Record labels and movie studios want the services closed and fined $150,000 for each illegally traded song or movie.
The dollar figure itself is ridiculous, but I find it interesting that the proposed fine is the same for movies and songs. Let's say the average song is 3 minutes, and the average movie is 90 minutes - i.e. 30 times the length of a song. If the movie fine were $150,000, then the fine for a song should be $5,000 (using duration as the primary factor). If the fine for a song were $150,000, well...
Having said that, I don't believe the labels, et al will collect anything.
Maybe his father has the right idea. Dick hardly sees the old man these days because he always seems to have his video image and live-communicator access blocked. Blocking access is considered rude, even suspicious, but Dick wonders if he shouldn't do the same.
Because mobile phone companies barely have enough room to handle their voice traffic
This is particularly true in Verizon's case. However, they have implemented an innovative load-balancing system: when they think you have been on long enough, your call will be dropped to give someone else a chance.
the windows will break outward, followed by popped corn pouring out of said windows
the front door will burst open in slow motion, and one of the more annoying antagonists will be engulfed in a mass of kernels as he is propelled down the front steps
eventually part of the foundation will collapse, and the house will list about 15 degrees to port
local townsfolk will rejoice in the corny goodness (also in slow motion)
"Building a channel at the low end is miserable.
You have to send people to trade shows where there's no carpet and extension chords are snaking across the floor," says Whit Andrews, an analyst with tech consultancy Gartner.
Gee, I'm glad Gartner has a handle on all this business stuff. No carpet... the horror!
Besides, everyone knows the E-flat diminished ninth is the most dangerous chord; you could lose a finger.
I would bet that the 'flash' was just a dust cloud, illuminated by and reflecting sunlight.
This is why: look where the incident occurred - right on the demarcation between light and dark. (It has a name, but I forget what it is.) Anyway, the area around the impact is dark due to the moon's position relative to the sun. The shadows fall at ground level, but the cloud from the impact presumably rose some distance above the moon's surface; I believe it went high enough that sunlight could strike it. Look at the craters along the [light-to-dark line] for other examples: the upper edges of some crater rims are in sunlight while the surrounding areas are dark. If the impact had occurred completely on the light side or completely on the dark side I don't think anyone would have noticed.
Implementation of simple egress filtering rules at border routers or at firewalls (regardless of who owns them) would dramatically decrease the efficacy of DDoS attacks.
If my organization owns the A.B.C network, there is no reason why any packets bearing a source address of anything other than A.B.C.* should be permitted to leave my network.
NAT environments can implement this by dropping packets with source addresses that do not belong to the internal network.
Of course, for this to be effective it would have be used on a broad scale, i.e. around the world...
... in the Department of Defense: US citizenship is a prerequisite for doing certain types of work. And this is not a post-9/11 (how Katzian) change. Foreign nationals have been restricted in this manner since (IIRC) the Cold War - possibly longer than that.
Besides, if the gov't is sponsoring the research, the gov't is the customer. Doesn't the customer usually have some say over what happens with deliverables, e.g. publication/distribution?
If those cats want to juggle, that should be their choice!
Actually that phrase just made me laugh. I would have to rank it right up there with 'mumbling chowderhead', used by someone on/. to describe an ineffective salesdroid.
'Shut [your] pie hole' is a classic, too, and is very handy for use on co-workers. &:-)
I would ebay it if someone wants to make an offer.
Apparently 'ebay' is now a verb. (The infinitive form must be 'to ebay'.) I guess enough precedent was set with 'leverage', 'antique'*, and 'blog', and I know all nouns can be verbed, but still... Oh, well.
('To antique' means to go looking/shopping for antiques.)
Given the qualifications and history of Ken Biba listed in the article
Biba started in security and networking R&D 30 years ago with Mitre Corp. and was a member of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Working Group
I wonder if he is the same Ken Biba that worked on/devised Mandatory Access Control (MAC) and the Biba Integrity Model.
There is a good description of MAC here, and an explanation of the Biba Integrity Model here.
I was not as clear as I might have been - apologies for that.
Actually using cars as a broad category is a rather good analogy. There are many more Windows users (as in Joe and Jane Desktop who just want to send email) than there are people actively involved with and enthusiastic about Windows. In both cars and operating systems, the overwhelming majority just want to get point A to point B and aren't terribly concerned about the particulars of how they do it. The subcategories - administrators, developers, etc. - can be the analogs to the Porsche/BMW/Saturn car club members.
Nutshell version: the enthusiasts in both worlds are the minority, and there is no relationship connecting/binding the point-A-to-point-B crowd; describing them as 'united' is inaccurate.
Microsoft users are an interesting lot. They have systems that they have NO control over. They have systems they have to reboot every sixteen
minutes. They freely pay Bill Gates obscene amounts of money for buggy programs that they can't use when they upgrade to the next operating
system. It's almost laughable. But they are united, "
Using the same OS does not make these people united any more than driving a car makes all automobile owners united.
Books that cover the latest vulnerability in RandomOS can go stale very quickly; books that teach sound security principles tend to have a much longer shelf life.
Slashdot Mirror
"The Sun Ultra Sparc III cannot be open if you cannot access it publically, it is rather available under terms and conditions". (original emphasis)
GPL = (terms and conditions), too.
[relax. think about it.]
From the article:
Record labels and movie studios want the services closed and fined $150,000 for each illegally traded song or movie.
The dollar figure itself is ridiculous, but I find it interesting that the proposed fine is the same for movies and songs. Let's say the average song is 3 minutes, and the average movie is 90 minutes - i.e. 30 times the length of a song. If the movie fine were $150,000, then the fine for a song should be $5,000 (using duration as the primary factor). If the fine for a song were $150,000, well...
Having said that, I don't believe the labels, et al will collect anything.
From the article:
Maybe his father has the right idea. Dick hardly sees the old man these days because he always seems to have his video image and live-communicator access blocked. Blocking access is considered rude, even suspicious, but Dick wonders if he shouldn't do the same.
Find - or make - time to unplug. Don't be a Dick.
From the article:
Once completed the road is likely to become a permanent fixture.
Yes, I suspect it might. It's probably not going to melt, and glaciers don't move very fast.
On the bright side, I doubt we'll see road crews lounging around the work sites: the climate will be too cold for that.
(In most parts of the US, given a road crew of N, (N-1) will be standing around watching 1 work.)
From the article:
Because mobile phone companies barely have enough room to handle their voice traffic
This is particularly true in Verizon's case. However, they have implemented an innovative load-balancing system: when they think you have been on long enough, your call will be dropped to give someone else a chance.
Imagine the damage this weapon could inflict on the enemy when all of their popcorn pops at once.
Well, if that 80s vintage documentary showed me anything, it's that...
the house will rapidly fill up with popcorn
the windows will break outward, followed by popped corn pouring out of said windows
the front door will burst open in slow motion, and one of the more annoying antagonists will be engulfed in a mass of kernels as he is propelled down the front steps
eventually part of the foundation will collapse, and the house will list about 15 degrees to port
local townsfolk will rejoice in the corny goodness (also in slow motion)
Terrifying stuff, that is.
Probably not, but email me and I will burn you a copy of the Windows version.
(Yes, I'm joking.)
From the article:
"Building a channel at the low end is miserable. You have to send people to trade shows where there's no carpet and extension chords are snaking across the floor," says Whit Andrews, an analyst with tech consultancy Gartner.
Gee, I'm glad Gartner has a handle on all this business stuff. No carpet... the horror!
Besides, everyone knows the E-flat diminished ninth is the most dangerous chord; you could lose a finger.
I would bet that the 'flash' was just a dust cloud, illuminated by and reflecting sunlight.
This is why: look where the incident occurred - right on the demarcation between light and dark. (It has a name, but I forget what it is.) Anyway, the area around the impact is dark due to the moon's position relative to the sun. The shadows fall at ground level, but the cloud from the impact presumably rose some distance above the moon's surface; I believe it went high enough that sunlight could strike it. Look at the craters along the [light-to-dark line] for other examples: the upper edges of some crater rims are in sunlight while the surrounding areas are dark. If the impact had occurred completely on the light side or completely on the dark side I don't think anyone would have noticed.
Implementation of simple egress filtering rules at border routers or at firewalls (regardless of who owns them) would dramatically decrease the efficacy of DDoS attacks.
If my organization owns the A.B.C network, there is no reason why any packets bearing a source address of anything other than A.B.C.* should be permitted to leave my network.
NAT environments can implement this by dropping packets with source addresses that do not belong to the internal network.
Of course, for this to be effective it would have be used on a broad scale, i.e. around the world...
by Anonymous Coward
Brett Glass to the rescue
I would say you're not really anonymous any more...
someone talking about "Kernel Klink" embedded somewhere?
Of course not - we know NOTH-ING!
... in the Department of Defense: US citizenship is a prerequisite for doing certain types of work. And this is not a post-9/11 (how Katzian) change. Foreign nationals have been restricted in this manner since (IIRC) the Cold War - possibly longer than that.
Besides, if the gov't is sponsoring the research, the gov't is the customer. Doesn't the customer usually have some say over what happens with deliverables, e.g. publication/distribution?
I heard that while back the Army made a vest out of Spider Silk rather than Kevlar and it was able to stop even small rifle bullets
The hard part was getting the 11-Bravo (infantry guy) to stand still long enough for the spiders to weave the vest.
An 'army of one' indeed...
If those cats want to juggle, that should be their choice!
Actually that phrase just made me laugh. I would have to rank it right up there with 'mumbling chowderhead', used by someone on
'Shut [your] pie hole' is a classic, too, and is very handy for use on co-workers. &:-)
I would ebay it if someone wants to make an offer.
Apparently 'ebay' is now a verb. (The infinitive form must be 'to ebay'.) I guess enough precedent was set with 'leverage', 'antique'*, and 'blog', and I know all nouns can be verbed, but still... Oh, well.
('To antique' means to go looking/shopping for antiques.)
Given the qualifications and history of Ken Biba listed in the article
Biba started in security and networking R&D 30 years ago with Mitre Corp. and was a member of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Working Group
I wonder if he is the same Ken Biba that worked on/devised Mandatory Access Control (MAC) and the Biba Integrity Model.
There is a good description of MAC here, and an explanation of the Biba Integrity Model here.
I was not as clear as I might have been - apologies for that.
Actually using cars as a broad category is a rather good analogy. There are many more Windows users (as in Joe and Jane Desktop who just want to send email) than there are people actively involved with and enthusiastic about Windows. In both cars and operating systems, the overwhelming majority just want to get point A to point B and aren't terribly concerned about the particulars of how they do it. The subcategories - administrators, developers, etc. - can be the analogs to the Porsche/BMW/Saturn car club members.
Nutshell version: the enthusiasts in both worlds are the minority, and there is no relationship connecting/binding the point-A-to-point-B crowd; describing them as 'united' is inaccurate.
How is that for a reality check?
From the article:
Microsoft users are an interesting lot. They have systems that they have NO control over. They have systems they have to reboot every sixteen minutes. They freely pay Bill Gates obscene amounts of money for buggy programs that they can't use when they upgrade to the next operating system. It's almost laughable. But they are united, "
Using the same OS does not make these people united any more than driving a car makes all automobile owners united.
...where no one reads the articles they cite. We are in good company!
[From the DV Hardware link]
The black colored Steelpad comes from Denmark and is made out of a 3.5mm aluminium plate.
So the Steelpad is made of aluminum; that makes sense.
It's also hardended [sic] to ensure the durability under all conditions
That's good, too: I know my mousepads always ended up twisted and mangled from daily use...
That won't be too hard: individuals with CTS and tendonitis can't grip things too tightly.
Of course, neither can dead people. Never mind.
How much do we really need to be in constant communication with the rest of the world? Don't people want to be able to get away from work?
Here is a little-known fact: THESE DEVICES CAN BE TURNED OFF. If you don't want to be reached, push that magical little button, et voila!
Yes, because the deaf person is bound to have the ringer turned way up...
Oy.
Are always horribly obsolete.
Not necessarily.
Books that cover the latest vulnerability in RandomOS can go stale very quickly; books that teach sound security principles tend to have a much longer shelf life.