Seriously, whether it's typing profiles, mouse moves, misspellings, funny walks, all can be copied and can have inaccuracies that cause misidentification.
Besides, what would we do without steganographers? And steganographists? Subject them to stalactites and stalagmites by satellite?
The only stuff I stream is videos of music concerts and raves. So sue me if I think most other video is a total waste of time.
The future may be televised, but I'll be out making news, not watching it. Except for public access, that is.
Maybe the perception; not the reality
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How can we say it's mob software, when that implies that "noone in the group is regarded as important".
Think about it. What do we use? Is Linux Kernal truly mob software, or is it, more likely, gang software, a gang with one or two clearly defined individuals who are regarded as important, but who can be replaced and the gang continues.
A mob has no leader per se, no conscience. But a gang has one or more leaders.
I know, one of my great-uncles came up with some of the theories and observations of how people act in gangs and mobs, and how very few of us can resist going along with mob sentiment.
Or, he could just go on vacation in France, and pop into an internet coffee shop, and read the news. While reading the news, he could randomly type a post with an alias. Amazingly, like a trained monkey gens Shakespeare, it would happen to be the hack method.
Oops.
Of course, he would also randomly type in all the email addresses of world newspapers and magazines while he was at it.
The problem isn't HDCP, it's that it has been demonstratably defeated multiple times by multiple people, using multiple methods.
And even if it worked, which it does not, it would be a total and utter waste of time. Just send the audio out and record it. Filters can modulate any unneeded signals (encryption to hamper CD quality recording).
Information just wants to be free, and music should not profit the middleman, but the artists!
Is that Web in your pocket or are you in China?
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... Tell that to users in China or Afganistan. The government actively shuts down ISP's and terminates all connections to "undesireable" sites. Once big brother becomes involved, personal liberties go right out the window. And don't try to tell me that "it could never happen here". Think again. You mean to tell me that if some alphabetic government agency or powerful international corporation started putting MASSIVE pressure on backbone providers to shut down... (enter offending matter here - Movies - MP3 - p0rn)... they couldn't get action?
The thing is, as anyone who pays attention knows, they never do shut it down. They catch one or two of them and the shops pop back up, on a different street, using a different reason for needing the phone lines. And with satellite ISPs, you can't even intercept them anyway.
Re:Good points, but refutable
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Ulwarth said:
#3 - The Net is too filled with Hackers to Control
His entire argument here seems to be that sooner or later companies will distribute their electronic information on properitary hardware that can't be accessed by a PC. If that's true, then he's right.
But meatware is always more spongy than wetware. Data flows faster than chips and time is money.
Besides, the eBook is dead already. Even if Bill Gates doesn't grok that, Bill Gibson does.
But it's already too late
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Will said: But, in sum, it all comes down to this:
The Net is the Perception, Not the Reality.
So long as people believe in the above tenets, it will self-perpetuate. If they lose faith, it will change. Just as the founders of America believed in press freedom but favored other restrictions - remember the 50s, that teen gang era, eventually followed by the 80s.
And schulzdog replied What? If we hold hands and believe then it will be so? Why don't we all believe we can fly and save money on air travel?
Words are failing me... JUST BECAUSE YOU REALLY WANT SOMETHING TO BE A CERTIAN WAY DOESN'T MEAN IT WILL BE THAT WAY
that's the problem, a lot of powerful groups want some control, while the users are dancing around wagging their tounges and insisting that nothing can hurt them and nothing can stop them. Instead of thumbing our nose's at copyright holders desires we should start thinking about how to solve them. Because otherwise the internet will be controlled.
My point is that the Net being the way it is depends on the collective decisions many of us have to seek freedom and openness. If we decide we're too tired, or can't be bothered, it will undoubtably wither away. So long as people like you use port 81 when they close port 80, that attitude exists. But if the day comes when the vast majority of the people forcing it back open just give up, it dies.
Of course, maybe we let it die. Maybe we all jump onto Internet 2 and use IPv6 and let corporate control descend on Internet and IPv4. That means we've moved on, not that we've lost per se.
By the numbers
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OK, read the article. Yes, it's true, but it's also false.
First, my creds are longer than I care to think about, back in the dawn of time. And, no, I don't hack any longer, but all I'll say is, if I had, the statute of limitations is up.
Myth #1 The Net is too International to be Controlled
The Net, the totality of the Internet, is. The Web, the channel that our browsers serve up http and https and suchlike, is affected by our ISPs. We can still use TCP/IP and backchannel, go thru various ports - this part is still wild and wooly. Or we can stay safe inside AOL and MSN and their versions and it's controlled. It's like the Wild West - when you come into Dodge, they take your guns at the city limits. If you stick to the patrolled routes, it's fairly safe; if you wander off into the badlands, it's not.
Myth #2 The Net is to Interconnected to Control
See above. While you can route around censorship and damage, this requires active or passive participation by someone. So long as bastions of freedom exist, so long as encyrpted channels go through, this will continue to exist. But the rest can be partially controlled.
Myth #3 The Net is Too Filled with Hackers to Control
So long as we reward hackers with publicity and teens have very little to lose and don't care about it, this will always be true. If they suddenly fear being caught, it will increase some people's activity and scare off others. So, this is mostly true.
But, in sum, it all comes down to this:
The Net is the Perception, Not the Reality.
So long as people believe in the above tenets, it will self-perpetuate. If they lose faith, it will change. Just as the founders of America believed in press freedom but favored other restrictions - remember the 50s, that teen gang era, eventually followed by the 80s.
pricewatch says the PII 450 is going for $89. That's a lot higher than the Athlon 1ghz or the pIII 667
Well, sure, but add postage and handling and I figure the $90 threshold is the sweet spot. The only prob with the Athlon 1ghz is that I'm talking a specific machine here - I've got two boards with dual CPU sockets and need to match CPUs - unless I go 600 MHz P3, which is still too pricy, since both are chock full o RAM.
I too notice that google seems to lack recent results - after changing a few hundred pages drastically, it's kind of painful to see all the old versions pop up in the searches.
Honestly, what next? The K6-2E+1 and the K6-IIIE++-frog-knows?
Concept - call the Intel beater they come out with next an AMD Frog - "it's lean, it's green, and it goes faster than the snake in the grass Intel chip"
One - if you're going to need more of these chips, order now. That reminds me, need to order a couple Pentium II 450s, now that they've hit the sweet spot on the price curve.
Two - AMD is girding for war with Intel, as Intel announced it's going to fight for the low-cost chip prices. This is why competition is good. And this is why MSFT being a monopoly means the only effective competition is... wait for it... Open Source. Because, as we all learned with IE, you can't beat free (with marketing dollars thrown in).
I said: One way to test it is to use deaf people - they hear music from the vibrations, so they could do quality checks on how it "sounds" in terms of vibration.
AC said: Another way would be to drive those big thumping punk speakers through my neighborhood and see if you get pulled over.
Well, that's the untrained or uninterested year. And the acoustics in a car are nothing like those in a warehouse - how does it react to natural woods, railroad ties, metal grate staircases, steel or iron girders. What kind of waveform interactions do you get with glass windows loosely fitted in wood frames.
If, in fact, ogg is undistinguishable from the original music source in these circumstances, or even in my house, then cool. But just because you don't like techno, like those before didn't like grunge, and those before didn't like rock, and those before didn't like swing, and those before didn't like jazz, and those before didn't like classical music (the music of youth in its day) - just because you personally don't like it, it is something that those of us who do like it are concerned with.
Remember, MP3 was made by trying to reproduce Susanne Vega singing - that was the standard. ogg should be able to cope with her (one of my faves) as well as techno (also one of my faves).
I submit that, even if it fails the "classical music test", that's ok, because those guys probably don't do a lot of MP3 and won't do much ogg either. But it does need to cope with techno, trance, rave, and singers. It needs to be able to do Brittney Spears (gag), even.
techno music sounds great with ogg. you will not be able to tell the difference between your ogg file and the actual cd.
Yeah, but I thought the article said something about distortion in the lower ranges. Good techno vibrates through your body, and if done right, you can feel it ascend up the scale as it changes frequency.
One way to test it is to use deaf people - they hear music from the vibrations, so they could do quality checks on how it "sounds" in terms of vibration.
Will I be able to tell the difference from playing my Sarah McLachlan CDs on my in-car stereo?
and
Will my techno and other rave-type music sound and feel the same when I play it on my computer, given that it's using the slightly better than average speakers I bought with it?
Everything else is just fluff, like when CDs came out and purists complained about distortions and hearing audience noise.
Like anyone would prefer B&W over Civilization (no matter whether in 2001 or 2034)
I would. I'm still miffed that I'm forced to buy a new Win box just because I can't run Black and White under WINE.
Warning: Virus Alert!
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Warning, you may have the Code Red virus on your machine! If you get an email or read a post with the subject line of "Warning: Virus Alert!" it has already infected your machine.
For the fix, follow this link and execute the code you find to fix your system.
Don't forget the sequel ...
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Code Red: Jar Jar's Revenge
No prob, the download is here
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God, I'm still on version 1 of code red. Does anybody know where I can download the latest version? Is there a mail list I can get on so I know I have the lasted version on my IIS server?
Try Microsoft or Hotmail. I think they have the latest version of it running on most of their systems now.
I've got a virus on my machine
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It keeps popping up these annoying ads every time I visit a web site, and leaving them under the browser window, so I have to close each one.
None of my antivirus software packages seem to be able to detect it, though...
Thanks for the suggestion
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I have no idea how you can make a wider back door than CRII. With CRII, the back door has full administrative rights and you can execute arbitrary commands. The machine is FULLY compromised. Plus, due to the nature of the worm each compromised machine broadcasts its IP address to nearby machines. The only way to get a wider back door than CRII would be to put the back door on EVERY PORT.
OK, it will be ready in an hour, just got to build the array handler routine.
Donate them to charity
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The lead story said: I'm still wondering what I should do with the hundreds of IPs in my desktop's apache log trying hopelessly to overflow my buffer.
You should donate them to charity. I hear Bill G could use them.
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until I decided to let dinosaurs alone.
Seriously, whether it's typing profiles, mouse moves, misspellings, funny walks, all can be copied and can have inaccuracies that cause misidentification.
Besides, what would we do without steganographers? And steganographists? Subject them to stalactites and stalagmites by satellite?
HDCP is used to encrypt video.
The only stuff I stream is videos of music concerts and raves. So sue me if I think most other video is a total waste of time.
The future may be televised, but I'll be out making news, not watching it. Except for public access, that is.
How can we say it's mob software, when that implies that "noone in the group is regarded as important".
Think about it. What do we use? Is Linux Kernal truly mob software, or is it, more likely, gang software, a gang with one or two clearly defined individuals who are regarded as important, but who can be replaced and the gang continues.
A mob has no leader per se, no conscience. But a gang has one or more leaders.
I know, one of my great-uncles came up with some of the theories and observations of how people act in gangs and mobs, and how very few of us can resist going along with mob sentiment.
Or, he could just go on vacation in France, and pop into an internet coffee shop, and read the news. While reading the news, he could randomly type a post with an alias. Amazingly, like a trained monkey gens Shakespeare, it would happen to be the hack method.
...
Oops.
Of course, he would also randomly type in all the email addresses of world newspapers and magazines while he was at it.
Oops.
Bye, bye
The problem isn't HDCP, it's that it has been demonstratably defeated multiple times by multiple people, using multiple methods.
And even if it worked, which it does not, it would be a total and utter waste of time. Just send the audio out and record it. Filters can modulate any unneeded signals (encryption to hamper CD quality recording).
Information just wants to be free, and music should not profit the middleman, but the artists!
... Tell that to users in China or Afganistan. The government actively shuts down ISP's and terminates all connections to "undesireable" sites. Once big brother becomes involved, personal liberties go right out the window. And don't try to tell me that "it could never happen here". Think again. You mean to tell me that if some alphabetic government agency or powerful international corporation started putting MASSIVE pressure on backbone providers to shut down... (enter offending matter here - Movies - MP3 - p0rn)... they couldn't get action?
The thing is, as anyone who pays attention knows, they never do shut it down. They catch one or two of them and the shops pop back up, on a different street, using a different reason for needing the phone lines. And with satellite ISPs, you can't even intercept them anyway.
Ulwarth said:
#3 - The Net is too filled with Hackers to Control
His entire argument here seems to be that sooner or later companies will distribute their electronic information on properitary hardware that can't be accessed by a PC. If that's true, then he's right.
But meatware is always more spongy than wetware. Data flows faster than chips and time is money.
Besides, the eBook is dead already. Even if Bill Gates doesn't grok that, Bill Gibson does.
Will said: But, in sum, it all comes down to this:
The Net is the Perception, Not the Reality.
So long as people believe in the above tenets, it will self-perpetuate. If they lose faith, it will change. Just as the founders of America believed in press freedom but favored other restrictions - remember the 50s, that teen gang era, eventually followed by the 80s.
And schulzdog replied What? If we hold hands and believe then it will be so? Why don't we all believe we can fly and save money on air travel?
Words are failing me... JUST BECAUSE YOU REALLY WANT SOMETHING TO BE A CERTIAN WAY DOESN'T MEAN IT WILL BE THAT WAY
that's the problem, a lot of powerful groups want some control, while the users are dancing around wagging their tounges and insisting that nothing can hurt them and nothing can stop them. Instead of thumbing our nose's at copyright holders desires we should start thinking about how to solve them. Because otherwise the internet will be controlled.
My point is that the Net being the way it is depends on the collective decisions many of us have to seek freedom and openness. If we decide we're too tired, or can't be bothered, it will undoubtably wither away. So long as people like you use port 81 when they close port 80, that attitude exists. But if the day comes when the vast majority of the people forcing it back open just give up, it dies.
Of course, maybe we let it die. Maybe we all jump onto Internet 2 and use IPv6 and let corporate control descend on Internet and IPv4. That means we've moved on, not that we've lost per se.
OK, read the article. Yes, it's true, but it's also false.
First, my creds are longer than I care to think about, back in the dawn of time. And, no, I don't hack any longer, but all I'll say is, if I had, the statute of limitations is up.
Myth #1 The Net is too International to be Controlled
The Net, the totality of the Internet, is. The Web, the channel that our browsers serve up http and https and suchlike, is affected by our ISPs. We can still use TCP/IP and backchannel, go thru various ports - this part is still wild and wooly. Or we can stay safe inside AOL and MSN and their versions and it's controlled. It's like the Wild West - when you come into Dodge, they take your guns at the city limits. If you stick to the patrolled routes, it's fairly safe; if you wander off into the badlands, it's not.
Myth #2 The Net is to Interconnected to Control
See above. While you can route around censorship and damage, this requires active or passive participation by someone. So long as bastions of freedom exist, so long as encyrpted channels go through, this will continue to exist. But the rest can be partially controlled.
Myth #3 The Net is Too Filled with Hackers to Control
So long as we reward hackers with publicity and teens have very little to lose and don't care about it, this will always be true. If they suddenly fear being caught, it will increase some people's activity and scare off others. So, this is mostly true.
But, in sum, it all comes down to this:
The Net is the Perception, Not the Reality.
So long as people believe in the above tenets, it will self-perpetuate. If they lose faith, it will change. Just as the founders of America believed in press freedom but favored other restrictions - remember the 50s, that teen gang era, eventually followed by the 80s.
pricewatch says the PII 450 is going for $89. That's a lot higher than the Athlon 1ghz or the pIII 667
Well, sure, but add postage and handling and I figure the $90 threshold is the sweet spot. The only prob with the Athlon 1ghz is that I'm talking a specific machine here - I've got two boards with dual CPU sockets and need to match CPUs - unless I go 600 MHz P3, which is still too pricy, since both are chock full o RAM.
I too notice that google seems to lack recent results - after changing a few hundred pages drastically, it's kind of painful to see all the old versions pop up in the searches.
Honestly, what next? The K6-2E+1 and the K6-IIIE++-frog-knows?
Concept - call the Intel beater they come out with next an AMD Frog - "it's lean, it's green, and it goes faster than the snake in the grass Intel chip"
[caveat - I'm biased, I own AMD and TMTA shares]
One - if you're going to need more of these chips, order now. That reminds me, need to order a couple Pentium II 450s, now that they've hit the sweet spot on the price curve.
... wait for it ... Open Source. Because, as we all learned with IE, you can't beat free (with marketing dollars thrown in).
Two - AMD is girding for war with Intel, as Intel announced it's going to fight for the low-cost chip prices. This is why competition is good. And this is why MSFT being a monopoly means the only effective competition is
Um, well, I think the name is dorky, now that you ask, but that could be a plus.
If, in fact, ogg proves to be simpler than MP3, than having it called ogg is ok.
Will the next improved version be called Tarzan?
I said: One way to test it is to use deaf people - they hear music from the vibrations, so they could do quality checks on how it "sounds" in terms of vibration.
AC said: Another way would be to drive those big thumping punk speakers through my neighborhood and see if you get pulled over.
Well, that's the untrained or uninterested year. And the acoustics in a car are nothing like those in a warehouse - how does it react to natural woods, railroad ties, metal grate staircases, steel or iron girders. What kind of waveform interactions do you get with glass windows loosely fitted in wood frames.
If, in fact, ogg is undistinguishable from the original music source in these circumstances, or even in my house, then cool. But just because you don't like techno, like those before didn't like grunge, and those before didn't like rock, and those before didn't like swing, and those before didn't like jazz, and those before didn't like classical music (the music of youth in its day) - just because you personally don't like it, it is something that those of us who do like it are concerned with.
Remember, MP3 was made by trying to reproduce Susanne Vega singing - that was the standard. ogg should be able to cope with her (one of my faves) as well as techno (also one of my faves).
I submit that, even if it fails the "classical music test", that's ok, because those guys probably don't do a lot of MP3 and won't do much ogg either. But it does need to cope with techno, trance, rave, and singers. It needs to be able to do Brittney Spears (gag), even.
techno music sounds great with ogg. you will not be able to tell the difference between your ogg file and the actual cd.
Yeah, but I thought the article said something about distortion in the lower ranges. Good techno vibrates through your body, and if done right, you can feel it ascend up the scale as it changes frequency.
One way to test it is to use deaf people - they hear music from the vibrations, so they could do quality checks on how it "sounds" in terms of vibration.
A good point, there were a number of first-person games for the Apple II, II+, IIc, IIe; many predate his history.
Is this:
Will I be able to tell the difference from playing my Sarah McLachlan CDs on my in-car stereo?
and
Will my techno and other rave-type music sound and feel the same when I play it on my computer, given that it's using the slightly better than average speakers I bought with it?
Everything else is just fluff, like when CDs came out and purists complained about distortions and hearing audience noise.
Like anyone would prefer B&W over Civilization (no matter whether in 2001 or 2034)
I would. I'm still miffed that I'm forced to buy a new Win box just because I can't run Black and White under WINE.
Warning, you may have the Code Red virus on your machine! If you get an email or read a post with the subject line of "Warning: Virus Alert!" it has already infected your machine.
For the fix, follow this link and execute the code you find to fix your system.
Code Red: Jar Jar's Revenge
God, I'm still on version 1 of code red. Does anybody know where I can download the latest version? Is there a mail list I can get on so I know I have the lasted version on my IIS server?
Try Microsoft or Hotmail. I think they have the latest version of it running on most of their systems now.
It keeps popping up these annoying ads every time I visit a web site, and leaving them under the browser window, so I have to close each one.
...
None of my antivirus software packages seem to be able to detect it, though
I have no idea how you can make a wider back door than CRII. With CRII, the back door has full administrative rights and you can execute arbitrary commands. The machine is FULLY compromised. Plus, due to the nature of the worm each compromised machine broadcasts its IP address to nearby machines. The only way to get a wider back door than CRII would be to put the back door on EVERY PORT.
OK, it will be ready in an hour, just got to build the array handler routine.
The lead story said: I'm still wondering what I should do with the hundreds of IPs in my desktop's apache log trying hopelessly to overflow my buffer.
You should donate them to charity. I hear Bill G could use them.