The truth of the matter is that if enough people didn't like it, they wouldn't sell enough domains to stay profitable, and they would be forced to change.
If I was a part of an ethnic, moral, sexual or religious minority and the majority of people (including the government in a democratic country) thought like you do, I would be in serious trouble. Who gives a fuck about the minorities as long as the majority votes for us?!
Did you read even the Slashdot snippet about the article?
"A keylogger they call the JitterBug that can modulate passwords or other information into normal traffic."
So, the important idea is to hide sensitive data into a normal communication channel. Hiding here is done by encoding the data as time delays between packets. The fact that the time delays can in some circumstances be implemented in the keyboard, without any software required in the computer, is just an added bonus (although very limited, as the article says).
As other people have said, this can be overcome by adding jitter to packets in a firewall or in the network device driver. The keylogger can try to fight this by using longer delays but longer delays can be detected easier (read automatically) and thus the sensitive data could not be hidden as well.
The first time was while playing "Gran Turismo 2" when the game crashed right after finishing a four hour endurance race. It was the only time that PS1 ever crashed on me.
The second time was when I first played "We Love Katamari" on my PS2. I laughed and giggled so long that I had tears coming from my eyes.
Otherwise, all of their moves, like not insisting on retaining the IP, make no sense.
Yes, you are wrong here.:) For a company that does not publish games retaining related intellectual property rights would be silly. What would they do with the IP if they are not in the game publishing business? Not retaining IP means they can charge more money.
Also, I'd say 1100 games in 27 years proves that they do know how to operate a business.
Let's not forget video game history. The most recent example I can think of that's similar to what the PS3 is making itself out to be is the NeoGeo home system. The system was more expensive than its competitors (Genesis/SNES/TGX-16) and the games were up to $200.
Let's not forget that this happened in early 1990's when computer and console games were played by children only. The console gaming "scene" has changed a lot since then and a large part of that change can be attributed to a certain company that launched a console in 1994 and marketed it to young adults. NeoGeo and other consoles were essentially very expensive toys. These two new consoles sould be placed in the same category as TV's, DVD players and other home entertainment equipment.
I used to write a bit to Wikipedia in both english and my native language.
I encountered two major problems, which become an overwhelming source of Wikistress for me. The first was the old "babysitting the Internet"-problem and the other was the constant need for manual synchronization between localized pages.
Do you see any technical or social solutions to the latter problem? When a localized page on certain subject is modified, how can the cost of keeping the other pages on the same subject up to date be minimized?
rejecting a scientific understanding of the world will only hold us back.
AFAIK the christian fundamentalists are not challenging scientific understanding as a whole. They challenging the way we think the universe got from zero to this point.
The fool who started the law suit said: In order to add our product to their list, they must have downloaded it and then examined it. These actions are forbidden by the notice,
Not exactly so. Most virus scanners are smart enough to notice viruses even though they are not in listed in the virus databases. They do it by analyzing the executable.
So, if the program looks like spyware and acts like spyware, a smart virus scanner would detect it as spyware even though the programmers have never seen that particular spyware. The makers of F-Secure claim that their product can do this to some extent.
Well, that was news to me. X.org thinks this is a 75dpi display but my plastic ruler reveals that this really is a 120dpi display.
Now I only need to know how to change it. The graphic administration trools naturally provide no tools for this. A quick search reveals this page: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html.
When that information is adapted to Fedora Core 3, all it takes is adding argument "-dpi 120" to/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf:
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 120 -audit 0
Of course, the Ajax calendar mentioned in the article still only shows the top half of the text in the week-display, but at least the input fields work correctly...
But still, all the user interface code is sent to the client in a human readable plaintext format. That is why you only see Flash demos of commercial Ajax applications.
When Java applets were the next hot thing, I could not use any of them because they all assumed that I had a 8 point font. With my 16 point font, entering data to text fields was a pain in the ass. Now, I go to see the Ajax applications. Lo and behold! All of them assume that I use a tiny 8 point font.
I'll just move along. There seems to be nothing worth looking at here...
You have the common "default believe" attitude which makes astroturfing and guerilla marketing work so well. If you had the "default distrust" attitude this article would have bells ringing all over your head.
Consider what he is writing, what kind of NDAs he must have signed when being hired and how easy it would be to track him down (anonymity in internet really does not exist).
I grew up during the dawn of arcades. During that time, you'd very frequently see a new game come out and say to yourself, "Wow, I never knew they could do that," or, "Gee, I never thought of that before." (Think Tempest, Punch-Out!!!, Zaxxon or Dig-Dug for examples). Nowadays this feeling comes much more rarely, even considering the sophistication of modern games.
Think back to your arcade days. How many nearly identical horizontal/vertical scrolling shoot-em ups/beat-em ups did you see? How many space invaders clones were there? Just download Mame and get a the full ROM set to see it yourself.
Now, move to C64-days. How many really original games were there? I know that some of my friends had about a thousand copied games. Most of them were nearly identical shoot-em ups and platform games.
I say: people who say that "things were better before" are full of shit. They simply have forgotten about all the half assed bulk games that were fed to the market "back in the day".
But, for signed code, there is a way to track it back and make the author accountable. If all of today's viruses were signed, most of the authors would be caught.
What a silly pipe dream.
Code signing would have to be mandatory (obviously). There would have to be a trusted certificate authority that does not make mistakes (so that law enforcement can trust the signatures). It would have to be impossible to bypass signature verification (obviously). All code would have to be perfect (so that unsigned viruses can not be installed through security holes). People would have to keep their certificates secure (so that certificates can not be stolen).
The requirement for perfect code alone would make it impossible to write viruses. So your example is useless.
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The truth of the matter is that if enough people didn't like it, they wouldn't sell enough domains to stay profitable, and they would be forced to change.
If I was a part of an ethnic, moral, sexual or religious minority and the majority of people (including the government in a democratic country) thought like you do, I would be in serious trouble. Who gives a fuck about the minorities as long as the majority votes for us?!
For some weird reason I like the statement "even less expensive" very much.
"Remember, when downloading free software, you're downloading communism."
Did you read even the Slashdot snippet about the article?
"A keylogger they call the JitterBug that can modulate passwords or other information into normal traffic."
So, the important idea is to hide sensitive data into a normal communication channel. Hiding here is done by encoding the data as time delays between packets. The fact that the time delays can in some circumstances be implemented in the keyboard, without any software required in the computer, is just an added bonus (although very limited, as the article says).
As other people have said, this can be overcome by adding jitter to packets in a firewall or in the network device driver. The keylogger can try to fight this by using longer delays but longer delays can be detected easier (read automatically) and thus the sensitive data could not be hidden as well.
You might as well stop buying regular DVD's.
After all, that Blu-Ray disk is just an improved version of this DVD, which is just a stop-gap device for a diskless content delivery system.
I've cried twice.
The first time was while playing "Gran Turismo 2" when the game crashed right after finishing a four hour endurance race. It was the only time that PS1 ever crashed on me.
The second time was when I first played "We Love Katamari" on my PS2. I laughed and giggled so long that I had tears coming from my eyes.
Finland is already economic and IT superpower.
No, you are wrong! Finland is slightly smaller than Montana.
In other words, mostly harmless.
Otherwise, all of their moves, like not insisting on retaining the IP, make no sense.
Yes, you are wrong here. :) For a company that does not publish games retaining related intellectual property rights would be silly. What would they do with the IP if they are not in the game publishing business? Not retaining IP means they can charge more money.
Also, I'd say 1100 games in 27 years proves that they do know how to operate a business.
Change "Wii" to "PS3" and "GC" to "PS2" and suddenly it becomes "really" important.
Let's not forget video game history. The most recent example I can think of that's similar to what the PS3 is making itself out to be is the NeoGeo home system. The system was more expensive than its competitors (Genesis/SNES/TGX-16) and the games were up to $200.
Let's not forget that this happened in early 1990's when computer and console games were played by children only. The console gaming "scene" has changed a lot since then and a large part of that change can be attributed to a certain company that launched a console in 1994 and marketed it to young adults. NeoGeo and other consoles were essentially very expensive toys. These two new consoles sould be placed in the same category as TV's, DVD players and other home entertainment equipment.
Note to everyone: Don't become successful, or we will seek to destroy you. Signed: unproductive, greedy, envious socialists.
Surely you meant to say Signed: unproductive, greedy, envious Music Industry?
I used to write a bit to Wikipedia in both english and my native language. I encountered two major problems, which become an overwhelming source of Wikistress for me. The first was the old "babysitting the Internet"-problem and the other was the constant need for manual synchronization between localized pages. Do you see any technical or social solutions to the latter problem? When a localized page on certain subject is modified, how can the cost of keeping the other pages on the same subject up to date be minimized?
Last time I checked, copyright goes completely against the laws of physics. It's a human construct designed to make bits uncopyable.
Last time I checked copyright is a human construct designed to make certain kind of duplicating of bits illegal.
Because The life of a Repo Man is always intense!
Actually, I was thinking about their holy book and it's content. AFAIK, evolution is the only scientific theory that is challenged by that book.
rejecting a scientific understanding of the world will only hold us back.
AFAIK the christian fundamentalists are not challenging scientific understanding as a whole. They challenging the way we think the universe got from zero to this point.
Is the Lord of the Rings not geeky enough?
Nope. It's way too nerdy.
You couldn't have chosen a better subject line. :)
The fool who started the law suit said: In order to add our product to their list, they must have downloaded it and then examined it. These actions are forbidden by the notice,
Not exactly so. Most virus scanners are smart enough to notice viruses even though they are not in listed in the virus databases. They do it by analyzing the executable.
So, if the program looks like spyware and acts like spyware, a smart virus scanner would detect it as spyware even though the programmers have never seen that particular spyware. The makers of F-Secure claim that their product can do this to some extent.
Well, that was news to me. X.org thinks this is a 75dpi display but my plastic ruler reveals that this really is a 120dpi display.
Now I only need to know how to change it. The graphic administration trools naturally provide no tools for this. A quick search reveals this page: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html.
When that information is adapted to Fedora Core 3, all it takes is adding argument "-dpi 120" to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf:
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 120 -audit 0
Of course, the Ajax calendar mentioned in the article still only shows the top half of the text in the week-display, but at least the input fields work correctly...
Thanks.
But still, all the user interface code is sent to the client in a human readable plaintext format. That is why you only see Flash demos of commercial Ajax applications.
Actually, I do.
When Java applets were the next hot thing, I could not use any of them because they all assumed that I had a 8 point font. With my 16 point font, entering data to text fields was a pain in the ass. Now, I go to see the Ajax applications. Lo and behold! All of them assume that I use a tiny 8 point font.
I'll just move along. There seems to be nothing worth looking at here...
Cripes... how paranoid can you get?
You have the common "default believe" attitude which makes astroturfing and guerilla marketing work so well. If you had the "default distrust" attitude this article would have bells ringing all over your head.
Consider what he is writing, what kind of NDAs he must have signed when being hired and how easy it would be to track him down (anonymity in internet really does not exist).
A use for a cat? Who could have imagined it?
Nonsense. The development in electric cars will render this use of cat useless in no time.
I grew up during the dawn of arcades. During that time, you'd very frequently see a new game come out and say to yourself, "Wow, I never knew they could do that," or, "Gee, I never thought of that before." (Think Tempest, Punch-Out!!!, Zaxxon or Dig-Dug for examples). Nowadays this feeling comes much more rarely, even considering the sophistication of modern games.
Think back to your arcade days. How many nearly identical horizontal/vertical scrolling shoot-em ups/beat-em ups did you see? How many space invaders clones were there? Just download Mame and get a the full ROM set to see it yourself.
Now, move to C64-days. How many really original games were there? I know that some of my friends had about a thousand copied games. Most of them were nearly identical shoot-em ups and platform games.
I say: people who say that "things were better before" are full of shit. They simply have forgotten about all the half assed bulk games that were fed to the market "back in the day".
But, for signed code, there is a way to track it back and make the author accountable. If all of today's viruses were signed, most of the authors would be caught.
What a silly pipe dream.
Code signing would have to be mandatory (obviously). There would have to be a trusted certificate authority that does not make mistakes (so that law enforcement can trust the signatures). It would have to be impossible to bypass signature verification (obviously). All code would have to be perfect (so that unsigned viruses can not be installed through security holes). People would have to keep their certificates secure (so that certificates can not be stolen).
The requirement for perfect code alone would make it impossible to write viruses. So your example is useless.