Maybe you should read up on the powers that the RIAA are already using. There's some legal terms in there like ex parte discovery which you might like to look up too. What part of ex parte discovery allows the RIAA to "raid and seize if they believe evidence is likely to be destroyed" using "similar powers to the police"? According to your link, ex parte discovery is used to resolve John Does into named defendents, after which point in time discovery of things like a hard drive needs to be made.
The letter says the RIAA would pay their attorneys fees ~$7k.
They could have settled for ~$3.5k.
So, unless it does go to court, and the RIAA pay for the couples attorney's fees, how was it better for the couple to go to a lawyer, than just to settle out of court? Mr. Merchant pays lawyer a retainer of about $7K. Lawyer exposes RIAA lackeys' lack of case, and RIAA lackeys pay $7K for attorney fees. Mr. Merchant gets his retainer back, and lawyer made $7K for handling the case. In the other scenario, Mr. Merchant is out of pocket $3.5K.
And my bosses, unfortunately, think it's a smart idea to keep static IPs for every student, and keep easy-to-access records for them (if you don't believe me, do a reverse DNS on 130.111.241.53). It sounds a lot nicer than it really is.:/ And everybody peers with 130.111.241.36 if they want quick downloads?
why not use/dev/urandom instead of/dev/mem, which could be a potential security risk... just sayin, ya know? Good idea as it's really important to back up your pseudo random number generators.
Is it me or does this seem really bad if you know... use more then one computer. Is there a.dat or something I can stick on a thumb drive and take with me? I use Password Safe, originally developed by Bruce Schneier, now on SourceForge. I keep a copy of the.dat file as well as a copy of the program itself on a USB drive and also email it to my GMail account periodically. Since I use a very strong master password and it uses Twofish for encryption, I'm not worried about anybody cracking it in my lifetime. No AES, I'm guessing due to the fact that it was originally Schneier's program that they stick with his crypto?
However this is the worst mistake the RIAA has made, the reason is that college students are their number one customer. It's been said before, but I'll repeat it: those people who are downloading their music without paying for it are not their customers, much in the same way that someone who photocopies entire books without buying any isn't a customer of the book industry. Plus, with so many legitimate music options these days, why even bother with P2P music downloading?
It's called a "console". They even come with special keyboards you can hold in your hand. Ding ding ding! It looks like you're the lucky caller number three who pointed out the obvious!
If only people would read between the lines. If only...
No kidding. Search KinderStart for "shit" and it comes up with four results. And none of those actually have anything to do with shit! How skewed is that?
Give us a youtube link, and we'll decide. Or is that covered by an RIAA copyright as well? Okay, someone had to... now if only those were RIAA executives.
What options have you used to create a virtual office, and what suggestions would might you give to anyone else attempting to do the same? My advice: don't. If you're looking to cut costs, find some cheaper office space elsewhere. You lose a lot more by having everyone isolated than you'd gain on the bottom line.
By definition of a hidden setup, one should NEVER know if any password works. The fact this program does let you know if it works or not works indicates that there is known data inside the container. Known data can be successfully cracked much easier than unknown data. My understanding of how it works is that it assumes the random bytes on the end of the file are a header and tries decrypting that using its plethora of decryption methods. If that decryption effort simply returns more random bytes without structure, then there's several possibilities:
1. there's no hidden volume at the end and there's only a main encrypted volume 2. there is a hidden volume and this was either the wrong password or wrong encryption method tried 3. the entire file is simply random noise and there's no encryption used at all
In that sense, minimal knowledge about the data is available as it's only after a failed decryption effort that you know the decryption didn't work. The way you're suggesting, it would blindly do a decrypt, get a bunch of bytes back and then simply assume those bytes represent a filesystem structure which likely wouldn't be too OS friendly in the case of an invalid password.
By preventing writes to a range of areas deemed hidden allows mapping of hidden data. In filling up a container with a hidden section, one fills up approaching the boundaries of the hidden one, but never encroaching upon it. In order to prevent hiding, one must allow above all overwriting of data. Unless you supply the password to the hidden volume at the same time that you provide the password for the main volume, all your hidden data will get completely overwritten as the program has no clue that there even should be hidden data there or not, thereby fulfilling your "must allow all overwriting of data" criterion.
But that guarantees data loss at ratings appraching 100%. Indeed, there's no redundancy present. Without actively protecting the hidden volume every time (if there even is one in the first place) then it'll get easily blown away. To prevent this, you can choose to mount the volume as read only and nothing gets lost. But preventing overwriting the hidden data in read/write mode is impossible as it's up to the filesystem driver as to how sectors on the volume get allocated. Though, as you've outlined, there are techniques to overcome a partial loss of data.
And with DVDs, a single small scratch makes the entire disc unreadable. After all, the data is stored right at the surface, on the plastic, and scratches can't be repaired, or polished away. Of course you know the data is stored on the label side. With a lot of cheaper DVDRs, it's trivial to scratch that and take out the storage medium in the process. Scratching on the bottom is rarely the problem.
And DVDs are seriously damaged by static electricity... There's always microwaving on high for 2 seconds...:)
I think instead of the blanket statement that they will submit to a subpoena, they should have narrowed it to a subpoena for an alledged violator. So you're saying that in certain cases the university should choose to be in contempt of court?
I'd like one with 2^16 quantum processors running in parallel, each running at 1 terahertz with 1 exabyte of RAM. On top of that, I'd like the monitor to be wall sized with a 16M x 16M resolution where each pixel has a less than 10 nanosecond response time and perfect real-life color reproduction. For storage, anything that supports 1 yottabyte of storage would be used in a redundant striped setup. Neural as well as spoken and body language interfaces, of course.
Clicks don't contain any such information. A click is the term used to describe the request of a particular URL. Of course an OS-level mousedown event doesn't contain that info, but any search on Google for which the URL is logged will reveal what you were searching for.
So far that's been my experience as well. I found this collection (no referral) to be very interesting as it exposed me to more authors that I'm not familiar with and the stories are quite enjoyable and very much within the hard sci-fi category.
I read all three years ago, and read them again recently. I remember it seeming like a bit of a slog for a while in the second book, but it does get a lot more interesting. When I re-read it the soap opera parts seemed more important because they gave foundation to the characters' motivations and actions. I'd certainly recommend sticking it out, there's a lot of really good stuff in there. I'll keep picking it up now and again (which makes for a bit of continuity loss) inbetween reading other books. So much sci-fi, so little time... and since I've heard so much about this trilogy, it's a bit of a letdown that the pacing isn't more consistent. There's also Darwin's Radio which I picked up at the bookstore and is waiting to be read, so it remains to be seen how that one turns out too.
I'm a good way into part 6 (Tariqat) -- page 333 of the 624 page paperback. I really enjoy hard sci-fi, but this seems like it's such an effort to get through. There's just so much minutiae of daily life that the really interesting concepts are few and far between.
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They could have settled for ~$3.5k.
So, unless it does go to court, and the RIAA pay for the couples attorney's fees, how was it better for the couple to go to a lawyer, than just to settle out of court? Mr. Merchant pays lawyer a retainer of about $7K. Lawyer exposes RIAA lackeys' lack of case, and RIAA lackeys pay $7K for attorney fees. Mr. Merchant gets his retainer back, and lawyer made $7K for handling the case. In the other scenario, Mr. Merchant is out of pocket $3.5K.
If only people would read between the lines. If only...
No kidding. Search KinderStart for "shit" and it comes up with four results. And none of those actually have anything to do with shit! How skewed is that?
I figured after I posted that it must have been something like that, but your clear explanation helps with visualizing the situation.
Yeah, too bad it doesn't really work when you write it down.
"It'll be 9/11 times a hundred"
"Why, that's..."
"Yes... 91,100"
1. there's no hidden volume at the end and there's only a main encrypted volume
2. there is a hidden volume and this was either the wrong password or wrong encryption method tried
3. the entire file is simply random noise and there's no encryption used at all
In that sense, minimal knowledge about the data is available as it's only after a failed decryption effort that you know the decryption didn't work. The way you're suggesting, it would blindly do a decrypt, get a bunch of bytes back and then simply assume those bytes represent a filesystem structure which likely wouldn't be too OS friendly in the case of an invalid password. By preventing writes to a range of areas deemed hidden allows mapping of hidden data. In filling up a container with a hidden section, one fills up approaching the boundaries of the hidden one, but never encroaching upon it. In order to prevent hiding, one must allow above all overwriting of data. Unless you supply the password to the hidden volume at the same time that you provide the password for the main volume, all your hidden data will get completely overwritten as the program has no clue that there even should be hidden data there or not, thereby fulfilling your "must allow all overwriting of data" criterion. But that guarantees data loss at ratings appraching 100%. Indeed, there's no redundancy present. Without actively protecting the hidden volume every time (if there even is one in the first place) then it'll get easily blown away. To prevent this, you can choose to mount the volume as read only and nothing gets lost. But preventing overwriting the hidden data in read/write mode is impossible as it's up to the filesystem driver as to how sectors on the volume get allocated. Though, as you've outlined, there are techniques to overcome a partial loss of data.
How do you figure that? If anything, wouldn't the (negative) acceleration be double?
What I'd really like to see is two SMART cars going 60 MPH in opposite directions collide with each other.
The PDF of the problem sets are up, but no mention of when/where the input data and solutions will be posted. Are these currently available?
I'd like one with 2^16 quantum processors running in parallel, each running at 1 terahertz with 1 exabyte of RAM. On top of that, I'd like the monitor to be wall sized with a 16M x 16M resolution where each pixel has a less than 10 nanosecond response time and perfect real-life color reproduction. For storage, anything that supports 1 yottabyte of storage would be used in a redundant striped setup. Neural as well as spoken and body language interfaces, of course.
Thank you for posting that... I actually have that link in my clipboard and was about to post something similar.
Clicks don't contain any such information. A click is the term used to describe the request of a particular URL. Of course an OS-level mousedown event doesn't contain that info, but any search on Google for which the URL is logged will reveal what you were searching for.
eg: http://www.google.com/search?q=inoperable+brain+t
So far that's been my experience as well. I found this collection (no referral) to be very interesting as it exposed me to more authors that I'm not familiar with and the stories are quite enjoyable and very much within the hard sci-fi category.
I'm a good way into part 6 (Tariqat) -- page 333 of the 624 page paperback. I really enjoy hard sci-fi, but this seems like it's such an effort to get through. There's just so much minutiae of daily life that the really interesting concepts are few and far between.