RFCs are only recommendations (that even may be too strong a word). They are constantly violated left and right. In this case, they aren't even violating any RFCs so I don't actually know what you're talking about.
All they are doing is sending you an extra packet with the same headers as other packets you received from some source, only this packet they send has no payload and has the "RST" flag sent. This is perfectly within the letter of the protocol, and causes a well behaved client to terminate the connection immediately.
It is kind of sad to see people just to "omg it's illegal" just because they sent you a packet. It is only slightly less trivial to actively block traffic for a short amount of time instead of sending a RST which will eventually cause both sides to terminate the connection anyways. There is nothing illegal about that, so when they start doing it what are you going to say then?
It is best you start looking for an argument now, rather than latching on to the first weak on that comes along.
If only I could get away with taking a hammer to equipment in a corporate office building. But something tells me if I had done exactly the same thing she had, I still would have gone to jail (she got 3 months suspended sentence).
Still, I'm glad she did it. Comcast deserved every minute of it, I'm sure. I never thought it was possible that I would run into the welcoming arms of a telco until the day I got Comcast.
I recently finished my Master's Degree in computer science. Shortly after I started my program completely dropped the comprehensive examinations to get into the PhD program.
The reason?
Comps require months of heavy studying of material from prior classes to do well, and it was severely biased against US students. Most students from other countries are here on Student Visas which forbid them from working (except as TAs/RAs). US Citizens, on the other hand, usually have jobs and sometimes families and cannot devote the same level of time to such a vigorous set of exams.
I hope to see more colleges considering what they can do to make sure their programs aren't biased against US citizens.
The game would not still exist if emulators like UOX, Sphere, and RunUO hadn't kept people interested long after they stopped paying their monthly fee.
This shouldn't be a hard concept here on slashdot, but the article is talking about some type of "spyware" that tracks people who own the CD. This is distinctly different from a rootkit.
How can a peer to peer system running in your house provide bandwidth to anyone else? You are a bandwidth sink... you're not part of a route to anywhere (for good reason). Any files sent to or "through" your house have to travel down your internet connection and then go right out the same line. Thus, this becomes the stupidest thing I heard of today.
Welcome to 2004. The o-zone problem is solved. It fixes itself over time, as long as nothing is continually damaging it. Since CFCs were banned a long time ago, the o-zone hole has begun to shrink. It'll be gone in about 50 years.
If you notice, everything listed in the parent is in powers of 10 bits (or Hz) except for disc capacities. Like everyone else said, this is because disc manufacturers want to confuse you. When talking about m/g/k bits the convention is to use powers of 10, and when talking about bytes it is to use powers of 2. Hence, as the parent said, powers of 2 are used for file sizes and RAM sizes... because those are usually in bytes.
Actually, they cannot vote for whatever they want. An elector who changes their vote to someone other than who they "pledged" to elect is called a "faithless elector." 24 states have laws on the books to punish faithless electors. See the Wikipedia Article.
I recently (one and a half years ago) got married. We are both Software Engineers and are both under 25. We haven't really had any problems like this. Maybe because we aren't really into "blogging" or maybe because we aren't the type of people who's real life identity is based on an online persona. If we were the more controlling types, we might have had problems like those described in the article. But that has nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with plain old personality.
This article seems to highlight the pretty obvious. When you get married you have to share things, and you have to accept that the person you're married to won't want to share everything. So, not surprisingly, in a technology world, that also means you have to negotiate over the merge of your online personalities, just like your real world ones.
As silly as this might seem at first... I think I would be pretty bewildered/shocked/caught off guard by a large robot giving me orders. I'm sure the thing is armored, so probably shooting it a few times isn't going to hurt it much. Not to mention who ever is controlling it would surely have called in ground troops.
So it may sound like something out of a bad Sci-Fi movie... But I bet it is actually suprisingly effective.
The NFL received an "anti-trust" exemption from congress (in the 60s) exchange for (among other things) guaranteeing access to all games by all Americans. This all worked out fine until DirecTV's Sunday Ticket came along. Since the deal is exclusive to DirecTV, if you can't get DirecTV (which is a lot of people, anyone near trees, hills, buildings, idiot neighbors) you are pretty much screwed.
I wouldn't be suprised to learn that in these remote backwards villages there are few computers. the vast majority of Indian population probably doesn't have the resources to carefully attack a voting machine. But it has already been shown that it is quite easy to attack them here in America. You could very well be describing a Diebold machine under ideal conditions. But ideal conditions never last very long.
Just because they did it doesn't mean everyone else should. And just because you haven't heard about major problems caused by it, doesn't mean there weren't any.
IANAL but the article seems to be talking about purposefully cloaking the data in a way that still allows it to be eventually uncovered. So it would seem to be that you can get in trouble for hiding "evidence" if they figure out that you hid it and recover it. If you're using good encryption then they can't even FIND the data, let alone recover it to show that you were hiding evidence.
Like most/. stories, the submitter seems to be making up a situation that doesn't have much basis in reality or in the original submitted article.
"None of the drawings are classified and we believe they were all handled appropriately per the government's direction," said CH2M Hill spokesman John Corsi. But the company added a password protection to its FTP site after the AP's inquiry and referred the direct request for the documents to the government.
The DOD has a special category of Unclassified documents called "For Official Use Only" (FOUO) which prevents the information from being released to the public under the FOIA. This information was not classified, but was not supposed to be released.
John Callas, project manager for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., explained that a dead rover battery could allow cold temperature to maim Opportunity's electronics.
"It's like leaving your laptop out in an Antarctic winter," Callas said. "Soldered joints in the electronics can contract due to thermal contraction. If a rover gets too cold, something essential will fail." Callas explained the situation is unprecedented, so the team isn't certain how much more light-blocking dust the rovers-especially Opportunity-can take.
So, its not that the battery won't come alive again later. Its that the cold will do serious damage to the electronics on board. Without power, there's no way to keep them warm. Nights on mars go well below -25C (in the winter, the southern hemisphere can get as cold as -120C).
I assume that by "nontraditional client devices" they mean embedded platforms. If so, then this really isn't surprising, or even really all that noteworthy at all.
There continues to be a vast increase in the number of embedded chips capable of running a full-fledged OS (like Linux) and as the chips get smaller, the of course get put into more things. Not only does Windows CE not support a lot of these chips, but even if it did no one in their right mind would use windows for something that didn't need a GUI. The only time to even consider using WinCE is in a PDA like-device, and thats a very small percentage of the embedded market.
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RFCs are only recommendations (that even may be too strong a word). They are constantly violated left and right. In this case, they aren't even violating any RFCs so I don't actually know what you're talking about. All they are doing is sending you an extra packet with the same headers as other packets you received from some source, only this packet they send has no payload and has the "RST" flag sent. This is perfectly within the letter of the protocol, and causes a well behaved client to terminate the connection immediately. It is kind of sad to see people just to "omg it's illegal" just because they sent you a packet. It is only slightly less trivial to actively block traffic for a short amount of time instead of sending a RST which will eventually cause both sides to terminate the connection anyways. There is nothing illegal about that, so when they start doing it what are you going to say then? It is best you start looking for an argument now, rather than latching on to the first weak on that comes along.
Seriously, why did that get modded "Troll"?
If only I could get away with taking a hammer to equipment in a corporate office building. But something tells me if I had done exactly the same thing she had, I still would have gone to jail (she got 3 months suspended sentence).
Still, I'm glad she did it. Comcast deserved every minute of it, I'm sure. I never thought it was possible that I would run into the welcoming arms of a telco until the day I got Comcast.
I recently finished my Master's Degree in computer science. Shortly after I started my program completely dropped the comprehensive examinations to get into the PhD program.
The reason?
Comps require months of heavy studying of material from prior classes to do well, and it was severely biased against US students. Most students from other countries are here on Student Visas which forbid them from working (except as TAs/RAs). US Citizens, on the other hand, usually have jobs and sometimes families and cannot devote the same level of time to such a vigorous set of exams.
I hope to see more colleges considering what they can do to make sure their programs aren't biased against US citizens.
AOL is a much bigger company than just the online service. For example, they own advertizing.com... Which I'm sure makes them a lot of money.
The game would not still exist if emulators like UOX, Sphere, and RunUO hadn't kept people interested long after they stopped paying their monthly fee.
Suicide is always an option.
This shouldn't be a hard concept here on slashdot, but the article is talking about some type of "spyware" that tracks people who own the CD. This is distinctly different from a rootkit.
How can a peer to peer system running in your house provide bandwidth to anyone else? You are a bandwidth sink... you're not part of a route to anywhere (for good reason). Any files sent to or "through" your house have to travel down your internet connection and then go right out the same line. Thus, this becomes the stupidest thing I heard of today.
Who immediately thought of Jiminy Cricket?
Welcome to 2004. The o-zone problem is solved. It fixes itself over time, as long as nothing is continually damaging it. Since CFCs were banned a long time ago, the o-zone hole has begun to shrink. It'll be gone in about 50 years.
If you notice, everything listed in the parent is in powers of 10 bits (or Hz) except for disc capacities. Like everyone else said, this is because disc manufacturers want to confuse you. When talking about m/g/k bits the convention is to use powers of 10, and when talking about bytes it is to use powers of 2. Hence, as the parent said, powers of 2 are used for file sizes and RAM sizes... because those are usually in bytes.
Actually, they cannot vote for whatever they want. An elector who changes their vote to someone other than who they "pledged" to elect is called a "faithless elector." 24 states have laws on the books to punish faithless electors. See the Wikipedia Article.
I recently (one and a half years ago) got married. We are both Software Engineers and are both under 25. We haven't really had any problems like this. Maybe because we aren't really into "blogging" or maybe because we aren't the type of people who's real life identity is based on an online persona. If we were the more controlling types, we might have had problems like those described in the article. But that has nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with plain old personality.
This article seems to highlight the pretty obvious. When you get married you have to share things, and you have to accept that the person you're married to won't want to share everything. So, not surprisingly, in a technology world, that also means you have to negotiate over the merge of your online personalities, just like your real world ones.
Duh?
As silly as this might seem at first... I think I would be pretty bewildered/shocked/caught off guard by a large robot giving me orders. I'm sure the thing is armored, so probably shooting it a few times isn't going to hurt it much. Not to mention who ever is controlling it would surely have called in ground troops.
So it may sound like something out of a bad Sci-Fi movie... But I bet it is actually suprisingly effective.
The NFL received an "anti-trust" exemption from congress (in the 60s) exchange for (among other things) guaranteeing access to all games by all Americans. This all worked out fine until DirecTV's Sunday Ticket came along. Since the deal is exclusive to DirecTV, if you can't get DirecTV (which is a lot of people, anyone near trees, hills, buildings, idiot neighbors) you are pretty much screwed.
No instances of rigging yet.
I wouldn't be suprised to learn that in these remote backwards villages there are few computers. the vast majority of Indian population probably doesn't have the resources to carefully attack a voting machine. But it has already been shown that it is quite easy to attack them here in America. You could very well be describing a Diebold machine under ideal conditions. But ideal conditions never last very long.
If India jumped off a bridge, would you?
Just because they did it doesn't mean everyone else should. And just because you haven't heard about major problems caused by it, doesn't mean there weren't any.
IANAL but the article seems to be talking about purposefully cloaking the data in a way that still allows it to be eventually uncovered. So it would seem to be that you can get in trouble for hiding "evidence" if they figure out that you hid it and recover it. If you're using good encryption then they can't even FIND the data, let alone recover it to show that you were hiding evidence.
/. stories, the submitter seems to be making up a situation that doesn't have much basis in reality or in the original submitted article.
Like most
From TFA: The DOD has a special category of Unclassified documents called "For Official Use Only" (FOUO) which prevents the information from being released to the public under the FOIA. This information was not classified, but was not supposed to be released.
So, its not that the battery won't come alive again later. Its that the cold will do serious damage to the electronics on board. Without power, there's no way to keep them warm. Nights on mars go well below -25C (in the winter, the southern hemisphere can get as cold as -120C).
Ever watched a British Soap opera? That is the kind of stuff that will "trigger an unbalanced mind." *shutter*
I assume that by "nontraditional client devices" they mean embedded platforms. If so, then this really isn't surprising, or even really all that noteworthy at all.
There continues to be a vast increase in the number of embedded chips capable of running a full-fledged OS (like Linux) and as the chips get smaller, the of course get put into more things. Not only does Windows CE not support a lot of these chips, but even if it did no one in their right mind would use windows for something that didn't need a GUI. The only time to even consider using WinCE is in a PDA like-device, and thats a very small percentage of the embedded market.