But there was a degree of "you don't have the data isn't a defence - it is in there so just record it".
If a University has always been keeping logs but then suspects they might be in the next batch of RIAA hits then I suspect there would be major questions if they started wiping log files regularly now. Even if it wasn't directly admissible as evidence, the RIAA would bring it up as something that supported their case (only to be struck from the record, but still left in the human conscious as it isn't as easy to wipe that)
Tell that to whichever torrent tracking website was (within the past few months) told that although they didn't store visitor logs on disk then they were still in memory at some point and so they had to hand over lists of IPs of visitors.
You'd think it was that simple, but the law tends not to allow it as it means anyone could 'play innocent' by having a 'routine' of wiping details every X days, even if they're doing it purely to cover illegal activity.
Canada is the top copyright violator (overlooking the 'minor' flaw that the copyright laws don't apply in their country since it is US copyright) according to some US group again? I thought Canada had had this label for years?
I say "good on them" for sticking to their own copyright system (for now). I can't remember the last time our (British) government did something that stood up against the Americans.
I think that's a bit too detailed for law-makers/government. Let's try:
"We were told it was on some system called Bin Turret or something similar... or was it a (tries to look good but gets term wrong) people 2 people webtube program"
LotR childish? You obviously haven't tried reading the original (or its companion novels like the Silmarillion) recently. The majority of children in the majority of schools wouldn't get past the first page without getting confused by half a dozen words and deciding it was "wordy and boring".
Yes, but ask any programmer and I'd guess about 99.9% (or more) would tell you that it is easier to modify the source and recompile (open source) rather than hack at some collection of binary executables and libraries using a hex-editor.
Hell, I've worked on simple things (structured data files for Dawn of War) and even that isn't hugely clear when it gets to binary.
And even if it isn't on its way (and while it isn't here) you can still get the source and remove the problematic part if you don't need it. Try recompiling Flash or some other commercial software without the section that has the exploit in;)
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Note: The above assumes that the kernel compiles, which may not always go as smoothly or be as you'd like. That doesn't change the fact that it is theoretically possible, though.
Is it just me or are other people reading this as "poison distribution" as well?:D I've read the topic, I've even replied to it, and I remember doing poisson and spearman's rank etc in Stats, but I still see poison:D
New conspiracy theory: People in the Middle East are getting poisoned by having their Internet removed and their Net cables cut!
Who cares how it is done, it's a conspiracy, it came from a reputable news source (Slashdot - it's reputable enough for a conspiracy;) ) and it only needs to sound threatening!
Wage rise at RPI and 4.25% for five years? I wish:D There's also the fact that inflation will bring the value of that GB£ down over that period (although not to the same degree), so it would still be a big chunk of money.
Not counting overlap there are fifty-two (and a bit) seven day periods in a year, and they're commonly known as "weeks";)
Including overlap then there are about 365 rolling twelve day periods in a year.
Interesting maths in the GP, though, even if it is assuming that the average is a consistent occurrence rather than an approximate averaging over a much longer period.
Although the price is still pretty hefty, it indicates that the capacity/price ratio on these wireless flash-based players is starting to move in the right direction.
What it also indicates is that people are willing to pay extortionate amounts for flashy bits of gadget from Apple. Still.
$500 is ~£250. I'm in the UK and bought a house in October. House prices are high at the moment, and the price of an iPhone is a third of my monthly mortgage! Hmmmm, three iPhones/iPods or one mortgage payment? Oh the tough decisions.
That was actually my meaning - if only they didn't have to waste money on trying to get stupid patents overturned then the money could be spent on better things.
I don't have a problem with patents in theory, it is just the practice that goes wrong. Some degree of protection for a truly innovative invention would help the creator, but patenting obvious things and patenting thoughts/mathematics (software) is a failing of the patent office.
Not that I have much of a clue how bad the UK patents are, other than the fact that they've recently been told not to just reject software patents out of hand.
It sets out a broad, nebulous set of rules that could be interpreted to be any number of things.
Congratulations, I think you have just discovered what is known as "a legal document" of the sub-species "patent". Part of the reason that the grammar is so bad (to normal eyes) and wordy is so that they can make it mean everything (to scare people off) and something very specific (when they're litigating against someone and want to pick a specific point by picking a specific interpretation).
If only the EFF didn't have to waste its money on this kind of thing.
GoDaddy.com who (according to Wikipedia) have 55.1 million domain names registered a year of which 51.5 million are canceled and refunded
As you said, they can't do that any more so they'd have either 55 million domains registered with 0 cancels, or 3.5 million domains registered for legitimate reasons and 51.5 million domains that weren't registered because the registeree couldn't get a temporary freebie.
If ICANN drops this grace period and domain tasters drop away (possible if unlikely) that leaves GoDaddy.com with 51.5 million domains at $10 per domain (or $515 million) in revenue flow that just dried up. That's a lot of money to just disappear from your business finances.
It's also a lot of revenue to be relying on when a good proportion of it will be from suspect activities (spammers/squatters) who could be restricted by decisions such as this at any moment.
At the end of the day if GoDaddy vanishes then it's no big loss. All the smaller registrars will survive without the 'ill gotten gains' money and registrars will continue. It happens with.uk domains, so it can happen with.coms. NIC.uk's FAQ page doesn't even have any reference to returning a domain.
I always thought it was a bit of an obvious loop-hole. Good to see that Google's stance appears to have forced a good decision from ICANN.
I don't even know why they have that grace period. AFAIK.uk domains don't have one - every registrar I've bothered reading the FAQ for basically says "you typed it wrong? Then tough luck, we gave you an 'are you sure the details are right' page".
If only there was a way to cut down on pointlessly parked domains that turn up high in search results...
Who needs it? Probably graphics artists who are rendering amazingly complex scenes. I can imagine it would help some game designers and potentially even CAD architecture-types. Probably not so much with films because I think they're rendered on some uber-servers.
Who wants it? Gamers with more money than sense and a desire to always be as close to the cutting edge as possible, even if it only gains them a couple of frames and costs another £100 or more.
They give you a Netgear router, and it doesn't use admin:password. Hurrah for security improvements! Instead it uses admin:sky...
Yes, it really was that basic a change! As far as I've found they don't even let normal users know how to log in and change it, I just guessed it. They also leave their SSID as one that screams "I'm a sky box" so anyone scanning for networks can even see that your password will probably be "sky".
If wireless solutions are able to deliver on their promises of high speeds with no usage limits
Okay, so we get shared wired connections and things can go slow because people are trying to use their 'unlimited' broadband. Random maths: 1GB pipe / 1000 customers != actual speed caps on accounts (which can be up to 24MBps now and 1MBps is becoming a rare bottom end).
So instead we'll all move to wireless, because that has no problems with sharing the available bandwidth/airwaves? What? Sorry, but last I checked wireless degrades worse than wired when in mass usage because of collisions. How are we going to get these super-fast speeds if we're getting interference from everyone else using their super fast speeds?
Try telling that to most of the ISPs. They say "bandwidth" a lot when they mean "monthly transfer limit" (although some are moving to "monthly transfer limit" now). Same for just about every host I've seen as well. Such are the many joys of letting marketing lose with Tech-speak.
That's the Government losing data on CDs posted internally, though, not a high street bank having a laptop stolen. You're less likely to encrypt internally posted media than you are the disk of a device that has "steal me!" written all over it.
Okay, so I'm British and don't know how the American system works (only visited once) but social security numbers? What were people buying such that they were customers on this tape and had their SS# recorded? As close as we get is our National Insurance number (for benefits and pension contributions) and I've never known of anyone other than an employer who needs to know it.
The problem with encryption is that the news agencies still don't report it to make people feel that bit safer.
When one of our high-street banks in the UK lost details of quite a large number of customers' details then none of the major news agencies I saw reported that it was encrypted. It was all "bank loses details", "customers at risk", "think of the bank details (and children)!". It took a bit of digging to find out that company policy was that hard disks were encrypted and that this one apparently was as well.
So NASA want fast buggies? On the moon? Where the gravity is low? And no-one pointed out the potential problem of astronauts flooring it, leaping over a big ridge and crashing it worse than the Mars lander?
Oh well, at least the UK gets to share its space funding with the rest of Europe, so we don't spend only our money hot-rodding cars for low gravity:)
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But there was a degree of "you don't have the data isn't a defence - it is in there so just record it".
If a University has always been keeping logs but then suspects they might be in the next batch of RIAA hits then I suspect there would be major questions if they started wiping log files regularly now. Even if it wasn't directly admissible as evidence, the RIAA would bring it up as something that supported their case (only to be struck from the record, but still left in the human conscious as it isn't as easy to wipe that)
I take it you wipe XP/Vista fairly quickly if you want a cleaner and less cluttered experience, then ;)
Tell that to whichever torrent tracking website was (within the past few months) told that although they didn't store visitor logs on disk then they were still in memory at some point and so they had to hand over lists of IPs of visitors.
You'd think it was that simple, but the law tends not to allow it as it means anyone could 'play innocent' by having a 'routine' of wiping details every X days, even if they're doing it purely to cover illegal activity.
Canada is the top copyright violator (overlooking the 'minor' flaw that the copyright laws don't apply in their country since it is US copyright) according to some US group again? I thought Canada had had this label for years?
I say "good on them" for sticking to their own copyright system (for now). I can't remember the last time our (British) government did something that stood up against the Americans.
I think that's a bit too detailed for law-makers/government. Let's try:
... or was it a (tries to look good but gets term wrong) people 2 people webtube program"
"We were told it was on some system called Bin Turret or something similar
LotR childish? You obviously haven't tried reading the original (or its companion novels like the Silmarillion) recently. The majority of children in the majority of schools wouldn't get past the first page without getting confused by half a dozen words and deciding it was "wordy and boring".
Yes, but ask any programmer and I'd guess about 99.9% (or more) would tell you that it is easier to modify the source and recompile (open source) rather than hack at some collection of binary executables and libraries using a hex-editor.
Hell, I've worked on simple things (structured data files for Dawn of War) and even that isn't hugely clear when it gets to binary.
And even if it isn't on its way (and while it isn't here) you can still get the source and remove the problematic part if you don't need it. Try recompiling Flash or some other commercial software without the section that has the exploit in ;)
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Note: The above assumes that the kernel compiles, which may not always go as smoothly or be as you'd like. That doesn't change the fact that it is theoretically possible, though.
Is it just me or are other people reading this as "poison distribution" as well? :D I've read the topic, I've even replied to it, and I remember doing poisson and spearman's rank etc in Stats, but I still see poison :D
;) ) and it only needs to sound threatening!
New conspiracy theory: People in the Middle East are getting poisoned by having their Internet removed and their Net cables cut!
Who cares how it is done, it's a conspiracy, it came from a reputable news source (Slashdot - it's reputable enough for a conspiracy
Wage rise at RPI and 4.25% for five years? I wish :D There's also the fact that inflation will bring the value of that GB£ down over that period (although not to the same degree), so it would still be a big chunk of money.
Not counting overlap there are fifty-two (and a bit) seven day periods in a year, and they're commonly known as "weeks" ;)
Including overlap then there are about 365 rolling twelve day periods in a year.
Interesting maths in the GP, though, even if it is assuming that the average is a consistent occurrence rather than an approximate averaging over a much longer period.
Even if I had that much disposable income (which would probably need a 25% pay rise!) it's still a third of my mortgage payment for a phone ;)
What it also indicates is that people are willing to pay extortionate amounts for flashy bits of gadget from Apple. Still.
$500 is ~£250. I'm in the UK and bought a house in October. House prices are high at the moment, and the price of an iPhone is a third of my monthly mortgage! Hmmmm, three iPhones/iPods or one mortgage payment? Oh the tough decisions.
That was actually my meaning - if only they didn't have to waste money on trying to get stupid patents overturned then the money could be spent on better things.
I don't have a problem with patents in theory, it is just the practice that goes wrong. Some degree of protection for a truly innovative invention would help the creator, but patenting obvious things and patenting thoughts/mathematics (software) is a failing of the patent office.
Not that I have much of a clue how bad the UK patents are, other than the fact that they've recently been told not to just reject software patents out of hand.
Congratulations, I think you have just discovered what is known as "a legal document" of the sub-species "patent". Part of the reason that the grammar is so bad (to normal eyes) and wordy is so that they can make it mean everything (to scare people off) and something very specific (when they're litigating against someone and want to pick a specific point by picking a specific interpretation).
If only the EFF didn't have to waste its money on this kind of thing.
As you said, they can't do that any more so they'd have either 55 million domains registered with 0 cancels, or 3.5 million domains registered for legitimate reasons and 51.5 million domains that weren't registered because the registeree couldn't get a temporary freebie.
It's also a lot of revenue to be relying on when a good proportion of it will be from suspect activities (spammers/squatters) who could be restricted by decisions such as this at any moment.
At the end of the day if GoDaddy vanishes then it's no big loss. All the smaller registrars will survive without the 'ill gotten gains' money and registrars will continue. It happens with
I always thought it was a bit of an obvious loop-hole. Good to see that Google's stance appears to have forced a good decision from ICANN.
.uk domains don't have one - every registrar I've bothered reading the FAQ for basically says "you typed it wrong? Then tough luck, we gave you an 'are you sure the details are right' page".
I don't even know why they have that grace period. AFAIK
If only there was a way to cut down on pointlessly parked domains that turn up high in search results...
Who needs it? Probably graphics artists who are rendering amazingly complex scenes. I can imagine it would help some game designers and potentially even CAD architecture-types. Probably not so much with films because I think they're rendered on some uber-servers.
Who wants it? Gamers with more money than sense and a desire to always be as close to the cutting edge as possible, even if it only gains them a couple of frames and costs another £100 or more.
Sky do the same. Kind of.
They give you a Netgear router, and it doesn't use admin:password. Hurrah for security improvements! Instead it uses admin:sky...
Yes, it really was that basic a change! As far as I've found they don't even let normal users know how to log in and change it, I just guessed it. They also leave their SSID as one that screams "I'm a sky box" so anyone scanning for networks can even see that your password will probably be "sky".
Okay, so we get shared wired connections and things can go slow because people are trying to use their 'unlimited' broadband. Random maths: 1GB pipe / 1000 customers != actual speed caps on accounts (which can be up to 24MBps now and 1MBps is becoming a rare bottom end).
So instead we'll all move to wireless, because that has no problems with sharing the available bandwidth/airwaves? What? Sorry, but last I checked wireless degrades worse than wired when in mass usage because of collisions. How are we going to get these super-fast speeds if we're getting interference from everyone else using their super fast speeds?
Try telling that to most of the ISPs. They say "bandwidth" a lot when they mean "monthly transfer limit" (although some are moving to "monthly transfer limit" now). Same for just about every host I've seen as well. Such are the many joys of letting marketing lose with Tech-speak.
That's the Government losing data on CDs posted internally, though, not a high street bank having a laptop stolen. You're less likely to encrypt internally posted media than you are the disk of a device that has "steal me!" written all over it.
Okay, so I'm British and don't know how the American system works (only visited once) but social security numbers? What were people buying such that they were customers on this tape and had their SS# recorded? As close as we get is our National Insurance number (for benefits and pension contributions) and I've never known of anyone other than an employer who needs to know it.
The problem with encryption is that the news agencies still don't report it to make people feel that bit safer.
When one of our high-street banks in the UK lost details of quite a large number of customers' details then none of the major news agencies I saw reported that it was encrypted. It was all "bank loses details", "customers at risk", "think of the bank details (and children)!". It took a bit of digging to find out that company policy was that hard disks were encrypted and that this one apparently was as well.
So NASA want fast buggies? On the moon? Where the gravity is low? And no-one pointed out the potential problem of astronauts flooring it, leaping over a big ridge and crashing it worse than the Mars lander?
:)
Oh well, at least the UK gets to share its space funding with the rest of Europe, so we don't spend only our money hot-rodding cars for low gravity