The telco (unless it is third world) will have massive diesel generators (and a stock pile of diesel) to keep things operational in an emergency. As long as there is electricity or diesel the phones should continue to work.
That's true. Although, in reality I think 9/10 households will be using a cordless phone which will be useless in a power outage, regardless to how you're hooked into the phone network.
Speaking of which, can you even buy non-cordless phones these days?
Consider the stupidity of giving Facebook your email username and password, so that Facebook can log in to your email account as you, and scrape all your contact info. (While they are at it, why don't they get your emails too...) They've conned people into doing just that.
Facebook may have done this once, but they had stopped doing it a while ago and instead started to use Google Contact's API via OAuth -- that's what started this all off, Google changed the terms/conditions of their API preventing Facebook from using the system.
Deciding to not take this lying down, Facebook then instead directly linked users to the Google Contacts Export page, then Google modified said export page to throw up that big scary warning described in the article.
That said, Facebook still happily logs into webmail for sites which don't use OAuth like user's ISP webmail, exactly how you described.
I know this sounds very arrogant, but I would love to see trials change so you're actually judged by your peers instead of members of the public, so for example doctors by doctors, network admin by other network admin, and such. That way you can get a bunch of people who know how far this person has stepped out of line..
You're not the first to think of such an idea, it actually has a name. I learnt about it way back when I was doing Legal Studies as a subject during my VCE (Victoria, Australia's version of your typical high school certificate).
So anyway, we did a unit on Juries and the different types and how we ended up with the one we have today in our legal system. One of the jury types that were turned down was exactly how you described and I recall thinking "that actually sounds like a good idea". The reason that it's not used (at least, according to my text book) was that juries who were in the same line of work as the defendant tended to be unfairly harsher then your stock standard jury.
For example, say that in this case, all the jury members were IT networking professionals (yes, I realize in this case one of them did have a CCIE). There's the tendency that all the jury members would think "Well, this guy just brought down our entire industry and did something I would never do -- let's give him [insert harsher verdict/sentence than a standard person would give]"
I know, for example, if I were put on a jury for some guy who allegedly made a botnet and was hiring it out for the highest bidder, I would certainly be giving a very harsh verdict/sentence.
That all said, I can't for the life of me recall what this jury type was called, and my 30 seconds on Google didn't find a result, so please take this post as [citation needed].
they will assume they've been given the wrong password and continue torturing you
That's only true if they know for sure that data is what they were looking for.
But they must have some idea of what they're looking for. It seems unlikely someone thug is going to break into my house or police detain me for 'no reason whatsoever', find an encrypted volume and ask me for the password.
What seems much more likely is that police detail you for suspected tax evasion or securities fraud and go looking for your second set of books. When they ask for your password and open up the volume to find a set of books which are completely legitimate they're going to go "Well, obviously he gave us the wrong password" when in fact maybe you did give them the real password and you've been falsely accused.
One of the great features of TrueCrypt is the whole alternate partition/segment idea. One password gives access to real data, while another (a duress password) would give some other access to an alternate segment. Put some benign documents in the alternate partition, and then under threat of water boarding, hand out the duress password. Assuming this all works, they find nothing, you go home.
But all this just brings you back to the random data vs. encrypted data dilemma. If you give them the duress password and they don't find what they're looking for, they will assume they've been given the wrong password and continue torturing you.
What's even worse is if you're really innocent and give them the "real" password but they incorrectly conclude you gave them the duress password 'cos they can't find incriminating files and continue torturing you to give them the "real" password.
Pharmaceutical Ads have always been banned in Australia for exactly this reason. I couldn't agree more to their decision.
Honestly, I had no idea to the extent of pharmaceutical advertising in the US until I went there on a holiday and saw it for myself, I couldn't believe it.
Believe me - people have.
If you have an hour, or five, you may want to read through the countless posts of Oceanic customers bitching on their forums.
I mean, seriously, it's been a thread-a-day for the last two years.
Blizzard just doesn't care... or, maybe they do, which is why they are making these changes.
GAH! I feel like throwing my head against a brick wall after reading "I know that the timeframe had to be inconvenient for EU players on the U.S. servers"
Yes, it's all very well-and-good for you people in America. You don't see downtime. I'm happy for you. Really.
But (and this may come as a surprise to the story poster), there are more then just US and EU people in the world.
Welcome to my little part of the world. Oceania. We are spread out roughfuly between GMT+8 and GMT+12 and cover such countries as Australia and New Zealand. Maybe you've heard of them before?
Unlike the EU (and the US), who have their own nice little servers 30ms away - us Oceanic people are OBLIGATED to use the US servers, located in the US, a not-so-small 450ms jump over the Pacific Ocean.
After a year or so of Oceanic people throwing their heads into a wall, Blizzard decided to make a couple of "Oceanic" servers.
The server time on these machines where set to GMT+10, and gave rise the the ability of playing at the same time as everyone else. Sadly, these severs continue to be hosted in the US - still 450ms away.
But the other small issue is that Blizzard runs their weekly-maintenance at the same time as the US servers.
When I say "same time", I don't mean, "3am" which means a different physical time because the server time is set to GMT+10. What I mean is that it's the exact same time - everywhere - at the same time. When the US servers go down, so do the Oceanic servers.
As a result - this means, Tuesday's weekly-maintenance doesn't happen at 3am for Oceanic customers, but rather, 7pm and finishes about 2am.
Yep, right in the middle of prime-time.
Unlike EU players who make their own willing decision to use US servers - we are REQUIRED to use these servers. We simply have no other choice.
Whilst the player base of Oceanic isn't quite as large as the US, it's still significant. I think we have what, 5 servers dedicated to us at the moment? And they are all full to the brim, every time Blizzard puts in a new one, it's full within days.
So, in closing, this may not be a big deal for people who live in the US, and play on US time - but this is a HUGE deal for us Oceanic customers.
E3 is for game developers and the media to mix - this GO3 thing is not. By the simple fact that it has "Family" and "Kids" admission prices on their site means that it's not the serious hardcore thing E3 is/was.
Hell, E3 didn't even let people under the age of 18 to attend anyway.
Can someone please post the article text - I go to the site, and it says I must watch an ad to read the article, so I watch the stupid ad, then click the link to go to the article, then it brings me back to the page saying I must watch an ad...
Yay for online advertising.
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In many places, such as Australia - we do not have the luxury of downloading the same thing over and over again.
Your regular Internet plans down here are limited to somewhere between 3-10gb per month. The larger plans go up to about 40gb (20gb peek, 20gb off peek).
Now, if we are talking about a big game, say, HL2, we are talking like 2gb here. Whilst I am very lucky, and happen to be one of the few in Australia to have an ADSL2 connection - I'm still on a 20gb cap. So, I can download 2gb in seven minutes (assuming ideal conditions) - that's still 1/10th of my monthly download gone.
Play say, a couple of times a day and you've passed your download limit.
Now, remember, many people are charged money for going over their download limit. The largest ISP in Australia, Telstra Bigpond charge AUD$150/gb over your limit.
So, lets say you have a standard 3gb account, and play the game 5 times in a month - you pay:
[charges for going 7gb over limit] = 150 * 7 = 1050 + monthly fee
Now, I don't see many people willing to pay $1050 for a game.
I find, when walking down the street - that I've got my iPod's volume up to the highest level. It's not because I really like the song, and want to hear it really loudly, but rather, I can't hear it if I turn it down at all. Simply because of the passing traffic is so noisy.
Had I kept the iPod down to a lower level, say at 0.75 or 0.5 - then I simply wouldn't be able to hear it - so, perhaps the problem is not the music players, but rather, an increase in noise from other locations? For example, traffic?
That said, the choices when it comes to PVRs in Australia is horrible.
Choice? What choice? The first real one the Australian public has seen is 'Foxtel IQ' which was released early this year. This happens to also be the device they mention in this article.
Ask an Australian last year what a PVR was, and they would have no idea. Hell, ask them this year, and they probably still have no idea (even after Foxtel's fairly large advertising campagines).
Some of us, didn't take this entire situation sitting down, and stated importing TiVos. Thus, OzTiVo was born. For the first time, it allowed Australians experience a true PVR. although, few people then, and even now, actually know about it.
The Foxtel IQ box fails when put up against an imported TiVo in every way, except one: It can record two shows at once. Other then that, it's all bad. The sad fact is, the general public has no idea how badly they are being ripped off. It will cost you $500 for 'Foxtel IQ', which Foxtel remains ownership of, if you disconnect, they take the box back.
Their versions of 'season passes' has many problems, and often doesn't work - They have nothing like 'wish lists', they don't have TV guide data for the vast majority of free-to-air stations and it's full of copy-protection among other rubbish. Not to mention the bad UI...
I feel bad knowing how good a TiVo is, and how many people still continue to buy Foxtel IQ. It is *not* good.
Australia has similar legislation and we are also getting close to our date (I'm not sure what it was off hand, but it isn't far).
Their solution to the problem was to re-interpret what the rules said, now they are working on the bases that Analog TV must be broadcasted till at least the date in the original legislation. As such, it's now up to the television networks to decide when they want to do it.
With this, you're not even using the built-in WiFi to go to the website and get the photos - it would appear they just give you the images in a compressed archive, and you're expected to copy these images to the memory card.
How is this any different to what can already be done on any other pr0n website on the Internet?
I can see the benefits of having a warning device telling you if you're going over the speed limit. There are lots of times I've thought to myself "hmmm, I wonder exactly what the speed limit is around here, I have not seen a sign".
I've always thought it would be cool for the car to "know" what speed you should be driving at. If this device came around, I would jump at the chance to get one.
On the other hand, the entire "speed and we will automatically issue you a ticket" idea is stupid. I don't want *that* half of the system in my car (for obvious reasons). I wonder what would happen if I rip out the mobile phone antenna so it can't transmit my details...
I'm an Australian and have to put up with the idiot Australian television networks screwing everything up all the time.
8 months for a TV show to get here would be *very* good. Usually it's a lot worse.
Take this example, Star Trek: Voyager. I believe the final episode aired in the US in mid 2001? We saw it late last year... That's getting close to FOUR YEARS BEHIND.
It's really quite sad.
And to top that, our two main Pay TV operators here, Foxtel and Optus are even worse then the free-to-air broadcasters when it comes to airing new shows.
Not to mention that the networks are going all insane over PVRs, doing *everything* possible to make sure their guide data does not go near PVRs, including sending cease and desist letters to PVR groups dedicated to Australian users. These groups have had to take more borderline legal approaches in order to have their beloved devices to continue working here.
Then add into the mix that all the main free-to-air broadcasters usually "mistakenly" go over their allocated timeslots by a minimum of 8 minutes, a lot of the time closer to 15 during prime-time, and I'm not talking once or twice, I'm talking *every* weeknight
Television Guide: Blue Healers - Channel 7 - 8:30-9:30 Without a Trace - Channel 9 - 9:30-10:30
Reality: Blue Healers - Channel 7 - 8:42-9:45 Without a Trace - Channel 9 - 9:36-10:39
I'm starting to get the feeling, "Why bother"? Now, time to find a torrent for a TV show...
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[Do] explain how other than burn in a computer monitor may still contain top secret images though.
When it comes to security, sometimes you can never be too careful.
The telco (unless it is third world) will have massive diesel generators (and a stock pile of diesel) to keep things operational in an emergency. As long as there is electricity or diesel the phones should continue to work.
That's true. Although, in reality I think 9/10 households will be using a cordless phone which will be useless in a power outage, regardless to how you're hooked into the phone network. Speaking of which, can you even buy non-cordless phones these days?
Traditional phones lines are powered by the telco so they'll work during a standard blackout.
All NBN endpoints have a backup battery to allow phones to continue to work for a good few hours even in a power outage.
Correct URL: http://www.securityweek.com/facebook-adds-malicious-link-protection-powered-websense
http://startssl.com/
mod parent up - great service.
Consider the stupidity of giving Facebook your email username and password, so that Facebook can log in to your email account as you, and scrape all your contact info. (While they are at it, why don't they get your emails too...) They've conned people into doing just that.
Facebook may have done this once, but they had stopped doing it a while ago and instead started to use Google Contact's API via OAuth -- that's what started this all off, Google changed the terms/conditions of their API preventing Facebook from using the system.
Deciding to not take this lying down, Facebook then instead directly linked users to the Google Contacts Export page, then Google modified said export page to throw up that big scary warning described in the article.
That said, Facebook still happily logs into webmail for sites which don't use OAuth like user's ISP webmail, exactly how you described.
screenshot or it didn't happen
I know this sounds very arrogant, but I would love to see trials change so you're actually judged by your peers instead of members of the public, so for example doctors by doctors, network admin by other network admin, and such. That way you can get a bunch of people who know how far this person has stepped out of line. .
You're not the first to think of such an idea, it actually has a name. I learnt about it way back when I was doing Legal Studies as a subject during my VCE (Victoria, Australia's version of your typical high school certificate).
So anyway, we did a unit on Juries and the different types and how we ended up with the one we have today in our legal system. One of the jury types that were turned down was exactly how you described and I recall thinking "that actually sounds like a good idea". The reason that it's not used (at least, according to my text book) was that juries who were in the same line of work as the defendant tended to be unfairly harsher then your stock standard jury.
For example, say that in this case, all the jury members were IT networking professionals (yes, I realize in this case one of them did have a CCIE). There's the tendency that all the jury members would think "Well, this guy just brought down our entire industry and did something I would never do -- let's give him [insert harsher verdict/sentence than a standard person would give]"
I know, for example, if I were put on a jury for some guy who allegedly made a botnet and was hiring it out for the highest bidder, I would certainly be giving a very harsh verdict/sentence.
That all said, I can't for the life of me recall what this jury type was called, and my 30 seconds on Google didn't find a result, so please take this post as [citation needed].
they will assume they've been given the wrong password and continue torturing you
That's only true if they know for sure that data is what they were looking for.
But they must have some idea of what they're looking for. It seems unlikely someone thug is going to break into my house or police detain me for 'no reason whatsoever', find an encrypted volume and ask me for the password.
What seems much more likely is that police detail you for suspected tax evasion or securities fraud and go looking for your second set of books. When they ask for your password and open up the volume to find a set of books which are completely legitimate they're going to go "Well, obviously he gave us the wrong password" when in fact maybe you did give them the real password and you've been falsely accused.
One of the great features of TrueCrypt is the whole alternate partition/segment idea. One password gives access to real data, while another (a duress password) would give some other access to an alternate segment. Put some benign documents in the alternate partition, and then under threat of water boarding, hand out the duress password. Assuming this all works, they find nothing, you go home.
But all this just brings you back to the random data vs. encrypted data dilemma. If you give them the duress password and they don't find what they're looking for, they will assume they've been given the wrong password and continue torturing you.
What's even worse is if you're really innocent and give them the "real" password but they incorrectly conclude you gave them the duress password 'cos they can't find incriminating files and continue torturing you to give them the "real" password.
The thing is going to get killed a week after public release after the AI 'misdiagnosis' someone and they decide to sue.
Pharmaceutical Ads have always been banned in Australia for exactly this reason. I couldn't agree more to their decision.
Honestly, I had no idea to the extent of pharmaceutical advertising in the US until I went there on a holiday and saw it for myself, I couldn't believe it.
Believe me - people have. If you have an hour, or five, you may want to read through the countless posts of Oceanic customers bitching on their forums. I mean, seriously, it's been a thread-a-day for the last two years. Blizzard just doesn't care... or, maybe they do, which is why they are making these changes.
GAH! I feel like throwing my head against a brick wall after reading "I know that the timeframe had to be inconvenient for EU players on the U.S. servers"
Yes, it's all very well-and-good for you people in America. You don't see downtime. I'm happy for you. Really.
But (and this may come as a surprise to the story poster), there are more then just US and EU people in the world.
Welcome to my little part of the world. Oceania. We are spread out roughfuly between GMT+8 and GMT+12 and cover such countries as Australia and New Zealand. Maybe you've heard of them before?
Unlike the EU (and the US), who have their own nice little servers 30ms away - us Oceanic people are OBLIGATED to use the US servers, located in the US, a not-so-small 450ms jump over the Pacific Ocean.
After a year or so of Oceanic people throwing their heads into a wall, Blizzard decided to make a couple of "Oceanic" servers.
The server time on these machines where set to GMT+10, and gave rise the the ability of playing at the same time as everyone else. Sadly, these severs continue to be hosted in the US - still 450ms away.
But the other small issue is that Blizzard runs their weekly-maintenance at the same time as the US servers.
When I say "same time", I don't mean, "3am" which means a different physical time because the server time is set to GMT+10. What I mean is that it's the exact same time - everywhere - at the same time. When the US servers go down, so do the Oceanic servers.
As a result - this means, Tuesday's weekly-maintenance doesn't happen at 3am for Oceanic customers, but rather, 7pm and finishes about 2am.
Yep, right in the middle of prime-time.
Unlike EU players who make their own willing decision to use US servers - we are REQUIRED to use these servers. We simply have no other choice.
Whilst the player base of Oceanic isn't quite as large as the US, it's still significant. I think we have what, 5 servers dedicated to us at the moment? And they are all full to the brim, every time Blizzard puts in a new one, it's full within days.
So, in closing, this may not be a big deal for people who live in the US, and play on US time - but this is a HUGE deal for us Oceanic customers.
E3 is for game developers and the media to mix - this GO3 thing is not. By the simple fact that it has "Family" and "Kids" admission prices on their site means that it's not the serious hardcore thing E3 is/was.
Hell, E3 didn't even let people under the age of 18 to attend anyway.
*sigh*
Can someone please post the article text - I go to the site, and it says I must watch an ad to read the article, so I watch the stupid ad, then click the link to go to the article, then it brings me back to the page saying I must watch an ad...
Yay for online advertising.
In many places, such as Australia - we do not have the luxury of downloading the same thing over and over again.
Your regular Internet plans down here are limited to somewhere between 3-10gb per month. The larger plans go up to about 40gb (20gb peek, 20gb off peek).
Now, if we are talking about a big game, say, HL2, we are talking like 2gb here. Whilst I am very lucky, and happen to be one of the few in Australia to have an ADSL2 connection - I'm still on a 20gb cap. So, I can download 2gb in seven minutes (assuming ideal conditions) - that's still 1/10th of my monthly download gone.
Play say, a couple of times a day and you've passed your download limit.
Now, remember, many people are charged money for going over their download limit. The largest ISP in Australia, Telstra Bigpond charge AUD$150/gb over your limit.
So, lets say you have a standard 3gb account, and play the game 5 times in a month - you pay:
[charges for going 7gb over limit] = 150 * 7 = 1050 + monthly fee
Now, I don't see many people willing to pay $1050 for a game.
I find, when walking down the street - that I've got my iPod's volume up to the highest level. It's not because I really like the song, and want to hear it really loudly, but rather, I can't hear it if I turn it down at all. Simply because of the passing traffic is so noisy.
Had I kept the iPod down to a lower level, say at 0.75 or 0.5 - then I simply wouldn't be able to hear it - so, perhaps the problem is not the music players, but rather, an increase in noise from other locations? For example, traffic?
Is the world itself getting noisier?
First, I should point out, I am Australian.
That said, the choices when it comes to PVRs in Australia is horrible.
Choice? What choice? The first real one the Australian public has seen is 'Foxtel IQ' which was released early this year. This happens to also be the device they mention in this article.
Ask an Australian last year what a PVR was, and they would have no idea. Hell, ask them this year, and they probably still have no idea (even after Foxtel's fairly large advertising campagines).
Some of us, didn't take this entire situation sitting down, and stated importing TiVos. Thus, OzTiVo was born. For the first time, it allowed Australians experience a true PVR. although, few people then, and even now, actually know about it.
The Foxtel IQ box fails when put up against an imported TiVo in every way, except one: It can record two shows at once. Other then that, it's all bad. The sad fact is, the general public has no idea how badly they are being ripped off. It will cost you $500 for 'Foxtel IQ', which Foxtel remains ownership of, if you disconnect, they take the box back.
Their versions of 'season passes' has many problems, and often doesn't work - They have nothing like 'wish lists', they don't have TV guide data for the vast majority of free-to-air stations and it's full of copy-protection among other rubbish. Not to mention the bad UI...
I feel bad knowing how good a TiVo is, and how many people still continue to buy Foxtel IQ. It is *not* good.
Give me a TiVo any day.
In the future will we have net traffic reports
hah, too late.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/
We have a similar service in Australia, Bazook. In the few times I've used it, I've found it has worked well.
Australia has similar legislation and we are also getting close to our date (I'm not sure what it was off hand, but it isn't far).
Their solution to the problem was to re-interpret what the rules said, now they are working on the bases that Analog TV must be broadcasted till at least the date in the original legislation. As such, it's now up to the television networks to decide when they want to do it.
With this, you're not even using the built-in WiFi to go to the website and get the photos - it would appear they just give you the images in a compressed archive, and you're expected to copy these images to the memory card.
How is this any different to what can already be done on any other pr0n website on the Internet?
I can see the benefits of having a warning device telling you if you're going over the speed limit. There are lots of times I've thought to myself "hmmm, I wonder exactly what the speed limit is around here, I have not seen a sign". I've always thought it would be cool for the car to "know" what speed you should be driving at. If this device came around, I would jump at the chance to get one. On the other hand, the entire "speed and we will automatically issue you a ticket" idea is stupid. I don't want *that* half of the system in my car (for obvious reasons). I wonder what would happen if I rip out the mobile phone antenna so it can't transmit my details...
8 months for a TV show to get here would be *very* good. Usually it's a lot worse.
Take this example, Star Trek: Voyager. I believe the final episode aired in the US in mid 2001? We saw it late last year... That's getting close to FOUR YEARS BEHIND.
It's really quite sad.
And to top that, our two main Pay TV operators here, Foxtel and Optus are even worse then the free-to-air broadcasters when it comes to airing new shows.
Not to mention that the networks are going all insane over PVRs, doing *everything* possible to make sure their guide data does not go near PVRs, including sending cease and desist letters to PVR groups dedicated to Australian users. These groups have had to take more borderline legal approaches in order to have their beloved devices to continue working here.
Then add into the mix that all the main free-to-air broadcasters usually "mistakenly" go over their allocated timeslots by a minimum of 8 minutes, a lot of the time closer to 15 during prime-time, and I'm not talking once or twice, I'm talking *every* weeknight
I'm starting to get the feeling, "Why bother"? Now, time to find a torrent for a TV show...
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