The interruption is accomplished by sending a perfectly forged TCP packet (correct peer, port, and sequence numbering) with the RST (reset) flag set. This packet is obeyed by the network stack or operating system which drops the connection.
What angers me the most here, and ought to be the most illegal part of all here, is that they are forging packets from ME! Nobody has the right to forge traffic as if I sent it!
I maintain my position that Vista is just a new XP skin.
Yeah, with a shed-load of DRM built-in. Hollywood seems to think that they should totally OWN absolutely anything that can display their content. And Microsoft is now in bed with them.
Sorry to nit-pick, but it would appear that Firefox is the most downloaded open source application.
Just my $/50, however my reference for most popular open source application comes from a Slashdot I can't find at the moment back around April or May that listed the Azureus Bittorrent client as the top open source application, with Stellarium coming in second.
Also, according to this source, Wikipedia comes in ahead of Firefox.
It makes sense. Gasoline, and even more diesel, engines run best at a fixed rpm, while electric motors are basically good at anything from 0 to redline.
Sorry, but I disagree with you. These cases are important to read about, and to discuss. Tens of thousands of people are being sued, and everybody on/. at least knows what a P2P system is. The most downloaded free open source application is a Bittorrent client. This is one of the biggest YRO issues of the moment, and worth following, and discussing, in detail. It's the reason we have DRM, and Vista, and Sony supplied rootkits, and it affects everybody!
I believe they are correct here - enabling someone else to commit a crime is a crime in itself. And like it or not, sharing copyrighted material IS a crime in the USA at this point in time.
Okay, then where is KaZaZ in this suit? And Microsoft? And Dell? And the ISP she subscribed to? Everyone of them enabled her -- or somebody -- to commit this crime. Why aren't all of them part of this, and every other case?
The biggest class question as I see it is: How many other people can claim enough similar circumstances to qualify?
Certainly the same shoddy, and likely illegal, MediaSentry investigative methods were used against all defendants. And the Settlement Support Center refused to dismiss anyone from a lawsuit who didn't pay them the extortion tax regardless of the evidence -- or lack of it. And even innocent defendants had large legal bills if they fought. Plus all had their computers, privacy, and reputations besmirched by the RIAA publicity steamroller regardless of the outcome of the suit -- with no apologies offered afterwards.
But is this enough in common to qualify as a class? While I hope so, the legal system doesn't operate with the same kinds of logic I employ in ordinary, everyday life.
Writing a competitive office suite is not a quick little task you can knock out over the weekend. Nor is MS the only target. You've also got to compete with free in Open Office/Google Star Office. This is not an easy market to enter even if you are Adobe. Word Perfect Office failed in there a while back.
It will be a huge news day when the RIAA actually coughs up a penny to any defendant. I expect years of delays, appeals, legal wranglings, and outright ignoring court orders before the RIAA cuts a check to anyone, no matter now deserving. And they'll probably try to conceal it with a confidentiality agreement when it happens!
Why would anyone who won ever agree to such an agreement? The RIAA says, we'll pay you now if you sign the agreement, or we'll wait and see if you die before this overcomes all the tricks our lawyers can play on you first. Would you sign to get the money you're entitled to under such circumstances?
Physically there is no technology that can match a cable company's bandwidth to the house.
You're spewing vicarious B.S. yourself here.
Point 1: If cable has such overwhelming bandwidth, then why do Dish/Direct TV satellites offer 5X as many HD channels, and climbing, as cable does?
Point 2: You may have the best download pipe bandwidth to my house, but you fill it up constantly with 99% of things I don't want or need at the moment! How smart it that?
'Upgrading to a fiber infrastructure is a much more expensive proposition, and one more likely to occur in areas where the cable companies are facing more competition.
In areas with more competition, prices are driven lower, and you're less likely to get all the customers available. So why would you want to throw all your money there?
it's also invisible. And that's what makes this so dangerous.
Not if you're invisible too.
But really folks, is invisible surveillance really that much more dangerous than the visible kind? I don't think so. If the crazies are so worried, let them run around planting signs everywhere: Never Forget The Eye in the Sky!
Truth is, visible surveillance becomes invisible the moment it becomes ubiquitous.
Sorry, but I don't agree. Lives are ruined in many ways, and living in fear of losing your house and everything else because someone downloaded a few songs through your Internet connection is one of them. Stress kills, and few things are more stressful than a lawsuit from a large, well-funded, company with no morals.
I don't need real-time streaming for a lot of my cable video. I'd be satisfied to initiate the download, eat dinner, then go back and enjoy the desired program without interruption, and at a higher resolution or less of a compression ratio. That option seldom seems offered, although it would be so much faster than Netflix US Mail delivery.
Is there somewhere where we can send donations to help out the poor beleaguered RIAA, who can't afford their legal bills?
Send them directly to me. Make them out to CASH, which is much easier to write than my entire name otherwise. I promise to be as honest in passing along the proceeds to the RIAA as they are in all of their other business dealings.
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Could this bring about the creation of a hydrogen peroxide fueled flashlight, or area light?
What angers me the most here, and ought to be the most illegal part of all here, is that they are forging packets from ME! Nobody has the right to forge traffic as if I sent it!
Yeah, with a shed-load of DRM built-in. Hollywood seems to think that they should totally OWN absolutely anything that can display their content. And Microsoft is now in bed with them.
Just my $/50, however my reference for most popular open source application comes from a Slashdot I can't find at the moment back around April or May that listed the Azureus Bittorrent client as the top open source application, with Stellarium coming in second.
Also, according to this source, Wikipedia comes in ahead of Firefox.
It depends on the list one consults, I suppose.
Would love to see HP ripped Big Time by this. So big that no corporation will ever think of trying it again.
We've got an 8-blade Citrix server rack now. Would be nice if they ran each user in their own VM.
It makes sense. Gasoline, and even more diesel, engines run best at a fixed rpm, while electric motors are basically good at anything from 0 to redline.
Sorry, but I disagree with you. These cases are important to read about, and to discuss. Tens of thousands of people are being sued, and everybody on /. at least knows what a P2P system is. The most downloaded free open source application is a Bittorrent client. This is one of the biggest YRO issues of the moment, and worth following, and discussing, in detail. It's the reason we have DRM, and Vista, and Sony supplied rootkits, and it affects everybody!
Okay, then where is KaZaZ in this suit? And Microsoft? And Dell? And the ISP she subscribed to? Everyone of them enabled her -- or somebody -- to commit this crime. Why aren't all of them part of this, and every other case?
Excuse me, but your silence is deafening.
I hope this judge won't punt on this issue, as it appears several other judges already have.
Certainly the same shoddy, and likely illegal, MediaSentry investigative methods were used against all defendants. And the Settlement Support Center refused to dismiss anyone from a lawsuit who didn't pay them the extortion tax regardless of the evidence -- or lack of it. And even innocent defendants had large legal bills if they fought. Plus all had their computers, privacy, and reputations besmirched by the RIAA publicity steamroller regardless of the outcome of the suit -- with no apologies offered afterwards.
But is this enough in common to qualify as a class? While I hope so, the legal system doesn't operate with the same kinds of logic I employ in ordinary, everyday life.
Writing a competitive office suite is not a quick little task you can knock out over the weekend. Nor is MS the only target. You've also got to compete with free in Open Office/Google Star Office. This is not an easy market to enter even if you are Adobe. Word Perfect Office failed in there a while back.
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Why would anyone who won ever agree to such an agreement? The RIAA says, we'll pay you now if you sign the agreement, or we'll wait and see if you die before this overcomes all the tricks our lawyers can play on you first. Would you sign to get the money you're entitled to under such circumstances?
You're spewing vicarious B.S. yourself here.
Point 1: If cable has such overwhelming bandwidth, then why do Dish/Direct TV satellites offer 5X as many HD channels, and climbing, as cable does?
Point 2: You may have the best download pipe bandwidth to my house, but you fill it up constantly with 99% of things I don't want or need at the moment! How smart it that?
In areas with more competition, prices are driven lower, and you're less likely to get all the customers available. So why would you want to throw all your money there?
That's funny. I just looked Mira up on Stellarium, and no matter how far I zoomed in, I couldn't find any trace of a tail at all.
Are they saying that one bad card destroyed other cards? That seems a bit unusual.
Not if you're invisible too.
But really folks, is invisible surveillance really that much more dangerous than the visible kind? I don't think so. If the crazies are so worried, let them run around planting signs everywhere: Never Forget The Eye in the Sky!
Truth is, visible surveillance becomes invisible the moment it becomes ubiquitous.
Sorry, but I don't agree. Lives are ruined in many ways, and living in fear of losing your house and everything else because someone downloaded a few songs through your Internet connection is one of them. Stress kills, and few things are more stressful than a lawsuit from a large, well-funded, company with no morals.
I don't need real-time streaming for a lot of my cable video. I'd be satisfied to initiate the download, eat dinner, then go back and enjoy the desired program without interruption, and at a higher resolution or less of a compression ratio. That option seldom seems offered, although it would be so much faster than Netflix US Mail delivery.
Excellent sig line. Too bad the RIAA doesn't read Slashdot.
Of course there's no Unix in Linux. Everyone knows there's Microsoft Windows in Linux instead. It must be true, Microsoft said so.
Send them directly to me. Make them out to CASH, which is much easier to write than my entire name otherwise. I promise to be as honest in passing along the proceeds to the RIAA as they are in all of their other business dealings.
You obviously don't use Hotmail.