I like to liken it to a game of craps. You don't know what the next roll, or even the next ten rolls are going to be, but you can be certain that after a thousand rolls there will be more seven's than any other number.
And before anyone tells me that increased production won't bring down price, please review your Jr High school textbooks where it explains supply and demand and tell me what it says happens when supply is limited.
I'm fairly certain that the world is at it's peak production capacity of oil, making the supply portion of the argument a moot point. As for the demand portion, we're slowly making progress towards lowering our demand for oil by driving fuel efficient cars and using alternative forms of energy generation. It's convenient to blame someone for the problem, but the truth is we all knew this day was coming and nobody took steps to try and stop it until it was too late and all of a sudden we're paying four dollars a gallon at the pump... It'll get worse before it gets better.
There was a story a couple of years ago about how Al Gore supposedly uses an enormous amount of energy himself, but buys carbon offsets to, well, offset it. Personally, I think carbon offsets should be reserved for companies that produce carbon during the normal operation of their business, and an individual buying them is working against the spirit of the system.
Right, he thought he would get away with it because he was an American, and he probably will get away with it just for that reason. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to him, but it really was a boneheaded move.
Oh, you mean the couple of people who were attempting to shine laser lights in the eyes of pilots of commercial aircraft, and readily admitted to it?
There is at least one case that I recall where a guy was pointing out stars to his son with a green laser pointer and was arrested because a plane flew in the path of the laser pointer.
don't delude yourself into thinking that Comcast cares about copyright infringement. P2P throttling is just a way for them to increase their profits by limiting bandwidth usage.
Try saying fuck on a campaign trail and see how well that goes.
Well, Bush didn't seem to take much fallout after calling a reporter a "major league asshole" when he was the Republican presidential nominee. He even went as far as to basically say that the reporter deserved the title. No, I don't think cursing and name calling by politicians is something that most people get uptight about anymore.
When you take decisions out of the hands of the people and put them into the hands of the government, the country becomes less of a democracy and more of a dictatorship. The fact is, the vast majority of people recognize the rights of minorities. And its not that people are fine with their rights being stripped away, it was more of the Bush Administration taking advantage of the general public in a time of crisis. People are starting to open their eyes, though.
In general, the people of this country are smart and compassionate, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
Certainly, in the Judeo-Christian value system that Europe and the US was brought up in, we were taught that once Adam & Eve ate the fruit and became smart, they put clothes on - to be in public without clothes on is an affront to modesty and morality.
And that's basically it in a nutshell. We live in a country where the people get to decide what's legal and illegal (mostly), and the people are, for the most part, Christian. If we lived in a world free of religion, chances are sex and nudity would as blase as they are in the rest of the animal kingdom.
Actually, from Wikipedia, "The Republican party generally supports lower taxes and limited government in most economic areas, allowing for more economic freedom"
But then who gets to decide what the "fair" price is? You? Me? Uncle Sam? If a price is too high, then people won't buy it, and the price will drop. Just because you think a price is too high doesn't mean that there won't be enough people to say that it isn't and buy the product.
Agreed, that would be akin to a MB manufacturer having onboard LAN that sends an obscene amount of voltage down the wire. Obviously it violates specs, and it's not going to happen. I'm of the mind that Microsoft didn't violate any specs here, its just the router manufacturer not having a current firmware and poor error handling (obviously it has some error handling, or else it would just lock up and not reboot).
Obviously not all routers are affected, and I'm inclined to believe that its a small percentage of them that are. Does anyone have any data to confirm or deny?
We all agree that computers should not be able to crash routers. However, SP3 includes their Next Gen TCP/IP stack that "complies" with several RFCs noted here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/60f9e0c6-dfb3-4ead-aa12-3ba7653664fd1033.mspx?mfr=true
Of course most routers are not protocol-aware of these, and due to the unexpected use of such protocols, the effects on routers could manifest the reboots that we see. So SP3 IS relevant since it is the ONLY thing that has changed. What this implies to me is that, again, someone dropped the ball in the testing department at either MS or the router(s) companies. These things are going to happen whether its MS, Linux, MAC, Solaris, etc. if updates are deployed without fully testing.
If this is indeed the case, then I'd go so far as to say that its not anyones fault. While I agree that the router shouldn't crash, router manufacturers can't be held liable for not following specifications that weren't available when the router was manufactured, and Microsoft shouldn't be held liable for using said specifications.
Routers and layer 2/3 bridges have to react at wire speed, and therefore have lean, racing engine code with only the barest of exception handlers. Inside the code are lots of routines that have to react to protocol changes related to table building. Screw up those tables even legally (according to the obscurities of even well-known protocols) and the routing/bridging device will behave badly, even to the point of apparently not working. It's happened before, and will happen again.
This may be true, but there are routers out there that manage not to crash and don't have any reaction delays. I would bet that this is due to routers not having the complete protocol rules in their firmware, however obscure said rules may be. If you buy a fifteen dollar router, you get a fifteen dollar router.
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a tax on the hopeful, a tax on the downtrodden, a tax on the people who have nothing left to lose....
I like to liken it to a game of craps. You don't know what the next roll, or even the next ten rolls are going to be, but you can be certain that after a thousand rolls there will be more seven's than any other number.
I'm fairly certain that the world is at it's peak production capacity of oil, making the supply portion of the argument a moot point. As for the demand portion, we're slowly making progress towards lowering our demand for oil by driving fuel efficient cars and using alternative forms of energy generation. It's convenient to blame someone for the problem, but the truth is we all knew this day was coming and nobody took steps to try and stop it until it was too late and all of a sudden we're paying four dollars a gallon at the pump... It'll get worse before it gets better.
There was a story a couple of years ago about how Al Gore supposedly uses an enormous amount of energy himself, but buys carbon offsets to, well, offset it. Personally, I think carbon offsets should be reserved for companies that produce carbon during the normal operation of their business, and an individual buying them is working against the spirit of the system.
Right, he thought he would get away with it because he was an American, and he probably will get away with it just for that reason. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to him, but it really was a boneheaded move.
Oh, you mean the couple of people who were attempting to shine laser lights in the eyes of pilots of commercial aircraft, and readily admitted to it?
There is at least one case that I recall where a guy was pointing out stars to his son with a green laser pointer and was arrested because a plane flew in the path of the laser pointer.
"You may only vote Democrat or Republican"
False. You can vote with any party you want, it just won't make a lick of difference.
"You must pledge allegiance to this cloth"
There is no law requiring you to pledge your allegiance to the flag, though there is a considerable amount of pressure to do so.
The lets see your visa, greenie.
...but you would need to call comcast and tell them that you got a new modem every time
He's changing the MAC address on his router, NOT his modem.
MAC addresses are also not random. So you cannot spoof it to a "random" MAC.
While there are rules for creation, an address can be randomly chosen within the limitations of these rules
You say that they start dropping "30-80%" of your packets every "5-10 minutes". But you also say that you only need to reset your MAC every 2 days?
I believe he means that after two days they start dropping the packets every 5-10 minutes
don't delude yourself into thinking that Comcast cares about copyright infringement. P2P throttling is just a way for them to increase their profits by limiting bandwidth usage.
I agree; it has the feel of being made up, but what do I know, the only time I chat any more is in online games.
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Well, Bush didn't seem to take much fallout after calling a reporter a "major league asshole" when he was the Republican presidential nominee. He even went as far as to basically say that the reporter deserved the title. No, I don't think cursing and name calling by politicians is something that most people get uptight about anymore.
In general, the people of this country are smart and compassionate, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
And that's basically it in a nutshell. We live in a country where the people get to decide what's legal and illegal (mostly), and the people are, for the most part, Christian. If we lived in a world free of religion, chances are sex and nudity would as blase as they are in the rest of the animal kingdom.
and after that, I'd do her.
Actually, from Wikipedia, "The Republican party generally supports lower taxes and limited government in most economic areas, allowing for more economic freedom"
But then who gets to decide what the "fair" price is? You? Me? Uncle Sam? If a price is too high, then people won't buy it, and the price will drop. Just because you think a price is too high doesn't mean that there won't be enough people to say that it isn't and buy the product.
It's the meteorites that I'd worry about. The moon, having no atmosphere, gets impacted a lot more than earth.
Agreed, that would be akin to a MB manufacturer having onboard LAN that sends an obscene amount of voltage down the wire. Obviously it violates specs, and it's not going to happen. I'm of the mind that Microsoft didn't violate any specs here, its just the router manufacturer not having a current firmware and poor error handling (obviously it has some error handling, or else it would just lock up and not reboot).
Ditto, I have a WRT54G running factory firmware (v1.00.9 May 12, 2006), and I haven't noticed any issues.
Obviously not all routers are affected, and I'm inclined to believe that its a small percentage of them that are. Does anyone have any data to confirm or deny?
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/60f9e0c6-dfb3-4ead-aa12-3ba7653664fd1033.mspx?mfr=true Of course most routers are not protocol-aware of these, and due to the unexpected use of such protocols, the effects on routers could manifest the reboots that we see. So SP3 IS relevant since it is the ONLY thing that has changed. What this implies to me is that, again, someone dropped the ball in the testing department at either MS or the router(s) companies. These things are going to happen whether its MS, Linux, MAC, Solaris, etc. if updates are deployed without fully testing.
If this is indeed the case, then I'd go so far as to say that its not anyones fault. While I agree that the router shouldn't crash, router manufacturers can't be held liable for not following specifications that weren't available when the router was manufactured, and Microsoft shouldn't be held liable for using said specifications.
This may be true, but there are routers out there that manage not to crash and don't have any reaction delays. I would bet that this is due to routers not having the complete protocol rules in their firmware, however obscure said rules may be. If you buy a fifteen dollar router, you get a fifteen dollar router.