I know where you are getting at, but I would say that at least theoretically it is a good thing. You don't want a state to be able to stifle aspiring politicians by slapping some BS felony on them (copyright or patent violation or whatever). Of course, with politicians as they are...
You are the one mangling the Latin language, assuming 'sic erat scriptum' when just 'sic' was written. Sic by itself is a perfectly valid Latin word (at least as I recall it from my years of classes).
His joke may not be good, but it's still entirely reasonable to say 'sic', to say he really meant it that way, even when it is a little bit unusual.
Well, that would be great, and it might work for some time, but as you may know, LEDs become more dim after burning some time. This is typically not really a problem, unless you use them for an extreme amount of time or under poor conditions. However, different LEDs have different timespans over which they lose intensity. When one color LED loses intensity faster than another, the light gets unbalanced. This is why lights on the higher end are single LED - which is actually more difficult to produce, but have this kind of advantage.
What you would need? Some new LEDs that don't reduce intensity (or at least do so very predictably), or some smart way of compensating for this.
(ok, I just made this up on the spot, but you have to admit it sounds plausible).
If your position is true, why can't I get a free replacement disc when the physical embodiment (which, according to you, I don't "own") of that license breaks?
Err, for most publishers you can (free or for a small handling fee).
Also, how does it follow from my post that you have this right?
Err you are right, it isn't a strawman. Would you prefer it to be a strawman?
It was merely an illustration of that 'buying' something doesn't give you unlimited permissions.
you buy a car, and then the manufacturer tells you you can't get it repainted, or put seat covers in it
Piracy is about copyright. I even specifically mentioned that. If you are not aware of copyright, that is your own fault.
However, if to follow your example, if that is the contract you make with the car manufacturer, then you are in fact in breach of contract if you don't stick to the contract. Better not buy your car there then? Obviously there should be a way for you to know about terms before you agree to them. Copyright is a law in most countries, so there is your way to know about it.
They don't "sell you the movie", they offer you a DVD disc with very clear conditions (even if those are just the applicable copyright laws). You are 100% free to say no and not watch the movie. If you accept the offer you are not free to do whatever you want in terms of copyright.
So what you are doing is agreeing to all that, to all the terms they state, take the disc, and then ignore the agreement.
Same as hiring an employee, you 'buy the employee' for a certain number of hours, but that doesn't give the employer the right to do whatever you want with the employee. Or are you entirely fine with your boss doing whatever the * he wants with you?
Having said that, I love torrents and use it all the time. But please don't pretend that you are on the moral high ground.
Obviously, you could take out parts of an enemies infrastructure using digital means, and that makes sense to create chaos during or before an attack and such. However, an exploit could just be usable one time in a very visible attack. Surely large countries may have a bunch of secret exploits against critical systems. However, after the attack the other side may recover, patch it, and potentially find the previous uses of it and what you did with it.
However, where digital attacks are really outstanding is intelligence gathering. I would bet that opposing forces would much rather keep most their digital attacks covert to be able to use them as long as possible for pinpoint hidden attacks against specific infrastructure and broad information gathering, rather than making a big attack that will force the opposing force to take very defensive security measures.
For pure destructive force there are a lot of different options already, and they work very well if they can go hand in hand with digital means.
What? I agree that Slashdot sometimes ignores stuff that matters a lot, but this was covered, and there were a bunch of followup posts on Slashdot too.
If you are suggesting that people on Slashdot don't know about this event, you are delusional.
Also, I'm not going to take a bike ride in -26C, but if you want to take one in your cozy first world climate, be my guest.
Amen, I love Google, but for any search that is slightly complicated I turn to Yahoo these days. Google doesn't seem to take you serious when you enter search terms, often ignoring terms to give a more popular result. Having to add quotes is also a hell of a lot more annoying than the + sign was. That is four keypresses for quoting a single expression. Quote a couple of expressions on a mobile phone and it just gets annoying. Also it forces localization on you, which gets a pain when you speak English and another language roughly equally well and just want the best result. I wish there was just a version that treated all languages equally. The problem is that the 'local' languages gets precedence, regardless of quality of result. Yes there are settings for them, they work like crap, try them for a while.
Err, sorry, guess I was wrong, there is some rate limiting, just they have this other insanity (from el reg):
Eight digits should produce 100,000,000 possible combinations, and testing various routers Viehböck found it took an average of around two seconds to test each combination. So brute forcing should take several years unless the router was particularly responsive.
But the protocol used by Wi-Fi Protected Setup reports back after the first four digits have been entered, and indicates if they are right, which means they can be attacked separately. The last of the eight digits is just a checksum, so having got the first four the attacker only then has to try another 1,000 combinations (identifying the other three digits) and the entire PIN is known.
That combination means that our attacker only has to try 11,000 different combinations to find the right PIN, reducing the attack time to a couple of hours.
WPS allows users to enter an 8 digit PIN to connect to a secured network without having to enter a passphrase. When a user supplies the correct PIN the access point essentially gives the user the WPA/WPA2 PSK that is needed to connect to the network."
And they thought that was a good idea to implement without even substantial rate limiting or such? What the hell were they thinking?
If you are in security and serious about it, then you probably can get access to most systems in your company that you care about. Probably also know how not to get caught. Especially for smaller or less technical organizations.
But, paraphrasing from the BOFH, we have the internet with all the knowledge, pornography, movies, music in the world. Do you really think I'd spend my time going through some accountant's email?
Yes, and Apple would never abuse the courts in such a vile way! Give me a break. Also, how the hell is this a non issue? Yes it is just cellular tower locations. Of the cellular towers you were traveling near. This way, it allows anyone to see the route you travelled, timestamped, just by having access to your phone. You do not see any privacy issue with that?
Would it be a fair assumption that you went to school a while ago? I'd say in the current situation it isn't really the case.
Anyway, I don't have a particular opinion on the usefulness of learning a range of languages. I can understand your line of view for sure. I was merely surprized by you saying students in holland don't have time for drama or music classes.
American kids can take classes like art, drama, debating, literature etc. and play in the school band. Do you think kids who are forced to study three foreign languages have time for this?
Living in Holland, I can absolutely confirm that students here do have time for that yes. The way you learn languages here is devoid of rote memorization and not the time sink you seem to think it is.
'82% of passwords are lowercase alphanumeric of 9 characters or less.'
So what about lowercase? As long as it's random-ish, it's fine. Good luck brute forcing a 9 character lowercase alphanumeric password... Capitals are overrated anyway, if asked to include an uppercase character, in my experience most people will use exactly 1 uppercase character. So, given a password with length 8, it's only 8 times as many possibilities you would check. However, it is still an extra keypress, so if you went for an extra character it would be a lot more effective. Then there is the point that on many phones it's a nuisance to type capital letters, then there is a problem of readability of for instance I (upper i), or l (lower L). Also, when speaking out a password it is annoying. Then, at least for me, it is hard to remember the location of the capital letters.
A 3D image is one where you can change your viewpoint by moving your head
Well, this is your definition, and there is no official definition... all 3D image says is that it is an image, and there are 3 dimensions. If you accept that a 'normal' film has 2 dimensions, then from the perspective of the viewer, stereoscopic adds depth. This is a third dimension. There are many different types of 3D images, and I'm sure most people are aware that the one in cinemas now is stereoscopic.
So, it adds an extra dimension (depth) to the existing 2 dimensions... at least from the perspective of the watching person. Why is it unfair to call it 3D? For the consumer, that is what it does.
When they get to make real physical 3D style movies (we could call it theater plays), I'm sure they'll be able to get a new marketing term.
According to the figures in the CIA Factbook [cia.gov], some 57% of worldwide Internet hosts are located in the US.
These numbers look completely bogus to me. How on earth is South Korea listed at 301,270 hosts in 2009? This number should be much higher. And this is just checking the best connected country on the planet. Many of the other Asian and European numbers seem to be low estimates too.
Of course, it could be that they use some definition of 'internet host' that I wasn't previously aware of.
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Oh that's really great, if you are korean, or foreigner with an alien registration card and full knowledge of korean.
Have they made it easier to access for others yet? When I tried it 6 months ago I couldn't get it to work as a foreigner.
This London system will also work for non-UK-people. Amazing technology.
(don't get me wrong, I love korea and visited many times, but I wouldn't take their WIFI networks as the shining example of how to do it.)
I know where you are getting at, but I would say that at least theoretically it is a good thing. You don't want a state to be able to stifle aspiring politicians by slapping some BS felony on them (copyright or patent violation or whatever). Of course, with politicians as they are...
Hehe, if the US treats its citizens the way it treats pigs, I wouldn't want to live there either :-p.
You are the one mangling the Latin language, assuming 'sic erat scriptum' when just 'sic' was written. Sic by itself is a perfectly valid Latin word (at least as I recall it from my years of classes).
His joke may not be good, but it's still entirely reasonable to say 'sic', to say he really meant it that way, even when it is a little bit unusual.
Even wikipedia writes about its use in newly generated text:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic#In_newly_generated_text
Well, that would be great, and it might work for some time, but as you may know, LEDs become more dim after burning some time. This is typically not really a problem, unless you use them for an extreme amount of time or under poor conditions. However, different LEDs have different timespans over which they lose intensity. When one color LED loses intensity faster than another, the light gets unbalanced. This is why lights on the higher end are single LED - which is actually more difficult to produce, but have this kind of advantage.
What you would need? Some new LEDs that don't reduce intensity (or at least do so very predictably), or some smart way of compensating for this.
(ok, I just made this up on the spot, but you have to admit it sounds plausible).
Err, for most publishers you can (free or for a small handling fee).
Also, how does it follow from my post that you have this right?
Err you are right, it isn't a strawman. Would you prefer it to be a strawman?
It was merely an illustration of that 'buying' something doesn't give you unlimited permissions.
Piracy is about copyright. I even specifically mentioned that. If you are not aware of copyright, that is your own fault.
However, if to follow your example, if that is the contract you make with the car manufacturer, then you are in fact in breach of contract if you don't stick to the contract. Better not buy your car there then? Obviously there should be a way for you to know about terms before you agree to them. Copyright is a law in most countries, so there is your way to know about it.
That's too simple. It is an agreement.
They don't "sell you the movie", they offer you a DVD disc with very clear conditions (even if those are just the applicable copyright laws). You are 100% free to say no and not watch the movie. If you accept the offer you are not free to do whatever you want in terms of copyright.
So what you are doing is agreeing to all that, to all the terms they state, take the disc, and then ignore the agreement.
Same as hiring an employee, you 'buy the employee' for a certain number of hours, but that doesn't give the employer the right to do whatever you want with the employee. Or are you entirely fine with your boss doing whatever the * he wants with you?
Having said that, I love torrents and use it all the time. But please don't pretend that you are on the moral high ground.
The things they mention sound just like any other security specialist. How is it obvious from this information they did all this stuff?
Obviously, you could take out parts of an enemies infrastructure using digital means, and that makes sense to create chaos during or before an attack and such. However, an exploit could just be usable one time in a very visible attack. Surely large countries may have a bunch of secret exploits against critical systems. However, after the attack the other side may recover, patch it, and potentially find the previous uses of it and what you did with it.
However, where digital attacks are really outstanding is intelligence gathering. I would bet that opposing forces would much rather keep most their digital attacks covert to be able to use them as long as possible for pinpoint hidden attacks against specific infrastructure and broad information gathering, rather than making a big attack that will force the opposing force to take very defensive security measures.
For pure destructive force there are a lot of different options already, and they work very well if they can go hand in hand with digital means.
You never traveled outside the place you live in? Must be American I guess?
What? I agree that Slashdot sometimes ignores stuff that matters a lot, but this was covered, and there were a bunch of followup posts on Slashdot too.
If you are suggesting that people on Slashdot don't know about this event, you are delusional.
Also, I'm not going to take a bike ride in -26C, but if you want to take one in your cozy first world climate, be my guest.
Amen, I love Google, but for any search that is slightly complicated I turn to Yahoo these days. Google doesn't seem to take you serious when you enter search terms, often ignoring terms to give a more popular result. Having to add quotes is also a hell of a lot more annoying than the + sign was. That is four keypresses for quoting a single expression. Quote a couple of expressions on a mobile phone and it just gets annoying. Also it forces localization on you, which gets a pain when you speak English and another language roughly equally well and just want the best result. I wish there was just a version that treated all languages equally. The problem is that the 'local' languages gets precedence, regardless of quality of result. Yes there are settings for them, they work like crap, try them for a while.
Err, sorry, guess I was wrong, there is some rate limiting, just they have this other insanity (from el reg):
From the product page:
And they thought that was a good idea to implement without even substantial rate limiting or such? What the hell were they thinking?
If you are in security and serious about it, then you probably can get access to most systems in your company that you care about. Probably also know how not to get caught. Especially for smaller or less technical organizations.
But, paraphrasing from the BOFH, we have the internet with all the knowledge, pornography, movies, music in the world. Do you really think I'd spend my time going through some accountant's email?
Yes, and Apple would never abuse the courts in such a vile way! Give me a break. Also, how the hell is this a non issue? Yes it is just cellular tower locations. Of the cellular towers you were traveling near. This way, it allows anyone to see the route you travelled, timestamped, just by having access to your phone. You do not see any privacy issue with that?
I think when they started out they just used a different browser name every version?
Would it be a fair assumption that you went to school a while ago? I'd say in the current situation it isn't really the case.
Anyway, I don't have a particular opinion on the usefulness of learning a range of languages. I can understand your line of view for sure. I was merely surprized by you saying students in holland don't have time for drama or music classes.
Living in Holland, I can absolutely confirm that students here do have time for that yes. The way you learn languages here is devoid of rote memorization and not the time sink you seem to think it is.
'82% of passwords are lowercase alphanumeric of 9 characters or less.'
So what about lowercase? As long as it's random-ish, it's fine. Good luck brute forcing a 9 character lowercase alphanumeric password... Capitals are overrated anyway, if asked to include an uppercase character, in my experience most people will use exactly 1 uppercase character. So, given a password with length 8, it's only 8 times as many possibilities you would check. However, it is still an extra keypress, so if you went for an extra character it would be a lot more effective. Then there is the point that on many phones it's a nuisance to type capital letters, then there is a problem of readability of for instance I (upper i), or l (lower L). Also, when speaking out a password it is annoying. Then, at least for me, it is hard to remember the location of the capital letters.
Well, this is your definition, and there is no official definition... all 3D image says is that it is an image, and there are 3 dimensions. If you accept that a 'normal' film has 2 dimensions, then from the perspective of the viewer, stereoscopic adds depth. This is a third dimension. There are many different types of 3D images, and I'm sure most people are aware that the one in cinemas now is stereoscopic.
So, it adds an extra dimension (depth) to the existing 2 dimensions... at least from the perspective of the watching person. Why is it unfair to call it 3D? For the consumer, that is what it does.
When they get to make real physical 3D style movies (we could call it theater plays), I'm sure they'll be able to get a new marketing term.
These numbers look completely bogus to me. How on earth is South Korea listed at 301,270 hosts in 2009? This number should be much higher. And this is just checking the best connected country on the planet. Many of the other Asian and European numbers seem to be low estimates too.
Of course, it could be that they use some definition of 'internet host' that I wasn't previously aware of.
Why don't you google for some terms like 'chinese empress', 'women leaders in china' and tell me your findings?
Do you have any citation for that? Or is that just truth from your balls?