They're not about helping the world. They're about protecting the rights of inventors, rather than having large companies steal their work and reproduce it in a manner they can't compete with.
It's more that they've lost territory, but are winning the war. You can't break the latest update on the Wii without owning specific, unpopular games. The old ones used incredibly common games or required no game at all, but how many people are going to buy an obscure game just to install a software hack?
You could buy a modchip for the same price, and that will always work.
It's changed a few times, but it has essentially just been broadcasting the same thing for decades, excepting the spoken word transmissions.
Subtle encoding are completely useless for number stations, so it's unlikely it does that anyway. The point of number stations is that they broadcast to huge areas using shortwave, in easily recordable formats. This way, agents in foreign territory can use basic shortwave radios that can be found anywhere, and decode the messages using the one-time pads they are issued with. This method of encryption is impossible to break, and can be done with essentially no equipment.
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I know I'm never going to be able to come back in this channel again after this, but damn was it worth it to see that...
More accurately, this is like saying "I don't own a car, so my petrol costs are zero", and everyone in the comments going "But that doesn't include your bus tickets or the time you spend walking!", and completely missing the point.
His name is only written in the source code, which I doubt anyone cares about. The issue is the researchers who decided to call it "The Chuck Norris Botnet" and then publish papers about it, using that name.
I've also got to question the sense of naming a botnet like this. Sure it's memorable, but what's to stop Chuck Norris from taking legal action against the researchers who coined the name? I certainly wouldn't want my name associated with a criminal enterprise.
Okay, I just read a bit more and it looks like apparently they aren't even *allowed* to take the laptops home, they're just lent out for a couple of lessons. So the laptop WAS stolen, and the camera correctly identified the thief.
To be honest, this story sounds like they did almost exactly that.
Obviously an investigation is needed, but doesnt this situation seem most likely: Student reports his school laptop stolen so he can keep it for himself School activates anti-theft software (which includes webcam) School recieves image of said student, proving he lied to steal the laptop School sends letter to student's parents telling them what their child has done.
Now I don't know if that's true, but frankly it sounds more believable than some evil school big brother conspiracy. I guess the the FBI investigation will find out in the end though.
And the parents whose children will be going to school there in a couple of years time? Should they have to pay out of their own pockets to get their children a decent education because some individual or group of individuals committed a stupid crime?
So you're complaining about GW's focus on non-tabletop areas when you... haven't spent any money on their tabletop division in probably about a decade?
The Gameboy was only released twenty years ago. If we arbitrarily set "old" gamers to be fifty, then that would only be people who used gameboys when they were thirty or over.
The vast majority of gameboys were played by children, who are now in their twenties or thirties, and still have perfectly fine eyesight.
The problem is that pulse propulsion needs a pusher plate or similar design to function in the vacuum of space, and it is almost impossible to put that much mass into space WITHOUT using nukes.
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It's an old myth that you see spring up every now and then.
Just goes to show how rigorous Slashdot's editing is...
"why bother doing it if someone will steal your work"
They're not about helping the world. They're about protecting the rights of inventors, rather than having large companies steal their work and reproduce it in a manner they can't compete with.
3 centuries ago? I guess you've never been to an Old Firm game.
Of course, now you'll never have to.
Ahahahahahaha!
Hahahaha oh man, that's great.
I guess you never hear about the other benefits of immaculate conception.
It's more that they've lost territory, but are winning the war. You can't break the latest update on the Wii without owning specific, unpopular games. The old ones used incredibly common games or required no game at all, but how many people are going to buy an obscure game just to install a software hack?
You could buy a modchip for the same price, and that will always work.
It's changed a few times, but it has essentially just been broadcasting the same thing for decades, excepting the spoken word transmissions.
Subtle encoding are completely useless for number stations, so it's unlikely it does that anyway. The point of number stations is that they broadcast to huge areas using shortwave, in easily recordable formats. This way, agents in foreign territory can use basic shortwave radios that can be found anywhere, and decode the messages using the one-time pads they are issued with. This method of encryption is impossible to break, and can be done with essentially no equipment.
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I know I'm never going to be able to come back in this channel again after this, but damn was it worth it to see that...
GP said electricity, not energy, they could well be producing more electricity than they use.
For an example of an industry producing more electricity than it uses, may I point you towards something called "power stations"?
Doesn't matter if they are dairy cows. Exercised cows = happy cows = better milk.
Yes, I too learned all my farming knowledge from playing Harvest Moon.
More accurately, this is like saying "I don't own a car, so my petrol costs are zero", and everyone in the comments going "But that doesn't include your bus tickets or the time you spend walking!", and completely missing the point.
This is a ruling which has been completely ignored by UK authorities, so no. It isn't relevant.
It should be, but apparently legal obligations don't mean anything if you're the government.
His name is only written in the source code, which I doubt anyone cares about. The issue is the researchers who decided to call it "The Chuck Norris Botnet" and then publish papers about it, using that name.
I've also got to question the sense of naming a botnet like this. Sure it's memorable, but what's to stop Chuck Norris from taking legal action against the researchers who coined the name? I certainly wouldn't want my name associated with a criminal enterprise.
Netcraft confirms it.
Okay, I just read a bit more and it looks like apparently they aren't even *allowed* to take the laptops home, they're just lent out for a couple of lessons. So the laptop WAS stolen, and the camera correctly identified the thief.
To be honest, this story sounds like they did almost exactly that.
Obviously an investigation is needed, but doesnt this situation seem most likely:
Student reports his school laptop stolen so he can keep it for himself
School activates anti-theft software (which includes webcam)
School recieves image of said student, proving he lied to steal the laptop
School sends letter to student's parents telling them what their child has done.
Now I don't know if that's true, but frankly it sounds more believable than some evil school big brother conspiracy. I guess the the FBI investigation will find out in the end though.
And the parents whose children will be going to school there in a couple of years time? Should they have to pay out of their own pockets to get their children a decent education because some individual or group of individuals committed a stupid crime?
...do you think that the meteorite was made by magicians?
Space is natural too.
So you're complaining about GW's focus on non-tabletop areas when you... haven't spent any money on their tabletop division in probably about a decade?
This is not exactly surprising.
What do you call someone from the UK? I wanted to say British but that excludes Northern Ireland.
Only if you're a republican; plenty of northern irish identify themselves as "british".
Polygraphs perform better than random chance, certainly.
Interrorgations do not use random chance when there isn't a polygraph available; they use trained professionals.
The Gameboy was only released twenty years ago. If we arbitrarily set "old" gamers to be fifty, then that would only be people who used gameboys when they were thirty or over.
The vast majority of gameboys were played by children, who are now in their twenties or thirties, and still have perfectly fine eyesight.
The problem is that pulse propulsion needs a pusher plate or similar design to function in the vacuum of space, and it is almost impossible to put that much mass into space WITHOUT using nukes.
Nuclear pulse propulsion is illegal due to international treaties banning the atmospheric detonation of nuclear explosives.