What, two people? Out of how many? So far, your chances of getting caught and identified are statistically insignficant.
That’s because of statistics, not because of anonymity. It’s just strength in numbers.
And there's a comparison between this and getting off your ass and taking action in the real world... where? I think I missed that step.
You must have missed the step where I have to get off my ass and take action in the real world every morning, or I won’t keep getting paid every other week. If I don’t keep getting paid every other week, I won’t have money to spend on a computer, the internet, and the electric bill.
That’s why they advertise speeds up to “x” Gbps. They just don’t tell you that the only way you could reasonably expect to get “x” Gbps is if you were the only person in your entire neighbourhood using their service at that moment.
5 years later there are 6 lanes of traffic. Rush hour is still go, stop, go stop. See where I'm going here? This is a cyclical problem that has no solution.
The infrastructure grew slower than the demands for that infrastructure’s usage did. Until it catches up, you’ll always be stuck behind the 8-ball.
And what’s more, the demands for the infrastructure grew unnaturally quickly because a price war drove down the cost without actually increasing the capacity of the infrastructure to meet the new demand.
First of all, the low points in the graph prove that users don’t “always” consume all of what is available. They only do when the demand is actually that high (wow, what a revelation).
Go look at that graph again (here it is) and instead of the flatline, imagine that curve extrapolated up to where it ought to be. Where does it peak, somewhere around 200%? So you could actually double that network’s capacity and still be thinking “oh my god they’re just using it all up!” No, that’s just the normal demand... triple the network’s capacity, and you’d likely find that you have excess capacity at all times.
So no, the users don’t just “ALWAYS consume what is available”. They consume all of what is available when what’s available is less than the normal demand ought to be.
You’re just stuck in the position of being so ridiculously over-sold that the demand is 2x what you can supply. And you really only have yourselves to blame for that.
They can still give a user a 6 Mbps “PowerBoost” for a few seconds; they just have to prioritize those packets. It just means everyone else’s speed suffers as a result. Then when the “PowerBurst” is over (it doesn’t last long) they get the same slow-ass speed that everyone else is getting.
To follow up to Anonymous Coward’s answer, the magnetic coating on the physical (metal or glass) plate is crystalline, and freezing it helps firm up the crystal structure. The hotter it gets the more disorganized those molecules are, and the more disorganized they are, the weaker their magnetism will be.
or even better build a bad modem in software (based on iax fax?) that draws out the tones longer and longer as it gets through the handshake
A really bad connection will do that all by itself, as the modem tries slower and slower baud rates to try to find one that its error correction algorithms can handle.
(1) Faxes are "as good as" photocopies, and as such have a legal standing. Particularly in that if the fax went straight to paper, that paper is a fixed media. Yes, someone can forge anything at any time. That isn't the point.
I did part-time office work in a legal office, and general practice was if the lawyer of record wasn’t in and something needed a signature, you cut-and-pasted (in the old-fashioned scissors and glue sense) his signature from something else, photocopied that to make sure no obvious edges showed up around the pasted signature, and then faxed the photocopy.
Now, in my case it was legitimate stuff that had been ok’d by the lawyer, he just happened to be in court or whatever and since much of the paperwork was time-sensitive he couldn’t get in quick enough to sign it. But it was still a forged signature, and the process was ridiculously exploitable to anyone who would’ve actually wanted to exploit it.
Everyone knows it happens, but they pretend they don’t because ignorance is bliss.
What good does that do? MAC addresses aren’t like IP addresses. Even if you know the correct manufacturer-assigned hardware MAC address for someone’s network adapter, there’s no central database connecting MAC addresses with users’ home addresses and phone numbers like ISPs are supposed to keep for IP addresses.
Not to mention it’s easy to change the MAC address. But even if someone’s lazy and doesn’t, I still see little chance of actually finding them.
I honestly can’t figure out whether this was an actual attempt to advertise that website or just somebody trying to be funny. It’s more than a little unsettling...
There is no way at all to face jail time for not getting health insurance. You can be fined and you can have your wages garnished or assets seized to cover the cost, but there is no route from not buying healthcare to jail time unless you commit some other crime, like
...trying to actually protect your wages from garnishment or your assets from seizure. But other than that, no, there’s no way at all.
If we had (hypothetically) unlimited energy/power (and I do mean unlimited), could we effectively, cheaply and practically heat all our streets from 0 to say 24 degrees c, or would it be too noisy, costly on parts, or otherwise impractical?
Tilt the earth back and the sun will do that for you.
It may be sterile while it's in your bladder, but the journey out is a dirty one.
However it’s also somewhat corrosive and as a result possesses some antiseptic properties, so there’s a good chance it makes it through and is still relatively clean.
Not sure what exactly the Anonymous Coward was reacting to, but that ISA card... damn, that’s a lot of pins.
My soldering exploits have been limited to more small-scale hacks, like re-attaching the plug on a USB thumb drive which had cracked the solder joints attaching it to the drive, or replacing the mechanical switch in the primary button of an optical mouse (which I’d worn out playing Minesweeper... how many people can say that, hmm?) with a similar mechanical switch cannibalized from a rolling-ball mouse. Well, that and scavenging the switches, LEDs, and various electronic components from just about anything electronic that we threw away when I was a kid... in fact just last week my dad called me up and told me he’d needed a small switch or something like that and remembered my old stash down in the basement and he’d found just what he needed in it.
Sounds familiar. I had an external hard drive with a lousy USB cord that wasn’t delivering the full juice needed to spin up the drive. When it was plugged in, it just made a sad clicking noise. Hold it in the palm of your hand, though, and a gentle twitch of the wrist would start it right up.
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No... for the really secure sites you need to use Abcd1234
you can search the cracked list
Link please?
What, two people? Out of how many? So far, your chances of getting caught and identified are statistically insignficant.
That’s because of statistics, not because of anonymity. It’s just strength in numbers.
And there's a comparison between this and getting off your ass and taking action in the real world ... where? I think I missed that step.
You must have missed the step where I have to get off my ass and take action in the real world every morning, or I won’t keep getting paid every other week. If I don’t keep getting paid every other week, I won’t have money to spend on a computer, the internet, and the electric bill.
That’s why they advertise speeds up to “x” Gbps. They just don’t tell you that the only way you could reasonably expect to get “x” Gbps is if you were the only person in your entire neighbourhood using their service at that moment.
5 years later there are 6 lanes of traffic. Rush hour is still go, stop, go stop. See where I'm going here? This is a cyclical problem that has no solution.
The infrastructure grew slower than the demands for that infrastructure’s usage did. Until it catches up, you’ll always be stuck behind the 8-ball.
And what’s more, the demands for the infrastructure grew unnaturally quickly because a price war drove down the cost without actually increasing the capacity of the infrastructure to meet the new demand.
First of all, the low points in the graph prove that users don’t “always” consume all of what is available. They only do when the demand is actually that high (wow, what a revelation).
Go look at that graph again (here it is) and instead of the flatline, imagine that curve extrapolated up to where it ought to be. Where does it peak, somewhere around 200%? So you could actually double that network’s capacity and still be thinking “oh my god they’re just using it all up!” No, that’s just the normal demand... triple the network’s capacity, and you’d likely find that you have excess capacity at all times.
So no, the users don’t just “ALWAYS consume what is available”. They consume all of what is available when what’s available is less than the normal demand ought to be.
You’re just stuck in the position of being so ridiculously over-sold that the demand is 2x what you can supply. And you really only have yourselves to blame for that.
They can still give a user a 6 Mbps “PowerBoost” for a few seconds; they just have to prioritize those packets. It just means everyone else’s speed suffers as a result. Then when the “PowerBurst” is over (it doesn’t last long) they get the same slow-ass speed that everyone else is getting.
Alternate-alternate-site for people who can’t access either imageshack or glowfoto:
Image #1: http://ompldr.org/vNms2aQ/ntoday.gif
Image #2: http://ompldr.org/vNms2ag/sqnday.gif
Image #3: http://ompldr.org/vNms2aw/ntomonth.gif
To follow up to Anonymous Coward’s answer, the magnetic coating on the physical (metal or glass) plate is crystalline, and freezing it helps firm up the crystal structure. The hotter it gets the more disorganized those molecules are, and the more disorganized they are, the weaker their magnetism will be.
or even better build a bad modem in software (based on iax fax?) that draws out the tones longer and longer as it gets through the handshake
A really bad connection will do that all by itself, as the modem tries slower and slower baud rates to try to find one that its error correction algorithms can handle.
(1) Faxes are "as good as" photocopies, and as such have a legal standing. Particularly in that if the fax went straight to paper, that paper is a fixed media. Yes, someone can forge anything at any time. That isn't the point.
I did part-time office work in a legal office, and general practice was if the lawyer of record wasn’t in and something needed a signature, you cut-and-pasted (in the old-fashioned scissors and glue sense) his signature from something else, photocopied that to make sure no obvious edges showed up around the pasted signature, and then faxed the photocopy.
Now, in my case it was legitimate stuff that had been ok’d by the lawyer, he just happened to be in court or whatever and since much of the paperwork was time-sensitive he couldn’t get in quick enough to sign it. But it was still a forged signature, and the process was ridiculously exploitable to anyone who would’ve actually wanted to exploit it.
Everyone knows it happens, but they pretend they don’t because ignorance is bliss.
Destruction of property... property like tea?
Disruption of other people’s services... like the service of having nice comfortable seats to sit in when they ride buses?
Because MAC addresses aren't logged at Starbucks
What good does that do? MAC addresses aren’t like IP addresses. Even if you know the correct manufacturer-assigned hardware MAC address for someone’s network adapter, there’s no central database connecting MAC addresses with users’ home addresses and phone numbers like ISPs are supposed to keep for IP addresses.
Not to mention it’s easy to change the MAC address. But even if someone’s lazy and doesn’t, I still see little chance of actually finding them.
But what if it really was hijacked?
Then the legal system is holding you hostage. Can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs... right?
Legally doing so, no. Illegally doing so, by lying on your taxes or shooting at the tax collector, yeah you'll go to jail just like other criminals.
Just like the criminals who extort money from us via unconstitutional laws?
I honestly can’t figure out whether this was an actual attempt to advertise that website or just somebody trying to be funny. It’s more than a little unsettling...
There is no way at all to face jail time for not getting health insurance. You can be fined and you can have your wages garnished or assets seized to cover the cost, but there is no route from not buying healthcare to jail time unless you commit some other crime, like
...trying to actually protect your wages from garnishment or your assets from seizure. But other than that, no, there’s no way at all.
So he’s basically the right-wing version of APK.
If we had (hypothetically) unlimited energy/power (and I do mean unlimited), could we effectively, cheaply and practically heat all our streets from 0 to say 24 degrees c, or would it be too noisy, costly on parts, or otherwise impractical?
Tilt the earth back and the sun will do that for you.
It may be sterile while it's in your bladder, but the journey out is a dirty one.
However it’s also somewhat corrosive and as a result possesses some antiseptic properties, so there’s a good chance it makes it through and is still relatively clean.
Except that from one look at the image it’s obvious that this isn’t the handiwork of Anon. It’s just a poorly-done parody.
Not sure what exactly the Anonymous Coward was reacting to, but that ISA card... damn, that’s a lot of pins.
My soldering exploits have been limited to more small-scale hacks, like re-attaching the plug on a USB thumb drive which had cracked the solder joints attaching it to the drive, or replacing the mechanical switch in the primary button of an optical mouse (which I’d worn out playing Minesweeper... how many people can say that, hmm?) with a similar mechanical switch cannibalized from a rolling-ball mouse. Well, that and scavenging the switches, LEDs, and various electronic components from just about anything electronic that we threw away when I was a kid... in fact just last week my dad called me up and told me he’d needed a small switch or something like that and remembered my old stash down in the basement and he’d found just what he needed in it.
Sounds familiar. I had an external hard drive with a lousy USB cord that wasn’t delivering the full juice needed to spin up the drive. When it was plugged in, it just made a sad clicking noise. Hold it in the palm of your hand, though, and a gentle twitch of the wrist would start it right up.
What did that actually do?
If Nelson or Drudge were an ISP, then the DMCA would be relevant... Drudge and Nelson were the actual infringers themselves, the DMCA is irrelevant
If I am not mistaken, the DMCA is still the applicable piece of legislation. Just not the part of the DMCA that you’re thinking of.