Things in Massachusetts are pretty messed up. I can say that in the last 17 years of "science experiments" I have never had any thought of interference from the authorities. My nearest neighbour is more than twenty miles away and I don't think anyone in Helena knows about my shack anyway but I am ready to defend it with all my improvised "science experiments" when they come.
Yes, that is all you can hope to identify people from. MAC addresses can be changed, machines can have multiple MAC addresses, people can use common access terminals or access the network through NAT / masquerading routers or use a friends computer. All this is possible but the MAC address(es) of your computer:
When a computer is first connected to the Tufts network the user must register their MAC address with their individual username and password.
So it is not a perfect system but it is the best they have and would "catch" most ( non/semi technical ) users.
Nice job from the IT department. They say how difficult it is to extract meaningful information from the ARP cache records, but you don't need them anyway. All they would need to do is keep the DHCP lease logs. Conveniently they
In both cases the retention notice arrived in such close proximity to the expiration of the ten day retention period of the DHCP data that we were unable to access the data before it was overwritten.
So they used the same excuse twice - log rotation - RIAAs new enemy.
I hope they have done something about KickOff. Last time, v 4.0, visually everthing looked slick and modern... except for KickOff. It looked like it was part of another project altogether. I didn't like the look or the layout, although the functionality it offered was a big improvement.
What would happen is that patents that don't "result in a physical transformation of an article" would become unenforceable in law. A precedent would be established though a purely software patent failling to be upheld in court ( as in the cases listed above In re Nuijten, In re Comiskey and In re Bilski). Software companies subsequently trying to enforce their patents would then be at a severe disadvantage, and be less likely to be upheld.
newer traffic management solutions can identify P2P transfers by simply looking at the patterns of your uploads and downloads and not at the individual data packets
The packet headers will not be encrypted of course, along with the size, source, destination and frequency and number of packets transmitted, that's probably enough.
This will lead to governments putting pressure on ISPs to block all P2P traffic. Say goodbye to downloading Linux or other software P2P once P2P clients default to encryption.
Oil futures don't move because a few hundred or a few thousand people get obviously false spam news in their inbox. Future traders have Reuters and Bloomberg live news feeds on their desks in front of them. The reason for this is to sucker people in to visiting their poisoned website.
However, Sophos warned that users visiting the webpage and clicking on the 'video player' run the risk of being infected with the Troj/Tibs-UO Trojan and a malicious JavaScript hidden on the website as Mal/ObfJS-AY.
The validity of a law is inversely proportional to number of people effected. Individual morals are more valid than state laws. Federal laws are to be viewed with suspicion. International laws are pretty much there to oppress humanity.
Consider this. The most valuable and sought after violins in the world are made by Giuseppe Guarneri del GesÃ. He was the grandson of Andrea Guarneri who was appreticed with Stradivari under Nicolo Amati, who designed the modern violin in Cremona. There was set of skills and techniques passed on through the Amati family to Stradivari and the Guarneri family, they just made the best.
You guys can see the problem but have it back to front. It's not Viacom using the federal government, it's the federal governments presence in the market that distorts and corrupts. Viacom is only using the same tools as it's rivals. If the federal government wasn't there the market would function smoothly.
OK, no need to worry too much. Viacomm is a commercial organisation trying to protect its property. Now if it was the government wanting our private data, then there would be a problem.
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Things in Massachusetts are pretty messed up. I can say that in the last 17 years of "science experiments" I have never had any thought of interference from the authorities. My nearest neighbour is more than twenty miles away and I don't think anyone in Helena knows about my shack anyway but I am ready to defend it with all my improvised "science experiments" when they come.
If you have a game to program, if no one else can help you, and if you can find them ...
When a computer is first connected to the Tufts network the user must register their MAC address with their individual username and password.
So it is not a perfect system but it is the best they have and would "catch" most ( non/semi technical ) users.
In both cases the retention notice arrived in such close proximity to the expiration of the ten day retention period of the DHCP data that we were unable to access the data before it was overwritten.
So they used the same excuse twice - log rotation - RIAAs new enemy.
I hope they have done something about KickOff. Last time, v 4.0, visually everthing looked slick and modern ... except for KickOff. It looked like it was part of another project altogether. I didn't like the look or the layout, although the functionality it offered was a big improvement.
What would happen is that patents that don't "result in a physical transformation of an article" would become unenforceable in law. A precedent would be established though a purely software patent failling to be upheld in court ( as in the cases listed above In re Nuijten, In re Comiskey and In re Bilski). Software companies subsequently trying to enforce their patents would then be at a severe disadvantage, and be less likely to be upheld.
newer traffic management solutions can identify P2P transfers by simply looking at the patterns of your uploads and downloads and not at the individual data packets
The packet headers will not be encrypted of course, along with the size, source, destination and frequency and number of packets transmitted, that's probably enough.
This will lead to governments putting pressure on ISPs to block all P2P traffic. Say goodbye to downloading Linux or other software P2P once P2P clients default to encryption.
However, Sophos warned that users visiting the webpage and clicking on the 'video player' run the risk of being infected with the Troj/Tibs-UO Trojan and a malicious JavaScript hidden on the website as Mal/ObfJS-AY.
The validity of a law is inversely proportional to number of people effected. Individual morals are more valid than state laws. Federal laws are to be viewed with suspicion. International laws are pretty much there to oppress humanity.
Consider this. The most valuable and sought after violins in the world are made by Giuseppe Guarneri del GesÃ. He was the grandson of Andrea Guarneri who was appreticed with Stradivari under Nicolo Amati, who designed the modern violin in Cremona. There was set of skills and techniques passed on through the Amati family to Stradivari and the Guarneri family, they just made the best.
I didn't need to download anything. IE7 comes with Vista.
You guys can see the problem but have it back to front. It's not Viacom using the federal government, it's the federal governments presence in the market that distorts and corrupts. Viacom is only using the same tools as it's rivals. If the federal government wasn't there the market would function smoothly.
OK, no need to worry too much. Viacomm is a commercial organisation trying to protect its property. Now if it was the government wanting our private data, then there would be a problem.