Yeah, bug fixes. There's always the excuse that Windows machines have so many attacks targetted at them, and Linux boxes are immune. Hmph, maybe.
I'd like to see a decent grind against Linux boxes. If we haven't been dreaming then the h4x0rs shouldn't get very far. (Dreaming because, for example, in Korea, they used a single failed install. Many open proxies.) I'd like to see an attempt against Linux. It would keep peoples toes in the air. (Or some-such.)
I almost wish that more h4x0rs would pay Linux more attention. As more properly bolted systems repelled attacks, that would be good. And if they didn't repell attacks, that would be almost good too.
Bogus because the works weren't by $cientology. They didn't own the copyrights. True, some of their "sacred scriptures" have been published on the net. Other times, paraphrased versions or parody has been attacked. Copyright doesn't cover those. They lied.
I doubt they're going after the downloaders. They're probably after the people sharing it to everyone else -- after all, the damned software announces that you're sharing it. How hard could it be to track someone down that way?
Of course, they really need to make sure that the file being shared is an actual copyright violation. (DOH!) If Verizon has told their users that the RIAA is after them, I suspect those hard drives were wiped a long time ago, and in a land-fill far, far away.
With dynamic IP, I sometimes get a dirty IP address. i.e. previous user was sharing up the wazoo. Since most P2P seems to be decended from HTTP, I sometimes toss a web server on the port-de-jour to see what's going on. Most of the time, it's a hash handshake, but sometimes it's file requests. Let's see...
65.127.121.72 Fabolous Ft. Ashanti - Into You.mp3
32.100.145.168 Massage Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Meditation - Classical Relaxation Vol. 10 - Concerto for Flute and harp (Anda.mp3
213.227.73.231 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1of2).avi
200.66.21.218 ana gabriel - Que nos paso.mp3
Previously it's mainly been pr0n movies. (I'm guessing from the titles.) I don't see many legit requests.
Yeah, there is that "penalty of perjury" thing in there and counter-whack provisions. I'd love to see someone actually manage to win a case against a company that can buy lawyers and politicians by the ton. It'd be quite a sight. Rare like an eclipse, only more so.
Knowing the ISP, they'll probably hand over the names
At least Verizon didn't in this case -- Good for them! There have been a number of cases where ISPs have just rolled over and released names. $cientology has done it a number of times with completely bogus copyright claims. (Theoretically they could be counter-whacked in court, but who wants to get in a legal battle with people who'll spend millions to avoid paying out "one thin dime"? [Although, in the end, they paid out over 80 million thin dimes, w00t!]) AOL rolled over for the US Navy without even a DMCA claim. "According to the sworn
testimony of US Navy staff legalman Joseph M. Kaiser, he called AOL and
immediately got the full real name and state of residence of the AOL
member who owned the profile in question."
If the RIAA didn't check the files at the time, and assuming the files are long gone from computers involved, where's their case? (Pro-RIAA zealots? Where?)
As is the fact that Windows 3.1 reported false errors if you tried to install it on DRDos instead of MSDos.
The beta version of Win 3.1 reported that the OS was unsupported. There might have (ha!) been FUD involved, but I wouldn't have wanted to handle support calls for a beta version of Windows running on top of someone else's OS either. The release version still had the warning, but basically commented out by changing a conditional jump to an absolute.
Don't forget that classic of film: "Fred Ott's Sneeze". You can't get stuff like that these days. (Turner Broadcasting has claimed that they have no intention of "colorizing" it.)
making them able to tolerate large induced currents in the antennas
It's a real bitch when you have MOSFET's on your receiver front-end looking for micro-volt signals, and they suddenly get spark-gap voltages. I'm sure that there's a real art to building hardened electronics.
Spin-offs: This sort of knowledge is also useful for satellites and space probes. Sol, during a solar storm, puts out a pretty hefty EMP -- even against ground systems shielded by Earth's magnetic field.
You can't really keep an infantry unit in a Faraday cage. And those helmets do need antennas to stay networked, GPS, etc. I imagine vehicles will be fairly hardened (previous design against tactical nuke EMP). Ah well, without specs on the helmets and the EMP bombs, it's useless to speculate.
Oh wait! This is Slashdot, of course we can speculate!
I would have figured the metal shell of a car as a good shield, but apparently anything made after 1985 or so can have it's electronic ignition or CPU fried. (Note to self: In event of nuclear war, locate and steal Hyundai Pony.)
No, according to pterry (Terry Pratchett, Discworld) five is the over the edge. Switch to decaf and you should be fine. Deep blue ocean, deep blue ocean...:^)
No, I believe you. I'm curious what the name translates to, Google's language tools were no help. (Then again, I don't know the exact original meanings of Toronto and Ontario.. er.. and Canada.:^)
And agents/special services teams sent in ahead of time to "war-chalk" the enemy command and control? (Even GPS co-ords for cruise strike would work, of course.)
.. all that fancy equipment will do if the enemy has some of those EMP bombs that they were itching to try out in Iraq. (Did they ever use one, or is that classified?)
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Yeah but... The Apollo 11 LEM computer crashed several times during the landing.
The latest OED also seems to have trouble with adding some slang terms that are obscure or will quickly vanish from common use.
I'd like to see a decent grind against Linux boxes. If we haven't been dreaming then the h4x0rs shouldn't get very far. (Dreaming because, for example, in Korea, they used a single failed install. Many open proxies.) I'd like to see an attempt against Linux. It would keep peoples toes in the air. (Or some-such.)
I almost wish that more h4x0rs would pay Linux more attention. As more properly bolted systems repelled attacks, that would be good. And if they didn't repell attacks, that would be almost good too.
Bogus because the works weren't by $cientology. They didn't own the copyrights. True, some of their "sacred scriptures" have been published on the net. Other times, paraphrased versions or parody has been attacked. Copyright doesn't cover those. They lied.
I'm suprised that I haven't received pump and dump spam regarding them yet. Give it time.
Of course, they really need to make sure that the file being shared is an actual copyright violation. (DOH!) If Verizon has told their users that the RIAA is after them, I suspect those hard drives were wiped a long time ago, and in a land-fill far, far away.
65.127.121.72 Fabolous Ft. Ashanti - Into You.mp3
32.100.145.168 Massage Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Meditation - Classical Relaxation Vol. 10 - Concerto for Flute and harp (Anda.mp3
213.227.73.231 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1of2).avi
200.66.21.218 ana gabriel - Que nos paso.mp3
Previously it's mainly been pr0n movies. (I'm guessing from the titles.) I don't see many legit requests.
Yeah, there is that "penalty of perjury" thing in there and counter-whack provisions. I'd love to see someone actually manage to win a case against a company that can buy lawyers and politicians by the ton. It'd be quite a sight. Rare like an eclipse, only more so.
At least Verizon didn't in this case -- Good for them! There have been a number of cases where ISPs have just rolled over and released names. $cientology has done it a number of times with completely bogus copyright claims. (Theoretically they could be counter-whacked in court, but who wants to get in a legal battle with people who'll spend millions to avoid paying out "one thin dime"? [Although, in the end, they paid out over 80 million thin dimes, w00t!]) AOL rolled over for the US Navy without even a DMCA claim. "According to the sworn testimony of US Navy staff legalman Joseph M. Kaiser, he called AOL and immediately got the full real name and state of residence of the AOL member who owned the profile in question."
If the RIAA didn't check the files at the time, and assuming the files are long gone from computers involved, where's their case? (Pro-RIAA zealots? Where?)
The beta version of Win 3.1 reported that the OS was unsupported. There might have (ha!) been FUD involved, but I wouldn't have wanted to handle support calls for a beta version of Windows running on top of someone else's OS either. The release version still had the warning, but basically commented out by changing a conditional jump to an absolute.
Don't forget that classic of film: "Fred Ott's Sneeze". You can't get stuff like that these days. (Turner Broadcasting has claimed that they have no intention of "colorizing" it.)
OMG, it's Highlander for muppets/cgi puppets -- there can be only one!
Enemy? What about the spammers?
Of course, they could just use tubes. :^P
Dear Troll, I said "final shift". As in converting the last box on my LAN away from Windows. (Games might be a sticking point for a little while.)
It's a real bitch when you have MOSFET's on your receiver front-end looking for micro-volt signals, and they suddenly get spark-gap voltages. I'm sure that there's a real art to building hardened electronics.
Spin-offs: This sort of knowledge is also useful for satellites and space probes. Sol, during a solar storm, puts out a pretty hefty EMP -- even against ground systems shielded by Earth's magnetic field.
Oh wait! This is Slashdot, of course we can speculate!
I would have figured the metal shell of a car as a good shield, but apparently anything made after 1985 or so can have it's electronic ignition or CPU fried. (Note to self: In event of nuclear war, locate and steal Hyundai Pony.)
No, according to pterry (Terry Pratchett, Discworld) five is the over the edge. Switch to decaf and you should be fine. Deep blue ocean, deep blue ocean... :^)
No, I believe you. I'm curious what the name translates to, Google's language tools were no help. (Then again, I don't know the exact original meanings of Toronto and Ontario .. er .. and Canada. :^)
And agents/special services teams sent in ahead of time to "war-chalk" the enemy command and control? (Even GPS co-ords for cruise strike would work, of course.)
.. all that fancy equipment will do if the enemy has some of those EMP bombs that they were itching to try out in Iraq. (Did they ever use one, or is that classified?)
Oh? Reeeally? :^)
Hey, you know that guy too? Small world! :^)
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