Heres what you _can_ do: 1) Encrypt data so that only someone with a decryption key can decrypt it. (Without using the key a good system will take _many_ years to crack by the best people and equipment) 2) Ask people nicely not to forward your email to the boss, and not to copy your IP, and sue them if they do. 3) Not run risky daemons/services/etc... on your network-connected computer, use a firewall, not store sensitive documents unencrypted and not use Outlook.
Heres what you _can't_ do: 1) Trust a remote system just because it has your lap-dog drm system in it. 2) Trust that no-one will crack your amazing system, on their own machine, in their own home, and then use it to copy protected data, forward protected emails, and save self-destructing documents. 3) Control what i do with my own computer - because lets face it, unless i'm accessing a remote system, its really none of your f*cking business.
When will they learn that we're not interested in following stuped artificial rules. The computer is free, with data on it, i can do anything, i don't need my hardware reading secret flags to tell me that i cant 'do that'. As the famous icon says, its My computer.
Frankly, you should also realize that its a federal offense, even in jest, to threaten the president of the united states. I feel the man is, at best, an unintelligent politician, but I'd still personally slam you to the ground to protect his life: he's our leader, elected and chosen, and we have to accept that this title comes with respect and protection.
I was going to just quote that block and use that as the whole comment. Thats got to be the single best reply i've had to any comment this whole year! I'm not even going to begin to pick it apart.. I almost chocked to death laughing.:)
whats the point of your post? I thought it would end with something like "im not a terrorist im just doing a project for school but the gov will still single me out"
Whats the point in the film where the dumb cheesy jock spouts some line to the desperate girl who takes the bullshit and in the end they kiss.. i've seen those films so many times its a cliche. Just like the cliche that all slashdot posts must conclude with "damn government hurting the inocent people like me". Well i thought i would be original for once, stick out from the norm - and look where it got me - being accused of terrorism! there. (does that sound familiar, read the story of this post...)
I've recently been working on an animation project (an atomic bomb). Its a kind of arty project but to get the right effects i spent allot of time reasearching nuclear weapons. I've visited hundereds of web-sites and downloaded close to 100Mb of test films, photos and written reports on nuclear effects, and the physics of nuclear explosions and mushroom clouds. If my isp looks through my logs (lets face it, someone probably does) what are they going to think? I know what i'd think. At school i was pretty much voted most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist. I have copies of the terrorists hand-book on my computer, I hate G.W.Bush (I even had 3 of my comments removed from slashdot for threatening the president:
I'm not old enough to remember much about this stage in any past next generation format wars. I barely remember 3.5" floppies coming in.
Obviously, from what i see. CD/CDR/CDRW has pretty much taken over the floppy for exchanging data. And you know a format has truly been tried and tested when people start using units as coasters, and manufacturers make card-shaped versions:) For a few years now there have been allot of new formats fighting for the top. DVD is dead, its only living because the MPAA pushes it. As far as im concerned, its out-of-date and burners and disks are too expensive (lots of people will argue there). Zip is pretty much there, but its just too small to be anything other than a document and image carrying format. Lots of new formats are arriving with "superior" digital rights management (its amazing how that phrase almost makes it sound good!). At the moment, its a tangled mess of proprietary junk. Im sure we have hit a stage like this before?
Your so concerned about privacy, but out-side your own homes, your privacy is 0. Even if the government (uk) doesn't put security cameras everywhere for all you know its because their hidden. Take a look next time you walk down the street. Any one of those people could be spying on you, with hidden cameras, microphones, wireless scanners, or even just cutting eye-holes in a newspaper:). Any of those buildings on the sides of the road could be full of people spying on you. How many times have you looked out of the window and watched someone walk down the road? It could be the government, a private detective, the mafia or even terrorists. What about camera crews? how do you know they're filming a documentary, they could be the government spying on you... I know there are laws to protect you from this sort of thing, but who follows laws?
Even in your home, the privacy you have is only there because of the walls surrounding you. Your phone could be tapped, there could be lasers pointing at your windows to pick-up sound. There could be infrared cameras looking for heat sources.
Lets not even talk about the isp admins who could be reading your mail...
I Have to agree, but for different reasons - Building a breeding reactor in his back garden, fine. Obtaining materials through social engineering, sure.
DDR type games are one of those inventions that seem lame, but when you think about, are actually killer apps. For example. I hate dancing, it makes you look like a right prat. I don't see where the enjoyment comes from. But DDR is fun. I know this could be taken even further, with rows and rows of machines in clubs/discos etc. and with different variations on the theme. For example, virtual-DDR, where you use a vr-helmet to shut you out from the fact that people are staring at your bad dancing. The helmet shows you a crowed of people cheering you and if one of them boos or laughs at you, the game will allow you to either draw a virtual pistol out and shoot them in the head, or simply kick them across the room matrix style:) The _real_ crowd watching your virtual view on a monitor, will be to scared to mock you on PH34R of death.
Finally! some of the papers here come out with so much crap. They really should bring back the death penalty so we can join the 21st century with countries like Zimbabwe and the USA:)
yes, excellent idea. (I live in the UK, so i would be killed instantly, while Americans would die a slow and painful death from a mixture of hunger, radiation sickness, poverty, desiese and G.W.Bush, even in shelters with food stocks). lol
If a country has a problem with certain substances, it can stop them (i.e filter) at the border with customs officials. If it has problems with data, it can filter that too (a firewall/proxy). Neither is fool-proof, especially with data.
If a country decides that someone has committed a crime, and if that person is in, or visits the country they can be arrested. If you are a reporter, programmer, or anyone else that does something to piss off another country that you don't agree with, don't go there. Its just common sense. If you do get arrested, just pray that your home country eg UK, America etc will bomb the shit out of the other country to get you back. This probably won't happen since it was your fault to begin with.
I can just see someone coming up with a (Visual Basic) program, you select the country that you've pissed off, and select the country that you want to visit, and it will tell you if your safe, or if you'll have an extradition treaty up your ass:) As an extra feature, it also predicts the chances of your home country coming to the rescue and nuking everyone to save you (if home-country=USA then nuking-weight=x100) lol
I have an old TV in my living room, it has no scart or composite inputs, all it has is the aerial (RF) input. In order to use my PS2 as a DVD player (its the only DVD player i own) i need to plug it into my VCRs auxiliary input so I can watch it on TV. While this works fine for games, i get the stupid macrovision effect when i try to watch DVDs. The only thing i can do, is get the plans and build a macrovision stripper, or buy a separate modulator. Macrovision serves no purpose what so ever, i can use the PS2 on my TV-card, and capture DVDs. They just assume that I am some pirate who wants to copy DVDs onto video, when in fact i am some pirate who would rather rip them to DivX and can:).
My respect for the film and DVD industry died years ago. I have absolutely no moral problems with renting a DVD to rip it.
Macrovision is certainly top of the Dumb Ideas Hall of Fame (coming soon)
Don't the cell-phone companies have databases of the locations of every logged-on hand-set? Why not just hack into that system, or do some social engineering and pretend to be some kind of official.
I'm interested, how accurate could a cell-phone system be, (obviously they know what cell your in, and the relative signal strengths from the surrounding transmitters, which you can see on most phones' test modes) can they compensate for obsticals? it seems possible, since most obsticles (and transmitters) don't move, they could build up some kind of map to compensate for the signal loss...
Its just like buying a serial number to register a peice of software. The number is just a means, like a cd is just a thing that carrys data. The real value is the fact that you can use that software without the police knocking your door down for software theft. Personally, i prefer to take the risk and get a serial generator:) If its an everquest (or whatever) account, then you really are wasting your money. Everyone knows that MMORPGs are the work of satan and his minions. If you really want peoples respect, don't spend stupid ammounts of money for a username and password, steal it from them for free instead:)
How much would the string "terrorists will crash planes into the WTC tomorrow" have been worth on September 10?
About as much as the string: "Yeah right, do you think i was born yesterday?"
What i want to know is how much i can get for the string: "bin laden will detonate a nuclear device in a van outside the whitehouse on sept 3rd 2002":)
Damn, i should have gone to one of the 1.0 parties... now its 11pm and i'm stuck at home on a thursday:( oh well, i suppose i better install this "mozilla" thing i downloaded..
Can anyone give me the link of the EULA I signed when i bought/first switched on my TV? Yes, the one that says I must watch all adverts broadcast with a show and that i may not use any recording devices to allow me to skip them...
The MPAA announced today that it is backing a new format called 'DivX-Rip'. Digital disks the size of CD's store entire films using an encoding technique called 'DivX'. The advantages of this format are many, mainly, that the studios no longer need to worry about producing high quality images as the quality of DivX-Rip is notably bad.
"We expect many studios to take-up the new format, especially animation studios such as Disney since the DivX format does exceptionally well at encoding cartoons." Said an MPAA spokesman. Production of DivX-rip disks has already begun, and is expected to skyrocket in the next 3 quarters.
The MPAA has also developed a new copy-protection system for the format known as Zip-Password. The encryption system will only allow people with the correct password to view the films.
The RIAA is also developing a new system for music distribution. Named "MP3-CD" the new format will allow 10 times more music to fit on a CD sized disk and still retain 100% of the quality.
Why don't they just get afew Al'qaeda pilots to do the air traffic controlling. All they need is a couple of mobile phones, an AK and a camel. It costs much less than a billion dollars and is far more reliable
Yeah, the controllers are pissed off because they based the new system on one of those bad ATC games with flashy graphics. It now runs on a Windows 98 machine and crashes every 1024 planes
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Bad Microsoft (smack) :)
Heres what you _can_ do:
1) Encrypt data so that only someone with a decryption key can decrypt it. (Without using the key a good system will take _many_ years to crack by the best people and equipment)
2) Ask people nicely not to forward your email to the boss, and not to copy your IP, and sue them if they do.
3) Not run risky daemons/services/etc... on your network-connected computer, use a firewall, not store sensitive documents unencrypted and not use Outlook.
Heres what you _can't_ do:
1) Trust a remote system just because it has your lap-dog drm system in it.
2) Trust that no-one will crack your amazing system, on their own machine, in their own home, and then use it to copy protected data, forward protected emails, and save self-destructing documents.
3) Control what i do with my own computer - because lets face it, unless i'm accessing a remote system, its really none of your f*cking business.
When will they learn that we're not interested in following stuped artificial rules. The computer is free, with data on it, i can do anything, i don't need my hardware reading secret flags to tell me that i cant 'do that'. As the famous icon says, its My computer.
Thats a sweet thought. But i'm not in your crappy dictatorship country.
:)
Mod _that_ down bitch.
Frankly, you should also realize that its a federal offense, even in jest, to threaten the president of the united states. I feel the man is, at best, an unintelligent politician, but I'd still personally slam you to the ground to protect his life: he's our leader, elected and chosen, and we have to accept that this title comes with respect and protection.
:)
I was going to just quote that block and use that as the whole comment. Thats got to be the single best reply i've had to any comment this whole year! I'm not even going to begin to pick it apart.. I almost chocked to death laughing.
whats the point of your post? I thought it would end with something like "im not a terrorist im just doing a project for school but the gov will still single me out"
Whats the point in the film where the dumb cheesy jock spouts some line to the desperate girl who takes the bullshit and in the end they kiss.. i've seen those films so many times its a cliche. Just like the cliche that all slashdot posts must conclude with "damn government hurting the inocent people like me". Well i thought i would be original for once, stick out from the norm - and look where it got me - being accused of terrorism! there. (does that sound familiar, read the story of this post...)
I've recently been working on an animation project (an atomic bomb). Its a kind of arty project but to get the right effects i spent allot of time reasearching nuclear weapons. I've visited hundereds of web-sites and downloaded close to 100Mb of test films, photos and written reports on nuclear effects, and the physics of nuclear explosions and mushroom clouds. If my isp looks through my logs (lets face it, someone probably does) what are they going to think? I know what i'd think. At school i was pretty much voted most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist. I have copies of the terrorists hand-book on my computer, I hate G.W.Bush (I even had 3 of my comments removed from slashdot for threatening the president:
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Thats my view too, i was just commenting on slashdot's yet-another privacy scam story.
I'm not old enough to remember much about this stage in any past next generation format wars. I barely remember 3.5" floppies coming in.
:) For a few years now there have been allot of new formats fighting for the top. DVD is dead, its only living because the MPAA pushes it. As far as im concerned, its out-of-date and burners and disks are too expensive (lots of people will argue there). Zip is pretty much there, but its just too small to be anything other than a document and image carrying format. Lots of new formats are arriving with "superior" digital rights management (its amazing how that phrase almost makes it sound good!). At the moment, its a tangled mess of proprietary junk. Im sure we have hit a stage like this before?
Obviously, from what i see. CD/CDR/CDRW has pretty much taken over the floppy for exchanging data. And you know a format has truly been tried and tested when people start using units as coasters, and manufacturers make card-shaped versions
Your so concerned about privacy, but out-side your own homes, your privacy is 0. Even if the government (uk) doesn't put security cameras everywhere for all you know its because their hidden. Take a look next time you walk down the street. Any one of those people could be spying on you, with hidden cameras, microphones, wireless scanners, or even just cutting eye-holes in a newspaper :). Any of those buildings on the sides of the road could be full of people spying on you. How many times have you looked out of the window and watched someone walk down the road? It could be the government, a private detective, the mafia or even terrorists. What about camera crews? how do you know they're filming a documentary, they could be the government spying on you... I know there are laws to protect you from this sort of thing, but who follows laws?
Even in your home, the privacy you have is only there because of the walls surrounding you. Your phone could be tapped, there could be lasers pointing at your windows to pick-up sound. There could be infrared cameras looking for heat sources.
Lets not even talk about the isp admins who could be reading your mail...
You don't have any privacy.
I Have to agree, but for different reasons -
Building a breeding reactor in his back garden, fine.
Obtaining materials through social engineering, sure.
But he had a girlfriend?? yeah, sure.
What!!!??? you think _kids_ should be playing these kinds of video games? what sort of sick person are you jedi_alec?
DDR type games are one of those inventions that seem lame, but when you think about, are actually killer apps. For example. I hate dancing, it makes you look like a right prat. I don't see where the enjoyment comes from. But DDR is fun. I know this could be taken even further, with rows and rows of machines in clubs/discos etc. and with different variations on the theme. For example, virtual-DDR, where you use a vr-helmet to shut you out from the fact that people are staring at your bad dancing. The helmet shows you a crowed of people cheering you and if one of them boos or laughs at you, the game will allow you to either draw a virtual pistol out and shoot them in the head, or simply kick them across the room matrix style :) The _real_ crowd watching your virtual view on a monitor, will be to scared to mock you on PH34R of death.
Finally! some of the papers here come out with so much crap. They really should bring back the death penalty so we can join the 21st century with countries like Zimbabwe and the USA :)
yes, excellent idea. (I live in the UK, so i would be killed instantly, while Americans would die a slow and painful death from a mixture of hunger, radiation sickness, poverty, desiese and G.W.Bush, even in shelters with food stocks). lol
If a country has a problem with certain substances, it can stop them (i.e filter) at the border with customs officials. If it has problems with data, it can filter that too (a firewall/proxy). Neither is fool-proof, especially with data.
:) As an extra feature, it also predicts the chances of your home country coming to the rescue and nuking everyone to save you (if home-country=USA then nuking-weight=x100) lol
If a country decides that someone has committed a crime, and if that person is in, or visits the country they can be arrested. If you are a reporter, programmer, or anyone else that does something to piss off another country that you don't agree with, don't go there. Its just common sense. If you do get arrested, just pray that your home country eg UK, America etc will bomb the shit out of the other country to get you back. This probably won't happen since it was your fault to begin with.
I can just see someone coming up with a (Visual Basic) program, you select the country that you've pissed off, and select the country that you want to visit, and it will tell you if your safe, or if you'll have an extradition treaty up your ass
I have an old TV in my living room, it has no scart or composite inputs, all it has is the aerial (RF) input. In order to use my PS2 as a DVD player (its the only DVD player i own) i need to plug it into my VCRs auxiliary input so I can watch it on TV. While this works fine for games, i get the stupid macrovision effect when i try to watch DVDs. The only thing i can do, is get the plans and build a macrovision stripper, or buy a separate modulator. Macrovision serves no purpose what so ever, i can use the PS2 on my TV-card, and capture DVDs. They just assume that I am some pirate who wants to copy DVDs onto video, when in fact i am some pirate who would rather rip them to DivX and can :).
My respect for the film and DVD industry died years ago. I have absolutely no moral problems with renting a DVD to rip it.
Macrovision is certainly top of the Dumb Ideas Hall of Fame (coming soon)
Don't the cell-phone companies have databases of the locations of every logged-on hand-set? Why not just hack into that system, or do some social engineering and pretend to be some kind of official.
I'm interested, how accurate could a cell-phone system be, (obviously they know what cell your in, and the relative signal strengths from the surrounding transmitters, which you can see on most phones' test modes) can they compensate for obsticals? it seems possible, since most obsticles (and transmitters) don't move, they could build up some kind of map to compensate for the signal loss...
Everyone knows that only dumb people set their password the same as their name...
:)
Uh-oh, i think i know the US nuclear launch codes
Its just like buying a serial number to register a peice of software. The number is just a means, like a cd is just a thing that carrys data. The real value is the fact that you can use that software without the police knocking your door down for software theft. Personally, i prefer to take the risk and get a serial generator :) If its an everquest (or whatever) account, then you really are wasting your money. Everyone knows that MMORPGs are the work of satan and his minions. If you really want peoples respect, don't spend stupid ammounts of money for a username and password, steal it from them for free instead :)
How much would the string "terrorists will crash planes into the WTC tomorrow" have been worth on September 10?
:)
About as much as the string: "Yeah right, do you think i was born yesterday?"
What i want to know is how much i can get for the string: "bin laden will detonate a nuclear device in a van outside the whitehouse on sept 3rd 2002"
Damn, i should have gone to one of the 1.0 parties... now its 11pm and i'm stuck at home on a thursday :( oh well, i suppose i better install this "mozilla" thing i downloaded..
Can anyone give me the link of the EULA I signed when i bought/first switched on my TV? Yes, the one that says I must watch all adverts broadcast with a show and that i may not use any recording devices to allow me to skip them...
thought not
How is the UK an information free zone? The story you read came from a UK website.
Its better to be run be elitist technocrats than dictator wannabes who are the lap-dogs of multi-billion dollar corporations.
Breaking News: Studios release new format!!
The MPAA announced today that it is backing a new format called 'DivX-Rip'. Digital disks the size of CD's store entire films using an encoding technique called 'DivX'. The advantages of this format are many, mainly, that the studios no longer need to worry about producing high quality images as the quality of DivX-Rip is notably bad.
"We expect many studios to take-up the new format, especially animation studios such as Disney since the DivX format does exceptionally well at encoding cartoons." Said an MPAA spokesman. Production of DivX-rip disks has already begun, and is expected to skyrocket in the next 3 quarters.
The MPAA has also developed a new copy-protection system for the format known as Zip-Password. The encryption system will only allow people with the correct password to view the films.
The RIAA is also developing a new system for music distribution. Named "MP3-CD" the new format will allow 10 times more music to fit on a CD sized disk and still retain 100% of the quality.
Why don't they just get afew Al'qaeda pilots to do the air traffic controlling. All they need is a couple of mobile phones, an AK and a camel. It costs much less than a billion dollars and is far more reliable
Yeah, the controllers are pissed off because they based the new system on one of those bad ATC games with flashy graphics. It now runs on a Windows 98 machine and crashes every 1024 planes