Have a rotating sequence of acceptable knocks. This way any sniffing doesn't know that the same knock won't work next time. Further screw them up by having repeats in your rotation so a dedicated sniffer sees a repeat and think the rotation is complete. Knock1, Knock2, Knock3, Knock1, Knock4... Knock(n) The client knows all the knock sequences and tries them in order with some reasonable time separation. Sniffer doesn't know which one opened the ports (random time to open ports from successful knock ex 1-20 seconds) and if he repeats, knock may or may not work. As others have suggested will work fine as part of multi-layered system.
The commercials load into a computer's temporary memory, and only when a page is idle.
This says nothing about how it treats other oftware accessing the internet. What if my email client is downloading a large attachment. What if I am using an FTP client or BitTorrent is running. I don't imagine that they are going to bother checking that... thus those items get screwed up.
The ads run on Windows Media Player software, which an estimated 8 of 10 Internet users have on their computers.
And Linux users do what? How recent a version of Medai player is required? If I have old hardware and don't upgrade Media player because it is a total CPU hog, now I can't browse potentially important information
> And yet you get the mommy-types bitching > about it promoting laziness
Before going on about this... try riding one around for a while. While recently in Dijon, France on business, I had the opportunity to ride a Segway (rented by the Tourism office for 12 euro for a 45 minute tour) I've heard people go on and on about laziness... as you tend to have your legs somewhat bent at all times to absord energy coming on and off curbs, I found that while I can walk for more than a couple hours at a time without thinking much about it... after a mere 45 minutes on a Segway, my legs were tiring.
My $0.02... course those are Euro cents for the purpose of this post, and thus worth a hair more.
When the average person typed fuckgeneralmotors.com and Ford's website popped up, they would have assumed that the domain name was registered by Ford, and hence, that Ford supported the use of profanity.
Seriously though, if someone types in "FuckGeneralMotors.com" Could they themselves seriously be all that against profanity? Furthermore, if Ford want to do anything about it, just change all links off the main page to include www.ford.com, so unless 2600 is deep-linking, then nobody ever sees the FUCK stuff except on the main page. Further, if they bothered, they could have simply set-up virtual hosting on that machine and choose to display whatever they want when a request comes in for that particular domain name.
Perhaps they shouldn't have to go to these measures, but it would be faster, cheaper and simpler to just take care of business than to whine about it.
I'm not 100% sure but couldn't one guarantee they couuld beat this by writing a new set of CDRom drivers. Have an optional setting that makes your CDRom "act" like a CD Player?
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Have a rotating sequence of acceptable knocks. ... Knock(n)
This way any sniffing doesn't know that the same knock won't work next time.
Further screw them up by having repeats in your rotation so a dedicated sniffer sees a repeat and think the rotation is complete.
Knock1, Knock2, Knock3, Knock1, Knock4
The client knows all the knock sequences and tries them in order with some reasonable time separation.
Sniffer doesn't know which one opened the ports (random time to open ports from successful knock ex 1-20 seconds) and if he repeats, knock may or may not work.
As others have suggested will work fine as part of multi-layered system.
This says nothing about how it treats other oftware accessing the internet. What if my email client is downloading a large attachment. What if I am using an FTP client or BitTorrent is running. I don't imagine that they are going to bother checking that
And Linux users do what? How recent a version of Medai player is required? If I have old hardware and don't upgrade Media player because it is a total CPU hog, now I can't browse potentially important information
With Mozilla I got the same ... but when I opened it up in IE 6.0 it hogged all resources.
> And yet you get the mommy-types bitching
... try riding one around for a while. While recently in Dijon, France on business, I had the opportunity to ride a Segway (rented by the Tourism office for 12 euro for a 45 minute tour) I've heard people go on and on about laziness ... as you tend to have your legs somewhat bent at all times to absord energy coming on and off curbs, I found that while I can walk for more than a couple hours at a time without thinking much about it ... after a mere 45 minutes on a Segway, my legs were tiring.
... course those are Euro cents for the purpose of this post, and thus worth a hair more.
> about it promoting laziness
Before going on about this
My $0.02
Seriously though, if someone types in "FuckGeneralMotors.com" Could they themselves seriously be all that against profanity? Furthermore, if Ford want to do anything about it, just change all links off the main page to include www.ford.com, so unless 2600 is deep-linking, then nobody ever sees the FUCK stuff except on the main page. Further, if they bothered, they could have simply set-up virtual hosting on that machine and choose to display whatever they want when a request comes in for that particular domain name.
Perhaps they shouldn't have to go to these measures, but it would be faster, cheaper and simpler to just take care of business than to whine about it.
My $0.02
I'm not 100% sure but couldn't one guarantee they couuld beat this by writing a new set of CDRom drivers. Have an optional setting that makes your CDRom "act" like a CD Player?