"Running a live wire into a passenger jet's fuel tank seems like a bad idea on the face of it. Still, sensors that monitor the fuel tank have to run on electricity, so aircraft makers previously had little choice. But what if power could be delivered over optical fiber instead of copper wire, without fear of short circuits and sparks? In late May, the big laser and optics company JDS Uniphase Corp., in San Jose, Calif., bought a small Silicon Valley firm with the technology to do just that."
What, no one ever heard of vacuum lines? Or maybe pressurized lines? I'm not a rocket scientist, or even a plane scientist, and I could figure that out before I was finished reading the frickin' summary, let alone the frickin' article.
People love to make work for themselves...
Setting that aside, the idea sounds awesome!...what with all the planes we lose every year to short-circuiting wires...BUT, I'll wait to see if this materialized before I get all excited about it.
I'd guess it isn't wind...are these rocks ferrous? Or...maybe the earth is tilting on its side...weird stuff like that always happens here...I think our perspective of it is just off a bit.
I think that this will essentially fall upon deaf ears. It'll go on the books, and be used a couple times -- maybe.
The problem with distributed infringement is that it takes such a large amount of resources to prosecute a single person, with the prospect of retribution (after investigation, court, and accounting costs) of far less than a monetarily positive result. They might be gung-ho at first to set examples, but once they realize that they've already sucked every last dollar out of 95% of all citizens by way of taxes, they will quickly learn that there's no more money at the bottom of the money well (prosecute counterfeit distributors, not their consumers!). Seriously, does congress or the DoJ believe that we have bundles of cash ready to hand over like they do? (Forgive this digression, but that's actually one of the biggest problems in our society. The people with oodles of money make social policy, and they think that everyone else lives like them -- a suburban household income of $200,000 a year or more...but only in a situation like this would this legislation be tabled in the first place)
The end result isn't going to be deterrence. Everyone in the electronic community will do the equivalent of standing around the train wreck staring and gasping "Oh my god, is there no humanity", for five minutes and carry on as normal (downloading and buying $5 DVDs). The counterfeit vendors will continue to pander their crap, and people will continue to buy it. The government will (in the publics eye) be scrambling and grasping for every last possible stranglehold on its citizens they've be aiming for, for the last 7 years.
How can they believe that persecuting their citizens is a good idea?
If we go a little deeper into the problem, you might agree with me that it's sociological in nature and fairly inevitable and inexorable. Can I get a comment from any sociologists?
Wow...that's nuts. I can't imagine that ASUS could squirm its way out of that problem with "Oh, it's the right temp". Below room temp? Clearly an impossibility.
The P5K boards are supposed to be the upper echelon, no?...that's pretty said that they have such a flaw.
When you say "case", which sensor are you referring to? Do you mean chipset? Or is there another sensor I'm not aware of?
I just hope that the standard requires high-quality components, because I can see this backfiring. I have sold ASUS motherboards since I starting selling computers a few years back, and have had a lot of success (read: very very low RMA rate). Even though I choose to include only high-quality components, I have seen a situation where the motherboard -thought- it was running over temperature and began throttling itself (ASUS P4S800-X I think it was)...and this happened on 90% of those specific boards I sold (10% had celeron chips, which run 10C cooler or so). Mind you, I'd rather have an erroneous overtemp than undertemp. Anyway, ASUS claimed that there is and was nothing wrong with their boards. Meanwhile, many other people suffered the same situation, even after BIOS updates and thermal repasting. Obviously ASUS tried something different (cheaper?) and it sucked.
Having said that, if this is all going to work, please, for the love of our computer gods, oh please, only use high-quality parts so us techs don't have to suffer so much.
that will be ignored by all the big OEMs and the general populace.
I don't mean to be a troll, because this is a great sounding idea, but anything I get excited about seems to fizzle long before it even gets a chance to shine.
I know that I'll support this tech, but, getting other people to see the light will be, quite frankly, impossible.
Yeah...I know what you mean...I wouldn't say she would 'never' see he kids again...more like an unknown period of time. I don't see why Hans' parents ability to be responsible toward the kids would be eliminated by the fact that their son was juuust a suspect, even to this day he is still not guilty right? I know that family law is quite different than criminal law, but knowing that Nina's mom doesn't have any ties to this community here, and more importantly, strong ties to her Russian community (practicing medicine with the rest of her family is a pretty strong tie) would present a flight risk, just the prospect of guilty should not be enough to permit their grandmother to take the kids wherever she wants effectively eliminating the possibility of Hans seeing his children at least during the trial (he probably had to surrender his passport until exoneration), and potentially ever again. How's that for a run-on sentence...anyway, my point is that it's not a huge stretch to believe that she could have orchestrated the events with the help of a few people...nor is it a stretch that he actually did it. If I were on a jury panel, I'd want to have some sort of evidence of foul play beyond a shopping bag by a car with its door left open in a parking lot. Blood? Witness to some badness? I say that a lack of evidence is NO EVIDENCE at all. Certainly, some things can be proven, but not enough to convict. Even in the article, they state that the cops have only a CIRCUMSTANTIAL -story- at best. I bet the cops can build a circumstantial case against anyone for anything if they really want.
How many people get convicted on circumstantial evidence and (forgive me Nina, if you can hear me) no body?
And the whole "we're going to ignore the crazy guy claiming to be a serial killer" just isn't right either.
I RTFA: This just doesn't add up. Why did the children get sent to Russia?!? I assume that Hans is capable of taking care of them, how did the kid's grand parents get custody of their natural father is still alive and kicking? The kids were growing up here and how they were transplanted to a culture remarkably different?
I don't believe that Hans showing up at the school to see the kids and give them a telephone number is 'suspect'..like come on. Did Nina orchestrate these events? Or was Hans so upset about her decision for divorce once she became a US citizen, and that she screwed his best friend, that he had to kill her?
Seems to me like Nina took off for the homeland, and has her kids there too. Hans is left holding the bag...
Now I probably won't get updates for my ReiserFS....damnit.
I just did some more reading...look at the date/time of offense, and date/time of the RO's (registered owner's or responding office?) arrival...first one is 6 hours after the 'occurance', the second was 20 minutes, and the third was 3 hours? Hmm, seems to be a fundamental lack of concern.
The guy says that $50,000 worth of stuff was stolen...not only servers, but misc crap like routers, and battery chargers for Black Berry units.
I'd say either look for a new web host startup in the Chicago area in the next year, or a lot of stuff going cheap on Ebay.
The saddest part about this is that the crims clubbed and zapped some innocent guy that would have offered zero resistance. For this, I hope they thieves go to jail for a long time.
You said: There's no need to crack the LM&NT hashes of a password, you can use the hash directly on windows using this tool:
Their website says:...You must have Administrator privileges to run these tools...
So, if you already have admin/root on the box, chances are security is kinda lax wherever you are...why do ya need to impersonate someone else, you would only be violating a trust that was handed to you...on the other hand, rooting a box starting only with user, or even better -- guest, permission...THAT is something to talk about.
I get that if you had local admin rights, but not domain admin rights it might be helpful, but, how often would the admin log into your box? I guess if you really want it bad enough, you can wait forever and it's worth it...but then you'll just lose your job, or get arrested or something dumb.
On the other hand I'm told that the botnet is peer-to-peer and de-centralized. Unlike spamming or DoSing cracking a key requires some communication with a central server.
Yep...and the botnet gets its commands from a central location, don'tcha think?
I.E.: There commands would be something like -- Bot #1 do work on this segment, Bot #2 do work on that segment, Bot #133432112 do work on the other segment.
Bot who finds key, report in. Done....no?
Either that, or they can use their controlling IRC channel for the minimal comm. required.
I'd actually like to see that implemented...that would be quite genius too, I might add.
I know! What the hell? Why do these 'articles' even exist? It's like I went down the street to yap with my buddy about something he has no authority on. Why do I have any cause to believe his ramblings?
This is an epidemic in today's media. Very interesting concepts, no substance. Why wouldn't Mr. "I want to expose the government/automakers for how retarded they are" NOT PROVIDE ANY proof, facts, or links?
Just like the other day I was watching my local news channel...the news bite was "don't go out into the sun if you take CERTAIN medications"...that's exactly what they said, no specific medication, but the inference was that CERTAIN medications make ones skin react adversely to the sun. Think they mentioned ANYTHING concrete? Nope...even their whore of a doctor, Dr. Carl, was going on about "OMG, you probably have these medications in your medicine cabinet that will make you get cancer, burn quickly, you better watch out..." blah blah blah blah...no mention of anything I could use. I see this all the time now, on every news channel and news paper.
Thanks guys, keep your "news" to your damn self. I don't need it.
P.S. I don't see this on slashdot, ever, so keep up the great work boys.;)
My sister does exactly the oposite: she leaves the backdoor open all the time.
Friends, neighbours, family know this. My nieces can always come home from school and they never have the door locked.
They have a little old television set and an old DVD player and that's about it in terms of valuables you'll find there. Perhaps an few old computers upstairs, some kids toys...She and her husband think that too much TV is not good for the kids anyway. And they never get robbed, never had even the slightest issue with it. There is a morale in it somewhere, I'm not sure what it is though:-)
My uncle has left all of his cars open all the time everywhere he goes, and at home. Period. Every car he's owned. One story is he parked at the "really crappy/high crime" mall (they have signs that, to paraphrase, say your car is likely to be punked) in his city and the car BESIDE his got busted into. Broken windows, busted dashboard, the works...his truck? Nothing. His windows were down! He even does this with his new truck.
It's so crazy, it works. He says he thinks that the punks that would bust in probably think it's being watched or something, or...there's nothing of value in it...because he doesn't leave anything of value in it and if someone wants to check, he doesn't have to replace the busted window, if they take the truck, it's covered 100%...so, I agree with the other poster that says if you LOOK like you have something to protect, it might become more attractive.
a CD **MUST** work in ANY player and not the newer because of breaking the CD standards
Yeah, no kidding. Did you notice that the Compact Disc logo doesn't exist on broken CDs? It's because it doesn't meet the red bood (or was that blue book?) standards....NOT that joe sixpack would ever notice.
You're right about the ignorance. Whenever I start talking about DRM to 99.9% of all (non-slashdot) people (even TECHIES!) I get ZERO questions, no stimulating conversation, nothing. Just "oh...that kinda sucks." Yep. That's it. I firmly believe people should think more critically about their lives, rather than surfing through on the wafer thin board of complacency and ignorance. Not just in computers and tech, but everything else as well.
Yeah, I tried the whole wildcard thing ages ago and to my dismay learned quickly that it didn't work. And I'd say 90% of the intarweeb adverts are ALL about the masq. It's just like the fools that call my house phone every night...always start off with the quick line to make me think they don't want to sell me something. First line out of my mouth (IF they let me speak that is) is always "what are you selling?" (I'm a straight-forward kind of guy). That usually gets a direct response.
Next line is "please take me off your list".
My point is, net ads used to be overt and obvious (who the hell thought that adding cycling banners was a good idea?). People began to learn how to ignore. Now, it's more subvertive.
There's a national "do not call list". We need a national "do not spam/infest my COMPUTER list. COM-PU-TER. Not email address. COMPUTER."
Or you can really take charge of the situation, set up your own local nameserver, declare it authoritative for 2o7.net
That is a wicked idea! I think I'll implement it somehow. Does anyone here know of a way to import huge lists into a DNS server?
Gah! Just do it and get it over with, I say. If there's anything I've learned, it's that there's no sense (ha ha, sorry) in only using one method for X management...be it spyware, virus, ads, site blocking, network mgmt etc.
It's just like those commercials for anti-bacterial whatever -- "Kills 99.9% of all germs!"....well, ok, that's great, but the 0.1% that survive will ALWAYS A) continue to MULTIPLY, and B) be the really strong type, that can't be killed later by the same level of anti-germ stuffs we buy in the store (superbug anyone?). Yes. You heard me right. That 0.1% of all germs on your hands are growing. All the weak germs are now dead, leaving heaps and gobs of (1000 times as much!) food for the 0.1% of the bacteria (that you don't want, believe me or not, most of bacteria on you is GOOD for you) to their devices to infest you as they see fit.
What was I talking about again?...so...use anti-bacterial hand soap AND bleach. That'll do the trick.
which duty ? to tolerate or to smite DRM ? Because I still think as long there are people freeloading from other(s) resources because it "just can be done freely"; the market will always keep looking for better options to make one sale equal to be getting one product.
Smite....SMITE! Thou shalt cast thy DRM'd media into an abyss fitting only to the anti-christ!
And your story is exactly why everyone should be aware of its reality. I have many clients I warn of bastardized media (not that I put it that way, but close enough). And you know what? Very few understand. The don't understand how omninous it is...how obtrusive it is...how invasive it is...until they get hit in the head with an iPod that they paid $100's for, loaded with music they paid decent money for, and can't do anything with on any other piece of technology...save and except the analog-hole.
Support your favourite artists/software companies/actors -- YES! It's when the creative beings (through their overlor...er...record labels/companies/distributors) stop supporting their fans that this becomes the abomination that it has.
I wonder if the big companies will see the err of their ways. If yes, when? 5 years? 10 years?
It's ironic that I get more unwanted popups and ads when I'm at work than I do at home.
Quite. And I bet your admin would never use such a HOSTS file on the proxy because "it might break something". Either that, or the response would be "what's a HOST file?".
Think of the bandwidth an ISP could actually ~save~! If an ISP threw this on their DNS server, it'd be hectic.
I'm on the same page as your re: MSN, add-ons, etc, etc. The issue I have is that active ad-blocking/anti-spyware software takes up CPU time. Not to mention administration, and general futzing.
I'm a no-nonsense type of guy -- HOSTS file = zero CPU (essentially).
There is an added side-effect to using a HOSTS file. If one DOES get any spyware on their machine, the HOSTS file prevents it from calling home (assuming it's listed, of course).
All this for the low low price of free (as in beer).
Imagine for a moment, to convert a friendly-name to unfriendly-name your computer needs to send a few packets out to your local DNS server for resolution, that server looks up its own tables, and if it doesn't exist it gets forwarded (subdomains?) to another DNS server. Yes yes, all this is cached etc etc, but the point is that the packets have to go all the way out, and all the way back. And this takes HUNDREDS of MILLISECONDS!!!!
Using a HOSTS file reduces the path to relatively zero (only a few milliseconds). In computer land, local is FAR better than remote...this includes heaps and gobs of porn.
True enough. I wish I could mod you up -- informative.
I'd hazard a rough guess and say that 90% of the typical user susceptable to ads would not be using a proxy. The other 10%? Bug your proxy admin like a fiend!
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"Running a live wire into a passenger jet's fuel tank seems like a bad idea on the face of it. Still, sensors that monitor the fuel tank have to run on electricity, so aircraft makers previously had little choice. But what if power could be delivered over optical fiber instead of copper wire, without fear of short circuits and sparks? In late May, the big laser and optics company JDS Uniphase Corp., in San Jose, Calif., bought a small Silicon Valley firm with the technology to do just that."
What, no one ever heard of vacuum lines? Or maybe pressurized lines? I'm not a rocket scientist, or even a plane scientist, and I could figure that out before I was finished reading the frickin' summary, let alone the frickin' article.
People love to make work for themselves...
Setting that aside, the idea sounds awesome!...what with all the planes we lose every year to short-circuiting wires...BUT, I'll wait to see if this materialized before I get all excited about it.
I'd guess it isn't wind...are these rocks ferrous? Or...maybe the earth is tilting on its side...weird stuff like that always happens here...I think our perspective of it is just off a bit.
I think that this will essentially fall upon deaf ears. It'll go on the books, and be used a couple times -- maybe.
The problem with distributed infringement is that it takes such a large amount of resources to prosecute a single person, with the prospect of retribution (after investigation, court, and accounting costs) of far less than a monetarily positive result. They might be gung-ho at first to set examples, but once they realize that they've already sucked every last dollar out of 95% of all citizens by way of taxes, they will quickly learn that there's no more money at the bottom of the money well (prosecute counterfeit distributors, not their consumers!). Seriously, does congress or the DoJ believe that we have bundles of cash ready to hand over like they do? (Forgive this digression, but that's actually one of the biggest problems in our society. The people with oodles of money make social policy, and they think that everyone else lives like them -- a suburban household income of $200,000 a year or more...but only in a situation like this would this legislation be tabled in the first place)
The end result isn't going to be deterrence. Everyone in the electronic community will do the equivalent of standing around the train wreck staring and gasping "Oh my god, is there no humanity", for five minutes and carry on as normal (downloading and buying $5 DVDs). The counterfeit vendors will continue to pander their crap, and people will continue to buy it. The government will (in the publics eye) be scrambling and grasping for every last possible stranglehold on its citizens they've be aiming for, for the last 7 years.
How can they believe that persecuting their citizens is a good idea?
If we go a little deeper into the problem, you might agree with me that it's sociological in nature and fairly inevitable and inexorable. Can I get a comment from any sociologists?
Wow...that's nuts. I can't imagine that ASUS could squirm its way out of that problem with "Oh, it's the right temp". Below room temp? Clearly an impossibility.
The P5K boards are supposed to be the upper echelon, no?...that's pretty said that they have such a flaw.
When you say "case", which sensor are you referring to? Do you mean chipset? Or is there another sensor I'm not aware of?
Again, this isn't a troll...I'm just a realist.
I just hope that the standard requires high-quality components, because I can see this backfiring. I have sold ASUS motherboards since I starting selling computers a few years back, and have had a lot of success (read: very very low RMA rate). Even though I choose to include only high-quality components, I have seen a situation where the motherboard -thought- it was running over temperature and began throttling itself (ASUS P4S800-X I think it was)...and this happened on 90% of those specific boards I sold (10% had celeron chips, which run 10C cooler or so). Mind you, I'd rather have an erroneous overtemp than undertemp. Anyway, ASUS claimed that there is and was nothing wrong with their boards. Meanwhile, many other people suffered the same situation, even after BIOS updates and thermal repasting. Obviously ASUS tried something different (cheaper?) and it sucked.
Having said that, if this is all going to work, please, for the love of our computer gods, oh please, only use high-quality parts so us techs don't have to suffer so much.
that will be ignored by all the big OEMs and the general populace.
I don't mean to be a troll, because this is a great sounding idea, but anything I get excited about seems to fizzle long before it even gets a chance to shine.
I know that I'll support this tech, but, getting other people to see the light will be, quite frankly, impossible.
Yeah...I know what you mean...I wouldn't say she would 'never' see he kids again...more like an unknown period of time. I don't see why Hans' parents ability to be responsible toward the kids would be eliminated by the fact that their son was juuust a suspect, even to this day he is still not guilty right? I know that family law is quite different than criminal law, but knowing that Nina's mom doesn't have any ties to this community here, and more importantly, strong ties to her Russian community (practicing medicine with the rest of her family is a pretty strong tie) would present a flight risk, just the prospect of guilty should not be enough to permit their grandmother to take the kids wherever she wants effectively eliminating the possibility of Hans seeing his children at least during the trial (he probably had to surrender his passport until exoneration), and potentially ever again. How's that for a run-on sentence...anyway, my point is that it's not a huge stretch to believe that she could have orchestrated the events with the help of a few people...nor is it a stretch that he actually did it. If I were on a jury panel, I'd want to have some sort of evidence of foul play beyond a shopping bag by a car with its door left open in a parking lot. Blood? Witness to some badness? I say that a lack of evidence is NO EVIDENCE at all. Certainly, some things can be proven, but not enough to convict. Even in the article, they state that the cops have only a CIRCUMSTANTIAL -story- at best. I bet the cops can build a circumstantial case against anyone for anything if they really want.
How many people get convicted on circumstantial evidence and (forgive me Nina, if you can hear me) no body?
And the whole "we're going to ignore the crazy guy claiming to be a serial killer" just isn't right either.
I RTFA: This just doesn't add up. Why did the children get sent to Russia?!? I assume that Hans is capable of taking care of them, how did the kid's grand parents get custody of their natural father is still alive and kicking? The kids were growing up here and how they were transplanted to a culture remarkably different?
I don't believe that Hans showing up at the school to see the kids and give them a telephone number is 'suspect'..like come on. Did Nina orchestrate these events? Or was Hans so upset about her decision for divorce once she became a US citizen, and that she screwed his best friend, that he had to kill her?
Seems to me like Nina took off for the homeland, and has her kids there too. Hans is left holding the bag...
Now I probably won't get updates for my ReiserFS....damnit.
I just did some more reading...look at the date/time of offense, and date/time of the RO's (registered owner's or responding office?) arrival...first one is 6 hours after the 'occurance', the second was 20 minutes, and the third was 3 hours? Hmm, seems to be a fundamental lack of concern.
I found these links to the report from a post on theregister.co.uk
Report 1 Page 1
Report 1 Page 2
Report 2 Page 1
Report 2 Page 2
Report 3 Page 1
Report 3 Page 2
The guy says that $50,000 worth of stuff was stolen...not only servers, but misc crap like routers, and battery chargers for Black Berry units.
I'd say either look for a new web host startup in the Chicago area in the next year, or a lot of stuff going cheap on Ebay.
The saddest part about this is that the crims clubbed and zapped some innocent guy that would have offered zero resistance. For this, I hope they thieves go to jail for a long time.
Thank god I live in Canada, so I'm not affected by the lunacy of the U.S...er...ummm...
Sure the U.S. is the nexus of the planet, but seriously though...would this patent affect any other countries?
You said:
...You must have Administrator privileges to run these tools...
There's no need to crack the LM&NT hashes of a password, you can use the hash directly on windows using this tool:
Their website says:
So, if you already have admin/root on the box, chances are security is kinda lax wherever you are...why do ya need to impersonate someone else, you would only be violating a trust that was handed to you...on the other hand, rooting a box starting only with user, or even better -- guest, permission...THAT is something to talk about.
I get that if you had local admin rights, but not domain admin rights it might be helpful, but, how often would the admin log into your box? I guess if you really want it bad enough, you can wait forever and it's worth it...but then you'll just lose your job, or get arrested or something dumb.
Cool tool though.
On the other hand I'm told that the botnet is peer-to-peer and de-centralized. Unlike spamming or DoSing cracking a key requires some communication with a central server.
Yep...and the botnet gets its commands from a central location, don'tcha think?
I.E.: There commands would be something like -- Bot #1 do work on this segment, Bot #2 do work on that segment, Bot #133432112 do work on the other segment.
Bot who finds key, report in. Done....no?
Either that, or they can use their controlling IRC channel for the minimal comm. required.
I'd actually like to see that implemented...that would be quite genius too, I might add.
always wondered if a botnet could get large enough to effectively break encryption...
You sir, are genius...and I don't hand that compliment out to just anyone.
We need more people on this planet that think like you do, a lot more.
And then we need to install you guys into a position of actual influence or power.
Could we get a TINY bit more info?
;)
I know! What the hell? Why do these 'articles' even exist? It's like I went down the street to yap with my buddy about something he has no authority on. Why do I have any cause to believe his ramblings?
This is an epidemic in today's media. Very interesting concepts, no substance. Why wouldn't Mr. "I want to expose the government/automakers for how retarded they are" NOT PROVIDE ANY proof, facts, or links?
Just like the other day I was watching my local news channel...the news bite was "don't go out into the sun if you take CERTAIN medications"...that's exactly what they said, no specific medication, but the inference was that CERTAIN medications make ones skin react adversely to the sun. Think they mentioned ANYTHING concrete? Nope...even their whore of a doctor, Dr. Carl, was going on about "OMG, you probably have these medications in your medicine cabinet that will make you get cancer, burn quickly, you better watch out..." blah blah blah blah...no mention of anything I could use. I see this all the time now, on every news channel and news paper.
Thanks guys, keep your "news" to your damn self. I don't need it.
P.S. I don't see this on slashdot, ever, so keep up the great work boys.
My sister does exactly the oposite: she leaves the backdoor open all the time. Friends, neighbours, family know this. My nieces can always come home from school and they never have the door locked. They have a little old television set and an old DVD player and that's about it in terms of valuables you'll find there. Perhaps an few old computers upstairs, some kids toys...She and her husband think that too much TV is not good for the kids anyway. And they never get robbed, never had even the slightest issue with it. There is a morale in it somewhere, I'm not sure what it is though :-)
My uncle has left all of his cars open all the time everywhere he goes, and at home. Period. Every car he's owned. One story is he parked at the "really crappy/high crime" mall (they have signs that, to paraphrase, say your car is likely to be punked) in his city and the car BESIDE his got busted into. Broken windows, busted dashboard, the works...his truck? Nothing. His windows were down! He even does this with his new truck.
It's so crazy, it works. He says he thinks that the punks that would bust in probably think it's being watched or something, or...there's nothing of value in it...because he doesn't leave anything of value in it and if someone wants to check, he doesn't have to replace the busted window, if they take the truck, it's covered 100%...so, I agree with the other poster that says if you LOOK like you have something to protect, it might become more attractive.
Inject.
a CD **MUST** work in ANY player and not the newer because of breaking the CD standards
Yeah, no kidding. Did you notice that the Compact Disc logo doesn't exist on broken CDs? It's because it doesn't meet the red bood (or was that blue book?) standards....NOT that joe sixpack would ever notice.
You're right about the ignorance. Whenever I start talking about DRM to 99.9% of all (non-slashdot) people (even TECHIES!) I get ZERO questions, no stimulating conversation, nothing. Just "oh...that kinda sucks." Yep. That's it. I firmly believe people should think more critically about their lives, rather than surfing through on the wafer thin board of complacency and ignorance. Not just in computers and tech, but everything else as well.
Yeah, I tried the whole wildcard thing ages ago and to my dismay learned quickly that it didn't work. And I'd say 90% of the intarweeb adverts are ALL about the masq. It's just like the fools that call my house phone every night...always start off with the quick line to make me think they don't want to sell me something. First line out of my mouth (IF they let me speak that is) is always "what are you selling?" (I'm a straight-forward kind of guy). That usually gets a direct response.
Next line is "please take me off your list".
My point is, net ads used to be overt and obvious (who the hell thought that adding cycling banners was a good idea?). People began to learn how to ignore. Now, it's more subvertive.
There's a national "do not call list". We need a national "do not spam/infest my COMPUTER list. COM-PU-TER. Not email address. COMPUTER."
Or you can really take charge of the situation, set up your own local nameserver, declare it authoritative for 2o7.net
That is a wicked idea! I think I'll implement it somehow. Does anyone here know of a way to import huge lists into a DNS server?
Gah! Just do it and get it over with, I say. If there's anything I've learned, it's that there's no sense (ha ha, sorry) in only using one method for X management...be it spyware, virus, ads, site blocking, network mgmt etc.
It's just like those commercials for anti-bacterial whatever -- "Kills 99.9% of all germs!"....well, ok, that's great, but the 0.1% that survive will ALWAYS A) continue to MULTIPLY, and B) be the really strong type, that can't be killed later by the same level of anti-germ stuffs we buy in the store (superbug anyone?). Yes. You heard me right. That 0.1% of all germs on your hands are growing. All the weak germs are now dead, leaving heaps and gobs of (1000 times as much!) food for the 0.1% of the bacteria (that you don't want, believe me or not, most of bacteria on you is GOOD for you) to their devices to infest you as they see fit.
What was I talking about again?...so...use anti-bacterial hand soap AND bleach. That'll do the trick.
which duty ? to tolerate or to smite DRM ? Because I still think as long there are people freeloading from other(s) resources because it "just can be done freely"; the market will always keep looking for better options to make one sale equal to be getting one product.
Smite....SMITE! Thou shalt cast thy DRM'd media into an abyss fitting only to the anti-christ! And your story is exactly why everyone should be aware of its reality. I have many clients I warn of bastardized media (not that I put it that way, but close enough). And you know what? Very few understand. The don't understand how omninous it is...how obtrusive it is...how invasive it is...until they get hit in the head with an iPod that they paid $100's for, loaded with music they paid decent money for, and can't do anything with on any other piece of technology...save and except the analog-hole.
Support your favourite artists/software companies/actors -- YES! It's when the creative beings (through their overlor...er...record labels/companies/distributors) stop supporting their fans that this becomes the abomination that it has.
I wonder if the big companies will see the err of their ways. If yes, when? 5 years? 10 years?
It's time for a revolution. Who's with me?
It's ironic that I get more unwanted popups and ads when I'm at work than I do at home.
Quite. And I bet your admin would never use such a HOSTS file on the proxy because "it might break something". Either that, or the response would be "what's a HOST file?".
Think of the bandwidth an ISP could actually ~save~! If an ISP threw this on their DNS server, it'd be hectic.
I know several people who are pro-drm.
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Obviously, as a slashdotter, you have not done your duty.
I'm on the same page as your re: MSN, add-ons, etc, etc. The issue I have is that active ad-blocking/anti-spyware software takes up CPU time. Not to mention administration, and general futzing.
I'm a no-nonsense type of guy -- HOSTS file = zero CPU (essentially).
There is an added side-effect to using a HOSTS file. If one DOES get any spyware on their machine, the HOSTS file prevents it from calling home (assuming it's listed, of course).
All this for the low low price of free (as in beer).
I'd suggest that it's MUCH faster than using DNS.
Technical Nazis look away for a moment.
Imagine for a moment, to convert a friendly-name to unfriendly-name your computer needs to send a few packets out to your local DNS server for resolution, that server looks up its own tables, and if it doesn't exist it gets forwarded (subdomains?) to another DNS server. Yes yes, all this is cached etc etc, but the point is that the packets have to go all the way out, and all the way back. And this takes HUNDREDS of MILLISECONDS!!!!
Using a HOSTS file reduces the path to relatively zero (only a few milliseconds). In computer land, local is FAR better than remote...this includes heaps and gobs of porn.
Technical Nazis can look again.
True enough. I wish I could mod you up -- informative.
I'd hazard a rough guess and say that 90% of the typical user susceptable to ads would not be using a proxy. The other 10%? Bug your proxy admin like a fiend!
Beyond that, I've got nothin'.