I guess the idea is that in real life, bullies are at least subject to the accountability that having a name and a face forces upon them. Without those restrictions, they're free to get a lot more ruthless.
For the record, I think it's totally dumb that my gratuitous First Post has gone unmodded and your legitimate, on-topic complaint has been labeled Flamebait.
Unlikely, given that the OP mentions that at least one manufacturer has fixed the problem with a firmware update. You can't really write software to fix a problem until you've figured out what the problem is.
You're right though, a properly hardened router will keep ticking regardless of what's plugged into it. Mostly.
The idea is, if straight porn makes men more comfortable with raping adult women, then child porn might make them more comfortable with raping children.
Though this study is informed by a feminist politic and its assumptions might not all hold for children. I'd have to read more.
That too. Possibly, word would get around that the virus writer didn't make good on his promise, and the payments would slow to a trickle pretty quick.
What I want to know is whether he could automate the process using botnet access. A zillion machines an a zillion IP addresses carrying out the blackmail correspondence, opening themselves PayPal accounts, laundering cash at poker sites, depositing into the author's Swiss account.
Nah. The virus has a universal public key A. It generates a new random symmetric key B, then encrypts your hard drive with B. Then it uses A to encrypt B, yielding A(B), and throws B away.
Give the victim A(B), with instructions to include that ciphertext with the blackmail money. The attacker then decrypts it with his private key, recovering B. B is provided to the victim, who can then decrypt his files.
It is even possible that there is no 'most efficient' algorithm. As the numbers get bigger and the storage and processing resources get fatter, there may be infinitely many 'best' algorithms. I bet there's a Cantor diagonal argument somewhere to demonstrate this.
Given that it's legal (maybe not easily explainable) to monitor a tracker without downloading it (naturally this is the case, otherwise RIAA/MPAA could not gather evidence without themselves breaking the law) then that will be our "I'm Spartacus!"
Let's write a client that automatically spiders the torrent searches and connects to the trackers. Thousands at a time. We are all just watching the tracker for informational purposes, as is our right.
spherical numerical analysis techniques or advanced quantum distribution array matrices.
I was with you up until about there. It occurs to me that there are any number of mathematical terms that could be combined at random to induce the same effect in me, and I wonder if this is true of all the people who modded you up.
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I guess the idea is that in real life, bullies are at least subject to the accountability that having a name and a face forces upon them. Without those restrictions, they're free to get a lot more ruthless.
Essen mein scheisse!
Don't worry. In prison we'll have plenty of time to sit around and think of the children.
Wait a few months.
Your sig and your message collided nicely here. Now I'm imagining brie with chopsticks.
You understand the situation perfectly.
I did that on the Firefox 3 article yesterday. Stupidly, I also forgot the no-karma-bonus for extra karmic suicide.
Damn, happened to me too! Firefox 3.0b5 even.
damn, you're right.
well isn't that Informative!
For the record, I think it's totally dumb that my gratuitous First Post has gone unmodded and your legitimate, on-topic complaint has been labeled Flamebait.
I am a seasoned Linux maven, and Flash playback works perfectly for me.
Just saying.
New features like extra-fast form submission?
Mods, please note the "Tinfoil Hat Time!" in the parent's title. This is clearly intended as tongue-in-cheek, rather than trolling.
Did the hardware manufacturers all just write flawless Linux drivers and buggy Windows ones?
Or did Linux developers just go a step further than Windows did, and take it upon themselves to make sure that hardware works properly on their OS?
Unlikely, given that the OP mentions that at least one manufacturer has fixed the problem with a firmware update. You can't really write software to fix a problem until you've figured out what the problem is.
You're right though, a properly hardened router will keep ticking regardless of what's plugged into it. Mostly.
The idea is, if straight porn makes men more comfortable with raping adult women, then child porn might make them more comfortable with raping children.
Though this study is informed by a feminist politic and its assumptions might not all hold for children. I'd have to read more.
That too. Possibly, word would get around that the virus writer didn't make good on his promise, and the payments would slow to a trickle pretty quick.
What I want to know is whether he could automate the process using botnet access. A zillion machines an a zillion IP addresses carrying out the blackmail correspondence, opening themselves PayPal accounts, laundering cash at poker sites, depositing into the author's Swiss account.
Nah. The virus has a universal public key A. It generates a new random symmetric key B, then encrypts your hard drive with B. Then it uses A to encrypt B, yielding A(B), and throws B away.
Give the victim A(B), with instructions to include that ciphertext with the blackmail money. The attacker then decrypts it with his private key, recovering B. B is provided to the victim, who can then decrypt his files.
It is even possible that there is no 'most efficient' algorithm. As the numbers get bigger and the storage and processing resources get fatter, there may be infinitely many 'best' algorithms. I bet there's a Cantor diagonal argument somewhere to demonstrate this.
Gamer plays Guitar Hero at party, more than 40 in attendance, arrested for 'performing a derivative work' via Playstation
Given that it's legal (maybe not easily explainable) to monitor a tracker without downloading it (naturally this is the case, otherwise RIAA/MPAA could not gather evidence without themselves breaking the law) then that will be our "I'm Spartacus!"
Let's write a client that automatically spiders the torrent searches and connects to the trackers. Thousands at a time. We are all just watching the tracker for informational purposes, as is our right.
Psst, there's actually no "Twitter team." It's just one guy with like ten accounts.
Whoa boy, you are right about that.
I would mod you funny but I've already posted further up. :(
I was with you up until about there. It occurs to me that there are any number of mathematical terms that could be combined at random to induce the same effect in me, and I wonder if this is true of all the people who modded you up.
I think i'm just gonna take your word for it.