Your neighbor has setup a physical network connection on his lawn with a sign that says "free internet" on it. All you have to do is walk up to his property line and plug your computer in.
No physical trespass has occurred, only bits are being exchanged. The exact same as using someone's unsecured Wi-Fi.
A secured Wi-Fi would be the same physical connector on his property line, but without the "free" sign and with a locking cover. Clearly you are exceeding your authority if you jimmy the lock and then plug into his internet connection.
So - an analogy that works and makes sense. How bizzaaaaaa!
Create a large high entropy one time pad, store it on a micro-SD, use it to xor encrypt your compressed files. Clear any unused disk sectors and file padding space.
Tape the micro-SD to your armpit or groin, tell them straight up the files are encrypted and you don't have the key, but feel free to copy the drive.
You could go a step further and leave the one time pad on the drive, but have that encrypted with a memorized passphrase.
They would have to guess the passphrase, guess which file is the one time pad, and then apply that to your files before they could use them.
You could take these steps to whatever level you feel is needed. Multiple files, different passphrases, etc.
I bet it will drive them to distraction that they can't extract your data.
We'll give you a radio and throw you off a tall cliff. We can have a civil argument on gravity as you fall, but I believe the question will resolve itself rather abruptly.
Better to use "fixed dynamic" to always assign the same IP address to a specific mac address. It's what I do and it makes life really simple. Any machine that operates as a server has a fixed address assigned, the rest just float.
One of the interesting things I've noticed on the internet is that certain kooks (Jaron & Jack Thompson among them) produce the majority of the risible "news" articles. 80% of the crap is generated by like 1% of the posters.
Keep up the good work Jaron, we can all use the laughs. Oh, and get a real job, willya? Your mom wants her cellar back.
Idiot takes 20 years to recognize an obvious truth.
Seriously, why do we give any credence to people like this? They are the people that made nuclear power untenable in the US with all their money wasting protests and lawsuits. Now suddenly they wake up to reality and this is news???
Fuckemall. I watched what happened here in my home state of New Hampshire when the Seabrook plant was being built. I saw the cost overruns that resulted and I'm paying for electricity based on the inflated costs caused by these assholes. I am not amused.
1) use a router which allows ipfilter like functions 2) use Azureus which allows you to configure it to use a single port for both upload and download 3) block RSTs on said single port 4) profit! (Sorry, I had to do that)
If everyone implements this (regardless of where they get their internet), then Comcast (and any other assclown who tries this) will fail utterly with this approach.
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While I agree in principle, I believe a more prudent approach is:
1) ISP detects your computer is being used for SPAM/DOS/some other hijacked purpose (and NOT just user behavior problems) 2) ISP restricts you to a walled garden where your infected machine cannot access the internet - and you are informed as to the cause and action needed from you before access can be restored 3) you call ISP whining about your internet connection (or skip to step 5) 4) ISP repeats the information from the walled garden 5) you clean up your shit, the ISP confirms this and you are allowed back on the internet
No need for abusive actions against the user. Just put them in internet jail and if they care to get their internet back they need to fix the problem. If the ISP is feeling particularly generous, they can make the tools needed for the cleanup available within the walled garden, otherwise you'll have to call the Geek Squad or something.
This type of hijacking is 1) not needed, 2) ineffectual against most problems, & 3) non-functional against people like me who use an alternative DNS (openDNS).
The way I see it, they are in a race with AMD, and when making performance tweaks to get "just a little more juice" out of the process, they willingly create problems such as these MMU errors.
I'm betting that fixing them will reduce performance such that they will lose the lead, hence they will not do so.
(In the interest of honesty, this was posted from an AMD facility, but represents only my personal opinions.)
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Ah don't bother. The terminally obtuse will never change.
You can lead a believer to facts but you can't make them think - or come up with good arguments either.
You may have been being ironic, but I'd vote for that.
I think the CIA should go back to performing assassinations immediately - but only kill really bad people.
You seriously need a new graphics card if you are only getting 20 FPS. I get that on my crap Intel laptop chipset.
My dual core Athlon 64 desktop gives me 30 easy, even though it's on old motherboard with a PCI video card.
I'm not affiliated with them either, but I HAVE used them.
What are you talking about? Not Freecycle - there is no they there, just people looking for a deal.
The only apt analogy is this:
Your neighbor has setup a physical network connection on his lawn with a sign that says "free internet" on it. All you have to do is walk up to his property line and plug your computer in.
No physical trespass has occurred, only bits are being exchanged. The exact same as using someone's unsecured Wi-Fi.
A secured Wi-Fi would be the same physical connector on his property line, but without the "free" sign and with a locking cover. Clearly you are exceeding your authority if you jimmy the lock and then plug into his internet connection.
So - an analogy that works and makes sense. How bizzaaaaaa!
Oh please - this was non-news months ago.
They are just upset Nintendo hasn't jumped through their hoops.
But what if they manage to fix it and there IS something bad on it. Then you are fscked.
Create a large high entropy one time pad, store it on a micro-SD, use it to xor encrypt your compressed files. Clear any unused disk sectors and file padding space.
Tape the micro-SD to your armpit or groin, tell them straight up the files are encrypted and you don't have the key, but feel free to copy the drive.
You could go a step further and leave the one time pad on the drive, but have that encrypted with a memorized passphrase.
They would have to guess the passphrase, guess which file is the one time pad, and then apply that to your files before they could use them.
You could take these steps to whatever level you feel is needed. Multiple files, different passphrases, etc.
I bet it will drive them to distraction that they can't extract your data.
1) not interesting
2) not a documentary
We'll give you a radio and throw you off a tall cliff. We can have a civil argument on gravity as you fall, but I believe the question will resolve itself rather abruptly.
You can paint a horse and call it a zebra, but that doesn't make it true.
Microsoft owes everything relating to the DirectX interface to ATI, whose work was fundamental to both the 3D and 2D APIs.
Not that they will ever acknowledge that.
Better to use "fixed dynamic" to always assign the same IP address to a specific mac address.
It's what I do and it makes life really simple.
Any machine that operates as a server has a fixed address assigned, the rest just float.
Problem solved. Time invested: 30 seconds.
Well said sir.
One of the interesting things I've noticed on the internet is that certain kooks (Jaron & Jack Thompson among them) produce the majority of the risible "news" articles. 80% of the crap is generated by like 1% of the posters.
Keep up the good work Jaron, we can all use the laughs. Oh, and get a real job, willya? Your mom wants her cellar back.
And France has done pretty well with it, except for their inability to supply extra energy in emergency situations (hot summers).
A little bit more extreme than my comment, but I can understand your feelings. Really I can.
Idiot takes 20 years to recognize an obvious truth.
Seriously, why do we give any credence to people like this? They are the people that made nuclear power untenable in the US with all their money wasting protests and lawsuits. Now suddenly they wake up to reality and this is news???
Fuckemall. I watched what happened here in my home state of New Hampshire when the Seabrook plant was being built. I saw the cost overruns that resulted and I'm paying for electricity based on the inflated costs caused by these assholes. I am not amused.
Sounds like a job for Mike Rowe!!!
Simple solution:
1) use a router which allows ipfilter like functions
2) use Azureus which allows you to configure it to use a single port for both upload and download
3) block RSTs on said single port
4) profit! (Sorry, I had to do that)
If everyone implements this (regardless of where they get their internet), then Comcast (and any other assclown who tries this) will fail utterly with this approach.
An Atari 2600???
BTMON FTW!!!
While I agree in principle, I believe a more prudent approach is:
1) ISP detects your computer is being used for SPAM/DOS/some other hijacked purpose (and NOT just user behavior problems)
2) ISP restricts you to a walled garden where your infected machine cannot access the internet - and you are informed as to the cause and action needed from you before access can be restored
3) you call ISP whining about your internet connection (or skip to step 5)
4) ISP repeats the information from the walled garden
5) you clean up your shit, the ISP confirms this and you are allowed back on the internet
No need for abusive actions against the user. Just put them in internet jail and if they care to get their internet back they need to fix the problem. If the ISP is feeling particularly generous, they can make the tools needed for the cleanup available within the walled garden, otherwise you'll have to call the Geek Squad or something.
This type of hijacking is 1) not needed, 2) ineffectual against most problems, & 3) non-functional against people like me who use an alternative DNS (openDNS).
rAmen!
The way I see it, they are in a race with AMD, and when making performance tweaks to get "just a little more juice" out of the process, they willingly create problems such as these MMU errors.
I'm betting that fixing them will reduce performance such that they will lose the lead, hence they will not do so.
(In the interest of honesty, this was posted from an AMD facility, but represents only my personal opinions.)