Wireless is dangerous - the only real defense right now is to make your network harder to get into than the guy down the street, so Joe Randomsniffer will hit them, not you.
Much like network administration, really - there is no secure box, but if you're more secure than the average, you aren't a tempting target, and will be passed over in favor of the clueless hordes who are ripe for the picking.
A really dedicated person who wants into you specifically? Very little you can do to keep them out, especially if you run wireless.
She declined to comment on the claim that keyword-based recording violates copyrights, focusing instead on ReplayTV 4000's ability to send shows over the Internet and delete commercials automatically.
Interesting phrasing here. It seems to imply that recording the entire thing with commercials is OK, but skipping commercials violates copyright.
That in turn would mean that it's not just the show - it's the entire presentation of the show, with each specific commercial at that point, that is the entire "show". I think Domino's would be rather surprised, though, to find their copyright was swallowed up by Ally McBeal's production company.
One also has to wonder if this means that when a local tv station (Hi, Global!) replaces the national ads with their own, are they committing copyright infringement by making a derivative work?:)
(yes, I know it's taking it to an absurd conclusion)
Cable: right outside the house
DSL: at the ISP's uplink
six of one, half dozen of the other. DSL is nowhere near as clogfree as cable is made out to be, given equal overselling of the upstream capacity it's exactly the same, in fact.
The uplinks are the bottleneck, I've always found - not the link from me to the ISP.
Having just discovered that a roomate had the sub7 trojan on his box "Uh, Geoff? Why have you been hammering the cablemodem for four hours? I can't play with the lag you're making..." I have a new perspective on this.
I must have shoveled out a huge amount of data. The schmucks with compromised IIS servers must be shoveling out even more. They're going to get a wakeup, when their bills come in....
I accidentally left a mobile phone near me the other night and couldn't sleep a wink.
The problem with this anectodal "evidence" is that you only thought to look for something 'odd' when you couldn't sleep.
The five other times that you left the phone near the bed and slept fine, there was nothing odd, so you didn't look. (illustrative example only)
The human brain is an amazing pattern matching device - so much so that it will fixate on patterns that absolutely do not exist, because damnit, there MUST be one!
I think it's only relatively bright. Since it's so close, it's actually probably fairly dim. If you had it at arms length, I'd bet it would be almost unreadable (even accounting for the size).
Not having seen one first hand, that's all conjecture, of course.:)
I know, just didn't think it was relevant enough to go into detail.:)
Specifically, the break statement was exercised when (iirc) over 50 incoming calls were being handled in the same second at the same time that the switch recieved a "I'm back!" message.
Once one legitimately faulted out, it tripped the code in one other, which upped the load on it's neighbors, and when it came back, it took three out...
This is covered very nicely in the Hacker Crackdown, which I think was placed online in an act of surprising generosity. I still prefer the paper though.:)
It would (go to another root) - but if these systems are already running close to capacity, then that may be enough to cause the next server to choke, crash, and the next server will fall even faster.
It's a scenario much like the AT&T switch fiasco, where a seldom exercised chunk of code took out one server. Once one server was down, the others took more load, which, coupled with the fact part of the problem was a live switch receiving a "I'm back!" message while under heavy load, caused more switches to go. Cascade failure all the way.
After reading the article, I'm actually rather surprised myself. These systems must chew a ton of bandwidth, but it seems ICANN doesn't pay for it? Not to mention that all but three are in the US - isn't that going to oversaturate the cross-oceanic links?
I think I'm definately with the registrar organizations - ICANN should be having contracts in place to require certain things, rather than a wink and a nod and a handshake.
Rather than politically motivated, how about Oliver North got caught shredding, and the Clintons didn't.
Not that they didn't get caugh covering something up. I'm talking about the very simple to understand act of taking paper and tearing it to bits, something Joe Average can identify with viscerally.
Talking about how somebody only overwrote a file once with all ones, making it possible to reread the data with scientific equipment just doesn't have the same simple "how things have changed" since then, does it?
The problem is that some things will "stealth" install IIS. You just think you're installing (iirc) a management console or similar, and surprise, you just installed IIS as well.
I always liked the "edited for TV" Robocop, when the ganger in the convenience store is firing at him.
In the movie, he's panicked, and screaming "Fuck ME! FUCK ME!", but they replaced it with "Fight me! FIGHT ME!". Just slightly changes the intent, from panic to bravado.:)
And despite all these terms, algos, theories, etc, most of them still can't write their way out of a wet paper bag without creating buffer overflows and other gaping security exploits (or contribute to the Interface Hall of Shame).
Book learning is just as equal as practical learning. Neither alone makes a good programmer. One just speaks oddly, and the other speaks... differently oddly.:)
They talk about having to miniturize them below 1mm on a side. Presumably, at that size, the device can be sufficiently rigid to protect itself from flexion, without either tearing out of the note or cracking. A fold would just divert to one side or the other.
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Whoops, misunderstood the poster I replied to... originally read it as wanting reference to powerful chair-based torture scenes. :)
That's Babylon 5, isn't it? When the interrogator is working him over on Earth.
Reservoir Dogs.
I still get the shivers from the song they played during it, "Stuck in the Middle With You".
An interesting analysis on that I found when doublechecking the song title:
http://www.redstone-tech.com/gerry/res_dogs.htm
Until they come out with a voice entry unit.
"ya, so, like, I was rohfull and loll."
Wireless is dangerous - the only real defense right now is to make your network harder to get into than the guy down the street, so Joe Randomsniffer will hit them, not you.
Much like network administration, really - there is no secure box, but if you're more secure than the average, you aren't a tempting target, and will be passed over in favor of the clueless hordes who are ripe for the picking.
A really dedicated person who wants into you specifically? Very little you can do to keep them out, especially if you run wireless.
Interesting phrasing here. It seems to imply that recording the entire thing with commercials is OK, but skipping commercials violates copyright.
That in turn would mean that it's not just the show - it's the entire presentation of the show, with each specific commercial at that point, that is the entire "show". I think Domino's would be rather surprised, though, to find their copyright was swallowed up by Ally McBeal's production company.
One also has to wonder if this means that when a local tv station (Hi, Global!) replaces the national ads with their own, are they committing copyright infringement by making a derivative work?
(yes, I know it's taking it to an absurd conclusion)
Where do you want to clog today?
Cable: right outside the house
DSL: at the ISP's uplink
six of one, half dozen of the other. DSL is nowhere near as clogfree as cable is made out to be, given equal overselling of the upstream capacity it's exactly the same, in fact.
The uplinks are the bottleneck, I've always found - not the link from me to the ISP.
(I'm a shaw.ca subscriber)
There's more to it than purely the legal aspect.
/.) thinks.
I think the question isn't "do we have a legal leg to stand on", it's "are we out of sync with the popular perception of what beta testers get?"
It's both a business relations and ethics question.
If your business gets a rep for being stingier than everyone else with their betatesters, you won't find anyone willing to go through the pain.
If it's a flat out unethical thing to do, but still within the law, you have a PR nightmare, and are in need of a personal values check.
I think for both of those, asking Slashdot is a decent method for finding out what the geek in the street (or at least, the geek on
Having just discovered that a roomate had the sub7 trojan on his box "Uh, Geoff? Why have you been hammering the cablemodem for four hours? I can't play with the lag you're making..." I have a new perspective on this.
I must have shoveled out a huge amount of data. The schmucks with compromised IIS servers must be shoveling out even more. They're going to get a wakeup, when their bills come in....
If you go and blindly click next, next, next, next, then yes - they load everything.
It's not that hard, however, to actually think during install, and just install what you need.
I think those aren't per annum chances, they're per event.
Since there's millions more beestings per year than there are satellites coming down, that'd account for the difference in statisticss.
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The problem with this anectodal "evidence" is that you only thought to look for something 'odd' when you couldn't sleep.
The five other times that you left the phone near the bed and slept fine, there was nothing odd, so you didn't look. (illustrative example only)
The human brain is an amazing pattern matching device - so much so that it will fixate on patterns that absolutely do not exist, because damnit, there MUST be one!
I think it's only relatively bright. Since it's so close, it's actually probably fairly dim. If you had it at arms length, I'd bet it would be almost unreadable (even accounting for the size).
:)
Not having seen one first hand, that's all conjecture, of course.
Nobody ever said that sticking to your principles was painless.
I know, just didn't think it was relevant enough to go into detail. :)
:)
Specifically, the break statement was exercised when (iirc) over 50 incoming calls were being handled in the same second at the same time that the switch recieved a "I'm back!" message.
Once one legitimately faulted out, it tripped the code in one other, which upped the load on it's neighbors, and when it came back, it took three out...
This is covered very nicely in the Hacker Crackdown, which I think was placed online in an act of surprising generosity. I still prefer the paper though.
There's enough secondary servers and varied domains that even with said caching, the roots are likely under heavy load.
Don't forget that in-addr's go there too.
It would (go to another root) - but if these systems are already running close to capacity, then that may be enough to cause the next server to choke, crash, and the next server will fall even faster.
It's a scenario much like the AT&T switch fiasco, where a seldom exercised chunk of code took out one server. Once one server was down, the others took more load, which, coupled with the fact part of the problem was a live switch receiving a "I'm back!" message while under heavy load, caused more switches to go. Cascade failure all the way.
After reading the article, I'm actually rather surprised myself. These systems must chew a ton of bandwidth, but it seems ICANN doesn't pay for it? Not to mention that all but three are in the US - isn't that going to oversaturate the cross-oceanic links?
I think I'm definately with the registrar organizations - ICANN should be having contracts in place to require certain things, rather than a wink and a nod and a handshake.
Rather than politically motivated, how about Oliver North got caught shredding, and the Clintons didn't.
Not that they didn't get caugh covering something up. I'm talking about the very simple to understand act of taking paper and tearing it to bits, something Joe Average can identify with viscerally.
Talking about how somebody only overwrote a file once with all ones, making it possible to reread the data with scientific equipment just doesn't have the same simple "how things have changed" since then, does it?
The problem is that some things will "stealth" install IIS. You just think you're installing (iirc) a management console or similar, and surprise, you just installed IIS as well.
Hmm... we've got OpenLDAP in some test systems, and we haven't seen anything like that (but it's not under any load either).
Are there any other free (in either sense) LDAP servers, though? All the others appear to be closed and/or $$$.
I always liked the "edited for TV" Robocop, when the ganger in the convenience store is firing at him.
:)
In the movie, he's panicked, and screaming "Fuck ME! FUCK ME!", but they replaced it with "Fight me! FIGHT ME!". Just slightly changes the intent, from panic to bravado.
I hope their product works better than their web designer.
I just love when half the links are to "file:C:\My Computer".
And despite all these terms, algos, theories, etc, most of them still can't write their way out of a wet paper bag without creating buffer overflows and other gaping security exploits (or contribute to the Interface Hall of Shame).
... differently oddly. :)
Book learning is just as equal as practical learning. Neither alone makes a good programmer. One just speaks oddly, and the other speaks
They talk about having to miniturize them below 1mm on a side. Presumably, at that size, the device can be sufficiently rigid to protect itself from flexion, without either tearing out of the note or cracking. A fold would just divert to one side or the other.