DNS is a problem. What about when 2 or more companies share the same name, and both want websites? It would seem much more fair if everyone got random numbers when they registered.
If you want to use a "phone number type" system, you're more than welcome to use 66.35.250.150 to come to Slashdot from now on. And 216.239.37.99 for Google. Can you remember those numbers without writing them down?
That is the whole point. I would not remember those numbers, I would have to take some effort to write them down. It would be harder for people to trick others. If I want to visit 216.239.37.99 but type 216.239.37.98, that is my mistake. Shame on me. If I want to visit google.com but am new and type goggle.com, and it is a redirect to porn or spam, than shame on that person who registered that domain. It was done with the intent of tricking people, probably mostly kids.
And kids are another issue worth talking about. I can't find the news report, but it is known many spammers change the domain names to kids websites, to trick them, and then show the kids porn. I am going to look for the news story.
I would think it'd be a lot easier to have BosleyMedicalSucks.com and get away with it, than BosleyMedical.com
I agree 100%. Everyone has free speech rights, to complain or say anything they want, as long as their rights don't infringe my rights. If I want to go to KFC for a chicken dinner, I have a right to go there without having PETA throw buckets of fake blood on me while protesting. If I want to go to work, and my co-workers are on strike, I have a right to drive into the parking lot, the workers don't have a right to block my enterance or threaten me.
So if I want to get medical work done by BosleyMedical, I have a right to use their website. If someone tries to use fraud or deciet in tricking me, by directing me somewhere I did not want to go, then they are violating my rights. But if someone wants to vent, then by all means get BosleyMedicalSucks.com and I'll be 100% happy. I'll know it is not the company, but a website where someone is complaining. I might even visit it, to read what is there, in deciding if I want to use the parent company.
Kremer, who had been unhappy with the outcome of his hair restoration, used the company's name in the Web site address, www.bosleymedical.com. The company claimed his use of the name was trademark infringement.
But the appeals court disagreed, saying the Web site was not created to make a profit or to confuse Bosley's customers and potential clients. There were no links on the site to other hair-restoration providers, the court noted.
So it seems like the guy is not purposefully attempting to confuse people, which is a good thing. It would be much worse if he had a redirect to a competitor.
The appeals court, however, reinstated part of the lawsuit in which Bosley alleged that Kremer is violating a so-called cybersquatting law by allegedly attempting to sell the site to Bosley in exchange for removing the disparaging material.
But then he tries to do something stupid like this. This is black mail, like if I have pictures of your wife naked and threaten to post them on the web unless you pay me $1000. What can a person do?
CNN reports that a man's website, http://www.bosleymedical.com, criticizing the Bosely Medical Institute does not infringe the institute's copyright on its name
I disagree. I as a person using the web want websites accurately named. I can't express the horror I had at school when I accidently went to www.whitehouse.com some many years ago. Not to mention all the SPAM out there that changes one letter of popular websites. The only reason they picked those names is because they know people make mistakes, people who don't want to go to those websites.
Maybe the solution is to take away domain names. No more letters. Instead replace it with phone number type domains. This kind of problem does not seem to exsist with phone numbers. I can't count how many times I have visited wrong websites, but I don't make incorrect phone calls.
This is just the start of the wave of blog regulation. A recent appeals court ruling basically said that the internet should be viewed more as a broadcast medium then a print one.
Does this mean maybe some of the porn will be taken down or the FCC will be able to apply decency standards?
report all blog-related costs that exceed $1,000 in the aggregate
I can't imagine having more than $1000 in blog-related costs. This rule will have zero impact on the avarage blogger.
The People have a right to know who is funding candidates, and all this requirement does is record who is paying the bills. Unlike the avarage blogger, these bloggers who market candidates have an agenda. Money is flowing, and we should know from where and to whom.
I think what will piss people off is they will have to rethink what they are. Are they just talking about their political idea's, or are they acting like a marketing firm?? How much are they giving to a candidate, in time, in advertising? These are all valid questions.
It is like P2P, where taking a copy of a tape to a friends house would never get you in trouble, but the moment someone shared it on the internet they were breaking the law.
The part I worry about is, what can the city (or state) do if they object to a blog? Can they force it to be shut down. What are the penalties?
I guess what we are doing here is examining how to apply current principles of law on technologies that did not exsist when the law was made. Maybe this will start an intelligent public debate, or maybe it will just be more 10 second soundbytes. who knows.
Online databases also make it much easier to find prior art.
Then keep the search tool. No reason to move the paper records to databases. I would think it a great idea to have a database that points to paper records. But destroying paper records and using a database to replace them is dangerous.
It would be much harder to change a paper record. First, you would have to get inside the building it is housed in. Second, with some of the older documents, you would have to match the type face. And you would have to match the ink. And you would have to make it look like it aged right. And there are finger prints on the original documents. There are more ways to verify that a paper document is an original than a computer record.
Maybe they should burn the Declaration of Independence while they're at it, after all, I saw a copy online somewhere.
That is what I dislike, the idea of burning the original documents. Why not let some university house the original documents. There is a ton of cheap labor (students). I know my university was a federal depository, we had a whole floor on the library that was filled with federal court cases on paper, along with other legislation.
This move from paper to computer records is troubling for me. I don't think I would be as worried if they also kept a paper record as well, but moving everything to a database could mean big trouble. Large companies, with IT budgets in the millions of dollars range have had computer problems, lost data, and have had hackers gain access to restricted areas. Paper offers more security. Unless someone can burn the documents, something will exsist. With a database, all you have is a computer record. Call me old fashioned, but I want important records on paper.
It is like a library. If one day we decide to move all our books to electronic formats, who is to say a tyrant one day can't remove or change items, slowly, so that nobody notices. Maybe I am 1984-ish paranoid, but I want it on paper.
Will the day come when the advertising value of something will outweigh the inate value of the object itself? Will this create an unatural bubble economy? For example, we have all seen baseball salaries grow exponentially, from a HUGE deal when a players broke into a million dollars a year, to A-Rod getting $250,000,000 for his contract. I am guessing it is the advertising, and not the fan ticket sales, which is the true source of revenue. If that is true, then advertising could change the game to whatever they want, since they control the pursestrings.
Likewise, do we want our books to be used to promote products? It would make an unlevel playing field. If book "A" is sponsored by Pepsi because it talks about how good and refreshing a Pepsi is, and Pepsi helps promote it AND pays some fee to the author, how many of the good writiers will want that kind of security. John Girsham must have mentioned Coors beer in A Time to Kill at least 100 times. Whenever it got too stressful, he would have a refreshing Coors and he could solve problems with such clearity. It happened with movies too, when companies started paying money for their products to be used in films.
I dunno, what kind of society will we have? What can I do if my neighbor decides to paint his house like a big Coca~Cola can?
Boxers with writing on their back for off shore gambling
McDonalds now offering money to rappers and musicians everytime they mention a McDonalds product
Baseball parks now without one bare wall. Tear down the Ivy, we need to make room for Bacardi.
Companies using subliminal advertising
20 minutes of commercials at the Theater, the place I paid $10 bucks to see a movie, hijacked by angry Jew adverisors. It is enough to make me want to strap on a bomb and blow myself up.
Super hot attractive knock-out girls on college campuses getting free clothing and music and mp3 players so all the ugly, unnatractive, fat women on campus will follow them and buy the crap the pretty ones get for free. Related- how much free crap did Trump get for his wedding so all the guests would go running to buy it?
And if I hear the "I'm lovin' it" one more time, I am canceling my cable.
Now if I open a copy of Old Man and the Sea, and find his boat is renamed "Bank One boat", I will go apeshit.
I wonder if it is time to re-write the patent laws, so the original inventor gets credit, but everyone else is not screwed. What is the law now, that a person with a patent gets to enjoy the benifits of that patent for life? Maybe the way to go would be to have patents be protected for 4 years, then fall in the public domain. It would certainly solve the problem of patents being sold, and a company hoarding them. Patents will encourage monopolies, when the essance of the paw is to break them up. If only company "A" can use process "X" to make product "Z", then unless someone else can think of a new process, only one company can make that product. This gets very dangerous when we think of medical products. Do we really want only one company making medicines for a specific disease because they patented a gene sequence?
I stopped shopping at Best Buy. They have the worst customer service on the planet. Have you ever tried to call their computer department to ask if they have something in stock? I tried to return software once, and they would not take it back. It was opened, but I had a very good reason. This was back when the 2 OS's were Windows 98 and Windows NT. Windows 2000 just came out, and I saw some software (a game) that said Windows 98 on the back. I asked if it would run with Windows 2000, and the idiot there said "Oh sure... Windows 2000 is the newest 98, it'll run". So I made the purchase, and when it did not work, I took it back, and some ASSHOLE who worked there accused me of being a software pirate saying "That is the only reason people return software". Fuck him, and FUCK BUTTBUY. They sell shit, they wrap it is shit, sell it by assholes, and are run by jews. I will never shop there again. My hate for them is huge, I think the world would be a better place is every shitbuy store was struck with lighting from Gods angry hands and burned to the ground.
Circuit City is better. At least they treat customers like human beings. They don't lie as much as the people at Best Buy, and I actually had a sales guy tell me "I don't know, I'm new" to a question. WOW, honesty, what a new concept.
Did anyone ever consider what people without the upfront cash must do? Say I have $50 bucks, and there is a sale of $100 dollar hard drives down to $39.99 with a $60 mail in rebate? I can afford the sale price, but because I don't have the $100 up front, they won't sell it to me. This screws over the lower classes, and is racist, just like if a resturant said, we'll seat you, first give us your credit card and let us have a $500 deposit, to be refunded at the end of your meal. Or a poll tax to vote. The use of money to prohibit people from activities that all should be allowed to do is evil.
The mail in rebate is also FRAUD, both in advertising and the manufacturer sending the check. I can't count the number of times I looked at a Best Buy advertisment to see some great deal, so I rush to the store to see the price is with a mail in rebate. When I complain, the employee whips out a magnifying glass and tries to show me where in the advertisment is says there is a mail in rebate. And the manufacturers do everything they can to disqualify rebates. They give you short windows of time to send it in. The reason they do this is not so you have less time to send it, but so they can take their time in rejecting you, and then when you want to send it back again, you are out of time.
I hope the states start suing companies over mail in rebates. It is fraud. It is racist. It is evil. It is like what grocery stores are doing. I saw a flyer for the local grocery store that said "Roast Beef.... $1.99". So I ran there, I love roast beef and was going to buy a pound, and then I see a sign in store that says "Roast Beef.... $1.99 per 4 ounce serving". Son of a bitch!!!
A student cheats by hacking into the school computer system, changes her grade, gets caught, and you're saying it's society's fault?
What was the reason for cheating? What was the consequence of failing the class? What was the risk of getting caught cheating?
I don't think we will kill people for cheating, or sentance them to some lifelong hell. But if someone fails, and gets pushed into the lower class, it is hell. Like George Bush said "Congrats, you have two jobs, something uniquely American"
If society realizes all people are valuable, and can contribute, and does not push a person beyond their means, then being in the "lower" class will not be a punishment.
There is the second side of the equation. We could just make the punishment so great for cheating to discourage people. That seems to be the trend with all crimes.
whenever anyone says there is no reason to do something, i get suspicious.
The reported MAC can be changed at the OS level, and there is no need to alter the card in any way.
Oh shit!
Not that I'd condone this, but it actually is that easy. You change the reported MAC address. Not a big deal at all.
I dunno. I have heard that companies have made PC components that have more information then is known. The electrical pulse. The DNA of the computer world.
If I really, really, really wanted to hack into something, and I think I would get a cheap NIC card, one I could later burn. What is a MAC address? Something we know? But what don't we know. Printers are being sold that print microscopic dots, so if someone prints a dollar bill the Secret Service will know some things about the person. Can anyone here tell me they have not build that kind of technology in NIC cards?
mac address IS NOT a trustable identifier as it can be changed by anyone, people should know this.. hopefully you don't trust your network security on just mac addresses..
and anyways.. even a camera wouldn't prove that it was she.. as it's wireless, who knows if it's used from outside.. sure a camera could give a hint for the cops but it would not do the proving part of it.
A MAC address can be masked, but what would the probability be that you would fake a MAC at the very cafe the IP address that was logged?
And the camera would not have to prove anything. If the IP address of the attack was a cafe, and the camera recorded a student there who's grade was changed, that would be enough proof to get her/him in deep trouble, expelled, and maybe criminally convicted. What does it take today to convict someone? What does "beyond a resonable doubt mean"? It ain't 100% certain, it is "it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck". Now I know there are those who say it is a easy way to set someone up, but I bet the police would give the accused a chance (maybe by court order) to surrender their laptop. The evidence would be there to know...
ifconfig wlan0 down
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_reset setdefaultmib=true macaddress=$RANDOMMAC
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether $RANDOMMAC
ifconfig wlan0 up
I sure hope whoever does this doesn't do it somewhere that a serial port prints out, or saves to another computer all changes. Some places actually keep a serial connection to a second machine that is off the web, yet a machine that has a time stamp of all changes.
That this is significant slashdot news. The woman did the wrong thing, and didn't even do it well. What's the deal? That she hacked, or that she was caught? She fsked up and now she pays the price. Nothing to see here, folks, move along...
Can it be an indictment on society? Do we have a society where we MUST be the best to be happy? Are we stacked up against each other?
What does an "A" mean? What does a "C" mean? And how fucking desperate does a person have to be to cheat, to risk expulsion? God, what are we doing people?
People learn differently, some visually, some auditory, some hands-on. Yet we have done little to maximize people to thier potential. We over work the lower classes. We have a system where life at the bottom to middle is miserable.
Hackers are no better than what they do. A criminal is a criminal, regardless of the tool they use. Just because the guy running Enron was a financial genius, does that mitigate his crimes?
I happen to think of hackers like a baseball player. They have a greater responsibility to people, they were born with gifts. And if they use them for their own benifit and not society, then why did God give them more?
She might have gotten away with it if she had used an open wireless access point - shoulda changed the grades at Starbucks!;-)
Believe it or not, they keep mac address databases, any self respecting router will. Who is to say the police can't trace the IP to an wireless access point and check Mac addresses? Who is to say that free is really free, that it's not one big honey pot? They have camera's? They know the time it happened??
Sony has the worst policy on updates and fixes. If you look in Consumer Reports, their computers are consistently lower in quality and higher in repair frequency.
Why people still buy into the myth that Sony==Quality is a mystery. Maybe 20 years ago, but not today.
It might be the same phenomenon as McDonalds. They spend lots of money on kids. They were the first to have happy meals. The first to have place area's in resturants. They market to kids. And when the kids grow up, a part of their childhood is still with McDonalds. Even if they suck, it is like an uncle who once treated you nice.
Sony had the reputation when I was a kid of being the best. If people had the money, they would buy Sony. If they did not have the money, they would buy something else. It was a status symbol.
I purchased a Sony Vaio GRX-520 for over $2,000 when other laptops were selling for half that price. I picked Sony because I expected the best quality moeny could buy. But then I got 2 pixels that are always red. I tried to return the unit to Sony to get it fixed, but they would not help.
It is frustrating, to spend twice as much as other options, to get something that turned out to be lower quality. And what really burned me was their non-existent customer service. It took forever to get a human on the phone, only to be told they could not do anything.
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DNS is a problem. What about when 2 or more companies share the same name, and both want websites? It would seem much more fair if everyone got random numbers when they registered.
That is the whole point. I would not remember those numbers, I would have to take some effort to write them down. It would be harder for people to trick others. If I want to visit 216.239.37.99 but type 216.239.37.98, that is my mistake. Shame on me. If I want to visit google.com but am new and type goggle.com, and it is a redirect to porn or spam, than shame on that person who registered that domain. It was done with the intent of tricking people, probably mostly kids.
And kids are another issue worth talking about. I can't find the news report, but it is known many spammers change the domain names to kids websites, to trick them, and then show the kids porn. I am going to look for the news story.
I agree 100%. Everyone has free speech rights, to complain or say anything they want, as long as their rights don't infringe my rights. If I want to go to KFC for a chicken dinner, I have a right to go there without having PETA throw buckets of fake blood on me while protesting. If I want to go to work, and my co-workers are on strike, I have a right to drive into the parking lot, the workers don't have a right to block my enterance or threaten me.
So if I want to get medical work done by BosleyMedical, I have a right to use their website. If someone tries to use fraud or deciet in tricking me, by directing me somewhere I did not want to go, then they are violating my rights. But if someone wants to vent, then by all means get BosleyMedicalSucks.com and I'll be 100% happy. I'll know it is not the company, but a website where someone is complaining. I might even visit it, to read what is there, in deciding if I want to use the parent company.
But the appeals court disagreed, saying the Web site was not created to make a profit or to confuse Bosley's customers and potential clients. There were no links on the site to other hair-restoration providers, the court noted.
So it seems like the guy is not purposefully attempting to confuse people, which is a good thing. It would be much worse if he had a redirect to a competitor.
The appeals court, however, reinstated part of the lawsuit in which Bosley alleged that Kremer is violating a so-called cybersquatting law by allegedly attempting to sell the site to Bosley in exchange for removing the disparaging material.
But then he tries to do something stupid like this. This is black mail, like if I have pictures of your wife naked and threaten to post them on the web unless you pay me $1000. What can a person do?
I disagree. I as a person using the web want websites accurately named. I can't express the horror I had at school when I accidently went to www.whitehouse.com some many years ago. Not to mention all the SPAM out there that changes one letter of popular websites. The only reason they picked those names is because they know people make mistakes, people who don't want to go to those websites.
Maybe the solution is to take away domain names. No more letters. Instead replace it with phone number type domains. This kind of problem does not seem to exsist with phone numbers. I can't count how many times I have visited wrong websites, but I don't make incorrect phone calls.
Does this mean maybe some of the porn will be taken down or the FCC will be able to apply decency standards?
I can't imagine having more than $1000 in blog-related costs. This rule will have zero impact on the avarage blogger.
The People have a right to know who is funding candidates, and all this requirement does is record who is paying the bills. Unlike the avarage blogger, these bloggers who market candidates have an agenda. Money is flowing, and we should know from where and to whom.
I think what will piss people off is they will have to rethink what they are. Are they just talking about their political idea's, or are they acting like a marketing firm?? How much are they giving to a candidate, in time, in advertising? These are all valid questions.
It is like P2P, where taking a copy of a tape to a friends house would never get you in trouble, but the moment someone shared it on the internet they were breaking the law.
The part I worry about is, what can the city (or state) do if they object to a blog? Can they force it to be shut down. What are the penalties?
I guess what we are doing here is examining how to apply current principles of law on technologies that did not exsist when the law was made. Maybe this will start an intelligent public debate, or maybe it will just be more 10 second soundbytes. who knows.
Then keep the search tool. No reason to move the paper records to databases. I would think it a great idea to have a database that points to paper records. But destroying paper records and using a database to replace them is dangerous.
It would be much harder to change a paper record. First, you would have to get inside the building it is housed in. Second, with some of the older documents, you would have to match the type face. And you would have to match the ink. And you would have to make it look like it aged right. And there are finger prints on the original documents. There are more ways to verify that a paper document is an original than a computer record.
That is what I dislike, the idea of burning the original documents. Why not let some university house the original documents. There is a ton of cheap labor (students). I know my university was a federal depository, we had a whole floor on the library that was filled with federal court cases on paper, along with other legislation.
It is like a library. If one day we decide to move all our books to electronic formats, who is to say a tyrant one day can't remove or change items, slowly, so that nobody notices. Maybe I am 1984-ish paranoid, but I want it on paper.
Likewise, do we want our books to be used to promote products? It would make an unlevel playing field. If book "A" is sponsored by Pepsi because it talks about how good and refreshing a Pepsi is, and Pepsi helps promote it AND pays some fee to the author, how many of the good writiers will want that kind of security. John Girsham must have mentioned Coors beer in A Time to Kill at least 100 times. Whenever it got too stressful, he would have a refreshing Coors and he could solve problems with such clearity. It happened with movies too, when companies started paying money for their products to be used in films.
I dunno, what kind of society will we have? What can I do if my neighbor decides to paint his house like a big Coca~Cola can?
Boxers with writing on their back for off shore gambling
McDonalds now offering money to rappers and musicians everytime they mention a McDonalds product
Baseball parks now without one bare wall. Tear down the Ivy, we need to make room for Bacardi.
Companies using subliminal advertising
20 minutes of commercials at the Theater, the place I paid $10 bucks to see a movie, hijacked by angry Jew adverisors. It is enough to make me want to strap on a bomb and blow myself up.
Super hot attractive knock-out girls on college campuses getting free clothing and music and mp3 players so all the ugly, unnatractive, fat women on campus will follow them and buy the crap the pretty ones get for free. Related- how much free crap did Trump get for his wedding so all the guests would go running to buy it?
And if I hear the "I'm lovin' it" one more time, I am canceling my cable.
Now if I open a copy of Old Man and the Sea, and find his boat is renamed "Bank One boat", I will go apeshit.
I wonder if it is time to re-write the patent laws, so the original inventor gets credit, but everyone else is not screwed. What is the law now, that a person with a patent gets to enjoy the benifits of that patent for life? Maybe the way to go would be to have patents be protected for 4 years, then fall in the public domain. It would certainly solve the problem of patents being sold, and a company hoarding them. Patents will encourage monopolies, when the essance of the paw is to break them up. If only company "A" can use process "X" to make product "Z", then unless someone else can think of a new process, only one company can make that product. This gets very dangerous when we think of medical products. Do we really want only one company making medicines for a specific disease because they patented a gene sequence?
Circuit City is better. At least they treat customers like human beings. They don't lie as much as the people at Best Buy, and I actually had a sales guy tell me "I don't know, I'm new" to a question. WOW, honesty, what a new concept.
The mail in rebate is also FRAUD, both in advertising and the manufacturer sending the check. I can't count the number of times I looked at a Best Buy advertisment to see some great deal, so I rush to the store to see the price is with a mail in rebate. When I complain, the employee whips out a magnifying glass and tries to show me where in the advertisment is says there is a mail in rebate. And the manufacturers do everything they can to disqualify rebates. They give you short windows of time to send it in. The reason they do this is not so you have less time to send it, but so they can take their time in rejecting you, and then when you want to send it back again, you are out of time.
I hope the states start suing companies over mail in rebates. It is fraud. It is racist. It is evil. It is like what grocery stores are doing. I saw a flyer for the local grocery store that said "Roast Beef.... $1.99". So I ran there, I love roast beef and was going to buy a pound, and then I see a sign in store that says "Roast Beef.... $1.99 per 4 ounce serving". Son of a bitch!!!
What was the reason for cheating? What was the consequence of failing the class? What was the risk of getting caught cheating?
I don't think we will kill people for cheating, or sentance them to some lifelong hell. But if someone fails, and gets pushed into the lower class, it is hell. Like George Bush said "Congrats, you have two jobs, something uniquely American"
If society realizes all people are valuable, and can contribute, and does not push a person beyond their means, then being in the "lower" class will not be a punishment.
There is the second side of the equation. We could just make the punishment so great for cheating to discourage people. That seems to be the trend with all crimes.
The reported MAC can be changed at the OS level, and there is no need to alter the card in any way.
Oh shit!
Not that I'd condone this, but it actually is that easy. You change the reported MAC address. Not a big deal at all.
I dunno. I have heard that companies have made PC components that have more information then is known. The electrical pulse. The DNA of the computer world.
If I really, really, really wanted to hack into something, and I think I would get a cheap NIC card, one I could later burn. What is a MAC address? Something we know? But what don't we know. Printers are being sold that print microscopic dots, so if someone prints a dollar bill the Secret Service will know some things about the person. Can anyone here tell me they have not build that kind of technology in NIC cards?
and anyways.. even a camera wouldn't prove that it was she.. as it's wireless, who knows if it's used from outside.. sure a camera could give a hint for the cops but it would not do the proving part of it.
A MAC address can be masked, but what would the probability be that you would fake a MAC at the very cafe the IP address that was logged?
And the camera would not have to prove anything. If the IP address of the attack was a cafe, and the camera recorded a student there who's grade was changed, that would be enough proof to get her/him in deep trouble, expelled, and maybe criminally convicted. What does it take today to convict someone? What does "beyond a resonable doubt mean"? It ain't 100% certain, it is "it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck". Now I know there are those who say it is a easy way to set someone up, but I bet the police would give the accused a chance (maybe by court order) to surrender their laptop. The evidence would be there to know...
wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_reset
setdefaultmib=true macaddress=$RANDOMMAC
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether $RANDOMMAC
ifconfig wlan0 up
I sure hope whoever does this doesn't do it somewhere that a serial port prints out, or saves to another computer all changes. Some places actually keep a serial connection to a second machine that is off the web, yet a machine that has a time stamp of all changes.
Can it be an indictment on society? Do we have a society where we MUST be the best to be happy? Are we stacked up against each other?
What does an "A" mean? What does a "C" mean? And how fucking desperate does a person have to be to cheat, to risk expulsion? God, what are we doing people?
People learn differently, some visually, some auditory, some hands-on. Yet we have done little to maximize people to thier potential. We over work the lower classes. We have a system where life at the bottom to middle is miserable.
I happen to think of hackers like a baseball player. They have a greater responsibility to people, they were born with gifts. And if they use them for their own benifit and not society, then why did God give them more?
Believe it or not, they keep mac address databases, any self respecting router will. Who is to say the police can't trace the IP to an wireless access point and check Mac addresses? Who is to say that free is really free, that it's not one big honey pot? They have camera's? They know the time it happened??
It ain't that easy...
Why people still buy into the myth that Sony==Quality is a mystery. Maybe 20 years ago, but not today.
It might be the same phenomenon as McDonalds. They spend lots of money on kids. They were the first to have happy meals. The first to have place area's in resturants. They market to kids. And when the kids grow up, a part of their childhood is still with McDonalds. Even if they suck, it is like an uncle who once treated you nice.
Sony had the reputation when I was a kid of being the best. If people had the money, they would buy Sony. If they did not have the money, they would buy something else. It was a status symbol.
It is frustrating, to spend twice as much as other options, to get something that turned out to be lower quality. And what really burned me was their non-existent customer service. It took forever to get a human on the phone, only to be told they could not do anything.