If BitTorrent never works then it is obvious that it is blocked. If you slow it down to something ridiculously measly, such as a few kb/s, and eventually disconnect at random intervals, it is much more annoying for the neighbor and hence funnier that way.
Same goes for HTTP redirects. Make them only happen every 50 pages or something. If you have a fair bit of time on your hands then injecting fake news articles onto their favorite news site could be interesting.
So if an app just happened to transmit a unique id then it would get on this list?
I don't see how that is much of an issue at all, remember your browser can identify you uniquely unless you have something as common as a fresh install of XP with no updates, etc.
I would like to see the figures that have better criteria than just sending unique ids. (Such as location)
All this activity over the definition of 4G?...What does the term actually mean?
It basically means you get broadband speeds 14mbps
Interesting, considering my carrier states that the theoretical maximum on their network is 24mbps and they have a 3G network (UMTS). Oh, and it does go that fast in some areas too.
The fact is that this is the ultimate form of DRM, never giving the code to the user.
Once they realize that this will prevent piracy, this could very well become an exclusive method of distributing games, then customers who actually pay for games, like me, will either have to go with it or miss out.
I welcome any and all patents on bad ideas. It means that only this company can now use said bad ideas.
This cloud gaming thing has all the bad things about DRM, plus additional lag. I want games to run on my machine where I control them. I want games to work when I am in the bus, and mobile internet is far too slow for gaming.
Obviously but that's really not the point of my illustration, if you know ahead of time that the numbers could be bigger then you can use a 64 bit int or some BigInteger class.
For almost any point of view I could come up with there is probably an example of someone with that same view earlier anyway. Should I refrain from posting anything that resembles anything has been posted or said before by anyone anytime?
It's also not my fault if people rate my comments higher than they are worth, the opposite also happens. Moderation can never be perfect and it is also often opinion.
nothing is perfect. Except a troll's arrogance and, or ignorance.
If I wanted to troll I'd go do it on some other site.
Anyway, is it possible to write an algorithm that adds to numbers together that is bug free? Yes:
int add(int a, int b)
{
return a+b;
}
Now what about something a little more complicated? And then again, and again. Obviously every time you add complexity it adds to the possible bugs, but nonetheless it is possible to write bug free code.
Obviously it will take an enormous amount of effort, but such effort is necessary.
With closed source software you can expect it to contain backdoors, and if you are wrong then better safe than sorry
Backdoors at a source level would be quite hard to hide. I'm not talking about nightly builds here, but a with release marked as stable of such a major project, I would expect there to be some auditing.
Now if there was some backdoor spotted then by all means I would expect it to be shouted out and repeated everywhere, such as in this article.
Of course that is not guarantee that it is safe but the assurances provided by that are a lot more than with closed source software.
It's a matter of trust. I can't possibly audit all that source myself, neither can you. If I want to use an operating system then I am going to have to trust someone.
My original point was that commercial software is inherently untrustworthy due to the fact that you do not know how it works. So
if OpenBSD had been commercial and closed source
then I wouldn't be expecting this not to be the case. So it doesn't matter if it was different.
tl;dr version: By "expected" I mean the standard which one holds a project up to.
Commercial is different though, with FOSS I and (everyone else should for that matter), expect that there are no backdoors and it does exactly what it says it does.
That is supposed to be one of the biggest "selling points" of FOSS.
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They better include an option to link the playback sample rate to to the accelerator pedal.
Yeah well I'm going to revoke your nerd merit badge revoking privileges and replace you with a very simple shell script.
On second thoughts, someone could just write a browser add-on to prevent people such as me making such terrible mistakes in future.
If BitTorrent never works then it is obvious that it is blocked. If you slow it down to something ridiculously measly, such as a few kb/s, and eventually disconnect at random intervals, it is much more annoying for the neighbor and hence funnier that way.
Same goes for HTTP redirects. Make them only happen every 50 pages or something. If you have a fair bit of time on your hands then injecting fake news articles onto their favorite news site could be interesting.
Buffer overflows and SQL injections are the ban of open source software.
But if I pay Oracle though, it's magically secure right?
So how much of a drain does this put on the battery?
Battery life is one of the most crucial attributes of a laptop, I know what I wont be buying now.
So if an app just happened to transmit a unique id then it would get on this list?
I don't see how that is much of an issue at all, remember your browser can identify you uniquely unless you have something as common as a fresh install of XP with no updates, etc.
I would like to see the figures that have better criteria than just sending unique ids. (Such as location)
All this activity over the definition of 4G?...What does the term actually mean?
It basically means you get broadband speeds 14mbps
Interesting, considering my carrier states that the theoretical maximum on their network is 24mbps and they have a 3G network (UMTS). Oh, and it does go that fast in some areas too.
The fact is that this is the ultimate form of DRM, never giving the code to the user.
Once they realize that this will prevent piracy, this could very well become an exclusive method of distributing games, then customers who actually pay for games, like me, will either have to go with it or miss out.
3) To save a tiny bit on money on the client hardware
4) Automated backups and updates, etc.
Said patent troll can only sue people who use ideas expressed in the patent.
Normal games don't infringe on this.
I welcome any and all patents on bad ideas. It means that only this company can now use said bad ideas.
This cloud gaming thing has all the bad things about DRM, plus additional lag. I want games to run on my machine where I control them. I want games to work when I am in the bus, and mobile internet is far too slow for gaming.
And which way are the oil prices headed?
You have to think long term.
As above.
The only time I've heard it used as one is to refer to an AM radio, by old people.
I'll get off your lawn now.
1. Get an RSS client
2. Subscribe to Slashdot RSS feed
3. Set up rule to delete items that contain the string "wikileaks".
4. Profit
Seriously though, you should care about Wikileaks, I get your point about there being too much news about this though.
Also in 5 years the value of the equipment in said data center will have dropped substantially.
The land, if they own it, can be sold easily.
So why does this matter again?
Can't the Kindle support other non DRMed formats as well? This isn't an issue with the device, it's an issue with the store.
Obviously but that's really not the point of my illustration, if you know ahead of time that the numbers could be bigger then you can use a 64 bit int or some BigInteger class.
You mean the top Google search result for "Slashdot-de Raadt interview"?
For almost any point of view I could come up with there is probably an example of someone with that same view earlier anyway. Should I refrain from posting anything that resembles anything has been posted or said before by anyone anytime?
It's also not my fault if people rate my comments higher than they are worth, the opposite also happens. Moderation can never be perfect and it is also often opinion.
nothing is perfect. Except a troll's arrogance and, or ignorance.
If I wanted to troll I'd go do it on some other site.
Anyway, is it possible to write an algorithm that adds to numbers together that is bug free? Yes:
int add(int a, int b) { return a+b; }
Now what about something a little more complicated? And then again, and again. Obviously every time you add complexity it adds to the possible bugs, but nonetheless it is possible to write bug free code.
Obviously it will take an enormous amount of effort, but such effort is necessary.
I didn't phrase that very well.
With closed source software you can expect it to contain backdoors, and if you are wrong then better safe than sorry
Backdoors at a source level would be quite hard to hide. I'm not talking about nightly builds here, but a with release marked as stable of such a major project, I would expect there to be some auditing.
Now if there was some backdoor spotted then by all means I would expect it to be shouted out and repeated everywhere, such as in this article.
Of course that is not guarantee that it is safe but the assurances provided by that are a lot more than with closed source software.
It's a matter of trust. I can't possibly audit all that source myself, neither can you. If I want to use an operating system then I am going to have to trust someone.
My original point was that commercial software is inherently untrustworthy due to the fact that you do not know how it works. So
if OpenBSD had been commercial and closed source
then I wouldn't be expecting this not to be the case. So it doesn't matter if it was different.
tl;dr version: By "expected" I mean the standard which one holds a project up to.
You got me all wrong. I'm a Windows fanboy.
Crackers don't like sharing their audit results for free.
Commercial is different though, with FOSS I and (everyone else should for that matter), expect that there are no backdoors and it does exactly what it says it does.
That is supposed to be one of the biggest "selling points" of FOSS.
Certain parts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix were incorporated in NeXTSTEP, the core of Mac OS X.
So this might mean Mac OS X is not affected? I'm not knowledgeable enough on *BSD to know.
Many eyes makes FOSS software invulnerable to this sort of attack?
Not trying to troll here, but seriously people should be doing more audits, especially themselves.
If this has been there for ten years, then this is ten years too late in spotting it.
Surely google.com is bigger and more resistant to DDOS attacks than Amazon?
As for attacking Amazon's DNS, they recently opened their own "cloud" dns package which probably scales extremely well under DDOS too.