And suppose you set your bittorrent client to halt seeding at the 100% ratio (1 bit uploaded for every bit uploaded). I have not distributed "thousands" of copies. At the most I've distributed a SINGLE copy. Does this fall under fair use?
The article says these medium sized black holes have eluded scientists for over a decade, yet according to Smithsonian Intimate Guide to the Cosmos:
... in 2003, findings from Hubble suggested that the star cluster M15 harbors a 4,000-solar-mass black hole, and that the cluster G1 is home to a black hole 20,000 times more massive than our own sun. These discoveries were the first evidence that we have a full range of black holes.
Was this simply further examples of similarly sized black holes?
Round can be easily defined as all points (in this case approximately) equidistant from a central point. Perhaps we could judge the % allowance outside of the equidistant range based on radius?
This forum thread was started about this topic and the owner (whose screen name on this forum is cypher35) ends up posting details about the suit. A very interesting disscussion.
I live in rural Texas and use a sattelite to connect to the net. I don't know how they expect to be able to fight a war with this when I can't even play a first person shooter due to the response time:p On the current sattelite (Starband) I get about 80-90k/s down with an abysmal 2k/s up.
I'm sure their router will be faster, but my interest has been piqued and I want to see how much faster so I can mail Starband en masse in attempt to get my bandwith increased:)
From TFA: According to the settlement, two-thirds of the unclaimed proceeds will go to public schools around the state in the form of Microsoft software and vouchers.
In version 1.0 and version 1.1 xboxes, the USB controller are the two removable cards which are vertically plugged into the board, just on the inside of the case parallel to the actual ports. They have a set of yellow wires running from the motherboard to the chip. BECAREFUL WHEN UNPLUGGING THESE.
As for later version, I believe they are on the board, have a look see at http://www.xbox-scene.com/ poke around the forums, I'm sure someone there knows. The only reason I know about 1.0/1.1 is because I managed to snap an inductor off my chip when unlugging those yellow wires I mentioned (did I mention be careful?) and broke my 3rd player port. Luckily I had a friend who had broken down an old XBox for parts so I just stole a replacement from him:p
The robotics competition would be very cool and would appeal to the audience that likes to have something tangible to work with. For the more abstract thinkers/coders a war game would be more appropriate.
War games work basically as such:
Take 2 computers with the same operating system (Linux is preferrable due to the wide range of coding tools available), both teams are allotted time to secure their computers however they see fit (short of changing the operating system). First team to break the other's security is the victor.
If this doesn't seem appealing, just be creative. Think of something that you would find entertaining and they will more than likely agree, high school students who are interested in math/science are (in my experience) fairly mature. Don't try to think on their level, often you'll find they're thinking on yours.
*cough*
Quote from the article:
"The balloons range in size from four to seven feet; depending on the mix of sizes, anywhere from 50 to 150 balloons may be needed."
I currently attend a Texas High School and I am quite glad that I will be graduating come spring of '05. I've seen my school dump the largest portion of its funds into the football team which then proceeded to loose every game, while our science wing must deal with outdated equipment, aging textbooks, and in many cases if the teacher is not an honors teacher, they have no idea what it is they are teaching. Our mathematics department is in the same condition.
This is just a slight example of how ill-directed our administrator's are. They are easily blinded by people who have even the slightest ability to market a service or product, and I would not be in the least surprised to see that my class mates are all tagged with RFID in some form or fashion at the start of the next school year.
You are correct, as an object approaches the speed of light, the object's mass increases, requiring exponential quantities of fuel as the object approaches c.
Some states (such as Texas, where I live) have laws against display devices being the the drivers field of view unless they are used to display driving information (such as speed, fuel, etc.) Check your state laws before you run out and mod yoru car (or pay to have it modded) as I was hasseled by my local police, even though my 7" screen displays driving information, but I happened to be running WinAmp with MilkDrop at the time I was pulled over.
"And if the shuttle program is over, manned space flight as we know it would be over."
What about those competing for the Anasari X-Prize? I seriously doubt they or the Russians would be greatly impacted by the failure of America's space shuttle program.
Wrong. Those screens are from the 2.0 release. This is the 2.2. I just used this my own box with the VNC Inject and I was given a very nice screen shot of the target box's desktop, the only problem I've come across so far is hiding the huge ass command box that pops up once the exploit has been injected.
I subscribe to the NMap newsletter and here is what they had to say regarding this:
This is just a heads-up that most Nmap functionality will not work on
the just-released Microsoft Windows SP2. Why? Microsoft apparently
broke it on purpose! When an Nmap user asked MS why security tools
such as Nmap broke, MS responded[1]:
"We have removed support for TCP sends over RAW sockets in SP2.
We surveyed applications and found the only apps using this on XP were
people writing attack tools."
I don't know why they consider Nmap an "attack tool", particularly
when they recommend it on some of their own pages[2]. Shrug.
Removing SP2 re-enables the functionality and causes Nmap to work
again. Many problems unrelated to Nmap have been found with SP2 as
well[3], though it does some welcome security improvements for people
stuck on that platform.
I will work on this if I get time, but am currently busy rewriting the
core port scanning engine for the next version of Nmap. It is much
faster, offers much better multiple-host parallelization, and provides
other long-desired features such as completion time estimates. If
someone finds a solution to this SP2 problem, please send a patch. It
may not be too hard, as Nmap supports operating systems such as Win95
that didn't have raw socket support in the first place.
Cheers,
Fyodor
[1] http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2004/Apr-Jun/00 77.html
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/security/tools.asp
[3] http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingn ews.jhtml?articleId=23905071
I guess it will work for getting kids to rat out their friends for mod-chipping an x-box.
Fortunately, chipping in of itself is not illegal, it's the use of most of the modded BIOS's which are made from hijacked XDK code. There are a few legitimate BIOS files available (Cromwell for instance) that use of does not violate any law or copyright issue.
It's been a while since I've been in the X-box modding scene so things might have changed, but I doubt it.
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And suppose you set your bittorrent client to halt seeding at the 100% ratio (1 bit uploaded for every bit uploaded). I have not distributed "thousands" of copies. At the most I've distributed a SINGLE copy. Does this fall under fair use?
What? It's a satire?! Inconceivable!
Round can be easily defined as all points (in this case approximately) equidistant from a central point. Perhaps we could judge the % allowance outside of the equidistant range based on radius?
Since when is the EULA law? Since a court ruled in its favor.
For the technical: velocity is a vector quantity, while speed is a scalar (i.e. velocity has direction to its motion, speed does not.)
Man, I would hate to see all the dust gunked up in that computer's fan.
This forum thread was started about this topic and the owner (whose screen name on this forum is cypher35) ends up posting details about the suit. A very interesting disscussion.
1. Dongle
2. Katcher
3. Sell tests
4. ???
5. Jail!
I'm sure their router will be faster, but my interest has been piqued and I want to see how much faster so I can mail Starband en masse in attempt to get my bandwith increased :)
According to the settlement, two-thirds of the unclaimed proceeds will go to public schools around the state in the form of Microsoft software and vouchers.
So no, the claim filers will not get the excess.
As for later version, I believe they are on the board, have a look see at http://www.xbox-scene.com/ poke around the forums, I'm sure someone there knows. The only reason I know about 1.0/1.1 is because I managed to snap an inductor off my chip when unlugging those yellow wires I mentioned (did I mention be careful?) and broke my 3rd player port. Luckily I had a friend who had broken down an old XBox for parts so I just stole a replacement from him :p
War games work basically as such:
Take 2 computers with the same operating system (Linux is preferrable due to the wide range of coding tools available), both teams are allotted time to secure their computers however they see fit (short of changing the operating system). First team to break the other's security is the victor.
If this doesn't seem appealing, just be creative. Think of something that you would find entertaining and they will more than likely agree, high school students who are interested in math/science are (in my experience) fairly mature. Don't try to think on their level, often you'll find they're thinking on yours.
*cough* Quote from the article: "The balloons range in size from four to seven feet; depending on the mix of sizes, anywhere from 50 to 150 balloons may be needed."
This is just a slight example of how ill-directed our administrator's are. They are easily blinded by people who have even the slightest ability to market a service or product, and I would not be in the least surprised to see that my class mates are all tagged with RFID in some form or fashion at the start of the next school year.
You are correct, as an object approaches the speed of light, the object's mass increases, requiring exponential quantities of fuel as the object approaches c.
Some states (such as Texas, where I live) have laws against display devices being the the drivers field of view unless they are used to display driving information (such as speed, fuel, etc.) Check your state laws before you run out and mod yoru car (or pay to have it modded) as I was hasseled by my local police, even though my 7" screen displays driving information, but I happened to be running WinAmp with MilkDrop at the time I was pulled over.
What about those competing for the Anasari X-Prize? I seriously doubt they or the Russians would be greatly impacted by the failure of America's space shuttle program.
Whoever did this has too much free time: ASCII Star Wars
And what would have happened (other than the obvious) had done had their safety system failed?
Has the Beowulf cluster been replaced with the Hydra cluster? That's not nearly as catchy.
Wrong. Those screens are from the 2.0 release. This is the 2.2. I just used this my own box with the VNC Inject and I was given a very nice screen shot of the target box's desktop, the only problem I've come across so far is hiding the huge ass command box that pops up once the exploit has been injected.
I subscribe to the NMap newsletter and here is what they had to say regarding this: This is just a heads-up that most Nmap functionality will not work on the just-released Microsoft Windows SP2. Why? Microsoft apparently broke it on purpose! When an Nmap user asked MS why security tools such as Nmap broke, MS responded[1]: "We have removed support for TCP sends over RAW sockets in SP2. We surveyed applications and found the only apps using this on XP were people writing attack tools." I don't know why they consider Nmap an "attack tool", particularly when they recommend it on some of their own pages[2]. Shrug. Removing SP2 re-enables the functionality and causes Nmap to work again. Many problems unrelated to Nmap have been found with SP2 as well[3], though it does some welcome security improvements for people stuck on that platform. I will work on this if I get time, but am currently busy rewriting the core port scanning engine for the next version of Nmap. It is much faster, offers much better multiple-host parallelization, and provides other long-desired features such as completion time estimates. If someone finds a solution to this SP2 problem, please send a patch. It may not be too hard, as Nmap supports operating systems such as Win95 that didn't have raw socket support in the first place. Cheers, Fyodor [1] http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2004/Apr-Jun/00 77.html
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/security /tools.asp
[3] http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingn ews.jhtml?articleId=23905071
YAY! That's all I have to say. I don't think anymore is required.