No word yet on Amazon's plans for the new domain suffix, but it's probably safe to say amazonsucks.buy will be added to Amazon's collection of reserved anti-Amazon URLs.
No it won't be added to that list, because Amazon now controls this TLD. It controls what kind of domains appear there. It may not even open this to others.
The hacker released a "Hack Back" document detailing how he hacked the site. It is very well-written and contains some interesting tips for security also.
Please note that we have deliberately not used the term "illegal download". We have used the term "downloading from illegal sources". In the Netherlands this is indeed legal, in other countries it may not be. An illegal source is something like the PirateBay, which has been convicted of illegally sharing copyrighted content in the Netherlands.
We are not "bandying about" some terms, we have chosen them deliberately to be sure that we get taken seriously by both sides of the discussion.
It does take an academic study to get taken seriously by judges. "Common knowledge" is not encoded and therefore not always accepted. Especially if it is only common knowledge among the Internet crowd.
I meant "free" services which store your data for you. As for search engines, there are now options which are more privacy friendly such as DuckDuckGo and others.
The main thing I do to protect my privacy is not to use "free" services, such as Gmail, Hotmail for personal email. I maintain my own server which has a mailserver installed. This means that no-one except me (and anyone who manages to break in) can just access my email. I live in the Netherlands where ISPs are forced to keep "traffic records" of me. Because I'm an academic I get to use the academic ISP, which is not bound by that law, at least for Internet traffic. But having my own mailserver means that also my my email traffic is not monitored and can not be requested by the police. Furthermore, having your own mailserver and domain also makes it very easy to compartmentalise service subscriptions. Just make a new email address for each service.
I used to use Google Calendar, and Contacts but stopped with that since I discovered that OwnCloud is a really decent private drop-in replacement that you can host yourself.
I use many different privacy plugins (Ghostery, Adblock, etc.), while being aware that this makes my browser ID somewhat unique and identifiable. At least I'm making it harder for them.
Looking at the screenshots of their app on the Google Play Store. It looks like they might be doing something with QR codes. Most likely, scanning QR codes requires access to the camera, hence the "Hardware Controls: take pictures and videos" permission.
They have a feature to take a picture of your luggage tag so that you can track it while travelling. Not quite QR codes, but similar.
As always, terminology here matters a lot. Do you mean that some John Does have been lumped together on the same torrent download, or did they all download different torrents? In the first case it is obvious that they interacted, they're cooperatively downloading something. In the latter case, you could argue that they interact somewhat, but on a very minimal level. Torrent files are now usually stored in a distributed hash table, spread over all torrent clients. This peer-to-peer storage system is used to store the torrent file itself, but also the peers that are downloading a particular torrent. So in a sense, everyone is contributing to the download of everyone else by participating in the DHT.
If anyone's interested, I'd be more than happy to share the code and experiences with someone to measure the effect of blocking the websites on bittorrent participation. See https://bitbucket.org/vdham/dutchpirate for the code that was used in the dutch measurements.
A problem with measuring this is that we did not have a good view of the "before" situation, so if this still works, than you can do a good measurement now. Send me a message if you want to know more or need help.
Computer science is probably not going to blow up the world any time soon. The greatest threat from computer programs is to personal privacy. Computer camera's that can read your emotions, cellphones that can track where you are 24/7, online databases that store your online browsing, governments that look through your email, and then I haven't even started with the crackpot theories.
I experienced a good/bad moment not too long ago in my scientific research when I was doing research on the effect of the TPB website blockade on BitTorrent use in the Netherlands. Everyone knows that it had 0 effect, but you have to prove it. So in one afternoon I built a script that could scrape peer-lists, and did some analysis on those.
The evilness of this script is that it can just as well be used by the movie/record industry to easily find out who's downloading. It's not groundbreaking, and they could probably build it themselves too, but still, this gets you thinking about the possible evil use of other research.
This demand from BREIN comes hot on the heels of a University of Amsterdam research (in Dutch) which shows that the blocking the Pirate Bay URL and IPs on certain ISPs has no noticeable effect on torrent downloading activities. Taking down proxies is probably not going to make much of a dent in that either.
I have no idea what kind of console that is, but it doesn't look like much of a "security console" to me.
This movie only shows that they have succesfully created a cloned passport, and that the scanner does not do any security checks. This was already demonstrated some time ago at a local town hall.
Doing this again at an airport adds nothing but hype. It does not prove that security in those things is broken.
If you don't mind switching to OS X (might be a good idea for an ultimate setup anyway), you should try out TextMate. It's a very nice editor, that's extremely extensible and has snippets, macros and commands for almost all mainstream languages.
Have a look at this screencast to see what it can do.
It is payware, but it's a measly EUR 39 and it's worth every eurocent. Plus, it may not be open-source, but it does utilise a lot of open standards.
In Europe the daylight savings moment was already changed a few years back to align all european countries to the same date. (Before we had a month or so where europe had a difference of two hours with the UK).
The change went by very quietly, albeit that there were some jokes about Windows, because IIRC Windows 98 had just shipped and it had the daylight savings change hardcoded into it, which was now happening at the wrong time. So at the apppropriate time, it presented a popup, "Look I've changed the time for you, ain't I great?" And the user just cancels it and changes it back and changes it again at the appropriate time.
Anyway, if you really have applications that depend on synchronization, they should have been using NTP. Maybe daylight savings will effect it negatively, but then this would have happened over time anyway, as the clocks would go out of sync.
This was when i was about 8 or 9 years old and had used one of those very old homecomputers that had TVs as monitors (older than C64), under guidance of my father. Anyway, he had typed over the sourcecode of a game from some magazine and put it on tape so that we could run it. One day, he wasn't home and I felt I knew what I was doing and could start that game myself. I knew what commands he used, so I typed those in.
Then came the hard part, which buttons did he press on the tapedrive? I thought it was two of those buttons, so I pressed 'em both. And after a long wait I realized it wasn't working. And then I also started to realize what I did wrong...you guessed it: I had pressed both play and record, not only ruining that game, but also everything else that was on that side of the tape...
Later I did some other horrible stuff, but this is the one I'll alwasy remember:(
This site is a dutch hosting company which only hosts websites for non-profit organisations. They only use open-source software to host those websites.
I don't know whether it's because it saves a lot of money or that it's an idealistic point of view, but it certainly is a good example:).
I have a 30GB one of this series. Bought it last year or so and still works fine.
In the beginning i thought the drive was extremly noisy and vibrated a lot.
Then all of a sudden, i had a problem with the drive, (can't remember what it was exactly, think it was a small bad sector) and i downloaded the IBM drive diagnostics tool. Checked the whole drive and the tool fixed something for me. After this incident i was a little afraid the drive might die again, but it hasn't happened yet and this was about 6 months ago.
But, more significant for the vibrations is that i fiddled around with some other drive-tools from IBM and i found out that you can lower the spin-rate of the drive just a little bit. This will slow your drive down just a little bit, but it will also make the drive very very very quiet. Nowadays, i don't hear my harddrive anymore, no spinning up, no seeking, nothing. Just the noise of all my fans in the case.
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No it won't be added to that list, because Amazon now controls this TLD. It controls what kind of domains appear there. It may not even open this to others.
The hacker released a "Hack Back" document detailing how he hacked the site. It is very well-written and contains some interesting tips for security also.
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=...
Please note that we have deliberately not used the term "illegal download". We have used the term "downloading from illegal sources". In the Netherlands this is indeed legal, in other countries it may not be. An illegal source is something like the PirateBay, which has been convicted of illegally sharing copyrighted content in the Netherlands.
We are not "bandying about" some terms, we have chosen them deliberately to be sure that we get taken seriously by both sides of the discussion.
This was inserted by the Slashdot editors.
It does take an academic study to get taken seriously by judges. "Common knowledge" is not encoded and therefore not always accepted. Especially if it is only common knowledge among the Internet crowd.
I meant "free" services which store your data for you. As for search engines, there are now options which are more privacy friendly such as DuckDuckGo and others.
The main thing I do to protect my privacy is not to use "free" services, such as Gmail, Hotmail for personal email. I maintain my own server which has a mailserver installed. This means that no-one except me (and anyone who manages to break in) can just access my email.
I live in the Netherlands where ISPs are forced to keep "traffic records" of me. Because I'm an academic I get to use the academic ISP, which is not bound by that law, at least for Internet traffic. But having my own mailserver means that also my my email traffic is not monitored and can not be requested by the police. Furthermore, having your own mailserver and domain also makes it very easy to compartmentalise service subscriptions. Just make a new email address for each service.
I used to use Google Calendar, and Contacts but stopped with that since I discovered that OwnCloud is a really decent private drop-in replacement that you can host yourself.
I use many different privacy plugins (Ghostery, Adblock, etc.), while being aware that this makes my browser ID somewhat unique and identifiable. At least I'm making it harder for them.
Aside from the photos...
Looking at the screenshots of their app on the Google Play Store. It looks like they might be doing something with QR codes. Most likely, scanning QR codes requires access to the camera, hence the "Hardware Controls: take pictures and videos" permission.
They have a feature to take a picture of your luggage tag so that you can track it while travelling. Not quite QR codes, but similar.
As always, terminology here matters a lot. Do you mean that some John Does have been lumped together on the same torrent download, or did they all download different torrents?
In the first case it is obvious that they interacted, they're cooperatively downloading something. In the latter case, you could argue that they interact somewhat, but on a very minimal level. Torrent files are now usually stored in a distributed hash table, spread over all torrent clients. This peer-to-peer storage system is used to store the torrent file itself, but also the peers that are downloading a particular torrent.
So in a sense, everyone is contributing to the download of everyone else by participating in the DHT.
If anyone's interested, I'd be more than happy to share the code and experiences with someone to measure the effect of blocking the websites on bittorrent participation. See https://bitbucket.org/vdham/dutchpirate for the code that was used in the dutch measurements.
A problem with measuring this is that we did not have a good view of the "before" situation, so if this still works, than you can do a good measurement now. Send me a message if you want to know more or need help.
Computer science is probably not going to blow up the world any time soon. The greatest threat from computer programs is to personal privacy. Computer camera's that can read your emotions, cellphones that can track where you are 24/7, online databases that store your online browsing, governments that look through your email, and then I haven't even started with the crackpot theories.
I experienced a good/bad moment not too long ago in my scientific research when I was doing research on the effect of the TPB website blockade on BitTorrent use in the Netherlands. Everyone knows that it had 0 effect, but you have to prove it. So in one afternoon I built a script that could scrape peer-lists, and did some analysis on those.
The evilness of this script is that it can just as well be used by the movie/record industry to easily find out who's downloading. It's not groundbreaking, and they could probably build it themselves too, but still, this gets you thinking about the possible evil use of other research.
This demand from BREIN comes hot on the heels of a University of Amsterdam research (in Dutch) which shows that the blocking the Pirate Bay URL and IPs on certain ISPs has no noticeable effect on torrent downloading activities. Taking down proxies is probably not going to make much of a dent in that either.
Marriage is something that will have to grow between you two. You two have to figure out what feels right and what doesn't.
This is not something that can be read from a book. So stop trying to find wisdom in books and enjoy!
I have no idea what kind of console that is, but it doesn't look like much of a "security console" to me.
This movie only shows that they have succesfully created a cloned passport, and that the scanner does not do any security checks. This was already demonstrated some time ago at a local town hall.
Doing this again at an airport adds nothing but hype. It does not prove that security in those things is broken.
April Fool's is still three days away..
Then the rest of the world would be completely protected from this kind of nitwit US-Centric ideas.
And I know just the way to implement this too: We only allow American websites to visit .us domain websites!
That's regional right?
If you don't mind switching to OS X (might be a good idea for an ultimate setup anyway), you should try out TextMate. It's a very nice editor, that's extremely extensible and has snippets, macros and commands for almost all mainstream languages.
Have a look at this screencast to see what it can do.
It is payware, but it's a measly EUR 39 and it's worth every eurocent. Plus, it may not be open-source, but it does utilise a lot of open standards.
If they mean it in that sense, then unhackable has no meaning. Then it should be unbreakable code, not unhackable.
In Europe the daylight savings moment was already changed a few years back to align all european countries to the same date. (Before we had a month or so where europe had a difference of two hours with the UK).
The change went by very quietly, albeit that there were some jokes about Windows, because IIRC Windows 98 had just shipped and it had the daylight savings change hardcoded into it, which was now happening at the wrong time. So at the apppropriate time, it presented a popup, "Look I've changed the time for you, ain't I great?" And the user just cancels it and changes it back and changes it again at the appropriate time.
Anyway, if you really have applications that depend on synchronization, they should have been using NTP. Maybe daylight savings will effect it negatively, but then this would have happened over time anyway, as the clocks would go out of sync.
Because anything that has 'WS' in it's name and claims to be a webservice is hot and bound to help your stock-price.
This was when i was about 8 or 9 years old and had used one of those very old homecomputers that had TVs as monitors (older than C64), under guidance of my father.
:(
Anyway, he had typed over the sourcecode of a game from some magazine and put it on tape so that we could run it. One day, he wasn't home and I felt I knew what I was doing and could start that game myself. I knew what commands he used, so I typed those in.
Then came the hard part, which buttons did he press on the tapedrive? I thought it was two of those buttons, so I pressed 'em both. And after a long wait I realized it wasn't working.
And then I also started to realize what I did wrong...you guessed it: I had pressed both play and record, not only ruining that game, but also everything else that was on that side of the tape...
Later I did some other horrible stuff, but this is the one I'll alwasy remember
Yes, the last game had 1 million players.
What's even more is that this was the third time it was organised (once each year).
What's best is that it's totally free and you can win the newest phone from Nokia!
This site is a dutch hosting company which only hosts websites for non-profit organisations. They only use open-source software to host those websites.
:).
I don't know whether it's because it saves a lot of money or that it's an idealistic point of view, but it certainly is a good example
Neelix.
Asimov may not have invented the word "robot" as he's often credited for, and perhaps the "three laws" aren't his either, i don't know.
What i do know, is that Asimov was one of the first writers who wrote about personal computers as we use them now. And that was back in the 1940s.
I have a 30GB one of this series. Bought it last year or so and still works fine.
In the beginning i thought the drive was extremly noisy and vibrated a lot.
Then all of a sudden, i had a problem with the drive, (can't remember what it was exactly, think it was a small bad sector) and i downloaded the IBM drive diagnostics tool. Checked the whole drive and the tool fixed something for me. After this incident i was a little afraid the drive might die again, but it hasn't happened yet and this was about 6 months ago.
But, more significant for the vibrations is that i fiddled around with some other drive-tools from IBM and i found out that you can lower the spin-rate of the drive just a little bit. This will slow your drive down just a little bit, but it will also make the drive very very very quiet. Nowadays, i don't hear my harddrive anymore, no spinning up, no seeking, nothing. Just the noise of all my fans in the case.
So perhaps you should try that...