There are more things at stake here for Sweden.
This article is well worth the read (english translation via google can be found here
Basically it says that Sweden has no choice. Even if The Pirate Bay is found not guilty, the laws will be changed and they will then go on trial again and loose, or alternatively Sweden will be thrown out of international trade agreements such as the WTO. The latter is not really a choice.
Personally I think TPB is wrong and I hope they loose. They have gone too far and they are risking a lot for an entire country. IMHO, it should not be up to them to endanger Sweden's membership in the WTO, amongst other things.
If they Swedish media did a better job at highlighting this and the consequences for Sweden as a country, maybe people would stop supporting TPB.
I mean, if you're going to claim that something runs on X because you put Y into it and you get Y from X, then you might as well extend it back as far as possible.
Morons.
... in this case it makes complete sense because driving behind one of them smells like shit!
QA? What QA? That game was released as a festering pile of dungheap barely deserving the name alpha quality. It is patently obvious it is another AoC in the making.
I completely agree. I played the game at release and the only way I could play it on my system was with a mod (the one that reduced the graphics updating when spellcasting I believe, can't remember exactly), which a later update rendered useless, at which point I stopped playing.
I find it amusing that someone can develop a small mod which doesnt change the looks of the game at all, but allows you to play it on virtually any system, whereas the developers cannot implement this functionality themselves but instead release an update that break a mod that thousands of people (looking at download numbers on curse gaming) require in order to play it.
It's on the register at least
I do hope it hits mainstream media like the BBC, checked it just now but no mention of it.
Makes me remember the quote that was posted in this thread:
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation" - quote from Mein Kampf.....
Seriously though, do they actually believe that pedophiles are sitting and watching that one image on wikipedia?
...which by the way, you can find quite easily if you just make a search on google. Yet another example of something dumb that affects people who have nothing to do with child pornography, and does absolutely nothing for people that are interested in it.
I just got back from living in Japan not too long ago. Over there, we got 100 mbps up AND down for about ~$40/month. Near the end of my stay there, I got a letter from my ISP stating that they're going to start implementing a bandwidth cap, and that no user can upload 500gb/month, but downloading is still unlimited.
This year, I read on Slashdot that AU/KDDI is unrolling a 1gbps line for a similarly cheap price.
If you want my sympathy for ISPs in America, get back to me when I get even one tenth of the service I got in Japan. I'd like to extend a big middle finger of gratitude to all American ISPs. No one is spouting the gloom and doom over in Asia, and meanwhile, they're shooting ahead into the future of the internet. Asia's been rolling out fibre-optics, at great cost to them, but with spectacular results. Conversely, we sit on our asses and wonder how we can charge more money to more users to put them through the same amount of pipes without upgrading infrastructure.
I have 100MBit full-duplex for $30 a month, and this is standard pricing where I live (in Europe). There is a gigabit fiberlink going into our building (apartment building with 24 apartments) and from there it's cat 6 going to each apartment.
This was the cost of getting it...
About $1500 for getting the fiber into the building (one time cost including the router). In fact, I had a choice of two different providers and there is four separate fibercables in the road outside my apartment block. It was put there when the roads were dug up for changing some pipes. After the waterpipes were changed, any company that wanted to lay down fiber along the road was allowed to do so, four companies put it there, out of which two companies were selling fiber connections to consumers. The companies paid nothing for digging up the road and the work took two days longer due to the fibers being put down. This is standard for any roadworks and has been for quite some time, which is the main reason for the wide spread of fiber in the cities here.
Some equipment was installed in the basement, from there, a cable was pulled to each apartment. The cost for this was $200 / apartment.
So, total cost per apartment was about $275.
Then, the company that we got the fiber from sells 100/100 subscriptions for just under $30/month. The only thing with this company, as opposed to the other company, was that the initial cost was lower but in return you have to get the internet connection via them (three year contract). After the three years have passed, you can "get out" of the contract with them but keep the fiber for an additional $1000. If this is done you can then freely choose you ISP, and the cost currently, for the cheapest provider, is $19 for a 100/100 connection.
For this apartment block we were paying $150 a year as a base-fee to our cable provider (per apartment). Since TV channels can be gotten via the fiber, at a lower cost then what the cable company charges for the same channels, the $275 was weighted against the $150 a year we now don't have to pay (this is how I got even the "old" people to agree to the fiber installation). Two years, even if you don't have an internet subscription, and it's a good dael. Finally, you can also use this for VoIP, $5 / month if you want a subscription where you get a phone number and free calls to any phone in the entire country (mobiles excluded).
I can add that the other provider wanted $5000 for getting the fiber in to the building, so the difference was $3500. Over three years it was about the same (may even have worked out cheaper depending on the subscriptions you choose), but I felt it was easier to convince people in the apartment block to get the fiber in to the building if I could keep the initial cost to a minimum.
So, I can simply not understand why some countries are having such a hard time rolling out fiber connections. There are roadworks all the time, since roadworks are handled by some central government function (gen
It then attempts to steal sensitive information for the following online games:
* ZhengTu
* Wanmi Shijie or Perfect World
* Dekaron Siwan Mojie
* HuangYi Online
* Rexue Jianghu
* ROHAN
* Seal Online
* Maple Story
* R2 (Reign of Revolution)
* Talesweaver
Oh noes, now how will the astronauts be able to play their Japanese MMO's?
I think we should send this virus to aliens, imagine how l33t their characters must be, having alien technology and all.
I will "pew pew" pwn all you n00bs once I get those accounts!
Even astronauts are not smart enough to maintain and repair their computers.
Honestly though, Why the hell dont the laptops have anti virus software? if they are going to run a OS that is targeted by the bulk of viruses out there then it's dumb to send it up without AV software installed.
There is no reason for a email/nutritional PC to not run AV.
AV on astronaut laptops, are you crazy?
What we need to do is send this virus to aliens!
... yea, or you can RTFA and reach the following conclusion.
Demo:
(BEWARE: If you click on the demo link, your clipboard is automatically hijacked and will only be released if the browser window is closed).
Exploit:
From TFA
My clipboard has been hijacked with this:
[ malicious URL deleted ]
And once it's in the clipboard, I can't copy anything else over it until I've restarted the machine.
Who needs last.fm? A dictionary attack involving every song released by the RIAA in the last decade would run into (at a wild guess) a few million. Hashing those into a dictionary would take a few days or perhaps weeks, and once done, would not have to be done again. My bet would be on about a month before the first distributions of song hash tables by a bunch of bored kids who know how to use md5sum and bash scripting.
So dictionary attacks with a few million possibilities? This "security" development is worse than the use of real, un-obfuscated dictionary words.
A few MILLION???? Havent you heard all the music lately, it all sounds the same... take a hash of one Britney Spears song and you just got them all... and NO, I will _not_ leave Britney alone.
when you run a virus scanner, you let symantec et. al. decide what is dangerous - I love the fuss people are making about this, as if it's a new idea to disable programs on your computer.
You choose to run the virus scanner, you choose which company to run it from or you could just as well choose not to run a virus scanner. And, if you are a person that does not want a virus scanner, should you have to pay for one, like you will have to do with the traffic charges for the iPhone?
The freedom of choice, that is what Apple is taking away from you... I am not saying the service is a bad idea, I am saying its a bad idea to run it without saying you are running it, and without saying why you are running it, and that people have to pay traffic charges to check that list without knowing they are doing so or without maybe even wanting to do so.
Who decides what's dangerous? Are pirated apps going to be deemed dangerous? If you bypass certain security measures, is that dangerous? I don't like control being taken away from me (where "me" in this case is any end-user).
Even if the intent is to only blacklist malware, does apple have a research lab to determine whats malicious and what isnt? Will they tell us how they decide on malware? What if you release an app that is infected with malware, the app is still legit whereas the malware part of the code is not. What happen if that app gets blacklisted, can it be revoked? If the iPhone contacts a webpage every now and then, will apple pay the bill for the connection?
I don't like this, at the moment I don't like it because they did it without saying they are doing it. Going forward, they should say what they intend to block and give the enduser and option of either using the "service" or not... especially since the end-user is the one paying the bill for the datatransfer, the amount of money is imho completely irrelevant.
To me, this brings up a few questions, and maybe someone with a bit of knowledge about italian law can help me here.
1) How was this allowed to happen, what law was used here? I mean, they can't shut down access to a website because they don't like it (and with they I am referring to the Italian government). If they simply shut it down without applying a valid law then what is stopping them from shutting down access to, for example, cnn.com, if they don't like the content?
2) Had TPB been sued in Italy? I would assume that anyone should be given a fair chance to defend themselves, and if Italy feels TPB is breaking Italian laws, then they should sue them. I understand shutting down access to the site while the lawsuit is going on, and it is very likely TPB won't go to the Italian courts, but at least if it was done this way TPB would be given the option of defending themselves.
3) Stopping access to sites without the backing of a law simply has to be wrong, so if I am right in my assumtion that TPB has not been sued, any person should be able to sue the government / ISPs no?
Honestly, why do service providers in the west still use SMS as a messaging service?
I'm in Japan and we use actual Email addresses for messaging and you only get charged normal packet fees (the same price for packets as you pay for browsing the web).
I think I answered my own question: money
I think there are a lot more reasons for using SMS then money.
1) You can find phonenumbers quite easily in the phonebook, the same cannot be said about email addresses. Furthermore, not everyone adds email addresses under the contacts, but it is likely they do add the phonenumbers.
2) Not everyone has, or is willing to spend the money to get, a phone that is capable of sending and receiving emails.
3) Not everyone has a clue on how to get email to their phone configured, even in the unlikely case they have an email account that they are able to sync to the phone.
4) They might not want data fees added to their phone contracts.
5) Inside the EU, SMS generally cost either nothing or next to nothing to send, and I would like to see the day an operator wants to charge for receiving an SMS.
I'm sure there are more reasons but these are the ones I can think of straight away.
I say find a few goldfarmers, buy lots and lots of WoW gold and then resell it to pay for your internet connection.
To find them, look for people with names like "dksfjskldg" or "agcfbgjr".
They will be either quite tall with pointy ears, or really short with a silly voice. Make sure to bring lots of ice, and if they start shooting at you or if they run towards you really quickly with a big sword, make sure to cover yourself with the ice you brought.
But watch out... due to the heat the ice will melt in like 10 seconds!
From TFA: The Transition® is a roadable Light-Sport Aircraft that will be able to land at the airport, fold up its wings, and drive on the road.
So, it's not like you can lift off and land wherever you want, it just happens to be one vehicle that can be both a plane and a car.
To be honest, after reading the terrafugia webpage, it doesn't look at all like it's being targetted to the general audience, it's simply a proof-of-concept thing.
250Gb isn't that bad at all. There are some ISP's in the UK that have limits of as little as 1Gb a month.
Although most do have limits higher than that, they're rarely more than about 30Gb a month, if even that.
The few that have no caps (like Virgin) tend to throttle the fuck out of your bandwidth at peak times.
It's all a joke, really. Luckily I live near an exchange with some decent ISP's that don't have monthly caps, but it's only a matter of time I suppose. I knew the UK was quite bad, been reading about BT and all the great things they've done in order to prevent the spread of high-speed internet, but 1 - 30gigs sounds horrible.
Anyways, the issue with comcast isn't really the cap, I mean, the vast majority won't care if the DL cap is 250gigs, the only thing is, they shouldn't advertise it as unlimited if they have a cap.
However, they haven't put the cap in effect yet which means that it is unlimited right now, and if they do put it there they should inform their users and stop marketing it as unlimited.
I don't have any feeling for comcast, good or bad, since they don't exist in the country I live in. I have been reading about their throttling though and I understand it's one of the companies you are "supposed" to hate, but I don't really see what they have done wrong so far in regards to this cap. I mean, it may just be an unsubstantiated rumor, or it may be that they won't call it unlimited and any *new* user gets the cap.
can't we have networks of different positioning system? such as global cell phone networks
When I was on holiday in India a few years back, the mobile would say the streetname of the street I was on. Found this quite interesting. Later found out that taxi-companies sometimes use mobile networks to see where the cars are. So, it already (sort of) exists, although I am unsure how accurate it is.
Then of course, if you'd like to launch missiles using mobile navigation, it may suck a bit if you loose reception:)
Lots of slashdotters bitch about tags. But today, tags are your friend. Today, I'm looking for the tags omgponies and aprilfools to know if stories are hoaxes, and !omgponies and !aprilfools to know if they are real.
I think you are miss-reading the tags, !aprilfools = _not_ aprilfools, and since this story was posted around 9PM ET yesterday (by AP, you can find the link to yahoo I posted below), I really doubt this is a joke.
Slashdot Mirror
There are more things at stake here for Sweden. This article is well worth the read (english translation via google can be found here
Basically it says that Sweden has no choice. Even if The Pirate Bay is found not guilty, the laws will be changed and they will then go on trial again and loose, or alternatively Sweden will be thrown out of international trade agreements such as the WTO. The latter is not really a choice.
Personally I think TPB is wrong and I hope they loose. They have gone too far and they are risking a lot for an entire country. IMHO, it should not be up to them to endanger Sweden's membership in the WTO, amongst other things.
If they Swedish media did a better job at highlighting this and the consequences for Sweden as a country, maybe people would stop supporting TPB.
I completely agree. I played the game at release and the only way I could play it on my system was with a mod (the one that reduced the graphics updating when spellcasting I believe, can't remember exactly), which a later update rendered useless, at which point I stopped playing.
I find it amusing that someone can develop a small mod which doesnt change the looks of the game at all, but allows you to play it on virtually any system, whereas the developers cannot implement this functionality themselves but instead release an update that break a mod that thousands of people (looking at download numbers on curse gaming) require in order to play it.
It's on the register at least
...which by the way, you can find quite easily if you just make a search on google. Yet another example of something dumb that affects people who have nothing to do with child pornography, and does absolutely nothing for people that are interested in it.
I do hope it hits mainstream media like the BBC, checked it just now but no mention of it.
Makes me remember the quote that was posted in this thread:
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation" - quote from Mein Kampf.....
Seriously though, do they actually believe that pedophiles are sitting and watching that one image on wikipedia?
I have 100MBit full-duplex for $30 a month, and this is standard pricing where I live (in Europe). There is a gigabit fiberlink going into our building (apartment building with 24 apartments) and from there it's cat 6 going to each apartment.
This was the cost of getting it...
About $1500 for getting the fiber into the building (one time cost including the router). In fact, I had a choice of two different providers and there is four separate fibercables in the road outside my apartment block. It was put there when the roads were dug up for changing some pipes. After the waterpipes were changed, any company that wanted to lay down fiber along the road was allowed to do so, four companies put it there, out of which two companies were selling fiber connections to consumers. The companies paid nothing for digging up the road and the work took two days longer due to the fibers being put down. This is standard for any roadworks and has been for quite some time, which is the main reason for the wide spread of fiber in the cities here.
Some equipment was installed in the basement, from there, a cable was pulled to each apartment. The cost for this was $200 / apartment. So, total cost per apartment was about $275.
Then, the company that we got the fiber from sells 100/100 subscriptions for just under $30/month. The only thing with this company, as opposed to the other company, was that the initial cost was lower but in return you have to get the internet connection via them (three year contract). After the three years have passed, you can "get out" of the contract with them but keep the fiber for an additional $1000. If this is done you can then freely choose you ISP, and the cost currently, for the cheapest provider, is $19 for a 100/100 connection. For this apartment block we were paying $150 a year as a base-fee to our cable provider (per apartment). Since TV channels can be gotten via the fiber, at a lower cost then what the cable company charges for the same channels, the $275 was weighted against the $150 a year we now don't have to pay (this is how I got even the "old" people to agree to the fiber installation). Two years, even if you don't have an internet subscription, and it's a good dael. Finally, you can also use this for VoIP, $5 / month if you want a subscription where you get a phone number and free calls to any phone in the entire country (mobiles excluded).
I can add that the other provider wanted $5000 for getting the fiber in to the building, so the difference was $3500. Over three years it was about the same (may even have worked out cheaper depending on the subscriptions you choose), but I felt it was easier to convince people in the apartment block to get the fiber in to the building if I could keep the initial cost to a minimum.
So, I can simply not understand why some countries are having such a hard time rolling out fiber connections. There are roadworks all the time, since roadworks are handled by some central government function (gen
From Symantec's site:
It then attempts to steal sensitive information for the following online games:
* ZhengTu * Wanmi Shijie or Perfect World * Dekaron Siwan Mojie * HuangYi Online * Rexue Jianghu * ROHAN * Seal Online * Maple Story * R2 (Reign of Revolution) * Talesweaver
Oh noes, now how will the astronauts be able to play their Japanese MMO's?
I think we should send this virus to aliens, imagine how l33t their characters must be, having alien technology and all.
I will "pew pew" pwn all you n00bs once I get those accounts!
That they need IT staff on the ISS.
Even astronauts are not smart enough to maintain and repair their computers.
Honestly though, Why the hell dont the laptops have anti virus software? if they are going to run a OS that is targeted by the bulk of viruses out there then it's dumb to send it up without AV software installed.
There is no reason for a email/nutritional PC to not run AV.
AV on astronaut laptops, are you crazy?
What we need to do is send this virus to aliens!
Didn't you learn _anything_ from Independece Day?
One for business One for friends One for women Doesn't everyone have three phones?
You can talk to women AND post on slashdot?
... yea, or you can RTFA and reach the following conclusion.
Demo:
(BEWARE: If you click on the demo link, your clipboard is automatically hijacked and will only be released if the browser window is closed).
Exploit:
From TFA
My clipboard has been hijacked with this:
[ malicious URL deleted ]
And once it's in the clipboard, I can't copy anything else over it until I've restarted the machine.
So basically, real exploit != demo exploit.
Dell's Subnotebook To Ship With Ubuntu
I don't know why, maybe its the lack of coffee, but I actually chuckled when I read that.
You may be more right then you think
A Duke Nukem Forever article posted on slashdot, has this ever happened before ?
;)
Results 1 - 10 of about 852 from slashdot.org for duke nukem forever.
Lets hope the game actually gets released before we have to read another 800+ articles about it
Yes, with something shiny costing at least $10,000, preferably with a cup holder for the Starbucks Latte.
... but you need Apple's permission to put the Latte there.
Who needs last.fm? A dictionary attack involving every song released by the RIAA in the last decade would run into (at a wild guess) a few million. Hashing those into a dictionary would take a few days or perhaps weeks, and once done, would not have to be done again. My bet would be on about a month before the first distributions of song hash tables by a bunch of bored kids who know how to use md5sum and bash scripting.
So dictionary attacks with a few million possibilities? This "security" development is worse than the use of real, un-obfuscated dictionary words.
A few MILLION???? Havent you heard all the music lately, it all sounds the same... take a hash of one Britney Spears song and you just got them all... and NO, I will _not_ leave Britney alone.
when you run a virus scanner, you let symantec et. al. decide what is dangerous - I love the fuss people are making about this, as if it's a new idea to disable programs on your computer.
You choose to run the virus scanner, you choose which company to run it from or you could just as well choose not to run a virus scanner. And, if you are a person that does not want a virus scanner, should you have to pay for one, like you will have to do with the traffic charges for the iPhone?
The freedom of choice, that is what Apple is taking away from you... I am not saying the service is a bad idea, I am saying its a bad idea to run it without saying you are running it, and without saying why you are running it, and that people have to pay traffic charges to check that list without knowing they are doing so or without maybe even wanting to do so.
Shouldn't be used unless it's deemed "dangerous".
Who decides what's dangerous? Are pirated apps going to be deemed dangerous? If you bypass certain security measures, is that dangerous? I don't like control being taken away from me (where "me" in this case is any end-user).
Even if the intent is to only blacklist malware, does apple have a research lab to determine whats malicious and what isnt? Will they tell us how they decide on malware? What if you release an app that is infected with malware, the app is still legit whereas the malware part of the code is not. What happen if that app gets blacklisted, can it be revoked? If the iPhone contacts a webpage every now and then, will apple pay the bill for the connection?
I don't like this, at the moment I don't like it because they did it without saying they are doing it. Going forward, they should say what they intend to block and give the enduser and option of either using the "service" or not... especially since the end-user is the one paying the bill for the datatransfer, the amount of money is imho completely irrelevant.
To me, this brings up a few questions, and maybe someone with a bit of knowledge about italian law can help me here.
1) How was this allowed to happen, what law was used here? I mean, they can't shut down access to a website because they don't like it (and with they I am referring to the Italian government). If they simply shut it down without applying a valid law then what is stopping them from shutting down access to, for example, cnn.com, if they don't like the content?
2) Had TPB been sued in Italy? I would assume that anyone should be given a fair chance to defend themselves, and if Italy feels TPB is breaking Italian laws, then they should sue them. I understand shutting down access to the site while the lawsuit is going on, and it is very likely TPB won't go to the Italian courts, but at least if it was done this way TPB would be given the option of defending themselves.
3) Stopping access to sites without the backing of a law simply has to be wrong, so if I am right in my assumtion that TPB has not been sued, any person should be able to sue the government / ISPs no?
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3) PROFIT!
Honestly, why do service providers in the west still use SMS as a messaging service? I'm in Japan and we use actual Email addresses for messaging and you only get charged normal packet fees (the same price for packets as you pay for browsing the web).
I think I answered my own question: money
I think there are a lot more reasons for using SMS then money.
1) You can find phonenumbers quite easily in the phonebook, the same cannot be said about email addresses. Furthermore, not everyone adds email addresses under the contacts, but it is likely they do add the phonenumbers.
2) Not everyone has, or is willing to spend the money to get, a phone that is capable of sending and receiving emails.
3) Not everyone has a clue on how to get email to their phone configured, even in the unlikely case they have an email account that they are able to sync to the phone.
4) They might not want data fees added to their phone contracts.
5) Inside the EU, SMS generally cost either nothing or next to nothing to send, and I would like to see the day an operator wants to charge for receiving an SMS.
I'm sure there are more reasons but these are the ones I can think of straight away.
I say find a few goldfarmers, buy lots and lots of WoW gold and then resell it to pay for your internet connection.
To find them, look for people with names like "dksfjskldg" or "agcfbgjr".
They will be either quite tall with pointy ears, or really short with a silly voice. Make sure to bring lots of ice, and if they start shooting at you or if they run towards you really quickly with a big sword, make sure to cover yourself with the ice you brought.
But watch out... due to the heat the ice will melt in like 10 seconds!
From TFA: The Transition® is a roadable Light-Sport Aircraft that will be able to land at the airport, fold up its wings, and drive on the road.
So, it's not like you can lift off and land wherever you want, it just happens to be one vehicle that can be both a plane and a car.
To be honest, after reading the terrafugia webpage, it doesn't look at all like it's being targetted to the general audience, it's simply a proof-of-concept thing.
Anyways, the issue with comcast isn't really the cap, I mean, the vast majority won't care if the DL cap is 250gigs, the only thing is, they shouldn't advertise it as unlimited if they have a cap.
However, they haven't put the cap in effect yet which means that it is unlimited right now, and if they do put it there they should inform their users and stop marketing it as unlimited.
I don't have any feeling for comcast, good or bad, since they don't exist in the country I live in. I have been reading about their throttling though and I understand it's one of the companies you are "supposed" to hate, but I don't really see what they have done wrong so far in regards to this cap. I mean, it may just be an unsubstantiated rumor, or it may be that they won't call it unlimited and any *new* user gets the cap.
Then of course, if you'd like to launch missiles using mobile navigation, it may suck a bit if you loose reception
meh, need edit on /. ... just read your post again and my reply was just stupid, still tired, need more coffee :(