I fail to see why this is noteworth except to those that don't understand how easy it is to crack WEP. In fact 3 minutes is barely worth writing home about. Hell, we've done the same in class for crying out loud--you only need to capture about 7-10MB of data to have all the IVs required to perform the cracking, and that's equivalent of what, an MP3 or two?
Cracking the key is what usually takes the most time and now that can be accomplished in as little as 15 seconds these days with recently available tools.
Add it all together, plus the time it takes to input the key into the wireless config, and you've got access in about 3 minutes or so.
I don't know why I became attached to Kirk or Bones or Picard or Janeway or Scottie or LaForge, but not to anyone on Enterprise
I feel the same way, for one exception: Trip and T'Pol. There was a really good interaction built up between them that I wanted to see more of. I mean come one, they had a sexual relationship, and for ST that's a pretty big deal considering how muted it has become.
Yet how many people went out and bought WindowsXP knowing full well that it included product activation?
This is why I have little hope in people actually "getting it". Its also why I fear that this will eventually lead to the downfall of American cultural and economic supremacy. In a nutshell, greed will kill innovation by locking everything up for perpetual profit, and countries that aren't bound by our lock-happy laws will take our initiative and run away with it in the form of ubercheap competing products.
It sounds silly, but that's pretty close to how the PC business got started in the first place (research the creation of the term "IBM-PC compatible").
Patents and copyright need to be drastically revised to compensate _only_ the actual creative work.
Amen brother!
And FSD was upheld by the Supreme Court, so that's not going anywhere. What this issue really comes down to is how greedy corporations want to be. They'd much rather have you and everyone else buy individual RECURRING copies of the same content on whichever media is available. Instead of copying your CDs to the hard drive to burn later in the new format that become the defacto standard, they'd rather you be required to buy it again. This isn't what copyright was intended for. In fact the sole pupose of copyrights were to compensate the creator of a work for doing so, and not to be a recurring cash cow for decades after they die like they are today (re: Disney).
From a Boston College Intellectual Property article in 1998.
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The first sale doctrine states that once a copyright owner sells a copy of his work to another, the copyright owner relinquishes all further rights to sell or otherwise dispose of that copy. The Supreme Court first adopted the first sale doctrine in the case of Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, 210 U.S. 339 (1908). In that case, the Supreme Court held that the exclusive right to sell copyrighted works only applied to the first sale of a copyrighted work. 210 U.S. 339, 349-350. While the copyright owner retained the underlying copyright to the expression fixed in the work, the copyright owner gave up his ability to control the fate of the work once it had been sold.
This extends the thought that a copyrighted work/intellectual property is in fact not licensed, but sold as property. Once sold, the copyright owner no longer has a say in the future use or sale of said copy. Its just a fact of copyright law. Now apply that precedent to software, et al, and you can see why DRM/licensing is a farce.
Additionally, what constitues unauthorized reproduction (in reference to those ominous FBI warnings everyone is so fond of) is defined in legal code and is not the purview of a company's policy, or more applicably, the psuedo-legalmumbojumbo often seen present on retail media, or in marketing media. All that stuff is just various types of FUD, plain and simple. The biggest farce to hit the IP scene was in the form of licensing a la Microsoft. All it really is is a gentleman's agreement that they won't sue you for not buying multiple copies of their software so long as you pay up for what they deem said software to be worth (think VAR licenses). Don't get me wrong, they're useful as hell. But given the past 20 years of legal precedents, federally speaking, licensing is pure bunk. Now at the State level that's different. Some States have in fact held licenses as legally binding contracts, so YMMV in that sense.
(Devil's Advocate)In most circumstances a minor cannot enter into a legally binding contract with an adult without parental consent, so what happens in the event a minor should buy a copy of a game, software, or other Intellectual Property?(/Devil's Advocate)
My question is who is responsible if someone forges your signature with a stolen card?
I would think it'd be the place the goods were sold since they didn't check the signature, or require proof of identity, but then that would make sense so who knows....
I'm right there with you. I had about a half dozen "shots" with that thing in one day. Pain-free is not something we associated with it. And that's not counting the folks who were cut because either they or the tech's hand were moving when they did the injection. IIRC a couple of people ended up with stiches.
What kind of interface does the Linksys router w/ its 2 integrated voice ports provide? FYI, I'm referring to the model that Vonage uses (sorry, but I don't know the model number).
I'm thinking about setting up my own PBX for the extended features, but I'm already with Vonage. Would there even be a benefit to using an Asterix box in this kind of scenario? And it'd be VoIP behind VoIP, which for some reason doesn't seem wise to implement....
Allow me to ask this simple question: why is someone sending unsolicited email to you a crime, but selling your personal information to someone who sends unsolicited email not? Or to be more precise (in regards to ChoicePoint), someone allowing your personal information to be handled by crooks.
If you ask me, our personal privacy initiatives are more than a bit skewed, and with the estimated 600 man hours it takes a victim of identity theft to recover from said crime, someone needs to be held accountable. Then again, if our privacy laws made sense it'd be illegal to sell a citizen's personal information without their consent. The beneficial side-effect would be the removal of everyone's email addresses from the hands of spammers. After all, where do you think they get their information from? That's right, data warehouses (just like ChoicePoint).
This also underscores the fact that UPN isn't even available in large swaths of the country. Imagine how many more viewers it would have if it was on a channel with large viewship to begin with. In fact, putting a show like Enterprise on a more mainstreame station would probably do far more good for Enterprise than any artistic changes from what they've got going right now (i.e. get rid of Berman).
But Burr said no complete implementation of the SHA-1 function has been successfully attacked. "SHA-1 is not broken," he said, "and there is not much reason to suspect that it will be soon." But advances in computer processing capability make it prudent to phase out SHA-1 by 2010, he said.
Well, considering that the NSA is rolled up under the DoD you can see why the DoD in general D instead of the F it deserved (implicating that the NSA raised the bar more than a little).
You're all reading into it and assuming it wouldn't be encrypted with a public key a la PKE/PKI.
Remember, its just a simplified explanation of how one can use a hash (with data Integrity as an example).
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The short short version of what a hash does is you take a file, an email for example, and you create a hash value from it. Then you send the email and the hash to a recipient. That person then does the same thing. If the hash values are the same then the person who recieved the email knows it wasn't doctored or messed with en route, hence proving that it's integrity is sound (in theory).
I've been saying it ever since HL2 came out. This was going to happen sooner or later, and everyone who bought into this bullshit system would get burned. Or to be more precise, got exactly what they deserved. I boycotted HL2 and CS:S and haven't been happier. In fact, these kinds of outtages only vindicate my stance. DRM and product activation schemes must die. They serve no useful pupose than to punish the legitamate users. Think gun control, the only people that won't have guns will be the honest folks since the criminals won't care about the law and will do their own thing anyway. Piracy is the same way.
You don't like thought provoking, character-driven storylines.
You like big explosions in space, nevermind the fact that there isn't an atmosphere to have the big explosions in space.
You can't deal with concurrent plots that may deal with theology and the defining of what makes one "alive".
In summary you're right that BSG isn't your cup of tea. Best you stick with Trek and its odd-forehead of the week, particle of the week, and/or time-traveling plots.
Actually, whenever #6 comes on-screen I get really anxious, and not because of her looks. It mainly seems like she's either ominous and forshadowning, or beating the crap out of Baltar (physically and/or mentally).
The only time I thought the T&A was over the top was in episode 13 with all the Boomers, but when you think about it it makes sense that they're all naked (seeing that they're all the same person and psuedo-robots to begin with).
Good Sci-Fi uses the technology as a backdrop to character development and asking interesting questions. Technology is a vehicle not the destination.
You just described the exact reason why the new Battlestar Galactica is so damn good. In fact, with episode 12 (that just aired in the UK) it has proven itself to be THE best science-fiction television series of all-time (IMNSHO).
Wht do manufacturers keep coming up with special names and looks for their PVR/DVRs? Why not take the approach that made VCRs ubiqutous and have a general design that everyone knows and will not be afraid to buy. If everytime someone walks into a store and sees 10 different versions of what are essentially the same device, they're going to inevitably get confused. Its already tough enough getting folks to shed their VCRs for a digital replacement so why compound the issue? In my opinion commodidty and simplicity is what will drive the DVR/PVR market to the levels of market penetration (or saturation if you will) that VCRs have already achieved. Whenever something whiz-bang enters the market this always seems to happen and is eventually later "fixed" by the companies that make it simple enough for Joe Sixpack to own and operate, which is a point I hope we're quickly approaching. Until then the standalone DVR/PVRs will be a fractured market fighting to stay alive. Don't get me wrong, I love the ability to space & time-shift my stuff in a digial format, but too many options/features can lead to a divergence in the selling points that may end up killing any advanced funtionality they offer (assuming costs don't do the trick beforehand).
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I fail to see why this is noteworth except to those that don't understand how easy it is to crack WEP. In fact 3 minutes is barely worth writing home about. Hell, we've done the same in class for crying out loud--you only need to capture about 7-10MB of data to have all the IVs required to perform the cracking, and that's equivalent of what, an MP3 or two?
Cracking the key is what usually takes the most time and now that can be accomplished in as little as 15 seconds these days with recently available tools.
Add it all together, plus the time it takes to input the key into the wireless config, and you've got access in about 3 minutes or so.
Yet how many people went out and bought WindowsXP knowing full well that it included product activation?
This is why I have little hope in people actually "getting it". Its also why I fear that this will eventually lead to the downfall of American cultural and economic supremacy. In a nutshell, greed will kill innovation by locking everything up for perpetual profit, and countries that aren't bound by our lock-happy laws will take our initiative and run away with it in the form of ubercheap competing products.
It sounds silly, but that's pretty close to how the PC business got started in the first place (research the creation of the term "IBM-PC compatible").
Additionally, what constitues unauthorized reproduction (in reference to those ominous FBI warnings everyone is so fond of) is defined in legal code and is not the purview of a company's policy, or more applicably, the psuedo-legalmumbojumbo often seen present on retail media, or in marketing media. All that stuff is just various types of FUD, plain and simple. The biggest farce to hit the IP scene was in the form of licensing a la Microsoft. All it really is is a gentleman's agreement that they won't sue you for not buying multiple copies of their software so long as you pay up for what they deem said software to be worth (think VAR licenses). Don't get me wrong, they're useful as hell. But given the past 20 years of legal precedents, federally speaking, licensing is pure bunk. Now at the State level that's different. Some States have in fact held licenses as legally binding contracts, so YMMV in that sense.
(Devil's Advocate)In most circumstances a minor cannot enter into a legally binding contract with an adult without parental consent, so what happens in the event a minor should buy a copy of a game, software, or other Intellectual Property?(/Devil's Advocate)
My question is who is responsible if someone forges your signature with a stolen card?
I would think it'd be the place the goods were sold since they didn't check the signature, or require proof of identity, but then that would make sense so who knows....
Oh. I didn't realize this was outside the US.
Thanks for the info though.
Got any links to back this up?
This could come in handy should any mystery charges ever happen their way onto my CC bill.
I'm right there with you. I had about a half dozen "shots" with that thing in one day. Pain-free is not something we associated with it. And that's not counting the folks who were cut because either they or the tech's hand were moving when they did the injection. IIRC a couple of people ended up with stiches.
Amen. The truly sad part is that those of us that think this way are the ones that are looked upon as being unpatriotic.
I was afraid of that.
What kind of interface does the Linksys router w/ its 2 integrated voice ports provide? FYI, I'm referring to the model that Vonage uses (sorry, but I don't know the model number).
I'm thinking about setting up my own PBX for the extended features, but I'm already with Vonage. Would there even be a benefit to using an Asterix box in this kind of scenario? And it'd be VoIP behind VoIP, which for some reason doesn't seem wise to implement....
What if you have a modem in the PC? Can't your regular phone connect straight into that (and let the PC (Asterix) convert it to VoIP?
Allow me to ask this simple question: why is someone sending unsolicited email to you a crime, but selling your personal information to someone who sends unsolicited email not? Or to be more precise (in regards to ChoicePoint), someone allowing your personal information to be handled by crooks.
If you ask me, our personal privacy initiatives are more than a bit skewed, and with the estimated 600 man hours it takes a victim of identity theft to recover from said crime, someone needs to be held accountable. Then again, if our privacy laws made sense it'd be illegal to sell a citizen's personal information without their consent. The beneficial side-effect would be the removal of everyone's email addresses from the hands of spammers. After all, where do you think they get their information from? That's right, data warehouses (just like ChoicePoint).
This also underscores the fact that UPN isn't even available in large swaths of the country. Imagine how many more viewers it would have if it was on a channel with large viewship to begin with. In fact, putting a show like Enterprise on a more mainstreame station would probably do far more good for Enterprise than any artistic changes from what they've got going right now (i.e. get rid of Berman).
Keep in mind that HP recently announced plans to trump cheap replacement cartridges by implementing region locking their cartridges a la DVDs.
Well, considering that the NSA is rolled up under the DoD you can see why the DoD in general D instead of the F it deserved (implicating that the NSA raised the bar more than a little).
You're all reading into it and assuming it wouldn't be encrypted with a public key a la PKE/PKI.
Remember, its just a simplified explanation of how one can use a hash (with data Integrity as an example).
The short short version of what a hash does is you take a file, an email for example, and you create a hash value from it. Then you send the email and the hash to a recipient. That person then does the same thing. If the hash values are the same then the person who recieved the email knows it wasn't doctored or messed with en route, hence proving that it's integrity is sound (in theory).
I've been saying it ever since HL2 came out. This was going to happen sooner or later, and everyone who bought into this bullshit system would get burned. Or to be more precise, got exactly what they deserved. I boycotted HL2 and CS:S and haven't been happier. In fact, these kinds of outtages only vindicate my stance. DRM and product activation schemes must die. They serve no useful pupose than to punish the legitamate users. Think gun control, the only people that won't have guns will be the honest folks since the criminals won't care about the law and will do their own thing anyway. Piracy is the same way.
To recap...
You don't like thought provoking, character-driven storylines.
You like big explosions in space, nevermind the fact that there isn't an atmosphere to have the big explosions in space.
You can't deal with concurrent plots that may deal with theology and the defining of what makes one "alive".
In summary you're right that BSG isn't your cup of tea. Best you stick with Trek and its odd-forehead of the week, particle of the week, and/or time-traveling plots.
Actually, whenever #6 comes on-screen I get really anxious, and not because of her looks. It mainly seems like she's either ominous and forshadowning, or beating the crap out of Baltar (physically and/or mentally).
The only time I thought the T&A was over the top was in episode 13 with all the Boomers, but when you think about it it makes sense that they're all naked (seeing that they're all the same person and psuedo-robots to begin with).
You just described the exact reason why the new Battlestar Galactica is so damn good. In fact, with episode 12 (that just aired in the UK) it has proven itself to be THE best science-fiction television series of all-time (IMNSHO).
Wht do manufacturers keep coming up with special names and looks for their PVR/DVRs? Why not take the approach that made VCRs ubiqutous and have a general design that everyone knows and will not be afraid to buy. If everytime someone walks into a store and sees 10 different versions of what are essentially the same device, they're going to inevitably get confused. Its already tough enough getting folks to shed their VCRs for a digital replacement so why compound the issue? In my opinion commodidty and simplicity is what will drive the DVR/PVR market to the levels of market penetration (or saturation if you will) that VCRs have already achieved. Whenever something whiz-bang enters the market this always seems to happen and is eventually later "fixed" by the companies that make it simple enough for Joe Sixpack to own and operate, which is a point I hope we're quickly approaching. Until then the standalone DVR/PVRs will be a fractured market fighting to stay alive. Don't get me wrong, I love the ability to space & time-shift my stuff in a digial format, but too many options/features can lead to a divergence in the selling points that may end up killing any advanced funtionality they offer (assuming costs don't do the trick beforehand).