When you enter the line to the security gate a TSA numpty checks your boarding pass to make sure you are allowed to join the line. Everyone joining the line has their boarding pass checked, this is a piece of paper often printed on a computer that says what flight you are on, its just about the easiest thing to fake in the history of fakery.
Maybe it's different around where you are, but in every airport I've been to a barcode on the boarding pass is scanned to ensure it's valid.
As far as I can tell the Mac and PC version of iTunes are the same, have the same feature set and have no Mac-exclusive features in the past or currently.
In terms of the iPod and iTunes and the iTunes Store, they have in fact done the exact opposite of what you claim they would do just because they're Apple, since the iPod, iTunes and the iTunes store used to be Mac -only.
More to the point, maintaining code for a GUI application on two totally different platforms like Windows and Mac is enough work as it is. About the only sane way to do it is to abstract the system-specific code to the bare minimum number of modules which hopefully hardly ever need to be touched - in which case you'd actually have to go out of your way to put features in one version that are absent from the other.
You don't need to trust your ISP, they are legally binded to protect your privacy on most of the countries. Since you have a contract that means that's a card in your hand which you can use in case of violation.
Indeed I can. I can:
Complain to the regulator (who will spend 6 months sitting on their arse before coming back with an answer to a totally different problem)
Take them to court - though if I win they'll likely ignore the verdict and appeal it until such time as I lose or I run out of time/money. That is assuming by sheer blind luck the judge I get is reasonably tech-savvy to begin with.
Take my business elsewhere. Though seeing as there is one cable ISP in my country and one ISP supplying wholesale ADSL to the majority of retail ISPs, I'm going to run out of options pretty damn quick.
I thought the GP was referring to whois lookups returning a page of ads. A DNS lookup doesn't return a page of ads, it returns an IP address.
And a whois lookup sure doesn't return a page either, unless you're using a web-based search.
However, there are dozens of examples of DNS services providing an IP address where they should instead provide an error - and that IP address is a website which is there for the express purpose of advertising.
Myself, I carry around more than enough in the way of expensive toys as it is. The idea of another expensive toy to get lost, stolen, make me a more attractive target for a mugging or my car a more attractive target for being broken into does Not Appeal.
I've never seen a real book crash. I've never seen a real book that needs to be charged up. I've never seen a real book that will be utterly ruined if it gets even slightly damp. (Damaged, yes. Ruined, not unless you drop the thing in a swimming pool). I've never felt nervous if I'm on holiday about leaving a real book on my towel when I go to get a drink. I've never been concerned that a real book will wear out in 3 years and I'll have to replace it - or indeed what I do about anything that's DRM'd when I do replace it.
Apologizing for behavior is one thing. Making sure it never happens again is quite another.
It wasn't just an apology, but a better-for-like replacement. That is, people bought an unlicensed product, and were eventually given a licensed replacement.
The book in question (Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell) has expired copyright and is now in the public domain in the US (where all this happened). How exactly is it possible to get an "unlicensed" public domain work?
so what? The median number can easily be 0. If I'm in a town with 10 women and 9 men and I screw all the women and the 9 guys are priests or just don't get any, the average is 10, but that doesn't actually mean a thing.
If the 9 guys are priests I daresay the average number of sexual partners is closer to 17 or 18.
Virtualization exists because OS companies have a hard time making resilient OSes. In an ideal world, it wouldn't be needed, and OSes would be reliable, load-balancing... natively.
From a pure "how close does this sound to the original" perspective, vinyl isn't that good because the fidelity isn't fantastic compared with CD.
From a "how nice does this sound to my ears" perspective (which is what most people mean when they discuss sound quality) - sound quality on vinyl tends to degrade much more gracefully to the human ear.
What would be particularly interesting would be to compare the soundwave that comes out of the speakers when playing a vinyl album with the equivalent CD - many CDs today are mastered to be very loud, and when the soundwave hits the extremes of its range on a digital medium such as a CD it squares off. The net result sounds absolutely atrocious - but it's also very common.
You can always use a "me-ternet" It's not exactly rocket surgery to set up your own mail server. Although I do wonder why there aren't more cheap router-type appliances for home use. How different is routing mail from routing packets, really?
Routing mail is dead easy - Postfix isn't too hard to set up and is mostly fairly sensible - you have to really make an effort to do something silly like turn it into an open relay.
Then you learn precisely what mail admins the world over are talking about when they complain about spam....
But this "search warrant" give you a lot more than just Mr. John Doe at some street.. It gives you all the Doe's at a specific month who visited some URL. That is freaking privacy intrusion. Goodbye Yahoo.
Who exactly were you planning on using for email or IM that will ignore a subpoena from law enforcement? What good will it do you unless everyone you communicate with also uses such a provider? What about your connection to that provider?
If you become interesting to law enforcement, you're living in another world if you think they won't consider it worthy of further investigation that so many connections from your ISP are to an email provider (or, if paranoid a VPN endpoint) in another country known to be un-cooperative with your local law enforcement.
Yeah. Forget about it. It's impossible to verify. That doesn't make impossible to sell to the nearest sucker though.
Not true. If it wasn't owned by Yahoo, they'd have no standing to send a DMCA takedown letter.
Which is not to say it's the most recent version of the document, or that it's actually the one they use (rather than an early draft before some zeroes were added), but you can be fairly confident it is a Yahoo document.
I haven't taken the time to read the GPL, but I generally know what it is about. I have read the MIT and BSD licenses. In the same way, I don't care what the ingredients for some processed food product are or why they are there: there are too many.
Do so. Even if it's only version 2.
Version 3 IMO is a clarification and adds a number of clauses to deal with new challenges like patents and embedded devices which only run signed code, but the general intent is broadly similar.
Is this guidance prepared by Parliament trying to ensure that the interpretation broadly follows their intentions or a senior judge trying to ensure that laws are applied fairly nationwide?
The A5/1 cracking project aims to compress the 128-petabyte A5/1 codebook -- which would require more than 100 000 years of computing by a single PC to crack--to around 2 or 3 terabytes of data, and a computing time of around three months, with the help of about 80 computers.
Any crypto experts want to take a stab at explaining, in lay geek terms, how this is even remotely possible? That's a ~50,000:1 compression ratio.
IIRC it was found some years ago that while GSM security in principle was OK, most of the bits of the encryption key are always set to zero.
Not that Linux/Apache is perfect, but lots of people generally understand it, which is more than you can say for IBM PTF6893QT.5 or whatever their webserver software is called nowdays.
Last time I checked, IBM's webserver was a repackaging of Apache.
2. I doubt bad advice will be as obvious, more likely you'll see configuration options that end up with your server exposed to the world, maybe set up as an anonymous proxy or given write-access to your ftp server. Just think what configuration someone could give you for your samba shares, or your openldap server!
Too late. IMO, the Ubuntu forums don't just have a signal:noise ratio problem, they also have a "genuinely useful:looks useful at first glance but is actually dangerous if you read carefully" ratio problem for anything non-trivial.
Even if that was the case (which it isn't), then the crime would be called "creating a demand for child pornography" not "possession of child pornography". That isn't the purpose of these laws.
Well, then we're getting down to arguing about why those laws were created - guidance which would be excellent for those interpreting the laws but (at least in the UK) sadly absent from most laws as written.
I can think of another reason: it's much easier to prove someone possesses the images than it is to prove that they created them.
I just checked my Arch Linux and the directories cron.d, cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly are all root:root and the permissions are 755 so I can execute anything there with my UID but I can't change or install anything without being root. I know some servers will have cron execute a specific script in the user's home but this is usually done on shared hosting servers.
Have you tried setting up a crontab file as a normal user? Hint: it should work, though it won't live in/etc.
Just wait till some congressmen gets caught in a such a bind (maybe the Chinese or the Iranians hacked his computer) and the NY Times gets hold of the story.
I bet you anything you like if a high-up politician were in this kind of situation, the FBI wouldn't be raiding his house in the first place.
That may make him a moron but does it really justify locking him up for a couple of years and buggering up his life for far longer? I can just imagine the job interviews when he gets out now...
Employer: So, Mr. X, can you tell me what you've been doing for the last two years? Mr. X: I was in prison for illegal possession of a firearm. Employer: Cheerio.
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When you enter the line to the security gate a TSA numpty checks your boarding pass to make sure you are allowed to join the line. Everyone joining the line has their boarding pass checked, this is a piece of paper often printed on a computer that says what flight you are on, its just about the easiest thing to fake in the history of fakery.
Maybe it's different around where you are, but in every airport I've been to a barcode on the boarding pass is scanned to ensure it's valid.
If I was a security guard and I thought you were wearing suspenders under a shirt, I'd be interested in speaking to you further as well.
Now that's just pure, baseless speculation.
As far as I can tell the Mac and PC version of iTunes are the same, have the same feature set and have no Mac-exclusive features in the past or currently.
In terms of the iPod and iTunes and the iTunes Store, they have in fact done the exact opposite of what you claim they would do just because they're Apple, since the iPod, iTunes and the iTunes store used to be Mac -only.
More to the point, maintaining code for a GUI application on two totally different platforms like Windows and Mac is enough work as it is. About the only sane way to do it is to abstract the system-specific code to the bare minimum number of modules which hopefully hardly ever need to be touched - in which case you'd actually have to go out of your way to put features in one version that are absent from the other.
Ah, I've got used to 14 year olds on /. who seem to think that the only way to do a whois search is using a website. Apologies.
You don't need to trust your ISP, they are legally binded to protect your privacy on most of the countries. Since you have a contract that means that's a card in your hand which you can use in case of violation.
Indeed I can. I can:
I thought the GP was referring to whois lookups returning a page of ads. A DNS lookup doesn't return a page of ads, it returns an IP address.
And a whois lookup sure doesn't return a page either, unless you're using a web-based search.
However, there are dozens of examples of DNS services providing an IP address where they should instead provide an error - and that IP address is a website which is there for the express purpose of advertising.
I haven't the remotest idea.
Myself, I carry around more than enough in the way of expensive toys as it is. The idea of another expensive toy to get lost, stolen, make me a more attractive target for a mugging or my car a more attractive target for being broken into does Not Appeal.
I've never seen a real book crash. I've never seen a real book that needs to be charged up. I've never seen a real book that will be utterly ruined if it gets even slightly damp. (Damaged, yes. Ruined, not unless you drop the thing in a swimming pool). I've never felt nervous if I'm on holiday about leaving a real book on my towel when I go to get a drink. I've never been concerned that a real book will wear out in 3 years and I'll have to replace it - or indeed what I do about anything that's DRM'd when I do replace it.
Apologizing for behavior is one thing. Making sure it never happens again is quite another.
It wasn't just an apology, but a better-for-like replacement. That is, people bought an unlicensed product, and were eventually given a licensed replacement.
The book in question (Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell) has expired copyright and is now in the public domain in the US (where all this happened). How exactly is it possible to get an "unlicensed" public domain work?
so what? The median number can easily be 0. If I'm in a town with 10 women and 9 men and I screw all the women and the 9 guys are priests or just don't get any, the average is 10, but that doesn't actually mean a thing.
If the 9 guys are priests I daresay the average number of sexual partners is closer to 17 or 18.
Virtualization exists because OS companies have a hard time making resilient OSes. In an ideal world, it wouldn't be needed, and OSes would be reliable, load-balancing... natively.
Such an OS has existed. It was called OpenVMS.
They're both wrong and right simultaneously.
From a pure "how close does this sound to the original" perspective, vinyl isn't that good because the fidelity isn't fantastic compared with CD.
From a "how nice does this sound to my ears" perspective (which is what most people mean when they discuss sound quality) - sound quality on vinyl tends to degrade much more gracefully to the human ear.
What would be particularly interesting would be to compare the soundwave that comes out of the speakers when playing a vinyl album with the equivalent CD - many CDs today are mastered to be very loud, and when the soundwave hits the extremes of its range on a digital medium such as a CD it squares off. The net result sounds absolutely atrocious - but it's also very common.
You can always use a "me-ternet" It's not exactly rocket surgery to set up your own mail server. Although I do wonder why there aren't more cheap router-type appliances for home use. How different is routing mail from routing packets, really?
Routing mail is dead easy - Postfix isn't too hard to set up and is mostly fairly sensible - you have to really make an effort to do something silly like turn it into an open relay.
Then you learn precisely what mail admins the world over are talking about when they complain about spam....
But this "search warrant" give you a lot more than just Mr. John Doe at some street.. It gives you all the Doe's at a specific month who visited some URL. That is freaking privacy intrusion. Goodbye Yahoo.
Who exactly were you planning on using for email or IM that will ignore a subpoena from law enforcement? What good will it do you unless everyone you communicate with also uses such a provider? What about your connection to that provider?
If you become interesting to law enforcement, you're living in another world if you think they won't consider it worthy of further investigation that so many connections from your ISP are to an email provider (or, if paranoid a VPN endpoint) in another country known to be un-cooperative with your local law enforcement.
Yeah. Forget about it. It's impossible to verify. That doesn't make impossible to sell to the nearest sucker though.
Not true. If it wasn't owned by Yahoo, they'd have no standing to send a DMCA takedown letter.
Which is not to say it's the most recent version of the document, or that it's actually the one they use (rather than an early draft before some zeroes were added), but you can be fairly confident it is a Yahoo document.
I haven't taken the time to read the GPL, but I generally know what it is about. I have read the MIT and BSD licenses. In the same way, I don't care what the ingredients for some processed food product are or why they are there: there are too many.
Do so. Even if it's only version 2.
Version 3 IMO is a clarification and adds a number of clauses to deal with new challenges like patents and embedded devices which only run signed code, but the general intent is broadly similar.
Is this guidance prepared by Parliament trying to ensure that the interpretation broadly follows their intentions or a senior judge trying to ensure that laws are applied fairly nationwide?
TFA:
Any crypto experts want to take a stab at explaining, in lay geek terms, how this is even remotely possible? That's a ~50,000:1 compression ratio.
IIRC it was found some years ago that while GSM security in principle was OK, most of the bits of the encryption key are always set to zero.
I don't think this is true of 3G GSM though...
Not that Linux/Apache is perfect, but lots of people generally understand it, which is more than you can say for IBM PTF6893QT.5 or whatever their webserver software is called nowdays.
Last time I checked, IBM's webserver was a repackaging of Apache.
2. I doubt bad advice will be as obvious, more likely you'll see configuration options that end up with your server exposed to the world, maybe set up as an anonymous proxy or given write-access to your ftp server. Just think what configuration someone could give you for your samba shares, or your openldap server!
Too late. IMO, the Ubuntu forums don't just have a signal:noise ratio problem, they also have a "genuinely useful:looks useful at first glance but is actually dangerous if you read carefully" ratio problem for anything non-trivial.
Even if that was the case (which it isn't), then the crime would be called "creating a demand for child pornography" not "possession of child pornography". That isn't the purpose of these laws.
Well, then we're getting down to arguing about why those laws were created - guidance which would be excellent for those interpreting the laws but (at least in the UK) sadly absent from most laws as written.
I can think of another reason: it's much easier to prove someone possesses the images than it is to prove that they created them.
I just checked my Arch Linux and the directories cron.d, cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly are all root:root and the permissions are 755 so I can execute anything there with my UID but I can't change or install anything without being root. I know some servers will have cron execute a specific script in the user's home but this is usually done on shared hosting servers.
Have you tried setting up a crontab file as a normal user? Hint: it should work, though it won't live in /etc.
What kind of carpenter uses a chisel which tends to fall to pieces?
Just wait till some congressmen gets caught in a such a bind (maybe the Chinese or the Iranians hacked his computer) and the NY Times gets hold of the story.
I bet you anything you like if a high-up politician were in this kind of situation, the FBI wouldn't be raiding his house in the first place.
That may make him a moron but does it really justify locking him up for a couple of years and buggering up his life for far longer? I can just imagine the job interviews when he gets out now...
Employer: So, Mr. X, can you tell me what you've been doing for the last two years?
Mr. X: I was in prison for illegal possession of a firearm.
Employer: Cheerio.
It's a lot more simple and just as effective to do something like,
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
Even just zeroing the drive is beyond pretty much all data recovery efforts.
That requires a functioning, unix-like operating system. DBAN doesn't.