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Actually, the server's fine. Links are to the Coral Cache, and the original works fine and fast; I was able to download the video at speeds I would expect from a major ISP's hosting.
That's one of the most cynical comments I've read in a while, and if I had points, I would have modded it down Flamebait. As I was reading the article I was thinking to myself that someone should create a company that sells well-configured, generally bugfree computers to the general public at Dell costs. I'm convinced it could work and to staggering success if done right; the problem is that nobody has of yet done so, at least any company I know.
But good to see the mainstream press catching up to it. This chip is part of a larger effort by major software developers and hardware manufacturers to mostly stop piracy in all forms and control what you can do with your computer and when.
Recent studies have shown that the denizens of AOL World are, on average, twenty IQ points lower than those of other planets. Researchers are baffled by the results but at least one suggests that the fact that they are still using dialup when transmission methods one billion times faster are available at the same price on other planets may have something to do with it.
Microsoft should now have released a patch to Microsoft Antispyware and also have their monthly Malicious Software Removal Tool (which customers running XP Automatic Updates will have automatically run) detect and delete the Sony rootkit. IMHO, very cool (if they did it, can someone confirm?)
I submitted an article about this a few weeks ago, it was rejected for some reason. Probably too many Sony stories already.;^)
Any sort of "remote destroy" code that could be sent through an online service would make me seriously question the designers of the service and the console. What happens if someone cracks the network and broadcasts the code to all connected hosts? The results would scare even the most DRM-happy business person.
Now that they've revealed how to do this... Could someone now register said URLs before the virus author does and thus wrest control of this massive botnet? Or, on the other hand, could a company like F-Secure register one of the URLs to point to an autocleaning Sober scan program?
McAfee's been doing this for years and when I was doing tech support, I frequently recommended my customers use Trend Micro HouseCall, a free online virus scan, whenever their current virus scanner wasn't working or wasn't installed.
It almost certainly would either attempt to phone home when it detected that you were tampering with it, or (smarter) would constantly send a heartbeat signal to the dealer that would be interrupted by your tampering, which would then tell them that you've turned it off.
At Patriot, Madden says he's in the process of switching to a new Internet-based system that doesn't use codes. The system requires fewer staff to manage and will allow him to pick the moment when a car carrying one of his loans wont start. With one phone call, he can shut down a driver anywhere in the country for non- payment.
Anyway, I abandoned having more than one IM client installed a while ago. ICQ, for example, has always taken up gobs of RAM, and was one of the main reasons I wanted to consolidate a few years ago. I used to use Gaim, which is a good open source client that can connect to most networks (including Jabber, so it'll work with Google Talk). For whatever reason though, it kept crashing on me whenever I'd send a file, so now I'm using Trillian (Pro), which has worked very well for me. (Much better than the 1.x version I tried several years ago, if anyone hasn't tried it in a while.)
As for the networks themselves, I have contacts on the major four (ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo) and really, the features of each aren't that different when they're all in the same client; it's all mostly small things. ICQ doesn't have the thing that shows when you're typing, for example. But for me, if they can do text chat well and can send files, they're fine for my usage.
What I'm wondering is why they don't use something like an IP address geographical locator in order to determine an approximate location. Yes, technically you could route your call through a tunnel, but 99% of people aren't going to be hiding their true IP address when they're making a phone call. That would work fine for E911 with a decently small margin of error.
Proof of concept crashed (or at least, froze to the point of me having to kill the process) my Firefox, but did not open calc.exe. So technically, it could be used as a DoS attack on other browsers as well, though not nearly as badly as on IE.
Slightly offtopic, but if you're wondering, NAV calls anything it considers suspicious enough to stop but doesn't have a name for yet "Bloodhound" because that's the component that detects buffer overflows and the like. Just something rather interesting I found when I was doing tech support.
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Actually, the server's fine. Links are to the Coral Cache, and the original works fine and fast; I was able to download the video at speeds I would expect from a major ISP's hosting.
That's one of the most cynical comments I've read in a while, and if I had points, I would have modded it down Flamebait. As I was reading the article I was thinking to myself that someone should create a company that sells well-configured, generally bugfree computers to the general public at Dell costs. I'm convinced it could work and to staggering success if done right; the problem is that nobody has of yet done so, at least any company I know.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Also, do you have any cheese?
They're a founding member of the Trusted Computing Group. You better believe they have a vested interest in the technology.
But good to see the mainstream press catching up to it. This chip is part of a larger effort by major software developers and hardware manufacturers to mostly stop piracy in all forms and control what you can do with your computer and when.
Read the TCPA FAQ, and take a look at Against TCPA, an anti-TCPA site if you're interested. For an alternate perspective, you can also view the official Trusted Computing Group site.
Personally, I hate it, I don't think it will succeed, and I will *never* buy a computer with such a module installed.
Recent studies have shown that the denizens of AOL World are, on average, twenty IQ points lower than those of other planets. Researchers are baffled by the results but at least one suggests that the fact that they are still using dialup when transmission methods one billion times faster are available at the same price on other planets may have something to do with it.
News at eleven.
Microsoft should now have released a patch to Microsoft Antispyware and also have their monthly Malicious Software Removal Tool (which customers running XP Automatic Updates will have automatically run) detect and delete the Sony rootkit. IMHO, very cool (if they did it, can someone confirm?)
;^)
I submitted an article about this a few weeks ago, it was rejected for some reason. Probably too many Sony stories already.
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Any sort of "remote destroy" code that could be sent through an online service would make me seriously question the designers of the service and the console. What happens if someone cracks the network and broadcasts the code to all connected hosts? The results would scare even the most DRM-happy business person.
Best. Personal. Ever.
Damn mods wouldn't know great video games if one sliced them in the ass... ;^)
At least he's posting about something with which he has experience.
Now that they've revealed how to do this... Could someone now register said URLs before the virus author does and thus wrest control of this massive botnet? Or, on the other hand, could a company like F-Secure register one of the URLs to point to an autocleaning Sober scan program?
I guess it's a race!
As I remember, copyright can't apply to less than three words (can someone verify this?). So yes, you have.
Wow, great post. I just used my last mod point but you would definitely have been modded up if I had any left.
McAfee's been doing this for years and when I was doing tech support, I frequently recommended my customers use Trend Micro HouseCall, a free online virus scan, whenever their current virus scanner wasn't working or wasn't installed.
Because this is Slashdot.
And the great thing about that is, you don't have to ship them anything or do anything!
"Your connection has now been optimized. Have a nice day."
It almost certainly would either attempt to phone home when it detected that you were tampering with it, or (smarter) would constantly send a heartbeat signal to the dealer that would be interrupted by your tampering, which would then tell them that you've turned it off.
Or what if you piss off the dealer somehow?
At Patriot, Madden says he's in the process of switching to a new Internet-based system that doesn't use codes. The system requires fewer staff to manage and will allow him to pick the moment when a car carrying one of his loans wont start. With one phone call, he can shut down a driver anywhere in the country for non- payment.
Sounds like you're looking for Trillian with the Jabber plugin (and some instructions) to be able to connect to all three.
Anyway, I abandoned having more than one IM client installed a while ago. ICQ, for example, has always taken up gobs of RAM, and was one of the main reasons I wanted to consolidate a few years ago. I used to use Gaim, which is a good open source client that can connect to most networks (including Jabber, so it'll work with Google Talk). For whatever reason though, it kept crashing on me whenever I'd send a file, so now I'm using Trillian (Pro), which has worked very well for me. (Much better than the 1.x version I tried several years ago, if anyone hasn't tried it in a while.)
As for the networks themselves, I have contacts on the major four (ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo) and really, the features of each aren't that different when they're all in the same client; it's all mostly small things. ICQ doesn't have the thing that shows when you're typing, for example. But for me, if they can do text chat well and can send files, they're fine for my usage.
What I'm wondering is why they don't use something like an IP address geographical locator in order to determine an approximate location. Yes, technically you could route your call through a tunnel, but 99% of people aren't going to be hiding their true IP address when they're making a phone call. That would work fine for E911 with a decently small margin of error.
And you'd be right if you wanted to stay out of beta territory, because this is indeed RC3, not final.
(I'm running it right now and it's very stable, but your prerogative.)
Proof of concept crashed (or at least, froze to the point of me having to kill the process) my Firefox, but did not open calc.exe. So technically, it could be used as a DoS attack on other browsers as well, though not nearly as badly as on IE.
Slightly offtopic, but if you're wondering, NAV calls anything it considers suspicious enough to stop but doesn't have a name for yet "Bloodhound" because that's the component that detects buffer overflows and the like. Just something rather interesting I found when I was doing tech support.