Seriously, unless they lockdown ALL current burning software/hardware there is no way to apply this for current generation CD burning technology.
Of course, I'm sure the RIAA would love to have a nice conversation with Mr. Gates about some of the special 'features' they'd like to include in Longhorn. That seems like the most economical and effective way to end small cases of piracy: build it into the OS at a level where you can't remove it.
I used to work as a mobile installer, this is common practice. All ford radios, most BMW, most Jettas, these all require keys. If the shop you went to doesn't carry these, don't ever get something installed there. The keys ARE avalible to car stereo stores.
Another common practice to make radios harder to replace (and therefore making the consumer upgrade to a $500 option just to get a CD player and not a tape player) is to tie in other vital functions of the car into the same housing. Newer (2002ish and up) GM radios can control such things as the buzzer that lets you know when your keys are inside, the dome light, etc. The only way around it is to not actually replace your head unit, just to relocate it, which is a huge pain and will cost you more at a shop.
Be it data or physical, possession of an item is a well known base for a crime. Pirated software/music/games, viewing pornography if you are under 18, possession of drugs/stolen goods/etc.
If someone were to just hand you a picture of a naked child for no reason, and you threw it away as soon as it was feasible, that's one thing. If you tracked down R@y Gold or whatnot and purchased it, that's another.
Tell me the moral difference between buying a stereo you suspect was stolen, and buying child pornography where the child is most likely being exploited.
The very definition of crime is supposed to be based on actually harming someone. Or intending to harm someone. Or knowingly assisting someone to cause harm. Or, at a bare minimum, recklessly risking causing harm to someone. Maybe I missed one, but there should be a very obvious theme here
Right. But the very idea behind prosecuting people who posess child pornography is that they are supporting the people that exploit children.
From an advisory at @slash, linked in the main article...
Timeline
3/26/2004 Vendor notified of issue
5/03/2004 Vendor informs us that they have a patch available
5/03/2004 Advisory released
This was for a security hole in the Apple Filesharing Service, both on OSX and OSX server. The vulnderability was/is remotely exploitable for administrative privilages.
IMHO, a filesharing exploit that works on OSX server is a pretty large problem, and a month + change to fix a buffer overflow in a packet seems a bit extreme.
While I would agree with you that size doesn't matter, when talking about how dark matter affects normal matter via gravitry, I would tend to argue that mass is very very important.
The analogy with rocks and clouds is a bit of a stretch, because a cloud is a collection of molecules, not a particle.
I'd say it would be more like trying to detect a large ball with a rock. Even if you can't see the ball, you'd notice that the rocks change path for no apparent reason.
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Kinda makes you wonder what size the batteries would have to be on that to get a decent range.
While users/admins failing to patch is a large part of the problem, an even bigger part is this:
LSASS listens to the internet, and you can't tell it not to. This isn't a problem for people running behind NATs or in otherwise secure networks, but for the general public, this is a stupid thing to have on by default, and AFIAK you can't turn it off, you can only block it.
As far as the MS firewall, the reason it doesn't get used much is that it completely lacks the ability to open up a port that you want open: it's all or nothing.
These are both rather large problems that are WELL within MS's ability to fix. It's not like this is the first worm to take advantage of ports open by default.
The rules of this particular guessing system say that you can't use outside equipment. If you can do all the neccesary calculations in your head, as well as accurately measure the speed of the wheel and ball, then congradulations, you can win at roulette repeatedly.
If you can't? Then you are not allowed to bring in outside equipment, and should either guesstimate, or not play. Seeing the sheer amount of cash that goes through a casino, I am all for laws that penalize you for trying to take money away from them by not following the rules they set.
Folks- he should be fired by their board, or(gasp) take a pay cut, for the damage he's done by ignoring clearly obvious publicity problems the deal would generate.
Errr... what damage? Call me crazy, but according to the article, which I'm sure you read, has a net gain of 3,300 sites in the last thirty days and the stock is doing better this month this year than last year.
Yes, the man should be publicly hanged for runining his company.
In an earlier story about this, someone made an excellent point: If the RIAA is searching the Kazaa networks for people sharing copyrighted materials, then they ARE breaking the law, AFIAK.
The Kazaa EULA states:
2. What You Can't Do Under This Licence... 2.11 Monitor traffic or make search requests in order to accumulate information about individual users;... 2.14 Collect or store personal data about other users.
Unless I am mistaken, Kazaa is the only legal way to access the Kazaa network. That would lead me to believe that unless Kazaa gave RIAA explicit permission to break the liscense, then the RIAA is accessing the private network of Kazaa without permission, and breaking the law.
IANAL or anything, so someone please correct me if I am wrong.
Getting a loyalty card without them knowing your real name doesn't really defeat the purpose of the cards. Yes, they can't mail you junk mail, but that's about it.
Every time you go shopping there, they scan the card and know what you've bought during past visits. Even if the name on the account says 'Ben Dover,' you're flattering yourself if you think you are more to Walmart than what you buy. They can still print out coupons that are targeted, and you are still more likely to shop at places where you have a 'discount card.'
Hrmm, I have to ask it out of sheer curiosity, but if we all followed the parent post's suggestion, could he be legally liable for initiating some sort of DDoS?
I would have to agree with karate as something that does a lot to increase growth in a person. Having had three years of karate as a child, two as an adolescent, and currently involved with jujitsu as a college student, I would have to say martial arts have helped me greatly. No, I did not beat up the school bully. No, I did not become Mr. Popular with my Bruce Lee skills. Martial arts taught me something more important than all that: dicipline. Martial arts kept me out of trouble (with violence, anyway) by giving me the confidence in my own body that I needed, so that I didn't have to prove anything.
It's not for everyone, but martial arts really helped me improve my life.
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Seriously, unless they lockdown ALL current burning software/hardware there is no way to apply this for current generation CD burning technology.
Of course, I'm sure the RIAA would love to have a nice conversation with Mr. Gates about some of the special 'features' they'd like to include in Longhorn. That seems like the most economical and effective way to end small cases of piracy: build it into the OS at a level where you can't remove it.
I used to work as a mobile installer, this is common practice. All ford radios, most BMW, most Jettas, these all require keys. If the shop you went to doesn't carry these, don't ever get something installed there. The keys ARE avalible to car stereo stores.
Another common practice to make radios harder to replace (and therefore making the consumer upgrade to a $500 option just to get a CD player and not a tape player) is to tie in other vital functions of the car into the same housing. Newer (2002ish and up) GM radios can control such things as the buzzer that lets you know when your keys are inside, the dome light, etc. The only way around it is to not actually replace your head unit, just to relocate it, which is a huge pain and will cost you more at a shop.
Concept cars are like college programming projects
Hrmm, as far as I know, many excellent things have come out of college programming projects.
Diablo comes to mind very quickly, and I think the public and the creators were very happy with the end result.
Be it data or physical, possession of an item is a well known base for a crime. Pirated software/music/games, viewing pornography if you are under 18, possession of drugs/stolen goods/etc.
If someone were to just hand you a picture of a naked child for no reason, and you threw it away as soon as it was feasible, that's one thing. If you tracked down R@y Gold or whatnot and purchased it, that's another.
Tell me the moral difference between buying a stereo you suspect was stolen, and buying child pornography where the child is most likely being exploited.
The very definition of crime is supposed to be based on actually harming someone. Or intending to harm someone. Or knowingly assisting someone to cause harm. Or, at a bare minimum, recklessly risking causing harm to someone. Maybe I missed one, but there should be a very obvious theme here
Right. But the very idea behind prosecuting people who posess child pornography is that they are supporting the people that exploit children.
Please tell me you did it with a fax modem, and didn't print those sheets out. Using 2-3 and taping them into a loop works so much better.
From an advisory at @slash, linked in the main article...
Timeline
3/26/2004 Vendor notified of issue
5/03/2004 Vendor informs us that they have a patch available
5/03/2004 Advisory released
This was for a security hole in the Apple Filesharing Service, both on OSX and OSX server. The vulnderability was/is remotely exploitable for administrative privilages.
IMHO, a filesharing exploit that works on OSX server is a pretty large problem, and a month + change to fix a buffer overflow in a packet seems a bit extreme.
While I would agree with you that size doesn't matter, when talking about how dark matter affects normal matter via gravitry, I would tend to argue that mass is very very important.
The analogy with rocks and clouds is a bit of a stretch, because a cloud is a collection of molecules, not a particle.
I'd say it would be more like trying to detect a large ball with a rock. Even if you can't see the ball, you'd notice that the rocks change path for no apparent reason.
Kinda makes you wonder what size the batteries would have to be on that to get a decent range.
While users/admins failing to patch is a large part of the problem, an even bigger part is this:
LSASS listens to the internet, and you can't tell it not to. This isn't a problem for people running behind NATs or in otherwise secure networks, but for the general public, this is a stupid thing to have on by default, and AFIAK you can't turn it off, you can only block it.
As far as the MS firewall, the reason it doesn't get used much is that it completely lacks the ability to open up a port that you want open: it's all or nothing.
These are both rather large problems that are WELL within MS's ability to fix. It's not like this is the first worm to take advantage of ports open by default.
In Soviet Russia, athiesm chooses scientists.
The rules of this particular guessing system say that you can't use outside equipment. If you can do all the neccesary calculations in your head, as well as accurately measure the speed of the wheel and ball, then congradulations, you can win at roulette repeatedly.
If you can't? Then you are not allowed to bring in outside equipment, and should either guesstimate, or not play. Seeing the sheer amount of cash that goes through a casino, I am all for laws that penalize you for trying to take money away from them by not following the rules they set.
Folks- he should be fired by their board, or(gasp) take a pay cut, for the damage he's done by ignoring clearly obvious publicity problems the deal would generate.
Errr... what damage? Call me crazy, but according to the article, which I'm sure you read, has a net gain of 3,300 sites in the last thirty days and the stock is doing better this month this year than last year.
Yes, the man should be publicly hanged for runining his company.
In an earlier story about this, someone made an excellent point: If the RIAA is searching the Kazaa networks for people sharing copyrighted materials, then they ARE breaking the law, AFIAK. The Kazaa EULA states: 2. What You Can't Do Under This Licence ... 2.11 Monitor traffic or make search requests in order to accumulate information about individual users; ... 2.14 Collect or store personal data about other users.
Unless I am mistaken, Kazaa is the only legal way to access the Kazaa network. That would lead me to believe that unless Kazaa gave RIAA explicit permission to break the liscense, then the RIAA is accessing the private network of Kazaa without permission, and breaking the law.
IANAL or anything, so someone please correct me if I am wrong.
Getting a loyalty card without them knowing your real name doesn't really defeat the purpose of the cards. Yes, they can't mail you junk mail, but that's about it.
Every time you go shopping there, they scan the card and know what you've bought during past visits. Even if the name on the account says 'Ben Dover,' you're flattering yourself if you think you are more to Walmart than what you buy. They can still print out coupons that are targeted, and you are still more likely to shop at places where you have a 'discount card.'
Hrmm, I have to ask it out of sheer curiosity, but if we all followed the parent post's suggestion, could he be legally liable for initiating some sort of DDoS?
I know. Personally, I work as a penis enlargement pill merchant, and for some reason, all my business mail gets blocked by pre-set filters.
I would have to agree with karate as something that does a lot to increase growth in a person. Having had three years of karate as a child, two as an adolescent, and currently involved with jujitsu as a college student, I would have to say martial arts have helped me greatly. No, I did not beat up the school bully. No, I did not become Mr. Popular with my Bruce Lee skills. Martial arts taught me something more important than all that: dicipline. Martial arts kept me out of trouble (with violence, anyway) by giving me the confidence in my own body that I needed, so that I didn't have to prove anything.
It's not for everyone, but martial arts really helped me improve my life.