Further.. they'll be harvesting bounced email addresses for sure. If you get spammed from a bunk domain, and it gets returned.. or you typo and email address.. they are nice enough to run a mail daemon on port 25 to harvest those addresses. It lets you helo, from, rcpt, and data.. and then closes your connection.. just long enough to snag all the info it wants from you.
You are mistaken, or at least I don't understand what you are saying. Yes, they may very well be harvesting email addresses, but they'll be harvesting bounces only. That kinda implies the email addresses don't go anywhere, hmm? Either that, or for some strange reason you are bouncing spam messages. Why would you bother doing that? There may also be a small portion of people sending email to invalid domains.
Also, if they were NOT running a mail server, or did NOT reject the messages, then the sending mail server would spool the message for however mail servers spool messages (several days) until the message gets delivered or times out and bounces. This would be terrible and incur the wrath of many ISPs. They are closing the connection with a non-recoverable 550 error.
First, as already pointed out, you wouldn't be selling a single track. Maybe if it was a cash transaction. You would sell several hundred or thousand tracks.
Second, who says you have to do it for $.99? If I'm cleaning out my CD collection and come up with a couple dozen that I no longer want, or have duplicates, do I expect to sell them for the original price? So in that sense, if someone wants to get rid of their iTunes music, instead of deleting it all (or keeping the license and redownloading it later) they could make some money.
The only way adding numbers on the end makes it easier is if the atacker knows they are there, as it reduces the set of possible values that need to be tested.
That's exactly what password cracking is about. Low hanging fruit first. When it gets to trying 8 character passwords, it'll redo the 7s appending various numbers. Well, thats's what I'd do anyway, but password cracker writers know what they're doing and maybe it's not an effective tactic.
You're right if the password is being brute forced without a smart algorithm.
Yeah, keeping passwords in your wallet is not a bad idea, as long as they're not described in detail, so someone who finds your wallet won't be able to figure out what they're for. PIN numbers for debit cards are really obvious to spot, they're usually 4 digits long, though many banks now allow for 6 or even 8 digits. Also, the bank card will usually be IN your wallet, so keeping those two pieces of info together is not all the wise.
Because numbers tacked on at the beginning or end of the password are usually not part of the password, so to speak. So you'll have a regular password, and add an unrelated number to the end. It's the easiest thing to do, it's also easy to crack, as you're effectively dealing with a password that is 7 characters long, not 8.
Anyone interested in that kind of sound should look into Bad Sector and Arecibo. I believe Arecibo is just a Lustmord side-project, and their discography is full of these kinds of 'nature sampled' sounds and manipulations.
It's not just wishful thinking. Something will have to change. When your fastest (or rather, the ONLY) growing market (Asia) is suddenly unable to run your software, because they're using Linux or some other OS, something's gotta happen. I don't see how MS can reconcile having a division writing an OS, and another division writing software for other OSes. The two sides would not be cooperating much, and would be effectively separated. Just make it official and split em up into two companies.
MS Word tends to move lines and sometimes entire paragraphs around pagebreaks when you're editing. Once you hit Ctrl-S text will move around. If you have lots of weird formatting, lists and styles applied to a document, it's not too rare to have it change on you when you're not looking.
Sorry to have offended your Macromedia-using sensibilities.
I don't see what my low user id has to do with anything. For the record, I am not a cowboy. Neither do I look down on Macromedia, or Macromedia development, although I'm no fan of 'Flash-enhanced' websites. No, I never worked with DRM, but I dealt with plenty of software requiring passcodes, activation codes and strict licence keys; the trend is spilling over into consumer software now, and I'm not happy about it either.
From where I stand, based on my knowledge of software development and how software actually works, and from what you've described, I can only see two possibilities:
- Software crashes on purpose by generating a no-recoverable error. I don't see why anyone would do this, but whatever. I also don't see how ignoring such an error would continue operating the software. - Software exits orderly. There's nothing to trap here and make it continue.
Either way, the situation you describe is unlikely. Apparently you run into it every day, so perhaps you should have explained it better, without assuming everyone else in the world is just like you, and is bothered by the same problems you are, and knows exactly what you're talking about.
Huh? Am I missing something? Never in all my years using computers have I seen an application trying to enforce some runtime rules by crashing itself. That's just too fucking weird, especially since you seem to think it's a common practice. In anycase, what do you think ignoring a crash error will accomplish? Make the application function correctly again? I would think most crashes are due to referencing invalid pointers or serious bugs in the API... ignoring them doesn't seem like a very wise idea to me.
Lets revise these numbers slightly, shall we? We need to account for a few things here:
1. It's $0.0007/song/user, that's 7th of a cent. 2. No one listens to a station 24x365. The way subscription services work is that you estimate/calculate your average per user usage; people who listen less subsidize those who listen lots. It's how it works everywhere. Lets say, 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. That's probably complete overkill. 3. Where the fuck do you find 3 minute songs? My music collection works out to almost 6 minutes, discarding tracks over 20 minutes, but I would say 4-5 minutes is more average than 3.
So.
4 hours/day * (60 min/hour / 4 min/song) * 260 weekdays * $0.0007 = $10.08/user/year. It's still a lot, that's roughly 10% of your revenue just for licencing, assuming a $100/year ($8/month) subscription.
Hmm, that's certainly strange behaviour... when I'm encoding an mp3 on my dual P3 1GHz, I only see 1 CPU nailed, there's no 'load balancing' happening. When I'm encoding a DivX, the load jumps around both CPUs. Gee, what do you suppose is happening there? I have no complaints about SMP on Windows. FWIW Win2000 feels much more solid and is more responsive on a dual system, and I never notice any weird stuff happening because there are 2 CPUs as opposed to 1. The only exception being the shitty Audigy drivers which will skip and glitch every few minutes.
I don't understand why the challange is being muddied with this issue. As I see it, this user is saying due process was bypassed by this subpoena. Period. Why the Kazaa-as-media-player bit was thrown in, I have no idea, just makes the whole thing look like an excuse. Real criminals, murderers and rapists, are being acquitted all the time because due process and their rights were violated. If such scum of the earth is afforded such a courtesy, I don't see why these relatively minor 'on the internet' crimes are treated in this manner. Here we have regular court clerks being given the powers previously reserved for judges. The power to expose someone's identity, a search warrant in effect.
If you killed 10 people, and your house was searched based on such a flimsy piece of paper, you'd just get off free, and the legal system would get a(nother) black eye. But those bit copiers, man I tell you, they'll be the downfall of society as we know it, and they must be stopped!
You misunderstand what the LowID in eMule/eDonkey network represents. Leechers come in all flavours, Low ID and High ID. A Low ID signifies that you are behind a firewall and/or cannot accept incoming connections. A High ID is derived from your IP address, as far as I know. Mine changed when I changed my static IP. Obviously, a leecher can have a High ID; leech status is established via the rating numbers that appear in user info.
Now no one likes Low IDs (and if you CAN accept incoming connections you should check your config or try a different server) because somehow the false rumour got around that Low IDs are leeches. They can't upload to as many people (to other Low IDs in other words), but they're not necessarily leeches.
I don't think that's how time works. In my experience, people get 'stupider' as they age. They get set in their ways, resist change, don't absorb and assimilate new knowledge and skills as easily, and have more and more trouble thinking 'outside the box'. The brain isn't wired for this. If I was to live 250 years, I'd probably go insane long before I hit 150.
In fact, people generally do more life-threatening, foolish things when they are younger. That's partly due to the immortality one feels being young and also due to a lack of judgement
I don't think that's it either. As you get older, you have more invested in your life. You have kids, a wife, and a mortgage to look after. If you've been skydiving all your life, one of these days you'll think to yourself, before jumping out of the plane, 'shit, I could die, I really shouldn't die, I can't afford to die (literally)'. You have too many people depending on you being there tomorrow, and it's not just your sorry little ass at stake anymore. When you have kids, your priorities tend to change a bit.
Haha! The FixBlast scanner linked to in the article crashes when it gets to the.NET DLLs! I guess this.net stuff is so secure, you don't need to worry about scanning.
My dilemma is I don't want to screw my friends over, so I occasionally fix their shit, all the while telling them how it never happens to my linux box.
Believe me, they could not possibly care any less. You just sound like one of those know-it-alls. You know, you buy something, a TV or a DVD player or a car, and they're always piping in 'hey, you could have gotten brand x model b for less money, and it's way better', or 'this is crap, brand z model k is infinitely superior, and only costs twice as much, buy hey, you pay for quality! wink wink nudge nudge'. You're just being an annoying prick. In one ear, out the others, and all the while your friends like being around you less and less. Yeah yeah, I know, shut the fuck about your Linux already. Don't wanna fix my computer just say so, you don't need to do me any favours.
Lately it's less of an issue though, as I don't really know how to run XP. That and any serious windows problem requires a full re-install.
Does not. And I have had a couple pretty serious problems, (though nothing as bad as my problems with ext2/ext3 fucking up on my Linux file server box), and a re-install of ANYTHING was never required. OTOH, I keep reinstalling Firebird from scratch (saving the bookmarks of course), because every so many daily builds the thing doesn't run unless you do a clean install.
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You are mistaken, or at least I don't understand what you are saying. Yes, they may very well be harvesting email addresses, but they'll be harvesting bounces only. That kinda implies the email addresses don't go anywhere, hmm? Either that, or for some strange reason you are bouncing spam messages. Why would you bother doing that? There may also be a small portion of people sending email to invalid domains.
Also, if they were NOT running a mail server, or did NOT reject the messages, then the sending mail server would spool the message for however mail servers spool messages (several days) until the message gets delivered or times out and bounces. This would be terrible and incur the wrath of many ISPs. They are closing the connection with a non-recoverable 550 error.
Well, how is Google going to get the MD5s for all the files they're indexing? Download them all?
So what you're saying, in a nutshell, is that movie industry has a better business model than the music industry?
You're making a couple of assumptions here.
First, as already pointed out, you wouldn't be selling a single track. Maybe if it was a cash transaction. You would sell several hundred or thousand tracks.
Second, who says you have to do it for $.99? If I'm cleaning out my CD collection and come up with a couple dozen that I no longer want, or have duplicates, do I expect to sell them for the original price? So in that sense, if someone wants to get rid of their iTunes music, instead of deleting it all (or keeping the license and redownloading it later) they could make some money.
That's exactly what password cracking is about. Low hanging fruit first. When it gets to trying 8 character passwords, it'll redo the 7s appending various numbers. Well, thats's what I'd do anyway, but password cracker writers know what they're doing and maybe it's not an effective tactic.
You're right if the password is being brute forced without a smart algorithm.
It in the compression algorithm in GIF that is patented. You can still have non-infringing GIFs with no compression, but what's the point then?
Yeah, keeping passwords in your wallet is not a bad idea, as long as they're not described in detail, so someone who finds your wallet won't be able to figure out what they're for. PIN numbers for debit cards are really obvious to spot, they're usually 4 digits long, though many banks now allow for 6 or even 8 digits. Also, the bank card will usually be IN your wallet, so keeping those two pieces of info together is not all the wise.
Because numbers tacked on at the beginning or end of the password are usually not part of the password, so to speak. So you'll have a regular password, and add an unrelated number to the end. It's the easiest thing to do, it's also easy to crack, as you're effectively dealing with a password that is 7 characters long, not 8.
Google links to the links as well. The notice at the bottom of the results page points to a page listing the blocked sites.
Anyone interested in that kind of sound should look into Bad Sector and Arecibo. I believe Arecibo is just a Lustmord side-project, and their discography is full of these kinds of 'nature sampled' sounds and manipulations.
It's not just wishful thinking. Something will have to change. When your fastest (or rather, the ONLY) growing market (Asia) is suddenly unable to run your software, because they're using Linux or some other OS, something's gotta happen. I don't see how MS can reconcile having a division writing an OS, and another division writing software for other OSes. The two sides would not be cooperating much, and would be effectively separated. Just make it official and split em up into two companies.
MS Word tends to move lines and sometimes entire paragraphs around pagebreaks when you're editing. Once you hit Ctrl-S text will move around. If you have lots of weird formatting, lists and styles applied to a document, it's not too rare to have it change on you when you're not looking.
Sorry to have offended your Macromedia-using sensibilities.
I don't see what my low user id has to do with anything. For the record, I am not a cowboy. Neither do I look down on Macromedia, or Macromedia development, although I'm no fan of 'Flash-enhanced' websites. No, I never worked with DRM, but I dealt with plenty of software requiring passcodes, activation codes and strict licence keys; the trend is spilling over into consumer software now, and I'm not happy about it either.
From where I stand, based on my knowledge of software development and how software actually works, and from what you've described, I can only see two possibilities:
- Software crashes on purpose by generating a no-recoverable error. I don't see why anyone would do this, but whatever. I also don't see how ignoring such an error would continue operating the software.
- Software exits orderly. There's nothing to trap here and make it continue.
Either way, the situation you describe is unlikely. Apparently you run into it every day, so perhaps you should have explained it better, without assuming everyone else in the world is just like you, and is bothered by the same problems you are, and knows exactly what you're talking about.
Huh? Am I missing something? Never in all my years using computers have I seen an application trying to enforce some runtime rules by crashing itself. That's just too fucking weird, especially since you seem to think it's a common practice. In anycase, what do you think ignoring a crash error will accomplish? Make the application function correctly again? I would think most crashes are due to referencing invalid pointers or serious bugs in the API... ignoring them doesn't seem like a very wise idea to me.
Lets revise these numbers slightly, shall we? We need to account for a few things here:
1. It's $0.0007/song/user, that's 7th of a cent.
2. No one listens to a station 24x365. The way subscription services work is that you estimate/calculate your average per user usage; people who listen less subsidize those who listen lots. It's how it works everywhere. Lets say, 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. That's probably complete overkill.
3. Where the fuck do you find 3 minute songs? My music collection works out to almost 6 minutes, discarding tracks over 20 minutes, but I would say 4-5 minutes is more average than 3.
So.
4 hours/day * (60 min/hour / 4 min/song) * 260 weekdays * $0.0007 = $10.08/user/year. It's still a lot, that's roughly 10% of your revenue just for licencing, assuming a $100/year ($8/month) subscription.
But then you're assuming everyone will get identical, perfect rips, which are not possible with many CDs.
Hmm, that's certainly strange behaviour... when I'm encoding an mp3 on my dual P3 1GHz, I only see 1 CPU nailed, there's no 'load balancing' happening. When I'm encoding a DivX, the load jumps around both CPUs. Gee, what do you suppose is happening there? I have no complaints about SMP on Windows. FWIW Win2000 feels much more solid and is more responsive on a dual system, and I never notice any weird stuff happening because there are 2 CPUs as opposed to 1. The only exception being the shitty Audigy drivers which will skip and glitch every few minutes.
A diamond will crack as easily as CZ. The real test is a scratch test. A diamond won't scratch with anything you'll have laying around.
I don't understand why the challange is being muddied with this issue. As I see it, this user is saying due process was bypassed by this subpoena. Period. Why the Kazaa-as-media-player bit was thrown in, I have no idea, just makes the whole thing look like an excuse. Real criminals, murderers and rapists, are being acquitted all the time because due process and their rights were violated. If such scum of the earth is afforded such a courtesy, I don't see why these relatively minor 'on the internet' crimes are treated in this manner. Here we have regular court clerks being given the powers previously reserved for judges. The power to expose someone's identity, a search warrant in effect.
If you killed 10 people, and your house was searched based on such a flimsy piece of paper, you'd just get off free, and the legal system would get a(nother) black eye. But those bit copiers, man I tell you, they'll be the downfall of society as we know it, and they must be stopped!
You misunderstand what the LowID in eMule/eDonkey network represents. Leechers come in all flavours, Low ID and High ID. A Low ID signifies that you are behind a firewall and/or cannot accept incoming connections. A High ID is derived from your IP address, as far as I know. Mine changed when I changed my static IP. Obviously, a leecher can have a High ID; leech status is established via the rating numbers that appear in user info.
Now no one likes Low IDs (and if you CAN accept incoming connections you should check your config or try a different server) because somehow the false rumour got around that Low IDs are leeches. They can't upload to as many people (to other Low IDs in other words), but they're not necessarily leeches.
I don't think that's how time works. In my experience, people get 'stupider' as they age. They get set in their ways, resist change, don't absorb and assimilate new knowledge and skills as easily, and have more and more trouble thinking 'outside the box'. The brain isn't wired for this. If I was to live 250 years, I'd probably go insane long before I hit 150.
I don't think that's it either. As you get older, you have more invested in your life. You have kids, a wife, and a mortgage to look after. If you've been skydiving all your life, one of these days you'll think to yourself, before jumping out of the plane, 'shit, I could die, I really shouldn't die, I can't afford to die (literally)'. You have too many people depending on you being there tomorrow, and it's not just your sorry little ass at stake anymore. When you have kids, your priorities tend to change a bit.
Haha! The FixBlast scanner linked to in the article crashes when it gets to the .NET DLLs! I guess this .net stuff is so secure, you don't need to worry about scanning.
You mean the parents EVER side with the teachers? From my experience, they think their kids are perfect angels and can do no wrong.
Believe me, they could not possibly care any less. You just sound like one of those know-it-alls. You know, you buy something, a TV or a DVD player or a car, and they're always piping in 'hey, you could have gotten brand x model b for less money, and it's way better', or 'this is crap, brand z model k is infinitely superior, and only costs twice as much, buy hey, you pay for quality! wink wink nudge nudge'. You're just being an annoying prick. In one ear, out the others, and all the while your friends like being around you less and less. Yeah yeah, I know, shut the fuck about your Linux already. Don't wanna fix my computer just say so, you don't need to do me any favours.
Lately it's less of an issue though, as I don't really know how to run XP. That and any serious windows problem requires a full re-install.
Does not. And I have had a couple pretty serious problems, (though nothing as bad as my problems with ext2/ext3 fucking up on my Linux file server box), and a re-install of ANYTHING was never required. OTOH, I keep reinstalling Firebird from scratch (saving the bookmarks of course), because every so many daily builds the thing doesn't run unless you do a clean install.