Ok, so how long will it take before someone registers 100 accounts or so, writes a program to break their files into chunks, and stores them as email attachments? It would take me about 2 hours to write a file manager that stores large stuff like my star trek collection or backups on their mail servers...
... about the same amount of time it'd take Google to implement detection for this sort of behaviour. They're not exactly idiots over at Google and I'm sure they've thought about this. Should be especially easy to detect as well (lots of multiple attachments the same size, lack of normal activity etc.).
It's a pretty risky endeavour anyway (for backups that is) as you're running the risk everyday of being caught and having your accounts wiped. Not exactly a bullet proof backup solution is it?
Regarding the positive aspects of safety though... a lot of accidents that the average "careful drivers" are involved in are due to other people. Unless every single vehicle on the road is auto-controlled, you're most likely not much safer in a driver-less vehicle than one you control yourself.
Also this kind of takes away from the Gameboy (and similar machines) "pickup-and-play" aspect. Up, down, left, right and a few fire buttons are what the average people want, with a nice easily understood game area.
Having two screens just complicates the simple need the machine is supposed to satisfy. Not to mention the additional weight, size and cost.
As someone wiser than me once said, KISS.
"When you see a complex virus," she said, "it's come out of the hacking community."
I'd assume she meant that complex viruses usually come from those with a background in hacking. If she'd said that most good soup comes from the hacking community, would you be ranting about all the people using 'hacker' to refer to a cook? $.02
Yeah but with the current system you're breaking the T&Cs which means if a dispute or hijacking of your domain were to arise, you may well lose the case.
Just something to be aware of, people have lost their domains under similar circumstances.
To keep everything nice and bonified, there's always the 'privacy' domain registrations that companys such as GoDaddy offer (basically a proxy registration).
Sealand's "rulers" basically know perfectly well they have no real claim to sovereignty - as is. The moment they cross the line by too big a margin, a small squad will be dispatched to chuck them off and that will be it.
They daren't do anything too illegal (under British laws), hence why they refuse to host extreme objectionable material.
Their plan seems to be (or rather, has been) to make little advances, pushing the boundry each time. A good example of this is the warning shots they fired off. This was a bit of a risk, but the odds were it was too little a "crime" for Britain to bother with - and they were right.
If they had fired at the stray ship, Britain would be all over them. But by playing it coy - merely firing off a few rounds - they've introduced an element of doubt into peoples minds. Why didn't Britain do anything? Sealand must be a legal country after all! And they'll use this when the inevitable court case arises. It's like with trademark breaches. If a company doesn't defend it's trademark as people abuse it, it's case is weakened if/when it eventually does reach court.
Agreed, they're a nice company. I actually did my secondary school work experience there a few years ago in York, UK.
They're a great bunch of people and definitely have that friendly feel to them (relatively small group when I was there). If I remember correctly, the 3 owners of the company are actually the director, lead programmer and tools programmer who used to work out of a flat many moons ago. Nice to see them supporting their old games.
Just the username that identifies you on the given network. Just need to plug in any old text that gives you a unique name -/. stylee. Nothing to do with buying(?!) software or what not.
By the way, I'd lay off whatever drugs you're on - you have the coherency of Mr.Bush;-)
Would you say it's ok for me to buy a region 1 DVD and view although I live in region 2?
Would you say it's ok for me to take said region 1 dvd, rip it to divx and distribute over the internet?
Would you say it's ok for me to buy a Japanese magazine even though I don't understand Japanese - just to view the pictures?
Um, yeah.
Would you say it's ok for me to buy a Japanes magazine and have a friend write me a translation?
Yes.. what's your point?
Wouldn't you say that as long as I've paid the author I'm free to translate the work in whatever way I want, to whatever languages I want?
I think the point is that they distributed it, not that they translated it. Although it says 'private' website in the article, it must have been available to the public else how would the publisher have known about it? You're free to do what you want with your own copy... just the moral of the story is don't even think about distributing it.
As far as I'm concerned, it makes no odds these days whether you have the latest soundblaster or some cheapo onboard beast. Unless you have high quality speakers (which I imagine the average computer user doesn't) the difference is neglibile.
Of course, I can't tell the difference between a 128 and a 160 mp3, so who am I to speak?:-)
If I were a pilot, I would certainly not feel safe knowing that the plane will prevent me from entering certain airspace beyond my control. It's all well and good in theory... until the shit hits the fan.
Aside from the obvious risk of software problems (why is the plane trying to veer into that mountain?!) there's also the risk of unpredictable circumstances. What happens if some freaky weather condition needs we need to divert the flight path over a city to evade it etc.? Of course, the answer is to include an 'off' switch but then this defeats the whole point.
Also if it relies on GPS, would it not be possible to just jam the positioning signal from within the plane?
A clever(ish) idea but like a lot of ideas, just too impractical.
While I agree that this 'innovation' is pretty duff, I don't think your example really applies.
This is meant to counter webpages that fake a security padlock icon (e.g. a popup window with a gif at the bottom faking the secured 'look'). In order to crack this 'technology', the rogue webpage would need to get access to the file that contains said keywords.
While I agree that this could easily be cracked by a standalone exe, an actual webpage would find it pretty impossible to get to this file. Other than the potential for a javascript (or whatever) bug that allows access to the user's files, there's no way the page could access this data. And even if it could, it would have to crack it on the fly before presenting the user with a CC input field or the like.
Regarding the rock, yeah, in theory it will spin forever. But, asides from the initial energy to get it into space and give it momentum... how do you harness the "energy" from the spinning? The short answer is, you can't.
The rock spinning isn't really energy as such since it is just obeying Newton's first law of motion - anything moving will continue moving unless acted upon by an external force.
And unfortunately the only way to harness the "energy" is to apply an external force.
Didn't "they" say, like 2 weeks ago, that the playstation 3 will be coming out next year?
No, it was just some rumour circling the net as usual. Sony will not under any circumstances release a new console while their existing box (PS2) is selling well.
As for not releasing a new console until it's good and finished, hmm, I'm not sure. Sony's only real motivation to release a new console sooner rather than later is competition (XBox, gamecube etc). If one of these catches them off guard then you'll be sure to see a new PS... whether it's good and finished or not. Sony can't afford to lost market share.
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Ok, so how long will it take before someone registers 100 accounts or so, writes a program to break their files into chunks, and stores them as email attachments? It would take me about 2 hours to write a file manager that stores large stuff like my star trek collection or backups on their mail servers...
... about the same amount of time it'd take Google to implement detection for this sort of behaviour. They're not exactly idiots over at Google and I'm sure they've thought about this. Should be especially easy to detect as well (lots of multiple attachments the same size, lack of normal activity etc.).
It's a pretty risky endeavour anyway (for backups that is) as you're running the risk everyday of being caught and having your accounts wiped. Not exactly a bullet proof backup solution is it?
Regarding the positive aspects of safety though... a lot of accidents that the average "careful drivers" are involved in are due to other people. Unless every single vehicle on the road is auto-controlled, you're most likely not much safer in a driver-less vehicle than one you control yourself.
Also this kind of takes away from the Gameboy (and similar machines) "pickup-and-play" aspect. Up, down, left, right and a few fire buttons are what the average people want, with a nice easily understood game area.
Having two screens just complicates the simple need the machine is supposed to satisfy. Not to mention the additional weight, size and cost. As someone wiser than me once said, KISS.
Thanks for taking the time to post that highly original comment. Judging by your posting history, it's about all you post. Idiot.
"When you see a complex virus," she said, "it's come out of the hacking community."
I'd assume she meant that complex viruses usually come from those with a background in hacking. If she'd said that most good soup comes from the hacking community, would you be ranting about all the people using 'hacker' to refer to a cook? $.02
"It's hole, you moran!" It's moron, you idiat!
I should have made it clearer, I was refering to the phone number. Of course, PO Boxes are fine. Just as long as you're contactable.
Ahh I thought you were implying the phone number was fake. All is good then.
Yeah but with the current system you're breaking the T&Cs which means if a dispute or hijacking of your domain were to arise, you may well lose the case.
Just something to be aware of, people have lost their domains under similar circumstances.
To keep everything nice and bonified, there's always the 'privacy' domain registrations that companys such as GoDaddy offer (basically a proxy registration).
Sealand's "rulers" basically know perfectly well they have no real claim to sovereignty - as is. The moment they cross the line by too big a margin, a small squad will be dispatched to chuck them off and that will be it.
They daren't do anything too illegal (under British laws), hence why they refuse to host extreme objectionable material.
Their plan seems to be (or rather, has been) to make little advances, pushing the boundry each time. A good example of this is the warning shots they fired off. This was a bit of a risk, but the odds were it was too little a "crime" for Britain to bother with - and they were right.
If they had fired at the stray ship, Britain would be all over them. But by playing it coy - merely firing off a few rounds - they've introduced an element of doubt into peoples minds. Why didn't Britain do anything? Sealand must be a legal country after all! And they'll use this when the inevitable court case arises. It's like with trademark breaches. If a company doesn't defend it's trademark as people abuse it, it's case is weakened if/when it eventually does reach court.
Agreed, they're a nice company. I actually did my secondary school work experience there a few years ago in York, UK.
They're a great bunch of people and definitely have that friendly feel to them (relatively small group when I was there). If I remember correctly, the 3 owners of the company are actually the director, lead programmer and tools programmer who used to work out of a flat many moons ago. Nice to see them supporting their old games.
Check out Broken Sword 3 currently in development.
Just the username that identifies you on the given network. Just need to plug in any old text that gives you a unique name - /. stylee. Nothing to do with buying(?!) software or what not.
;-)
By the way, I'd lay off whatever drugs you're on - you have the coherency of Mr.Bush
"Continue to pirate mp3's from P2P programs :)"
;)
Um, you mean share, right?
Would you say it's ok for me to buy a region 1 DVD and view although I live in region 2?
Would you say it's ok for me to take said region 1 dvd, rip it to divx and distribute over the internet?
Would you say it's ok for me to buy a Japanese magazine even though I don't understand Japanese - just to view the pictures?
Um, yeah.
Would you say it's ok for me to buy a Japanes magazine and have a friend write me a translation?
Yes.. what's your point?
Wouldn't you say that as long as I've paid the author I'm free to translate the work in whatever way I want, to whatever languages I want?
I think the point is that they distributed it, not that they translated it. Although it says 'private' website in the article, it must have been available to the public else how would the publisher have known about it? You're free to do what you want with your own copy... just the moral of the story is don't even think about distributing it.
As far as I'm concerned, it makes no odds these days whether you have the latest soundblaster or some cheapo onboard beast. Unless you have high quality speakers (which I imagine the average computer user doesn't) the difference is neglibile.
:-)
Of course, I can't tell the difference between a 128 and a 160 mp3, so who am I to speak?
If I were a pilot, I would certainly not feel safe knowing that the plane will prevent me from entering certain airspace beyond my control. It's all well and good in theory... until the shit hits the fan.
Aside from the obvious risk of software problems (why is the plane trying to veer into that mountain?!) there's also the risk of unpredictable circumstances. What happens if some freaky weather condition needs we need to divert the flight path over a city to evade it etc.? Of course, the answer is to include an 'off' switch but then this defeats the whole point.
Also if it relies on GPS, would it not be possible to just jam the positioning signal from within the plane?
A clever(ish) idea but like a lot of ideas, just too impractical.
Um... I thought Firebird was a database project of some sort?
;)
To be fair, posting only a minute after the original, neither did you!
While I agree that this 'innovation' is pretty duff, I don't think your example really applies.
This is meant to counter webpages that fake a security padlock icon (e.g. a popup window with a gif at the bottom faking the secured 'look'). In order to crack this 'technology', the rogue webpage would need to get access to the file that contains said keywords.
While I agree that this could easily be cracked by a standalone exe, an actual webpage would find it pretty impossible to get to this file. Other than the potential for a javascript (or whatever) bug that allows access to the user's files, there's no way the page could access this data. And even if it could, it would have to crack it on the fly before presenting the user with a CC input field or the like.
I think this hall of fame only applies to robots in this galaxy. Not galaxies far, far away.
Regarding the rock, yeah, in theory it will spin forever. But, asides from the initial energy to get it into space and give it momentum... how do you harness the "energy" from the spinning? The short answer is, you can't.
The rock spinning isn't really energy as such since it is just obeying Newton's first law of motion - anything moving will continue moving unless acted upon by an external force.
And unfortunately the only way to harness the "energy" is to apply an external force.
Didn't "they" say, like 2 weeks ago, that the playstation 3 will be coming out next year?
No, it was just some rumour circling the net as usual. Sony will not under any circumstances release a new console while their existing box (PS2) is selling well.
As for not releasing a new console until it's good and finished, hmm, I'm not sure. Sony's only real motivation to release a new console sooner rather than later is competition (XBox, gamecube etc). If one of these catches them off guard then you'll be sure to see a new PS... whether it's good and finished or not. Sony can't afford to lost market share.
Wasn't that Tony Blair's kid? Tho I think he has a little more to be worrying about at the moment :)
I'm trying.... One of the most random books reviewed on /. I've ever seen.
Where *does* pacman go?! Arghh