Look, everyone knows that the Google index server has evolved sentience and is currently hunting for Sarah Connor. You might as well just admit that's what the drones were really for.
Calculus, dude. It's the calculus. The Newton-Leibniz rivalry is the go-to example of simultaneous invention. What you've got instead is a shaggy dog story set up to let you imply that Zuckerberg is in some way a genius.
...the country that doesn't quite grasp the Streisand effect.
The good ol' US of A understands it quite well, which is why it towards throw celebrity scandals and other forms of misdirection instead of directly censoring things.
Teaching is a very results-fixated process. If it works and doesn't throw errors at the ethics board, it's probably a good method. If it doesn't work, it's probably a bad method, no matter how "correct" it is.
Wait, it's actually sort of obvious. It won't work for its intended purpose, it will annoy users and keep them from getting work done, and people will exploit the system to knock computers offline.
If only there was a way that Microsoft and Apple could somehow find out how a Linux package manager works...some way of viewing the code that makes this leap in software maintenance possible...
AC knew what he was talking about. Let me spell it out since you (and the guy who modded you Insightful) clearly don't.
IPs in a swarm are visible to anyone who can join the swarm. If you use it for security updates, you are implicitly announcing (a) the security update in question, and (b) how to join the swarm. Q.E.D., most people attached to a swarm who are not yet seeding (and possibly many of those who are seeding) do not have the update installed and are publishing this along with their IP for anyone on the internet to see.
You're not going to unhack it. Your target doesn't have anything in their pockets to take. You're not going to silence anyone. In fact, this will just draw more attention to the hack and probably expose it to completely new audiences which may not have been aware of it yet.
I see a few possibilities. Firstly, spite. Secondly, it may be a knee-jerk response by people disconnected from the realities of the situation. Lastly, they may need to establish intent to protect their DRM in order to validate future efforts to defend it as valid protection in the courts and to developers.
Many / most are legislated instances. Many / most legislated instances state that the union represents everybody. This lands the union with a monopolistic scenario and requires everyone to pay them whether they're a "member" or not.
Of course it's easier for many non-Italians. Two syllables versus...how many?
Also there's the whole "Duemilanove means 2009 and it's not 2009 anymore" factor, along with the "it's a new product and we've got to call it something" factor.
Besides which, the new name is also Italian. What's English got to do with anything, AC?
Which would you rather get called on? The fact that the article you posted is only a claim not the actual hack? Or the fact that doing this is trivial and has been since the initial hack using the ATMEGA32U4?
USB is a serial bus (it's even in the name). This means that you can easily attach other devices to it. Want to do the PS3 hack by plugging in your SIXAXIS? Okay, open it up and splice an ATMEGA32U4 onto the bus.
To be fair, most grad students use Facebook primarily to help remind them that they need to come up for air occasionally. If it goes down and temporarily stops vying for their attention, they're likely to continue being absorbed with analyzing the data from their last attempt to apply an epicycle-based model to the sociology of small town karaoke sessions given a behavioral-political tensor formulation of motivation in a multidimensional vector space representing cheese.
And probably all rendered inadmissible in court because they were obtained illegally.
Bullpocky. They posted it to a public server, even if it was through incompetence. They're being presented in courts as technical experts, so that little detail should be absolutely no defense.
Could there please be one of those rare sudden outbreaks of common sense? This is a clear demonstration that Big Media is contracting with people who are not technically competent, then wanting to turn around and present them as technical experts in court. They're abusing the legal system. Ban this farce already.
For that matter, if anyone needs to get banned from teh internets for life, it's these clowns, not some kid downloading crappy pop music.
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You find out its orbital and mechanical properties as early as possible.
Then you send a gravity tug to change the orbit.
The qualification to be considered sentient is that it appears to have human-like intelligence to a human.
Look, everyone knows that the Google index server has evolved sentience and is currently hunting for Sarah Connor. You might as well just admit that's what the drones were really for.
Television would also work.
I nominate writing. Proof:
Damn it Newton, stop posting as AC and get an account already. We all know it's you.
That's your best example?
Calculus, dude. It's the calculus. The Newton-Leibniz rivalry is the go-to example of simultaneous invention. What you've got instead is a shaggy dog story set up to let you imply that Zuckerberg is in some way a genius.
...the country that doesn't quite grasp the Streisand effect.
The good ol' US of A understands it quite well, which is why it towards throw celebrity scandals and other forms of misdirection instead of directly censoring things.
Teaching is a very results-fixated process. If it works and doesn't throw errors at the ethics board, it's probably a good method. If it doesn't work, it's probably a bad method, no matter how "correct" it is.
1776: "The government is across an ocean."
2010: "The government habitually plays big brother (and just did)."
Wait, it's actually sort of obvious. It won't work for its intended purpose, it will annoy users and keep them from getting work done, and people will exploit the system to knock computers offline.
Robot overlords don't need no stinkin' raisins.
If only there was a way that Microsoft and Apple could somehow find out how a Linux package manager works...some way of viewing the code that makes this leap in software maintenance possible...
Next time point your blasters at Miniluv first. Now you get a happy fun trip to Room 101!
AC knew what he was talking about. Let me spell it out since you (and the guy who modded you Insightful) clearly don't.
IPs in a swarm are visible to anyone who can join the swarm. If you use it for security updates, you are implicitly announcing (a) the security update in question, and (b) how to join the swarm. Q.E.D., most people attached to a swarm who are not yet seeding (and possibly many of those who are seeding) do not have the update installed and are publishing this along with their IP for anyone on the internet to see.
You're not going to unhack it. Your target doesn't have anything in their pockets to take. You're not going to silence anyone. In fact, this will just draw more attention to the hack and probably expose it to completely new audiences which may not have been aware of it yet.
I see a few possibilities. Firstly, spite. Secondly, it may be a knee-jerk response by people disconnected from the realities of the situation. Lastly, they may need to establish intent to protect their DRM in order to validate future efforts to defend it as valid protection in the courts and to developers.
Many / most are legislated instances. Many / most legislated instances state that the union represents everybody. This lands the union with a monopolistic scenario and requires everyone to pay them whether they're a "member" or not.
Funny enough, this is exactly what I called it out as being yesterday. I got modded down for my trouble. :D
Of course it's easier for many non-Italians. Two syllables versus...how many?
Also there's the whole "Duemilanove means 2009 and it's not 2009 anymore" factor, along with the "it's a new product and we've got to call it something" factor.
Besides which, the new name is also Italian. What's English got to do with anything, AC?
Which would you rather get called on? The fact that the article you posted is only a claim not the actual hack? Or the fact that doing this is trivial and has been since the initial hack using the ATMEGA32U4?
USB is a serial bus (it's even in the name). This means that you can easily attach other devices to it. Want to do the PS3 hack by plugging in your SIXAXIS? Okay, open it up and splice an ATMEGA32U4 onto the bus.
To be fair, most grad students use Facebook primarily to help remind them that they need to come up for air occasionally. If it goes down and temporarily stops vying for their attention, they're likely to continue being absorbed with analyzing the data from their last attempt to apply an epicycle-based model to the sociology of small town karaoke sessions given a behavioral-political tensor formulation of motivation in a multidimensional vector space representing cheese.
And probably all rendered inadmissible in court because they were obtained illegally.
Bullpocky. They posted it to a public server, even if it was through incompetence. They're being presented in courts as technical experts, so that little detail should be absolutely no defense.
Could there please be one of those rare sudden outbreaks of common sense? This is a clear demonstration that Big Media is contracting with people who are not technically competent, then wanting to turn around and present them as technical experts in court. They're abusing the legal system. Ban this farce already.
For that matter, if anyone needs to get banned from teh internets for life, it's these clowns, not some kid downloading crappy pop music.