250k is still a lot. Enough to spew 64 gigabits per second of data, assuming each infested machine had a 256k uplink [and ignoring other factors]. That's enough to take out a decent sized datacenter.
On the other end, 10 million could possibly take out a entire ISP, and I'm talking about a backbone ISP too. THAT'S terrifying stuff.
As the summary points out, Microsoft has in the past worked to stop spyware companys and the like. Perhaps this is a attempt to patent this form of spyware so they can slap a patent lawsuit in the face of companys that try it, instead of using it themselves?
Of course, it could be for those free and/or low-cost pcs they were planning as well.
I've noticed random increases in speeds on Comcast, expecially during weekend night hours.
It's totally random, but occationally the 5 Mb/s throttle here totally disappears and I get 20/30 Mb/s and more continously, then just as suddenly it's back down to 5 Mb/s a hour or so later.
I suspect it's just a fluke in their hardware, or they could be testing links and temporarily increasing the cap everywhere. Whatever it is, it never lasts long, maybe a day at the most before everything goes back down to speed.
It's nice knowing they have the capability to go up that far, for when FiOS gets big in the area and they increase limits to keep up.
So? It's not like you're going to upload them are you? It's sure not a concern unless you do.
However, I do think they should encrypt the watermark, or at the very least use some unique hash to prevent people from placing someone else's name there instead. I mean, things can happen surely.
I've been using a D-Link 524 router for a while in my home setup. It's given me nothing but trouble, rebooting and randomly blocking computers on the network [part of it's built-in security junk, it's blocking logs show it will block perfectly valid computers for random reasons]. Firmware updates don't seem to fix it.
I got tired of that and searched for a router capable of running OpenWRT in case the default firmware sucked.
I found the Asus WL-500g Premium and bought that for about $100 at the time. The default firmware worked fine, but I decided to try openWRT, then tossed that in favor of X-Wrt which had a better web interface.
The router's current uptime is 37 days with no crashes or any oddities what so ever. Last restart was for a firmware reflash.
As for reception, try lesser-used channels. 6 is a really common channel, so try 1 or 11 instead [or any other channel].
Note however, that if you go the path of openWRT or X-wrt, you're going to have to spend some time working out the kinks at first. Mine worked fine, except wifi couldn't access wan, which took a bit to figure out how to fix it; openWRT's wiki and forum were a big help in figuring out that.
I use those usb-charged batterys over at ThinkGeek. Work great in my digital camera. Too bad they can't be AAA-sized for some of my TV remotes and my TI-calc.
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Non-US proxy usage skyrockets globally.
250k is still a lot. Enough to spew 64 gigabits per second of data, assuming each infested machine had a 256k uplink [and ignoring other factors]. That's enough to take out a decent sized datacenter.
On the other end, 10 million could possibly take out a entire ISP, and I'm talking about a backbone ISP too. THAT'S terrifying stuff.
As the summary points out, Microsoft has in the past worked to stop spyware companys and the like. Perhaps this is a attempt to patent this form of spyware so they can slap a patent lawsuit in the face of companys that try it, instead of using it themselves?
Of course, it could be for those free and/or low-cost pcs they were planning as well.
I've noticed random increases in speeds on Comcast, expecially during weekend night hours.
It's totally random, but occationally the 5 Mb/s throttle here totally disappears and I get 20/30 Mb/s and more continously, then just as suddenly it's back down to 5 Mb/s a hour or so later.
I suspect it's just a fluke in their hardware, or they could be testing links and temporarily increasing the cap everywhere. Whatever it is, it never lasts long, maybe a day at the most before everything goes back down to speed.
It's nice knowing they have the capability to go up that far, for when FiOS gets big in the area and they increase limits to keep up.
To anwser my own question, I found a better article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18986/
This would make brute-forcing a password a little easier..
An attacker could simply select a hand writing at random till they get the right one.
TFA doesn't say anything about that.
So? It's not like you're going to upload them are you? It's sure not a concern unless you do.
However, I do think they should encrypt the watermark, or at the very least use some unique hash to prevent people from placing someone else's name there instead. I mean, things can happen surely.
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The key has also snuck into other places on wikipedia as well. :)
Yes I realized that... it says it on the top of the x-wrt page after all. :P
:)
Just probally went a bit fast in my post, didn't really care to clarify that.
Ahh I appologise, I missed that. :)
Actually the 802.11n spec CAN use the 5GHz range. Says Wikipedia
:)
You just have to hope your router actually allows it.
I've been using a D-Link 524 router for a while in my home setup. It's given me nothing but trouble, rebooting and randomly blocking computers on the network [part of it's built-in security junk, it's blocking logs show it will block perfectly valid computers for random reasons]. Firmware updates don't seem to fix it.
I got tired of that and searched for a router capable of running OpenWRT in case the default firmware sucked.
I found the Asus WL-500g Premium and bought that for about $100 at the time. The default firmware worked fine, but I decided to try openWRT, then tossed that in favor of X-Wrt which had a better web interface.
The router's current uptime is 37 days with no crashes or any oddities what so ever. Last restart was for a firmware reflash.
As for reception, try lesser-used channels. 6 is a really common channel, so try 1 or 11 instead [or any other channel].
Note however, that if you go the path of openWRT or X-wrt, you're going to have to spend some time working out the kinks at first. Mine worked fine, except wifi couldn't access wan, which took a bit to figure out how to fix it; openWRT's wiki and forum were a big help in figuring out that.
Can we pick two? I'd take a core 2 quad pc with two GeForce 8800GTX in SLi, and maybe a few drives in 0+1 raid. Custom built of course.
Then perhaps a closet full of dual-processor quad-core blade servers for password cra^W^W helping out folding@home or something.
A simple search on newegg should get you exactly what you want:
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Sub
Or try froogle:
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=dvi+video+car
As for a recommended card, I wouldn't know.
I use those usb-charged batterys over at ThinkGeek. Work great in my digital camera. Too bad they can't be AAA-sized for some of my TV remotes and my TI-calc.