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I'm still waiting for someone to go after that massive worldwide tracker named...........

Google.  :haha: 

They point at this and that and some of that, must be illegal somewhere.

All I know is that we lost 8 years of future scientists. So now we are down to chucking stuff at the moon. 

For those that want to know how the legal system around the world happens. Since the whole Pirate Bay trial was a farce. And Judges are rubes and shills.

And even in North America, you can be prosecuted at a trial without anyone telling you about the trial. So when you don't show up? You lose. It's not like the Judge is supposed to make sure you got the any court summons. Even though it is his responsibility to make sure you were fully notified of the trial against you and you acknowledged the summons.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091008/1038336461.shtml

Peter Sunde Brings Criminal Charges Against BREIN, Claims They Falsified Documents Against The Pirate Bay

from the spectrial-indeed dept

You may remember, back in July, that a Dutch court made an odd ruling against The Pirate Bay at the behest of BREIN, the local anti-piracy group. Now, there was a lot of things odd about the case. BREIN has always been quite aggressive in demanding that sites be blocked or that ISPs be forced to block sites, but this case went really far. BREIN was able to bring the case without even letting any of the four defendants (the same four who were on trial in Sweden) know about the case. However, BREIN told the court that the defendants were fairly summoned, despite no evidence that was true at all. BREIN also claimed that The Pirate Bay had launched a DDoS attack on BREIN's website, and seemed so close to the court that when the defendants themselves asked the court for the very ruling made against them, the court told them that they could only get the copy directly from BREIN.

Of course, after all this happened, a second problem cropped up. Swedish authorities did an investigation and came to the conclusion -- as the four defendants had said all along -- that those four guys did not actually own The Pirate Bay. Instead, it was a company called Reservella, information that came out to the public after the attempt by GGF to buy The Pirate Bay (which has since collapsed).

BREIN wasted little time in adding Reservella to its lawsuits... but then did something strange. It came up with a credit report that purports to prove that one of the four defendants, Fredrik Neij, is the CEO and a director of Reservella. However, there were some oddities in that credit report, and Peter Sunde (one of the other defendants, better known as brokep) began investigating and has rather detailed evidence that the entire credit report is a fake. Almost none of the information on the report checks out, and the companies listed -- including Experian, who supposedly supplied the credit report, claim that they have no record of this particular credit report at all.

Sunde is now filing criminal charges against BREIN and its boss Tim Kuik, claiming that they forged a document and used it for fraud (trying to get money out of these four defendants). As Sunde notes, such charges seem to be far more serious than inducing copyright infringement. The evidence that Sunde lays out certainly looks convincing that the document is fake, but what's still not clear is how BREIN got the document, and whether it was responsible for creating the document, or if it was merely convinced that the fake document was real from someone else.

Still, it doesn't look good for BREIN to be caught using what appear to be faked documents in its lawsuit.

I'd get the third one. 

That would be the one in three weeks with a standalone full install of Windows 7, without it being an upgrade disc from Vista. 

Also to note, is that trojans can capture your keystrokes(website, username, password) on your computer or take images(screen capture) of content on your monitor to see information on some sites.

So take 15 minutes and Scan for bugs in your system.

MalwareBytes. Anti-Malware.  Free.

http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10896905

Looks like some Phishermen will be spending a few weeks on ice.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220301571

One Hundred Phishers Charged In Largest Cybercrime Case

A two-year international phishing investigation involving the FBI and authorities in Egypt has led to charges against 53 people in the U.S. and 47 overseas.

By Thomas Claburn

InformationWeek

October 7, 2009 04:47 PM

The FBI on Wednesday announced that it had charged 53 defendants, the largest number ever charged in a cybercrime case, following a multinational investigation into a phishing scheme that operated in the United States and Egypt.

Thirty-three of the 53 defendants named in the indictment have been arrested, the FBI said, and several others are being sought. The investigation, dubbed "Operation Phish Phry," began in 2007.

Authorities in Egypt have charged 47 defendants linked to the phishing operation.

Phishing is a form of social engineering that attempts to convince Internet users, via e-mail or other means, to provide online credentials via e-mail, Web submission form, or some other method under false pretenses. Often, phishers create fraudulent Web sites that have been designed to look like legitimate Web sites as a way to encourage site visitors to supply sensitive information, such as online banking login details.

Earlier this week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) warned that "several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers' credentials were exposed on a third-party site due to a likely phishing scheme." The online attack also appears to have affected users of other online e-mail services, including Google Gmail, and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Mail.

According to the FBI, the U.S.-Egypt phishing operation collected personal information from thousands of victims and used that information to defraud U.S. banks. Hackers based in Egypt allegedly captured banking information and other personal details, then supplied that information to associates in the U.S. who then withdrew funds using the stolen credentials and wired back a portion of the proceeds to Egypt.

"The sophistication with which Phish Phry defendants operated represents an evolving and troubling paradigm in the way identity theft is now committed," said Keith Bolcar, acting assistant director of the FBI in Los Angeles, in a statement. "Criminally savvy groups recruit here and abroad to pool tactics and skills necessary to commit organized theft facilitated by the computer, including hacking, fraud and identity theft, with a common greed and shared willingness to victimize Americans."

All 53 defendants in the U.S. face charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Some of the defendants also face additional charges that could lead to longer terms.  

I'm building a new system. And the Box will have an odd configuration, due to me having two 10 month old IDE hard drives. So the DVD burner will be Sata, in order for me to use the one IDE slot on the MoBo.  So in a few years as the drives get to old age, I'll change out the IDE's for Sata hard drives. But I will still have one spare Sata port, if I want a third hard drive.

The beams are not overloaded but the hubs or gateways is the bottleneck....more hubs are going to be used in the next 30days to eliminate the congestion.

Well it's damn nice of them to WAIT for the Gateways,hubs, NOC's to get over full, BEFORE they upgrade the bandwidth. 

Oh, by the way. Gmail and Yahoo, etc.,  and something called AOL, email services Phished also.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/06/gmail_webmail_phish/

Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! all hit by webmail phishing scam

I can see my address from here

By John Leyden

AVG Sometime in October is going to have Free AVG version 9. It is supposedly less bloated. But AVG keeps hiding the free versions on it's site to make people think the free versions are gone.

http://free.avg.com/ww-en/homepage  version 8.5 at the time of this posting.

I prefer two standalone products for anti-virus and firewall. With Windows 7 coming out, I will have Avast anti-virus and then Comodo Firewall. Since Zonealarm does not have a free version for Windows 7. But paid version 9.128(or something) is compatible with Windows 7.

I wonder if AVG has an slow active web content scanner? That could be the slowdown.  With Avast, I can toggle off the 7 different scanners.

So the simplest of Phishing schemes is where that great new site you just joined, wants your email address and password, to be able to automatically send all your friends invites(in your name) to the new site. So would you give a stranger the keys to your car, so the stranger can show it to all your friends quicker than you can?

Another is where you get an email, supposedly from Ebay or PayPal, saying your account has been violated and please click on the links below to enter your account name and password to be able to confirm if your account was indeed hijacked. The quirk in the email is that the recommended link that is supposedly 'Secure', is the link to the fake Ebay/PayPal site. And the 'standard'  link is usually to the real Ebay/PayPal.

http://www.crn.com/security/220301140;jsessionid=RFTTUVYP4K0GPQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN

 Microsoft Admits Phishing Attack Picked Up Hotmail Users' Details

By Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb

7:55 PM EDT Mon. Oct. 05, 2009

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) on Monday afternoon confirmed reports that hackers got access to several thousands of Windows Live Hotmail customers' credentials through a possible phishing attack.

Microsoft wrote in a blog posted on its Windows Live site that the customer data was exposed due to a likely phishing scheme.

The hack was first reported Monday morning by the Neowin blog site.

In the blog, the writing of which was not attributed to a specific individual but instead to the "Windows Live team," Microsoft late Wednesday afternoon wrote that it was taking measures to block access to all the accounts that were exposed.

Microsoft is also providing resources to help users reclaim their accounts.

Neowin reported that details of the accounts of users who use hotmail.com, msn.com, and live.com to access Hotmail were posted on-line at a site used by developers to share code, and that copies of the list were posted in other locations.

At least 10,000 accounts starting with the letters "A" and "B" were exposed, but Neowin said this suggests that there could be additional lists of users' accounts.

Microsoft, in its response, said that it has requested that the users' credentials be removed, and that it has launched an investigation into the potential customer impact of the breach.

The hack was not a breach of internal Microsoft data, the company wrote.

Microsoft also used its blog to warn users against phishing in general.

"Our guidance to customers is to exercise extreme caution when opening unsolicited attachments and links from both known and unknown sources, and that they install and regularly update their anti-virus software," Microsoft said.

Microsoft also told victims of a phishing scheme to update their account information and change their password write away, and gave a step-by-step list of things to do if one falls prey to a phishing attack.

On the Neowin blog, several readers responded to the story with a warning that phishing attacks are not a result of Web site security problems, but the result of user carelessness.

When one respondent, "DomZ," wrote that the attack seems like a massive security breach, another respondent, "Coth," wrote, "phishing is not a site security breach. it's an end user brain security breach. it's just stupid people opening spam mails to right and left, clicking on every link and entering their passwords on faked pages without checking the address." (sic)

Coth's response was echoed by "_dandy_," who gave an example of the kind of user activity that leads to successful phishing attacks.

"Twice now in the last month or so, I've had to explain to some of my acquaintances that a site that asks you for your Messenger credentials in order to have it show you who's got you marked as blocked is nothing but a login harvester," _dandy_ wrote.

Another respondent, "+Iakobos," wrote that, while not all the accounts may have been real, users in general need to be careful. "I don't understand how people can be stupid enough to give their live details away to phishing scams," +Iakobos wrote.

Heres a PDF on the ViaSat1, but it is probably two years old. Especially since ViaSat in it, says they don't want to be a ISP.

http://www.viasat.com/files/assets/web/ViaSat-1_FAQ_3_09_V3.pdf

It's a bit of fluff, with no solid specifications.

So heres the website of Europe's KA band(2010 launch of a ViaSat1) satellite Internet provider.

http://www.tooway.com/tooway-news.html

Various news stories, in PDF format with a small teaser of the PDF story.

And if anyone wants to curse at the speeds being offered via KU and then the few newer KA spot beams in service already, go right ahead.

And users can get rewarded for using the service overnight. If WildBlue gave an incentive to have a Free of FAP time during the overnight, then maybe they could relieve some congestion in the evening.

There is this, but $300 bucks though. I think it records the voltage inline to your computer and then ethernet to your computer for the monitoring software, data logs.  I don't know what else you could get for cheaper.

This does not line condition or control voltages to the end machine.

http://www.networktechinc.com/enviro-sensor-power.html

AC Power Monitor with Relay

Or the dual unit for $210. Prices are variable

http://www.networktechinc.com/cgi-bin/keemux/enviromux-aclm-v.html

My concern with this gaming system is the bandwidth that a user might be doing per day, compared to a user machine based game disc.  I don't game but the specs of needing a 5Mbps connection for high def is interesting to how much data you are sending/receiving in the session.

And is the LAG higher via this method too?

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/09/cloud-gaming-service-onlive-shines-at-mit-conference.ars

 

Cloud gaming service OnLive shines at MIT conference

OnLive CEO Steve Perlman details what we can expect from the cloud computing system, including bandwidth requirements. With multiple major publishers on board and another successful tech demo at MIT's conference, the buzz is growing.

By John Timmer | Last updated September 23, 2009 11:38 AM CT

MIT is playing host to Technology Review's EmTech conference, which focuses on up-and-coming companies and the new technology they're bringing to market. Steve Perlman, the founder and CEO of the OnLive gaming service, was given the chance to demonstrate his company's cloud gaming service, and took some time to explain the technology backing it. OnLive is gaming's answer to cloud computing: the applications run on hardware in a server farm, while users only need low-end hardware (including OnLive's own mini-console) and broadband Internet to connect in and play. The service will have some limitations, however, and your experience may vary with network speed.

For starters, Perlman gave some indication of the network requirements for it. Anyone with a 1.5Mbps connection should be able to run the service at standard definition; 5Mbps will be required for HD content. Although bandwidth will be critical, low latency connections will be necessary to avoid hitting the user with perceptible lag. OnLive has found that the server has to be within about 1,000 miles of the end user in order to avoid this. As such, it will be launching the service with four server farms.

Another impressive tech demo

For the purposes of his demo, Perlman connected to a server farm in Virginia. MIT clearly has access to some pretty significant pipes, but the quality of the demos, which included some time showing off an arena in Crysis, was very impressive, given that it was running on a standard MacBook Pro. All sorts of environmental features, from bubbles generated while swimming to crabs scuttling along the beach, were fluid, and provided a very immersive experience. Perlman joked repeatedly about his poor gaming skills as he rushed to show the audience as much as possible before one of the experienced beta testers blew him away.

He also gave a short rundown of the service's additional features, like the ability to save clips of games that can be shared with others. There's also an arena, where people can enter a game environment that someone else is playing and watch how they experience the game. Although these are presented as end-user features, Perlman pointed out that they could provide significant benefits for game developers that could follow along as users flail through problem areas or expose bugs in the software.

Perlman was willing to talk briefly about the hardware that powers things at the server level. The basic functional unit is a standard PC motherboard. Casual games get by on built-in video, while they'll be using motherboards with high end hardware from NVIDIA and AMD for the current generation of games. The only custom hardware is a single add-on board that handles both compressing the video for transmission to the end users and smoothing over the inevitable network hiccups.

Beyond the broadband connection, all the end user needs to be able to do is handle input from controllers and display video, neither of which is especially demanding. That goes a long way towards explaining why OnLive can get away with a miniconsole that appeared to be somewhere around the size of a portable laptop hard drive.

PC gaming's audience could be broadened

The pitch to the gaming audience is obvious: no more platform exclusives and a step off the perpetual upgrade treadmill. Whatever you happen to be using, it'll be good enough for OnLive's service. But Perlman also pointed out that there are significant advantages for game makers. A single game can now run on any platform out there, greatly increasing the audience and eliminating porting issues. Since the actual software never goes out to the end users, piracy is essentially a nonissue. Perlman also noted it could kill the secondhand game market

You can get light bulbs that are 130Volt rated. Or Country bulbs is the other name.

But first thing to do is stick an electric voltage meter in the plug outlet to see how much voltage is coming down the line.

My current place is 120volts in. My last place was 126volts in.  

But I use backup power supplies(UPS) to condition my power to 120volts(automatic voltage regulation (AVR)). I have a nice 1700'volt amp' unit on my main computer now that gives me an hour of backup time to run the system with router and DSL modem and 22" monitor. And I am only sucking about 13% of constant power from it, during power failure/brown outs.

If you see surges that kill stuff. That can be a slightly loose neutral wire in your power panel, to maybe a bad transformer or line that is not controlling it's residential service voltage properly.  Our pole out front got serviced and they added a 'air to ground surge breaker', for the big transformer, which services about 15 homes. But I also have a surge protector in the power panel as well.

Another way if you "changed the setting DCHP to enabled in the canopy page and Rebooted." , from a post here.

http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=26170.msg301862;topicseen#msg301862

No pink lights on this case, but unless you want the eyes to twinkle that special shade of love.

From http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/06/_when_i_was_at.html  ,with a link to the Japanese language site to see how to build it.

The ViaSat1 is going to be an interesting satellite in capacity.

But if WildBlue ends up with two seperate FAP policies to go with the ViaSat1's possible special offers of being able to stream video's to your hearts content, then people on the older satellites are going to look to upgrade, or feel like they are on dialup, again.

http://www.viasat.com/broadband-satellite-networks/viasat-1

Transforming Satellite Broadband

The demand for broadband by satellite is indisputable, as is the growing demand for more bandwidth. Both times a new broadband satellite has launched, a spike in subscriber uptake followed. Then within months, capacity was sold out in key geographic areas, capping subscriber growth.

ViaSat-1 is aimed at meeting this obvious demand:

   * Economically deliver Internet multimedia

   * More capacity than all current North American satellites combined

   * Two million subscribers

   * 10 times the throughput of any other Ka-band satellite

   * In-orbit costs only a fraction of even the newest satellites in orbit

   * More

So if you have really slow speeds(especially in  'primetime') and can't get anywhere with WildBlue, send a note to the new owners.  

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091001/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_viasat_wild_blue

Satellite equipment maker ViaSat buying Wild Blue

   * By DEBORAH YAO, AP Business Writer - Thu Oct 1, 2009 8:18AM EDT

ViaSat Inc. is acquiring Wild Blue Communications Inc., a provider of high-speed Internet access via satellite, for $568 million in cash and stock, the companies said Thursday.

Privately held Wild Blue, in which Liberty Media Corp. holds a 37 percent stake, will become an operating subsidiary of ViaSat, which makes satellite communications equipment for defense and consumer markets.

Carlsbad, Calif.-based ViaSat plans to buy Wild Blue for $443 million in cash and $125 million in new common stock. Liberty Media, controlled by media mogul John Malone, will appoint a representative to ViaSat's board. Mark Carleton, senior vice president at Liberty, is Wild Blue's chairman.

ViaSat is planning to launch a satellite in the first quarter of 2011 that will enable Wild Blue to offer speeds of 2 Megabits per second to 8 Megabits per second

I saw the OEM listed and other than the disclaimers of no support from Microsoft and they will only allow one system(motherboard) to be activated with it. So heck knows if they will allow to to put it in a replacement system(motherboard) from the original install.

And since the person who installs the OEM OS is the official support, you get to yell at yourself when something goes for a shiat.

"Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp6eswhgOKk

no worry they have a fix insight....only 2yrs or so away. My guess is the more Ku people like myself get moved to the Ka system the worst is yet to come until the new sat gets up then repeat.

http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/091009wildblue-keeps-pace-hughes.html

Note that Telesat owns 20% of WildBlue.

And I also call B.S. on the "750,000 subscribers" number ever since it was published. Especially since users are not evenly spaced out in the U.S..  And I think that user number maximum is based on speed packages of 512Kbps.  So if someone gets the 1Mbps package, well thats one less user. Or 1.5Mbps, is two less users.

There is a converter card that plugs into the back of the IDE drive to convert to sata.  I am going to see how they work in about three weeks. Probably just use it on my second hard drive and use a new sata for the main drive. Since my IDE hard drives are new enough.

This one is a better one, that is not an open card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232004&cm_re=ide_to_sata_converter-_-12-232-004-_-Product

Or I could go the way of a Sata DVD drive and use the ide slot on the new MoBo for the IDE hard drives.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118033&cm_re=sata_dvd_drive-_-27-118-033-_-Product

And technology rolls on. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Tried to watch that video a couple of days ago. Ugggggg. Couldn't even make it to 20 seconds. I almost wiped my memory of the incident. I think I fast forwarded a touch too.

And I even watched BattleField Earth on TV one night. I just couldn't stop watching. It was so bad. Well except for the magnificent bit about the two aliens wondering if humans can fly. So they grab one and hold him over the digital cliff and let go. So the result was, humans can't fly.

My launch party is when I put the DVD in the drive and the new system launches the install routine. And I is going with the 64 bit.

Some forums even put the posters IP's on their posts.  But it's the script kiddies who like to play anyways.  

Then again I have a router firewall(ignores outside pings) and then I have a software firewall on each machine to control both directions of traffic.

Occasionally when I get an email from my mum, I can check to see if the firewall is still working properly.  I set the machine up and hardly need to service it. Only once or twice did my sisters kids screw things up. About 7 pieces of crapware from a quick Kazaa install/uninstall by one kid, and him 'adjusting' settings in the firewall for WOW.  But when I could just go to the leftover Kazza folder for the evidence of the kids wrecking things.

When I was on dialup, I'd occasionally log into a IP that was just used for filesharing by someone. So I'd get about 30 or 40 incoming hits before traffic dies off.   I always find it a pain when I get an IP that is constantly being hit with nuisance traffic.

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So did you use the Linux IP for the XP OS to get the better speeds?  

Yeah, I read that a while back......About the NOC..... did you watch the video with it?

I think I seen a NOC operator throttle my speeds in that video.  He had my diag page up on his console!

LOL (just kidding).  Makes you wonder what they do to you system, though, as they have DIRECT control of your modem!!!  I watched Tier-4 nosey around in my modem one night.  He could pull up every screen I could as well as reboot the modem.

A users account is a little piece of software on the system. All the account settings are in there. And a bigger piece of software can adjust some parameters in those settings as needed or ordered.

Well it's always good to have a firewall running on your side of the modem. Even though ISP's will deny that they can see into your system.

And never, ever allow a support person to remotely connect to your system to 'adjust' settings. As they can delete a bunch of things if they want. 'Remote desktop', is the applications name.

Hughesnet national NOC video.

http://www.hughes.com/HUGHES/Doc/0/N9QN4JU1L3N4H34S5JPS1K9D99/Walk_the_%20NOC_LR.wmv

And then there are various ground stations to help spread out the system bandwidth over the country. Since a lower quality ISP has only one connection to the net and a better ISP has at least two connections in case of failure of one Internet connection.  

My ISP had an issue the other day and about 6 of their Internet connections were at issue. A bad main router of theirs probably. But many sites were still accessible, while some were not.

If you happen to have OVERLAP in spot beams, would that cause some type of speed issues?

I am in an overlap of 41 and 42....

You can have an issue if the Installer points you or authorizes you onto the wrong beam that is almost at the edge of your location. But your signal strength would probably show real low, if that were to happen. From what I've read, it is rare to happen.

I don't know how perfect the beam map is for showing the spots.  

And does anyone have a list of the NOC's(or "gateway earth station") being used for the SpaceWay3? I am not sure if they are separate from the KU NOC's

Copy and paste the whole link as hughesnet links are crap.

http://www.hughes.com/HUGHES/Rooms/DisplayPages/LayoutInitial?Container=com.webridge.entity.Entity[OID[AE0AEEB47DA4A043A56932DA208C37E5]]

As more than 600,000 Hughes customers in North America go about their day-to-day activities, many may be unaware of the extensive satellite network and control center thats behind managing their HughesNet