Also, Code Red/Slammer etc are wholly different from the phishing trojans discussed here. Those worms were spread without intervention by a user, but they didn't steal personal information. In the realm of info-stealing malware, the user is still the key weakness (be it through failure to read warnings before clicking Yes, or social engineering tricks to gain passwords)
And most importantly - can you fit a 60' inflatible pig in the living room?
For that accurate home/festival experience, place your TV at the bottom of the garden, and watch through the kitchen window. If you need to pee, wait for 30 mins at the bathroom door first. Or just do it behind the sofa, everyone else does.
offering people who buy the band's official album a password to see the band practice
Huh, but you just said you would give the songs away? Still, good luck with the venture, though you face an Everest-sized barrier. Someone has to start, I guess. I'd back the residual rights point you make, too... if I get a plumber to fix my leaky tap, do I pay him every time I fill the bowl?
Is this really true though? Are there any precedents in court? I wouldn't like to be the first who had to test that particular claim. In other words, it's my connection, keep off. This altrustic act of keeping points open because of high cost sounds ridiculous to me. Invariably, the APs that are open are also the ones with IDs like "belkin", "54g", "MrPimp" etc. i.e. they are maintained by idiots. Same goes for those APs that are protected with a default password. It's not altruistic, it's lazy.
Yet we consider the spyware makers evil but Google good here.
Come on, this is easy to refute. Spyware by its very nature (the "spy" part) tries to install itself silently, and returns data to a central point without telling you. Google Desktop Search discloses its actions fully in all documentation, does not install silently, and the controversial option is off by default. Now, IT managers may be right to call for restraint in use of this product, but it's easy to see why spyware can be branded "evil", and Google's tool "not evil".
If you take care when using the Internet, you will almost certainly not be exposed to such threats. Even on Windows. Myself and I'm sure many others are a testament to that. I use Clamwin, and that's it.
The problem lies at the door of ISPs, not Bittorrent.
I'll back this. The problem arose because ISPs invested in technology that had a limit, then advertised their connections as "unlimited". If it wasn't BT it'd be something else. If you don't place a limit on something and offer a fixed price, people will use as much as they can, be it oranges or Internet bandwidth. It's basic economics.
To the GP, I ask: how do you know your network is slowed because of torrents? I use a popular UK ISP, I torrent, many of my peers (heh) on that ISP also torrent, going by the IPs, yet I don't experience any slowness in browsing. Using your flawed logic, BT causes no problem.
I'm glad to see this apology, I saw the original report and I was shouting at the television. Not only was there the "theft" line, but they also wheeled on a "former CIA security agent" yada yada. He said, and I quote, "the majority of crimes in the US and the UK are solved by the use of telephone intercepts". Which I didn't believe for one minute. He used that line as a justification for banning or severely restricting VoIP. Did people cry upon the invention of the telephone, claiming that it'd be so much harder to catch criminals now that they can't intercept their post? If by telephone intercepts he means "referral to telephone call records", well the statement might be true, although the 7-year data retention rules for ISPs should help in that regard.
Adam Livingstone, the author of TFA isn't the person responsible for the original report. That dubious honour falls on Justin Rowlatt, who in a fit of irony is also currently running a series of reports where he tries to live as an "Ethical Man" - first up, Justin, try checking the definition of 'theft' in the dictionary. Then stop spreading lies about legal technology.
First of all, half the time it's not windows' fault.
But for the other half, it certainly is. Like when you're several levels down into a directory.. um, folder... structure, and you want to trash the lot, so you move to the folder tree view, and delete the main folder a few levels up, but it won't let you because you're inside a folder that's below the parent - why does it matter where I am? Just delete it.
you should see the place i work. The windows 2000 box (the shipping machine with a label printer attached to it) constantly blue screens because of the UPS shipping software.
So how is that Windows' fault, and by extension Microsoft's? You seemingly posted to contradict the GP, yet you ended up agreeing with him/her - it's apps that makes Windows crash, not Windows.
Go Computer Management, right-click on your removable drive, choose Change Drive Letters & Paths, choose Add, choose a folder to mount to, finally remove your drive letter mount if not needed. Not sure if it works on the command line.
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Also, Code Red/Slammer etc are wholly different from the phishing trojans discussed here. Those worms were spread without intervention by a user, but they didn't steal personal information. In the realm of info-stealing malware, the user is still the key weakness (be it through failure to read warnings before clicking Yes, or social engineering tricks to gain passwords)
Huh, the idea that I should PAY to schedule recordings on my own box is not going to drag me away from TV via BitTorrent any time soon.
And most importantly - can you fit a 60' inflatible pig in the living room?
For that accurate home/festival experience, place your TV at the bottom of the garden, and watch through the kitchen window. If you need to pee, wait for 30 mins at the bathroom door first. Or just do it behind the sofa, everyone else does.
offering people who buy the band's official album a password to see the band practice
Huh, but you just said you would give the songs away? Still, good luck with the venture, though you face an Everest-sized barrier. Someone has to start, I guess. I'd back the residual rights point you make, too... if I get a plumber to fix my leaky tap, do I pay him every time I fill the bowl?
At the very least it means that it would be illegal to even mirror nmap in the UK, never mind use it.
you can always prove it wasn't you
Is this really true though? Are there any precedents in court? I wouldn't like to be the first who had to test that particular claim. In other words, it's my connection, keep off. This altrustic act of keeping points open because of high cost sounds ridiculous to me. Invariably, the APs that are open are also the ones with IDs like "belkin", "54g", "MrPimp" etc. i.e. they are maintained by idiots. Same goes for those APs that are protected with a default password. It's not altruistic, it's lazy.
And if you grab Crimson Editor, you'll get a nice free text editor with spell check.
How is the US "commercially exploiting" a trip to Pluto with New Horizons, then?
It's dying already.... Coral cache
Yet we consider the spyware makers evil but Google good here.
Come on, this is easy to refute. Spyware by its very nature (the "spy" part) tries to install itself silently, and returns data to a central point without telling you. Google Desktop Search discloses its actions fully in all documentation, does not install silently, and the controversial option is off by default. Now, IT managers may be right to call for restraint in use of this product, but it's easy to see why spyware can be branded "evil", and Google's tool "not evil".
...they can just stop making movies.
Belive me, if I don't see another movie again, it wouldn't bother me. Same goes for current music, too (sorry for inflicting James Blunt on you, btw)
Well yeah, get Bono on side, perhaps the rest of U2, and I'm sure the fledging service will receive a boost.
Sigh. Only on Slashdot etc. etc.
Rats - that was in reply to "I only wonder why text messaging hasn't made IRC completely obsolete the way cell phones killed CB radio".
And they cost money.
If you take care when using the Internet, you will almost certainly not be exposed to such threats. Even on Windows. Myself and I'm sure many others are a testament to that. I use Clamwin, and that's it.
A remote control for a fire? Now that's lazy.
Indeed, it's just a pity that he can't impart some of that knowledge to his reporters!
The problem lies at the door of ISPs, not Bittorrent.
I'll back this. The problem arose because ISPs invested in technology that had a limit, then advertised their connections as "unlimited". If it wasn't BT it'd be something else. If you don't place a limit on something and offer a fixed price, people will use as much as they can, be it oranges or Internet bandwidth. It's basic economics.
To the GP, I ask: how do you know your network is slowed because of torrents? I use a popular UK ISP, I torrent, many of my peers (heh) on that ISP also torrent, going by the IPs, yet I don't experience any slowness in browsing. Using your flawed logic, BT causes no problem.
I'm glad to see this apology, I saw the original report and I was shouting at the television. Not only was there the "theft" line, but they also wheeled on a "former CIA security agent" yada yada. He said, and I quote, "the majority of crimes in the US and the UK are solved by the use of telephone intercepts". Which I didn't believe for one minute. He used that line as a justification for banning or severely restricting VoIP. Did people cry upon the invention of the telephone, claiming that it'd be so much harder to catch criminals now that they can't intercept their post? If by telephone intercepts he means "referral to telephone call records", well the statement might be true, although the 7-year data retention rules for ISPs should help in that regard.
Adam Livingstone, the author of TFA isn't the person responsible for the original report. That dubious honour falls on Justin Rowlatt, who in a fit of irony is also currently running a series of reports where he tries to live as an "Ethical Man" - first up, Justin, try checking the definition of 'theft' in the dictionary. Then stop spreading lies about legal technology.
But it's not theft. And that's the word the reporter used in his story. Ironically enough, available via BitTorrent here.
First of all, half the time it's not windows' fault.
But for the other half, it certainly is. Like when you're several levels down into a directory.. um, folder... structure, and you want to trash the lot, so you move to the folder tree view, and delete the main folder a few levels up, but it won't let you because you're inside a folder that's below the parent - why does it matter where I am? Just delete it.
you should see the place i work. The windows 2000 box (the shipping machine with a label printer attached to it) constantly blue screens because of the UPS shipping software.
So how is that Windows' fault, and by extension Microsoft's? You seemingly posted to contradict the GP, yet you ended up agreeing with him/her - it's apps that makes Windows crash, not Windows.
Go Computer Management, right-click on your removable drive, choose Change Drive Letters & Paths, choose Add, choose a folder to mount to, finally remove your drive letter mount if not needed. Not sure if it works on the command line.
Whatever the distance, it's out-of-bounds. Take a penalty stroke.