I use peerguardian to keep my computer safe from authoritarian snoops, and you wouldn't believe how much bounced traffic there is. I was logging everything for a while until my log file got to about 6G in size.
I don't know what a patch status is, but you can get the shares list by running nbtstat against the target machine. If port 139 is available, one can assume there is a public SMB on the machine.
Ok, I get your idea here, but calling antimonopoly policies 'shady'? You really need some help; there are some pretty hard and fast rules. Just because they're based on often incomplete information doesn't make them any 'shadier'.
Most of the policy surrounding horizontal antitrust in the US concerns the HHI calculation. It's essentially the sum of the squares of the market percentage of each company, and is called the markets' saturation.
So, usually when the 'Restraint of trade' question comes up, the pessimism with which it is looked at is directly relative to how close the HHI calculation comes to 10,000.
"A person's legal status should not change based on market dynamics."
We're not talking about individuals here, we're talking about companies. Purely economic entities. Their status is based almost entirely on market dynamics.
Anyways, the "company a and company b" stuff only happens to be illegal if it causes company a or b's market share to boost past an anticompetitive HHI calculation (currently, there is a line arbitrarily drawn at 8,500 for official 'monopoly' status, as well at an 'under scruitiny' line at 5,500) at the expense of other companies in that market (antitrust laws don't apply towards new and untested markets, so prospecting is always fair game).
Actually, they do have the right to do it; not that it's a good idea to do it with the chipmaker that is large enough that they come under antitrust scrutiny on regular intervals. It's just not very smart, and they end up taking fire for their partner.
Meanwhile, the method one would use to track a pedophile using bittorrent hasn't changed. Locate a torrent of child pornography, and log the ip addresses that pull on it. Encryption won't defend against that. Peerguardian might defend better (government blocking), but hey. Shit happens. You can still take down the trackers. Meanwhile, paedo-pornography, unfortunately, is like any other thing: as long as a demand exists for it, so will a market.
As for terrorism, a terrorist can and will use encryption at levels that are nigh-impossible to crack (1024 bit isn't easy stuff, for example, and using a floating-exhange key system, a terrorist group could make it very difficult indeed).
Bittorrent traffic is really the least of their problems, and this news story, while not quite a load of hogwash, is the rantings of the underthinking or topically undereducated.
As for coming up with new technologies and countertechnologies for and against traffic shaping, I say bring it on. Traffic shaping is a pretty nice privacy catalyst so far, and when it stops being that, your ISP may actually provide you with the amount of bandwidth you pay for.
A 900W Microwave oven with ideal efficiency produces 900W of EM in the microwave range (~2.45 GHz... interesting to note, by the way). One minute of 900W EM == 0.015kWh or 54000 Joules of energy.
Meanwhile, a short-range data transmission device (say, a wifi router or cell phone) puts out 300mW of energy, 3000 times less than a microwave oven. That means, to equal the power put out by one minute of a microwave, you have to use your cell phone, continuously, for about two days.
Meanwhile, the heat's dissipating into your blood stream and off your skin faster than the cell phone can dump it in.
What about the risk of tumor? There is none. 300mW concentrated on a single point may be able to do some damage to DNA structure, but by the time the signal exits your phone, it's already been diffused to about a 1cm sphere, so the power at any given milimeter-sized point would be more like 900uW (300/(4*pi*5mm^2)) (microwatts). You can imagine exactly how much energy reaches each of your neurons, and further, how much damage it can do. You're more likely to be hurt by cosmic rays.
And yes, your phone gets hot. That's what happens when you use a chemical process to generate electricity (read: battery)
Nah, wouldn't work. At the protocol level, everything's just data... and therefore can be spoofed.
We really should to replace SMTP with something that can prevent abuse - but we won't. There's only a benefit for 100% adoption, and even then, SMTP would still hang around as a legacy target.
I think the idea here is that someone with limited network access only need plug the iPod into a computer logged in with higher access rights - something that shouldn't happen ( lock your box ) anyways.
Hey, how deep are your pockets? 'Cos I'm thinking the emotional damage is equal to about five times my rent payment per month for the next hundered years.
Um... what do you expect? You don't get to be head of marketing anywhere without 'linguistic innovation' (i.e.: the ability to pull cool-sounding terms out of your ass) in your skillset.
'Enterprise' is, and has been since I can remember, a generic term for any organized endeavor. In business circles, it seems to mean 'business', but in business circles, half the fun seems to be pretending every word in the english language means 'business'.
What I want to know is: what is a 'business processor'?
Seriously. It really seems like a contrived term. I mean, are we referring to any processor capable of running a spreadsheet or what?
Most OSS projects are doomed. A good (made-up number between 50 and 100) percent either never see the light of day, or become dead projects within their first year. Those that remain fall off one by one until only the bleeding edge software remains. That's just how good OSS evolves.
Corporate culling notwithstanding; what CIOs don't really seem to realize is that we don't NEED them. Sure, they pay the bandwidth costs, help with the code and all, but if they suddenly stopped doing that it'd be bittorrent and volunteer programmers all the way - until another corporation suddenly 'discovers' OSS again and it becomes hot again.
Naw, seriously. These corporate types are good for a chuckle, and for making things a bit easier, but I somehow doubt that their actions will influence how 'immature' (what defines that?) OSS congeals.
Heh. I'm still young enough to remember being a teenager. 'Mandatory' P2P education is going to be much like mandatory sex ed. A little awkward, mostly made fun of, and entirely forgotten aside from the bit about using a condom (eg: Peer Guardian).
I own one. It DOES crash like that on a real mac. The problem is that there are fewer mac users that do things to run into Bugs like linux and Windows users do.
If all you want to do is use Photoshop and a browser, you'll never have a problem in Windows (once someone like me has secured it, of course).
Heh. You know what I love about slashdot? That, if filled with enough misguided zeal and a half-assed argument, most/.'ers will leave out the half of the story that disagrees with their point.
Meanwhile, there's a difference between piracy and license extension. Piracy means you didn't pay for what you're using. License extension means you're using two when you bought one.
Anyway, that's irrelevant. I can't be hurting Apple if they're not selling the OS; if they were it'd be a lost sale, but they're not. When a non-bundled version comes, I'll gladly buy two; one for my Mac and one to hack into my PC. At the very least, it'd be kinda cool to have a tri-boot system: OS-X 10.4.5, Slackware and Windows Vista.
Meanwhile, most EULAs are written 'you can only use this on one computer at a time' - meaning for now, all I'd have to do is shut off my Mac; it can't be running anything if it's not on.
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I know exactly what you mean.
I use peerguardian to keep my computer safe from authoritarian snoops, and you wouldn't believe how much bounced traffic there is. I was logging everything for a while until my log file got to about 6G in size.
I don't know what a patch status is, but you can get the shares list by running nbtstat against the target machine. If port 139 is available, one can assume there is a public SMB on the machine.
Actually, if the guy's got a back oriface trojan sitting on his computer, his security issues are his own problem.
He's apparently not paying enough attention.
The assignment, if you can't read, is simply to 'case the joint', not to break in.
Ok, I get your idea here, but calling antimonopoly policies 'shady'? You really need some help; there are some pretty hard and fast rules. Just because they're based on often incomplete information doesn't make them any 'shadier'.
Most of the policy surrounding horizontal antitrust in the US concerns the HHI calculation. It's essentially the sum of the squares of the market percentage of each company, and is called the markets' saturation.
So, usually when the 'Restraint of trade' question comes up, the pessimism with which it is looked at is directly relative to how close the HHI calculation comes to 10,000.
"A person's legal status should not change based on market dynamics."
We're not talking about individuals here, we're talking about companies. Purely economic entities. Their status is based almost entirely on market dynamics.
Anyways, the "company a and company b" stuff only happens to be illegal if it causes company a or b's market share to boost past an anticompetitive HHI calculation (currently, there is a line arbitrarily drawn at 8,500 for official 'monopoly' status, as well at an 'under scruitiny' line at 5,500) at the expense of other companies in that market (antitrust laws don't apply towards new and untested markets, so prospecting is always fair game).
Actually, they do have the right to do it; not that it's a good idea to do it with the chipmaker that is large enough that they come under antitrust scrutiny on regular intervals. It's just not very smart, and they end up taking fire for their partner.
Meanwhile, the method one would use to track a pedophile using bittorrent hasn't changed. Locate a torrent of child pornography, and log the ip addresses that pull on it. Encryption won't defend against that. Peerguardian might defend better (government blocking), but hey. Shit happens. You can still take down the trackers. Meanwhile, paedo-pornography, unfortunately, is like any other thing: as long as a demand exists for it, so will a market.
As for terrorism, a terrorist can and will use encryption at levels that are nigh-impossible to crack (1024 bit isn't easy stuff, for example, and using a floating-exhange key system, a terrorist group could make it very difficult indeed).
Bittorrent traffic is really the least of their problems, and this news story, while not quite a load of hogwash, is the rantings of the underthinking or topically undereducated.
As for coming up with new technologies and countertechnologies for and against traffic shaping, I say bring it on. Traffic shaping is a pretty nice privacy catalyst so far, and when it stops being that, your ISP may actually provide you with the amount of bandwidth you pay for.
Oh, yes they do.
oh, PLEASE mod parent funny. It's hilarious in the same way as the threat of DHMO.
Gamma isn't in the same bandwidth range. It's a much higher frequency, so the photons have a much higher energy.
Ok.
A 900W Microwave oven with ideal efficiency produces 900W of EM in the microwave range (~2.45 GHz... interesting to note, by the way). One minute of 900W EM == 0.015kWh or 54000 Joules of energy.
Meanwhile, a short-range data transmission device (say, a wifi router or cell phone) puts out 300mW of energy, 3000 times less than a microwave oven. That means, to equal the power put out by one minute of a microwave, you have to use your cell phone, continuously, for about two days.
Meanwhile, the heat's dissipating into your blood stream and off your skin faster than the cell phone can dump it in.
What about the risk of tumor? There is none. 300mW concentrated on a single point may be able to do some damage to DNA structure, but by the time the signal exits your phone, it's already been diffused to about a 1cm sphere, so the power at any given milimeter-sized point would be more like 900uW (300/(4*pi*5mm^2)) (microwatts). You can imagine exactly how much energy reaches each of your neurons, and further, how much damage it can do. You're more likely to be hurt by cosmic rays.
And yes, your phone gets hot. That's what happens when you use a chemical process to generate electricity (read: battery)
Nah, wouldn't work. At the protocol level, everything's just data... and therefore can be spoofed.
We really should to replace SMTP with something that can prevent abuse - but we won't. There's only a benefit for 100% adoption, and even then, SMTP would still hang around as a legacy target.
I think the idea here is that someone with limited network access only need plug the iPod into a computer logged in with higher access rights - something that shouldn't happen ( lock your box ) anyways.
So easily the dumbest slashdot story ever.
I mean, seriously, haven't you guys learned that Dvorak is just a useless turd of the industry yet?
Dvorak talking out of his ass?
noooo.... surely not. I mean, if Dvorak's talking out of his ass, I must have mastered the art of presenting sarcasm with subtlety, right?
Hey, cool!
Hey, how deep are your pockets? 'Cos I'm thinking the emotional damage is equal to about five times my rent payment per month for the next hundered years.
You're talking about Steve "I do really cool things and less than 10% of the market gives a damn" Jobs?
Um... what do you expect? You don't get to be head of marketing anywhere without 'linguistic innovation' (i.e.: the ability to pull cool-sounding terms out of your ass) in your skillset.
'Enterprise' is, and has been since I can remember, a generic term for any organized endeavor. In business circles, it seems to mean 'business', but in business circles, half the fun seems to be pretending every word in the english language means 'business'.
What I want to know is: what is a 'business processor'?
Seriously. It really seems like a contrived term. I mean, are we referring to any processor capable of running a spreadsheet or what?
Most OSS projects are doomed. A good (made-up number between 50 and 100) percent either never see the light of day, or become dead projects within their first year. Those that remain fall off one by one until only the bleeding edge software remains. That's just how good OSS evolves.
Corporate culling notwithstanding; what CIOs don't really seem to realize is that we don't NEED them. Sure, they pay the bandwidth costs, help with the code and all, but if they suddenly stopped doing that it'd be bittorrent and volunteer programmers all the way - until another corporation suddenly 'discovers' OSS again and it becomes hot again.
Naw, seriously. These corporate types are good for a chuckle, and for making things a bit easier, but I somehow doubt that their actions will influence how 'immature' (what defines that?) OSS congeals.
Heh. I'm still young enough to remember being a teenager. 'Mandatory' P2P education is going to be much like mandatory sex ed. A little awkward, mostly made fun of, and entirely forgotten aside from the bit about using a condom (eg: Peer Guardian).
Don't stretch so hard, you'll hurt yourself.
Isn't it weird that that hasn't worked yet?
I mean, seriously; you'd think that'd've been easier.
I own one. It DOES crash like that on a real mac. The problem is that there are fewer mac users that do things to run into Bugs like linux and Windows users do.
If all you want to do is use Photoshop and a browser, you'll never have a problem in Windows (once someone like me has secured it, of course).
Heh. You know what I love about slashdot? That, if filled with enough misguided zeal and a half-assed argument, most /.'ers will leave out the half of the story that disagrees with their point.
Meanwhile, there's a difference between piracy and license extension.
Piracy means you didn't pay for what you're using. License extension means you're using two when you bought one.
Anyway, that's irrelevant. I can't be hurting Apple if they're not selling the OS; if they were it'd be a lost sale, but they're not. When a non-bundled version comes, I'll gladly buy two; one for my Mac and one to hack into my PC. At the very least, it'd be kinda cool to have a tri-boot system: OS-X 10.4.5, Slackware and Windows Vista.
Meanwhile, most EULAs are written 'you can only use this on one computer at a time' - meaning for now, all I'd have to do is shut off my Mac; it can't be running anything if it's not on.