Don't most gas stations with MobilPass have TV cameras anyhow? One would think it isn't that hard to match up the date/time/Pump# and see the vehicle and person that used the stolen / fake MobilPass.
There was a time when people claimed "It wasn't me" on ATM cash withdrawals. Once ATMs started taking pictures of the person using the machine, the claims of stolen ATM cards went way down (or people found out their kids/spouse somehow got control (or a copy) of the card).
Which way does a car company make more money - if their cars are stolen and wind up chopped into bits or if they are unstealable?
Here's a hint - who pays the insurance premium to pay to replace a car that is stolen?
The opposite argument of course would be that they -want- the cars to be hard to steal so there are no chop shop parts from stolen cars, and repairs to cars have -only- the manufacturer as a replacement parts supplier.
The banks are pushing very hard to get people to use their online bill pay rather than paying through an intermediary (like Quicken), including dropping service fees.
The reason is very simple - once people have their bill pay set up with the bank, they become very "sticky" customers. They are much less likely to go down the street and switch to get a 0.25% increase in their interest rate, they're more likely to use the bank when they want a car loan, mortgage, credit card, etc..
or since we're talking about Windows and not 1970's era command line based operating systems, you can find the packet filter options under Settings / Network Settings / [select connnection] / Advanced / Windows Firewall Settings.
People running Windows XP SP 2 have port 3306 blocked by default.
If for some reason you want to expose mySQL to the outside world, click on Add Port and add port 3306. You can then click "change scope" to limit the IP addresses that can access the port.
In addition, you should limit the IP addresses further within the user table in the mysql database so that accounts with update and stronger authority cannot access mySQL unless they are known hosts by IP address (don't relay on domain names which can easily be spoofed in reverse dns).
And put a password on the root account - that's really clearly stated in the installation instructions, but then again who RTFII?
Another precaution - if the only remote access is from known entities (which seems prudent), run mySQL on a non-standard port (not 3306) and configure clients to connect on that port. Not a bad idea for ssh either - or any port that might be the subject of an automated worm attack that is port specific.
I'll entertain that argument once NPR (that would be the one which gets some of its funding from the Federal Government, and has control of most of the FM dial below 92 Mhz for at least 6 hours a day) becomes balanced in its news and commentary.
Having asked people about this before, I'm aware that most listeners to NPR believe that its opinions are middle of the road and balanced.
During the 8 years of the Reagan administration, can you recall a single time when NPR praised Ronald Reagan for his decisions or policies? (despite his overwhelming re-election in 1984).
Censorship is what governments can do, not employers and parties to a contract.
There is nothing stopping the ISNA from starting their own web hosting facility if they wanted.
As others have pointed out, if this site was engaged in some type of subversive activity, it is much easier to monitor if it is inside the US, so it is not very likely this had anything to do with pressure from the US Govt. The Iranian government? Perhaps.... think back to the Indymedia case just before the election.
Isn't this kind of just a classic example of the 80/20 rule?
Sure you can get a nice prototype out very quickly - but as soon as you hit the 20% of the task that can't be done within the model of the framework, you get to start doing the other 80% of the work.
Hopefully people estimate their contract based on the 80% of work and not the first 80% of results.
IRC's potential value was the "R" part - Relay... Unless you connect more than one server into a network, using IRC this way is nothing more than running a chat server that happens to use the IRC protocol.
IRC's only theoretical benefit by using relay was that if you had more than one cluster of people on a channel in different parts of the world, the server would send one copy of each message among themselves, saving significant bandwidth.
But with people thinking they need to create 500 person channels, and the huge drop in the cost of bandwidth since IRC was invented, bandwidth saving is about the last thing anyone would use to justify IRC.
He stipulates that his "study" does not include secret, encrypted, or password-protected channels - which is understandable - that would be very difficult to do without having a server in the network which had special logging code. He dismisses this omission with "but it is reasonable to assume that secret or hidden channels will not contain a significant number of users."
Based on what? 93.72% of all hacker attacks are never detected.
Another point to consider regarding bandwidth and IRC. Chat systems use of bandwidth grows exponentially with the number of users per channel, not linearly. To keep the example simple, let's say each user, on average types one line per minute.
If you have a channel with 10 people, that generates 10 lines per minute that have to be sent to 10 people, or 100 lines of output per minute.
If the channel has 100 people, it is 100x100 or 10,000 lines per minute
If the channel has 1000 people, it would generate 1000x1000 outbound messages per minute or 1 million lines per minute.
So focusing on % of bandwidth used (which is not what the study used) gets seriously distorted by large channels.
Since people have already stipulated that a channel with more than 100 people gets pretty unreadable, is it reasonable to conclude that IRC networks that don't cap the maximum number of users at a relatively small number are doing so specifically to facilitate illegal activity?
Google recently added conversion tracking to AdWords, so they're already thinking that way. At this point, the conversion tracking is there for feedback for an advertiser who doesn't know / want to build their own covnersion tracking system.
But you can be sure the conversion data is going back into a statistics database to pick up differences in quality of various traffic sources.
I'm both a publisher and an advertiser on similar keywords. Back when they were starting this up, giving the ability of the web site to target the adsense ads was one of the recurring themes in the focus group - but that notion runs counter to the way Google thinks / works. If you have a web site for "Tupelo Mississipi", that should be obvious to Adsense from the content of the web site. If people could steer Adsense, they might start targeting high $ value keywords (but unrelated to the web site)
A few months ago, they created the "Ad Sense Preview Tool" which shows you which ads -would- have been displayed on the page if you had it turned on.
One thing that became very apparent is that you can focus Adsense based on recognizable words -IN- the URL, even if they are unused fluff in the GET string:
http://acme.org/frame123.php?id=5&desc=Britney-S pe ars-Naked-Posters
You've probably noticed that each time someone clicks an ad on your page, Mediaparters GoogleBot comes right behind (or maybe first) in order to do a quick scan of the page for relevance, and probably for detecting click fraud [guess]. If you used a technique like the above, you're enabling it to focus the ads on a page that AdSense hasn't seen before (Adsense was designed for static content pages)... the page better actually have something to do with Britney Spears Posters...
The same thing happened to French grapes when the phylloxera (aphid like insects) was imported as a passenger on some North American cuttings in the 1860s. The European grapes were only saved by grafting the European vines onto European root stock and creating resistant hybrid stock.
You "save seed" that is in the public domain and plant it the following year. But then you cannot use the Roundup herbicide (made by Monstanto) on your soybeans after they are planted, because the soybean plants will die. You have to use other more expensive ways to destroy the weeds in the crop after the crop germinates.
If you make less money than if you buy Monsanto's seeds, eventually you go out of business. If you buy their seed and make more money, you are successful.
If people made less money by buying Monsanto's seeds, those people would fail and would stop buying Monsanto's seed. According to the article, 85% of farmers growing soybeans in the US use these type of beans.
Several people stated incorrectly what these beans do - they do not create Roundup and Roundup is a herbicide, not a pesticide. You only achieve the benefit of the Monsanta beans if you spray Roundup on the plants as they are growing.
So a soybean farmer who comes into town and buys Roundup to spray, but hasn't bought any beans in the spring is a dead giveaway that he is doing this.
Making money by not paying Monstanto and receiving the benefits of their technology is called "stealing".
There is no argument in these cases that the farmers were innocent bystanders. Monstanto goes after them because that specific farmer had signed a contract agreeing to not replant the seeds.
What part of "Do not steal" is so hard to comprehend?
The case cited in the article where a farmer (Kem Ralph) went to prison - the farmer went to jail because he LIED IN COURT about what he had done, not because he breached his contract with Monsanto, which is a civil matter, not criminal.
"Ralph initially represented under oath that he had not stored any seed, but the district court found that, after being confronted with evidence from Sinkers that he had stored cottonseed there, he admitted that the seed had existed."
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A response to a troll is not a troll.
/. folks cannot seem to resist jumping on a speeling troll and taking a thread off topic.
Spelling flame trolls are not particularly original - however
did that - copied it from firefox to MSIE so no referral URL would appear in the HTTP request, and it still gave the error. (I'm not behind a proxy)
"Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled. "
d'oh
Don't most gas stations with MobilPass have TV cameras anyhow? One would think it isn't that hard to match up the date/time/Pump# and see the vehicle and person that used the stolen / fake MobilPass.
There was a time when people claimed "It wasn't me" on ATM cash withdrawals. Once ATMs started taking pictures of the person using the machine, the claims of stolen ATM cards went way down (or people found out their kids/spouse somehow got control (or a copy) of the card).
How naive.
Which way does a car company make more money - if their cars are stolen and wind up chopped into bits or if they are unstealable?
Here's a hint - who pays the insurance premium to pay to replace a car that is stolen?
The opposite argument of course would be that they -want- the cars to be hard to steal so there are no chop shop parts from stolen cars, and repairs to cars have -only- the manufacturer as a replacement parts supplier.
The banks are pushing very hard to get people to use their online bill pay rather than paying through an intermediary (like Quicken), including dropping service fees.
The reason is very simple - once people have their bill pay set up with the bank, they become very "sticky" customers. They are much less likely to go down the street and switch to get a 0.25% increase in their interest rate, they're more likely to use the bank when they want a car loan, mortgage, credit card, etc..
or since we're talking about Windows and not 1970's era command line based operating systems, you can find the packet filter options under Settings / Network Settings / [select connnection] / Advanced / Windows Firewall Settings.
People running Windows XP SP 2 have port 3306 blocked by default.
If for some reason you want to expose mySQL to the outside world, click on Add Port and add port 3306. You can then click "change scope" to limit the IP addresses that can access the port.
In addition, you should limit the IP addresses further within the user table in the mysql database so that accounts with update and stronger authority cannot access mySQL unless they are known hosts by IP address (don't relay on domain names which can easily be spoofed in reverse dns).
And put a password on the root account - that's really clearly stated in the installation instructions, but then again who RTFII?
Another precaution - if the only remote access is from known entities (which seems prudent), run mySQL on a non-standard port (not 3306) and configure clients to connect on that port. Not a bad idea for ssh either - or any port that might be the subject of an automated worm attack that is port specific.
I'll entertain that argument once NPR (that would be the one which gets some of its funding from the Federal Government, and has control of most of the FM dial below 92 Mhz for at least 6 hours a day) becomes balanced in its news and commentary.
Having asked people about this before, I'm aware that most listeners to NPR believe that its opinions are middle of the road and balanced.
During the 8 years of the Reagan administration, can you recall a single time when NPR praised Ronald Reagan for his decisions or policies? (despite his overwhelming re-election in 1984).
Be careful what you ask for - you could get it.
"Congress shall make no law..."
Congress != ThePlanet
Censorship is what governments can do, not employers and parties to a contract.
There is nothing stopping the ISNA from starting their own web hosting facility if they wanted.
As others have pointed out, if this site was engaged in some type of subversive activity, it is much easier to monitor if it is inside the US, so it is not very likely this had anything to do with pressure from the US Govt. The Iranian government? Perhaps.... think back to the Indymedia case just before the election.
June 3rd, 1989.
You left out:
First they came for the cigarette smokers and I wasn't a smoker.
Isn't this kind of just a classic example of the 80/20 rule?
Sure you can get a nice prototype out very quickly - but as soon as you hit the 20% of the task that can't be done within the model of the framework, you get to start doing the other 80% of the work.
Hopefully people estimate their contract based on the 80% of work and not the first 80% of results.
IRC's only theoretical benefit by using relay was that if you had more than one cluster of people on a channel in different parts of the world, the server would send one copy of each message among themselves, saving significant bandwidth.
But with people thinking they need to create 500 person channels, and the huge drop in the cost of bandwidth since IRC was invented, bandwidth saving is about the last thing anyone would use to justify IRC.
He stipulates that his "study" does not include secret, encrypted, or password-protected channels - which is understandable - that would be very difficult to do without having a server in the network which had special logging code. He dismisses this omission with "but it is reasonable to assume that secret or hidden channels will not contain a significant number of users."
Based on what? 93.72% of all hacker attacks are never detected.
Another point to consider regarding bandwidth and IRC. Chat systems use of bandwidth grows exponentially with the number of users per channel, not linearly. To keep the example simple, let's say each user, on average types one line per minute.
If you have a channel with 10 people, that generates 10 lines per minute that have to be sent to 10 people, or 100 lines of output per minute.
If the channel has 100 people, it is 100x100 or 10,000 lines per minute
If the channel has 1000 people, it would generate 1000x1000 outbound messages per minute or 1 million lines per minute.
So focusing on % of bandwidth used (which is not what the study used) gets seriously distorted by large channels.
Since people have already stipulated that a channel with more than 100 people gets pretty unreadable, is it reasonable to conclude that IRC networks that don't cap the maximum number of users at a relatively small number are doing so specifically to facilitate illegal activity?
Google recently added conversion tracking to AdWords, so they're already thinking that way. At this point, the conversion tracking is there for feedback for an advertiser who doesn't know / want to build their own covnersion tracking system.
But you can be sure the conversion data is going back into a statistics database to pick up differences in quality of various traffic sources.
I'm both a publisher and an advertiser on similar keywords. Back when they were starting this up, giving the ability of the web site to target the adsense ads was one of the recurring themes in the focus group - but that notion runs counter to the way Google thinks / works. If you have a web site for "Tupelo Mississipi", that should be obvious to Adsense from the content of the web site. If people could steer Adsense, they might start targeting high $ value keywords (but unrelated to the web site)
S pe ars-Naked-Posters
A few months ago, they created the "Ad Sense Preview Tool" which shows you which ads -would- have been displayed on the page if you had it turned on.
One thing that became very apparent is that you can focus Adsense based on recognizable words -IN- the URL, even if they are unused fluff in the GET string:
http://acme.org/frame123.php?id=5&desc=Britney-
You've probably noticed that each time someone clicks an ad on your page, Mediaparters GoogleBot comes right behind (or maybe first) in order to do a quick scan of the page for relevance, and probably for detecting click fraud [guess]. If you used a technique like the above, you're enabling it to focus the ads on a page that AdSense hasn't seen before (Adsense was designed for static content pages)... the page better actually have something to do with Britney Spears Posters...
Is anyone working yet on an encrypted P2P email protocol that bypasses the ISP's servers? (SMTP doesn't count :))
The same thing happened to French grapes when the phylloxera (aphid like insects) was imported as a passenger on some North American cuttings in the 1860s. The European grapes were only saved by grafting the European vines onto European root stock and creating resistant hybrid stock.
Hmmm... can we blame Monsanto for this?
http://www.arlindo-correia.com/060904.html
>What the &$@% did you expect a farmer to do?
You "save seed" that is in the public domain and plant it the following year. But then you cannot use the Roundup herbicide (made by Monstanto) on your soybeans after they are planted, because the soybean plants will die. You have to use other more expensive ways to destroy the weeds in the crop after the crop germinates.
If you make less money than if you buy Monsanto's seeds, eventually you go out of business. If you buy their seed and make more money, you are successful.
If people made less money by buying Monsanto's seeds, those people would fail and would stop buying Monsanto's seed. According to the article, 85% of farmers growing soybeans in the US use these type of beans.
Several people stated incorrectly what these beans do - they do not create Roundup and Roundup is a herbicide, not a pesticide. You only achieve the benefit of the Monsanta beans if you spray Roundup on the plants as they are growing.
So a soybean farmer who comes into town and buys Roundup to spray, but hasn't bought any beans in the spring is a dead giveaway that he is doing this.
Making money by not paying Monstanto and receiving the benefits of their technology is called "stealing".
There is no argument in these cases that the farmers were innocent bystanders. Monstanto goes after them because that specific farmer had signed a contract agreeing to not replant the seeds.
What part of "Do not steal" is so hard to comprehend?
The case cited in the article where a farmer (Kem Ralph) went to prison - the farmer went to jail because he LIED IN COURT about what he had done, not because he breached his contract with Monsanto, which is a civil matter, not criminal.
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"Ralph initially represented under oath that he had not stored any seed, but the district court found that, after being confronted with evidence from Sinkers that he had stored cottonseed there, he admitted that the seed had existed."
Not to worry - Diebold will build a back door into the smart gun that can be remotely programmed so it shoots the bullet out of the back of the gun.
Or add a GPS receiver to the smart gun so that it can't be used more than 10 feet away from its designated storage location.
The possibilities of a smart gun are pretty limitless once you think about it.
and the Sacred "Absolute Right to Privacy between a woman and her doctor" can only be found in the eminations of the penumbra.
What if you were wearing a T-Shirt near the abortion clinic that said "operation rescue"?
Okay, I'll bite.
If there is no "right to privacy", can police put GPS devices on cars in the parking lot of an abortion clinic?