You can only do that if you're transmitting data that's copyrighted by you via that channel. So perhaps if you upload your biography every time you download MP3's from an FTP site... they'll still be able to sue you, but you can sue them too, and be able to use their suit as evidence.
Excite@Home Australia was formed in June 1999 through the joint venture of leading US broadband service provider, At Home Corporation and Australian integrated communications company, Cable & Wireless Optus.
Working closely with Cable & Wireless Optus, Excite@Home Australia delivers Optus@Home, the high-speed cable Internet service.
I'm still scared though... certainly the main Excite@Home company had to agree to do this sort of thing. Which means that they're perfectly willing to do it, depending on the legal climate.
The judge in the original case realized all that. The problem was that there's case law that says it's not legal to convert someone else's copyrighted works from one format to another format for profit. The reasoning is that the original author should 1) get the profit for the new format, 2) should get to set the price for the new format, and 3) should get to say whether or not the new format is allowed.
MP3.com was ruled to be liable for #1 and #2. Now it's time for #3.
The glaring message I got from this was: Windows implements file type metadata quite badly.
And the glaring question was: why is Linux blindly following Windows? Linux's file type handling is still in a somewhat early stage, it wouldn't be inconceivable for the paradigm to change.
If DirectX... limits the game to being sold on only one OS, WHY do so many programmers use it?
To be competitive with other upcoming games, a game must be written specifically for one platform anyway. Every decent game that's come out has taken a month or two to port to another platform.
Same here. Not yet on Excite@Home. Code Red is still attacking once every four minutes, so it should be easy to passively tell almost exactly when port 80 service is cut off.
The ASN.1 compiler only has to run when the DTD changes, if the compiler can output a program that converts XML to ASN.1.
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You're a moron.
point 1: the worm has been disassembled, we know what it does. It's not going to suddenly start unpatching IIS for you.
point 2: yes, in the mean time, other worms can come along, or someone else could use root.exe to install a backdoor. The patch is not going to fix this.
So: download, patch, reboot ASAP. And then search for any backdoors.
You won't necessarily find all the backdoors. The logs could have been modified. EXEs could have been patched. Your checksum program could have been patched. You'll either have to gamble that there's no backdoor, or you'll have to reinstall (while employing that nifty "airgap" word of yours).
AIDS infects others for many years, and then kills its host. Such a strategy is certainly feasible with computer viruses and worms. Some suggest that the only reason they haven't done that yet is that virus writers want the instant gratification of seeing their work on the front page news.
Can you change the server's port to another port, say 8080? Or do you have quite a few links to the server?
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@Home's AUP specifically says "no servers". Also, they've always blocked port 137, so the tools are already installed. Yet they still haven't blocked port 80, even though each IP is getting hit approximately every other minute.
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You can block incoming and outgoing http connections separately. eg. if a SYN packet is going from an outside address to an inside address, and the port number is 80, block it. But don't block anything else.
I second that. I work for one of the larger companies, and we have a mixture of NT and Solaris boxes for the development staff. We started using Samba because... well, the NT sysadmins were understaffed, but also because it's easier to maintain because the server setup is more homogenous.
The founders of Curl Corporation were twelve members of the MIT community, with a technical team led by Stephen A. Ward, an internationally recognized computer scientist; Michael L. Dertouzos, Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; and Timothy Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web and Director of the W3C.
Thin-client assumes that computer hardware is expensive and network bandwidth is cheap. Guess what? That's completely wrong.
Today, compuer hardware can be had for almost nothing. Bandhwidth, if it can be had at all, is costing more, as DSL companies die out because they realized they weren't charging customers enough.
The client is powerful, the network is not. If you want cross-platform compatibility, sacrifice some speed by running within a VM. Java is slow, yes. But you couldn't possibly get that framerate if it were streamed over today's cable modem.
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No silly, you don't sue the FTP site's owner, you sue the people who would unencrypt the encrypted connection to see if you're downloading RIAA MP3's.
You can only do that if you're transmitting data that's copyrighted by you via that channel. So perhaps if you upload your biography every time you download MP3's from an FTP site... they'll still be able to sue you, but you can sue them too, and be able to use their suit as evidence.
http://www.excitehome.excite.com.au/about.html:
Working closely with Cable & Wireless Optus, Excite@Home Australia delivers Optus@Home, the high-speed cable Internet service.
I'm still scared though... certainly the main Excite@Home company had to agree to do this sort of thing. Which means that they're perfectly willing to do it, depending on the legal climate.
that should be politechbot.com. politech.com is just one of those crap "most popular searches" squatter sites.
MP3.com was ruled to be liable for #1 and #2. Now it's time for #3.
And the glaring question was: why is Linux blindly following Windows? Linux's file type handling is still in a somewhat early stage, it wouldn't be inconceivable for the paradigm to change.
Or simply try this header viewer.
/me raises his hand
To be competitive with other upcoming games, a game must be written specifically for one platform anyway. Every decent game that's come out has taken a month or two to port to another platform.
The First Amendment doesn't always trump conflicting laws
Counterstrike seems pretty different from most other FPS's?
An alternate hypothesis: an emphasis on consuming could simply be the nature of an asymetric connection.
Same here. Not yet on Excite@Home. Code Red is still attacking once every four minutes, so it should be easy to passively tell almost exactly when port 80 service is cut off.
The ASN.1 compiler only has to run when the DTD changes, if the compiler can output a program that converts XML to ASN.1.
point 1: the worm has been disassembled, we know what it does. It's not going to suddenly start unpatching IIS for you.
point 2: yes, in the mean time, other worms can come along, or someone else could use root.exe to install a backdoor. The patch is not going to fix this.
So: download, patch, reboot ASAP. And then search for any backdoors.
You won't necessarily find all the backdoors. The logs could have been modified. EXEs could have been patched. Your checksum program could have been patched. You'll either have to gamble that there's no backdoor, or you'll have to reinstall (while employing that nifty "airgap" word of yours).
AIDS infects others for many years, and then kills its host. Such a strategy is certainly feasible with computer viruses and worms. Some suggest that the only reason they haven't done that yet is that virus writers want the instant gratification of seeing their work on the front page news.
step 1: download patch
step 2: apply patch (hole plugged, no additional worms will infect)
step 3: reboot (preexisting worms disapear)
Can you change the server's port to another port, say 8080? Or do you have quite a few links to the server?
@Home's AUP specifically says "no servers". Also, they've always blocked port 137, so the tools are already installed. Yet they still haven't blocked port 80, even though each IP is getting hit approximately every other minute.
You can block incoming and outgoing http connections separately. eg. if a SYN packet is going from an outside address to an inside address, and the port number is 80, block it. But don't block anything else.
Moderators: the link posted here points to an AP article with ~15 paragraphs, rather than 5.
The AP story can be found here.
I second that. I work for one of the larger companies, and we have a mixture of NT and Solaris boxes for the development staff. We started using Samba because... well, the NT sysadmins were understaffed, but also because it's easier to maintain because the server setup is more homogenous.
Today, compuer hardware can be had for almost nothing. Bandhwidth, if it can be had at all, is costing more, as DSL companies die out because they realized they weren't charging customers enough.
The client is powerful, the network is not. If you want cross-platform compatibility, sacrifice some speed by running within a VM. Java is slow, yes. But you couldn't possibly get that framerate if it were streamed over today's cable modem.