The difference is, it -is- in some ways known by all. Your SSN is known by the government, banks, and a good deal of other places, your phone number can be found in a phone book or at the very least by the phone company and dig into some newspapers and you can easily find anyones maiden name. All these things are not secrets, they are secure because they are obscure and time consuming to look up.
Exactly, however the other people see it a different way. You and me might never look into the source code of any kernel just like I rarely look under the hood of my car. However, for the people who do write kernels and other lower level software the fact it is open source may be a huge plus for them in working out bugs. Similarly, good engine documentation would help a mechanic. Most people don't care about their engine unless there is a problem, if there is an engine design that can get me a cheaper mechanic who has to do less work and cost me less money that is preferred to an equal engine that costs a ton of money to get fixed. However, you have to consider the engine, an open source lawnmower engine is good for mowing lawns but not for driving on the interstate.
1 - Preservation of abandonware. If no one is selling a product for 5 years, you should be able to distribute it for preservation. You can not charge to distribute another person's product. If the creator re-releases the product, you can no longer distribute it again for 5 years.
Along with the requirements though that it must be A) sold in your country B) sold to the general public C) must be the original work otherwise the previous work is still fair game (for example, if Nintendo decided not to release Super Mario Bros. 3 for 5 years in the USA but then decided to make Super Mario Bros. 3 16-bit edition, they couldn't stop me from using the NES ROMs. However I couldn't use the SNES ROMs. Similarly, if they decided to make a PC version available but discontinued the NES version, I could still download the NES version but not the PC version. Also, for such a plan to work there must be -mandatory- registration.
But there isn't anything "magic" that is on iPods that is just a string. Basically, what the Pre could do is just call itself an iPod classic and it would be the exact same as with the iPod classic. They rely simply on strings, both the iPod and the Pre.
The PEGI ratings though are terribly flawed (not to say that the ESRB isn't). For example, SWAT: Target Liberty is rated at 18+ by PEGI ratings for no apparent reason other than "discrimination", hate to break it to the PEGI, but discrimination happens in real life. The same game is rated as Teen by the ESRB and 12 by the British ratings board. Similarly, Clubhouse Games was rated at 12 by the PEGI because it contains simulated gambling, WTF? Then there are plenty of other games, Bioshock, Resident Evil 5 and tons of other games that are rated high.
I really see no problem in letting kids buy their own games if they can afford them no matter what the content is. Really, there is very, very, very little harm in letting them play a violent game when they want to play it.
Did it ever occur to you that people including kids do things because they are fun, and have a "gross-out" factor? Not because it "intellectually stimulates" them?
But in this case, California is pretty much bankrupt. It would be like if someone living paycheck-to-paycheck decided to tour the world. That isn't going to solve their financial problems its only going to make it worse (by spending a ton and not working), California wants to use this which would result in less taxes for them.
Exactly, just go to YouTube and you will see the DMCA abused left and right. (Well, and if you read the comments page you will find the rules of spelling, rules of actually saying something along with the rules of grammar and common sense to be abused too....)
Ok, even though this is terribly off topic I feel I have to say this, who the crap plays Runescape anyways? I mean, if your on/. try to at least sell us WoW gold or something, or some MMO people above age 8 actually play.... At least post AC whenever you spam totally irrelevant stuff. I mean it could be argued that the 3nl@rg3 y0ur p3n1s spam you get in your e-mail are more relevant because at least most/.ers actually have one of those....
But it wasn't presented like that though. It would be one thing if it was "Hey, your network can be exploited if you do this, this and this" but instead its "Your network can be exploited by this, this and this, because of this you can do -insert illegal stuff- to get revenge on those evil filesharers". I mean, seriously the stuff you read in 2600 about exploiting things to make a profit seem to have less bias than this. At least a bunch of those articles say "please only use this for information".
Exactly, I was reading into the article thinking it would be presented as a vulnerability or proof of concept that could be exploited by the RIAA, not that the entire thing seemed to be written especially for the RIAA.
I'm not exactly sure "researcher" is the right word here. From the paper
Abstract: Today's peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are grossly abused by Illegal distributions of music, games, video streams, and
popular software. These abuses have resulted in heavy financial loss in media and content industry. Collusive piracy is the main
source of intellectual property violations within the boundary of P2P networks. This problem is resulted from paid clients
(colluders) illegally sharing copyrighted content files with unpaid clients (pirates). Such an on-line piracy has hindered the use of
open P2P networks for commercial content delivery. We propose a proactive poisoning scheme to stop colluders and pirates
from working together in alleged copyright infringements in P2P file sharing. The basic idea is to detect pirates with identity-
based signatures and time-stamped tokens. Then we stop collusive piracy without hurting legitimate P2P clients.
We developed a new peer authorization protocol (PAP) to distinguish pirates from legitimate clients. Detected pirates will
receive poisoned chunks in repeated attempts. A reputation-based mechanism is developed to detect colluders. The system
does not slow down legal download from paid clients. The pirates are severely penalized with no chance to download
successfully in finite time. Based on simulation results, we find 99.9% success rate in preventing piracy on file-level hashing
networks like Gnutella, KaZaA,Area, LimeWire, etc. Our protection scheme achieved 85-98% prevention rate on part-level
hashing networks like eMuel, Shareaz, eDonkey, Morpheus, etc. Our new scheme enables P2P technology for building a new
generation of content delivery networks (CDNs). These P2P-based CDNs provide faster delivery speed, higher content
availability, and cost-effectiveness than using conventional CDNs built with huge network of surrogate servers.
This isn't unbiased in the least. Sure, arguably it is "research" but calling them researchers from an university makes them seem neutral at best.
The downside is, us geeks are more impressed with specs than actual usefulness. Most of us wouldn't hesitate to buy a huge beige box for $500 with 6 gigs of DDR3 RAM and a Core i7 CPU with a great graphics card. On the other hand, if you were trying to sell that to an ordinary person they would complain about the aesthetics.
...Sued by who? You see, the main problem with open source and people suing over the GPL is because a lot of the things that are GPL'd come from people like you and me. I know for a fact that if my code was taken by MS or any other large company the most I could probably do is write them a stern letter. Now granted, this was Novell in this case who could easily have sued MS, but for a simple programmer the fees and delays of a lawsuit against a huge company without assistance is nearly impossible.
I think the problem is the same in every large country. Here in the US there are large patches where my cell phone doesn't work and some areas that other cell company's cell phones don't work.
But thats the thing, we need to see if they were non-rusting or not. Sure, we can know that they aren't rusted but 40 years of moonquakes, micro-meteoroids and just general disuse is going to make it a valuable insight into a future plan of colonizing the moon.
Why? Sure, its "cool" to preserve everything, but its a heck of a lot more valuable to see how the machines have fared for the eventual colonization of the moon and for future generations. I'm not exactly sure what the point is if we are looking back on history rather than creating it.
So lets see here. UAC was changed, thats no different than changing SELinux or Apparmor on Ubuntu, not a major change. Modular design, again, not a huge change just severed a few ties between IE and core system libraries. Ok, so there are a few new APIs, still, not a huge change. As for performance? That should be natural progress of development.
Regardless, it isn't a radical change. Just a code cleanup.
Hm, that is interesting. However the article didn't ever mention anything about the actual botnet part of it which I kinda thought was the point of the article. But having a EULA for a botnet? Now thats funny.
...EVERY console uses Power today. The Wii uses a PPC chip, as does the 360 and PS3. The Gamecube did too, while the Xbox used basically a Pentium III and the PS2 used a custom CPU.
The leader is Zeus, with 3.6 million compromised PCs so far. The Zeus Trojan uses key-logging techniques to steal user names, passwords, account numbers and credit card numbers, and it injects fake HTML forms into online banking login pages to steal user data
And how the heck does that make it a botnet? Apparently now botnet is a buzword for any type of popular malware now. Now, if it said that it went and DDoSed websites, yes that would make it be a botnet, but this? That just is malware.
Depends what you mean by "good". Especially when CP can be -anything-, heck even some forms of cartoons can be labeled as CP. No, it is not "good" that this can happen. Whats next someone getting put on the "terror watch list" and not being able to fly out of the country because a political activist had some documents that were critical of the current administration?
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The difference is, it -is- in some ways known by all. Your SSN is known by the government, banks, and a good deal of other places, your phone number can be found in a phone book or at the very least by the phone company and dig into some newspapers and you can easily find anyones maiden name. All these things are not secrets, they are secure because they are obscure and time consuming to look up.
Exactly, however the other people see it a different way. You and me might never look into the source code of any kernel just like I rarely look under the hood of my car. However, for the people who do write kernels and other lower level software the fact it is open source may be a huge plus for them in working out bugs. Similarly, good engine documentation would help a mechanic. Most people don't care about their engine unless there is a problem, if there is an engine design that can get me a cheaper mechanic who has to do less work and cost me less money that is preferred to an equal engine that costs a ton of money to get fixed. However, you have to consider the engine, an open source lawnmower engine is good for mowing lawns but not for driving on the interstate.
1 - Preservation of abandonware. If no one is selling a product for 5 years, you should be able to distribute it for preservation. You can not charge to distribute another person's product. If the creator re-releases the product, you can no longer distribute it again for 5 years.
Along with the requirements though that it must be A) sold in your country B) sold to the general public C) must be the original work otherwise the previous work is still fair game (for example, if Nintendo decided not to release Super Mario Bros. 3 for 5 years in the USA but then decided to make Super Mario Bros. 3 16-bit edition, they couldn't stop me from using the NES ROMs. However I couldn't use the SNES ROMs. Similarly, if they decided to make a PC version available but discontinued the NES version, I could still download the NES version but not the PC version. Also, for such a plan to work there must be -mandatory- registration.
But there isn't anything "magic" that is on iPods that is just a string. Basically, what the Pre could do is just call itself an iPod classic and it would be the exact same as with the iPod classic. They rely simply on strings, both the iPod and the Pre.
Theres only so much though that Apple can do short of killing compatibility with older iPods. Eventually Apple will just have to give up.
The PEGI ratings though are terribly flawed (not to say that the ESRB isn't). For example, SWAT: Target Liberty is rated at 18+ by PEGI ratings for no apparent reason other than "discrimination", hate to break it to the PEGI, but discrimination happens in real life. The same game is rated as Teen by the ESRB and 12 by the British ratings board. Similarly, Clubhouse Games was rated at 12 by the PEGI because it contains simulated gambling, WTF? Then there are plenty of other games, Bioshock, Resident Evil 5 and tons of other games that are rated high.
I really see no problem in letting kids buy their own games if they can afford them no matter what the content is. Really, there is very, very, very little harm in letting them play a violent game when they want to play it.
Did it ever occur to you that people including kids do things because they are fun, and have a "gross-out" factor? Not because it "intellectually stimulates" them?
But in this case, California is pretty much bankrupt. It would be like if someone living paycheck-to-paycheck decided to tour the world. That isn't going to solve their financial problems its only going to make it worse (by spending a ton and not working), California wants to use this which would result in less taxes for them.
Yes, and the RIAA doesn't seem to care. Just look at how they used MediaDefender ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaDefender ).
Exactly, just go to YouTube and you will see the DMCA abused left and right. (Well, and if you read the comments page you will find the rules of spelling, rules of actually saying something along with the rules of grammar and common sense to be abused too....)
Ok, even though this is terribly off topic I feel I have to say this, who the crap plays Runescape anyways? I mean, if your on /. try to at least sell us WoW gold or something, or some MMO people above age 8 actually play.... At least post AC whenever you spam totally irrelevant stuff. I mean it could be argued that the 3nl@rg3 y0ur p3n1s spam you get in your e-mail are more relevant because at least most /.ers actually have one of those....
But it wasn't presented like that though. It would be one thing if it was "Hey, your network can be exploited if you do this, this and this" but instead its "Your network can be exploited by this, this and this, because of this you can do -insert illegal stuff- to get revenge on those evil filesharers". I mean, seriously the stuff you read in 2600 about exploiting things to make a profit seem to have less bias than this. At least a bunch of those articles say "please only use this for information".
Exactly, I was reading into the article thinking it would be presented as a vulnerability or proof of concept that could be exploited by the RIAA, not that the entire thing seemed to be written especially for the RIAA.
And so is DDoS attacks, but that sure didn't stop the RIAA from using MediaDefender ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaDefender )
Abstract: Today's peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are grossly abused by Illegal distributions of music, games, video streams, and popular software. These abuses have resulted in heavy financial loss in media and content industry. Collusive piracy is the main source of intellectual property violations within the boundary of P2P networks. This problem is resulted from paid clients (colluders) illegally sharing copyrighted content files with unpaid clients (pirates). Such an on-line piracy has hindered the use of open P2P networks for commercial content delivery. We propose a proactive poisoning scheme to stop colluders and pirates from working together in alleged copyright infringements in P2P file sharing. The basic idea is to detect pirates with identity- based signatures and time-stamped tokens. Then we stop collusive piracy without hurting legitimate P2P clients. We developed a new peer authorization protocol (PAP) to distinguish pirates from legitimate clients. Detected pirates will receive poisoned chunks in repeated attempts. A reputation-based mechanism is developed to detect colluders. The system does not slow down legal download from paid clients. The pirates are severely penalized with no chance to download successfully in finite time. Based on simulation results, we find 99.9% success rate in preventing piracy on file-level hashing networks like Gnutella, KaZaA,Area, LimeWire, etc. Our protection scheme achieved 85-98% prevention rate on part-level hashing networks like eMuel, Shareaz, eDonkey, Morpheus, etc. Our new scheme enables P2P technology for building a new generation of content delivery networks (CDNs). These P2P-based CDNs provide faster delivery speed, higher content availability, and cost-effectiveness than using conventional CDNs built with huge network of surrogate servers.
This isn't unbiased in the least. Sure, arguably it is "research" but calling them researchers from an university makes them seem neutral at best.
The downside is, us geeks are more impressed with specs than actual usefulness. Most of us wouldn't hesitate to buy a huge beige box for $500 with 6 gigs of DDR3 RAM and a Core i7 CPU with a great graphics card. On the other hand, if you were trying to sell that to an ordinary person they would complain about the aesthetics.
...Sued by who? You see, the main problem with open source and people suing over the GPL is because a lot of the things that are GPL'd come from people like you and me. I know for a fact that if my code was taken by MS or any other large company the most I could probably do is write them a stern letter. Now granted, this was Novell in this case who could easily have sued MS, but for a simple programmer the fees and delays of a lawsuit against a huge company without assistance is nearly impossible.
I think the problem is the same in every large country. Here in the US there are large patches where my cell phone doesn't work and some areas that other cell company's cell phones don't work.
But thats the thing, we need to see if they were non-rusting or not. Sure, we can know that they aren't rusted but 40 years of moonquakes, micro-meteoroids and just general disuse is going to make it a valuable insight into a future plan of colonizing the moon.
Why? Sure, its "cool" to preserve everything, but its a heck of a lot more valuable to see how the machines have fared for the eventual colonization of the moon and for future generations. I'm not exactly sure what the point is if we are looking back on history rather than creating it.
So lets see here. UAC was changed, thats no different than changing SELinux or Apparmor on Ubuntu, not a major change. Modular design, again, not a huge change just severed a few ties between IE and core system libraries. Ok, so there are a few new APIs, still, not a huge change. As for performance? That should be natural progress of development.
Regardless, it isn't a radical change. Just a code cleanup.
Hm, that is interesting. However the article didn't ever mention anything about the actual botnet part of it which I kinda thought was the point of the article. But having a EULA for a botnet? Now thats funny.
...EVERY console uses Power today. The Wii uses a PPC chip, as does the 360 and PS3. The Gamecube did too, while the Xbox used basically a Pentium III and the PS2 used a custom CPU.
The leader is Zeus, with 3.6 million compromised PCs so far. The Zeus Trojan uses key-logging techniques to steal user names, passwords, account numbers and credit card numbers, and it injects fake HTML forms into online banking login pages to steal user data
And how the heck does that make it a botnet? Apparently now botnet is a buzword for any type of popular malware now. Now, if it said that it went and DDoSed websites, yes that would make it be a botnet, but this? That just is malware.
Depends what you mean by "good". Especially when CP can be -anything-, heck even some forms of cartoons can be labeled as CP. No, it is not "good" that this can happen. Whats next someone getting put on the "terror watch list" and not being able to fly out of the country because a political activist had some documents that were critical of the current administration?