over half of computer attacks seen by Microsoft come from the.edu domain
Actually, does this really surprise anyone? I think if you took away the botnets that might attack Microsoft, you might have something more like 80%. Not that it was an attack, but I used to always use billy@microsoft.com as a return address when I was testing e-mail or showing someone something.
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I think there's also the perception that a lot of Linux users don't like to pay for things. That their reaction to something that's cool and innovative is to say "gosh, I hope someone creates a free version of that!" I know it's not completely true, but it's a perception that would have to be fought to get more titles on the platform.
Boy has this been hammered to death recently (see here).
Honestly I don't think this is Linux users per say. I've actually seen quite a few Linux users buy software. I think that the general group of computer users nowadays doesn't find value in buying software. Which is really stupid. I myself try to buy one of the popular commercial Linux games when they come out and fill out the registration. I think there are several open source purists who do the same. Open source folk are ones of high ideals and part of that is being supportive of their movement. You'd probably be surprised. If we want to keep that going then the key is to get more Linux recruits to take up the banner of free software.
I have some experience trying to round up Linux gamers over the past couple years and what I've found is that there are some out there, but a lot of the people in my local LUG just weren't interested in playing games. I've hosted many events to try sparking interest, I even supplied the computers, but only a few people came each time. Perhaps the most common type of people that use Linux are now the ones that don't play games much anymore. Or at least not FPS, etc. Plus I found a lot of people made the excuse that they didn't have decent hardware for 3d games. Ironically, we might have better luck with Linux games if we had what we have now back in the 90s.
I've been on the Internet longer than most people (since 1991). I know the concepts and the goals of a lot of people who have used it and created it. Heck, I've downloaded music and movies, etc. too. But honestly, if now what we have is a bunch of people who think that stealing is ok because that is what the Internet was designed to allow us to do (see replies to this thread, then were we really so right to choose an open Internet?
If anything, I think its time for the Internet to get back in touch with reality.
Enough with the stupid analogies. The only analogy that really works is this example itself:
Some person finds out that MobiTV doesn't properly protect its content and posts instructions for the whole internet to see how to exploit it to get free TV. Its clear from his post that he wants to help people watch TV without paying.
A bunch of people reply back to his post saying thank you for helping them watch Live TV on their phones without paying for it.
MobiTV sends cease-and-desist letter to try to remove the information from the forums that tells people how to exploit their service.
Further into the future - MobiTV fixes their problem and then all the people who were stealing TV service get mad about it and look for some other place that doesn't lock down their TV service properly.
All the analogies in the world will not change the fact that you are aware that you are getting something that you shouldn't be. Nuff said. End of story. Goodbye.
Pssst! Listen up! I've just discovered that an address where you can access intellectual property for free! The address is 700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116. You know what? Between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. every day they leave the door unlocked! That's right! You can walk right in!
I don't know who is more foolish, you for posting this or the fool who modded you as Insightful. I think you're being serious.
In case it wasn't obvious to you two, there are these things called taxes (no not Texas, taxes) that pay for a lot of government services. We've had taxes around for millennia to help subsidize nice things for the public to use. And some not so nice things for public abuse.
I can't believe how much of this crap logic is being modded up as insightful. You are conveniently justifying taking advantage of other people because they are dumb. Is that right? No. Not when its a single person, not when its a corporation. If you don't like a big greedy corporation, then the right way to fight them is not by stealing. As the old adage goes, an eye for an eye makes the world go blind. There are better ways to battle corporations that are doing things wrong. Don't be part of the mob, be a role model.
From reading the responses to my own post, I can clearly see that we have a major problem in society today. The ability to casually get stuff that isn't yours and get away with on such a wide scale has severely eroded people's morality. At some point the cycle of money driving the ability of companies to give things away or be taken away will dry up. What will happen then?
How is it wrong to just visit a completely public URL? If they're losing money it's their fault; you can't just say that verizon losing money is wrong. How is that wrong? We're gaining value. Nothing has been destroyed here. This situation is purely verizon's affiliate being lazy and insecure, and you're just stupid for thinking it's wrong to take advantage of that.
Wow, this just underlines what I was talking about. Listen to yourself. The people on that forum know that they are getting something for free that they shouldn't be. That's called stealing. If they aren't aware that they are stealing because they have become so numb to it, then we have a BIG problem. Either shit or get off the pot folks. If you don't want to have to pay for anything in life, then be an advocate of communism/socialism. If you don't want communism, then you are stuck with capitalism for now.
In 10-40 years when we're in the middle of some major environmental and economic disasters, we will need responsible leaders the most, we will be stuck with a lot of irresponsible and immoral people and the ones who don't lead won't follow because they will be stuck in their world of not supporting anything.
Does it allow people to watch TV that they didn't pay for? Yes
Does it prevent Verizon and MobiTV from receiving revenue that they should from the streams? Yes
Is it wrong? Yes
Does MobiTV and Verizon have the right to send a cease and desist letter? Sure
See folks, whether its a hack or not doesn't change the fact that its just wrong. There are too many people freeloading nowadays. The Internet makes it so much easier to freeload. And its becoming a disease. When MobiTV fixes their stuff, I'm sure a bunch of people in these forums will yell and scream about it, but few of them will actually starting paying for the service that they started to enjoy. I do agree though that MobiTV should be ashamed of themselves for leaving their service wide open.
Proprietary software AND hardware companies basically cannot be trusted. I've encountered countless amounts of commercial software, hardware products and services where the company states that they are very secure, but when investigating things myself, I find that its trivial to circumvent their security. You can read about some of the read about some of the poor security I've discovered recently with web hosting providers. Consumers deserve better than this and its all of our responsibilities to make all people aware of these problems. Ironically, this news program itself doesn't understand the value of open disclousure. I guess I can understand that as its human nature to want to hide things for fear of liability. But its not like they were doing something that's not so obvious that someone determined enough could figure out.
First rule of security in my book: Someone who wants something bad enough, they will be able to circumvent nearly anything in order to get it. So its a matter of how badly they want it. Since its money in question, I'd say that a variety of organizations and people want it pretty bad.
Did you ask them? Humans can notice things on a large scale, like weather changes, a supernova, etc. Why couldn't fish see at our scale. Maybe its not even that, perhaps starting the experiment triggers something that we are not aware of.
Am I the only one who thinks that having 3 cores, 6 cores, 3MB and 12MB is weird? Where did all the multiples of three come from in the sea of powers or 2. Did we suddenly switch to trinary or something?
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But but. That would require change. And we can't have that.
This joke shows ignorance. There are actually more people living in rural America than in urban areas.
over half of computer attacks seen by Microsoft come from the .edu domain
Actually, does this really surprise anyone? I think if you took away the botnets that might attack Microsoft, you might have
something more like 80%. Not that it was an attack, but I used to always use billy@microsoft.com as a return address when I was testing
e-mail or showing someone something.
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<sarc>Yeah, but everyone knows that Irish music sucks so its just not the same as when people copy Brittney Spears.</sarc>
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Sorry, forgot the link.
I think there's also the perception that a lot of Linux users don't like to pay for things. That their reaction to something that's cool and innovative is to say "gosh, I hope someone creates a free version of that!" I know it's not completely true, but it's a perception that would have to be fought to get more titles on the platform.
Boy has this been hammered to death recently (see here).
Honestly I don't think this is Linux users per say. I've actually seen quite a few Linux users buy software. I think that the general group of computer users nowadays doesn't find value in buying software. Which is really stupid. I myself try to buy one of the popular commercial Linux games when they come out and fill out the registration. I think there are several open source purists who do the same. Open source folk are ones of high ideals and part of that is being supportive of their movement. You'd probably be surprised. If we want to keep that going then the key is to get more Linux recruits to take up the banner of free software.
I have some experience trying to round up Linux gamers over the past couple years and what I've found is that there are some out there, but a lot of the people in my local LUG just weren't interested in playing games. I've hosted many events to try sparking interest, I even supplied the computers, but only a few people came each time. Perhaps the most common type of people that use Linux are now the ones that don't play games much anymore. Or at least not FPS, etc. Plus I found a lot of people made the excuse that they didn't have decent hardware for 3d games. Ironically, we might have better luck with Linux games if we had what we have now back in the 90s.
I've been on the Internet longer than most people (since 1991). I know the concepts and the goals of a lot of people who have used it and created it. Heck, I've downloaded music and movies, etc. too. But honestly, if now what we have is a bunch of people who think that stealing is ok because that is what the Internet was designed to allow us to do (see replies to this thread, then were we really so right to choose an open Internet?
If anything, I think its time for the Internet to get back in touch with reality.
All the analogies in the world will not change the fact that you are aware that you are getting something that you shouldn't be. Nuff said. End of story. Goodbye.
Am I stealing service by doing this?
Is it "hacking"?
Yes, and you have probably said "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." Same difference. You know what you are doing.
Pssst! Listen up! I've just discovered that an address where you can access intellectual property for free! The address is 700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116. You know what? Between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. every day they leave the door unlocked! That's right! You can walk right in!
I don't know who is more foolish, you for posting this or the fool who modded you as Insightful. I think you're being serious.
In case it wasn't obvious to you two, there are these things called taxes (no not Texas, taxes) that pay for a lot of government services. We've had taxes around for millennia to help subsidize nice things for the public to use. And some not so nice things for public abuse.
I can't believe how much of this crap logic is being modded up as insightful. You are conveniently justifying taking advantage of other people because they are dumb. Is that right? No. Not when its a single person, not when its a corporation. If you don't like a big greedy corporation, then the right way to fight them is not by stealing. As the old adage goes, an eye for an eye makes the world go blind. There are better ways to battle corporations that are doing things wrong. Don't be part of the mob, be a role model.
From reading the responses to my own post, I can clearly see that we have a major problem in society today. The ability to casually get stuff that isn't yours and get away with on such a wide scale has severely eroded people's morality. At some point the cycle of money driving the ability of companies to give things away or be taken away will dry up. What will happen then?
How is it wrong to just visit a completely public URL? If they're losing money it's their fault; you can't just say that verizon losing money is wrong. How is that wrong? We're gaining value. Nothing has been destroyed here. This situation is purely verizon's affiliate being lazy and insecure, and you're just stupid for thinking it's wrong to take advantage of that.
Wow, this just underlines what I was talking about. Listen to yourself. The people on that forum know that they are getting something for free that they shouldn't be. That's called stealing. If they aren't aware that they are stealing because they have become so numb to it, then we have a BIG problem. Either shit or get off the pot folks. If you don't want to have to pay for anything in life, then be an advocate of communism/socialism. If you don't want communism, then you are stuck with capitalism for now.
In 10-40 years when we're in the middle of some major environmental and economic disasters, we will need responsible leaders the most, we will be stuck with a lot of irresponsible and immoral people and the ones who don't lead won't follow because they will be stuck in their world of not supporting anything.
Is it a hack? Not really
Does it allow people to watch TV that they didn't pay for? Yes
Does it prevent Verizon and MobiTV from receiving revenue that they should from the streams? Yes
Is it wrong? Yes
Does MobiTV and Verizon have the right to send a cease and desist letter? Sure
See folks, whether its a hack or not doesn't change the fact that its just wrong. There are too many people freeloading nowadays. The Internet makes it so much easier to freeload. And its becoming a disease. When MobiTV fixes their stuff, I'm sure a bunch of people in these forums will yell and scream about it, but few of them will actually starting paying for the service that they started to enjoy. I do agree though that MobiTV should be ashamed of themselves for leaving their service wide open.
A scene from Brazil springs to mind...
I was thinking the same thing. Fifth Element has the same thing. Reminds me of going to the bank when I was kid.
I believe this is called Security Theatre.
Proprietary software AND hardware companies basically cannot be trusted. I've encountered countless amounts of commercial software, hardware products and services where the company states that they are very secure, but when investigating things myself, I find that its trivial to circumvent their security. You can read about some of the read about some of the poor security I've discovered recently with web hosting providers. Consumers deserve better than this and its all of our responsibilities to make all people aware of these problems. Ironically, this news program itself doesn't understand the value of open disclousure. I guess I can understand that as its human nature to want to hide things for fear of liability. But its not like they were doing something that's not so obvious that someone determined enough could figure out.
First rule of security in my book: Someone who wants something bad enough, they will be able to circumvent nearly anything in order to get it. So its a matter of how badly they want it. Since its money in question, I'd say that a variety of organizations and people want it pretty bad.
Um, they just made an announcement that they reached 16Tbits/sec on Wednesday, sheesh. Use the bandwidth you have for something useful.
HD DVD, Bluray or regular?
Did you ask them? Humans can notice things on a large scale, like weather changes, a supernova, etc. Why couldn't fish see at our scale. Maybe its not even that, perhaps starting the experiment triggers something that we are not aware of.
Have they ruled out the Clever Hans effect? Doesn't look like it.
For all we know, someone at Intel just thought the "sex-" prefix would be funny, rather than the expected "quad-" or "octo-".
Note how they called the it the (Pent)ium II instead of the (Sex)ium processor.
Am I the only one who thinks that having 3 cores, 6 cores, 3MB and 12MB is weird? Where did all the multiples of three come from in the sea of powers or 2. Did we suddenly switch to trinary or something?