But if cloning is still possible then the encryption is not good enough for the job. Kind of like using rot13 to encrypt your email. It looks encrypted but it is so weak that pretty much anyone can figure it out.
And like I said the carriers had done the calcualtion that it is not worth the time, effort, and expense to make the system really secure against cell phone cloning. It does not appear to be a very hard thing to setup.
Why have the cell phone companies not encrypted the communications which make it easy to scan for the codes needed to clone phones? OK, that is a silly question, it would cost them more money to implement than the fraud that it allows. Besides, they probably get a significant number of customers to just pay the fraudulent charges. Which means it is not impactinig the companies bottom line. And what are few pissed off customers? Even if customers change services there is enough churn between cell providers that there is little if any net loss of customers/revenue.
This sounds like another case of an industry that has determined there is little or no upside of doing the right thing. It would seem that implementing public/private key scheme could be used to elminate cloning of phones. But unless the cell phone companies determine that including such a feature will increase their profits it won't be done.
Personally I don't see where this is a desirable option either. I much prefer the current usage I get out of mythtv. I skip most commercials without seeing any of them automatically. I would rather not waste any time at all on commercials. And I would expect most people would agree.
Microsoft is pushing this as way to get the networks and the ad companies behind them for support. With the combined resources of all those groups they will set things up to eventually outlaw PVRs that allow users to skip ads. And in the process Microsoft will secure their place in the TVs of every house since their boxes will be the only ones allowed to interact with TV based on patents and the laws they purchase from the congress critters.
Simple can be a good thing, but not if simple means "simple enough for the mentally challenged."
Remember the intended audience. CEO's and self important VPs. They can't handle complicated technology. Face it the blackberry is just a replacement for the standard etch-a-sketch that most PHBs have trouble with.:)
Based on this info it is time to invest in storage companies and those that provide SAN management. The EU will be buying most of the storage produced in the next few years. Another good market would be ISP floor space and backup companies. They will need thousands of square feet of raised floor space and vaults for tapes for all this storage. To say nothing of the generators and other infrastructure needed to support all that storage.
Sun has some good products and their new processor line uses less power and space which will become a premimum shortly.
provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are.
Stress the virtually fool-proof. Within a month of this being activated there will be several methods to mask your systems identity. Either by changing the info in the system, blocking those packets at the firewall, or modifying those packets as they are sent out. IPv6 will tend to send MAC information for your system, but that can be defeated by changing the MAC address you use on a regular basis.
And there will be huge amounts of old gear available that won't contain such chips. Software will be created to simulate the chips so that old gear can use any services that require such identification. As such there is little chance that such measures will remain effective for very long. Of course this may result in laws being passed making it illegal to thwart such methods. Which will result in the law bidding citizens suffering while criminals get around the identification scheme.
Unfortunately a good portion of those adults go on to become managers. Which explains why they keep doing the same things over and over again. I wonder if we could hire the chimps as managers, at least they would size up the task and solve the problem instead of imitating all the managers that have gone before them.
You hit the major points in your post. It is the Christmas season and a few people are spending on other things than music or are to busy to buy more music. And a good percentage of those iPod purchases are probably Christmas gifts (or should I say Holiday gifts, is the word Christmas allowed anymore?).
This smacks of another jab from the music industry trying to cry about how they are all going to go out of business because people can download songs for a dollar. The sad part is some congress critter out there that gets huge amounts of money under the table from the recording industry will use this to launch some legislation that will impose unrealistic and unenforcable laws on everyone.
but the processor power to handle all of that will not be easy to find...
That's where you use the boinc software to assemble several hundred thousand systems across the Internet to run the mouse simulator. Now that the classic seti program has gone away I am sure there are a lot of people that no longer participate. Such a mouse simulator might get them to load the boinc software and allocate their systems.
Of course the real problem is once you get such a simulator going how do you prevent it from messing with cheese futures on the stock market?
No, this is for the Enterprise itself. It keeps pointing to the holo deck as a major source of problems as well as poor security procedures which allows anyone access to engineering and the bridge. It also reports that the firewalls used on the Enterprise are non-existant. Proven by how many times their computer system was taken over by alien programs. Funny, after all these years they appeared to still be running a Windows operating system on that starship. And the fact that aliens knew that and had viruses ready to use.:)
Sounds of falling off the chair and rolling on the floor laughing
They should contact the RIAA about prosecuting the dirty little leaches , I am sure they have lawyers that are willing to prosecute them. OW sound of my sides splitting open from the laughter
On a slightly more serious side, this apparently shows a flaw in the peer to peer model. And like most things it will run in cycles, first it was wide open peer to peer, then they used centralized trackers, then people found ways around the centralized trackers, now they will probably "solve" this problem by enforcing use of centralized tracker systems, which will ultimately mean the slimy leeches will have to find another way to get illegal copyrighted material. I expect that to happen sometime later this week. he he he he How can you not find this the funniest piece that has been on/. in many many months?
So they are using a distribution method that in effect can not be controlled and for their purpose is not secure. Sounds like they need to find a different distribution method. Or modify the protocol so they can restrict access. Probably not something that can/will happen.
If they are saying what I think they are saying is that the people using particular bittorrent clients are being banned from trackers that provide pirated files because they are leeching. he he he he No, really, I think that is what they are complaining about. The pirates don't want people STEALING files from their systems. He he he he hah hah hah No really, the pirates don't want people stealing from them.... I really think that is what they are saying.
OW! My sides are hurting! he he he stop it! Pirates complaining about STEALING! OUCH! please stop!
They will be working on Vista of course. Isn't that suppose to be delivered sometime next year? Well just like in college most programmers wait until the night before to get their semester projects completed. Microsoft is no different. The marketing group has been pitching this great new OS and writing marketing collateral for the last year. They finally called up the tech group and said this is what they need. The tech group came back laughing saying something like "the only way you can get it next year is to have 2000 programmers work on it....". And the contest was created! So now each programmer will be assigned specific modules to complete. The best thing is all this will be done for free!
And if it does not get done next week I understand Balmer is buying a really big dog and practicing saying, "well see, my dog ate the CD...".
I started using Staroffice 8 and so far it seems to work better than the version of openoffice I had been using previously. So you might try that as an alternative. It has come a long way from the old version of Staroffice.
This is happening because the cast on LOST did not punch in the numbers on the computer. That caused the magnetic pole to start shifting which will eventually result in total destruction of the planet.
I am surprised to see that no one seems to be blaming the current adminstration for this. I would have thought the Kyoto freaks would have been all over it. Repeat after me, "It is all a big cycle, it is our egos that make us think we have an effect over the whole planet."
Do you block your name and address from being published in the phone book too? Lots of fools out there from the looks of phone books.
How big of a problem is this really? Those worried about spam just need to implement greylisting and spamassassin to eliminate almost 100% of spam. Telemarketers have been defeated by the national do not call list. Those that still call you once you are on the list can be charged very hefty fines. It has been a very long time since a telemarketer called here.
So what else is a problem? If you are so concerned about email issues or spam use a gmail account. They are free and last I looked they are giving out a 100 invites to users. You can check it occasionally just to see if any legit email is sent there. And when needed just create a new one and use that in your registration info.
And if you are so afraid of communicating with people why do you have a domain name to start with? I believe the whole idea is to exchange ideas and to do that you have to allow people to communicate with you.:)
IMHO, if a registar finds a domain with bogus contact info they should try to contact the owner. If after two weeks they can not contact the owner then that domain goes up for sale again. Kind of like finding a lost nickle in the street. No names associated with it, no way to find who owns it, finders keepers then.:)
Actually most/.'ers are taking care of huge botnets of thousands of systems. And as custodians of the Internet all/.'ers should take appropriate actions to protect these networks from other/.'ers trying to build their own networks of compromised, er, supported systems.
Mythbusters did this one already. They built two machines/processes to find needles in haystacks. One used a process to burn away the hay leaving the needles and the other used magnets and gravity to separate the needles from the hay.
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But if cloning is still possible then the encryption is not good enough for the job. Kind of like using rot13 to encrypt your email. It looks encrypted but it is so weak that pretty much anyone can figure it out.
And like I said the carriers had done the calcualtion that it is not worth the time, effort, and expense to make the system really secure against cell phone cloning. It does not appear to be a very hard thing to setup.
Why have the cell phone companies not encrypted the communications which make it easy to scan for the codes needed to clone phones? OK, that is a silly question, it would cost them more money to implement than the fraud that it allows. Besides, they probably get a significant number of customers to just pay the fraudulent charges. Which means it is not impactinig the companies bottom line. And what are few pissed off customers? Even if customers change services there is enough churn between cell providers that there is little if any net loss of customers/revenue.
This sounds like another case of an industry that has determined there is little or no upside of doing the right thing. It would seem that implementing public/private key scheme could be used to elminate cloning of phones. But unless the cell phone companies determine that including such a feature will increase their profits it won't be done.
Nah, this is where they release Godzilla. And boy will he be mad when they wake him up. Don't go to Tokyo that year. It is going to be flattened.
Personally I don't see where this is a desirable option either. I much prefer the current usage I get out of mythtv. I skip most commercials without seeing any of them automatically. I would rather not waste any time at all on commercials. And I would expect most people would agree.
Microsoft is pushing this as way to get the networks and the ad companies behind them for support. With the combined resources of all those groups they will set things up to eventually outlaw PVRs that allow users to skip ads. And in the process Microsoft will secure their place in the TVs of every house since their boxes will be the only ones allowed to interact with TV based on patents and the laws they purchase from the congress critters.
Is it just in your right hand? Then it might not be from typing after all.......
Simple can be a good thing, but not if simple means "simple enough for the mentally challenged."
:)
Remember the intended audience. CEO's and self important VPs. They can't handle complicated technology. Face it the blackberry is just a replacement for the standard etch-a-sketch that most PHBs have trouble with.
You missed one.
The 419 scammers will collect them and use them to run their scams from instead of the Internet cafes they use currently.
Based on this info it is time to invest in storage companies and those that provide SAN management. The EU will be buying most of the storage produced in the next few years. Another good market would be ISP floor space and backup companies. They will need thousands of square feet of raised floor space and vaults for tapes for all this storage. To say nothing of the generators and other infrastructure needed to support all that storage.
Sun has some good products and their new processor line uses less power and space which will become a premimum shortly.
So go out there and invest!
Somewhere in the world a woman is giving birth every 5 minutes. The mission if you accept is to find this woman and stop her. :)
provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are.
Stress the virtually fool-proof. Within a month of this being activated there will be several methods to mask your systems identity. Either by changing the info in the system, blocking those packets at the firewall, or modifying those packets as they are sent out. IPv6 will tend to send MAC information for your system, but that can be defeated by changing the MAC address you use on a regular basis.
And there will be huge amounts of old gear available that won't contain such chips. Software will be created to simulate the chips so that old gear can use any services that require such identification. As such there is little chance that such measures will remain effective for very long. Of course this may result in laws being passed making it illegal to thwart such methods. Which will result in the law bidding citizens suffering while criminals get around the identification scheme.
Unfortunately a good portion of those adults go on to become managers. Which explains why they keep doing the same things over and over again. I wonder if we could hire the chimps as managers, at least they would size up the task and solve the problem instead of imitating all the managers that have gone before them.
You hit the major points in your post. It is the Christmas season and a few people are spending on other things than music or are to busy to buy more music. And a good percentage of those iPod purchases are probably Christmas gifts (or should I say Holiday gifts, is the word Christmas allowed anymore?).
This smacks of another jab from the music industry trying to cry about how they are all going to go out of business because people can download songs for a dollar. The sad part is some congress critter out there that gets huge amounts of money under the table from the recording industry will use this to launch some legislation that will impose unrealistic and unenforcable laws on everyone.
Of course. The RIAA will sue everyone involved. :)
but the processor power to handle all of that will not be easy to find...
That's where you use the boinc software to assemble several hundred thousand systems across the Internet to run the mouse simulator. Now that the classic seti program has gone away I am sure there are a lot of people that no longer participate. Such a mouse simulator might get them to load the boinc software and allocate their systems.
Of course the real problem is once you get such a simulator going how do you prevent it from messing with cheese futures on the stock market?
No, this is for the Enterprise itself. It keeps pointing to the holo deck as a major source of problems as well as poor security procedures which allows anyone access to engineering and the bridge. It also reports that the firewalls used on the Enterprise are non-existant. Proven by how many times their computer system was taken over by alien programs. Funny, after all these years they appeared to still be running a Windows operating system on that starship. And the fact that aliens knew that and had viruses ready to use. :)
Actually this reminds me of the old joke.
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Which is probably how McDonald's views their customers.
Sounds of falling off the chair and rolling on the floor laughing
/. in many many months?
They should contact the RIAA about prosecuting the dirty little leaches , I am sure they have lawyers that are willing to prosecute them. OW sound of my sides splitting open from the laughter
On a slightly more serious side, this apparently shows a flaw in the peer to peer model. And like most things it will run in cycles, first it was wide open peer to peer, then they used centralized trackers, then people found ways around the centralized trackers, now they will probably "solve" this problem by enforcing use of centralized tracker systems, which will ultimately mean the slimy leeches will have to find another way to get illegal copyrighted material. I expect that to happen sometime later this week. he he he he How can you not find this the funniest piece that has been on
So they are using a distribution method that in effect can not be controlled and for their purpose is not secure. Sounds like they need to find a different distribution method. Or modify the protocol so they can restrict access. Probably not something that can/will happen.
If they are saying what I think they are saying is that the people using particular bittorrent clients are being banned from trackers that provide pirated files because they are leeching. he he he he No, really, I think that is what they are complaining about. The pirates don't want people STEALING files from their systems. He he he he hah hah hah No really, the pirates don't want people stealing from them.... I really think that is what they are saying.
OW! My sides are hurting! he he he stop it! Pirates complaining about STEALING! OUCH! please stop!
They will be working on Vista of course. Isn't that suppose to be delivered sometime next year? Well just like in college most programmers wait until the night before to get their semester projects completed. Microsoft is no different. The marketing group has been pitching this great new OS and writing marketing collateral for the last year. They finally called up the tech group and said this is what they need. The tech group came back laughing saying something like "the only way you can get it next year is to have 2000 programmers work on it....". And the contest was created! So now each programmer will be assigned specific modules to complete. The best thing is all this will be done for free!
And if it does not get done next week I understand Balmer is buying a really big dog and practicing saying, "well see, my dog ate the CD...".
I started using Staroffice 8 and so far it seems to work better than the version of openoffice I had been using previously. So you might try that as an alternative. It has come a long way from the old version of Staroffice.
This is happening because the cast on LOST did not punch in the numbers on the computer. That caused the magnetic pole to start shifting which will eventually result in total destruction of the planet.
I am surprised to see that no one seems to be blaming the current adminstration for this. I would have thought the Kyoto freaks would have been all over it. Repeat after me, "It is all a big cycle, it is our egos that make us think we have an effect over the whole planet."
Tim is that you or Linda? :)
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Do you block your name and address from being published in the phone book too? Lots of fools out there from the looks of phone books.
How big of a problem is this really? Those worried about spam just need to implement greylisting and spamassassin to eliminate almost 100% of spam. Telemarketers have been defeated by the national do not call list. Those that still call you once you are on the list can be charged very hefty fines. It has been a very long time since a telemarketer called here.
So what else is a problem? If you are so concerned about email issues or spam use a gmail account. They are free and last I looked they are giving out a 100 invites to users. You can check it occasionally just to see if any legit email is sent there. And when needed just create a new one and use that in your registration info.
And if you are so afraid of communicating with people why do you have a domain name to start with? I believe the whole idea is to exchange ideas and to do that you have to allow people to communicate with you.
IMHO, if a registar finds a domain with bogus contact info they should try to contact the owner. If after two weeks they can not contact the owner then that domain goes up for sale again. Kind of like finding a lost nickle in the street. No names associated with it, no way to find who owns it, finders keepers then.
Actually most /.'ers are taking care of huge botnets of thousands of systems. And as custodians of the Internet all /.'ers should take appropriate actions to protect these networks from other /.'ers trying to build their own networks of compromised, er, supported systems.
Mythbusters did this one already. They built two machines/processes to find needles in haystacks. One used a process to burn away the hay leaving the needles and the other used magnets and gravity to separate the needles from the hay.
Oh, wait. Their talking about data. Never mind.