> As soon as your copy of XP can keep two folders auto-sync'd over a network, then you give me a call.
*calling* I haven't tried at home, but in the environment I run at work I rely on this feature. You can force it by right-clicking on a file/folder and selecting 'Make availible offline'.
Glad to see you modded as funny. I have an iBook with OSX, and it is far from the perfect GUI people want to portray it as.
One of the things that annoys me the most is the lack of a second mouse button. Your productivity really depends on it, and constantly moving my hand to press the apple-button while clicking is not convenient.
Also, the overall stability is not what I'd expect from a closed platform. And I'm wondering what Apple is thinking with when they have a base of 256MB RAM in their cheaper models. Nice way to scare away newly converts. 256 ain't enough to boot that flashy OS, at least not use it.
I got an iBook and an iPod, but I won't definately not be buying more of Apples products. I want functionality, freedom and *customer care*. Instead of fixing the firmware of my iPod, they release a whole new iPod (of course, with bugfixed firmware!).
I'm trying hard as hell not to troll here, but it seems that anything bad about Apple is quickly written off as trolling. Also, it is hard not to go into ranting mode when talking about this stuff. I am so divorcing Apple.
And another point is that most of these protocols do a 'rollback' before they append. They verify not only that the hash of the source is correct, but also that the first few bits of the new peer corresponds with the last few of the previous peer. I can't see this doing more harm than fake releases with wrong hash.
Let's not forget he is a Norwegian citizen and Apple has yet to launch their store here. So any way he obtained the files he did never see such agreements. And we do not have any DMCA here either,/yet/. The EU is working hard to make a similar law, though.
Not all Norwegian banks do. There are several systems.
My bank uses one of the simpler forms: a 4 digit PIN plus a certificate.
To download the certificate I must enter something that is similar to the US social security number plus the PIN. I then get a SMS from the banck (to a number I have provided to them earlier, after they have made sure I am who I say I am). That SMS has a onetime password valid for 15 minutes. After entering it I get to doenload a personal certificate which I can decide to be a onetime cert or a one year cert.
I feel safe enough with this solution. Could be more secure, but that would also impose problems for me. I'm on the road a lot and can't be bothered with a hardware based solution (digipass).
Right on the spot. The intent is everything in this case.
And you interpreted the law correctly, it is not an offence to download, but it is an offence to upload.
First off, I'm no supporter of this verdict, but for the love of $HIGHER_POWER, please don't make this the beginning of the end of the world.
The site's sole purpose of the site was linking to infringing material. The site made that perfectly clear. The verdict is saying that if the *intent* of your link is to infringe, then "hey, we don't like it".
Your raving about a site going from disney.com to some kiddieporn nest is totally irrelevant.
This decision has little, if any, impact on "future of the Web in Norway".
He not only knew it, he advertised it. His site sucked, but it sucks more that he must pay $16000 in damages. As a guy in the start of life he's in for tough times. His life isn't totally ruined, but damned close to.
On a side note; this week three guys got a few hours community service for kidnapping a pregnant woman en beating her senseless. They thought she owed them money, but didn't realize it was the wrong woman.
I have no faith in the Norwegian legal system, even though DVD-Jon wasn't convicted.
You need a few gigabytes of packets to crack WEP. The way most people use their wireless networks I wouldn't worry too much. Also, if you change your WEP once a week (or more often if you use it extensively) you are pretty much safe.
The only risk you have is your neighbour (no sane person will wait for a gig outside your house).
MAC-filtering can also be effective, although you could still suffer a DoS attack from someone who has cracked your WEP, but that's just a friendly remainder to change your WEP.
Of course, the best would be to use WPA[2] combined with a logon service like NoCatAuth, where you effectively kill all routing unless they authenticate.
Which is probably why AMD is downplaying the use of these processors in laptops. I can certainly see a place for these in a HTPC, as they appear to work better than VIA's processors.
With Microsoft's, it's just a matter of spoofing IP addresses also.
Any sane ISP block outgoing pakcets that does not match their IP pool. Spoofing is not a problem here. Besides, how would you go about with a TCP connection with the mailserver? You can't establish a spoofed TCP connection.
I own an iPod and thus I wish to have my music in MP3/AAC. The rips I find on the net are rarely satisfying and annoys me more often than they entertain me, so I want to rip the music myself.
If a CD I buy has some 'copy protection' (read 'playback protection') I will still buy it. However, I will crack the protection, rip it and then return it to the store and complain it is faulty and demand a cash refund since it was not working as expected.
I try to be legit, but they make it really hard for me.
Granted, the same issues are not valid when it comes to software, but the measures they take to prevent piracy [1] is bringing the value of the product down. If I have to buy a new CD each time it gets broken, they must lower the cost to do so.
[1] Their agenda is not all about piracy, though...
First off: I'm a poor student and live in Norway. I have a few hobby domains, mostly so I can run my own email configuration.
I haven't recieved any snailmail spam, most likely because I'm not American, but one evening I got a [lovely] call from China. A female (yes, I was shocked myself, first time a girl calls me!) said something about representing some huge business. Her english was bad so I couldn't really hear what she was saying, but I finally figured out that they had heard about 'my large and great company' and that I was known worldwide for my splendid leadership and nose for business.
I kinda freaked out, hung up and went for my tinfoil hat. I changed the contact info, but when my registrar complained that my address 'BOFH Avenue 666' was bouncing I had to change it back.
Bottom line, I would very much appreciate some kind of mechanism that would protect your privacy a little bit better. The problem is that the Internet is global and legislation is very different around the globe so the solution would have to be technical.
> It'll say a lot about the gullibility of the news media if this is indeed a joke...
Indeed. I mean, they are aware of the date (they usually push a few pranks themselves) yet they fail to be somewhat critical to the news they report.
I think most reportes have no real idea on how much 1GB is. All they know is what the pressrelease says, and it just throwns you a few figures to make you comprehend that you can fit *a lot* of emails in 1GB.
One thing I found funny was a Norwegian 'IT'-newspaper (online) that had their own prank as the first case (multimedia toothbrush with LongTooth technology (really funny, huh?). Guess what was case #2? Yup, this Google prank. No surprise really, their 'news' is mainly translated articles from TheReg.
Once upon a time, there were no cell phones. I know, its hard to imagine, but it's true. When people had a heart attack, someone used the phone by the restrooms to call an ambulance. That system worked just fine.
I don't know about the US, but in Norway there are no longer any public payphones around, so you would have to find some house, spend *crucial* time explaining what you want and hope for some trust and good will. Granted, most will lend you their phone, but you just wasted 2-5 minutes. That is a lot in the case of an emergency.
You shouldn't rely solely on cellphones to survive when going on an expedition and something is likely to happen, but there are times when the unforseen happens. It is in those cases the cellphone is a valuable bonus.
It seems very selfish to me when you disrupt the access to the network. Who are *you* to decide which calls are important and which are not?
If "people are fed up wit the constant chatter", why do they not stop talking in theaters, etc? Tried talking to the people that annoy you? Jammers are not the answer to anything. People should focus less on their own bellybutton, and be aware of other people (yes, that works both ways, you don't jam their phone and they don't talk unless they have to). I am rarely annoyed by cellphones, seems like people here have learned how to use them and when to use them.
If you want that then you can use a browser which supports it and sends you to a search page of *your* liking. If I don't want it, I can configure my browser to display an error instead. This is freedom of choice. SiteFinder did not seem to find the best webpage matching your search, but the company that paid them the most to match.
Another thing is that the way they implement this SiteFinder is breaking other stuff on the net. Internet is more than just Web, you know.
And it certainly did not help that they ran an SMTP server aswell. God knows what it collected before it dropped the connection, and the server was also RFC ignorant with programmed responses.
I was tempted to mod you a troll, but figured all the answers you would get would be quite informative on the issue.
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> As soon as your copy of XP can keep two folders auto-sync'd over a network, then you give me a call.
*calling*
I haven't tried at home, but in the environment I run at work I rely on this feature. You can force it by right-clicking on a file/folder and selecting 'Make availible offline'.
Glad to see you modded as funny.
I have an iBook with OSX, and it is far from the perfect GUI people want to portray it as.
One of the things that annoys me the most is the lack of a second mouse button. Your productivity really depends on it, and constantly moving my hand to press the apple-button while clicking is not convenient.
Also, the overall stability is not what I'd expect from a closed platform. And I'm wondering what Apple is thinking with when they have a base of 256MB RAM in their cheaper models. Nice way to scare away newly converts. 256 ain't enough to boot that flashy OS, at least not use it.
I got an iBook and an iPod, but I won't definately not be buying more of Apples products. I want functionality, freedom and *customer care*. Instead of fixing the firmware of my iPod, they release a whole new iPod (of course, with bugfixed firmware!).
I'm trying hard as hell not to troll here, but it seems that anything bad about Apple is quickly written off as trolling. Also, it is hard not to go into ranting mode when talking about this stuff. I am so divorcing Apple.
I've capped my DSL line to 1kbit and I'm downloading all I can from P2P networks just to keep slots busy. EAT THAT, CRIMINALS!
And another point is that most of these protocols do a 'rollback' before they append. They verify not only that the hash of the source is correct, but also that the first few bits of the new peer corresponds with the last few of the previous peer. I can't see this doing more harm than fake releases with wrong hash.
Let's not forget he is a Norwegian citizen and Apple has yet to launch their store here. So any way he obtained the files he did never see such agreements. /yet/. The EU is working hard to make a similar law, though.
And we do not have any DMCA here either,
Not all Norwegian banks do. There are several systems. My bank uses one of the simpler forms: a 4 digit PIN plus a certificate. To download the certificate I must enter something that is similar to the US social security number plus the PIN. I then get a SMS from the banck (to a number I have provided to them earlier, after they have made sure I am who I say I am). That SMS has a onetime password valid for 15 minutes. After entering it I get to doenload a personal certificate which I can decide to be a onetime cert or a one year cert. I feel safe enough with this solution. Could be more secure, but that would also impose problems for me. I'm on the road a lot and can't be bothered with a hardware based solution (digipass).
So Bouvet Island and Dronning Mauds land is no longer a part of Norway?! We have plenty of territory with penguins.
Right on the spot. The intent is everything in this case. And you interpreted the law correctly, it is not an offence to download, but it is an offence to upload.
First off, I'm no supporter of this verdict, but for the love of $HIGHER_POWER, please don't make this the beginning of the end of the world.
The site's sole purpose of the site was linking to infringing material. The site made that perfectly clear. The verdict is saying that if the *intent* of your link is to infringe, then "hey, we don't like it".
Your raving about a site going from disney.com to some kiddieporn nest is totally irrelevant.
This decision has little, if any, impact on "future of the Web in Norway".
Your example works for email. What if you hung posters eveywhere telling the *public* about it?
He not only knew it, he advertised it. His site sucked, but it sucks more that he must pay $16000 in damages. As a guy in the start of life he's in for tough times. His life isn't totally ruined, but damned close to.
On a side note; this week three guys got a few hours community service for kidnapping a pregnant woman en beating her senseless. They thought she owed them money, but didn't realize it was the wrong woman.
I have no faith in the Norwegian legal system, even though DVD-Jon wasn't convicted.
This brings up a very important issue; we need test stories.
You need a few gigabytes of packets to crack WEP. The way most people use their wireless networks I wouldn't worry too much. Also, if you change your WEP once a week (or more often if you use it extensively) you are pretty much safe.
The only risk you have is your neighbour (no sane person will wait for a gig outside your house).
MAC-filtering can also be effective, although you could still suffer a DoS attack from someone who has cracked your WEP, but that's just a friendly remainder to change your WEP.
Of course, the best would be to use WPA[2] combined with a logon service like NoCatAuth, where you effectively kill all routing unless they authenticate.
For Joe Schmoe WEP suffices.
Which is probably why AMD is downplaying the use of these processors in laptops. I can certainly see a place for these in a HTPC, as they appear to work better than VIA's processors.
With Microsoft's, it's just a matter of spoofing IP addresses also.
Any sane ISP block outgoing pakcets that does not match their IP pool. Spoofing is not a problem here. Besides, how would you go about with a TCP connection with the mailserver? You can't establish a spoofed TCP connection.
Come *ON*.
It's been a few thousand years since the first murder, but we still hear about them in the news.
Who cares what has happened in the past and where? The point is it happened now and they got caught red-handed.
To me this is a serious sign of bad mmorality and I will not do any business with such a company, not even the individals involved.
Why are *all* replies mentioning OSX modded up? I'm sure if you count tose '5, Informative' you end up higher than Linux and Windows posts together.
Must be full moon.
In fact, that's what caused the crash and made Iraq reinstall.
I own an iPod and thus I wish to have my music in MP3/AAC. The rips I find on the net are rarely satisfying and annoys me more often than they entertain me, so I want to rip the music myself.
If a CD I buy has some 'copy protection' (read 'playback protection') I will still buy it. However, I will crack the protection, rip it and then return it to the store and complain it is faulty and demand a cash refund since it was not working as expected.
I try to be legit, but they make it really hard for me.
Granted, the same issues are not valid when it comes to software, but the measures they take to prevent piracy [1] is bringing the value of the product down. If I have to buy a new CD each time it gets broken, they must lower the cost to do so.
[1] Their agenda is not all about piracy, though...
First off: I'm a poor student and live in Norway. I have a few hobby domains, mostly so I can run my own email configuration.
I haven't recieved any snailmail spam, most likely because I'm not American, but one evening I got a [lovely] call from China. A female (yes, I was shocked myself, first time a girl calls me!) said something about representing some huge business.
Her english was bad so I couldn't really hear what she was saying, but I finally figured out that they had heard about 'my large and great company' and that I was known worldwide for my splendid leadership and nose for business.
I kinda freaked out, hung up and went for my tinfoil hat. I changed the contact info, but when my registrar complained that my address 'BOFH Avenue 666' was bouncing I had to change it back.
Bottom line, I would very much appreciate some kind of mechanism that would protect your privacy a little bit better. The problem is that the Internet is global and legislation is very different around the globe so the solution would have to be technical.
Gaggle?
> It'll say a lot about the gullibility of the news media if this is indeed a joke...
Indeed. I mean, they are aware of the date (they usually push a few pranks themselves) yet they fail to be somewhat critical to the news they report.
I think most reportes have no real idea on how much 1GB is. All they know is what the pressrelease says, and it just throwns you a few figures to make you comprehend that you can fit *a lot* of emails in 1GB.
One thing I found funny was a Norwegian 'IT'-newspaper (online) that had their own prank as the first case (multimedia toothbrush with LongTooth technology (really funny, huh?). Guess what was case #2? Yup, this Google prank. No surprise really, their 'news' is mainly translated articles from TheReg.
To use this with search field in Mozilla Firefox, edit the file google.src in the searchplugins folder of your Firefox installation.
r ch "
/. insists on adding it):
h "
Make the action field look like this:
action="http://labs.google.com/personalized/sea
Restart Firefox and wee!
My complete google.src (note: remove whitespace before the ending " as
# Mozilla/Google plug-in by amitp+mozilla@google.com
# Modified to fit Google Labs Personalized search
<search
name="GoogleP"
description="Google Search Personalized"
method="GET"
action="http://labs.google.com/personalized/searc
queryEncoding="utf-8"
queryCharset="utf-8"
>
<input name="q" user>
<input name="sourceid" value="mozilla-search">
<inputnext name="start" factor="10">
<inputprev name="start" factor="10">
<input name="ie" value="utf-8">
<input name="oe" value="utf-8">
<interpret
browserResultType="result"
charset = "UTF-8"
resultListStart="<!--a-->"
resultListEnd="<!--z-->"
resultItemStart="<!--m-->"
resultItemEnd="<!--n-->"
>
</search>
I don't know about the US, but in Norway there are no longer any public payphones around, so you would have to find some house, spend *crucial* time explaining what you want and hope for some trust and good will. Granted, most will lend you their phone, but you just wasted 2-5 minutes. That is a lot in the case of an emergency.
You shouldn't rely solely on cellphones to survive when going on an expedition and something is likely to happen, but there are times when the unforseen happens. It is in those cases the cellphone is a valuable bonus.
It seems very selfish to me when you disrupt the access to the network. Who are *you* to decide which calls are important and which are not?
If "people are fed up wit the constant chatter", why do they not stop talking in theaters, etc? Tried talking to the people that annoy you? Jammers are not the answer to anything. People should focus less on their own bellybutton, and be aware of other people (yes, that works both ways, you don't jam their phone and they don't talk unless they have to). I am rarely annoyed by cellphones, seems like people here have learned how to use them and when to use them.
Another thing is that the way they implement this SiteFinder is breaking other stuff on the net. Internet is more than just Web, you know.
And it certainly did not help that they ran an SMTP server aswell. God knows what it collected before it dropped the connection, and the server was also RFC ignorant with programmed responses.
I was tempted to mod you a troll, but figured all the answers you would get would be quite informative on the issue.