Based on what I know about the tivo's design, I think this will be an easy thing to get around.
There are only so many ways that tivo can add tags to tell the difference between pay per views and on demand items so that it knows what it should or shouldn't delete. One way is through attributes stored in the MFS structure, another way is maybe a hidden flag somewhere in the MFS filesystem itself, and probably the least likely method would be to tag the tystream itself.
No matter which of these methods they use, it would be very easy to identify and remove any tags. What would work even better is to patch the tivoapp binary so that it doesn't add these tags in the first place, which is otherwise a hard thing to accomplish, but several people in the tivo hacking scene have done quite well at things like this.
Not only that, but have you considered what will happen if Iraq stabilizes and becomes our ally? That country is very rich in resources, once stabilized they will be a very powerfull ally in the war on terror. Not to mention an ally that has access to the enemy's backdoor to boot.
Not necessarily. Theres always free to air satellite TV in the US, which is a DVB satellite broadcast. Though can't see any specifics here of whether or not this box is able to receive satellite signals.
(also not to mention that free to air channels are free for a reason:D )
If everybody on peer to peer networks was required to give out their real email address freely, the spammers would be able to go to town with e-mail lists that they would *know* to be real.
I still keep my land-line operational, though... I'm beginning to wonder why.
Well, it's not really a bad idea considering that your landline is the most reliable. It'll work during bad weather, and it'll work during a power outage, or when your ISP is being neglegent and your connection is down.
Well, they might make 5.x available for the regular standalone series 2 units eventually. It is certainly compatible with them, in fact I have loaded it to mine before (a lot of hacking is required to do this though)
I have not encountered a percentage over 5 any studies I have seen referenced. Is that what you mean by massive? Reportedly it disappears by about 6 months after in most cases.
Even better is the newest form of lasik called waveform correction, which corrects impurities in your natural lense, and supposedly this actually improves your ability to see at night.
Actually the 5.x tivo software will allow you to do the entire thing over the ethernet. No need for the #401 either, it gives you two options: Internet or Phoneline.
register a few hundred "mail.h0tstuff001.com" through "mail.h0tstuff999.com" domains with a stolen credit card.
Good point, but I think that it could also happen that if this got out of hand, credit card companies might eventually add countermeasures that will detect and prevent a flury of domain name registrations, and immediately suspend the credit card. This would save them from fraud, so it would be in their own best interest.
Also, at the very least you'd remove a huge chunk of the commercial business of trojan writing, which would mean highly reduced cost for ISPs who don't want any part in this, and increased bandwidth for their other customers.
I think the best solution would be to require all mail servers to have an IP address that resolves to a name containing "mail" somewhere in it (toplevel ".mail" not required). This is a small change that all ISPs and small businesses could easily and cheaply impliment.
If you do this, you eliminate the spam that comes from zombie PCs, and blacklisting becomes easier. If an ISP anywhere just gives "mail" subdomain names to everybody who pays for it, their domain will find itself on a blacklist real quick. It'll be far too cost prohibitive for spammers to register one domain name for each new batch of spam that they send out.
I don't see a problem either. In fact, why doesn't the open source community improve on it and make linux compatible libraries? They did it with dot-net and the mono project.
But the truly biggest hurdle will be the price. The media will likely be based on platinum, and I don't see how writable media will be possible any time soon.
If you ask me, I think solid state storage would become commonplace before this would. One thing that comes to mind, is those little disks in the Matrix that Tank used to upload kung-fu to Neos brain:)
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Based on what I know about the tivo's design, I think this will be an easy thing to get around.
There are only so many ways that tivo can add tags to tell the difference between pay per views and on demand items so that it knows what it should or shouldn't delete. One way is through attributes stored in the MFS structure, another way is maybe a hidden flag somewhere in the MFS filesystem itself, and probably the least likely method would be to tag the tystream itself.
No matter which of these methods they use, it would be very easy to identify and remove any tags. What would work even better is to patch the tivoapp binary so that it doesn't add these tags in the first place, which is otherwise a hard thing to accomplish, but several people in the tivo hacking scene have done quite well at things like this.
Like most dictatorships turn out. Now things are a bit different, now its a democracy.
Afghanistan anyone? Mind you Karzai, a man who those "anti-american islamic fundamentalists" elected, is quite friendly towards the US.
Not only that, but have you considered what will happen if Iraq stabilizes and becomes our ally? That country is very rich in resources, once stabilized they will be a very powerfull ally in the war on terror. Not to mention an ally that has access to the enemy's backdoor to boot.
Not necessarily. Theres always free to air satellite TV in the US, which is a DVB satellite broadcast. Though can't see any specifics here of whether or not this box is able to receive satellite signals. (also not to mention that free to air channels are free for a reason :D )
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If everybody on peer to peer networks was required to give out their real email address freely, the spammers would be able to go to town with e-mail lists that they would *know* to be real.
While I hate activex, this is interesting. I don't suppose you can use windowsupdate in mozilla with this?
I still keep my land-line operational, though... I'm beginning to wonder why. Well, it's not really a bad idea considering that your landline is the most reliable. It'll work during bad weather, and it'll work during a power outage, or when your ISP is being neglegent and your connection is down.
Can't say I am sorry for the companies that were once monopolies to finaly die.
Perhapse the solution then would be to have email clients hilight misspelled words as you type them, much like how most word processors do.
Hey I live in maricop county, and I say so less the taxes, so much the better.
Well, they might make 5.x available for the regular standalone series 2 units eventually. It is certainly compatible with them, in fact I have loaded it to mine before (a lot of hacking is required to do this though)
Even better is the newest form of lasik called waveform correction, which corrects impurities in your natural lense, and supposedly this actually improves your ability to see at night.
Both of the DVD tivos have it.
Yes it is, and it has been for a long time, just not for your model.
The topic sounds more like a budget issue than a science issue. Is slashdots primary focus shifting to politics now?
Well, 4.x isn't 5.x :)
Actually the 5.x tivo software will allow you to do the entire thing over the ethernet. No need for the #401 either, it gives you two options: Internet or Phoneline.
register a few hundred "mail.h0tstuff001.com" through "mail.h0tstuff999.com" domains with a stolen credit card.
Good point, but I think that it could also happen that if this got out of hand, credit card companies might eventually add countermeasures that will detect and prevent a flury of domain name registrations, and immediately suspend the credit card. This would save them from fraud, so it would be in their own best interest.
Also, at the very least you'd remove a huge chunk of the commercial business of trojan writing, which would mean highly reduced cost for ISPs who don't want any part in this, and increased bandwidth for their other customers.
I think the best solution would be to require all mail servers to have an IP address that resolves to a name containing "mail" somewhere in it (toplevel ".mail" not required). This is a small change that all ISPs and small businesses could easily and cheaply impliment.
If you do this, you eliminate the spam that comes from zombie PCs, and blacklisting becomes easier. If an ISP anywhere just gives "mail" subdomain names to everybody who pays for it, their domain will find itself on a blacklist real quick. It'll be far too cost prohibitive for spammers to register one domain name for each new batch of spam that they send out.
Nah, theres still a lot of vaporware coming out of that valve.
Speak of exploits, you just found a nice way of exploiting the karma system on slashdot :)
I don't see a problem either. In fact, why doesn't the open source community improve on it and make linux compatible libraries? They did it with dot-net and the mono project.
You're right, I think the shit has finally hit the fan so far as the DMCA is concerned.
If you ask me, I think solid state storage would become commonplace before this would. One thing that comes to mind, is those little disks in the Matrix that Tank used to upload kung-fu to Neos brain :)