would have a complete fit if large numbers of people in the US had 100 Mbit connections. Rest assured they will fight the idea with all the politicians they can buy.
If they had their way, everyone would still be on dialup, so it would take hours to download their planted, looped copy of some song off Kazaa. On my 5 Mbit connection, I just download as many copies as it takes to get a good one, and it does not take long.
The fact broadband exists at all in the US is reason enough for them to try their damnedest to cripple it.
Considering the number and type of people he does things like this to, and that many of them likely get released eventually, I'm suprised nobody has tried to kill him yet.
I would be hard to have sympathy for him if it happens, any more than someone who provokes an angry dog and gets bitten.
Here in Manitoba we also have had cases of CWD in our Elk population.
Its below the radar when its only common amongst wild animals and only hunters are at risk, but get a case of BSE in a cow and its a political nightmare that transcends borders.
Maybe the idea of terrorists creating thier own will spur them to action:-\
"It could even launch warnings on the user's screen for a few days ("Hey dummy! Click here to protect yourself!") before going ahead and patching the hole itself."
Yeah, teach people to click on unsolicited messages. That'll go a long way towards educating DFUs.
F-prot has a free version for Linux, BSD, and Solaris single-user workstations, which works very well and can be easily regularly updated via cron. You can find it here;
>"it calls into question your choice of providers."
I can only speak for my local area, but the choice of providers is pretty limited as far as consumer broadband goes, and thats the whole point. Not everyone can afford a commercial grade connection, and for a SOHO network, ordinary cable works quite well.
I am loathe to complain to Shaw about outgoing spam on their network for fear they will use the sledgehammer approach and block all outgoing port 25, as some others have done. That would be even worse than having just the occasional person such as yourself blocking mail. As it is now, it works well enough that a few bounces are no big deal.
As for using the ISPs relays, that would be fine if they did not rewrite headers, but for anyone wanting to use their own domain, it is a less than desirable option. I ussually set this up as a secondary option for clients, so if they really, really have to get a mail to someone who is blocking direct traffic from them, they still can.
I think Comcast's approach looks pretty reasonable. If all providers worked like that, then perhaps in the future DULs will not be necessary.
I happen to run my own mail server on a Shaw cable account, and I help others set up to do the same thing for their small offices/home offices on cable and DSL (and no, I don't support spammers).
They are your mailservers, so you are certainly free to block whoever you want. It just means I won't be doing any business with your company or associates, and I'll be recommending to all my clients that they not do so either.
If you don't want to talk to us, we don't want to talk to you.
I usually recommend to try and match the burn speed with the rating of the disc.
CDR manufacturers spend a lot of effort optimizing the dyes on their blanks for certain speed ranges, (doubling the speed means you have to have the laser burn a normal pit in the dye in half the time). CDRs do power calibration to try and account for this, but it is a pretty imperfect science.
Using 24x rated media at 48x will probably cause problems, as the pits will be less defined. Using 48x rated media at 24x is better but still less than ideal.
This especially shows in devices like car cd players, portable devices, consoles, which are sensitive to the reflectivity and laser/pickup's ability.
This is a war. Not a military war, where you stand to lose your life, but a war where you certainly stand to lose some of your legitimate freedoms.
The enemy's goal (and the **AA ARE the enemy) is to strip as many of your rights away as they can - privacy rights, fair use rights, due process rights, whatever their bribe money, er, political contributions can buy.
And to fight this enemy IS the right thing to do. In any way possible. And if downloading music will bring about their demise before they do any more damage, all the better.
It is sad that the artists are getting caught in the crossfire. Kinda like all those innocent Iraqis killed because Saddam is an asshole. But, war is like that.
This is a war we cannot afford to lose. Hitting them anywhere we can is fair game. Its one of the first rules of survival - do it to them before they do it to you, and rest assured they are trying hard to do it to you.
>"To work reasonably, a legal system needs a way to allow you to discover the identity of someone you want to sue if they have done something that makes them legally liable to you."
So do you support, say, encryption key escrow?
>"The ISPs weren't compelled to release the IDs because the music companies had not shown sufficient evidence that a copyright violation had occured. If they had shown sufficient evidence, the ISPs probably would have had to cough up the names."
So having shared files on your HDD and allowing them to be uploaded is not sufficient evidence.
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would have a complete fit if large numbers of people in the US had 100 Mbit connections. Rest assured they will fight the idea with all the politicians they can buy.
If they had their way, everyone would still be on dialup, so it would take hours to download their planted, looped copy of some song off Kazaa. On my 5 Mbit connection, I just download as many copies as it takes to get a good one, and it does not take long.
The fact broadband exists at all in the US is reason enough for them to try their damnedest to cripple it.
From the CBC
/ 17 /enwave_040817.html
No registration required;
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/08
It was around long before VoIP became popular, and still works great.
http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgpfone/
Considering the number and type of people he does things like this to, and that many of them likely get released eventually, I'm suprised nobody has tried to kill him yet.
I would be hard to have sympathy for him if it happens, any more than someone who provokes an angry dog and gets bitten.
Here in Manitoba we also have had cases of CWD in our Elk population.
:-\
Its below the radar when its only common amongst wild animals and only hunters are at risk, but get a case of BSE in a cow and its a political nightmare that transcends borders.
Maybe the idea of terrorists creating thier own will spur them to action
"It could even launch warnings on the user's screen for a few days ("Hey dummy! Click here to protect yourself!") before going ahead and patching the hole itself."
Yeah, teach people to click on unsolicited messages. That'll go a long way towards educating DFUs.
I saw this article a couple weeks ago about a scientist who used people's brain patterns in an MRI machine to move a cursor around on a screen.
"Once I buy something, it's mine. Oh wait! So not true anymore" The law does makes fucking the people you bought it from that much sweeter.
Indeed.
Perhaps the editors will clue us in on the impetus for changing the article text?
Until they do, we can only assume the ambulance chasers threatened them.
F-prot has a free version for Linux, BSD, and Solaris single-user workstations, which works very well and can be easily regularly updated via cron. You can find it here;
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/
Really.
Why?
>"it calls into question your choice of providers."
I can only speak for my local area, but the choice of providers is pretty limited as far as consumer broadband goes, and thats the whole point. Not everyone can afford a commercial grade connection, and for a SOHO network, ordinary cable works quite well.
I am loathe to complain to Shaw about outgoing spam on their network for fear they will use the sledgehammer approach and block all outgoing port 25, as some others have done. That would be even worse than having just the occasional person such as yourself blocking mail. As it is now, it works well enough that a few bounces are no big deal.
As for using the ISPs relays, that would be fine if they did not rewrite headers, but for anyone wanting to use their own domain, it is a less than desirable option. I ussually set this up as a secondary option for clients, so if they really, really have to get a mail to someone who is blocking direct traffic from them, they still can.
I think Comcast's approach looks pretty reasonable. If all providers worked like that, then perhaps in the future DULs will not be necessary.
Time will tell.
Cheers
aren't a single issue party, are they?
Damn.
I happen to run my own mail server on a Shaw cable account, and I help others set up to do the same thing for their small offices/home offices on cable and DSL (and no, I don't support spammers).
They are your mailservers, so you are certainly free to block whoever you want. It just means I won't be doing any business with your company or associates, and I'll be recommending to all my clients that they not do so either.
If you don't want to talk to us, we don't want to talk to you.
I usually recommend to try and match the burn speed with the rating of the disc.
CDR manufacturers spend a lot of effort optimizing the dyes on their blanks for certain speed ranges, (doubling the speed means you have to have the laser burn a normal pit in the dye in half the time). CDRs do power calibration to try and account for this, but it is a pretty imperfect science.
Using 24x rated media at 48x will probably cause problems, as the pits will be less defined. Using 48x rated media at 24x is better but still less than ideal.
This especially shows in devices like car cd players, portable devices, consoles, which are sensitive to the reflectivity and laser/pickup's ability.
Trial and error is still often needed.
You want moral justification?
This is a war. Not a military war, where you stand to lose your life, but a war where you certainly stand to lose some of your legitimate freedoms.
The enemy's goal (and the **AA ARE the enemy) is to strip as many of your rights away as they can - privacy rights, fair use rights, due process rights, whatever their bribe money, er, political contributions can buy.
And to fight this enemy IS the right thing to do. In any way possible. And if downloading music will bring about their demise before they do any more damage, all the better.
It is sad that the artists are getting caught in the crossfire. Kinda like all those innocent Iraqis killed because Saddam is an asshole. But, war is like that.
This is a war we cannot afford to lose. Hitting them anywhere we can is fair game. Its one of the first rules of survival - do it to them before they do it to you, and rest assured they are trying hard to do it to you.
I guess thats why us Canadians are still allowed to legally download mp3s off the net.............
.....like the DMCA and Patriot act(s) will no doubt drive researchers away as well. Thats why most reverse engineering is already done elsewhere.
>"To work reasonably, a legal system needs a way to allow you to discover the identity of someone you want to sue if they have done something that makes them legally liable to you."
So do you support, say, encryption key escrow?
>"The ISPs weren't compelled to release the IDs because the music companies had not shown sufficient evidence that a copyright violation had occured. If they had shown sufficient evidence, the ISPs probably would have had to cough up the names."
So having shared files on your HDD and allowing them to be uploaded is not sufficient evidence.
I can live with that.
Does the website run on them?
Not a good sign.
We do all hate him.
For any Rush fans out there, the future sounds all too familiar.
blocks popup ads too, as well as always being handy for things like......searching......if you use IE of course.
before it gets to your TV, with some device that does not care about their flag. Its what people do now with PVRs and VCRs, no?
I'd expect cheap devices for stripping out the flag entirely to appear pretty quickly anyway.
and AVG anti-virus is free as well.