What fight? At my old ISP we just limit problem users to 20-30 concurrent connections at a time. Any more and we disconnect the connections at random.
During normal use, there are two situations where a person would hit more than 20-30 connections: 1. Running P2P software that is SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to get past throttles (eMule) (and 1b. Running poorly designed / configured P2P that is designed to create 300 - 500 connections at a time. Often related to 1a.) and 2. They are infected with some form of virus and their system is going crazy.
Since we certainly don't support #2 and #1 causes our entire network's quality of service to go down, we have a responsibility to our other customers to prevent #1.
Best thing is, they reboot, do a speed test, speed test comes up well within acceptable range. They open uTorrent or eMule, they get 0 - 0.5k a second because the connections keep getting reset. "Oh? It's slow again? That's odd, lets do another speed test... please reboot..."
Encrypt it all you want. An ISP thinking ahead more than a few seconds doesn't have to packet sniff to throttle you.
So, is Linus going to go after them for this copyright infringement, or is he going to accept it and possibly see theownership and protections of Tux deminished?
Or is that whole "You have to go after every infraction or lose your IP" thing just a myth used by PR agents to justify labels suing grandmas?
Good to know! Now maybe they can get to work on those other trifling brain disorders like Alzheimer's, Mad Cow disease--you know the minor ones that don't mean anything.
Yes, and by learning seemingly stupid and trivial things like this, it ultimately will pave the way towards a greater understanding of the brain that will allow them to eventually figure out how and why those disorders affect people.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Confucius
"Oh, that's not WinFS. They just renamed NTFS2 to try and cover their asses and screw with people's heads. Fortunately we're all well informed here so we didn't fall for that one, eh guys? *nudge nudge*"
When I buy a game, I buy a license to use that game. This license allows me to access the content using one of the defined accessing devices (i.e. game consoles).
Incorrect.
You do not click through a EULA, nor sign an agreement when you purchase a game. Thus, you are not bound by any form of "liscence." You own your copy of the game. Copyright law prevents you from doing certain things, but that's the same for any copyrighted work -- not just liscenced ones.
Please, lets not give Sony any victories they haven't earned here. No console games to date have been liscenced to their "owners". Sony would be treding dangerous new ground here if they tried it with the PS3.
(There are certain exceptions -- namely games with online components. These typically have you sign an agreement that also includes a liscence to use the software.)
I don't quite get the point of your comment. Your tone is negative, but everything that you say seems to agree with the post you (I think) were responding to.
I believe [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm]this link[/url] may be of some use to you.
Piratbyrån's (the Pirate Bureau)'s servers were clearly marked with a Civil Protection order seal. It is illegal to take down political websites and other such servers in the EU. By ignoring that order the police conducting the raid violated International law. After a few of them lose their jobs over this, do you think they'll ever help the Antipiratbyrån again?
By specifically ordering the raid over the objections of the prosecuting attorneys and lawyers in Sweden (who have repeatedly told him that The Pirate Bay is legal, and if he doesn't like it he should take it up with the voters who do), the Swedish Minister of Law violated their country's seperation of powers section of their constitution. Very specifically, the government cannot interfere with the day to day operations of law inforcement -- their only legal ability is to change the laws, the police and prosecution have to enforce them. I'd be quite surprised if he manages to finish his current term in office, the Swedish media is already openly discussing this as being a gross violation of Swedish law.
Make no mistake, this was an unmitigated disaster for the MPAA. They just don't know it yet. In 2 days or less The Pirate Bay will be back up, more arrogant than ever. In addition the MPAA's Swedish shell organization, Antipiratbyrån, has lost what little support they had in Sweden over this -- indeed, the Pirate Party's membership has more than doubled in the two days since this happened. Even moreso since they have admitted during an interview that they know The Pirate Bay is legal, they know they'll be back, but their main intent was just to harrass them and try and silence Piratbyrån (a consumer advocacy group focused on reforming IP law in Europe and Sweden).
Heck, there are now more registered Pirates in Sweden than there are registered Feminists!
An unmitigated disaster for the MPAA. They just don't know it yet.
Nintendo has never sold a console at a loss, instead just deciding to intelligently design their consoles to be powerful enough to do what they want, without needing bleeding edge tech to knock the price out of the range of profitability.
The result is that going into this generation, Nintendo is the only profitable one out of the big three -- Sony and Microsoft both lose money every single quarter on their console devisions, Nintendo *makes* more money than Sony loses.
A year ago their Quarterly profit was down 80% but this year It has jumped 12.5%. Around the same time Nintedo had a drop in profit, Sony and MS were still running WELL into the red (last paragraph).
So, uh, yeah. Staying within their means has managed to keep Nintendo, dispite not being #1, nicely afloat and profitable, which is something the other two cannot say. I cannot imagine them doing anything different this time.
I'll tell you what -- I use a fairly excellent mobile device for my daily needs (it has basically replaced my need for a laptop and I rarely use my desktop). The biggest draw is that it has a full Qwerty keyboard that, while being very small, I can easily use to communicate easily.
I'd rather have Google doing this, than have a bunch of Russian Crackers doing it. At least Google won't through 60 or 70 popups, browser hijackers, trojans, etc on every single advertisment domain.
Although I have a few problems with DLink, I must point out that it was Belkin's routers that were redirecting HTTP requests to an advertisment page, not DLink.
Which is sad, since I've worked with a few Belkin routers lately and they really are quite nice pieces of machinery. The router a customer brought in had just about every tool you might ever want -- and a few I wouldn't even think of, for example, setting it up as a combination AP/Range Extender, or a bridge between two SSIDs.
One problem with it is as far as I can tell it plays a lot of dynamically generated movies of some sort. The result is that ffdshow creates an icon in the systray for each and every one. That means that when I close the game I have 50-60 of the things to mouse over (which causes Windows to realize the program's closed and destroy the icon).
Lack of Desktop space, ultimately. The G15 has 2 USB ports at the top of the keyboard, when I have a keyboard tray that can hold a Wacom Tablet, the G15, and the N52 all at once, I'll happily restore it.
Working for an ISP, I have to point out that we have better things to spend money on than a tech sitting at our email server making backups all day every day. Our mail server currently handles around 10,000 customers and if we were going to back it up, even once, we'd need to corner the market on backup tape casettes. And that's not even pointing out that it'd be near impossible to restore.
I like (HOPE) that we're a normal ISP in this reguard.
I have one of those Logitec G15 keyboards, as well as a Belkin Nostromo N52 (Which I no longer use). I am very concerned that Blizzard considers them a bannable offense. Only, they apparently don't. But they do. But...
Blizzard is infamous for refusing to give details about exactly WHAT you did wrong when they ban you. As you can see in the emails. "We looked, you're guilty." "of what?" "Being banned." "For?" "Being guilty". "Of?" "Being Banned." "Well, can you review it?" "Ok. You're still guilty." "Of what??" "Of Being Banned." "For..."
They're unfortunately just asking for a lawsuit in this matter, but... I guess 6 million customers paying $15 a month makes one feel they can get away with anything.
I suggest you call their headquarters directly. They will tell you to email them instead. Refuse. Be a huge pain in the ass, and don't accept being told to go away. They *are* accountable for disabling your account. Fortunately you are in Europe where their EULA holds MUCH less weight than in the US -- they can't write away your consumer rights, so fight for them!
Not exactly. Kos forced the other side to spend (some would say "waste") resources on "sure bet" areas, that suddenly were competitive in and in play. In this, which was his state goal, he succeeded admirably.
The "Kos endorses no one but losers" is a meme that comes from sites such as RedState and the like, and it used as political FUD to try and detract from pretty much any discussion about Kos -- even the supposedly liberal New York Times has ran hit pieces with this FUD in it.
The Democrats seem to feel that they can ignore 90% of the country, as long as they win the swing states. That any state that's "too red" is a lost cause and to give it up. Dean and Kos believe that tying up resources in these "too red" states is a way to make sure the Republicans can't flood "too blue" states with money to win elections.
Kos has proven, quite effectively, that even "lost causes" should be fought, tooth and nail. These rather unknown canidates were going up against very well known and well connected incumbants, with almost no help from the official Democrats, and still managed very strong showings. Not bad for a blogger, I have to say.
Back in the day, one of the worms was causing my ISP's Wireless network no end of trouble. While our wirless at the time had plenty of download bandwidth, upload bandwidth is always at a premium. Our solution was to simply immediately terminate the active connection whenever the text string was seen in a packet. It worked smashing, we had a log of whomever was infected, their upload bandwidth was curtailed, and in general it kept our network running yet another day.
The catch, of course, was it worked TOO well. It stopped the worm emails from coming in or out, but it also made it impossible to get the rest of your mail (as you could never get past that particular email, our server would kill the connection instantly), couldn't read any news websites (as they invariably had the text string on them as well), couldn't talk about the worm, etc.
I forget which worm it was (the I Love You one or Sasser, I think) but it was rather humourous. Worked great, though
In a way, I think that might be good. While you can argue the legality of modchips for the Xbox (and the fact that you can argue against it is a sad note on our country's laws), being arrested for buying a computer part that does the exact same thing as another computer part, but doesn't properly restrict your use, might just be the case we need to dismantle the DMCA.
All it's going to take is one person trying to watch a movie they've bought that they're not "entitled to" watch. Modchips might confuse some luddie judges, but "I was arrested because I bought the wrong digital VCR" won't.
I'll just wait till some pirates in Hong Kong find a way around it. Be it a hacked firmware, a hacked driver, or a modchip for my motherboard.
They swore up and down that [Insert random encryption here, be it the XBox's software key system, DeCSS, etc] would be uncrackable too. It'll happen, the system -- that is, the PC architecture -- is just too open for them to lock it down with any success.
...now we know Vista sales aren't going to flop too badly, since some of the top games will only run on it. I remember something similar with Windows 95, in which new games in 1995 were released exclusively for Windows 95.
Still, I wonder if the Vista requirement for Halo 2 is because of technologies only available in Vista, or because of an artificial requirement.
The difference is that there was an actual technological change between 3.1 and 95. Vista, not so much.
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What fight? At my old ISP we just limit problem users to 20-30 concurrent connections at a time. Any more and we disconnect the connections at random.
During normal use, there are two situations where a person would hit more than 20-30 connections:
1. Running P2P software that is SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to get past throttles (eMule)
(and 1b. Running poorly designed / configured P2P that is designed to create 300 - 500 connections at a time. Often related to 1a.)
and
2. They are infected with some form of virus and their system is going crazy.
Since we certainly don't support #2 and #1 causes our entire network's quality of service to go down, we have a responsibility to our other customers to prevent #1.
Best thing is, they reboot, do a speed test, speed test comes up well within acceptable range. They open uTorrent or eMule, they get 0 - 0.5k a second because the connections keep getting reset. "Oh? It's slow again? That's odd, lets do another speed test... please reboot..."
Encrypt it all you want. An ISP thinking ahead more than a few seconds doesn't have to packet sniff to throttle you.
So, is Linus going to go after them for this copyright infringement, or is he going to accept it and possibly see theownership and protections of Tux deminished?
Or is that whole "You have to go after every infraction or lose your IP" thing just a myth used by PR agents to justify labels suing grandmas?
Yes, and by learning seemingly stupid and trivial things like this, it ultimately will pave the way towards a greater understanding of the brain that will allow them to eventually figure out how and why those disorders affect people.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Confucius
"Oh, that's not WinFS. They just renamed NTFS2 to try and cover their asses and screw with people's heads. Fortunately we're all well informed here so we didn't fall for that one, eh guys? *nudge nudge*"
How hard is that?
Incorrect.
You do not click through a EULA, nor sign an agreement when you purchase a game. Thus, you are not bound by any form of "liscence." You own your copy of the game. Copyright law prevents you from doing certain things, but that's the same for any copyrighted work -- not just liscenced ones.
Please, lets not give Sony any victories they haven't earned here. No console games to date have been liscenced to their "owners". Sony would be treding dangerous new ground here if they tried it with the PS3.
(There are certain exceptions -- namely games with online components. These typically have you sign an agreement that also includes a liscence to use the software.)
And I believe this link may be of some use to me!
(In my defense, coffee is stil 2~5 minutes away.)
I believe [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm]this link[/url] may be of some use to you.
Piratbyrån's (the Pirate Bureau)'s servers were clearly marked with a Civil Protection order seal. It is illegal to take down political websites and other such servers in the EU. By ignoring that order the police conducting the raid violated International law. After a few of them lose their jobs over this, do you think they'll ever help the Antipiratbyrån again?
By specifically ordering the raid over the objections of the prosecuting attorneys and lawyers in Sweden (who have repeatedly told him that The Pirate Bay is legal, and if he doesn't like it he should take it up with the voters who do), the Swedish Minister of Law violated their country's seperation of powers section of their constitution. Very specifically, the government cannot interfere with the day to day operations of law inforcement -- their only legal ability is to change the laws, the police and prosecution have to enforce them. I'd be quite surprised if he manages to finish his current term in office, the Swedish media is already openly discussing this as being a gross violation of Swedish law.
Make no mistake, this was an unmitigated disaster for the MPAA. They just don't know it yet. In 2 days or less The Pirate Bay will be back up, more arrogant than ever. In addition the MPAA's Swedish shell organization, Antipiratbyrån, has lost what little support they had in Sweden over this -- indeed, the Pirate Party's membership has more than doubled in the two days since this happened. Even moreso since they have admitted during an interview that they know The Pirate Bay is legal, they know they'll be back, but their main intent was just to harrass them and try and silence Piratbyrån (a consumer advocacy group focused on reforming IP law in Europe and Sweden).
Heck, there are now more registered Pirates in Sweden than there are registered Feminists!
An unmitigated disaster for the MPAA. They just don't know it yet.
I must have messed up the link, but, the 12.5 comment was supposed to link here:
s s/financial_markets/14661930.htm
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/busine
Sorry about that.
Nintendo has never sold a console at a loss, instead just deciding to intelligently design their consoles to be powerful enough to do what they want, without needing bleeding edge tech to knock the price out of the range of profitability.
The result is that going into this generation, Nintendo is the only profitable one out of the big three -- Sony and Microsoft both lose money every single quarter on their console devisions, Nintendo *makes* more money than Sony loses.
A year ago their Quarterly profit was down 80% but this year It has jumped 12.5%. Around the same time Nintedo had a drop in profit, Sony and MS were still running WELL into the red (last paragraph).
So, uh, yeah. Staying within their means has managed to keep Nintendo, dispite not being #1, nicely afloat and profitable, which is something the other two cannot say. I cannot imagine them doing anything different this time.
I fixed your typographical error. The "Sony Does not Innovate" thing goes MUCH further back than just this month.
... not to be stupid, but... is Apple really working on a WINE-type thing for OSX?
Which mobile would that be? You have my interest.
I'd rather have Google doing this, than have a bunch of Russian Crackers doing it. At least Google won't through 60 or 70 popups, browser hijackers, trojans, etc on every single advertisment domain.
Although I have a few problems with DLink, I must point out that it was Belkin's routers that were redirecting HTTP requests to an advertisment page, not DLink.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/help_my_b
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/17402
Which is sad, since I've worked with a few Belkin routers lately and they really are quite nice pieces of machinery. The router a customer brought in had just about every tool you might ever want -- and a few I wouldn't even think of, for example, setting it up as a combination AP/Range Extender, or a bridge between two SSIDs.
One problem with it is as far as I can tell it plays a lot of dynamically generated movies of some sort. The result is that ffdshow creates an icon in the systray for each and every one. That means that when I close the game I have 50-60 of the things to mouse over (which causes Windows to realize the program's closed and destroy the icon).
Lack of Desktop space, ultimately. The G15 has 2 USB ports at the top of the keyboard, when I have a keyboard tray that can hold a Wacom Tablet, the G15, and the N52 all at once, I'll happily restore it.
Working for an ISP, I have to point out that we have better things to spend money on than a tech sitting at our email server making backups all day every day. Our mail server currently handles around 10,000 customers and if we were going to back it up, even once, we'd need to corner the market on backup tape casettes. And that's not even pointing out that it'd be near impossible to restore.
I like (HOPE) that we're a normal ISP in this reguard.
I have one of those Logitec G15 keyboards, as well as a Belkin Nostromo N52 (Which I no longer use). I am very concerned that Blizzard considers them a bannable offense. Only, they apparently don't. But they do. But...
Blizzard is infamous for refusing to give details about exactly WHAT you did wrong when they ban you. As you can see in the emails. "We looked, you're guilty." "of what?" "Being banned." "For?" "Being guilty". "Of?" "Being Banned." "Well, can you review it?" "Ok. You're still guilty." "Of what??" "Of Being Banned." "For..."
They're unfortunately just asking for a lawsuit in this matter, but... I guess 6 million customers paying $15 a month makes one feel they can get away with anything.
I suggest you call their headquarters directly. They will tell you to email them instead. Refuse. Be a huge pain in the ass, and don't accept being told to go away. They *are* accountable for disabling your account. Fortunately you are in Europe where their EULA holds MUCH less weight than in the US -- they can't write away your consumer rights, so fight for them!
Not exactly. Kos forced the other side to spend (some would say "waste") resources on "sure bet" areas, that suddenly were competitive in and in play. In this, which was his state goal, he succeeded admirably.
The "Kos endorses no one but losers" is a meme that comes from sites such as RedState and the like, and it used as political FUD to try and detract from pretty much any discussion about Kos -- even the supposedly liberal New York Times has ran hit pieces with this FUD in it.
The Democrats seem to feel that they can ignore 90% of the country, as long as they win the swing states. That any state that's "too red" is a lost cause and to give it up. Dean and Kos believe that tying up resources in these "too red" states is a way to make sure the Republicans can't flood "too blue" states with money to win elections.
Kos has proven, quite effectively, that even "lost causes" should be fought, tooth and nail. These rather unknown canidates were going up against very well known and well connected incumbants, with almost no help from the official Democrats, and still managed very strong showings. Not bad for a blogger, I have to say.
Back in the day, one of the worms was causing my ISP's Wireless network no end of trouble. While our wirless at the time had plenty of download bandwidth, upload bandwidth is always at a premium. Our solution was to simply immediately terminate the active connection whenever the text string was seen in a packet. It worked smashing, we had a log of whomever was infected, their upload bandwidth was curtailed, and in general it kept our network running yet another day.
The catch, of course, was it worked TOO well. It stopped the worm emails from coming in or out, but it also made it impossible to get the rest of your mail (as you could never get past that particular email, our server would kill the connection instantly), couldn't read any news websites (as they invariably had the text string on them as well), couldn't talk about the worm, etc.
I forget which worm it was (the I Love You one or Sasser, I think) but it was rather humourous. Worked great, though
No, we're spending close to $2000 so we can get more honorable kills in Arathi Basin. Duh. :)
In a way, I think that might be good. While you can argue the legality of modchips for the Xbox (and the fact that you can argue against it is a sad note on our country's laws), being arrested for buying a computer part that does the exact same thing as another computer part, but doesn't properly restrict your use, might just be the case we need to dismantle the DMCA.
All it's going to take is one person trying to watch a movie they've bought that they're not "entitled to" watch. Modchips might confuse some luddie judges, but "I was arrested because I bought the wrong digital VCR" won't.
I'll just wait till some pirates in Hong Kong find a way around it. Be it a hacked firmware, a hacked driver, or a modchip for my motherboard.
They swore up and down that [Insert random encryption here, be it the XBox's software key system, DeCSS, etc] would be uncrackable too. It'll happen, the system -- that is, the PC architecture -- is just too open for them to lock it down with any success.
The difference is that there was an actual technological change between 3.1 and 95. Vista, not so much.