Don't forget to puncture the eardrums while you're digging out the eyes. Wouldn't want the little tykes hearing something that may harm them when they're running around blind, now would we?
As these techniques improve and become more popular, it makes me wonder what music produced twenty or fifty years from now will sound like, and how much authenticity will be left.
You make it sound like there's any authenticity now. Authenticity in the music business is an airbrush used to sell an artist's music. There's no reality to an "authentic" sound. You don't get a certificate with your CD or MP3 that says "this artist is an authentic descendant of Elbonian yak callers, and his music is guaranteed an authentic rendition of that ancient culture" (well, and actually means it).
funny, cause i had the same problem and google found me a working link. note the big "Fix It" button? just below that there's a note that suggests downloading to a computer the fix doesn't apply to is just fine:
"If you are not on the computer that has the problem, you can save the automatic fix to a flash drive or to a CD and then run it on the computer that has the problem."
My home theme's always been a bit of an anti-theme: memorable names from somewhere, with the general rule that no work was referenced twice. My first linux box (486, circa 1996) was named Jefry (with-one-f-Jefry) after a Pixies song. A couple years later, I added Deckard. Then Snowden. Those two are still my main machines, although Deckard's been given a newer machine.
When I was playing with a small cluster on the home LAN, the machines were named Gonzo, Angharad, and Bilbo. A laptop got named Wood (I was playing upright bass at the time), and the router is Fishberg. My brother's desktop was Snoopy, and his laptop is Raindog.
Like lots of folks suggest, CNAMEs are used for services (www, mail, dbserver, fileserver, etc) so that a service can be moved easily. This isn't really necessary for the home LAN, but it's definitely good practice.
In a (very boiled-down) nutshell, IBM completely lost control of the platform. Same thing happened to Apple with the AppleII, but Apple learned and introduced some technical protections with their next product line -- the Macintosh. One thing they did was to include system software in ROM hardware, making it much harder to reverse-engineer.
Umm... unless you've passworded the BIOS & locked boot-up devices to local hard drives only, your users don't NEED your permission to install Vista. they only need physical access to the machine, an install disc, and a willingness to format the primary partition.
i think you mean "none of my users have permissions to install STUFF WITHIN Vista", which is slightly different.
Or on a mostly-Windows machine, you can always use a local-drive-based swapfile (there's likely no swap partition). Mount NTFS drive, create a "myswapfile" somewhere innocuous, mount it as a loopback swap partition (-o loop). Delete it on unmount (as part of your shutdown process) -- if you're truly paranoid you can even take the time to scrub the sectors your swap was using.
Don't swap to the flashdrive -- you'll just hog USB bandwidth that you need for reading & writing real files off your root partition.
Is the IP selling constant bandwidth, or peak bandwidth? [...] when they sell residential accounts, what you buy is peak bandwidth.
True, but the problem is that the difference is unadvertised, and only clearly stated (if ever) in the Terms of Use. It's the same problem people complain about when talking about usage caps on "unlimited" service plans. They've sold the consumer unlimited, always-on service, not some limited number of minutes or bytes -- at least, according to the advertising.
The simple fact is that these ISPs need to fix the difference between what they're marketing and what they're actually providing. Frankly, I don't care if they fix it by moving to usage charges, or by upgrading their networks to handle real unlimited services. But it's time for these ISPs to update the model a little bit so they can figure out how to do it properly and reasonably: without resorting to crying wolf or scapegoating bittorrent.
cause it's an interesting discussion of a common (mis)understanding. did you know the RFC specifies leading-zero-for-octal and leading-0x-for-hex? i knew those were commonly used conventions in some places but didn't know that included IP addresses.
if the mods do their job, the posts correcting the GP's mistaken understanding will also score high marks.
hinky: 1) Something as yet undefinable is wrong, out of place; not quite right; 2) "I've a bad feeling about that": something out of whack, wrong, off-kilter; 3) a state of being vaguely suspicious.
this definition fits my previous (vague, contextual) knowledge of the term. some uses color towards sleazy, some towards kludgy; but they all have the general sense of something suspicious in some way.
(...) so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. (...) We hate banning people, it makes our lives a lot tougher, but it's what we have to do.
It sounds like somebody needs to hire a web programmer to create a working forum-ban mechanism. Other than "turn off login privileges". That works as a ban mechanism when your login only provides access to one thing (the thing you're being banned from). But here, where it's providing access to multiple things, you need some mechanism to allow disabling particular accesses from a login without disabling the login entirely.
It's not like this is a new problem, or is particularly difficult to solve by someone competent. The odor of "we're too lazy to do this right" is strong on this one. Good luck with that, EA!
interesting for those who've never played in or directed an ensemble of musicians, maybe. for those who have, that observation is nothing new. practical application? jazz ensembles have practically applied that for the last century or so.
on the contrary. they claim to deal with encryption like Sandvine dealt with bittorrent: packet forgery. if the request indicates a preference for an encrypted transfer, it'll be rewritten to indicate a preference for a plaintext transfer, and of course then they can hash it. their hope is that neither end will notice.
seems like net-wide encryption would defeat this, or at least stronger client-side encryption requirements (eg: if i request an encrypted session, and it comes back not encrypted, DROP and re-send the request). obviously they can't rewrite https requests to turn encryption off; banking sites would cease to work and customers would revolt. so https downloads should be unaffected.
here's the bit from the article (top of page 2):
Can software fool encryption schemes?
Encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by CopyRouter, but the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file. The slide show calls this "special handling." This is done by changing the underlying protocol settings that establish how the sender and recipient exchange the file. This trickery, unknown to either the sender or recipient, would make it possible for CopyRouter to see the underlying files, calculate a hash value and compare the files to the list of illegal files, Brilliant Digital says.
So it's a glacier then. It's so big you think it's part of the ground you're standing on. It's easy to not notice when you're distracted by other things, but obvious if you're paying attention to your surroundings. It's still ice, and it's still huge, and it'll still crush you if you're dumb enough to stand in one place too long.
Hell, it's not even cracking. It's impersonation. That's all it is. No systems were broken into; in fact, the systems worked exactly as they were designed to work. If they want to nail this guy for fraud of some kind, do so. You don't need any special laws just because he misrepresented himself to a computer over the internet rather than another person.
Beshear said Kentucky loses tens of million of dollars a year to online gambling, which is illegal in all 50 states. And, he said, the illegal activity has repercussions far exceeding its monetary losses to the Commonwealth:
Unlicensed Internet gambling significantly undermines and threatens horseracing, Kentucky's signature industry and a key tourism industry, by creating unregulated and untaxed competition;
The accessibility of the Internet, and the unregulated and private nature of Internet gambling, creates conduits for youths to log on and place wagers;
The anonymity of the Internet and sophistication of encryption devices make it difficult to trace online laundering schemes; and
The unregulated gaming lacks consumer protections to ensure that individuals who choose to gamble are actually paid for their winnings.
So the most significant problem with online gambling, in Kentucky's eyes, is that it decreases the pool of money available to the horse track. Of course, they can tax that. They're really whining about the drop in tax revenue.
The last point is a good one, but it's as applicable to internet shopping as to internet gambling. Anytime you give someone money over the 'net, do it with a credit card. Any problem with the transaction, for any reason, call your card issuer and issue a chargeback. It's that simple, and it's the only thing that works. Government hasn't figured out a better way to deal with e-commerce yet, and they aren't likely to anytime soon.
The others are just a state who can't deal with new technology -- they're whining about how the Internet works, for chrissake. Welcome to the 21st century, Kentucky. Can we move forward now??
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Don't forget to puncture the eardrums while you're digging out the eyes. Wouldn't want the little tykes hearing something that may harm them when they're running around blind, now would we?
"using the tool in previously unexpected ways" is innovation, not authenticity.
As these techniques improve and become more popular, it makes me wonder what music produced twenty or fifty years from now will sound like, and how much authenticity will be left.
You make it sound like there's any authenticity now. Authenticity in the music business is an airbrush used to sell an artist's music. There's no reality to an "authentic" sound. You don't get a certificate with your CD or MP3 that says "this artist is an authentic descendant of Elbonian yak callers, and his music is guaranteed an authentic rendition of that ancient culture" (well, and actually means it).
funny, cause i had the same problem and google found me a working link. note the big "Fix It" button? just below that there's a note that suggests downloading to a computer the fix doesn't apply to is just fine:
"If you are not on the computer that has the problem, you can save the automatic fix to a flash drive or to a CD and then run it on the computer that has the problem."
Nice Bladerunner theme.
My home theme's always been a bit of an anti-theme: memorable names from somewhere, with the general rule that no work was referenced twice. My first linux box (486, circa 1996) was named Jefry (with-one-f-Jefry) after a Pixies song. A couple years later, I added Deckard. Then Snowden. Those two are still my main machines, although Deckard's been given a newer machine.
When I was playing with a small cluster on the home LAN, the machines were named Gonzo, Angharad, and Bilbo. A laptop got named Wood (I was playing upright bass at the time), and the router is Fishberg. My brother's desktop was Snoopy, and his laptop is Raindog.
Like lots of folks suggest, CNAMEs are used for services (www, mail, dbserver, fileserver, etc) so that a service can be moved easily. This isn't really necessary for the home LAN, but it's definitely good practice.
You don't think Mac clones were tried in, oh, 1986 or so, a wee bit closer to the Mac's introduction? Without benefit of the 2008 legal landscape?
In a (very boiled-down) nutshell, IBM completely lost control of the platform. Same thing happened to Apple with the AppleII, but Apple learned and introduced some technical protections with their next product line -- the Macintosh. One thing they did was to include system software in ROM hardware, making it much harder to reverse-engineer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible
excellent point. i hadn't thought that all the way through, but in hindsight it's pretty obvious. thanks.
no, it doesn't sound like "needs more" is his problem. "has too much already", maybe.
Umm... unless you've passworded the BIOS & locked boot-up devices to local hard drives only, your users don't NEED your permission to install Vista. they only need physical access to the machine, an install disc, and a willingness to format the primary partition.
i think you mean "none of my users have permissions to install STUFF WITHIN Vista", which is slightly different.
Or on a mostly-Windows machine, you can always use a local-drive-based swapfile (there's likely no swap partition). Mount NTFS drive, create a "myswapfile" somewhere innocuous, mount it as a loopback swap partition (-o loop). Delete it on unmount (as part of your shutdown process) -- if you're truly paranoid you can even take the time to scrub the sectors your swap was using.
Don't swap to the flashdrive -- you'll just hog USB bandwidth that you need for reading & writing real files off your root partition.
Is the IP selling constant bandwidth, or peak bandwidth? [...] when they sell residential accounts, what you buy is peak bandwidth.
True, but the problem is that the difference is unadvertised, and only clearly stated (if ever) in the Terms of Use. It's the same problem people complain about when talking about usage caps on "unlimited" service plans. They've sold the consumer unlimited, always-on service, not some limited number of minutes or bytes -- at least, according to the advertising.
The simple fact is that these ISPs need to fix the difference between what they're marketing and what they're actually providing. Frankly, I don't care if they fix it by moving to usage charges, or by upgrading their networks to handle real unlimited services. But it's time for these ISPs to update the model a little bit so they can figure out how to do it properly and reasonably: without resorting to crying wolf or scapegoating bittorrent.
(Useful) Stupid Window commands? The arrow on the screen moves in reaction to the movement of the small hand shaped device!
hand-shaped? unless you're missing all your fingers, it's much more rock-shaped.
cause it's an interesting discussion of a common (mis)understanding. did you know the RFC specifies leading-zero-for-octal and leading-0x-for-hex? i knew those were commonly used conventions in some places but didn't know that included IP addresses.
if the mods do their job, the posts correcting the GP's mistaken understanding will also score high marks.
it's live, so it's not vaporware. even tho it's not a 1.0 version -- it's currently in "gamma" at v0.40 -- it'd be abandonware if they dropped it now.
but how did they make an MMO completly in Flash?
after a week of playing it (which i should really thank you for, with a baseball bat, repeatedly), i know the answer to this question: BADLY.
hinky: 1) Something as yet undefinable is wrong, out of place; not quite right; 2) "I've a bad feeling about that": something out of whack, wrong, off-kilter; 3) a state of being vaguely suspicious.
source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hinky
this definition fits my previous (vague, contextual) knowledge of the term. some uses color towards sleazy, some towards kludgy; but they all have the general sense of something suspicious in some way.
And you people claim to be geeks. Here's the crux: Vaporware gets announced, but never released. Abandonware gets released and then abandoned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware
(...) so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. (...) We hate banning people, it makes our lives a lot tougher, but it's what we have to do.
It sounds like somebody needs to hire a web programmer to create a working forum-ban mechanism. Other than "turn off login privileges". That works as a ban mechanism when your login only provides access to one thing (the thing you're being banned from). But here, where it's providing access to multiple things, you need some mechanism to allow disabling particular accesses from a login without disabling the login entirely.
It's not like this is a new problem, or is particularly difficult to solve by someone competent. The odor of "we're too lazy to do this right" is strong on this one. Good luck with that, EA!
interesting for those who've never played in or directed an ensemble of musicians, maybe. for those who have, that observation is nothing new. practical application? jazz ensembles have practically applied that for the last century or so.
on the contrary. they claim to deal with encryption like Sandvine dealt with bittorrent: packet forgery. if the request indicates a preference for an encrypted transfer, it'll be rewritten to indicate a preference for a plaintext transfer, and of course then they can hash it. their hope is that neither end will notice.
seems like net-wide encryption would defeat this, or at least stronger client-side encryption requirements (eg: if i request an encrypted session, and it comes back not encrypted, DROP and re-send the request). obviously they can't rewrite https requests to turn encryption off; banking sites would cease to work and customers would revolt. so https downloads should be unaffected.
here's the bit from the article (top of page 2):
Can software fool encryption schemes?
Encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by CopyRouter, but the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file. The slide show calls this "special handling." This is done by changing the underlying protocol settings that establish how the sender and recipient exchange the file. This trickery, unknown to either the sender or recipient, would make it possible for CopyRouter to see the underlying files, calculate a hash value and compare the files to the list of illegal files, Brilliant Digital says.
sorry, i screwed that up. that's the link to the update to this story. the first link (the earlier part of this story) should be:
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html#6666659042120040719
The first link in the summary to the post on recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com is wonky. Actual permalink is:
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html#6982228835079988736
So it's a glacier then. It's so big you think it's part of the ground you're standing on. It's easy to not notice when you're distracted by other things, but obvious if you're paying attention to your surroundings. It's still ice, and it's still huge, and it'll still crush you if you're dumb enough to stand in one place too long.
Where do you think icebergs come from?
Hell, it's not even cracking. It's impersonation. That's all it is. No systems were broken into; in fact, the systems worked exactly as they were designed to work. If they want to nail this guy for fraud of some kind, do so. You don't need any special laws just because he misrepresented himself to a computer over the internet rather than another person.
So the most significant problem with online gambling, in Kentucky's eyes, is that it decreases the pool of money available to the horse track. Of course, they can tax that. They're really whining about the drop in tax revenue.
The last point is a good one, but it's as applicable to internet shopping as to internet gambling. Anytime you give someone money over the 'net, do it with a credit card. Any problem with the transaction, for any reason, call your card issuer and issue a chargeback. It's that simple, and it's the only thing that works. Government hasn't figured out a better way to deal with e-commerce yet, and they aren't likely to anytime soon.
The others are just a state who can't deal with new technology -- they're whining about how the Internet works, for chrissake. Welcome to the 21st century, Kentucky. Can we move forward now??