If a student changes the MAC they'd be completely off the network.
MACs at Arizona State are registered to students. So changing it requires contacting IT to get your connection running again. Unless you manage to steal someone else's mac that's already registered with the school.
I'd imagine Florida has a similar system. You can't just slap a computer on the network and be on-line.
Uni's aren't run by hacks. They know how to trace connections and simplistic "hacks" like yours have obviously been considered.
And frankly I'd rather pay $99.99 for a system and choose from any game I want rather than pay $149.99 and be forced to choose between a small selection of games.
Maybe I'd rather get two older games that are used or whatever and save money there as well. Bundled packages don't give me that option.
For people who wanted that $50 game anyway it doesn't make sense but for people with budgets who would rather stick to $20 titles, it makes perfect sense.
I go to school full time, work as a tech at the uni (15-20 hours), a clerk at Mervyn's (4-8 hours a week if that), a programmer for a start up game company and run www.icarusindie.com (currently down due to what I assume is hardware failure since I can't get physical access to the system at this time) which is my attempt at running my own business.
The tech job pays the bills. Mervyn's covers lunch money and the web-site is for now just a small amount of extra money every month. Proof of concept really, so now I'm moving ahead with planning out real marketing strategies.
A kid I know has assembled his own company doing web-design, tech support, and anything else he can think of.
If you don't want to sell your soul to the system, you should seriously consider your skill set and look into creating your own company. I'd rather IcarusIndie.com succeeded but currently it's not self sustaining so working other jobs is necessary. Which isn't a bad way to go about it. Take a job you can stand that pays well and funnel funds into starting up a company and jump ship if your company takes off. In the meantime you can use your business license to get tax write-offs which puts more money in your pocket.
The moment we see Gandalf drinking an ice cold vanilla coke in a movie is the moment we know commericalism has defeated creativity.
People bitch about ads and people bitch about paying money.
If you want "free" movies supported solely by advertisers then you're in for a lot of horrible movie going experiences.
If you want quality, you have to pay for it. Is it really such a burden? Can't afford to buy your own copy or $8 for a ticket? Wait till it goes to rental or hits the dollar theatre.
There are many things in life you will never be able to experience because you can't afford them. That's life. No BMW, no first class ticket. You are not owed a life of luxery simply because you exist. And no one is obligated to give up their wealth they earned so you can have it for free.
One of the key reasons was it's anal retentive nature about Anonymous FTP. Anonymous FTP shouldn't be any less secure than a real account. The fact that the FTP accounts were tied into system accounts really turned me off from Linux. GuildFTPd aliviates that obvious security risk by not being tied into the OS. As it should be set up.
Another was it's inability to communicate with the Windows box to transfer the server over. Kind of key when you have 80GB of files you're serving up.
Sure, I could have spent a couple days to get it all working, but within 3 hours I had a fully functional Windows server so I don't bother with Linux. It has nothing I need that Windows doesn't offer in a simplier to use fashion.
I have Red Hat 8 on a system I don't really use and it works fine but it's nothing I don't have with Windows.
The way I see it is that Open Source is only free if your time isn't worth anything. And as I said, I have better things to do than dick around with an OS.
I don't use Linux because it's an unneccessary pain in the ass to do things with it. I use Win2K Pro. However, all the software running the server components are Open Source (Apache, GuildFTPd) or just well respected freeware like Mercury Mail.
Using Apache just demonstrates what a great product Apache is. It has nothing to do with Linux. I'm not going to abandon the simplicity and stability of Win2K just because Apache can faithfully serve up HTTP requests.
Nobody is debating that IIS is feature bloated hacker friendly piece of garbage. But that has nothing to do with Windows.
I have better things to do with my time (like actually building up the web-site) than dicking around with an OS.
The high quality of one open source product has zero to do with the quality of another.
With a web-site selling access to content I do business with people in other countries on occassion.
Maybe small business will get really lucky and PayPal and Verisign will add in the tax automatically based on the validated shipping address. Since I'm not shipping a product it's very difficult verify a real address myself.
I can just imagine the horror that will be keeping track of tax rates for every state and possibly country.
And then who do I get the privilage of mailing the payments too? Do I get to pay each state or will the states be kind enough to forward off all the tax money?
I can just imagine the joy of mailing off 50 envelopes to 50 countries and states with a few tax dollars in each.
Or maybe if we're real lucky, small businesses making below a certain amount will be exempt.
The reduced the amount of crap they sent by using intelligent marketing techniques (like targeting) and by increasing the quality of the ads and the product they were selling.
Basically this whole "breakthrough" is the realization that you can only fool so many people so many times with junk.
So although, this may reduce the amount of spam from more "legitimate" companies it won't make much of a dent in those with no marketing talent which is virtually every spammer.
The US is a Republic. Not a Democracy. We have representatives that are elected by the majority but are not required to bow to the whims of the majority.
The majority in many cases is wrong and the representative has to uphold the higher law over the poor judgement of the majority in those cases.
50 million can be right about the DNC list and 1 billion will always be wrong about "sharing" illegal files.
Someone needs to fire that judge for being so daft about the rights regarding free speech.
If you can't even get our most basic rights correct, I'd hate to think how badly he butchers more obscure laws and rights.
If he's concerned about telemarketers being hated more than charitable organizations, political campaigns then maybe he should work to get a list for those going as well.
The American public has spoken against the telemarketers. The DNC list should go up for that.
Then he can bitch and moan to get a second list that people can sign up for so that charitable organizations can't call them.
And a third to keep politicians and their supporters from calling. Or maybe one for each party. Details.
We shouldn't lump them all together. And the bill as it stands, doesn't. Telemarketers are one clear cut category that doesn't need any further analysis. If you're calling to sell me something, you're a telemarketer. There are no loopholes in that one.
So shut the hell up Mister Judge, thank you very little. You should spend less time whinning about things you don't understand and more time educating yourself on basic human rights. "Free Speech" has nothing to do with this issue no matter how many times you repeat the lie to try to convince us otherwise.
If the TV out puts out whatever the VGA puts out right from power on then it's $130 or less for a GameCube LCD which will get you 640x480 in a nice little package and you won't have to worry about a monitor.
You could probably use a standard 3.5" drive for storage but a laptop drive would probably be better and just mount it over the MB.
And you also have to worry about a PSU but you could probably put together an external one like a laptop.
If it were possible to get a complete package down small enough to just throw in a backpack, I'd start working on putting one together. Too bad we have to wait 5-6 months to start playing with them.
The EULA is the weaker law. If you wrote a virus that destroyed computers you couldn't sue someone under the DMCA for reverse engineering it to see what it does in order to track down who wrote it and to keep it off of systems. Damaging other people's property over rules your "right" to privacy.
You cannot use a weak law to protect yourself from a higher law.
The higher law is the laws of copyright. The weak law is the EULA. And it's no secret that illegal MP3's and everything else are being traded on P2P.
The is suffienct 3rd party evidence that laws are being broken on P2P to warrent any legal body having a look-see. You don't have to use Kazaa to know what's going on with it.
This is why EULA's only hold up when a crime isn't being committed. A EULA will never hold up in a case where it's being used to hide a crime.
"I have always felt that a P2P network could protect itself by requiring in a license to use said network blah blah."
Warez sites with such a "license" don't exempt themselves from prosecution. It's just some idiotic ploy someone thought up long ago.
The RIAA doesn't need a search warrent to get information that is publically available. People are putting their illegal goods up for anyone to see and you can't selectivly choose who sees it just to avoid prosecution.
"I may or may not be committing a crime but you can't look just in case I am if you can prosecute me for it" doesn't hold up in court.
Kazaa should just shut the hell up and count it's blessings. The only thing Kazaa needs to worry about is not being shut down because of all the illegal activity and continue pushing it's case that it's got excellent legal uses as well.
Suing the record labels for not letting people get away with illegal activities involving the RIAA's property is just idiotic.
What the RIAA is doing with their specialized client is nothing that can't be done with the "official" client. The RIAA just has it easier with their custom software. And we all know about Kazaa Lite and I don't see them bitching about that.
With MSN and AIM et all, using a third party client is stealing resources from MS and/or AOL et al. Using a third party client with Kazaa doesn't affect them in the least.
But then, what else would you expect from a team who's only claim to skill is putting ad and spyware on a gnutella client?
Maybe Gnutella should sue Kazaa off their network. Kazaa is only hurting P2P with this kind of idiocy.
Making the list legal != telemarketing being illegal.
It just gives people a CHOICE to not be called. Did you know that stores in malls can't hand out flyers around the mall? They can only hand them out at the area immediatly in front of their own store. Did that kill the industry? Obviously not.
50 million people signed up. Maybe in your little fantasy world there are only 50 million people in the US. Here in the real world there are quite a few more than that.
Why would the government grant amnesty from people who are committing an illegal act? The only time they do that sort of thing is when they're cutting a deal to catch a bigger fish.
Next you'll want the government to grant amnesty for black market shops and warez site owners.
Fortunatly we live in a republic which recognizes the fact that the majority is often wrong. In the case of illegal file sharing over P2P, the general public has lost it's mind.
"Did you ask him to send you an email? Nope? Then its unsolicited."
You're not REQUIRED to press charges. And in the OP's example, the email he got was NOT COMMERICIAL.
If I don't mind getting spam about something or other I don't have to press charges. If I get spam about something or other I don't like, it's now an OPTION to press charges.
"The potential for abuse with this loony law is enormous."
Only when your world view is black and white as yours is. Fortunatly the law isn't as dense.
And this will just cut down on spam comming out of CA.
Yes, capping is THAT bad. I would prefer to run my web-site (www.icarusindie.com) out of house and have been doing for for almost 3 years now. I went with DSL because it's a hardware cap. I can't physically do more than ~60GB a month out. Cox Cable caps it at 7.5GB a month for no good reason even though it runs 50% faster out. I was regularly doing over 50GB a month from my site. With the All Access Pass it's gone down to ~20GB.
Neither DSL or Cable can supply me a faster line (both are too stupid to supply the needs for a business like mine) so I'm going with colo which is 10Mbit but has a 30GB cap with a per GB over fee.
Of course, if ISPs were to uncap port 80 you'd just see a bunch of P2P apps running on that port or whatever other port wasn't capped. Too many idiots out there making it a lose lose situation for ISPs. At least comcast is trying to be reasonable about it. Cox is just braindead. And it's not just residential. I was calling about a business line and it has the same cap.
It's amazing how hard it is to throw money at a company to get what you want.
After installing any system it's an excellent idea to use Norton Ghost (free with Soyo and possibly other MBs) to image the system. Then, if anything bad happens or if you just want to move the OS to a new drive, you just blast it over and 30 minutes later or less you're up and running as though nothing changed.
My 2000 system was on an old 2GB drive that was about to fail and with ghost I was up and running much faster on a 13GB drive in less than an hour. I also have an image of my web-server's OS/app drive in case it ever fails.
Knoppix and what I do is basically what prebuilt system manufacturers have been doing for years. It's just that HP, et al, add a lot of crap to the image.
as a suggested site. But it doesn't. It lists a number of domains that are off quite a few letters more than 1.
If it were at least making an intelligent attempt at getting the user where they wanted to go it could be argued that it is at least useful. Microsoft's search that comes up when you get a DNS error on some domain names is excellent about getting you where you actually wanted to go.
Verisign either gives a half assed attempt at correcting the user or deliberatly ignores domains that aren't registered through them. Despite the fact they get money regardless of who you register through.
Now we just need a credible plaintiff. Preferably a class action suit to maximize damages.
If they're letting their logs get huge before rotating them it would cause a problem every time the server tries to append data at the end of the file.
And they shouldn't be keeping the logs on the server anyway. It's static data that only they could need access to. It should be moved off site to a standard IDE harddrive for processing.
Statistical data should be created as the data comes in and not from the log files if they intend to let the customers have statistics for whatever.
As for my own site, I have Apache doing the combined log format and wrote custom software to process and analyze the data. Every month I move the log off the server and every 10 megs or so I rotate the logs and move the data into a second cumulative file that Apache doesn't work off of.
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It's pretty easy to tell the sniffer is being blocked. In which case your connection is killed.
Ben
If a student changes the MAC they'd be completely off the network.
MACs at Arizona State are registered to students. So changing it requires contacting IT to get your connection running again. Unless you manage to steal someone else's mac that's already registered with the school.
I'd imagine Florida has a similar system. You can't just slap a computer on the network and be on-line.
Uni's aren't run by hacks. They know how to trace connections and simplistic "hacks" like yours have obviously been considered.
Ben
games are $49.99.
And frankly I'd rather pay $99.99 for a system and choose from any game I want rather than pay $149.99 and be forced to choose between a small selection of games.
Maybe I'd rather get two older games that are used or whatever and save money there as well. Bundled packages don't give me that option.
For people who wanted that $50 game anyway it doesn't make sense but for people with budgets who would rather stick to $20 titles, it makes perfect sense.
Ben
I go to school full time, work as a tech at the uni (15-20 hours), a clerk at Mervyn's (4-8 hours a week if that), a programmer for a start up game company and run www.icarusindie.com (currently down due to what I assume is hardware failure since I can't get physical access to the system at this time) which is my attempt at running my own business.
The tech job pays the bills. Mervyn's covers lunch money and the web-site is for now just a small amount of extra money every month. Proof of concept really, so now I'm moving ahead with planning out real marketing strategies.
A kid I know has assembled his own company doing web-design, tech support, and anything else he can think of.
If you don't want to sell your soul to the system, you should seriously consider your skill set and look into creating your own company. I'd rather IcarusIndie.com succeeded but currently it's not self sustaining so working other jobs is necessary. Which isn't a bad way to go about it. Take a job you can stand that pays well and funnel funds into starting up a company and jump ship if your company takes off. In the meantime you can use your business license to get tax write-offs which puts more money in your pocket.
Ben
Remember "Mac and Me?"
The moment we see Gandalf drinking an ice cold vanilla coke in a movie is the moment we know commericalism has defeated creativity.
People bitch about ads and people bitch about paying money.
If you want "free" movies supported solely by advertisers then you're in for a lot of horrible movie going experiences.
If you want quality, you have to pay for it. Is it really such a burden? Can't afford to buy your own copy or $8 for a ticket? Wait till it goes to rental or hits the dollar theatre.
There are many things in life you will never be able to experience because you can't afford them. That's life. No BMW, no first class ticket. You are not owed a life of luxery simply because you exist. And no one is obligated to give up their wealth they earned so you can have it for free.
Ben
One of the key reasons was it's anal retentive nature about Anonymous FTP. Anonymous FTP shouldn't be any less secure than a real account. The fact that the FTP accounts were tied into system accounts really turned me off from Linux. GuildFTPd aliviates that obvious security risk by not being tied into the OS. As it should be set up.
Another was it's inability to communicate with the Windows box to transfer the server over. Kind of key when you have 80GB of files you're serving up.
Sure, I could have spent a couple days to get it all working, but within 3 hours I had a fully functional Windows server so I don't bother with Linux. It has nothing I need that Windows doesn't offer in a simplier to use fashion.
I have Red Hat 8 on a system I don't really use and it works fine but it's nothing I don't have with Windows.
The way I see it is that Open Source is only free if your time isn't worth anything. And as I said, I have better things to do than dick around with an OS.
Ben
I don't use Linux because it's an unneccessary pain in the ass to do things with it. I use Win2K Pro. However, all the software running the server components are Open Source (Apache, GuildFTPd) or just well respected freeware like Mercury Mail.
Using Apache just demonstrates what a great product Apache is. It has nothing to do with Linux. I'm not going to abandon the simplicity and stability of Win2K just because Apache can faithfully serve up HTTP requests.
Nobody is debating that IIS is feature bloated hacker friendly piece of garbage. But that has nothing to do with Windows.
I have better things to do with my time (like actually building up the web-site) than dicking around with an OS.
The high quality of one open source product has zero to do with the quality of another.
Ben
With a web-site selling access to content I do business with people in other countries on occassion.
Maybe small business will get really lucky and PayPal and Verisign will add in the tax automatically based on the validated shipping address. Since I'm not shipping a product it's very difficult verify a real address myself.
I can just imagine the horror that will be keeping track of tax rates for every state and possibly country.
And then who do I get the privilage of mailing the payments too? Do I get to pay each state or will the states be kind enough to forward off all the tax money?
I can just imagine the joy of mailing off 50 envelopes to 50 countries and states with a few tax dollars in each.
Or maybe if we're real lucky, small businesses making below a certain amount will be exempt.
Ben
The reduced the amount of crap they sent by using intelligent marketing techniques (like targeting) and by increasing the quality of the ads and the product they were selling.
Basically this whole "breakthrough" is the realization that you can only fool so many people so many times with junk.
So although, this may reduce the amount of spam from more "legitimate" companies it won't make much of a dent in those with no marketing talent which is virtually every spammer.
Ben
unless they're wrong.
The US is a Republic. Not a Democracy. We have representatives that are elected by the majority but are not required to bow to the whims of the majority.
The majority in many cases is wrong and the representative has to uphold the higher law over the poor judgement of the majority in those cases.
50 million can be right about the DNC list and 1 billion will always be wrong about "sharing" illegal files.
Ben
Someone needs to fire that judge for being so daft about the rights regarding free speech.
If you can't even get our most basic rights correct, I'd hate to think how badly he butchers more obscure laws and rights.
If he's concerned about telemarketers being hated more than charitable organizations, political campaigns then maybe he should work to get a list for those going as well.
The American public has spoken against the telemarketers. The DNC list should go up for that.
Then he can bitch and moan to get a second list that people can sign up for so that charitable organizations can't call them.
And a third to keep politicians and their supporters from calling. Or maybe one for each party. Details.
We shouldn't lump them all together. And the bill as it stands, doesn't. Telemarketers are one clear cut category that doesn't need any further analysis. If you're calling to sell me something, you're a telemarketer. There are no loopholes in that one.
So shut the hell up Mister Judge, thank you very little. You should spend less time whinning about things you don't understand and more time educating yourself on basic human rights. "Free Speech" has nothing to do with this issue no matter how many times you repeat the lie to try to convince us otherwise.
Ben
If the TV out puts out whatever the VGA puts out right from power on then it's $130 or less for a GameCube LCD which will get you 640x480 in a nice little package and you won't have to worry about a monitor.
You could probably use a standard 3.5" drive for storage but a laptop drive would probably be better and just mount it over the MB.
And you also have to worry about a PSU but you could probably put together an external one like a laptop.
If it were possible to get a complete package down small enough to just throw in a backpack, I'd start working on putting one together. Too bad we have to wait 5-6 months to start playing with them.
Ben
The EULA is the weaker law. If you wrote a virus that destroyed computers you couldn't sue someone under the DMCA for reverse engineering it to see what it does in order to track down who wrote it and to keep it off of systems. Damaging other people's property over rules your "right" to privacy.
You cannot use a weak law to protect yourself from a higher law.
The higher law is the laws of copyright. The weak law is the EULA. And it's no secret that illegal MP3's and everything else are being traded on P2P.
The is suffienct 3rd party evidence that laws are being broken on P2P to warrent any legal body having a look-see. You don't have to use Kazaa to know what's going on with it.
This is why EULA's only hold up when a crime isn't being committed. A EULA will never hold up in a case where it's being used to hide a crime.
Ben
"I have always felt that a P2P network could protect itself by requiring in a license to use said network blah blah."
Warez sites with such a "license" don't exempt themselves from prosecution. It's just some idiotic ploy someone thought up long ago.
The RIAA doesn't need a search warrent to get information that is publically available. People are putting their illegal goods up for anyone to see and you can't selectivly choose who sees it just to avoid prosecution.
"I may or may not be committing a crime but you can't look just in case I am if you can prosecute me for it" doesn't hold up in court.
Ben
Kazaa should just shut the hell up and count it's blessings. The only thing Kazaa needs to worry about is not being shut down because of all the illegal activity and continue pushing it's case that it's got excellent legal uses as well.
Suing the record labels for not letting people get away with illegal activities involving the RIAA's property is just idiotic.
What the RIAA is doing with their specialized client is nothing that can't be done with the "official" client. The RIAA just has it easier with their custom software. And we all know about Kazaa Lite and I don't see them bitching about that.
With MSN and AIM et all, using a third party client is stealing resources from MS and/or AOL et al. Using a third party client with Kazaa doesn't affect them in the least.
But then, what else would you expect from a team who's only claim to skill is putting ad and spyware on a gnutella client?
Maybe Gnutella should sue Kazaa off their network. Kazaa is only hurting P2P with this kind of idiocy.
Ben
Making the list legal != telemarketing being illegal.
It just gives people a CHOICE to not be called. Did you know that stores in malls can't hand out flyers around the mall? They can only hand them out at the area immediatly in front of their own store. Did that kill the industry? Obviously not.
50 million people signed up. Maybe in your little fantasy world there are only 50 million people in the US. Here in the real world there are quite a few more than that.
Ben
Why would the government grant amnesty from people who are committing an illegal act? The only time they do that sort of thing is when they're cutting a deal to catch a bigger fish.
Next you'll want the government to grant amnesty for black market shops and warez site owners.
Fortunatly we live in a republic which recognizes the fact that the majority is often wrong. In the case of illegal file sharing over P2P, the general public has lost it's mind.
Ben
"Did you ask him to send you an email? Nope? Then its unsolicited."
You're not REQUIRED to press charges. And in the OP's example, the email he got was NOT COMMERICIAL.
If I don't mind getting spam about something or other I don't have to press charges. If I get spam about something or other I don't like, it's now an OPTION to press charges.
"The potential for abuse with this loony law is enormous."
Only when your world view is black and white as yours is. Fortunatly the law isn't as dense.
And this will just cut down on spam comming out of CA.
Ben
Yes, capping is THAT bad. I would prefer to run my web-site (www.icarusindie.com) out of house and have been doing for for almost 3 years now. I went with DSL because it's a hardware cap. I can't physically do more than ~60GB a month out. Cox Cable caps it at 7.5GB a month for no good reason even though it runs 50% faster out. I was regularly doing over 50GB a month from my site. With the All Access Pass it's gone down to ~20GB.
Neither DSL or Cable can supply me a faster line (both are too stupid to supply the needs for a business like mine) so I'm going with colo which is 10Mbit but has a 30GB cap with a per GB over fee.
Of course, if ISPs were to uncap port 80 you'd just see a bunch of P2P apps running on that port or whatever other port wasn't capped. Too many idiots out there making it a lose lose situation for ISPs. At least comcast is trying to be reasonable about it. Cox is just braindead. And it's not just residential. I was calling about a business line and it has the same cap.
It's amazing how hard it is to throw money at a company to get what you want.
Ben
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After installing any system it's an excellent idea to use Norton Ghost (free with Soyo and possibly other MBs) to image the system. Then, if anything bad happens or if you just want to move the OS to a new drive, you just blast it over and 30 minutes later or less you're up and running as though nothing changed.
My 2000 system was on an old 2GB drive that was about to fail and with ghost I was up and running much faster on a 13GB drive in less than an hour. I also have an image of my web-server's OS/app drive in case it ever fails.
Knoppix and what I do is basically what prebuilt system manufacturers have been doing for years. It's just that HP, et al, add a lot of crap to the image.
Ben
by having him kill Jar Jar Binks.
A nice 30 sec bit of him bumping into Jar Jar "accidently" knocking him off a very high cliff and then saying "oops" and running off.
Ben
If putting in
www.icarusindi.com
would list
www.icarusindie.com
as a suggested site. But it doesn't. It lists a number of domains that are off quite a few letters more than 1.
If it were at least making an intelligent attempt at getting the user where they wanted to go it could be argued that it is at least useful. Microsoft's search that comes up when you get a DNS error on some domain names is excellent about getting you where you actually wanted to go.
Verisign either gives a half assed attempt at correcting the user or deliberatly ignores domains that aren't registered through them. Despite the fact they get money regardless of who you register through.
Now we just need a credible plaintiff. Preferably a class action suit to maximize damages.
Ben
If they're letting their logs get huge before rotating them it would cause a problem every time the server tries to append data at the end of the file.
And they shouldn't be keeping the logs on the server anyway. It's static data that only they could need access to. It should be moved off site to a standard IDE harddrive for processing.
Statistical data should be created as the data comes in and not from the log files if they intend to let the customers have statistics for whatever.
As for my own site, I have Apache doing the combined log format and wrote custom software to process and analyze the data. Every month I move the log off the server and every 10 megs or so I rotate the logs and move the data into a second cumulative file that Apache doesn't work off of.
Ben
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Ben