James flips open his laptop with WiFi card and special software, intercepts pr0n from Joe/John's traffic, and leaves.
Point is, how safe is this? Is Starbucks willing to take responsibility for people's data that is flying around all unsecure like?
"It provides a definite advantage over direct encoding of polarization, leaving an eavesdropper only chaotic static, and no means to extract the signal."
Why the extra security? There's already the depths of the ocean, the difficulty of trying to tap a fiber line, not to mention whatever encryptation they have on their data. They must be looking at some questionable pr0n to go to these lengths.
Don't backbone providers have a clause that denies their guilt in any illegal activity going over their own lines, instead shunting the blame to the user? (where it should be) I mean, God forbid you track down the actual offenders. Instead, track down the people that make the offense possible. If this gets through, expect the Internet (at least according to the US) to be shattered by the RIAA and MPAA, and whatever other group decides that they should be able to give us ethics and opinions to abide by.
Used to? I have a pulse line, and last I checked, Bellsouth refused to upgrade it to touch tone without a montly fee of like $5 extra or something retarded.
I never said it was unreasonable. If I looked at a bill and saw 'equipment lease' or 'rental' 10 years down the road for some ancient dusty lost piece of eq, I'd sure as hell see what I could do about getting that charge removed.
If memory serves me, the cable company (I think Comcast) is still charging my parents for a cable box they leased from them back in the early 80s. And the remote to it. Sure, its only like $2 a month or something, but for 20 YEARS? Needless to say, the remote is long lost, and the box has been 'destroyed' (via disassembly and reassembly).
I have this coaster with a football logo (University of TN if you're nosy). The slightest bit of pressure causes the horrid device to spew forth music from rocky top at a very, very high volume. Louder than my alarm clock, and by far more annoying.
No drek. I saw some TFC spec hackers the other day. One was a scout with a fully-working autocannon (hwguy's weapon), the other was just flying 'round and appearing inside of people, making them unable to move. This is THROUGH Valve's anticheat tech and HLGuard to boot. Not to mention the aimbotting, bunnyhopping soldiers that shoot grenades and rockets out of their ass. CS is worse, you're seen, you're dead. Pistol fights are funny because the people CAN'T unlock from the other people's heads..
I know. And I wasn't even farming for first posts. Just a lucky time to visit Slashdot I guess. I'll enjoy my first-first post now and the karma hit associated with it.
We all know that its illegal to teach things to people that could possibly be used for malicious purposes. We also know that pointing out flaws or weaknesses in computer systems is an activity reserved for terrorists and other 'undesirables'.
Fairly well, I imgaine. Fire one shot into the heart of a large city, bam, 2,000,000 people blinded, one or two people with large holes added to their body.
When corporations gain the right to hack people and to take away their rights faster than the FBI with a warrant, something needs to be done. The MPAA must fall if this goes on, or us Americans are doomed to follow the corporations' instead of the best interest of the people. ShadowRun, anyone?
Prison? I was hit in the rear passengers' side tire area by someone who flew through a red light (turned green just as he went under it, and I never got a yellow turn arrow, just went from green to red as I was turning), doing 70, and it pretty much destroyed the rear end of my car, snapping my axle, etc. Guess who they blamed it on? Not the guy doing 3x the speed limit (with tire marks on the road as proof) but me. Not to mention his headlights barely worked, so I couldn't even see him coming.
Remember the days when whoever had the biggest muscles and best brawl skills won all the arguments? Now the kids who got spanked by everyone else are doing the spanking, only, using money to win arguments instead of muscle. I believe we'd call this situation 'lame'.
There are no natives on this frontier, except for the people who founded it. We've gone and staked our claims already, and the corporations are now coming and using their various methods of leverage to gain control of our claims. We claim rights, domains, fair use, research...all of that to be crushed under the corporate war machine. It isn't fair that they can come in and do this. The government knows that it isn't fair. How long before the corporations start forcing people out of their houses without compensation to build on their land? Enough is enough.
Even if that information were detailed and free for anyone with an internet connection, part of going to medical school is to learn to accept responsibility. Any fool can read a car manual and learn how to fix his car, but if he is wrong and breaks the car, who has to pay to fix it? Also, do you think that us non-doctors can prescribe medication for ourselves? Doctors should not feel threatened at all.
Its more expensive to jail these people for 'stealing' than it is to let them run free. Imagine it. They don't even have to pay taxes in prison, they just...sit there. At least on the outside they had to pay taxes and didn't leech off of the government's money. l
As if it weren't bad enough with Microsoft owning the #1 gaming OS. They already own half of the graphics langage market with DirectX. They're trying their asses off to own the other part, OpenGL. Smart move for Microsoft, but when are they going to start deploying houses and hotels on DirectX / OpenGL? Imagine if DirectX or OpenGL cost money to use. Imagine paying for your Microsoft-licenced drivers.
First of all, the entire point of games, or entertainment for that matter, is to get away from things like that. To do something that doesn't REALLY matter that much, and have fun while doing it. Not everyone is in the position to start a business, get laid every other day, or start a family. Not everyone wants too, for that matter. Its not likely that learning to defend your cities will translate much into real world situations, but it sure as hell teaches you to be prepared and to not put all your eggs in one basket. You can say that games make you less intelligent, and that we can't tell that video games make us less intelligent, and so can scientists for that matter, but it doesn't mean its true for everyone. When I play Counter-Strike, I learn from almost every round. Maybe I won't use that info in real life unless I plan on storming any cs_assault-like buildings, but it teaches you fundamentals. If you screw up, learn what you did wrong, and don't do it again. Neh.
I've played a lot of strategy games in my life, the Civilization series, various SimCity games, Alpha Centauri, various RTS and war games. If anything, these games have made me MORE intelligent by finding different solutions to different problems. Fast-paced action games might suppress the thinking parts of the brain, so you can concentrate on not getting blown up, etc. That, and thinking too much causes hesitation, which causes death in the game.
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James flips open his laptop with WiFi card and special software, intercepts pr0n from Joe/John's traffic, and leaves. Point is, how safe is this? Is Starbucks willing to take responsibility for people's data that is flying around all unsecure like?
"It provides a definite advantage over direct encoding of polarization, leaving an eavesdropper only chaotic static, and no means to extract the signal."
Why the extra security? There's already the depths of the ocean, the difficulty of trying to tap a fiber line, not to mention whatever encryptation they have on their data. They must be looking at some questionable pr0n to go to these lengths.
Yeah, but why not comply..that way they get out of fines..AND make it harder for their users to take up bandwidth on anything but pr0n?
Don't backbone providers have a clause that denies their guilt in any illegal activity going over their own lines, instead shunting the blame to the user? (where it should be) I mean, God forbid you track down the actual offenders. Instead, track down the people that make the offense possible. If this gets through, expect the Internet (at least according to the US) to be shattered by the RIAA and MPAA, and whatever other group decides that they should be able to give us ethics and opinions to abide by.
Aren't we already hooked up to pleasure-stimulating devices? Such as..well..sex organs?
Used to? I have a pulse line, and last I checked, Bellsouth refused to upgrade it to touch tone without a montly fee of like $5 extra or something retarded.
That's when I tell them to eat a dick and point out that lawsuit to them.
I never said it was unreasonable. If I looked at a bill and saw 'equipment lease' or 'rental' 10 years down the road for some ancient dusty lost piece of eq, I'd sure as hell see what I could do about getting that charge removed.
If memory serves me, the cable company (I think Comcast) is still charging my parents for a cable box they leased from them back in the early 80s. And the remote to it. Sure, its only like $2 a month or something, but for 20 YEARS? Needless to say, the remote is long lost, and the box has been 'destroyed' (via disassembly and reassembly).
I have this coaster with a football logo (University of TN if you're nosy). The slightest bit of pressure causes the horrid device to spew forth music from rocky top at a very, very high volume. Louder than my alarm clock, and by far more annoying.
No drek. I saw some TFC spec hackers the other day. One was a scout with a fully-working autocannon (hwguy's weapon), the other was just flying 'round and appearing inside of people, making them unable to move. This is THROUGH Valve's anticheat tech and HLGuard to boot. Not to mention the aimbotting, bunnyhopping soldiers that shoot grenades and rockets out of their ass. CS is worse, you're seen, you're dead. Pistol fights are funny because the people CAN'T unlock from the other people's heads..
I'd enjoy having level three wired reflexes please. Alpha grade. Why? To combat all those damn aimbots on Counter-Strike.
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I know. And I wasn't even farming for first posts. Just a lucky time to visit Slashdot I guess. I'll enjoy my first-first post now and the karma hit associated with it.
We all know that its illegal to teach things to people that could possibly be used for malicious purposes. We also know that pointing out flaws or weaknesses in computer systems is an activity reserved for terrorists and other 'undesirables'.
Fairly well, I imgaine. Fire one shot into the heart of a large city, bam, 2,000,000 people blinded, one or two people with large holes added to their body.
When corporations gain the right to hack people and to take away their rights faster than the FBI with a warrant, something needs to be done. The MPAA must fall if this goes on, or us Americans are doomed to follow the corporations' instead of the best interest of the people. ShadowRun, anyone?
Prison? I was hit in the rear passengers' side tire area by someone who flew through a red light (turned green just as he went under it, and I never got a yellow turn arrow, just went from green to red as I was turning), doing 70, and it pretty much destroyed the rear end of my car, snapping my axle, etc. Guess who they blamed it on? Not the guy doing 3x the speed limit (with tire marks on the road as proof) but me. Not to mention his headlights barely worked, so I couldn't even see him coming.
Remember the days when whoever had the biggest muscles and best brawl skills won all the arguments? Now the kids who got spanked by everyone else are doing the spanking, only, using money to win arguments instead of muscle. I believe we'd call this situation 'lame'.
There are no natives on this frontier, except for the people who founded it. We've gone and staked our claims already, and the corporations are now coming and using their various methods of leverage to gain control of our claims. We claim rights, domains, fair use, research...all of that to be crushed under the corporate war machine. It isn't fair that they can come in and do this. The government knows that it isn't fair. How long before the corporations start forcing people out of their houses without compensation to build on their land? Enough is enough.
Even if that information were detailed and free for anyone with an internet connection, part of going to medical school is to learn to accept responsibility. Any fool can read a car manual and learn how to fix his car, but if he is wrong and breaks the car, who has to pay to fix it? Also, do you think that us non-doctors can prescribe medication for ourselves? Doctors should not feel threatened at all.
Its more expensive to jail these people for 'stealing' than it is to let them run free. Imagine it. They don't even have to pay taxes in prison, they just...sit there. At least on the outside they had to pay taxes and didn't leech off of the government's money. l
As if it weren't bad enough with Microsoft owning the #1 gaming OS. They already own half of the graphics langage market with DirectX. They're trying their asses off to own the other part, OpenGL. Smart move for Microsoft, but when are they going to start deploying houses and hotels on DirectX / OpenGL? Imagine if DirectX or OpenGL cost money to use. Imagine paying for your Microsoft-licenced drivers.
First of all, the entire point of games, or entertainment for that matter, is to get away from things like that. To do something that doesn't REALLY matter that much, and have fun while doing it. Not everyone is in the position to start a business, get laid every other day, or start a family. Not everyone wants too, for that matter. Its not likely that learning to defend your cities will translate much into real world situations, but it sure as hell teaches you to be prepared and to not put all your eggs in one basket. You can say that games make you less intelligent, and that we can't tell that video games make us less intelligent, and so can scientists for that matter, but it doesn't mean its true for everyone. When I play Counter-Strike, I learn from almost every round. Maybe I won't use that info in real life unless I plan on storming any cs_assault-like buildings, but it teaches you fundamentals. If you screw up, learn what you did wrong, and don't do it again. Neh.
I've played a lot of strategy games in my life, the Civilization series, various SimCity games, Alpha Centauri, various RTS and war games. If anything, these games have made me MORE intelligent by finding different solutions to different problems. Fast-paced action games might suppress the thinking parts of the brain, so you can concentrate on not getting blown up, etc. That, and thinking too much causes hesitation, which causes death in the game.