With any generic news agency, highly technical things like this usually get boiled down to mush. However, here is a coral cache of Professor Xiaoyun Wang's site. I am using coral cache because it is faster than going directly to the chinese-hosted site.
Here is a coral cache of professor Xiaoyun Wang's actual site with PDFs of her papers Its in English. Note that loading the original URL takes quite a while because its hosted in china, and the coral cache of her papers is much faster.
Rapidshare is simply a host that you don't have to pay for (except through viewing ads). It is essentially like any pay-for-host that allows you to post stuff on, junk, music, whatever. Pay-for-hosts don't have the obligation to scan all your files for music, now do they? If someone believes a copyrighted file is illegally located on their server, then the complainer has to file a written formal, legal complaint and send it to the host. I don't get why this kind of model shouldn't work for Rapidshare.
While it may be true that users are responsible for posting copyrighted files, it is true that hosts do need to take down blatent copyright abuses. A simple solution is to follow what many pay-for-hosting hosts have done: simply require plaintiffs to file a formal, legal complaint about compyright abuses. I have found in many hosts terms of use that they require a legal document faxed/mailed to them before they will respond. After such a document is sent, they will then act accordingly.
Shutting down a whole hosting service like Rapidshare is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The burden for copyright abuse complaints should be on the music/movie/etc. lawyers to file complaints about abuses. This is what they do for many hundreds of other hosts, why noy for Rapidshare?
that the 14% is coming from a huge group of volunteers and only a small number of dedicated, paid developers while that 80% is from the largest software monopoly in the world. Not to mention that Internet Explorer is shipped with practically every OEM machine in the United States.
Considering these circumstances, it is amazing to see how well Firefox is doing considering the odds.
Clearwire and its compatriots have huge potential markets in rural areas. Compare: crappy DSL at 768kbit/sec (or less) vs 1.5mbit clearwire wireless. Also, Satellite internet is always an option anywheres you are. You can usually speeds around 384kbit or so down and uplink for around 80$. Combine that with a good VoIP service, and voila! Instant internet/telephone from Nevada desert to Vermont backwoods.
It appears, as in most cases like this, the prosecutor was trying to make an example of this boy. The judge actually suggested that the boy's family appeal the decision, as the judge could not believe why the prosecutor wanted to keep the "Sex offender" charge even though he had dropped the child pornography offense. This boy finally cleared his name, but not without horrendous legal wrangling. Sad, very sad.
While I know Holographic Versatile Discs (HVD) are still quite experimental/in development, the technologies it utilizes are far beyond the scimpy Blu-ray/HD-DVD conundrum. HVDs are able to push 300GB+. If you took the R&D money currently being pumped into Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and if Sony/Toshiba combined forces on HVDs, it would be amazing how fast they would come to market, and there would be no tit-for-tat between companies. 51GB? BAH HUMBUG! 300 GB? yeaaahhh baby!! That is where the future lies
I've had the same thing for the past 5-6 months. I never ran an anti-virus scan or anti-spyware, and still came up clean. The one difference between me and regular Joe Browser is that I am running the latest Firefox. over 90% of all backdoors, etc. come through holes in browsers. I've steered clear of Internet Explorer for over two years, and have not had any significant infection.
I also use a webmail inbox with a big-name email provider rather than through feed my email through Outlook. This free email provider automatically scans attachments for virii (which does help!:)). When I scanned both anti-virus and anti-spyware on my machine, nothing came up.
You're perfectly right- she probably didn't intend to install the spy ware. In fact, 99% of all spyware infections in the world are unintentional, and can happen without any of the user's knowledge.
Frome TFA:
Norwich Police Det. Mark Lounsbury, who investigates computer crimes, said there was evidence that someone had directly accessed several sexually-oriented sites by clicking on a link.
The Prosecutor's "computer expert" points out that some of the websites that had been accessed from the computer had to have been clicked on. Well, that is true, but not to view porn. A link can be disguised as almost anything, including the "x" button at the top-right corner of a window. If the adware pops up a window showing a porno website, and disguises a link as an "x" button to trick the user into clicking on it, that would constitute "intentionally clicking on a link". However the legal system does not have proof as to how that link was displayed. In this case, a link saying "Free PORN!!!!!" and a link disguised as a close button would leave the same trail.
This dude apparently had kiddie porn found on his computer(that most likely got there via virii/trojans) and was facing a sex offender label/jail time for it. The defendent's family hired a computer expert who analyzed the said computer's harddrive, and found many, many backdoor programs that would have allowed hackers into the comp. While the article doesn't exactly give technical details, it does make a good point in that this country's prosecutors/legal system are well behind the times in terms of technology issues.
While the actual recording may be bad, that isn't an issue as long as the expert intelligence audio specialist can decipher what is being said. I once accidentally had a voice recorder in my pocket start recording while I talking, and I could clearly hear my voice as well as the person right next to me that I was talking to (barely). As long as there isn't much background noise, and you are using a -very- good microphone (which I figure an intelligence agency would use), it should be possible.
To be honest, the farthest I think this thing could radiate is a very-few hundred feet, but I am no electrical engineer.
The power output would not be much higher than a watt (at the very most), and most likely in the hundreds of milliwatts-range. That is, assuming it only transmitted every long while considering that the battery would have to be significantly tiny.
The antenna could be no larger than at most an inch (with a toonie) or even a half-inch, which leaves very little to radiate with. Most likely it would be more effective to encase the radio in copper and then slide that into the hollowed out coin, using the copper casing as a radiator.
As the article said, miniaturization is not an issue with the electronics. all the Logic, transmitter, etc. could be hard-wired into a tiny bit of silicon (never underestimate the resources of an intelligence agency, eh.).
That is just a n00b's ideal coin bug, but I am sure someone out there might have more to add.
Selling the laptop via an eBay store (especially when being sponsored by ebay corp.) actually makes sense. eBay already has the server-rack space, huge bandwidth, order processing capabilities and other online-retail amenities at the scale needed for something like this to work well. This makes it an easy step for the OLPC project to go retail without having to reinvent the wheel.
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To save thoughs who just want to see the setup pictures
With the site you have to scroll down to find the papers, some wierd formatting for some reason.
With any generic news agency, highly technical things like this usually get boiled down to mush. However, here is a coral cache of Professor Xiaoyun Wang's site. I am using coral cache because it is faster than going directly to the chinese-hosted site.
Coral cache here. Sorry, the original link was from the chinese server.
Here is a coral cache of professor Xiaoyun Wang's actual site with PDFs of her papers Its in English. Note that loading the original URL takes quite a while because its hosted in china, and the coral cache of her papers is much faster.
how sweet, the ignorance of youth. They're almost begging for police to come get them. Kind of like the dimwhit students who posted their vandalizing a school on youtube for the whole world, including police to see.
Rapidshare is simply a host that you don't have to pay for (except through viewing ads). It is essentially like any pay-for-host that allows you to post stuff on, junk, music, whatever. Pay-for-hosts don't have the obligation to scan all your files for music, now do they? If someone believes a copyrighted file is illegally located on their server, then the complainer has to file a written formal, legal complaint and send it to the host. I don't get why this kind of model shouldn't work for Rapidshare.
Shutting down a whole hosting service like Rapidshare is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The burden for copyright abuse complaints should be on the music/movie/etc. lawyers to file complaints about abuses. This is what they do for many hundreds of other hosts, why noy for Rapidshare?
Us Linux users can now watch Zdnet's interview with Torvald about Linux kernel 2.7:)
Considering these circumstances, it is amazing to see how well Firefox is doing considering the odds.
384kbit downlink, and a slower uplink. But, both through the dish
Clearwire and its compatriots have huge potential markets in rural areas. Compare: crappy DSL at 768kbit/sec (or less) vs 1.5mbit clearwire wireless. Also, Satellite internet is always an option anywheres you are. You can usually speeds around 384kbit or so down and uplink for around 80$. Combine that with a good VoIP service, and voila! Instant internet/telephone from Nevada desert to Vermont backwoods.
This has definitely been a long time coming, but finally legal movie downloads are going the way of digital music, UP!
well said!
It appears, as in most cases like this, the prosecutor was trying to make an example of this boy. The judge actually suggested that the boy's family appeal the decision, as the judge could not believe why the prosecutor wanted to keep the "Sex offender" charge even though he had dropped the child pornography offense. This boy finally cleared his name, but not without horrendous legal wrangling. Sad, very sad.
While I know Holographic Versatile Discs (HVD) are still quite experimental/in development, the technologies it utilizes are far beyond the scimpy Blu-ray/HD-DVD conundrum. HVDs are able to push 300GB+. If you took the R&D money currently being pumped into Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and if Sony/Toshiba combined forces on HVDs, it would be amazing how fast they would come to market, and there would be no tit-for-tat between companies. 51GB? BAH HUMBUG! 300 GB? yeaaahhh baby!! That is where the future lies
I also use a webmail inbox with a big-name email provider rather than through feed my email through Outlook. This free email provider automatically scans attachments for virii (which does help! :)). When I scanned both anti-virus and anti-spyware on my machine, nothing came up.
Frome TFA:
The Prosecutor's "computer expert" points out that some of the websites that had been accessed from the computer had to have been clicked on. Well, that is true, but not to view porn. A link can be disguised as almost anything, including the "x" button at the top-right corner of a window. If the adware pops up a window showing a porno website, and disguises a link as an "x" button to trick the user into clicking on it, that would constitute "intentionally clicking on a link". However the legal system does not have proof as to how that link was displayed. In this case, a link saying "Free PORN!!!!!" and a link disguised as a close button would leave the same trail.And, this isn't the only case where this has happened before (2003)
dailytech.com and thetechlounge.com have some great photos:.
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While the actual recording may be bad, that isn't an issue as long as the expert intelligence audio specialist can decipher what is being said. I once accidentally had a voice recorder in my pocket start recording while I talking, and I could clearly hear my voice as well as the person right next to me that I was talking to (barely). As long as there isn't much background noise, and you are using a -very- good microphone (which I figure an intelligence agency would use), it should be possible.
The antenna could be no larger than at most an inch (with a toonie) or even a half-inch, which leaves very little to radiate with. Most likely it would be more effective to encase the radio in copper and then slide that into the hollowed out coin, using the copper casing as a radiator.
As the article said, miniaturization is not an issue with the electronics. all the Logic, transmitter, etc. could be hard-wired into a tiny bit of silicon (never underestimate the resources of an intelligence agency, eh.).
That is just a n00b's ideal coin bug, but I am sure someone out there might have more to add.
Selling the laptop via an eBay store (especially when being sponsored by ebay corp.) actually makes sense. eBay already has the server-rack space, huge bandwidth, order processing capabilities and other online-retail amenities at the scale needed for something like this to work well. This makes it an easy step for the OLPC project to go retail without having to reinvent the wheel.
I would be interesting in seeing where you got that info.