It's not any easier to break, but once it's broken, everything is in the open. Now, we have many DRM schemes, and breaking one will break some things for you, but other material remains with an effective (for now) DRM scheme. If there is only one scheme, break it, and you can copy anything.
A BIOS password is not an effective security measure.
I had to bypass one the other day - you just unplug the computer, move the jumper into the 'CLEAR CMOS' position - if you have trouble finding it, it should be near the battery, or at least they are on every computer I've done it on.
I know what you mean. I'm 15, I took a while to work it all out.
I read "Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours", which worked fairly well for me, and directed me towards the appropriate *nix utilities, as well as Windows.
If you haven't already tried it, have a go with Linux. Maybe start with Knoppix and then move to Mandrake or Fedora. And then, if you're feeling adventurous, try Gentoo.
Setting up with Linux taught me more about working with computers than anything else.
Experience is better than any book that I've read.
Perhaps Google could release an API for accessing Gmail, which shows the ads? On top of that, (for Windows anyway, haven't had a lot of Linux programming experience) the library could require ads to be shown in the same graphics context as the message, and there it is.
Or, an interface which is entirely meant for filesystems, etc. which sends all the messages as html pages with the ads inside. There are ways to keep everyone happy.
If there's someone who can break the SSL that they use for banking, my wireless LAN is the least of the problems.
And every computer that I use has a firewall installed. And they run Linux. AND the wireless segment has 128-bit WEP. And the router is configured not to route between the wireless segment and the wired LAN. MAC address filtering, the list continues.
And anyway, the only computer on the wireless LAN is down after I accidently did an rm -rf//*.
I'm a teenager with parents who don't like the cables going from one side of my bedroom to the other. Think they're gonna like cable going across the house? They chose to pay an extra $250-$300 to get wireless instead.
Not that I really care, none of my computers are connected to the wireless segment;)
Considering that everyone NEEDS to be able to use a computer in later life, you are going to be holding back the students with less money if you don't teach them to use computers/internet at school.
And BTW, what percentage of student come out of school illiterate? I don't know anyone at my school who can't read. Well, one who doesn't know what an adjective/verb/noun is, and can't read an analogue clock, but, that's it.
so I'll put up with the minor inconvenience of having another wire sticking out of my laptop. Nobody frigs with my connection baby
Only if you need to connect with a computer in the same room. Here's an example: I live in Australia. The summers here will sometimes reach almost 50 degrees (celsius). The weekend I installed my LAN, it was about 42-45. I had a choice: I could get wireless, or I could go up into the roof, which is about 50 degrees, lie there for a while while my dad tries to catch the hook, do the same thing on the other side of the house, then come down, take off my sweat-covered clothes, have a shower, and then start installing NICs and configuring the computers. My other choice is to install wireless cards in the computers, and in 20 minutes, I'm ready.
Easy choice for you, not so for me....of course, I used ethernet for all the computers in my bedroom.
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How many people will uninstall MSN?
Would you trust your phone to some guy at the cinema?
Seriously though... who REALLY needs to be contacted IMMEDIATELY 24-7?
Doctors, pilots, reserve firefighters, I'm sure that there are others that I haven't thought of.
Whats to say you need to take a call? If you get an SMS and you have to leave, then if it's on silent, what's the problem?
It's only heaven until you trip on a cable and get trapped. Which happened to me the other day ;)
Of course, I installed some more Linux, which made me happy again.
Now that I am in IT, I toil away at projects that can drag on for years only to be cancelled and called failures
;)
But al least you aren't as likely to get burnt
No problem - it's built into the OS.
I spent a couple of years learning the crowbar, will that do?
It's not any easier to break, but once it's broken, everything is in the open. Now, we have many DRM schemes, and breaking one will break some things for you, but other material remains with an effective (for now) DRM scheme. If there is only one scheme, break it, and you can copy anything.
A BIOS password is not an effective security measure.
I had to bypass one the other day - you just unplug the computer, move the jumper into the 'CLEAR CMOS' position - if you have trouble finding it, it should be near the battery, or at least they are on every computer I've done it on.
The ironic thing is that that's insightful
Good, because I didn't mean it as a joke.
I know what you mean. I'm 15, I took a while to work it all out.
I read "Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours", which worked fairly well for me, and directed me towards the appropriate *nix utilities, as well as Windows.
If you haven't already tried it, have a go with Linux. Maybe start with Knoppix and then move to Mandrake or Fedora. And then, if you're feeling adventurous, try Gentoo.
Setting up with Linux taught me more about working with computers than anything else.
Experience is better than any book that I've read.
Well, I'm assuming that whoever is reading this has an internet connection, and therefore would have had an idea of security anyway.
I just saw a news segment on the debates, and there was nothing on it about this.
Of course, maybe they just chose not to mention this in Australia. How many people do you think will hear about this?
Well, that script doesn't work at all for me (I click the alert box, and then the menuc comes up afterwards), and I'm using Firefox 1.0PR on Gentoo.
Of course, I can always turn off Javascript or just click view->page source if I want to look at something.
I've been to Rome, and I've seen a few of these cars around.
Of course I stayed off the road as much as I could. Trains are better at avoiding traffic than cars.
Perhaps Google could release an API for accessing Gmail, which shows the ads? On top of that, (for Windows anyway, haven't had a lot of Linux programming experience) the library could require ads to be shown in the same graphics context as the message, and there it is.
Or, an interface which is entirely meant for filesystems, etc. which sends all the messages as html pages with the ads inside. There are ways to keep everyone happy.
But this way we only need to break one DRM scheme.
If there's someone who can break the SSL that they use for banking, my wireless LAN is the least of the problems.
//*.
And every computer that I use has a firewall installed. And they run Linux. AND the wireless segment has 128-bit WEP. And the router is configured not to route between the wireless segment and the wired LAN. MAC address filtering, the list continues.
And anyway, the only computer on the wireless LAN is down after I accidently did an rm -rf
Should be secure enough for the moment.
Why are they playing chicken with mountains anyways?
Because in the planes they were trained in, the plane wouldn't stop them from avoiding the mountain.
Therefore, they think that it is safe to be as close as they are.
I'm a teenager with parents who don't like the cables going from one side of my bedroom to the other. Think they're gonna like cable going across the house? They chose to pay an extra $250-$300 to get wireless instead.
;)
Not that I really care, none of my computers are connected to the wireless segment
Considering that everyone NEEDS to be able to use a computer in later life, you are going to be holding back the students with less money if you don't teach them to use computers/internet at school.
And BTW, what percentage of student come out of school illiterate? I don't know anyone at my school who can't read. Well, one who doesn't know what an adjective/verb/noun is, and can't read an analogue clock, but, that's it.
and you have something that makes everybody happy, except maybe your provider
And what about when I hit my download limit and get throttled back to 64k? I wouldn't be too happy then.
Why take the chance if you don't have to?
So I don't have to spend two hours in the roof during a 40+ degree summer?
so I'll put up with the minor inconvenience of having another wire sticking out of my laptop. Nobody frigs with my connection baby
Only if you need to connect with a computer in the same room. Here's an example: I live in Australia. The summers here will sometimes reach almost 50 degrees (celsius). The weekend I installed my LAN, it was about 42-45. I had a choice: I could get wireless, or I could go up into the roof, which is about 50 degrees, lie there for a while while my dad tries to catch the hook, do the same thing on the other side of the house, then come down, take off my sweat-covered clothes, have a shower, and then start installing NICs and configuring the computers. My other choice is to install wireless cards in the computers, and in 20 minutes, I'm ready.
Easy choice for you, not so for me....of course, I used ethernet for all the computers in my bedroom.