As far as inebriated Youtube stars go, he wasn't as funny as Kramer from Seinfeld crushing his career via racist tirade, but funnier than all those teenagers failing at skateboard stunts. Give it a 4/5.
For the lazy, the case in TFA involves Universal accusing MySpace of copyright infringement based on the ability of its users to post copyrighted music videos to the site without permission.
Hooray indeed! You do very nice work, and I may have to steal that pi scarf idea someday.
Switching up rows isn't actually all that far a cry from pixelated pictures, it's just one of the two skills needed. You could hunt down a tutorial for knitting vertical stripes that works for you, and get comfortable doing that. Any color-switching (aka "intarsia") knits, no matter how complex, boil down to just a combination of horizontal and vertical color changes. Once you have those two skills down, you can create whatever you like.
I seem to remember a certain 1991 event which set off riots and a fairly major cultural shift, which would never have gotten out had there not been some bystander with a portable video camera handy. Since then tons of amateur videographers whipped out their camcorders whenever something newsworthy happened. Now we all have camera phones, so this is all just the natural evolution of that.
What is the justification for higher prices? The whole system is automated isn't it?
They're still working on automating the process. For now it's still controlled by a ragtag group of retired plumbers and former telephone operators who all work part-time connecting the domain tubes. Most of your domain fees go toward their coffee and sandwiches.
Any man who would take on a position at a yarn store, much less a technological position while surrounded by a dozen women, ages 55+ deserves some kind of reward...
Hah! As a somewhat avid knitter, I wish more men would work in yarn stores, as there are only so many sweet old ladies I can handle in a single shopping expedition. I say "somewhat avid," as the one thing that stops me from knitting a lot more is the fact that I can't type or play video games while doing it.
Speaking of video games, anyone who thinks knitting is all girly flowers and things hasn't seen the cool retro-gaming knits at Bits 2 Die 4.
The same could be said of the name "Napster." When you said the word to a teenager five or six years ago, they would have immediately thought of Shawn Fanning's piracy tool. Roxio bought the Napster name and logos for their PressPlay service precisely to capitalize on the original MP3 share's popularity, and it seems to be working well for them so far.
It's not every day you can rebrand your own legit offering with a name that every kid already knows and wears the t-shirt for, regardless of the dubious nature of that brand's popular use. The term is already embedded in most Internet users' minds. Slap it on a paid service, and that equals instant "cool." All tech issues aside, Cohen is sitting on a goldmine just with the name. If he wasn't already running a company caled BitTorrent Inc. to do it himself, everyone else would be intensely competing to buy the name off Cohen and call their paid movie service "BitTorrent" regardless of the tech that actually runs the things.
It's only a matter of time before they find out about the millions I made in "Wall Street Kid" for the NES all those years ago. When's the next virtual flight to virtual Brazil?
Bank security systems especially are (or attempt to, or should) be designed in such a way to prevent the employees from stealing money - and if you can accomplish that, then you already have prevented the posing-as-copier-service-guy attacks
Oh, I see! I wasn't looking at it that way, but that makes a whole lot of sense. Thanks!
This is simply not true, or at best extremely misleading. That's like saying "no matter how sophisticated your physical security, someone will be able to break it". I'm sure you could break into the bank vault too with infinite resources and time, but that doesn't mean it's trivial.
What I mean is, the tech details of the intrusion are always changing. Any "unbreakable" security measure only remains that way until - not if - someone breaks it. To use your example of bank vaults, if you sent someone into a 19th-century bank vault with 21st-century technology, that person will be able to get in much easier than was possible when the vault was new. Using your current desktop computer and a printer, you can easily create an undetectable forgery of what they were using as driver's licenses in the 1970s. It's a fact of progress that the strongest data encryption we have now will one day be trivial to crack with a standard computer like everyone has. The advancement of security measures and countermeasures are driven by each side trying constantly to outdo the other.
Inside jobs will always have an advantage over outside jobs, but that is not what this particular test was about. It was about the vulnerability of the bank's system to someone from outside. That's what they need to be teaching the employees about.
I'd think the nmain problem was that the guy was let into the building and his activities not questioned. The tech specs of what he did are almost trivial; as any IT nut knows, no matter how sophisticated your data protection now, something else will eventually come along to break it. Training the first line of defense, i.e. the non-techie employees who might not even be able to spell DHCP, against letting the human factor of the equation is far more important in a situation like this than defending against this intruder's particular hack-in-the-box.
A generation from now the tech specs of the intrusion may all be completely different, but the possibility of a social engineer to pretext his way in and hook up whatever he wants to the system will be pretty much the same.
"Gentlemen, your communication lines are vulnerable, your fire exits need to be monitored, your rent-a-cops are a tad undertrained. Outside of that everything seems to be just fine. You'll be getting our full report and analysis in a few days but first, who's got my check?"
My early-gen PS2 has been broken for a while now. I figured rather than waste time or money repairing the old one, I'd just wait for the PS3 thing to happen and die down, since this would surely result in a price drop for the last batch of PS2s, and I could replace my cranky old console on the cheap. This certainly does seem to be the case at the moment, and I imagine after the holidays the price of a PS2 will go down even further.
For years whenever someone has mentioned Rare I've immediately thought of that old "Donkey Kong Country" intro with Cranky Kong listening to his old crank-operated record player.
What's important to note here is that the exemption isn't limited just to the Internet Archive. IANAL but unless I'm reading something hideously wrongly, this seems to generally exempt software from the protection granted by the DMCA if the hardware to run it isn't reasonably available. Have they just legitimized the abandonware scene?
What constitutes a "reasonable arguement" whenm all you have to do to sway politicians to your side is the right combination of campaign contributions and technobabble?
If I presented your average mayor with some stereo manuals, flowcharts of how bees make honey, and some maps of galactic background radiation, while telling him in my best Ben Stein voice that it'd be best for his constituants if he rerouted engine plasma through the bussard ramscoops to generate a static warp shell which will refill the blinker light fluid and tighten the muffler belt, while pointing at a flowchart of how bees make honey, I could reduce him to enough of a gibbering mass of clueless politician protoplasm that he'll sign anything I put in front of him tied to a sufficiently large campaign check. And his VCR would still be blinking "12:00" afterward.
Being a hacker is not a punishable offense. If criminals are using so-called "hacker" skills in criminal pursuits, they're still criminals. Call them criminals.
I'd expect the OMG SCARY word "hacker" to be misused like this in Hollywood films and mainstream news, but not on Slashdot of all places.
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Hey! I made a copyrighted post very much like this one once. You'll be hearing from my lawyer!
As far as inebriated Youtube stars go, he wasn't as funny as Kramer from Seinfeld crushing his career via racist tirade, but funnier than all those teenagers failing at skateboard stunts. Give it a 4/5.
For the lazy, the case in TFA involves Universal accusing MySpace of copyright infringement based on the ability of its users to post copyrighted music videos to the site without permission.
Did you know that the number of terrorists has tripled in the past six months?
Hooray indeed! You do very nice work, and I may have to steal that pi scarf idea someday.
Switching up rows isn't actually all that far a cry from pixelated pictures, it's just one of the two skills needed. You could hunt down a tutorial for knitting vertical stripes that works for you, and get comfortable doing that. Any color-switching (aka "intarsia") knits, no matter how complex, boil down to just a combination of horizontal and vertical color changes. Once you have those two skills down, you can create whatever you like.
I seem to remember a certain 1991 event which set off riots and a fairly major cultural shift, which would never have gotten out had there not been some bystander with a portable video camera handy. Since then tons of amateur videographers whipped out their camcorders whenever something newsworthy happened. Now we all have camera phones, so this is all just the natural evolution of that.
Anyone who can knit Fibonacci and Pi (*nerd kowtow*) shouldn't have any problem hacking retro-gaming pixels into any pattern.
Speaking of video games, anyone who thinks knitting is all girly flowers and things hasn't seen the cool retro-gaming knits at Bits 2 Die 4.
Microsoft beat them to the zeros (and the ones) in 1988.
This one is pretty incompatible with that one, so far as I could ever figure out.
The same could be said of the name "Napster." When you said the word to a teenager five or six years ago, they would have immediately thought of Shawn Fanning's piracy tool. Roxio bought the Napster name and logos for their PressPlay service precisely to capitalize on the original MP3 share's popularity, and it seems to be working well for them so far.
It's not every day you can rebrand your own legit offering with a name that every kid already knows and wears the t-shirt for, regardless of the dubious nature of that brand's popular use. The term is already embedded in most Internet users' minds. Slap it on a paid service, and that equals instant "cool." All tech issues aside, Cohen is sitting on a goldmine just with the name. If he wasn't already running a company caled BitTorrent Inc. to do it himself, everyone else would be intensely competing to buy the name off Cohen and call their paid movie service "BitTorrent" regardless of the tech that actually runs the things.
It's only a matter of time before they find out about the millions I made in "Wall Street Kid" for the NES all those years ago. When's the next virtual flight to virtual Brazil?
Attention tube terrorists.. could you please target the specific stock and mortgage people who keep spamming me?
Inside jobs will always have an advantage over outside jobs, but that is not what this particular test was about. It was about the vulnerability of the bank's system to someone from outside. That's what they need to be teaching the employees about.
I'd think the nmain problem was that the guy was let into the building and his activities not questioned. The tech specs of what he did are almost trivial; as any IT nut knows, no matter how sophisticated your data protection now, something else will eventually come along to break it. Training the first line of defense, i.e. the non-techie employees who might not even be able to spell DHCP, against letting the human factor of the equation is far more important in a situation like this than defending against this intruder's particular hack-in-the-box.
A generation from now the tech specs of the intrusion may all be completely different, but the possibility of a social engineer to pretext his way in and hook up whatever he wants to the system will be pretty much the same.
"Gentlemen, your communication lines are vulnerable, your fire exits need to be monitored, your rent-a-cops are a tad undertrained. Outside of that everything seems to be just fine. You'll be getting our full report and analysis in a few days but first, who's got my check?"
My early-gen PS2 has been broken for a while now. I figured rather than waste time or money repairing the old one, I'd just wait for the PS3 thing to happen and die down, since this would surely result in a price drop for the last batch of PS2s, and I could replace my cranky old console on the cheap. This certainly does seem to be the case at the moment, and I imagine after the holidays the price of a PS2 will go down even further.
For years whenever someone has mentioned Rare I've immediately thought of that old "Donkey Kong Country" intro with Cranky Kong listening to his old crank-operated record player.
I guess Cranky still works there.
What's important to note here is that the exemption isn't limited just to the Internet Archive. IANAL but unless I'm reading something hideously wrongly, this seems to generally exempt software from the protection granted by the DMCA if the hardware to run it isn't reasonably available. Have they just legitimized the abandonware scene?
What constitutes a "reasonable arguement" whenm all you have to do to sway politicians to your side is the right combination of campaign contributions and technobabble?
If I presented your average mayor with some stereo manuals, flowcharts of how bees make honey, and some maps of galactic background radiation, while telling him in my best Ben Stein voice that it'd be best for his constituants if he rerouted engine plasma through the bussard ramscoops to generate a static warp shell which will refill the blinker light fluid and tighten the muffler belt, while pointing at a flowchart of how bees make honey, I could reduce him to enough of a gibbering mass of clueless politician protoplasm that he'll sign anything I put in front of him tied to a sufficiently large campaign check. And his VCR would still be blinking "12:00" afterward.
This'll work so long as there's a stewardess to keep the automatic pilot "inflated."
Being a hacker is not a punishable offense. If criminals are using so-called "hacker" skills in criminal pursuits, they're still criminals. Call them criminals.
I'd expect the OMG SCARY word "hacker" to be misused like this in Hollywood films and mainstream news, but not on Slashdot of all places.