If this type of service was only meant for personal backups and not illegal file sharing, this would have been the standard in the first place.
Why would anyone ever have to "share" backup files with anyone else.
I make a 100 MB PDF graphic for an author and send it to him for approval -- too big for email. So I upload it to a site like that and give him the URL.
Megaupload have no system in place to stop people uploading material they don't own. Simple as that.
Yeah. Because it's not "as simple as that". It's basically impossible to stop people uploading content they don't own. Youtube shows that. What would they do? Ask every potential uploader to supply a legal document proving that the file (identified by a CRC, say) was his property? It would take hours of legal work for every single file.
Most of these schemes just look for an suspicious filename, which is easy to spoof and easy to find false positives. MU had a takedown process that content owners could report links and have them taken down.
Yes, I know full well that MU facilitated distribution of TV shows, software, porn, etc. It's inevitable for any service that allows storage of files. You have to shut down the Internet if you want to prevent that.
I doubt there are many people out there who bought an iPad and are complaining that they can't install Linux on it (me included), so why should it be any different for these 'Designed for Windows 8' devices?
The difference is: Apple makes and sells iPads. Microsoft doesn't make the hardware. They're leaning on the the manufacturers to prevent any competition.
You can only get public funding if you presume the conculsion that humans cause climate change in your grant proposal.
Bullshit. For a start, you don't presume the answer in a research proposal. That's not "research". The Bush White House would have showered you with money if you could come up with such a proposal though.
the really interesting mechanism - and why it hasn't already kicked in to return us to the norm of glaciers covering most the Earth this time around - no one has a clue.
No one, except the scientists who have studied it.
Researchers from Cambridge University who examined variations in the Earth's orbit and global climate patterns calculated that the next ice age should begin within the next 1,500 years.
But despite the impact of the Earth's natural cycle, an ice age would only be able to begin if the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were to fall from 390 parts per million (ppm) to 240ppm or lower, according to the study published in the Nature Geoscience journal.
Separate research has shown that even if we cut our carbon emissions instantly, concentrations in our atmosphere would remain artificially high for the next 1,000 years.
It says that this is a closed network and we would appreciate it if you did not join in.
Using WPA makes that pretty clear.
I have seen articles like this where....
Well, that isn't what the article I linked said, but it's too much to expect anyone here to bother to read a post, let alone an article, before sandbagging it.
don't need to read your silly little article to know what is obvious. What you are saying is DON'T as if it somehow some does harm to your network model. What harm comes of hiding your SSID? None.
I didn't say "it somehow some does harm to your network".
(Or even "it somehow does some harm to your network".) It does not make you safer. That's all I said.
You also do not engage in the statistical probability that most intrusions are caused by those looking for easy targets so there is actually some merit to hiding your SSID
As much merit as nailing a horseshoe over your door.
Be careful though, deliberately misusing viola for voila is a well known English joke, I forget who first used it.
Yeah like those who say "The Internets", etc.as parody of the great number of people who really don't know. Not to mention those who think it's an interjection used by stage magicians -- "wa-lah!".
take my plastic replica with a 5$ microcontroller that pretends it's an iphone
I doubt they'll pay out more than $5 per phone anyway. It's meant ot be an alternative to dropping them in the trash, not a way to get a fair resale price.
But what prevents theft? Steal an iPhone, slip it in the machine and instant money!
Instant pocket money. It will pay a scrap dealer's price, probably a few dollars. Better than nothing, but you'd be a fool to use it for a working (stolen) iPhone. It's meant as alternative to just binning it.
We have a local electronics scrap dealer. He paid me $2 for my old 17" CRT monitor, still on working order. Cost about $200 new, 10 years ago. But I didn't need it and after a week advertising it online, clearly no one else did either, so it was literally $2 or nothing, and at least it'll get recycled rather than just going to a landfill.
So, let me see if I have this straight. Don't hide because it's pointless? Stand in the middle of the street because you'll get hit by a bus anyway?
No.
Since you can't be bothered to look at the article I linked, which explains it in detail, the short version is that it's just as effective as an ostrich sticking its head in the sand. You think you're hiding, but anyone hunting you can see you plain as day. You're only fooling yourself.
If you think this is effective security, you probably hide your doorkey under the mat.
If you don't want to turn off then setup the access point to NOT broadcast the SSID (network name).
Don't.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ou/the-six-dumbest-ways-to-secure-a-wireless-lan/43
"SSID hiding: There is no such thing as "SSID hiding". You're only hiding SSID beaconing on the Access Point. There are 4 other mechanisms that also broadcast the SSID over the 2.4 or 5 GHz spectrum. The 4 mechanisms are; probe requests, probe responses, association requests, and re-association requests. Essentially, youre talking about hiding 1 of 5 SSID broadcast mechanisms. Nothing is hidden and all youve achieved is cause problems for Wi-Fi roaming when a client jumps from AP to AP. "
Well, a few others that grate me: hoard/horde rein/reign phase/faze compliment/complement voila/viola (stupid Slashdot won't let me use the accent) peek/peak
The word "strait" seems to be unknown to many these days. I'm always seeing "straight-laced", "straight-jacket", never before seen a geographical "straight" though.
y unless and until it's demonstrated that this is either more than an isolated incident or was based on instructions received from corporate overlords.
RTFA. They were being scraped both locally and from IPs in Mountain View belonging to Google.
Do you understand that by casting a vote you legitimize the system
Exactly. Because the system does allow you to vote them out. The system works, if people stop sitting at home playing video games and pay attention to the issues and cast a vote. Both candidates may be flawed, so instead of going off in a huff, choose the lesser of the two evils -- or just vote against the incumbent.
People fought and died so you'd have the privilege of voting, and you want to throw it away. What's the alternative? Getting some diesel and a ton of fertilizer and blowing up some federal buildings? Life is full of compromises. You wont marry a porn star, you won't win the lottery. You wont get a saint standing for office. Make the best choice from what you can get.
There is no way that we can physically count hundreds of votes in 45 minutes. It would take several hours
Are Americans really unable to count without a computer?
I've been a poll clerk in several elections in Australia. All by hand. 95% of votes are clear, and take no more than 5 seconds to decide which stack they go on. 12 per minute. One person could count all 800 in just over an hour. The ambiguous votes might be argued over with the scrutineers from the various parties, but unless the count is finely balanced, these are decided quickly.
You mean to tell me there are roughly 70 000 people on Earth who have figured out how to avoid the physical laws?
What is this cult called and how can I join?
Actually, it';s 144,000 if you read those "Rapture/Left Behind" books that seem to seem so well in the US.
I believe they actually acquired the respective rights to all the photos.
Copyright belongs to the photographer, not the subject. The dollmakers could easily acquire the copyright on a photo of Jobs and use that as their model. Not that they really need to, but it would remove any "derivative work" argument.
Does any artist, sculptor, cartoonist, etc, require the permission of a person to create their likeness? (Rhetorical, answer: no.)
This stupid "right of publicity" could only have been conceived in Los Angeles. Apple can't stop this anywhere else, and they have just handed them a huge publicity boost.
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If this type of service was only meant for personal backups and not illegal file sharing, this would have been the standard in the first place. Why would anyone ever have to "share" backup files with anyone else.
I make a 100 MB PDF graphic for an author and send it to him for approval -- too big for email. So I upload it to a site like that and give him the URL.
Megaupload have no system in place to stop people uploading material they don't own. Simple as that.
Yeah. Because it's not "as simple as that". It's basically impossible to stop people uploading content they don't own. Youtube shows that. What would they do? Ask every potential uploader to supply a legal document proving that the file (identified by a CRC, say) was his property? It would take hours of legal work for every single file.
Most of these schemes just look for an suspicious filename, which is easy to spoof and easy to find false positives. MU had a takedown process that content owners could report links and have them taken down.
Yes, I know full well that MU facilitated distribution of TV shows, software, porn, etc. It's inevitable for any service that allows storage of files. You have to shut down the Internet if you want to prevent that.
hat they are doing is effectively contracting companies to build hardware ...
MS isn't buying or selling computers. So, no, they aren't.
I might not be happy about it, but if MS was actually selling the hardware, it wouldn't be the blatant antitrust action that it is now.
I doubt there are many people out there who bought an iPad and are complaining that they can't install Linux on it (me included), so why should it be any different for these 'Designed for Windows 8' devices?
The difference is: Apple makes and sells iPads. Microsoft doesn't make the hardware. They're leaning on the the manufacturers to prevent any competition.
You can only get public funding if you presume the conculsion that humans cause climate change in your grant proposal.
Bullshit. For a start, you don't presume the answer in a research proposal. That's not "research". The Bush White House would have showered you with money if you could come up with such a proposal though.
the really interesting mechanism - and why it hasn't already kicked in to return us to the norm of glaciers covering most the Earth this time around - no one has a clue.
No one, except the scientists who have studied it.
.
It says that this is a closed network and we would appreciate it if you did not join in.
Using WPA makes that pretty clear.
I have seen articles like this where ....
Well, that isn't what the article I linked said, but it's too much to expect anyone here to bother to read a post, let alone an article, before sandbagging it.
don't need to read your silly little article to know what is obvious. What you are saying is DON'T as if it somehow some does harm to your network model. What harm comes of hiding your SSID? None.
I didn't say "it somehow some does harm to your network". (Or even "it somehow does some harm to your network".) It does not make you safer. That's all I said.
You also do not engage in the statistical probability that most intrusions are caused by those looking for easy targets so there is actually some merit to hiding your SSID
As much merit as nailing a horseshoe over your door.
Be careful though, deliberately misusing viola for voila is a well known English joke, I forget who first used it.
Yeah like those who say "The Internets", etc.as parody of the great number of people who really don't know. Not to mention those who think it's an interjection used by stage magicians -- "wa-lah!".
Aye it is theatre, but I take objection to this "Don't" bullshit as if that's somehow insightful or helpful to the conversation.
If you could read past the first line of my post, you might have learnt something. Your loss.
take my plastic replica with a 5$ microcontroller that pretends it's an iphone
I doubt they'll pay out more than $5 per phone anyway. It's meant ot be an alternative to dropping them in the trash, not a way to get a fair resale price.
But what prevents theft? Steal an iPhone, slip it in the machine and instant money!
Instant pocket money. It will pay a scrap dealer's price, probably a few dollars. Better than nothing, but you'd be a fool to use it for a working (stolen) iPhone. It's meant as alternative to just binning it.
We have a local electronics scrap dealer. He paid me $2 for my old 17" CRT monitor, still on working order. Cost about $200 new, 10 years ago. But I didn't need it and after a week advertising it online, clearly no one else did either, so it was literally $2 or nothing, and at least it'll get recycled rather than just going to a landfill.
So, let me see if I have this straight. Don't hide because it's pointless? Stand in the middle of the street because you'll get hit by a bus anyway?
No.
Since you can't be bothered to look at the article I linked, which explains it in detail, the short version is that it's just as effective as an ostrich sticking its head in the sand. You think you're hiding, but anyone hunting you can see you plain as day. You're only fooling yourself.
If you think this is effective security, you probably hide your doorkey under the mat.
If you don't want to turn off then setup the access point to NOT broadcast the SSID (network name).
Don't.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ou/the-six-dumbest-ways-to-secure-a-wireless-lan/43 "SSID hiding: There is no such thing as "SSID hiding". You're only hiding SSID beaconing on the Access Point. There are 4 other mechanisms that also broadcast the SSID over the 2.4 or 5 GHz spectrum. The 4 mechanisms are; probe requests, probe responses, association requests, and re-association requests. Essentially, youre talking about hiding 1 of 5 SSID broadcast mechanisms. Nothing is hidden and all youve achieved is cause problems for Wi-Fi roaming when a client jumps from AP to AP. "
Well, a few others that grate me:
hoard/horde
rein/reign
phase/faze
compliment/complement
voila/viola (stupid Slashdot won't let me use the accent)
peek/peak
Dipshit, I know what a geographic strait is. I was saying I hadn't seen it misspelled, until this Slashdot article.
Slashdot: a new frontier in illiteracy.
y unless and until it's demonstrated that this is either more than an isolated incident or was based on instructions received from corporate overlords. RTFA. They were being scraped both locally and from IPs in Mountain View belonging to Google.
Do you understand that by casting a vote you legitimize the system
Exactly. Because the system does allow you to vote them out. The system works, if people stop sitting at home playing video games and pay attention to the issues and cast a vote. Both candidates may be flawed, so instead of going off in a huff, choose the lesser of the two evils -- or just vote against the incumbent.
People fought and died so you'd have the privilege of voting, and you want to throw it away. What's the alternative? Getting some diesel and a ton of fertilizer and blowing up some federal buildings? Life is full of compromises. You wont marry a porn star, you won't win the lottery. You wont get a saint standing for office. Make the best choice from what you can get.
k, whatever. My question was, do they need to do it in the shower? If it's so boring, why not do it in the bed room or living room in front of the TV?
You have running water in front of your TV?
Since my wife doesn't have hairy legs and never needs to shave her legs, I'm curious - do women need to shave their legs in the shower?
The non-inflatable ones do, yes.
There is no way that we can physically count hundreds of votes in 45 minutes. It would take several hours
Are Americans really unable to count without a computer?
I've been a poll clerk in several elections in Australia. All by hand. 95% of votes are clear, and take no more than 5 seconds to decide which stack they go on. 12 per minute. One person could count all 800 in just over an hour. The ambiguous votes might be argued over with the scrutineers from the various parties, but unless the count is finely balanced, these are decided quickly.
You mean to tell me there are roughly 70 000 people on Earth who have figured out how to avoid the physical laws? What is this cult called and how can I join?
Actually, it';s 144,000 if you read those "Rapture/Left Behind" books that seem to seem so well in the US.
So it was cut and pasted and some moron actually changed it because he didn't know what "free rein" meant.
I believe they actually acquired the respective rights to all the photos.
Copyright belongs to the photographer, not the subject. The dollmakers could easily acquire the copyright on a photo of Jobs and use that as their model. Not that they really need to, but it would remove any "derivative work" argument.
Does any artist, sculptor, cartoonist, etc, require the permission of a person to create their likeness? (Rhetorical, answer: no.)
This stupid "right of publicity" could only have been conceived in Los Angeles. Apple can't stop this anywhere else, and they have just handed them a huge publicity boost.