Fake ATM. Even in the middle of a park, someone will eventually try to use it. (After all, who builds fake ATMs?) When that happens, you can respond with an error and record the PIN. This only seems slightly less plausible than cracking open an ATM, installing a reader and sticking up a camera near by, as suggested by other posters.
Screw that! Seeding unlicensed content is a reverse-lottery. If I want a movie, I'll get it. I'll seed when there aren't any deep-pocketed suits in a position to put me in debt for the rest of my life. Leech off the misguided altruists (plenty of those) and let the paranoid be paranoid.
As much as I hate the Idle layout, at least it tells me in advance that TFA (well, TFV) is a waste of time. I now have an idea involving my old foam disk guns, however.
I am also deeply disturbed by my knowledge of...numbers. Disregard the previous post as I go sulk in a corner, weeping to myself and pondering the subtle differences between one and four.
In the past 66 years, the world population increased 25%. In 160 years, that means the population will only have increased by 40%. Our world is fully able to handle that many people. Also, it's 1994.
I'm not on rooftops exclaiming the terrible truth about Soylent Green, but I do find your knowledge of statistics to be rather alarming.
Except that it doesn't. XP SP2 introduced a limit to the number of half-open connections you can have open at once. The limit (10 by default) is essentially never reached during normal use. Some poorly-configured Bittorrent clients can hit the ceiling, but it isn't that hard to disable the limit if you do a quick search.
That limit did absolutely nothing to help, in any case. I suppose it would be nice of me to link to the patch, now that SP3 has reset the limit.
Has comcast ever increased its speeds to a competitive level lately? Who has?
Have they done anything out of the ordinary to show good business ethics? Stating a monthly cap, rather than just saying "Our unconscionable contract allows us to kick you off for any reason or no reason at all." like a lot of other residential ISPs would be a step in the right direction. Admitted, this isn't 'outstanding' by any measure, just a lesser evil.
We already have SLAs, everyone has one in the way that they agree to comcast's services. It's just not a whole lot is guaranteed. Fair enough. I should have said 'minimum guaranteed bandwidth', or something to that effect.
Still, even the part about an explicit cap is just the words of an 'unnamed insider'. As such, I'm scraping a bucket full of hot air to respond with "They might be honest sometime in the near future...possibly."
Would you rather they didn't announce their caps and resumed acting as self-appointed copyright cops, throttling everything to a crawl and disconnecting users for going over their mystery cap? Want decent service without hidden limits? Things are starting to look up. Want an SLA and more bandwidth than God? Pay for it.
Perhaps NASA has just come to expect (plan for) various catastrophic failures? A flash drive would have likely been crumbs after a crash. (Then again, if this were the idea, why not use multiple hard drives?)
Stop putting important things on laptops! Good laptops are relatively expensive and especially easy to steal; like many common items, one can calmly pick one up in a crowded public area without anyone taking notice. A desktop doesn't have to leave the office, flash drives are cheap, easy to keep track of with a neck/wrist strap, and not much of a target. Lose a thousand encrypted flash drives and you'll only be missing a few tens of thousands, compared to stupidly passing out laptops like candy.
I know next to nothing about waves, but wouldn't interference be a problem? Besides, spectrum auctions bring in money. How about allowing people to use (almost) any frequency they wish to, but -in the case of frequencies not already public- only provided they enter written agreements with those affected and make it clear to people entering the area?
(Note that I didn't check to see if any similar laws existed in the US.)
It's optional. If you want the people using your network to do whatever they're supposed to do, rather than going to porn sites and reading Slashdot, you can specify sites to block. If you just want to use it because your ISP is run by a bunch of Cox, just disable the phish filter and typo correction while setting up your account. No ads, no voluntary censorship, and it doesn't suck as much as whatever you're trying to avoid.
As for Verislime's antics, make a wildcard record and complain loudly to ICANN.
Every ISP I've used has been courteous enough to relay takedown notices. If you have decent bandwidth, you could try running your own servers. Even if you can only handle serving images and HTML because your ISP throttles everything down to a crawl, there are plenty of non-Rapidshare file/imagedumps that you can use as mirrors and you can use torrents if you have to.
If you don't feel like doing all of that, you could always pick a host not in the US or a small host that will ask you to act on/respond to takedown notices, rather than complying instantly.
It works for me on the original site, but it still won't work on the cached page. (FF2.0.0.13) Disappointing. I was expecting the picture to move, rather than fade in like that.
Sorry, but the only thing that'll help you if you have an open connection is knowing who was logged in at what time of day. 'I didn't do it, but I have a list of people who may have done it.' works a lot better than 'This is my intentionally-insecure access point and for all I know, Santa Claus did it.'
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Fake ATM. Even in the middle of a park, someone will eventually try to use it. (After all, who builds fake ATMs?) When that happens, you can respond with an error and record the PIN.
This only seems slightly less plausible than cracking open an ATM, installing a reader and sticking up a camera near by, as suggested by other posters.
Yes, but not nearly as terrible.
Screw that! Seeding unlicensed content is a reverse-lottery. If I want a movie, I'll get it. I'll seed when there aren't any deep-pocketed suits in a position to put me in debt for the rest of my life.
Leech off the misguided altruists (plenty of those) and let the paranoid be paranoid.
As much as I hate the Idle layout, at least it tells me in advance that TFA (well, TFV) is a waste of time. I now have an idea involving my old foam disk guns, however.
It's not like any sane person outright drops a flagged message. It's just a matter of skimming the spam dir every now and then/
If I recall correctly, there's a native Windows version of WINE just for that sort of thing.
That means the world population is only ~4,310,251,930 in Europe.
I am also deeply disturbed by my knowledge of...numbers. Disregard the previous post as I go sulk in a corner, weeping to myself and pondering the subtle differences between one and four.
Thank you for both warning and revenue.
Signed, the participants of the SP2 public beta.
Still, even the part about an explicit cap is just the words of an 'unnamed insider'. As such, I'm scraping a bucket full of hot air to respond with "They might be honest sometime in the near future...possibly."
Would you rather they didn't announce their caps and resumed acting as self-appointed copyright cops, throttling everything to a crawl and disconnecting users for going over their mystery cap? Want decent service without hidden limits? Things are starting to look up. Want an SLA and more bandwidth than God? Pay for it.
Who would want to lay next to someone for three months? Tolerating one's own smell would be enough of a problem at that point.
Perhaps NASA has just come to expect (plan for) various catastrophic failures? A flash drive would have likely been crumbs after a crash. (Then again, if this were the idea, why not use multiple hard drives?)
Stop putting important things on laptops! Good laptops are relatively expensive and especially easy to steal; like many common items, one can calmly pick one up in a crowded public area without anyone taking notice. A desktop doesn't have to leave the office, flash drives are cheap, easy to keep track of with a neck/wrist strap, and not much of a target. Lose a thousand encrypted flash drives and you'll only be missing a few tens of thousands, compared to stupidly passing out laptops like candy.
131.247.210.* - Guilty by association!
I know next to nothing about waves, but wouldn't interference be a problem? Besides, spectrum auctions bring in money.
How about allowing people to use (almost) any frequency they wish to, but -in the case of frequencies not already public- only provided they enter written agreements with those affected and make it clear to people entering the area?
(Note that I didn't check to see if any similar laws existed in the US.)
It's optional. If you want the people using your network to do whatever they're supposed to do, rather than going to porn sites and reading Slashdot, you can specify sites to block. If you just want to use it because your ISP is run by a bunch of Cox, just disable the phish filter and typo correction while setting up your account. No ads, no voluntary censorship, and it doesn't suck as much as whatever you're trying to avoid.
As for Verislime's antics, make a wildcard record and complain loudly to ICANN.
Every ISP I've used has been courteous enough to relay takedown notices. If you have decent bandwidth, you could try running your own servers. Even if you can only handle serving images and HTML because your ISP throttles everything down to a crawl, there are plenty of non-Rapidshare file/imagedumps that you can use as mirrors and you can use torrents if you have to.
If you don't feel like doing all of that, you could always pick a host not in the US or a small host that will ask you to act on/respond to takedown notices, rather than complying instantly.
It works for me on the original site, but it still won't work on the cached page. (FF2.0.0.13)
Disappointing. I was expecting the picture to move, rather than fade in like that.
Google cache. It doesn't animate, but the text-image is somewhat impressive.
Sorry, but the only thing that'll help you if you have an open connection is knowing who was logged in at what time of day. 'I didn't do it, but I have a list of people who may have done it.' works a lot better than 'This is my intentionally-insecure access point and for all I know, Santa Claus did it.'