american phishers host their sites in china, korea, and eastern europe. its quite easy to follow the money trail though, which is how phishers get caught today. it always leads back to americans.
the reason why the penalties are so high is that the internet is the basically wild west right now, completely overrun by criminals. penalties in the early wild west were similarly severe in order to curb crime.
the other thing the bill does is to fund a specific special law enforcement division to prosecute specifically these crimes.
vendors using retarded convoluted proprietary MIBs when an existing standard one would work just as well (or better).
vendors using proprietary datatypes (or strings) when existing standard datatypes work just fine. laziness? stupidity? beats me.
SNMP also works very poorly through NAT. or lossy/high latency WANs.
vendors seem to think the 'simple' in SNMP means they can cut corners and do a minimal implementation, so you get devices which crash when you request large sets of data. a simple snmpwalk can crash many vendors devices.
it is remarkably difficult to use SNMP through NAT.
encryption support for SNMP is also very poor. that is, few vendors implement it and it's very cumbersome to use even if it is implemented.
the huge proprietary convoluted MIBs vendors use also doesnt help much, especially when the documentation on them is poor to nonexistent. it's also very annoying when they use a proprietary MIB when an existing standard one would have fit just as well (or better).
snmp v3 works perfectly fine as it is. let's leave well enough alone
considering most vendors are still using v1 or v2, that should be 'lets leave snmp v3 alone':)
to be perfectly honest, SNMP is anything but simple. the only thing simple about it is the protocol itself. it then got buried under avalanches of proprietary MIBs, all partially overlapping yet all mutually incompatible. some only partially documented (or not documented at all). not only that, the insistence of vendors using funky proprietary data types (or worse, strings) when existing datatypes would work perfectly fine.
what was needed imo was a MIB guideline and 'retarded implementation' verification. to ensure vendors didn't create obfuscated and spaghettified MIBs.
there are a lot of reasons to use 8-bit uCs. price is only one of them, and rarely the most significant factor. often, uC price is the least significant factor.
pin count, component size, power consumption, and overall complexity are the other major factors in embedded designs. all of these factors are higher in 32bit uCs.
8bit designs arent used solely because they're less powerful, but because they are far simpler than the mess of logic required to support 16bit or 32bit uCs.
8bit uCs aren't in any danger of being killed off by this.
Another thing that gets me is that a filesystem can be "in use" just because an app is using it as its current working directory. No open files, no uncommited writes, just because some program is sitting there it can't be unmounted, but again I can rm -rf it. (Yes, I do know that rm -rf only removes the linkcount by one, and the files might actually really still be there and not there at the same time.)
however this lets you do neat and useful things, like recovering files after they've been deleted (but while the process still has them open). cd to/proc, and cat out the fd's back into files. saved my ass a number of times.
the spyware is still being created by or contracted for american citizens. doesnt matter if they operate their scams offshore. they're still under US jurisdiction.
those attacks were the directly the result of republican administrations and republican policies. maybe you recall these little details called "iran-iraq war", "iran-contra" and "gulf war".
Iraq invaded Kuwait *because* Kuwait was the first aggressor in the Gulf War.
no.
iraq invaded kuwait because saddam himself said he needed something for his idle army to do. they were becoming restless and a possible threat to his power.
saddam has all along said kuwait belonged to iraq. long before the gulf war.
its quite odd how most iraqis felt saddam's invasion of kuwait is unjustified (though bizarrely enough feel that his scud attacks on israel were justified), and you defend what he did.
what's rather ironic about the whole thing is that kuwait provided financial support for iraq during the iran-iraq war in the 80's.
The party wants the internet filtered at server level, warning that children exposed to online pornography could exhibit "disturbed, aggressive or sexualised behaviour".
i 100% agree. we should start by blocking the bible. it's full of obscene, graphically explicit sexual passages and extreme violence.
there's plenty of examples of people exhibiting disturbed, aggressive and sexualized behaviour after reading the bible.
if porn is going to be filtered, there can be no exceptions. no online bible for you!
How many patents does microsoft windows violate? How about osx? solaris? aix? hp/ux? Probably tens of thousands.
We only know about the linux 'violations' because the code is open. I'm sure if someone were to evaluate "those other operating systems" we'd find far more -- because there is no open public oversight of their code. They operate in secret, who's the wiser if they were deliberately violating patents?
Also, do any of "those other companies" provide indemnification to end users? No, in fact microsoft's license is almost exclusively to provide microsoft with indemnification from end users.
Using microsoft or any other OS isn't likely any safer than using linux, when it comes to patent violations.
So today you can still buy 1000mg vitamin C capspules and many other herbs and vitamins which the medical/pharmaceutical lobby wanted to legislate out of existence.
no, they wanted to legislate the labeling of "ALL NATURAL HERBAL CANCER CURE-ALL" out of existence.
didnt seem to stop anyone though. you can still buy "HERBAL DIABETES CURE" and "HERBAL AIDS CURE" from the local "all natural foods store".
no point in legislating herbs out of existence since they do fuck all as medicine, the only thing theyre good for is tasty toppings on food.
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american phishers host their sites in china, korea, and eastern europe. its quite easy to follow the money trail though, which is how phishers get caught today. it always leads back to americans.
the reason why the penalties are so high is that the internet is the basically wild west right now, completely overrun by criminals. penalties in the early wild west were similarly severe in order to curb crime.
the other thing the bill does is to fund a specific special law enforcement division to prosecute specifically these crimes.
sanford wallace is #1 on the list.
vendors using retarded convoluted proprietary MIBs when an existing standard one would work just as well (or better).
vendors using proprietary datatypes (or strings) when existing standard datatypes work just fine. laziness? stupidity? beats me.
SNMP also works very poorly through NAT. or lossy/high latency WANs.
vendors seem to think the 'simple' in SNMP means they can cut corners and do a minimal implementation, so you get devices which crash when you request large sets of data. a simple snmpwalk can crash many vendors devices.
it is remarkably difficult to use SNMP through NAT.
encryption support for SNMP is also very poor. that is, few vendors implement it and it's very cumbersome to use even if it is implemented.
the huge proprietary convoluted MIBs vendors use also doesnt help much, especially when the documentation on them is poor to nonexistent. it's also very annoying when they use a proprietary MIB when an existing standard one would have fit just as well (or better).
snmp v3 works perfectly fine as it is. let's leave well enough alone
:)
considering most vendors are still using v1 or v2, that should be 'lets leave snmp v3 alone'
to be perfectly honest, SNMP is anything but simple. the only thing simple about it is the protocol itself. it then got buried under avalanches of proprietary MIBs, all partially overlapping yet all mutually incompatible. some only partially documented (or not documented at all). not only that, the insistence of vendors using funky proprietary data types (or worse, strings) when existing datatypes would work perfectly fine.
what was needed imo was a MIB guideline and 'retarded implementation' verification. to ensure vendors didn't create obfuscated and spaghettified MIBs.
there are a lot of reasons to use 8-bit uCs. price is only one of them, and rarely the most significant factor. often, uC price is the least significant factor.
pin count, component size, power consumption, and overall complexity are the other major factors in embedded designs. all of these factors are higher in 32bit uCs.
8bit designs arent used solely because they're less powerful, but because they are far simpler than the mess of logic required to support 16bit or 32bit uCs.
8bit uCs aren't in any danger of being killed off by this.
"I didn't see how this new law is superior to those existing general-case laws"
The new law spells out huge fines and prison time. It also funds a special unit to specifically pursue and prosecute these crimes.
That's why this law is superior.
As stated before, it doesnt matter where the sites are hosted, because the phishers are americans.
Another thing that gets me is that a filesystem can be "in use" just because an app is using it as its current working directory. No open files, no uncommited writes, just because some program is sitting there it can't be unmounted, but again I can rm -rf it. (Yes, I do know that rm -rf only removes the linkcount by one, and the files might actually really still be there and not there at the same time.)
/proc, and cat out the fd's back into files. saved my ass a number of times.
however this lets you do neat and useful things, like recovering files after they've been deleted (but while the process still has them open). cd to
it doesnt work though. try it (kernel 2.6.8.1). it just hangs like everything else.
that's an apple 1, not a mac. duh.
or a computer used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication
um, DUH? wasn't obvious enough for you?
learn to read?
the spyware is still being created by or contracted for american citizens. doesnt matter if they operate their scams offshore. they're still under US jurisdiction.
a subpoena would surely reveal if they're using automated software or just hiring fuckwits off the street.
aluminum appears to be the best material:
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those attacks were the directly the result of republican administrations and republican policies. maybe you recall these little details called "iran-iraq war", "iran-contra" and "gulf war".
Iraq invaded Kuwait *because* Kuwait was the first aggressor in the Gulf War.
no.
iraq invaded kuwait because saddam himself said he needed something for his idle army to do. they were becoming restless and a possible threat to his power.
saddam has all along said kuwait belonged to iraq. long before the gulf war.
its quite odd how most iraqis felt saddam's invasion of kuwait is unjustified (though bizarrely enough feel that his scud attacks on israel were justified), and you defend what he did.
what's rather ironic about the whole thing is that kuwait provided financial support for iraq during the iran-iraq war in the 80's.
you legislate it.
if you want to know what bush was really thinking, rather than what he actually said, look at when bush smirks or rolls his eyes.
The party wants the internet filtered at server level, warning that children exposed to online pornography could exhibit "disturbed, aggressive or sexualised behaviour".
i 100% agree. we should start by blocking the bible. it's full of obscene, graphically explicit sexual passages and extreme violence.
there's plenty of examples of people exhibiting disturbed, aggressive and sexualized behaviour after reading the bible.
if porn is going to be filtered, there can be no exceptions. no online bible for you!
After all, most of the energy required to launch satellites is wasted just fighting your way out of orbit, and that is what SpaceShip One has solved.
No it hasn't. Not even close. It achieved maybe 2% of what is needed for LEO.
There's a long, long way to go if you want to achieve LEO.
How many patents does microsoft windows violate? How about osx? solaris? aix? hp/ux? Probably tens of thousands.
We only know about the linux 'violations' because the code is open. I'm sure if someone were to evaluate "those other operating systems" we'd find far more -- because there is no open public oversight of their code. They operate in secret, who's the wiser if they were deliberately violating patents?
Also, do any of "those other companies" provide indemnification to end users? No, in fact microsoft's license is almost exclusively to provide microsoft with indemnification from end users.
Using microsoft or any other OS isn't likely any safer than using linux, when it comes to patent violations.
...is just a pile of bantha pudu
just buy a couple thousand cases of smoke detectors and take out the americium-241.
What are those people doing instead of watching TV? *They're on the internet*.
now you know why the MPAA is attacking the internet so desperately.
uh oh, is that the sound of an FBI raid at your door?
So today you can still buy 1000mg vitamin C capspules and many other herbs and vitamins which the medical/pharmaceutical lobby wanted to legislate out of existence.
no, they wanted to legislate the labeling of "ALL NATURAL HERBAL CANCER CURE-ALL" out of existence.
didnt seem to stop anyone though. you can still buy "HERBAL DIABETES CURE" and "HERBAL AIDS CURE" from the local "all natural foods store".
no point in legislating herbs out of existence since they do fuck all as medicine, the only thing theyre good for is tasty toppings on food.