It's neither open nor viral, but licenses that place additional requirements on distributing the software (ie, requiring the distributor make source code available such as GPL).
I person who doesn't openly and publicly say "I hate you" to a student would be a good start. Teachers are supposed to guide and teach kids, help them when needed. It's not like she said "I feel Johnny is slow" to the parents, she told the world "I hate my student, Johnny." Suggesting your kid will be a future school shooter also isn't helping the case for being a good teacher.
Is she a bad teacher or simply not being Mary Poppins?
Yea, she's a bad teacher. From TFA:
The Central Bucks School District has suspended a high school English teacher after parents complained to administrators about her blog in which she railed on her students for more than a year.
Phrases on the blog include; “Frightfully dim,” “Rat-like,” “Am concerned your kid is going to open fire on the school,” “I hate your kid,” and “Seems smarter than she actually is.”
And this was all public on a blog, not in a private conference (neither with the parents, nor the administration).
It's quite reasonable to expect real databases to handle things like login and storing the passwords, especially if they're already storing users.
That's not his point. His point is that if you send the password in plain-text to MySQL for hashing and comparing, it's a security hole in the application design. The password is now traveling over a network in plain-text and would be trivial to intercept. It's as easy to sniff unencrypted MySQL traffic as it is to sniff unencrypted HTTP traffic.
In an affidavit written by Special Agent Andrew Reynolds, he uses his ability to download four specific songs on the domain name dajaz1.com as justification for seizure of this domain name. According to press accounts, the songs in question were legally provided to the operator of the domain name for the purpose of distribution.
So it doesn't even matter if the distribution is legal or not anymore.
Port 110 to check for a broken email header, Port 25 to check for SMTP auth errors
If you're testing user accounts, or logging into your POP3 box to check those mail headers, you may want to consider not using the telnet client anymore. You're potentially compromising any accounts you log into the same as you would with telnet accounts. Your server should be configured to use TLS/SSL for clients, and you can debug them telnet-style with the s_client (in the OpenSSL suite).
Whiny mouth breathers on/. that are paying XBox live customers such as myself damn sure better be on his list of people that he has to convince or impress!
As a paying Xbox Live customer myself, I sure as hell don't want my private information publicly distributed if I'm the subject of an investigation. If I did want it public, I'll be the one distributing the info, not MS.
I'm actually really surprised to see people here up in arms that MS isn't distributing the details. If they did, everyone would be up in arms about the "obvious privacy violation."
Actually, I have a political friend who has theorized the reason they keep going after video games is because there's not a strong video game lobby yet, and they want a piece of the industry's pie from lobbying. Sort of like a "You want us to stop going after video games? Lobby for it (with cash)" type of situation. I'd say that a dirty and corrupt motive, but given that we're talking about politicians... well, you know.
I'm not using the latest greatest MS office (and probably never will), but I thought that this was an OS-level setting. At least, it used to be in XP under the display properties.
I'm guessing we've all had a project killed by feature creep, and they haven't. Essentially, that's what they're proposing: a spec with features constantly in flux without any milestones to aim for.
The same way other malware gets distributed - offer some trivial software with this bundled into it. Users have a tendency to blindly give permissions without caring just to get dialogs out of their face.
A lot of people don't see it being reasonable for them to have children on Earth either, but it doesn't stop it from happening. If you send a mixed-gender crew to Mars, you can sure as hell bet they'll be having sex. We can't exactly send women home on maternity leave from Mars when accidents happen.
Who knows how a child will develop in the womb in no/low gravity, or a purely artificial environment (let alone the social factors you raise). I think this is why they're looking into it. Better to have some facts up front than to stumble through it as it happens.
The emulation argument is a bit of a stretch. I believe the models that don't have PS2 support never had it in the first place, and it was never retroactively removed from systems that ran PS2 games. All PS3s still do PS1 emulation.
OtherOS, on the other hand, could very easily be used as an "It was on the box, but you removed it after I purchased it" argument. The "just don't upgrade" defense doesn't (and should never) work because most newer PS3 games require the newer firmware (I believe some even put it on the disk and try to install it). Sony essentially said "OtherOS or Games, you can only choose one."
You should read your EULA next time you install software. They're becoming more interesting with the legalese to actually not give you ownership to whatever it is you think you just bought. The best recent example I can think of is StarCraft 2. The EULA explicitly states the local copy isn't your property at all (even if you own a physical DVD copy) and you basically just paid to enter a usage contract with Blizzard.
I absolutely despise the idea, and I fear the day it gets challenged in court. I only fear it because the last thing any of us (as consumers) want to see is these types of EULA's become legally validated.
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It's neither open nor viral, but licenses that place additional requirements on distributing the software (ie, requiring the distributor make source code available such as GPL).
what a good teacher is
I person who doesn't openly and publicly say "I hate you" to a student would be a good start. Teachers are supposed to guide and teach kids, help them when needed. It's not like she said "I feel Johnny is slow" to the parents, she told the world "I hate my student, Johnny." Suggesting your kid will be a future school shooter also isn't helping the case for being a good teacher.
Is she a bad teacher or simply not being Mary Poppins?
Yea, she's a bad teacher. From TFA:
The Central Bucks School District has suspended a high school English teacher after parents complained to administrators about her blog in which she railed on her students for more than a year.
Phrases on the blog include; “Frightfully dim,” “Rat-like,” “Am concerned your kid is going to open fire on the school,” “I hate your kid,” and “Seems smarter than she actually is.”
And this was all public on a blog, not in a private conference (neither with the parents, nor the administration).
This was picked up by a bunch of gaming sites yesterday, so I'm assuming that has something to do with the 1000 of comments slamming the article.
It's quite reasonable to expect real databases to handle things like login and storing the passwords, especially if they're already storing users.
That's not his point. His point is that if you send the password in plain-text to MySQL for hashing and comparing, it's a security hole in the application design. The password is now traveling over a network in plain-text and would be trivial to intercept. It's as easy to sniff unencrypted MySQL traffic as it is to sniff unencrypted HTTP traffic.
You do not represent the interests of the world population
They rarely represent the interests of their own population. Do you think they care?
this would have been a whole lot easier if IPv4 addresses like: 76.33.45.121 became 0::76:33:45:121
I think you mean ::4C21:2D78, but I agree with your point about IPv6 being an extension of IPv4, not a replacement of it.
In an affidavit written by Special Agent Andrew Reynolds, he uses his ability to download four specific songs on the domain name dajaz1.com as justification for seizure of this domain name. According to press accounts, the songs in question were legally provided to the operator of the domain name for the purpose of distribution.
So it doesn't even matter if the distribution is legal or not anymore.
Honestly, it sounded like they opted-in, did some very intentional keyword poisoning, then were "outraged" by the results.
Port 110 to check for a broken email header, Port 25 to check for SMTP auth errors
If you're testing user accounts, or logging into your POP3 box to check those mail headers, you may want to consider not using the telnet client anymore. You're potentially compromising any accounts you log into the same as you would with telnet accounts. Your server should be configured to use TLS/SSL for clients, and you can debug them telnet-style with the s_client (in the OpenSSL suite).
Whiny mouth breathers on /. that are paying XBox live customers such as myself damn sure better be on his list of people that he has to convince or impress!
As a paying Xbox Live customer myself, I sure as hell don't want my private information publicly distributed if I'm the subject of an investigation. If I did want it public, I'll be the one distributing the info, not MS. I'm actually really surprised to see people here up in arms that MS isn't distributing the details. If they did, everyone would be up in arms about the "obvious privacy violation."
Can someone explain to me how it's even possible to "cheat" in Microsoft's little walled playground?
Modding game save files on your PC, abusing in-game exploits, and JTAG hacks.
I think he's referring to the fact that there's nothing really techie related in the entire article, despite the headline here.
Does he have shares in a games company
Actually, I have a political friend who has theorized the reason they keep going after video games is because there's not a strong video game lobby yet, and they want a piece of the industry's pie from lobbying. Sort of like a "You want us to stop going after video games? Lobby for it (with cash)" type of situation. I'd say that a dirty and corrupt motive, but given that we're talking about politicians... well, you know.
So what's the excuse for those of us who live in heavily populated urban areas and still receive crap service?
I'm not using the latest greatest MS office (and probably never will), but I thought that this was an OS-level setting. At least, it used to be in XP under the display properties.
I'm guessing we've all had a project killed by feature creep, and they haven't. Essentially, that's what they're proposing: a spec with features constantly in flux without any milestones to aim for.
The same way other malware gets distributed - offer some trivial software with this bundled into it. Users have a tendency to blindly give permissions without caring just to get dialogs out of their face.
And you sound not paranoid enough.
Do I qualify for an insanity defense?
Knowingly breaking the law simply because you disagree with it doesn't qualify as "insane."
What do you expect from Anonymous "Too Big of a Bitch to Attach My Name to My Insults" Readers?
A lot of people don't see it being reasonable for them to have children on Earth either, but it doesn't stop it from happening. If you send a mixed-gender crew to Mars, you can sure as hell bet they'll be having sex. We can't exactly send women home on maternity leave from Mars when accidents happen.
Who knows how a child will develop in the womb in no/low gravity, or a purely artificial environment (let alone the social factors you raise). I think this is why they're looking into it. Better to have some facts up front than to stumble through it as it happens.
The emulation argument is a bit of a stretch. I believe the models that don't have PS2 support never had it in the first place, and it was never retroactively removed from systems that ran PS2 games. All PS3s still do PS1 emulation.
OtherOS, on the other hand, could very easily be used as an "It was on the box, but you removed it after I purchased it" argument. The "just don't upgrade" defense doesn't (and should never) work because most newer PS3 games require the newer firmware (I believe some even put it on the disk and try to install it). Sony essentially said "OtherOS or Games, you can only choose one."
For the same reason anyone wants to run Linux on a PS3 - it's simply their preference.
You should read your EULA next time you install software. They're becoming more interesting with the legalese to actually not give you ownership to whatever it is you think you just bought. The best recent example I can think of is StarCraft 2. The EULA explicitly states the local copy isn't your property at all (even if you own a physical DVD copy) and you basically just paid to enter a usage contract with Blizzard.
I absolutely despise the idea, and I fear the day it gets challenged in court. I only fear it because the last thing any of us (as consumers) want to see is these types of EULA's become legally validated.