It's pretty easy to identify a DoS/DDoS attack. Then your question becomes one of would CNN simply lie to attribute their alleged incompetence to a possibly Chinese DoS attack.
I think Linux will compete by snagging more disgruntled ex-Microsoft users.
Microsoft has really screwed up and doesn't seem to know where to go or what to do now that Vista crashed and burned. It will be hard for them to overcome the bad rap they earned on that one.
And Linux being free means that anyone that wants to try it out just needs to download it or copy CDs from someone else. They can try it whenever they want and if they like it, they keep right on using it.
Microsoft's days are numbered. Probably with big numbers right now, but numbered nonetheless.
We have lots of ignorant and stupid people here too. They also have access to lots of information. Some people here that are stupid and ignorant are otherwise well educated.
The Olympics are a waste of time. They have become too politicized and too many dedicate their whole lives and their families make sacrifices only to see governments like China's play it for all it is worth for propaganda.
I haven't watched them in years - even when they have been in the USA.
What's wrong with Tibetan independence? What's wrong with Taiwanese independence? China is way too nationalistic, expansionistic, and subversive for western investment. Opening trade with China, especially in anything high-technology has been a big mistake. They abuse western trust.
"Where do you think 90% (or more) of the components inside were manufactured?"
Especially any counterfeit parts that fail soon after purchase.
Sadly, this is a byproduct of all of the outsourcing western nations have done. The chinese run production lines long, using inferior components to increase profits, and sell the junk on shady markets where components find their way into critical assemblies and fail.
Most counterfeit crap does indeed come from China.
I think it helps their cause that China restricts their people's access to any news that criticizes China or its actions.
China is pretty close to a totalitarian state. As Bush said, it would be a lot easier if this was a dictatorship. China doesn't just say it, they do it.
Perhaps you're exactly the sort of user that makes PayPal feel that they have to take such a shitty measure.
I don't think so. I am very aware of phishing e-mails and never follow e-mail links. I never click on the paay using paypal on any web pages - I always manually go to paypal and then enter the payee information to complete the transaction, and I signed up for the one-time password generator so my account isn't just what I know access.
I have never had my account raided and luckily have never had my identity stolen.
I have also been watching the issues with Safari of recent and have been considering switching to FireFox on my Mac. I just haven't done it yet.
I won't say that I am immune from phishing attacks, but by manually navigating to paypal instead of following any web or e-mail-supplied links to paypal, I think I'm pretty safe.
Wow, dude. You say in your post that "They [use] up to 50% of my bandwidth (2Mbit). Its cost me nothing, so why not?" but then your signature says "If information wants to be free, why does my internet connection cost so much?".
That is about the most perfect example anyone could ever give of exactly why your internet connection might be expensive.
How could you possibly not make that connection? Are you some kind of retard?
What? You trust someone to access your WAP anonymously and do whatever they want on the Internet, but you don't trust them to not print 10,000 page documents to waste your ink and paper, or to raid your server?
If you trust them, you trust them, right? Or am I missing something?
And data flowing through your WAP still implicates you in whatever that data was. Do you get away with it or not? I'm not willing to risk my financial future or freedom on that risk.
Sorry - your post wasn't clear. There was a fairly long window in time where some vendors would install Office on the systems they sold and claim it was included for "free".
Now I see what you were saying but don't fully agree. Most people who install Linux, even now, understand the differences between Linux and Windows and that if they buy a Windows machine and don't install Linux over it, they are looking at a big outlay of cash to do anything more than play minesweeper or solitaire.
Uh, how is Internet access a right? Why is it a right and going to the movies for free isn't? What about eating at a restaurant? Is that a taxpayer right? Maybe the government should give you a car, give you a house, spoon feed you, and even wipe your ass after a bowel movement?
It's people like you that make me afraid for what kind of society we are heading toward.
Do you go around a proposition all of your friend's girlfriends and wives?
Do you really think your friends would absolve you of all responsibility if you got the wives/girlfriends to sleep with you?
How would you feel about your friends if they were all asking your girlfriend/wife to sleep with them? You wouldn't object or think differently about them?
This analogy stuff is stupid. Piggybacking on someone's network without their permission is wrong and you know it. Everything else is just trying to come up with some way to justify your actions and absolve your guilt.
Does the/. community frown upon this kind of use? Is it REALLY considered immoral or illegal?
I notice that you don't mention knocking on doors to ask if it is OK to piggyback on someone's connection. It really isn't that hard to localize where the signal is coming from and some people even use their street address to name their access point.
Have you ever been in the situation where it would have been easy to ask for permission but you did not?
Shouldn't your answer to that question answer your own?
Must be all them Linux users that are trying to get by with the Windows that came preinstalled on their new machines. We're used to getting a full office suite with our operating systems!
Dude, unlike with Windows, we Linux geeks really do get a complete office suite with our OS - it's called OpenOffice. Mac and IIRC Windows users can download it and install it for free on their systems too.
We get web software, programming software, scripting software, generally two complete GUIs (Gnome and KDE), productivity software, web server software, games, full manuals, lots of security capability, and tons of other stuff - all included for free. And the OS itself is free to.
Besides, an old copy of Microsoft Works doesn't count as "a full office suite". And if it really is Microsoft Office, you paid for it somehow. The vendor may have said it was included free but they had to charge you a bit more for the system so they could include that security nightmare for "free".
What you are doing is fundamentally different from the people that are piggybacking on someone else's connection.
As long as your ISP didn't put any kind of clause in your contract that would prevent what you are doing (I would bet they did but obviously cannot know), then what you are doing is fine, legal, and your choice.
I personally am not comfortable opening my network to anyone who might want to join so they can trade child pornography, share files illegally, or make threats against political figures anonymously, but if you don't mind that liability, go right ahead.
If I left my money, house, or girlfriend available on your property, I wouldn't really feel like I could complain if you helped yourself.
Man, do I ever call bullshit on this one. Next time you and your girlfriend go to a party or whatever at someone's house, and if you catch her off in a bedroom, making out or screwing the host's brains out, get back to us and tell us how you didn't complain.
This analogy stuff is so laughable. All who are using it - water faucet, girlfriend, whatever - are only trying to assuage their own guilt for what they know is stealing. It's obvious and you people know it. There may not be any consequences, and the access point owner may never know or even care, but it is still stealing and it is costing someone money for the bandwidth you have used.
One thing people should understand is the liability for not locking their access points down. There was a comment on a recent Slashdot article (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=523768&cid=23089520) that was telling people how to anonymously post possibly illegal information:
Drive around, find an open wireless access point.
The person that posted it is no brainiac either. Anyone with any savvy at all knows to piggyback on someone else's connection when they want to do something that requires anonymity. Look how many people here talk about piggybacking and their reasons for doing it. Such things are sometimes (frequently?) illegal and the first place law enforcement is going to look is to the owner of the link used to do whatever was done.
These days, with protections for citizens being removed at rates only a fascist would love, people can get hauled off for questioning, their computer impounded for forensics, etc. I don't have the link, but IIRC the RIAA was even going after the owner of an unsecured access point and holding them liable for the filesharing that was done over that access point even though they could not connect the accused's computer to the activity.
I just don't see opening myself up to others doing illegal, immoral, or both over my equipment and putting me in the crosshairs of whatever organization is investigating the event.
Yep - it's only half the battle to secure the access point. The other half, which most forget about or don't bother with, is to lock down the laptop or whatever device is using the wireless link. Not all allow locking it to certain access points, but my Mac does. I can tell it to ignore other networks and not connect at all if it can't find my own.
I don't know how hard it would be to spoof my wireless and fool my laptop to connect to a malicious network, but no regular neighbor is going to try to do that.
But my laptop will not try to join any other networks than the ones I have already configured. My access point will not allow other computers on as it is locked by MAC address and computer name to who it allows on as well as using WPA2 with a hard password.
Nope. I'm not implying that at all. The Newsbites just make for a convenient digest of the major breach and compromise information. You can see the stories other places too if you would rather.
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I thought it was beers that were worth repeating?
Actually, the Chinese are communists.
It's pretty easy to identify a DoS/DDoS attack. Then your question becomes one of would CNN simply lie to attribute their alleged incompetence to a possibly Chinese DoS attack.
I doubt it.
I think Linux will compete by snagging more disgruntled ex-Microsoft users.
Microsoft has really screwed up and doesn't seem to know where to go or what to do now that Vista crashed and burned. It will be hard for them to overcome the bad rap they earned on that one.
And Linux being free means that anyone that wants to try it out just needs to download it or copy CDs from someone else. They can try it whenever they want and if they like it, they keep right on using it.
Microsoft's days are numbered. Probably with big numbers right now, but numbered nonetheless.
Funny thing, too - it's totally free, I can download and use a copy locally, and I can use it on as many computers as I want to.
My security is also free, is updated regularly, and is pretty secure the way I have it configured. BTW, it's Linux.
Microsoft? Naahhhh...
We have lots of ignorant and stupid people here too. They also have access to lots of information. Some people here that are stupid and ignorant are otherwise well educated.
The Olympics are a waste of time. They have become too politicized and too many dedicate their whole lives and their families make sacrifices only to see governments like China's play it for all it is worth for propaganda.
I haven't watched them in years - even when they have been in the USA.
What's wrong with Tibetan independence? What's wrong with Taiwanese independence? China is way too nationalistic, expansionistic, and subversive for western investment. Opening trade with China, especially in anything high-technology has been a big mistake. They abuse western trust.
And you attitude is a window into that behavior.
"Where do you think 90% (or more) of the components inside were manufactured?"
Especially any counterfeit parts that fail soon after purchase.
Sadly, this is a byproduct of all of the outsourcing western nations have done. The chinese run production lines long, using inferior components to increase profits, and sell the junk on shady markets where components find their way into critical assemblies and fail.
Most counterfeit crap does indeed come from China.
Just because our leaders are hypocrites doesn't make me one. And something that is evil is evil regardless of who calls it out.
They should call us on the things we do just as much as we should call them on the things they do.
China's government is evil. Why shouldn't we be able to say that?
I think it helps their cause that China restricts their people's access to any news that criticizes China or its actions.
China is pretty close to a totalitarian state. As Bush said, it would be a lot easier if this was a dictatorship. China doesn't just say it, they do it.
OK, dweeb. I had been thinking about installing FireFox and just did it.
You can sleep easier. The world is now safe.
Perhaps you're exactly the sort of user that makes PayPal feel that they have to take such a shitty measure.
I don't think so. I am very aware of phishing e-mails and never follow e-mail links. I never click on the paay using paypal on any web pages - I always manually go to paypal and then enter the payee information to complete the transaction, and I signed up for the one-time password generator so my account isn't just what I know access.
I have never had my account raided and luckily have never had my identity stolen.
I have also been watching the issues with Safari of recent and have been considering switching to FireFox on my Mac. I just haven't done it yet.
I won't say that I am immune from phishing attacks, but by manually navigating to paypal instead of following any web or e-mail-supplied links to paypal, I think I'm pretty safe.
But thanks for your concern.
I never new about turning on the Develop menu!
Thanks, Macbuzz. It's done and done!
Wow, dude. You say in your post that "They [use] up to 50% of my bandwidth (2Mbit). Its cost me nothing, so why not?" but then your signature says "If information wants to be free, why does my internet connection cost so much?".
That is about the most perfect example anyone could ever give of exactly why your internet connection might be expensive.
How could you possibly not make that connection? Are you some kind of retard?
What? You trust someone to access your WAP anonymously and do whatever they want on the Internet, but you don't trust them to not print 10,000 page documents to waste your ink and paper, or to raid your server?
If you trust them, you trust them, right? Or am I missing something?
And data flowing through your WAP still implicates you in whatever that data was. Do you get away with it or not? I'm not willing to risk my financial future or freedom on that risk.
Sorry - your post wasn't clear. There was a fairly long window in time where some vendors would install Office on the systems they sold and claim it was included for "free".
Now I see what you were saying but don't fully agree. Most people who install Linux, even now, understand the differences between Linux and Windows and that if they buy a Windows machine and don't install Linux over it, they are looking at a big outlay of cash to do anything more than play minesweeper or solitaire.
Uh, how is Internet access a right? Why is it a right and going to the movies for free isn't? What about eating at a restaurant? Is that a taxpayer right? Maybe the government should give you a car, give you a house, spoon feed you, and even wipe your ass after a bowel movement?
It's people like you that make me afraid for what kind of society we are heading toward.
Do you go around a proposition all of your friend's girlfriends and wives?
Do you really think your friends would absolve you of all responsibility if you got the wives/girlfriends to sleep with you?
How would you feel about your friends if they were all asking your girlfriend/wife to sleep with them? You wouldn't object or think differently about them?
This analogy stuff is stupid. Piggybacking on someone's network without their permission is wrong and you know it. Everything else is just trying to come up with some way to justify your actions and absolve your guilt.
Does the /. community frown upon this kind of use? Is it REALLY considered immoral or illegal?
I notice that you don't mention knocking on doors to ask if it is OK to piggyback on someone's connection. It really isn't that hard to localize where the signal is coming from and some people even use their street address to name their access point.
Have you ever been in the situation where it would have been easy to ask for permission but you did not?
Shouldn't your answer to that question answer your own?
Must be all them Linux users that are trying to get by with the Windows that came preinstalled on their new machines. We're used to getting a full office suite with our operating systems!
Dude, unlike with Windows, we Linux geeks really do get a complete office suite with our OS - it's called OpenOffice. Mac and IIRC Windows users can download it and install it for free on their systems too.
We get web software, programming software, scripting software, generally two complete GUIs (Gnome and KDE), productivity software, web server software, games, full manuals, lots of security capability, and tons of other stuff - all included for free. And the OS itself is free to.
Besides, an old copy of Microsoft Works doesn't count as "a full office suite". And if it really is Microsoft Office, you paid for it somehow. The vendor may have said it was included free but they had to charge you a bit more for the system so they could include that security nightmare for "free".
What you are doing is fundamentally different from the people that are piggybacking on someone else's connection.
As long as your ISP didn't put any kind of clause in your contract that would prevent what you are doing (I would bet they did but obviously cannot know), then what you are doing is fine, legal, and your choice.
I personally am not comfortable opening my network to anyone who might want to join so they can trade child pornography, share files illegally, or make threats against political figures anonymously, but if you don't mind that liability, go right ahead.
If I left my money, house, or girlfriend available on your property, I wouldn't really feel like I could complain if you helped yourself.
Man, do I ever call bullshit on this one. Next time you and your girlfriend go to a party or whatever at someone's house, and if you catch her off in a bedroom, making out or screwing the host's brains out, get back to us and tell us how you didn't complain.
This analogy stuff is so laughable. All who are using it - water faucet, girlfriend, whatever - are only trying to assuage their own guilt for what they know is stealing. It's obvious and you people know it. There may not be any consequences, and the access point owner may never know or even care, but it is still stealing and it is costing someone money for the bandwidth you have used.
One thing people should understand is the liability for not locking their access points down. There was a comment on a recent Slashdot article (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=523768&cid=23089520) that was telling people how to anonymously post possibly illegal information:
Drive around, find an open wireless access point.
The person that posted it is no brainiac either. Anyone with any savvy at all knows to piggyback on someone else's connection when they want to do something that requires anonymity. Look how many people here talk about piggybacking and their reasons for doing it. Such things are sometimes (frequently?) illegal and the first place law enforcement is going to look is to the owner of the link used to do whatever was done.
These days, with protections for citizens being removed at rates only a fascist would love, people can get hauled off for questioning, their computer impounded for forensics, etc. I don't have the link, but IIRC the RIAA was even going after the owner of an unsecured access point and holding them liable for the filesharing that was done over that access point even though they could not connect the accused's computer to the activity.
I just don't see opening myself up to others doing illegal, immoral, or both over my equipment and putting me in the crosshairs of whatever organization is investigating the event.
Yep - it's only half the battle to secure the access point. The other half, which most forget about or don't bother with, is to lock down the laptop or whatever device is using the wireless link. Not all allow locking it to certain access points, but my Mac does. I can tell it to ignore other networks and not connect at all if it can't find my own.
I don't know how hard it would be to spoof my wireless and fool my laptop to connect to a malicious network, but no regular neighbor is going to try to do that.
But my laptop will not try to join any other networks than the ones I have already configured. My access point will not allow other computers on as it is locked by MAC address and computer name to who it allows on as well as using WPA2 with a hard password.
WEP isn't secure. It's now basically a script-kiddie exercise to tickle the WEP link and in moments you have enough information to break in.
WEP will keep out the non-resourceful and the lazy but that's about it.
Nope. I'm not implying that at all. The Newsbites just make for a convenient digest of the major breach and compromise information. You can see the stories other places too if you would rather.