If Harvard's professors really do have a valid defense that is intimidating the RIAA from suing them, they should do some pro-bono work for the other schools that ARE getting sued! Help out your fellow institutions for the betterment of everyone!
I'm sorry, but why are the parents of these kids asking the age old questions of their kids???
Where are you going? Who are you going with? Who is going to be there? What are you going to be doing? Do I know these people? (If the parent doesn't know them, then they probably shouldn't let their kids hang out with them unsupervised!)
I mean what the hell people! It's not a website's responsibility to keep your kids away from predators, IT'S YOURS!
There are 2 issues here, the University's right to control their own infrastructure, and the right of the students/faculty to use WiFi equipment of their own.
These issues are not in conflict with each other though. The reason being that the university could employ a multitude of tactics to make sure that the WAP's are not used on their infrastructure. Once such technique would be to authorize only specific MAC addresses (yes i know MAC's can be spoofed by WAP's). Another technique would be to run NMAP scans against the IP addresses on the networks to determine possible OS fingerprinting. And yet another technique woudl be to access any WAP's being used in the vicinity and see if they are able to access the campus network, and THEN track where the WAP is and take action on the owner/violator of the AUP.
As you can see these are all tactics that do not require banning Wi-Fi (which only the FCC would have the authority to do) and also secures their infrastructure.
Those TOS documents are written by people who are notoriously uninformed about how the technology is supposed to be used. Access to the Internet is supposed to be unrestricted and unfiltered. Also another major concept is that it's supposed to be a community in which all parties are equally capable of contributing.
Perhaps those concepts are too difficult for an AC, and perhaps you're willing to live in a world where the only way to serve content to others is via someone else's service, but for me I want the Internet the way it was originally designed and not the way some corporation(s) think it should be presented.
... This is starting to worry me a little. I have been happily running my own mail server for over a year now. The reason being is that I want the ability to host all my own solutions and at the same time use the bandwidth i'm already paying for.
With wonderful dynamic DNS services like no-ip.org I am able to do this on any dynamic IP and I have no reason to worry about needing one of those pesky static IP addresses.
Hopefully if something were to happen where I'd start getting blocked I could just use my connections at work and contact their e-mail admins directly to resolve the issue. However this slash and burn tactic is just the wrong way to go about fighting spam. Hence one of the reasons I left Earthlink/Mindspring, who block e-mail from ALL Dynamic IP addresses and also block outbound port 25 on their networks.
The difference is that the LOCATION and TIME are verifiable by tons of accounting records. Whereas in this situation there is not definitive proof that says WHERE or WHEN the picture was taken. If the picture was taken in a similar looking establishment down the road, across teh state, or in a different country they can't be sure. Also if the picture was taken before the law was established it would be inadmissable also (that's a far stretch though). The point though is that there is no way to verify the picture was under the jurisdiction of the Lincoln police department. Also, simply stating on her website where it may or maynot have been taken is not evidence either simply because it could be a lie. Remember stuff posted on her website is not under oath by penalty of perjury.
There is not just 1 CD. And I doubt the professor woudl let it out of the class. He's slightly over protective of the tools because of the possible ramifications. All the tools are on the Internet anyways. The book Counter Hack by Ed Skoudis is the guideline for teh course. ISBN 0-13-033273-9
I'm a Graduating Senior at GA Tech and a professor here is already doing this! He has created a class called Network Security that focuses on mimicing the Internet in a completely unconnected network of systems. This allows for the students to learn how to use rootkits, honeynets, viruses, worms, buffer exploits, etc. The goal of the class is that if you explain how all this stuff works, you can also explain how to defend against it all in the real world. The nice part is that we are encouraged to try and break everything (not physically) with the understanding that if we do, we have to explain it later on. The class is only in it's 2nd semester and has only received a $100,000 grant from Cisco but it's definitely shaping up nicely. You can check it out some more by viewing HERE
I'm planning on using this whole number portability thing to negotiate for a better cell phone, and in return i'll sign another year contract or something. Seems only fair to me.
There are many cases on the books that basically say if someone can have ANY expectation of being hailed into another state, then they can be supeonaed and must appear in the calling court to defend themselves or face summary judgement. I think the really binding one involved the mother on the partridge family and an editor and writer from a tabloid. I know one case to start with is International Shoe vs. Washington.
This can't be the same Lufthansa I flew from Paris to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Atlanta! Those planes throughly SUCKED! They didn't have TV or in flight movies of any kind. Only 1 sky phone per row. I was spoiled on British Airways to London (Video screen in every head rest, phone/remote in every arm rest, & free unlimited snacks). I can't beleive that Lufthansa, one of the crappiest airlines i've ever flown on, is going to be one of the first to offer wireless internet in flight. It just Boggles my mind.
BTW, I flew these flights in April of 1999 for reference.
I found out that a good way to defeat the computers that do automatic dialing is to place the tone for a wrong/disconnected number at the beginning of your answering machine message, followed by a second or 2 of silence, and then your real message. Then set the number of rings to like 1 or 2. This way the machine hears the tones for a wrong number and immediately hangs up, whereas everyone else is slow compared to a computer and will hear your message just as they are thinking they might have a wrong number. It might be a little confusing for some people at first, but after you explain it to a few people everyone should understand what you're trying to do.
Just always remember that it's better to use their own system against them, then to just sit there and take it up the a$$.
I was an intern for their marietta office about a year ago now. I tested their new 360 USB/ETHERNET modem. The service worked fairly well on the testing labs. Of course it had it's share of problems with lag time, and down time due to weather. But the service wasn't designed to compete with DSL or Cable Modems. It was designed for people who couldn't get any other form of broadband, and didn't want to use a regular dial-up service for the upstream.
I knew even a year ago that they were having severe financial troubles. They couldn't even afford to pay me and the other interns $10/hour for any more then 20 hours per week. Plus I was kinda offered a job as a tier 3 tech (would handle things no other tech coudl figure out) but it was retracted because they couldn't afford more people.
I hope that Starband works everythign out. Like it or not, it's the only hope for many people across the US to get some form of broadband service.
How come we haven't seen anything yet about them trying to hijack battle.com or something of that nature? i mean they own Battle.net and i think people would be pretty likely to try and type in battle.com (for those that don't really know the difference and think everything is a.com) but they haven't tried anything to my knowledge of getting that domain (which is actually a pointer to some company called "BookMarksPlus")
whatcha think?
BTW, i agree that they should be more worried about getting Diablo II out fairly soon instead of such trivial things as domain names they don't need.. Hell they have the important one..
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If Harvard's professors really do have a valid defense that is intimidating the RIAA from suing them, they should do some pro-bono work for the other schools that ARE getting sued! Help out your fellow institutions for the betterment of everyone!
I'm sorry, but why are the parents of these kids asking the age old questions of their kids???
Where are you going?
Who are you going with?
Who is going to be there?
What are you going to be doing?
Do I know these people? (If the parent doesn't know them, then they probably shouldn't let their kids hang out with them unsupervised!)
I mean what the hell people! It's not a website's responsibility to keep your kids away from predators, IT'S YOURS!
You'll probably want to look into the Internet Security Systems products for IDS and IPS.
RealSecure Network Sensor and the Proventia A appliance are passive IDS.
The Proventia G is a transparent inline IPS.
The Proventia M is an inline firewall with IPS built-in, along with lots of other modules.
Check out http://www.iss.net/
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Rob
Rather than spending MORE money to send the product back, just buy it from a retailer with a liberal return policy!!!
Wouldn't it be called Load Balancing?????
Just use the same material those new trash bags are made of, they STRETCH! woohoo!
There are 2 issues here, the University's right to control their own infrastructure, and the right of the students/faculty to use WiFi equipment of their own.
These issues are not in conflict with each other though. The reason being that the university could employ a multitude of tactics to make sure that the WAP's are not used on their infrastructure. Once such technique would be to authorize only specific MAC addresses (yes i know MAC's can be spoofed by WAP's). Another technique would be to run NMAP scans against the IP addresses on the networks to determine possible OS fingerprinting. And yet another technique woudl be to access any WAP's being used in the vicinity and see if they are able to access the campus network, and THEN track where the WAP is and take action on the owner/violator of the AUP.
As you can see these are all tactics that do not require banning Wi-Fi (which only the FCC would have the authority to do) and also secures their infrastructure.
Those TOS documents are written by people who are notoriously uninformed about how the technology is supposed to be used. Access to the Internet is supposed to be unrestricted and unfiltered. Also another major concept is that it's supposed to be a community in which all parties are equally capable of contributing.
Perhaps those concepts are too difficult for an AC, and perhaps you're willing to live in a world where the only way to serve content to others is via someone else's service, but for me I want the Internet the way it was originally designed and not the way some corporation(s) think it should be presented.
... This is starting to worry me a little. I have been happily running my own mail server for over a year now. The reason being is that I want the ability to host all my own solutions and at the same time use the bandwidth i'm already paying for.
With wonderful dynamic DNS services like no-ip.org I am able to do this on any dynamic IP and I have no reason to worry about needing one of those pesky static IP addresses.
Hopefully if something were to happen where I'd start getting blocked I could just use my connections at work and contact their e-mail admins directly to resolve the issue. However this slash and burn tactic is just the wrong way to go about fighting spam. Hence one of the reasons I left Earthlink/Mindspring, who block e-mail from ALL Dynamic IP addresses and also block outbound port 25 on their networks.
The difference is that the LOCATION and TIME are verifiable by tons of accounting records. Whereas in this situation there is not definitive proof that says WHERE or WHEN the picture was taken. If the picture was taken in a similar looking establishment down the road, across teh state, or in a different country they can't be sure. Also if the picture was taken before the law was established it would be inadmissable also (that's a far stretch though). The point though is that there is no way to verify the picture was under the jurisdiction of the Lincoln police department. Also, simply stating on her website where it may or maynot have been taken is not evidence either simply because it could be a lie. Remember stuff posted on her website is not under oath by penalty of perjury.
There is not just 1 CD. And I doubt the professor woudl let it out of the class. He's slightly over protective of the tools because of the possible ramifications. All the tools are on the Internet anyways. The book Counter Hack by Ed Skoudis is the guideline for teh course. ISBN 0-13-033273-9
I'm a Graduating Senior at GA Tech and a professor here is already doing this! He has created a class called Network Security that focuses on mimicing the Internet in a completely unconnected network of systems. This allows for the students to learn how to use rootkits, honeynets, viruses, worms, buffer exploits, etc. The goal of the class is that if you explain how all this stuff works, you can also explain how to defend against it all in the real world. The nice part is that we are encouraged to try and break everything (not physically) with the understanding that if we do, we have to explain it later on. The class is only in it's 2nd semester and has only received a $100,000 grant from Cisco but it's definitely shaping up nicely. You can check it out some more by viewing HERE
I'm planning on using this whole number portability thing to negotiate for a better cell phone, and in return i'll sign another year contract or something. Seems only fair to me.
Wouldn't it just be easier to create a giant trebuchet and hurl the pod into space???? If anything it'd be a nifty Junkyard Wars project :)
There are many cases on the books that basically say if someone can have ANY expectation of being hailed into another state, then they can be supeonaed and must appear in the calling court to defend themselves or face summary judgement. I think the really binding one involved the mother on the partridge family and an editor and writer from a tabloid. I know one case to start with is International Shoe vs. Washington.
This can't be the same Lufthansa I flew from Paris to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Atlanta! Those planes throughly SUCKED! They didn't have TV or in flight movies of any kind. Only 1 sky phone per row. I was spoiled on British Airways to London (Video screen in every head rest, phone/remote in every arm rest, & free unlimited snacks). I can't beleive that Lufthansa, one of the crappiest airlines i've ever flown on, is going to be one of the first to offer wireless internet in flight. It just Boggles my mind.
BTW, I flew these flights in April of 1999 for reference.
I found out that a good way to defeat the computers that do automatic dialing is to place the tone for a wrong/disconnected number at the beginning of your answering machine message, followed by a second or 2 of silence, and then your real message. Then set the number of rings to like 1 or 2. This way the machine hears the tones for a wrong number and immediately hangs up, whereas everyone else is slow compared to a computer and will hear your message just as they are thinking they might have a wrong number. It might be a little confusing for some people at first, but after you explain it to a few people everyone should understand what you're trying to do.
Just always remember that it's better to use their own system against them, then to just sit there and take it up the a$$.
Rob
I think SG-1 air's first at 9PM, and then Farscape airs at 10MP.. Well at least here in ATL.
I was an intern for their marietta office about a year ago now. I tested their new 360 USB/ETHERNET modem. The service worked fairly well on the testing labs. Of course it had it's share of problems with lag time, and down time due to weather. But the service wasn't designed to compete with DSL or Cable Modems. It was designed for people who couldn't get any other form of broadband, and didn't want to use a regular dial-up service for the upstream.
I knew even a year ago that they were having severe financial troubles. They couldn't even afford to pay me and the other interns $10/hour for any more then 20 hours per week. Plus I was kinda offered a job as a tier 3 tech (would handle things no other tech coudl figure out) but it was retracted because they couldn't afford more people.
I hope that Starband works everythign out. Like it or not, it's the only hope for many people across the US to get some form of broadband service.
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These are from the Abbott and Costello routine "Who's on First".
How come we haven't seen anything yet about them trying to hijack battle.com or something of that nature? i mean they own Battle.net and i think people would be pretty likely to try and type in battle.com (for those that don't really know the difference and think everything is a .com) but they haven't tried anything to my knowledge of getting that domain (which is actually a pointer to some company called "BookMarksPlus")
whatcha think?
BTW, i agree that they should be more worried about getting Diablo II out fairly soon instead of such trivial things as domain names they don't need.. Hell they have the important one..