Comment Re:Had this happen in Erie PA (Score 5, Interesting) 119
The "poor guy" is believed to have been part of the gang that came up with the plan in the first place. He wasn't, however, expecting it to be a real bomb.
The "poor guy" is believed to have been part of the gang that came up with the plan in the first place. He wasn't, however, expecting it to be a real bomb.
In the UK you require a license to watch or record TV as it is being broadcast, or to install TV receiving equipment for the purpose of watching/records TV as it is broadcast.
The requirement is worded to be independent of the technology used - terrestrial, satellite broadcasts, cable, internet etc
You don't require a license to watch recordings, so if you only ever watch DVDs, BBC iPlayer and 4OD you don't require a license. Copyright is a different issue - the TV license is a license to install/use equipment and is nothing to do with copyright.
Wikipedia links to this DEF CON presentation(PDF) from 2003 which has some details.
And, not for nothing, the example you provided of it failing, isn't.
It's difficult to claim to be an "independent country" when you have to rely on the British RAF and British RNLI to rescue when you entire "country" catches fire.
I found it funny back when they tried to launch Sealand as a datacentre about ten years ago (HavenCo). 100% of their bandwidth came courtesy of the UK. How long would that bandwidth have lasted if they had hosted anything that had upset the UK authorities?
Indeed, how long would Sealand last if they were to upset anyone of any importance?
James Doohan (Scotty) William Shatner (Kirk),
I really hope you don't have to explain who Doohan and Shatner are to people on Slashdot.
Mobile reception on the tube isn't a popular idea. Tube mobile network opposed by 76% of Londoners
A similar amount of folks were in opposition due to the fact that the underground is currently blissfully free of Dom Joly type berks barking at top volume into their mobile phones about what station they're at and what's for dinner.
This is a fundamental problem. Instructions and data are intermingled in memory and on disk. Buffer overflows exploit this by tricking computers into executing data as code. Most interpreted languages support an eval() like procedure that takes data and interprets it as code. On the topic of interpreted languages - is a Perl script data or code?
Things like the NX bit in newer CPUs help but don't solve the problem.
Triple DES is, for practical purposes, as secure as 128 bit AES and 256 bit AES. 256 bit AES has flaws in its key schedule routines, which at the moment make it slightly easier to brute force than 128 bit AES, but still impractical.
The problem that drove the development of AES is that the performance of Triple DES sucks.
Saying the hockey game caused the riot is like saying the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand caused World War I.
I heard it was some bloke called Archie Duke, who shot an ostrich because he was hungry?
I'm not sure when it happened, but a lot of sites like NetFlix started doing these side-ways scrolling interfaces and it's just annoying and difficult to navigate.
It happened about the same time everyone started buying widescreen monitors, laptops and tablets. Widescreen might be great for watching films, but it's dreadful for reading text.
If you need address space randomization, you're already broken. It just makes the dumber stack overflow exploits crash more.
Defence in depth is a very good security practice. You accept that the first line of defence isn't going to be perfect, and build redundancy into the system.
As for the limitations of Apple's approach, then I'd suggest reading Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet - and how to stop it. He spends a lot of time discussing the attractiveness of "walled garden" systems and how similar benefits could be gained in open systems.
I wonder what exactly they are trying to achieve by this experiment
The purpose of the experiment is to see what problems actually appear.
If there is a fallback to IPv4 then it there be just a delay.
I expect Google know this - they recently implemented happy eyeballs in Chrome, and I believe similar functionality is also in Safari.
How will Google know about any of that?
See IPv6 in Google - A Case Study (PDF) for an idea as to what Google are already measuring, and how.
It is utterly amazing the number of websites that can't render a page without firing scripts or loading content from 6, 8, 10 or more different domains
You can partially blame Google for that - "Serving resources from two different hostnames increases parallelization of downloads".
If all else fails, lower your standards.
