I just noticed the userfriendly.org page today has a on topic link of the day. IT is a good read an would have been excellent to include in the original article.
More recent clients are supporting encryption by default as users are becoming painfully aware of the problems of poor privacy. Compromised online privacy is a big issue now that it has become dangerous.
I dunno... could have used a car in it somewhere...
OK.. Here goes. Cars have windows permitting anyone on the street to see anything in your car. When you lock your valuables in the car, it is recommended you lock the laptop, purse, and other valuables in the trunk out of sight. The old packets did not have a private trunk in which to transport valuables. Bad guys could see your valuables. Having an expectation of privacy is the same reason we wear clothes. You may have an ides what someone is concealing in there, but it's none of your business.
Other things you expect a car to protect to some degree besides the contents of the trunk and glove box, is the code to your garage door and your home address. Government has access to this information, but third parties can't send you settlement letters demanding $5,000 based on the contents they see in your trunk.
If you're a baseball fan in the US, you don't have much choice but to deal with them, which is one of the reasons they've become so arrogant and anti-consumer. And most sports fans are willing to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse before they stop spending money on their team.
In the first part "If you're a baseball fan in the US, you don't have much choice but to deal with them," I disagree. If you watch baseball on TV, you are dead on. But if you take in local, not national games, there is lots of school sports that have nothing to do with the national organization. I have been to several school and church league games and enjoyed them.
The next part is the problem.. "And most sports fans are willing to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse before they stop spending money on their team." Put down the remote and get out. I have dropped pay TV over 15 years ago. I could care less who the MLB teams are. On the flipside, I know the standing and schedule of some of my foster kids teams.
Maybe it's because all the more recent clients are supporting encryption by default?
Your snail mail is able to deliver packages in plain brown wrappers. Online the delivery is in clear plastic baggies and carried by many people besides the government post office. In addition, third parties are able to examine your packets. Now that expensive attacks are happening because of the contents of some of these displayed packets to others, the search for security envelopes has began. The mail from an to my bank is not in clear packages. My online packets should have the same expectation of privacy.
Vendors of the envelopes has noticed the users crying the packages are transparent and the carrier is not providing privacy. Vendors are responding with providing security envelopes in place of the transparent packaging.
The real world security breaches have shown the need.
If that's so, I'm one of those 20. Granted, it was only two games (total cost: just under $8 USD), but it shows the system is fucked beyond reproach.
This is the beauty of the system and the Internet. As people find out what doesn't work, they quit buying it. From your comment "it shows the system is fucked beyond reproach." shows me you are not going to be a repeat consumer. Between online rent-a-song for the Plays for Sure music to retractable email, to Vista Activation, the fact is DRM is killing sales of content as more get the fact the system is broken.
DRM, Activaction, and cost are the main reasons I left Vista upgrades out of my future plans. I have moved to Open Source. As such, DRM is now an incompatible format. I can't use DRM, so I don't buy it. Amazon got it. Apple is just now waking up to the fact.
DRM protects content. DRM kills sales. Some loss due to piracy is an issue. DRM is the answer. Some loss of sales is due to DRM. When that is a bigger problem than piracy, DRM starts to go away. It happened on floppys and came back on CDs. Items with high incidence of copyright violations is the only items with DRM on CDs. Most software CD's except Games and high cost MS products and some high priced music and movies (High Def formats) are free of DRM. Most all my purchased software CDs are DRM free.
Something's obviously missing in this study, because there is a positive correlation between average lifespan and obesity rates, both when comparing countries around the world and when comparing historical rates within this country. The simple fact is that all else being equal, the fatter a population is, the shorter its average lifespan. The United States, for example, ranks 42nd in world life expectancy - Japan, with much lower rates obesity and average weight, ranks #2. (Behind Andorra.)
What was missing from the study is a simple inventory of the residents of nursing homes. In other words, they didn't look at the poeple who actualy lived to be 80 to 120 years old. There are very few over 400 lb geeks in their 90's. There are lots of 100-180 lb people in nursing homes. Visit one sometime.
To learn how to live to be 100, ask a few who are 100. Asking some resercher in their 20's isn't going to always provide the right answer. It's like raising kids. For advice ask a 30 year old without kids. They have all the answers. Ask someone with grandkids, and they have fewer wild answers.
It is the data that comes from sucess that is what counts.
Want to know how to stop a 2 year old toddler's tantrum or stop a teanager from cussing out his parent, ask a parent who has raised kids and dealt with it, not a 20 someting know it all right out of school.
After the judge sides with the plaintiff, he'll take a printout of the sentence "any rebroadcast, reproduction, or other use of the pictures and accounts of this game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball is prohibited" and shove it up Bud Selig's ass.
It will happen when the plaintiff is shown the credit card bill where the defendant explicitly sold the right for reproduction (Playback at a later time) to the plaintiff. The right was revoked without due cause or compensation. The judge can rightly view this as theft of privilages purchased by the plaintiff.
Make no mistake, it will happen and not just in your dreams.
He bought a Sony Playstation 3, then looked for help setting it up via Google on his Linux based computer.
That's what got him noticed. After they examimed his laptop, they found him developing code to make Open Office able to open Office 2007 files and was working on a converter to use iTunes files on his Zune.
As I suggested in a sibling post: have you installed 'flashplugin-nonfree'? I have no troubles with it whatsoever.
I installed the Flashplayer 9 for Linux from the Adobe website. Is this the same? If it isn't from Adobe, then where is it from? The one from Adobe crashes Firefox on a regular basis on either You Tube, or when the kids use myspace to watch music videos. A non-responding browser requiring a force quit is a several times an hour problem. I have the same thing on both Freespire and Ubuntu.
Is there a flashplayer other than the one from Adobe?
DRM-free AAC files can be played pretty much anywhere, Apple's DRM-encumbered AAC files can not.
Point well taken.. But--- From personal experiance, my living room DVD player and portable DVD player both play MP3 CDs and DVDs but not AAC. The car stereo will take MP3 CDs, and flash drives, but not in AAC format. My cheap $40 flash MP3 player plays non-DRM MP3 and WMA formats only. Other than the computer, I don't think I have a single player that is able to play AAC files.
I was speaking from personal experiance with my older hardware, not the current market that has adopted the Apple format.
Flash is a fine technology that is portable to any device that has a Flash player, so even devices without a CSS-supporting browser (e.g. cellphones) can view the content.
Unfortunately, Flash 9 on Linux has been the number 1 instability on any version of Ubuntu I have tried it on. Flash is the reason Firefox needs the Force Quit function all the time. Maybe someday they will get it right. In the meantime, how about something that just works?
According to this, the BBC signed an agreement with Micro$oft, er,... the devil,... back in September of 2006 to collaborate on, "search and navigation, distribution and 'content enablement'". Makes you go, "Hmmmmmmmmm?",...
So how do they count their visitors when only the ones who can view the content are the only ones that return?
How many Zune and Zen users have iTunes accounts? I wonder if they would claim less than 1% of the visitors to the iTunes store do not have an iPod so all other potential visitors is not important. The way I see it, is if iTunes provided DRM free music in several formats, they could instantly improve their marketshare by about 20%. Instead Amazon is picking up the other MP3 player market. Apple handed that part of the market to Amazon on a silver platter.
The BBC stats on Linux userbase is flawed for the same reason. Linux users don't return when the content is incompatible.
So by placing the CD-ROM in a computer, it will automatically hack what ever OS the computer is running and auto install your software? Or are you implying that this company left server consoles logged in as an admin user?
I call major bullshit on this article. There's some real iffy stuff here as pointed out by other/.'ers as well. I get that it's all about social engineering, which is a huge problem. But some of their claims are a little too out there. Like saying they "could" have done this, or "could" have done that. Well you don't know that you really could until you try it. Most of our environments here have NO Internet access. It is entirely firewalled going out. Does your magic CD-ROM also auto-hack their firewalls too? --
Before you call major BS, please consider the following... When people find thumb drives or CD ROM's, they often will check their content while logged into their own account. In a server room, this is often an admin or root account. Does it work? Take a look;
This hack even works when the employees are warned in advance that they will be tested for security. Leaving a few CD's and thumb drives in a server room is a target rich environment for root access.
An admin checking out the item at his desk is a wonderful way to gain access without originally needing the admin password. Does your magic CD-ROM also auto-hack their firewalls too? In short, it has the root privileges of the administrator's account. How many administrators have auto-run disabled? They may know to not bring in outside media, but checking the contents of a misplaced internal CD might get past security checks.
There are lots of other ways. also you don't need access to the server room to install a rogue AP and gain a wireless cracking point. one hidden nicely under the a desk on the 2nd floor corner office is a better place.
Where I work, wireless security is taken very seriously. Sweeps for rogue access points is regular. Access points found are published in employee communications. A much better hack would be some kind of inside server, but it would have to make it's own outgoing connection to a controlled web server as the proxy/firewall would go a long way stopping an internal server. Something posing as a VOIP client might be able to make connections without being noticed.
So to answer your question: No, these devices are not FCC approved and they will not be approved unless the FCC and the US government change this section.
Or unless you are the government in which case you can buy them here. www.antennasystems.com
My cell phone works in elevators, and they are almost 100% covered in steel.
The joints are not bonded, such as the entire edges of the doors are not bonded all the way around to the car. Add an RF seal on the door, seal the air vent or screen it, and RF choke all signal wires that penetrate the shell such as for indicator lights, lights, fan, buttons, etc, and an elevator makes and excellent cage. 100% coverage is not the answer. 100% continuous coverage is the answer. Un-sealed joints, doors, vents, and wiring pipe in the signal.
Hmmm, I wonder if aluminum siding would be effective?
No. Aluminum siding does not provide coverage without breaks. Aluminum siding does nothing for the roof or windows. The siding does cause multipath, so connections can be full of static and drop-outs even though the signal strength looks good.
If you are really interested, look at installing a continuous layer of aluminum clad foam board under the siding of your choice. Use aluminum duct sealing tape that is used on fiberglass duct work that is foil clad to seal all seams. Treat the ceiling the same way. Replace your windows with IR blocking metallic tinted windows. Ad a screened storm door with a metal to metal weather seal. Ad an aluminum screen inside each air vent into the room and bond the edge of the screen to the wall or ceiling metal layer. Depending on your ability to seal the walls to roof, walls to windows and doors, and the signal strength from the cell tower, you may have attenuated the signal enough to be effective.
But regardless, p2p is just the favorite whipping boy because it's used for a lot of illegal activities.
It is the whipping boy because it is used constantly by less than 20% of the subscribers, but consumes 2/3rds of the bandwidth. You can drop your bill to level 3 over half by ticking off less than 20% of your users. The over 80% notice reduced ping times and faster page loads.
the fact that she replaced the hard drive in her computer before turning it over to RIAA's investigators is laughable
When has it been illegal to have a hard drive failure? Out of 20,000 cases and an average life of 3 years for a hard drive some are expected to die. This shouldn't be an automatic 222,000 fine to have a drive failure.
Am I now required to archive all my dead drives? Am I now required to replace my drive every 6 months when I upgrade Ubuntu? Am I now required to replace my drive in the XP machine every year for it's annual wipe and rebuild for fix general slug creep? Can I bill the RIAA for my new appetite for hard drives?
I agree that correlation does not equal causation. If you want evidence, just take a look into my past. When I was in high school, I lived in the country. There were no FM stations. The local AM station carried Country and Western. I didn't buy much music. LP's and 8 tracks were popular along with brick size mono compact tape recorders with fidelity good enough for voice letters. I managed to collect a couple LP's and 8 track tapes to play with, but nothing serious.
After high school, I went into the Navy. Here I became exposed to lots of great music much like a typical middle schooler or high school kid does now. I invested in great equipment, bought the best blank tapes, had a good linear track turntable with moving coil cartridge, etc and a pair of quality solenoid operated cassette decks. I made mix tapes, traded tapes, and bought albums of my favorite artists to put on tape to play in my car. Artists included Pink Floyd, Styx, Queen, Tomita, etc. My peak piracy days was my peak purchasing days. Without the peer to peer dorm life, I would not have had the exposure and would not have bought nearly as much stuff.
Now I am married and have kids and grandkids. Any band that needs to curse or have a screamer is not my idea of music contrary to what my adopted kids like. Other than volume to the wall distorted by heavy compression junk, I don't have much exposure to new music anymore. Most of my exposure to great music is often called illegal. For example, I caught the fantastic light show last Christmas with the house with the synchronized lights. By any RIAA rulings, that publication and distribution of the the song Wizards in Winter was a violation of copyright. Trans Siberian Orchestra on the other hand made a hero out of the guy and gave him VIP treatment to one of their concerts. Was he a criminal guilty of massive online copyright infringement, or a creative artist using and promoting another artist? The only reason he wasn't prosecuted was because the backlash would have been severe and swift. The artist that doesn't understand this is the artist once known as prince. See what happened when someone put a short video of a toddler dancing? The artist didn't get it. TSO and the RIAA could have been in the same boat but much worse for that Christmas light show.
I went to buy the album, but with the current litigation, I am directly avoiding RIAA labels. Unfortunately that album is on an RIAA label. Sorry TSO.
Peer to Peer is how people find out about new great bands. It's advertising.
The band is coming to my local area this fall. Unless they drop their label, I am not going to the concert. If my dorm tape recordings could have resulted in the same $222,000.00 settlement, than I want no part in the industry that is suing their best customers.
In a nutshell, I am not legally exposed to new good music. Stuff on the radio is payola and off limits RIAA, ASCAP, BMI on my reject list. I don't buy music I don't know about. I do know about the litigation. I am voting against it as much a possible. Anybody tainted by it is someone to not do business with. I don't pirate it. I simply don't accept it.
But anyone who reads/. on a regular basis should know how to strip DRM from any file using free tools. Given that can be done so easily,
Circumventing the copy protection is a DMCA violation. Please don't post how here. Leave it to the readers to Google it.
If you weren't violating the DMCA, would Napster be useful? You mentioned that you use an iPod and the music isn't compatible without breaking the law. If you couldn't break the DRM, would you still use Napster?
I don't break the DRM on music files. I simply refuse to buy the broken files in the first place. The only way to get rid of DRM is to make it a marketplace failure.
Apple and Amazon have learned this. Many labels are still looking into this marketplace DRM rejection. Please don't vote for DRM with your wallet.
They just don't want it to be DRM-ed crap that stops working when you stop paying that fee.
They want something they can toss on their iPod or other MP3 player and listen to on the bus. DRM prevents that. iPods are popular because you can use them when they are not plugged into a net connected computer unlike Napster. People are not going to use their iPod and run out and buy a Plays for Sure enabled player as a second player for Napster.
They will stick with ripped CDs on their iPod instead because it's a cool player.
Uhh, that is the answer dude. Comcast's problem isn't with IP Transit. Comcast's problem is the same problem faced by all cableco's -- they have a shared last mile. I don't know what speeds they offer, but I do know that my Roadrunner connection is 5.0/384. At 5.0 it takes less then nine customers to completely max out the downstream on a DOCSIS channel. The only real solution to this problem is to split the network into smaller nodes so less people are sharing the bandwidth on them.
You are in the dark if you think the problem is just the last mile. On the other end the ISP has to buy the bits and bandwidth. Fixing the last mile simply exceeds the capacity of the ISP's connection. Fixing the ISP's connection is only part of the cost. Buying the extra bits is the big expense. Who do you think Comcast peers with and how do you think they get a connection to the backbone? Do a trace to Google for example. Comcast in my area connects to Level 3 net in Seattle.
If you think fixing the ISP bandwidth problem is simply upgrading the last mile, you are mistaken. The growing bill for bits from Level 3 is the problem. Level 3's primary focus is selling service to organizations with large bandwidth requirements, such as telecom carriers, cable TV operators, universities, web hosting companies, and to other, smaller ISPs, often known as Tier 2 carriers.
They sell bandwidth to Comcast. For Comcast to buy more bandwidth without increasing revenue is poor business planning. Many people only see the last mile problem and fail to look upstream.
Great proposal. For $60/month form the subscribers, provide service that cost you $150/month per subscriber. Good answer. ISPs buy bits. Buying a bigger pipe and greater monthly traffic isn't free.
Oregon State University became concerned about the program before the RIAA suit, when systems administrators noticed that Napster was consuming 5 percent of the school's bandwidth. Napster activity could have pushed the school over its $75,000 yearly budget for bandwidth, says Oregon State's vice provost for information services Curt Pederson, noting that the school's bandwidth usage would double every 90 days if not controlled.
How many times do you propose letting the annual budget of $75,0000 double every 90 days as Peer to Peer catches on. The bill doubles regularly while not adding a single new paying customer. This is not a good business plan.
This heavy use is created by only about 20% of the population and is growing. It's chop time or die. Comcast having to buy bits is faced directly with the rising cost of exploding bandwidth use. The throttling the universities had to do to maintain IT budgets is why most universities web pages load like they are served on a dial-up connection. They buy limited bandwidth which is mostly saturated in the evenings. The RIAA when nailing college students only download a few songs from the A list from the student. The big reason for this is it would take forever to download the entire A list through a saturated edu connection to the ISP.
Check with any university student regarding the speeds they get on campus. It's nothing to write home about.
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I hate to fix it for you, but you misspelled RIAA.
I just noticed the userfriendly.org page today has a on topic link of the day. IT is a good read an would have been excellent to include in the original article.
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/Privacy%20by%20Design.html
http://userfriendly.org/
More recent clients are supporting encryption by default as users are becoming painfully aware of the problems of poor privacy. Compromised online privacy is a big issue now that it has become dangerous.
I dunno... could have used a car in it somewhere...
OK.. Here goes. Cars have windows permitting anyone on the street to see anything in your car. When you lock your valuables in the car, it is recommended you lock the laptop, purse, and other valuables in the trunk out of sight. The old packets did not have a private trunk in which to transport valuables. Bad guys could see your valuables. Having an expectation of privacy is the same reason we wear clothes. You may have an ides what someone is concealing in there, but it's none of your business.
Other things you expect a car to protect to some degree besides the contents of the trunk and glove box, is the code to your garage door and your home address. Government has access to this information, but third parties can't send you settlement letters demanding $5,000 based on the contents they see in your trunk.
If you're a baseball fan in the US, you don't have much choice but to deal with them, which is one of the reasons they've become so arrogant and anti-consumer. And most sports fans are willing to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse before they stop spending money on their team.
In the first part "If you're a baseball fan in the US, you don't have much choice but to deal with them," I disagree. If you watch baseball on TV, you are dead on. But if you take in local, not national games, there is lots of school sports that have nothing to do with the national organization. I have been to several school and church league games and enjoyed them.
The next part is the problem.. "And most sports fans are willing to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse before they stop spending money on their team." Put down the remote and get out. I have dropped pay TV over 15 years ago. I could care less who the MLB teams are. On the flipside, I know the standing and schedule of some of my foster kids teams.
Maybe it's because all the more recent clients are supporting encryption by default?
Your snail mail is able to deliver packages in plain brown wrappers. Online the delivery is in clear plastic baggies and carried by many people besides the government post office. In addition, third parties are able to examine your packets. Now that expensive attacks are happening because of the contents of some of these displayed packets to others, the search for security envelopes has began. The mail from an to my bank is not in clear packages. My online packets should have the same expectation of privacy.
Vendors of the envelopes has noticed the users crying the packages are transparent and the carrier is not providing privacy. Vendors are responding with providing security envelopes in place of the transparent packaging.
The real world security breaches have shown the need.
If that's so, I'm one of those 20. Granted, it was only two games (total cost: just under $8 USD), but it shows the system is fucked beyond reproach.
This is the beauty of the system and the Internet. As people find out what doesn't work, they quit buying it. From your comment "it shows the system is fucked beyond reproach." shows me you are not going to be a repeat consumer. Between online rent-a-song for the Plays for Sure music to retractable email, to Vista Activation, the fact is DRM is killing sales of content as more get the fact the system is broken.
DRM, Activaction, and cost are the main reasons I left Vista upgrades out of my future plans. I have moved to Open Source. As such, DRM is now an incompatible format. I can't use DRM, so I don't buy it. Amazon got it. Apple is just now waking up to the fact.
DRM protects content. DRM kills sales. Some loss due to piracy is an issue. DRM is the answer. Some loss of sales is due to DRM. When that is a bigger problem than piracy, DRM starts to go away. It happened on floppys and came back on CDs. Items with high incidence of copyright violations is the only items with DRM on CDs. Most software CD's except Games and high cost MS products and some high priced music and movies (High Def formats) are free of DRM. Most all my purchased software CDs are DRM free.
Something's obviously missing in this study, because there is a positive correlation between average lifespan and obesity rates, both when comparing countries around the world and when comparing historical rates within this country. The simple fact is that all else being equal, the fatter a population is, the shorter its average lifespan. The United States, for example, ranks 42nd in world life expectancy - Japan, with much lower rates obesity and average weight, ranks #2. (Behind Andorra.)
What was missing from the study is a simple inventory of the residents of nursing homes. In other words, they didn't look at the poeple who actualy lived to be 80 to 120 years old. There are very few over 400 lb geeks in their 90's. There are lots of 100-180 lb people in nursing homes. Visit one sometime.
To learn how to live to be 100, ask a few who are 100. Asking some resercher in their 20's isn't going to always provide the right answer. It's like raising kids. For advice ask a 30 year old without kids. They have all the answers. Ask someone with grandkids, and they have fewer wild answers.
It is the data that comes from sucess that is what counts.
Want to know how to stop a 2 year old toddler's tantrum or stop a teanager from cussing out his parent, ask a parent who has raised kids and dealt with it, not a 20 someting know it all right out of school.
After the judge sides with the plaintiff, he'll take a printout of the sentence "any rebroadcast, reproduction, or other use of the pictures and accounts of this game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball is prohibited" and shove it up Bud Selig's ass.
It will happen when the plaintiff is shown the credit card bill where the defendant explicitly sold the right for reproduction (Playback at a later time) to the plaintiff. The right was revoked without due cause or compensation. The judge can rightly view this as theft of privilages purchased by the plaintiff.
Make no mistake, it will happen and not just in your dreams.
He bought a Sony Playstation 3, then looked for help setting it up via Google on his Linux based computer.
That's what got him noticed. After they examimed his laptop, they found him developing code to make Open Office able to open Office 2007 files and was working on a converter to use iTunes files on his Zune.
As I suggested in a sibling post: have you installed 'flashplugin-nonfree'? I have no troubles with it whatsoever.
I installed the Flashplayer 9 for Linux from the Adobe website. Is this the same? If it isn't from Adobe, then where is it from? The one from Adobe crashes Firefox on a regular basis on either You Tube, or when the kids use myspace to watch music videos. A non-responding browser requiring a force quit is a several times an hour problem. I have the same thing on both Freespire and Ubuntu.
Is there a flashplayer other than the one from Adobe?
DRM-free AAC files can be played pretty much anywhere, Apple's DRM-encumbered AAC files can not.
Point well taken.. But--- From personal experiance, my living room DVD player and portable DVD player both play MP3 CDs and DVDs but not AAC. The car stereo will take MP3 CDs, and flash drives, but not in AAC format. My cheap $40 flash MP3 player plays non-DRM MP3 and WMA formats only. Other than the computer, I don't think I have a single player that is able to play AAC files.
I was speaking from personal experiance with my older hardware, not the current market that has adopted the Apple format.
Flash is a fine technology that is portable to any device that has a Flash player, so even devices without a CSS-supporting browser (e.g. cellphones) can view the content.
Unfortunately, Flash 9 on Linux has been the number 1 instability on any version of Ubuntu I have tried it on. Flash is the reason Firefox needs the Force Quit function all the time. Maybe someday they will get it right. In the meantime, how about something that just works?
According to this, the BBC signed an agreement with Micro$oft, er, ... the devil, ... back in September of 2006 to collaborate on, "search and navigation, distribution and 'content enablement'". Makes you go, "Hmmmmmmmmm?",...
So how do they count their visitors when only the ones who can view the content are the only ones that return?
How many Zune and Zen users have iTunes accounts? I wonder if they would claim less than 1% of the visitors to the iTunes store do not have an iPod so all other potential visitors is not important. The way I see it, is if iTunes provided DRM free music in several formats, they could instantly improve their marketshare by about 20%. Instead Amazon is picking up the other MP3 player market. Apple handed that part of the market to Amazon on a silver platter.
The BBC stats on Linux userbase is flawed for the same reason. Linux users don't return when the content is incompatible.
So by placing the CD-ROM in a computer, it will automatically hack what ever OS the computer is running and auto install your software? Or are you implying that this company left server consoles logged in as an admin user?
/.'ers as well. I get that it's all about social engineering, which is a huge problem. But some of their claims are a little too out there. Like saying they "could" have done this, or "could" have done that. Well you don't know that you really could until you try it. Most of our environments here have NO Internet access. It is entirely firewalled going out. Does your magic CD-ROM also auto-hack their firewalls too?
I call major bullshit on this article. There's some real iffy stuff here as pointed out by other
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Before you call major BS, please consider the following... When people find thumb drives or CD ROM's, they often will check their content while logged into their own account. In a server room, this is often an admin or root account. Does it work? Take a look;
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11397
This hack even works when the employees are warned in advance that they will be tested for security. Leaving a few CD's and thumb drives in a server room is a target rich environment for root access.
An admin checking out the item at his desk is a wonderful way to gain access without originally needing the admin password.
Does your magic CD-ROM also auto-hack their firewalls too?
In short, it has the root privileges of the administrator's account. How many administrators have auto-run disabled? They may know to not bring in outside media, but checking the contents of a misplaced internal CD might get past security checks.
There are lots of other ways. also you don't need access to the server room to install a rogue AP and gain a wireless cracking point. one hidden nicely under the a desk on the 2nd floor corner office is a better place.
Where I work, wireless security is taken very seriously. Sweeps for rogue access points is regular. Access points found are published in employee communications. A much better hack would be some kind of inside server, but it would have to make it's own outgoing connection to a controlled web server as the proxy/firewall would go a long way stopping an internal server. Something posing as a VOIP client might be able to make connections without being noticed.
So to answer your question: No, these devices are not FCC approved and they will not be approved unless the FCC and the US government change this section.
Or unless you are the government in which case you can buy them here.
www.antennasystems.com
My cell phone works in elevators, and they are almost 100% covered in steel.
The joints are not bonded, such as the entire edges of the doors are not bonded all the way around to the car. Add an RF seal on the door, seal the air vent or screen it, and RF choke all signal wires that penetrate the shell such as for indicator lights, lights, fan, buttons, etc, and an elevator makes and excellent cage. 100% coverage is not the answer. 100% continuous coverage is the answer. Un-sealed joints, doors, vents, and wiring pipe in the signal.
Hmmm, I wonder if aluminum siding would be effective?
No. Aluminum siding does not provide coverage without breaks. Aluminum siding does nothing for the roof or windows. The siding does cause multipath, so connections can be full of static and drop-outs even though the signal strength looks good.
If you are really interested, look at installing a continuous layer of aluminum clad foam board under the siding of your choice. Use aluminum duct sealing tape that is used on fiberglass duct work that is foil clad to seal all seams. Treat the ceiling the same way. Replace your windows with IR blocking metallic tinted windows. Ad a screened storm door with a metal to metal weather seal. Ad an aluminum screen inside each air vent into the room and bond the edge of the screen to the wall or ceiling metal layer. Depending on your ability to seal the walls to roof, walls to windows and doors, and the signal strength from the cell tower, you may have attenuated the signal enough to be effective.
But regardless, p2p is just the favorite whipping boy because it's used for a lot of illegal activities.
It is the whipping boy because it is used constantly by less than 20% of the subscribers, but consumes 2/3rds of the bandwidth. You can drop your bill to level 3 over half by ticking off less than 20% of your users. The over 80% notice reduced ping times and faster page loads.
the fact that she replaced the hard drive in her computer before turning it over to RIAA's investigators is laughable
When has it been illegal to have a hard drive failure? Out of 20,000 cases and an average life of 3 years for a hard drive some are expected to die. This shouldn't be an automatic 222,000 fine to have a drive failure.
Am I now required to archive all my dead drives? Am I now required to replace my drive every 6 months when I upgrade Ubuntu? Am I now required to replace my drive in the XP machine every year for it's annual wipe and rebuild for fix general slug creep? Can I bill the RIAA for my new appetite for hard drives?
I agree that correlation does not equal causation.
If you want evidence, just take a look into my past. When I was in high school, I lived in the country. There were no FM stations. The local AM station carried Country and Western. I didn't buy much music. LP's and 8 tracks were popular along with brick size mono compact tape recorders with fidelity good enough for voice letters. I managed to collect a couple LP's and 8 track tapes to play with, but nothing serious.
After high school, I went into the Navy. Here I became exposed to lots of great music much like a typical middle schooler or high school kid does now. I invested in great equipment, bought the best blank tapes, had a good linear track turntable with moving coil cartridge, etc and a pair of quality solenoid operated cassette decks. I made mix tapes, traded tapes, and bought albums of my favorite artists to put on tape to play in my car. Artists included Pink Floyd, Styx, Queen, Tomita, etc. My peak piracy days was my peak purchasing days. Without the peer to peer dorm life, I would not have had the exposure and would not have bought nearly as much stuff.
Now I am married and have kids and grandkids. Any band that needs to curse or have a screamer is not my idea of music contrary to what my adopted kids like. Other than volume to the wall distorted by heavy compression junk, I don't have much exposure to new music anymore. Most of my exposure to great music is often called illegal. For example, I caught the fantastic light show last Christmas with the house with the synchronized lights. By any RIAA rulings, that publication and distribution of the the song Wizards in Winter was a violation of copyright. Trans Siberian Orchestra on the other hand made a hero out of the guy and gave him VIP treatment to one of their concerts. Was he a criminal guilty of massive online copyright infringement, or a creative artist using and promoting another artist? The only reason he wasn't prosecuted was because the backlash would have been severe and swift. The artist that doesn't understand this is the artist once known as prince. See what happened when someone put a short video of a toddler dancing? The artist didn't get it. TSO and the RIAA could have been in the same boat but much worse for that Christmas light show.
I went to buy the album, but with the current litigation, I am directly avoiding RIAA labels. Unfortunately that album is on an RIAA label. Sorry TSO.
http://www.riaaradar.com/search.asp Search for Trans-Siberian
Peer to Peer is how people find out about new great bands. It's advertising.
The band is coming to my local area this fall. Unless they drop their label, I am not going to the concert.
If my dorm tape recordings could have resulted in the same $222,000.00 settlement, than I want no part in the industry that is suing their best customers.
In a nutshell, I am not legally exposed to new good music. Stuff on the radio is payola and off limits RIAA, ASCAP, BMI on my reject list. I don't buy music I don't know about. I do know about the litigation. I am voting against it as much a possible. Anybody tainted by it is someone to not do business with. I don't pirate it. I simply don't accept it.
But anyone who reads /. on a regular basis should know how to strip DRM from any file using free tools. Given that can be done so easily,
Circumventing the copy protection is a DMCA violation. Please don't post how here. Leave it to the readers to Google it.
If you weren't violating the DMCA, would Napster be useful? You mentioned that you use an iPod and the music isn't compatible without breaking the law. If you couldn't break the DRM, would you still use Napster?
I don't break the DRM on music files. I simply refuse to buy the broken files in the first place. The only way to get rid of DRM is to make it a marketplace failure.
Apple and Amazon have learned this. Many labels are still looking into this marketplace DRM rejection. Please don't vote for DRM with your wallet.
They just don't want it to be DRM-ed crap that stops working when you stop paying that fee.
They want something they can toss on their iPod or other MP3 player and listen to on the bus. DRM prevents that. iPods are popular because you can use them when they are not plugged into a net connected computer unlike Napster. People are not going to use their iPod and run out and buy a Plays for Sure enabled player as a second player for Napster.
They will stick with ripped CDs on their iPod instead because it's a cool player.
Think of all the DVDs and CDs those BitTorrent users will buy with $195,000 !!!
Before you buy any CD's and line the pockets of the litigious bastards, please visit here;
http://www.riaaradar.com/
http://defectivebydesign.org/
Shop informed.
Uhh, that is the answer dude. Comcast's problem isn't with IP Transit. Comcast's problem is the same problem faced by all cableco's -- they have a shared last mile. I don't know what speeds they offer, but I do know that my Roadrunner connection is 5.0/384. At 5.0 it takes less then nine customers to completely max out the downstream on a DOCSIS channel. The only real solution to this problem is to split the network into smaller nodes so less people are sharing the bandwidth on them.
You are in the dark if you think the problem is just the last mile. On the other end the ISP has to buy the bits and bandwidth. Fixing the last mile simply exceeds the capacity of the ISP's connection. Fixing the ISP's connection is only part of the cost. Buying the extra bits is the big expense. Who do you think Comcast peers with and how do you think they get a connection to the backbone? Do a trace to Google for example. Comcast in my area connects to Level 3 net in Seattle.
http://www.level3.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_3_Communications
If you think fixing the ISP bandwidth problem is simply upgrading the last mile, you are mistaken. The growing bill for bits from Level 3 is the problem.
Level 3's primary focus is selling service to organizations with large bandwidth requirements, such as telecom carriers, cable TV operators, universities, web hosting companies, and to other, smaller ISPs, often known as Tier 2 carriers.
They sell bandwidth to Comcast. For Comcast to buy more bandwidth without increasing revenue is poor business planning. Many people only see the last mile problem and fail to look upstream.
Great proposal. For $60/month form the subscribers, provide service that cost you $150/month per subscriber. Good answer. ISPs buy bits. Buying a bigger pipe and greater monthly traffic isn't free.
University of Oregon had to deal with just this issue in the early Napster days.
http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/net-news/00-01/00-01-25/0001.html
Oregon State University became concerned
about the program before the RIAA suit, when systems
administrators noticed that Napster was consuming 5 percent of
the school's bandwidth. Napster activity could have pushed the
school over its $75,000 yearly budget for bandwidth, says Oregon
State's vice provost for information services Curt Pederson,
noting that the school's bandwidth usage would double every 90
days if not controlled.
How many times do you propose letting the annual budget of $75,0000 double every 90 days as Peer to Peer catches on.
The bill doubles regularly while not adding a single new paying customer. This is not a good business plan.
This heavy use is created by only about 20% of the population and is growing. It's chop time or die. Comcast having to buy bits is faced directly with the rising cost of exploding bandwidth use. The throttling the universities had to do to maintain IT budgets is why most universities web pages load like they are served on a dial-up connection. They buy limited bandwidth which is mostly saturated in the evenings. The RIAA when nailing college students only download a few songs from the A list from the student. The big reason for this is it would take forever to download the entire A list through a saturated edu connection to the ISP.
Check with any university student regarding the speeds they get on campus. It's nothing to write home about.