They'll go out of business if they do. They just need to make sure that their directors don't ever visit the US.
However, if the penalty for disobeying the bill rests with the US banks then they'll probably feel compelled to block transactions to Neteller and Firepay.
Either way, there's really nothing stopping you from setting up an offshore account with a bona-fide bank and using that to fund your accounts. I'm sure some enterprising bank in the caymens will start accomodating this $12bn niche.
If their chat software happens to use SSL then you'll be SOL at the router level unless you can employ some fairly sophistacated MIM attack. Of course if your kid knows SSL then they'll know you are watching.
I had the net in my bedroom from about age 16 and my parents were pretty trusting. My dad's a software developer and is a very smart guy, but when it comes to internet technology I do and almost always have run the show.
I'm not sure if it would have been different given all the paranoia these days, but i never thought anything of the dangers of meeting people in real life (even travelling across the country or abroad alone) and my parents trusted me to make decent decisions. No-one was ever not who they said they were, give or take a couple of years on their age.
Was I just lucky or is this mass paranoia unjustified?
I was always very happy with Vonage Customer Service (moreso than i was with their call quality) because they were one of the few companies where a real human answered the phone on the first ring instead of sending you through some menu hell.
I suppose they probably got rid of that when they grew.
Would all be great candidates for on demand streaming. It doesn't matter if the screen is 1.5" across when you are watching survivor or scrubs, and if it were priced well then it could be usable on airports, trains, planes (if you can save it to your phone) etc...
Sports work much better with a 52" screen - everybody knows that.
When i'm stuck in traffic, which is thankfully very rare, the vast vast majority of vehicles have only a single occupant.
I'm psyched that they are finally building lots of stores and resturants near enough to me that I can bike there, should save some more gas and burn a few extra pounds.
Most households almost certainly dispose of a relatively similar number of old appliances and electronics.
It makes more sense to up property taxes a hair and then provide the service to everyone in the county; much easier than trying to pick up a few dollars here and there.
I have to drive to a neighboring county and pay to get rid of crts etc because my county is so assbackwards.
Sounds interesting. The problem with launching all the attacks from one computer is that they can easily discount any IP that supplies more than one username/password.
However I think we'd somehow need to heuristically interpret the fishing site. As you've observed, an individual site is rarely up long enough to actually be analyzed.
Perhaps a a java application where someone can enter the phising url they were given. The application would pull down the html, find the form and then the user could map the supplied fields to a set of random data generators.
It could then create some sort of attack profile that would be propogated over it's own P2P network to other hosts. Hopefully it'd take less than a minute to create a phish attack; i'd be happy to do that every few days when i get a message.
There would be the possibility for malicious use, but a few hundred fake login requests would hardly damage the vast majority of legit sites, but it would completely destroy the value of any phished data.
When it comes to a paper like "Write about different cellphone network technologies", even if i'm not "plaugurizing" I can still pull up an article on Wikipedia, translate it into my own words find a few references and be done in well under an hour.
If the problem statement is:
EvilCo Cell company have a single high power tower covering a large city. They only have 22 Mhz of bandwidth and their current FDMA scheme only allows 687 simultanous calls to be placed. Assuming they are free to change their phones, but cant get any new frequency space, discuss options for expanding the number of users they can handle.
then you really can't copy any significant part of your solution from the internet. Sure you can pull up a definition of CDMA but unless you really understand it, then there's no way you'll integrate it into your answer.
My wife has a batchelors in criminal justice, and many of her papers were incredibly open-ended, like "Should incarceration be for rehabilitation or punishment. Discuss."
Her professors obviously didn't co-ordinate their assignments and there would be considerable overlap between topics and classes.
Compared to math assignments that ask you to find the optimal angle and maximum range for a 1kg projectile fired at 30 m/s, there is a distinct difference.
Interestingly, I have actually been accused of plagurism identified by one of these automated systems. In some entry level C programming class, they somehow flagged that my entry unacceptably matched that of another student. Despite the fact that before the accusation I was in the top 10% of the class and s/he was in the bottom 10%, they argued that they couldn't tell who copied who.
It was a very distressing experience. His entry didn't even compile, had obviously been typed into word (it had uppercase I as a loop variable) and was handed in two days late yet I had my grade pulled from an A to B (he stayed at F).
At the time the university did a piss-poor job of maintaining their printers. As so I think I sent the job to print, not realizing there was no paper, and then I couldn't remove it from the queue (because they had problems with students setting their jobs to high priority, the removed all access to lpq). He probably picked it up the following day when some admin restocked the printer.
In the end my parents moved to start legal action and they quickly caved and sent an official apology. I don't believe the department ever tried that again.
My limited experience of English papers was that there was a certain amount more personal interpretation and less right/wrong. You can write a paper about the roles of comedic characters in Shakespeare's work and still get an A even though you disagree with the professor. There's a lot less latitude when it comes to writing a paper on, say, how you would approach reducing the power consumption of a given circuit.
My experience, which unfortunately compares high school english and french literature with degree level engineering, suggests that it's easier to make an engineering problem sufficiently specialized that you can have a high degree of certainty that it's never been asked before. I'm not sure that can be done so easily when study mainstream literary bodies.
If the goal is to get me to learn something new, then why even set a paper that could partly reuse something i've written before.
I've used older works of my own as a basis for new work. It'd be foolish not to. Just like we all build our code into reusable chunks so that when it's needed on the next project we can leverage the time already put into it.
I had an interesting conversation with this about one of the senior staff members in our electronics department. He was of the mindset that plagurism really didn't matter if you structure the question in such a way that it need to show understanding. As long as the request is sufficiently targetted that you can't wholesale copy another paper, then what's the real problem if you find a paragraph in another person's paper that fits perfectly with what you need. (although in those cases why not just cite it as a source).
Engineering may be unique because papers usually need to show a deep understanding, and a professor who knows and works with you should be able to quickly see if it's not your work.
I can see how it would be a much bigger problem in something like English Lit.
In my CS&E course, quite a few of the students did assignments that were industry-sponsored. Depending on the industry, they could be under relatively strict non-disclosure rules. If services like this make students sign away their rights to enter an NDA then it will affect their ability to pick up sponsorships from a wide spectrum of industry.
IMHO, doing an industry-sponsored project isn't the best idea since you'll have to pander to their outcomes and not focus on work that shows the limit of your skills.
Rather than trying to get the sites taken down, which can take a day or two, why not create a p2p project that has thousand of computers log into every site and submit completely random account details.
That way they'll be sufficiently overwhelmed with fake data that it'll be hard to get the real stuff.
Started Basic at about 5 or 6, Pascal about 12/13, Perl about 15/16, Java about 17 and never really got that into C or assembly except on embedded stuff.
Ironically i'm now maintaining a VB application, and can put my 2 decades of experience to use.
Credibility is very much specific to the subject matter and it would seem to be hard to apply to wikipedia.
I know people that i think are absolutely credible sources about technology subjects, but who I wouldn't consider credible in discussing say politics (although i'm sure they feel they were qualified).
I see your point about having to assess how likely it was that someone would spout off something inaccurate, but i feel that most people do that at some point or another (see Slashdot)
1) You need to boot bsd specially into a dtrace mode to use this. That presumably means that the BSD version either slows the system is isn't of production quality. When my database server is dying under the load, rebooting it isn't high on the list of things I want to do.
2) FreeBSD are pretty nimble at developing this kind of thing. I'm more curious to see how long it takes MS or Dell to have something comparable.
3) Sun provided the source and a development machine; presumably because of FreeBSD's favorable licensing. I'm not sure that's an option for any closed source product.
I'm sure in a lab demo, they are using a precision aligned waveguide to "simulate" the gas distribution network. The minor problem of the creaky unpredicable reality of the natural gas pipes will "be figured out in a future round of financing"
DTrace has a degree of OS integration that makes it non-trivial to copy, linux's alternatives don't even come close even though a tool like this would be very useful in linux.
For the foreseeable future, if you want to have this type of debugging on your server then the server has to run Solaris. And if your server is bigger than a 4-way then it makes sense that it's a Sun server.
There is value in premium gear, and while it won't make Sun the next Dell, it can hopefully help improve their standing in their core market.
What if you are only in the US for 3 or 4 months, a J-1 visa has an 18 month limit. However you need to have a job before you can get a J-1.
The problem I encountered with the J-1 was that I couldn't get renters insurance without a credit check. I was able to get a corporate Amex without a credit score and use that to build credit, but that's hardly an option for everyone.
Like you say, it's not hard to build credit in a few years. I was issued a SSN in 2001 and i have a 682 credit score, a 4.875% (30 yr fixed) mortgage and a 0% car loan. Still i'm a long way short of my wife's score, despite having a higher income.
Obviously this wont work if everyone does it, but why not force users to spend at least 10 minutes on your site and hit at least 4 pages before being allowed to post a comment. You could completely hide the comment forms until they meet these requirements so that the spammers would essentially never find the form to submit.
Does anyone here keep multiple internet connections at home?
I currently have microwave fixed wireless and i'm considering getting a cheap dsl or cable package as a backup. I work from home and since i'm paid hourly it costs me dearly when my connectivity drops off.
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We'll see machines with suitably fast integrated video. The Mobo market isn't going to sit back and hand business to the graphics card market.
They'll go out of business if they do. They just need to make sure that their directors don't ever visit the US.
However, if the penalty for disobeying the bill rests with the US banks then they'll probably feel compelled to block transactions to Neteller and Firepay.
Either way, there's really nothing stopping you from setting up an offshore account with a bona-fide bank and using that to fund your accounts. I'm sure some enterprising bank in the caymens will start accomodating this $12bn niche.
If their chat software happens to use SSL then you'll be SOL at the router level unless you can employ some fairly sophistacated MIM attack. Of course if your kid knows SSL then they'll know you are watching.
I had the net in my bedroom from about age 16 and my parents were pretty trusting. My dad's a software developer and is a very smart guy, but when it comes to internet technology I do and almost always have run the show.
I'm not sure if it would have been different given all the paranoia these days, but i never thought anything of the dangers of meeting people in real life (even travelling across the country or abroad alone) and my parents trusted me to make decent decisions. No-one was ever not who they said they were, give or take a couple of years on their age.
Was I just lucky or is this mass paranoia unjustified?
I was always very happy with Vonage Customer Service (moreso than i was with their call quality) because they were one of the few companies where a real human answered the phone on the first ring instead of sending you through some menu hell.
I suppose they probably got rid of that when they grew.
Would all be great candidates for on demand streaming. It doesn't matter if the screen is 1.5" across when you are watching survivor or scrubs, and if it were priced well then it could be usable on airports, trains, planes (if you can save it to your phone) etc...
Sports work much better with a 52" screen - everybody knows that.
When i'm stuck in traffic, which is thankfully very rare, the vast vast majority of vehicles have only a single occupant.
I'm psyched that they are finally building lots of stores and resturants near enough to me that I can bike there, should save some more gas and burn a few extra pounds.
Most households almost certainly dispose of a relatively similar number of old appliances and electronics.
It makes more sense to up property taxes a hair and then provide the service to everyone in the county; much easier than trying to pick up a few dollars here and there.
I have to drive to a neighboring county and pay to get rid of crts etc because my county is so assbackwards.
These guys:
http://www.betterlight.com/products4X5.asp
Have been making high resolution scanning backs for large format cameras for years now.
Sounds interesting. The problem with launching all the attacks from one computer is that they can easily discount any IP that supplies more than one username/password.
However I think we'd somehow need to heuristically interpret the fishing site. As you've observed, an individual site is rarely up long enough to actually be analyzed.
Perhaps a a java application where someone can enter the phising url they were given. The application would pull down the html, find the form and then the user could map the supplied fields to a set of random data generators.
It could then create some sort of attack profile that would be propogated over it's own P2P network to other hosts. Hopefully it'd take less than a minute to create a phish attack; i'd be happy to do that every few days when i get a message.
There would be the possibility for malicious use, but a few hundred fake login requests would hardly damage the vast majority of legit sites, but it would completely destroy the value of any phished data.
When it comes to a paper like "Write about different cellphone network technologies", even if i'm not "plaugurizing" I can still pull up an article on Wikipedia, translate it into my own words find a few references and be done in well under an hour.
If the problem statement is:
EvilCo Cell company have a single high power tower covering a large city. They only have 22 Mhz of bandwidth and their current FDMA scheme only allows 687 simultanous calls to be placed. Assuming they are free to change their phones, but cant get any new frequency space, discuss options for expanding the number of users they can handle.
then you really can't copy any significant part of your solution from the internet. Sure you can pull up a definition of CDMA but unless you really understand it, then there's no way you'll integrate it into your answer.
You should cite your prior paper.
I honestly believe your school is failing you if they are routinely having you rewrite stuff that you've already done.
My wife has a batchelors in criminal justice, and many of her papers were incredibly open-ended, like "Should incarceration be for rehabilitation or punishment. Discuss."
Her professors obviously didn't co-ordinate their assignments and there would be considerable overlap between topics and classes.
Compared to math assignments that ask you to find the optimal angle and maximum range for a 1kg projectile fired at 30 m/s, there is a distinct difference.
Interestingly, I have actually been accused of plagurism identified by one of these automated systems. In some entry level C programming class, they somehow flagged that my entry unacceptably matched that of another student. Despite the fact that before the accusation I was in the top 10% of the class and s/he was in the bottom 10%, they argued that they couldn't tell who copied who.
It was a very distressing experience. His entry didn't even compile, had obviously been typed into word (it had uppercase I as a loop variable) and was handed in two days late yet I had my grade pulled from an A to B (he stayed at F).
At the time the university did a piss-poor job of maintaining their printers. As so I think I sent the job to print, not realizing there was no paper, and then I couldn't remove it from the queue (because they had problems with students setting their jobs to high priority, the removed all access to lpq). He probably picked it up the following day when some admin restocked the printer.
In the end my parents moved to start legal action and they quickly caved and sent an official apology. I don't believe the department ever tried that again.
My limited experience of English papers was that there was a certain amount more personal interpretation and less right/wrong. You can write a paper about the roles of comedic characters in Shakespeare's work and still get an A even though you disagree with the professor. There's a lot less latitude when it comes to writing a paper on, say, how you would approach reducing the power consumption of a given circuit.
My experience, which unfortunately compares high school english and french literature with degree level engineering, suggests that it's easier to make an engineering problem sufficiently specialized that you can have a high degree of certainty that it's never been asked before. I'm not sure that can be done so easily when study mainstream literary bodies.
If the goal is to get me to learn something new, then why even set a paper that could partly reuse something i've written before.
I've used older works of my own as a basis for new work. It'd be foolish not to. Just like we all build our code into reusable chunks so that when it's needed on the next project we can leverage the time already put into it.
I had an interesting conversation with this about one of the senior staff members in our electronics department. He was of the mindset that plagurism really didn't matter if you structure the question in such a way that it need to show understanding. As long as the request is sufficiently targetted that you can't wholesale copy another paper, then what's the real problem if you find a paragraph in another person's paper that fits perfectly with what you need. (although in those cases why not just cite it as a source).
Engineering may be unique because papers usually need to show a deep understanding, and a professor who knows and works with you should be able to quickly see if it's not your work.
I can see how it would be a much bigger problem in something like English Lit.
In my CS&E course, quite a few of the students did assignments that were industry-sponsored. Depending on the industry, they could be under relatively strict non-disclosure rules. If services like this make students sign away their rights to enter an NDA then it will affect their ability to pick up sponsorships from a wide spectrum of industry.
IMHO, doing an industry-sponsored project isn't the best idea since you'll have to pander to their outcomes and not focus on work that shows the limit of your skills.
You can certainly hear it's radio interference on cheap speakers.
These days there are simply thousands of "computers" in a casino anyway. I highly doubt they could tell your cellphone from your roulette computer.
Rather than trying to get the sites taken down, which can take a day or two, why not create a p2p project that has thousand of computers log into every site and submit completely random account details.
That way they'll be sufficiently overwhelmed with fake data that it'll be hard to get the real stuff.
I'm pretty much the same.
Started Basic at about 5 or 6, Pascal about 12/13, Perl about 15/16, Java about 17 and never really got that into C or assembly except on embedded stuff.
Ironically i'm now maintaining a VB application, and can put my 2 decades of experience to use.
Credibility is very much specific to the subject matter and it would seem to be hard to apply to wikipedia.
I know people that i think are absolutely credible sources about technology subjects, but who I wouldn't consider credible in discussing say politics (although i'm sure they feel they were qualified).
I see your point about having to assess how likely it was that someone would spout off something inaccurate, but i feel that most people do that at some point or another (see Slashdot)
But a few points.
1) You need to boot bsd specially into a dtrace mode to use this. That presumably means that the BSD version either slows the system is isn't of production quality. When my database server is dying under the load, rebooting it isn't high on the list of things I want to do.
2) FreeBSD are pretty nimble at developing this kind of thing. I'm more curious to see how long it takes MS or Dell to have something comparable.
3) Sun provided the source and a development machine; presumably because of FreeBSD's favorable licensing. I'm not sure that's an option for any closed source product.
I'm sure in a lab demo, they are using a precision aligned waveguide to "simulate" the gas distribution network. The minor problem of the creaky unpredicable reality of the natural gas pipes will "be figured out in a future round of financing"
DTrace has a degree of OS integration that makes it non-trivial to copy, linux's alternatives don't even come close even though a tool like this would be very useful in linux.
For the foreseeable future, if you want to have this type of debugging on your server then the server has to run Solaris. And if your server is bigger than a 4-way then it makes sense that it's a Sun server.
There is value in premium gear, and while it won't make Sun the next Dell, it can hopefully help improve their standing in their core market.
What if you are only in the US for 3 or 4 months, a J-1 visa has an 18 month limit. However you need to have a job before you can get a J-1.
The problem I encountered with the J-1 was that I couldn't get renters insurance without a credit check. I was able to get a corporate Amex without a credit score and use that to build credit, but that's hardly an option for everyone.
Like you say, it's not hard to build credit in a few years. I was issued a SSN in 2001 and i have a 682 credit score, a 4.875% (30 yr fixed) mortgage and a 0% car loan. Still i'm a long way short of my wife's score, despite having a higher income.
Obviously this wont work if everyone does it, but why not force users to spend at least 10 minutes on your site and hit at least 4 pages before being allowed to post a comment. You could completely hide the comment forms until they meet these requirements so that the spammers would essentially never find the form to submit.
Does anyone here keep multiple internet connections at home?
I currently have microwave fixed wireless and i'm considering getting a cheap dsl or cable package as a backup. I work from home and since i'm paid hourly it costs me dearly when my connectivity drops off.