Most likely it's because the online gambling sites are not based in Washington State, so the state doesn't get a slice of the action, either by taxing the casino or taxing your winnings.
So exactly when did "getting your ass kicked by a bunch of jerks" turn into being "an unwilling Fight Club participant"?
Maybe when they invited him to join the club, he declined, but then couldn't convince them that he wouldn't run to the authorities?? There are some offers you can't safely refuse...
Look at the position of the leg with regards to the arm.
Look at the position of his goolies with respect to the position of the blue-shirt guy's left fist... If blue-shirt is paying attention, red-shirt is going to be walking with a squint for a couple of days.
Maybe because we here in the US we take security fairly seriously.
Not seriously enough, according to the EU court.
How exactly are we treating you like a criminal by ensuring our security?
Is US Immigration still fingerprinting everyone entering the US, or was that just media hype?? As an EU citizen in the US, I was fingerprinted twice recently, just to renew my driver's license, once at the Dept of Safety office, then again five minutes later at the Tag Agency. I suppose I could have passed my papers over to a terrorist while crossing the road in front of the adjacent police station in full view of 6 armed officers, so that second print was fully justified...
My whole family also had a full set of prints taken for our Green Card applications, and yet another set or right-index-finger when doing the final paperwork at the INS office. That last set we probably could have used any finger at all, or even a hotdog, given that the INS agent was dopey enough to write down Male for my daughter, who has boobs to match Lara Croft's...
Note that I'm not complaining about being printed for the Green Card, or even for a driver's license, as it works out for *my* security as well as everyone else. It just seems stupid to print everyone coming into the US. And I'll bet they don't pay the $75 per head fee for being printed, as happens for the Green Card app, and *again* for the Naturalisation app...
I think the situation is likely to resolve itself. If the US started banning incoming flights from Europe, the reverse may also happen. US airlines would squeal quite loudly in D.C. if they weren't allowed to fly to Europe. I suspect that the European airlines would fare much better than their US counterparts. After all, it would be relatively simple for EU flights to drop people in Canada to walk/drive across the border and then take internal flights. I don't see the same happening quite so easily from the US to the EU, so long as *all* EU countries maintained the same embargo.
So how does that work with the boneheaded games that want to access the install CD all the time to make sure you have a legitimate copy?? Certainly *some* of the games my kids play in XP require them to have admin rights due to the way the game wants to access the CD.
How could the BRITISH government go after Larry Wall, an AMERICAN citizan
Remember Dmitri Skylarov?? A Russian citizen, arrested at DEFCON in Las Vegas for writing software in Russia that violates the DMCA. With that kind of precedent, Larry had better be careful visiting England...
Yes!! As the saying goes, "When [something] is outlawed, only outlaws will have [something]" So, ban all computers, then only the hackers will have them. They'll only be able to hack each other, and with luck they'll grind each other into the dirt. In a couple of years it'll be safe for the rest of us to get our computers back...
Hey, I can dream, can't I?? In the meantime, Sun Microsystems had better tread carefully in the UK. They're distributing Perl with Solaris 10, so not only are they supplying a hacker's tool, they also supply the hardware and the OS...
I almost believe that someone ought to just do it and break the net permanently so everyone will have to come to grips with this.
Well now, that sparked an interesting thought - maybe spammers such as PharmaMaster are a front for somebody else, and I don't mean people trying to market dubious products. There's that saying "follow the money", so who would benefit from your drastic solution??
Various ISPs have recently been trying to set up tiered Internet, so they'd get paid for traffic both ways. Would they benefit from such restructuring?
Various governments want to censor what their citizens can view.
The UK government may soon be demanding that people give up their encryption keys to the police - "to fight terrorism". Ironic really - saying, "give us your keys or go to jail" is a form of terrorism, isn't it? How many other countries would like to do the same?
The RIAA/MPAA would love to have people change to diskless internet terminals that couldn't store viruses, botnet-code or, incidentally, music and videos. They might finally shift to a cheap download business model if it was a definite play-only-once download
I'd imagine a number of phone companies would like to see VOIP go away
I'm sure Microsoft would be happy to charge, say, $50 for a Windows LiveCD edition. "Yes folks, throw out that spam/pr0n/virus filled hard disk and pop in this CD."
So, who benefits most if the Internet is restructured??
It seems as though we need a DNS server registration process much like that of domain names with the exception that you actually do need to verify your identity before your server it declared a valid DNS server.
The botnets would just send out regular DNS requests, which would still flood the registered DNS servers.
As it is right now, you can send a DNS lookup request to any DNS server - a couple of guys at work here won't use their own ISP's DNS because it's flaky. The botnet traffic could be cut if the ISPs would block outgoing DNS requests that *don't* originate from their own servers. Instead of shooting DNS lookups off to some DDoS target, the zombies would have to send the query to the ISP's DNS, which would then forward them on. At some point, the ISP's DNS is flooded and breaks down, cutting the zombies off. This accomplishes two things - it shuts the zombies out of the DNS amplification attack, and it lets the ISP know they're hosting a botnet...
The spammers don't pay for their bandwidth, the zombie owners do. Of course, if they noticed their internet bill go up, they might do something about it.
Aren't the majority of the zombies on always-on broadband connections?? That's usually a flat-rate charge, at least on the ones I've used. You wouldn't notice any difference in your Internet bill.
They could also just type up the information, print it out and mail it. Printers are cheap enough to be able to just drop one in a dumpster and get another, making it harder to pin the leak to a particular person.
You'll notice that the article says that without a "smart grid" it won't work in rural areas. A good chunk of the world is rural...
That's where I am right now - rural - after living in an area where I could get both DSL and Cable Internet. My kids were *really* not pleased with the idea that they might have to revert to dialup. Luckily there's a wireless ISP with a tower only about 8 miles away and the installer was able to get line of sight on it from the roof. It's not quite as fast as DSL or Cable, but it's a lot better than dialup.
The problem is, though, that there's a major power transmission line running between my house and the tower. At the moment it doen't seem to be interfering, but if it starts radiating RF, I might be out of luck again.
UK customs agents actually opened the packages, not MPAA goons. The MPAA provided/trained the dogs. Customs agents can open any damn thing they like, for no given reason. The package just has to be present in the customs hall to qualify for opening.
You can easily DDoS the system by shipping a blank DVD in every FedEx package.
It might even be possible to improve the liklihood of a 'hit' if you include a fragment of a DVD. I'm sure we've all burned our share of 'coasters' - save 'em up, snap each one into 3 or 4 pieces and drop a piece into each package. If the dogs are sniffing the chemicals in recordable DVDs, a broken one should smell *really* good...
Around here, we're standardising on Windows XP, with Outlook/Exchange for email and Internet Explorer for browsing. A fair proportion of internal web pages are broken in any other browser, even going as far as to redirect you to a page with a link to download the approved version of IE. Oh, and everyone is slowly being upgraded to laptops when their desktop systems become old enough to warrant it....
And yet there's annual, mandatory, Security Awareness training. One year I was able to get a perfect score by using right-click->view-page-source, because the multiple-guess questions came loaded with the correct answers...
Very interesting! Given your last paragraph, perhaps you would be in a position to confirm something else I read. I think it was in "Motor Car" or something similar. They loaded up a diesel-engined Citroen AX with all the Lucas fuel-economy stuff they could find and did a road test. They claimed to get over 120 miles per imperial gallon of diesel. Is that really achievable??
I think there was another article that talked about emissions, saying that a properly tuned diesel emits only CO2 and water vapor. If both of those are true, I should really be taking a serious look at diesel for my next vehicle...:)
Whatever happened to that guy in New Zealand who was building a cruise missile from commonly available, completely non-military parts?? As I recall, he was talking about building the guidance system using parts bought on eBay for only a few hundred dollars. Last I heard, he was prohibited from launching the thing.
Reminds me about a story I heard back in the 80's. This may just be urban legend, but apparently there was this guy in Europe who fitted a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine into a car. I think he got the engine out of a Spitfire fighter plane. Anyway, he'd go roaring up and down the autobahns in Germany at godawful speeds, but never got a ticket. As the story goes, there are a couple of places (not on the autobahn, I guess) where there are speed traps, with radar and cameras to take snapshots of speeding vehicles. The cops knew this guy had been past, but they couldn't prove it, because the camera only ever got photos of empty road. The reaction time in the system was so slow that by the time the camera fired, the car was already out of sight.
Sure - teach people a "better" way to cook, or "better" food to eat, and they'll pass that on to their friends and descendants. It doesn't kill them immediately, so they have time to pass it on...
More seriously, there have been incidents where explorers have come across "lost" tribes which subsequently were almost wiped out by flu, or smallpox or something similar they had no antibodies for.
I wonder how much the healthcare industry is to blame for this result. I mean, there's obviously piles of money being made, so it's in *someone's* financial best interest to see to it that Americans need lots of healthcare. No, I don't know how "they" might be making Americans sick, but it wouldn't surprise me very much if there was something like that going on. If you think it couldn't happen, just take a look at all the needless "pork barrel" projects that just about every Congressman pushes.
The Inuit peoples survived for thousands of years on a diet of pure raw meat, and experienced few health problems until the arrival of Western cooked food, which immediately brought illnesses upon them.
You don't suppose it could have been the Westerners *bringing* the cooked food that could *also* have brought diseases previously unknown (or at least rare) to the Inuit?? The Inuit would have had no natural immunity, so diseases that were merely discomforting to the Westerners would have caused epidemics among the Inuit.
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Most likely it's because the online gambling sites are not based in Washington State, so the state doesn't get a slice of the action, either by taxing the casino or taxing your winnings.
Maybe when they invited him to join the club, he declined, but then couldn't convince them that he wouldn't run to the authorities?? There are some offers you can't safely refuse...
Look at the position of his goolies with respect to the position of the blue-shirt guy's left fist... If blue-shirt is paying attention, red-shirt is going to be walking with a squint for a couple of days.
Not seriously enough, according to the EU court.
Is US Immigration still fingerprinting everyone entering the US, or was that just media hype?? As an EU citizen in the US, I was fingerprinted twice recently, just to renew my driver's license, once at the Dept of Safety office, then again five minutes later at the Tag Agency. I suppose I could have passed my papers over to a terrorist while crossing the road in front of the adjacent police station in full view of 6 armed officers, so that second print was fully justified...
My whole family also had a full set of prints taken for our Green Card applications, and yet another set or right-index-finger when doing the final paperwork at the INS office. That last set we probably could have used any finger at all, or even a hotdog, given that the INS agent was dopey enough to write down Male for my daughter, who has boobs to match Lara Croft's...
Note that I'm not complaining about being printed for the Green Card, or even for a driver's license, as it works out for *my* security as well as everyone else. It just seems stupid to print everyone coming into the US. And I'll bet they don't pay the $75 per head fee for being printed, as happens for the Green Card app, and *again* for the Naturalisation app...
Not even a throw-away Hotmail or Yahoo address?? I haven't needed one recently, but it used to be trivial to feed false info to them...
I think the situation is likely to resolve itself. If the US started banning incoming flights from Europe, the reverse may also happen. US airlines would squeal quite loudly in D.C. if they weren't allowed to fly to Europe. I suspect that the European airlines would fare much better than their US counterparts. After all, it would be relatively simple for EU flights to drop people in Canada to walk/drive across the border and then take internal flights. I don't see the same happening quite so easily from the US to the EU, so long as *all* EU countries maintained the same embargo.
So how does that work with the boneheaded games that want to access the install CD all the time to make sure you have a legitimate copy?? Certainly *some* of the games my kids play in XP require them to have admin rights due to the way the game wants to access the CD.
Remember Dmitri Skylarov?? A Russian citizen, arrested at DEFCON in Las Vegas for writing software in Russia that violates the DMCA. With that kind of precedent, Larry had better be careful visiting England...
I think we should follow that thought to it's logical conclusion and just ban people. Clearly people are involved in all kinds of crimes...
Yes!! As the saying goes, "When [something] is outlawed, only outlaws will have [something]" So, ban all computers, then only the hackers will have them. They'll only be able to hack each other, and with luck they'll grind each other into the dirt. In a couple of years it'll be safe for the rest of us to get our computers back...
Hey, I can dream, can't I?? In the meantime, Sun Microsystems had better tread carefully in the UK. They're distributing Perl with Solaris 10, so not only are they supplying a hacker's tool, they also supply the hardware and the OS...
Well now, that sparked an interesting thought - maybe spammers such as PharmaMaster are a front for somebody else, and I don't mean people trying to market dubious products. There's that saying "follow the money", so who would benefit from your drastic solution??
So, who benefits most if the Internet is restructured??
The botnets would just send out regular DNS requests, which would still flood the registered DNS servers.
As it is right now, you can send a DNS lookup request to any DNS server - a couple of guys at work here won't use their own ISP's DNS because it's flaky. The botnet traffic could be cut if the ISPs would block outgoing DNS requests that *don't* originate from their own servers. Instead of shooting DNS lookups off to some DDoS target, the zombies would have to send the query to the ISP's DNS, which would then forward them on. At some point, the ISP's DNS is flooded and breaks down, cutting the zombies off. This accomplishes two things - it shuts the zombies out of the DNS amplification attack, and it lets the ISP know they're hosting a botnet...
Aren't the majority of the zombies on always-on broadband connections?? That's usually a flat-rate charge, at least on the ones I've used. You wouldn't notice any difference in your Internet bill.
They could also just type up the information, print it out and mail it. Printers are cheap enough to be able to just drop one in a dumpster and get another, making it harder to pin the leak to a particular person.
That's where I am right now - rural - after living in an area where I could get both DSL and Cable Internet. My kids were *really* not pleased with the idea that they might have to revert to dialup. Luckily there's a wireless ISP with a tower only about 8 miles away and the installer was able to get line of sight on it from the roof. It's not quite as fast as DSL or Cable, but it's a lot better than dialup.
The problem is, though, that there's a major power transmission line running between my house and the tower. At the moment it doen't seem to be interfering, but if it starts radiating RF, I might be out of luck again.
UK customs agents actually opened the packages, not MPAA goons. The MPAA provided/trained the dogs. Customs agents can open any damn thing they like, for no given reason. The package just has to be present in the customs hall to qualify for opening.
It might even be possible to improve the liklihood of a 'hit' if you include a fragment of a DVD. I'm sure we've all burned our share of 'coasters' - save 'em up, snap each one into 3 or 4 pieces and drop a piece into each package. If the dogs are sniffing the chemicals in recordable DVDs, a broken one should smell *really* good...
And yet there's annual, mandatory, Security Awareness training. One year I was able to get a perfect score by using right-click->view-page-source, because the multiple-guess questions came loaded with the correct answers...
Forget the doors and windows, anyone who really wants in will bring along a chainsaw and go straight through the wall...
I think there was another article that talked about emissions, saying that a properly tuned diesel emits only CO2 and water vapor. If both of those are true, I should really be taking a serious look at diesel for my next vehicle...:)
Whatever happened to that guy in New Zealand who was building a cruise missile from commonly available, completely non-military parts?? As I recall, he was talking about building the guidance system using parts bought on eBay for only a few hundred dollars. Last I heard, he was prohibited from launching the thing.
Reminds me about a story I heard back in the 80's. This may just be urban legend, but apparently there was this guy in Europe who fitted a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine into a car. I think he got the engine out of a Spitfire fighter plane. Anyway, he'd go roaring up and down the autobahns in Germany at godawful speeds, but never got a ticket. As the story goes, there are a couple of places (not on the autobahn, I guess) where there are speed traps, with radar and cameras to take snapshots of speeding vehicles. The cops knew this guy had been past, but they couldn't prove it, because the camera only ever got photos of empty road. The reaction time in the system was so slow that by the time the camera fired, the car was already out of sight.
More seriously, there have been incidents where explorers have come across "lost" tribes which subsequently were almost wiped out by flu, or smallpox or something similar they had no antibodies for.
I wonder how much the healthcare industry is to blame for this result. I mean, there's obviously piles of money being made, so it's in *someone's* financial best interest to see to it that Americans need lots of healthcare. No, I don't know how "they" might be making Americans sick, but it wouldn't surprise me very much if there was something like that going on. If you think it couldn't happen, just take a look at all the needless "pork barrel" projects that just about every Congressman pushes.
You don't suppose it could have been the Westerners *bringing* the cooked food that could *also* have brought diseases previously unknown (or at least rare) to the Inuit?? The Inuit would have had no natural immunity, so diseases that were merely discomforting to the Westerners would have caused epidemics among the Inuit.