This is true, its easy for someone in close contact with the kids to notice, but not for an administrator.
You mean like the kids parents?
I wouldn't mind seeing the information from something like this being given a students parent/guardian, but I don't really think the teachers should/need have access to it. It really isn't any business of your math teacher that you are failing english.
Would you actually use the version of BSD that some company put on your laptop, and be happy with the installation of it enough to not redo it yourself within five minutes of opening the box?
What metropolitan area are you talking about? In downtown Oklahoma City I can pick up 15 signals cleanly, and another 5 or so not so cleanly. And this is without any special antenna. In a smaller city outside of OKC, I can pick up just about the same list of channels. Clearly more than your 2 or 3.
Or something like that. All that is really being proven at this point is that Joe Blow's ISP account was connected during certain times. What if Joe has an open WAP, and someone connected up to it and used it for illegal filesharing without his knowledge? Maybe Joe was out of town for the week, and his housesitter was doing the filesharing? I'm not sure I see how they can pin this on Joe, just on a computer connected to Joe's broadband service.
I often wonder when cars will be throttled back to the maximum speed limit in a state or something like that. Its going to happen some day, It'll probably just take a couple of high profile incidents where if the car couldn't have been going so fast, the incident could have been prevented.
Something interesting about PVRs, is that they do more than let you record a show and watch it later. Much much more, and the entertainment industry should be worried.
I picked up a ReplayTV a couple of years ago, and I watch everything through it now, only I'm not watching much of anything these days. I used to be one of those people that was tied to the couch at certain times of the day/days of the week to catch the latest episode of whatever show. Now I just record them so I can watch them whenever I want, whenever its more convenient to do so. The funny thing is, lots of stuff goes unwatched now, and I don't miss it at all. I have picked up this mentality that its there if I want to watch it later, but right now I'd rather go do blah. I'm doing a lot more blah these days, and a lot less couch sitting. I wonder how many other people are feeling this effect?
I don't own a mac, and havn't messed with I-Tunes, but this doesn't sound like it will be a problem for long. All you need to do is trick the software into thinking that it is sending to someone on the same subnet, sounds like a job for an application proxy or something like that.
Why is Celil's conjecture any more valid than the other guys?
So what's the real explanation? Having spent two hours poring over the microfilm--no guarantee that I'm not full of BS, but at least it's scientific BS
Remember this story from a few months ago? Why not do something similiar to RIAA? Find out what addresses they use for official correspondence, and send them everything under the sun. Make a recording of your kid singing in the tub, and send them a demo.
Heck, is there anything that can be legally mailed, but cannot be tossed in the trash because of environmental regulations? Like used automotive oil or something? What do you suppose they would do if they started getting a couple hundred gallons of something they can't toss in the trash in their mailroom every day?
Ok, maybe it isn't the answer, but it would be pretty funny.
I might also recommend if you make this investment in CAT5 , go plenum. It will keep intereference down from power cords and light fixtures that would impede plain ole CAT5.
This is not true. Plenum cable does not differ from non plenum rated CAT5 cable in terms of how well it deals with EMI, it only means that it doesn't give off noxious fumes when it burns. If you want cable specially shielded to deal with EMI you might try something like this. No, I don't work for blackbox.
I agree with the part about checking out avsforum, there is more information there about audio/video than a reasonable person could ever hope to absorb.
Has anyone ever seen something that will let you make calls with your regular telephone, but route them out through your cellphone? Something like a base station that you plug into your homes phone wiring, and then drop your cellphone into when you want to use one of the homes wired phones? They make them for VoIP phones, but I havn't seen one that works with cells.
Anyway, if I could find one out there, that is what I would use.
With a sufficiently powerful laser, you could encode the data and beam it off to some distant object. When the reflected beam finally reaches earth, there is your backed up data, ready for retrieval. You could pick a number of objects at varying distances to allow for longer backups of data, with reflection times of hours/days/weeks/years... Granted there would be some celestial issues that could corrupt your data, but if you picked a few redundant yet diverse backup sites I think you could get around even that.
I wonder if Jeff Goldbloom will save the day by somehow installing a virus on one of the terminators and sending it back to the future to wipe out the systems of every future computing device?
Why would anyone run a windows DNS server on their desktop, that would be dumb. I thought we were talking about a guy's home PC connected up via a cablemodem or something, not some corporate server.
The idea of a firewall is that you can have lax internal security policies, but have strong external policies. No, its not. The idea is that in the event one of your strong internal security policies fails, you have a safety net to protect your ass. Like I said, many times having a firewall allows people to become complacent about security, and use it as a crutch. A firewall should never be an excuse to leave unpatched or unneeded services running on your network. Beyond that, your point is completely irrelevant, as there is no internal/external when you are talking about a single PC connected to a broadband connecting. Everything is external (unless you really know what you are doing and are running a webserver that no one can get to except the local host for some esoteric purpose).
If people didn't run services they didn't need, and kept the services they do run patched up, a firewall for a single PC still wouldn't really be necessary.
There is the issue of a firewall keeping trojan programs that have been installed on the PC from getting out. Of course if you use virus protection, and don't download junk from questionable sources, this isn't really an issue either.
Just having a firewall doesn't do a thing for you unless it is configured correctly. Giving people a false sense of security is more harmful, in my opinion, than educating them a little, and doing things the right way from the start.
He doesn't need a firewall, just turn off that remote desktop service that people were using to put files on his computer. That and disable file and print sharing, or at least unbind it from the TCP/IP adapter. Assuming he isn't running a webserver or anything like that (which it sounds like he isn't intentionally), that will knock out 99% of all the sources of attack on his computer.
Firewalls are not the end-all be-all of security, and in many cases promote poor security habits. Turn off the stuff you don't need, and patch the stuff you do, and you'll be just fine. A firewall won't do shit for you if someone comes in through a hole you punched in it so you could run your unpatched IIS server.
This really isn't that big of a deal, and can nearly be accomplished today (except for the decryption part) in many of Cisco's products. For instance, a common deployment of Cisco equipment is to put a router on a switch blade. Switches have the ability to span a port, duplicating all the traffic that comes and goes from one port to another. This is how you sniff in the switch world.
I would be much more fearful of laws that require encryption key escrows or laws that make it illegal to encrypt something to begin with.
The technical landscape, and advance of science is nearly impossible to control, except through really silly laws.
Eh, I don't know. When I was in high school, I usually had more money that I realistically knew what to do with. I just worked weekends at a video store to earn it. I imagine I could have come up with the 12$ a month EQ costs.
Credit card? Who says a teen can't get a credit card these days? The way credit companies are handing them out these days I'm not sure you even need a pulse to get one. EQ will even let you buy a gamecard, commonly sold at computer game stores in malls, which you can then use to enable your account.
I would definitely consider myself to be a geek, but the majority of the people that play EQ that I have gotten to know to some extent in real-life do not appear to fit many definitions of geekdome. Most are just middle aged folks that found something interesting to do.
If he did it right, his parents would never know that he was actually a straight C student. I imagine if the school has gone to all this trouble to set the site up, the might not mail out report cards anymore. I'm not sure what the point would be in this charade, but the possibilities are endless.
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This is true, its easy for someone in close contact with the kids to notice, but not for an administrator.
You mean like the kids parents?
I wouldn't mind seeing the information from something like this being given a students parent/guardian, but I don't really think the teachers should/need have access to it. It really isn't any business of your math teacher that you are failing english.
Would you actually use the version of BSD that some company put on your laptop, and be happy with the installation of it enough to not redo it yourself within five minutes of opening the box?
Didn't think so.
Sounds pretty good. Mind posting your email address here and reporting back next week to let us know how it is going?
What metropolitan area are you talking about? In downtown Oklahoma City I can pick up 15 signals cleanly, and another 5 or so not so cleanly. And this is without any special antenna. In a smaller city outside of OKC, I can pick up just about the same list of channels. Clearly more than your 2 or 3.
Or something like that. All that is really being proven at this point is that Joe Blow's ISP account was connected during certain times. What if Joe has an open WAP, and someone connected up to it and used it for illegal filesharing without his knowledge? Maybe Joe was out of town for the week, and his housesitter was doing the filesharing? I'm not sure I see how they can pin this on Joe, just on a computer connected to Joe's broadband service.
I often wonder when cars will be throttled back to the maximum speed limit in a state or something like that. Its going to happen some day, It'll probably just take a couple of high profile incidents where if the car couldn't have been going so fast, the incident could have been prevented.
Something interesting about PVRs, is that they do more than let you record a show and watch it later. Much much more, and the entertainment industry should be worried.
I picked up a ReplayTV a couple of years ago, and I watch everything through it now, only I'm not watching much of anything these days. I used to be one of those people that was tied to the couch at certain times of the day/days of the week to catch the latest episode of whatever show. Now I just record them so I can watch them whenever I want, whenever its more convenient to do so. The funny thing is, lots of stuff goes unwatched now, and I don't miss it at all. I have picked up this mentality that its there if I want to watch it later, but right now I'd rather go do blah. I'm doing a lot more blah these days, and a lot less couch sitting. I wonder how many other people are feeling this effect?
I don't own a mac, and havn't messed with I-Tunes, but this doesn't sound like it will be a problem for long. All you need to do is trick the software into thinking that it is sending to someone on the same subnet, sounds like a job for an application proxy or something like that.
Good point, the problem is that there are 10 types of people out there, those that understand binary and those that don't.
So what if you might kill yourself with this kit. This is a project that involves electricity AND lotion. Not a bad feat if you ask me.
Why is Celil's conjecture any more valid than the other guys?
So what's the real explanation? Having spent two hours poring over the microfilm--no guarantee that I'm not full of BS, but at least it's scientific BS
Remember this story from a few months ago? Why not do something similiar to RIAA? Find out what addresses they use for official correspondence, and send them everything under the sun. Make a recording of your kid singing in the tub, and send them a demo.
Heck, is there anything that can be legally mailed, but cannot be tossed in the trash because of environmental regulations? Like used automotive oil or something? What do you suppose they would do if they started getting a couple hundred gallons of something they can't toss in the trash in their mailroom every day?
Ok, maybe it isn't the answer, but it would be pretty funny.
I might also recommend if you make this investment in CAT5 , go plenum. It will keep intereference down from power cords and light fixtures that would impede plain ole CAT5.
This is not true. Plenum cable does not differ from non plenum rated CAT5 cable in terms of how well it deals with EMI, it only means that it doesn't give off noxious fumes when it burns. If you want cable specially shielded to deal with EMI you might try something like this. No, I don't work for blackbox.
I agree with the part about checking out avsforum, there is more information there about audio/video than a reasonable person could ever hope to absorb.
Good luck.
Movies don't have FM radio though...
You kind of did it wrong. You're not really supposed to buy the whole CD, just the tracks you like.
I typically only like about 3 tracks on any given CD, so for $9.90, I could have picked up 3 new CDs. A savings of $15.00 x 3 - $9.90 = $35.10
But thats just me.
Yeah, I might have to bring out the Mozilla .9b copy I have floating around somewhere and start using that again.
Has anyone ever seen something that will let you make calls with your regular telephone, but route them out through your cellphone? Something like a base station that you plug into your homes phone wiring, and then drop your cellphone into when you want to use one of the homes wired phones? They make them for VoIP phones, but I havn't seen one that works with cells.
Anyway, if I could find one out there, that is what I would use.
What we need are really big lasers.
With a sufficiently powerful laser, you could encode the data and beam it off to some distant object. When the reflected beam finally reaches earth, there is your backed up data, ready for retrieval. You could pick a number of objects at varying distances to allow for longer backups of data, with reflection times of hours/days/weeks/years... Granted there would be some celestial issues that could corrupt your data, but if you picked a few redundant yet diverse backup sites I think you could get around even that.
I wonder if Jeff Goldbloom will save the day by somehow installing a virus on one of the terminators and sending it back to the future to wipe out the systems of every future computing device?
Sigh.
Why would anyone run a windows DNS server on their desktop, that would be dumb. I thought we were talking about a guy's home PC connected up via a cablemodem or something, not some corporate server.
The idea of a firewall is that you can have lax internal security policies, but have strong external policies.
No, its not. The idea is that in the event one of your strong internal security policies fails, you have a safety net to protect your ass. Like I said, many times having a firewall allows people to become complacent about security, and use it as a crutch. A firewall should never be an excuse to leave unpatched or unneeded services running on your network. Beyond that, your point is completely irrelevant, as there is no internal/external when you are talking about a single PC connected to a broadband connecting. Everything is external (unless you really know what you are doing and are running a webserver that no one can get to except the local host for some esoteric purpose).
If people didn't run services they didn't need, and kept the services they do run patched up, a firewall for a single PC still wouldn't really be necessary.
There is the issue of a firewall keeping trojan programs that have been installed on the PC from getting out. Of course if you use virus protection, and don't download junk from questionable sources, this isn't really an issue either.
Just having a firewall doesn't do a thing for you unless it is configured correctly. Giving people a false sense of security is more harmful, in my opinion, than educating them a little, and doing things the right way from the start.
He doesn't need a firewall, just turn off that remote desktop service that people were using to put files on his computer. That and disable file and print sharing, or at least unbind it from the TCP/IP adapter. Assuming he isn't running a webserver or anything like that (which it sounds like he isn't intentionally), that will knock out 99% of all the sources of attack on his computer.
Firewalls are not the end-all be-all of security, and in many cases promote poor security habits. Turn off the stuff you don't need, and patch the stuff you do, and you'll be just fine. A firewall won't do shit for you if someone comes in through a hole you punched in it so you could run your unpatched IIS server.
This really isn't that big of a deal, and can nearly be accomplished today (except for the decryption part) in many of Cisco's products. For instance, a common deployment of Cisco equipment is to put a router on a switch blade. Switches have the ability to span a port, duplicating all the traffic that comes and goes from one port to another. This is how you sniff in the switch world.
I would be much more fearful of laws that require encryption key escrows or laws that make it illegal to encrypt something to begin with.
The technical landscape, and advance of science is nearly impossible to control, except through really silly laws.
Eh, I don't know. When I was in high school, I usually had more money that I realistically knew what to do with. I just worked weekends at a video store to earn it. I imagine I could have come up with the 12$ a month EQ costs.
Credit card? Who says a teen can't get a credit card these days? The way credit companies are handing them out these days I'm not sure you even need a pulse to get one. EQ will even let you buy a gamecard, commonly sold at computer game stores in malls, which you can then use to enable your account.
I would definitely consider myself to be a geek, but the majority of the people that play EQ that I have gotten to know to some extent in real-life do not appear to fit many definitions of geekdome. Most are just middle aged folks that found something interesting to do.
And clean all of your contacts with alcohol once a month, because you really can hear the difference.
If he did it right, his parents would never know that he was actually a straight C student. I imagine if the school has gone to all this trouble to set the site up, the might not mail out report cards anymore. I'm not sure what the point would be in this charade, but the possibilities are endless.