Wikipedia is constantly changing. Keeping enough computers to handle the loald of the page and not randomly vanish synced in real time, with any significant edit rate will be a rather complex system. While it can be done, you would then need a special program to view Wikipedia. That would lose it many many users. If you don't need that software, you still need a central point to bridge from normal www to whatever system you are using, defeating the purpose.
Another issue is that then there will be no way of stopping all those annoying people from creating malicious nodes to edit pages that might otherwise be locked, and secure administration would be a nightmare.
I believe it is called a bot because of the medium it uses. On Internet Relay Chat, the most popular system for controlling these botnets, computer programs that interact with chatters and perform miscellaneous functions are called bots, short for robots. These systems are little different, except that they are malicious and not legally hosted, so the same name applies.
How do they manage to put multiple systems behind one IP without a single point of failure at a, for instance, a NAT system? Do you have any sources for this that explain how it is done?
Bundle a service with the original sale. Or charge like $1 for it. Would that cover their concerns? The service provides the new functionality, and as a service, is ongoing, and thus not an issue.
In many cases, when such things happen, it is typically to sober people, who can handle it. If you run out of gas and slow to a stop, a sober person knows to get to the edge of the road while they still can. A drunk person may be confused and not do what most people would think to be the proper response. A car occasionally shutting down on a randomly selected person from the entire population, who is not likely drunk, is tolerable and inevitable. A car often shutting down on a suspected drunk person, who is very likely drunk, will have a much higher accident rate.
The GP's real question was whether these chips could be read fast enough that the car could not leave the range of the reader before scanning was completed.
In all reality, where these are proposed to be used, such places as roadblocks, that won't be a major issue, as the cars will be slowed to whatever speed is necessary to check them out anyhow.
This is horrible news. We must take action immediately. I recommend we slashdot the articles immediately upon their appearance, so they cannot be read.
I have to take issue at the comment about 600 or even 1000 CDs. While in their cases, perhaps, this is true, I would put said CDs in spindles if I wanted to transfer large amounts of data. Doing that, I could fit your 1000 on the passenger seat alone, without any stacking.
This would not at all be a bad way of controling a zombie collection. Search the articles on the slashdot homepage at -1 for comments by a certain username. Execute encrypted command.
This would look like legitimate web traffic. It would also be hard to fight, as the zombies could be programmed with a list of several names in case one gets banned, should the scheme even be discovered. The zombie instructions would also time out after a certain predictable period of time, as stories fall off the homepage, so there is no need to worry about old instructions being executed by a zombie that has been offline for some time.
You'd have to let some light in, but make sure it didn't get back out again.
This would be devastating to the cloaking effect if the same wavelengths were let in that you were trying to cloak against. Your cloak would make the area it covers darker by not passing all light.
If you were trying to cloak against visible, you would have to use microwave or something else to look at things with to avoid this.
What happens if I use several of these devices with the same comptuer? Will they each get their own channel, or will they, together, max out at this transfer speed, instead of individually? If they do get their own, how many channels are there? These are things you wouldnt have to consider with the current USB setup, but which may be significant here.
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Alright, but I call really.legit, and not.legit.
UnDRMed WMA files are accepted and automatically transcoded using the current ripping settings.
Sure it's a transcode, but 90% of people won't care. The iPod can do WMA. (Indirectly)
It's the other way around.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Shame on you for being deceitful.
Shame on me for believing you twice.
The key word there is microsoft security guru.
It'd actually be pretty darn easy.
This driver signing stuff they are doing anyhow? Just only sign binaries you compiled yourself from publicly available source.
That's only done on UNreliable intelligence!
Wikipedia is constantly changing. Keeping enough computers to handle the loald of the page and not randomly vanish synced in real time, with any significant edit rate will be a rather complex system. While it can be done, you would then need a special program to view Wikipedia. That would lose it many many users. If you don't need that software, you still need a central point to bridge from normal www to whatever system you are using, defeating the purpose.
Another issue is that then there will be no way of stopping all those annoying people from creating malicious nodes to edit pages that might otherwise be locked, and secure administration would be a nightmare.
I believe it is called a bot because of the medium it uses. On Internet Relay Chat, the most popular system for controlling these botnets, computer programs that interact with chatters and perform miscellaneous functions are called bots, short for robots. These systems are little different, except that they are malicious and not legally hosted, so the same name applies.
How do they manage to put multiple systems behind one IP without a single point of failure at a, for instance, a NAT system? Do you have any sources for this that explain how it is done?
Bundle a service with the original sale. Or charge like $1 for it. Would that cover their concerns? The service provides the new functionality, and as a service, is ongoing, and thus not an issue.
In many cases, when such things happen, it is typically to sober people, who can handle it. If you run out of gas and slow to a stop, a sober person knows to get to the edge of the road while they still can. A drunk person may be confused and not do what most people would think to be the proper response. A car occasionally shutting down on a randomly selected person from the entire population, who is not likely drunk, is tolerable and inevitable. A car often shutting down on a suspected drunk person, who is very likely drunk, will have a much higher accident rate.
It is sad that this came to be modded Insightful, and Informative, but not Funny.
The GP's real question was whether these chips could be read fast enough that the car could not leave the range of the reader before scanning was completed.
In all reality, where these are proposed to be used, such places as roadblocks, that won't be a major issue, as the cars will be slowed to whatever speed is necessary to check them out anyhow.
Though, the datacenters supporting their connection to the internet might go out.
I want modpoints. You need more funny.
This is horrible news. We must take action immediately. I recommend we slashdot the articles immediately upon their appearance, so they cannot be read.
Just make the rootkit return the proper responses to fool the driver.
Aren't slashdot signup email addresses verified? Check the domain on the one associated with that poster's account.
We can have an 'OfRoy' - an office of royalties, or whatever you want to call it.
Did this particular shortening of the name remind anyone else of MiniTrue?
IP Law, however, makes sense only in the context of Intellectual Property, not Internet Protocol, or, as another replier commented, iPods.
I have to take issue at the comment about 600 or even 1000 CDs. While in their cases, perhaps, this is true, I would put said CDs in spindles if I wanted to transfer large amounts of data. Doing that, I could fit your 1000 on the passenger seat alone, without any stacking.
This would not at all be a bad way of controling a zombie collection. Search the articles on the slashdot homepage at -1 for comments by a certain username. Execute encrypted command.
This would look like legitimate web traffic. It would also be hard to fight, as the zombies could be programmed with a list of several names in case one gets banned, should the scheme even be discovered. The zombie instructions would also time out after a certain predictable period of time, as stories fall off the homepage, so there is no need to worry about old instructions being executed by a zombie that has been offline for some time.
This would be devastating to the cloaking effect if the same wavelengths were let in that you were trying to cloak against. Your cloak would make the area it covers darker by not passing all light.
If you were trying to cloak against visible, you would have to use microwave or something else to look at things with to avoid this.
What happens if I use several of these devices with the same comptuer? Will they each get their own channel, or will they, together, max out at this transfer speed, instead of individually? If they do get their own, how many channels are there? These are things you wouldnt have to consider with the current USB setup, but which may be significant here.