...any installed file sharing program
That's a good one - I must admit that a lot of p2p file sharing is about pirating software/music/movies, but why on earth are they trying to find out whether someone is using a file sharing app? Looking for people sharing files called Terminator3.avi on Kazaa (example) is one story, but scanning entire subnets for p2p apps sounds to me like the RIAA is pushing it too far again.
My passes (coming from/dev/urandom) are stored in my encrypted home dir on my box. So if I need one of them 'on the road' I just ssh in and look it up (having putty on a stick helps a lot if you have to deal with Windows btw).
IMO that's a convenient tradeoff between remembering them all (impossible) and having them on notes (insecure).
They are asking for an awful lot of information in their request. That's a lot of additional work for those in charge and in my experience such requests are not really welcome.
However, I made my statement assuming that this request would go to *one* central institution in the US (pretty silly, I know - but things like this happen if you don't know much about the FOIA and the structure of the US governments).
If the states or even individual counties are in charge of handling this request it's of course much more likely that fees will be waived than under my pristine assumptions...
Nobody knows yet. However, this section somehow amuses me:
We are requesting these as a nonprofit, noncommercial group acting in the capacity of a news and consumer interest organization, and ask that if possible, the fees be waived for this request. If this is not possible, please let us know which records will be provided and the cost.
Are they seriously believing that there is a slight chance of getting it for free?
There is nothing special about OS *drivers* for wlan cards. My Netgear MA101 runs fine on linux with the at76c503a driver, which is under the GPL. But the *firmware* is closed source.
Needless to say that the chip manufacturers put all the interesting stuff into the firmware, so the driver isn't really much worth (don't get me wrong - I'm actually happy about it. Otherwise wlan on Linux would be even more complicated)
IIRC it's not up to them, because some FCC rules prevent completely OS firmware drivers. The FCC is basically afraid that someone could modify the code in a way which would lead to a wlan device operating out of spec. But that's just what I read some time ago...
It's not nicely organised (for a user) but it's not that bad.
That's why you reimport those F** folders into iTunes. Advanced -> Consolidate Library and you will (likely) end up with an organized structure.
The method described in TFA makes it more complicated than it actually is. Why would you use a 3rd party tool if it's just as simple to do it with apple's own software?
Can't be too much - they don't broadcast it over here. But you might be on to something with this crack issue. I'll stop right after I sold my SCO stock;P
but isn't this exactly what they want to do? To visit the place and wear some VR display which augments the parts which aren't there anymore? Walking through the remains of Pompeii *seing* what the city used to be like sounds like a great idea to me.
Might look even more disgusting than those audio guide headphones, but I think it's still a good tradeoff;)
who read "Augmented Reality Terrorism" the first time?
Note for next time: Read the headline twice before reading the article. Saves you from a lot of confusion...
sure, the RIAA could set up such a site. They could as well look at the torrents at suprnova.org. Since suprnova is extremely popular it's quite likely that they'll do that in the near future.
However, if I go to a irc fan channel of a tv show and download the latest episode I'm pretty safe, because there are thousands of places like this (offering different torrents). So the RIAA guys have to be at the same place at the right time. If I do the same thing via Kazaa they just have to search for the name of the show in order to catch me.
Will the RIAA change the number of songs shared before legal action is taken or will BitTorrent users get a free ride?
since BitTorrent isn't a huge central network it's quite likely IMO that Torrent users are mostly safe.
It's much easier to track copyright violations on networks like Kazaa than monitoring some websites and the irc for torrents.
But even if the RIAA manages to monitor the entire net some day they'll still have to deal with offline trading. It's so convenient today to copy some friends Music Collection onto mobile storage. Thousands of *new* songs transfered within minutes. And there's nothing the RIAA can do about it. Whatever steps they take, there will always be unauthorized copies around. They should realize that they can't do much about it. The next step would be to come up with a business model, which takes into account that they can't win this war.
At least in Germany you can buy Wired at many international press kiosks. I can't imagine that they don't sell it in the Czech Republic. However, if I'm wrong you might consider to come by...
MPEG4 is aimed more for bitrates lower than 2mbit. (Sort of a successor to MPEG1)
Since you mention it (and since this sounds like DVB would require much more bandwith):
At least over here 4 channels share one slot, which has a bandwith of 14 MBit/s. On average you get about 3.5 MBit per channel.
It's also possible to use less channels per slot or to give one of them more bandwith (while taking it from the others). But I guess that this won't be used too often.
...that humans firstly developed techniques to write thoughts down, traversing from oral to written societies. We know of conversations made 400 years ago, because people wrote them down (and stored them somewhere).
Nowadays those correspondences are simply lost because your pst file is borked or your hdd crashed.
Isn't that a cultural regress? I hope this library will save many interesting mails from vanishing, but I doubt that historians will have better sources in 400 years about the present than what we have about the 17th century.
What happens if I go on vacation for a couple weeks? I'm just supposed to keep my PC on that whole time?
There is a script for mythtv, which utilizes the startup function of the BIOS (this feature is quite common today). After a show was recorded it looks up the next scheduled recording and tells the bios to start the computer shortly before it's supposed to record. After this has been written into the BIOS the computer shuts down. Unfortunately I can't remember how this script was called.
Shouldn't be too hard to do something like this on Windows
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...any installed file sharing program That's a good one - I must admit that a lot of p2p file sharing is about pirating software/music/movies, but why on earth are they trying to find out whether someone is using a file sharing app? Looking for people sharing files called Terminator3.avi on Kazaa (example) is one story, but scanning entire subnets for p2p apps sounds to me like the RIAA is pushing it too far again.
I like the semi-bright approach:
/dev/urandom) are stored in my encrypted home dir on my box. So if I need one of them 'on the road' I just ssh in and look it up (having putty on a stick helps a lot if you have to deal with Windows btw).
My passes (coming from
IMO that's a convenient tradeoff between remembering them all (impossible) and having them on notes (insecure).
arghh - let's blame my caffeine consumption...
Here's the a correct link
...if your key is asdf - the attack is based on a dictionary. This weakness relies on human nature after all.
Btw: The Tips and Tricks section of this newsletter is a good ressource if you want to create passes which are harder to guess.
Furthermore those mixer/phone devices usually don't perform too well in both fields...
since they are putting unmodified maize kernels onto the disc there is no doubt that it'll pop.
However, aws910 desperately tried to be funny. There is no reason to keep it coming (2 jokes/per submission is an impertinent behavior - seriously)
I never heard anyone shouting this here: burn points, burn!
Let's call it return of the modwars
G. Tenenbaum != Andrew S. Tanenbaum
However, I made my statement assuming that this request would go to *one* central institution in the US (pretty silly, I know - but things like this happen if you don't know much about the FOIA and the structure of the US governments). If the states or even individual counties are in charge of handling this request it's of course much more likely that fees will be waived than under my pristine assumptions...
...please provide [the items] in increments as soon as you have them.
(from TFA)
I guess it will take more than 4 years before they have gathered enough informations to come to any conclusions.
There is nothing special about OS *drivers* for wlan cards. My Netgear MA101 runs fine on linux with the at76c503a driver, which is under the GPL. But the *firmware* is closed source.
Needless to say that the chip manufacturers put all the interesting stuff into the firmware, so the driver isn't really much worth (don't get me wrong - I'm actually happy about it. Otherwise wlan on Linux would be even more complicated)
IIRC it's not up to them, because some FCC rules prevent completely OS firmware drivers.
The FCC is basically afraid that someone could modify the code in a way which would lead to a wlan device operating out of spec.
But that's just what I read some time ago...
There might be better ressources, but this one has a few stations on the list.
That's why you reimport those F** folders into iTunes. Advanced -> Consolidate Library and you will (likely) end up with an organized structure.
The method described in TFA makes it more complicated than it actually is. Why would you use a 3rd party tool if it's just as simple to do it with apple's own software?
Can't be too much - they don't broadcast it over here. But you might be on to something with this crack issue. I'll stop right after I sold my SCO stock ;P
but isn't this exactly what they want to do? To visit the place and wear some VR display which augments the parts which aren't there anymore? Walking through the remains of Pompeii *seing* what the city used to be like sounds like a great idea to me.
;)
Might look even more disgusting than those audio guide headphones, but I think it's still a good tradeoff
who read "Augmented Reality Terrorism" the first time? Note for next time: Read the headline twice before reading the article. Saves you from a lot of confusion...
sure, the RIAA could set up such a site. They could as well look at the torrents at suprnova.org. Since suprnova is extremely popular it's quite likely that they'll do that in the near future. However, if I go to a irc fan channel of a tv show and download the latest episode I'm pretty safe, because there are thousands of places like this (offering different torrents). So the RIAA guys have to be at the same place at the right time. If I do the same thing via Kazaa they just have to search for the name of the show in order to catch me.
Will the RIAA change the number of songs shared before legal action is taken or will BitTorrent users get a free ride?
since BitTorrent isn't a huge central network it's quite likely IMO that Torrent users are mostly safe.
It's much easier to track copyright violations on networks like Kazaa than monitoring some websites and the irc for torrents.
But even if the RIAA manages to monitor the entire net some day they'll still have to deal with offline trading. It's so convenient today to copy some friends Music Collection onto mobile storage. Thousands of *new* songs transfered within minutes. And there's nothing the RIAA can do about it. Whatever steps they take, there will always be unauthorized copies around. They should realize that they can't do much about it. The next step would be to come up with a business model, which takes into account that they can't win this war.
At least in Germany you can buy Wired at many international press kiosks. I can't imagine that they don't sell it in the Czech Republic. However, if I'm wrong you might consider to come by...
I'd rather carry a small mobile and a decent camera with me than a device which makes bad pictures and is a pita to call someone.
At least over here 4 channels share one slot, which has a bandwith of 14 MBit/s. On average you get about 3.5 MBit per channel.
It's also possible to use less channels per slot or to give one of them more bandwith (while taking it from the others). But I guess that this won't be used too often.
...that humans firstly developed techniques to write thoughts down, traversing from oral to written societies. We know of conversations made 400 years ago, because people wrote them down (and stored them somewhere). Nowadays those correspondences are simply lost because your pst file is borked or your hdd crashed. Isn't that a cultural regress? I hope this library will save many interesting mails from vanishing, but I doubt that historians will have better sources in 400 years about the present than what we have about the 17th century.
Shouldn't be too hard to do something like this on Windows