"During the war, I was in my world's warrior class. We saved each other's lives a dozen times over."
"Commendable! But what does that have to do with..."
"With nanotechnology? Glad you asked! You've heard of it, haven't you? Machines too small for the human eye to see? You can even shield them, make them invisible to electronic detection. Like the one you just swallowed in that drink. I imagine it's firmly latched on to your intestinal tract by now."
"What??!"
"Oh, it's nothing harmful, Ambassador! It's a location transmitter."
[He points a pen-like device at him and presses a button. A light flashes and it emits a "beep-beep".]
"See? It should dissolve in about... five years. But until then, Ambassador, my friends in my warrior caste have this frequency. And if anything should happen to [this place], they have instructions to track down that transmitter and... well, why spoil the surprise?"
"This is an outrage!"
"This is insurance. What you do here is your own business. You can scheme, and plan, and play all the games you want, but get this straight. If you ever endanger this [place] again, my people will find you. And the results will be most unpleasant."
"I'd say he took that pretty well. Think they'll ever find that transmitter you slipped [him]?"
"No... because there isn't one."
"There isn't? Wait --"
"I lied. I figured if there were a transmitter, sooner or later they'd find it and remove it. But if I just told them there was, they'd keep looking! Indefinitely!"
"Commander, do you have any idea of the tests they'll put him through, the things they'll do to him trying to find a transmitter that's not there?"
though preferably with a font that won't confuse Ds with 0s, Bs with 8s, Es with Fs, and As with 4s due to fading. Using lowercase letters you only have confusion between bs and 6s:
09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0
Then a few variant forms depending on the direction your language traditionally reads, but also allows for other glyphs with less confusion.
(Interesting that there are no As in the key.)
If the key changes, we could refer to this key (and disks encoded with it) with the shorthand FDebDCC, named for the alphabetic hexits in the key. Other keys' alphabetic contributions should be sufficiently random for reference.
You don't revoke keys with a firmware update on a new title. You revoke keys by ceasing to encrypt new pressings using them, specifically revoking a key a particular exploited model of player needs disks to be encrypted with in order to decrypt the title with its decryption keys. You don't give an exploited player a new key which it will leak again!
Trojaning titles with updates is how you either plug a leak in a player or replace a thoroughly exploited encryption system with a new one.
So the songs are by the artist rather than "made famous by" as GH labels them? Or you do mean from the game CD? Because otherwise, how does it lift out the guitar track so that you can't hear it right if you don't play it right?
Too bad it doesn't address the problem where they're in the same room as you. I'd apply the ball-gag, but too often it's the host of the LAN party that's the problem.
The damage done to them by the law (branded as sex offenders for life, having to register their whereabouts on a public database, unable to freely choose where they live, work, and be free of harassment, barred from ever adopting or probably even raising their own children if they ever plan to have any) is far more devastating to their lives than if the pictures ever got out.
Don't think that just because they're minors now that their records will remain sealed. I wouldn't be surprised if there were already sex-crime exceptions to that.
Yeah, exactly...this same exact thing happened in Ghostbusters, after all.....
"I trust you're moving us to better quarters on campus?"
"No, you're being moved off campus. The board of regents has decided to terminate your grant; you are to vacate these premises immediately."
"This is preposterous. I demand an explanation."
"The university will no longer continue any funding of any kind for your group's activities."
"But the kids love us!"
"Dr. Venkman, we believe that the purpose of science is to serve mankind. You, however, seem to regard science as some kind of dodge or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable. You, Dr. Venkman, are a poor scientist."
"I see."
"And you have no place in this department or in this university."
"This is a major disgrace. Forget MIT or Stanford. Now, they wouldn't touch us with a ten-meter cattle-prod."
"You're always so concerned about your reputation. Einstein did his best stuff when he was working as a patent clerk!"
"You know how much a patent clerk earns?"
"No!"
"Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
"For whatever reasons, Ray, call it fate, call it luck, call it karma, I believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe that we were destined to get thrown out of this dump."
In a letter to employees, Jim Samples, the general manager and executive vice president of the network, wrote: "I deeply regret the negative publicity and expense caused to our company as a result of this campaign. As general manager of Cartoon Network, I feel compelled to step down, effective immediately, in recognition of the gravity of the situation that occurred under my watch."
And to the city of Boston:
"I apologize. I'm... sorry. I'm sorry you had to defend yourselves against an advertising campaign. I'm sorry that your city was stupid enough to panic over a bunch of Lite-Brite-inspired cartoony signs, expending millions of dollars from its budget to `defuse' them, including moneys collected from your own taxpaying citizens. And I'm sorry I waited until now to tell you all to go straight to hell!
"As with everything else, it's the thought that counts."
Would that be true also with using the VGA output adapter? It only lists 720p as an output, not 1080i. The HDTV is old enough to have VGA inputs and I'm running out of ports on my component video switch. (I'm already out of optical outputs.)
Pen Liu, the lead researcher on the project and director of the university's Cyber Security Lab, estimates that under the new system, only a few dozen packets could be sent before an attack is halted. In comparison, the Slammer worm sent about 4,000 packets a second.
Great, how many packets per second is sent for streaming video? Downloading a Usenet posting?
Oh, they're probably talking about end-user computers emitting too many similar packets quickly. There goes the idea of me running my own server; I will no longer be an equal on the net and will always have to pay someone else to host my content. This will also curb actions like sharing files, posting binaries to Usenet, streaming video out of my SlingBox, or other high-outgoing-bandwidth tasks.
But because high packet rates aren't always triggered by worms, the new technology can also determine whether a suspected host is actually infected and release clean systems.
I doubt this will be the same "fractions of a second" that it takes to block. I suspect it's more like human intervention on the order of days or weeks.
The new system identifies a host computer with a high rate of homogeneous connection requests, and blocks the offending computer so no worm-infected packets of data can be sent from it.
Great, so I happen to spend a whole day on the computer doing nothing but playing one first-person shooter and I'll get cut off from the net? Did this idea come from Korea?
My HDTV can do 1080i, but not 1080p. It also can't do 720p, which is one of the reasons that I have not purchased an XBOX 360.
It's an RCA 32" CRT 4:3 HDTV which does not letterbox 1080i content either. I doubt I'm even getting full resolution from my anamorphic DVDs. I'm waiting for the prices in the 42-50" range to drop a bit more.
It doesn't help the German case that in the last story they sought to connect separate murder and kidnapping charges to the alleged perpetrators playing a turn-based RPG. I mean, apart from their aliases, how the hell did it inspire them; did they and their victims take turns attacking each other?
BTW, don't mention RPG Radiculopathy; I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it all right.
I wonder if there was a rash of teenagers jumping their cars through buildings would Germany finally have a backlash against David Hasselhoff?
It's where the virus Megabyte lived with his army of viral binomes and henchmen Hack and Slash while plotting to take over Mainframe and the Supercomputer.
I know that the answer is probably "The law only applies to the poor"
The line is actually from Anatole France's Le Lys Rouge (The Red Lily), ch. 7 (1894): "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
A variant used in an episode of The Tomorrow People (and the three-part title of a three-part story) is, "One law for rich and poor alike which prohibit them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges." The irony being that the rich have no need to steal bread or sleep under bridges, therefore the law only truly applies to the poor.
No, according to the submission, his client logged in to the tracker but did not make any effort to exchange data. BayTSP assumes if you're doing X you're doing Y, and that's normally true, but doesn't have to be. He's trying to make their statistics look unreliable.
And actually, BayTSP should know that such clients exist. They use such clients themselves to do their monitoring! So they assume that if you're doing X and you aren't BayTSP (or anyone else known to them that do such monitoring), then you're doing Y, and you get a takedown notice.
So anyone just doing research on illegal bittorrent traffic without doing any downloading or sharing gets j'accused.
They may even try to make it stick by saying knowledge of the illegal torrent means you found an illegal link to copyrighted works and illegally followed that link. And in this police state, it might stick.
After reading the article, BayTSP is running the tracker.
Then you didn't read the article correctly.
BayTSP is monitoring particular torrents on trackers with their own torrent client designed for monitoring the swarm, not operating their own trackers.
But what other use has taking part in a copyright[-violating] torrent?
Corrected it for you.
Same as the VCR: timeshifting. The damn cable box didn't change the channel when the TiVo told it to, so the only options to catch all episodes in order is either to skip the rest of the season and get the DVD or download someone else's copy. Either way, the advertisers are going to miss out on their impressions.
Did people hesitate borrowing VHS tapes of the previous night's TV they'd missed? Have friends record each other's scheduling conflicts?
IMO, as long as there was a good-faith effort or intent to watch or record the broadcast yourself, downloading it within the week shouldn't be illegal.
I posted a theory about sending one to yourself through the mail activated and with a GPS so that the postal delivery vehicle does your wardriving for you. I called it warsmailing. So far no results on Google of anyone attempting it using that term.
(Why do I keep being prompted to save a download of comments.pl when I Submit?)
For what it's worth, I think of that episode every time I'm getting "the owl" put on my face.
So do I. Interesting that it was Hart to Hart. It wasn't a series I normally watched. Now to track down the actual episode to try to desensitize myself to it.
Was the show that had a character who was going to die due to her contact lens cleaning/wetting solution or eye drops being contaminated with a fatal poison with no antidote an episode of MacGyver?
It's already been done in the context of an eye test at an optometrist, in a network TV series episode, mid-'80s to mid-'90s. Needle was in the eye test device (I don't know its name) that switches in different lenses while the optometrist asks questions like "Is that better, or worse?" and "Number one, or number two?" I don't think the optometrist was in the room for the scene.
I don't recall if the plot was to induce blindness, inject a poison, or stab the brain.
When was the last time you saw a real pair of mirrored sunglasses for sale? All the pairs I've seen have been a colored partially reflective coating that wears off too fast. It's like they're afraid to make them, like they've been made illegal somewhere (like too much tinting of car windows in some states).
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I think it would look much better arranged thus:
09 F9 11 02
9D 74 E3 5B
D8 41 56 C5
63 56 88 C0
though preferably with a font that won't confuse Ds with 0s, Bs with 8s, Es with Fs, and As with 4s due to fading. Using lowercase letters you only have confusion between bs and 6s:
09 f9 11 02
9d 74 e3 5b
d8 41 56 c5
63 56 88 c0
Then a few variant forms depending on the direction your language traditionally reads, but also allows for other glyphs with less confusion.
(Interesting that there are no As in the key.)
If the key changes, we could refer to this key (and disks encoded with it) with the shorthand FDebDCC, named for the alphabetic hexits in the key. Other keys' alphabetic contributions should be sufficiently random for reference.
You don't revoke keys with a firmware update on a new title. You revoke keys by ceasing to encrypt new pressings using them, specifically revoking a key a particular exploited model of player needs disks to be encrypted with in order to decrypt the title with its decryption keys. You don't give an exploited player a new key which it will leak again!
Trojaning titles with updates is how you either plug a leak in a player or replace a thoroughly exploited encryption system with a new one.
it imports the GH songs from CD
So the songs are by the artist rather than "made famous by" as GH labels them? Or you do mean from the game CD? Because otherwise, how does it lift out the guitar track so that you can't hear it right if you don't play it right?
Too bad it doesn't address the problem where they're in the same room as you. I'd apply the ball-gag, but too often it's the host of the LAN party that's the problem.
Does it mean the future will be more like "a clockwork orange" and less like "1984" ?
More like a little from column A, a little from column B.
How little is a little? A lot.
And don't assume there are only two columns!
The damage done to them by the law (branded as sex offenders for life, having to register their whereabouts on a public database, unable to freely choose where they live, work, and be free of harassment, barred from ever adopting or probably even raising their own children if they ever plan to have any) is far more devastating to their lives than if the pictures ever got out.
Don't think that just because they're minors now that their records will remain sealed. I wouldn't be surprised if there were already sex-crime exceptions to that.
IANAL.
Actually, they can post about it; doing so just undoes their moderation without a return of points.
Or they can post about it anonymously from a browser that doesn't have their cookie.
"I apologize. I'm... sorry. I'm sorry you had to defend yourselves against an
advertising campaign. I'm sorry that your city was stupid enough to panic over a
bunch of Lite-Brite-inspired cartoony signs, expending millions of dollars from
its budget to `defuse' them, including moneys collected from your own taxpaying
citizens. And I'm sorry I waited until now to tell you all to go straight to
hell!
"As with everything else, it's the thought that counts."
Would that be true also with using the VGA output adapter? It only lists 720p as an output, not 1080i. The HDTV is old enough to have VGA inputs and I'm running out of ports on my component video switch. (I'm already out of optical outputs.)
Oh, they're probably talking about end-user computers emitting too many similar packets quickly. There goes the idea of me running my own server; I will no longer be an equal on the net and will always have to pay someone else to host my content. This will also curb actions like sharing files, posting binaries to Usenet, streaming video out of my SlingBox, or other high-outgoing-bandwidth tasks. I doubt this will be the same "fractions of a second" that it takes to block. I suspect it's more like human intervention on the order of days or weeks.
Do you have an HDTV that can even reach 1080p?
My HDTV can do 1080i, but not 1080p. It also can't do 720p, which is one of the reasons that I have not purchased an XBOX 360.
It's an RCA 32" CRT 4:3 HDTV which does not letterbox 1080i content either. I doubt I'm even getting full resolution from my anamorphic DVDs. I'm waiting for the prices in the 42-50" range to drop a bit more.
It doesn't help the German case that in the last story they sought to connect separate murder and kidnapping charges to the alleged perpetrators playing a turn-based RPG. I mean, apart from their aliases, how the hell did it inspire them; did they and their victims take turns attacking each other?
BTW, don't mention RPG Radiculopathy; I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it all right.
I wonder if there was a rash of teenagers jumping their cars through buildings would Germany finally have a backlash against David Hasselhoff?
WTF is Tor?
It's where the virus Megabyte lived with his army of viral binomes and henchmen Hack and Slash while plotting to take over Mainframe and the Supercomputer.
I know that the answer is probably "The law only applies to the poor"
The line is actually from Anatole France's Le Lys Rouge (The Red Lily), ch. 7 (1894): "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
A variant used in an episode of The Tomorrow People (and the three-part title of a three-part story) is, "One law for rich and poor alike which prohibit them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges." The irony being that the rich have no need to steal bread or sleep under bridges, therefore the law only truly applies to the poor.
No, according to the submission, his client logged in to the tracker but did not make any effort to exchange data. BayTSP assumes if you're doing X you're doing Y, and that's normally true, but doesn't have to be. He's trying to make their statistics look unreliable.
And actually, BayTSP should know that such clients exist. They use such clients themselves to do their monitoring! So they assume that if you're doing X and you aren't BayTSP (or anyone else known to them that do such monitoring), then you're doing Y, and you get a takedown notice.
So anyone just doing research on illegal bittorrent traffic without doing any downloading or sharing gets j'accused.
They may even try to make it stick by saying knowledge of the illegal torrent means you found an illegal link to copyrighted works and illegally followed that link. And in this police state, it might stick.
After reading the article, BayTSP is running the tracker.
Then you didn't read the article correctly.
BayTSP is monitoring particular torrents on trackers with their own torrent client designed for monitoring the swarm, not operating their own trackers.
But what other use has taking part in a copyright[-violating] torrent?
Corrected it for you.
Same as the VCR: timeshifting. The damn cable box didn't change the channel when the TiVo told it to, so the only options to catch all episodes in order is either to skip the rest of the season and get the DVD or download someone else's copy. Either way, the advertisers are going to miss out on their impressions.
Did people hesitate borrowing VHS tapes of the previous night's TV they'd missed? Have friends record each other's scheduling conflicts?
IMO, as long as there was a good-faith effort or intent to watch or record the broadcast yourself, downloading it within the week shouldn't be illegal.
I remember something about this before. Yup, it was about Silica then too.
I posted a theory about sending one to yourself through the mail activated and with a GPS so that the postal delivery vehicle does your wardriving for you. I called it warsmailing. So far no results on Google of anyone attempting it using that term.
(Why do I keep being prompted to save a download of comments.pl when I Submit?)
For what it's worth, I think of that episode every time I'm getting "the owl" put on my face.
So do I. Interesting that it was Hart to Hart. It wasn't a series I normally watched. Now to track down the actual episode to try to desensitize myself to it.
Was the show that had a character who was going to die due to her contact lens cleaning/wetting solution or eye drops being contaminated with a fatal poison with no antidote an episode of MacGyver?
Please contact lionsgate films /horror division immediately..
It's already been done in the context of an eye test at an optometrist, in a network TV series episode, mid-'80s to mid-'90s. Needle was in the eye test device (I don't know its name) that switches in different lenses while the optometrist asks questions like "Is that better, or worse?" and "Number one, or number two?" I don't think the optometrist was in the room for the scene.
I don't recall if the plot was to induce blindness, inject a poison, or stab the brain.
When was the last time you saw a real pair of mirrored sunglasses for sale? All the pairs I've seen have been a colored partially reflective coating that wears off too fast. It's like they're afraid to make them, like they've been made illegal somewhere (like too much tinting of car windows in some states).
Only terrorists wear shades.
Well that explains the FBI then. And the CIA. And the Secret Service. And....
"Can I ask you something? These sunglasses: they're really nice. Are they government-issued, or do all you guys go to the same store?"