I am a lifeguard too. And if I saw you at the bottom of the pool like that, I would come get you regardless of whether I saw you intentionally go down or not. We have no idea what you were planning on doing. In fact, when I see kids do stuff like that I watch them from the moment they go down until they resurface. But sometimes we don't see you go down. Suppose you misjudge the depth of the pool and can't make it back up in time? And pass out a few feet from the surface? It's happened before.
But Poseiden would let us know if somebody is down there. Note that it doesn't make us rescue them, or throw us into the water, just alerts us to use our human judgement and training. Obviously if I don't see anybody, its a false positive (like the aerobics class). All it is, is a second person to say, "hey, you see that guy over there at the bottom of the pool?"
Now I work at the ocean, and wish there was some way to help us there, because once you go under, we have no way of seeing you down there.
Who has a laptop/server and who leaves a laptop on for very long periods of time. I doubt if you do either of those, it wasn't the distributed computing that screwed up your puter
Haven't you read Mitnick's book? Hacking into computers is too time consuming and risky. All $75.13 that I have in my bank account says that the code was leaked by somebody who works there. Or somebody who had access to media laying around the office (i.e. cleaning people, guards) I'm sure Valve has adequate protection from Internet hackers, and I would highly doubt they are dumb enough to have source code on a machine that is directly hooked up to the Internet, with no firewall, and folders shared. Catch my drift?
Such a large majority of "hacking" and "pirating" (see MPAA on wanting to crack down on 'screeners') happens from the inside and just takes a little grunt work and connections.
Ever notice how you can read chicken scratch handwriting usually pretty easily? I know when I take notes in class its usually the first letter, then some sort of semblance of letters in the middle and the last letter is usually right. Given the context, almost anybody can read these notes even though they are usually no more than some lines with an ocassional random dot above them...
But therein lies the conundrum. In order to run netstat on a user, you have to be connected to them. And in a P2P program the only way to do this is to initiate a connection (i.e. download). So wouldn't the RIAA investigators have to be downloading illegal files in order to obtain IP's? Maybe once the lawsuits are over, the RIAA is going to turn on them and sue them too.
Honestly, because of beautifully constructed internal networks here at "college", I haven't used Kazaa or any of those progams recently. But I don't recall somebody's IP address being out in the open... that in itself would be a m$ sized security flaw
I'm just curious how the RIAA knows exactly what files I supposedly have and are supposedly trading? Are they monitoring Internet traffic from selected IP ranges? Investigating all large transfers? Flat out looking into people's unsecured harddrives and searching for *.mp3? I want to know what legal right they have to do this search anyway? Do they have a warrent for anything of the sort?
I may be impartial, because my teacher wrote this book. But I was a first year undergrad at RIT and this book reall clarified many things for me. And it's recent, having only been written about a year ago. And most of all, it's focus is more on the software development and thinking that on implementation.
Modern Software Development Using JAVA
Tymann and Schneider
IBSN: 0-534-38449-8
If I am an open source coder and some large company that has been known to use "unfair busines practices" in the past decides to take large chunks of my code, how am I supposed to know if their source code isn't available in any way.
It's like playing go fish...
"Did you use any of my code?"
"No"
"Oh, ok, I trust you completely"
What about using logical audio questions such as:
"What planet do we live on?" or "What is 5 + 5?" or "What is the third letter in the English alphabet?". Most people should know these answers, but AI wouldn't be able to. The could also be a way for people to skip to another question in case they don't know the answer. And then just use their standard voice recognition to fill in the answer.
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I am a lifeguard too. And if I saw you at the bottom of the pool like that, I would come get you regardless of whether I saw you intentionally go down or not. We have no idea what you were planning on doing. In fact, when I see kids do stuff like that I watch them from the moment they go down until they resurface. But sometimes we don't see you go down. Suppose you misjudge the depth of the pool and can't make it back up in time? And pass out a few feet from the surface? It's happened before. But Poseiden would let us know if somebody is down there. Note that it doesn't make us rescue them, or throw us into the water, just alerts us to use our human judgement and training. Obviously if I don't see anybody, its a false positive (like the aerobics class). All it is, is a second person to say, "hey, you see that guy over there at the bottom of the pool?" Now I work at the ocean, and wish there was some way to help us there, because once you go under, we have no way of seeing you down there.
Laptops aren't designed for that. Everybody knows they have inadequate ventilation to leave them on for any sort of extended period of time.
Who has a laptop/server and who leaves a laptop on for very long periods of time. I doubt if you do either of those, it wasn't the distributed computing that screwed up your puter
Even if we did blow that money, how much money does Russia have to put into it's space program? Do they still pay municpal workers in vodka?
You still haven't learned your lesson...
Haven't you read Mitnick's book? Hacking into computers is too time consuming and risky. All $75.13 that I have in my bank account says that the code was leaked by somebody who works there. Or somebody who had access to media laying around the office (i.e. cleaning people, guards) I'm sure Valve has adequate protection from Internet hackers, and I would highly doubt they are dumb enough to have source code on a machine that is directly hooked up to the Internet, with no firewall, and folders shared. Catch my drift?
Such a large majority of "hacking" and "pirating" (see MPAA on wanting to crack down on 'screeners') happens from the inside and just takes a little grunt work and connections.
Ever notice how you can read chicken scratch handwriting usually pretty easily? I know when I take notes in class its usually the first letter, then some sort of semblance of letters in the middle and the last letter is usually right. Given the context, almost anybody can read these notes even though they are usually no more than some lines with an ocassional random dot above them...
But therein lies the conundrum. In order to run netstat on a user, you have to be connected to them. And in a P2P program the only way to do this is to initiate a connection (i.e. download). So wouldn't the RIAA investigators have to be downloading illegal files in order to obtain IP's? Maybe once the lawsuits are over, the RIAA is going to turn on them and sue them too.
Honestly, because of beautifully constructed internal networks here at "college", I haven't used Kazaa or any of those progams recently. But I don't recall somebody's IP address being out in the open... that in itself would be a m$ sized security flaw
I'm just curious how the RIAA knows exactly what files I supposedly have and are supposedly trading? Are they monitoring Internet traffic from selected IP ranges? Investigating all large transfers? Flat out looking into people's unsecured harddrives and searching for *.mp3? I want to know what legal right they have to do this search anyway? Do they have a warrent for anything of the sort?
I may be impartial, because my teacher wrote this book. But I was a first year undergrad at RIT and this book reall clarified many things for me. And it's recent, having only been written about a year ago. And most of all, it's focus is more on the software development and thinking that on implementation. Modern Software Development Using JAVA Tymann and Schneider IBSN: 0-534-38449-8
wow, looks like you amounted to alot. you know, working in a university bookstore and all...
It's like playing go fish...
What about using logical audio questions such as: "What planet do we live on?" or "What is 5 + 5?" or "What is the third letter in the English alphabet?". Most people should know these answers, but AI wouldn't be able to. The could also be a way for people to skip to another question in case they don't know the answer. And then just use their standard voice recognition to fill in the answer.