So I assume i pissed off a youtube troll because all 1900+ videos in my channel were flagged for copyright. I promptly removed all of the videos flagged.. well that's a lie, I unlisted them, set them to private, and I'm deleting them in batches of 30 because apparently you can't just delete all of your videos.
Anyhoo. I complained to them that fair use license applied to all content i posted, and even included the VIDEO where the content owner asked people to share the videos via their channels and gave copyright to do so. youtube declined to answer.
So it gets better, what gets flagged next and disables monetization for my channel? Several "videos" I made that are actually a single jpeg of my guitar rig, and audio of my jamming and improving on the guitar. That's right, they even flagged those and they are blocked globally until it's resolved.
So, enough complaints even with out proof and my videos get deleted and my account terminated.
How many false claims does it take from a content owner to have their ability to file complaints terminated??
No, but your asshat "tech" who wasted 4 months testing applications and such on a pre-release build of an OS that may or may not be similar to the final release, will probably say "there are no applications for it"
Fact is, dude who posted, and clearly you, do not know beta testing or environment testing from your ass.
You do NOT test applications on beta OSs to test functionality or support unless you are really dumb and really bored. You, instead, test load on the RC, never a beta. The RC will have code aligned with the final build, no big jumps or drastic changes will happen from the final RC to the Final build.
Alpha to beta to RC have MASSIVE leaps and in some cases, different kernels.
Lets be clear. Using a computer to browse slashdot does NOT qualify you to be a software tester, IT person or even a clerk.
Well this simply doesn't make any sense. Apple can't even offer the same encryption they offer here in the US in some countries that they consider markets, so I'd say your statement is not based in facts.
And again, even Apple can't undo what they government did itself, the GOVERNMENT reset the phone, making it impossible to recover at this point, this is all nonsense but hey, it's working.
How you ask?
Well the average Joe Asshat now thinks the government can't crack into his phone (when they totally can) and is probably willing to side against encryption more now than before, you know, to stop terrorists and catch child predators.
Essentially they are asking Apple do rework the entire update delivery system so they could remote jailbreak/root the device with a firmware upgrade. Even if Apple could do this (it's not really certain they could) it wouldn't have any effect on the device they have right now.
This entire charade is designed to get Joe Asshat to side against encryption, and sadly it's working.
Well, no, he didn't make anyone use windows. He made deals with OEMs stating, hey, your PC here is going to be running windows at some point, so you'll have to pay me a license fee. The PC OEMs who jumped on board are the ones that made users use windows, because they were essentially paying for it with the price of the PC, they could have offered you the competitor (who exactly was that at the time? IBM? Zerox?)
It's all hip and fun to bash on MS and gates, but at least lay blame where it belongs. He worked a deal with the OEMs, they had the choice to opt in or not, they sold you out.
And guess what..... for that very reason we have MACs and Linux to complete with MS.
We likely wouldn't have the cool tech we do have if not for some shady behind the scenes deals.
See the thing you are probably missing is that these same people are the ones foaming at the mouth, fighting to ensure the rich get their tax cuts.
Why? Why fight for a group of people that you are not a member of?
Because this nonsense brainwashing you've come to call "the american dream". I CAN'T make the rich pay their fair share, because I might someday be rich, and I sure as hell don't want anyone taking MY money.
Well we're now in the world of youtube celebrities making more money than brain surgeons. I certainly can't do anything to impact that copyright owners ability to sue people and possibly put them in jail because.... I might be famous someday and I want to get paid cash money son.
Anyone else siding with the TPP is a shill, plain and simple, cold as ice. There's no justification to supporting this insanity unless you are a moron that stands to gain (in your head) from it's insane clauses.
Maybe they think it's ok to live in a world where an internet pirate can do more jail time than a rapist. I do not.
Close. It's about force feeding you internet 2.0 and freedom 2.0. It's about the 1990s cable TV style of tiered internet where only the 3 media companies can be considered players, and good luck even ACCESSING any of their lower level competition, because it will have been wiped off the net by then.
Once you have a stranglehold through copyright law, on the competition (the competition being any site helping create or deliver content) you have won. THEN you charge them into oblivion. What? You don't want to follow their rules and pay their price? Enjoy your jail sentence.
Note that none of this will stop organized copyright criminals, but it sure as hell will give enough room to start throwing even modest pirates into jail... or better yet, and falling in line with the true intent of these clauses, convince them to pay settlements to stay out of court.
Don't sideload apps from untrusted sources. 99.9% of your android problems cease to exist if you follow that 1 piece of advice.
Sadly, being 2.2 (omg!!) you are pretty screwed regardless of how safe you play it, replace it dude, most companies offer trade ups and such, I'm not even saying stick with android, but something that old and unpatched is not worth the risk unless you literally use it for phone calls and phone calls alone.
It's easy to spot a bigot or a racist, all one has to do is see that there is a large community of people posting anonymously, that has gone unchecked, and when anonymous posters reach large numbers they ALWAYS resort to spewing bullshit.
The article makes it sound like this feature was enabled in the code, by default, with no user interaction to actually activate it.
It's still not a backdoor, but it IS sending screenshots off to an EMAIL address. Think about that. How does that enable you retrieving your feed? It doesn't. But it does give the developer a bunch of screenshots of whatever you were filming, direct to his inbox.
Honestly this sounds like a debugging feature left in the code to me. But whatever.
You must have a pretty lax ISP, the second my script borked and started port scanning I was contacted and reminded of the acceptable use policy. The other major ISP here actually blocks a lot of stuff by default and you have to specifically request it be opened for you.
But is it a back door? A back door infers access to said device. What they actually found was some code in the firmware taking screenshots and emailing them off to the guy who made the device.
I'm struggling to find any definition of a backdoor that this scenario would fall under.
It's nefarious and all that, but it's not exactly a back door into your camera or network.
I guess it means 1500 downloads = 1 lost sale? I dunno, is that individual tracks? then you'd have to average the amount of tracks on a CD, then run that against that number. So 1500 streams equals a sale, typically you'll see 10ish tracks per disk.
And I've already lost interest in this discussion
I'm pretty sure if you recorded to connections from your MAC or Linux desktop, and didn't filter out normal expected traffic, you'd be APPALLED at the tracking taking place.
connections do not equal tracking.
Except that a massive amount of these "connections" were fucking NTP and DNS. Alarmist at best. But hey, hating on MS is the hip cool thing to do, considering it's 1997. No wait it's 2016 and the linux desktop still hasn't "won" Neither did Novel, neither did apple.
Who remains the king of the desktop OS for better or for worse? MS.
Who are the people claiming to be leaving windows forever? People who never fucking ran it in the first place. You have full and total control over what goes out over your network, if you fail to pay attention, it's your fault.
That said, I don't dig the tracking, but it's not nearly as bad as some of you seem to think it is.
So lets recap, asshatA records all the connections coming from his PC and immediately exclaims "MICOCRAP IS TRAKKING UZZZZ" but fails to omit the NTP, DNS and gods knows whatever, normal, traffic from this report.
Well said.
Many people fail to grasp a few things:
MP3 were invented for piracy.
Netflix, itunes, legal napster, any VoD service are here BECAUSE of piracy. The industry refuses to stay current and instead attempts to gain a stranglehold over the technology to ensure it stagnates.
I for one remember owning a VCR with a nifty "don't record commercials" feature that used the signals broadcast to detect an incoming commercial and stopped recording until the commercial break was over. They made them illegal and good luck finding one. DVR? Made to compete with piracy.
If this system is going to do anything, it's going to continue to force their hand, the industry needs to adapt.
I've been involved with this stuff since the dark days of BBS and newsgroups, and I'm more than happy to pay netflix to make my life a little easier and less dodgy. Sadly, with the current licensing laws and copyright, netflix can not provide me with the content I want. I don't want to subscribe to multiple services. I don't want to watch for free (with ads) from the TV services own website. I want to consume my legally purchased media at my leisure and until there's a single service that provides this, I will continue to supplement my media intake with pirated content.
And to be honest, there's plenty of stuff I legally own on dvd or bluray that I'll end up pirating because it's easier and faster to download a rip that to fumble through my collection having to swap disks out constantly.
While claiming piracy costs jobs and millions of dollars, we instead see the music, tv and movie industry making record profits. Their math is bad.
Well what point are you referring to? Because my comment was mostly shaming the asshole who admitted to creating aimbots. But since you asked nicely, in AC fashion no less:
AsshatA spends 50$ on hacks for a 15 dollar game. Do you think he gives two shits about being banned? He can buy 3 keys for the game for the same price as his aimbot, and that's ignoring the game selling places that sell you possibly stolen keys for considerable discounts. If I spent 50$ on my hacks, you bet your ass I'm willing to spend at least that on the game, seeing as the hacks are useless without the game they ruin.
And that's the rub. Do they ban on MAC addresses? Nope. They ban your Valve account, which stops no one. This is why CSgo is crap, they had to actually make a minigame out of this, overwatch, and put it on the community to review the reported hackers. THat's how bad it is, they've offloaded it to the players and there's so much of it, it's become a game of it's own. THAT. IS. FUCKED.
SO.. yeah, the point is without Mr Vigilante all we can really expect is that the hacker will be forced to use a new account, which he likely already has.
None of your examples hold weight against a competitive multiplayer game that's play professionally in an e-sports type manner.
What you are talking about is griefing or trolling, and I agree 100%, that's just part of life. Actually manipulating the game code be it with mods or actually rebuilding the source, is something completely different. So, ignoring your examples because they don't apply, we can start to argue if this is in fact stealing, because that's what you are really doing, you are screwing other people out of the game THEY purchased.
With that said, you do have to give some of these modders credit for the work they've done to get their hacks out there. I respect that, right up until they start illegally profiting from a derivative work they have no legal license to use.
Playing skyrim and ignoring the main quests is NOT the same as playing a competitive game FOR MONEY with hacks doing the work for you. The fact you tried to argue this leads me to suspect you are the type of person who would buy these hacks.
And that's why CS:go is a fucking shitshow, even ignoring the fact that it's a fucking pile of shit even at 15$. The hacks in some cases cost more than the fucking game.
And also a big fuck you for having to cheat to enjoy your game.
Not terrorists, just a bunch of asshats that couldn't actually hack anything of value so instead they directed their attention at NASA. Smacks of releasing credit card details to the internet to "protect us" from big corporate greed. Or something.
If anyone else ends up clicking the "security updates" link in the summary and starts to wonder why they are only talking about the RV220W, it's because the submitted reversed the links, you need to click the Cisco RV220W link to get the article with ALL the products.
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yes, it was that 1 dude, not the millions of youtubers filing complaints over their broken DMCA policy for the past 6 years.
So I assume i pissed off a youtube troll because all 1900+ videos in my channel were flagged for copyright. I promptly removed all of the videos flagged.. well that's a lie, I unlisted them, set them to private, and I'm deleting them in batches of 30 because apparently you can't just delete all of your videos. Anyhoo. I complained to them that fair use license applied to all content i posted, and even included the VIDEO where the content owner asked people to share the videos via their channels and gave copyright to do so. youtube declined to answer. So it gets better, what gets flagged next and disables monetization for my channel? Several "videos" I made that are actually a single jpeg of my guitar rig, and audio of my jamming and improving on the guitar. That's right, they even flagged those and they are blocked globally until it's resolved. So, enough complaints even with out proof and my videos get deleted and my account terminated. How many false claims does it take from a content owner to have their ability to file complaints terminated??
This was written by the oil companies, right? Of course it was.
No, but your asshat "tech" who wasted 4 months testing applications and such on a pre-release build of an OS that may or may not be similar to the final release, will probably say "there are no applications for it" Fact is, dude who posted, and clearly you, do not know beta testing or environment testing from your ass. You do NOT test applications on beta OSs to test functionality or support unless you are really dumb and really bored. You, instead, test load on the RC, never a beta. The RC will have code aligned with the final build, no big jumps or drastic changes will happen from the final RC to the Final build. Alpha to beta to RC have MASSIVE leaps and in some cases, different kernels. Lets be clear. Using a computer to browse slashdot does NOT qualify you to be a software tester, IT person or even a clerk.
Well this simply doesn't make any sense. Apple can't even offer the same encryption they offer here in the US in some countries that they consider markets, so I'd say your statement is not based in facts. And again, even Apple can't undo what they government did itself, the GOVERNMENT reset the phone, making it impossible to recover at this point, this is all nonsense but hey, it's working. How you ask? Well the average Joe Asshat now thinks the government can't crack into his phone (when they totally can) and is probably willing to side against encryption more now than before, you know, to stop terrorists and catch child predators. Essentially they are asking Apple do rework the entire update delivery system so they could remote jailbreak/root the device with a firmware upgrade. Even if Apple could do this (it's not really certain they could) it wouldn't have any effect on the device they have right now. This entire charade is designed to get Joe Asshat to side against encryption, and sadly it's working.
Well, no, he didn't make anyone use windows. He made deals with OEMs stating, hey, your PC here is going to be running windows at some point, so you'll have to pay me a license fee. The PC OEMs who jumped on board are the ones that made users use windows, because they were essentially paying for it with the price of the PC, they could have offered you the competitor (who exactly was that at the time? IBM? Zerox?) It's all hip and fun to bash on MS and gates, but at least lay blame where it belongs. He worked a deal with the OEMs, they had the choice to opt in or not, they sold you out. And guess what..... for that very reason we have MACs and Linux to complete with MS. We likely wouldn't have the cool tech we do have if not for some shady behind the scenes deals.
See the thing you are probably missing is that these same people are the ones foaming at the mouth, fighting to ensure the rich get their tax cuts. Why? Why fight for a group of people that you are not a member of? Because this nonsense brainwashing you've come to call "the american dream". I CAN'T make the rich pay their fair share, because I might someday be rich, and I sure as hell don't want anyone taking MY money. Well we're now in the world of youtube celebrities making more money than brain surgeons. I certainly can't do anything to impact that copyright owners ability to sue people and possibly put them in jail because.... I might be famous someday and I want to get paid cash money son. Anyone else siding with the TPP is a shill, plain and simple, cold as ice. There's no justification to supporting this insanity unless you are a moron that stands to gain (in your head) from it's insane clauses. Maybe they think it's ok to live in a world where an internet pirate can do more jail time than a rapist. I do not.
Close. It's about force feeding you internet 2.0 and freedom 2.0. It's about the 1990s cable TV style of tiered internet where only the 3 media companies can be considered players, and good luck even ACCESSING any of their lower level competition, because it will have been wiped off the net by then. Once you have a stranglehold through copyright law, on the competition (the competition being any site helping create or deliver content) you have won. THEN you charge them into oblivion. What? You don't want to follow their rules and pay their price? Enjoy your jail sentence. Note that none of this will stop organized copyright criminals, but it sure as hell will give enough room to start throwing even modest pirates into jail... or better yet, and falling in line with the true intent of these clauses, convince them to pay settlements to stay out of court.
Don't sideload apps from untrusted sources. 99.9% of your android problems cease to exist if you follow that 1 piece of advice. Sadly, being 2.2 (omg!!) you are pretty screwed regardless of how safe you play it, replace it dude, most companies offer trade ups and such, I'm not even saying stick with android, but something that old and unpatched is not worth the risk unless you literally use it for phone calls and phone calls alone.
It's easy to spot a bigot or a racist, all one has to do is see that there is a large community of people posting anonymously, that has gone unchecked, and when anonymous posters reach large numbers they ALWAYS resort to spewing bullshit.
To my understanding at least, they used unsecured SMS
The article makes it sound like this feature was enabled in the code, by default, with no user interaction to actually activate it. It's still not a backdoor, but it IS sending screenshots off to an EMAIL address. Think about that. How does that enable you retrieving your feed? It doesn't. But it does give the developer a bunch of screenshots of whatever you were filming, direct to his inbox. Honestly this sounds like a debugging feature left in the code to me. But whatever.
You must have a pretty lax ISP, the second my script borked and started port scanning I was contacted and reminded of the acceptable use policy. The other major ISP here actually blocks a lot of stuff by default and you have to specifically request it be opened for you.
But is it a back door? A back door infers access to said device. What they actually found was some code in the firmware taking screenshots and emailing them off to the guy who made the device. I'm struggling to find any definition of a backdoor that this scenario would fall under. It's nefarious and all that, but it's not exactly a back door into your camera or network.
I prefer my SSD to last more than 6 months before presenting errors and issues. I know, I'm crazy like that.
I guess it means 1500 downloads = 1 lost sale? I dunno, is that individual tracks? then you'd have to average the amount of tracks on a CD, then run that against that number. So 1500 streams equals a sale, typically you'll see 10ish tracks per disk. And I've already lost interest in this discussion
Morons of course.
I'm pretty sure if you recorded to connections from your MAC or Linux desktop, and didn't filter out normal expected traffic, you'd be APPALLED at the tracking taking place. connections do not equal tracking.
Except that a massive amount of these "connections" were fucking NTP and DNS. Alarmist at best. But hey, hating on MS is the hip cool thing to do, considering it's 1997. No wait it's 2016 and the linux desktop still hasn't "won" Neither did Novel, neither did apple. Who remains the king of the desktop OS for better or for worse? MS. Who are the people claiming to be leaving windows forever? People who never fucking ran it in the first place. You have full and total control over what goes out over your network, if you fail to pay attention, it's your fault. That said, I don't dig the tracking, but it's not nearly as bad as some of you seem to think it is. So lets recap, asshatA records all the connections coming from his PC and immediately exclaims "MICOCRAP IS TRAKKING UZZZZ" but fails to omit the NTP, DNS and gods knows whatever, normal, traffic from this report.
Well said. Many people fail to grasp a few things: MP3 were invented for piracy. Netflix, itunes, legal napster, any VoD service are here BECAUSE of piracy. The industry refuses to stay current and instead attempts to gain a stranglehold over the technology to ensure it stagnates. I for one remember owning a VCR with a nifty "don't record commercials" feature that used the signals broadcast to detect an incoming commercial and stopped recording until the commercial break was over. They made them illegal and good luck finding one. DVR? Made to compete with piracy. If this system is going to do anything, it's going to continue to force their hand, the industry needs to adapt. I've been involved with this stuff since the dark days of BBS and newsgroups, and I'm more than happy to pay netflix to make my life a little easier and less dodgy. Sadly, with the current licensing laws and copyright, netflix can not provide me with the content I want. I don't want to subscribe to multiple services. I don't want to watch for free (with ads) from the TV services own website. I want to consume my legally purchased media at my leisure and until there's a single service that provides this, I will continue to supplement my media intake with pirated content. And to be honest, there's plenty of stuff I legally own on dvd or bluray that I'll end up pirating because it's easier and faster to download a rip that to fumble through my collection having to swap disks out constantly. While claiming piracy costs jobs and millions of dollars, we instead see the music, tv and movie industry making record profits. Their math is bad.
Well what point are you referring to? Because my comment was mostly shaming the asshole who admitted to creating aimbots. But since you asked nicely, in AC fashion no less: AsshatA spends 50$ on hacks for a 15 dollar game. Do you think he gives two shits about being banned? He can buy 3 keys for the game for the same price as his aimbot, and that's ignoring the game selling places that sell you possibly stolen keys for considerable discounts. If I spent 50$ on my hacks, you bet your ass I'm willing to spend at least that on the game, seeing as the hacks are useless without the game they ruin. And that's the rub. Do they ban on MAC addresses? Nope. They ban your Valve account, which stops no one. This is why CSgo is crap, they had to actually make a minigame out of this, overwatch, and put it on the community to review the reported hackers. THat's how bad it is, they've offloaded it to the players and there's so much of it, it's become a game of it's own. THAT. IS. FUCKED. SO.. yeah, the point is without Mr Vigilante all we can really expect is that the hacker will be forced to use a new account, which he likely already has.
None of your examples hold weight against a competitive multiplayer game that's play professionally in an e-sports type manner. What you are talking about is griefing or trolling, and I agree 100%, that's just part of life. Actually manipulating the game code be it with mods or actually rebuilding the source, is something completely different. So, ignoring your examples because they don't apply, we can start to argue if this is in fact stealing, because that's what you are really doing, you are screwing other people out of the game THEY purchased. With that said, you do have to give some of these modders credit for the work they've done to get their hacks out there. I respect that, right up until they start illegally profiting from a derivative work they have no legal license to use. Playing skyrim and ignoring the main quests is NOT the same as playing a competitive game FOR MONEY with hacks doing the work for you. The fact you tried to argue this leads me to suspect you are the type of person who would buy these hacks.
And that's why CS:go is a fucking shitshow, even ignoring the fact that it's a fucking pile of shit even at 15$. The hacks in some cases cost more than the fucking game. And also a big fuck you for having to cheat to enjoy your game.
Not terrorists, just a bunch of asshats that couldn't actually hack anything of value so instead they directed their attention at NASA. Smacks of releasing credit card details to the internet to "protect us" from big corporate greed. Or something.
If anyone else ends up clicking the "security updates" link in the summary and starts to wonder why they are only talking about the RV220W, it's because the submitted reversed the links, you need to click the Cisco RV220W link to get the article with ALL the products.