Now they throttle the living shit out of their connections (like all cable companies in Canada, it seems) and reportedly have no qualms about turning over your info to anybody who asks.
DSL FTW, anyone who badmouths Canadian DSL in this day and age is only spreading FUD. I've had DSL for almost a year now and its like I found the promised land after what cable turned into. I have literally twice the upstream and downstream bandwidth that I had before (for less money), there are never any slowdowns at peak usage times, and they don't care how much bandwidth I use (my up and down is usually running at 80% of capacity, and had been almost continuously since last March.)
FUCK YOU SHAW CABLE. I get better TV and better internet from the phone company, so SUCK MY BALLS! I was nice I shaved em for you. Well actually I shaved em for my last gf, but you too can benefit.
It is a trivial exercise to determine whether the content is legit or not. md5sum? Proprietary compression algorithm? Tough shit, take what evidence you have and get a warrant.
Yes, an md5 checksum should work nicely. With a couple of hours to draft appropiate documentaion and 30 seconds of additional effort, the targeted party could also be accused of being the true mastermind behind the rise of the Third Reich and the careers of both Olsen twins. With the new police-state like powers that the Bush Regime keeps giving to the US Government and friends on an almost weekly basis, I don't think obtaining a conviction would be too difficult. Probably even get the chair.
Seriously tho, while even an unbroken hash would not necessarily provide adequate proof of any source code (if you're paranoid about things, just write a script to append a single space into every file and existing checksums are out the window) even a somewhat cursory examination would be enough to indicate whether or not you're in possession of something you shouldn't be. The point being that they need to make that examination before taking any action against you. If the police want to look at me because I've been associated in the past with a known drug dealer, that's one thing...its another thing entirely to hit me up with any kind of charge before at least taking that look (grab that alleged bad file and check it out first please.)
I use ebay sometimes, usually to buy name brand clothing that may or may not be authentic (but usually is) for anywhere from 15-50% of what I would pay for it in a store. I am quite paranoid about who's auctions I will bid on. In fact if someone has a feedback rating under 99% (literally) I will almost dismiss them out of hand. If someone has a 95% positive rating, that still means that 1 out of every 20 people they do business with felt fucked over somehow.
Another thing to consider, and it applies to a LOT more than buying something off of ebay, is that when I decice I want to buy something, I'll set a firm maximum price that I'm willing to pay for it. Before Christmas I wanted a digital camera to replace my old cheap one that got stolen. I decided that I'd look on ebay, and see if I could pick up a decent 5-6MP camera and I told myself I would not pay more tha $70 (plus shipping) for it. Anyway, every camera put up before Christmas went for at least double that much, in fact most of them wound up selling for well over retail. I'm not impulsive in that way so I didn't feel burned like all those other bidders. I waited until the first week of January and I now have a really nice camera, for a price that even a booster probably wouldn't match.
The point being, you are behaving impulsively and stupidly any time you get caught up in a bidding war. You are in a situation where you don't have control, and its time to back out and wait for something else to come along.
I used to like to snipe too, but eventually I realized its a pointless exercise. Now I just enter the maximum amount I want to bid, and forget about the auction until its over. If someone outbids me, oh well.
I didn't have it that bad but I can relate to this.
Working in the IT field, I spent probably 4 years drinking anywhere from 4-12 cups of coffee EVERY DAY. When I stopped drinking coffee it took me about a week before the headaches went away. Fortunately, there was this lady in the office who liked me, and had a habit of giving away (well usually selling) her meds to anyone that had a need, and she hooked me up with some hardcore sleeping aids. All in all, quitting caffeine was not quite as hard as quitting smoking, because the craving faded so much more quickly.
I got a bit hooked on the pills for a few months, but a bit of willpower and a few days of insomnia was enough to lick that.
I have coffee sometimes now, mostly when I need to skip a night of sleep. I make a point to never have more than 2 cups in a day, and try to avoid it mostly.
In the last 10 years, I have only very rarely paid for music. I have also not paid for any retail DVD in almost 6 years now. One reason is because literally 99% of what is being commercially released (musically) is absolutely horrible, and I would feel ripped off if I paid a nickel for it. The numbers are movies are not quite to extreme IMO but they are still way up there.
p2p has come a very long way. I think that even a functional retard could figure out how to use bittorrent. Burning DVDs and CDs is not rocket science either. The other (and main) reason that I download music/movies (and tv shows) instead of paying for them is because its so damn easy. Even a dual layer DVD movie can be downloaded in about 6 hours, and I can even seed that up to 1.00 in just over a day on my $40/month DSL if I want to keep the mods on my favorite tracker happy. TV shows and music releases (even lossless ones, which thankfully are getting more popular all the time) usually take only a few minutes to download.
As far as quality and reliability goes, this too is almost never a problem if you know what to look for. The scene is downright anal about enforcing their quality rules. Just try watching the PRE database for 10 minutes if you have any doubt about this. Anything as minor as a typo and a release gets nuked by one of several nuke nazis. All releases need to be packaged in rar files and furthermore have an sfv for an additional level of checking of you want to be absolutely sure the release you downloadeded is pristine. I would say that out of everything I download, I have problems with corruption literally less than 1% of the time. It is simply not an issue.
As HD becomes the norm, bandwidth use and requirements will increase and that demand will be met by ISPs, just like it always has in the past. In my case, I dumped cable for DSL because even tho my cable company didn't worry about its infrastructure for 10 years, my phone company did (and they still are.)
I've got income too, it sounds like we just spend ours in different places. It also sounds like what both of us do is working for us, so its all good. After all there is something to be said for buying retail...you get nice packaging, some recourse if you get a flawed product, and you know your media will probably last a lifetime.
The Department of Defense is trying to start something, to justify an invasion of Canada in a few years. Canada has oil.
Quiet! Don't put any ideas into Bush's head please.
Before we realize what's going on, the White House will be reporting on new evidence linking beavers to terrorism.
An invasion will follow shortly. Then an occupation of the Alberta oil fields, and of course a drawn out trial for Tim Horton, which will lead to an eventual execution.
Also, if you think Shias and Sunnis can't get along, wait until you see the clash between drunken Leaf and Oiler fans. These and other sects of mindless drunken hockey fans will roam the country and weave a path of unimaginable destruction in their wake.
An example: the fundamental Planck length is 1.616*10^-35m. Clearly this is too small for use.
It can really make you feel better about yourself though. There is something quite uplifting about needing a 34 digit number to describe the length of my penis.
Why would they have to? I was a long time Novell fan, but I eventually had to admit that Novell is no longer relevant in the world today.
The truth is that MS just needs to standby if they want Novell to go away. This seems more like an attempt by them to keep the company alive so they can site them as "competition" for antitrust purposes.
I doubt that Novell will be able turn themselves around like Apple did, they have a history of making terrible business decisions.
Boy that sure was tough, you fucking retard. 30 seconds of searching would have told you that.
If you want an idiot-friendly OS then go get yourself a copy of XP.
Also the people that modded that up, what a bunch of morons. Seeing shit like that makes me wanna diligently metamod so we can remove dumb fucks like that from the mod list.
Governments and huge corporations, there really isn't too much difference when the stakes are high enough.
Everybody is trying to spy on everybody else. Our government has operatives in your government, your government tries to infiltrate my government. I am sure the situation is similar for corporations like Microsoft and Cisco...if (for example) the Chinese or US government could plant a mole inside Microsoft, and (for example) manage to plant a backdoor of sorts into (for example) media player...suddenly they have a way into a VAST majority of the machines on the internet, that could go undetected for a DECADE.
Another hypothetical example... look at what happened to Valve with the HL2 source. Just imagine how many unknown/undisclosed holes such as that exist in so many popular programs used today. Blame MS if you want, but the main reason they are so often targeted is because their software dominates the market.
This type of stuff might seem like it belongs in movies, but its very real and its happening now. If you want to be secure, unplug your net connection. Otherwise you're just asking to get burned...and if what you seek to protect is worth enough, you can bet somebody with deep pockets might set their sights at it.
First, the title implies that this whole fiasco revolves around Snort, which is absurd. Snort is an open source program, anybody in the world has free and total access to its source. The only relation here is that Sourcefire was founded by the person who wrote Snort.
Secondly, I fail to see how the Dubai ports mess relates to this. It seems like the person who wrote this is just talking out of his ass and really has no grasp of what is actually going on.
Great work. Thats some top notch journalism, keep it coming!
No, VCRs that employ MUSLIM copy protection have a different behavior:
When they detect a protected signal, they will start screaming, run around the room a couple times, and then explode...hopefully taking some of the pirate infidels with them.
2 seconds of searching may lead you to http://pic.templetons.com/brad/photo/pixels.html. That page, and several pages that link off it, sum up pretty well the quality and resolution of analog vs digital cameras.
It is quite clear that only the most high end digital cameras are in the same league as a good 35mm.
Digital cameras are rapidly improving, but they are not quite there yet.
The reasons for the rise to prominence of digital photography are cost and ease of use, not quality.
Monster was such a disappointing movie. It was nothing but a sugar coated fairy tale designed to be appealing to the masses. Anybody who doubts the truth of this knows NOTHING of the true life of a drug addict...NOBODY is giving anyone head for 5 bucks just because they want a beer.
Also, Serenity didn't do very well. I personally liked it, but I was also a fan of the show and I personally liked that too. At least they stayed true to the show (which apparently they didn't with aeon flux, I wouldn't know, I've never seen the original and I doubt I'll take the time to download a DVD rip.) and even had the original cast, who I gather have all just been sitting by their phones waiting for the studio to call back to say "hey we have some more firefly related work for you!" Seriously, that probably wasn't the best choice to turn into a movie, from a commercial standpoint.
I remember when I started to see files like this with kazaa lite.
It was one of the reasons I dropped k-lite and started using direct connect (or more accurately, returned to DC++ after 3 years or so.)
The setup of a DC hub effectively NULLIFIED people (and companies, someone actually got paid to do this???...whatever) who spread junk files like this. If you download a crap file, you simply notify an op, and if the offending share isn't cleaned up, that user is simply kicked and banned from the hub. All you have left are users with legitimate files and the RIAA fanboys are locked out, relegated to attempted DoSsing and other acts of true cyberterrorism.
The community effectively polices itself. Problem solved.
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How true
Shaw Cable used to be the same way. No longer.
Now they throttle the living shit out of their connections (like all cable companies in Canada, it seems) and reportedly have no qualms about turning over your info to anybody who asks.
DSL FTW, anyone who badmouths Canadian DSL in this day and age is only spreading FUD. I've had DSL for almost a year now and its like I found the promised land after what cable turned into. I have literally twice the upstream and downstream bandwidth that I had before (for less money), there are never any slowdowns at peak usage times, and they don't care how much bandwidth I use (my up and down is usually running at 80% of capacity, and had been almost continuously since last March.)
FUCK YOU SHAW CABLE. I get better TV and better internet from the phone company, so SUCK MY BALLS! I was nice I shaved em for you. Well actually I shaved em for my last gf, but you too can benefit.
Yes, an md5 checksum should work nicely. With a couple of hours to draft appropiate documentaion and 30 seconds of additional effort, the targeted party could also be accused of being the true mastermind behind the rise of the Third Reich and the careers of both Olsen twins. With the new police-state like powers that the Bush Regime keeps giving to the US Government and friends on an almost weekly basis, I don't think obtaining a conviction would be too difficult. Probably even get the chair.
Seriously tho, while even an unbroken hash would not necessarily provide adequate proof of any source code (if you're paranoid about things, just write a script to append a single space into every file and existing checksums are out the window) even a somewhat cursory examination would be enough to indicate whether or not you're in possession of something you shouldn't be. The point being that they need to make that examination before taking any action against you. If the police want to look at me because I've been associated in the past with a known drug dealer, that's one thing...its another thing entirely to hit me up with any kind of charge before at least taking that look (grab that alleged bad file and check it out first please.)
I use ebay sometimes, usually to buy name brand clothing that may or may not be authentic (but usually is) for anywhere from 15-50% of what I would pay for it in a store. I am quite paranoid about who's auctions I will bid on. In fact if someone has a feedback rating under 99% (literally) I will almost dismiss them out of hand. If someone has a 95% positive rating, that still means that 1 out of every 20 people they do business with felt fucked over somehow.
Another thing to consider, and it applies to a LOT more than buying something off of ebay, is that when I decice I want to buy something, I'll set a firm maximum price that I'm willing to pay for it. Before Christmas I wanted a digital camera to replace my old cheap one that got stolen. I decided that I'd look on ebay, and see if I could pick up a decent 5-6MP camera and I told myself I would not pay more tha $70 (plus shipping) for it. Anyway, every camera put up before Christmas went for at least double that much, in fact most of them wound up selling for well over retail. I'm not impulsive in that way so I didn't feel burned like all those other bidders. I waited until the first week of January and I now have a really nice camera, for a price that even a booster probably wouldn't match.
The point being, you are behaving impulsively and stupidly any time you get caught up in a bidding war. You are in a situation where you don't have control, and its time to back out and wait for something else to come along.
I used to like to snipe too, but eventually I realized its a pointless exercise. Now I just enter the maximum amount I want to bid, and forget about the auction until its over. If someone outbids me, oh well.
I didn't have it that bad but I can relate to this.
Working in the IT field, I spent probably 4 years drinking anywhere from 4-12 cups of coffee EVERY DAY. When I stopped drinking coffee it took me about a week before the headaches went away. Fortunately, there was this lady in the office who liked me, and had a habit of giving away (well usually selling) her meds to anyone that had a need, and she hooked me up with some hardcore sleeping aids. All in all, quitting caffeine was not quite as hard as quitting smoking, because the craving faded so much more quickly.
I got a bit hooked on the pills for a few months, but a bit of willpower and a few days of insomnia was enough to lick that.
I have coffee sometimes now, mostly when I need to skip a night of sleep. I make a point to never have more than 2 cups in a day, and try to avoid it mostly.
Do I have to pay them royalties if I use chalk?
For the record I am 33.
In the last 10 years, I have only very rarely paid for music. I have also not paid for any retail DVD in almost 6 years now. One reason is because literally 99% of what is being commercially released (musically) is absolutely horrible, and I would feel ripped off if I paid a nickel for it. The numbers are movies are not quite to extreme IMO but they are still way up there.
p2p has come a very long way. I think that even a functional retard could figure out how to use bittorrent. Burning DVDs and CDs is not rocket science either. The other (and main) reason that I download music/movies (and tv shows) instead of paying for them is because its so damn easy. Even a dual layer DVD movie can be downloaded in about 6 hours, and I can even seed that up to 1.00 in just over a day on my $40/month DSL if I want to keep the mods on my favorite tracker happy. TV shows and music releases (even lossless ones, which thankfully are getting more popular all the time) usually take only a few minutes to download.
As far as quality and reliability goes, this too is almost never a problem if you know what to look for. The scene is downright anal about enforcing their quality rules. Just try watching the PRE database for 10 minutes if you have any doubt about this. Anything as minor as a typo and a release gets nuked by one of several nuke nazis. All releases need to be packaged in rar files and furthermore have an sfv for an additional level of checking of you want to be absolutely sure the release you downloadeded is pristine. I would say that out of everything I download, I have problems with corruption literally less than 1% of the time. It is simply not an issue.
As HD becomes the norm, bandwidth use and requirements will increase and that demand will be met by ISPs, just like it always has in the past. In my case, I dumped cable for DSL because even tho my cable company didn't worry about its infrastructure for 10 years, my phone company did (and they still are.)
I've got income too, it sounds like we just spend ours in different places. It also sounds like what both of us do is working for us, so its all good. After all there is something to be said for buying retail...you get nice packaging, some recourse if you get a flawed product, and you know your media will probably last a lifetime.
Who modded this up?
t ml for some examples of easy exploitations, or google md5 security. You can also take a look at http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~itsik/RC4/rc4.ht ml and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4 for a few insights into why you might not want to use RC4.
MD5 is busted wide open, and thats common knowledge. See http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/MD5_collisions.h
Maybe when you said "Chinese propaganda" you meant "solid cryptanalysis." I can see how it would be easy to confuse those two terms.
The Department of Defense is trying to start something, to justify an invasion of Canada in a few years. Canada has oil.
Quiet! Don't put any ideas into Bush's head please.
Before we realize what's going on, the White House will be reporting on new evidence linking beavers to terrorism.
An invasion will follow shortly. Then an occupation of the Alberta oil fields, and of course a drawn out trial for Tim Horton, which will lead to an eventual execution.
Also, if you think Shias and Sunnis can't get along, wait until you see the clash between drunken Leaf and Oiler fans. These and other sects of mindless drunken hockey fans will roam the country and weave a path of unimaginable destruction in their wake.
I weep for our future.
Did you ever consider that it is not in the best interest of pharmaceutical companies to see either cancer or AIDS cured?
We're talking obscene sums of money here. They'll do what needs to be done to keep the cash cow alive.
An example: the fundamental Planck length is 1.616*10^-35m. Clearly this is too small for use.
It can really make you feel better about yourself though. There is something quite uplifting about needing a 34 digit number to describe the length of my penis.
Why would they have to? I was a long time Novell fan, but I eventually had to admit that Novell is no longer relevant in the world today.
The truth is that MS just needs to standby if they want Novell to go away. This seems more like an attempt by them to keep the company alive so they can site them as "competition" for antitrust purposes.
I doubt that Novell will be able turn themselves around like Apple did, they have a history of making terrible business decisions.
Linux is user-friendly, but it is not idiot-friendly.
Windows is idiot-friendly.
kldload snd_emu10k1
Boy that sure was tough, you fucking retard. 30 seconds of searching would have told you that.
If you want an idiot-friendly OS then go get yourself a copy of XP.
Also the people that modded that up, what a bunch of morons. Seeing shit like that makes me wanna diligently metamod so we can remove dumb fucks like that from the mod list.
outsource the Presidency?
Strange how with the worst president in history running the show the suggestion seems a little less ridiculous.
Cheap outsourced jobs are good for corporations, and bad for EVERYONE else, so they could probably "lobby" Bush into supporting this idea.
Thats the game, such as it is.
Governments and huge corporations, there really isn't too much difference when the stakes are high enough.
Everybody is trying to spy on everybody else. Our government has operatives in your government, your government tries to infiltrate my government. I am sure the situation is similar for corporations like Microsoft and Cisco...if (for example) the Chinese or US government could plant a mole inside Microsoft, and (for example) manage to plant a backdoor of sorts into (for example) media player...suddenly they have a way into a VAST majority of the machines on the internet, that could go undetected for a DECADE.
Another hypothetical example... look at what happened to Valve with the HL2 source. Just imagine how many unknown/undisclosed holes such as that exist in so many popular programs used today. Blame MS if you want, but the main reason they are so often targeted is because their software dominates the market.
This type of stuff might seem like it belongs in movies, but its very real and its happening now. If you want to be secure, unplug your net connection. Otherwise you're just asking to get burned...and if what you seek to protect is worth enough, you can bet somebody with deep pockets might set their sights at it.
What a nonsensical article.
First, the title implies that this whole fiasco revolves around Snort, which is absurd. Snort is an open source program, anybody in the world has free and total access to its source. The only relation here is that Sourcefire was founded by the person who wrote Snort.
Secondly, I fail to see how the Dubai ports mess relates to this. It seems like the person who wrote this is just talking out of his ass and really has no grasp of what is actually going on.
Great work. Thats some top notch journalism, keep it coming!
I thought it was totally nigger. Or Muslim. Or...
No, VCRs that employ MUSLIM copy protection have a different behavior:
When they detect a protected signal, they will start screaming, run around the room a couple times, and then explode...hopefully taking some of the pirate infidels with them.
Its the VCR that Mohammad would use!
Me fail English? That's un-possible!
When you're only typing with one hand its easy to make mistakes.
Well there is no group by that name
Even my ISPs news server has a bsg binary group. Your server must really suck.
I prefer torrents anyway.
I mean, any idiot can work out the stats by looking at who won what match
What do you say we take a relaxed attitute towards work and watch the baseball match? The NYMets are my favorite squadron.
Why is this post getting modded up?
2 seconds of searching may lead you to http://pic.templetons.com/brad/photo/pixels.html. That page, and several pages that link off it, sum up pretty well the quality and resolution of analog vs digital cameras.
It is quite clear that only the most high end digital cameras are in the same league as a good 35mm.
Digital cameras are rapidly improving, but they are not quite there yet.
The reasons for the rise to prominence of digital photography are cost and ease of use, not quality.
You must be a lot of fun at parties
Monster was such a disappointing movie. It was nothing but a sugar coated fairy tale designed to be appealing to the masses. Anybody who doubts the truth of this knows NOTHING of the true life of a drug addict...NOBODY is giving anyone head for 5 bucks just because they want a beer.
Also, Serenity didn't do very well. I personally liked it, but I was also a fan of the show and I personally liked that too. At least they stayed true to the show (which apparently they didn't with aeon flux, I wouldn't know, I've never seen the original and I doubt I'll take the time to download a DVD rip.) and even had the original cast, who I gather have all just been sitting by their phones waiting for the studio to call back to say "hey we have some more firefly related work for you!" Seriously, that probably wasn't the best choice to turn into a movie, from a commercial standpoint.
I remember when I started to see files like this with kazaa lite.
It was one of the reasons I dropped k-lite and started using direct connect (or more accurately, returned to DC++ after 3 years or so.)
The setup of a DC hub effectively NULLIFIED people (and companies, someone actually got paid to do this???...whatever) who spread junk files like this. If you download a crap file, you simply notify an op, and if the offending share isn't cleaned up, that user is simply kicked and banned from the hub. All you have left are users with legitimate files and the RIAA fanboys are locked out, relegated to attempted DoSsing and other acts of true cyberterrorism.
The community effectively polices itself. Problem solved.