Ignore all the facebook angles, consider if someone actually wanted to build database of known copyright infringers (I refuse to use "pirate" since it isn't hijacking ships on the open seas)...
Scenario: MAFIAA would like a "high value target" database of IPs to check each time a new high-value release comes out. 1. MAFIAA have zero IPs today. 2. MAFIAA "front" puts out a "History of Torrent Downloads By IP" 3. "We" check it - and hand them our IP, which they add to the database. 3a. Whatever the site tells you back when you check is irrelevant.
When high-value release is made: 1. Pass IP database to associates who have the tools to port probe looking for torrent ports and query what they are seeding. 2. Pass confirmed hits IPs to the "Collections" dept for letters to ISPs and/or John Doe lawsuits.
Probing a few hundred thousand people who thought "crap, did they catch me?" is all of a sudden so much easier and your paranoia ironically leads to you being caught.
It doesnt replace the URL at all. My reading is that google simply adds a new page in the database for the url you gave it. In this regard, how is this any different to a wget --mirror on the attempted "hijacked" site? Maybe more efficient but the net result is you are just trying to blag google hits of someone else's content.
PageRank _should_ sort this out as I'm sure lots more people will be linking to news.bbc.co.uk than to r.example.tld/foo/rAndoMLettERS (from the example).
Spam Terrifies me, I wake up at night in a cold sweat having nightmares of digging through mountains of spam to find that one single non-spam email. All we need is for every American to be terrified of spam.
Then spam becomes a Terrorist weapon. Spammers become terrorists and we all know that the US doesn't care for national borders or International Law when hunting them down. I also understand that Spammers can launch such an attach within 45 minutes.
Problem solved.:)
I look forward to the leaked photos of the torture of Mr. Spammer.
Well if your second set is defective, the copy process (copying from set 1 to 2) will fail. Just have that alert you - plus you have the upside that you don't have all your staff calling tech support to find out why they can't access any files.
Yep, I've only just built a new intranet server for a client. A Dell PE 1600SC with 4 x 120GB IDE drives.
I setup 2 x RAID 1 logical drives. And installed the system onto one of these.
Then at weekends I'll be running dd if=/dev/amrd0 of=/dev/amrd1 bs=512000
which will make a perfect image of the first logical drive to the second.
This gives me (or them) raid1 protection on the normal system. Active backup for a week to recover anything that they delete by accident. If two drives fail in the active raid1, no worries - the other raid set is a perfect mirror, partitions and all and can be swapped in to replace the first set.
Of course the downside is that they only get 1/4 of the possible capacity. This is replacing an old 10Gb system, space isn't a requirement - data protection is.
Now thats plain silly. What if your "data" is modified during the rsync (on drive 1) ? sync completes, drive 1 is unmounted, 2 becomes live and your changes are lost.
Unless you shutdown all programs and restrict everything, you will lose data.
Simply leave drive 1 active, and drive 2 as the backup and be happy.
I'd imagine the people in this beta have signed some kind of agreement where they say they cannot do anything if they are adversly affected by Gmail, so what's the problem?
Sorry, but in UK law the existance of a contract or agreement, written or not, does not exempt the parties involved from that law.
e.g. If you agree that I may kill you, and I do, that does not make it legal.
In this case, the existance of any agreement, EULA or Terms of Service does not exempt Google/Gmail under privacy laws.
Russell Nelson has a patch for tinydns which does the same thing.
He also notes that several other TLD operators for the same thing and has another patch that allows you to do the same thing to several naughtly tld operators at once.
It strikes me as ironic that America should have such crash-test rules (with America manufacturing the least safe cars in the world EuroNCAP) - just look at how the US models compare to their European and Japanese counterparts in each category. The only non-US company to fare as badly in safety as Ford/GM(Vauxhall)/Chrysler is Kia.
It also occurs to me - why not have the same crash tests before they let Boeing sell their next jumbo model?;)
Seriously; I've had the thing in my hand, and the feel of it is remarkably fragile...the thing feels like it wouldn't survive a drop of even 30 cm.
Yeah right.... having something in your hand tells you nothing about its use (try just holding your dick in your hand...)
It isn't cheap (very expensive), not fragile either... mine dropped 3 feet trying to get it out of my pocket... back and battery came off, otherwise it survived.
You also say unstable... bollocks... I haven't crashed it yet - Symbian OS is much better than the Nokias or Epoc based phones I've hd before... sure I've made it run out of memory, but that was trying to run putty, VNC, eMAME plus a few other apps all at the same time.
Indeed, there is a lot of commentary here about how PepperCoin would have to make the consumer pay up front / subscribe and give PepperCoin e.g. $10 credit. Obviously PepperCoin needs to get the money from the consumer's CC *and* unless this "random probability" theory says that of 200 people that buy a music track, one gets charged $10 and the other 199 get it free - PepperCoin and/or the merchant still has those high CC fees.
Also, assuming the above is correct and PepperCoin is really just a man in the middle clearing house - why does probability, encryption or any other bogus mind warping thing have to come into it. The vendor will have to have a PepperCoin account, so just credit his account with each.50c sale - at the end of the month the vendor can collect his $10 in one lump.
So to those saying that this isn't just another PayPal - you don't know either. None of us truely knows.
The CC company is going to get their slice whether you (or PepperCoin) likes it or not - PepperCoin is just another PayPal where CC clearances will be aggregated for both the consumer and the vendor hopefully resulting in lower transaction costs for all.
Indeed, there is a lot of commentary here about how PepperCoin would have to make the consumer pay up front / subscribe and give PepperCoin e.g. $10 credit. Obviously PepperCoin needs to get the money from the consumer's CC *and* unless this "random probability" theory says that of 200 people that buy a music track, one gets charged $10 and the other 199 get it free - PepperCoin and/or the merchant still has those high CC fees.
Also, assuming the above is correct and PepperCoin is really just a man in the middle clearing house - why does probability, encryption or any other bogus mind warping thing have to come into it. The vendor will have to have a PepperCoin account, so just credit his account with each.50c sale - at the end of the month the vendor can collect his $10 in one lump.
So to those saying that this isn't just another PayPal - you don't know either. None of us truely knows.
The CC company is going to get their slice whether you (or PepperCoin) likes it or not - PepperCoin is just another PayPal where CC clearances will be aggregated for both the consumer and the vendor hopefully resulting in lower transaction costs for all.
Karma Schmarma
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The galaxy is on Orion's Belt.
The Sony Ericsson P800 was released in 2002 - a full 5 years before the iPhone. Full screen touchscreen Windows 5.5 phone.
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_p800-pictures-326.php.
I loved that phone.
Dear Cory Doctorow,
Why, in the article http://boingboing.net/2012/07/28/apple-wont-carry-an-ebook-be.html does the link behind Holly's book "How To Think Sideways Lesson 6: How To Discover (Or Create) Your Story’s Market" actually link to Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765329085/downandoutint-20 in the Amazon bookstore?
Just so you know. The Pebble is *not* e-ink. It is LCD with a polariser and they are calling it e-paper.
http://forums.getpebble.com/topics/227
shill is a shill shill with shills in it's shill.
I am reporting you to the apostrophe police for willful and excessive use. Otherwise, the sentence was just fine.
Ignore all the facebook angles, consider if someone actually wanted to build database of known copyright infringers (I refuse to use "pirate" since it isn't hijacking ships on the open seas)...
Scenario: MAFIAA would like a "high value target" database of IPs to check each time a new high-value release comes out.
1. MAFIAA have zero IPs today.
2. MAFIAA "front" puts out a "History of Torrent Downloads By IP"
3. "We" check it - and hand them our IP, which they add to the database.
3a. Whatever the site tells you back when you check is irrelevant.
When high-value release is made:
1. Pass IP database to associates who have the tools to port probe looking for torrent ports and query what they are seeding.
2. Pass confirmed hits IPs to the "Collections" dept for letters to ISPs and/or John Doe lawsuits.
Probing a few hundred thousand people who thought "crap, did they catch me?" is all of a sudden so much easier and your paranoia ironically leads to you being caught.
Last Post. :)
It doesnt replace the URL at all. My reading is that google simply adds a new page in the database for the url you gave it. In this regard, how is this any different to a wget --mirror on the attempted "hijacked" site? Maybe more efficient but the net result is you are just trying to blag google hits of someone else's content.
PageRank _should_ sort this out as I'm sure lots more people will be linking to news.bbc.co.uk than to r.example.tld/foo/rAndoMLettERS (from the example).
Storm in a [child's] teacup.
Sure the US can do something...
:)
Spam Terrifies me, I wake up at night in a cold sweat having nightmares of digging through mountains of spam to find that one single non-spam email. All we need is for every American to be terrified of spam.
Then spam becomes a Terrorist weapon. Spammers become terrorists and we all know that the US doesn't care for national borders or International Law when hunting them down.
I also understand that Spammers can launch such an attach within 45 minutes.
Problem solved.
I look forward to the leaked photos of the torture of Mr. Spammer.
Well if your second set is defective, the copy process (copying from set 1 to 2) will fail. Just have that alert you - plus you have the upside that you don't have all your staff calling tech support to find out why they can't access any files.
Yep, I've only just built a new intranet server for a client. A Dell PE 1600SC with 4 x 120GB IDE drives.
I setup 2 x RAID 1 logical drives. And installed the system onto one of these.
Then at weekends I'll be running
dd if=/dev/amrd0 of=/dev/amrd1 bs=512000
which will make a perfect image of the first logical drive to the second.
This gives me (or them) raid1 protection on the normal system.
Active backup for a week to recover anything that they delete by accident.
If two drives fail in the active raid1, no worries - the other raid set is a perfect mirror, partitions and all and can be swapped in to replace the first set.
Of course the downside is that they only get 1/4 of the possible capacity. This is replacing an old 10Gb system, space isn't a requirement - data protection is.
Now thats plain silly. What if your "data" is modified during the rsync (on drive 1) ? sync completes, drive 1 is unmounted, 2 becomes live and your changes are lost.
Unless you shutdown all programs and restrict everything, you will lose data.
Simply leave drive 1 active, and drive 2 as the backup and be happy.
I'd imagine the people in this beta have signed some kind of agreement where they say they cannot do anything if they are adversly affected by Gmail, so what's the problem?
Sorry, but in UK law the existance of a contract or agreement, written or not, does not exempt the parties involved from that law.
e.g. If you agree that I may kill you, and I do, that does not make it legal.
In this case, the existance of any agreement, EULA or Terms of Service does not exempt Google/Gmail under privacy laws.
Russell Nelson has a patch for tinydns which does the same thing.
He also notes that several other TLD operators for the same thing and has another patch that allows you to do the same thing to several naughtly tld operators at once.
If I were M$, I'd drop a subtle hint to Verisign that we no longer wished to update their root certificate in IE.
That'd soon change their mind (wiping out their business in one fell swoop).
Lesser of two evils (and it's not often M$ is the lesser evil!)
It also occurs to me - why not have the same crash tests before they let Boeing sell their next jumbo model? ;)
That's OK then, since the Filing date from the patent is:
Filed: June 30, 1999
Paul.
From the article: "Mirror Image developed the transparent Web caching patent in 1996"
From Mirror Images "About Us"
1997: Mirror Image Internet Inc. is founded.
The earliest date on the Patent itself is September 30, 1997.
IIRC Squid also was around in '97.
The exact dates will be interesting.
BSD is finally dead [rich]!
C'mon CmdrTaco... and its only 3 articles down...
2 17 &mode=thread&tid=95
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/133
Yeah right.... having something in your hand tells you nothing about its use (try just holding your dick in your hand...)
It isn't cheap (very expensive), not fragile either... mine dropped 3 feet trying to get it out of my pocket... back and battery came off, otherwise it survived.
You also say unstable... bollocks... I haven't crashed it yet - Symbian OS is much better than the Nokias or Epoc based phones I've hd before... sure I've made it run out of memory, but that was trying to run putty, VNC, eMAME plus a few other apps all at the same time.
*plonk*
Paul.
Indeed, there is a lot of commentary here about how PepperCoin would have to make the consumer pay up front / subscribe and give PepperCoin e.g. $10 credit. Obviously PepperCoin needs to get the money from the consumer's CC *and* unless this "random probability" theory says that of 200 people that buy a music track, one gets charged $10 and the other 199 get it free - PepperCoin and/or the merchant still has those high CC fees.
Also, assuming the above is correct and PepperCoin is really just a man in the middle clearing house - why does probability, encryption or any other bogus mind warping thing have to come into it. The vendor will have to have a PepperCoin account, so just credit his account with each .50c sale - at the end of the month the vendor can collect his $10 in one lump.
So to those saying that this isn't just another PayPal - you don't know either. None of us truely knows.
The CC company is going to get their slice whether you (or PepperCoin) likes it or not - PepperCoin is just another PayPal where CC clearances will be aggregated for both the consumer and the vendor hopefully resulting in lower transaction costs for all.
Karma Schmarma
Indeed, there is a lot of commentary here about how PepperCoin would have to make the consumer pay up front / subscribe and give PepperCoin e.g. $10 credit. Obviously PepperCoin needs to get the money from the consumer's CC *and* unless this "random probability" theory says that of 200 people that buy a music track, one gets charged $10 and the other 199 get it free - PepperCoin and/or the merchant still has those high CC fees. Also, assuming the above is correct and PepperCoin is really just a man in the middle clearing house - why does probability, encryption or any other bogus mind warping thing have to come into it. The vendor will have to have a PepperCoin account, so just credit his account with each .50c sale - at the end of the month the vendor can collect his $10 in one lump.
So to those saying that this isn't just another PayPal - you don't know either. None of us truely knows.
The CC company is going to get their slice whether you (or PepperCoin) likes it or not - PepperCoin is just another PayPal where CC clearances will be aggregated for both the consumer and the vendor hopefully resulting in lower transaction costs for all.
Karma Schmarma
FreeBSD has supported >2Gb files for a very long time...
... but maybe you're thinking of the Linux 2Gb limit.....
Hmmm, nice moniker: HAL
Now we know whats going to happen when the kernel is in charge....