AFAIK Skype uses a fallback system when the technique described doesn't work (where UDP traffic is blocked). In those cases it uses a well connected peer (yes, that could be your Skype client) to relay the voice data to the other party. Your PC becomes a Supernode without your knowledge and consent. Well, not really, coz this is in the Skype EULA:
4.1 Permission to utilise your computer. In order to receive the benefits provided by the Skype Software, you hereby grant permission for the Skype Software to utilise the processor and bandwidth of your computer for the limited purpose of facilitating the communication between Skype Software users.
So can I packet sniff my own computer without breaking wiretap laws?
Because of the break-ins, systems had to be rebuilt and scientists and engineers had to manually communicate with spacecraft
I can just see one of the guys standing outside NASA JSC yelling up at the sky, "How Ya'll doin up there?"
We so desperately need this! When you can get a patent on anything, it makes patents in general worth less. This is why companies now collect them as armor. Hopefully the court will make them much harder to get. The effect will make the patents that are granted much more valuable. No truly innovative company can be against this. IP lawsuit companies on the other hand...
It's called headhunting, and it happens all the time. How many times have there been stories right here on Slashdot about how ABC, Corp. just hired so-and-so from XYZ, Inc.?But how many of those stories have the head hunter walking into a cube farm and saying, "Hey guys, We are having a job fair across the street." The mailing lists are were the work gets done in a project. He went into the "office" (where the work gets done) and made a statement. If it would have been on the Ubuntu server, or linux.org, or slashdot, there would be no debate. Then again, debate may be exactly what he was going for.
Posted on the Ubuntu servers it would be fine. But going into someone elses business and poaching employees is just not right. And in OSS the mailing lists are the "offices" of the distribution.
Funny... I remember when it WAS Microsoft. Microsoft was this little company battling against Big Bad IBM. The plucky spirit of this tiny company made PC Compatibles possible.
Then they grew up. Not only can the same thing happen to Google, it must. You can't be the plucky upstart fighting the establishment once you become the establishment.
Once you are in a shouting match, a little speaker 20 feet behind you won't be able to calm you down. Short of having some new content for youtube, this will do little. But as a backtracking system it will be scary...
You can do this on a cruise. The phone rates are high enough for them to leave you the hell alone. And I can vacation well in 2 days. It just takes two good days!
This is being done in Houston right now using the RFID toll road tags. http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/layers/ However, the second they start writing tickets, all of Houston dumps the RFID tags, and they have to hire a LOT of toll both operators. The same thing will happen to the phones. The phone companies will not cooperate with anything that will encourage people to turn off there phones.
Actually, I am seeing a lot more people dump paid TV. Usually it happens with a move... For some reason, they can't get cable before move in, and after a while they don't bother. The best thing, out of all of this, however, is that now there is true competition on TV, phone, and net. Since price is about the same, and the product is a commodity, service will have to improve. Content, on the other hand, seems to be falling in all mediums.
Well, since the "Patch" is directly taken from a still protected work it is actually "copyright-violation..." But I doubt any media company would sue...
I would buy GTA New Orleans... The entire car bike boat thing would be taken to a new level. Flying the chopper you could rescue or strafe mobs... And instead of "Hot Coffee," "Hot Chocolate!"
Exactly. When you start to think of customers as aggregate numbers, and not as people, you loose touch with customer demands. This is something Microsoft is very good at addressing. Perhaps not satisfying, but at least addressing...:-)
Now set that machine next to my mother's Win98SE Lite box with IE6 and see which one she uses. For a non-tech user, Win98 is the lightest weight OS that will work for most applications.
I remember a time when Linux and Mozilla on an older system would breathe new life into it. Retired business systems would be a safer and snappy web surfer for "Less Technical" relatives. No more. Try a new full featured distribution (The kind you could expect a non-tech to use) on old hardware, and it is as slow as XP. Good thing MS is coming out with a slower operating system to lower the bar for the OSS advocates.
And every new cell phone has more useless features, bundled with poorer call quality and shorter battery life. Eventually cell phones will just be gateways for the laptop to use Skipe over...
And to the other poster, since T-Mobile does not have this lock, guess who I want when my contract is up? Guess where my next laptop will come from? Guess who did not sell me a new car stereo, in spite of making a car cd-player that worked well for almost 15 years?
But I think too many people just go to wall mart and buy the cheapest thing that looks pretty. To heck with principled companies, we need more principled consumers!
The problem I have is that it's My PC! It is not Microsoft's (as much as they want to believe it) or Sony's or Star Forces, but Mine. I am sick to death of companies trying to protect me from ME and preventing me from using my devices as I want. Try and put a good Cisco WiFi card in the mini-pci slot of a HP, Compaq, or IBM laptop. "Unauthorized wireless network card detected. System halted..." Try using a car charger for any RAZR phone on a Verizon RAZR phone. "Unauthorized Charger." When you sell me something, IT'S MINE DAMNIT!
m0n0wall http://m0n0.ch/wall/
Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com
QEMU
Most codecs...
ebay (for the JDM car parts, Yo!)
The Reg www.theregister.co.uk
5fm www.5fm.co.za (uncensored music and cool accents...)
I can't say NO loud enough.
Slashdot Mirror
If there is any doubt, just post the blog to slashdot. You can crash a server, and send someone to federal prison!
Unless they read the google cache... Then it doesn't count.
So can I packet sniff my own computer without breaking wiretap laws?
Perhaps that's because so many of them are BOHF, power freaks who treat "their" users like crap.
Actually, livestock would be more appropriate. After all, users have some value at contract time.
Because of the break-ins, systems had to be rebuilt and scientists and engineers had to manually communicate with spacecraft
I can just see one of the guys standing outside NASA JSC yelling up at the sky, "How Ya'll doin up there?"
We so desperately need this! When you can get a patent on anything, it makes patents in general worth less. This is why companies now collect them as armor. Hopefully the court will make them much harder to get. The effect will make the patents that are granted much more valuable. No truly innovative company can be against this. IP lawsuit companies on the other hand...
It's called headhunting, and it happens all the time. How many times have there been stories right here on Slashdot about how ABC, Corp. just hired so-and-so from XYZ, Inc.?But how many of those stories have the head hunter walking into a cube farm and saying, "Hey guys, We are having a job fair across the street." The mailing lists are were the work gets done in a project. He went into the "office" (where the work gets done) and made a statement. If it would have been on the Ubuntu server, or linux.org, or slashdot, there would be no debate. Then again, debate may be exactly what he was going for.
Posted on the Ubuntu servers it would be fine. But going into someone elses business and poaching employees is just not right. And in OSS the mailing lists are the "offices" of the distribution.
Funny... I remember when it WAS Microsoft. Microsoft was this little company battling against Big Bad IBM. The plucky spirit of this tiny company made PC Compatibles possible.
Then they grew up. Not only can the same thing happen to Google, it must. You can't be the plucky upstart fighting the establishment once you become the establishment.
Once you are in a shouting match, a little speaker 20 feet behind you won't be able to calm you down. Short of having some new content for youtube, this will do little. But as a backtracking system it will be scary...
You can do this on a cruise. The phone rates are high enough for them to leave you the hell alone. And I can vacation well in 2 days. It just takes two good days!
This is being done in Houston right now using the RFID toll road tags. http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/layers/ However, the second they start writing tickets, all of Houston dumps the RFID tags, and they have to hire a LOT of toll both operators. The same thing will happen to the phones. The phone companies will not cooperate with anything that will encourage people to turn off there phones.
Let me begin with the classic "Me too."
Actually, I am seeing a lot more people dump paid TV. Usually it happens with a move... For some reason, they can't get cable before move in, and after a while they don't bother. The best thing, out of all of this, however, is that now there is true competition on TV, phone, and net. Since price is about the same, and the product is a commodity, service will have to improve. Content, on the other hand, seems to be falling in all mediums.
Well, since the "Patch" is directly taken from a still protected work it is actually "copyright-violation..." But I doubt any media company would sue...
I would buy GTA New Orleans... The entire car bike boat thing would be taken to a new level. Flying the chopper you could rescue or strafe mobs... And instead of "Hot Coffee," "Hot Chocolate!"
Exactly. When you start to think of customers as aggregate numbers, and not as people, you loose touch with customer demands. This is something Microsoft is very good at addressing. Perhaps not satisfying, but at least addressing... :-)
I have the feeling that at this point the managers in Redmond care less about security and more about actually _shipping_ the product.
;-)
To maintain backwards compatability with other Windows versions, of course...
Motorcyclists have had this power far longer that slashdot AC's.
Now set that machine next to my mother's Win98SE Lite box with IE6 and see which one she uses. For a non-tech user, Win98 is the lightest weight OS that will work for most applications.
Because they give condoms away at registration, not mouthwash and tissues.
I remember a time when Linux and Mozilla on an older system would breathe new life into it. Retired business systems would be a safer and snappy web surfer for "Less Technical" relatives. No more. Try a new full featured distribution (The kind you could expect a non-tech to use) on old hardware, and it is as slow as XP. Good thing MS is coming out with a slower operating system to lower the bar for the OSS advocates.
And every new cell phone has more useless features, bundled with poorer call quality and shorter battery life. Eventually cell phones will just be gateways for the laptop to use Skipe over...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=razr+%22Unaut horized+charger%22
Magic Pixies?
And to the other poster, since T-Mobile does not have this lock, guess who I want when my contract is up? Guess where my next laptop will come from? Guess who did not sell me a new car stereo, in spite of making a car cd-player that worked well for almost 15 years?
But I think too many people just go to wall mart and buy the cheapest thing that looks pretty. To heck with principled companies, we need more principled consumers!
The problem I have is that it's My PC! It is not Microsoft's (as much as they want to believe it) or Sony's or Star Forces, but Mine. I am sick to death of companies trying to protect me from ME and preventing me from using my devices as I want. Try and put a good Cisco WiFi card in the mini-pci slot of a HP, Compaq, or IBM laptop. "Unauthorized wireless network card detected. System halted..." Try using a car charger for any RAZR phone on a Verizon RAZR phone. "Unauthorized Charger." When you sell me something, IT'S MINE DAMNIT!
Sorry, I just had to vent...
Welcome to the modern dark-ages: kings, nobles, and pheasants all over again.
Regents, classes and birds? I am confused...
m0n0wall http://m0n0.ch/wall/
Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com
QEMU
Most codecs...
ebay (for the JDM car parts, Yo!)
The Reg www.theregister.co.uk
5fm www.5fm.co.za (uncensored music and cool accents...)
I can't say NO loud enough.