representative in Congress. As you may know, H.R. 3261 the Stop Online Piracy Act was recently introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith, where it was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Companion legislation in the Senate, S. 968, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PROTECT-IP) was introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy and is pending on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. This legislation would give the federal government expanded authority to pursue websites which provide pirated or counterfeit content. This new legislation would be a substantial change from the current method of "notice and take down," which is currently used to enforce copyright infringement issues. For this reason, concerns have been raised about excessive government regulation of internet speech, especially for user uploaded websites such as YouTube and Facebook. These are legitimate concerns, and I look forward to working with my colleagues on the House Committee on the Judiciary to ensure that the needs of copyright protection are balanced with the First Amendment Rights of Americans. Although this legislation is still pending in the House Committee on the Judiciary, you can rest assured that I will keep your concerns in mind should this legislation arrive on the House floor. Thank you again for your concern about this important issue, and please do not hesitate to let me know if I may be of additional assistance in the future. Sincerely, Chuck Fleischmann Member of Congress -----------------------END COPY-PASTA----------------------------- ..more..

From: Adam Jimerson ------------------------------------------------------ I just got an interesting email from my server running fail2ban it seems that someone from 210.63.39.81 was trying to get into my system via SSH and got banned, they didn't get very far trying to use the "admin", "nobody", and "root" (I have SSH as root disabled in my configurations). The whois for the IP returns this: % [whois.apnic.net node-2] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 210.63.0.0 - 210.63.63.255 netname: SYSNET descr: Systex Corporation SYSNET Business Department country: TW admin-c: DC45-AP tech-c: DC45-AP mnt-by: MAINT-TW-TWNIC changed: snw@www.edu.tw 19980914 changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20021219 status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE source: APNIC person: Dar Chen address: 12F, 51, Sec. 2, Chung Ching South Rd., address: Taipei, Taiwan country: TW phone: +886-2-23968538 fax-no: +886-2-23968538 e-mail: ardar@mail.sysnet.net.tw nic-hdl: DC45-AP mnt-by: MAINT-TW-TWNIC changed: snw@www.edu.tw 19980912 source: APNIC inetnum: 210.63.39.0 - 210.63.39.255 netname: SSCL-NET descr: SUN SECURITIES CO.,LTD descr: Taipei Taiwan country: TW admin-c: MW11-TW tech-c: MW11-TW mnt-by: MAINT-TW-TWNIC remarks: This information has been partially mirrored by APNIC from remarks: TWNIC. To obtain more specific information, please use the remarks: TWNIC whois server at whois.twnic.net. changed: stevet@sysnet.net.tw 19980728 status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE source: TWNIC person: MADELINE WU address: SUN SECURITIES CO.,LTD address: Taipei Taiwan e-mail: madeline@ms1.hinet.net nic-hdl: MW11-TW changed: hostmaster@twnic.net.tw19991009 source: TWNIC has anyone else seen this in their logs? ..more..

From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ I'll leave my personal comments out.. but I won't be going to help keep me from being arrested. -------------------------------------------------------- Please join us for our April 14th lunch meeting. FREE to CTC members; $20 non-CTC members. RSVP deadline is Monday, April 11th. To register, http://chatc.org/events/2011/4/14/chattanooga-technology-council-april-lunch-meeting/ Mitch Glazier is Executive Vice President, Government and Industry Relations for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Washington D.C.-based trade association that represents hundreds of member record companies responsible for creating, manufacturing and distributing more than 90 percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States. Glazier serves as the chief advocate for the recorded music industry before policymakers and government officials and is responsible for industry relations, including the Gold and Platinum Sales Award Program. Glazier, because of his role in policy debates over new media, was named as one of the nation’s “50 most influential men under 37,” by “Details” magazine. He has been at the forefront of many of the nation’s cutting-edge policy issues, such as copyright law in the digital age, First Amendment-related challenges, royalty streams for record companies and artists, and international copyright agreements. Before his tenure with RIAA, Glazier served as Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over all intellectual property law, including patents, copyrights and trademarks. In his capacity as Chief Counsel, Glazier served as the chief advisor to the Subcommittee and was responsible for working with Members of Congress to craft legislation and amendments, organize legislative and oversight hearings and markups, and analyze and evaluate legislation referred to the subcommittee. Glazier also served as law clerk to Judge Wayne R. Andersen, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and practiced law at the Chicago law firm Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg as an associate in commercial litigation. Glazier holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Policy, cum laude, from Northwestern University. He is a member of the Bars of the State of Illinois and the District of Columbia. ..more..

From: admin@unserv.net ------------------------------------------------------ Interesting.... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/does-googles-android-violate-linuxs-copyright/8497 -- Jonathan Burishkin Bachelor of Science in Outdoor Education. CompTIA, Dell and Lenovo Certified Computer Technician. http://unserv.net ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ zediva uses copyright loophole to stream movies. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/zediva/ ..more..

From: Ed King ------------------------------------------------------ is it just me or does dmesg output give anyone else a boner? Linux version 2.6.29-00236-g4f8dbbb-dirty (simenxie@Szmce01) (gcc version 4.2.0 20070126 (prerelease) (MontaVista 4.2.0-3.0.0.0702771 2007-03-10)) #22 Wed Apr 7 14:15:24 CST 2010 CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177 CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache Machine: WMT Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writethrough On node 0 totalpages: 28672 free ..more..