I speak afor everyone when I say, pso? who cares if a copyright holder behaves in a back asswards way and leaves money on the table? your implicit argument is that it's ok to steal because the copyright holder is doing it wrong anyway.
The Bitcoin post just looks dumb; phony Bitcoins? doesn't exist; they're cryptographically signed, the whole post is ridiculous. The article, on the other hand, is very simple, if you know what Mailinator is.
Basically, it's a free webmail with no registration, no password, no security whatsoever: just send an e-mail to testaddress@mailinator.com, go to mailinator.com, and tell it you want to see the e-mails for "testaddress".
So if you go to some website and it wants your e-mail address so that it can spam you, you put in a mailinator address instead. But then the website gets wise to this and tells you that you're not allowed to put mailinator addresses in the e-mail field when you register. So Mailinator constantly creates new domains that work identically, and gives you a handful of them when you visit the site. Websites got wise to that too, and had scripts that automatically checked Mailinator and automatically blacklisted all the domains it listed.
Well, hypothetically speaking, if Mailinator's server detected that it was being accessed by a script, it could list whatever domains it wanted (google? yahoo? hotmail?) and the script would dumbly blacklist them. Result: now you can't sign up for $shitty_web_registration_account using your $real_Gmail_address, what the fuck?
why? is the ability to copy something an inaliable right? if somebody else made something, they have a say over how it's used, including if it can be copied or not. If somebody wants to make the coolest album ever and then lock it in his home, that is his (copy)right.
yeah but as mentioned ad nauseum above, both require specialized information that >99% of the population does not have. For people on slashdot it's simple and obvious, but that's like saying for people on telephoto snooping blogs it would be trivial to do.
In short, while the equipment is cheap, the knowledge is specialized w.r.t. the population at large.
I have the expectation of privacy within my home. However, my house leaks all sorts of electromagnetic radiation, including wi-fi and photons that shoot out my windows. It's unreasonable for me to live in an EM-proof cave inside a faraday cage.
Just as the telephoto guy is intentionally invasive, so is the google wi-fi guy.
Before the "people with unprotected networks are stupid and deserve what they get" meme develops, I wanted to get a few thoughts out there. First, there are many good and valid reasons for leaving a wifi network unpassworded. For example a coffee shop may have an open network which users join, then the users info gets sniffed. Second, the google sniffing is more intrusive than a reasonable person would expect. Lets say a guy was using a telescope to spy on you through your window to watch the email you're typing. You could say the user is stupid to not pull the shades on his window, but I would say the guy is being extraordinarily creepy even if what he's doing is legal.
my team did a lot of the ground research for the light peak spec. the greatest challenge was shoving enough bits through the wire -- we couldn't find a way to do it passively. That's why it's $50.
Nuts to you! You made the three wolf moon joke before I had a chance. at least I posted my comment in response to an relief comment, so it appears above:)
If the hallmark of real geekiness — of America — is determination, then we seem too determined to have an entitlement problem.
LOLWUT? This statement makes no sense. It sounds like a perversion of a tea party truism. A salute to real American geekiness as our founding fathers envisioned!
In my mind true geeks apply an overabundance of detailed knowledge to an overly technical project that wouldn't interest the general population. Count me in.
first, I think it's awesome that you want to get more education. But you need to keep in mind that there's an enormous difference between computer science and programming (CS!=programming). If you want programming experience or new languages then there are many avenues (self taught and other).
CS is mostly abstract - algorithms, math, etc. you could get a good CS education without needing a computer. It's like the difference between medical school and being a doctor. If you want to be a better doctor then going back to med school wont' make any difference.
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I speak afor everyone when I say, pso? who cares if a copyright holder behaves in a back asswards way and leaves money on the table? your implicit argument is that it's ok to steal because the copyright holder is doing it wrong anyway.
Basically, it's a free webmail with no registration, no password, no security whatsoever: just send an e-mail to testaddress@mailinator.com, go to mailinator.com, and tell it you want to see the e-mails for "testaddress".
So if you go to some website and it wants your e-mail address so that it can spam you, you put in a mailinator address instead. But then the website gets wise to this and tells you that you're not allowed to put mailinator addresses in the e-mail field when you register. So Mailinator constantly creates new domains that work identically, and gives you a handful of them when you visit the site. Websites got wise to that too, and had scripts that automatically checked Mailinator and automatically blacklisted all the domains it listed.
Well, hypothetically speaking, if Mailinator's server detected that it was being accessed by a script, it could list whatever domains it wanted (google? yahoo? hotmail?) and the script would dumbly blacklist them. Result: now you can't sign up for $shitty_web_registration_account using your $real_Gmail_address, what the fuck?
so we agree...good.
why? is the ability to copy something an inaliable right? if somebody else made something, they have a say over how it's used, including if it can be copied or not. If somebody wants to make the coolest album ever and then lock it in his home, that is his (copy)right.
[citation needed]
In short, while the equipment is cheap, the knowledge is specialized w.r.t. the population at large.
It seems that whenever someone has the solution for copyright problems, it always involves somebody else making sacrifices. no surprise, hmm?
I have the expectation of privacy within my home. However, my house leaks all sorts of electromagnetic radiation, including wi-fi and photons that shoot out my windows. It's unreasonable for me to live in an EM-proof cave inside a faraday cage.
Just as the telephoto guy is intentionally invasive, so is the google wi-fi guy.
did anybody else read the subject as noodle 2.0? sounds like a trendy pho place in palo alto.
Before the "people with unprotected networks are stupid and deserve what they get" meme develops, I wanted to get a few thoughts out there. First, there are many good and valid reasons for leaving a wifi network unpassworded. For example a coffee shop may have an open network which users join, then the users info gets sniffed. Second, the google sniffing is more intrusive than a reasonable person would expect. Lets say a guy was using a telescope to spy on you through your window to watch the email you're typing. You could say the user is stupid to not pull the shades on his window, but I would say the guy is being extraordinarily creepy even if what he's doing is legal.
my team did a lot of the ground research for the light peak spec. the greatest challenge was shoving enough bits through the wire -- we couldn't find a way to do it passively. That's why it's $50.
Nuts to you! You made the three wolf moon joke before I had a chance. at least I posted my comment in response to an relief comment, so it appears above :)
Amazon reviews are not genuine? Bull shite! Now where's my three wolf moon shirt.
the three hours I spent on duke nukem are lost forever.
OSX FTW!
If the hallmark of real geekiness — of America — is determination, then we seem too determined to have an entitlement problem.
LOLWUT? This statement makes no sense. It sounds like a perversion of a tea party truism. A salute to real American geekiness as our founding fathers envisioned!
In my mind true geeks apply an overabundance of detailed knowledge to an overly technical project that wouldn't interest the general population. Count me in.
-sent from my TI-92 graphing calculator.
CS is mostly abstract - algorithms, math, etc. you could get a good CS education without needing a computer. It's like the difference between medical school and being a doctor. If you want to be a better doctor then going back to med school wont' make any difference.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
very nice! hi five!
woosh!
are you turning my own woosh back on me?
here is a woosh card. it's for you!
Wearable electronics are a pipe dream and will never happen! ::looks at watch:: oops running late got to go!
At first I read that the notes were 2.5 times longer than paper money, as in ~15 inches. talk about a wad of cash!
just trying to help... there are fewer tracking bugs at least.
for your convenience, here you go: http://techgage.com/print/amd_rejects_bapcos_sysmark_2012_-_should_we