Unless that 0.01% occurrence causes catastrophic system failure. In which case you can absolutely justify investigating it (You'd be bad at your job if you didn't)...
And then think of how smart the smartest person is in relation to the average person. Then think that there is someone that's that much dumber than an average person... (Well, either that, or a whole lot more not as stupid people than really smart people)...
Would that do anything if they blocked IPs? Sure, there's always a way around all of this, but the question is if you give them an inch, do they take a mile?
Comcast has also imposed a monthly 250GB bandwidth usage cap on all of its customers, and it will, after one warning, terminate service for one year to those who exceed that cap twice within a six-month period.
So you're effectively limited to an average throughput of 800 kbps? WTF??? On a potentially upwards of 15 mbit line? Wow...
I think you fail to understand the difference between a fuse and a surge protector. A fuse protects from over current only. It offers very limited protection for over voltage. A surge as you're describing comes from a sharp increase in voltage (from 120 to several hundred or thousand volts). A surge protector typically defeats a surge via a zener diode (One that only lets current flow if the voltage is over a threashold) shorted to ground. So if the voltage rises above the clamping voltage, all current is redirected to ground.
This also differs from a GFCI in operation. A GFCI detects ground faults. That means current leaking from the primary to the ground pin. In normal operation, this shouldn't happen. But if a circuit is shorted, or becomes damaged, the ground (which is usually connected to the chasis on metal items) can be connected to the primary lead. So the GFCI detects this leakage, and kills power. Surge protectors, GCFI and fuses are very different systems, each designed to protect from a specific hazard.
Now, a circuit breaker is a fuse. Their very nature only protects against excess current only. There are two important differences however. A breaker is a lot faster at disconnecting current than a fuse (it's designed to be fast), and it's resettable. So to say that the UK version is better because it has a fuse shows me a lack of understanding of practicality or safety. Fuses are designed to protect the wiring. That's it. Nothing else. A fuse prevents a short circuit from melting the wiring in the house and causing a fire. With the excess current required to trip a fuse, the damage to the equipment is likely damaged already. And it will be more than enough current to kill a person (It only takes about 0.015 amps to kill someone, regardless of voltage).
Yes, I know that, but I've been burned by dist-upgrades before. So, since this is a personal laptop, and I have a sizable NAS at home, I tend to wipe the computer each time...
I've been using Karmic since Alpha 5 (Still running on RC code right now actually, havn't had time to reinstall)... I'm on a Thinkpad T61p, so it's got decent hardware. I've yet to see ANY of the aforementioned issues... I've transfered around 300 gb of files (smallest 5 mb, largest 10 gb, average 1gb) flawlessly (both over wifi 802.11n and Ethernet). Videos work quite fine, as does flash. And compiz SCREAMS
Some people will have issues. Others won't. Personally, I'd never go back. The boot improvements and added functionality are awesome. This is subjective, but it feels faster. Oh, and the laptop has been up for over a week, with no instability. If the release has fundamental issues, I've failed to see them.
Well, if you told me that it would cost me tens of dollars per month, in my mind that means 12, 15, 20, perhaps even 30... But if you said it was 90, while technically correct, I think it is misleading... That was my point...
From the FT piece: 'Only people who can pay thousands of yen a month [in mobile phone subscriptions] can be iPhone customers.'
Ummm, 1000 Yen ~= $10 USD. So paying thousands == between $10 and $100 per month (I think most people here fall into the higher end of that range). I fail to see how that's an astonishing figure worth pointing out...
I agree 100%... The more "responsibility" the government takes, the less the parents will take. And IMHO that's the fundamental problem that has yet to be addressed... Fewer and fewer parents actually parenting and taking responsibility for their own children.
Actually, putting it in checked luggage would be worse (in fact, most airlines ban batteries from checked luggage already)... If they did catch fire, by the time passengers/crew realized it (from alarms, etc), the fire would be significantly more advanced than if it happened in cabin...
Sure, but then don't sell me a 10 mbit pipe, if you're going to cut me off for using more than 100kb of it... Or, if you do, explicitly state the monthly quotas. I just went over my contract with the cable company, and see no hard quota (There is the legaleze for abuse and such). Maybe we need to go towards a pay for use model to fight this kind of thing (Like servers, you can either take a 95% billing model, or a stepped model where you buy bandwidth in monthly transfer increments)... I don't like it, but I'd rather know upfront that what I'm planning to do with the services that I buy will wind up getting me cut off or rate limited...
Forget the lawful part. Who decides what's damaging to the network! Could an ISP suddenly declare that more than 1% usage of a pipe over the course of a month is considered damaging?
AT&T already does it for their mobile broadband cards (According to them 3gb per month is excessive. So 3gb/month over a 2mbit line (It is more, I know) is only 0.45%)...
For pure music players, the simplicity and durability of the iPod design is going to be hard to beat (I didn't say impossible).
But for generic music players, IMHO there are a LOT of other offerings that are far better than the iPod series. Take the http://www.archos.com/ PMP. (I have a 5, and with the extended battery I can get just about 24 hours of video on a single charge... It lasted on a trip from NYC to Australia and back on a single charge. Oh, and 250 gb of music/video)...
I'm running the official version of 1.6 (HTC Dream Developer's edition phone), and I must say WOW. SOOO much smoother and more responsive. The new camera interface is eih, but the display is much better with it (A lot faster and smoother)...
I wonder how much of it is for the insurance $$$, versus how much of it is to cover their arses... Malpractice is such a real threat to MDs these days, that many of them just will throw any test at you if there's even the slightest chance of an issue. Part of it is ignorance, part is laziness, and part is fear... Who's to blame?
Not true. The article said that they found a similar issue with Android, but it was fixed already. They also said that he just found an issue with WinMo, and hasn't given MS time to fix it.
The issue it exists. The issue is that it hasn't been fixed...
This is a iphone specific attacks. There may be other attacks like it, but this one is Apple's...
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Unless that 0.01% occurrence causes catastrophic system failure. In which case you can absolutely justify investigating it (You'd be bad at your job if you didn't)...
And then think of how smart the smartest person is in relation to the average person. Then think that there is someone that's that much dumber than an average person... (Well, either that, or a whole lot more not as stupid people than really smart people)...
Would that do anything if they blocked IPs? Sure, there's always a way around all of this, but the question is if you give them an inch, do they take a mile?
So you're effectively limited to an average throughput of 800 kbps? WTF??? On a potentially upwards of 15 mbit line? Wow...
How far down are they throttling? Down to 50% capacity? Or REALLY far down?
10 mbps on a 20 mbps line I can understand and live with
100kbps on a 20 mbps line I can't
I think you fail to understand the difference between a fuse and a surge protector. A fuse protects from over current only. It offers very limited protection for over voltage. A surge as you're describing comes from a sharp increase in voltage (from 120 to several hundred or thousand volts). A surge protector typically defeats a surge via a zener diode (One that only lets current flow if the voltage is over a threashold) shorted to ground. So if the voltage rises above the clamping voltage, all current is redirected to ground.
This also differs from a GFCI in operation. A GFCI detects ground faults. That means current leaking from the primary to the ground pin. In normal operation, this shouldn't happen. But if a circuit is shorted, or becomes damaged, the ground (which is usually connected to the chasis on metal items) can be connected to the primary lead. So the GFCI detects this leakage, and kills power. Surge protectors, GCFI and fuses are very different systems, each designed to protect from a specific hazard.
Now, a circuit breaker is a fuse. Their very nature only protects against excess current only. There are two important differences however. A breaker is a lot faster at disconnecting current than a fuse (it's designed to be fast), and it's resettable. So to say that the UK version is better because it has a fuse shows me a lack of understanding of practicality or safety. Fuses are designed to protect the wiring. That's it. Nothing else. A fuse prevents a short circuit from melting the wiring in the house and causing a fire. With the excess current required to trip a fuse, the damage to the equipment is likely damaged already. And it will be more than enough current to kill a person (It only takes about 0.015 amps to kill someone, regardless of voltage).
Yes, I know that, but I've been burned by dist-upgrades before. So, since this is a personal laptop, and I have a sizable NAS at home, I tend to wipe the computer each time...
I've been using Karmic since Alpha 5 (Still running on RC code right now actually, havn't had time to reinstall)... I'm on a Thinkpad T61p, so it's got decent hardware. I've yet to see ANY of the aforementioned issues... I've transfered around 300 gb of files (smallest 5 mb, largest 10 gb, average 1gb) flawlessly (both over wifi 802.11n and Ethernet). Videos work quite fine, as does flash. And compiz SCREAMS
Some people will have issues. Others won't. Personally, I'd never go back. The boot improvements and added functionality are awesome. This is subjective, but it feels faster. Oh, and the laptop has been up for over a week, with no instability. If the release has fundamental issues, I've failed to see them.
Well, if you told me that it would cost me tens of dollars per month, in my mind that means 12, 15, 20, perhaps even 30... But if you said it was 90, while technically correct, I think it is misleading... That was my point...
Ummm, 1000 Yen ~= $10 USD. So paying thousands == between $10 and $100 per month (I think most people here fall into the higher end of that range). I fail to see how that's an astonishing figure worth pointing out...
Excellent point! Thanks for pointing that out!
Anyone with mod points care to mod the parent up?
Yay!!! The door is open for an even harder to detect phishing scheme! Imagine the emails linking to http://slashd/öt.org/something...
.es for example)...
I'm all for internationalization, but perhaps limit it to internationalized domain extensions (.jp or
I agree 100%... The more "responsibility" the government takes, the less the parents will take. And IMHO that's the fundamental problem that has yet to be addressed... Fewer and fewer parents actually parenting and taking responsibility for their own children.
Actually, putting it in checked luggage would be worse (in fact, most airlines ban batteries from checked luggage already)... If they did catch fire, by the time passengers/crew realized it (from alarms, etc), the fire would be significantly more advanced than if it happened in cabin...
Then get a new laptop... Every one I've owned works without it. (Albeit, what's the point in general of a laptop that's no longer portable)...
Sure, but then don't sell me a 10 mbit pipe, if you're going to cut me off for using more than 100kb of it... Or, if you do, explicitly state the monthly quotas. I just went over my contract with the cable company, and see no hard quota (There is the legaleze for abuse and such). Maybe we need to go towards a pay for use model to fight this kind of thing (Like servers, you can either take a 95% billing model, or a stepped model where you buy bandwidth in monthly transfer increments)... I don't like it, but I'd rather know upfront that what I'm planning to do with the services that I buy will wind up getting me cut off or rate limited...
Forget the lawful part. Who decides what's damaging to the network! Could an ISP suddenly declare that more than 1% usage of a pipe over the course of a month is considered damaging?
AT&T already does it for their mobile broadband cards (According to them 3gb per month is excessive. So 3gb/month over a 2mbit line (It is more, I know) is only 0.45%)...
For pure music players, the simplicity and durability of the iPod design is going to be hard to beat (I didn't say impossible).
But for generic music players, IMHO there are a LOT of other offerings that are far better than the iPod series. Take the http://www.archos.com/ PMP. (I have a 5, and with the extended battery I can get just about 24 hours of video on a single charge... It lasted on a trip from NYC to Australia and back on a single charge. Oh, and 250 gb of music/video)...
Apple wasn't the first to use a "wheel"... See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300 (Dunno if it was the first, but it was def before Apple)
I'm running the official version of 1.6 (HTC Dream Developer's edition phone), and I must say WOW. SOOO much smoother and more responsive. The new camera interface is eih, but the display is much better with it (A lot faster and smoother)...
89 days for a round trip mission. 39 out, 11 in orbit, 39 back...
I wonder how much of it is for the insurance $$$, versus how much of it is to cover their arses... Malpractice is such a real threat to MDs these days, that many of them just will throw any test at you if there's even the slightest chance of an issue. Part of it is ignorance, part is laziness, and part is fear... Who's to blame?
That line shouldn't be "a lot of websites are still optimised for IE"...
It should be "a lot of websites are still spending hours upon hours trying to function correctly with IE"
Nope... They copy Maxim...
http://www.simpsonschannel.com/2004/03/maxim-mom-marge-simpson/
Not true. The article said that they found a similar issue with Android, but it was fixed already. They also said that he just found an issue with WinMo, and hasn't given MS time to fix it. The issue it exists. The issue is that it hasn't been fixed... This is a iphone specific attacks. There may be other attacks like it, but this one is Apple's...