True but my ideas will still stop any kind of passive snooping (there is no way even a giant such as AT&T working with a giant such as the NSA could install man in the middle logging for every IM conversation (with every different possible protocol and encryption mechanism) being passed over their wires)
I want a world where encrypting internet traffic is as routine as locking the house when you go out. I want a world where encrypted internet traffic (especially email, IM, chat, voice chat, video chat and other private communications) is the rule and not the exception. And the encryption should be done in ways that prevent man-in-the-middle attacks and snooping. No computer outside of yours and the one at the other end should ever see the plain text or encryption keys. For real time communications such as IM and voice chat, the encryption should be performed using keys calculated at runtime (with diffe-helman or similar) and thrown away after the communication is finished to prevent anyone from being able to hack into your PC and steal the keys (or force you to hand them over).
All of the problems with people hogging too much bandwidth (and denying other people access) can be handled plain and simple via QoS.
You give all the latency sensitive protocols like VoIP and games highest priority. Then general stuff like IM, Email, Chat and WWW. After that, you give all the file sharing protocols like BitTorrent lowest priority. BitTorrent users will be able to use as much bandwidth as is available after the other more latency sensitive protocols have had their go. If its 3am and less people are using it, you can get the fast speeds on your BitTorrent download.
What the ISPs are doing is basically saying "even in the hypothetical ideal case where there was no traffic whatsoever between you and the other guy, you will NEVER get more than of the 6Mbps you are paying for on BitTorrent"
Is there ANY evidence at all that if this stuff (privacy violations, ID checks, data collection, profiling etc) was in place in the US before 9/11 that it would have had any effect in stopping the attacks? Or would it have stopped the London Underground bombings? Or the Spanish train bombs? Or the Bali bombs? Or any of the other terrorist attacks of the past 50 years?
Measures like reinforced cockpit doors are good. As are measures to make passports harder to forge (including measures requiring that the information on the passport be stored electronically as well as physically and that said information be digitally signed against tampering such that only the governments have the private keys to digitally sign the information) And the measures designed to stop bombs from being taken onto aircraft disguised as otherwise harmless looking objects.
Unfortunatly, the world has turned into a mass of sheeple who only care about their bread (i.e. mass-produced consumer goods made by the lowest bidder and full of hidden unwanted stuff like lead paint and illicit drugs) and their circuses (i.e. mass-produced media content made by big corporations designed to keep you distracted whilst other big corporations ruin the planet in the name of the almighty Dollar/Euro/Pound/Yen/etc) and are unlikely to stand up to the crap the governments of the world want to inflict on them (especially since the few people who DO care enough to stand up to the governments end up in secret jails that make Auschwitz look like Club Med)
Having been into and bought from several EB games stores here in Australia, I have never had a problem with them. The last game I bought was bought from a JB Hi-Fi though (only because the JB Hi-Fi was cheaper)
The Command & Conquer 3 guide is a good example of this, there have been so many balance changes to the game since release day that the guide is now useless.
They dont try and shape traffic because they dont want to shape traffic. Its not just about the bandwidth used by P2P, its also about the fact that P2P is used for so much piracy. Why bother to pay Comcast $$$ for HBO when you can download the shows you wanted from HBOTorrents.com (or other BitTorrent site). Also, it wouldn't surprise me if there are back room secret deals going on where the big media corps are telling Comcast that they have to do their best to make illegal file sharing on their networks unusable and in return they get access to the channels & content from the big media corps at better rates (ala the Microsoft "sell only windows or else we charge you more for it" back room deals that are rumored to exist)
Is that the pricing models (especially the 99c per song) take away the media corps ability to use price as a marketing tool and a way to get consumers to buy the content the media corps what them to buy (instead of what they really want to buy)
It wouldn't surprise me if China is on this list in the near future, what with the recent action of the chinese government. Now is a good time to invest in search engines that the chinese government is not going to block...
Friend codes may suck if you are an adult gamer or a shashdotter. But if you are a parent concerned about your kid playing online (and talking to) people they dont know (who may be bad guys impersonating kids) they are a good thing.
Shaping by traffic is NOT ok. What IS ok is QoS. QoS means that bittorrent/ftp/emule/etc can use as much bandwidth as is available but only AFTER the "more important" protocols like VoIP, HTTP etc have taken what they need.
1.What exactly does this cover? Which network protocols? Which data formats? and 2.Does the license exclude OSS/GPL or have Microsoft finally been forced into allowing GPL software to use its "secret sauce"?
There is nothing wrong with hardware assisted security if the owner controls all the keys and nothing can touch the trusted hardware without the owner specifically installing it (i.e. logging in as root/administrator and changing things).
Trusted Computing is only bad if the owner of the hardware does not have control over the software on the machine, the hardware keys etc.
Actually, the purpose of the UK TV license is to keep the BBC as neutral as humanly possible. Up until recently, the BBC was unanswerable to anyone other than their listeners/viewers and did not have to be good to corporations, governments or political parties since such organizations do not control the funding of the BBC. Of course when the BBC went and exposed the governments lies over the Iraq war (the "falsified" evidence on Iraqi weapons programs) the government started meddling a little bit with the BBC (I cant find exact details with google)
I dont buy the whole "Allowing unsigned apps will break the carriers network" crap. Assuming the baseband is locked down enough against modifications (and no doubt Apple have programmers continuing to tighten things down in that area to prevent unauthorized baseband modifications), there is NOTHING you can do in the application side of the iPhone (in terms of what effect it has on the carriers network) that you can't do with a laptop and a GSM/EDGE data card. (with a similarly locked down baseband)
If it were possible to screw up the mobile phone network via a mobile phone running unapproved software, running unapproved software on any mobile phone (including the FIC NEO OpenMoko phone) would be illegal.
Its all about the carriers wanting to stop you from writing apps that compete with stuff you have to pay rip-off fees to the carrier for. (e.g. using VoIP over the "unlimited" data pack instead of paying through the nose for voice calls or using IM to avoid paying up for expensive SMS messages)
And, if they own it, cant they therefore just release it as downloadable MPEG video files? (that you can only download if you have a license) Last I checked, the BBC own Dr Who, Red Dwarf, Antiques Roadshow, a whole pile of sitcoms and dramas produced by the BBC over the years, a large archive of BBC produced news content not to mention all the BBC radio content.
There is an answer to that: Use linux with security options that would prevent the installation of a software keylogger. Then switch to Dvorak (or something else funky) and use a Das Keyboard (or leave the keys in QWERTY).
Unless they can gain access to your PC and bypass the security, they wont have any idea that its not QWERTY. Any hardware keylogger or bug they insert will produce "garbage" since they have no way of knowing that will produce 'x' instead of 'q'.
Oh and combine this with good home security so that the G men cant get near your PC in the first place.
I want to see AC/DC on Rock Band and wonder if starting a petition to whoever owns the rights would make them more likely to say yes (as opposed to the no answer they have given in the past)
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The data transmission lines would be funded the same way as the electricity grid.
True but my ideas will still stop any kind of passive snooping (there is no way even a giant such as AT&T working with a giant such as the NSA could install man in the middle logging for every IM conversation (with every different possible protocol and encryption mechanism) being passed over their wires)
Encrypt it and/or use Tor & friends.
I want a world where encrypting internet traffic is as routine as locking the house when you go out.
I want a world where encrypted internet traffic (especially email, IM, chat, voice chat, video chat and other private communications) is the rule and not the exception. And the encryption should be done in ways that prevent man-in-the-middle attacks and snooping. No computer outside of yours and the one at the other end should ever see the plain text or encryption keys. For real time communications such as IM and voice chat, the encryption should be performed using keys calculated at runtime (with diffe-helman or similar) and thrown away after the communication is finished to prevent anyone from being able to hack into your PC and steal the keys (or force you to hand them over).
Opera Mini is great for looking stuff up.
All of the problems with people hogging too much bandwidth (and denying other people access) can be handled plain and simple via QoS.
You give all the latency sensitive protocols like VoIP and games highest priority. Then general stuff like IM, Email, Chat and WWW. After that, you give all the file sharing protocols like BitTorrent lowest priority. BitTorrent users will be able to use as much bandwidth as is available after the other more latency sensitive protocols have had their go. If its 3am and less people are using it, you can get the fast speeds on your BitTorrent download.
What the ISPs are doing is basically saying "even in the hypothetical ideal case where there was no traffic whatsoever between you and the other guy, you will NEVER get more than of the 6Mbps you are paying for on BitTorrent"
Is there ANY evidence at all that if this stuff (privacy violations, ID checks, data collection, profiling etc) was in place in the US before 9/11 that it would have had any effect in stopping the attacks? Or would it have stopped the London Underground bombings? Or the Spanish train bombs? Or the Bali bombs? Or any of the other terrorist attacks of the past 50 years?
Measures like reinforced cockpit doors are good. As are measures to make passports harder to forge (including measures requiring that the information on the passport be stored electronically as well as physically and that said information be digitally signed against tampering such that only the governments have the private keys to digitally sign the information) And the measures designed to stop bombs from being taken onto aircraft disguised as otherwise harmless looking objects.
Unfortunatly, the world has turned into a mass of sheeple who only care about their bread (i.e. mass-produced consumer goods made by the lowest bidder and full of hidden unwanted stuff like lead paint and illicit drugs) and their circuses (i.e. mass-produced media content made by big corporations designed to keep you distracted whilst other big corporations ruin the planet in the name of the almighty Dollar/Euro/Pound/Yen/etc) and are unlikely to stand up to the crap the governments of the world want to inflict on them (especially since the few people who DO care enough to stand up to the governments end up in secret jails that make Auschwitz look like Club Med)
Having been into and bought from several EB games stores here in Australia, I have never had a problem with them. The last game I bought was bought from a JB Hi-Fi though (only because the JB Hi-Fi was cheaper)
The Command & Conquer 3 guide is a good example of this, there have been so many balance changes to the game since release day that the guide is now useless.
Why not just stick the files up in MPEG4 or some other open codec (or even the DIRAC codec which the BBC has/had some connection to)?
Stick it behind a login page (with only people who have TV licenses able to get access).
I still FTP on a regular basis.
They dont try and shape traffic because they dont want to shape traffic. Its not just about the bandwidth used by P2P, its also about the fact that P2P is used for so much piracy. Why bother to pay Comcast $$$ for HBO when you can download the shows you wanted from HBOTorrents.com (or other BitTorrent site). Also, it wouldn't surprise me if there are back room secret deals going on where the big media corps are telling Comcast that they have to do their best to make illegal file sharing on their networks unusable and in return they get access to the channels & content from the big media corps at better rates (ala the Microsoft "sell only windows or else we charge you more for it" back room deals that are rumored to exist)
Is that the pricing models (especially the 99c per song) take away the media corps ability to use price as a marketing tool and a way to get consumers to buy the content the media corps what them to buy (instead of what they really want to buy)
It wouldn't surprise me if China is on this list in the near future, what with the recent action of the chinese government. Now is a good time to invest in search engines that the chinese government is not going to block...
Friend codes may suck if you are an adult gamer or a shashdotter. But if you are a parent concerned about your kid playing online (and talking to) people they dont know (who may be bad guys impersonating kids) they are a good thing.
Shaping by traffic is NOT ok. What IS ok is QoS. QoS means that bittorrent/ftp/emule/etc can use as much bandwidth as is available but only AFTER the "more important" protocols like VoIP, HTTP etc have taken what they need.
1.What exactly does this cover? Which network protocols? Which data formats?
and 2.Does the license exclude OSS/GPL or have Microsoft finally been forced into allowing GPL software to use its "secret sauce"?
There is nothing wrong with hardware assisted security if the owner controls all the keys and nothing can touch the trusted hardware without the owner specifically installing it (i.e. logging in as root/administrator and changing things).
Trusted Computing is only bad if the owner of the hardware does not have control over the software on the machine, the hardware keys etc.
Its because Comcast and Cox spend your money (i.e. the money you pay for cable) ensuring that competition never happens.
Actually, the purpose of the UK TV license is to keep the BBC as neutral as humanly possible. Up until recently, the BBC was unanswerable to anyone other than their listeners/viewers and did not have to be good to corporations, governments or political parties since such organizations do not control the funding of the BBC. Of course when the BBC went and exposed the governments lies over the Iraq war (the "falsified" evidence on Iraqi weapons programs) the government started meddling a little bit with the BBC (I cant find exact details with google)
I dont buy the whole "Allowing unsigned apps will break the carriers network" crap. Assuming the baseband is locked down enough against modifications (and no doubt Apple have programmers continuing to tighten things down in that area to prevent unauthorized baseband modifications), there is NOTHING you can do in the application side of the iPhone (in terms of what effect it has on the carriers network) that you can't do with a laptop and a GSM/EDGE data card. (with a similarly locked down baseband)
If it were possible to screw up the mobile phone network via a mobile phone running unapproved software, running unapproved software on any mobile phone (including the FIC NEO OpenMoko phone) would be illegal.
Its all about the carriers wanting to stop you from writing apps that compete with stuff you have to pay rip-off fees to the carrier for. (e.g. using VoIP over the "unlimited" data pack instead of paying through the nose for voice calls or using IM to avoid paying up for expensive SMS messages)
And, if they own it, cant they therefore just release it as downloadable MPEG video files? (that you can only download if you have a license)
Last I checked, the BBC own Dr Who, Red Dwarf, Antiques Roadshow, a whole pile of sitcoms and dramas produced by the BBC over the years, a large archive of BBC produced news content not to mention all the BBC radio content.
There is an answer to that:
Use linux with security options that would prevent the installation of a software keylogger. Then switch to Dvorak (or something else funky) and use a Das Keyboard (or leave the keys in QWERTY).
Unless they can gain access to your PC and bypass the security, they wont have any idea that its not QWERTY. Any hardware keylogger or bug they insert will produce "garbage" since they have no way of knowing that will produce 'x' instead of 'q'.
Oh and combine this with good home security so that the G men cant get near your PC in the first place.
I want to see AC/DC on Rock Band and wonder if starting a petition to whoever owns the rights would make them more likely to say yes (as opposed to the no answer they have given in the past)
I dont know the details but I have seen a Guitar Freaks, a Drummania and a Keyboard Mania in an arcade here in australia.
More likely your program is not popular enough to be worth pirating.