I've had similar experiences. Three times I've invoked the wrath of the youtube content ID system.
The first I'll let them have: The video was clear infringement, albeit of a video that the copyright holder at the time refused to publish. A certain very early Disney cartoon that cast their beloved Micky in a rather bad light. I used it to demonstrate some video restoration techniques.
The second was clear fair use. I used about thirty seconds of footage from a twenty-minute cartoon, with dubbed-over music, in order to poke fun at certain visual elements. No matter. Interestingly, this wasn't automated: The copyright holder for the cartoon actually had someone send a takedown notice. I'm guessing I offended an executive.
The third one was inexcusable: Content-ID picked up the infringement of audio, but for music that was so ancient (Any older and it'd be on wax cylinder!) as to be public domain even in the US. I looked into it - a collecter's society had claimed the rights to it, even though the composer was dead more than seventy years ago. I attempted to appeal this one, but there just isn't an appeal option. There's nothing you can use. I tried three times to contact an actual human at youtube to explain the situation, but never even got a reply. If it's a DMCA takedown (As in case two) you can file a counterclaim, but this was Content-ID: Its word is final and beyond contest.
I don't mind a government overseas propaganda division, really. It's one of the few effective counters against countries that operate their own censorship and propaganda systems. It's the sneaking around that I really don't like. Be honest about it.
It happens all the time in schools. The general event is a couple in a relationship send some nude images (Usually female to male) for looking at and lusting after while there exists an atmosphere of trust - but later, as is prone to happen in young love, there is a messy breakup and they end up hating each other. At which point the one with the photos, in an act of petty revenge, distributes the photos to all his friends or the internet in general
TCP/IP uses the simplified 4-layer model, not the OSI full 7-layer.
Though in some applications it has gotten silly. Many applications communicate over HTTP because it's the one protocol you can be confident of getting past a corporate network firewall and proxy, even if they have traffic like push IM messages or real-time media that HTTP wasn't designed and isn't suited for.
Different parts. The packet-switching technology was military in origin - they were seeking a new form of communication network that could continue to operate without downtime in the face of massive physical damage, like cities being nuked. Academia soon adopted the technology, and the early internet culture came from there.
x86 has been updated so much that a modern x86 processor could be accurately described as a hardware x86 emulator. I'd really like it if Intel could introduce an 'x86-2' instruction set that dumped all the legacy stuff but kept the same basic architecture. It'd need software to be recompiled, but not rewritten. Make it 64-bit from the start, remove such oddities as the BCD instructions and the old 24-bit protected mode and 20-bit real mode. It'd be expensive, but if they can coax just a few percent extra out of the hardware by dumping legacy then it'd still sell to the HPC and server markets. Recompiling linux and packages is a small price to pay.
The only way to hide traffic path is through partial-information relaying - the Tor approach. Nasty overhead. But even the most pathetic payload encryption would really make a huge difference - it would mean tapping all traffic at a trunk would require dynamically following hundreds of thousands of conversations betweeen tens of thousands of nodes. The NSA could do it, a lot of smaller governments couldn't.
Also, even a DH key exchange without any public key authentication at all is still somewhat effective: Yes, it can be MITMed with ease, but such an attack is also very detectable if you have a side channel, which means any untargetted mass-monitoring operations would be swiftly noticed.
My two laptops and desktop all run primarily linux. The desktop and one laptop can dual-boot windows, mostly for gaming (Space Engineers promises Linux support one day, but not yet) and to run a few windows-only programs. I could learn to use the Gimp, but Paint Shop Pro is what I know, and I'd rather not start over with a whole new interface. Rarely done though - I work almost entirely in linux.
It can also raise issues to prominence. For example, in the UK, there is a strong public concern over our high immigration rate - a position that for many years no major party wished to take into account, for fear of losing the immigrant-family voting block or being condemned as racist. As a result of this lack of concern by the major parties, a couple of obscure parties - the BNP and UKIP - started to gain a great many votes purely by promising to take a strong stance against immigration. Once the leaders of the main parties saw this happen, they realized this was a real political movement and started to take a more anti-immigration stance themselves.
Cultural change takes time. Just look at the backlash - how many countries have set up elaborate internet filtering systems in an effort to keep out ideas they regard as dangerous to their society? And how well are those filters working? The biggest barrier to international communication now is language, and Google is working hard on that one.
There was a character in a (new series) Outer Limits episode who survived by doing exactly that - he learned to hack building management and lived free at a a futuristic apartment complex by stealing a little food here and there - adding an item to someone's grocery order and intercepting it on delivery, living in the maintenance spaces. The invisible parasite.
In all those examples, I still don't know quite what they are. They look suspiciously like well-established technologies being wrapped up in new business models.
Robots are slow. They can't dig. They can't carry out the most sophisticated tests. All they can do is take pictures and run basic chemical analysis. A small crew on mars could accomplish so much more. They could run drills to see beneath the surface for a start - all robots can do is scrape a few centimeters down.
I believe that's how it works - as 100W at 5V would be 20A, which would cause some problems with cables melting. Start at 5V, and a means for devices to negotiate higher voltages if the host is capable of supplying. Not all hosts will be able to - good luck getting 100W out of a tablet.
Getting Halo 2 working on Windows now is a nightmare. It's heavily tied into that 'Games for Windows LIVE' rubbish that didn't work then and works less now, and depends on a ton of support libraries abandoned after Vista. I managed to do it, but it took hours of hunting down various obscure patches. One of which Microsoft describes on their knowledge base, but doesn't make available publicly - you need to contact their telephone support and ask them to mail you a copy.
And one day it'll be impossible. The game uses a mandatory online serial validation. The servers are still up for now, but when they go down (And it can't be much longer, with the multiplayer metaservers recently shut down) it'll become impossible to play legitimate copies of the game at all.
Still, there will always be the cracked pirate editions!
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I've had similar experiences. Three times I've invoked the wrath of the youtube content ID system.
The first I'll let them have: The video was clear infringement, albeit of a video that the copyright holder at the time refused to publish. A certain very early Disney cartoon that cast their beloved Micky in a rather bad light. I used it to demonstrate some video restoration techniques.
The second was clear fair use. I used about thirty seconds of footage from a twenty-minute cartoon, with dubbed-over music, in order to poke fun at certain visual elements. No matter. Interestingly, this wasn't automated: The copyright holder for the cartoon actually had someone send a takedown notice. I'm guessing I offended an executive.
The third one was inexcusable: Content-ID picked up the infringement of audio, but for music that was so ancient (Any older and it'd be on wax cylinder!) as to be public domain even in the US. I looked into it - a collecter's society had claimed the rights to it, even though the composer was dead more than seventy years ago. I attempted to appeal this one, but there just isn't an appeal option. There's nothing you can use. I tried three times to contact an actual human at youtube to explain the situation, but never even got a reply. If it's a DMCA takedown (As in case two) you can file a counterclaim, but this was Content-ID: Its word is final and beyond contest.
The US operates a propaganda program. Not much of a censorship program though.
I don't mind a government overseas propaganda division, really. It's one of the few effective counters against countries that operate their own censorship and propaganda systems. It's the sneaking around that I really don't like. Be honest about it.
If you have the channel, yes. But in most situations, you don't.
Researchers or activists trying to detect censorship efforts do. It wouldn't take many people running checks to notice.
And whistleblower support sites.
It happens all the time in schools. The general event is a couple in a relationship send some nude images (Usually female to male) for looking at and lusting after while there exists an atmosphere of trust - but later, as is prone to happen in young love, there is a messy breakup and they end up hating each other. At which point the one with the photos, in an act of petty revenge, distributes the photos to all his friends or the internet in general
TCP/IP uses the simplified 4-layer model, not the OSI full 7-layer.
Though in some applications it has gotten silly. Many applications communicate over HTTP because it's the one protocol you can be confident of getting past a corporate network firewall and proxy, even if they have traffic like push IM messages or real-time media that HTTP wasn't designed and isn't suited for.
If you want an example of link-layer encryption, WEP/WPA.
Different parts. The packet-switching technology was military in origin - they were seeking a new form of communication network that could continue to operate without downtime in the face of massive physical damage, like cities being nuked. Academia soon adopted the technology, and the early internet culture came from there.
x86 has been updated so much that a modern x86 processor could be accurately described as a hardware x86 emulator. I'd really like it if Intel could introduce an 'x86-2' instruction set that dumped all the legacy stuff but kept the same basic architecture. It'd need software to be recompiled, but not rewritten. Make it 64-bit from the start, remove such oddities as the BCD instructions and the old 24-bit protected mode and 20-bit real mode. It'd be expensive, but if they can coax just a few percent extra out of the hardware by dumping legacy then it'd still sell to the HPC and server markets. Recompiling linux and packages is a small price to pay.
The only way to hide traffic path is through partial-information relaying - the Tor approach. Nasty overhead. But even the most pathetic payload encryption would really make a huge difference - it would mean tapping all traffic at a trunk would require dynamically following hundreds of thousands of conversations betweeen tens of thousands of nodes. The NSA could do it, a lot of smaller governments couldn't.
Also, even a DH key exchange without any public key authentication at all is still somewhat effective: Yes, it can be MITMed with ease, but such an attack is also very detectable if you have a side channel, which means any untargetted mass-monitoring operations would be swiftly noticed.
My two laptops and desktop all run primarily linux. The desktop and one laptop can dual-boot windows, mostly for gaming (Space Engineers promises Linux support one day, but not yet) and to run a few windows-only programs. I could learn to use the Gimp, but Paint Shop Pro is what I know, and I'd rather not start over with a whole new interface. Rarely done though - I work almost entirely in linux.
That's the problem with clouds. Eventually, they rain.
It can also raise issues to prominence. For example, in the UK, there is a strong public concern over our high immigration rate - a position that for many years no major party wished to take into account, for fear of losing the immigrant-family voting block or being condemned as racist. As a result of this lack of concern by the major parties, a couple of obscure parties - the BNP and UKIP - started to gain a great many votes purely by promising to take a strong stance against immigration. Once the leaders of the main parties saw this happen, they realized this was a real political movement and started to take a more anti-immigration stance themselves.
Money cannot buy happyness.
But you can rent it.
Is this creature made out of plastic? I've less than six megaohms, and that's including a layer of skin at both ends!
As one circulating quote puts it: "Computer science is about computers in the same way astronomy is about telescopes."
Cultural change takes time. Just look at the backlash - how many countries have set up elaborate internet filtering systems in an effort to keep out ideas they regard as dangerous to their society? And how well are those filters working? The biggest barrier to international communication now is language, and Google is working hard on that one.
There was a character in a (new series) Outer Limits episode who survived by doing exactly that - he learned to hack building management and lived free at a a futuristic apartment complex by stealing a little food here and there - adding an item to someone's grocery order and intercepting it on delivery, living in the maintenance spaces. The invisible parasite.
In all those examples, I still don't know quite what they are. They look suspiciously like well-established technologies being wrapped up in new business models.
A comparison could be drawn to how the rise of ad-skipping DVRs and on-demand subscription services lead to an increased use of product placement.
Robots are slow. They can't dig. They can't carry out the most sophisticated tests. All they can do is take pictures and run basic chemical analysis. A small crew on mars could accomplish so much more. They could run drills to see beneath the surface for a start - all robots can do is scrape a few centimeters down.
Not here.
I believe that's how it works - as 100W at 5V would be 20A, which would cause some problems with cables melting. Start at 5V, and a means for devices to negotiate higher voltages if the host is capable of supplying. Not all hosts will be able to - good luck getting 100W out of a tablet.
Getting Halo 2 working on Windows now is a nightmare. It's heavily tied into that 'Games for Windows LIVE' rubbish that didn't work then and works less now, and depends on a ton of support libraries abandoned after Vista. I managed to do it, but it took hours of hunting down various obscure patches. One of which Microsoft describes on their knowledge base, but doesn't make available publicly - you need to contact their telephone support and ask them to mail you a copy.
And one day it'll be impossible. The game uses a mandatory online serial validation. The servers are still up for now, but when they go down (And it can't be much longer, with the multiplayer metaservers recently shut down) it'll become impossible to play legitimate copies of the game at all.
Still, there will always be the cracked pirate editions!