I thought they got his cellphone number or something (My reading comprehension skills are nonexistent right now).
Which in that case, they could call it's provider (You can easily lookup which NPA-NXXs belong to which cell provider, I do it) and see what you can get from them. If you went to the police with it, they might be able to serve a warrant and get billing info and even check records to see where he was (Most cell companies record which tower area you are dialing out of).
If he had their check and hadn't cashed it yet, couldn't they have called the bank and told them that the check should be cancelled/declared void or something?
DirecTV did it in its electronic warfare against pirates. However I do believe it took a lot of time to fully squash them (I believe there was an article here on/. regarding that).
At risk of tangenting, in a free software environment (free as in speech), this could never exist. I would say that is one obvious benefit of OSS there.
Okay, they have shutoff downloads of the client from their website.
Wouldn't the ultimate irony be if people then used their own Kazaa/Morpheus clients to move the client.exe file and post it elsewhere?
I think Morpheus and Kazaa and the ilk do exactly what the internet was designed to do: Survive a major failure at one point and still operate (in this case share the client files).
Granted, shutting down the Kazaa Master Servers would be a huge hit, but that is the point of distributing them to multiple people, across multiple providers around the globe.
While I can understand that direct copying could be easily caught, does this thing go down to every exact detail?
Oh my, you used the same variable "name" here and so did Johnny. Thats a bit ridiculous.
Granted there is more than one way to do everything, but how many are there, especially on the introductory level (ie, basic Hello World applications).
I'm all for students doing their own work. I just don't think innocents should be persecuted like this.
My school district currently uses a mixed Microsoft/Linux environment.
Until last week, our primary www server was Linux. However my boss got grumpy and decided to switch it to Win2k+IIS w/FP Extensions, so that he could update it easier via Frontpage (I'm gagging too). However, within 30 minutes of him installing Win2k and IIS, it got Nimdaed. Nice job!
Right now, we have:
A secondary Linux www server, for PHP/MySQL things.
A SMTP/IMAP/webmail server in Linux. This is one area where Linux paid off. MS wanted thousands for Exchange, Win2k with the necessary hardware. Old machine (We don't have a ton of users) + Linux + exim + uwimap + Apache/PHP/MySQL = total new costs of $0.
We are also implementing a Linux firewall to segment the network into DMZs (Something thats never been done, because as with most projects it is "Lets get it done and up as fast as possible". sigh.)
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I'd be a computer science major with a minor/double major in Physics.
My friends are CS majors and have to take a ton of Physics and high Math classes anyway.
I thought they got his cellphone number or something (My reading comprehension skills are nonexistent right now).
Which in that case, they could call it's provider (You can easily lookup which NPA-NXXs belong to which cell provider, I do it) and see what you can get from them. If you went to the police with it, they might be able to serve a warrant and get billing info and even check records to see where he was (Most cell companies record which tower area you are dialing out of).
If he had their check and hadn't cashed it yet, couldn't they have called the bank and told them that the check should be cancelled/declared void or something?
Breaking the client 'could' work.
/. regarding that).
DirecTV did it in its electronic warfare against pirates. However I do believe it took a lot of time to fully squash them (I believe there was an article here on
At risk of tangenting, in a free software environment (free as in speech), this could never exist. I would say that is one obvious benefit of OSS there.
Okay, they have shutoff downloads of the client from their website.
.exe file and post it elsewhere?
Wouldn't the ultimate irony be if people then used their own Kazaa/Morpheus clients to move the client
I think Morpheus and Kazaa and the ilk do exactly what the internet was designed to do: Survive a major failure at one point and still operate (in this case share the client files).
Granted, shutting down the Kazaa Master Servers would be a huge hit, but that is the point of distributing them to multiple people, across multiple providers around the globe.
While I can understand that direct copying could be easily caught, does this thing go down to every exact detail?
Oh my, you used the same variable "name" here and so did Johnny. Thats a bit ridiculous.
Granted there is more than one way to do everything, but how many are there, especially on the introductory level (ie, basic Hello World applications).
I'm all for students doing their own work. I just don't think innocents should be persecuted like this.
My school district currently uses a mixed Microsoft/Linux environment. Until last week, our primary www server was Linux. However my boss got grumpy and decided to switch it to Win2k+IIS w/FP Extensions, so that he could update it easier via Frontpage (I'm gagging too). However, within 30 minutes of him installing Win2k and IIS, it got Nimdaed. Nice job! Right now, we have: A secondary Linux www server, for PHP/MySQL things. A SMTP/IMAP/webmail server in Linux. This is one area where Linux paid off. MS wanted thousands for Exchange, Win2k with the necessary hardware. Old machine (We don't have a ton of users) + Linux + exim + uwimap + Apache/PHP/MySQL = total new costs of $0. We are also implementing a Linux firewall to segment the network into DMZs (Something thats never been done, because as with most projects it is "Lets get it done and up as fast as possible". sigh.)