You can change the MAC address you send. People will use MAC addresses like proxies.
I know one Cafe that has internet access for customers only. It is all wi-fi. All you need to do is get a good sniffer, sit there a while, find a MAC address, clone it as yours, and you have free access.
A better option is to kick all the bums out, make it known they are not welcome. Or have an area where the bums can sit, that does not take up customer space.
You know what they do in France? To sit in a cafe, you must pay. Even to drink a water. They sell the right to sit in a Cafe. If all the tables were by reservation only, that would take care of the Bums. Make it a small charge, like 50 cents for an hour, or free with purchase of beverage. Put a time stamp on the reciept that is color coded. When someone is more than one color code away from their time block, ask them to leave.
I don't understand why so many places use PDF when it is not that hard to write the HTML to make a document look as nice. HTML is universal, anyone can read it. PDF takes the adobe reader. On older systems, the adobe reader gets to be very slow, not just when opening a document, but when booting a system.
I'd like to see an alternative next to the PDF download, a basic HTML version, or plain text. PDF is not as bad as flash, but I hate it when a website only has information in one format, and the format is not universal for all.
I know what the critics are going to say, throw the PII233 away, its time has come and gone. But I just can't get myself to throw something away that cost over $2,000. And that I paid an extra $250 for more memory, a better video card (HAHA, a whole 8 megs, and for over $100), a nic card (back when they cost $50).
There is nothing wrong with plain text, or HTML. Most websites should have two versions of their website. One with all the bells and whistles, the flash and pdf for those who want it, and a second version for low bandwith and older systems.
Maybe if the USA went after the culprits of 9/11 you would not be in Iraq either. Otherwise I agree with your point.
Do you know how many Americans think Iraq had WMD or was involved with 9/11? With 30 second news spots, and an ever smaller attention span, Americans will believe just about anything. Just package the editorial as news, pump in some patriotism and emotion, and Americans will do anything the big boys tell us.
Hell, god forbid if the news started spending 10 minutes on each news story. Sure, that would only be 4 or 5 news stories a night, but it would be better to know something about a topic than just associate an emotion with a 30 second news clip. "God Damn Iraqi's, they set off another bomb. That does it... time to send more troops, lets bomb them more. Those bastards. Screw the bystanders, they probably deserve it anyways, they asked for it.".
The truth does not matter. Everything can be spinned and made into an emotional issue. Everything can be rationalized.
Is it any wonder the government wants to cut funding for PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts. They are some of the few places left that will spend half an hour on an issue, and even then that is not enough time to capture everything needed to understand a topic. The powerful are better served with a population that does not think deeply about the world, their lives, and what life is for. Most just think about the next car they want, or how to make more money. They don't think about happiness, at least not the way Aristotle or the philosophers did.
It's wonderful that the CIA has such trustworthy people that wouldn't think of disclosing details of such a secure operation..... Oh, wait.
Nah, we don't kill people. We play video games.
Sometimes I think the Army and government recruits like a gang or drug dealer. They offer people with little hope in life a job. They offer training. Stop me if you have heard this one: "The Navy will train you how to work on nuclear submaries... do you know how much people who work on nuclear stuff make outside the navy? $100,000 cash. Cold cash. Come on, let me hook you up, we'll even give you $5,000 if you sign up. It is a cakewalk, in 4 years you'll be out, and while you are in, we'll show you exotic places, exotic pussy. What do you want to do? Work in a McDonalds the next 4 years trying to save money for college? Hell, you can't even read".
Then the real story starts after boot camp. "You want me to do what? Tie a rope around my waist and drop down off the side of the battleship and clean the salt off the boat??" then in 4 years "My time is finally up. WHAT??? I got extended. By who?". And then the worst trick of all, 5 years later. "But I have nuclear experience, why can't I work for Ford? What, you exported all your jobs? Where??"
They have to get people in one way or another. Army and government recruitment is like spam for making your penis bigger. They will rip off anyone they can. It is ashame we let them in highschools to sell their programs to kids under 18, to prep them for when they turn 18. Kids should need to have their parents sign an approval form for their kids in highschool to watch the recruitments.
I can't help but wonder, with the USA threatening Korea and Iran for their weapons programs, how the hell we get away with half the shit we make that has no usefullness outside of killing people. Like the new bomb they have developed, that kills all the people in a city, but does not damage any structures.
1984 has come people. They have weapons of mass destruction and we must defend ourselves. They don't have weapons of mass destruction but we needed to remove a tyrant. We have, as a basic saftey gaurd against an overbearing government, the right to be secure in our papers and possesions unless a judge signs a warrents. It is war against terrorism, the FBI needs the powers to conduct searches without judicial overview. WTF???
People, is the USA about to have a coup? It is one of the most common events in history. How many people in other countries expected the coup when it happened? I believe Bush will never leave office, or he will hand pick his sucessor.
There are so many danger signs with that family. Bush's father was the chief of the CIA in the 1970s, he ran the CIA and did all the hiring of senior staff. Then he was VP for 8 years in the 1980's. He becomes president through the early 90's, then his son becomes president 8 years later. There is a saying that power currupts, and this family has been in the highest level of power for over 40 years, and that is not counting their grandfather who was in congress.
This is more than haliburton or giving government contracts to friends. This is more than the spoils system. This is about jobs leaving the USA, about people having a lower standard of life, about more people becomming poor, about the rich getting richer, about government removing 200 year old rights gaurenteed to us by the founding fathers. What has happened the last 20 years should be a warning. A whole class of people is getting enslaved, to working for only enough money to pay for rent and very little low quality food.
Just wait people. Those fingerprint machines in public libraries are not there because libraries are going bankrupt with non-members checking their emails.
Most coups do not happen with the people overthrowing the government. Most coups happen when a powerful person gains too much influence and power, and takes over the military. But this coup will be about economics. The people with the money will have the lobbyists which will control the congress, and the rest of us will be relegated to nothings. Government will jail the loudest voices as terrorists. The rest will believe they are free, free to work for $9 an hour. Just wait.
What? Bringing down a power grid during rush hour, changing details of patient notes on a hospital network, or sending false messages and checking the content of sent messages all have the potential to kill.
Almost all hospitals have generators, so power would not be an issue for them. Sure, the hospital might shut down the non-emeregency, non-critical care wards, they will have enough energy to protect life.
As for traffic signals not working, that won't cause a loss of life, it will cause many people to get pissed off.
If 9/11 was not about flying airplanes into buildings, but shutting down all electricity in the USA, maybe we would not be in Iraq or in the middle of a war.
Still... it would piss me off a ton if I could not watch any TV, could not check email. It is like an addiction, like caffine or cigarettes. Once you get hooked, you need your daily dose. In one way, they might be doing us a favor. Maybe people would pick up a book and think about the world, not in 30 second bursts like the TV programs us to do, but in thoughtful ways.
What the fuck am I saying. I need some cake. I am sooo fucking hungry, not like the bastards in ethiopia who fake it for attention, but really hungry for some cake with icing. Then I am going to watch the 2am edition of the news to see if anything changed from the 1am edition of the news. Then I am going to work to make enough money to pay for my cable bill, my tivo bill, my cell phone bill, my internet bill, my insurance bill... i am sure everyone gets the idea.
Slashdot folks are smarter than most. And that scares me.
The Elite Torrents network, found online at www.elitetorrents.org, relied on a technology called BitTorrent that allows users to quickly download digital movies and other large files by copying them from many computers at once.
The network signed up 133,000 members who collectively downloaded 2.1 million files, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Homeland Security Department.
Visitors to the Web site on Wednesday saw a notice that read, "This site has been permanently shut down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
What makes this so amazing is, this was not shut down because the RIAA sued, or because they made threats. The FBI raided the house, arrested the owner, and shut the website down. I wonder what the FBI will do with the server logs??
This has to be the dumbest waste of taxpayer money ever. Lets go after places that share music and tv shows.
Seems they are covering a few legal holes.. but will it stand against RIAA/MPAA's pack of lawyers?
No. It will not stand up to the RIAA/MPAA pack of lawyers. They have deep pockets. Who is funding this search engine website?
Secondly, The RIAA has their lobbyists. If current laws are insufficent to shut down the website, the lobbyists will get a new set of law passed. Did you know most of the laws that congress passes were written by lobbyists??
The question the OP asks is comprable to "Can Noriega defend himself from the USA?". We all know how that turned out.;)
I still think that anyone trying to sue Bittorrent or a generic search engine would have a hard time of it. Bittorrent has so many legal uses that it just isn't funny. Here's some example of legal torrents
You are missing the point. They are not suing bit torrent, they are suing websites that have any instance of a copywrited item listed.
So if your website has the latest Lar's song, chances are they will try and shut you down. They will try and intimidate you. This is the reason I threw all my Metallica shit in the garbage. Fuck Metallica!!
Having open office and other legal stuff might mitigate your offence. You can then say, "hey, we don't host it, we just tell you where it is at".
It comes down to the question- is information free. Can we say whatever we want? Tell people anything? The old test was "emminent hard", where you could not scream "fire" in a theater. But what if I want to tell people how to make a bomb? Can I get arrested for that? What if I want to tell people why the president sucks while telling them how to make a bomb? Or why communism is better?
There is a threat to free speech, I think there will be a right wing revolution in the USA. Look at the library that now requires fingerprints. Look at how the patriot act lets law enforcment do a search without a warrent (BTW, someone explain to me how congress can pass a law that violates the constitution).
I think Bit Torrent is the least of our worries. When the time comes, the sites will go dead. The Routers will remove the IPA to URL link.
The official BitTorrent search has debuted. The search engine was built by BT inventor Bram Cohen. The question? Will he get sued?
Will this search engine help other websites get shut down?
I don't think the RIAA can sue the search engine, but it could sue sites that list torrents.
How will this search engine deal with private torrent websites?? Will it cache them? Can that be used as evidence at a later time?
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#1) The hackers have huge dictionaries that can crack just about any word, in any language, and with any added numbers, like compaq002 or 01compaq01. Second, they have custom dictionaries that can take 2 or 3 words and put them together in logical ways (like people think). These are all easily cracked. Picking a password by splitting the words of items on your desk and adding them back together is not smart. Comp05HP is not a good password.
#2) The best passwords are illogical. Something like k8iWq3xy. Mixing in letters in and numbers, not based on any words, is a good start. If your program recognizes upper and lower case, mixing that can help too.
#3) The best, very best log in tool for security I saw was a small clock a friend was given from his company. It had some funky algorithm on it, and it displayed a 14 alphanumeric code. When my friend logged in, he had to enter this code, which changed ever 1 minute. This was in addition to his username and password.
#4) People will sniff your network. Nothing is bulletproof. Finding passwords sent is easy. If it comes as clear text, you are screwed off the bat. This defeats #1 and #2, but not #3, because #3 is based on an algorithm that changes every 1 minute.
#5) Set up a policy that only allows 2 attempts to log in, and after 2 failed attempts, it locks out that IP and MAC address for 30 minutes. This will be a major pain when you try and log in and make a mistake. It won't really stop hackers, just the ones with slow/bad proxies. Maybe 1 of the 500 proxies the hacker is using is not as anonyomous as they believe. As for your own use, take a book with you when you believe you might have to log in remotley, just in case you make a mistake. You need something to blow those 20 minutes.
#6) Never, ever log in root from a remote location. Have a crippled account to log into from remote locations. Expect this account to get cracked. Limit the damage. If you must, have 2 computer systems at home. One secured off line, and the other on line. Hell, toss in a third computer connected to the web based on via a serial cable and dump all the logging on that computer. The hacker/cracker can't edit the logging files on that second PC.
#7) When using a computer, always assume the key strokes are being logged. When you get home, change your password for that account.
#8) After you have done all these things, you will still get hacked. Call the FBI. Call your congressman. Lets bomb another country to releave our collective mutual stress.
There was a hack for v2 of MS DRM, called FreeMe or something like that. But that was 4 years ago, with v2. Since then, nothing works for playing MS WMV w/ DRM v9.
I skimmed those 2 threads at avs, and I could not find anything. The best people can do is get a legit key, and then use a screen capture program to copy the screen.
If there was a hack for DRM v9, it would have been posted on the web.
I doubt IBM will get back in the mix anytime soon. Intel is becomming the next big chip maker, again. If they get the Mac market, it is over for their competition. The competition will look for niche markets, things too small for Intel.
BTW, whatever happened to Motorola. They were pretty big dogs about 10 years ago. Now they are just an after thought, they laid off over 10,000 people and are in a decline. They made good chips.
Sony must have given its approval for releasing this information. It could not happen without them.
If Sony did not know, and IBM made this move without their approval, I could see Sony NEVER buying from IBM again. That is too big a risk for IBM. Heck, most companies would think twice.
Will it be easier to make a mod chip if people know how the processor works? Or did Sony add their DRM elsewhere? Who knows. IBM is not releasing the blueprints for the Playstation 3, just the processor.
Sony is a big company that hires smart people. Maybe they figured out hiding the electronics will not prevent reverse engineering. Maybe the new PS3 has some technology that makes it difficult to mod.
Maybe this is like Microsofts WMV, it is unhackable, nobody can get it to play a stream if DRM v9 is enabled. Not one person on the planet. And it has been over a year now.
For the PS3, they don't need for their game machine to be unhackable forever, just until the PS4 comes out.:)
It will start out good for the public. But give it a few years, and the spammers will find a way to get the top hits. Your academic work will get burried under many hits of crap people don't want. And since most people are lazy, and don't go beyond page #2 of the search engine results before giving up, the academic writings will continue to go on, mostly unoticed and unread.
I wish we had a search engine that specifically had people removing spam and garbage, and hits that were misclassified.
Google could collapse under its own weight. They are moving into so many different directions, and I doubt they will do all very well. They should stick with the food on their plate before ordering more. There eyes are getting to big for their stomachs.
Fix your search engine first. Remove spam. Let the quality links get the highest ranking. They have power to shape the internet.
Correlation can prove causation. Or at the least, it can tell us when something smells very funky.
For example, there is a correlation that places in the USA with higher %'s of blacks and mexicans have more violent crimes. Are you going to say that the minorities are not causing the crime? Because if you are, we have lots of people in jail that don't belong there. Go to neighborhoods with ovr 85% blacks and mexicans. They are the most violent, horrible places on earth. Who made it that way? Why don't the people who live there plant flowers and make it beautiful?
There is a correlation between IQ and income. Are you going to tell me that people with higher IQ's don't use their advantages? There is also a correlation between IQ and race. Read the Bell Curve. It pissed off so many people because it was right.
The problem with statistic professors is they are professors. They look for proof to back up their ideas. Then when they don't like a correlation, they say it is not important because it lacks causality.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Colleges are trying to confuse people, by making the simple complex.
He was also the now-legendary student who turned in solutions for what he had taken to be a homework assignment, only to find out they had been posted as examples of what were suspected to be unsolvable problems
I can't help but think if he ever would have solved those problems had he been taught first that they were unsolvable??
Schizo Person #1- "Look, there is an elephant in the room"
Schizo Person #2- "Shhh!!! There is no elephant"
Schizo Person #1- "But..."
Schizo Person #2- "No buts, you don't want them to think you're crazy"
Soon Schizo Person #1 stopps seeing the elephant. It really does not exists to him
As someone who works in the security field and comes across hacked systems all the time, I'll believe they give a damn when they start returning my calls. Sounds like PR to get someone more funding. Trying to get someone at the FBI to care when you come across bot networks at an ISP, bank, or even a power company is next to impossible.
The FBI needs more funding. They only have 5 billion dollars. That is not even 1 dollar for every person in the world.;)
What would worry me more than the FBI tracking hackers is what happened at that library yesterday. They now have fingerprint machines at every computer, and you can't use the library without getting your finger scanned.
That worries me, because the government is now in a position to control ideas. They can see who reads Lenin. They can make a list.
The hacker on the other hand, he is a criminal. He breaks into stuff. He is not just reading a book and thinking to himself. He is breaking into other peoples property.
That is a crime that deserves more law enforcement funding.
The next step is for the USA to help fund a prision in pakastan, so the USA won't be bothered keeping prisioners up to USA standards (like the right to a lawyer or 3 meals a day), but at the same time the arrests will not overburden forieng nations. I say we should build a 10,000 cell prision in the desert, without any air conditioning, and limited water. That should break just about anyone.
The hacker does not respect intellectual property. When they buy a gadget, they think they own it and the intellectual property that went into it. They think they can reverse engineer it. They are breaking laws by doing so.
I never thought hacker was a good and positive term. Hacker sounds like some worthless criminal, some shady person who can't exist in sunlight or normal society. It is like a person who hides and tries to catch your PIN number, so they can steal.
A better word would be explorer. Explorers and scientists act within the law. They change opinion. Hackers have not changed any opinions, they just piss people off.
What if Microsoft releases an OS with weak security? What will the hacker do? Write worms and viruses exploiting it. They will not just let people be. They will frustrate everyone, like they are expecting a reward that they found something. So what. They are jackholes.
At 9 p.m., Nagel, the Secret Service's assistant director for investigations, issued the "go" order. Agents armed with Sig-Sauer 229 pistols and MP5 semi-automatic machine guns swooped in, aided by local cops and international police. The adrenaline was pumping
LOL, I wonder if the hacker was in his underwear by the computer. LOL. *BOOM* Door gets crushed open. I can't help but remember the pictures of Elian Gonzalez, I wonder if that is how the coward hackers will hide in their closets.
cops and security experts are becoming more aggressive. They're tapping shady Web sites and chat rooms, stepping up cooperation with investigators in other countries, and flipping informants to build cases. In the past six months, the FBI persuaded members of several spam and phishing rings to rat on their accomplices
This is the best part about hackers. They are criminal scum like all other criminals. Just like they hack without regard to the law, they will rat out their friends in a heartbeat.
These hackers are the same people who keep complaining MS is weak with security, and to prove it they will write worms and viruses. The anwser is simple. RESPECT OTHER PEOPLES PROPERTY.
My hope is these hackers get sentanced to jail for life, and their families get charged as co-conspirators. Without their family, chances are they would not have done these crimes. Maybe the hacker will feel a little worse if he sees his mother taken away in hand cuffs, crying. But I doubt the hacker will care at all, he is a sociopath. That is why the harsh punishments are needed.
And there is one other benifit of this sting. It is using USA FBI and USA money, and even USA officers. But the arrests are made in foriegn countries, which means foriegn country prisions. No heat in the winter. Rancid food, if any. Violence. It is grand, the empire is stricking back against the evil.
Kids hate PE for a number of reasons, but many kids in PE are teased and bullied to death and thats why they want out of Phys-Ed in the first place.
They must learn to play with others.
I got bullied by an asshole. Over and over. One day I said, fuck it, if I go down, I go down, but I am throwing a punch. Turned out he was a big pussy with a glass jaw. I beat his ass for a good three minutes before the teacher pulled me off him. Even as the teacher was pulling me up, I took a good horse kick to his testicles. When I could not reach him with a limb, I spit on him. I told him, don't sleep tonight, we ain't done, I am going to burn down your motherfucking house.
Then the alarm went off and it was time for school again.
The horror. The horror.
Point of the story? I don't want to be Dr. Smith. I don't want to say "Never fear..."
Here is a lesson for you! Later in life you might become dominant because of money you accumulate. How will you treat those with less? Will you be like that dick bully. Will you give a damn? Will you hold your hand out in friendship, will you turn your back?
The great thing about PE, is it levels the playing field. The janators kid can kick the crap out of the CEO's kid and it is normal. We need more of it. We need to punish the rich. They have all the money, let them use it on psychiatrists and prozac.
Truthfully, why should I care if a child weighs 300lbs.
You are gonna pay, directly or indirectly. There ain't no way around it. The kid turns 40 and has a heart attack, insurance or not. Who pays? In one case, premiums go up for all. In another case, the state pays.
Will we ever have a society where someone is dying and the doctors say "FUCK YOU, NO TICKEY, NO WASHY"???
I hate to tell you, but not everything is measured by the dollar. It is a poor measure of happiness. It is a great shiny thing that people chase. But you'll be suprised when you catch it, there is no big red bow, no party, no instant coffee.
What is it? Freedom to go places. Sure. But weather or not people like you in the new place, the money has little infuance over that.
So, you should care if the guy next to you ballons to 300 pounds.
Also, the same reasons why he turns 300 pounds could happen to you. Maybe you have a faster metabolism. Maybe your kids won't.
Thinking from the perspective of "me, me, me" is why so many hate Bush. Did you ever see the story of Scruge?
Hmm, what happens when kids buy healthy food from the cafeteria, but also eat unhealthy snacks from home?
At least they won't turn as fat as quickly.
Say the school cuts out a 200 calorie pepsi out of the diet, and saves another 300 calories by baking the chicken instead of frying it, and offering a salad instead of fries. That is 500 calories, a pound of fat a week.
Toss in some vigerous PE classes, and that will burn another pound of fat a week.
Under those conditions, the kid could eat a big mac and suck down a milkshake, and he will still have a chance of not balloning to 300 pounds.
Plus, if the school encourages extra curricular activites, anything, the kid will have more of a chance to burn calories. Join track or basketball or even band. March around for an hour, or stand up for an hour. It is better than sitting in front of a TV with a bag of Freto's and a six pack of Old Style.
Runners up in the competition get XXL t-shirts as prizes;)
I think you are onto something.
When I was in school, we had competitions for everything. The kid who ran the fastes got a ribbon. Believe it or not, but everyone wanted to compete. It did not matter if you were 20th out of 30, you wanted to be 19th next time. Everyone tried.
Today, you can't be 20th out of 30, it will hurt your ego. It will cripple you for life.
Instead of giving Ipods, how about they teach these kids it is time for the gonads to descend?
Kids have leared it does not matter at all what they do. They go at it half assed. They know that there are two America's. One for the rich, and one for the poor. If you can't get into Harvard, you might as well say fuck it and know the community college will accept anyone. So why bust the ass running, or playing sports, or getting the resume ready for college.
Plus, most poor families can no longer survive on one paycheck. 30 years ago, the wife did not have to work. Today, the wife MUST work to feed the family and pay rent. So the kid comes home and watches TV, gets to see Janet Jacksons tit, the whore from Desperate Houswifes get bannged by a black, and every nutjob with a gripe a venue on TV.
Hmmm... Poor me too!!! Fuck school, I can't win, so I won't try, or I'll give such a lame effort so I can't be punished.
Lets bring back corporal punishment and see how quickly things change. If a kid does not try his best, break out the bamboo stick and give him two across the back of his thighs. Forget the out of school detention, make him spend his day walking with the janator, cleaning toilets after the honors students take a nice, healthy dump. They will learn what foreshadowing means.
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I know one Cafe that has internet access for customers only. It is all wi-fi. All you need to do is get a good sniffer, sit there a while, find a MAC address, clone it as yours, and you have free access.
A better option is to kick all the bums out, make it known they are not welcome. Or have an area where the bums can sit, that does not take up customer space.
You know what they do in France? To sit in a cafe, you must pay. Even to drink a water. They sell the right to sit in a Cafe. If all the tables were by reservation only, that would take care of the Bums. Make it a small charge, like 50 cents for an hour, or free with purchase of beverage. Put a time stamp on the reciept that is color coded. When someone is more than one color code away from their time block, ask them to leave.
I'd like to see an alternative next to the PDF download, a basic HTML version, or plain text. PDF is not as bad as flash, but I hate it when a website only has information in one format, and the format is not universal for all.
I know what the critics are going to say, throw the PII233 away, its time has come and gone. But I just can't get myself to throw something away that cost over $2,000. And that I paid an extra $250 for more memory, a better video card (HAHA, a whole 8 megs, and for over $100), a nic card (back when they cost $50).
There is nothing wrong with plain text, or HTML. Most websites should have two versions of their website. One with all the bells and whistles, the flash and pdf for those who want it, and a second version for low bandwith and older systems.
Do you know how many Americans think Iraq had WMD or was involved with 9/11? With 30 second news spots, and an ever smaller attention span, Americans will believe just about anything. Just package the editorial as news, pump in some patriotism and emotion, and Americans will do anything the big boys tell us.
Hell, god forbid if the news started spending 10 minutes on each news story. Sure, that would only be 4 or 5 news stories a night, but it would be better to know something about a topic than just associate an emotion with a 30 second news clip. "God Damn Iraqi's, they set off another bomb. That does it... time to send more troops, lets bomb them more. Those bastards. Screw the bystanders, they probably deserve it anyways, they asked for it.".
The truth does not matter. Everything can be spinned and made into an emotional issue. Everything can be rationalized.
Is it any wonder the government wants to cut funding for PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts. They are some of the few places left that will spend half an hour on an issue, and even then that is not enough time to capture everything needed to understand a topic. The powerful are better served with a population that does not think deeply about the world, their lives, and what life is for. Most just think about the next car they want, or how to make more money. They don't think about happiness, at least not the way Aristotle or the philosophers did.
Nah, we don't kill people. We play video games.
Sometimes I think the Army and government recruits like a gang or drug dealer. They offer people with little hope in life a job. They offer training. Stop me if you have heard this one: "The Navy will train you how to work on nuclear submaries... do you know how much people who work on nuclear stuff make outside the navy? $100,000 cash. Cold cash. Come on, let me hook you up, we'll even give you $5,000 if you sign up. It is a cakewalk, in 4 years you'll be out, and while you are in, we'll show you exotic places, exotic pussy. What do you want to do? Work in a McDonalds the next 4 years trying to save money for college? Hell, you can't even read".
Then the real story starts after boot camp. "You want me to do what? Tie a rope around my waist and drop down off the side of the battleship and clean the salt off the boat??" then in 4 years "My time is finally up. WHAT??? I got extended. By who?". And then the worst trick of all, 5 years later. "But I have nuclear experience, why can't I work for Ford? What, you exported all your jobs? Where??"
They have to get people in one way or another. Army and government recruitment is like spam for making your penis bigger. They will rip off anyone they can. It is ashame we let them in highschools to sell their programs to kids under 18, to prep them for when they turn 18. Kids should need to have their parents sign an approval form for their kids in highschool to watch the recruitments.
1984 has come people. They have weapons of mass destruction and we must defend ourselves. They don't have weapons of mass destruction but we needed to remove a tyrant. We have, as a basic saftey gaurd against an overbearing government, the right to be secure in our papers and possesions unless a judge signs a warrents. It is war against terrorism, the FBI needs the powers to conduct searches without judicial overview. WTF???
People, is the USA about to have a coup? It is one of the most common events in history. How many people in other countries expected the coup when it happened? I believe Bush will never leave office, or he will hand pick his sucessor.
There are so many danger signs with that family. Bush's father was the chief of the CIA in the 1970s, he ran the CIA and did all the hiring of senior staff. Then he was VP for 8 years in the 1980's. He becomes president through the early 90's, then his son becomes president 8 years later. There is a saying that power currupts, and this family has been in the highest level of power for over 40 years, and that is not counting their grandfather who was in congress.
This is more than haliburton or giving government contracts to friends. This is more than the spoils system. This is about jobs leaving the USA, about people having a lower standard of life, about more people becomming poor, about the rich getting richer, about government removing 200 year old rights gaurenteed to us by the founding fathers. What has happened the last 20 years should be a warning. A whole class of people is getting enslaved, to working for only enough money to pay for rent and very little low quality food.
Just wait people. Those fingerprint machines in public libraries are not there because libraries are going bankrupt with non-members checking their emails.
Most coups do not happen with the people overthrowing the government. Most coups happen when a powerful person gains too much influence and power, and takes over the military. But this coup will be about economics. The people with the money will have the lobbyists which will control the congress, and the rest of us will be relegated to nothings. Government will jail the loudest voices as terrorists. The rest will believe they are free, free to work for $9 an hour. Just wait.
Almost all hospitals have generators, so power would not be an issue for them. Sure, the hospital might shut down the non-emeregency, non-critical care wards, they will have enough energy to protect life.
As for traffic signals not working, that won't cause a loss of life, it will cause many people to get pissed off.
If 9/11 was not about flying airplanes into buildings, but shutting down all electricity in the USA, maybe we would not be in Iraq or in the middle of a war.
Still... it would piss me off a ton if I could not watch any TV, could not check email. It is like an addiction, like caffine or cigarettes. Once you get hooked, you need your daily dose. In one way, they might be doing us a favor. Maybe people would pick up a book and think about the world, not in 30 second bursts like the TV programs us to do, but in thoughtful ways.
What the fuck am I saying. I need some cake. I am sooo fucking hungry, not like the bastards in ethiopia who fake it for attention, but really hungry for some cake with icing. Then I am going to watch the 2am edition of the news to see if anything changed from the 1am edition of the news. Then I am going to work to make enough money to pay for my cable bill, my tivo bill, my cell phone bill, my internet bill, my insurance bill... i am sure everyone gets the idea.
Slashdot folks are smarter than most. And that scares me.
What makes this so amazing is, this was not shut down because the RIAA sued, or because they made threats. The FBI raided the house, arrested the owner, and shut the website down. I wonder what the FBI will do with the server logs??
This has to be the dumbest waste of taxpayer money ever. Lets go after places that share music and tv shows.
No. It will not stand up to the RIAA/MPAA pack of lawyers. They have deep pockets. Who is funding this search engine website?
Secondly, The RIAA has their lobbyists. If current laws are insufficent to shut down the website, the lobbyists will get a new set of law passed. Did you know most of the laws that congress passes were written by lobbyists??
The question the OP asks is comprable to "Can Noriega defend himself from the USA?". We all know how that turned out. ;)
You are missing the point. They are not suing bit torrent, they are suing websites that have any instance of a copywrited item listed.
So if your website has the latest Lar's song, chances are they will try and shut you down. They will try and intimidate you. This is the reason I threw all my Metallica shit in the garbage. Fuck Metallica!!
Having open office and other legal stuff might mitigate your offence. You can then say, "hey, we don't host it, we just tell you where it is at".
It comes down to the question- is information free. Can we say whatever we want? Tell people anything? The old test was "emminent hard", where you could not scream "fire" in a theater. But what if I want to tell people how to make a bomb? Can I get arrested for that? What if I want to tell people why the president sucks while telling them how to make a bomb? Or why communism is better?
There is a threat to free speech, I think there will be a right wing revolution in the USA. Look at the library that now requires fingerprints. Look at how the patriot act lets law enforcment do a search without a warrent (BTW, someone explain to me how congress can pass a law that violates the constitution).
I think Bit Torrent is the least of our worries. When the time comes, the sites will go dead. The Routers will remove the IPA to URL link.
Will this search engine help other websites get shut down?
I don't think the RIAA can sue the search engine, but it could sue sites that list torrents.
How will this search engine deal with private torrent websites?? Will it cache them? Can that be used as evidence at a later time?
#2) The best passwords are illogical. Something like k8iWq3xy. Mixing in letters in and numbers, not based on any words, is a good start. If your program recognizes upper and lower case, mixing that can help too.
#3) The best, very best log in tool for security I saw was a small clock a friend was given from his company. It had some funky algorithm on it, and it displayed a 14 alphanumeric code. When my friend logged in, he had to enter this code, which changed ever 1 minute. This was in addition to his username and password.
#4) People will sniff your network. Nothing is bulletproof. Finding passwords sent is easy. If it comes as clear text, you are screwed off the bat. This defeats #1 and #2, but not #3, because #3 is based on an algorithm that changes every 1 minute.
#5) Set up a policy that only allows 2 attempts to log in, and after 2 failed attempts, it locks out that IP and MAC address for 30 minutes. This will be a major pain when you try and log in and make a mistake. It won't really stop hackers, just the ones with slow/bad proxies. Maybe 1 of the 500 proxies the hacker is using is not as anonyomous as they believe. As for your own use, take a book with you when you believe you might have to log in remotley, just in case you make a mistake. You need something to blow those 20 minutes.
#6) Never, ever log in root from a remote location. Have a crippled account to log into from remote locations. Expect this account to get cracked. Limit the damage. If you must, have 2 computer systems at home. One secured off line, and the other on line. Hell, toss in a third computer connected to the web based on via a serial cable and dump all the logging on that computer. The hacker/cracker can't edit the logging files on that second PC.
#7) When using a computer, always assume the key strokes are being logged. When you get home, change your password for that account.
#8) After you have done all these things, you will still get hacked. Call the FBI. Call your congressman. Lets bomb another country to releave our collective mutual stress.
There was a hack for v2 of MS DRM, called FreeMe or something like that. But that was 4 years ago, with v2. Since then, nothing works for playing MS WMV w/ DRM v9.
I skimmed those 2 threads at avs, and I could not find anything. The best people can do is get a legit key, and then use a screen capture program to copy the screen.
If there was a hack for DRM v9, it would have been posted on the web.
Can you provide one link to a program that will play WMV protected with DRM v9? It does not exist.
I searched 30 pages deep in google, and there is nothing. I don't believe it has been hacked, I think it is a bunch of BS people are saying.
BTW, whatever happened to Motorola. They were pretty big dogs about 10 years ago. Now they are just an after thought, they laid off over 10,000 people and are in a decline. They made good chips.
Sony must have given its approval for releasing this information. It could not happen without them.
If Sony did not know, and IBM made this move without their approval, I could see Sony NEVER buying from IBM again. That is too big a risk for IBM. Heck, most companies would think twice.
Will it be easier to make a mod chip if people know how the processor works? Or did Sony add their DRM elsewhere? Who knows. IBM is not releasing the blueprints for the Playstation 3, just the processor.
Sony is a big company that hires smart people. Maybe they figured out hiding the electronics will not prevent reverse engineering. Maybe the new PS3 has some technology that makes it difficult to mod.
Maybe this is like Microsofts WMV, it is unhackable, nobody can get it to play a stream if DRM v9 is enabled. Not one person on the planet. And it has been over a year now.
For the PS3, they don't need for their game machine to be unhackable forever, just until the PS4 comes out. :)
I wish we had a search engine that specifically had people removing spam and garbage, and hits that were misclassified.
Google could collapse under its own weight. They are moving into so many different directions, and I doubt they will do all very well. They should stick with the food on their plate before ordering more. There eyes are getting to big for their stomachs.
Fix your search engine first. Remove spam. Let the quality links get the highest ranking. They have power to shape the internet.
For example, there is a correlation that places in the USA with higher %'s of blacks and mexicans have more violent crimes. Are you going to say that the minorities are not causing the crime? Because if you are, we have lots of people in jail that don't belong there. Go to neighborhoods with ovr 85% blacks and mexicans. They are the most violent, horrible places on earth. Who made it that way? Why don't the people who live there plant flowers and make it beautiful?
There is a correlation between IQ and income. Are you going to tell me that people with higher IQ's don't use their advantages? There is also a correlation between IQ and race. Read the Bell Curve. It pissed off so many people because it was right.
The problem with statistic professors is they are professors. They look for proof to back up their ideas. Then when they don't like a correlation, they say it is not important because it lacks causality.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Colleges are trying to confuse people, by making the simple complex.
I can't help but think if he ever would have solved those problems had he been taught first that they were unsolvable??
Schizo Person #1- "Look, there is an elephant in the room"
Schizo Person #2- "Shhh!!! There is no elephant"
Schizo Person #1- "But..."
Schizo Person #2- "No buts, you don't want them to think you're crazy"
Soon Schizo Person #1 stopps seeing the elephant. It really does not exists to him
The FBI needs more funding. They only have 5 billion dollars. That is not even 1 dollar for every person in the world. ;)
What would worry me more than the FBI tracking hackers is what happened at that library yesterday. They now have fingerprint machines at every computer, and you can't use the library without getting your finger scanned.
That worries me, because the government is now in a position to control ideas. They can see who reads Lenin. They can make a list.
The hacker on the other hand, he is a criminal. He breaks into stuff. He is not just reading a book and thinking to himself. He is breaking into other peoples property.
That is a crime that deserves more law enforcement funding.
The next step is for the USA to help fund a prision in pakastan, so the USA won't be bothered keeping prisioners up to USA standards (like the right to a lawyer or 3 meals a day), but at the same time the arrests will not overburden forieng nations. I say we should build a 10,000 cell prision in the desert, without any air conditioning, and limited water. That should break just about anyone.
The hacker does not respect intellectual property. When they buy a gadget, they think they own it and the intellectual property that went into it. They think they can reverse engineer it. They are breaking laws by doing so.
I never thought hacker was a good and positive term. Hacker sounds like some worthless criminal, some shady person who can't exist in sunlight or normal society. It is like a person who hides and tries to catch your PIN number, so they can steal.
A better word would be explorer. Explorers and scientists act within the law. They change opinion. Hackers have not changed any opinions, they just piss people off.
What if Microsoft releases an OS with weak security? What will the hacker do? Write worms and viruses exploiting it. They will not just let people be. They will frustrate everyone, like they are expecting a reward that they found something. So what. They are jackholes.
LOL, I wonder if the hacker was in his underwear by the computer. LOL. *BOOM* Door gets crushed open. I can't help but remember the pictures of Elian Gonzalez, I wonder if that is how the coward hackers will hide in their closets.
cops and security experts are becoming more aggressive. They're tapping shady Web sites and chat rooms, stepping up cooperation with investigators in other countries, and flipping informants to build cases. In the past six months, the FBI persuaded members of several spam and phishing rings to rat on their accomplices
This is the best part about hackers. They are criminal scum like all other criminals. Just like they hack without regard to the law, they will rat out their friends in a heartbeat.
These hackers are the same people who keep complaining MS is weak with security, and to prove it they will write worms and viruses. The anwser is simple. RESPECT OTHER PEOPLES PROPERTY.
My hope is these hackers get sentanced to jail for life, and their families get charged as co-conspirators. Without their family, chances are they would not have done these crimes. Maybe the hacker will feel a little worse if he sees his mother taken away in hand cuffs, crying. But I doubt the hacker will care at all, he is a sociopath. That is why the harsh punishments are needed.
And there is one other benifit of this sting. It is using USA FBI and USA money, and even USA officers. But the arrests are made in foriegn countries, which means foriegn country prisions. No heat in the winter. Rancid food, if any. Violence. It is grand, the empire is stricking back against the evil.
They must learn to play with others.
I got bullied by an asshole. Over and over. One day I said, fuck it, if I go down, I go down, but I am throwing a punch. Turned out he was a big pussy with a glass jaw. I beat his ass for a good three minutes before the teacher pulled me off him. Even as the teacher was pulling me up, I took a good horse kick to his testicles. When I could not reach him with a limb, I spit on him. I told him, don't sleep tonight, we ain't done, I am going to burn down your motherfucking house.
Then the alarm went off and it was time for school again.
The horror. The horror.
Point of the story? I don't want to be Dr. Smith. I don't want to say "Never fear..."
Here is a lesson for you! Later in life you might become dominant because of money you accumulate. How will you treat those with less? Will you be like that dick bully. Will you give a damn? Will you hold your hand out in friendship, will you turn your back?
The great thing about PE, is it levels the playing field. The janators kid can kick the crap out of the CEO's kid and it is normal. We need more of it. We need to punish the rich. They have all the money, let them use it on psychiatrists and prozac.
You are gonna pay, directly or indirectly. There ain't no way around it. The kid turns 40 and has a heart attack, insurance or not. Who pays? In one case, premiums go up for all. In another case, the state pays.
Will we ever have a society where someone is dying and the doctors say "FUCK YOU, NO TICKEY, NO WASHY"???
I hate to tell you, but not everything is measured by the dollar. It is a poor measure of happiness. It is a great shiny thing that people chase. But you'll be suprised when you catch it, there is no big red bow, no party, no instant coffee.
What is it? Freedom to go places. Sure. But weather or not people like you in the new place, the money has little infuance over that.
So, you should care if the guy next to you ballons to 300 pounds.
Also, the same reasons why he turns 300 pounds could happen to you. Maybe you have a faster metabolism. Maybe your kids won't.
Thinking from the perspective of "me, me, me" is why so many hate Bush. Did you ever see the story of Scruge?
At least they won't turn as fat as quickly.
Say the school cuts out a 200 calorie pepsi out of the diet, and saves another 300 calories by baking the chicken instead of frying it, and offering a salad instead of fries. That is 500 calories, a pound of fat a week.
Toss in some vigerous PE classes, and that will burn another pound of fat a week.
Under those conditions, the kid could eat a big mac and suck down a milkshake, and he will still have a chance of not balloning to 300 pounds.
Plus, if the school encourages extra curricular activites, anything, the kid will have more of a chance to burn calories. Join track or basketball or even band. March around for an hour, or stand up for an hour. It is better than sitting in front of a TV with a bag of Freto's and a six pack of Old Style.
I think you are onto something.
When I was in school, we had competitions for everything. The kid who ran the fastes got a ribbon. Believe it or not, but everyone wanted to compete. It did not matter if you were 20th out of 30, you wanted to be 19th next time. Everyone tried.
Today, you can't be 20th out of 30, it will hurt your ego. It will cripple you for life.
Instead of giving Ipods, how about they teach these kids it is time for the gonads to descend?
Kids have leared it does not matter at all what they do. They go at it half assed. They know that there are two America's. One for the rich, and one for the poor. If you can't get into Harvard, you might as well say fuck it and know the community college will accept anyone. So why bust the ass running, or playing sports, or getting the resume ready for college.
Plus, most poor families can no longer survive on one paycheck. 30 years ago, the wife did not have to work. Today, the wife MUST work to feed the family and pay rent. So the kid comes home and watches TV, gets to see Janet Jacksons tit, the whore from Desperate Houswifes get bannged by a black, and every nutjob with a gripe a venue on TV.
Hmmm... Poor me too!!! Fuck school, I can't win, so I won't try, or I'll give such a lame effort so I can't be punished.
Lets bring back corporal punishment and see how quickly things change. If a kid does not try his best, break out the bamboo stick and give him two across the back of his thighs. Forget the out of school detention, make him spend his day walking with the janator, cleaning toilets after the honors students take a nice, healthy dump. They will learn what foreshadowing means.