Funny WD Drives have never been a problem with me, I still have a 3 yr old 60GB caviar drive in my comp that hasn't failed just yet. Then again what is their failure age... and besides mileage may vary from drive to drive (hey you can't make ALL drives bad right??? Something would have to accidentally be a good and reliable drive)
A) That this hoax will spread around and find it's way into my inbox daily for the next 10 years...*sigh* set Spam Filter: If messageText="Malwarlaria" then Bounce message.
B) Eventually some jerk will make a real (even if just computer) virus of that same name.
Do they Spawn Baby Ipod's I can sell on Ebay Too? It would be nice to make those Ipod's pay for themselves, heck I can start a Slave Ipod Mill!!! The possibilities are endless!!
Never had that problem. My landlords (now and past) have never told me I had to use a particular service. Of course I'm serviced by SBC in SoCal, YMMV.
Btw: I use Linkline for my DSL. No complaints though their DNS server is a tad slow. Since that's my only complaint and they're the fastest DSL I've seen, I'm thinking about just simply remediating that by setting up my own DNS Server. Their usage policies are fairly liberal (no ports blocked and I have a static IP address).
While all well and good, if discovered my attorneys are gonna have a field day with AOL...Terms of Service or no, there was a reasonable expectation of privacy if I encrypted communications. Thus an invasion of privacy tort has been committed...
Show me proof beyond a reasonable doubt that I did."
Therein lies the problem, you did nothing illegal. This is a civil case and not a criminal one. Reasonable doubt is not the standard here. Basically you're looking at a "Preponderance of the evidence". Basically the judge listens to you, then the RIAA and decides who sounds better. So if the RIAA has anything better than "you did it", you better be just as well prepared and then some...
Is something like me getting a $10 parking ticket, annoying but hardly worth acting on beyond mailing the puppy in...though I suppose the command to change policy as such will have an effect...
*ROFLMAO* The TV Production companies doing the right thing? Aren't these the people who are trying to implement broadcast flags for HDTV? Trying to heavily DRM TiVo devices? Amongst other stupidities I can't even count. While pulling gimmicks like announcing Star Wars trailers will be featured in "the OC?"...
Sorry Mr. Extremely Anonymous Coward, but I have no hope for the TV industry as a whole. Sure they produce a few gems (Whose line is it anyways and The Simpsons come to mind for me), but they're really just like the **AA organizations. Mostly interested in fighting piracy and hardly interested in innovating.
But your idea is a good one though! I'd love the day when I can go to their website and pull down an episode of the Simpson's for a few bucks and watch. I don't think I'll live to see that day, and the only downloadable episodes of the Simpsons will be Torrents/p2p downloads of whatever flavor.
Well from what I understand of the security breach, is that you still can't reverse engineer a SHA-1 to it's true value. However you can generate other values that might collide with your credit card number SHA-1. So if SHA-1 were used to guard a CC transaction I wouldn't be too worried there. But there would be a few worries in doing SHA-1 for this sort of thing.
1) In this case the SHA-1 is enough for cloning my credit card and running by the scanner. There would have to be some randomness involved in creating the signature SHA-1 to foil that method.
2) There are a lot of credit cards out there, and more issued all the time, as time moves on, collisions probably will happen with SHA-1 credit cards and then I'll wonder how those charges appeared on my statement, and the other person who charged him will be going to jail even though he didn't intend to defraud anyone (though maybe they'd do a Hash Check at his trial with his card vs. mine).
3) Somebody could still just steal my credit card and go nuts with it anyways...
I take it this is more about convenience than security....
Now if PcPitstop gave $1,000 to every user who Slashdots the site without a clause like this...their deficit would eclipse that of the United States Federal government in no time...so figure by now it's withrawn...
Indeed I agree with you, I could just as easily that "once a criminal, always a criminal look at the amount of criminals that never rehab" and you could fire back "well never given a chance...perceived image" and then I'm guilty of a false stereotype and you're guilty of being underprotective amongst a bunch of criminals around kids. What is the ultimate solution???
I think if we swing the GPS Part correctly (for example we page the kids saying that they are in trouble but don't say who exactly is in the neighborhood) we might be able to strike a best of both worlds compromise. Everybody knows somebody in the neighborhood is tripping pagers, but has no idea who (unless they're carrying receivers/decoders on the frequency these pagers would operate on)... eeeeh so what is the solution really?
There is an interesting flipside to leashing criminals and public knowledge of them. Recently a sex offender moved in right across the street from my mom. Consequently, because in California if you know there is a sex offender in your neighborhood you have to disclose it in real-estate contracts, nearby house prices have gone down in value. Much to the chagrin of people trying to sell their homes where she lives at this time.
Now then, while I do understand that it is only money. That the trade of knowledge of your neighbors violent pasts vs. real estate prices. I have to wonder what similar implications are out there for GPS devices. Will you see kids staying inside for their lunch break because there is a sex offender whose GPS shows he's nearby? Though the chances of him doing anything may be slim (and he's being watched anyways).
Though I see some more pluses out of this, if there is an automobile thief in the neighborhood, any car equipped with such a feature kills it's ignition (if not already running) unless a phone call is placed to someone to confirm who you are (better the inconvenience than having it stolen). Burglar anywhere near the rich houses? Alert the owners to go check on their in-home webcams. Sex offender anywhere near your kid? A pager goes off on your kid telling her she's in some danger and gives directions to a nearby safe place (policeman, fireman, hospital, etc.).
There are ups and downs...but the world where criminals are known to everyone will be an interesting one...
So the 3% that survive will propogate the rest of the Internet. Or more likely the 3% that survive will propogate it's technology to the 97% of those that didn't. It's like antibiotics and resistant bacteria, the game continues. Until you find something that's 100% bulletbroof (MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!) it's hopeless Motion Picture industry....
hmmm explain this to my cat (though I think she has an eating disorder)...
Honestly my cat will try and eat whatever we put in front of it, until it overeats and barfs it all up. If I tried what you suggested I'd probably come home to find all that food converted to barf and a cat still looking for more food...so for me this cat feeder is a kinda neat idea (however I have a not-so-geeky automated one already to handle this problem).
True, I had misfeed problems initially with my HP Laserjet 1100, but the misfeed problem was fixed by the free kit from HP and I've been ok since. Though occasionally but rarely it will misfeed, and then I usually just air out the paper tray a bit to fix it for the rest of the stack. The problem being that the paper is somewhat adhering to other sheets after spending a lot of time in packaging together. Though if I bought another printer I'd probably go with tractor fed, rather than gravity fed HP's that typically don't have this problem (gravity feed saves money though).
Overall I'm happy with my HP though. Primary reason has been the replacement toner cost, which, after 5 years has NOTHING, not a single new toner cartridge!!! I keep wondering when the day I'll have to buy a new toner will be, like it's a special event or something:-)
I mentioned in an earlier post that for my dad, I give all you can use tech support in exchange for legal services when I need it (he's a lawyer). Generally I look for tradeable stuff if I give tech help. For example, an accountant I knew needed my help last week, guess what, free tax return professionally done:-). Sometimes it's hard to negotiate something so I tell them you owe me one and go ahead anyways. Seems a lot more friendly if you wil. Though even I'd admit the deal seems pretty lobsided for me sometimes (damn spyware proliferating everywhere).
Windows now requires you to be a semi-competent user.
Got new laptop and wanted WinXP pro. When I got it, plugged into hardware firewall for it's first Internet connection, installed BlackICE, Spyware Exterminator and Panda Anti-Virus. 3 months later still running fine (minus some slowness for all the security crap). Which makes me wonder what is worse sometimes, the spyware, or all that you have to do to keep that crap off? Fortunately my main box is Mandrake 10.0:-)
A) The code for it is homemade, would be a pain in the butt to re-tool a bot for little old me vs. all the livejournal, blogger, etc. sites out there...
B) I'm so insignificant out there with such low traffic the spammers probably wouldn't care anyways
C) If the spammers do start caring, I can code my blog around them to defeat them. So far it hasn't created a problem, but the stronger the problem the stronger my response will be...
My packages from amazon come in 2-3 days anyways typically. Maybe once in awhile they drag their feet out to 5 days but if it's urgent I'd usually just pay the extra $ for 2 day or overnight anyways. Sorry Amazon I'll stick with your standard model. Though I especially like the Super Saver shipping on packages I don't care too much about when they come anyways:-)
Handy Hosting has never done me wrong. True they're one in a million but:
1) How many hosts will fix a medium priority (there was a workaround) email problem you're having on Veteran's day...mine did!!!
2) How many hosts give you the IM screenname of the founder...mine does!!!
3) How many hosts give you hosting that goes down maybe 1 hour a month, in a bad month for $20/month (quarterly paid), you guessed it, mine does!
I can go on and on...but it's really some of the intangibles that matter in web hosting, such as what I mentioned above that matter.
Ethernet has never been a strong point of mine, but if only you could but the originator's MAC address somehow on the packet...actually in hindsight if that were possible, would probably solve a lot of the problems re: Spam in the first place...
Well my first thought to counter that was to put my bot on a major ISP (we'll use Earthlink) and keep grabbing different IP's to fool you. Of course you can always ban by MAC addresses and sooner or later Earthlink would be bound to notice.
Though if I did this on a small scale and didn't get too greedy I might be able to stay off the radar. Couple that with changing hosts frequently and/or finding hosts with badly enforced TOS's and I can give a headache to any Captcha test.
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Funny WD Drives have never been a problem with me, I still have a 3 yr old 60GB caviar drive in my comp that hasn't failed just yet. Then again what is their failure age... and besides mileage may vary from drive to drive (hey you can't make ALL drives bad right??? Something would have to accidentally be a good and reliable drive)
A) That this hoax will spread around and find it's way into my inbox daily for the next 10 years...*sigh* set Spam Filter: If messageText="Malwarlaria" then Bounce message.
B) Eventually some jerk will make a real (even if just computer) virus of that same name.
C'est la vie....
Do they Spawn Baby Ipod's I can sell on Ebay Too? It would be nice to make those Ipod's pay for themselves, heck I can start a Slave Ipod Mill!!! The possibilities are endless!!
Oh I see, April 1st...never mind...
Never had that problem. My landlords (now and past) have never told me I had to use a particular service. Of course I'm serviced by SBC in SoCal, YMMV.
Btw: I use Linkline for my DSL. No complaints though their DNS server is a tad slow. Since that's my only complaint and they're the fastest DSL I've seen, I'm thinking about just simply remediating that by setting up my own DNS Server. Their usage policies are fairly liberal (no ports blocked and I have a static IP address).
Anyways enough of my shameless plug...
*Sigh* if only I knew it were work friendly, otherwise I'll keep this post in mind for home...
While all well and good, if discovered my attorneys are gonna have a field day with AOL...Terms of Service or no, there was a reasonable expectation of privacy if I encrypted communications. Thus an invasion of privacy tort has been committed...
and any information I care about goes through their SecureIM service.
So to AOL: I say this much, exploit fjkd;arjaiwor398u233209u''rju98e32 any way you want guys!
Show me proof beyond a reasonable doubt that I did."
Therein lies the problem, you did nothing illegal. This is a civil case and not a criminal one. Reasonable doubt is not the standard here. Basically you're looking at a "Preponderance of the evidence". Basically the judge listens to you, then the RIAA and decides who sounds better. So if the RIAA has anything better than "you did it", you better be just as well prepared and then some...
Is something like me getting a $10 parking ticket, annoying but hardly worth acting on beyond mailing the puppy in...though I suppose the command to change policy as such will have an effect...
*ROFLMAO* The TV Production companies doing the right thing? Aren't these the people who are trying to implement broadcast flags for HDTV? Trying to heavily DRM TiVo devices? Amongst other stupidities I can't even count. While pulling gimmicks like announcing Star Wars trailers will be featured in "the OC?"...
Sorry Mr. Extremely Anonymous Coward, but I have no hope for the TV industry as a whole. Sure they produce a few gems (Whose line is it anyways and The Simpsons come to mind for me), but they're really just like the **AA organizations. Mostly interested in fighting piracy and hardly interested in innovating.
But your idea is a good one though! I'd love the day when I can go to their website and pull down an episode of the Simpson's for a few bucks and watch. I don't think I'll live to see that day, and the only downloadable episodes of the Simpsons will be Torrents/p2p downloads of whatever flavor.
Well from what I understand of the security breach, is that you still can't reverse engineer a SHA-1 to it's true value. However you can generate other values that might collide with your credit card number SHA-1. So if SHA-1 were used to guard a CC transaction I wouldn't be too worried there. But there would be a few worries in doing SHA-1 for this sort of thing.
1) In this case the SHA-1 is enough for cloning my credit card and running by the scanner. There would have to be some randomness involved in creating the signature SHA-1 to foil that method.
2) There are a lot of credit cards out there, and more issued all the time, as time moves on, collisions probably will happen with SHA-1 credit cards and then I'll wonder how those charges appeared on my statement, and the other person who charged him will be going to jail even though he didn't intend to defraud anyone (though maybe they'd do a Hash Check at his trial with his card vs. mine).
3) Somebody could still just steal my credit card and go nuts with it anyways...
I take it this is more about convenience than security....
Unfortunately for you, I noticed this clause:
This offer can be withdrawn at any time
Now if PcPitstop gave $1,000 to every user who Slashdots the site without a clause like this...their deficit would eclipse that of the United States Federal government in no time...so figure by now it's withrawn...
Indeed I agree with you, I could just as easily that "once a criminal, always a criminal look at the amount of criminals that never rehab" and you could fire back "well never given a chance...perceived image" and then I'm guilty of a false stereotype and you're guilty of being underprotective amongst a bunch of criminals around kids. What is the ultimate solution???
I think if we swing the GPS Part correctly (for example we page the kids saying that they are in trouble but don't say who exactly is in the neighborhood) we might be able to strike a best of both worlds compromise. Everybody knows somebody in the neighborhood is tripping pagers, but has no idea who (unless they're carrying receivers/decoders on the frequency these pagers would operate on)... eeeeh so what is the solution really?
There is an interesting flipside to leashing criminals and public knowledge of them. Recently a sex offender moved in right across the street from my mom. Consequently, because in California if you know there is a sex offender in your neighborhood you have to disclose it in real-estate contracts, nearby house prices have gone down in value. Much to the chagrin of people trying to sell their homes where she lives at this time.
Now then, while I do understand that it is only money. That the trade of knowledge of your neighbors violent pasts vs. real estate prices. I have to wonder what similar implications are out there for GPS devices. Will you see kids staying inside for their lunch break because there is a sex offender whose GPS shows he's nearby? Though the chances of him doing anything may be slim (and he's being watched anyways).
Though I see some more pluses out of this, if there is an automobile thief in the neighborhood, any car equipped with such a feature kills it's ignition (if not already running) unless a phone call is placed to someone to confirm who you are (better the inconvenience than having it stolen). Burglar anywhere near the rich houses? Alert the owners to go check on their in-home webcams. Sex offender anywhere near your kid? A pager goes off on your kid telling her she's in some danger and gives directions to a nearby safe place (policeman, fireman, hospital, etc.).
There are ups and downs...but the world where criminals are known to everyone will be an interesting one...
will thwart 97% of existing DVD copying software
So the 3% that survive will propogate the rest of the Internet. Or more likely the 3% that survive will propogate it's technology to the 97% of those that didn't. It's like antibiotics and resistant bacteria, the game continues. Until you find something that's 100% bulletbroof (MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!) it's hopeless Motion Picture industry....
hmmm explain this to my cat (though I think she has an eating disorder)...
Honestly my cat will try and eat whatever we put in front of it, until it overeats and barfs it all up. If I tried what you suggested I'd probably come home to find all that food converted to barf and a cat still looking for more food...so for me this cat feeder is a kinda neat idea (however I have a not-so-geeky automated one already to handle this problem).
True, I had misfeed problems initially with my HP Laserjet 1100, but the misfeed problem was fixed by the free kit from HP and I've been ok since. Though occasionally but rarely it will misfeed, and then I usually just air out the paper tray a bit to fix it for the rest of the stack. The problem being that the paper is somewhat adhering to other sheets after spending a lot of time in packaging together. Though if I bought another printer I'd probably go with tractor fed, rather than gravity fed HP's that typically don't have this problem (gravity feed saves money though).
:-)
Overall I'm happy with my HP though. Primary reason has been the replacement toner cost, which, after 5 years has NOTHING, not a single new toner cartridge!!! I keep wondering when the day I'll have to buy a new toner will be, like it's a special event or something
I mentioned in an earlier post that for my dad, I give all you can use tech support in exchange for legal services when I need it (he's a lawyer). Generally I look for tradeable stuff if I give tech help. For example, an accountant I knew needed my help last week, guess what, free tax return professionally done :-). Sometimes it's hard to negotiate something so I tell them you owe me one and go ahead anyways. Seems a lot more friendly if you wil. Though even I'd admit the deal seems pretty lobsided for me sometimes (damn spyware proliferating everywhere).
Windows now requires you to be a semi-competent user.
:-)
Got new laptop and wanted WinXP pro. When I got it, plugged into hardware firewall for it's first Internet connection, installed BlackICE, Spyware Exterminator and Panda Anti-Virus. 3 months later still running fine (minus some slowness for all the security crap). Which makes me wonder what is worse sometimes, the spyware, or all that you have to do to keep that crap off? Fortunately my main box is Mandrake 10.0
At my own homepage (codesweep.com):
A) The code for it is homemade, would be a pain in the butt to re-tool a bot for little old me vs. all the livejournal, blogger, etc. sites out there...
B) I'm so insignificant out there with such low traffic the spammers probably wouldn't care anyways
C) If the spammers do start caring, I can code my blog around them to defeat them. So far it hasn't created a problem, but the stronger the problem the stronger my response will be...
My packages from amazon come in 2-3 days anyways typically. Maybe once in awhile they drag their feet out to 5 days but if it's urgent I'd usually just pay the extra $ for 2 day or overnight anyways. Sorry Amazon I'll stick with your standard model. Though I especially like the Super Saver shipping on packages I don't care too much about when they come anyways :-)
Handy Hosting has never done me wrong. True they're one in a million but:
1) How many hosts will fix a medium priority (there was a workaround) email problem you're having on Veteran's day...mine did!!!
2) How many hosts give you the IM screenname of the founder...mine does!!!
3) How many hosts give you hosting that goes down maybe 1 hour a month, in a bad month for $20/month (quarterly paid), you guessed it, mine does!
I can go on and on...but it's really some of the intangibles that matter in web hosting, such as what I mentioned above that matter.
*sigh* and I mentioned this while it was still in the mysterious future, your funeral CmdrTaco :-/ I tried...
Ethernet has never been a strong point of mine, but if only you could but the originator's MAC address somehow on the packet...actually in hindsight if that were possible, would probably solve a lot of the problems re: Spam in the first place...
Well my first thought to counter that was to put my bot on a major ISP (we'll use Earthlink) and keep grabbing different IP's to fool you. Of course you can always ban by MAC addresses and sooner or later Earthlink would be bound to notice.
Though if I did this on a small scale and didn't get too greedy I might be able to stay off the radar. Couple that with changing hosts frequently and/or finding hosts with badly enforced TOS's and I can give a headache to any Captcha test.
So the game continues...