This is a carrier's policy not Google or Android... ATT will allow you to tether, but you have to buy a tethering plan for $60 a month.
This is kinda stupid tho since the "unlimited" internet plan has a 6GB limit and so does the tethering plan. Why should they care how you use your bandwidth? Ghey... I can download a 4GB movie to my phone, at the same speed then transfer it to my computer. Not that I'd ever waste 4 out of my 6GB doing that.
You can just tether your phone anyway, but if you get caught they'll switch on the tethering plan and charge you for it.
Carriers are freaking whacked. that's the only thing that can possibly explain their guaranteeing that hardly anyone will use the coolest features of mobile devices.
If someone opened a carrier with a good network, and without stupid restrictions like that, ATT would go out of business. Don't even say Verizon because they lock everything out of their phones.
It's neither, it's capitalist. The education industry is one of the largest in the country. It's too bad they fail miserably at their corporate mission.
some token neoconservatives can't change the fact that it's the Clinton News Network. Neo-cons are secretly working for the DNC anyway. That's why McCain got a Lieberman endorsement.
The RNC is a bunch of phonies, a puppet party. There isn't a real conservative in the whole lot. If there were, they wouldn't be pushing religion into politics since one of the basic tenets the country was founded on was *separation of church and state*
..."Why don't I do what they are telling me so I don't get sued out of existence, even though I might be right?"
Dude, paraphrase the damned questions, do what they are saying, and get the copyrighted material off.
Even if you "win" you lose. Unless, of course, you have the money to burn defending yourself, or get pro bono representation by the EFF or something. In that case, by all means, fight them. Knock yourself out!
IANAL but this is just common sense. This is the land of the golden rule and if you can't afford representation, or get free representation, you do what you are told or you will suffer.
If you can fight it and plan to, why do you care what we think? Your attorney can give you much better advice. If you can't afford it, get that crap off your site before the take down offer is no longer any good and they start the suit.
The reality of the matter is you have to decide if spending a bunch of money on attorney(s) is worth keeping a forum post up unchanged. I'd like to answer your question with one of my own. Is it worth it to you?
> Which makes the attack more difficult in operating systems which do not allow users to run with Administrative rights all the time.
No such animal... There are OS's that *encourage* you to run as non root users, but there are none that *disallow* it per se. As well even those OS's/distros which strongly encourage you to not run as root have sudo, which you can use to add yourself to all the right groups.
A lot of users sudo stuff out of habit when it won't run. They are effectively numb to the intent of using sudo and not running as root or the ramifications of what they are doing. "Oh requires root, let me just sudo that... ok done".
This just about negates the purpose of forcing authentication on any operation that requires root access to complete, outside of drive-by attacks. In a lot of cases the users are so used to doing it, they'll just do it for the virus too.
/sarcasm on
Oh that's right! mac and linux computers are immune to viruses, so this whole sudo thing is irrelevant... /sarcasm off
White list, default deny for the win. It's only rough for a little while.
There is no better way than to keep the banners from popping up in the first place...
As well if you lock your firewall down, there's no way for her to go some place you don't allow.
It's not about being KGB on your kid, it's about not letting harmful stuff into your network.
My network is unmonitored, and I don't stand over my kids shoulder (figuratively speaking), but I do know that any source of content coming into my network has been approved by me.
Before anyone tells me this can be bypassed with a proxy, be aware that I have to approve the proxy for it to work;)
Battery life figures are utterly useless. CPU load varies from user to user (consider the guy who is checking email, vs the guy who is gaming) to the point where any attempt to measure battery life, other than full tilt 100% cpu utilization, is doomed to failure.
It'd be better to produce the 100% CPU battery life figure since then everyone's expectations are managed and all will perform at or above the published battery life numbers in the field.
The industry is ridiculous and opens itself up to class action lawsuits.
Now here we go dropping science dropping it all over Like bumping around the town like when you're driving a range rover Expanding the horizons and expanding the parameters Expanding the rhymes of sucker m.c. amateurs Naugels, isaac newton scientific e.z. Ben franklin with the kite getting over with the key Rock shocking the mic as many times times the times tables Rock well to tell dispel all of the old fables I've been dropping the new science and kicking the new knowledge An m.c. to a degree that you can't get in college The dregs of the earth and the eggs that i eat I've got pegs through my hands and one through my feet Shea stadium the radium e m d squared Got kicked out of the palladium you think that i cared It's the sound of science
Time and money for girls covered with honey You lie and aspire to be as cunning Reeling and rockin' and rollin' b size d cup Order the quarter deluxe why don't you wake up My mind is kinda flowin like an oil projector Had to get up to get the jimmy protector Went berserk and worked and exploded She woke up in the morning and her face was coated Buddy you study the man on the mic D. do what you like Drunk a skunk am i from the celebration To peep that freak unique penetration I figured out who makes the crack It's the suckers with the badges and the blue jackets A professor of science cause i keep droppin' it I smell weak cause you keep poppin' it People always asking what's the phenomenon Yo what's up know what's going on No one really knows what i'm talking about Yeah that's right my name's yauch
Ponce de leon constantly on The fountain of youth not robotron Peace is a word i've heard before So move and move and move upon the dance floor I'm gonna die gonna die one day Cause i'm goin and goin and goin this way Not like a roach or a piece of toast I'm going out first class not going out coach Rock my adidas never rock fila I do not sniff the coke i only smoke sinsemilla With my nose i knows and with my scopes i scope What i live i write and that is strictly rope I've got science for any occasion Postulating theorems formulating equations Cheech wizard in a snow blizzard Eating chicken gizzards with a girl named lizzy Dropping science like when galileo dropped the orange
Only this one works in all languages: 1. Filter your input with a character white list 2. Limit your input size 3. convert input to the smallest character set possible and finally 4. Use prepared statements (or stored procedures in conjunction with prepared statements) for all sql queries
Beyond that it's all host and database security.
Application security is Really Simple(tm): Assume all input is malicious. Code accordingly.
The more powerful a language (whether scripting or not) is, and the more it opens up the underlying system, the more inherently dangerous it is. PHP is more exploitable than a lot of stuff because it opens up a pretty big chunk of C and available system libraries. This characteristic also makes it a powerful scripting language.
C is arguably the most insecure language of all, out done only by assembler. Guess what PHP (and just about the entire system) is written in? C. So it's just as accurate to say that operating systems, kernels and drivers are insecure;)
I'm not saying they aren't, I'm just saying. The authors of this book are kind of framing PHP in the wrong light... EVERY single chapter in this book could be re-written for any language because they all have the same hazards.
You are assuming that an online service is subject to the same rules of evidence that apply to the courtroom.
They don't. Microsoft can ban you if they want to, at any time for any reason, right or wrong, justified or not, as can any other gaming company.
They do it all the time for some pretty thin reasons. As well since she had it posted in her profile, all ms had to do was look at her profile to see it, which is all the evidence they need, even if they were required to only ban people that violated their ToS, which they aren't.
The problem with sheep isn't only that they are easily herded but that they have short memories too. You can occasionally freak out the herd and make them break ranks but as soon as order is restored they forget about it. That's effectively how humans handle crises though the time frame is larger than with sheep. >----------- If people weren't sheep, everyone in congress and senate would be freshmen because most of them are the same people that created this mess. The fact that we have 10 term congressmen is a real indicator of how short the majority's memory is.
`We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.`
Albert Einstein
The new new deal is the exact same type of thinking that was used when the seeds of our current problem and crushing national debt were created.
Socialism is doomed to repeat it's failures, period. This country is on life support and the prognosis is grim.
More importantly if there is a school rule that says no texting you aren't allowed to text. It's pretty simple, break the rule, face the consequences. If you don't like the rule you are free to campaign to have it changed or find another school, but otherwise you need to follow the rules if you are to be permitted to attend the school. If they let her off from breaking that rule, it kinda sends the message that all rules can be broken, and the order of the environment will break down.
I'm not sure the law needs to be brought in though. That's a little harsh unless they suspended her and she showed up anyway or refused to leave, which is trespassing.
I predict that the judge will throw this out and reprimand the school for wasting his time. A simple suspension is all that is warranted. This is an example of a frustrated administrator being an ass and overstepping his authority.
You mistake the original intent of taxes, with the current use of taxes. It's a common mistake for democrats.
And bail is not a social program. You got it backwards. Don't worry, we forgive you. Bail is supposed to be set by the potential danger posed to the community by the perp and the severity of the crime. Since this guy isn't likely to get his job back, this is 0 risk. He also didn't do any damage.
And the fact that bail is refunded when you show up doesn't help you if you can't produce the funds when you need the bail;)
"...one alternative would, in effect, create a 'gated community' where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety..."
Those who give up freedom for security shall not have, nor do they deserve, either.
-Ben Franklin
I'm with David Akin. All the mainstream users will use internet v2, and take the criminals with them. Internet v1 will go back to what it was in 1993 and be relatively safe due to lack of interest by users and subsequently the criminals.
To use the open wireless access point as an example. If someone sits outside your house and downloads kiddie porn, or starts running brute force attacks against NSA through your connection, the feds will show up and confiscate every electronic computer and storage device in your house so they can run forensics on it, which may take them 2-3 years to get to. Meanwhile all your stuff is sitting in an evidence room depreciating.
Sure you might not get into trouble if there's no evidence on any of your gear or storage, but by the time you get it all back, it will be useless and way out of date.
If you factor this depreciation, and you have a lot of gear and storage, the cost is huge. Then you have attorney bills and your reputation to worry about. You will never fully recover your reputation even if you are 100% innocent.
Leaving that default password on your router has a lot of potential to screw your life up in ways you wouldn't expect.
Because this is the United Socialist States of America. This is not a capitalist country, we have turned into a socialist country. What happens in socialist countries? Everything begins to suck and they eventually implode because there's no incentive to try any more.
We have regulated ourselves right out of being able to compete with the rest of the world.
Look around you, I rest my case. Everything from the roads to broadband sucks in this country. Bridges are falling apart while the government keeps defunct and irrelevant companies on life support with our tax dollars for no benefit at all to the very people paying the damn taxes, which happen to be killing me, I don't know about you.
The only way to fix it is to exercise our vote and have a bloodless revolution. Unfortunately everyone keeps voting for the same people over and over or doesn't bother. These criminals are driving this country into the ground with people like Nancy Pelosi leading the charge./sigh
We have become sheeple. We have created our own reality and allowed our government to become a government of the politicians for the politicians.
Better vote them out before they take the right to vote away.
It wasn't worse. In fact, in a busy system like Jita, or for large scale pvp, it was better. The frame rates were slightly lower, however the lag you get when undocking or loading into 50+ ships, with 900+ in the planetary system all but disappeared using the client in Wine.
On my system , it went from 20-30 seconds of black screen in Windows XP, down to 0-3 in Gentoo/Wine when undocking or jumping into system. I lost 20 FPS but when you are getting 90+, that's no big loss in an mmorpg.
Then again, I could never get the transgaming client to work, but got the stock Windows client working easily under my custom compiled WINE with patches, on Gentoo./meh
If I still played, I'd be using it in Gentoo, running in Wine so would be unaffected. Anyone that pvps or does a lot in Empire would take the fps hit for the black screen lag reduction any day of the week. It's definitely worth figuring out Wine.
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>Warp drives would become rapidly unstable once superluminal speeds are reached
So invent a warp core stabilizer.
[where's my easy button?]
This is a carrier's policy not Google or Android...
ATT will allow you to tether, but you have to buy a tethering plan for $60 a month.
This is kinda stupid tho since the "unlimited" internet plan has a 6GB limit and so does the tethering plan. Why should they care how you use your bandwidth? Ghey... I can download a 4GB movie to my phone, at the same speed then transfer it to my computer. Not that I'd ever waste 4 out of my 6GB doing that.
You can just tether your phone anyway, but if you get caught they'll switch on the tethering plan and charge you for it.
Carriers are freaking whacked. that's the only thing that can possibly explain their guaranteeing that hardly anyone will use the coolest features of mobile devices.
If someone opened a carrier with a good network, and without stupid restrictions like that, ATT would go out of business. Don't even say Verizon because they lock everything out of their phones.
-Viz
>it'll be interesting to see what publishers learn from this.
People have less disposable income when the economy is in the toilet, and (duh...) games are a luxury?
It doesn't take an economist (or game publisher) to figure that one out.
I'm just a regular developer (as opposed to game developer) and I know this ;)
-Viz
It's neither, it's capitalist. The education industry is one of the largest in the country. It's too bad they fail miserably at their corporate mission.
some token neoconservatives can't change the fact that it's the Clinton News Network. Neo-cons are secretly working for the DNC anyway. That's why McCain got a Lieberman endorsement.
The RNC is a bunch of phonies, a puppet party. There isn't a real conservative in the whole lot. If there were, they wouldn't be pushing religion into politics since one of the basic tenets the country was founded on was *separation of church and state*
Don't get me started on no child left behind...
Well you know that Sham-Wow is made in Germany and Germans always make great stuff!
..."Why don't I do what they are telling me so I don't get sued out of existence, even though I might be right?"
Dude, paraphrase the damned questions, do what they are saying, and get the copyrighted material off.
Even if you "win" you lose. Unless, of course, you have the money to burn defending yourself, or get pro bono representation by the EFF or something. In that case, by all means, fight them. Knock yourself out!
IANAL but this is just common sense. This is the land of the golden rule and if you can't afford representation, or get free representation, you do what you are told or you will suffer.
If you can fight it and plan to, why do you care what we think? Your attorney can give you much better advice. If you can't afford it, get that crap off your site before the take down offer is no longer any good and they start the suit.
The reality of the matter is you have to decide if spending a bunch of money on attorney(s) is worth keeping a forum post up unchanged. I'd like to answer your question with one of my own. Is it worth it to you?
-Viz
> Which makes the attack more difficult in operating systems which do not allow users to run with Administrative rights all the time.
No such animal... There are OS's that *encourage* you to run as non root users, but there are none that *disallow* it per se. As well even those OS's/distros which strongly encourage you to not run as root have sudo, which you can use to add yourself to all the right groups.
A lot of users sudo stuff out of habit when it won't run. They are effectively numb to the intent of using sudo and not running as root or the ramifications of what they are doing. "Oh requires root, let me just sudo that... ok done".
This just about negates the purpose of forcing authentication on any operation that requires root access to complete, outside of drive-by attacks. In a lot of cases the users are so used to doing it, they'll just do it for the virus too.
Oh that's right! mac and linux computers are immune to viruses, so this whole sudo thing is irrelevant...
/sarcasm off
-Viz
White list, default deny for the win. It's only rough for a little while.
There is no better way than to keep the banners from popping up in the first place...
As well if you lock your firewall down, there's no way for her to go some place you don't allow.
It's not about being KGB on your kid, it's about not letting harmful stuff into your network.
My network is unmonitored, and I don't stand over my kids shoulder (figuratively speaking), but I do know that any source of content coming into my network has been approved by me.
Before anyone tells me this can be bypassed with a proxy, be aware that I have to approve the proxy for it to work ;)
-Viz
All I gotta say is use it or lose it...
> The memory is also not that great (wasn't to start with).
Hmmm, I can't remember if my memory was ever any better...
-Viz
Battery life figures are utterly useless. CPU load varies from user to user (consider the guy who is checking email, vs the guy who is gaming) to the point where any attempt to measure battery life, other than full tilt 100% cpu utilization, is doomed to failure.
It'd be better to produce the 100% CPU battery life figure since then everyone's expectations are managed and all will perform at or above the published battery life numbers in the field.
The industry is ridiculous and opens itself up to class action lawsuits.
-Viz
Now here we go dropping science dropping it all over
Like bumping around the town like when you're driving a range rover
Expanding the horizons and expanding the parameters
Expanding the rhymes of sucker m.c. amateurs
Naugels, isaac newton scientific e.z.
Ben franklin with the kite getting over with the key
Rock shocking the mic as many times times the times tables
Rock well to tell dispel all of the old fables
I've been dropping the new science and kicking the new knowledge
An m.c. to a degree that you can't get in college
The dregs of the earth and the eggs that i eat
I've got pegs through my hands and one through my feet
Shea stadium the radium e m d squared
Got kicked out of the palladium you think that i cared
It's the sound of science
Time and money for girls covered with honey
You lie and aspire to be as cunning
Reeling and rockin' and rollin' b size d cup
Order the quarter deluxe why don't you wake up
My mind is kinda flowin like an oil projector
Had to get up to get the jimmy protector
Went berserk and worked and exploded
She woke up in the morning and her face was coated
Buddy you study the man on the mic
D. do what you like
Drunk a skunk am i from the celebration
To peep that freak unique penetration
I figured out who makes the crack
It's the suckers with the badges and the blue jackets
A professor of science cause i keep droppin' it
I smell weak cause you keep poppin' it
People always asking what's the phenomenon
Yo what's up know what's going on
No one really knows what i'm talking about
Yeah that's right my name's yauch
Ponce de leon constantly on
The fountain of youth not robotron
Peace is a word i've heard before
So move and move and move upon the dance floor
I'm gonna die gonna die one day
Cause i'm goin and goin and goin this way
Not like a roach or a piece of toast
I'm going out first class not going out coach
Rock my adidas never rock fila
I do not sniff the coke i only smoke sinsemilla
With my nose i knows and with my scopes i scope
What i live i write and that is strictly rope
I've got science for any occasion
Postulating theorems formulating equations
Cheech wizard in a snow blizzard
Eating chicken gizzards with a girl named lizzy
Dropping science like when galileo dropped the orange
-Beastie Boys
>The USA has been one of the absolute leaders in scientific research
Like stem cell research, which was banned until this week? Banned by last bunch of retards that ran this country, in the name of religion...
Yea we are really cutting edge!
LOL so true. That's like reading an article on Slashdot about how stealing music leads to more music sales.
Patently absurd...
-Viz
Only this one works in all languages:
1. Filter your input with a character white list
2. Limit your input size
3. convert input to the smallest character set possible
and finally
4. Use prepared statements (or stored procedures in conjunction with prepared statements) for all sql queries
Beyond that it's all host and database security.
Application security is Really Simple(tm):
Assume all input is malicious. Code accordingly.
The more powerful a language (whether scripting or not) is, and the more it opens up the underlying system, the more inherently dangerous it is. PHP is more exploitable than a lot of stuff because it opens up a pretty big chunk of C and available system libraries. This characteristic also makes it a powerful scripting language.
C is arguably the most insecure language of all, out done only by assembler. Guess what PHP (and just about the entire system) is written in? C. So it's just as accurate to say that operating systems, kernels and drivers are insecure ;)
I'm not saying they aren't, I'm just saying. The authors of this book are kind of framing PHP in the wrong light... EVERY single chapter in this book could be re-written for any language because they all have the same hazards.
-Viz
You are assuming that an online service is subject to the same rules of evidence that apply to the courtroom.
They don't. Microsoft can ban you if they want to, at any time for any reason, right or wrong, justified or not, as can any other gaming company.
They do it all the time for some pretty thin reasons. As well since she had it posted in her profile, all ms had to do was look at her profile to see it, which is all the evidence they need, even if they were required to only ban people that violated their ToS, which they aren't.
-Viz
The problem with sheep isn't only that they are easily herded but that they have short memories too. You can occasionally freak out the herd and make them break ranks but as soon as order is restored they forget about it. That's effectively how humans handle crises though the time frame is larger than with sheep.
>-----------
If people weren't sheep, everyone in congress and senate would be freshmen because most of them are the same people that created this mess. The fact that we have 10 term congressmen is a real indicator of how short the majority's memory is.
`We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.`
Albert Einstein
The new new deal is the exact same type of thinking that was used when the seeds of our current problem and crushing national debt were created.
Socialism is doomed to repeat it's failures, period. This country is on life support and the prognosis is grim.
-Viz
More importantly if there is a school rule that says no texting you aren't allowed to text. It's pretty simple, break the rule, face the consequences. If you don't like the rule you are free to campaign to have it changed or find another school, but otherwise you need to follow the rules if you are to be permitted to attend the school. If they let her off from breaking that rule, it kinda sends the message that all rules can be broken, and the order of the environment will break down.
I'm not sure the law needs to be brought in though. That's a little harsh unless they suspended her and she showed up anyway or refused to leave, which is trespassing.
I predict that the judge will throw this out and reprimand the school for wasting his time. A simple suspension is all that is warranted. This is an example of a frustrated administrator being an ass and overstepping his authority.
-Viz
You mistake the original intent of taxes, with the current use of taxes. It's a common mistake for democrats.
And bail is not a social program. You got it backwards. Don't worry, we forgive you. Bail is supposed to be set by the potential danger posed to the community by the perp and the severity of the crime. Since this guy isn't likely to get his job back, this is 0 risk. He also didn't do any damage.
And the fact that bail is refunded when you show up doesn't help you if you can't produce the funds when you need the bail ;)
This guy is getting screwed by people simply because they are pissed off. It's pretty unprofessional of the prosecutor and judge to set bail that high. You could be a cop charged with murder and get and get a lower bail, like this guy http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/06/ca-train-station-shooting-020609/?zIndex=49309.
That's also a betrayal of trust. Murderers routinely get $1m bails.
This guy is getting f**ked.
"...one alternative would, in effect, create a 'gated community' where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety..."
Those who give up freedom for security shall not have, nor do they deserve, either.
-Ben Franklin
I'm with David Akin. All the mainstream users will use internet v2, and take the criminals with them. Internet v1 will go back to what it was in 1993 and be relatively safe due to lack of interest by users and subsequently the criminals.
-Viz
"And people don't believe me when I tell them all this new-fangled technology is held together by duct-tape and baling wire!"
Dude, get it right, you forgot the chewing gum. It's a very important component!
For real.
To use the open wireless access point as an example. If someone sits outside your house and downloads kiddie porn, or starts running brute force attacks against NSA through your connection, the feds will show up and confiscate every electronic computer and storage device in your house so they can run forensics on it, which may take them 2-3 years to get to. Meanwhile all your stuff is sitting in an evidence room depreciating.
Sure you might not get into trouble if there's no evidence on any of your gear or storage, but by the time you get it all back, it will be useless and way out of date.
If you factor this depreciation, and you have a lot of gear and storage, the cost is huge. Then you have attorney bills and your reputation to worry about. You will never fully recover your reputation even if you are 100% innocent.
Leaving that default password on your router has a lot of potential to screw your life up in ways you wouldn't expect.
-Viz
"why not give competition a chance?"
Because this is the United Socialist States of America. This is not a capitalist country, we have turned into a socialist country. What happens in socialist countries? Everything begins to suck and they eventually implode because there's no incentive to try any more.
We have regulated ourselves right out of being able to compete with the rest of the world.
Look around you, I rest my case. Everything from the roads to broadband sucks in this country. Bridges are falling apart while the government keeps defunct and irrelevant companies on life support with our tax dollars for no benefit at all to the very people paying the damn taxes, which happen to be killing me, I don't know about you.
The only way to fix it is to exercise our vote and have a bloodless revolution. Unfortunately everyone keeps voting for the same people over and over or doesn't bother. These criminals are driving this country into the ground with people like Nancy Pelosi leading the charge. /sigh
We have become sheeple. We have created our own reality and allowed our government to become a government of the politicians for the politicians.
Better vote them out before they take the right to vote away.
-Viz
It wasn't worse. In fact, in a busy system like Jita, or for large scale pvp, it was better. The frame rates were slightly lower, however the lag you get when undocking or loading into 50+ ships, with 900+ in the planetary system all but disappeared using the client in Wine.
On my system , it went from 20-30 seconds of black screen in Windows XP, down to 0-3 in Gentoo/Wine when undocking or jumping into system. I lost 20 FPS but when you are getting 90+, that's no big loss in an mmorpg.
Then again, I could never get the transgaming client to work, but got the stock Windows client working easily under my custom compiled WINE with patches, on Gentoo. /meh
If I still played, I'd be using it in Gentoo, running in Wine so would be unaffected. Anyone that pvps or does a lot in Empire would take the fps hit for the black screen lag reduction any day of the week. It's definitely worth figuring out Wine.
-Viz