"Coherant" isn't the best word for that situation. "obvious" would work a lot better.
Also, try to work on adding in things like "the" and "it", and ownership.
Like this: "Do you see? It is the end-user's fault that all of those security problems exist, so they must pay!" Is the correct way of wording that last line.
What is your native language? I am trying to learn to see what language somebody uses by the mistakes made in their English.
I am aware that that would be a very drastic measure, and very unfair. But it is one of the ways that would get the Chinese government to step in and start regulating their ISPs, without fail.
I am also aware that their economy is not the only one that would suffer.
Just so long as they don't throw in more of that retarded "Search Assistant"/"Office Assistant" crap. If i wanted an animated char to 'help' me out, i would go grab Bonzi Buddy or some other worthless peice of bloatware.
This would make it possible to watch a rip of some movie, without waiting to download it first. That is the cheif reason (in my impression) that they are not quite as bad as the RIAA just yet.
They may be able to use this to push some new legislation making it even more of a pain in the ass to practice Fair Use in the USA. I really don't care how it affects piracy, either way.
What i care about is getting caught in the crossfire.
And what is to stop you from noticing strange new incomming connections, terminating them, and locking your system down? They would have to do some serious modifications (that i would probably notice) to prevent me from noticing that there is an FTP server on my machine.
The simple fact that i do a full TCP/UDP (full connect, not syn) scan on my machine every now and then (Ports 0-65535, with banner grabbing) would show it to me.
Instead of just sticking this here, you should email the administrator(s) and other powers-that-be. The chance that they might miss this (very good) argument if it is in a comment is too high.
er, how did i type 'foor' twice instead of 'foot'? And why do all my carriage returns get ignored (there is supposed to be 3 breaks in the above comment)?
Radar? Underwater? Do you mean active sonar?
Yes, there are ways of detecting metal. They are used on anti-sub planes and helicopters (such as the Orion) to detect an otherwise silent submarine (but those will only detect that 300+ foor titanium monster, not the plastic 5- foor minisub) I forget what it is called (been a while since i loaded up my sub sim lately - how many other slashdotters can say they can use the sonar systems on the Akula, Los Angeles, and Seawolf classes, and work a firing solution out with TMA?)
This is a very good argument. It also carries into the classic *Nix vs Windows one.
As soon as *Nix or Firefox (or whatever, for that matter) becomes standard, the focus of those malicious users will be turned to it. Then the story will repeat itself, with different names (and different events, but the outcome will likely be the same).
In total? Im sure a good portion of those are redownloads. Lost backups, reformats, new versions released. Unless this is only counting the download of Firefox 1.0
What about mirrored downloads though? Im sure there are other places to download it, besides the mozilla website.
But i see your point. I wonder how that would work.
Perhaps the distributer had an under-the-table agreement that the cypher would be weak, the key short, and in any old standard dictionary? So long as there was no court evidence of any such agreement, i wonder how this would help (if at all)
Why would they, if the closed-source utility with the MPAA-RIAA-muzzling license was distributed freely? Sure they can, but there is no real point to taking the encryption off.
The idea that everyone except those that would attempt to impose legal rammifications onto those sharing the file would be given access. You would only be hurting yourself, in such a case, as you should be protected under this guise.
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I thought it was CP/M first? Or do i have the timeline twisted around im my head?
Aye, editing conf files as a newb does suck ass. But i can tell you first hand, you learn things fast.
Gotta love ignorent people with wireless routers. Especially when they live in range of my desk.
That's providing the technician isn't a complete retard who couldn't even scrape up an A+ certification.
Last couple of times i had a "technician" come "address" the problem, i had to help him do it.
Then again, i live in the good ole state of Maine, and it was Adelphia...
The playlist files they use at Magnatune actually point to MP3 files. Open the playlist up in a text editor and you have the download URLs.
But please, dont rip them off. If you keep it, buy it.
Posting as a reply here so this shows near the top...
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WTH is this? Slashdot seriously screwed up. It happened four refreshes in a row.
http://img26.exs.cx/img26/7753/slashdotgoof5yc.jp
"Coherant" isn't the best word for that situation. "obvious" would work a lot better.
Also, try to work on adding in things like "the" and "it", and ownership.
Like this: "Do you see? It is the end-user's fault that all of those security problems exist, so they must pay!" Is the correct way of wording that last line.
What is your native language? I am trying to learn to see what language somebody uses by the mistakes made in their English.
Yes. Taking the thing apart and realigning the laser every other week was quite annoying.
Why, exactly, is that a troll?
I am aware that that would be a very drastic measure, and very unfair. But it is one of the ways that would get the Chinese government to step in and start regulating their ISPs, without fail.
I am also aware that their economy is not the only one that would suffer.
Just so long as they don't throw in more of that retarded "Search Assistant"/"Office Assistant" crap. If i wanted an animated char to 'help' me out, i would go grab Bonzi Buddy or some other worthless peice of bloatware.
Have they had anything to say yet?
This would make it possible to watch a rip of some movie, without waiting to download it first. That is the cheif reason (in my impression) that they are not quite as bad as the RIAA just yet.
They may be able to use this to push some new legislation making it even more of a pain in the ass to practice Fair Use in the USA. I really don't care how it affects piracy, either way.
What i care about is getting caught in the crossfire.
So, if this works 'transparently' to browsers, ect, does this mean slashdotting a site will be much harder?
He said everything. Essentially partition China out of the global internet. Might that make them stop and think?
And what is to stop you from noticing strange new incomming connections, terminating them, and locking your system down? They would have to do some serious modifications (that i would probably notice) to prevent me from noticing that there is an FTP server on my machine.
The simple fact that i do a full TCP/UDP (full connect, not syn) scan on my machine every now and then (Ports 0-65535, with banner grabbing) would show it to me.
This was reported in the "Election Results Weirdness Continues" story, some time back.
Instead of just sticking this here, you should email the administrator(s) and other powers-that-be. The chance that they might miss this (very good) argument if it is in a comment is too high.
Which is why the rest of the world watches that, instead of our Football (not the real one - soccer to you)?
er, how did i type 'foor' twice instead of 'foot'? And why do all my carriage returns get ignored (there is supposed to be 3 breaks in the above comment)?
Radar? Underwater? Do you mean active sonar? Yes, there are ways of detecting metal. They are used on anti-sub planes and helicopters (such as the Orion) to detect an otherwise silent submarine (but those will only detect that 300+ foor titanium monster, not the plastic 5- foor minisub) I forget what it is called (been a while since i loaded up my sub sim lately - how many other slashdotters can say they can use the sonar systems on the Akula, Los Angeles, and Seawolf classes, and work a firing solution out with TMA?)
This is a very good argument. It also carries into the classic *Nix vs Windows one. As soon as *Nix or Firefox (or whatever, for that matter) becomes standard, the focus of those malicious users will be turned to it. Then the story will repeat itself, with different names (and different events, but the outcome will likely be the same).
In total? Im sure a good portion of those are redownloads. Lost backups, reformats, new versions released. Unless this is only counting the download of Firefox 1.0 What about mirrored downloads though? Im sure there are other places to download it, besides the mozilla website.
But i see your point. I wonder how that would work. Perhaps the distributer had an under-the-table agreement that the cypher would be weak, the key short, and in any old standard dictionary? So long as there was no court evidence of any such agreement, i wonder how this would help (if at all)
Why would they, if the closed-source utility with the MPAA-RIAA-muzzling license was distributed freely? Sure they can, but there is no real point to taking the encryption off.
The idea that everyone except those that would attempt to impose legal rammifications onto those sharing the file would be given access. You would only be hurting yourself, in such a case, as you should be protected under this guise.
It was already dead! I swear! I have no idea where it's face is! Wait... why do i have a baboon's face in my pocket?