That's the point though. This article proposes linking the fake objects to real objects. Thus they cannot be created infinite times. The virtual gem/sword/horse in the game will just be a placeholder for a real gem/sword/horse that the players can "win" by playing the game.
The problem [imo] becomes then that the company would have to charge high rates, or have crappy 'prizes' to make a profit. AND they'd have to have some mechanism to insure that the virtual objects aren't hacked or copied as it directly translates to winnings.
From what I understand, if the Feds really wanted to they could track your cell phone if it's on now. It's an unavoidable side effect of the technology.
I just want an Outlook/Exchange replacement system that works flawlessly with Outlook, and allows the configurability, stability and customizability of 'normal' *nix mail servers. It'd be nice if it had an instant messanger that came with it to allow for interoffice messages, and calendar/contact/task management.
Maybe I'm just becoming old before my time, but I don't see how any of these recommendations, or any advancement to the web in the past 10 years has improved it.
Simply put, you get the ability to use the information on the media to your own content. Anything that would provide that information to anyone else without removing your ability to use the information is considered illegal with one exception:
You may allow others to see, listen, or otherwise experience the information as long as they do not duplicate it, or are charged for it, and they are of "reasonable" numbers.
In essence, the original media is the license, and the license is simply the built up rights and limitations as based on precident.
Worse yet, I am disturbed because it does not provide any more security. It just means that the vulnerability will be exploited via email or web rather than directly.
Because hiding the problem doesn't fix the problem. It just means that it takes 2 steps to own the machine rather than 1. Shut down services or make them secure, don't firewall them and expect them to suddenly become secure. They won't...
It's not too much better. Actually in the case the there's the same number of passwords as files in the directory, it's not any better.
Hackers can randomly guess passwords just as easily as filenames. Assuming the original parent did it properly [have filenames that are unlinked, and just as long as the password hash] you're basically changing the chances of detection from 1 in something astronomically high to a few dozen in something astronomically high [ie no practical difference]
It's not as though these patches will help them fix more copies of half life, or even half life 2.
Being a little less cynical, I hope the reason was because they don't really have security people in house, and thus didn't understand the implications from some random guy as they were busy working on HL2....
Except that the administrators could get the same exact result [and indeed, likely a more accurate one] from the teachers they already (under) pay for. In my experience, school systems don't have the financial freedom to do the same task 2 or 3 different times.
Come on guys. It doesn't take a giant computer and wonderous code to tell which kids are likely to drop out of school. Anyone that cares to notice could say. If teachers and parents don't care enough now to notice, a big blinking computer light isn't going to help any.
just hire a kiddie, pay him 30K/year to maintain Microsoft's Software Update Services to automatically download and install critical updates. You certainly don't need MCSE for that!
sorry to reply to self. As per one of the other posters, there appears to be an actual usb-style key. Good for if your computer is stolen, but this won't prevent law enforcement from arresting you and getting the key anyways.
There is a key. If you did quotation properly: "without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened by anyone."
Given ABIT's tendancies to add quite a bit to their BIOSes, I'd wager that's where the key is kept.
I certainly doubt the NSA it too worried, and I doubt that the majority of people will generate good passwords/keys, but it's a step in the right direction.
Usually your buddy just copies all of the songs [cds] from his buddies who copy them from their buddies, and so on. No need to propogate searches when the data's already propogated. Good old IRC mp3 groups. Hell, it's been done for probably a few more decades with tapes.
both, though it is my understanding that the unix/apache implimentation is stable, but not applicable, and the actual WebDAV ACL document is not totally complete as of yet. [last change was last month from the changelogs...]
And which of those is a browsable file sharing protocol? WebDAV?!? you can't be serious...
The real problem was that the ZDnet people were actually using the correct tool for the job. Sounds like they actually needed [wanted anyways] a file server that gave them ACL based permissions. [stable ACLs too, unlike webDAV's that are currently still in a state of flux...] Sure, they could probably get something similar with samba, and I'd even go so far as to say they don't *really* need them, and what they do need could be constructed using unix-style permissions.
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That's the point though. This article proposes linking the fake objects to real objects. Thus they cannot be created infinite times. The virtual gem/sword/horse in the game will just be a placeholder for a real gem/sword/horse that the players can "win" by playing the game.
The problem [imo] becomes then that the company would have to charge high rates, or have crappy 'prizes' to make a profit. AND they'd have to have some mechanism to insure that the virtual objects aren't hacked or copied as it directly translates to winnings.
From what I understand, if the Feds really wanted to they could track your cell phone if it's on now. It's an unavoidable side effect of the technology.
Psst. Hate to burst your bubble, but take a look around...
Humans, by and large, are highly trained parrots. Hell, most of us aren't even highly trained.
How many billions of people have lived, and how many *truly* different stories do we have? A dozen? maybe two?
I just want an Outlook/Exchange replacement system that works flawlessly with Outlook, and allows the configurability, stability and customizability of 'normal' *nix mail servers. It'd be nice if it had an instant messanger that came with it to allow for interoffice messages, and calendar/contact/task management.
Oh, and it'd be great if it were free...
Maybe I'm just becoming old before my time, but I don't see how any of these recommendations, or any advancement to the web in the past 10 years has improved it.
In America, per court ruling:
Simply put, you get the ability to use the information on the media to your own content. Anything that would provide that information to anyone else without removing your ability to use the information is considered illegal with one exception:
You may allow others to see, listen, or otherwise experience the information as long as they do not duplicate it, or are charged for it, and they are of "reasonable" numbers.
In essence, the original media is the license, and the license is simply the built up rights and limitations as based on precident.
Absolutely.
Worse yet, I am disturbed because it does not provide any more security. It just means that the vulnerability will be exploited via email or web rather than directly.
Because hiding the problem doesn't fix the problem. It just means that it takes 2 steps to own the machine rather than 1. Shut down services or make them secure, don't firewall them and expect them to suddenly become secure. They won't...
It's not too much better. Actually in the case the there's the same number of passwords as files in the directory, it's not any better.
Hackers can randomly guess passwords just as easily as filenames. Assuming the original parent did it properly [have filenames that are unlinked, and just as long as the password hash] you're basically changing the chances of detection from 1 in something astronomically high to a few dozen in something astronomically high [ie no practical difference]
money.
It's not as though these patches will help them fix more copies of half life, or even half life 2.
Being a little less cynical, I hope the reason was because they don't really have security people in house, and thus didn't understand the implications from some random guy as they were busy working on HL2....
Unfortunately, I suspect it was money.
I have speakeasy sdsl [shameless plug] and have a 10ms time to google.
For games, it's ~50ms for anything on the west coast, and ~10-30ms for anything on speakeasy's network.
Indeed; my point was that the computer would only be good if both the parents and the teachers fail.
If both of those fail, there should be FAR more pressing concerns than keeping the child in school.
Except that the administrators could get the same exact result [and indeed, likely a more accurate one] from the teachers they already (under) pay for. In my experience, school systems don't have the financial freedom to do the same task 2 or 3 different times.
Come on guys. It doesn't take a giant computer and wonderous code to tell which kids are likely to drop out of school. Anyone that cares to notice could say. If teachers and parents don't care enough now to notice, a big blinking computer light isn't going to help any.
But you contradict yourself...
Ah, I've not seen the self-destructive versions. that would be much more useful.
sorry to reply to self. As per one of the other posters, there appears to be an actual usb-style key. Good for if your computer is stolen, but this won't prevent law enforcement from arresting you and getting the key anyways.
There is a key. If you did quotation properly: "without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened by anyone."
Given ABIT's tendancies to add quite a bit to their BIOSes, I'd wager that's where the key is kept.
I certainly doubt the NSA it too worried, and I doubt that the majority of people will generate good passwords/keys, but it's a step in the right direction.
And NFS doesn't have ACL support. Hell, NFS doesn't have *any* functional support for permissions.
Actually this has been done for like 10 years...
Usually your buddy just copies all of the songs [cds] from his buddies who copy them from their buddies, and so on. No need to propogate searches when the data's already propogated. Good old IRC mp3 groups. Hell, it's been done for probably a few more decades with tapes.
And remember; it's always sunny in space...
Don't forget that MS Flight simulator was to blame for the 9/11 terrorism too!
What's next is.... well it *won't* be video games blamed for teenage pregnancy... I think.
too much.
both, though it is my understanding that the unix/apache implimentation is stable, but not applicable, and the actual WebDAV ACL document is not totally complete as of yet. [last change was last month from the changelogs...]
And which of those is a browsable file sharing protocol? WebDAV?!? you can't be serious...
The real problem was that the ZDnet people were actually using the correct tool for the job. Sounds like they actually needed [wanted anyways] a file server that gave them ACL based permissions. [stable ACLs too, unlike webDAV's that are currently still in a state of flux...] Sure, they could probably get something similar with samba, and I'd even go so far as to say they don't *really* need them, and what they do need could be constructed using unix-style permissions.