This is already an accepted practice, lots of game companies claim the output of the tools that they supply with the game. The only new thing is that this is with a "serious" application instead of a toy... but if its OK for one why wouldn't it be for the other?
We are talking about a relatively small amount of energy in a very large body of water and we have been undercutting this energy source for a long time. Since it is really solute density that matters not salt density, water pollution is, or should be, reducing how much energy is being released at the interface. From an ecology standpoint the habitat destruction problem is a lot bigger since anything that could do this is likely to significantly drop the salinity of the water in the river mouth and destroy the brackish conditions that a lot of species have developed in not to mention that the water way will need to be completely, or at least mostly, obstructed to prevent water flowing around the system from killing the power output.
The problem case could be addressed by using a DNS names instead of IPs, I'm not familiar enough with what they are pushing to know if this is what they are proposing or not. That being said allowing access to your enterprise network before the user supplies credentials seems like a very bad idea.
Social engineering shouldn't work. In this case only the CEO should have the password and probably isn't giving it out. If social engineering works (and the CEO isn't involved) it suggests that they are storing or moving passwords insecurely which is a significant problem.
But almost all of that loss is congestion related, which doesn't introduce bit errors. You either get the whole packet or you don't get any of it.. bit errors are rare. In order for the two packets to be different you need 2 bit errors in one packet that cancel each other out in the checksum followed by a congestion loss or more, detectable corruption. If there are enough errors that this could go undetected normal traffic wouldn't be working anyway so you could disconnect the flow without impacting any normal users.
The eavesdropper will know when the packet passes if it is corrupt or not by looking at the checksum. If it is "corrupt" he is free to drop it and/or request retransmission if it is not it would be highly suspicious if the sender retransmitted data that was different. In order for this to occur naturally there would have to be a very specific and very rare (something on the order of 1 packet in 10 billion) error occurring before the eavesdropper intercepted the packet followed by loss or corruption after it forwarded the packet. The most aggressive case will get you 1 byte of data,though 1 bit would be safer, per event so to make it look "natural" you would need to move at least 1 TB of masking data per KB of masked data, in addition to being incredibly inefficient it seems like uploading this much data, with abnormally high error rate, would be suspicious in and of its self.
I would guess this is the case. Lots of Adobe's stuff is available online, but requires a license agreement... if the project in question grabbed some of that code and pt it under GPLI could see that being a problem.
I read it as his college is throwing him out of the dorm, not that he was judged by a court. If he admitted to the network admin that he used school resources to pirate content taking those resources away seems like a reasonable thing for the college to do.
Unless you have a PBX and trunk line to the PSTN in which case Caller ID spoofing is normal and generally accepted... this is why an 800 number shows up when you get a call from a legit call center instead of the number that call really originated from.
I would posit that the most seeded content isn't top 40 music or movies, its things like MMO clients and Linux ISO that are legal to seed. If you want more people to seed your content make it clear that you are giving it away... otherwise you are complaining that people aren't stealing your stuff often enough.
Not to mention that if I did pirate music I wouldn't even consider stealing indy music (with the possible exception of John Darnielle Said it was OK to Steal These Song for obvious reasons) since indy artists/labels actually need my money to stay in business.
Because they try to get the tax out of the retailers also. Almost everything I bought online when I was living in NY was already taxed... but my choices were to pay the $20 or meticulously document every online purchase that I made.
How would that even work? It seems to me that rate limiting customers paying for a "turbo" connection below the rate of a "normal" connection is a class action suit waiting to happen.
So then you do it at boot time. It doesn't matter if there is a disk in the drive or not, since spinning up the drive will tell you how to interpret the magic sequence in either case.
"stuff like iPlayer" is exactly what they are afraid of. This isn't so much about bandwidth costs, though that is somewhat important, as it is about protecting their legacy video model.
It took a long time for UIs to get "mostly good" on the desktop, and the same is true of websites in general. Its not really surprising that there are some growing pains associated UI design in AJAX. Remapping my keys and breaking the back/forward are my two biggest gripes (especially ctrl-t) but it can be done sensibly. Remapping page up/page down to behave sensibly in a real rich application, say an online stock trading app, might make sense but Web 2.0 is ATM stuck in the "look what I can do" phase that brought us blinking text and background music the last time around.
What I would really like is a way to block sites from doing this by default and allow a white list of sites that use the ability to use the more powerful aspects of AJAX responsibly. This probably exists and I'm sure could be created if not.
remapping keybindings effectively creates a "hidden mode" where the response to input change unexpectedly and for no clear reason. This undermines the users ability to understand and predict what the application is going to do and is, in general, is a poor UI design choice.
There is nothing wrong with AJAX/Web 2.0 stuff, but Slashdot seems to have completely missed the point in its implementation. If done right it should improve the user experience, but here it mostly doesn't.
It's DRM, EA already does this and it totally sucks. If you want to play your games anywhere that doesn't have an internet connection when the game decides to phone home you are SOL. Same deal with hotels, having to pay for internet access and connect to their toxic network defats most of the point of bringing an offline game in the first place.
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This is already an accepted practice, lots of game companies claim the output of the tools that they supply with the game. The only new thing is that this is with a "serious" application instead of a toy... but if its OK for one why wouldn't it be for the other?
We are talking about a relatively small amount of energy in a very large body of water and we have been undercutting this energy source for a long time. Since it is really solute density that matters not salt density, water pollution is, or should be, reducing how much energy is being released at the interface. From an ecology standpoint the habitat destruction problem is a lot bigger since anything that could do this is likely to significantly drop the salinity of the water in the river mouth and destroy the brackish conditions that a lot of species have developed in not to mention that the water way will need to be completely, or at least mostly, obstructed to prevent water flowing around the system from killing the power output.
The problem case could be addressed by using a DNS names instead of IPs, I'm not familiar enough with what they are pushing to know if this is what they are proposing or not. That being said allowing access to your enterprise network before the user supplies credentials seems like a very bad idea.
Probably some tard in trade and "monitor" means GM.
Social engineering shouldn't work. In this case only the CEO should have the password and probably isn't giving it out. If social engineering works (and the CEO isn't involved) it suggests that they are storing or moving passwords insecurely which is a significant problem.
But almost all of that loss is congestion related, which doesn't introduce bit errors. You either get the whole packet or you don't get any of it.. bit errors are rare. In order for the two packets to be different you need 2 bit errors in one packet that cancel each other out in the checksum followed by a congestion loss or more, detectable corruption. If there are enough errors that this could go undetected normal traffic wouldn't be working anyway so you could disconnect the flow without impacting any normal users.
The eavesdropper will know when the packet passes if it is corrupt or not by looking at the checksum. If it is "corrupt" he is free to drop it and/or request retransmission if it is not it would be highly suspicious if the sender retransmitted data that was different. In order for this to occur naturally there would have to be a very specific and very rare (something on the order of 1 packet in 10 billion) error occurring before the eavesdropper intercepted the packet followed by loss or corruption after it forwarded the packet. The most aggressive case will get you 1 byte of data ,though 1 bit would be safer, per event so to make it look "natural" you would need to move at least 1 TB of masking data per KB of masked data, in addition to being incredibly inefficient it seems like uploading this much data, with abnormally high error rate, would be suspicious in and of its self.
I would guess this is the case. Lots of Adobe's stuff is available online, but requires a license agreement... if the project in question grabbed some of that code and pt it under GPLI could see that being a problem.
I read it as his college is throwing him out of the dorm, not that he was judged by a court. If he admitted to the network admin that he used school resources to pirate content taking those resources away seems like a reasonable thing for the college to do.
Unless you have a PBX and trunk line to the PSTN in which case Caller ID spoofing is normal and generally accepted... this is why an 800 number shows up when you get a call from a legit call center instead of the number that call really originated from.
Karatechop == Banned for knowingly and repeatedly cheating. Not that interesting IMO.
Maybe whoever WTFA doesn't know the difference between a computer and a network.
see eGenesis
I would posit that the most seeded content isn't top 40 music or movies, its things like MMO clients and Linux ISO that are legal to seed. If you want more people to seed your content make it clear that you are giving it away... otherwise you are complaining that people aren't stealing your stuff often enough.
Not to mention that if I did pirate music I wouldn't even consider stealing indy music (with the possible exception of John Darnielle Said it was OK to Steal These Song for obvious reasons) since indy artists/labels actually need my money to stay in business.
Because they try to get the tax out of the retailers also. Almost everything I bought online when I was living in NY was already taxed... but my choices were to pay the $20 or meticulously document every online purchase that I made.
1000? There are probably 1000 just in the state of New York.
How would that even work? It seems to me that rate limiting customers paying for a "turbo" connection below the rate of a "normal" connection is a class action suit waiting to happen.
If the bios is already compromised how can you trust anything that happens after it boots?
there is which is cheaper then $150 and which the linked article doesn't mention.
So then you do it at boot time. It doesn't matter if there is a disk in the drive or not, since spinning up the drive will tell you how to interpret the magic sequence in either case.
"stuff like iPlayer" is exactly what they are afraid of. This isn't so much about bandwidth costs, though that is somewhat important, as it is about protecting their legacy video model.
It took a long time for UIs to get "mostly good" on the desktop, and the same is true of websites in general. Its not really surprising that there are some growing pains associated UI design in AJAX. Remapping my keys and breaking the back/forward are my two biggest gripes (especially ctrl-t) but it can be done sensibly. Remapping page up/page down to behave sensibly in a real rich application, say an online stock trading app, might make sense but Web 2.0 is ATM stuck in the "look what I can do" phase that brought us blinking text and background music the last time around.
What I would really like is a way to block sites from doing this by default and allow a white list of sites that use the ability to use the more powerful aspects of AJAX responsibly. This probably exists and I'm sure could be created if not.
remapping keybindings effectively creates a "hidden mode" where the response to input change unexpectedly and for no clear reason. This undermines the users ability to understand and predict what the application is going to do and is, in general, is a poor UI design choice.
There is nothing wrong with AJAX/Web 2.0 stuff, but Slashdot seems to have completely missed the point in its implementation. If done right it should improve the user experience, but here it mostly doesn't.
It's DRM, EA already does this and it totally sucks. If you want to play your games anywhere that doesn't have an internet connection when the game decides to phone home you are SOL. Same deal with hotels, having to pay for internet access and connect to their toxic network defats most of the point of bringing an offline game in the first place.