I live in the UK and have filed DMCA complaints with Google.. there's nothing wrong or strange with the process if you find that someone has ripped off your intellectual property. You simply file a complaint with Google to suppress the violating content from their index.. it doesn't remove the content, but it sure as hell makes it harder to find.
If your content is on a US webhost then you can file a complaint with the webhost directly, which is more effective. But filing a complaint with Google works well if the violating content is on a webhost that doesn't care about copyright.
If you haven't heard of the Oatmeal.. then you HAVE been living in a hole. Or maybe not hanging around Facetube or Twigg enough or whatever they're called.
NetStumbler can collected SSIDs and tie them in with the location via a GPS receiver.. but it doesn't store captured packets. It seems that the technology is already commonly available, so why did Google manage to screw it up so badly?
Also, I really can't see the point in doing this. I know that in theory you can use the SSIDs for geolocation, but GPS is cheap these days and so much better for most applications. Besides, wireless networks change over time and the mapping will surely go out of date very quickly.
The Soviets built a lot of Apple ][ clones in the 80s, not really a difficult thing to reverse engineer. But in true Soviet style the cloning was sometimes a bit unorthodox. From memory, one clone was made entirely of flying leads.. not a PCB in sight, each track between each component used an individual copper cable. Another clone suffered from a mis-conversion between the US imperial system and Soviet metric system, which meant that smuggled in components wouldn't quite fit onto the circuit board.
For further reading, see Byte Magazine from April 1991. Surely all good/. readers have a copy somewhere?
I was going to post that too! Bletchley Park is well worth a visit, you'll need to get the underground to Euston station. I don't think you can get more geeky a destination! It's only a 10 minute walk from the railway station at Bletchley.
In some ways, Unix is very like Multics. In some other ways, Unix is the complete Antithesis of Multics. Unix copied some of what was good, left out most of what was bad, and left some of the really cool features to be forgotten. In other words, Multics made Unix the shape it is.. and that of course influenced everything down through Linux, Mach, the iPhone, Android etc etc.
Like many other posters, I too was a Multician at university. It rocked. But I prefer my nice GUI and not having to share my processor with others!
Is it April 1st? I thought this case (and SCO) were dead in the water.. someone needs to put a stake through that outfit's heart to make sure it stays dead.
I've looked at the stories and the explanation about Google Wave.. and my attitude is definitely "Do Not Want". It really doesn't seem to meet a real need as far as I can tell.. oh yeah, it's pretty clever. But what's the elevator pitch? How is this going to improve my life?
It was me who submitted that old/. story. I'm still with Postini, and it still does the job. The problem? Well, no spam filter is 100% effective.. and just about every time Postini lets spam through (very rarely), then they phone up the helpdesk irately and say "Postini should have stopped this!".
So, the product is still great. Tech support has gone downhill though. Anyone who has tried to deal with Google tech support for anything will know how it feels..
Of course, RiscOS is a tailor-made OS for ARM processors. That really is a very lightweight and simple OS and while it doesn't have the applications available that a Linux distro does, it might make an interesting port for this sort of platform.
The interwebs is already under assault from script-borne malware in PDFs, Flash, QuickTime and of course Microsoft Office has always been widely exploited in the past. Take, for example, Javascript support in Adobe Acrobat.. who uses it? When we turned support off for 5000 users exactly *zero* people noticed. It seems that these things are only of use to the Bad Guys.
Imagine the fun they will have with docs scripting combined with the wonderful world of XSS attacks. What could possibly go wrong?
I went to BP recently and it is actually an excellent place to visit.
It was clear that it is the huts that are decaying rather than the whole place. These were temporary buildings put up in the 1940s so they were never meant to last this long. The problem is this: what can you really do with a building like that which is nearly 70 years old? The huts that have been renovated appear to have been largely rebuilt, so they don't genuinely feel like the real thing.
These huts are historically significant, but then so are a lot of other WW2 sites that have since been demolished. In fact, the vast majority of temporary buildings on the BP site were cleared away decades ago. Is there anything to gain by maintaining these essentially un-maintainable structures?
Since the work at BP became public (in the 1980s!), a great deal of effort has been made to document what went on there, acknowledge the roles of individuals and teams and to make clear what a crucial effect it had on the outcome of the war. Original Enigma and Lorenz machines are on display, plus a rebuild of Colossus, the Bombes and other equipment. Most of the museum is housed in good old-fashioned brick buildings that are not going to fall down any time soon. The work at BP will not be forgotten no matter what happens to the huts. I'm not saying that BP doesn't need money.. they clearly do, but maybe the huts are not the way to go.
Somebody said in another post that you can't go very far in the UK (especially the part where I live) without tripping over something of historical significance (if I turn around I can see the hangars where the built the R101, for example). We can't preserve everything, and I think perhaps with BP this is also the case.
Vodafone works for me, but then I did exactly as Nossie said a few years ago when then really did put some insane "block everything" filtering on and I couldn't even get to my own website!
And yeah.. what kind of eejut would want to download a torrent on their mobile phone?
This is why you build teams from people with distinctly different personalities. In the UK sometimes Belbin Profiles are used to ensure a mix of people that creates a group dynamic (i.e. tension as opposed to complacency). An "outsider" might perform the role of a Plant, Monitor Evaluator or Resource Investigator because of their slightly detached status. Plants can be exceptionally useful as they will provide new ideas which can be looked into, they key thing is that a good Plant is unorthodox and usually doesn't mind if ideas are fairly evaluated and rejected.
The are other team evaluation systems out there, but ultimately they all exist to make sure that your team has some sort of internal dynamic.
Unpack Impacket into a folder, then install Impacket from a command line with c:\python26\python setup.py install
Run the scanner with the command c:\python26\python scs.py [start_ip] [end_ip]
(Hat tip to an AC comment at El Reg).
Just a warning - it runs like a dog. I found that a passive Honeypot like Honeybot works well and is easier to install.
There are several key differences between Google and Phorm. Google will use a cookie-based system to track you as you visit sites with the relevant Google Ads. Phorm take the data directly out of your clickstream.
You can easily opt-out or block Google ads. You cannot do this with Phorm as it will still monitor your clickstream regardless of whether you have opted out or not.
Google is a per-user based system. Because you are tracked by cookie, it will serve ads based on YOUR cookie ID only (or maybe your Google account, whatever). Phorm tracks by IP address, so if you share an IP address via NAT (most people do) then it cannot easily distinguish between users. This leads to the possibility that inappropriate ads may be served up (porn, pharma etc).
In any case, what Google is suggesting is not new and basically has been around in one way or another since the dawn of internet advertising. What Phorm is trying to do *is* new and is almost the same as monitoring systems such as the sort of thing ECHELON does (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON).
So Windows 7 looks better than Vista. Fair enough. The problem is that Windows 7 comes bundled with IE8 which is a piece of garbage. Corporate users will want Win 7 (well, they will do when they can't get XP), but they won't want IE8 because so many web sites don't work properly with it, and it will break corporate apps. (If the beta is anything like the production version).
Don't underestimate Microsoft's capacity to screw this up completely.
The implication here is that Qchex.com (and its parent (Neovi Data Corporation) are somehow the fraudsters.. they're not. If they are guilty of anything, it is that than ran an ill-advised business model which they naively assumed would not be used by organised criminals.
Heck, you can actually buy a check printer yourself which can even use the same magnetic ink that bank-issued checks use. Nothing illegal in that.
It's bleeding obvious, isn't it? Running as an admin is the best way of screwing your machine up when you get infected.
Our user population is split about 50/50 between desktops and laptops. Most laptop users have blagged admin rights at some point because they need to add printers, sometimes change LAN settings, install applications to hide their porn surfing, that sort of thing. Our desktop users are in a fully managed environment, and do not have admin rights.
We need to spend virtually zero time with malware problems on desktop machines. Any infections are generally minor and easy to fix. Laptops.. well, they are a complete nightmare of rootkits and stuff buried so deeply that we have to nuke the machine from orbit to clean it up.
The REALLY fun part is logging onto an infected machine with DOMAIN ADMIN rights... if it's a sophisticated bit of malware.. well.. Armageddon basically..
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If your content is on a US webhost then you can file a complaint with the webhost directly, which is more effective. But filing a complaint with Google works well if the violating content is on a webhost that doesn't care about copyright.
If you haven't heard of the Oatmeal.. then you HAVE been living in a hole. Or maybe not hanging around Facetube or Twigg enough or whatever they're called.
Also, I really can't see the point in doing this. I know that in theory you can use the SSIDs for geolocation, but GPS is cheap these days and so much better for most applications. Besides, wireless networks change over time and the mapping will surely go out of date very quickly.
For further reading, see Byte Magazine from April 1991. Surely all good /. readers have a copy somewhere?
I was going to post that too! Bletchley Park is well worth a visit, you'll need to get the underground to Euston station. I don't think you can get more geeky a destination! It's only a 10 minute walk from the railway station at Bletchley.
Like many other posters, I too was a Multician at university. It rocked. But I prefer my nice GUI and not having to share my processor with others!
Water + Electricity = Death. Try to remember that if you ever find yourself in a similar situation!
Absolutely.. Oolite is brilliant! And the expansion packs are great too :) I'd mod you up if I could!
Is it April 1st? I thought this case (and SCO) were dead in the water.. someone needs to put a stake through that outfit's heart to make sure it stays dead.
I've looked at the stories and the explanation about Google Wave.. and my attitude is definitely "Do Not Want". It really doesn't seem to meet a real need as far as I can tell.. oh yeah, it's pretty clever. But what's the elevator pitch? How is this going to improve my life?
So, the product is still great. Tech support has gone downhill though. Anyone who has tried to deal with Google tech support for anything will know how it feels..
Of course, RiscOS is a tailor-made OS for ARM processors. That really is a very lightweight and simple OS and while it doesn't have the applications available that a Linux distro does, it might make an interesting port for this sort of platform.
Imagine the fun they will have with docs scripting combined with the wonderful world of XSS attacks. What could possibly go wrong?
roll on the nuclear bomb powered space ships
There's something seriously wrong with /. when people don't get that comment.
Maybe someone needs to make it into a movie so that the kiddies can understand it. Actually, it would make a pretty *awesome* movie..
It was clear that it is the huts that are decaying rather than the whole place. These were temporary buildings put up in the 1940s so they were never meant to last this long. The problem is this: what can you really do with a building like that which is nearly 70 years old? The huts that have been renovated appear to have been largely rebuilt, so they don't genuinely feel like the real thing.
These huts are historically significant, but then so are a lot of other WW2 sites that have since been demolished. In fact, the vast majority of temporary buildings on the BP site were cleared away decades ago. Is there anything to gain by maintaining these essentially un-maintainable structures?
Since the work at BP became public (in the 1980s!), a great deal of effort has been made to document what went on there, acknowledge the roles of individuals and teams and to make clear what a crucial effect it had on the outcome of the war. Original Enigma and Lorenz machines are on display, plus a rebuild of Colossus, the Bombes and other equipment. Most of the museum is housed in good old-fashioned brick buildings that are not going to fall down any time soon. The work at BP will not be forgotten no matter what happens to the huts. I'm not saying that BP doesn't need money.. they clearly do, but maybe the huts are not the way to go.
Somebody said in another post that you can't go very far in the UK (especially the part where I live) without tripping over something of historical significance (if I turn around I can see the hangars where the built the R101, for example). We can't preserve everything, and I think perhaps with BP this is also the case.
Looks like they got /. judging by the broken A HREF tag. Did yah use use Preview Button? Did yah? Did yah?!
And yeah.. what kind of eejut would want to download a torrent on their mobile phone?
The are other team evaluation systems out there, but ultimately they all exist to make sure that your team has some sort of internal dynamic.
(Hat tip to an AC comment at El Reg). Just a warning - it runs like a dog. I found that a passive Honeypot like Honeybot works well and is easier to install.
You can easily opt-out or block Google ads. You cannot do this with Phorm as it will still monitor your clickstream regardless of whether you have opted out or not.
Google is a per-user based system. Because you are tracked by cookie, it will serve ads based on YOUR cookie ID only (or maybe your Google account, whatever). Phorm tracks by IP address, so if you share an IP address via NAT (most people do) then it cannot easily distinguish between users. This leads to the possibility that inappropriate ads may be served up (porn, pharma etc).
In any case, what Google is suggesting is not new and basically has been around in one way or another since the dawn of internet advertising. What Phorm is trying to do *is* new and is almost the same as monitoring systems such as the sort of thing ECHELON does (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON).
Don't underestimate Microsoft's capacity to screw this up completely.
Indeed. Perhaps Vonnegut should be compulsory reading for all aspiring scientists who might accidentally destroy all life of earth.
He will just have to change his name so it matches Wikipedia. Problem solved.
Heck, you can actually buy a check printer yourself which can even use the same magnetic ink that bank-issued checks use. Nothing illegal in that.
Our user population is split about 50/50 between desktops and laptops. Most laptop users have blagged admin rights at some point because they need to add printers, sometimes change LAN settings, install applications to hide their porn surfing, that sort of thing. Our desktop users are in a fully managed environment, and do not have admin rights.
We need to spend virtually zero time with malware problems on desktop machines. Any infections are generally minor and easy to fix. Laptops.. well, they are a complete nightmare of rootkits and stuff buried so deeply that we have to nuke the machine from orbit to clean it up.
The REALLY fun part is logging onto an infected machine with DOMAIN ADMIN rights... if it's a sophisticated bit of malware.. well.. Armageddon basically..