Far as I know, if you take down the Limewire servers, the entire thing collapses. It isn't distributed like a torrernt network, and I'm pretty sure there's no peer discovery either.
What permissions do you need for this? Do you have to be the owner of the network in order to sniff things out in this manner? Or is it possible for me to steal accounts off a public network?
If its the former, then there's nothing too special - sniffers can do that already.
If its the latter, then its time to put on the tinfoil hats.
that the browser needs to be more tightly integrated with the operating system.
That will probably never truly happen.
When IE was 'integrated' into Windows - it caused an anti-trust lawsuit.
Also, when you have browsers which are meant to work across different operating systems (firefox is an example, chrome/chromium and opera others) - then doing so becomes significantly more difficult, or other OSes will get left out. Firefox's GPU acceleration works only in Windows if I remember correctly.
Also, integrating browser with the OS will make things far less secure.
I don't think so. I think huge magnets will increase the mass of the spacecraft needlessly - and you'll still be using around the same amount of energy which you could use if you use fuel or whatever. Unless of course we put a ton of magnets around the solar system and we launch spacecraft in a manner similar to railguns.
My year-old netbook can run Visual Studio 2010 on it. Sure it takes 5 minutes to compile silverlight, and working on a titchy little screen gives you a headache, but netbooks are useful for more than browsing the web.
I use my netbook for university, so it gets shoved into a bag after each lecture, where it is jostled around when I walk around, or when I rummige into my bag for something.
Laptops are like women, there is such a thing as 'too thin'.
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The name was actually chosen by netscape to get on the bandwagon.
Java was THE cool new language to come out at the time, and Netscape decided that if they call it "Javascript" it'd make people think they're connected.
If I buy something from itunes, I am pretty sure apple will take the money - which then trickles down to the song producer (which probably aint french either - and which is defentally not homeless). So no money is going into France, but a good deal is going out of France and into America.
This is for ONLINE purchases.
There is something interesting called the Broken Window fallacy or something like that. Basically the 25 euros that the person spent and the government spent would not have been stored away, but used for something else -> which could help the economy even more. The 25 euros the kid gave to itunes could have been used to pay for a restaurant, or for clothes, or for their education.
Can the french government get any worse? First they implement the 3 strikes law.
Now they will throw 25 million euros a year (according to their estimates) - in order to pay the music industry. Why not grab the 25 million and use them to build more parks, or reduce homelessness, or put into education?
Answer: Because there aren't any 'homelessness lobbies'
Information is also classified when you want to perform atrocities or "its not good for morale", or its dissemination will cause the main plan not to work.
It is specifically against the law to classify something for such a reason.
Well, when the Americans were performing torture.. whoops "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" - its not like they told everyone. Far as I know some documents haven't been properly declassified either. And I'm pretty sure that the EIT counts as one of the above.
99.9% of the time, information is classified in order to protect a source (human, etc)..
[Citation Needed]
Information is also classified when you want to perform atrocities or "its not good for morale", or its dissemination will cause the main plan not to work.
The My Lai Massacre was 'classified' for a year or so before it became public knowledge.
The names in the leaked documents aren't half as important as the actions they committed.
Why doesn't this guy just yell "Banzai", leak out the rest of the documents, and survive for 5 minutes while hundreds of copies are made on the internet?
At this point its just pointless bickering, if this guy releases the rest of what he's got, the US will have no real interest in him anymore I would think - because even if he 'mysteriously dies when his server mysteriously explodes', the copies of the document would have still been spread around like wildfire.
That was the solution to the balance of power pre-WW1 if anyone remembers a bit of history. We all saw how that ended up.
Meh, basing the entire future of the internet on "Go on, do it, I dare you" will not end well for anyone. I can already see an RIAA/MPAA sponsored 'attack' taking down most of the internet (and them meddlin` filesharers!) for a few weeks.
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Yeah, lets get rid of acronyms. Nobody really liked them anyway.
I sincerly hope you are not trying to equate FTP and limewire.
Your metric space would have to be very broken.
"a hotbed of virus and trojans"
This sentence could be referring to the stuff you could download, or whatever came with the installation program itself. What a mess.
Far as I know, if you take down the Limewire servers, the entire thing collapses. It isn't distributed like a torrernt network, and I'm pretty sure there's no peer discovery either.
I'm pretty sure that the closure of limewire will cause the amount of malware in the wild to drop dramatically.
Allright we get it. Apple is a horrible company which strictly controls what happens in its app stores.
I wonder why people still waste a lot of time developing for it (stuff they know that will break the rules), or developing it at all.
I also wonder why people still buy apple products if they are so horrible.
The tone of this post (sarcastic, questioning, forceful?) is left up to your imagination.
What permissions do you need for this? Do you have to be the owner of the network in order to sniff things out in this manner? Or is it possible for me to steal accounts off a public network?
If its the former, then there's nothing too special - sniffers can do that already.
If its the latter, then its time to put on the tinfoil hats.
that the browser needs to be more tightly integrated with the operating system.
That will probably never truly happen.
When IE was 'integrated' into Windows - it caused an anti-trust lawsuit.
Also, when you have browsers which are meant to work across different operating systems (firefox is an example, chrome/chromium and opera others) - then doing so becomes significantly more difficult, or other OSes will get left out. Firefox's GPU acceleration works only in Windows if I remember correctly.
Also, integrating browser with the OS will make things far less secure.
I don't think so. I think huge magnets will increase the mass of the spacecraft needlessly - and you'll still be using around the same amount of energy which you could use if you use fuel or whatever. Unless of course we put a ton of magnets around the solar system and we launch spacecraft in a manner similar to railguns.
Since people wanted to make profits out of it.
No no, all the American important bills have AWESOME acroynms - you know like PATRIOT and stuff like that.
So I suggest: Privacy Regulations Over Facebooks & Internet Technology
To reflect all the lobbying which will shoot down most of the bits except the ones which involve making money.
My year-old netbook can run Visual Studio 2010 on it. Sure it takes 5 minutes to compile silverlight, and working on a titchy little screen gives you a headache, but netbooks are useful for more than browsing the web.
I use my netbook for university, so it gets shoved into a bag after each lecture, where it is jostled around when I walk around, or when I rummige into my bag for something.
Laptops are like women, there is such a thing as 'too thin'.
The name was actually chosen by netscape to get on the bandwagon.
Java was THE cool new language to come out at the time, and Netscape decided that if they call it "Javascript" it'd make people think they're connected.
If I buy something from itunes, I am pretty sure apple will take the money - which then trickles down to the song producer (which probably aint french either - and which is defentally not homeless). So no money is going into France, but a good deal is going out of France and into America.
This is for ONLINE purchases.
There is something interesting called the Broken Window fallacy or something like that. Basically the 25 euros that the person spent and the government spent would not have been stored away, but used for something else -> which could help the economy even more. The 25 euros the kid gave to itunes could have been used to pay for a restaurant, or for clothes, or for their education.
I honestly can't fathom how this helps anyone except for the same music publishers who have raped us with their music prices for decades
I think the biggest question is "Is it supposed to?"
This is the same government which put in the 3-strikes law for filesharers, let me remind you that.
Can the french government get any worse? First they implement the 3 strikes law.
Now they will throw 25 million euros a year (according to their estimates) - in order to pay the music industry. Why not grab the 25 million and use them to build more parks, or reduce homelessness, or put into education?
Answer: Because there aren't any 'homelessness lobbies'
++ Definitely Diminishing Distinct Danger
It was also MAD that resulted in quite a few near-misses which almost resulted in the end of the world.
Information is also classified when you want to perform atrocities or "its not good for morale", or its dissemination will cause the main plan not to work.
It is specifically against the law to classify something for such a reason.
Well, when the Americans were performing torture.. whoops "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" - its not like they told everyone. Far as I know some documents haven't been properly declassified either. And I'm pretty sure that the EIT counts as one of the above.
99.9% of the time, information is classified in order to protect a source (human, etc)..
[Citation Needed]
Information is also classified when you want to perform atrocities or "its not good for morale", or its dissemination will cause the main plan not to work.
The My Lai Massacre was 'classified' for a year or so before it became public knowledge.
The names in the leaked documents aren't half as important as the actions they committed.
Its not really treason since the owner isn't from the US. He's Australian.
If you put it that way, leaking ANY information about ANYONE should be illegal? Why should he be in prison? As far as I know, no law was broken.
The US soldier who leaked the information in the firstplace - yes, you could call that treason. And yes that's illegal.
Why doesn't this guy just yell "Banzai", leak out the rest of the documents, and survive for 5 minutes while hundreds of copies are made on the internet?
At this point its just pointless bickering, if this guy releases the rest of what he's got, the US will have no real interest in him anymore I would think - because even if he 'mysteriously dies when his server mysteriously explodes', the copies of the document would have still been spread around like wildfire.
That sounds quite a bit many browser's handling of alt-text to me. You mouse over a particular image, and other information is displayed.
Time to sue more people then. Good thing we have software patents, those help innovation!
Deterrent through force of arms never worked.
That was the solution to the balance of power pre-WW1 if anyone remembers a bit of history. We all saw how that ended up.
Meh, basing the entire future of the internet on "Go on, do it, I dare you" will not end well for anyone. I can already see an RIAA/MPAA sponsored 'attack' taking down most of the internet (and them meddlin` filesharers!) for a few weeks.