I have a very extensive torrent file collection on my SkyDrive (well over a thousand torrents), and have had it on there for a long time (before SkyDrive existed, when i was only using Live Sync). 99% of that collection are torrents to copyrighted works. Some from Pirate Bay, some from Private trackers.
I also have a few folders of 'Funny' images, some of which can certainly be classified as tasteless, extremely graphic pornography (what can i say, i have sick sense of humor).
Nothing is shared with anyone, and i access it daily from the SkyDrive App on my Windows Phone, and from my Netbook via the web from a million different places all over the state, country, and a few countries in Europe.
Never had it taken down. Not a peep from anyone.
The nightmare scenario is a database of checksums on Microsoft's servers which is continually referenced once your files land on the server. But i doubt it, maybe naively.
I could not agree more. If the op isn't comfortable airing the laundry here, then join a resistant force and do it there (GitHub).
While it wouldn't help the community, it would help the quality of content to hackers if we open sourced something like a user script to override HN's algorithm and simply blanket out this entire consortium.
An explicit, and specific blacklist for these jokers along with their snake oil websites and ideas. Oh? You're offended by your being listed on The Blacklist? Earn our trust back so we could pay a small bit of mind to your vaporeware or opinion like we used to, when we called it vaporeware and a bad opinion.
I apologize for the rant, but at least i'm offering an idea to put the brakes on the gradual degradation of this website.
Indeed. But what would it take for this website to make it to the top of a search engine, above the .gov you've mentioned? Is this subjective to that search engine's algorithm? (that's not a loaded question, as i'm not familiar with how any search engine weighs it's results).
Peter Gnas, office of the chief of Police at the Milwaukee Police Department (who also has an '@milwaukee.gov' e-mail address) is the registrant of milwaukeepolicenews.com
I'm not sure how much of this is conjecture. My thinking differs from yours with respect to the following -
"Albums don't really have years either. Or at least they have publication years. The songs have years. Normal studio albums have a common year. Compilations and soundtracks do not."
An album that is released by a record label does have a year, as upon release it becomes a publication. By this train of thinking i would also say a soundtrack does have a year, too, as it is published as a collection timely to the context of its release. The same can be said of compilations, as they are a contemporary release.
Yes, but you're usually more interested in when the song came out than when the album came out.
If you sort your playlist by date so you can pick songs from the 90's, you probably wanted to hear something like Nirvana instead of The Best of The Who: Volume 3.
I agree that year is screwed up, but some taggers (like the picard-lastfm tagger) reads also decade feel tags. So music that sounds like 90s is tagged as 90s music, even if it isn't recorded in 90s.
For example, ""La Roux -- In It For The Kill"" will get the song tagged as sounding 80s like:
Leveraging the 'watering hole' technique to penetrate into one network in order to gain entry into another more compelling system (the actual target), is clever but nothing new. The recon work represented by Semantec's technical report, however, is fascinating to me. It's a great summary of the attacker's methods; reusing code, quality of code used, and statements (albeit brief) about comparing the techniques used in what would normally seem as unrelated attacks.
I also found it no surprise that 0days in this case were routinely wrapped in shockwave to deliver payloads for guaranteed execution.
AV companies may be snake oil salesmen, but i hope they at least fund research like this a bit more aggressively.
R&D in the likes of this is virtually sunk cost to the company. In order for researchers to conduct the work like this they typically need two things:
1) A bountiful supply of cash
2) A reputation
#1 pays the bills, #2 gets them in the door. Symantec and others make their #1 with the snake oil such that they can afford to lose a bit of #1 in order to gain #2. With enough #2 they can hire big names, work with large companies and suddenly you have a pretty strong group that's capable of writing articles like this.
In all hopes we'll see this type of malware understanding get pushed through to the actual detection schemes. Instead of reactionary scanning and detection of files we can start to look towards behavioral scanning. False positives are probably the worst part to the consumer about this since they just want their snake oil without side effects.
Earth-Moon-Earth Communication (EME), or Moonbouncing, is today enjoyed by Amateur Radio enthusiasts all over the world. I just thought this was really interesting in it's exploitation by the CIA during the Cold War.
The reason i don't think this is funny is because it's compromising the maturity of this community. Please create a new thread stating your grievances, instead of distracting things.
I agree. On the surface of things i'm completely put off, but i haven't completely lost faith in these guys. I think they should make the alternative way of signing up ("The e-mail way," as they have it on the front page) an equally sized link as the Facebook option.
On the surface of things, the Diaspora team is crossing a line by sending e-mails about Makr.io to the people who were interested in Diaspora. I look at it as the two not being related at all, regardless of the reason they gave in the e-mail announcing makr to the people who expressed an interest in Diaspora -
"Existing social networks do not encourage their users to feel like they have the power to MAKE things on the internet. Rather they are just “capturing” the ephemeral social actions that define social networks today. With Makr, we are making creativity accessible to everyone, in the hopes it enables people to realize that what you post and create online is worth owning."
For me time will tell if this is genuine, or just the Diaspora team using their already existing mailing list to "capitalize" on an already established audience.
Thanks for the read. It might seem strange to some but this is a solid image to see when you're camping - there are machine cycles going on that is keeping your data alive and you have no control over those machines, and you don't have your own data.
Which is crazy to me, and i would never let that happen. Ever. Everything that i have online is copied to two different locations which i have physical access to, lol... why aren't you doing the same?
Also... Spotify. Convenient for discovering new music, but I can't imagine myself relying upon an internet connection to actually listen to music, in absolutely horrible quality. Do you honestly not store music on your mobile devices?
I also have a few folders of 'Funny' images, some of which can certainly be classified as tasteless, extremely graphic pornography (what can i say, i have sick sense of humor).
Nothing is shared with anyone, and i access it daily from the SkyDrive App on my Windows Phone, and from my Netbook via the web from a million different places all over the state, country, and a few countries in Europe.
Never had it taken down. Not a peep from anyone.
The nightmare scenario is a database of checksums on Microsoft's servers which is continually referenced once your files land on the server. But i doubt it, maybe naively.