If you use protocol X today, and the protocol Y tomorrow it is completely irrelevant, because you need to move Z bytes. Unless you managed to develop some magical protocol that can shrink the payload, the ISP's will ALWAYS KNOW if you are doing filesharing.
Nonsense. How do they know that Z bytes are Z bytes of RIAA music, Z bytes of Ubuntu, or Z bytes of Creative Commons-licensed music?
They don't. And they can't. Especially when Z bytes are an encrypted payload.
A bread knife CAN be used to kill someone but that's not what it was designed for.
That's a bad analogy. Knives were most definitely first created for killing -- well, hunting anyway. Early man needed to kill and slaughter beasts for food, so they sharpened stones. Eventually they refined the sharpened stones -- well, you get the idea.
Working with the ISPs is an arms race at best. The ISPs block stuff, P2P devs come up with more and more devious ways to work around the blocks. Plus, in markets where competition is good, consumers will just vote with their feet.
Give it up, RIAA. Come up with better ways of making money. No one is willing to spend $20 to buy an album with 1 or 2 good songs on it. And few are willing to pay for what they will always be able to get for free.
You have stone tables? Damn are you lucky! I live much, much deeper in the country than you, apparently. We have to use sticks to etch our data into the sand. Unfortunately, every time it rains, we lose everything. So we have memorize the data, and re-etch it after the rainy season.
Like the way the Torah or whatever it's called forbids them from lending money at interest to other Jews, because that would be usury, but it's okay to lend money at interest to Gentiles. I always thought that was real convenient...
I'm Ferenghi. We don't loan money out to anyone unless it's at interest. It's all spelled out in the Rules of Acquisition.
Oh, agreed. But that infrequent formality has to happen. And the automated tools should be smart enough to give you useful daily data by analysis and filtering -- that way you'll notice something's amiss if you don't get the expected data.
For example, I have a Python script that. for example, plots graphs of the number of successful vs. unsuccessful authentications. It graphs port connections, and a few other things as well. Another script shows resource utilization graphs. These are all posted on an intranet site that always sits open on my screen, reloading approx. every 5 minutes.
Correct, but there is a caveat. If you turn on Windows automatic updates, the default is to always download and install updates. You can tell it only download and notify you of new updates, but this also relies on the user being able to discern which updates are for IE and which are for the rest of the system.
Most users aren't that bright. Hell, most users aren't bright enough to set automatic updates to 'download and notify'. Seriously.
With Firefox, the automatic updater only updates Firefox and extensions.
The point is, there is no separate auto-updater just for IE.
Apple was doing quite poorly until Steve Jobs stepped in after the purchase of NeXT. Apple's executive management was literally running them into the ground. Their products seriously lacked vision and were withering on the vine.
A security breech of key IRS servers would constitute a national security crisis. Without your tax dollars, all that stuff that the military, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc., do wouldn't happen. Someone's gotta pay for it, and guess what? It's you and me, buddy.
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Xolarix to beat Linux? Xomehow I think hitting Mr. Linux Torvaldx with a Xolarix dixc will probably do more damage to the dixc....
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If you use protocol X today, and the protocol Y tomorrow it is completely irrelevant, because you need to move Z bytes. Unless you managed to develop some magical protocol that can shrink the payload, the ISP's will ALWAYS KNOW if you are doing filesharing.
Nonsense. How do they know that Z bytes are Z bytes of RIAA music, Z bytes of Ubuntu, or Z bytes of Creative Commons-licensed music?
They don't. And they can't. Especially when Z bytes are an encrypted payload.
Solaris to beat Linux? Somehow I think hitting Mr. Linux Torvalds with a Solaris disc will probably do more damage to the disc....
Yeah, because all the ISPs have been real cooperative with the RIAA in the past ... (hint: No.)
Not totally. Java isn't going anywhere (Microsoft hates Java), OpenOffice.org isn't going anywhere (Microsoft hates OpenOffice.org), OpenSolaris isn't going anywhere and Sun's partnerships with Canonical (Ubuntu), Red Hat and Novell/SuSE aren't going anywhere either.
Everyone thinks Microsoft is the only company to play dirty and use alliances as a means of a trap. Companies like Sun and IBM invented these tricks.
Hey! Those are BOTH ME, you insensitive clod!
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A bread knife CAN be used to kill someone but that's not what it was designed for.
That's a bad analogy. Knives were most definitely first created for killing -- well, hunting anyway. Early man needed to kill and slaughter beasts for food, so they sharpened stones. Eventually they refined the sharpened stones -- well, you get the idea.
Working with the ISPs is an arms race at best. The ISPs block stuff, P2P devs come up with more and more devious ways to work around the blocks. Plus, in markets where competition is good, consumers will just vote with their feet.
Give it up, RIAA. Come up with better ways of making money. No one is willing to spend $20 to buy an album with 1 or 2 good songs on it. And few are willing to pay for what they will always be able to get for free.
Lowering interest rates. Which, in the long run, creates inflation.
So you're from Texas?
In Soviet India, flying holy cows map YOU!
Of course, you can be detained for doing that in the US too. Not sure what exactly they charge you with.
Really? I wonder what happened to the Google employees who took these photos?
You have stone tables? Damn are you lucky! I live much, much deeper in the country than you, apparently. We have to use sticks to etch our data into the sand. Unfortunately, every time it rains, we lose everything. So we have memorize the data, and re-etch it after the rainy season.
Like the way the Torah or whatever it's called forbids them from lending money at interest to other Jews, because that would be usury, but it's okay to lend money at interest to Gentiles. I always thought that was real convenient ...
I'm Ferenghi. We don't loan money out to anyone unless it's at interest. It's all spelled out in the Rules of Acquisition.
So that's why you never respond to my e-mails. You're fired!
Oh, agreed. But that infrequent formality has to happen. And the automated tools should be smart enough to give you useful daily data by analysis and filtering -- that way you'll notice something's amiss if you don't get the expected data.
For example, I have a Python script that. for example, plots graphs of the number of successful vs. unsuccessful authentications. It graphs port connections, and a few other things as well. Another script shows resource utilization graphs. These are all posted on an intranet site that always sits open on my screen, reloading approx. every 5 minutes.
Not to worry. The NSA monitors 100% of all Web and e-mail traffic! Thanks to The New AT&T: Your World, Delivered. To the NSA.
Hmmmm? Wasn't there an update to WGA pushed through a year or two ago that broke everyone for a day?
What are you talking about?
The following extremely popular distros all have an automatic update system installed by default:
Correct, but there is a caveat. If you turn on Windows automatic updates, the default is to always download and install updates. You can tell it only download and notify you of new updates, but this also relies on the user being able to discern which updates are for IE and which are for the rest of the system.
Most users aren't that bright. Hell, most users aren't bright enough to set automatic updates to 'download and notify'. Seriously.
With Firefox, the automatic updater only updates Firefox and extensions.
The point is, there is no separate auto-updater just for IE.
Apple was doing quite poorly until Steve Jobs stepped in after the purchase of NeXT. Apple's executive management was literally running them into the ground. Their products seriously lacked vision and were withering on the vine.
Jobs breathed new life into Apple.
Why would I audit my security logs? I have a shell script running for that.
Have you stopped to think that perhaps automated tools don't always work as expected?
A security breech of key IRS servers would constitute a national security crisis. Without your tax dollars, all that stuff that the military, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc., do wouldn't happen. Someone's gotta pay for it, and guess what? It's you and me, buddy.
No, thanks. You don't want to know what the IRS can do to get you back. You really, really don't want to know...
What happened? You just posted a cut-and-paste troll, that's all.