Send this guy an email from "president@whitehouse.gov". In the message body, tell him who it's really from, and explain that if you can spoof an important address that easily, so can a worm.
Unless you're using some really amazing audio hardware, I wouldn't bother. Most any equipment you'd want to hook up to your PC will not be able to give the full dynamic range of the 16-bit signal, much less the HDCD audio. Most sound cards you use won't be able to either, and that includes ones with SPDIF output. Not to mention, once you encode to Ogg or MP3, all that extra quality goes out the window.
Ripping tools may be desirable when they start putting "exclusive content" on the HDCD layer only, or start making them without the compatibility layer, but there's nothing like that in the pipe, so far as I know.
It may not be illegal, but it's undoubtedly immoral, and I think we should be emailing Amazon asking them to terminate their affiliate accounts. I know I will.
The current internet was designed to be decentralized, with no specific backbone required; routers would figure out what paths to send what packets over. Scaling-wise, it's been pretty successful. Redundancy-wise, it is less than so. A bad route typically doesn't result in a smooth transfer to another link unless a lot of work has been done to assure it would happen; instead, packets are dropped and communications are badly disrupted.
I had a perfect example of that happen to my current ISP; after getting terrible communications errors, I called them. Turns out one of three of their routes was out; they reset a router, and everything was copacetic. But the other two routes should have been able to handle the traffic. They didn't.
With the advent of IP6, the structure of the net becomes even more convoluted, and errors may become even more difficult to handle. In order to have a nice, stable internet, a system of handling broken routes needs to be integrated into the new spec.
I'm sorry, but I won't say "GNU/Linux". It's so much simpler to just say "Linux".
I also won't say "GNU/Emacs", or "GNU/Hurd". "Emacs" and "Hurd" are quite specific, the FSF deserves some credit, but there's no need to proclaim it every time one of their creations is mentioned.
RMS may be annoyed that Linus's namesake has taken the spotlight and GNU is practically unknown to the general public. But trying to complicate naming conventions is only going to bring him grief.
No, you won't need a technician to dabble inside your old TV to get the new HDTV signals. You'll be able to get a set-top box that will output composite and S-video signals, no problem.
The DRM freaks aren't as worried about people pirating NTSC signals as they are the HDTV native signals themselves. I'm likely to have more problems hooking my old analog HDTV monitor up to the new signals than anyone with a standard TV.
I may be opening a social club in the not-so-near future. Among the various plans in getting the place up and running, one of the things I'm concerned about is the audio.
I could go the conventional route and just hang a bunch of Peaveys around the place, but I'm also considering using a big subwoofer under the stage and mid/high speakers on the walls and hung from the ceiling instead. I think this might give better audio quality as well as being easier to do -- not to mention safer, wouldn't want those big speakers falling down.
Does anyone have recommendations on such a setup? Are there any subwoofer speakers available that can handle a large space?
> The only thing that did help was to increase the > amount of protein in my diet and (ironically) > reducing the carbohydrates.
Nothing ironic about it. Atkins' books explain the effect pretty well.
People like you (and me) have a defect in the insulin receptors on our fat cells. Eat carbs, and your body produces insulin normally -- but the receptors don't get the message very well, and the sugars aren't absorbed. Your blood sugar rises, prompting the secretion of even more insulin. Finally, you've digested and stored all the sugars -- but there's still insulin left in your system. So the cells keep absorbing sugars, converting them into lipids, causing your blood sugar to swing abnormally low.
I suppose you haven't given much thought to the practicality behind this. Others have.
First off, spam typically comes with a spoofed email address. If you try mailbombing that email, you will probably only be overloading some poor uninvolved ISP's mail server.
Secondly, you might think of DoS/DDoSing the originating IP of that email. Blow the spammer off the net before he can get more emails out. Lately, however, spammers have been spoofing message headers, mostly to avoid filters; but this also makes automatic originating IP determination problematic. Trust me, you don't want your auto-1337-DDoS engine bombarding an IP that turns out to be whitehouse.gov.
Third, an attack on the sites the spammer is advertising is potentially practical. You wouldn't want to do this through an automated system, though. AFter the trick's been used for a while, I would expect spammers to add hidden incorrect phone numbers and URLs in a way designed to be picked up by automated systems. Again, hammering http://www.navy.mil might not be the brightest thing to do.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant annoyance in general, not just to the card issuers. They did bear the burden of expense, though.
And you're right; Mastivisa might decide not to cancel the old card numbers. Still, considering the banks would have to bear most of the burden of any false charges, they will probably do so.
If you'd read the article through, you would've seen that the merchant account was never credited with the $300K-plus authorized. The main worry is that now the criminals have a large number of valid card numbers; but all those numbers are on record and can be canceled, and new numbers issued. Transactions using those numbers can be traced.
Admittedly the incident caused a lot of annoyance and no small expense for card issuers, and there are ways security could be improved, but in the end, the hack didn't cause a disaster.
After expressing interest in two sites, I received this email response: From: Ross Elder To: 'John Hoffman' Subject: RE: Sites of interest Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:44:03 -0400
Please note that the message posted yesterday on Slash Dot is incorrect. American Tower Corporation has only a limited number of Surplus towers for sale that can be accessed by clicking "Sites For Sale" on our home page. These are the only towers that are for sale. Please also note that these Surplus sites are sold on a strictly "as is-where is", all cash basis.
If the site you are inquiring about is not on the "Sites For Sale" list, then it is not for sale.
If you are interested in a Surplus site, please contact me via email.
If you are having difficulty accessing our website, please try again later as we were experiencing technical difficulties earlier today.
Thanks,
Ross Elder Senior VP/Development American Tower Corporation
You've got a very capable little machine there. There are all sorts of other doodads you could use on that for different decorating plans. Having several of these, each running 3D screensavers, around your living room would be quite striking.
Any (IMO) "trusted" security system can be broken, given sufficient resources and access to the hardware. Palladium looks like it'd take the resources of a major nation to crack.
It's a nice idea... Unfortunately, optical mice do all their processing onboard. They don't send any raw data to the PC. I also doubt any use flash memory, and so are capable of a firmware upgrade; and even if they were, it's unlikely they'd have sufficient space to be able to handle both tasks. I suppose the right firmware could make the mouse simply dump raw data upstream and let your PC do the decoding, but that'd also make it incompatible with regular mouse drivers.
Sony is producing audio players that, in addition to standard CDs, also play super-high-quality audio etched onto a second layer on the disc. These discs are also backwards-compatible with standard CDs and also contain audio in the 44 KHz/18 bit/stereo format we all know and love. The discs are watermarked in hardware and no one can play the high-quality audio without the watermark.
Meanwhile, the MP3 file traders are passing around audio files encoded at 192kbps or less, notably inferior to the standard audio still encoded on these discs.
So what's the reason for the new format? Does Sony plan on taking over the entire CD media, discontinuing the standard media layer and distributing SACD-only discs? I doubt they could manage it. Even if they did, the super-high-quality audio output, in analog, can still be resampled and MPEG'd.
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Send this guy an email from "president@whitehouse.gov". In the message body, tell him who it's really from, and explain that if you can spoof an important address that easily, so can a worm.
Unless you're using some really amazing audio hardware, I wouldn't bother. Most any equipment you'd want to hook up to your PC will not be able to give the full dynamic range of the 16-bit signal, much less the HDCD audio. Most sound cards you use won't be able to either, and that includes ones with SPDIF output. Not to mention, once you encode to Ogg or MP3, all that extra quality goes out the window.
Ripping tools may be desirable when they start putting "exclusive content" on the HDCD layer only, or start making them without the compatibility layer, but there's nothing like that in the pipe, so far as I know.
Well, Iliad has weighed in on the subject...
Your name wouldn't happen to be Meadow Soprano, would it?
When you said PC-card, I thought it might be PCMCIA.
:-)
Now THAT would be a fun card to stick into my HP 200LX.
Just FYI, here's Walmart's page on Lindows OS PCs.
It may not be illegal, but it's undoubtedly immoral, and I think we should be emailing Amazon asking them to terminate their affiliate accounts. I know I will.
The current internet was designed to be decentralized, with no specific backbone required; routers would figure out what paths to send what packets over. Scaling-wise, it's been pretty successful. Redundancy-wise, it is less than so. A bad route typically doesn't result in a smooth transfer to another link unless a lot of work has been done to assure it would happen; instead, packets are dropped and communications are badly disrupted.
I had a perfect example of that happen to my current ISP; after getting terrible communications errors, I called them. Turns out one of three of their routes was out; they reset a router, and everything was copacetic. But the other two routes should have been able to handle the traffic. They didn't.
With the advent of IP6, the structure of the net becomes even more convoluted, and errors may become even more difficult to handle. In order to have a nice, stable internet, a system of handling broken routes needs to be integrated into the new spec.
I'm sorry, but I won't say "GNU/Linux". It's so much simpler to just say "Linux".
I also won't say "GNU/Emacs", or "GNU/Hurd". "Emacs" and "Hurd" are quite specific, the FSF deserves some credit, but there's no need to proclaim it every time one of their creations is mentioned.
RMS may be annoyed that Linus's namesake has taken the spotlight and GNU is practically unknown to the general public. But trying to complicate naming conventions is only going to bring him grief.
No, you won't need a technician to dabble inside your old TV to get the new HDTV signals. You'll be able to get a set-top box that will output composite and S-video signals, no problem.
The DRM freaks aren't as worried about people pirating NTSC signals as they are the HDTV native signals themselves. I'm likely to have more problems hooking my old analog HDTV monitor up to the new signals than anyone with a standard TV.
I may be opening a social club in the not-so-near future. Among the various plans in getting the place up and running, one of the things I'm concerned about is the audio.
I could go the conventional route and just hang a bunch of Peaveys around the place, but I'm also considering using a big subwoofer under the stage and mid/high speakers on the walls and hung from the ceiling instead. I think this might give better audio quality as well as being easier to do -- not to mention safer, wouldn't want those big speakers falling down.
Does anyone have recommendations on such a setup? Are there any subwoofer speakers available that can handle a large space?
> The only thing that did help was to increase the
> amount of protein in my diet and (ironically)
> reducing the carbohydrates.
Nothing ironic about it. Atkins' books explain the effect pretty well.
People like you (and me) have a defect in the insulin receptors on our fat cells. Eat carbs, and your body produces insulin normally -- but the receptors don't get the message very well, and the sugars aren't absorbed. Your blood sugar rises, prompting the secretion of even more insulin. Finally, you've digested and stored all the sugars -- but there's still insulin left in your system. So the cells keep absorbing sugars, converting them into lipids, causing your blood sugar to swing abnormally low.
I suppose you haven't given much thought to the practicality behind this. Others have.
First off, spam typically comes with a spoofed email address. If you try mailbombing that email, you will probably only be overloading some poor uninvolved ISP's mail server.
Secondly, you might think of DoS/DDoSing the originating IP of that email. Blow the spammer off the net before he can get more emails out. Lately, however, spammers have been spoofing message headers, mostly to avoid filters; but this also makes automatic originating IP determination problematic. Trust me, you don't want your auto-1337-DDoS engine bombarding an IP that turns out to be whitehouse.gov.
Third, an attack on the sites the spammer is advertising is potentially practical. You wouldn't want to do this through an automated system, though. AFter the trick's been used for a while, I would expect spammers to add hidden incorrect phone numbers and URLs in a way designed to be picked up by automated systems. Again, hammering http://www.navy.mil might not be the brightest thing to do.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant annoyance in general, not just to the card issuers. They did bear the burden of expense, though.
And you're right; Mastivisa might decide not to cancel the old card numbers. Still, considering the banks would have to bear most of the burden of any false charges, they will probably do so.
If you'd read the article through, you would've seen that the merchant account was never credited with the $300K-plus authorized. The main worry is that now the criminals have a large number of valid card numbers; but all those numbers are on record and can be canceled, and new numbers issued. Transactions using those numbers can be traced.
Admittedly the incident caused a lot of annoyance and no small expense for card issuers, and there are ways security could be improved, but in the end, the hack didn't cause a disaster.
http://www.riaa.org/pdf/SummJudgmentMotion.PDF
Pages 47 and on refer to a reference by Kleinrock. So far as I can tell, this reference is not available on the RIAA's site.
In that case, it's a ground lease. They will assign the lease to you on purchase.
After expressing interest in two sites, I received this email response:
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From: Ross Elder
To: 'John Hoffman'
Subject: RE: Sites of interest
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:44:03 -0400
Please note that the message posted yesterday on Slash Dot is incorrect.
American Tower Corporation has only a limited number of Surplus towers for
sale that can be accessed by clicking "Sites For Sale" on our home page.
These are the only towers that are for sale. Please also note that these
Surplus sites are sold on a strictly "as is-where is", all cash basis.
If the site you are inquiring about is not on the "Sites For Sale" list,
then it is not for sale.
If you are interested in a Surplus site, please contact me via email.
If you are having difficulty accessing our website, please try again later
as we were experiencing technical difficulties earlier today.
Thanks,
Ross Elder
Senior VP/Development
American Tower Corporation
The actual list of available sites can be downloaded at:
http://www.americantower.com/acweb/ATCSDMAREP02/P
Now Saddam Hussein can run his nuclear bomb simulations without having to violate US export laws.
You've got a very capable little machine there. There are all sorts of other doodads you could use on that for different decorating plans. Having several of these, each running 3D screensavers, around your living room would be quite striking.
SHAD0W's Law of determining the outcome of a Magic game:
The winner will be the person with the most disposable income.
You've made a good point.
Any (IMO) "trusted" security system can be broken, given sufficient resources and access to the hardware. Palladium looks like it'd take the resources of a major nation to crack.
Umm... China is a major nation, y'know.
...Has already been developed.
It's a nice idea... Unfortunately, optical mice do all their processing onboard. They don't send any raw data to the PC. I also doubt any use flash memory, and so are capable of a firmware upgrade; and even if they were, it's unlikely they'd have sufficient space to be able to handle both tasks. I suppose the right firmware could make the mouse simply dump raw data upstream and let your PC do the decoding, but that'd also make it incompatible with regular mouse drivers.
Sony is producing audio players that, in addition to standard CDs, also play super-high-quality audio etched onto a second layer on the disc. These discs are also backwards-compatible with standard CDs and also contain audio in the 44 KHz/18 bit/stereo format we all know and love. The discs are watermarked in hardware and no one can play the high-quality audio without the watermark.
Meanwhile, the MP3 file traders are passing around audio files encoded at 192kbps or less, notably inferior to the standard audio still encoded on these discs.
So what's the reason for the new format? Does Sony plan on taking over the entire CD media, discontinuing the standard media layer and distributing SACD-only discs? I doubt they could manage it. Even if they did, the super-high-quality audio output, in analog, can still be resampled and MPEG'd.
So what's the big deal?