One more reason to (a) use fake names everywhere except your bank accounts and, (b) use a password safe application like KeePassX or LastPass to save unique passwords for every site you visit. This will minimize your exposure when something like this happens again at another site.
I've found magnetic tapes to be the MOST reliable *EVER*:) to coin a meme... They can be restored quite easily if you have the hardware lying about, they never seem to lose their bits.
I've personally restored tapes from about 1976, from an old Altair-8800 I used to own. This was a home-brew tape cassette storage system that I made and it just used two tone Frequency Shift Keying (FSK). 1200/2400 hz for 1 and 0 at 2400 bps.
I could easily read this into the audio port of my PC and write a program to decode it in the digital domain, get back the bits and run it on an emulator.
I copied some magnetic audio cassettes (old music) into MP3 recently. No problems. I discarded all my 8-track (audio) tapes from the 70's. They probably would still be OK today.
I also have some paper tape from the same time, an old debug/monitor for 8080 and Microsoft 4K-BASIC.
CD-R is completely UNRELIABLE. I tried to copy some data off several CD-R that I burned only about 7 years ago. It was an unsuccessful mess. There were many errors and unreadable data, I had to write code to skip past bad data on trying to restore from CD, etc. most restore software just stops and barfs when it hits any error (grr!! why?)
I like LastPass too, but I think I will probably switch away from it and move to KeePassX even though I think that LastPass is slicker and better integrated with the browser than KeePassX is. I haven't used it for a while so maybe the situation has improved here.
The fear I have is that LastPass will go away, just like many other good web services that can't find a good business model and just disappear. I am currently also using Xmarks (previously FoxMarks) for syncing bookmarks across 3 Browsers and 4 laptops with dual-booting 2 different OSes. This has worked wonders. But Xmarks could not make money, and is going away in January. Instead of open-sourcing it all, they are just going away. All I can do is a final sync and export my bookmarks now, for importing into del.licio.us (is that how you spell it?) not nearly as good as Xmarks will ever be. I suppose I could run my own Xmarks server ( I think it's possible).
Anyways, I fear LastPass might die one day. Better to stick with an open source solution now.
I'm beginning to think that the Suduko puzzles printed in the newspaper will actually turn out to be encrypted text sent between parties in small printable blocks.. the entire text won't be available for several more years.
There's probably some dastardly plan in there somewhere:)
I've watched my wife surfing in the past, and when *anything* popped-up she clicked ok; I freaked one time as she clicked 4 pop-ups out of the way before I could cross the room. I gave her a lecture about spyware, malware, etc. and she was all open-eyed and "OMG, really?" and now she calls me whenever something pops up on her screen.
The point is, many, many people are not computer savvy and regularly just accept the pop-up, click it to get rid of the "annoyance factor", and get on with whatever they were trying to do.
This kind of stuff catches a lot of people, and the creators know it.
A practical device would be an external standalone box about the size of a network hub, each one having 1 cable connection, 4 tuners and 4 hardware DV or MPEG-4 compressors, hooked to the main PC via Firewire-800. (FW-400 would actually be close but sufficient for 4 MPEG or DV compressed streams)
Plug 1 or more of these boxes into your PC, preferably each one on separate firewire controller cards, to get as much streaming video into your box as you need.
Use 1 box at home, 4 at the dorm for your video-on-demand server.
The phishers are now trying to trick you into believing it's real using this same technique. Today I received a phishing email supposedly from eBay. It was sent to my hotmail address and had at the top "Dear username" where username was my hotmail user without the "@hotmail.com" part. Under that line it said in fine print "this email includes your username to prove that it came from eBay " paraphrasing something like that (I've already deleted it so I can't go back and check the exact wording).
However, the username listed was my hotmail username, not my eBay username. The phishers could not link my random email address from a spam list to my eBay username, so they tried to trick me into believing it by just repeating my hotmail username in the message too, and claiming it is proof that it comes from eBay. That might be enough to trick some people some of the time. Some people might use the same username at eBay and hotmail too. It's not a good idea to do that, but still, some people might do this.
The rest of the email looked genuine and went on as usual to tell me my account was blocked because of possible fraudulent activity and of course contained the obligatory link to "fix" my "blocked" eBay account.
These are getting really hard for the average user to tell the good from the bad. As one poster said, just assume it's all fake and check for yourself on the host.
Wow. what a total waste of net bandwidth. I don't listen to podcasts, but I expected it would be hosted on a server, not emailed to your account. I mean "pod-cast" derives from "broadcast" which is not point-to-point. (ok, I know hosting it on a server using today's technology is still not true broadcast and is point-to-point still, but at least it's upon the listener to actively go get it, and it's not just shot into your email box)
I can see it now, hundreds of megabytes of podcasts being emailed around the net only to be deleted because they are not interesting now or the receiver is not interested anymore.
Do they actually do this? I don't own a gmail account (someone invite me, please, so I can experience it first hand:) )
I'd hate to think that google is searching my email to find out about me, just so they can target me for spam^h^h^h^h advertising. If that's true, I'll pass on the invites I just asked for!
Also, I thought that night-side lights were supposed to be visible.
I suspect that the exposure time (or digital aperture) was very short for these pictures. Notice that there are no stars in the image, either. No stars and no nightside ground lighting. If they held the camera's aperture open long enough to collect starlight and ground lights from the dark side of the earth, then the lit side of the earth would likely be a solid white light.
I doubt that google actually owns the images, but they may in fact own *some* of them.. I know that my house is in pretty good detail and looks like it was actually taken with an airplane mapping service rather than satellite. It's very recent too... the new driveway I completed last year is online.
So they may own the photos they actually paid a mapping service to take for them. I note that the neighbor's house 2 doors down from me is limited resolution and obviously is from a satellite image.
Now, notwithstanding all I've said above, Google does indeed own the *compilation* and *presentation* of the images. That clearly falls under copyright law, even if they don't actually own the individual images.
I guess my question is, how much new cable is actually being laid in rural America?
From my personal experience, zero feet.
4 years ago I moved from an apartment in the city, where both DSL and broadband cable was available, to my house in the rural, unincorporated part, about 10 minutes away. I'm actually about 10 minutes away from TWO cities, both of which have DSL and cable access. The local provider, Verizon, has been telling me for 4 years that they will notify me when DSL is available here, and Comcast has not laid any TV cable either. I've been using a satellite dish for TV entertainment and wifi (802.11) on my rooftop with line-of-site to a provider in the city.
Aren't the telcos much more focused on putting up cell towers and selling much more profitable wireless plans?
Yep. In those same 4 years, wireless service has improved here, more vendors have come into the market and they've been agressively marketing wireless internet plans to us.
It looks like the state isn't pressing criminal charges
This is good news. The DA has realized there is nothing criminal going on (or perhaps just not enough evidence of something criminal going on).
As for the second action, unfortunately for Mr. Salzenberg, you can be sued for anything in the USA, and when you are sued, you do have to defend yourself at your own cost. You can often get those costs awarded back to you if you ultimately prevail in court. In this case, if Mr. Salzenberg's computer equipment is currently being imaged in a civil discovery, he'll have nothing to worry about if he's done nothing wrong. However, I think the timing of the events will hurt him and make his defense more difficult. There will likely still be company data on his computers, only because merely 1 day had passed after his converstation with the CEO before his house was raided; He had no time to dutifully erase his hard drive if he was already resigned or terminated after his CEO conversation (backdated resignation notwithstanding)
Ok, there are many guilds out there already, but I mean perhaps we should band together somehow, pay dues/insurance fees specifically designed to create an insurance fund to protect us in our times of need against these software malpractice suits.
Furthermore, this whole thread is bogus because torrent sites were not even a target of this investigation. According to the FA it was about cracking down on specific release groups, not torrent hosts or trackers.
Probably not. I used to work for TIBCO, which had at that time a market data distribution system (i.e. middleware) that redistributed Reuters data. The Reuters data came directly from the trading floors. The NYSE didn't use Reuters data, they sold it to Reuters, who then re-sold it to their customers (who often used TIBCO software to get it to their in-house trading floors).
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One more reason to (a) use fake names everywhere except your bank accounts and, (b) use a password safe application like KeePassX or LastPass to save unique passwords for every site you visit.
This will minimize your exposure when something like this happens again at another site.
I've found magnetic tapes to be the MOST reliable *EVER* :) to coin a meme... They can be restored quite easily if you have the hardware lying about, they never seem to lose their bits.
I've personally restored tapes from about 1976, from an old Altair-8800 I used to own. This was a home-brew tape cassette storage system that I made and it just used two tone Frequency Shift Keying (FSK). 1200/2400 hz for 1 and 0 at 2400 bps.
I could easily read this into the audio port of my PC and write a program to decode it in the digital domain, get back the bits and run it on an emulator.
I copied some magnetic audio cassettes (old music) into MP3 recently. No problems. I discarded all my 8-track (audio) tapes from the 70's. They probably would still be OK today.
I also have some paper tape from the same time, an old debug/monitor for 8080 and Microsoft 4K-BASIC.
CD-R is completely UNRELIABLE. I tried to copy some data off several CD-R that I burned only about 7 years ago.
It was an unsuccessful mess. There were many errors and unreadable data, I had to write code to skip past bad data on trying to restore from CD, etc.
most restore software just stops and barfs when it hits any error (grr!! why?)
I like LastPass too, but I think I will probably switch away from it and move to KeePassX even though I think that LastPass is slicker and better integrated with the browser than KeePassX is. I haven't used it for a while so maybe the situation has improved here.
The fear I have is that LastPass will go away, just like many other good web services that can't find a good business model and just disappear. I am currently also using Xmarks (previously FoxMarks) for syncing bookmarks across 3 Browsers and 4 laptops with dual-booting 2 different OSes. This has worked wonders. But Xmarks could not make money, and is going away in January. Instead of open-sourcing it all, they are just going away. All I can do is a final sync and export my bookmarks now, for importing into del.licio.us (is that how you spell it?) not nearly as good as Xmarks will ever be. I suppose I could run my own Xmarks server ( I think it's possible).
Anyways, I fear LastPass might die one day. Better to stick with an open source solution now.
If you're Russian you have to slow down and let the Irish scan you. These things take time, for God's sake.
I'm beginning to think that the Suduko puzzles printed in the newspaper will actually turn out to be encrypted text sent between parties in small printable blocks.. the entire text won't be available for several more years.
:)
There's probably some dastardly plan in there somewhere
It's true.. I have experience with this iocane poison...
I've watched my wife surfing in the past, and when *anything* popped-up she clicked ok; I freaked one time as she clicked 4 pop-ups out of the way before I could cross the room. I gave her a lecture about spyware, malware, etc. and she was all open-eyed and "OMG, really?" and now she calls me whenever something pops up on her screen.
The point is, many, many people are not computer savvy and regularly just accept the pop-up, click it to get rid of the "annoyance factor", and get on with whatever they were trying to do.
This kind of stuff catches a lot of people, and the creators know it.
can't wait till this is p0wned !
A practical device would be an external standalone box about the size of a network hub, each one having 1 cable connection, 4 tuners and 4 hardware DV or MPEG-4 compressors, hooked to the main PC via Firewire-800. (FW-400 would actually be close but sufficient for 4 MPEG or DV compressed streams)
Plug 1 or more of these boxes into your PC, preferably each one on separate firewire controller cards, to get as much streaming video into your box as you need.
Use 1 box at home, 4 at the dorm for your video-on-demand server.
Cheers!
The phishers are now trying to trick you into believing it's real using this same technique. Today I received a phishing email supposedly from eBay. It was sent to my hotmail address and had at the top "Dear username" where username was my hotmail user without the "@hotmail.com" part. Under that line it said in fine print "this email includes your username to prove that it came from eBay " paraphrasing something like that (I've already deleted it so I can't go back and check the exact wording).
However, the username listed was my hotmail username, not my eBay username. The phishers could not link my random email address from a spam list to my eBay username, so they tried to trick me into believing it by just repeating my hotmail username in the message too, and claiming it is proof that it comes from eBay. That might be enough to trick some people some of the time. Some people might use the same username at eBay and hotmail too. It's not a good idea to do that, but still, some people might do this.
The rest of the email looked genuine and went on as usual to tell me my account was blocked because of possible fraudulent activity and of course contained the obligatory link to "fix" my "blocked" eBay account.
These are getting really hard for the average user to tell the good from the bad. As one poster said, just assume it's all fake and check for yourself on the host.
yeah exactly like that.. start with that code base and replace libgmail with lib30gmail and I'm done .. thanks! :)
Wow. what a total waste of net bandwidth. I don't listen to podcasts, but I expected it would be hosted on a server, not emailed to your account. I mean "pod-cast" derives from "broadcast" which is not point-to-point. (ok, I know hosting it on a server using today's technology is still not true broadcast and is point-to-point still, but at least it's upon the listener to actively go get it, and it's not just shot into your email box)
I can see it now, hundreds of megabytes of podcasts being emailed around the net only to be deleted because they are not interesting now or the receiver is not interested anymore.
ok, someone invite me to this and I'll start work on an open source webdrive for it
-- Cheers!
Do they actually do this? I don't own a gmail account (someone invite me, please, so I can experience it first hand :) )
I'd hate to think that google is searching my email to find out about me, just so they can target me for spam^h^h^h^h advertising. If that's true, I'll pass on the invites I just asked for!
I doubt that google actually owns the images, but they may in fact own *some* of them.. I know that my house is in pretty good detail and looks like it was actually taken with an airplane mapping service rather than satellite. It's very recent too... the new driveway I completed last year is online.
So they may own the photos they actually paid a mapping service to take for them. I note that the neighbor's house 2 doors down from me is limited resolution and obviously is from a satellite image.
Now, notwithstanding all I've said above, Google does indeed own the *compilation* and *presentation* of the images. That clearly falls under copyright law, even if they don't actually own the individual images.
From my personal experience, zero feet.
4 years ago I moved from an apartment in the city, where both DSL and broadband cable was available, to my house in the rural, unincorporated part, about 10 minutes away. I'm actually about 10 minutes away from TWO cities, both of which have DSL and cable access. The local provider, Verizon, has been telling me for 4 years that they will notify me when DSL is available here, and Comcast has not laid any TV cable either. I've been using a satellite dish for TV entertainment and wifi (802.11) on my rooftop with line-of-site to a provider in the city.
Yep. In those same 4 years, wireless service has improved here, more vendors have come into the market and they've been agressively marketing wireless internet plans to us.
Yep. We (US residents) have been paying this for years already. It's not funded by the Telcos. It's directly paid for each month by you and me.
This is good news. The DA has realized there is nothing criminal going on (or perhaps just not enough evidence of something criminal going on).
As for the second action, unfortunately for Mr. Salzenberg, you can be sued for anything in the USA, and when you are sued, you do have to defend yourself at your own cost. You can often get those costs awarded back to you if you ultimately prevail in court. In this case, if Mr. Salzenberg's computer equipment is currently being imaged in a civil discovery, he'll have nothing to worry about if he's done nothing wrong. However, I think the timing of the events will hurt him and make his defense more difficult. There will likely still be company data on his computers, only because merely 1 day had passed after his converstation with the CEO before his house was raided; He had no time to dutifully erase his hard drive if he was already resigned or terminated after his CEO conversation (backdated resignation notwithstanding)
Ok, there are many guilds out there already, but I mean perhaps we should band together somehow, pay dues/insurance fees specifically designed to create an insurance fund to protect us in our times of need against these software malpractice suits.
Mod the AC parent down.. Canada is on the list.
Furthermore, this whole thread is bogus because torrent sites were not even a target of this investigation. According to the FA it was about cracking down on specific release groups, not torrent hosts or trackers.
Probably not. I used to work for TIBCO, which had at that time a market data distribution system (i.e. middleware) that redistributed Reuters data. The Reuters data came directly from the trading floors. The NYSE didn't use Reuters data, they sold it to Reuters, who then re-sold it to their customers (who often used TIBCO software to get it to their in-house trading floors).
Yes, I stand corrected. I have the 12x18 Intuos. It feels big, anyways, which was my point, really.
It's not so bad being confined to the tablet. My Wacom mouse pad is about 18" x 18". That's pretty close to your 2'x2' square.
I bought one of the bigger ones because I wanted the resolution for my wife's freelance graphics work.
The pen is pretty awesome to use in a graphics program, it's incredible how much more freedom you have with it instead of the mouse.