Yeah some are... but thing is, that paper isn't widely known and I'm willing to bet critical parts of my President's body that the GP didn't know that either and was simply talking out his ass.
Other than that, the resources required to pull off what that paper describes (and do it right!), are pretty much limited to big three letter agencies (whom I'm MORE THAN WILLING TO BET have known this for years!)
Actually, if the sun exploded right now, we'd have about 8 minutes before a level N shockwave destroyed most everything in the star system. Damn trilithium and crazy El-oreans.
He wouldn't have to, the law covering that was designed for EXACTLY that situation. To be subject to the FLMA (Family leave and medical act) an employer must have at least 50 employees within 75 miles. At anything less, you're not required to comply. This is a federal law so it doens't matter what state you're in for this to be true. Know your subject matter BEFORE commenting.
Monkey do not. (yeah bad English I know but the point was made)
I don't see why people get so worked up over games. Fark.com points out something like the opposite of this article with something like "With all other problems solved xxx decides to ban [thinkofthechildren] cause of the week".
For thousands of years kids witnessed (and participated in) violence on a scale so grand that beating a whore in GTA seem quaint in comparison.
I have played games like this for years and haven't gone postal yet despite having some VERY good reasons in the last few years to be up on a building with a rifle and a scope.
I guess this is just saying what many gamers (and Dennis Miller) have known for a long time: If anything your kid sees in a game pushes him/her over the edge, you're just not doing your job as a parent.
In Seattle last year we had a few snowstorms that brought EVERYTHING to a halt. We had about 75% of our workforce VPNing in and this killed a DS3. I'd worry about this. We ended up explaining how to dial back remote desktop (colors, sounds, etc.) but it was a really big deal. I wouldn't want to have to dal with this long term.
All I can say is that watching the dead in Stormwind and Ironforge last weekend as Krull rained hell and bodies was by FAR the most hard-core thing I've seen in a long time....
Yeah, I worked for a company and Speakeasy had both our DNS servers in the Westin in Seattle. Westin went offline and our company went dark... not a Good Thing when you've commited to 5 9's of uptime. We were living in envy of Jack Bower and how good his days usually are. We went with UltraDNS and now life is good. I've left there and went to another shop and I've come to live in fear of finding things from "e Who Came Before Me" I've been exposed to the downside of Linux this way.
There are purists who will always say $OS is the One True Way. I've found more often than not, that when coming into a shop where one person is responsible for a given piece of the System without any real oversight, what happens is that they will sometimes do some really weird shit.
BTW 65 to 85 F is a REALLY big deal as that's the air temp in the place, think about the volume of the room and how much energy it takes to to heat a space like that in such a short period of time. You'll fry some stuff in a server room at those temps. If they'd let it go for much longer they'd have fried some hardware without fail.
True... that'd be DARPA Hard, but what WOULDN'T be hard is a picture, you change enough of the bits in the images, such as a JPEG and *POOF* you've got a new image with the same hash. It'd be insanely hard and repetitive but isn't that what we've got computers for. Besides you'd be surprised what I can pull off with my home cluster of low-end P4 and multiple PIIIs.
"...as both MD5 and SHA-1; standard hashing functions used to prove that data has not been tampered with have BOTH been proven to have collision domains (places where different data can have the same hash)."
In a theoretical world, using massive cluster computers and years of research knowledge. I wouldn't bark up that tree in front of a country judge... Not really. I have played with the code for finding domains, and while I've got more computing power than the average bear, I can tell you it's WELL within the reach of a well resourced and motivated individual.
Item 5 is too vague, I can set my router to say whatever IPs I want, good net citizen doesn't do this but non-reputable... IP addresses are not.
Item 6 is simply a fishing expedition, IANAL but last time I checked this is legal but HIGHLY contestable. The rest of the content isn't very good as it's akin to saying that since *you* own a gun you may know who shot someone else *ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD* with a gun.
Item 7 isn't that good either but it *does* show that the person in question is related to the person there.
All in all I'd say what you have to overcome is the CSI/Law and Order effect of IPs being traced like a phone call to the exact address because that's what you're up against.
Also what are they using to take these screenshots, did they have a warrant (RIAA tends to forget they're NOT law enforcement). "We use encryption" is not a valid answer for that as both MD5 and SHA-1; standard hashing functions used to prove that data has not been tampered with have BOTH been proven to have collision domains (places where different data can have the same hash).
Ok, on to the questions. Since you didn't say the field of the
First off I'd ask about the screenshots and then if he brought out the encryption statement, I'd tear him apart on that, Stealing the Network: How to own the box, (a great book on network security, stories are fictional but the technology is VERY real), has some great layman's explanations for this. If they say it's proprietary then you can tear that apart with enough ammo for NSA people and such. (no one rolls their own crypto it's just too hard, just because *you* can't break it means absolutely nothing, CSS, Apple DRM, Comcast crypto anyone?)
Then I'd ask how they got the numbers for the values of their songs and I'd then rip apart the logic on that as I heard it's something like 730 a song, so then that means that a Vanilla Ice song makes as much money as something from The Game.
Then I'd ask about the full enforcement of the copyright laws and then if they felt exceptions should be given, and demand a yes or no from them. Then point out that the children of the CEO of Time Warner stole music and just leave it at that.
That's all I could come up with in five minutes. I tend to equate the RIAA lawyers to humans (but not *AS* humans) in two words "Mostly Harmless".
....[slap!]
That's about all I can say to that. I can promise you I've got far more computing power than your little Dell (along with graphics processing power) and out of sheer respect my current wallpaper on my server-room-light-dimming-10-tons-of-cooling-neede d-for-safe-functioning-Beowulf-cluster is the CELL/B.E. chip. This chip (or chips depending on whose licensing ideals you follow) isn't even remotely in the same class as a x86. That and the PS2 on a chip (which would also stomp most GPUs in today's laptops!) would pretty much bend your laptop over and do it without KY. That said, I know there are somethings your laptop may *potentially* be better at but the sheer graphics power of these isn't to be triffled with. Now apologize the mighty CELL/B.E....[slap!]
I said apologize bitch!
WOW! Your comment made my week. I'm trying to build some really cool (at least I think so) systems to thwart these. If you're interested drop me a line here and I'll PM you.
This was the subject of "As the worm turns", in the first Stealing the Network (an AWESOME book). The protagonist disassembles a worm and then figures out how to fix, with some unintended consequences. A great read, the story is fictional but the technology is VERY real. Almost a HOWTO in fact.
It's not so much that. It's more along the lines of a place like my shop where for many things I'm simply it. I'd LOVE to have a Barracuda with it's gray listing and Baysian filtering... but I just don't have the money/time to implement it. I'm in one of those shops where things only get paid for *AFTER* the fact. We didn't have AV until we got hit. We used to have public IPs for Workstations until something... bad, uh yeah, that's what I'll call it... [whistles]
My point is that it's a lot of shops like mine that are going to be hit hard by this. I'm lobbying to get that changed by having better technologies for this stuff but if you have ever worked in a shop like mine then you know my pain.
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Yeah some are... but thing is, that paper isn't widely known and I'm willing to bet critical parts of my President's body that the GP didn't know that either and was simply talking out his ass.
Other than that, the resources required to pull off what that paper describes (and do it right!), are pretty much limited to big three letter agencies (whom I'm MORE THAN WILLING TO BET have known this for years!)
Actually, if the sun exploded right now, we'd have about 8 minutes before a level N shockwave destroyed most everything in the star system. Damn trilithium and crazy El-oreans.
It brings a whole new meaning to "I'm a leaf on the wind."
That's what I do with Gentoo... When there's not much drama!
He wouldn't have to, the law covering that was designed for EXACTLY that situation. To be subject to the FLMA (Family leave and medical act) an employer must have at least 50 employees within 75 miles. At anything less, you're not required to comply. This is a federal law so it doens't matter what state you're in for this to be true. Know your subject matter BEFORE commenting.
Monkey do not. (yeah bad English I know but the point was made)
I don't see why people get so worked up over games. Fark.com points out something like the opposite of this article with something like "With all other problems solved xxx decides to ban [thinkofthechildren] cause of the week".
For thousands of years kids witnessed (and participated in) violence on a scale so grand that beating a whore in GTA seem quaint in comparison.
I have played games like this for years and haven't gone postal yet despite having some VERY good reasons in the last few years to be up on a building with a rifle and a scope.
I guess this is just saying what many gamers (and Dennis Miller) have known for a long time: If anything your kid sees in a game pushes him/her over the edge, you're just not doing your job as a parent.
Show some respect.... the drifting little pieces of her body aren't even cold yet!
In Seattle last year we had a few snowstorms that brought EVERYTHING to a halt. We had about 75% of our workforce VPNing in and this killed a DS3. I'd worry about this. We ended up explaining how to dial back remote desktop (colors, sounds, etc.) but it was a really big deal. I wouldn't want to have to dal with this long term.
All I can say is that watching the dead in Stormwind and Ironforge last weekend as Krull rained hell and bodies was by FAR the most hard-core thing I've seen in a long time....
There are purists who will always say $OS is the One True Way. I've found more often than not, that when coming into a shop where one person is responsible for a given piece of the System without any real oversight, what happens is that they will sometimes do some really weird shit. BTW 65 to 85 F is a REALLY big deal as that's the air temp in the place, think about the volume of the room and how much energy it takes to to heat a space like that in such a short period of time. You'll fry some stuff in a server room at those temps. If they'd let it go for much longer they'd have fried some hardware without fail.
True... that'd be DARPA Hard, but what WOULDN'T be hard is a picture, you change enough of the bits in the images, such as a JPEG and *POOF* you've got a new image with the same hash. It'd be insanely hard and repetitive but isn't that what we've got computers for. Besides you'd be surprised what I can pull off with my home cluster of low-end P4 and multiple PIIIs.
In a theoretical world, using massive cluster computers and years of research knowledge. I wouldn't bark up that tree in front of a country judge... Not really. I have played with the code for finding domains, and while I've got more computing power than the average bear, I can tell you it's WELL within the reach of a well resourced and motivated individual.
Item 5 is too vague, I can set my router to say whatever IPs I want, good net citizen doesn't do this but non-reputable... IP addresses are not.
Item 6 is simply a fishing expedition, IANAL but last time I checked this is legal but HIGHLY contestable. The rest of the content isn't very good as it's akin to saying that since *you* own a gun you may know who shot someone else *ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD* with a gun.
Item 7 isn't that good either but it *does* show that the person in question is related to the person there.
All in all I'd say what you have to overcome is the CSI/Law and Order effect of IPs being traced like a phone call to the exact address because that's what you're up against.
Also what are they using to take these screenshots, did they have a warrant (RIAA tends to forget they're NOT law enforcement). "We use encryption" is not a valid answer for that as both MD5 and SHA-1; standard hashing functions used to prove that data has not been tampered with have BOTH been proven to have collision domains (places where different data can have the same hash).
Ok, on to the questions. Since you didn't say the field of the
First off I'd ask about the screenshots and then if he brought out the encryption statement, I'd tear him apart on that, Stealing the Network: How to own the box, (a great book on network security, stories are fictional but the technology is VERY real), has some great layman's explanations for this. If they say it's proprietary then you can tear that apart with enough ammo for NSA people and such. (no one rolls their own crypto it's just too hard, just because *you* can't break it means absolutely nothing, CSS, Apple DRM, Comcast crypto anyone?)
Then I'd ask how they got the numbers for the values of their songs and I'd then rip apart the logic on that as I heard it's something like 730 a song, so then that means that a Vanilla Ice song makes as much money as something from The Game.
Then I'd ask about the full enforcement of the copyright laws and then if they felt exceptions should be given, and demand a yes or no from them. Then point out that the children of the CEO of Time Warner stole music and just leave it at that.
That's all I could come up with in five minutes. I tend to equate the RIAA lawyers to humans (but not *AS* humans) in two words "Mostly Harmless".
Am I a bad person for thinking this would make a great SHOCKwave game?
Acutally I was refering to Dare-Devil. (the comic, not the horrid movie...)
Just try to dodge the toxic waste next time Murdoch. (More power to you if you get this reference!)
....[slap!] That's about all I can say to that. I can promise you I've got far more computing power than your little Dell (along with graphics processing power) and out of sheer respect my current wallpaper on my server-room-light-dimming-10-tons-of-cooling-neede d-for-safe-functioning-Beowulf-cluster is the CELL/B.E. chip. This chip (or chips depending on whose licensing ideals you follow) isn't even remotely in the same class as a x86. That and the PS2 on a chip (which would also stomp most GPUs in today's laptops!) would pretty much bend your laptop over and do it without KY. That said, I know there are somethings your laptop may *potentially* be better at but the sheer graphics power of these isn't to be triffled with. Now apologize the mighty CELL/B.E. ...[slap!]
I said apologize bitch!
What techs are you using if you can disclose that?
WOW! Your comment made my week. I'm trying to build some really cool (at least I think so) systems to thwart these. If you're interested drop me a line here and I'll PM you.
This was the subject of "As the worm turns", in the first Stealing the Network (an AWESOME book). The protagonist disassembles a worm and then figures out how to fix, with some unintended consequences. A great read, the story is fictional but the technology is VERY real. Almost a HOWTO in fact.
I've heard it used to describe weapons from a more civilized age, weapons that weren't as random or clumsy as a blaster.
DUDE! That's the number for the White House!
It's not so much that. It's more along the lines of a place like my shop where for many things I'm simply it. I'd LOVE to have a Barracuda with it's gray listing and Baysian filtering... but I just don't have the money/time to implement it. I'm in one of those shops where things only get paid for *AFTER* the fact. We didn't have AV until we got hit. We used to have public IPs for Workstations until something... bad, uh yeah, that's what I'll call it... [whistles]
My point is that it's a lot of shops like mine that are going to be hit hard by this. I'm lobbying to get that changed by having better technologies for this stuff but if you have ever worked in a shop like mine then you know my pain.
Hey, I wrote it at like 1 in the morning after killing many kittens ;)
Oh wait it couldn't... Looks like it's time to start clustering my servers...