Some amazing claims.. I hope they'll be able to prove them..
Although I'm more hoping for huge leaps in renewable fuel technology. The more efficient petrol based fuel engines become, the less funding for other techs.
No, my point is that if something is illegal, and every time someone does this then gets fined a 100% of the time. Would it be enforceable if it turns out that say 80% of the entire population does this on a regular basis?
>This city of no privacy wouldn't need much of a police force because no criminal would agree to live in such a monitored situation.
This is already false.. The UK has a huge amount of closed-circuit TV camera's but it has made no dent in crime even though people are getting filmed as they do it. Crime, like shit, happens. Even a panopticon wouldn't stop it. It might be easier on the police to find a criminal but the number of murders for example wouldn't go down.
>because every car would be aware of the location of every other car, every child, and every pet. Accidents could be nearly eliminated.
Or, your car drives you into a river and you drown.. because computers crash and have bugs.
An interesting thought it this. People like to do things that aren't 'proper'. For example, the reason why most people don't want the rest of the world to know about their sex life is because various things that people enjoy are seen as improper. (Censorship of sex proves this). But what if everything of everybody is out in the open? After the initial shock that your dad likes to wear diapers and get spanked by your mom, I wonder if it's like a nudist colony, i.e. after a while you don't even notice that other people are naked. With all the taboo's out in the open, how long do they remain a taboo, and extending that, would we still feel the need for privacy?
Instead of taboo's like sex, let's talk about trivial criminal activities. I cross the road sometimes when the light is red but traffic is absent. This is technically a crime, and as such I wouldn't really like it to be out in the open because I could get a fine. But what if everybody's trivial crimes are out in the open. Would it even still be enforceable when everybody does it?
It seems to simple and logical. "Give customers a better experience then pirates". But they fail again and again, only to exclaim "Oh my, our sales are down. It's due to piracy!" and "We're only going to release games on the consoles because they don't get pirated!"
And the console get user-friendly games. So they sell well. The industry is getting the correlationcausation link all wrong again.
And then when you _do_ buy PC games legit, you get: - Maximum number of activations (e.g. Spore) - Bug riddled products (e.g. C&C Generals) - Never any patches being released for said buggy products (e.g. C&C Generals) - Game online play being shut down when a new version is released (e.g. Madden) - No access to DLC the consoles do get (e.g. Dead Space) - Single player games that need an activation server just to install (e.g. Spore) - Copy protection schemes that either crash my PC, make it insecure or just don't work (e.g. Sony rootkit) - Can't resell my games anymore with all this online account bullshit (e.g. World of Warcraft) - Consolitis. We have more options then console users, let us use them! (e.g. Bulletstorm)
So why the hell should we PC users still keep buying games? A pirate can at least say it didn't cost him a penny.
The industry needs reform and it needs it badly.
P.S.
I hate Electronic Arts.. I still haven't forgiven them for so blatantly fucking over their customers. Three hour multi-player game of C&C Generals, building up your units, and then when you want to start kicking your opponent: 'Synchonization lost!' Without, say, "Re-establishing sync, please wait 30 seonds". No, you just got fucked. Well, fuck you back EA! I'm never buying a product from you again.
Aren't they going to do it the way they've done it so far already anyway? Simply bury "By visiting this website you give consent to..." somewhere deep in your legal notices like all the other "We're going to sell your info" notifications.
I don't see the advantages of this new law, since if they really needed to _ask_ you for permission, it would simply become unworkable. To browse the internet, you'd spend 20 minutes of each hour clicking cookies notices away.
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HBGary Hack In Depth
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1: We don't use sudo True but we don't use 'su -' either like the article suggested. We use SSH keys to log in as root directly so we can run commands and scripts from a central server over hundreds of servers without having to log into them. Sudo is like training wheels. I should be able to 'rm -rf/' a server anyway and bring it back within a day or this points to a whole other problem, i.e. no backups, or no emergency restore plan.
2: We use vi, not emacs, and definitely not pico or nano No we don't. We use 'joe' because we learned how to code C on Borland Turbo C and we like our Wordstar command keys. I never understood the use of a separate view/edit mode either anyway.
7: We have more in common with medical examiners than doctors True, when we fix a problem, we do spend a bit of time on finding out _why_ it occurred, but most of our time, we'll spend DOCUMENTING! I can't believe the guy never even mentioned that word in his whole article.
9: Rebooting is almost never an option Rebooting is _always_ an option. A veteran admin knows it is sometimes better to ask for forgiveness then it is to ask for permission. Also we're busy people, and I feel better when I know a server comes up again after a reboot after I made changes.
I feel the guy in the article is already a seasoned admin, but he's got some way to go before he's really a veteran.
Look, some schmo who can barely make an HTML taking a picture and not attributing it is not the problem. I'm not saying we should start another Spanish Inquisition, but these people make their money writing articles. They _know_ that they have to mind copyright, or in the case of Creative Common licenses, at least give credit where credit is due.
I'm not saying sue, but a note in their mailbox telling them to follow proper accreditation is not uncalled for.
The media doesn't like it when they can't put people into labeled boxes.That is why Anonymous is so often misreported on. Anonymous isn't a group, it's a mindset. It's a bunch of people who think the same about a certain issue and decide to do something about it.
When Anonymous protested Scientology, I was a part of Anonymous. When Anonymous decided to send cards and flowers from all over the world to some veteran who was having a birthday, I was part of Anonymous. When Anonymous decided to track down a soldier that threw a puppy off a bridge, I was part of Anonymous.
It's not like you have to register somewhere, you just have to share the same mindset. Sometimes people do things that I disagree with, then I'm not part of that.
That said, there is no group, no leaders, no official press releases, no contribution, no clubhouse. It's a state of mind and sometimes I agree with a lot of like minded people.
Just for completeness sake, if the press is going to read this statement out of context, then please report that I'm the Grand Czar of Anonymous. I could use some more honorifics on my resume.:)
I'm not against dumbed down devices per se. In fact I'm in favor of any device that fulfills the needs of the user best.
It's just that other options that are much more practical, useful, better and cheaper are overlooked because of 'shiny'.
That, and people repeating that the iPad is the best thing since sliced bread over and over without actually doing some research if what they are saying is even true or not.
So why not a netbook? You can play games that require a bit more powerful CPU, also you can actually play more games then you can on IOS. If you're really hooked on IOS games, isn't an iPhone cheaper?
So the Kindle doesn't have a backlight, other ereaders do and are still a hell of a lot cheaper then an iPad, and last longer. Also you do have clip-on lights for the Kindle.
Also, if you're going to watch movies, you have to convert them for the iPad right? (Unless you buy an app I believe). Why _not_ a netbook? You can play any and all formats under both Windows, Linux and I'm pretty sure you could make a Hackintosh and install Snow Leopard on it (or whatever name they use now).
And me not wanting a free one, why would I? I got enough crap taking up shelf space already. Is it really so hard to imagine passing on something free if you don't want it?
I say the iPad itself stands as king on Mount Crapmore for 2010. So far, all the people who bought one of those tablets can _not_ tell me what they are using it for. I can think of very few people who'd actually have a legitimate use for it. Others would be better off with a Blackberry or a cheap netbook.
I've witnessed a conversation that illustrates my anger. I do sysadmin work and one of the systems is an immersive 3D Cave system to examine medical images. When two ladies heard an iPad was going to be purchased for the Cave so you can take notes, they exclaimed "How modern!". Right.. A visual system that runs on 6 servers, a number of beamers and camera's costing up to half a million euros isn't modern until we add a fucking iPad! You know what even works better then an iPad to take notes with? A pen and goddamn clipboard!
So because the whole world has been brainwashed that it's oh so useful, this is the most horribly useless product of 2010.
If you disagree, (and I expect many will), please, PLEASE tell me what you actually use it for. And if you say something that can be solved better by a cheaper product, (like ebook reading, for which a kindle is better and cheaper), I'm going to hit you on the head with a wiffle bat until you're free of your Apple worship affliction. I wouldn't accept an iPad if they offered it to me for free.
I've still got backup from the early 80's. For example those one disk, 5.25 inch self-booting, games for the PC. For example Karateka. I have them stored in Copy II PC image files.
The reason I still have them is due to data migration. Once a new technology came out I shifted my backups forwards. Luckily the data density usually went up quite a bit as well so I wasn't stuck with (relative) big backups.
For 'Karateka' my migration path was as follows:
* I had it 1:1 on floppy (360 KB) * Transfers via Copy II PC images to 3.5 disks (1.4 MB) * Later I got a 20MB harddisk and a QIC-80 tapedrive. So they landed on tape. * Then we got ZIP drives (100mb). However the 'Click of death' issue had me looking for something else. * Then my first CD recorder (650mb). Here backups started becoming big because I got access to the Internet (early 90's). I had a lot more stuff I wanted to keep. * Forward to my first DVD recorder, where I started migrating a lot of stuff from CD. Thanks to Daemontools and CloneCD I was able to copy a lot of CD's to image files. * From DVD's (which took forever to burn) I went to harddisks in USB housings. To save time mostly and due to DVD rot. Also I used a lot of very cheap DVD-R's, so data retention was up to 4-5 years on some batches. * Now I'm trying to go from USB housed HDD's to a RAID-5 file server. Mostly because my external drives go up to 1.5TB and I don't have double backups on non-important data but I'd still like to keep a lot of stuff more 'safe'. 1.5TB is a lot to lose in one go.
The only 'trouble' I could run into now is that my oldest files are in archaic data formats. Luckily I kept all the utilities needed to access them. Think Copy II PC and the compression utilities I used at the time:, ARC, LHA, ARJ, ICE, UC2.
So for long term backups I give this advice: * Migrate your data * Keep multiple backups * Make sure you can access your data formats * Keeping backups is expensive. Consciously decide what you want to keep.
Also a useful tactic is to copy data between friends. (This is what I did when I was young). That way there's always somebody who still has what you want.
I can only hope so many patent lawsuits will be started so that the whole system implodes upon its own stupidity.. Seems to much to ask for lawmakers to not take money from the industry so this might be the only way left..
So what makes a reference acceptable? I mean even the Encyclopedia Britannica contains errors or has entries that have changed / are out of date. And even the thickest dictionary doesn't contain all the words, for some things you just have to go to urbandictionary.com. I can't image many mainstream dictionaries having entries on a Dirty Sanchez, et al. while it could come up in a court..
In the end, I think Wikipedia should be an allowed reference source as long as _all_ (and not just from wikipedia) sources are checked by the court later on.
MUD + Telnet.. Hey, those were high-end graphics at the time.. also ncurses works like a compression program.. (Or BBS doorgames if anybody wants to go back further)
I'm all for more ways for me to get my game on, but I'm so very against patents (software in particular).
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.truecrypt.org/
There we go.. I don't understand this is still a question.
Some amazing claims.. I hope they'll be able to prove them..
Although I'm more hoping for huge leaps in renewable fuel technology. The more efficient petrol based fuel engines become, the less funding for other techs.
It's not.. it's on March 31st, i.e. yesterday
If the show is any good, I might have a copy on my harddisk..
Hmmm? You mean it's not about the new My Little Pony show?
Well try this then: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22zodiac+island%22+torrent
No, my point is that if something is illegal, and every time someone does this then gets fined a 100% of the time. Would it be enforceable if it turns out that say 80% of the entire population does this on a regular basis?
>This city of no privacy wouldn't need much of a police force because no criminal would agree to live in such a monitored situation.
This is already false.. The UK has a huge amount of closed-circuit TV camera's but it has made no dent in crime even though people are getting filmed as they do it. Crime, like shit, happens. Even a panopticon wouldn't stop it. It might be easier on the police to find a criminal but the number of murders for example wouldn't go down.
>because every car would be aware of the location of every other car, every child, and every pet. Accidents could be nearly eliminated.
Or, your car drives you into a river and you drown.. because computers crash and have bugs.
An interesting thought it this. People like to do things that aren't 'proper'. For example, the reason why most people don't want the rest of the world to know about their sex life is because various things that people enjoy are seen as improper. (Censorship of sex proves this). But what if everything of everybody is out in the open? After the initial shock that your dad likes to wear diapers and get spanked by your mom, I wonder if it's like a nudist colony, i.e. after a while you don't even notice that other people are naked. With all the taboo's out in the open, how long do they remain a taboo, and extending that, would we still feel the need for privacy?
Instead of taboo's like sex, let's talk about trivial criminal activities. I cross the road sometimes when the light is red but traffic is absent. This is technically a crime, and as such I wouldn't really like it to be out in the open because I could get a fine. But what if everybody's trivial crimes are out in the open. Would it even still be enforceable when everybody does it?
I agree with you.
It seems to simple and logical. "Give customers a better experience then pirates". But they fail again and again, only to exclaim "Oh my, our sales are down. It's due to piracy!" and "We're only going to release games on the consoles because they don't get pirated!"
And the console get user-friendly games. So they sell well. The industry is getting the correlationcausation link all wrong again.
And then when you _do_ buy PC games legit, you get:
- Maximum number of activations (e.g. Spore)
- Bug riddled products (e.g. C&C Generals)
- Never any patches being released for said buggy products (e.g. C&C Generals)
- Game online play being shut down when a new version is released (e.g. Madden)
- No access to DLC the consoles do get (e.g. Dead Space)
- Single player games that need an activation server just to install (e.g. Spore)
- Copy protection schemes that either crash my PC, make it insecure or just don't work (e.g. Sony rootkit)
- Can't resell my games anymore with all this online account bullshit (e.g. World of Warcraft)
- Consolitis. We have more options then console users, let us use them! (e.g. Bulletstorm)
So why the hell should we PC users still keep buying games? A pirate can at least say it didn't cost him a penny.
The industry needs reform and it needs it badly.
P.S.
I hate Electronic Arts.. I still haven't forgiven them for so blatantly fucking over their customers. Three hour multi-player game of C&C Generals, building up your units, and then when you want to start kicking your opponent: 'Synchonization lost!' Without, say, "Re-establishing sync, please wait 30 seonds". No, you just got fucked. Well, fuck you back EA! I'm never buying a product from you again.
Aren't they going to do it the way they've done it so far already anyway? Simply bury "By visiting this website you give consent to..." somewhere deep in your legal notices like all the other "We're going to sell your info" notifications.
I don't see the advantages of this new law, since if they really needed to _ask_ you for permission, it would simply become unworkable. To browse the internet, you'd spend 20 minutes of each hour clicking cookies notices away.
It's here, in the Slashdot story that was already posted about 3 weeks ago:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0041208/Anatomy-of-the-HBGary-Hack
1: We don't use sudo /' a server anyway and bring it back within a day or this points to a whole other problem, i.e. no backups, or no emergency restore plan.
True but we don't use 'su -' either like the article suggested. We use SSH keys to log in as root directly so we can run commands and scripts from a central server over hundreds of servers without having to log into them. Sudo is like training wheels. I should be able to 'rm -rf
2: We use vi, not emacs, and definitely not pico or nano
No we don't. We use 'joe' because we learned how to code C on Borland Turbo C and we like our Wordstar command keys. I never understood the use of a separate view/edit mode either anyway.
7: We have more in common with medical examiners than doctors
True, when we fix a problem, we do spend a bit of time on finding out _why_ it occurred, but most of our time, we'll spend DOCUMENTING! I can't believe the guy never even mentioned that word in his whole article.
9: Rebooting is almost never an option
Rebooting is _always_ an option. A veteran admin knows it is sometimes better to ask for forgiveness then it is to ask for permission. Also we're busy people, and I feel better when I know a server comes up again after a reboot after I made changes.
I feel the guy in the article is already a seasoned admin, but he's got some way to go before he's really a veteran.
Look, some schmo who can barely make an HTML taking a picture and not attributing it is not the problem. I'm not saying we should start another Spanish Inquisition, but these people make their money writing articles. They _know_ that they have to mind copyright, or in the case of Creative Common licenses, at least give credit where credit is due.
I'm not saying sue, but a note in their mailbox telling them to follow proper accreditation is not uncalled for.
The media doesn't like it when they can't put people into labeled boxes.That is why Anonymous is so often misreported on. Anonymous isn't a group, it's a mindset. It's a bunch of people who think the same about a certain issue and decide to do something about it.
When Anonymous protested Scientology, I was a part of Anonymous. When Anonymous decided to send cards and flowers from all over the world to some veteran who was having a birthday, I was part of Anonymous. When Anonymous decided to track down a soldier that threw a puppy off a bridge, I was part of Anonymous.
It's not like you have to register somewhere, you just have to share the same mindset. Sometimes people do things that I disagree with, then I'm not part of that.
That said, there is no group, no leaders, no official press releases, no contribution, no clubhouse. It's a state of mind and sometimes I agree with a lot of like minded people.
Just for completeness sake, if the press is going to read this statement out of context, then please report that I'm the Grand Czar of Anonymous. I could use some more honorifics on my resume. :)
Original article: http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Nederland/288453/Gemeente-wil-aanvragers-uitkering-eerst-thuis-bezoeken.htm
Elsevier editors email: redactie.elsevier@elsevier.nl
Posters above already mention that 95% of Dutch people speak English so I would just send them an email.
>What would you like to do with 100 times your own current network speed?
Download porn a 100x faster? Why is this even a question?!?
Results like that should be extremely obvious to replicate. Could this finally be the Holy Grail we've been looking for?
If so, I just hope it doesn't have any snags that will prevent us from actually extracting useful amounts of energy out of it.
I'm not against dumbed down devices per se. In fact I'm in favor of any device that fulfills the needs of the user best.
It's just that other options that are much more practical, useful, better and cheaper are overlooked because of 'shiny'.
That, and people repeating that the iPad is the best thing since sliced bread over and over without actually doing some research if what they are saying is even true or not.
So why not a netbook? You can play games that require a bit more powerful CPU, also you can actually play more games then you can on IOS. If you're really hooked on IOS games, isn't an iPhone cheaper?
So the Kindle doesn't have a backlight, other ereaders do and are still a hell of a lot cheaper then an iPad, and last longer. Also you do have clip-on lights for the Kindle.
Also, if you're going to watch movies, you have to convert them for the iPad right? (Unless you buy an app I believe). Why _not_ a netbook? You can play any and all formats under both Windows, Linux and I'm pretty sure you could make a Hackintosh and install Snow Leopard on it (or whatever name they use now).
And me not wanting a free one, why would I? I got enough crap taking up shelf space already. Is it really so hard to imagine passing on something free if you don't want it?
I say the iPad itself stands as king on Mount Crapmore for 2010. So far, all the people who bought one of those tablets can _not_ tell me what they are using it for. I can think of very few people who'd actually have a legitimate use for it. Others would be better off with a Blackberry or a cheap netbook.
I've witnessed a conversation that illustrates my anger. I do sysadmin work and one of the systems is an immersive 3D Cave system to examine medical images. When two ladies heard an iPad was going to be purchased for the Cave so you can take notes, they exclaimed "How modern!". Right.. A visual system that runs on 6 servers, a number of beamers and camera's costing up to half a million euros isn't modern until we add a fucking iPad! You know what even works better then an iPad to take notes with? A pen and goddamn clipboard!
So because the whole world has been brainwashed that it's oh so useful, this is the most horribly useless product of 2010.
If you disagree, (and I expect many will), please, PLEASE tell me what you actually use it for. And if you say something that can be solved better by a cheaper product, (like ebook reading, for which a kindle is better and cheaper), I'm going to hit you on the head with a wiffle bat until you're free of your Apple worship affliction. I wouldn't accept an iPad if they offered it to me for free.
I've still got backup from the early 80's. For example those one disk, 5.25 inch self-booting, games for the PC. For example Karateka. I have them stored in Copy II PC image files.
The reason I still have them is due to data migration. Once a new technology came out I shifted my backups forwards. Luckily the data density usually went up quite a bit as well so I wasn't stuck with (relative) big backups.
For 'Karateka' my migration path was as follows:
* I had it 1:1 on floppy (360 KB)
* Transfers via Copy II PC images to 3.5 disks (1.4 MB)
* Later I got a 20MB harddisk and a QIC-80 tapedrive. So they landed on tape.
* Then we got ZIP drives (100mb). However the 'Click of death' issue had me looking for something else.
* Then my first CD recorder (650mb). Here backups started becoming big because I got access to the Internet (early 90's). I had a lot more stuff I wanted to keep.
* Forward to my first DVD recorder, where I started migrating a lot of stuff from CD. Thanks to Daemontools and CloneCD I was able to copy a lot of CD's to image files.
* From DVD's (which took forever to burn) I went to harddisks in USB housings. To save time mostly and due to DVD rot. Also I used a lot of very cheap DVD-R's, so data retention was up to 4-5 years on some batches.
* Now I'm trying to go from USB housed HDD's to a RAID-5 file server. Mostly because my external drives go up to 1.5TB and I don't have double backups on non-important data but I'd still like to keep a lot of stuff more 'safe'. 1.5TB is a lot to lose in one go.
The only 'trouble' I could run into now is that my oldest files are in archaic data formats. Luckily I kept all the utilities needed to access them. Think Copy II PC and the compression utilities I used at the time:, ARC, LHA, ARJ, ICE, UC2.
So for long term backups I give this advice:
* Migrate your data
* Keep multiple backups
* Make sure you can access your data formats
* Keeping backups is expensive. Consciously decide what you want to keep.
Also a useful tactic is to copy data between friends. (This is what I did when I was young). That way there's always somebody who still has what you want.
The TSA is clearly a firm believer in security through obscurity.
I can only hope so many patent lawsuits will be started so that the whole system implodes upon its own stupidity.. Seems to much to ask for lawmakers to not take money from the industry so this might be the only way left..
"Join a planetwide world search" would also work. :)
So what makes a reference acceptable? I mean even the Encyclopedia Britannica contains errors or has entries that have changed / are out of date. And even the thickest dictionary doesn't contain all the words, for some things you just have to go to urbandictionary.com. I can't image many mainstream dictionaries having entries on a Dirty Sanchez, et al. while it could come up in a court..
In the end, I think Wikipedia should be an allowed reference source as long as _all_ (and not just from wikipedia) sources are checked by the court later on.
Wasn't there a wikileaks cable about Israel preparing a cyberattack on Iran?
MUD + Telnet.. Hey, those were high-end graphics at the time.. also ncurses works like a compression program.. (Or BBS doorgames if anybody wants to go back further)
I'm all for more ways for me to get my game on, but I'm so very against patents (software in particular).