This fianlly made me look at the site. I thought maybe this would be something I could use for some simple picture tweaking work without having to install some very likely to be very buggy software. But nooooooooooooooooo! I have to install some piece of crapware called Flash. I guess I'm back to hosting my pictures on my own web server.
... a Yagi antenna resonant at a wavelength somewhere between 700nm and 400nm. Now I just need a high power transmitter and some feedline to connect to it.
... but I am already boycotting them for selling products that fail to communicate properly with the computer. Well, it's more like buying something else (WDC) that works better (especially in Linux). It's too bad that this abuse of the patent system leads to high costs of improving on the mistakes, screw ups, and often incompetency of others.
When you run Linux, you are in control of your computer, not your corporate overlords. So don't expect your corporate overlords to be providing you with anything because you won't let them be in control of your computer and what you see.
... so the pedoporn surfers can hide their IP and use yours instead.
We live in a world where the reality is that the majority of computers are not in complete control by their physical owners. At least in the case descriped by TFA, the guy charged with the crime apparently had other evidence going against him. But it is rather scary that even if the FBI is using this as a lead to potential suspects, and not as the convicting evidence by itself, that they could still do an armed raid on someone's home just because they happened to load an app that is really providing someone else with a means to perform massive (through many such infected computers) trolls of porn sites (frequently done by porn site operators themselves, not to evade the FBI, but to just not show up with the same IP all the time).
The FBI needs to get a better handle on the reality of not just how the protocols work, but how the protocols get used, good or bad. Just because such and such IP address accessed some dirty picture or copyrighted song does not mean the physical computer owner had anything to do with it... not even if a copy of it is cached on that same computer. And this doesn't even cover the many cases where IP addresses (and sometimes even MAC addresses) can get used by someone else where the original user shuts their computer off. A great many networks, in schools, businesses, and even ISPs, are not so tightly secured to prevent this (and it doesn't make economic sense to go to extreme efforts to secure them when there is relatively little economic impact as a result, which is the case if they are not charging by the byte).
Lamy of the RIAA said peer-to-peer traffic is "essentially flat."
That's because so much of the traffic is moving to methods that evade the ability for the RIAA to see what is going on. More and more P2P is taking place within smaller groups that are harder to join (you have to be nominated and voted in to get access). That traffic is also encrypted, so no one along the sidelines can even see what it is. One group I heard of has rented a dedicated server of their own (so I guess they have dues to be a member to pay for it) and they access it via SSH and store files in a big "world" writable directory. If I were going to do that, I'd also keep the files therein encrypted just to be safe from the ISP. It wouldn't take more than about 20 people to get a big server at $5 a month each. They don't even need a domain name. What they do need is a few people that are also members of other such groups to provide a linkage. There have been porn trading groups like this for years. So I guess the P2P crowd is finally catching on to what the porn people learned a long time ago.
But certain areas are not free markets. Cable TV is one of them in most areas. And even where Verizon FiOS is present, that's not much of a free market when people have to choose between merely two incompetent arrogant evil corporations. Only when there is enough competition for the offerings to be substantially different, and people have a real choice, will there be a free market. Yes, free markets do work and are the best thing to have. We just don't have them everywhere (yet). I hope the next Congress and President get together to create and pass the CFMEA... Communications Free Market Enablement Act. We do need a true free market in all areas of communications.
One means to stop a lot of this is to disallow connections to port 25 other than the ISP's own mail server (and even that could be blocked, too, as there is a different port appropriate for email submission that has worked fine in most mail agents for years). There are a few cases where people want to run their own mail server (like BSD and Linux users). If they call up their ISP and specifically ask for port 25 to be opened up for them, the ISP should open it just for them. The chance of someone that knows what port 25 is for to be infected is far less than the average desktop Windows users. For business users, they should be encouraged to do their own port 25 blocking to block individual users, and leave the mail servers open to connect to port 25.
This doesn't prevent spam going through the reachable mail server. So the next step is for the mail servers to install some quota software on a per user basis (with authenticated login so the spammers can't make up an infinite number of users to get around a quota). That and applying the filtering to outgoing mail can reduce the spam a lot.
And finally, people who let their office computer be infected more than 2 times in a one year window need to become unemployed for damn good cause.
Actually, it will be the botnet operators that will get the cash. They will become music artists and publishers. They will generate some absolute trash and call it music. Then their botnet of millions of r3-0wn3d computers will be downloading this trash en masse. Their crap will skyrocket to the top ten. They rake in millions. On the bright side, they might give up filling our mailboxes with trash.
If they make the distribution of money based on which music gets downloaded the most from certain sites, you can bet lots more people will suddenly become musicians, create some really awful crap no one would even think approaches music, and get still get millions of downloads a day all thanks to their botnet.
Let's go for it! Then what we all do is create our own music. It might sound like/dev/urandom piped through some FFT filters, but who cares since we won't actually listen to it. We'll just all download each other's crappy music to up our scores to get a chunk of the pie. On the internet, everyone becomes an artist:-)
I have both cable & DSL connections (I like redundancy, especially considering both are not all that reliable). So does that mean I have to pay double?
... block all attempts to access any objects that go "offsite". That would be defined this way. Take the hostname of the web site being visted (the top document), removing the "www" part, if present. Take the hostname of the object being referenced, removing the "www" part, if present. If the name of the object ends with the name of the site (for example "images.slashdot.org" referenced by "slashdot.org"), then it's a match and the object can be processed. If not, give the user an alert in the tab bar that "offsite" objects are being referenced. Allow the user to permit specific hostnames to be referenced by specific sites.
This won't solve it all. It is a start. It can still be abused by the site owner creating hostnames that refer to tracking services. Future additions to this protection can also do things like check IP addresses. If the reverse DNS of different IP addresses have common domain names, they can be allowed together. Or maybe even require the different IP addresses be "close" in the same subnet (e.g. have the same NS records in the top level reverse DNS delegation).
Don't use YouTube. It's not normal video. Just release the video file as a normal video file (such as MPEG4 and Ogg Theora formats) and everyone can get it and see it without having to borg their browsers with a Trash plugin.
I agree, he should have gotten a much longer sentence. But in this case, you should blame the cops, particularly Detective Perino, for screwing up the case. If it had been me deciding every aspect of this case, I'd have given Crespo life with no possibility of parole for 10 years, and Perino 30 days for inappropriate conduct investigating a case plus 10 years for perjury.
There once was a time when that made sense. Today, the technology pushes the limits of the media itself. For example disk drive tracks no longer have gaps to derive latent data from. Encoding methods include multi-level values that would make it nearly impossible to recover any previous data. They are squeezing every possible bit out of the media, now. Writing over the old data with random bits even once will fully obscure it. And if by chance you can get data (because it has not been written over), good luck cracking the encryption.
... people that think it's more important to judge people by their looks than by what they can contribute to the job. Sure, if the job is is to look pretty or whatever, then you better be able to do that well. But if the job is to make the database perform well, or keep the network secure, or debug the company application product, then those skills are how a person should be judged... not on their T-shirt color, length of dread-locks, wearing of sandals even in winter, etc.
OK, bathing every day is good.
Choice of after hours sport might affect things, but it should only be because of who is at the same sporting place at the same time. One group might congregate at the golf course, while another is at the skating rink, and yet another is at the shooting range.
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It's not really a web based service. Adobe has lied to you. But this is a category of companies they are a long term member of.
This fianlly made me look at the site. I thought maybe this would be something I could use for some simple picture tweaking work without having to install some very likely to be very buggy software. But nooooooooooooooooo! I have to install some piece of crapware called Flash. I guess I'm back to hosting my pictures on my own web server.
... a Yagi antenna resonant at a wavelength somewhere between 700nm and 400nm. Now I just need a high power transmitter and some feedline to connect to it.
... but I am already boycotting them for selling products that fail to communicate properly with the computer. Well, it's more like buying something else (WDC) that works better (especially in Linux). It's too bad that this abuse of the patent system leads to high costs of improving on the mistakes, screw ups, and often incompetency of others.
When you run Linux, you are in control of your computer, not your corporate overlords. So don't expect your corporate overlords to be providing you with anything because you won't let them be in control of your computer and what you see.
... so the pedoporn surfers can hide their IP and use yours instead.
We live in a world where the reality is that the majority of computers are not in complete control by their physical owners. At least in the case descriped by TFA, the guy charged with the crime apparently had other evidence going against him. But it is rather scary that even if the FBI is using this as a lead to potential suspects, and not as the convicting evidence by itself, that they could still do an armed raid on someone's home just because they happened to load an app that is really providing someone else with a means to perform massive (through many such infected computers) trolls of porn sites (frequently done by porn site operators themselves, not to evade the FBI, but to just not show up with the same IP all the time).
The FBI needs to get a better handle on the reality of not just how the protocols work, but how the protocols get used, good or bad. Just because such and such IP address accessed some dirty picture or copyrighted song does not mean the physical computer owner had anything to do with it ... not even if a copy of it is cached on that same computer. And this doesn't even cover the many cases where IP addresses (and sometimes even MAC addresses) can get used by someone else where the original user shuts their computer off. A great many networks, in schools, businesses, and even ISPs, are not so tightly secured to prevent this (and it doesn't make economic sense to go to extreme efforts to secure them when there is relatively little economic impact as a result, which is the case if they are not charging by the byte).
You better skip the memory test.
And you might even get lucky and be able to open 2 projects in Eclipse if you limit OpenOffice to 1 document and stay away from Slashdot on Firefox.
That's because so much of the traffic is moving to methods that evade the ability for the RIAA to see what is going on. More and more P2P is taking place within smaller groups that are harder to join (you have to be nominated and voted in to get access). That traffic is also encrypted, so no one along the sidelines can even see what it is. One group I heard of has rented a dedicated server of their own (so I guess they have dues to be a member to pay for it) and they access it via SSH and store files in a big "world" writable directory. If I were going to do that, I'd also keep the files therein encrypted just to be safe from the ISP. It wouldn't take more than about 20 people to get a big server at $5 a month each. They don't even need a domain name. What they do need is a few people that are also members of other such groups to provide a linkage. There have been porn trading groups like this for years. So I guess the P2P crowd is finally catching on to what the porn people learned a long time ago.
But certain areas are not free markets. Cable TV is one of them in most areas. And even where Verizon FiOS is present, that's not much of a free market when people have to choose between merely two incompetent arrogant evil corporations. Only when there is enough competition for the offerings to be substantially different, and people have a real choice, will there be a free market. Yes, free markets do work and are the best thing to have. We just don't have them everywhere (yet). I hope the next Congress and President get together to create and pass the CFMEA ... Communications Free Market Enablement Act. We do need a true free market in all areas of communications.
One means to stop a lot of this is to disallow connections to port 25 other than the ISP's own mail server (and even that could be blocked, too, as there is a different port appropriate for email submission that has worked fine in most mail agents for years). There are a few cases where people want to run their own mail server (like BSD and Linux users). If they call up their ISP and specifically ask for port 25 to be opened up for them, the ISP should open it just for them. The chance of someone that knows what port 25 is for to be infected is far less than the average desktop Windows users. For business users, they should be encouraged to do their own port 25 blocking to block individual users, and leave the mail servers open to connect to port 25.
This doesn't prevent spam going through the reachable mail server. So the next step is for the mail servers to install some quota software on a per user basis (with authenticated login so the spammers can't make up an infinite number of users to get around a quota). That and applying the filtering to outgoing mail can reduce the spam a lot.
And finally, people who let their office computer be infected more than 2 times in a one year window need to become unemployed for damn good cause.
Actually, it will be the botnet operators that will get the cash. They will become music artists and publishers. They will generate some absolute trash and call it music. Then their botnet of millions of r3-0wn3d computers will be downloading this trash en masse. Their crap will skyrocket to the top ten. They rake in millions. On the bright side, they might give up filling our mailboxes with trash.
Uh ... no!
If they make the distribution of money based on which music gets downloaded the most from certain sites, you can bet lots more people will suddenly become musicians, create some really awful crap no one would even think approaches music, and get still get millions of downloads a day all thanks to their botnet.
Let's go for it! Then what we all do is create our own music. It might sound like /dev/urandom piped through some FFT filters, but who cares since we won't actually listen to it. We'll just all download each other's crappy music to up our scores to get a chunk of the pie. On the internet, everyone becomes an artist :-)
Worse ... what happens when the MPAA comes along and wants to do the same thing?
I have both cable & DSL connections (I like redundancy, especially considering both are not all that reliable). So does that mean I have to pay double?
The .COM is already registered by a domain squatter. But the .NET appears to be available.
... where I can store my decryption key.
... block all attempts to access any objects that go "offsite". That would be defined this way. Take the hostname of the web site being visted (the top document), removing the "www" part, if present. Take the hostname of the object being referenced, removing the "www" part, if present. If the name of the object ends with the name of the site (for example "images.slashdot.org" referenced by "slashdot.org"), then it's a match and the object can be processed. If not, give the user an alert in the tab bar that "offsite" objects are being referenced. Allow the user to permit specific hostnames to be referenced by specific sites.
This won't solve it all. It is a start. It can still be abused by the site owner creating hostnames that refer to tracking services. Future additions to this protection can also do things like check IP addresses. If the reverse DNS of different IP addresses have common domain names, they can be allowed together. Or maybe even require the different IP addresses be "close" in the same subnet (e.g. have the same NS records in the top level reverse DNS delegation).
Don't use YouTube. It's not normal video. Just release the video file as a normal video file (such as MPEG4 and Ogg Theora formats) and everyone can get it and see it without having to borg their browsers with a Trash plugin.
I agree, he should have gotten a much longer sentence. But in this case, you should blame the cops, particularly Detective Perino, for screwing up the case. If it had been me deciding every aspect of this case, I'd have given Crespo life with no possibility of parole for 10 years, and Perino 30 days for inappropriate conduct investigating a case plus 10 years for perjury.
Just who do you think Linux was made for, if not the very geeks that wrote it in the first place?
There once was a time when that made sense. Today, the technology pushes the limits of the media itself. For example disk drive tracks no longer have gaps to derive latent data from. Encoding methods include multi-level values that would make it nearly impossible to recover any previous data. They are squeezing every possible bit out of the media, now. Writing over the old data with random bits even once will fully obscure it. And if by chance you can get data (because it has not been written over), good luck cracking the encryption.
... people that think it's more important to judge people by their looks than by what they can contribute to the job. Sure, if the job is is to look pretty or whatever, then you better be able to do that well. But if the job is to make the database perform well, or keep the network secure, or debug the company application product, then those skills are how a person should be judged ... not on their T-shirt color, length of dread-locks, wearing of sandals even in winter, etc.
OK, bathing every day is good.
Choice of after hours sport might affect things, but it should only be because of who is at the same sporting place at the same time. One group might congregate at the golf course, while another is at the skating rink, and yet another is at the shooting range.