... I wonder if programming will be as easy and done perfectly by everyone just as Windows is administered as easy and perfectly compared to command line on Unix systems...
Yet another example of either clueless politicians, attempting to do "a good thing" all the while creating on over regulated, technically inferior system, or the clever attempt to get yet another way of snooping on the people while making them "feel good and safe"... The good thing at the moment is that it's not mandatory to have or use the POS email service. At the prices currently discussed(55 âcent per email - same as for a regular letter!), I doubt it will find many people who are interested in using it. Though they have said that prices "may" go down... And yes, the standard usually means the mail will be decoded by the MITM, to check for spam (yeah right, at.55â a piece?) or virus/malware (whoah - get a worm on your machine, let it send out millions of DE-Mails - get poor in the process - at least then you won't be able to afford any more internet, removing one more botnet machine from the net), then re-encode for the recipient. The standard is supposed to include the option for end-to-end encryption though, but I'm not sure under which circumstances... Anyway, as the DE-mail is kept on certain provider mailservers, with current law interpretation, any court could order all the mails to a certain person (or from) to be handed over to law enforcement...
Problem is the typical chicken and egg dilemma - too few people use public key crypto, because they don't know (or care) about it, so the ones who would use it don't have any recipients to send to, so less people use it... Guess everybody should start using a footer with a link to a web page that explains for computer dummies how to set up and operate GPG/PGP and forget all about this crap government control attempt...
When asked, the politicians supporting this will most likely damn the Egypt government/leader for their actions in cutting communications channels for the Egyptian people as being an unjust censoring of free speach?
As for government institution connections to the internet - news flash! There are such things as firewalls, IDS, etc.... which you are (mostly and hopefully) already using! When configured by someone who is not a brainless idiot, they do there job. And the "kill switch" you need for them connections is - in its simplest implementation - a wire cutter. Or a power switch.
Wondering, are there enough people aware in the US of the imminent dangers of all their communication habits being even more surveyed by the data retention plans?
What's the surprise? Broadcasters and Movie-producers are still p@ssed that consumers can record analog signals... I reckon with today's lobbying, they'd probably be able to get VCRs outlawed...
... down the road... they better hurry up, not long until the first RIRs might run out of v4 addresses...
I guess it's time that porn and p2p sites switched over to v6 only, that should put some pressure on hardware manufacturers and ISPs to finally deliver v6...
They're already doing something similar in Germany's large cities... depending on the emission classification of a car, all cars receive a red, yellow or green sticker (or none at all). Some larger cities have introduced so-called "environmental zones", with entry only allowed to cars with either red, yellow or green stickers. The level has been since tightened more or less every year, some cities already only allowing green-stickered cars in the center areas. This is supposed to bring down the fine particles amount down, which is (most prominently) created by Diesel engines.
Now, this might sound like a good idea, but there are a couples problems with it, in short: it doesn't seem to help at all;)
Reasons for it not working are for example:
who is going to tell the particles to stop from entering the zones? While the city centers may have the environmental zones, cars with the worst emissions are still driving all around it... wind and general diffusion of the air (and with it particles) will still enter the centers, even with the zones in place... add to that air traffic which also creates particles which are generously distributed in the air, especially at take-off etc...
vehicles like large trucks, busses and the likes (albeit not the smaller ones like delivery trucks) are excluded from the emission regulation, creating much more particles than many diesel cars without filters added together
cars are confirmed at only causing approximately 12% of the fine particles. The rest is caused by industry and houses (heating with oil) as well as the (exempt) trucks and airplanes
Now, while it doesn't actually work, the whole ordeal is causing several problems... for example:
introduction of the classification has devalued older, otherwise perfectly fine cars. E.g., cars as young as 5-7 years may not yet pass for the green sticker, requiring an additional filter in the exhaust system (which might not be available). This upgrade can still qualify for a payback from the state, but this only covers a fraction of the cost.
people most likely to be affected are lower-income, not able to afford a newer car. Plus, most likely, no upgrades might be available for their smaller cars as they are already low-emission (albeit not low enough to qualify for the stickers)
newer gas gusslers with bad fuel economy may qualify for green stickers, where small cars with good mileage may not...
the Diesel exhaust filters cause an (albeit small) decrease in fuel efficiency through the restricting the exhaust flow. So you're improving air quality in one area, while causing certain other emissions to increase (just not the ones as easily measured and regulated by the EU)
older regular fuel cars which don't cause any small particles at all, but don't have a catalytic converter (or a very early one) don't qualify for a yellow or green sticker, because of course they aren't in the appropriate emissions class. So even though they do not cause ANY micro particles at all, they aren't permitted in the environmental zones in order to limit the particles in the zones... sounds smart, right?
many privately owned car repair shops, which make quite a big part of their income on older cars and are located inside the zones can't have their customers come to them anymore if the cars don't have the appropriate stickers...
there are incomprehensible, subjective laws in place through which one might (or might not) receive an exemption from the sticker law...
So in essence, there is no proof (rather the opposite) that the introduction of the zones has helped any, there's lots of problems caused by the laws, and as usual politics will not drop this crap... probably industry lobbyists would complain what they paid all the money for if it were dropped...:(
Too bad the US has made it d@mn hard for itself to complain over China's Internet restrictions... all they can complain about now is how ineffective their own control over the Internet is...
As seen with East Germany, in the end the Government can't win over a determined people. Just a question as to whether the people will wake up in time while there is still something to save. How long until the US People remember the constitution and their founding fathers' courage and ideas! Get up and let your "representatives" know how you feel about the "Great Chinese Firewall" and censoring of websites in the US...
My thought exactly... I still don't see how PayPal got their status of being a Bank in the EU (Luxembourg to be exact). The way recipients of money are treated sucks big time... (as someone who to date has only sent money through them, I do not have any complaints yet, luckily...)
Guess Apple is trying to find out how much abuse their fanboys and -girls will take... how long before no software will be allowed installed unless it comes through the app store? How long, until root rights are removed from the owner's hands for the sake of "safety and comfort of use"? And face it - over the long run, the extra 30% on the app price will come out of the customers' pockets, not the developers...
Whoever was telling you that we were going to run out in one year five years ago was probably smoking methamphetamines at the time.
Actually, the counter-measures of the Registries have extended the period by quite a bit... assignment windows have been constantly reduced, and are going to be further reduced, and attempts and retrieving unused address space for redistribution have been initiated (e.g., RIPE started charging for IP assignments, thereby ensuring that now-defunct companies' and individuals' addresses could be recovered... you don't pay, you lose your IPs). Anyway, with the now _really_ nearing exhaustion I'm guessing the run on available IPv4 addresses will still increase... so, better not bet on those last 12/8s (or rather 6 as someone else already pointed out, with the final/8s being distributed among the RIRs) really lasting half a year yet...
Yeah, no more IPv4 bogon list!:) (well, apart from the reserved/unusable IPs that is)
... I can beat just about any digital link with a Semi full of TB-sized harddisks... Also, it's not even new... there's already an RFC for IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149) and even with QoS (RFC2549)...
Well, maybe not in one country, but M$ prices do differ quite a bit between different countries... not all of which can be explained by currency fluctuation or tax/customs on the products...
At such a high risk, wouldn't it be better not to vaccinate childern? After all, what bit of risk is paralyzation, small pocks, and all the bunch of other sicknesses compared to this?
US courts suck. Big time. At least more often than not...
... it's not the ID card itself they managed to hack, but a basic reader... Germany planed on handing out free readers (something like 1 million of them) for the ID cards, enabling people to sign electronic messages and the likes... Now, while the idea might sound good, they decided on giving out the cheapest kind of readers, which are basically JUST readers. They rely on the PC to enter the code for the card. This is where the attack was targeted - using some PC software, they managed to record the information sent to and from the reader. Once you have the code, you could then steal the ID and use it to fake your identity. More expensive readers have displays and keypads that keep all unlocking away from the actual PC, so keyloggers or similar won't be able to steal the code...
... it's being held because of the use of indecent, immoral language... check out the video, it says the software is "fucking fast"... So, dear developer, it's clearly your fault!
Oh well... I guess Apple fanatics deserve what they're getting from Apple... and I don't expect Apple's way of handling apps and the likes until Apple users understand they are being abused as moneybags... guess it's about time for a class-action suit from both customers and developers...
Sounds to me like some programmers are putting the blame on anyone else than themselves... I'm wondering, how do computer systems cope with re-syncing the local clock with a remote time source, e.g. NTP server? Computer RTCs are _never_ exact, so updating the local time is necessary in regular intervals, which will always lead to time jumps of milli-, micro- or even complete seconds and more. If your software can't cope with that, fix your software, but don't expect the universe will adapt to fix your shortcomings!
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... I wonder if programming will be as easy and done perfectly by everyone just as Windows is administered as easy and perfectly compared to command line on Unix systems ...
Wow, a word starting with "i" and Apple didn't sue to get it for free?
Now that's something new ... has never happened before, better take note!
... in Germany (though I found some references of it also being a Chinese saying) that goes something like this:
If you are speaking the truth, you need a fast horse
Guess his horse wasn't fast enough ...
Yet another example of either clueless politicians, attempting to do "a good thing" all the while creating on over regulated, technically inferior system, or the clever attempt to get yet another way of snooping on the people while making them "feel good and safe" ... ... .55â a piece?) or virus/malware (whoah - get a worm on your machine, let it send out millions of DE-Mails - get poor in the process - at least then you won't be able to afford any more internet, removing one more botnet machine from the net), then re-encode for the recipient. The standard is supposed to include the option for end-to-end encryption though, but I'm not sure under which circumstances ... Anyway, as the DE-mail is kept on certain provider mailservers, with current law interpretation, any court could order all the mails to a certain person (or from) to be handed over to law enforcement ...
The good thing at the moment is that it's not mandatory to have or use the POS email service. At the prices currently discussed(55 âcent per email - same as for a regular letter!), I doubt it will find many people who are interested in using it. Though they have said that prices "may" go down
And yes, the standard usually means the mail will be decoded by the MITM, to check for spam (yeah right, at
Problem is the typical chicken and egg dilemma - too few people use public key crypto, because they don't know (or care) about it, so the ones who would use it don't have any recipients to send to, so less people use it ... ...
Guess everybody should start using a footer with a link to a web page that explains for computer dummies how to set up and operate GPG/PGP and forget all about this crap government control attempt
When asked, the politicians supporting this will most likely damn the Egypt government/leader for their actions in cutting communications channels for the Egyptian people as being an unjust censoring of free speach?
As for government institution connections to the internet - news flash! There are such things as firewalls, IDS, etc. ... which you are (mostly and hopefully) already using! When configured by someone who is not a brainless idiot, they do there job. And the "kill switch" you need for them connections is - in its simplest implementation - a wire cutter. Or a power switch.
Wondering, are there enough people aware in the US of the imminent dangers of all their communication habits being even more surveyed by the data retention plans?
What's the surprise? Broadcasters and Movie-producers are still p@ssed that consumers can record analog signals ... I reckon with today's lobbying, they'd probably be able to get VCRs outlawed ...
The web is still suffering from all the workarounds implemented for IE6 ... don't do workarounds, make M$ FIX the problems instead!
... down the road ... they better hurry up, not long until the first RIRs might run out of v4 addresses ...
I guess it's time that porn and p2p sites switched over to v6 only, that should put some pressure on hardware manufacturers and ISPs to finally deliver v6 ...
Anybody in the vicinity drop unconscious for a while?
Now, this might sound like a good idea, but there are a couples problems with it, in short: it doesn't seem to help at all
Reasons for it not working are for example:
Now, while it doesn't actually work, the whole ordeal is causing several problems... for example:
So in essence, there is no proof (rather the opposite) that the introduction of the zones has helped any, there's lots of problems caused by the laws, and as usual politics will not drop this crap ... probably industry lobbyists would complain what they paid all the money for if it were dropped ... :(
Too bad the US has made it d@mn hard for itself to complain over China's Internet restrictions ... all they can complain about now is how ineffective their own control over the Internet is ...
And this has what to do with enforcing censoring of websites and urging people not to inform themselves from publicly available information?
As seen with East Germany, in the end the Government can't win over a determined people. Just a question as to whether the people will wake up in time while there is still something to save. ...
How long until the US People remember the constitution and their founding fathers' courage and ideas! Get up and let your "representatives" know how you feel about the "Great Chinese Firewall" and censoring of websites in the US
My thought exactly ... I still don't see how PayPal got their status of being a Bank in the EU (Luxembourg to be exact). The way recipients of money are treated sucks big time ... (as someone who to date has only sent money through them, I do not have any complaints yet, luckily ...)
I already run my 03 Volvo S60 2.5L Diesel at around 50MPG highway ... (even better sometimes) and that car is not a small city car ...
Guess Apple is trying to find out how much abuse their fanboys and -girls will take ... how long before no software will be allowed installed unless it comes through the app store? How long, until root rights are removed from the owner's hands for the sake of "safety and comfort of use"? ...
And face it - over the long run, the extra 30% on the app price will come out of the customers' pockets, not the developers
Whoever was telling you that we were going to run out in one year five years ago was probably smoking methamphetamines at the time.
Actually, the counter-measures of the Registries have extended the period by quite a bit ... assignment windows have been constantly reduced, and are going to be further reduced, and attempts and retrieving unused address space for redistribution have been initiated (e.g., RIPE started charging for IP assignments, thereby ensuring that now-defunct companies' and individuals' addresses could be recovered ... you don't pay, you lose your IPs). Anyway, with the now _really_ nearing exhaustion I'm guessing the run on available IPv4 addresses will still increase ... so, better not bet on those last 12 /8s (or rather 6 as someone else already pointed out, with the final /8s being distributed among the RIRs) really lasting half a year yet ...
Yeah, no more IPv4 bogon list! :) (well, apart from the reserved/unusable IPs that is)
... I can beat just about any digital link with a Semi full of TB-sized harddisks ... ... there's already an RFC for IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149) and even with QoS (RFC2549) ...
Also, it's not even new
Well, maybe not in one country, but M$ prices do differ quite a bit between different countries ... not all of which can be explained by currency fluctuation or tax/customs on the products ...
At such a high risk, wouldn't it be better not to vaccinate childern? After all, what bit of risk is paralyzation, small pocks, and all the bunch of other sicknesses compared to this?
US courts suck. Big time. At least more often than not ...
Speed kills!
No it doesn't. You can speed all day and night and not be harmed.
Rapid deceleration on the other hand, e.g. by a brick wall or tree ...
... it's not the ID card itself they managed to hack, but a basic reader ... ... Now, while the idea might sound good, they decided on giving out the cheapest kind of readers, which are basically JUST readers. They rely on the PC to enter the code for the card. This is where the attack was targeted - using some PC software, they managed to record the information sent to and from the reader. Once you have the code, you could then steal the ID and use it to fake your identity. More expensive readers have displays and keypads that keep all unlocking away from the actual PC, so keyloggers or similar won't be able to steal the code ...
Germany planed on handing out free readers (something like 1 million of them) for the ID cards, enabling people to sign electronic messages and the likes
... it's being held because of the use of indecent, immoral language ... check out the video, it says the software is "fucking fast" ...
So, dear developer, it's clearly your fault!
Oh well ... I guess Apple fanatics deserve what they're getting from Apple ... and I don't expect Apple's way of handling apps and the likes until Apple users understand they are being abused as moneybags ... guess it's about time for a class-action suit from both customers and developers ...
Sounds to me like some programmers are putting the blame on anyone else than themselves ... I'm wondering, how do computer systems cope with re-syncing the local clock with a remote time source, e.g. NTP server? Computer RTCs are _never_ exact, so updating the local time is necessary in regular intervals, which will always lead to time jumps of milli-, micro- or even complete seconds and more. If your software can't cope with that, fix your software, but don't expect the universe will adapt to fix your shortcomings!