So you're saying, that when i changed my SSH port, the sudden halt in bots trying to login over SSH suddenly stopping was pure coincidence?
Obviously that doesn't do anything to protect me against directed attacks, but obscurity does a heck of a lot to protect against undirected attacks which are the majority of exploits these days.
Um, no she didn't, there was never *any* intent to drive Meagan to suicide.
Beyond that, Lori Drew wasn't even the one who wrote the messages that set Meagan off. Another teenager testified at Lori Drew's trial that she (the other teenager) had also had access to the account and had written the final messages.
You have to realize *how* Zango lost in the lower court.
There's a bit of the law, meant for internet filter companies, that says you can't sue if someone filters your site/product incorrectly.
Zango getting trounced in court is a good thing of course (they should have flat out arrested them when they showed up to the courthouse), but this law being upheld for a new, unintended purpose of the original bill, leaves legitimate products without recourse as well.
Also, *anyone* can file an appeal, prior to the SCOTUS level the courts have to hear it, even if its insane.
Um, even if you brute force AES 128, wouldn't you only have a complexity of 2^64?
256 is still 360,000,000,000,000 times stronger than 128, even if they get it all the way down to the 2^110.5 complexity 256 will still be far far stronger.
Most of the media I consume is distributed in just this manner, for a reasonable profit,
If you don't come off as an asshole, a lot of people who like your stuff will be happy to pay you for it, and will be more amenable to buying the little things that are only available for profit.
Hell, Television did it successfully for 50 years, Radio for even longer.
Like it or not, giving stuff away for free is part of a viable business model (obviously you can't *just* give it away, you need to do other things too). Or are you just a crybaby whose greedy and thinks the government should make sure that you're payed more for your labor?
HD-DVD also hadd a dual dvd/HD-dvd format, which would have been awesome, I could build up a collection, then get the player once I had enough movies for it to make sense. Instead I keep buying DVD because blu ray doesn't do anything for me right away.
I have to wonder if all the bad things about blu ray are *why* the studios chose it though, worse drm, more expensive to build a library later on, unskippable trailers etc.
Um... depending on the search terms 20 dollars a click isn't unreasonable (or wasn't two years ago), and while Google puts a cap on payouts for high click value terms, they still pay about 75% of their click revenue to adsense publishers.
Hijack a hundred thousand machines this way, and you could pull a pretty good income, at least till you get shut down.
There's a problem with the theory that Linux will have as many viruses as Windows if it becomes more popular. Namely, Linux is currently the most popular webserver, despite this windows based webservers have far more malware.
Linux webservers do get hacked too, showing that they're a priority target, just not as many viruses.
You also have to factor in that Linux is a diverse ecosystem, windows is not as much, all products essentially the same. That makes writing a virus that will hit all Linux boxes a lot harder than one that will hit all windows ones.
Linux will certainly develop a malware problem as it grows, but it will never be as bad as Windows has it.
Also, from the perspective of TCO, as Linux becomes popular enough to have a malware problem, it will also decrease the cost of training.
Similar studies have been done in the US and Norway (that I know of) with the same results. Really all the wieght loss/life span studies should have shown this, but until recently they weren't separating people who are 30 pounds overwieght (and quite healthy) from people who are 100 pounds overweight.
Though I take exception to the idea that slightly overweight is healthier. What we should really be doing is redefining what it means to be overweight.
Farming takes time though, which means blizzard gets more payment before you max out and get bored. Actually enjoying the game wouldn't be good for their bottom line.
If we distrust government, we are forgetting that there are millions of ways government can wreck us that don't involve "Big Brother" scenarios. Bad wars. Corrupt economics. Allowing toxic waste to be in our groundwater. We don't see these as visibly as "Big Brother" scenarios, so we don't talk about them.
No, we don't talk about those because they actually are happening and unlike the Big Brother thing there's no recourse for us to stop them.
Looks like you were typing that one up while I posted. Awesome debunking too. And yeah, if what you say is true he should definitely be quashed, its almost deserving of a sacking.
It goes beyond just slashdot. Since *everything* is copyrighted by default, it also shuts down every search engine, Alexa, wikipedia can no longer link citations, basically the entire web shuts down.
Its not as barbaric as it sounds. The law is full of traps like this nobody has ever heard of, there's around 20000 federal laws, lots of them badly worded enough that things like the mac address problem are present.
In theory shit like this gets ignored (Unless the prosecutor gets a bug up his ass and makes you the next Lori Drew), some of them do get enforced though, and its impossible to avoid breaking them all, even if you knew all 20000* of them.
The whole 'I have nothing to hide' thing? Totally false, everyone has something to hide, usually they don't even know what it is.
*Federal laws only, state, city and county laws also apply, these laws may reference unpublished administrative rules, laws in other states, and in extreme cases, laws in other countries.
How can it be expected by everybody to adhere to the current voting format when it only accommodates people who live in a short distance of voting stations (cities) which is not representative with regards to the rest of the population.
80% Of Canada's population is urban. So city oriented is pretty representative. Most of those who aren't urban probably live in small towns as well.
And if Canada's voting system is so awesome, why can't they do what India does and make sure there's a voting booth available even if only one person lives in the area?
Most people publishing about computers are usually:
A) Payed to come up with the right solution
B Honest and know what they're doing. or
C) So incredibly idiotic that anybody with a passing knowledge of the subject can tell they're idiots.
When it comes to climate change, its not that simple, and the slashdot crowd certainly doesn't understand all of this stuf with the depth we know computers, which means we have some understanding of just how hard a topic this is, and we also are more likely to appeal to authority, since we don't have the ability to judge the papers being written.
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So you're saying, that when i changed my SSH port, the sudden halt in bots trying to login over SSH suddenly stopping was pure coincidence?
Obviously that doesn't do anything to protect me against directed attacks, but obscurity does a heck of a lot to protect against undirected attacks which are the majority of exploits these days.
Um, no she didn't, there was never *any* intent to drive Meagan to suicide.
Beyond that, Lori Drew wasn't even the one who wrote the messages that set Meagan off. Another teenager testified at Lori Drew's trial that she (the other teenager) had also had access to the account and had written the final messages.
You have to realize *how* Zango lost in the lower court.
There's a bit of the law, meant for internet filter companies, that says you can't sue if someone filters your site/product incorrectly.
Zango getting trounced in court is a good thing of course (they should have flat out arrested them when they showed up to the courthouse), but this law being upheld for a new, unintended purpose of the original bill, leaves legitimate products without recourse as well.
Also, *anyone* can file an appeal, prior to the SCOTUS level the courts have to hear it, even if its insane.
Um, even if you brute force AES 128, wouldn't you only have a complexity of 2^64?
256 is still 360,000,000,000,000 times stronger than 128, even if they get it all the way down to the 2^110.5 complexity 256 will still be far far stronger.
Most of the media I consume is distributed in just this manner, for a reasonable profit,
If you don't come off as an asshole, a lot of people who like your stuff will be happy to pay you for it, and will be more amenable to buying the little things that are only available for profit.
Hell, Television did it successfully for 50 years, Radio for even longer.
Like it or not, giving stuff away for free is part of a viable business model (obviously you can't *just* give it away, you need to do other things too). Or are you just a crybaby whose greedy and thinks the government should make sure that you're payed more for your labor?
HD-DVD also hadd a dual dvd/HD-dvd format, which would have been awesome, I could build up a collection, then get the player once I had enough movies for it to make sense. Instead I keep buying DVD because blu ray doesn't do anything for me right away.
I have to wonder if all the bad things about blu ray are *why* the studios chose it though, worse drm, more expensive to build a library later on, unskippable trailers etc.
Second note: Those payout figures are for large affiliate programs (like with AOL), they probably don't reflect smaller sites.
Note: my figures are from 2004, and may not reflect 2009 numbers.
Um... depending on the search terms 20 dollars a click isn't unreasonable (or wasn't two years ago), and while Google puts a cap on payouts for high click value terms, they still pay about 75% of their click revenue to adsense publishers.
Hijack a hundred thousand machines this way, and you could pull a pretty good income, at least till you get shut down.
There's a problem with the theory that Linux will have as many viruses as Windows if it becomes more popular. Namely, Linux is currently the most popular webserver, despite this windows based webservers have far more malware.
Linux webservers do get hacked too, showing that they're a priority target, just not as many viruses.
You also have to factor in that Linux is a diverse ecosystem, windows is not as much, all products essentially the same. That makes writing a virus that will hit all Linux boxes a lot harder than one that will hit all windows ones.
Linux will certainly develop a malware problem as it grows, but it will never be as bad as Windows has it.
Also, from the perspective of TCO, as Linux becomes popular enough to have a malware problem, it will also decrease the cost of training.
Similar studies have been done in the US and Norway (that I know of) with the same results. Really all the wieght loss/life span studies should have shown this, but until recently they weren't separating people who are 30 pounds overwieght (and quite healthy) from people who are 100 pounds overweight.
Though I take exception to the idea that slightly overweight is healthier. What we should really be doing is redefining what it means to be overweight.
Mine never have. Hell, I've never even given them my phone number (and had a few published despite it).
Farming takes time though, which means blizzard gets more payment before you max out and get bored. Actually enjoying the game wouldn't be good for their bottom line.
But nobody lives in huge chunks of Canada.
For that matter, if you're so far away form the nearest town hall that getting to it to vote is difficult, how do you expect to get internet?
If we distrust government, we are forgetting that there are millions of ways government can wreck us that don't involve "Big Brother" scenarios. Bad wars. Corrupt economics. Allowing toxic waste to be in our groundwater. We don't see these as visibly as "Big Brother" scenarios, so we don't talk about them.
No, we don't talk about those because they actually are happening and unlike the Big Brother thing there's no recourse for us to stop them.
Bullshit, the CV is obvious, written in plain language, and point blank shows he has no experience at all in the flied he's talking about.
Conversely I could study climate models for the next 10 years and still not be certain if a given model is correct.
Looks like you were typing that one up while I posted. Awesome debunking too. And yeah, if what you say is true he should definitely be quashed, its almost deserving of a sacking.
It goes beyond just slashdot. Since *everything* is copyrighted by default, it also shuts down every search engine, Alexa, wikipedia can no longer link citations, basically the entire web shuts down.
Kernel level updates normally don't take effect until you reboot and load the new kernel. This includes a fair number of security updates.
No you've done a lot of Ad Hominem attacks, relevant ones, but not related to anything he actually said or wrote.
You even admitted you never RTFA.
As I already stated, the /. crowd isn't qualified to do that.
Utah.
Its not as barbaric as it sounds. The law is full of traps like this nobody has ever heard of, there's around 20000 federal laws, lots of them badly worded enough that things like the mac address problem are present.
In theory shit like this gets ignored (Unless the prosecutor gets a bug up his ass and makes you the next Lori Drew), some of them do get enforced though, and its impossible to avoid breaking them all, even if you knew all 20000* of them.
The whole 'I have nothing to hide' thing? Totally false, everyone has something to hide, usually they don't even know what it is.
*Federal laws only, state, city and county laws also apply, these laws may reference unpublished administrative rules, laws in other states, and in extreme cases, laws in other countries.
In this state its illegal just to have devices that *can* be modified to do certain illegal acts (like changing MAC addresses...)
How can it be expected by everybody to adhere to the current voting format when it only accommodates people who live in a short distance of voting stations (cities) which is not representative with regards to the rest of the population.
80% Of Canada's population is urban. So city oriented is pretty representative. Most of those who aren't urban probably live in small towns as well.
And if Canada's voting system is so awesome, why can't they do what India does and make sure there's a voting booth available even if only one person lives in the area?
Most people publishing about computers are usually:
A) Payed to come up with the right solution
B Honest and know what they're doing.
or
C) So incredibly idiotic that anybody with a passing knowledge of the subject can tell they're idiots.
When it comes to climate change, its not that simple, and the slashdot crowd certainly doesn't understand all of this stuf with the depth we know computers, which means we have some understanding of just how hard a topic this is, and we also are more likely to appeal to authority, since we don't have the ability to judge the papers being written.