the foreign based spammers often collect money on behalf of US-based companies.
just read the articles out there about how many of the spammers's clients can be traced - what good is a mortgage in, say, Korea, to someone in the USA?
if each email received took say 30 seconds to delete *on*average*, multiply that by the millions he sent out. if human lifespan is 80 years, how many lifetimes did he waste? I suspect many lifetimes worth of time wasted.
I have a couple of minority interest web sites, one is linux focussed, and it's interesting that mozilla-based browsers represent a much higher ratio of browsers than for most web sites.
Thus you have to aggregate statistics across lots of different types of web sites to accurately determine usage; of course you also need to ignore stats from websites which only work properly on IE.
The worst offender of any big corporate site I've come across recently is that for United Airlines, looks a total dogs dinner in FF.
I really don't understand why music publishers want DRM at all. All that happens with lock-in is that somebody like Apple dominates the market
The mistake the labels made was to not insist on some form of key escrow so that they could independently create DRM's tracks that can be played on iPods etc; that way they could have licensed other music shops to sell ipod compatible music with DRM and thus been able to bypass Apple and have iPod owners directly as customers.
I believe that so far the full DRM situation with Zune hasn't been revealed, i.e. as to who's in full control of the DRM and can issue Zune-compatible music. Perhaps this is why Microsoft dumped "plays for sure"?
/. has been a bag 'o' shite for a long time, so why are YOU here then? It's pointless browsing beyond the posting of the initial news item IMHO, and largely pointless posting whether you have something worthwhile to say or not, unless you happen to enjoy posting a troll.
I'll just use DRM-13, it's like ROT-13 only it's applied to video or audio streams... and may GOd have mercy on your soul if you publish the decryption algorithm (DE-DRM-13), Mr "DVD" Jon!
I have a Sony TX2 which has an LED backlight; the x-black display is beautifully sharp and contrasty (1280x768), and the backlight very even. If that's the future of LCD displays, I'd be very happy!
My (suddenly realised it's quite old, eight years now) Sony Wega Trinitron glass flat-tube TV is still going strong, so I'm not going to rush into replacing it just yet, until I know whether LCD+LED is coming, whether SED will actually turn up... and the whole issue of HDMI/HDCP/DVI is clarified, such as wehether I could get the full 1080p on the DVI port.
but there have recently been studies and reports indicating an algorithmic short-cut to modifying data and yet leaving the md5 intact?
I agree it's still going to be a significant process to do this... but *maybe* if you don't care whether the data is in any way useful or valid (i.e. you're not trying to fake a document to match one with a trusted md5) it might be quicker?
hmm, so what you're suggesting is that you could spoil commercial torrent services...
create a customised torrent client which will upload junk to the other peers, and if you have sufficient bandwidth you can poison the file people are downloading even if the original seed is actually a valid file?
Won't the checksum validation fail on the blocks of data you're uploading (although I suppose it's possible to generate random data until you can make it match the md5 hash or whatever torrent uses for block integrity)?
I think I'll start a new web page entitled "please give me a million so I can set fire to it", each doner will get a little bit of the ash. It's sure to work!
I do this when I have time... ensure you use what look like valid entries for bank a/c and pin values.
I also enter things like "f**k you spammer" into the name fields, so that when they go through to test the captured data, they get to see my opinion of them (yeah, relatively useless I know, but I get tiny twinge of pleasure at the thought)
opendns is a copycat of the verisign adware dns trick... it's hoping to achieve success by relying on the many ISPs who are clueless when it comes to running effective dns resolvers.
this happens on ebay quite a lot with people putting img references to other people's hosted photos... I remember a particularly amusing early incident of a computer motherboard components for sale, and the victim of bandwidth replaced the photos with those of similar items on fire, and with messages such as "the seller is a con-man".
so, don't think of it as being necessarily all bad, you can have some fun with those people abusing your content... subtle games with occasional random replacement of images, especially with animated gifs with fading overlays, can be quite effective.
yes, but people without pensions therefore have no money invested and therefore aren't shareholders and big corporates don't have to answer to them, which is a different problem.
perhaps then those of us who do have pension funds should consider whether we care about having them ethically invested in decent organisations, or, have don't car and allow the the money to be put into alcohol/tobacco/gambling/munitions etc?
if people want to be able to have a safe and peaceful retirement then they need to consider what sort of investment they need to make into society to ensure society will let them enjoy retirement!
whilst I applaud your irony, as with the best irony there is truth in it. The snag is that we the public are responsible for rapacious control by the big corporates. Yes, really, because our pensions are invested in corporations and we demand the highest growth in our savings and most people have no interest in how the money is invested or the consequences of the pressures to perform placed on the investees. If a corporation fails to meet the demands of its shareholders, it is punished hard. The snag is that people most dependent on managed pension funds are those most likely to be hurt by their actions - people who can manage their own pensions are likely to be wealthy enough and high enough up the corporate ladder to have some say in their life.
... and copyright extension then, since that is also dominating our culture now...?
yeah, thought not. copyright enforcement is only demanded by those who can control it, and it's sheer brilliance that they turned a civil law issue into a criminal one and thus got the gov't to pay the copyright holder's costs!
it took me just a few minutes of guesswork to avoid having to use the zudeo software at all; I didn't install it. When you click to download, it saves a.jnlp file which is just an XML wrapper around a URL containing a torrent, then download the torrent and open it with a torrent downloader (shareaza will do nicely). It will save a file called.hdmov, which you just rename so it will open with Quicktime.
only a tiny portion of the current internet is the same entity as created by ARPA, and saying the Feds thus have free passage and rights to the net is like saying that the British still own the USA because we colonised it. As time goes by the strength of the internet at being dispersed means that the portion of the net which can be controlled by the US gov't is diminishing - regional internet exchanges throughout the world mean that less and less traffic touches the US at all unless it is for/from the USA.
when the WTC and other buildings were badly damaged in New York on 9-11, there was a lot of internet disruption, but things generally held up and got re-routed. This and other disasters have taught telcos and ISPs the importance of geographic dispersal and not just local resilience (i.e. cable & power diversity, UPS and generators, fire suppression).
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the foreign based spammers often collect money on behalf of US-based companies.
just read the articles out there about how many of the spammers's clients can be traced - what good is a mortgage in, say, Korea, to someone in the USA?
if each email received took say 30 seconds to delete *on*average*, multiply that by the millions he sent out. if human lifespan is 80 years, how many lifetimes did he waste? I suspect many lifetimes worth of time wasted.
I have a couple of minority interest web sites, one is linux focussed, and it's interesting that mozilla-based browsers represent a much higher ratio of browsers than for most web sites.
Thus you have to aggregate statistics across lots of different types of web sites to accurately determine usage; of course you also need to ignore stats from websites which only work properly on IE.
The worst offender of any big corporate site I've come across recently is that for United Airlines, looks a total dogs dinner in FF.
I really don't understand why music publishers want DRM at all. All that happens with lock-in is that somebody like Apple dominates the market
The mistake the labels made was to not insist on some form of key escrow so that they could independently create DRM's tracks that can be played on iPods etc; that way they could have licensed other music shops to sell ipod compatible music with DRM and thus been able to bypass Apple and have iPod owners directly as customers.
I believe that so far the full DRM situation with Zune hasn't been revealed, i.e. as to who's in full control of the DRM and can issue Zune-compatible music. Perhaps this is why Microsoft dumped "plays for sure"?
The pair discovered on January 15th was 2003663613 * 2195,000 ± 1.
what a coincidence! that's the combination to my luggage!
/. has been a bag 'o' shite for a long time, so why are YOU here then? It's pointless browsing beyond the posting of the initial news item IMHO, and largely pointless posting whether you have something worthwhile to say or not, unless you happen to enjoy posting a troll.
I'll just use DRM-13, it's like ROT-13 only it's applied to video or audio streams... and may GOd have mercy on your soul if you publish the decryption algorithm (DE-DRM-13), Mr "DVD" Jon!
maybe we should re-christen it "betaray" or "bluemax" or something?
I have a Sony TX2 which has an LED backlight; the x-black display is beautifully sharp and contrasty (1280x768), and the backlight very even. If that's the future of LCD displays, I'd be very happy!
My (suddenly realised it's quite old, eight years now) Sony Wega Trinitron glass flat-tube TV is still going strong, so I'm not going to rush into replacing it just yet, until I know whether LCD+LED is coming, whether SED will actually turn up... and the whole issue of HDMI/HDCP/DVI is clarified, such as wehether I could get the full 1080p on the DVI port.
it was all over /. a while ago... a team were able to create their own document and make its md5 match. JFGI.
but there have recently been studies and reports indicating an algorithmic short-cut to modifying data and yet leaving the md5 intact?
I agree it's still going to be a significant process to do this... but *maybe* if you don't care whether the data is in any way useful or valid (i.e. you're not trying to fake a document to match one with a trusted md5) it might be quicker?
hmm, so what you're suggesting is that you could spoil commercial torrent services...
create a customised torrent client which will upload junk to the other peers, and if you have sufficient bandwidth you can poison the file people are downloading even if the original seed is actually a valid file?
Won't the checksum validation fail on the blocks of data you're uploading (although I suppose it's possible to generate random data until you can make it match the md5 hash or whatever torrent uses for block integrity)?
in life, you start at the bottom. the secret is to start at, and kiss the right bottom!
3. Burn the money in a huge trash barrel and join a Buddist monestary.
You mean like the K Foundation did? The K Foundation burn a million quid.
I think I'll start a new web page entitled "please give me a million so I can set fire to it", each doner will get a little bit of the ash. It's sure to work!
the answer is to adopt the Mac approach - sell guitars with only one string!
erm, I use firefox, and I run linux.. so I presume you are still living in the darkside :-P
mod parent up!
I do this when I have time... ensure you use what look like valid entries for bank a/c and pin values.
I also enter things like "f**k you spammer" into the name fields, so that when they go through to test the captured data, they get to see my opinion of them (yeah, relatively useless I know, but I get tiny twinge of pleasure at the thought)
opendns is a copycat of the verisign adware dns trick... it's hoping to achieve success by relying on the many ISPs who are clueless when it comes to running effective dns resolvers.
this happens on ebay quite a lot with people putting img references to other people's hosted photos... I remember a particularly amusing early incident of a computer motherboard components for sale, and the victim of bandwidth replaced the photos with those of similar items on fire, and with messages such as "the seller is a con-man".
so, don't think of it as being necessarily all bad, you can have some fun with those people abusing your content... subtle games with occasional random replacement of images, especially with animated gifs with fading overlays, can be quite effective.
yes, but people without pensions therefore have no money invested and therefore aren't shareholders and big corporates don't have to answer to them, which is a different problem.
perhaps then those of us who do have pension funds should consider whether we care about having them ethically invested in decent organisations, or, have don't car and allow the the money to be put into alcohol/tobacco/gambling/munitions etc?
if people want to be able to have a safe and peaceful retirement then they need to consider what sort of investment they need to make into society to ensure society will let them enjoy retirement!
whilst I applaud your irony, as with the best irony there is truth in it. The snag is that we the public are responsible for rapacious control by the big corporates. Yes, really, because our pensions are invested in corporations and we demand the highest growth in our savings and most people have no interest in how the money is invested or the consequences of the pressures to perform placed on the investees. If a corporation fails to meet the demands of its shareholders, it is punished hard. The snag is that people most dependent on managed pension funds are those most likely to be hurt by their actions - people who can manage their own pensions are likely to be wealthy enough and high enough up the corporate ladder to have some say in their life.
... and copyright extension then, since that is also dominating our culture now...?
yeah, thought not. copyright enforcement is only demanded by those who can control it, and it's sheer brilliance that they turned a civil law issue into a criminal one and thus got the gov't to pay the copyright holder's costs!
it took me just a few minutes of guesswork to avoid having to use the zudeo software at all; I didn't install it. When you click to download, it saves a .jnlp file which is just an XML wrapper around a URL containing a torrent, then download the torrent and open it with a torrent downloader (shareaza will do nicely). It will save a file called .hdmov, which you just rename so it will open with Quicktime.
Thus who needs zudeo's spyware?
the Internet was built by the Federal Government
I'll feed this troll...
only a tiny portion of the current internet is the same entity as created by ARPA, and saying the Feds thus have free passage and rights to the net is like saying that the British still own the USA because we colonised it. As time goes by the strength of the internet at being dispersed means that the portion of the net which can be controlled by the US gov't is diminishing - regional internet exchanges throughout the world mean that less and less traffic touches the US at all unless it is for/from the USA.
when the WTC and other buildings were badly damaged in New York on 9-11, there was a lot of internet disruption, but things generally held up and got re-routed. This and other disasters have taught telcos and ISPs the importance of geographic dispersal and not just local resilience (i.e. cable & power diversity, UPS and generators, fire suppression).
what? by your tone of irony you're implying my faith in NORAD Santa has been misplaced all these years??!!