It's really amazing that people can get infected by a returned item... do they still ship drivers in floppy disks? Everything is in read-only media these days, except for media itself (i.e. a "new" hard disk). So people buy a drive, it has a file and run it?
The best fix for brute force is the old idea you mention of an enforced wait between attempts. It's a pain when you're locked out of a server you're legitimately allowed to use, but it's very useful to keep brute-force attacks down. Giving a couple of chances with a short wait and then imposing a much longer once after 2 to 5 tries seems to be a pretty good balance.
Add to this a nokia phone and a data cable, gnokii, and a script that when it receives a SMS from a specific phone number with an IP address in the text unblocks it, and you are set.
That's what I use and it works pretty well, if I screw up it just costs me a few cents to get back to normal. In fact my (quite trivial) script can do a few other things as well as opening ssh to a particular IP (such as rebooting).
Why is this modded up? This doesn't make any sense....or is there some sort of new interdimensonal technology which can modify a chip's circuit after it has been manufactured? WTF?
Read my comment and the parent's, carefully please. And chill:-)
Aren't the benefits of open source, or, generally, hackable hardware very simple to explain?
Indeed. But so are the reasons for closed hardware. Your argument that ANYONE (your word) can modify a device that uses electricity is, for the majority of the population, an argument against, not for, openness.
Yes, I know this is slashdot, and people here see the benefits of hardware openness (even though for most it's just a matter of principle and never hack anything anyway).
BTW for another good piece of open hardware, check chumby.
I forgot to mention that putting the screen blank for a second, asking for administration rights -i.e. the microsoft way of showing how supersafe their O.S. is- to delete a file that is on a remote system and that can't be deleted because the remote won't let you is stupid.
Just because you are an administrator in your vista machine doesn't mean that you can expect to get administrative permissions in my computer by clicking 'allow'...
It's like the FBI trying to arrest someone in a foreign country by flashing their badg...um...nm:-)
It's not Explorer's fault. From what I recall, you can't delete a file off an NTFS volume if a program has opened it with exclusive (ie not shared) access.
How it's not Explorer's fault if it's explorer the program that opens the file I just told to delete? If it really really needs to open it so it can show a thumbnail or display the dimensions etc for a few milliseconds before it's deleted, at least it should implement a 'panic close', or 'delete queue', or any other dumb solution they can come up with... anything is better than displaying an error message saying that the file is open (which it's not true by the time the message comes up, btw).
While they are at it, they could ALSO try to not to cancel long operations just because of an error in a specific file...i.e. copy 500 files from one place to another, file number 219 fails and the operation is cancelled? 218 files copied, 287 files that COULD have been copied not copied, WTF?
Ah, and a final suggestion... if the user asks to copy 50 Gb to a drive with 40 Gb free space, fucking start doing it if the users really wants to, instead of completely refusing to even try...you don't know if the remote is making space at the same time, or compressing, or just reporting an invalid free space number for whatever reason.
OK, just needed to vent a little:-) Feel free to defend explorer at any time.
The move operation itself might be as simple as that.
The problem is that vista has a tendency to open files for no good reason. For example you can flag 40 files, press shift-del to delete them forever, and have the operation fail because one of the was opened by explorer to display a thumbnail.
It's really hard to believe that MS can't put a couple of interns to work on explorer and get rid of these incredible annoying things forever. Or fuck, buy someone else's replacement.
eBay is fine with scam operation as long as they get a cut. A couple of months ago I listed a laptop. It was inmediately "purchased" (via buy it now) by an englishman who wanted it shipped to her daughter who happened to be in Nigeria. Payment via a fake scrow agency, etc.
Anyway, I couldn't relist the item inmediately (you have to wait for payment for a few days even if you know that it's a scam) so I decided to just sell it somewhere else.
Well, after 10 days or so I could finally notify ebay that payment haven't been received, so they withdraw their action % charge...but still expected payment for the listing! I couldn't even relist it on time, and when they offered to relist it for free the item was long gone. I wasted time on this and they still charged me.
BTW, I only allowed shipping within my country, so eBay shouldn't have allowed the Nigerian to bid in the first place...
Long story short: Fuck eBay and their antiscam policies.
In a surveillance society, who watches the watchers?
Ideally everybody is both a watcher and a 'watchee'. For example you watch for speeders and I watch for tax evaders, etc. Plus of course your peers watch you and viceversa.
Now, most of the food in Spain except for the ham, seafood and churros is bordering on objectively disgusting, but everyone I saw over there is very thin.
Where the fuck in Spain did you eat? McDonalds? Or tried to eat decently for same price as McDonalds?
If you think Spanish food is objectively (no less) disgusting (when compared to US food, too) your palate must be seriously damaged.
Rather create just cell phones, how about creating a regular house phone that uses VOIP (not a big deal), but have the base be able to talk to the local network (not just in VOIP mode).
Now, your phone is your true home assisitant.
I've read your post 3 times and I still don't know if you are serious:-)
If you are going to criticize a book, please read it and understand it first.
I must say -this being slashdot- I totally shocked me that you were modded insightful instead of funny.
In order to support the new read-before-you-criticize attitude, I'm placing my order today and will get back to you.
adobe makes a laughing stock of themselves when they try to predict more than 6mos to a year out. wow. amazing that anyone would take a 10yr tech prediction SERIOUSLY!
Obviously the people with the right predictions and the money/balls to bet on them are the ones that will be rich 10 years from now, while most of us will be in slashdot2 or whatever laughing at the people making predictions for 2027...
I've been looking at buying a car for months (hoping the price would drop on 2008 models but no they are exactly the same) and I WAS going to just buy it in USA and import it to Canada and save myself $5000+, but Honda has just emailed all their US dealership managers stating that if a buyer does this, the warranty is VOID for the vehicle in both US and Canada
Audi, Peugeot and BMW tried to do the same thing in the European Union... fortunately this was investigated and they got a huge fine.
Apple was able to tell the traditional cell phone carriers that they could guarantee bringing X number of customers to the carrier in return for letting the carrier add the iPhone to their product line and in return for that, they could expect some degree of profit sharing.
But this isn't true for all customers. For example, if my carrier started offered iPhones I might be getting one. Should apple get any money from my bills? My carrier wouldn't be getting a new customer.
However if my carrier decided to offer iPhones only to new customer, I could be pissed enough to leave (don't that I care much about the iPhone, it just pisses me off when new customers get better deals than I do) which surely it's not what my carrier wants.
I would be nice to see the actual terms of the contracts apple is signing with carriers, but getting 10% of each call made with an iPhone (let alone if it's for the life of the iPhone) seems excesive to me.
Understandably, the recording industry wants to maintain its profitability, and for that matter Apple would like them to maintain their profitability as Apple is not interested in producing media content. Apple's interest here is that if there is an insufficient supply of affordable, quality media content, then people buy that content and need devices to enjoy that content in addition to having to manage it.
Seems obvious that since Apple makes the hardware they should profit from it, and since the artists make the songs they should profit from them... but then, I have a question for you (or any other shareholder): Why do you think Applet should get a cut from *calls* made with an iPhone?
Probably watching it on DVD. Plenty of us realize that by pirating our entertainment, we essentially have cut out the ability for them to make more.
You can always watch it in full HD off torrents an hour after airtime and then buy the DVD when they come out, if you want to "support" the industry.
But when you go get the DVDs, please consider that they are selling you something in worse quality, they are selling it late, you will have to read FBI warnings, etc. Do you really want to support this?
There's a number of people willing to pay for entertainment. Willing to pay if it's delivered in a decent way. The alternative is zero money for them, nor directly or indirectly (we won't add to the metered viewership). You can say what you want about it but that's the way it is.
Also, we can talk about the people (millions) in different countries that want to watch US shows
- At the same time their air in the US
- Without commercials
- In HD
- With the original voices (no dubbing, please)
- With subtitles
Really. Lots of money to be made.
2) For all practical purposes the wealthy already get extra votes.
Surely they don't get a (legal) extra vote per child?
No idea elsewhere, but in Spain if we allowed kids to vote based on whether they pay taxes or not, our right wing party would be a couple millon votes overnight. They have lots of kids (having money and religious issues has this effect) and lots of resources to put them on a payroll.
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It's really amazing that people can get infected by a returned item... do they still ship drivers in floppy disks? Everything is in read-only media these days, except for media itself (i.e. a "new" hard disk). So people buy a drive, it has a file and run it?
As usual, it's a matter of user education.
Indeed. But so are the reasons for closed hardware. Your argument that ANYONE (your word) can modify a device that uses electricity is, for the majority of the population, an argument against, not for, openness.
Yes, I know this is slashdot, and people here see the benefits of hardware openness (even though for most it's just a matter of principle and never hack anything anyway).
BTW for another good piece of open hardware, check chumby.
I forgot to mention that putting the screen blank for a second, asking for administration rights -i.e. the microsoft way of showing how supersafe their O.S. is- to delete a file that is on a remote system and that can't be deleted because the remote won't let you is stupid.
:-)
Just because you are an administrator in your vista machine doesn't mean that you can expect to get administrative permissions in my computer by clicking 'allow'...
It's like the FBI trying to arrest someone in a foreign country by flashing their badg...um...nm
While they are at it, they could ALSO try to not to cancel long operations just because of an error in a specific file...i.e. copy 500 files from one place to another, file number 219 fails and the operation is cancelled? 218 files copied, 287 files that COULD have been copied not copied, WTF?
Ah, and a final suggestion... if the user asks to copy 50 Gb to a drive with 40 Gb free space, fucking start doing it if the users really wants to, instead of completely refusing to even try...you don't know if the remote is making space at the same time, or compressing, or just reporting an invalid free space number for whatever reason.
OK, just needed to vent a little
The move operation itself might be as simple as that. The problem is that vista has a tendency to open files for no good reason. For example you can flag 40 files, press shift-del to delete them forever, and have the operation fail because one of the was opened by explorer to display a thumbnail. It's really hard to believe that MS can't put a couple of interns to work on explorer and get rid of these incredible annoying things forever. Or fuck, buy someone else's replacement.
I don't think those two (from a quick glance at the doc) are very uncommon...
eBay is fine with scam operation as long as they get a cut. A couple of months ago I listed a laptop. It was inmediately "purchased" (via buy it now) by an englishman who wanted it shipped to her daughter who happened to be in Nigeria. Payment via a fake scrow agency, etc. Anyway, I couldn't relist the item inmediately (you have to wait for payment for a few days even if you know that it's a scam) so I decided to just sell it somewhere else. Well, after 10 days or so I could finally notify ebay that payment haven't been received, so they withdraw their action % charge...but still expected payment for the listing! I couldn't even relist it on time, and when they offered to relist it for free the item was long gone. I wasted time on this and they still charged me. BTW, I only allowed shipping within my country, so eBay shouldn't have allowed the Nigerian to bid in the first place... Long story short: Fuck eBay and their antiscam policies.
Ideally everybody is both a watcher and a 'watchee'. For example you watch for speeders and I watch for tax evaders, etc. Plus of course your peers watch you and viceversa.
Audi, Peugeot and BMW tried to do the same thing in the European Union... fortunately this was investigated and they got a huge fine.