All ISPs may be instructed to ensure that their subscribers using wireless devices must use effective authentication mechanisms
Note that it says "subscribers using wireless devices", not "subscribers using ISP-supplied wireless devices".
Clearly, they're implying that the ISP is responsible for everything that the subscriber connects. If you think about it, this is the only way the law would be effective - it makes no sense to force ISPs to provide secure wireless gear, when nobody else (retail stores, client's home-brew, etc.) would be required as well.
How do you force the customer to use RADIUS on *their own gear*?
A Scenario: ISP sells an internet account to a client. They go to the client's house, and ensure that the DSL modem is plugged directly into a computer.
Client later goes to buy a wireless NIC for their computer, and turns the computer into an open AP.
How exactly does RADIUS prevent this?
How is the ISP supposed to know about this?
How is the ISP supposed to monitor for it?
How is the ISP supposed to prevent it?
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You are not describing a technical manager, you are describing a *bad* manager.
Good managers will not get in your way, bad ones will. The only difference between technical and non-technical is the tools they use.
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com has address 74.125.19.147 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.19.103 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.19.99 www.l.google.com has address 74.125.19.104
they break with acceptable DNS behavior by sending you to their own advertising web server
Host www.ajvelkajslkjalkvjeasl.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Now, if you *want* them to screw with your DNS (and there are people who do, for various reasons), they'll happily do that. Yes it's the default behaviour, but it can be changed very easily. But making claims that they do it all the time (and implying that there's no way to have them not do it) just makes you look like an AFDB-wearing fool.
Copyright, unlike Trademark, remains in force even if not actively defended. The holder of the copyright could lay low forever, and only sue those who they want to sue.
Thank you for pointing that out - because none of the rest of the people here (with/.'ers being the sophisticated and mature people they are) would ever think of that.
What if we had a test to determine whether your son was going to be transsexual or homosexual?
<satire mode="neocon"> Don't be silly. Everyone knows that homosexuality is a choice. Having a test to see if a child will be homosexual or transsexual would be like having a test to see if they're going to have pancakes for breakfast on some random date in the future. It's completely absurd. </satire>
If the FBI writes a letter to an ISP to investigate possible criminal activity done by one of their customers through that ISP, it makes sense that the ISP shouldn't be allowed to tell the target they're being investigated.
No it doesn't - not even a little bit.
Now, if the FBI obtained a court-ordered *warrant* for an ISP to turn over information in regards to possible criminal activity, *then* it would make sense that the ISP shouldn't be allowed to tell the target they're being investigated (and I'm sure there's some mechanism that allows this.)
The critical difference of course, is judicial oversight. The FBI doesn't want to have to deal with warrants and their pesky inconveniences.
For future reference, unless a post of mine is indescribably brilliant, you should probably just assume it is supposed to have a winking smiley thing after it.
Maybe you should include a link to this post in your.sig, just so everyone won't have an excuse.:)
Could someone appropriately knowledgeable perhaps post a detailed account of how incredibly hackable RFID security is? A couple of URL's leading to websites with all the red meat would also be appropriate.
Communities where maintainers know each other by nothing else than email can easily be infiltrated by "hostile" talent.
What, precisely, does this have to do with the Debian OpenSSH fiasco?
The Debian fubar was caused because the person responsible for packaging OpenSSH didn't have a clue about security, not because he was "hostile".
If you want a real example of "hostile" code, one need only look at the Interbase backdoor, where a backdoor was included in every version shipped for 7 years. (Oh, whoops - that was commercial software, not open source, so it kinda defeats your argument, doens't it?)
You'll be SOL, but your family can sue the manufacturer and be set for life. If this happens enough, producers who don't label their products will be forced out of business, and the ones who did label properly will prosper - the free market solves all of the world's problems!
So some people will die in the meantime - that's the price of a healthy economy! Only leftist pinko-commie-terrists-democrats would think that human life outweighs the benefits of a Free Market.
My favourite was spelling "millennium" to someone over the phone, who kept asking "minellium?"
M as in Moron, I as in idiot, L as in lackwit, L as in lackwit, E as in stupid, N as in numbskull, N as in numbskull, I as in idiot, U as in utterly stupid, M as in moron.
a real estate agent who came into the court and was upset that her case, and arrest, for DUI was posted online on the court schedule. Demands were made that this information not be published because the person was worried about how it would affect their reputation. I honestly dont think it ever occured to them to avoid the actual driving while intoxicated to avoid that damaged reputation
Ahh, so the fact that she was arrested means that she was automatically guilty of the offense?
If so, why do you have criminal courts at all? Seems to me that you could make the process much more efficient if you just had the arresting officers assign the penalties on the spot.
In Canada (the country I live, and the one mentioned in TFA), people are assumed innocent until they're proven guilty in court. We find that it's *much* more fair, because people (including police officers) are capable of making mistakes.
Just out of curiosity, where do you live? I'd like to remember never to go there.
1. Reply, pointing out that their standard form letter is full of lies and half-truths (maybe point out a few of them.)
2. Send copies of the letter to the NDP and Liberal candidates in your riding (or the head of their parties if you don't know who they are.)
3. BE VERY BLUNT AND LET HARPER KNOW YOU'RE CC'ING THE OTHERS.
The third part is the most important - it makes it much harder for him to ignore you if other people who want his job are aware they have something to attack him with.
Running Slackware 12, with FF 2, and it works for me.. I watch a lot of youtube - it's never been a problem.
Interestingly, FF on my fedora box at work will hang randomly when I leave a flash site (especially Youtube) - it doesn't appear to be dependent upon the video or site, because I can re-visit the same one and have no problems.
I'd say it's a distro problem, not a flash problem.
(is there nothing that the Simpsons don't have an appropriate quote for?)
Scientology and abortion.
Scientology because Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart) is a die-hard scientologist, and (if you believe the rumors) has threatened to quit if they poke fun at it. The closest they got was "The Joy of Sect" (wherein most of Springfield joins a cult.)
Don't know the reason behind the abortion stance. Maybe because it's too hard to joke about tastefully.
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on their site the cheapest option is $80... with a SD card and dvd thrown in but again no source code download available...
It didn't occur to you that the source code of the GPl'ed components could be on the DVD or SD card?
What on earth makes you think that they have to provide downloads of their software?
The quote is this:
All ISPs may be instructed to ensure that their subscribers using wireless devices must use effective authentication mechanisms
Note that it says "subscribers using wireless devices", not "subscribers using ISP-supplied wireless devices".
Clearly, they're implying that the ISP is responsible for everything that the subscriber connects. If you think about it, this is the only way the law would be effective - it makes no sense to force ISPs to provide secure wireless gear, when nobody else (retail stores, client's home-brew, etc.) would be required as well.
How do you force the customer to use RADIUS on *their own gear*?
A Scenario: ISP sells an internet account to a client. They go to the client's house, and ensure that the DSL modem is plugged directly into a computer.
Client later goes to buy a wireless NIC for their computer, and turns the computer into an open AP.
How exactly does RADIUS prevent this?
How is the ISP supposed to know about this?
How is the ISP supposed to monitor for it?
How is the ISP supposed to prevent it?
You are not describing a technical manager, you are describing a *bad* manager.
Good managers will not get in your way, bad ones will. The only difference between technical and non-technical is the tools they use.
Don't judge me. Everybody experiments in college.
It's troubling how many people will blindly recommend OpenDNS without understanding the huge problems with that service.
What's even more troubling is people who don't understand something continually spout off about it. Case in point:
they redirect all your Google queries through their own servers
Umm, no, they don't:
they break with acceptable DNS behavior by sending you to their own advertising web server
Again, nope.
Now, if you *want* them to screw with your DNS (and there are people who do, for various reasons), they'll happily do that. Yes it's the default behaviour, but it can be changed very easily. But making claims that they do it all the time (and implying that there's no way to have them not do it) just makes you look like an AFDB-wearing fool.
Copyright, unlike Trademark, remains in force even if not actively defended. The holder of the copyright could lay low forever, and only sue those who they want to sue.
I think you need to do some reading on the doctrine of laches.
He said Spank.
You know, like, masturbation.
Thank you for pointing that out - because none of the rest of the people here (with /.'ers being the sophisticated and mature people they are) would ever think of that.
What if we had a test to determine whether your son was going to be transsexual or homosexual?
<satire mode="neocon">
Don't be silly. Everyone knows that homosexuality is a choice. Having a test to see if a child will be homosexual or transsexual would be like having a test to see if they're going to have pancakes for breakfast on some random date in the future. It's completely absurd.
</satire>
If the FBI writes a letter to an ISP to investigate possible criminal activity done by one of their customers through that ISP, it makes sense that the ISP shouldn't be allowed to tell the target they're being investigated.
No it doesn't - not even a little bit.
Now, if the FBI obtained a court-ordered *warrant* for an ISP to turn over information in regards to possible criminal activity, *then* it would make sense that the ISP shouldn't be allowed to tell the target they're being investigated (and I'm sure there's some mechanism that allows this.)
The critical difference of course, is judicial oversight. The FBI doesn't want to have to deal with warrants and their pesky inconveniences.
For future reference, unless a post of mine is indescribably brilliant, you should probably just assume it is supposed to have a winking smiley thing after it.
Maybe you should include a link to this post in your .sig, just so everyone won't have an excuse. :)
Could someone appropriately knowledgeable perhaps post a detailed account of how incredibly hackable RFID security is? A couple of URL's leading to websites with all the red meat would also be appropriate.
You mean something like this, or this?
Judge: I rule in favour of the defence.
Tell that to Tim Jung, Ross Combs and Rob Crittenden. I'm sure they'll be relieved to hear it.
the general course of action is to complain to the CRTC and then get the CRTC to fuck Telus up pretty good.
Unfortunately, the CRTC won't do anything for cell service.
This is why the cell companies continue to get away with the "system access fee" and other such BS.
a brown lawn doesn't exactly conceal your identity last I checked.
And last time I checked, a license plate doesn't hold your identity.
Your drivers license holds your identity. Your license plate just says that the car is licensed to be on the public roadways.
Communities where maintainers know each other by nothing else than email can easily be infiltrated by "hostile" talent.
What, precisely, does this have to do with the Debian OpenSSH fiasco?
The Debian fubar was caused because the person responsible for packaging OpenSSH didn't have a clue about security, not because he was "hostile".
If you want a real example of "hostile" code, one need only look at the Interbase backdoor, where a backdoor was included in every version shipped for 7 years. (Oh, whoops - that was commercial software, not open source, so it kinda defeats your argument, doens't it?)
How do you know for a fact that Unix (based OSs) won't be able to cut it in 30 years?
Maybe he's John Titor. :)
eats it and gets sick/dies, guess I'm just SOL?
You'll be SOL, but your family can sue the manufacturer and be set for life. If this happens enough, producers who don't label their products will be forced out of business, and the ones who did label properly will prosper - the free market solves all of the world's problems!
So some people will die in the meantime - that's the price of a healthy economy! Only leftist pinko-commie-terrists-democrats would think that human life outweighs the benefits of a Free Market.
Why do you hate America?
My favourite was spelling "millennium" to someone over the phone, who kept asking "minellium?"
M as in Moron, I as in idiot, L as in lackwit, L as in lackwit, E as in stupid, N as in numbskull, N as in numbskull, I as in idiot, U as in utterly stupid, M as in moron.
She didn't clue in to the "E". :)
a real estate agent who came into the court and was upset that her case, and arrest, for DUI was posted online on the court schedule. Demands were made that this information not be published because the person was worried about how it would affect their reputation. I honestly dont think it ever occured to them to avoid the actual driving while intoxicated to avoid that damaged reputation
Ahh, so the fact that she was arrested means that she was automatically guilty of the offense?
If so, why do you have criminal courts at all? Seems to me that you could make the process much more efficient if you just had the arresting officers assign the penalties on the spot.
In Canada (the country I live, and the one mentioned in TFA), people are assumed innocent until they're proven guilty in court. We find that it's *much* more fair, because people (including police officers) are capable of making mistakes.
Just out of curiosity, where do you live? I'd like to remember never to go there.
Is it true that there are only black and white in a dog's eyesight?
No, dogs can see various shades of yellow red, purple and blue
Three critical steps:
1. Reply, pointing out that their standard form letter is full of lies and half-truths (maybe point out a few of them.)
2. Send copies of the letter to the NDP and Liberal candidates in your riding (or the head of their parties if you don't know who they are.)
3. BE VERY BLUNT AND LET HARPER KNOW YOU'RE CC'ING THE OTHERS.
The third part is the most important - it makes it much harder for him to ignore you if other people who want his job are aware they have something to attack him with.
Running Slackware 12, with FF 2, and it works for me.. I watch a lot of youtube - it's never been a problem.
Interestingly, FF on my fedora box at work will hang randomly when I leave a flash site (especially Youtube) - it doesn't appear to be dependent upon the video or site, because I can re-visit the same one and have no problems.
I'd say it's a distro problem, not a flash problem.
What kind of sniper misses, and doesn't take a second shot?
Umm, the kind that had only one bullet? :)
(is there nothing that the Simpsons don't have an appropriate quote for?)
Scientology and abortion.
Scientology because Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart) is a die-hard scientologist, and (if you believe the rumors) has threatened to quit if they poke fun at it. The closest they got was "The Joy of Sect" (wherein most of Springfield joins a cult.)
Don't know the reason behind the abortion stance. Maybe because it's too hard to joke about tastefully.