Then again, a few public failures would be a very good way to hide some surveillance successes from the public. Always be wary of an incompetent police agency, or a friendly lawyer.
You just have to use it for what it is... It helps you start research. It is a lead generator, or an index. But if you think it actually has answers, or your research can end there, you are an idiot. But you have a lot of company.
Heavy on fear, but light on facts... And with so many popular torrent programs open source, all of the sneakiness is no longer possible. No magic serial, or mac address in my torrent program. Oh, and it is encrypted.
What next, users have to pass an IQ test to get on the Internet? That way all of the stupid people who click on email links from phishing scams before looking at the message to see if it is fake or not, will forever see "Error ID10T: User is not smart enough to use the Internet. Request denied!"
We have those now. They are administered from a testing center in Nigeria. If you fail, your internet is soon cut off for non-payment.
Why is this so hard for ISPs to understand... Monitoring, filtering, or changing content will always result in obfuscation and encryption. Both solutions just make the ISP problems worse. Quite fighting your customer.
He may still get occasional NASA sub-contracts. I am not sure anymore, as he can't talk about it much. It seems that NASA is not as secretive as some of his new clients.
I was told of the climate change y2k miscalculation long before it came out. However, that would jeopardize a departments funding, so it never went up the chain until it went public. So while they don't "mess up calculations" they sometimes withhold corrections or better models if a department is at stake. If you want to see more of this, look into the pilot seats for the space shuttle...
A friend of mine "used" to work at NASA JSC. He would tell me stories of people with a clue being broken by people in charge that had no clue. He finally got fed up and left... He is not alone.
The same thing was said about Joe Horn in Houston. The fact is that if the cops can't help you keep your stuff and the "Internet Mob" can, who do you turn to? The cops have been crippled by PC garbage, so people go after criminals directly. And if your car gets stolen, I bet you post it to your forums, tell your friends, and look for it yourself. My girlfriend did, and we found her stolen truck. Then we called the police and told them that they could stop "looking" for it now.
Actually, in Houston it works very well. CenterPoint energy owns all the lines, and reads all the meters. Power companies put power on the grid and bill customers. If a power company ends up using more power than they put on, they have just "bought" it at retail rates. This keeps them honest fast. Prices have gone down, and customer service has gone up. The only loss was that turning on power can take longer now.
You can only use my tax money if I get to own it. Let one company own the last mile, and sell it to providers. No provider can own last mile, and no last mile company can provide access. It works for electricity in Houston...
The entire concept since the beginning of the internet was that everyone pays for there part. Google pays it's part, and I pay mine. The problem is that Comcast has not been paying its bill. (They have not built up the infrastructure to keep pace with demand) The fact that they sold something based on assumptions that are no longer correct is called a risk of doing business. At one time we did not bail out every risk that did not pan out, but now I guess we will...
I got a brand new speedstream 4100 with my AT&T DSL connection 8 months ago. I just had to say at least 6 times, "Yes I really do want just a modem. No I do not want a 2wire. Yes I know what I am saying. Yes I know it is free with the rebate. No I still don't want it." I also had to lie and say I was using Windows just to get my DLS turned on. I guess it like for me to talk dirty...
And this is why I have been "upgrading" many corporate customers from Comcast and AT&T dsl to T1s. Even after I talk them into it and they agree, they are still amazed when 1.5 meg turns out faster than 6 meg. And that is part of the problem...
Internet targeted marketing allows you to reach a maximum number of stupid people guaranteeing success in your fraudulent endeavors. Included in our package is the document "Ten Thousand ways to find Stupid People.pdf" and a free spell checker to give misspellings guaranteed to engender trust. Just send $1500 to our trusted escrow agent...
First, it is tough to check the Vista facts as; 1) I don't have a copy, and 2) Microsoft doesn't document the inner workings of security.
If you read the article I linked to at The Register you will note that the winner said that he would have been able to pull this off on any of the operating systems.
I did read it. And I have a 12 inch cock. I said it, so it must be true. I am not saying Ubuntu is the be-all end-all of security. Just that it stood while Vista fell.
He was trying both the Ubuntu system and the Vista system at the same time. The Ubuntu system stood. Could be because flash runs in less privileged space on Ubuntu than on Vista.
I mistakenly feared slashdot users would have one less thing to whine about now. But the real difference is instead of "Comcast sucks because they do this!" we'll be hearing "Comcast sucks because they once did this!"
Sony put a rootkit on some CDs.
They pulled it of, and made nice.
Sony put a rootkit on some thumb drives.
They pulled it of, and made nice.
If a company does something sleazy once, they are likely to do it again. This is why I avoid Sony and Comcast.
No, if they stop lying, they become just bastards. Or perhaps we can spend more time on "incompetent bastards" with the "lying bastards" out of the way.
Ideally congresscritters would care about the people they represent,
Uhhh... The last time I checked, US congresscritters were not supposed to represent foreign people or companies. While a tad unfair, it is what they are supposed to do in this case. However, I am sure that congress doing the correct thing in this case is purely unintentional...:)
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Then again, a few public failures would be a very good way to hide some surveillance successes from the public. Always be wary of an incompetent police agency, or a friendly lawyer.
You just have to use it for what it is... It helps you start research. It is a lead generator, or an index. But if you think it actually has answers, or your research can end there, you are an idiot. But you have a lot of company.
Heavy on fear, but light on facts... And with so many popular torrent programs open source, all of the sneakiness is no longer possible. No magic serial, or mac address in my torrent program. Oh, and it is encrypted.
What next, users have to pass an IQ test to get on the Internet? That way all of the stupid people who click on email links from phishing scams before looking at the message to see if it is fake or not, will forever see "Error ID10T: User is not smart enough to use the Internet. Request denied!"
We have those now. They are administered from a testing center in Nigeria. If you fail, your internet is soon cut off for non-payment.
Why is this so hard for ISPs to understand... Monitoring, filtering, or changing content will always result in obfuscation and encryption. Both solutions just make the ISP problems worse. Quite fighting your customer.
I don't know, but I think Turkey Spam is taking low fat health food too far. It needs to stop!
He may still get occasional NASA sub-contracts. I am not sure anymore, as he can't talk about it much. It seems that NASA is not as secretive as some of his new clients.
I was told of the climate change y2k miscalculation long before it came out. However, that would jeopardize a departments funding, so it never went up the chain until it went public. So while they don't "mess up calculations" they sometimes withhold corrections or better models if a department is at stake. If you want to see more of this, look into the pilot seats for the space shuttle...
A friend of mine "used" to work at NASA JSC. He would tell me stories of people with a clue being broken by people in charge that had no clue. He finally got fed up and left... He is not alone.
The same thing was said about Joe Horn in Houston. The fact is that if the cops can't help you keep your stuff and the "Internet Mob" can, who do you turn to? The cops have been crippled by PC garbage, so people go after criminals directly. And if your car gets stolen, I bet you post it to your forums, tell your friends, and look for it yourself. My girlfriend did, and we found her stolen truck. Then we called the police and told them that they could stop "looking" for it now.
Actually, in Houston it works very well. CenterPoint energy owns all the lines, and reads all the meters. Power companies put power on the grid and bill customers. If a power company ends up using more power than they put on, they have just "bought" it at retail rates. This keeps them honest fast. Prices have gone down, and customer service has gone up. The only loss was that turning on power can take longer now.
You can only use my tax money if I get to own it. Let one company own the last mile, and sell it to providers. No provider can own last mile, and no last mile company can provide access. It works for electricity in Houston...
The entire concept since the beginning of the internet was that everyone pays for there part. Google pays it's part, and I pay mine. The problem is that Comcast has not been paying its bill. (They have not built up the infrastructure to keep pace with demand) The fact that they sold something based on assumptions that are no longer correct is called a risk of doing business. At one time we did not bail out every risk that did not pan out, but now I guess we will...
I've got a 2701, and the thing just falls completely apart whenever I use BitTorrent.
:) (However, this may not really be a joke.)
That is a feature to keep bittorrent traffic manageable.
I got a brand new speedstream 4100 with my AT&T DSL connection 8 months ago. I just had to say at least 6 times, "Yes I really do want just a modem. No I do not want a 2wire. Yes I know what I am saying. Yes I know it is free with the rebate. No I still don't want it." I also had to lie and say I was using Windows just to get my DLS turned on. I guess it like for me to talk dirty...
And this is why I have been "upgrading" many corporate customers from Comcast and AT&T dsl to T1s. Even after I talk them into it and they agree, they are still amazed when 1.5 meg turns out faster than 6 meg. And that is part of the problem...
Internet targeted marketing allows you to reach a maximum number of stupid people guaranteeing success in your fraudulent endeavors. Included in our package is the document "Ten Thousand ways to find Stupid People.pdf" and a free spell checker to give misspellings guaranteed to engender trust. Just send $1500 to our trusted escrow agent...
Has Apple even been able to break the RIAA, "our way or the highway" rule and sell both RIAA music and independent music?
Apple will sell just about anything. Several talk radio hosts have regular iTunes paid downloads, and none of them have RIAA contracts.
From one scan to another... At least he is consistent.
First, it is tough to check the Vista facts as; 1) I don't have a copy, and 2) Microsoft doesn't document the inner workings of security.
If you read the article I linked to at The Register you will note that the winner said that he would have been able to pull this off on any of the operating systems.
I did read it. And I have a 12 inch cock. I said it, so it must be true. I am not saying Ubuntu is the be-all end-all of security. Just that it stood while Vista fell.
He was trying both the Ubuntu system and the Vista system at the same time. The Ubuntu system stood. Could be because flash runs in less privileged space on Ubuntu than on Vista.
Want to put money on whether they'll lie again?
:) See my Sony reference. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=501572&cid=22886034
Hell yes! But there is no way I would put money against them lying again.
I mistakenly feared slashdot users would have one less thing to whine about now. But the real difference is instead of "Comcast sucks because they do this!" we'll be hearing "Comcast sucks because they once did this!"
Sony put a rootkit on some CDs.
They pulled it of, and made nice.
Sony put a rootkit on some thumb drives.
They pulled it of, and made nice.
If a company does something sleazy once, they are likely to do it again. This is why I avoid Sony and Comcast.
True or not, they're still lying bastards!
No, if they stop lying, they become just bastards. Or perhaps we can spend more time on "incompetent bastards" with the "lying bastards" out of the way.
Ideally congresscritters would care about the people they represent,
:)
Uhhh... The last time I checked, US congresscritters were not supposed to represent foreign people or companies. While a tad unfair, it is what they are supposed to do in this case. However, I am sure that congress doing the correct thing in this case is purely unintentional...