Phillips would have something to say about your opinion. They've already stated as the overseer of the red-book format, that discs with copy protection are not CDs, and cannot be called CDs. They even want a big warning sticker stuck to them warning that they are not CDs, in addition to having them separated from "true" CDs.
The future of copy protection is in new formats, such as DVD-A and SACD. The big question is how the RIAA is going to get people to buy these discs which offer very little over the CD and significantly less freedom.
10 years from now the CD will no longer be the prefered media, if only for the reason of forcing people to replace their old collections again.
Actually, most of my spam comes from Finland, Germany, Iceland, Poland and open dsl relays in the US.
A few "Recieved" headers:
from kki.pl not authenticated
from cc.hut.fi not authenticated
from shuttle.de not authenticated
from itn.is not authenticated
from adsl[IP removed].dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net not authenticated
I get almost no spam from Asian sources. Perhaps they are already filtered out by the email server.
Did anyone really expect anything different from SCO? They'll spin it anyway they can. HP mearly looked at the situation, siad "hey, they can't legally do anything anyway" and issued what amounted to risk-free PR.
Pretty pointless though. If I offer self-propelled airborn pork insurance, according the SCO's logic, pigs not only can fly, but do it all the time.
As soon as you say that the police officer will write your smug ass a ticket. Just FYI, even though everybody goes over while passing, it is still illegal. I got a $100 ticket for going 10 over while passing. I had never been, nor ever have been, so pissed off in my life.
They aren't blocks of encrypted text. That text is there in an attempt to throw off spam filters. I think the idea is that if a certain amount of the message is unknown to the the spam filter, the filter won't flag the messgae as spam.
Also they break up words to avoid spam filters, like the following spam I recieved:
"Ge ni tal Enl arge ment - Me dic al Bre akth rou gh F or Me n !
2 a m azi ng wa ys to e nl ar ge y our man h ood - re ad bel ow..
D oct ors work ed for ye ars crea ting a p il l to en lar ge t he ma le ge nit al ia b y len gt h a nd wi dt h.
T he ye ars of wo rk p rodu ced a pi l l c al led "V P R X", - V P R X P i l l s inf o c li ck her e.
a nd al so a pa tch simi lair to the qu it sm o king pat ch . - P e n i s P a t che s i nf o cl ic k her e . "
I just hope they don't discover this, which is much more readable and still produces the same filter avoiding results. Fortunatly Bayesian filters learn these tactics and significantly reduce their useable lifespan. Expect to see the face of spam change more often and more dramticly with the widespread adoption of such filters by AOL and others.
As noted by yomegaman the P-M is much cooler than the previous laptop processors.
Actually, while my P4-M 1.6GHz laptop does get hot under load, most of the heat on the bottom comes from the DDR memory and mini-PCI 802.11b. All the CPU heat goes out through the back of the laptop.
speaking of laptops in the lap, when I purchased my PCI 802.11b card for my desktop it had a warning on it to keep the antenna 15cm away from your body. Not only are my laptop's antennae less than 2cm to my body when the laptop is in my lap, they are rather close to some parts of my body that I don't want irradiated. Should there be a warning on laptops: "do not use in lap if 802.11b is in use"?
"Hmm so geeks are supposed to automatically distrust anything conservative?"
Hollings is a Democrat (who fortunatly is not running for reelection). I think the point is we should be distrustful of people who make rules without a proper understanding of their effects.
Honestly, what do you expect with a dongle? Getting either a Type-III card with the jack built in or a Type II 3Com card with their Xjack connector would solve the dongle trouble.
" Well i guess its time to go back to the roots of using usenet and irc to download."
Or a local gnutella network. I doubt any institution would move to filtering local traffic. That means that small school students are screwed because they don't have the mass to get a good number of files, but the larger universities could sustain a large collection of files.
Yes, 90% of the files would be porn, but that's how most p2p seems to be anyway. As a plus, everything would move nice and quick.
I'm connected to a WISP for my off campus internet, and they got taken totally offline by the worms. They eventually blacklisted all MAC addresses in the logs and went door-to-door with CDRs containing patches and removal tools. I feel sorry for them, because this was during the time when both a lot of people were logging on for the first time and they were installing more bandwidth, so they were torn three ways.
The result is that the "tweaking" that would have happened durning the week or so after move in is only now starting. The WiFi networks are still pressed by all the people on them. Everything (except, suspiciously, at their office) is slow, but getting better. DHCP in particular is down a lot. My ping and tracert commands are still blocked though.
One thing I've learned from this is that wireless networks do not fail gracefully under extreme loads, they just die. And, they allways die at night, after the office is closed, when you need to VPN into the campus network to start a program you have to use for your homework which is due the next morning. Or right now, when instead of posting when I press submit all the computer does is blink at me...
How on earth do they think they are going to get $50k out of a student? I certainly don't have $50,000 in the bank, nor will I have it anytime soon.
I think this is more of a case of going after those least able to defend themselves.
I saw this on a tour of the Computer Science department at Clemson, where I go t' get meself learned. I didn't know the exact way they had the boxes networked, so I didn't say instead of spreading false info.
The only issue I saw was the brightness of the overlapping areas was higher than the non-overlapping areas simply because two projectors were displaying the same thing in the same area, as noted by Dirk.Reiners below.
I saw a demonstration using a beowulf cluster (well, part of one) that was rendering a moving 3-d CAD model. They just threw the projectors so they were somewhat aligned, used a webcam and had one of the nodes look at the overlap and correct for the projector's misalignment in real time. ~20 other CPUs were doing the rendering, but it only took one to make the display come out right. I would imagine the same thing could be done for a rear-projection screen. As long as the projectors didn't get jostled after being observed by the computer it should work fine.
I don't think so, this is a PR war, and has been from the instant SCO started the FUD campaign.
Linux users cannot be seen as a group of geeks with no respect for the law and proper buisness procedures. The very thing SCO needs right now is something to feed to the FUD machine, and the last thing geeks need to give SCO is ammunition.
When they demand donations, it is free speech. When they demand payment, it is IP.
Re:Truly P2P if SOBIG.G contains the spam message
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This is certainly what the article is hinting out, but I'm not sure it's feasible... the army of zombies has to get its orders from somewhere. It might not be just one central machine, but if the spammer wants to control his army, they have to either accept some form of communcation from him, or they have to contact him. Either way, it should trace back to a small # of computers.
SoBig.F had central servers where the machines were supposed to go to get a payload. The list was decrypted and 19 out of 20 servers were taken offline before Sobig hit them. The machines were apparently hacked beforehand and set-up to distribute program of some sort when a certain time hit and when they recieved a 8bit ID string that SoBig contained.
If I were a spammer here's what I would do. First, I would set up a few servers, like the creator of Sobig.F apparently did. The first worm would only contain the IP of the first server, and the instant the worm is recieved it checks that server (and would continue to check it or one of the other servers at regular intervals). From the server it gets a spam message, and the IP of another one of the hacked servers. Email is sent, both spam and those containing Sobig, with the new server address. The same thing happens again with the people who get the new emails, and the chain continues.
Here's what's in it for the spammer: they can change the spam being sent merely by uploading a different copy to the hacked servers, and a constantly changing network of hacked computers can be used to distribute the spam to the virii simply by adding new servers to the system and telling the old servers to send out the new addresses. Unless all the servers can be shut down before the new servers' IP adresses are delivered to them, the chain will continue to propagate.
I probably missed something important that makes this "plan" impossible, but I do think something like it could work.
"For the third test, the 1,273 pieces of July's mail were used as the training set."
And that's a small training set? Sure, it isn't 10,000 messages, but you have to draw the line somewhere.
Good thing the plant had analog backups. I think this is a good indication why total reliance upon computers in some cases would be very bad.
I wonder how "l33t" the person who wrote the virus would have felt if instead of hurting MS with a DOS attack, they killed hundreds of people in a train collision.
on http://www.divx.com/divx/ under the links to purchase or download ad stuff, there is a big link that says "Download the DivX codec (no cost)" which allows you to download the codec...for free!
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The future of copy protection is in new formats, such as DVD-A and SACD. The big question is how the RIAA is going to get people to buy these discs which offer very little over the CD and significantly less freedom.
10 years from now the CD will no longer be the prefered media, if only for the reason of forcing people to replace their old collections again.
Actually, most of my spam comes from Finland, Germany, Iceland, Poland and open dsl relays in the US. A few "Recieved" headers: from kki.pl not authenticated from cc.hut.fi not authenticated from shuttle.de not authenticated from itn.is not authenticated from adsl[IP removed].dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net not authenticated I get almost no spam from Asian sources. Perhaps they are already filtered out by the email server.
Did anyone really expect anything different from SCO? They'll spin it anyway they can. HP mearly looked at the situation, siad "hey, they can't legally do anything anyway" and issued what amounted to risk-free PR. Pretty pointless though. If I offer self-propelled airborn pork insurance, according the SCO's logic, pigs not only can fly, but do it all the time.
As soon as you say that the police officer will write your smug ass a ticket. Just FYI, even though everybody goes over while passing, it is still illegal. I got a $100 ticket for going 10 over while passing. I had never been, nor ever have been, so pissed off in my life.
Yes, but saying what you plan to use it for and getting it to work are two different things.
And now the physicists hand the engineers the huge task: "Ok, we got it to work, you get it to do something usefull"
Also they break up words to avoid spam filters, like the following spam I recieved:
"Ge ni tal Enl arge ment - Me dic al Bre akth rou gh F or Me n ! 2 a m azi ng wa ys to e nl ar ge y our man h ood - re ad bel ow..
D oct ors work ed for ye ars crea ting a p il l to en lar ge t he ma le ge nit al ia b y len gt h a nd wi dt h. .
T he ye ars of wo rk p rodu ced a pi l l c al led "V P R X", - V P R X P i l l s inf o c li ck her e
a nd al so a pa tch simi lair to the qu it sm o king pat ch . - P e n i s P a t che s i nf o cl ic k her e . "
I just hope they don't discover this, which is much more readable and still produces the same filter avoiding results. Fortunatly Bayesian filters learn these tactics and significantly reduce their useable lifespan. Expect to see the face of spam change more often and more dramticly with the widespread adoption of such filters by AOL and others.
Actually, while my P4-M 1.6GHz laptop does get hot under load, most of the heat on the bottom comes from the DDR memory and mini-PCI 802.11b. All the CPU heat goes out through the back of the laptop.
speaking of laptops in the lap, when I purchased my PCI 802.11b card for my desktop it had a warning on it to keep the antenna 15cm away from your body. Not only are my laptop's antennae less than 2cm to my body when the laptop is in my lap, they are rather close to some parts of my body that I don't want irradiated. Should there be a warning on laptops: "do not use in lap if 802.11b is in use"?
"Hmm so geeks are supposed to automatically distrust anything conservative?"
Hollings is a Democrat (who fortunatly is not running for reelection). I think the point is we should be distrustful of people who make rules without a proper understanding of their effects.
Honestly, what do you expect with a dongle? Getting either a Type-III card with the jack built in or a Type II 3Com card with their Xjack connector would solve the dongle trouble.
Or a local gnutella network. I doubt any institution would move to filtering local traffic. That means that small school students are screwed because they don't have the mass to get a good number of files, but the larger universities could sustain a large collection of files.
Yes, 90% of the files would be porn, but that's how most p2p seems to be anyway. As a plus, everything would move nice and quick.
Don't forget what happens off campus as well.
I'm connected to a WISP for my off campus internet, and they got taken totally offline by the worms. They eventually blacklisted all MAC addresses in the logs and went door-to-door with CDRs containing patches and removal tools. I feel sorry for them, because this was during the time when both a lot of people were logging on for the first time and they were installing more bandwidth, so they were torn three ways.
The result is that the "tweaking" that would have happened durning the week or so after move in is only now starting. The WiFi networks are still pressed by all the people on them. Everything (except, suspiciously, at their office) is slow, but getting better. DHCP in particular is down a lot. My ping and tracert commands are still blocked though.
One thing I've learned from this is that wireless networks do not fail gracefully under extreme loads, they just die. And, they allways die at night, after the office is closed, when you need to VPN into the campus network to start a program you have to use for your homework which is due the next morning. Or right now, when instead of posting when I press submit all the computer does is blink at me...
How on earth do they think they are going to get $50k out of a student? I certainly don't have $50,000 in the bank, nor will I have it anytime soon. I think this is more of a case of going after those least able to defend themselves.
I saw this on a tour of the Computer Science department at Clemson, where I go t' get meself learned. I didn't know the exact way they had the boxes networked, so I didn't say instead of spreading false info.
The only issue I saw was the brightness of the overlapping areas was higher than the non-overlapping areas simply because two projectors were displaying the same thing in the same area, as noted by Dirk.Reiners below.
Isn't breaking encryption for compatibility reasons legal?
I saw a demonstration using a beowulf cluster (well, part of one) that was rendering a moving 3-d CAD model. They just threw the projectors so they were somewhat aligned, used a webcam and had one of the nodes look at the overlap and correct for the projector's misalignment in real time. ~20 other CPUs were doing the rendering, but it only took one to make the display come out right. I would imagine the same thing could be done for a rear-projection screen. As long as the projectors didn't get jostled after being observed by the computer it should work fine.
More importantly: 'When?'
I don't think so, this is a PR war, and has been from the instant SCO started the FUD campaign. Linux users cannot be seen as a group of geeks with no respect for the law and proper buisness procedures. The very thing SCO needs right now is something to feed to the FUD machine, and the last thing geeks need to give SCO is ammunition.
When they demand donations, it is free speech. When they demand payment, it is IP.
This is certainly what the article is hinting out, but I'm not sure it's feasible... the army of zombies has to get its orders from somewhere. It might not be just one central machine, but if the spammer wants to control his army, they have to either accept some form of communcation from him, or they have to contact him. Either way, it should trace back to a small # of computers.
SoBig.F had central servers where the machines were supposed to go to get a payload. The list was decrypted and 19 out of 20 servers were taken offline before Sobig hit them. The machines were apparently hacked beforehand and set-up to distribute program of some sort when a certain time hit and when they recieved a 8bit ID string that SoBig contained.
If I were a spammer here's what I would do. First, I would set up a few servers, like the creator of Sobig.F apparently did. The first worm would only contain the IP of the first server, and the instant the worm is recieved it checks that server (and would continue to check it or one of the other servers at regular intervals). From the server it gets a spam message, and the IP of another one of the hacked servers. Email is sent, both spam and those containing Sobig, with the new server address. The same thing happens again with the people who get the new emails, and the chain continues.
Here's what's in it for the spammer: they can change the spam being sent merely by uploading a different copy to the hacked servers, and a constantly changing network of hacked computers can be used to distribute the spam to the virii simply by adding new servers to the system and telling the old servers to send out the new addresses. Unless all the servers can be shut down before the new servers' IP adresses are delivered to them, the chain will continue to propagate.
I probably missed something important that makes this "plan" impossible, but I do think something like it could work.
"For the third test, the 1,273 pieces of July's mail were used as the training set." And that's a small training set? Sure, it isn't 10,000 messages, but you have to draw the line somewhere.
According to the second link, they are using 2.4.21.
Good thing the plant had analog backups. I think this is a good indication why total reliance upon computers in some cases would be very bad. I wonder how "l33t" the person who wrote the virus would have felt if instead of hurting MS with a DOS attack, they killed hundreds of people in a train collision.
They "hid" the link for free divx in plain sight.
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http://www.divx.com/divx/
under the links to purchase or download ad stuff, there is a big link that says "Download the DivX codec (no cost)" which allows you to download the codec...for free!
easy enough to do.
The noon SCO story. I an practically set my watch by it!