Argue all you want about your right to port scan but the reality is that you have no such right to probe other people's computers for vulnerabilities like that.
IOW, they will probably change the link locations if they find enough hits coming from hosts who didn't pay, and the people who actually did pay for the priviledge of giving directions will be SOL. I wonder how long they will be making money off this if they have to keep changing links to foil rogue deep-linkers, and how long it will take those paying to realize the stupidity of this when their own links no longer work, and the TOS they agreed to says they can go get bent.
Imagine the fun they'll have if a certain number of [unlicensed] deeplinks on their site get slashdotted.
I really hate it because as a cable modem user, the bottlenecks come from moving from page to page- not loading a page (it's usually those Q#$%#$ adservers' fault). However, the reason they do this, I believe, is because of said ads... the more views they get, the more money they get.
For Windows:
Add the following line to \windows\hosts --
adserver.example.com 127.0.0.1
For Linux: (replace iptables with ipchains if that's what you use)
iptables -a OUTPUT -j REJECT -p tcp -d adserver.example.com
Been a while since I've messed with iptables/ipchains, but I think that's the right syntax (or close to it).
I can understand that the demand for increased processing power for CPU's will probably never be sated, but id this true for Graphics cards? Surely once we are in the trillions of polygons per second (at the present rate, soon, probably) and 3d graphics offer photorealism, will there still be a need for better graphics?
Remember 10-15 years ago (or whenever it was), when Bill Gates made his infamous comment that "640k should be enough for anybody"? Just as computer technology keeps evolving faster than we could imagine, I think there's a good chance that graphics technology will follow suit.
The government will not have the power to regulate One Big Media Company.
As unfortunate as it is, this is true. The Big Media Company will regulate the government instead, buying politicians and laws that are in its best interest.
Would it not be possible to write a custom reader to bypass whatever "copy to clipboard"/etc. restrictions there are in the interest of fair use? Sure, it would likely lead to a DeCSS-style legal fiasco, but fair use is fair use.
Propagation of the lack of light travels at the speed of light
Speaking of propagation, another factor that would have to be taken into consideration here is the propagation delay of the various logic gates that will be inside the CPU. Logic gates don't change state instantly; they take time to change, and this needs to be taken into careful consideration, especially when working at such high speeds as 10 GHz.
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You could buy a $40,000 car, wreck it, and then tell the dealer that you want to neige the contract. You get your 40 gs back, and they get stuck with the bill.
True, but this is the exact reason why any sane car dealer would require customers to be 18, or at the very least have a parent's cosignature. They know about this aspect of contract law, and they know enough not to trap themselves in a situation like this.
I fail to see how the DMCA actually applies to this case at all. The DMCA (or at least the part of it that/. readers usually care about) forbids the circumvention of access control methods
The bugs in Microsoft's code are access control methods; they control your access to MS's software. By publishing information on them, you are circumventing them, thus rendering yourself liable under the DMCA.
The problem is that Security Focus was copy-and-pasting those bulletins, according to the article. By any reasonable interpretation of copyright law, they'll have to stop that practice, even though I think it's in MS's clients' best interest to allow it to continue.
This brings up an idea: instead of just cut-n-pasting the bugs, all that SF would have to do is add some frame tags* to their page and include something like "frame src=http://microsoft.com/..." in one of the frames.
* In general, frames suck, but they do have their uses.
All numbers should be your SSN (or some other number) followed by a letter from a to z. When you move, change jobs, etc., you call the phone company/post office and have them point your SSN+x number to the correct place.
And you thought identity theft was a nightmare now...just wait until something like this is implemented.
So, when I visit my sister in Colorado Springs, I am always asking if I have to dial the area code.
Does 10-digit dialing not work in areas that still use 7-digit dialing? For instance, say I'm in city X in an area that does not require 10 digits, and I want to call across town. Of course, I'd only have to use 7 digits, but would it not still work if I used all ten? This way, by assuming that a location supports 10-digit dialing (which it more than likely does), you won't have to worry about remembering.
An anonymous reader noted that in Finland, you pay traffic violations based on your income, and this dot-com millionaire was fined $70,000 for 20 miles/hour over the speed limit!
Isn't Sony a major player in the RIAA? If so, then it would seem a little hypocritical to be simultaneously lauding them for the PSX2 and condemning them for their RIAA-related actions. True, I share the belief that the RIAA is bad, but if we're going to be against it, we need to be *against* it; this includes not supporting member companies.
Although the current technology doesn't have this, consider a DVD set up with a "pay-per-view" lock. You purchase a movie, and then must buy a "key" that lets you watch it a fixed number of times. The company you purchased the movie from goes out of business. If nobody can circumvent the technology, they can't legally watch that disc ever again. Even if you say "so what, the consumer got what he paid for," libraries and archivists are in the same boat.
This is exactly what DivX was. Thankfully, it didn't survive for long...
Corps aren't *necessarily* bad. What's bad is when they start trying to buy laws/judges/etc, whether unsuccessfully (as in this case) or successfully (as with the DeCSS fiasco). It's a good thing, however, to see that Rambus is in trouble for doing this. Makes you realize that despite recent appearances, the entire legal system is not corrupt after all.
There's not much difference between using regedit to edit the registry and using a text editor to edit config files.
Uhhh, yes there is. With config files, the options are almost always readable enough to where you can at least get an idea of what does what, whereas with the registry, you have to try and figure out what "CrypticOptionX 0x98300103" does.
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Argue all you want about your right to port scan but the reality is that you have no such right to probe other people's computers for vulnerabilities like that.
... climb out and hang ...
Oh yes you do.
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My Linux box will still not have crashed once.
:P
... climb out and hang ...
But in 25 years, the hardware will be antiquated, thus rendering your system about as useful as one of these.
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[From the page linked to in the parent post] - Gilmore says moves are also taking place to build copy-control into monitors...
... climb out and hang ...
Copy control in monitors?!? Give me a fscking break.
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Copyright protection can be effected by watermarking the content
... climb out and hang ...
Until a way to destroy the watermark is found, that is.
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IOW, they will probably change the link locations if they find enough hits coming from hosts who didn't pay, and the people who actually did pay for the priviledge of giving directions will be SOL. I wonder how long they will be making money off this if they have to keep changing links to foil rogue deep-linkers, and how long it will take those paying to realize the stupidity of this when their own links no longer work, and the TOS they agreed to says they can go get bent.
/dev/random > /dev/hda3
Imagine the fun they'll have if a certain number of [unlicensed] deeplinks on their site get slashdotted.
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Here is a *really* old one.
/dev/random > /dev/hda3
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(1) Somes stores add a surcharge for paying with credit cards.
/dev/random > /dev/hda3
I keep thinking for some reason that this is illegal. Can anybody confirm or deny this?
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I really hate it because as a cable modem user, the bottlenecks come from moving from page to page- not loading a page (it's usually those Q#$%#$ adservers' fault). However, the reason they do this, I believe, is because of said ads... the more views they get, the more money they get.
For Windows:
Add the following line to \windows\hosts --
adserver.example.com 127.0.0.1
For Linux: (replace iptables with ipchains if that's what you use)
iptables -a OUTPUT -j REJECT -p tcp -d adserver.example.com
Been a while since I've messed with iptables/ipchains, but I think that's the right syntax (or close to it).
Or just download Junkbuster.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
I can understand that the demand for increased processing power for CPU's will probably never be sated, but id this true for Graphics cards? Surely once we are in the trillions of polygons per second (at the present rate, soon, probably) and 3d graphics offer photorealism, will there still be a need for better graphics?
Remember 10-15 years ago (or whenever it was), when Bill Gates made his infamous comment that "640k should be enough for anybody"? Just as computer technology keeps evolving faster than we could imagine, I think there's a good chance that graphics technology will follow suit.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
The government will not have the power to regulate One Big Media Company.
As unfortunate as it is, this is true. The Big Media Company will regulate the government instead, buying politicians and laws that are in its best interest.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
Would it not be possible to write a custom reader to bypass whatever "copy to clipboard"/etc. restrictions there are in the interest of fair use? Sure, it would likely lead to a DeCSS-style legal fiasco, but fair use is fair use.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
have you USED the gimp on win32? It's slow, clunky, crash prone, etc etc
Just remember, an application can only be as good as the operating system it is running on...
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
Propagation of the lack of light travels at the speed of light
Speaking of propagation, another factor that would have to be taken into consideration here is the propagation delay of the various logic gates that will be inside the CPU. Logic gates don't change state instantly; they take time to change, and this needs to be taken into careful consideration, especially when working at such high speeds as 10 GHz.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
You could buy a $40,000 car, wreck it, and then tell the dealer that you want to neige the contract. You get your 40 gs back, and they get stuck with the bill.
True, but this is the exact reason why any sane car dealer would require customers to be 18, or at the very least have a parent's cosignature. They know about this aspect of contract law, and they know enough not to trap themselves in a situation like this.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
What do you think the most logical solution to the ongoing debate regarding Napster and MP3 music would be?
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
I fail to see how the DMCA actually applies to this case at all. The DMCA (or at least the part of it that /. readers usually care about) forbids the circumvention of access control methods
The bugs in Microsoft's code are access control methods; they control your access to MS's software. By publishing information on them, you are circumventing them, thus rendering yourself liable under the DMCA.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
The problem is that Security Focus was copy-and-pasting those bulletins, according to the article. By any reasonable interpretation of copyright law, they'll have to stop that practice, even though I think it's in MS's clients' best interest to allow it to continue.
This brings up an idea: instead of just cut-n-pasting the bugs, all that SF would have to do is add some frame tags* to their page and include something like "frame src=http://microsoft.com/..." in one of the frames.
* In general, frames suck, but they do have their uses.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
All numbers should be your SSN (or some other number) followed by a letter from a to z. When you move, change jobs, etc., you call the phone company/post office and have them point your SSN+x number to the correct place.
And you thought identity theft was a nightmare now...just wait until something like this is implemented.
---
"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
So, when I visit my sister in Colorado Springs, I am always asking if I have to dial the area code.
Does 10-digit dialing not work in areas that still use 7-digit dialing? For instance, say I'm in city X in an area that does not require 10 digits, and I want to call across town. Of course, I'd only have to use 7 digits, but would it not still work if I used all ten? This way, by assuming that a location supports 10-digit dialing (which it more than likely does), you won't have to worry about remembering.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
An anonymous reader noted that in Finland, you pay traffic violations based on your income, and this dot-com millionaire was fined $70,000 for 20 miles/hour over the speed limit!
Don't they use the metric system in Finland?
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
Isn't Sony a major player in the RIAA? If so, then it would seem a little hypocritical to be simultaneously lauding them for the PSX2 and condemning them for their RIAA-related actions. True, I share the belief that the RIAA is bad, but if we're going to be against it, we need to be *against* it; this includes not supporting member companies.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
So when the DMCA outlaws tools to circumvent encryption, does it then require all software to be buggy?
Hence the reason Microsoft supports the DMCA.
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
Although the current technology doesn't have this, consider a DVD set up with a "pay-per-view" lock. You purchase a movie, and then must buy a "key" that lets you watch it a fixed number of times. The company you purchased the movie from goes out of business. If nobody can circumvent the technology, they can't legally watch that disc ever again. Even if you say "so what, the consumer got what he paid for," libraries and archivists are in the same boat.
This is exactly what DivX was. Thankfully, it didn't survive for long...
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"Fdisk format reinstall, doo dah doo dah,
Another example of slashthink...Corps are bad!
Corps aren't *necessarily* bad. What's bad is when they start trying to buy laws/judges/etc, whether unsuccessfully (as in this case) or successfully (as with the DeCSS fiasco). It's a good thing, however, to see that Rambus is in trouble for doing this. Makes you realize that despite recent appearances, the entire legal system is not corrupt after all.
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There's not much difference between using regedit to edit the registry and using a text editor to edit config files.
Uhhh, yes there is. With config files, the options are almost always readable enough to where you can at least get an idea of what does what, whereas with the registry, you have to try and figure out what "CrypticOptionX 0x98300103" does.
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