There is a long history of this type of incident at SFO.
Check the Accident section of the Wiki entry,.
Probably the best known of these types of incidents was the Japan Airlines Flight 2 incident in 1968. The pilot landed his plane in the bay 2.5 miles short of the runway. Amazingly, there were no injuries, and because the he landing gear was extended, most of them didn't even get wet. I was going to say everyone walked away, but actually they had to wait for boats to pick them up. Furthermore, the plane was salvaged and returned to service.
When asked what happened, the pilot stated "As you Americans say, I fucked up."
Hmm, good to know. I guess the news report I read about this scheme being mandatory must have been wrong.
The point I was trying to make though is that this type of traffic detection is possible and has been implemented. See my comment below for what my own ISP does to encrypted traffic.
Umm, my local ISP does this now. Well actually it
throttles all
encrypted traffic so much it makes it hard to use.
A colegue of mine discovered he could not use his banks encrypted site at home, but had no problems at work. A cryptic reply from the ISPs tech support implies that certain sites are white-listed, and that his bank's site had been added to the white-list. Immediately afterword, he had no problems accessing his bank's encrypted web site. And its not just ssh connections. Certain games use encryped communications to talk to their servers, which led to problems as well, the most prominent was
WoW, which uses a bit-torrent like protocol to transfer game updates.
This news is old, and the ISP has said that it will stop, but the point I am making is that it is technically feasible to do this, and the Powers that Be don't care if the internet is usable or not by the little people (you and me).
It has been said that the Internet routes around problems (censorship), however there are plenty of choke-points (transoceanic cables for example) where a reverse DNS look-up could be used to filter the IP addresses of the packets going through. And before you say encrypted VPN, the technology already exists and is being used to detect and block encrypted traffic (Pakistan and Turkey) on the network.
Yes it is possible to get around these countermeasures, but it will not be easy and probably result in a significant decrease in transmission speeds (sending and receiving). And when these techniques become widely known, they will be blocked in turn.
In short, this legislation will break the Internet. Laughing at the dumb politicians who don't understand technology is a dangerous thing to do because there are no simple workarounds that will keep the Internet working the way we know it if this passes.
I agree. The prevailing theory of why the Moon's sides are so different is because the tidal lock caused the magma flows on the near side. This smoothed things out on the near side while as you stated, the far side was exposed to more meteor impacts. Also, the magma flows are thought to be relatively (in geographic and astronomical terms) recent and possibly ongoing, hence erasing any signs of older impacts under the lava.
What probably happened here is someone decided to model what would happen if the Earth had multiple moons and then realized they would eventually collide.
Umm. I think that depends on which standard version of C++ you are using.
Classes in C++ were originally implemented as a C struct with function pointers for the methods. (Long Long ago in a... ) and the public/private aspect was hacked on top. I haven't kept up with the latest C++ standards to know how much this has changed over time but I do believe that this is one of the areas where it is now very different from the old implementation and as a result inherently incompatible with C.
There was actually a language called C+. No one has used it since the mid 80s though.
It was an early attempt at extending C. C plus more I think was what they were calling it.
I may be showing my age here, but I remember reading about it in Byte Magazine (OK I am defiantly showing my age) .
The pictures of the SAGE doesn't do it justice. It had some really cutting edge features for the 1950s, including a GUI accessed via a light gun and an ashtray (both built in).
Enigma started out as a commercial product marketed to commercial entities (mid 1930's) and early versions were sold to the public. IIRC, technical details were published (patents, etc) and it was from these commercial models that the Poles did a lot of their work. When Poland was invaded, the Polish cryptography team made its way to England and helped kickstart the Allied effort.
After figuring out how the machines worked, it became a simple matter to brute force the machines (try every combination) using mechanical means, ie the Bombes. This was simpler then it sounds because of some exploitable weaknesses (the same letter will never encryt to itself, the wiring in the disks wasn't changed, etc) The Bombes tried every possible combination of settings of an encoded message looking for the string "EIN" (German for one, Turring himself was said to have come up with this neat little hack) These possible decrypts were passed on to a human to check if the made sense. Remember that this was all done with a mechanical system. Late in the war, when the Germans were changing their codes every hour, this system was able to keep up.
A few years back, Canadian Customs blocked an expansion of WotC's board game 'RoboRally'
It might have had something with the expansion's title that was clearly displayed on the side of the shipping boxes.
Umm, its a lot more complicated then that. The addresses are resolved using DNS server, so you could have competing DNS updates changing the addresses on the fly. (Ky send update changing the ip to a Ky site, the gambling site owner sending a competing request changing the ip back to their original site, and so on) It would be like sending two letters (to the same address) one minute apart, and having the first arrive in Paris, while the next letter get sent to Ky. I don't think the DNS system was set up or designed for this kind of thing (automated competing update requests would resemble a DNS DoS attack), so it would cause lots of problems.
The trump here is that the top level DNS server for the.com space is located in the US, whereas the off-shore gambling sites are not, so Kentucky has a legal advantage here.
btw, this is not the first time this has happened. A few months (years) back, a Spanish travel agency had its.com domain name seized because it arranged tours of Cuba (for Europeans) because the.com registry was located in the US.
Is it any wonder that the rest of the world wants an international body overseeing the internet.
I don't think that will work. If he is talking about the magazines I think he is, then we are talking very cheap, very very thin paper that would crincle the second it got touched. Every page would get jammed in a feeder. Some of that stuff was so smooth, the feeder may not even grab it.
I'm not sure that this would work. There are two methods mentioned in the article, switching content, and injecting Javascript into an existing page.
Ad block works by maintaining a black-list of server names. I don't know how the injection works, but it could involve random ip addresses, making the creation of a workable black-list very hard. Another method is to forge the address of something you don't want to block. If combined with a history file (generated and maintained by the ISP) of which sites the user (ip+mac address) allows images from, then it could be almost impossible to effectively block these ads. Someone above suggested a reverse DNS look-up which might work.
The second issue is the injection of JavaScript into the web page itself. ScriptBlock works here, but I am running in way too many sites where even simple things are done in js, like displaying a single static image. This means I have to create a white list of sites I allow js from to get the site to work. Now what happens if the injected js ad appears to come from a site I have white listed. I get ads in a page that was previously ad free. Again, by using random identifiers for the injected content, the creation of effective white and black lists becomes very difficult.
Furthermore, this type of deep packet inspection could be (ab)used in other ways as well, such as keeping track of how many ads you have viewed in a certain time-frame, and or to determine if a user has ad-blocking capabilities. The ISP could change their terms of service to require you to accept their ads, and turn off your connection if you don't.
Of course, the way around this would be to have your own proxie server that appears (at least to the ISP) to be playing nice and accepting the ads (even clicking on a few randomly) while the user chooses what they actually see.
could it be that it was a well thought out decision?
Yes, but for who?
There is one VERY big fact that is missing in the writeup. The servers were located in Holland, and subject to Dutch and European Privacy laws. The defendants could not have legally handed over the logs even if they had them. They probably found-out half way through the trial that they could not even legally keep the logs they had; so they deleted them and turned off the logging to comply with the European laws, and kept quiet in the hopes that no one on the other side of the pond noticed they had been doing something wrong. Now I know from previous articles on this subject that compliance with European laws had been raised in the case, but since tfa doesn't mention anything about this, I'm guessing that it was not a major factor in the decision. I have to wonder if TorrentSpy purposely put up such a weak and ham-fisted defense to get such a ruling.
From an American perspective, its a story of piracy. From a European perspective, its a case of a [bad stereotype words] American corporation using a branch of the [more bad stereotype words] US government to impose its will on [good stereotype words] Europe. The US government and Industry have been trying very hard of late to get The EU and European countries to change their Intellectual Property laws. This ruling gives a significant amount of ammo to opponents of these changes. Even for the MPAA, trying to use this judgment may prove to be detrimental as most of TorrentSpy's money and organization is located in Europe. Can you imagine how far the MPAA will get in Europe when it shows up with a judgment that was based on its opponent NOT breaking European law. At the the very least there will be questions about whether the US court was impartial or even competent considering that it ruled on something that (the the Euro's point of view) was out its jurisdiction. International treaty's dealing with civil court judgments are based on these assumptions, and having European court rule that a US court did not meet these requirements could have ramifications that make the propaganda coup listed above look trivial. In short, the MPAA won a small victory in the US, and may have lost the war in Europe (maybe the rest of the world).
Interesting. I went to a VMware presentation two years ago, and in response to a question about ESX's relation to Linux/Opensource software, the presenter claimed that the ESX kernel was proprietary, and the confusion (about the make-up of the kernel) was due to it using the Grub bootloader.
Then again this was a sales presentation, so the sales guy might have been full of it.
The complexity is much more difficult than that. Encrypted p2p, encrypted files, encrypted VOIP (Skype), SSH, and so on.
And how can they tell a single large encrypted torrent from a dozen smaller encrypted torrents? Simple, they degrade/block all encrypted traffic. A big ISP in Canada has already started doing this. Rogers Fights BitTorrent by Throttling All Encrypted Transfers Rogers Must Come Clean on Traffic Shaping
I have seen a lot of comments on/. and other forums about the lack of original gameplay concepts, and lack of storytelling in games these days, and after RTFA, I think we know why this has happened. BG&E was a game that had nothing going for it (average graphics, gameplay, etc) except the above mentioned originality and an absolutly increadable story that pulled me in and kept me playing until the very end. I was amazed at how they handled the character development, and advanced the story by slowly revealing details about the world, plot, and especially the background of the main characters. It was truly an amazing piece of interactive fiction. Another strong point of the game was that the main charcter was among the most realisticly protrayed woman I have seen in any video game to date.
The only downside I saw to the game was that the levels were too small (the curse of the console) and the path through the level was too linear. Another execelent game, No One Lives Forever by Sierra allowed multiple paths through a section allowing the user to find his or her way through the level while still maintaining a linear story.
Anyways, if anyone from Ubisoft is reading this, thank you for a wonderful game.
Didn't this group, (or was it someone else?) use these same rules to register the sound of every possible combination of telephone number, meaning if you dial a phone in.au you technically have to pay that group a royalty.
Is doubtful that the PS3 will play all the PS1 and PS2 games due to some slight compatibility issues, but it should play most of them. When the PS2 came out, there were a handfull of PS1 games that could not be played due to changes to the emulation hardware, and the new PS2 slimline is having a similar problem with some of the older PS2 games. Another issue to beware of is that there does not appear to be anyway to get the info stored on the Memcards onto the PS3 as that port does not appear to exist on the pictues or hardware specs released so far. Mind you, the same problems occurs with the new XBox360.
Personally, I am telling people to wait till next spring when more info is to be released about the PS3 and Revolution, and then after making meaningful comparisons, buy the system they like the most.
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When asked what happened, the pilot stated "As you Americans say, I fucked up."
Hmm, good to know. I guess the news report I read about this scheme being mandatory must have been wrong.
The point I was trying to make though is that this type of traffic detection is possible and has been implemented. See my comment below for what my own ISP does to encrypted traffic.
This news is old, and the ISP has said that it will stop, but the point I am making is that it is technically feasible to do this, and the Powers that Be don't care if the internet is usable or not by the little people (you and me).
Yes it is possible to get around these countermeasures, but it will not be easy and probably result in a significant decrease in transmission speeds (sending and receiving). And when these techniques become widely known, they will be blocked in turn.
In short, this legislation will break the Internet. Laughing at the dumb politicians who don't understand technology is a dangerous thing to do because there are no simple workarounds that will keep the Internet working the way we know it if this passes.
What probably happened here is someone decided to model what would happen if the Earth had multiple moons and then realized they would eventually collide.
Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing thinks this conference is an attempt to push Sarkozy's agenda to control the Internet.
Umm. I think that depends on which standard version of C++ you are using. ... ) and the public/private aspect was hacked on top. I haven't kept up with the latest C++ standards to know how much this has changed over time but I do believe that this is one of the areas where it is now very different from the old implementation and as a result inherently incompatible with C.
Classes in C++ were originally implemented as a C struct with function pointers for the methods. (Long Long ago in a
There was actually a language called C+. No one has used it since the mid 80s though.
It was an early attempt at extending C. C plus more I think was what they were calling it.
I may be showing my age here, but I remember reading about it in Byte Magazine (OK I am defiantly showing my age) .
Bonus points if the salesman admits that he doesn't need to know your problems before selling it to you.
The pictures of the SAGE doesn't do it justice. It had some really cutting edge features for the 1950s, including a GUI accessed via a light gun and an ashtray (both built in).
After figuring out how the machines worked, it became a simple matter to brute force the machines (try every combination) using mechanical means, ie the Bombes. This was simpler then it sounds because of some exploitable weaknesses (the same letter will never encryt to itself, the wiring in the disks wasn't changed, etc) The Bombes tried every possible combination of settings of an encoded message looking for the string "EIN" (German for one, Turring himself was said to have come up with this neat little hack) These possible decrypts were passed on to a human to check if the made sense. Remember that this was all done with a mechanical system. Late in the war, when the Germans were changing their codes every hour, this system was able to keep up.
It might have had something with the expansion's title that was clearly displayed on the side of the shipping boxes.
The name: "Radioactive Waste"
The trump here is that the top level DNS server for the .com space is located in the US, whereas the off-shore gambling sites are not, so Kentucky has a legal advantage here.
btw, this is not the first time this has happened. A few months (years) back, a Spanish travel agency had its .com domain name seized because it arranged tours of Cuba (for Europeans) because the .com registry was located in the US.
Is it any wonder that the rest of the world wants an international body overseeing the internet.
If he is talking about the magazines I think he is, then we are talking very cheap, very very thin paper that would crincle the second it got touched. Every page would get jammed in a feeder. Some of that stuff was so smooth, the feeder may not even grab it.
Ahh the memories.
Ad block works by maintaining a black-list of server names. I don't know how the injection works, but it could involve random ip addresses, making the creation of a workable black-list very hard. Another method is to forge the address of something you don't want to block. If combined with a history file (generated and maintained by the ISP) of which sites the user (ip+mac address) allows images from, then it could be almost impossible to effectively block these ads. Someone above suggested a reverse DNS look-up which might work.
The second issue is the injection of JavaScript into the web page itself. ScriptBlock works here, but I am running in way too many sites where even simple things are done in js, like displaying a single static image. This means I have to create a white list of sites I allow js from to get the site to work. Now what happens if the injected js ad appears to come from a site I have white listed. I get ads in a page that was previously ad free. Again, by using random identifiers for the injected content, the creation of effective white and black lists becomes very difficult.
Furthermore, this type of deep packet inspection could be (ab)used in other ways as well, such as keeping track of how many ads you have viewed in a certain time-frame, and or to determine if a user has ad-blocking capabilities. The ISP could change their terms of service to require you to accept their ads, and turn off your connection if you don't.
Of course, the way around this would be to have your own proxie server that appears (at least to the ISP) to be playing nice and accepting the ads (even clicking on a few randomly) while the user chooses what they actually see.
Yes, but for who?
There is one VERY big fact that is missing in the writeup. The servers were located in Holland, and subject to Dutch and European Privacy laws. The defendants could not have legally handed over the logs even if they had them. They probably found-out half way through the trial that they could not even legally keep the logs they had; so they deleted them and turned off the logging to comply with the European laws, and kept quiet in the hopes that no one on the other side of the pond noticed they had been doing something wrong. Now I know from previous articles on this subject that compliance with European laws had been raised in the case, but since tfa doesn't mention anything about this, I'm guessing that it was not a major factor in the decision. I have to wonder if TorrentSpy purposely put up such a weak and ham-fisted defense to get such a ruling.
From an American perspective, its a story of piracy. From a European perspective, its a case of a [bad stereotype words] American corporation using a branch of the [more bad stereotype words] US government to impose its will on [good stereotype words] Europe. The US government and Industry have been trying very hard of late to get The EU and European countries to change their Intellectual Property laws. This ruling gives a significant amount of ammo to opponents of these changes. Even for the MPAA, trying to use this judgment may prove to be detrimental as most of TorrentSpy's money and organization is located in Europe. Can you imagine how far the MPAA will get in Europe when it shows up with a judgment that was based on its opponent NOT breaking European law. At the the very least there will be questions about whether the US court was impartial or even competent considering that it ruled on something that (the the Euro's point of view) was out its jurisdiction. International treaty's dealing with civil court judgments are based on these assumptions, and having European court rule that a US court did not meet these requirements could have ramifications that make the propaganda coup listed above look trivial. In short, the MPAA won a small victory in the US, and may have lost the war in Europe (maybe the rest of the world).
Like a certain Canadian ISP is doing now.
Then again this was a sales presentation, so the sales guy might have been full of it.
The complexity is much more difficult than that. Encrypted p2p, encrypted files, encrypted VOIP (Skype), SSH, and so on. And how can they tell a single large encrypted torrent from a dozen smaller encrypted torrents?
Simple, they degrade/block all encrypted traffic. A big ISP in Canada has already started doing this.
Rogers Fights BitTorrent by Throttling All Encrypted Transfers
Rogers Must Come Clean on Traffic Shaping
The only downside I saw to the game was that the levels were too small (the curse of the console) and the path through the level was too linear. Another execelent game, No One Lives Forever by Sierra allowed multiple paths through a section allowing the user to find his or her way through the level while still maintaining a linear story.
Anyways, if anyone from Ubisoft is reading this, thank you for a wonderful game.
AJAX is not suppost to be an acronom,
but it started out as meaning: Asyncronous Javascript, something and XML
Didn't this group, (or was it someone else?) use these same rules to register the sound of every possible combination of telephone number, meaning if you dial a phone in .au you technically have to pay that group a royalty.
A quick question. Has anyone made a plugin for Eclipse to handle Perl or any of the other popular scripting languages?
What I want to know is have they released proper Linux drivers that support all the functionallity this time, unlike eith previous AiW cards.
Personally, I am telling people to wait till next spring when more info is to be released about the PS3 and Revolution, and then after making meaningful comparisons, buy the system they like the most.