Offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands are used for tax fraud???? I thought they were there for decoration. Seriously; I was under the opinion that their reputation along these lines was well-established?
Well, technically speaking; there were many networks between Napster and bittorrent -- AudioGalaxy; Gnutella and its various clients, Morpheus, Kazaa... They keep getting struck down; and keep getting more savvy and functional. bittorrent has value as an actual distribution channel (I'd argue that AudioGalaxy had the potential to be the solution for bridging P2P filesharing and a profit model for bands, but that's another rant).
So even if bittorrent somehow gets compromised (too many bad seeds, spying, lawsuits, etc.), there will be another evolution in the sharing tools. It's a cat-and-mouse game that will continue until the Industry realizes that it's business model is gone and that it must (wait for it) innovate!
And from TFA: "...an automated script to run nearly 44,000 MySpace user profiles through one of the ad-supported sites, MySpacePrivateProfile.com -- a process he says took about 94 hours"
uh... seriously? Did no one notice a huge spike of requests for only images from one IP, over the course of almost four days?
Though I guess this seems to be just the most egregious violation of this hole (any double entendre based on the potential content of said pictures is unintentional); as "The MySpace hole surfaced last fall, [...] A YouTube video showed how to use the bug to retrieve private profile photos. The bug also spawned a number of ad-supported sites that made it easy to retrieve photos. One such site reported more than 77,000 queries before MySpace closed the hole last Friday following Wired News' report." (emphasis mine)
So, as long as your privacy hole doesn't get on Wired's front page, you don't need to close it, I guess?
he immediately jumps from DRM-free music to giving away all music for free
We call those strawmen arguments 'round here...
I think you're right. People want a connection to the artist, and don't want to feel like thieves. I paid for Radiohead's In Rainbows album - voluntarily. I do a quick RIAA-Radar search on any CD I want to buy; if it's from a RIAA label, I don't buy it (oddly enough, I want to buy very few big-label albums...)
Any game system that doesn't have an upgrade path or eventual hope of being emulated well is not on my wish list; as I'd have really be up a creek without a paddle when my NES Super DodgeBall cartridge finally went to the great dust jacket in the sky..
What prompted your questioning of this in defense of Wayan post? I think it's excessively odd to recurse so deeply; you must have an ulterior, microsoft-backed motive!
Have you been following the distribution problems of G1G1? I ordered mine right before xmas and the best estimate of delivery I can get from them is "Early 2008"
The suckiest part is that this story was from January... 2007, and it blew over when everyone realized he worked with a non-profit that works with Intel.
The Silicon Valley Sleuth article is a year old this month, based off of Chris's blog post from 2006, was explained in the comments at olpcnews here (quick summary for you non-RTFA-types; he worked at a non-profit organization that partnered with tech firms to bridge the digital divide, and yes, one of them was intel; it's as much having on-the-ground experience with ICT projects as anything else): http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/mandriva_classmate_linux.html ; and the guy doesn't even work at the same organization anymore. By posting anonymously, you have to wonder who's astroturfing whom?
I just searched netsolatemydomainsearch.{everything they offered} and then checked it on godaddy. The dot com version was taken, but the other TLDs were left alone.
Even more disgusting, the whois record has a freaking advert in it from netsol:
Registrant: This Domain is available at NetworkSolutions.com 13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300 HERNDON, VA 20171 US
Domain Name: NETSOLATEMYDOMAINSEARCH.COM
This Domain is Available - Register it Now! 600,000 domain names are registered daily! Don't delay; there's no guarantee that a domain name you see today will still be here tomorrow! Register it Now at www.NetworkSolutions.com.
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact: Network Solutions, LLC domainsupport@networksolutions.com 13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300 HERNDON, VA 20171 US 1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620
Record expires on 08-Jan-2009. Record created on 08-Jan-2008. Database last updated on 8-Jan-2008 15:33:32 EST.
Even better, add in a step; after you query your seed list, add the godaddy suggestions (my* i* e* d* m* *online *sucks *rules etc.) and your interestingness system, loop and requery by combining any hits that turned up positive into a new seed list. Bonus: you're bound to ping someone who's paranoid about domain/copyright infringement eventually...
Or, y'know, partition your hard drive and not automount the private section. Are they really going to go to enough trouble to find that? Or even to decrypt encrypted files if they're not sitting on the desktop?
Not to say it's a good policy, or that my solution is anything but the oft-maligned security through obscurity, but just being realistic about the IT skill levels and time of TSA screeners.
Maybe I should remove those EFF stickers like "Come back with a warrant" and "P2P is not a crime"... and instead wrap my laptop in 4th amendement tape...
That was my thought; if you're running windows, you're frustrated. Therefore, the WGA annoyance to check if you're running windows is automatically a frustration monitor. Just another example of MS defining the standard and then expecting everyone else to conform to it, after they have a first-out-the-door advantage.;)
Yeah, I have a long, long list of worse offenders than Apple in producing crippleware. It'd be tough to figure out where to start!! Cell phone companies? Microsoft? Cable providers? Apple would be pretty low on my list. Anyone tried to see if this schlub is on the take from MS?
An IT and a Web Design union would've been a beautiful thing at reigning in Microsoft, not to mention reducing cowboy coding of last-minute must-have features...
The Kindle is a step towards a god ebook reader. I thought it was common knowledge that you'd have to replicate a book's functionality with an ereader before you could supplant the book, but I guess Amazon didn't quite get that memo? This thread has been dancing around that; need for ruggedness, page anotation/marking, loading your own content, and so on.
For $400, I'd rather get a Give-one-Get-one OLPC laptop with better screen resolution in black&white mode, better battery life, and the ability to put on whatever files you want. It has wifi instead of GSM,so you have to be a bit more deliberate about when you want to sync your books, but otherwise...
I suspect that the sources of this news story may have been stale? It's hardly new news that The SD slot is there, and there at the request of Microsoft. So... uh... have fun stormin the castle?
This could be happily avoided by turning all images on the public side of your wifi connection into unicorns or lolcats with some upside-down-ternet action as promoted via http://xkcd.org/341/
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But what will we do after peak gravity?
One guarantee: it's all downhill from there.
Offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands are used for tax fraud???? I thought they were there for decoration. Seriously; I was under the opinion that their reputation along these lines was well-established?
Well, technically speaking; there were many networks between Napster and bittorrent -- AudioGalaxy; Gnutella and its various clients, Morpheus, Kazaa... They keep getting struck down; and keep getting more savvy and functional. bittorrent has value as an actual distribution channel (I'd argue that AudioGalaxy had the potential to be the solution for bridging P2P filesharing and a profit model for bands, but that's another rant).
So even if bittorrent somehow gets compromised (too many bad seeds, spying, lawsuits, etc.), there will be another evolution in the sharing tools. It's a cat-and-mouse game that will continue until the Industry realizes that it's business model is gone and that it must (wait for it) innovate!
But I dream.
And from TFA: "...an automated script to run nearly 44,000 MySpace user profiles through one of the ad-supported sites, MySpacePrivateProfile.com -- a process he says took about 94 hours"
uh... seriously? Did no one notice a huge spike of requests for only images from one IP, over the course of almost four days?
Though I guess this seems to be just the most egregious violation of this hole (any double entendre based on the potential content of said pictures is unintentional); as "The MySpace hole surfaced last fall, [...] A YouTube video showed how to use the bug to retrieve private profile photos. The bug also spawned a number of ad-supported sites that made it easy to retrieve photos. One such site reported more than 77,000 queries before MySpace closed the hole last Friday following Wired News' report." (emphasis mine)
So, as long as your privacy hole doesn't get on Wired's front page, you don't need to close it, I guess?
unlike http://zombo.com/ ; which just taunts you.
he immediately jumps from DRM-free music to giving away all music for free
We call those strawmen arguments 'round here...
I think you're right. People want a connection to the artist, and don't want to feel like thieves. I paid for Radiohead's In Rainbows album - voluntarily. I do a quick RIAA-Radar search on any CD I want to buy; if it's from a RIAA label, I don't buy it (oddly enough, I want to buy very few big-label albums...)
Any game system that doesn't have an upgrade path or eventual hope of being emulated well is not on my wish list; as I'd have really be up a creek without a paddle when my NES Super DodgeBall cartridge finally went to the great dust jacket in the sky..
What prompted your questioning of this in defense of Wayan post? I think it's excessively odd to recurse so deeply; you must have an ulterior, microsoft-backed motive!
Have you been following the distribution problems of G1G1? I ordered mine right before xmas and the best estimate of delivery I can get from them is "Early 2008"
Wait, hold on, a geek who's plugged in to Intel and OLPC hardware debates is getting married??? There's your conspiracy, right there! :)
The suckiest part is that this story was from January ... 2007, and it blew over when everyone realized he worked with a non-profit that works with Intel.
Hey, to be fair, the linked articles and blogs are all from 2006/early 2007, when everyone was still calling it that.
old, stale, dealt-with astroturf?
The Silicon Valley Sleuth article is a year old this month, based off of Chris's blog post from 2006, was explained in the comments at olpcnews here (quick summary for you non-RTFA-types; he worked at a non-profit organization that partnered with tech firms to bridge the digital divide, and yes, one of them was intel; it's as much having on-the-ground experience with ICT projects as anything else): http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/mandriva_classmate_linux.html ; and the guy doesn't even work at the same organization anymore. By posting anonymously, you have to wonder who's astroturfing whom?
no no no, guys -- this would only apply to rich copyright holders and/or consortia of IP owners. Your copyright can still be infringed as per normal.
I just searched netsolatemydomainsearch.{everything they offered} and then checked it on godaddy. The dot com version was taken, but the other TLDs were left alone.
e.g. netsol screenshot of me searching for a few sites:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/griffjon/2178156179/
GoDaddy saying the dot com version is taken:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/griffjon/2178156285/in/photostream/
Even more disgusting, the whois record has a freaking advert in it from netsol:
Registrant:
This Domain is available at NetworkSolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
Domain Name: NETSOLATEMYDOMAINSEARCH.COM
This Domain is Available - Register it Now!
600,000 domain names are registered daily! Don't delay; there's no guarantee
that a domain name you see today will still be here tomorrow!
Register it Now at www.NetworkSolutions.com.
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC domainsupport@networksolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620
Record expires on 08-Jan-2009.
Record created on 08-Jan-2008.
Database last updated on 8-Jan-2008 15:33:32 EST.
Even better, add in a step; after you query your seed list, add the godaddy suggestions (my* i* e* d* m* *online *sucks *rules etc.) and your interestingness system, loop and requery by combining any hits that turned up positive into a new seed list. Bonus: you're bound to ping someone who's paranoid about domain/copyright infringement eventually...
Or, y'know, partition your hard drive and not automount the private section. Are they really going to go to enough trouble to find that? Or even to decrypt encrypted files if they're not sitting on the desktop?
... and instead wrap my laptop in 4th amendement tape...
Not to say it's a good policy, or that my solution is anything but the oft-maligned security through obscurity, but just being realistic about the IT skill levels and time of TSA screeners.
Maybe I should remove those EFF stickers like "Come back with a warrant" and "P2P is not a crime"
That was my thought; if you're running windows, you're frustrated. Therefore, the WGA annoyance to check if you're running windows is automatically a frustration monitor. Just another example of MS defining the standard and then expecting everyone else to conform to it, after they have a first-out-the-door advantage. ;)
Yeah, I have a long, long list of worse offenders than Apple in producing crippleware. It'd be tough to figure out where to start!! Cell phone companies? Microsoft? Cable providers? Apple would be pretty low on my list. Anyone tried to see if this schlub is on the take from MS?
No no, you misunderstood; they're taking a 10 hour long coffee /break/ to go look at the meteors. Totally acceptable.
I heard they were working on a bundled release with DukeNukem Forever...
An IT and a Web Design union would've been a beautiful thing at reigning in Microsoft, not to mention reducing cowboy coding of last-minute must-have features...
The Kindle is a step towards a god ebook reader. I thought it was common knowledge that you'd have to replicate a book's functionality with an ereader before you could supplant the book, but I guess Amazon didn't quite get that memo? This thread has been dancing around that; need for ruggedness, page anotation/marking, loading your own content, and so on.
For $400, I'd rather get a Give-one-Get-one OLPC laptop with better screen resolution in black&white mode, better battery life, and the ability to put on whatever files you want. It has wifi instead of GSM,so you have to be a bit more deliberate about when you want to sync your books, but otherwise...
I suspect that the sources of this news story may have been stale? It's hardly new news that The SD slot is there, and there at the request of Microsoft. So ... uh ... have fun stormin the castle?
This could be happily avoided by turning all images on the public side of your wifi connection into unicorns or lolcats with some upside-down-ternet action as promoted via http://xkcd.org/341/