Most likely you're not using IPoA to traverse your ISP's network but rather PPPoA or PPPoE, which sets up a PPP tunnel between the endpoints, which by it's very nature HAS to have a non-permanent pseudo-random 'arbitrary' MAC address.
At best they can only meaningfully track login+ip address. Still not any guarantee of accuracy as required by proving someone guilty of something. Zombie trojan bots on your mum's pc? Weak password on your wifi? Some older (perhaps nintendo-made) device forced you to change your wifi router's WPA2 to WEP 128? Left your phone's bluetooth ICS turned on? Forgot to logout properly when checking your home connection's quota from an internet cafe because you were meeting a friend in town that morning? Have one of those idiot ISPs who sets/forces your password to be your surname followed by the last 2 digits of your street name and your username to be your phone number? (Yes Exetel, you guys need to cut that crap out)
I agree. I did enjoy CoD4 but no where near as much as the HL2 series. And the 'always being pushed' thing did make me feel tired of the game frequently. I could only ever play CoD4 in small bursts.
Most people's brains have difficulties processing those conflicting information streams
Well, you could always start killing everyone who experiences the problem then after a few generations everyone will be able to process conflicting information streams easily.
Way off topic, but, HOW THE FUCK DO I TURN OFF THE COMBO BOXES IN THE STORY?
Seriously annoying and making the story harder to read as sometimes they don't default to the correct item..
Also, I think you're probably confusing maemo with meego, which is not the same thing. Meego isn't anywhere near 'working' yet so I don't understand how your comments fit at all in that context..
Hehe, have you tried meego yet? It's ugly, slow, and pretty useless. Sure it's still 'in development' but nothing short of a 'throw it in the bin and start again' can save that ship. I guess this was the lesser of 2 bottom-of-the-barrel evils.
Dude please, Chinese motorbikes are awesome. They just keep going and going.. I saw one there being held together with chicken wire, wood planks, and grass rope and still kicking along fine. I'd like to see a macbook do that!
By computer, I'm using the term to mean "general purpose computer", which is how the term has been used by the vast majority of the public for at least a couple of decades. By loose enough definitions, my wristwatch is a computer. That doesn't mean it is what people intended to protect when they wrote laws protecting against computer break-ins.
I'm pretty sure a router DOES fall under what they INTENDED to protect with anti hacking laws. For these are the gateways to private intranets housing sensitive corporate and personal data.
The fact remains, The judge's interpretation is wrong, as is yours. Sorry but it's true..
So an internet kiosk is not a computer since you can't perform word processing or install arbitrary applications on it? I don't buy that.
Also your definition doesn't account for big iron mainframes, or smaller classes of commodity servers, or automotive telematics, or industrial controllers, or in fact a majority of the actual computers in existence. Like this judge, your definition is too narrow to be realistic
And you are ignorant. Not every router on the internet is a tiny SOHO cheap piece of crap.
Some routers are indeed actual PC boxes with multiple network cards acting as routers and filters and such. And yes some have large hard drives and act as file servers too, I've seen it before. There is no line between router and computer, it just happened that this judge was as ignorant as you are.
I like how no one's brought up SingTel's well known eavesdropping practices.. ethical my ass. and I'm sorry but no bank anywhere is ethical. At all. This list is entirely bogus (ofc that was obvious as soon as Microsoft 'we sue and troll by proxy to kill our competition' showed up on there.)
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Wha? Why would it have to go that far?
This is a single file that sony "magically" came up with after the fact. This is more than a week later,
and AFTER they had said PUBLICLY several times that they had no reason to believe Anonymous had anything to do with it!
We are not "Anonymous."...
anymore
To wipe securely and uniformly, sure. I've seen corruption caused by less though. Also the platters aren't the only concern.
But yes, it was a joke
LEFT, RIGHT, LE.. oh crap my hard drive just got wiped by EMF. Thanks Razor. :(
Most likely you're not using IPoA to traverse your ISP's network but rather PPPoA or PPPoE, which sets up a PPP tunnel between the endpoints, which by it's very nature HAS to have a non-permanent pseudo-random 'arbitrary' MAC address. At best they can only meaningfully track login+ip address. Still not any guarantee of accuracy as required by proving someone guilty of something. Zombie trojan bots on your mum's pc? Weak password on your wifi? Some older (perhaps nintendo-made) device forced you to change your wifi router's WPA2 to WEP 128? Left your phone's bluetooth ICS turned on? Forgot to logout properly when checking your home connection's quota from an internet cafe because you were meeting a friend in town that morning? Have one of those idiot ISPs who sets/forces your password to be your surname followed by the last 2 digits of your street name and your username to be your phone number? (Yes Exetel, you guys need to cut that crap out)
@ GP: Check out OpenELEC, xmbc 'appliance' distro. small and to the point
$100 for a bluray *burner* ?? where?!? I'll take a dozen!
I agree. I did enjoy CoD4 but no where near as much as the HL2 series. And the 'always being pushed' thing did make me feel tired of the game frequently. I could only ever play CoD4 in small bursts.
Bullshit. Just because someone tweets something doesn't make it news.
Most people's brains have difficulties processing those conflicting information streams
Well, you could always start killing everyone who experiences the problem then after a few generations everyone will be able to process conflicting information streams easily.
Thats like saying you exclusively use Toyotas because they have wheels.
Hell these days the only OS without bash is emacs. And I'm probably wrong about that anyway.
Way off topic, but, HOW THE FUCK DO I TURN OFF THE COMBO BOXES IN THE STORY? Seriously annoying and making the story harder to read as sometimes they don't default to the correct item..
better yet, nano runs just fine on OS X too!
Also, I think you're probably confusing maemo with meego, which is not the same thing. Meego isn't anywhere near 'working' yet so I don't understand how your comments fit at all in that context..
Apart from Maemo, which is miles more usable, faster, and ready
Hehe, have you tried meego yet? It's ugly, slow, and pretty useless. Sure it's still 'in development' but nothing short of a 'throw it in the bin and start again' can save that ship. I guess this was the lesser of 2 bottom-of-the-barrel evils.
Name one product where after market accessories aren't superior to the OEM ones! :P
Dude please, Chinese motorbikes are awesome. They just keep going and going.. I saw one there being held together with chicken wire, wood planks, and grass rope and still kicking along fine. I'd like to see a macbook do that!
Amen, mod parent up. Troll? wtf? what shill modded troll?
By computer, I'm using the term to mean "general purpose computer", which is how the term has been used by the vast majority of the public for at least a couple of decades. By loose enough definitions, my wristwatch is a computer. That doesn't mean it is what people intended to protect when they wrote laws protecting against computer break-ins.
I'm pretty sure a router DOES fall under what they INTENDED to protect with anti hacking laws. For these are the gateways to private intranets housing sensitive corporate and personal data. The fact remains, The judge's interpretation is wrong, as is yours. Sorry but it's true..
So an internet kiosk is not a computer since you can't perform word processing or install arbitrary applications on it? I don't buy that. Also your definition doesn't account for big iron mainframes, or smaller classes of commodity servers, or automotive telematics, or industrial controllers, or in fact a majority of the actual computers in existence. Like this judge, your definition is too narrow to be realistic
And you are ignorant. Not every router on the internet is a tiny SOHO cheap piece of crap. Some routers are indeed actual PC boxes with multiple network cards acting as routers and filters and such. And yes some have large hard drives and act as file servers too, I've seen it before. There is no line between router and computer, it just happened that this judge was as ignorant as you are.
I like how no one's brought up SingTel's well known eavesdropping practices.. ethical my ass. and I'm sorry but no bank anywhere is ethical. At all. This list is entirely bogus (ofc that was obvious as soon as Microsoft 'we sue and troll by proxy to kill our competition' showed up on there.)
Ditto :)
Phase Change Memory. Meaning the title actually says '..P[hase] C[hange] M[emory] Memory..' Y'know, like Automatic Teller Machine Machine