Ok, for this to succeed the site would have to know your router's internal IP address. 192.168.1.1 is very common in early routers, but this has changed recently.
Now, to actually get to the computer, it would also have to bypass your software firewall as well.
Of course, all this does is open ports, it doesn't actually attack or exploit anything.
This is a potential exploit, but not a working one yet.
I'm not saying they should get jail time. I'm just saying that if they choose to give up their scholarship, they should be allowed to give it up. And I'm saying they didn't commit an infraction worthy of giving up their scholarship.
They made a mistake, I would go as far as to say they acted immature.
If only we had some kind of distinction for people under a certain age who are not fully mature. Wait, I got it! We can call it "childhood", and we can make disctinctions between adults and "children". These "children" can learn from their mistakes in positive ways and not get cut off at the knees when they fuck up.
Because the best thing to do is mess up some poor kids future. The rich don't need scholarships and can tell the schools to fuck off while they drink a beer.
I remember getting it on Win2K, not sure if the later versions do it Not since Windows ME. XP/Vista are very conservative when it comes to removable drives.
Just putting Open in the title associates it with such good things as OSS, open business practices, etc. Bullshit, it's a type of an Open ended lease.
A rental agreement that obliges the lessee (the person making periodic lease payments) to purchase the leased asset at the end of the agreement. Also called a "finance lease".
I really fail to understand why this CNet blogger has a bug up his butt over this. This isn't even an article. It's a joke, and a pretty sad one at that.
Really? So by friending him you gave Scoble an irrevocable right to export all the data about you, and use for whatever purposes he sees fit? If you were friends with him in real life you did. So why is this different?
I can setup a standard LAMP setup (which is what most people want) in fifteen minutes from scratch (including installing the OS). To do a ASP.net, MS SQL, IIS setup with Windows from scratch, it takes me literally five hours on the same hardware.
First off, 15 minutes is a stretch, just to format the HDD/RAID and copy the files off the CD/DVD and would take at least 15 mins, I'll assume you're not counting that.
I can install Windows 200x server in my sleep as well, your point is that you know your OS and I know mine. I wrote the same type of scripts you wrote to do the same types of tasks you did. I have an install disc that can bring a server up in under an hour, with the OS, ASP.net, MSSQL and IIS.
The catch with that is of course there is no such thing as US copyright.
I'm going to guess they mean copyright held by a US corporation under the US constitution. Since the US signed up with the WTO, they allowed this punishment.
This is really utter rubbish. It is perfectly ethical for an ISP to throttle this traffic that sits and leaches more bandwidth than is your fair share. DSL services, unless very premium, are shared services.
Well written. Now, could you tell me what my fair share is? I don't want to go over my bandwidth limit on my "unlimited" connection. Just let me know what the exact amount is, and I'll keep under it.
Basically, Microsoft and IBM decided that the color video buffer should always be at $A000, which pretty much limited you to 640K.
Since the processor at the time only could access 1MB, 640K of the 1MB was enough for DOS and the 8088. Now, when the 80286 arrived, things changed. The 286 had a 16MB limit, but DOS was still acting like it was a 8088 (some part for compatibility, some for poor design switching between real/protected modes).
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But no trademark on calendars that feature a car, just ones that use the word "Ford".
Crush the lesser races, conquer the world, unimaginable power, unlimited rice pudding, et cetera, et cetera.
Actually, I was wondering, does Ford have a trademark on calendars?
Ok, for this to succeed the site would have to know your router's internal IP address. 192.168.1.1 is very common in early routers, but this has changed recently.
Now, to actually get to the computer, it would also have to bypass your software firewall as well.
Of course, all this does is open ports, it doesn't actually attack or exploit anything.
This is a potential exploit, but not a working one yet.
They made a mistake, I would go as far as to say they acted immature.
If only we had some kind of distinction for people under a certain age who are not fully mature. Wait, I got it! We can call it "childhood", and we can make disctinctions between adults and "children". These "children" can learn from their mistakes in positive ways and not get cut off at the knees when they fuck up.
Actually, they're teaching the typical zero tolerance overreact to everything mentality.
Drink a beer = no college scholarship? That's innane.
How about drink a beer = pick up trash around the community for 6 months?
You're not allowed to screw up at 16 and then go on to become a mature adult anymore. Well, unless you have money, but that's another story.
Because the best thing to do is mess up some poor kids future. The rich don't need scholarships and can tell the schools to fuck off while they drink a beer.
Rave on cat shit, some one will come and cover you up.
Honestly, learn to read. Just because they use the word Open in the title doesn't mean it's OSS.
It doesn't pretend to be open source, it doesn't mention open source anywhere in the press release. It's a licensing model for resellers.
Stupidity is a poor excuse. Do not give out personal information unless you know what is going to be done with it.
You've never tried running The Sims 2 in VMWare.
I can setup a standard LAMP setup (which is what most people want) in fifteen minutes from scratch (including installing the OS). To do a ASP.net, MS SQL, IIS setup with Windows from scratch, it takes me literally five hours on the same hardware.
First off, 15 minutes is a stretch, just to format the HDD/RAID and copy the files off the CD/DVD and would take at least 15 mins, I'll assume you're not counting that.
I can install Windows 200x server in my sleep as well, your point is that you know your OS and I know mine. I wrote the same type of scripts you wrote to do the same types of tasks you did. I have an install disc that can bring a server up in under an hour, with the OS, ASP.net, MSSQL and IIS.
You get what you pay for in Admins.
Someone at Microsoft should ask Adobe how zippy fast Macromedia.com was while it was an all-flash design. (ugh)
Seriously though, Microsoft will most likely have HTML in there somewhere, it's just a matter of getting it served to you.
(Why yes, I'm using pocket ie, um, on Vista, with WUXGA resolution, see it says here in the user agent, this isn't Opera)
That's at least 662,257,761,200,000,000,000 nybbles! (roughly) You may need extra floppies.
I just wanted everyone to know:
Everyone - Have promiscuous sex, drink, avoid church, overspend, do drugs and listen to loud music. You have my approval.
If you think my approval is worth anything in your life, you're an idiot, you can add go play in traffic to my list.
There, I think that's pretty controversial. I'll write back if anything interesting happens.
The catch with that is of course there is no such thing as US copyright.
I'm going to guess they mean copyright held by a US corporation under the US constitution. Since the US signed up with the WTO, they allowed this punishment.
This is really utter rubbish. It is perfectly ethical for an ISP to throttle this traffic that sits and leaches more bandwidth than is your fair share. DSL services, unless very premium, are shared services.
Well written. Now, could you tell me what my fair share is? I don't want to go over my bandwidth limit on my "unlimited" connection. Just let me know what the exact amount is, and I'll keep under it.
Basically, Microsoft and IBM decided that the color video buffer should always be at $A000, which pretty much limited you to 640K.
Since the processor at the time only could access 1MB, 640K of the 1MB was enough for DOS and the 8088. Now, when the 80286 arrived, things changed. The 286 had a 16MB limit, but DOS was still acting like it was a 8088 (some part for compatibility, some for poor design switching between real/protected modes).
Well, if Congress wants to, they can abolish the FCC. It would take about 6 votes total, including the veto override.