Did I miss something? Have the people coding Ares implemented a new protocol, or is this college 5 years behind? Of course, having actually been involved in writing software to track computers on a college campus I am also curious how the college is fingerprinting machines to detect MAC address spoofing, but since this is a press release I wouldn't expect any technically informative information.
Come on, really. How many college kids do you think are actually spoofing their MAC address? Very likely it's 1%.
Even if it's higher than I think it is, those who DON'T spoof their MAC address are not going to be sophisticated to use this as a defense "It wasn't me! Someone was spoofing my MAC address! I don't even know what a MAC address is!" and, lacking the technical background to muster a defense, they'll roll over.
They don't need to find the guilty party, they just need to make a few examples, doesn't matter if they're guilty or not. Everyone else will fall in line.
End result: College bans games. Games aid terrorism by masking real illegal activity in a shroud of legitimate traffic; they are therefore illegitimate by proxy.
Yes, it would not be the easiest thing to get everyone to agree to do this. I still have the sentiment that it's really what everyone should do, though.
I don't see how narrow-focused retaliation directed specifically at Oracle would be a violation of Open Source principles.
Oracle is destroying OSS projects through acquisition. Remaining open to everyone else BUT Oracle would send a clear message that if they don't play nice with us, we won't take it laying down.
Every open/free license in existence should be rewritten to exempt Oracle from being able to use the software, or modify it, or any thing else. Let Oracle write their own operating systems, device drivers, web servers, etc. from scratch, with no help at all from open source. Add a provision that Oracle and only Oracle can use the software ONLY if they pay out the ass for it, under terms which mirror Oracle's own licensing. A tit-for-tat approach like this might get them to come around.... oh... sometime after Ellison retires or dies.
'Given Leo's limited knowledge of and role in the matter, Oracle's last-minute effort to require him to appear live at trial is no more than an effort to harass him and interfere with his duties and responsibilities as HP's CEO.'
And staying away from the office, hiding somewhere out of jurisdiction isn't interfering with his duties and responsibilities? Just fucking show up, testify, and be done with it. What's that going to take, a day, a week tops?
Yes, quite. If Google and Facebook are both going to allow this guy to keep his brother, they really must not be at each other's throats when it comes to competition in the market.
You can't very easily "empty" your online accounts.
Once someone breaks in, they can do things with your account without having to do any further "hotwiring".
Simply accessing the account through "hijacking" a session doesn't break anything that needs to be repaired after the fact, so leaving your account vulnerable to hijacking doesn't save you anything.
You might find the utility of open wifi to be worth the risk that your transmissions can be intercepted, read, and your accounts hijacked. But if it starts happening, like, more than once, most likely you'll change your mind quickly.
We really need a wifi protocol that allows open yet private access via encrypted tunnel. We *really* need to get off http and do *everything* over https. We *REALLY* need to fix the terrible mess that is SSL certificate authority based trust.
If the torrent file were itself filterable in any reasonably non-labor intensive way, this would be pretty cool for scraping the 0.001% of Geocities that might be worth my while. (I'm not slamming the content authors for Geocities; everyone has a different 0.001% that is worth their while). We can already select individual files with in a torrent and avoid downloading the entire thing, but being able to select those files through keywords or regex or indexed search results rather than manually clicking a checkbox per file would be awesome.
Yeah, it'd be better if Obama asked the Mythbusters to bust the myths about the recently passed healthcare bill, the who's to blame for the 2007 economic crisis, what the constitution really says, and other GOP myths.
Actually, all of those examples you cite may have tanked because their inventors sold them. Think about it. Once the creative drive and the instinct to do what's cool leaves the product, and is replaced by a lot of investment money that wants to monetize the cool in order to realize ROI, what do you think happens?
I predict that Facebook will do well as long as Zuckerberg retains control over it. Once he is no longer in charge of things, it will falter.
I believe that the capability already exists in Active Directory to isolate systems that do not pass muster when it comes to security patches and a recent malware scan showing the system to be clean. All that is required is for ISPs to mandate that their users be joined to an AD forest maintained by the ISP in order to get "full" internet service. If your system fails the security checks, it gets shunted to a walled off network where the only thing you can do is download WSUS updates and antimalware definitions updates and removal tools, until such time as you have installed them and can recertify that your system is safe to be on the real network once again.
It's already here, in terms of capabilities; it just remains to be implemented. There's plenty of business and political obstacles to that happening in non-corporate environments like residential ISPs, but my hunch is that it's all but certain it'll just take a cyber-9/11 event to get the necessary laws passed to overcome those obstacles.
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This post is exactly why Slashdot needs to implement a Like button for comments.
Why does 15 Mbps down cost $50? but 150 Mbps only costs $195?
If speeds don't scale like I think they do, then someone explain it to me please.
It likely has nothing to do with scale, and all about persuading you of the "value" of spending $200/mo for internet service.
Now we can see your junk from orbit.
That's OK, can we just get some of the cementing bacteria to heal the cracks?
I know, I don't understand how I got modded Funny on this.
Did I miss something? Have the people coding Ares implemented a new protocol, or is this college 5 years behind? Of course, having actually been involved in writing software to track computers on a college campus I am also curious how the college is fingerprinting machines to detect MAC address spoofing, but since this is a press release I wouldn't expect any technically informative information.
Come on, really. How many college kids do you think are actually spoofing their MAC address? Very likely it's 1%.
Even if it's higher than I think it is, those who DON'T spoof their MAC address are not going to be sophisticated to use this as a defense "It wasn't me! Someone was spoofing my MAC address! I don't even know what a MAC address is!" and, lacking the technical background to muster a defense, they'll roll over.
They don't need to find the guilty party, they just need to make a few examples, doesn't matter if they're guilty or not. Everyone else will fall in line.
End result: College bans games. Games aid terrorism by masking real illegal activity in a shroud of legitimate traffic; they are therefore illegitimate by proxy.
Yes, it would not be the easiest thing to get everyone to agree to do this. I still have the sentiment that it's really what everyone should do, though.
I don't see how narrow-focused retaliation directed specifically at Oracle would be a violation of Open Source principles.
Oracle is destroying OSS projects through acquisition. Remaining open to everyone else BUT Oracle would send a clear message that if they don't play nice with us, we won't take it laying down.
Every open/free license in existence should be rewritten to exempt Oracle from being able to use the software, or modify it, or any thing else. Let Oracle write their own operating systems, device drivers, web servers, etc. from scratch, with no help at all from open source. Add a provision that Oracle and only Oracle can use the software ONLY if they pay out the ass for it, under terms which mirror Oracle's own licensing. A tit-for-tat approach like this might get them to come around.... oh... sometime after Ellison retires or dies.
As in weally wacist.
Just what we need, someone spreading FUD on a /. discussion.
> The data on my Facebook site is mine.
That's where you have a misunderstanding.
How do you know? Last_Available_Usern (756093) might be Zuckerberg.
Agree totally. I'm glad they're finally issuing a recall for it, even if it's 25 years too late.
Somewhere out there is a woman who loves you for who you are
Yes, she's called your mother. Oh, you meant someone not related?
Well, to be fair, your mother loves everyone, if you know what I mean. Whether they're related or not.
And staying away from the office, hiding somewhere out of jurisdiction isn't interfering with his duties and responsibilities? Just fucking show up, testify, and be done with it. What's that going to take, a day, a week tops?
Yes, quite. If Google and Facebook are both going to allow this guy to keep his brother, they really must not be at each other's throats when it comes to competition in the market.
Between stuff I'm looking at because I agree with it, and stuff I'm looking at because I want to know what the opposition is up to?
Your online accounts are not like a car.
You can't very easily "empty" your online accounts.
Once someone breaks in, they can do things with your account without having to do any further "hotwiring".
Simply accessing the account through "hijacking" a session doesn't break anything that needs to be repaired after the fact, so leaving your account vulnerable to hijacking doesn't save you anything.
You might find the utility of open wifi to be worth the risk that your transmissions can be intercepted, read, and your accounts hijacked. But if it starts happening, like, more than once, most likely you'll change your mind quickly.
We really need a wifi protocol that allows open yet private access via encrypted tunnel. We *really* need to get off http and do *everything* over https. We *REALLY* need to fix the terrible mess that is SSL certificate authority based trust.
If the torrent file were itself filterable in any reasonably non-labor intensive way, this would be pretty cool for scraping the 0.001% of Geocities that might be worth my while. (I'm not slamming the content authors for Geocities; everyone has a different 0.001% that is worth their while). We can already select individual files with in a torrent and avoid downloading the entire thing, but being able to select those files through keywords or regex or indexed search results rather than manually clicking a checkbox per file would be awesome.
That helmet is so big!
Yeah, it'd be better if Obama asked the Mythbusters to bust the myths about the recently passed healthcare bill, the who's to blame for the 2007 economic crisis, what the constitution really says, and other GOP myths.
Based on the headline, I was hoping that Apple was inching toward a $300 price tag for some offering in their Macintosh line. Man am I bummed.
Actually, all of those examples you cite may have tanked because their inventors sold them. Think about it. Once the creative drive and the instinct to do what's cool leaves the product, and is replaced by a lot of investment money that wants to monetize the cool in order to realize ROI, what do you think happens?
I predict that Facebook will do well as long as Zuckerberg retains control over it. Once he is no longer in charge of things, it will falter.
I believe that the capability already exists in Active Directory to isolate systems that do not pass muster when it comes to security patches and a recent malware scan showing the system to be clean. All that is required is for ISPs to mandate that their users be joined to an AD forest maintained by the ISP in order to get "full" internet service. If your system fails the security checks, it gets shunted to a walled off network where the only thing you can do is download WSUS updates and antimalware definitions updates and removal tools, until such time as you have installed them and can recertify that your system is safe to be on the real network once again.
It's already here, in terms of capabilities; it just remains to be implemented. There's plenty of business and political obstacles to that happening in non-corporate environments like residential ISPs, but my hunch is that it's all but certain it'll just take a cyber-9/11 event to get the necessary laws passed to overcome those obstacles.
Unless you can walk around it and see it from all sides, it's not 3D. What we're talking about is stereoscopic 2D.