But in Sweden, most municipal broadband in apartment buildings is run directly from an ethernet router/rj45 jack in the wall. 100/100 costs 30$/month - and the population density here is very low. Outside cities it's DSL or cable, of course, but the cities have quite a low population density (or at least it looks that way, there's not much upwards building when land is cheap.) The reason the US has such a poor backbone is obviously because of monopoly stagnation; if the network was state funded and treated like any other basic infrastructure (roads, water, electricity) this problem wouldn't exist. Granted, I'm not sure how much of the US infrastructure is state-owned.
This attack doesn't belong to the class of "smashing" attacks ASLR and DEP is designed to prevent. It's like expecting salted passwords to help you defend against misconfigured NFS shares.
I have not "mastered quantum physics", I simply understand single-photon quantum state checked lines in the context of computer security. Thus, I get to manhandle grammar however I wish.
The primary use (for the user) of cookies are session cookies. If it wasn't for session cookies, I would just disable them. Maybe you could add a "whitelist this site for cookies y/n?" query right after "do you want to save the password for this site"?
Yes, or Apple thinks so anyway. Remember, it's all about the user experience, and if thightly regulating the apps allowed inside the walled garden contributes to that, then so be it. This is not how I or most other here use software, but to people who have no actual technical skills it's probably a boon. Most people with money most likely have no technical skills, or at least no inclination to fiddle around with computers.
So, the attack works like this: the middle man sends a continuous laser down to one of the recievers, and simultaneously reads off the transmitted photons (disrupting their state). When "blinded" by this laser light, the reciever still reads the information from the transmitted photon data, but ignores it's quantum state. I don't know the limitations and techniques behind constructing quantum-state detecting photon recievers, but this just has to be a flaw in this particular construction? Maybe the state detector gets overloaded? In any case, it seems the system has been "patched" already.
So the "Testing"/"+1 Insightful" messages sprinkled over the discussions from the last weeks actually was, as I thought, test messages for modbots? Did anyone else think that when they saw them?
An offtopic thought: given the recent (re?)surge of seemingly organized trolls here, mod points allocated by the automated system are going to waste, both from the karma-whoring trolls to mod up their own posts and from the people in the audience/freakshow modding them down. I have come across recent discussions in the usual places regarding playing the Slashdot moderation system, so I think the question must be asked: how many points wasted would be needed to destabilize the system by impoverishing it? If the number of posts and moderations increase and remain stable over a period of time, malicious or not, will the system compensate?
The government must restrict monopolies. Without a government, the monopoly holders would find some other way to stop upstarts besides putting pressure on the local offices. A truly free market will devolve into a pit of snakes very fast, taking in both those who have and those who have not.
They're neutral evil. They do what's necessary to get ahead, including pretending to be victims, pretending to be lawful neutral, lying about working for the artists when they're ripping them off... I'm not saying that everyone inside the RIAA is a psychopath but, the organisation as a whole is. And whomever is in charge probably is. They cannot possibly shelter themselves from reality to the degree that they could not notice the evil and misery they are causing. And if they are psychopaths, they're laughing at our weakness.
How does a concept or invention, wrought in the mind of the originator through hard work, differ from a piece of music? In that the first is "more serious" than the other, and thus deserves special treatment?
$270 USD might be a small fine for us, but 2,000 kroner sounds like a lot (instead of it being 270 kroner = 270 USD it's nearly ten times that).
I don't mean to inflame (I really don't), but that's conceptually wrong. 2000 SEK is worth the equivalent of 270 USD... etc. Unless you where making a subtle joke about the mistake itself? *confused*
No, in that case it's the parent's debt. Until you are 18 years of age, your parents take the final financial responsibility for everything you do. Although you are criminally responsible and can be imprisoned for your own actions from 15 years of age.
No, I can source this. I have a relative who works for the smithsonian on a project to establish professional links between the US and Swedish education systems. His opinion after having seen both is that the US high school system is utter garbage compared to the Swedish.
I have thought about this - and come to the conclusion that some people would actually prefer to live in a world full of aggressive conflict, climbing and competition.
Such things do not happen here in Sweden, because we have a functioning public high-school system. The US does not, from my understanding it's more like a part-time juvenile detention facility where you can choose to study if you feel like it. Also, the colder cultural climate (often mistaken as "chronic suicidal depression on a country-wide scale") might be a contributor to not running into hot-headed schemes.
You might not understand the Swedish concept of "dagsböter." Lidingö is a high-class neighbourhood, and dagsböter fines are judged from a person's daily income (or in this case, their parents.). Also, you fail at understanding exchange rates - 270 USD is 2000 SEK, means 2000SEK is worth the equivalent of 270$. So the fine is, indeed, 270$.
Also, note that it was "dagsböter", a Swedish form of fine based on a person's daily income. This was Lidingö, so presumably they (their parents) had some money to spare - a normal person would probably have gotten an order of magnitude smaller fine.
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But in Sweden, most municipal broadband in apartment buildings is run directly from an ethernet router/rj45 jack in the wall. 100/100 costs 30$/month - and the population density here is very low. Outside cities it's DSL or cable, of course, but the cities have quite a low population density (or at least it looks that way, there's not much upwards building when land is cheap.) The reason the US has such a poor backbone is obviously because of monopoly stagnation; if the network was state funded and treated like any other basic infrastructure (roads, water, electricity) this problem wouldn't exist. Granted, I'm not sure how much of the US infrastructure is state-owned.
So this man played a game for an average of just under 12 hours a day, every day, for five years?
Sweet, sweet hyperreality.
Doubtful. The political climate here would have to change quite dramatically for that to be the case.
This attack doesn't belong to the class of "smashing" attacks ASLR and DEP is designed to prevent. It's like expecting salted passwords to help you defend against misconfigured NFS shares.
I have not "mastered quantum physics", I simply understand single-photon quantum state checked lines in the context of computer security. Thus, I get to manhandle grammar however I wish.
The primary use (for the user) of cookies are session cookies. If it wasn't for session cookies, I would just disable them. Maybe you could add a "whitelist this site for cookies y/n?" query right after "do you want to save the password for this site"?
Yes, or Apple thinks so anyway. Remember, it's all about the user experience, and if thightly regulating the apps allowed inside the walled garden contributes to that, then so be it. This is not how I or most other here use software, but to people who have no actual technical skills it's probably a boon. Most people with money most likely have no technical skills, or at least no inclination to fiddle around with computers.
So, the attack works like this: the middle man sends a continuous laser down to one of the recievers, and simultaneously reads off the transmitted photons (disrupting their state). When "blinded" by this laser light, the reciever still reads the information from the transmitted photon data, but ignores it's quantum state. I don't know the limitations and techniques behind constructing quantum-state detecting photon recievers, but this just has to be a flaw in this particular construction? Maybe the state detector gets overloaded? In any case, it seems the system has been "patched" already.
So the "Testing"/"+1 Insightful" messages sprinkled over the discussions from the last weeks actually was, as I thought, test messages for modbots? Did anyone else think that when they saw them?
An offtopic thought: given the recent (re?)surge of seemingly organized trolls here, mod points allocated by the automated system are going to waste, both from the karma-whoring trolls to mod up their own posts and from the people in the audience/freakshow modding them down. I have come across recent discussions in the usual places regarding playing the Slashdot moderation system, so I think the question must be asked: how many points wasted would be needed to destabilize the system by impoverishing it? If the number of posts and moderations increase and remain stable over a period of time, malicious or not, will the system compensate?
The government must restrict monopolies. Without a government, the monopoly holders would find some other way to stop upstarts besides putting pressure on the local offices. A truly free market will devolve into a pit of snakes very fast, taking in both those who have and those who have not.
Between music and patentable ideas that is, not between a combination spor and earwax auger and "Imagine".
Ach, how horrible then that psychopathy is considered incurable by the medical sciences.
You argue that there is a difference. Do elaborate.
They're neutral evil. They do what's necessary to get ahead, including pretending to be victims, pretending to be lawful neutral, lying about working for the artists when they're ripping them off...
I'm not saying that everyone inside the RIAA is a psychopath but, the organisation as a whole is. And whomever is in charge probably is. They cannot possibly shelter themselves from reality to the degree that they could not notice the evil and misery they are causing. And if they are psychopaths, they're laughing at our weakness.
How does a concept or invention, wrought in the mind of the originator through hard work, differ from a piece of music? In that the first is "more serious" than the other, and thus deserves special treatment?
$270 USD might be a small fine for us, but 2,000 kroner sounds like a lot (instead of it being 270 kroner = 270 USD it's nearly ten times that).
I don't mean to inflame (I really don't), but that's conceptually wrong. 2000 SEK is worth the equivalent of 270 USD... etc. Unless you where making a subtle joke about the mistake itself? *confused*
No, in that case it's the parent's debt. Until you are 18 years of age, your parents take the final financial responsibility for everything you do. Although you are criminally responsible and can be imprisoned for your own actions from 15 years of age.
"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it."
No, I can source this. I have a relative who works for the smithsonian on a project to establish professional links between the US and Swedish education systems. His opinion after having seen both is that the US high school system is utter garbage compared to the Swedish.
I have thought about this - and come to the conclusion that some people would actually prefer to live in a world full of aggressive conflict, climbing and competition.
Such things do not happen here in Sweden, because we have a functioning public high-school system. The US does not, from my understanding it's more like a part-time juvenile detention facility where you can choose to study if you feel like it. Also, the colder cultural climate (often mistaken as "chronic suicidal depression on a country-wide scale") might be a contributor to not running into hot-headed schemes.
You might not understand the Swedish concept of "dagsböter." Lidingö is a high-class neighbourhood, and dagsböter fines are judged from a person's daily income (or in this case, their parents.). Also, you fail at understanding exchange rates - 270 USD is 2000 SEK, means 2000SEK is worth the equivalent of 270$. So the fine is, indeed, 270$.
Also, note that it was "dagsböter", a Swedish form of fine based on a person's daily income. This was Lidingö, so presumably they (their parents) had some money to spare - a normal person would probably have gotten an order of magnitude smaller fine.