I still find it very strange that it would work. A CPU can have millions of transistors changing state at any given moment, in an asynchronous out-of-order fashion. Add to that all the other components in a PC, bus talk, etc. Even if we got an accurate print of all of the digital chatter happening in a PC, it would be nearly impossible to derive anything specific from that. A power filtering coil is an even much more crude component. You can hear big changes like CPU/GPU frequency stepping, but that's all.
The scanning frequency of a CRT monitor is much higher than what a phone captures. There's no realistic way in which the other end could've recreated the picture.
This possibly can't be real or, these guys are geniuses. Certainly the coil whine will change depending on the load of the machine. However, there's so much stuff happening in a CPU and the system bus that I find it extremely hard to believe that you could listen to any specific numbers. There's also all sorts of power filtering going on and there's decoupling capacitors on the chips.
However, if this is real, then I assume that listening to network traffic would be doable as well.
At least in my perception Microsoft's reputation has increased in past few years. They make stable, fast and secure software. Also, for feedback and support, their developers are more easy to reach than before.
I want to be excited about Windows 10 but I can't. Please, please, please give me an official option to turn off telemetry like the Enterprise version has.
So if you just want to disable telemetry, in registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection create a 32-bit DWORD called AllowTelemetry and set it to 0. Restart Windows for the changes to take effect.
That's a completely different situation. Those "cloud servers" are owned/rented by Netflix or Steam and operate under their direction and control.
In a very similar way does TPB cooperate with the trackers, and torrents can be added to those trackers via TPB web interface.
Note that an entry on TPB is not required for a torrent to function; all the participants need is the magnet link, which can be obtained via any number of other channels.
That's extremely clunky, though. If the TPB website search function was not available, the user base would drop dramatically.
Does saying that really change anything? I'm sure that even services like Netflix and Steam use cloud servers to distribute the actual content. The frontend still plays a key part in accessing the content.
Why wouldn't entertainment, software, books, etc. not be goods or service that people are willing to pay for? That you can make unlimited unauthorized copies of them for free does not make their unique value disappear.
Maybe, but TPB is not helping to fight those longer copyright terms. During the existence of TPB, the entertainment industry has only become more protective about its rights.
It is not a good way because the music and software makers have not agreed upon TPB's distribution chain and the creators get no royalties or any other profits.
The torrent site owners, on the other hand, get some nice profits through aggressive advertising, which also sometimes puts visitors' computers on risk through malvertising.
Is this the proper way to help "break the media mafia distribution monopoly"? No. TPB is nothing more than an amateur website for people to distribute pirated stuff because it is fun.
And it's not at all difficult for manufacturers or even Google to put in a widget on the lock screen that shows WHAT features are being used by what apps. Facebook - little mic symbol, little camera symbol, for instance. And then you KNOW what it's doing.
So what? It only uses the voice data to show specific advertisements. This does not differ from the way that Facebook has used text data since the beginning.
I know that this is kind of politically incorrect to say in Slashdot (and that's what makes saying it fun), but I claim that the benefits of Facebook still outweigh its drawbacks. My life is too short to ponder about some datamining. My data goes only through the advertisement engine and is not read by humans.
The real danger is that if NSA has a hotline to the data. That is nothing specific to Facebook, though.
From a security perspective you are probably surprisingly safe, as nobody probably bothers to attack the Presto engine anymore. But do all websites render properly?
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Thanks for the information. That certainly changes the whole picture a bit.
I still find it very strange that it would work. A CPU can have millions of transistors changing state at any given moment, in an asynchronous out-of-order fashion. Add to that all the other components in a PC, bus talk, etc. Even if we got an accurate print of all of the digital chatter happening in a PC, it would be nearly impossible to derive anything specific from that. A power filtering coil is an even much more crude component. You can hear big changes like CPU/GPU frequency stepping, but that's all.
The scanning frequency of a CRT monitor is much higher than what a phone captures. There's no realistic way in which the other end could've recreated the picture.
This possibly can't be real or, these guys are geniuses. Certainly the coil whine will change depending on the load of the machine. However, there's so much stuff happening in a CPU and the system bus that I find it extremely hard to believe that you could listen to any specific numbers. There's also all sorts of power filtering going on and there's decoupling capacitors on the chips.
However, if this is real, then I assume that listening to network traffic would be doable as well.
At least in my perception Microsoft's reputation has increased in past few years. They make stable, fast and secure software. Also, for feedback and support, their developers are more easy to reach than before.
Java bytecode is assembly code of the Java virtual machine.
I want to be excited about Windows 10 but I can't. Please, please, please give me an official option to turn off telemetry like the Enterprise version has.
So if you just want to disable telemetry, in registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection create a 32-bit DWORD called AllowTelemetry and set it to 0. Restart Windows for the changes to take effect.
That's a completely different situation. Those "cloud servers" are owned/rented by Netflix or Steam and operate under their direction and control.
In a very similar way does TPB cooperate with the trackers, and torrents can be added to those trackers via TPB web interface.
Note that an entry on TPB is not required for a torrent to function; all the participants need is the magnet link, which can be obtained via any number of other channels.
That's extremely clunky, though. If the TPB website search function was not available, the user base would drop dramatically.
Does saying that really change anything? I'm sure that even services like Netflix and Steam use cloud servers to distribute the actual content. The frontend still plays a key part in accessing the content.
Why wouldn't entertainment, software, books, etc. not be goods or service that people are willing to pay for? That you can make unlimited unauthorized copies of them for free does not make their unique value disappear.
Ok. What do you suggest as an alternative? Do you mean that all works should simply be released under public domain?
TPB is a content distributor.
Yeah, it was just an accidental double negation. I meant "not technically legal".
I still claim that TPB is even worse because the content creators get no profits.
If you were for example a commercial musician, what would you choose as your distribution channel(s)? Record store, Spotify, iTunes, The Pirate Bay?
Maybe, but TPB is not helping to fight those longer copyright terms. During the existence of TPB, the entertainment industry has only become more protective about its rights.
It is not a good way because the music and software makers have not agreed upon TPB's distribution chain and the creators get no royalties or any other profits.
The torrent site owners, on the other hand, get some nice profits through aggressive advertising, which also sometimes puts visitors' computers on risk through malvertising.
Is this the proper way to help "break the media mafia distribution monopoly"? No. TPB is nothing more than an amateur website for people to distribute pirated stuff because it is fun.
Sure, but it's ridiculous to want a shorter copyright time just that you can get stuff to public domain faster. :)
They still need the website to provide search functionality.
They aren't doing anything illegal, and certainly there must be some country somewhere that officially recognizes that.
Do you realize that these guys have set up the infrastructure for massive online piracy?
What they are doing is maybe not technically illegal, but highly unethical.
It's no wonder that there are entertainment and software tycoons that want to seize the TPB operations.
And it's not at all difficult for manufacturers or even Google to put in a widget on the lock screen that shows WHAT features are being used by what apps. Facebook - little mic symbol, little camera symbol, for instance. And then you KNOW what it's doing.
That would be a great feature actually.
So what? It only uses the voice data to show specific advertisements. This does not differ from the way that Facebook has used text data since the beginning.
I know that this is kind of politically incorrect to say in Slashdot (and that's what makes saying it fun), but I claim that the benefits of Facebook still outweigh its drawbacks. My life is too short to ponder about some datamining. My data goes only through the advertisement engine and is not read by humans.
The real danger is that if NSA has a hotline to the data. That is nothing specific to Facebook, though.
Then why are you using something as impractical as that?
From a security perspective you are probably surprisingly safe, as nobody probably bothers to attack the Presto engine anymore. But do all websites render properly?
Tell me how Netflix is nasty?
Gross, not Gates.