Not necessarily, Im not sure how these cable companies have their networks, but its my understanding they are implemented like a huge LAN. For connecting to servers on the same network, you wouldn't be going through any external routers. Its true you may go through a couple switches.
For example, Im on optus, but I can still see the www.optus.com.au MAC address because its on the LAN. (00:06:2A:C9:BC:A8), whereas I cant see something like www.microsoft.com obviously.
Your average person who cares that it's recorded can change it easily, and your average 12 year old cheating 5||21p7 |1DD13 probably won't even know why he got banned...
Except the reason people get banned is for using cheats etc, which are distributed in the same way as information on how to change your MAC.
The first thing someone will do when they are banned is do a search on google for "telstra banned game unban" or something, and get hundreds of hits on how to get around it.
Actually, now that I think about it more -- These cable companies (Telstra , optus) force you to use their cable modems, which they have tight control over. If everyone using these servers are using it through these modems, which have their own MAC, they could ban based on this MAC address because it would be sent to them directly via ethernet. - this wouldnt require a client side program however, so probably isn't what theyre doing.
Why bother? The MAC address is usually stored in flash eprom. Besides, whats to stop you from writing your own rogue '3rd party' program which is reverese engineered from the original, only reports a random MAC address.
Implementing security/restrictions client side doesnt work. period.
Like people have said, many filesystems allow you to store the information in the inode or equivalent. Also, when your transmitting data over a network, or tar/zipping the file up with many others, you will also see the benefits. OR if your storing it in FlashROM on a PDA or something.
The 'some sort of Windows XP' he is talking about is problaby the Freestyle interface Microsoft is developing. Put simply, it is basically a shell for XP which has huge icons so that it can be viewed from a distance. Its a bit more than that though.
Also related is 'Mira' which is more for Wi-Fi type devices.
And if theres one number that ties you to everything, this will probably be listed in the phonebook too. An instant list of valid e-mail addresses - at least it will cut down on the 'millions of fresh email addresses on CD' type spam. Though all other types will increase:P
I'm pretty sure theres a cost involved with doing that. Also, a phone number is a lot more personal and long term than an e-mail address. The reason people change numbers when they move is because they want to keep that number, as it is closely associated with them.
You can always just ignore a certain e-mail address by just not checking it. Its a lot more difficult to ignore your phone ringing off the hook.
Just because life can _survive_ someplace doesn't mean it can begin there.
Why not? Earth may have the ideal conditions for life for us humans, but to life in Antartica and pehaps on Pluto it could seem a not very hospitable climate. Is there an ideal climate for creating life? It depends on what lifeform thats being created - whos to say what life form should be 'ideal' and aimed for by nature or evolution or whatever.
I'm not sure how life started here, but I think it seems reasonable that if life can exist somewhere, theres no reason it couldnt begin to exist there in the same way it did here.
Although, the less you use it, the less you need it. This way, it is only powered up as much as necessary.
I have doubts this would work though - for every little 'tick' of one of the rollers a transmission needs to occur. A 'tick' equates to just a fraction of a turn of one of the rollers - in order for it to work, this fraction of a turn has to generate enough energy to make a transmission, otherwise some other source of energy would be required also.
But then again, how many times have you thought it would be adequate to just upgrade the memory and not your entire card? The little performance to be gained by adding some memory compared to that of upgrading your entire card just doesnt seem worth it. If youve kept your card for long enough that your willing to upgrade it, then its probably obsolete by then.
Ive been running a 350Mhz PII for the past 3 or 4 years, and its been fine - just a matter of tweaking it here and there to get as much performance as possible. I upgraded just yesterday to a 2.26Ghz, but not because my machine is painfully slow, or that I want to start playing games (other than soitaire, I don't), but just to make my overall experience of using the machine more comfortable - and to have another machine to network with.
For what I want to do, its been perfectly fine. But occasionally I try out some cool screensaver, or have to do a kernel compile or something, and only then is when I notice the difference.
With enough memory, modern operating systems can function quite well on older processors. They have fairly advanced memory managemet, scheduling etc. Microsoft Word XP starts in about a second on this older machine - how much faster do you really need?
Overnight! How many mails are you sending?!
The tokens can be generated in advance, so you can generate a whole bunch when your computer isn't doing anything, like at night or just in spare CPU cycles, then your client can use this store of tokens whenever it needs.
I thought I replied to this already, but anyway. Its also possible to download a client and run it on your machine seperate of the mail 'client', offline and overnight if you wish. Also, if you combine it with a filter, it wouldn't actually be required, just used to bypass filters if your message looks like it will be flagged.
It can work, and it is actually being used by some newgroups on a trial basis. The reason its not used is because few clients/filters support it. Hopefully this will change with SpamAssassin supporting it, as it is fairly popular. It will create a standard way to get 'around' this filter. See my earliar post on integration into SpamAssassin.
You are right though that it has to be adopted on a widespread basis or the spammer just goes to the relay that doesn't use hashcash
Actually, it needn't be adopted on a widespread basis. It can also be used to avoid false positives, as I describe in a later post. The basic idea is, you use it as a way to get around existing filters if you really _need_ to say something 'spammy'. It provides a backdoor which spammers are unable to exploit.
Kind of like a 'password' around the filter, but everyone knows it, and only legitimate users are able to use it. It can also be run on the client end to be used to 'prioitise' mail. If someone like Hotmail were to use it, it would make it possible to 'highlight' messages sent to people with those addresses in a standard way which couldnt be abused.
This is also currently being look at being added to SpamAssassin, the idea is;
Its not required, but if you use it, you can avoid being flagged by the filter. In effect it provides a backdoor around the filter, without the potential for abuse by spammers.
I have also being trying to get Microsoft to add this to Hotmail, as a means to 'highlight' messages which have valid tokens to avoid accidental deletion. If anyone has a good contact address for them, please reach me at;
shird:at: dstc.edu.au
(a) When they switched to a "pay for no ads" service (b) When they posted a dupe story within a six hour period
(c) When they started displaying those huge ads
(d) When they started showing MS ads in those banners
Actually, I didn't think it was too bad. Its probably a bit easier to recognise when it is moving. ie the pixels will pick up and represent different real world points, and the brain may be able to 'piece' together the parts. It is probably enough to recognise the difference between a person or a pole, and to be able to avoid it when walking down the street. Certainly not a complete replacement for vision, but its better than nothing and can only get better with time.
Isn't this exactly what Microsoft was talking about, with the GPL being 'viral'?. About the GPL being detrimental to software developers and the industry as a whole?
And everyone shouted them down, calling them capitalist scum etc... MS have a few billion to put into research such as this, they could see these issues a mile off, though were ignored.
Similar to RoboCode is 'Terrarium', from Microsoft. Only it uses 'bugs' which are teleported from one terrarium to another over a network, where they battle it out. Seems to be a bit more advanced than robocode, though Id love to see a mix of the two.
http://www.gotdotnet.com/terrarium/
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Not necessarily, Im not sure how these cable companies have their networks, but its my understanding they are implemented like a huge LAN. For connecting to servers on the same network, you wouldn't be going through any external routers. Its true you may go through a couple switches.
For example, Im on optus, but I can still see the www.optus.com.au MAC address because its on the LAN. (00:06:2A:C9:BC:A8), whereas I cant see something like www.microsoft.com obviously.
Your average person who cares that it's recorded can change it easily, and your average 12 year old cheating 5||21p7 |1DD13 probably won't even know why he got banned...
Except the reason people get banned is for using cheats etc, which are distributed in the same way as information on how to change your MAC.
The first thing someone will do when they are banned is do a search on google for "telstra banned game unban" or something, and get hundreds of hits on how to get around it.
I'm assuming you are on the same segment as the servers themselves - although this probably isn't the case for these larger cable companies.
Actually, now that I think about it more -- These cable companies (Telstra , optus) force you to use their cable modems, which they have tight control over. If everyone using these servers are using it through these modems, which have their own MAC, they could ban based on this MAC address because it would be sent to them directly via ethernet. - this wouldnt require a client side program however, so probably isn't what theyre doing.
Why bother? The MAC address is usually stored in flash eprom. Besides, whats to stop you from writing your own rogue '3rd party' program which is reverese engineered from the original, only reports a random MAC address.
Implementing security/restrictions client side doesnt work. period.
Like people have said, many filesystems allow you to store the information in the inode or equivalent. Also, when your transmitting data over a network, or tar/zipping the file up with many others, you will also see the benefits. OR if your storing it in FlashROM on a PDA or something.
I think you misunderstood. The parent post is clearly a joke.
The 'some sort of Windows XP' he is talking about is problaby the Freestyle interface Microsoft is developing. Put simply, it is basically a shell for XP which has huge icons so that it can be viewed from a distance. Its a bit more than that though.
Also related is 'Mira' which is more for Wi-Fi type devices.
You may be interested in 'overnet' the next generation eDonkey. It is a popular freeware P2P tool which uses .NET extensively in its GUI version.
And if theres one number that ties you to everything, this will probably be listed in the phonebook too. An instant list of valid e-mail addresses - at least it will cut down on the 'millions of fresh email addresses on CD' type spam. Though all other types will increase :P
I'm pretty sure theres a cost involved with doing that. Also, a phone number is a lot more personal and long term than an e-mail address. The reason people change numbers when they move is because they want to keep that number, as it is closely associated with them. You can always just ignore a certain e-mail address by just not checking it. Its a lot more difficult to ignore your phone ringing off the hook.
Just because life can _survive_ someplace doesn't mean it can begin there.
Why not? Earth may have the ideal conditions for life for us humans, but to life in Antartica and pehaps on Pluto it could seem a not very hospitable climate. Is there an ideal climate for creating life? It depends on what lifeform thats being created - whos to say what life form should be 'ideal' and aimed for by nature or evolution or whatever.
I'm not sure how life started here, but I think it seems reasonable that if life can exist somewhere, theres no reason it couldnt begin to exist there in the same way it did here.
Although, the less you use it, the less you need it. This way, it is only powered up as much as necessary.
I have doubts this would work though - for every little 'tick' of one of the rollers a transmission needs to occur. A 'tick' equates to just a fraction of a turn of one of the rollers - in order for it to work, this fraction of a turn has to generate enough energy to make a transmission, otherwise some other source of energy would be required also.
But then again, how many times have you thought it would be adequate to just upgrade the memory and not your entire card? The little performance to be gained by adding some memory compared to that of upgrading your entire card just doesnt seem worth it. If youve kept your card for long enough that your willing to upgrade it, then its probably obsolete by then.
Ive been running a 350Mhz PII for the past 3 or 4 years, and its been fine - just a matter of tweaking it here and there to get as much performance as possible. I upgraded just yesterday to a 2.26Ghz, but not because my machine is painfully slow, or that I want to start playing games (other than soitaire, I don't), but just to make my overall experience of using the machine more comfortable - and to have another machine to network with.
For what I want to do, its been perfectly fine. But occasionally I try out some cool screensaver, or have to do a kernel compile or something, and only then is when I notice the difference.
With enough memory, modern operating systems can function quite well on older processors. They have fairly advanced memory managemet, scheduling etc. Microsoft Word XP starts in about a second on this older machine - how much faster do you really need?
Overnight! How many mails are you sending?!
The tokens can be generated in advance, so you can generate a whole bunch when your computer isn't doing anything, like at night or just in spare CPU cycles, then your client can use this store of tokens whenever it needs.
I thought I replied to this already, but anyway. Its also possible to download a client and run it on your machine seperate of the mail 'client', offline and overnight if you wish. Also, if you combine it with a filter, it wouldn't actually be required, just used to bypass filters if your message looks like it will be flagged.
It can work, and it is actually being used by some newgroups on a trial basis. The reason its not used is because few clients/filters support it. Hopefully this will change with SpamAssassin supporting it, as it is fairly popular. It will create a standard way to get 'around' this filter. See my earliar post on integration into SpamAssassin.
You are right though that it has to be adopted on a widespread basis or the spammer just goes to the relay that doesn't use hashcash
Actually, it needn't be adopted on a widespread basis. It can also be used to avoid false positives, as I describe in a later post. The basic idea is, you use it as a way to get around existing filters if you really _need_ to say something 'spammy'. It provides a backdoor which spammers are unable to exploit.
Kind of like a 'password' around the filter, but everyone knows it, and only legitimate users are able to use it. It can also be run on the client end to be used to 'prioitise' mail. If someone like Hotmail were to use it, it would make it possible to 'highlight' messages sent to people with those addresses in a standard way which couldnt be abused.
This is also currently being look at being added to SpamAssassin, the idea is;
:at: dstc.edu.au
Its not required, but if you use it, you can avoid being flagged by the filter. In effect it provides a backdoor around the filter, without the potential for abuse by spammers.
I have also being trying to get Microsoft to add this to Hotmail, as a means to 'highlight' messages which have valid tokens to avoid accidental deletion. If anyone has a good contact address for them, please reach me at;
shird
But the cache server is on a different IP:
www.google.com = 216.239.33.101
The cache server = 216.239.33.100
Couldn't they have just blocked the cache server?
Slashdot jumped the shark when;
(a) When they switched to a "pay for no ads" service
(b) When they posted a dupe story within a six hour period
(c) When they started displaying those huge ads
(d) When they started showing MS ads in those banners
Actually, I didn't think it was too bad. Its probably a bit easier to recognise when it is moving. ie the pixels will pick up and represent different real world points, and the brain may be able to 'piece' together the parts. It is probably enough to recognise the difference between a person or a pole, and to be able to avoid it when walking down the street. Certainly not a complete replacement for vision, but its better than nothing and can only get better with time.
Isn't this exactly what Microsoft was talking about, with the GPL being 'viral'?. About the GPL being detrimental to software developers and the industry as a whole?
And everyone shouted them down, calling them capitalist scum etc... MS have a few billion to put into research such as this, they could see these issues a mile off, though were ignored.
Similar to RoboCode is 'Terrarium', from Microsoft. Only it uses 'bugs' which are teleported from one terrarium to another over a network, where they battle it out. Seems to be a bit more advanced than robocode, though Id love to see a mix of the two. http://www.gotdotnet.com/terrarium/