Please, leave Willow alone. Yes, the effects aren't the greatest, but an entertaining story line and wonderful characters make it a very enjoyable movie, and one I'm proud to own. Let him go make the next Indiana Jones. If it sucks, I'll just pretend its still a trilogy.
I don't know. I think I would prefer that they did disconnect zombied or malicious PCs. There is a difference between this and policing P2P traffic. My ISP disconnected me once for having a virus on one of my Windows boxes. I was upset I was disconnected, but once I found out why, I quickly fixed the problem, informed the ISP, and was back online.
Policing P2P traffic is another matter. Malicious traffic should not necessarily be monitored by the ISP. Instead, reports from sysadmins containing appropriate logs and/or message headers should be reported. The ISP can confirm the legitamacy of these logs and disconnect the user (and hopefully call the user). The reporting person never needs to know anything about the identity of the ISP's customer.
Remember, hacking is (in most countries) a criminal activity. I assume by policing P2P you are worried about copyright infringement which is a civil matter. These are two very different areas of law. Of course in Canada, the ISP cannot give out the name of a customer without a court order or under other very specific circumstances.
It might be worthwhile to look at setting up some sort of a webbased authentication system that would dynamically allow an IP address or subnet for a certain amount of time. Block everything, but if your customer/employee/whatever needs in, they can authenticate via a webpage which would then update your firewall rules.
Oh, so there should be a central hub where the virus/worm can talk to other copies of itself. Any place it could talk to itself would quickly be located and shutdown. Besides, I don't think the writers of these kinds of programs are really concerned with your network utilization.
Most of the malicious type traffic I'm seeing lately (aside from SPAM) is ssh worms trying to log into my boxes. Most boxes are set to only allow ssh from a few IPs or subnets, but I have one that I block class A's anytime I see a worm trying to get in. I've got about 1/2 the IP space blocked right now.
It would be like setting up a massive feedback loop on a mail server. When user X gets message X, he passes message X to user Y, who upon receiving message X sends it back to user X
I remember a Banyan mail system I worked with. In the event that you set up a vacation (while I'm out) type mail minder and we're near your mailbox limit, it was possible to start and endless loop of a mailbox full notifications (mailbox full notifications were allowed even if the limit was reached).
Well, here's the thing. Suppose Videotron does release the information of the customer's that CRIA is looking for. CIRA will proceed to sue or press charges against the individuals involved. Any decent lawyer will have the information thrown out since it was obtained in violation of PIPEDA. (There is is nothing in PIPEDA about releasing information because you think someone is doing something illegal - that's what warrants are for). CRIA would be much better off getting the warrant in the first place. ISPs are under no obligation to provide the identities behind the IPs, in fact, they are under obligation NOT to.
There's nothing saying the employees can't be US (or Canadian) citizens. In that case no VISA is needed to enter the countries. Not too mention the fact that if your pay is earned in international waters, you might be able to avoid paying income taxes on that money. Makes for an interesting scenario.
I think that's the best (and worst) description I've heard of the book. I first read it only a few months ago - I picked up a copy to take with me on vacation. My wife was not impressed with me laughing out loud while she was trying to relax on the beach. Now that the movie is almost here, I really want to go, and she keeps asking me what its about. Maybe I'll point her to your post:)
Most of us I think should actually encourage this action. The more fraudulent clicks that are not paid out the more valuable the service is. As a guy who tries to cover some of his costs by running google ads on a few sites, I'm happy they're going after this fraud. I'm not in this to make a fortune, but the more valuable the service overall is, the higher advertisers will pay for the click, the more money I make. If click fraud becomes rampant, the opposite happens and I lose the little bit of money I actually earn from my sites (I might actually cover the cost of my domain registrations this year!!!!)
Some of these are the result of expiring domains that have been snapped up. For a couple of days I kept an eye on expiring.ca and.com domains and ran them through a little google PR checker. I watched one.ca domain with an average PR of just below 6..ca domains that have expired are released within a 15 minute window. I was doing a whois on the domain about twice every second. I never saw the status become available. It went directly from to be released, to registered.
There is a whole industry out there which revolves around snapping up expired domains with high PR. They have pages up within minutes of registering that are filled with nothing but ads, and maybe a few keywords.
I agree that you should complain, repeatedly, and in writing to the management/owners. However, at the same point, at no time did I agree to be held against my will and/or searched simply because some buzzer and a flashing light went off while I was exiting the store. If the store feels that I have shoplifted, they are perfectly free to either place my under citizen's arrest, or more likely, call the police and report it. However, since they will be able to provide no proof (I guarantee I didn't steal anything) and very little in the way of evidence, I highly doubt the police will even respond.
Well, I run several websites that cost me real money. I put google ads on a few of them, and the amount I get does not cover my cost, not even close. However, that doesn't mean I'll stop running the sites. I'm not running them to make money. I run them as a hobby (which is cheaper than most) and because I actually enjoy it. If some of the sites get popular enough and enough clicks on the google ads, GREAT. However, I don't run these sites on the hope of retiring. I'd say a great many sites started out and exist this way. My guess is slashdot started this way.
Its not hard to convince someone to open the document....doc fly around in emails all the time, and often turn up in search results on google. It would be no harder to get them to open a rogue.doc then it would be to get them to open a.pdf
You of course are welcome to your opinion, but I would disagree. The humour (especially from the 70s and 80s) that game out of Britain is noticeable different from comedy originating out of the US. Canadian humour (I'm Canadian) seems to fall in between somewhere, but leans more towards British comedy. Certainly British and Canadian humour can be more dark at times, but I find, if anything, that these styles of humour tend to be much more intellectual, whereas US humour tends to be more slapstick. That's not to say there aren't exceptions. This is just my viewpoint.
As you stated, there is a very blury line between privacy and censorship. Its not always easy to tell where personal privacy begins and censoship ends. Luckily in Canada, privacy seems to be the winner. As an owner of a blogging site, I'll never reveal the identity of my members unless forces to by law. On the other hand, if I see (or am shown) something in appropriate on the site, I will take it down.
I have Myth running with a Hauppauge 350.. no regrets. The machine is a 650Mhz with I believe 128MB (might be 256). Watching live TV (which means I'm also recording - you know, PVR functionality) puts a load of about.1 -.2 on the box. So, while I may have spent a bit more on the card, I can do so without having to spend a lot on other hardware.
You didn't even have to read the article.... the summary said Canada alerted WHO to the mistake. The mistake was caused by a US firm. The Canadian lab detected the virus and traced it back to the sample kit sent from the US.
Of course, if you read teh article, you would see that the poster has alread tried this and had no luck. The domains are most likely in a "locked" state and they won't release the locks.
Suppose now that the blog in question had existed outside the United States. Then the identity of the individual may become difficult or even impossible to determine. For example, I'm running a blogging site in Canada. All the information I collect is protected by PIPEDA. Now, as a matter of fact, the only information I actually collect from a user of my site, is their email address (for forgotten passwords mostly).
In the event that someone posted something that a particular company wanted taken down, it would a violation of that act for me to release any information to said company without a judge ordering it. Now, if a judge did order it, all the information I have would need to released. I don't keep logs around except to gather some stats once a day, after that their flushed. So, the information released would most likely only amount to the persons email address. At that point, the company would have to talk to the ISP or mail host to determine who has that email. Supposing that its an address from gmail or hotmail, they would then have to gather records from there.
That's not to say that they couldn't force me, as the site admin to take the offending article down, however, that's not likely to solve the issue since its likely that something like google cache would have it available anyways
So, if someone really wants to publish something on the web in the form of a blog, its very possible for them to remain anonymous for a very long time, if not forever.
This is actually what I believe. There's various studies out there that suggest that growing up in a more rural environment will tend to produce less allergenic and breathing problems in later life. The belief is that the constant exposure to dust, seeds, animal dander and hair, etc. that is more common in a rural setting will actually teach the body to not treat these (relatively) harmless materials as hazardous and trigger allergenic or asthmatic responses.
The same could be said of bacteria and such. We're now beginning to realize that treating every infection or virus (say a cold) with antibiotics will in fact, over time, make the bug more resistant to the drugs. A lot of people belive this is why the so called flesh-eating disease is so resistant to anti-biotics. Its been exposed to them all before.
Remember folks, our parents and grandparents didn't have $brandName anti-bacterial wipes to clean up after cutting raw chicken, and they didn't die from salmonella either. Simple precautions such as washing your hands with soap (don't spend extra on the anti-bacterial crap) regularaly. Don't rub your eyes or pick your nose after being in contact with questionable objects.
Simple hygene can actually prevent a surprising number of infections.
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On an African or European flight?
Please, leave Willow alone. Yes, the effects aren't the greatest, but an entertaining story line and wonderful characters make it a very enjoyable movie, and one I'm proud to own. Let him go make the next Indiana Jones. If it sucks, I'll just pretend its still a trilogy.
I don't know. I think I would prefer that they did disconnect zombied or malicious PCs. There is a difference between this and policing P2P traffic. My ISP disconnected me once for having a virus on one of my Windows boxes. I was upset I was disconnected, but once I found out why, I quickly fixed the problem, informed the ISP, and was back online.
Policing P2P traffic is another matter. Malicious traffic should not necessarily be monitored by the ISP. Instead, reports from sysadmins containing appropriate logs and/or message headers should be reported. The ISP can confirm the legitamacy of these logs and disconnect the user (and hopefully call the user). The reporting person never needs to know anything about the identity of the ISP's customer.
Remember, hacking is (in most countries) a criminal activity. I assume by policing P2P you are worried about copyright infringement which is a civil matter. These are two very different areas of law. Of course in Canada, the ISP cannot give out the name of a customer without a court order or under other very specific circumstances.
It might be worthwhile to look at setting up some sort of a webbased authentication system that would dynamically allow an IP address or subnet for a certain amount of time. Block everything, but if your customer/employee/whatever needs in, they can authenticate via a webpage which would then update your firewall rules.
Oh, so there should be a central hub where the virus/worm can talk to other copies of itself. Any place it could talk to itself would quickly be located and shutdown. Besides, I don't think the writers of these kinds of programs are really concerned with your network utilization.
Most of the malicious type traffic I'm seeing lately (aside from SPAM) is ssh worms trying to log into my boxes. Most boxes are set to only allow ssh from a few IPs or subnets, but I have one that I block class A's anytime I see a worm trying to get in. I've got about 1/2 the IP space blocked right now.
It would be like setting up a massive feedback loop on a mail server. When user X gets message X, he passes message X to user Y, who upon receiving message X sends it back to user X
I remember a Banyan mail system I worked with. In the event that you set up a vacation (while I'm out) type mail minder and we're near your mailbox limit, it was possible to start and endless loop of a mailbox full notifications (mailbox full notifications were allowed even if the limit was reached).
Ahhh, but if mother's hadn't burned and tossed out those comics, those number 1 issues wouldn't be worth anything cause everyone would have one.
Well, here's the thing. Suppose Videotron does release the information of the customer's that CRIA is looking for. CIRA will proceed to sue or press charges against the individuals involved. Any decent lawyer will have the information thrown out since it was obtained in violation of PIPEDA. (There is is nothing in PIPEDA about releasing information because you think someone is doing something illegal - that's what warrants are for). CRIA would be much better off getting the warrant in the first place. ISPs are under no obligation to provide the identities behind the IPs, in fact, they are under obligation NOT to.
There's nothing saying the employees can't be US (or Canadian) citizens. In that case no VISA is needed to enter the countries. Not too mention the fact that if your pay is earned in international waters, you might be able to avoid paying income taxes on that money. Makes for an interesting scenario.
I think that's the best (and worst) description I've heard of the book. I first read it only a few months ago - I picked up a copy to take with me on vacation. My wife was not impressed with me laughing out loud while she was trying to relax on the beach. Now that the movie is almost here, I really want to go, and she keeps asking me what its about. Maybe I'll point her to your post :)
Most of us I think should actually encourage this action. The more fraudulent clicks that are not paid out the more valuable the service is. As a guy who tries to cover some of his costs by running google ads on a few sites, I'm happy they're going after this fraud. I'm not in this to make a fortune, but the more valuable the service overall is, the higher advertisers will pay for the click, the more money I make. If click fraud becomes rampant, the opposite happens and I lose the little bit of money I actually earn from my sites (I might actually cover the cost of my domain registrations this year!!!!)
Some of these are the result of expiring domains that have been snapped up. For a couple of days I kept an eye on expiring .ca and .com domains and ran them through a little google PR checker. I watched one .ca domain with an average PR of just below 6. .ca domains that have expired are released within a 15 minute window. I was doing a whois on the domain about twice every second. I never saw the status become available. It went directly from to be released, to registered.
There is a whole industry out there which revolves around snapping up expired domains with high PR. They have pages up within minutes of registering that are filled with nothing but ads, and maybe a few keywords.
I believe its "Bite" my shiny metal ass, not kiss.
As proof? Not likely. Especially when I turn around and show them my receipt from a different retailer (or the same retailer previous to the episode).
Unless I'm mistaken, its up to them to prove you took the PDA, not the other way around. That's a big distinction.
I agree that you should complain, repeatedly, and in writing to the management/owners. However, at the same point, at no time did I agree to be held against my will and/or searched simply because some buzzer and a flashing light went off while I was exiting the store. If the store feels that I have shoplifted, they are perfectly free to either place my under citizen's arrest, or more likely, call the police and report it. However, since they will be able to provide no proof (I guarantee I didn't steal anything) and very little in the way of evidence, I highly doubt the police will even respond.
Today, no. But, give it some time, like a year, and you'll see WiMax onboard with a lot of laptops.
Well, I run several websites that cost me real money. I put google ads on a few of them, and the amount I get does not cover my cost, not even close. However, that doesn't mean I'll stop running the sites. I'm not running them to make money. I run them as a hobby (which is cheaper than most) and because I actually enjoy it. If some of the sites get popular enough and enough clicks on the google ads, GREAT. However, I don't run these sites on the hope of retiring. I'd say a great many sites started out and exist this way. My guess is slashdot started this way.
Its not hard to convince someone to open the document... .doc fly around in emails all the time, and often turn up in search results on google. It would be no harder to get them to open a rogue .doc then it would be to get them to open a .pdf
You of course are welcome to your opinion, but I would disagree. The humour (especially from the 70s and 80s) that game out of Britain is noticeable different from comedy originating out of the US. Canadian humour (I'm Canadian) seems to fall in between somewhere, but leans more towards British comedy. Certainly British and Canadian humour can be more dark at times, but I find, if anything, that these styles of humour tend to be much more intellectual, whereas US humour tends to be more slapstick. That's not to say there aren't exceptions. This is just my viewpoint.
As you stated, there is a very blury line between privacy and censorship. Its not always easy to tell where personal privacy begins and censoship ends. Luckily in Canada, privacy seems to be the winner. As an owner of a blogging site, I'll never reveal the identity of my members unless forces to by law. On the other hand, if I see (or am shown) something in appropriate on the site, I will take it down.
I have Myth running with a Hauppauge 350.. no regrets. The machine is a 650Mhz with I believe 128MB (might be 256). Watching live TV (which means I'm also recording - you know, PVR functionality) puts a load of about .1 - .2 on the box. So, while I may have spent a bit more on the card, I can do so without having to spend a lot on other hardware.
You didn't even have to read the article.... the summary said Canada alerted WHO to the mistake. The mistake was caused by a US firm. The Canadian lab detected the virus and traced it back to the sample kit sent from the US.
Of course, if you read teh article, you would see that the poster has alread tried this and had no luck. The domains are most likely in a "locked" state and they won't release the locks.
Suppose now that the blog in question had existed outside the United States. Then the identity of the individual may become difficult or even impossible to determine. For example, I'm running a blogging site in Canada. All the information I collect is protected by PIPEDA. Now, as a matter of fact, the only information I actually collect from a user of my site, is their email address (for forgotten passwords mostly).
In the event that someone posted something that a particular company wanted taken down, it would a violation of that act for me to release any information to said company without a judge ordering it. Now, if a judge did order it, all the information I have would need to released. I don't keep logs around except to gather some stats once a day, after that their flushed. So, the information released would most likely only amount to the persons email address. At that point, the company would have to talk to the ISP or mail host to determine who has that email. Supposing that its an address from gmail or hotmail, they would then have to gather records from there.
That's not to say that they couldn't force me, as the site admin to take the offending article down, however, that's not likely to solve the issue since its likely that something like google cache would have it available anyways
So, if someone really wants to publish something on the web in the form of a blog, its very possible for them to remain anonymous for a very long time, if not forever.
This is actually what I believe. There's various studies out there that suggest that growing up in a more rural environment will tend to produce less allergenic and breathing problems in later life. The belief is that the constant exposure to dust, seeds, animal dander and hair, etc. that is more common in a rural setting will actually teach the body to not treat these (relatively) harmless materials as hazardous and trigger allergenic or asthmatic responses.
The same could be said of bacteria and such. We're now beginning to realize that treating every infection or virus (say a cold) with antibiotics will in fact, over time, make the bug more resistant to the drugs. A lot of people belive this is why the so called flesh-eating disease is so resistant to anti-biotics. Its been exposed to them all before.
Remember folks, our parents and grandparents didn't have $brandName anti-bacterial wipes to clean up after cutting raw chicken, and they didn't die from salmonella either. Simple precautions such as washing your hands with soap (don't spend extra on the anti-bacterial crap) regularaly. Don't rub your eyes or pick your nose after being in contact with questionable objects.
Simple hygene can actually prevent a surprising number of infections.