the porn defence, well i was just browsing porn and then something happened and my computer was full of the internets
only the RIAA could distort reality so much that people claim to be downloading porn to explain the presence of music & films on thier computer.
shame that itll be very easy to prove that the files wernt ripped from the CDs when: a) The files are encoded by a variety of encoders and a variety of bandwidth (like to see him explain that, he could at best make the jury not 100% sure) b) The comment files contain "get your warez from stupidwebsite.com"
You Know, I'd probably mark you as informative if i had mod points...The fact I'm didn't confuse anything and your post isn't informative at all wouldn't stop me though.
While I know where you were coming from you got your limits wrong Partition limits FAT12:32MB FAT16:2GB* FAT32:8TB File size limit for all 4GB --that's what I was referring to BTW
*upon further inspection there is a 4GB mode for 64k clusters (not widely supported), so your not wrong about the limits but you are wrong about me being wrong
Anyway I hope this posts explains the factual correctness of a joke, I will admit I was initially going to just refer to the partition a FAT partition but then I realised somebody might be running some obscure FAT64 that hasn't got the 4GB file limit and it could of spawned an entire thread of FAT comments debating its utility, so I stuck 32 in to avoid a pointless thread.
Story on friday &
story today, are not only dupes but they blame ms for an SQL vulnerability. This is saying microsoft played down a DNS vulnerability, from the comments here & here, from people that actually read the article seam to suggest that while this story is valid, its not what other comments suggest.
If I've seen lots of baseless articles recently, I will post wait until somebody actually reads the article (as its one that isn't in my area of expertise) and explains weather its baseless or not, it's called experience.
No the maths sides with it being impossible to factorise by anything much better than brute force. Is PGP breakable by brute force on current hardware? even with NSAs resources this is unlikely. Has PGP been broken in the crytpographic sense, well given that mathmaticians cant get the maths sorted, unless you belive the NSA has a secret lab of mathmaticians that are years ahead of the rest of them, Hell no. Can 2GB (or whatever the upper limit is for a key) encryption be broken, again unless the NSA dedicate a cluster of supercomputers to every email (as PGP isnt broken) its unlikely.
In some senses PGP is actually safer than one time pads, you use the same pad to encrypt and decrypt the message meaning there are two pads that could be captured, hell pgp keys can be used as improved one time pad. The only place where one time pads beat PGP is if your message is bigger than your encryption strength, but thats only because a one time pad is effectively one huge encryption.
considering most people's PGP password is probably "golf" or their birthday, and there are all sorts of excuses to seize computers, the encryption itself doesn't even have to be broken. Theres a big difference between people being stupid and PGP being broken, as long as Im careful with my key (keep it on me at all times, and only use it on safe systems), in the absence of a) a bunch of supper mathematicians b) a huge amount of computing power (not feasible)(per email)* c) an even bigger amount of computing power (probably not even possible)(per PGP key)* encrypted emails sent to me can only be read by me.
*in the case that the NSA are going to dedicate either of these to me, then I really have to wonder what Im doing to deserver all this attention.
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EULAs For Malware
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Actually the EULA only applies to the company that buys the malware to distribute it.
GP is answered by
In cases of violations of the agreement and being detected, the client loses any technical support. Moreover, the binary code of your bot will be immediately sent to antivirus companies. which covers the people the sell the botnet too, while i think that the article has a point when it says:
Data thieves and malware authors aren't going to win any "Most Likely to Respect Intellectual Property" competitions Assuming that Zeus offers bespoke spyware for companies, or at least different enough that anti-virus companies cant detect them all from one sample (this is where its tricky because once the AV company has one sample they'll be able to figure out the rest), it is quite a good threat: if your big enough to pay for mallware your going to be big enough to do something with your network your not going to risk loosing your network
Infact this seams like a bigger threat than most EULA, your hitting them hard, unfortunately I think its just as flawed as a normal EULA, its simply impossible to enforce ( i mean vista not on virtualisation, mac on apple only hardware, it just dosent work)
Perhaps Zeus would be better off by making its money through some shady anti-zeus company that offers 100% protection from zeus.
In fact id go further and say compromising a secure system (e.g a an EEE you keep on you at all times) is a lot harder than listening the old fashioned way.
Face to face correspondence only works if the meeting points are secure. If your fears of the government spying on you are based in fact, your room is effectively compromised already. At the end of the day the lawyers are flying out because that's what lawyers do, a face to face meeting is a lot more effective than email correspondence, and these lawyers will charge the client anyway, so they couldn't care less about the cost. If the government are spying on you, which is easier, compromising your computer or following you, given that they have your flight numbers.
Zimmermann challenged these regulations in a curious way. He published the entire source code of PGP in a hardback book, via MIT Press, which was distributed and sold widely. Anybody wishing to build their own copy of PGP could buy the $60 book, cut off the covers, separate the pages, and scan them using an OCR program, creating a set of source code text files. One could then build the application using the freely available GNU C Compiler. PGP would thus be available anywhere in the world. The claimed principle was simple: export of munitionsâ"guns, bombs, planes, and softwareâ"was (and remains) restricted; but the export of books is protected by the First Amendment. The question was never tested in court in respect to PGP, but had been established by the Supreme Court in the Bernstein case. More worryingly why do you agree with the spirit of the law? are foreigners not allowed privacy? DO you consider privacy as US ONLY, right?
Wait so does that mean that the NSA encouraging people to use WPA over WEP, means theyve cracked it too!!!?. Lets calm down a second, take the tinfoil hats off and realise that 1 + 1 still equals 2 for the NSA, they cant break maths.
Why the change of attitude? Im gunna go with: 1) Due to OSS it was impossible to block 2) 'They' started relying on the tools too (TOR, PGP, etc), and if only NSA/FBI/CIA agents are using PGP well its fairly easy to catch them 3) It allows them to get more powers because they cant just read peoples emails anymore. 4) A new set of directors realised they be better of working with security experts so they no what's happening, than working against them and locking themselves out.
Wait so basically if they have physical access to your set-up your screwed.Now the only question is would you rather use a free piece of software to protect communication between the 2 points or spend loads on flights.
Oh right these guys are lawyers, and the client gets charged for the flights, so what do they care!
In light of the recent anti-MS bull that has got through to the slashdot frontpage, I for one am waiting till somebody at least attempts to read the article, before I condemn Microsoft entirely!
So please reply with an analysis of the article so I can ignore it and make chair jokes.
I think that the problem with what the GP suggests are 2 fold 1) I imagine, analysing aerial images is much harder than your typical photo 2) Medical analysis would require access to a lot of data, and people already have enough googlefoil hats
I have to agree, there are much more important things that google could improve in its product search, would it be that hard to remove accesories unless the user is clearly looking for one.
They have a (1/2)^256 of matching so 1 in 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936 that's 8.6e-78 ofc the initial steps will make this number smaller but still much bigger than 256.
I wonder if BOOBLE will buy youprorn or porntube, perhaps they'll even start up knob, a wikipeida like site but for wankers who have nothing better to do
This is a FAT32 partition, it comes from microsoft. It has a 4GB limit, in the age of 5GB DVDs why would you ship a product with a 4GB limit? It just doesn't make any sense! If this is FAT32 partition, the jury must acquit!!
There's nothing intrinsic to it that demands open source OS. Unfortunately, because ideally one would want to be able to go very, very deep. The project seems to fall short in that respect.
1. Giving a pauper independence so that he will not have to depend on charity. When they have to phone up the indian womman, to keep relicensing thier key they still rely on us When they have to phone up the MS 'support' hotline they still rely on us. When all their pacthces come for MS they still rely on us etc
when they have an OSS, they can learn how to fix things, how to patch things, how to make things.
the BSD license doesnt keep the source open, meaning that all somebody has to do is offer OLPC+1feature, close it up, then they rely on them instead of MS, sure its their fault for installing it but everybody wants the dancingpigs especially people that haven't used computers before. GPL ensures that nobody can close the source, they cant be made to rely on anybody.
That, to me, is the true "technological transfer." There is no transfer when using an MS system, we still own the keys, we just let them take it for a spin.
The main technological hurdle for FPGAs is figuring out the layout and routing of the signals so that things will work. Thats the point of the article.
What developments are there for picasa? its a photo organiser, it organises photos, it can upload them to picasaweb what developemnts are missing from picasaweb? its a web album, its shows pictures, they can be uploaded from picasa
Ive not used either extensively, as i came across this ancient concept of folders in a unix handbook, its really wierd shit, but they both seam to do what they say on the tin, without featurism.
True no system is completly secure, and users do need training, but its a lot easier to just skip all that trouble if the OS has root exploits, so the OS does make a difference.
The RIAA cant affect the quality of the music, but by going to see bands whos music i like, i circumvent the RIAA and they get compensated anyway. If people only pay for non-RIAA music, then those companies that choose to not support he RIAA, will actually experience less piracy than those who pay the RIAA for protection.
Another way of looking at it, is that most bands get crap & lazy as they get rich, by taking away money from cd sales (which they dont get much from anyway) im 1) keeping them in touch with reality*, its a lot harder to write songs about your hometown, if you live in a mansion. 2) making them go out on tour and play to thier fans A combination of 1 & 2 will normally result in much better music.
This doesnt apply to all bands, there are exceptions.
It also allows me to put my money directly into bands , instead of spending £10 at a record shop of which the bands probably get £1, ill go to a gigs and pay £10 for an album, of which the band get atleast £9 + a cut of my ticket sale.
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the porn defence,
well i was just browsing porn and then something happened and my computer was full of the internets
only the RIAA could distort reality so much that people claim to be downloading porn to explain the presence of music & films on thier computer.
shame that itll be very easy to prove that the files wernt ripped from the CDs when:
a) The files are encoded by a variety of encoders and a variety of bandwidth (like to see him explain that, he could at best make the jury not 100% sure)
b) The comment files contain "get your warez from stupidwebsite.com"
Quite somebody check netcraft! is it true?
True it didnt stop in the 30s either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
hell im fairly sure were still getting suckerd by some war lords in afganistan.
You Know, I'd probably mark you as informative if i had mod points...The fact I'm didn't confuse anything and your post isn't informative at all wouldn't stop me though.
While I know where you were coming from you got your limits wrong
Partition limits FAT12:32MB FAT16:2GB* FAT32:8TB
File size limit for all 4GB --that's what I was referring to BTW
*upon further inspection there is a 4GB mode for 64k clusters (not widely supported), so your not wrong about the limits but you are wrong about me being wrong
Anyway I hope this posts explains the factual correctness of a joke, I will admit I was initially going to just refer to the partition a FAT partition but then I realised somebody might be running some obscure FAT64 that hasn't got the 4GB file limit and it could of spawned an entire thread of FAT comments debating its utility, so I stuck 32 in to avoid a pointless thread.
Story on friday & story today, are not only dupes but they blame ms for an SQL vulnerability. This is saying microsoft played down a DNS vulnerability, from the comments here & here, from people that actually read the article seam to suggest that while this story is valid, its not what other comments suggest.
If I've seen lots of baseless articles recently, I will post wait until somebody actually reads the article (as its one that isn't in my area of expertise) and explains weather its baseless or not, it's called experience.
Is PGP breakable by brute force on current hardware? even with NSAs resources this is unlikely.
Has PGP been broken in the crytpographic sense, well given that mathmaticians cant get the maths sorted, unless you belive the NSA has a secret lab of mathmaticians that are years ahead of the rest of them, Hell no.
Can 2GB (or whatever the upper limit is for a key) encryption be broken, again unless the NSA dedicate a cluster of supercomputers to every email (as PGP isnt broken) its unlikely.
In some senses PGP is actually safer than one time pads, you use the same pad to encrypt and decrypt the message meaning there are two pads that could be captured, hell pgp keys can be used as improved one time pad. The only place where one time pads beat PGP is if your message is bigger than your encryption strength, but thats only because a one time pad is effectively one huge encryption. considering most people's PGP password is probably "golf" or their birthday, and there are all sorts of excuses to seize computers, the encryption itself doesn't even have to be broken. Theres a big difference between people being stupid and PGP being broken, as long as Im careful with my key (keep it on me at all times, and only use it on safe systems), in the absence of
a) a bunch of supper mathematicians
b) a huge amount of computing power (not feasible)(per email)*
c) an even bigger amount of computing power (probably not even possible)(per PGP key)*
encrypted emails sent to me can only be read by me.
*in the case that the NSA are going to dedicate either of these to me, then I really have to wonder what Im doing to deserver all this attention.
GP is answered by In cases of violations of the agreement and being detected, the client loses any technical support. Moreover, the binary code of your bot will be immediately sent to antivirus companies. which covers the people the sell the botnet too, while i think that the article has a point when it says: Data thieves and malware authors aren't going to win any "Most Likely to Respect Intellectual Property" competitions Assuming that Zeus offers bespoke spyware for companies, or at least different enough that anti-virus companies cant detect them all from one sample (this is where its tricky because once the AV company has one sample they'll be able to figure out the rest), it is quite a good threat:
if your big enough to pay for mallware
your going to be big enough to do something with your network
your not going to risk loosing your network
Infact this seams like a bigger threat than most EULA, your hitting them hard, unfortunately I think its just as flawed as a normal EULA, its simply impossible to enforce ( i mean vista not on virtualisation, mac on apple only hardware, it just dosent work)
Perhaps Zeus would be better off by making its money through some shady anti-zeus company that offers 100% protection from zeus.
In fact id go further and say compromising a secure system (e.g a an EEE you keep on you at all times) is a lot harder than listening the old fashioned way.
Client-Lawyer confidentiality means that the government cant subpoena anything.
shh, dont bring facts into a perfectly good microsoft bashing, the mods round here dont like that.
Wait so does that mean that the NSA encouraging people to use WPA over WEP, means theyve cracked it too!!!?. Lets calm down a second, take the tinfoil hats off and realise that 1 + 1 still equals 2 for the NSA, they cant break maths.
Why the change of attitude? Im gunna go with:
1) Due to OSS it was impossible to block
2) 'They' started relying on the tools too (TOR, PGP, etc), and if only NSA/FBI/CIA agents are using PGP well its fairly easy to catch them
3) It allows them to get more powers because they cant just read peoples emails anymore.
4) A new set of directors realised they be better of working with security experts so they no what's happening, than working against them and locking themselves out.
Wait so basically if they have physical access to your set-up your screwed.Now the only question is would you rather use a free piece of software to protect communication between the 2 points or spend loads on flights.
Oh right these guys are lawyers, and the client gets charged for the flights, so what do they care!
In light of the recent anti-MS bull that has got through to the slashdot frontpage, I for one am waiting till somebody at least attempts to read the article, before I condemn Microsoft entirely!
So please reply with an analysis of the article so I can ignore it and make chair jokes.
GSOC?
I think that the problem with what the GP suggests are 2 fold
1) I imagine, analysing aerial images is much harder than your typical photo
2) Medical analysis would require access to a lot of data, and people already have enough googlefoil hats
I have to agree, there are much more important things that google could improve in its product search, would it be that hard to remove accesories unless the user is clearly looking for one.
e.g "Mp3 player" sorted by price doest show anything but deliberately mis tagged headphones and ipod cases.
They have a (1/2)^256 of matching
so 1 in 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936 that's 8.6e-78
ofc the initial steps will make this number smaller but still much bigger than 256.
I wonder if BOOBLE will buy youprorn or porntube, perhaps they'll even start up knob, a wikipeida like site but for wankers who have nothing better to do
This is a FAT32 partition, it comes from microsoft.
It has a 4GB limit, in the age of 5GB DVDs why would you ship a product with a 4GB limit?
It just doesn't make any sense!
If this is FAT32 partition, the jury must acquit!!
When they have to phone up the MS 'support' hotline they still rely on us.
When all their pacthces come for MS they still rely on us
etc
when they have an OSS, they can learn how to fix things, how to patch things, how to make things.
the BSD license doesnt keep the source open, meaning that all somebody has to do is offer OLPC+1feature, close it up, then they rely on them instead of MS, sure its their fault for installing it but everybody wants the dancingpigs especially people that haven't used computers before. GPL ensures that nobody can close the source, they cant be made to rely on anybody. That, to me, is the true "technological transfer." There is no transfer when using an MS system, we still own the keys, we just let them take it for a spin.
What developments are there for picasa?
its a photo organiser, it organises photos, it can upload them to picasaweb
what developemnts are missing from picasaweb?
its a web album, its shows pictures, they can be uploaded from picasa
Ive not used either extensively, as i came across this ancient concept of folders in a unix handbook, its really wierd shit, but they both seam to do what they say on the tin, without featurism.
True no system is completly secure, and users do need training, but its a lot easier to just skip all that trouble if the OS has root exploits, so the OS does make a difference.
The RIAA cant affect the quality of the music, but by going to see bands whos music i like, i circumvent the RIAA and they get compensated anyway.
If people only pay for non-RIAA music, then those companies that choose to not support he RIAA, will actually experience less piracy than those who pay the RIAA for protection.
Another way of looking at it, is that most bands get crap & lazy as they get rich, by taking away money from cd sales (which they dont get much from anyway) im
1) keeping them in touch with reality*, its a lot harder to write songs about your hometown, if you live in a mansion.
2) making them go out on tour and play to thier fans
A combination of 1 & 2 will normally result in much better music.
This doesnt apply to all bands, there are exceptions.
It also allows me to put my money directly into bands , instead of spending £10 at a record shop of which the bands probably get £1, ill go to a gigs and pay £10 for an album, of which the band get atleast £9 + a cut of my ticket sale.