It is at this stage you realize that you have just downloaded 200MB of javascript and are found 2 days later sitting under a cold shower in the foetal position
This is a dark day in the recording of human history. The people now responsible for capturing the most important events of the human age are neither masters of their craft nor using the best available tools. I almost couldn't think of a more ridiculous scenario.
...organizing songs into albums is only a tradition now.
Its still used as filler to bulk up their product.
While this may be true for your typical pop artists, it does not hold true for the seasoned artists that release concept album. These are albums where a number of songs are used to tell a story - much like a musical.
Examples of this include MuseThe Resistance, Tokyo JihenJust Can't Help It, and GotyeMaking Mirrors. If you ever want to completely lose yourself into music, I recommend seeking these out.
Verizon has likely pocketed tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance to cover loss of business and to 'make good' its infrastructure. Verizon then neglects to make good and proceeds with building an inferior alternative at a fraction of the cost.
It would be interesting to see if the insurance company paid for the cost of this new infrastructure; provided funds to the value of the existing infrastructure; or provided funds for the replacement cost of the existing infrastructure. In the case of the latter two, has Verizon returned the unspent portion to the insurance company (and are they required to?) or simply added this windfall to their bottom line.
It also makes me wonder how much federal and state funding was used to build this network.
OP said: "A movie's true popularity is also reflected in the download count". Go figure which download that means.
OP also talked about the "seed and leech count" and "pirate sites" which points to BitTorrent.
As for gaming the leech count it's not going to be as resource intensive if you don't actually download stuff at a high rate.
I'm not even sure if the various tracking protocols require you to actually download stuff. Or check that the peers you advertise actually exist.
Good point. I guess one could connect to the tracker and announce that they are seeding/leeching and simply drop all incoming connections. This is highly probable, though the multitude of leechers coming from the same IP / IP range is sure to tip of the tracker maintainers and BitTorrent community quite promptly. The community will likely respond with a patch to count only 1 connection per IP and to disregard counts for inactive downloads/uploads. As OP said:
the protocol is self-correcting and it is really just further evidence of its popularity.
The problem with pirate sites is monetization. Let's suppose that the number of downloads of Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay is the most accurate assessment of its popularity. Further, let's posit that 90% of the views come from that. Why does it matter to HBO? How do they recoup the development costs from a TPB viewer?
HBO now have strong evidence supporting the immense popularity of the show. This allows them to sell broadcasting rights, merchandising rights and gives them an enormous amount of free publicity in new and emerging markets.
Sure 'Castle' has a much higher Nielsen rating but how many people would seriously buy a $50 Castle poster to hang on their wall or buy a Collectors Edition Richard Castle figurine.
You can rig it. There's little to stop you from downloading something many times.
BitTorrent Trackers don't count downloads - they count the number of active seeders and leechers.
While you are connected to the tracker and downloading a file, your session will add 1 to the leech count. When the download completes, the leech count is decremented 1. If you delete/move this file and initiate another download, this will simply temporarily add 1 to the leech count again.
Sure it is game-able. You could have multiple clients on different ports simultaneously downloading and hope that the tracker doesn't amalgamate all connections from the same IP to count as one. This, however, would be very taxing on your connection not to mention extremely resource intensive, especially with the wide adoption of crypto in BitTorrent.
Even if this was actively rigged, would it be any worse off than the Nielsen system? Can we honestly believe that it is not completely rigged? The participants are known ahead of time. Is it not possible that they be chosen according a particular agenda or otherwise enticed.
Very outdated, but still incredibly interesting and didactic.
Thanks for the new word. First time in a while I had to head to the dictionary. A Wikipedia snippet for others that don't know this word:
Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art. The term has its origin in the Ancient Greek word (didaktikos), "related to education and teaching", and signified learning in a fascinating and intriguing manner.
extra inflation pressure actually gets you better acceleration, traction, and stopping power.
The extra inflation should make the tire harder resulting in lower friction. Hence the better acceleration so long as you control the torque. However, this means that you have less rubber touching the road (note the lower friction) so, in most circumstances, you have lower traction. Lower traction often means less stopping power.
A harder and narrower tyre on the front can increase the precision and response of your steering but this is a potentially lethal error if your vehicle is front-wheel drive as all that power hitting a small surface may result in loss of traction meaning no steering.
Personally, I modify my tyre pressure many times in a day depending on many factors including driving style, surface, load and weather. I generally under-inflate the tyres on my Silvia because this is my wet-weather vehicle. I also want to brake quickly in this vehicle because it is easy to overspeed. My primary vehicle is a Jeep. In good weather, on-road, I tend to over-inflate to help the wallet (with extra care taken for the front tyres). This makes for a very noisy ride and results in the tyres spinning easily or any time I start in first gear.
I find that this behaviour is the polar opposite of the typical corporate behaviour of lying, cheating, backstabbing and subterfuge that goes on behind all the smiles, handshakes and polite discourse. While it may shock or upset some, I give him kudos for honestly conveying his thoughts AND feelings.
I use my desktop for preparation, execution and monitoring while the mobile device is normally taped under someone's desk, left charging at the lobby cafe or simply in lost property depending on the assignment
I prefer security and IT to be unaware that the audit will be performed, as they would be in a malicious attack.
A lot of people are probably going to come on here and talk about how you can just root your standard Android tablet and then set it up to work the same way.
Rooting is inadequate for anything other than basic sniffing and WEP-cracking.
On these devices, the bastardized Wi-Fi drivers are compiled into the kernel which is stored in ROM. In order to do any kind of packet injection, deauth attack or to use monitor mode, a custom kernel hence a custom ROM will be required. For those with a locked bootloader, that will be yet another step.
This product ships with Android OS 4.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 to run the full range of tools.
While the specs have not been released, I suspect that the Android ships with a mainline kernel instead of Google's Linux Kernel for Android to include glibc, full Wi-Fi support and all GNU libraries. Also, su, a complete different repo/store and stripped of everything Google.
So, same OS, different Version, complete different Distro.
Slashdot Mirror
That page only has comments going back to December for me. My complete posting history goes back over a decade.
This is slashdot. News for Nerds.
The Slashdot search function goes something like this:
wget -U “Lynx/3.0 http://www.google.com/search?&start=1\&num=100\&q=27352+site:slashdot.org -O Search01.html
wget -U “Lynx/3.0 http://www.google.com/search?&start=101\&num=200\&q=27352+site:slashdot.org -O Search02.html
wget -U “Lynx/3.0 http://www.google.com/search?&start=201\&num=300\&q=27352+site:slashdot.org -O Search03.html
Then
lynx -dump -listonly Search01.html >> URL_list.ascii
lynx -dump -listonly Search02.html >> URL_list.ascii
lynx -dump -listonly Search03.html >> URL_list.ascii
Then grep out the webcache and google URLs and trim off anything that prepends the URL you want with a Perl substitution
s/(https?\:\/\/)(\w*\.)?(slashdot\.org\/.*)/$1$2$3/
And finally, wget again
wget -U "Lynx/22.0" -i ./URL_list.ascii
It is at this stage you realize that you have just downloaded 200MB of javascript and are found 2 days later sitting under a cold shower in the foetal position
Where is the link on slashdot to download all my comments?
Here!
...Chicago Sun Times fires printing press staff; trains reporters in the use of Canon Bubblejet BJ-2000.
This is a dark day in the recording of human history. The people now responsible for capturing the most important events of the human age are neither masters of their craft nor using the best available tools. I almost couldn't think of a more ridiculous scenario.
Congratulations PayPal. You have discovered the secret formula for creating a criminal hacker.
Here is a direct link to the project's website for anyone who hasn't forgiven Wired for the Wikileaks affair.
The article is basically a summary of the site.
Undoing bad mod. Please mod Insightful.
The locals are too busy sitting on the tailgate of their ute (bought on credit) drinking cans of VB and acting bogan do anything about it.
Or else they are off chasing some blonde from Home & Away. Anyway censorship and freedom of speech are unreported in the Fox-controlled media
FTFY
Let's call it CWII.
We have already had a Second Cold War.
The answer's not in the box, it's in the band.
...organizing songs into albums is only a tradition now.
Its still used as filler to bulk up their product.
While this may be true for your typical pop artists, it does not hold true for the seasoned artists that release concept album . These are albums where a number of songs are used to tell a story - much like a musical.
Examples of this include Muse The Resistance, Tokyo Jihen Just Can't Help It, and Gotye Making Mirrors. If you ever want to completely lose yourself into music, I recommend seeking these out.
From TFA:
"... they offer to settle—for a sum calculated to be just below the cost of a bare-bones defense."
Judge Wright then awards costs plus punitive damages totalling $81,319.72 to the victims, saying that the sum
"is calculated to be just below the cost of an effective appeal"
Verizon has likely pocketed tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance to cover loss of business and to 'make good' its infrastructure. Verizon then neglects to make good and proceeds with building an inferior alternative at a fraction of the cost.
It would be interesting to see if the insurance company paid for the cost of this new infrastructure; provided funds to the value of the existing infrastructure; or provided funds for the replacement cost of the existing infrastructure. In the case of the latter two, has Verizon returned the unspent portion to the insurance company (and are they required to?) or simply added this windfall to their bottom line.
It also makes me wonder how much federal and state funding was used to build this network.
OP said: "A movie's true popularity is also reflected in the download count". Go figure which download that means.
OP also talked about the "seed and leech count" and "pirate sites" which points to BitTorrent.
As for gaming the leech count it's not going to be as resource intensive if you don't actually download stuff at a high rate. I'm not even sure if the various tracking protocols require you to actually download stuff. Or check that the peers you advertise actually exist.
Good point. I guess one could connect to the tracker and announce that they are seeding/leeching and simply drop all incoming connections. This is highly probable, though the multitude of leechers coming from the same IP / IP range is sure to tip of the tracker maintainers and BitTorrent community quite promptly. The community will likely respond with a patch to count only 1 connection per IP and to disregard counts for inactive downloads/uploads. As OP said:
the protocol is self-correcting and it is really just further evidence of its popularity.
The problem with pirate sites is monetization. Let's suppose that the number of downloads of Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay is the most accurate assessment of its popularity. Further, let's posit that 90% of the views come from that. Why does it matter to HBO? How do they recoup the development costs from a TPB viewer?
HBO now have strong evidence supporting the immense popularity of the show. This allows them to sell broadcasting rights, merchandising rights and gives them an enormous amount of free publicity in new and emerging markets.
Sure 'Castle' has a much higher Nielsen rating but how many people would seriously buy a $50 Castle poster to hang on their wall or buy a Collectors Edition Richard Castle figurine.
You can rig it. There's little to stop you from downloading something many times.
BitTorrent Trackers don't count downloads - they count the number of active seeders and leechers.
While you are connected to the tracker and downloading a file, your session will add 1 to the leech count. When the download completes, the leech count is decremented 1. If you delete/move this file and initiate another download, this will simply temporarily add 1 to the leech count again.
Sure it is game-able. You could have multiple clients on different ports simultaneously downloading and hope that the tracker doesn't amalgamate all connections from the same IP to count as one. This, however, would be very taxing on your connection not to mention extremely resource intensive, especially with the wide adoption of crypto in BitTorrent.
Even if this was actively rigged, would it be any worse off than the Nielsen system? Can we honestly believe that it is not completely rigged? The participants are known ahead of time. Is it not possible that they be chosen according a particular agenda or otherwise enticed.
Unless English isn't your first language, you're a fucking retard.
Oh, my very own troll. Can I keep it?
I'm Greek, you insensitive clod!
No need for anguish. I won't hold it against you.
Very outdated, but still incredibly interesting and didactic.
Thanks for the new word. First time in a while I had to head to the dictionary. A Wikipedia snippet for others that don't know this word:
Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art. The term has its origin in the Ancient Greek word (didaktikos), "related to education and teaching", and signified learning in a fascinating and intriguing manner.
extra inflation pressure actually gets you better acceleration, traction, and stopping power.
The extra inflation should make the tire harder resulting in lower friction. Hence the better acceleration so long as you control the torque. However, this means that you have less rubber touching the road (note the lower friction) so, in most circumstances, you have lower traction. Lower traction often means less stopping power.
A harder and narrower tyre on the front can increase the precision and response of your steering but this is a potentially lethal error if your vehicle is front-wheel drive as all that power hitting a small surface may result in loss of traction meaning no steering.
Personally, I modify my tyre pressure many times in a day depending on many factors including driving style, surface, load and weather. I generally under-inflate the tyres on my Silvia because this is my wet-weather vehicle. I also want to brake quickly in this vehicle because it is easy to overspeed. My primary vehicle is a Jeep. In good weather, on-road, I tend to over-inflate to help the wallet (with extra care taken for the front tyres). This makes for a very noisy ride and results in the tyres spinning easily or any time I start in first gear.
If this is a stopgap measure to allow me to run Linux on secure boot systems, I'm okay with that until a different viable solution comes along.
Linus is okay with the stopgap measure. What he isn't okay with is including this hack of a hack AND a WIndows PE Binary Blob in the mainline kernel.
I find that this behaviour is the polar opposite of the typical corporate behaviour of lying, cheating, backstabbing and subterfuge that goes on behind all the smiles, handshakes and polite discourse. While it may shock or upset some, I give him kudos for honestly conveying his thoughts AND feelings.
You don't type much while you're pentesting?
I use my desktop for preparation, execution and monitoring while the mobile device is normally taped under someone's desk, left charging at the lobby cafe or simply in lost property depending on the assignment
I prefer security and IT to be unaware that the audit will be performed, as they would be in a malicious attack.
A lot of people are probably going to come on here and talk about how you can just root your standard Android tablet and then set it up to work the same way.
Rooting is inadequate for anything other than basic sniffing and WEP-cracking.
On these devices, the bastardized Wi-Fi drivers are compiled into the kernel which is stored in ROM. In order to do any kind of packet injection, deauth attack or to use monitor mode, a custom kernel hence a custom ROM will be required. For those with a locked bootloader, that will be yet another step.
Yay, a decent OS to run on my Nexus 7
It's still running Android.
This product ships with Android OS 4.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 to run the full range of tools.
While the specs have not been released, I suspect that the Android ships with a mainline kernel instead of Google's Linux Kernel for Android to include glibc, full Wi-Fi support and all GNU libraries. Also, su, a complete different repo/store and stripped of everything Google.
So, same OS, different Version, complete different Distro.