This is the type of thing that's going to end up on one of those "10 stupidest gadgets that never caught on" lists in 10 years. Everyone will look at that demo picture and wonder "What's a Bing?"
The fact that MIT of all places couldn't figure out which switch an IP address/Mac Address was hitting them from, within their own network, speaks volumes about the quality of the IT staff working there. I can think of dozens of different ways I could have stopped him right off the top of my head, and tracking down the location of the computer would have been even easier unless he had plugged in a wireless bridge or something. EVEN THEN, finding it wouldn't have been that hard.
One group did it for tabloid headlines and profit, the other did it to expose the truth and corruption in government. What they are doing seems quite a bit different to me.
Someone clarify this for me: I thought that currently we could only entangle photons, and the photon entanglement could be explained by classical optics physics. So while it's "technically" entanglement, it's not what we are really after. Do we need to entangle non-photon particles or will photons be good enough?
Not from my experience, having been there. It was about half and half in the capital city. Out in the countryside it was more christian because US based churches and charities ran the majority of the clinics, hospitals, etc... But they were more christian out of convenience than actual deep faith. Even the ones that thought of themselves as Christians seemed to have a strange hybrid of Judism and Christianity. They were all very wrapped up in the old testament because they were convinced most of the places in the old testament were in Ethiopian (they may very well be right, I have no idea. Ask any christian there where Moses was born and they'll show you on a map. It's a matter of pride there.
That's nothing... most companies are so inept they never change their PBXs default password. Someone logs in over the weekend and starts routing calls to Europe all weekend. I've seen bills over $100k, it happens EVERY weekend and nothing can be done to refund the money. It's great when the CEO finally gets involved all calls the phone company complaining and they get to tell him "The admin password for your PBX was: 1111" and then he gets to go off an fire people.
That's where you're wrong, right there. They ARE inherently evil. Their very premise is evil. They are nothing more than an attempt to trick users into spending more on your game than they intended to. You are trying to obfuscate the true cost of playing your game. In many games it's nothing more that a subtly veiled form of gambling that you're allowing 11year olds to participate in. It drives people, not only away from your game, but the gaming industry as a whole. Have no doubt, micro transactions will eventually be taken to an extreme we haven't even imagined yet and this subject will end up in front of congress who will hand down the first federal regulation of video games in American history... which will be to all our detriment and thanks entirely to the greed behind micro transactions.
121 bitcoins at current exchange rates. It'd take you about 4 months to make that using that machine. Of course, that all depends on the market for bitcoins which is anyones guess.
I've been to Ethiopia and the clean water issue was pretty much the biggest problem there. Their cities are the very definition of "ancient" I doubt there's any place on earth that's had humans living in large numbers for as long. Buildings are packed so close together there is hardly room for new ones, and the space between the buildings is filled with "homes" thrown together out of cinder blocks, Joshua tree timber and corrugated steel (this is where the middle class live.) Underneath all of this is the plumbing of the city... it's very... very... very old. When a water main brakes, a city truck comes with shovels and a replacement pipe. Ethiopians flock to the truck and grab shovels, dig out the pipe and replace it. The government dudes then hand them cash for their trouble. All the sewer pipes lead to the same place... the river. Where do they get water? You guessed it, the river. there is no simple solution to this system. There are millions of 100+ year old sewage pipes draining into that river. All the pipes are so old they likely all leak and exchange contents between themselves all the time. So even if you could get clean water to begin with it'd likely not be clean when it arrived. You can't dig up the old pipes because they all run under buildings literally older than Jesus in some cases and there are simply no utility records at all.
On top of every building thats owned by anyone with money is a water tank. They pay other companies to come and fill that tank dailly or weekly. Showering with this water would be too expensive so this is your drinking water and you shower in the tainted water and keep your mouth closed. Another problem is the way bathrooms are designed in Africa and the middle east. In every place I stayed there was a bathtub with no shower head. Instead they had a sprayer on a hose that was part of the tubs faucet that could hang up high if you wanted it. I was told this has something to do with the muslim religion or something, I dont really know. But this sort of setup is against code in the US. Why? Because you can lay the hose down into the tub. If you have the tube full of water, and wash yourself in it... now the water is dirty. If the hose is laying in the water it can now siphon the dirty water back into the water supply. Every single tub is like this.
The only thing that I saw that was really working there was bottled water. It was plentiful and it was cheap. I could get a liter of good bottled water for about 10 cents. That's still a lot for the poor there, but, with a little more effort it could be made even cheaper.
Despite all this, the fact of the mater was water born illness was so common they didn't even bother to treat it in most cases. They wait until it becomes a real health problem. We adopted our son there and when we got back our entire family were basically on antibiotics for a full year afterwards. The stuff is so easy to spread, especially when you have a child in diapers that you cure one familly member and a week later another gets sick... in the end the doctor got fed up and just put everyone, even our dog on antibiotics at the same time for 6 weeks strait and finally we were rid of it.
Doesn't have a sound intellectual argument? Why do they need one? What is the sound intellectual argument for requiring ANY business to collect ANY taxes on behalf of another party for the ANY government? No government has a sovereign right to your money. Paying taxes is not patriotic or moral.
This seems like a good way to make yourself obsolete overnight. Someones got an adapter so their hugely popular device can still use your aging cable spec... but you come along and say NO! You can't use our cable! In a fight over which cable spec to use whome do you think will win? Apple who somehow even got Auto manufactures to include ipod docks on stock cards? Or HDMI LLC who will, most assuredly, not exist in 20 years irrelevant of how this fight turns out?
I don't think anyone says "this pushed me to piracy" Those of us of a like mind don't consider it piracy. They do not "take" anything from anyone. No-one lost a thing. Peer-to-peer file sharing has introduced many to music the industry would never have allowed them to hear had they not found their own means to get to the music. The same goes for video.
Since the introduction of filesharing the amount of music/video produced has exploded. Would many of these new indie projects exist without filesharing? The Music and Movie INDUSTRIES are dieing... and the art forms of Music and Video production are benefiting from it.
Please do something useful for a change and crush this "Copyright enforcement system." I've worked for at least half of the companies mentioned here and most of them can't even communicate well enough internally to get a customer billed correctly, much less communicate between themselves to organize a proper system to penalize customers for supposedly violating copyrights they have no vested interest in maintaining for companies that are likely competitors. To this very day, large infrastructure projects between the various carriers are still ordered and built via email and spreadsheets.
This system will be no different than the old system which consists of nothing more than an email address at the ISP, likely called copyright@att.net or infringement@att.net or in verizons case it's 1 guy: patrick.m.flaherty@verizon.com... amazing. They might change this to some super secret email for the new and improved system but I doubt that would be a problem for the likes of you to figure out. Then you need to get a sample of the complaint. They will all be in the same format so the various ISPs scripts can handle them.
Look up the ISPs registered IP ranges write a script that looks up recent movies/music, randomly picks a title Ping an IP address in the Target ISPs list, if it returns the ping fire a fake infringement complaint for the randomly chosen title repeat for the ISPs entire IP range once a week
The system will collapse almost immediately. If the system costs the ISPs ANY money at all they will drop it like a hot potato. I doubt any of them have more than 5 people working in infringement. The most I've ever seen were 3 and they were swamped when the complaints spiked at 50 per day.
If the CIA invented a device that listened into every phone call in the entire world, real time and dumped it all as a WAV file on a storage device in the basement, would that really do them any good at all?
Everyone needs to calm down and learn how politics works. This is a "give-away" the republicans threw in the mix... the price-tag is relatively small, but public interest is high. So when they haggle, the democrats can claim they saved the program. The democrats constituents will think its a big win while the republicans constituents could care less. How many times did congress/NASA propose cutting funding to Hubble? I lost count myself.
A fool and his money are soon parted... I'm all for idiots buying $100 cables. It helps sort the wheat from the chaff. If someone tells me such and such speakers are great and then mentions their $100 cables, I know not to take their advice on the speakers. etc...
The problem is, the box stores use the $100 cables as an excuse to sell the $2 cables for $30+... So now, when I have a cable go bad, there's no place in town to get a replacement at a reasonable price and I have to wait 3 days for it to arrive from newegg.
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This is the type of thing that's going to end up on one of those "10 stupidest gadgets that never caught on" lists in 10 years. Everyone will look at that demo picture and wonder "What's a Bing?"
The fact that MIT of all places couldn't figure out which switch an IP address/Mac Address was hitting them from, within their own network, speaks volumes about the quality of the IT staff working there. I can think of dozens of different ways I could have stopped him right off the top of my head, and tracking down the location of the computer would have been even easier unless he had plugged in a wireless bridge or something. EVEN THEN, finding it wouldn't have been that hard.
One group did it for tabloid headlines and profit, the other did it to expose the truth and corruption in government. What they are doing seems quite a bit different to me.
Someone clarify this for me: I thought that currently we could only entangle photons, and the photon entanglement could be explained by classical optics physics. So while it's "technically" entanglement, it's not what we are really after. Do we need to entangle non-photon particles or will photons be good enough?
Not from my experience, having been there. It was about half and half in the capital city. Out in the countryside it was more christian because US based churches and charities ran the majority of the clinics, hospitals, etc... But they were more christian out of convenience than actual deep faith. Even the ones that thought of themselves as Christians seemed to have a strange hybrid of Judism and Christianity. They were all very wrapped up in the old testament because they were convinced most of the places in the old testament were in Ethiopian (they may very well be right, I have no idea. Ask any christian there where Moses was born and they'll show you on a map. It's a matter of pride there.
That's nothing... most companies are so inept they never change their PBXs default password. Someone logs in over the weekend and starts routing calls to Europe all weekend. I've seen bills over $100k, it happens EVERY weekend and nothing can be done to refund the money. It's great when the CEO finally gets involved all calls the phone company complaining and they get to tell him "The admin password for your PBX was: 1111" and then he gets to go off an fire people.
"While microtransactions aren't inherently evil..."
That's where you're wrong, right there. They ARE inherently evil. Their very premise is evil. They are nothing more than an attempt to trick users into spending more on your game than they intended to. You are trying to obfuscate the true cost of playing your game. In many games it's nothing more that a subtly veiled form of gambling that you're allowing 11year olds to participate in. It drives people, not only away from your game, but the gaming industry as a whole. Have no doubt, micro transactions will eventually be taken to an extreme we haven't even imagined yet and this subject will end up in front of congress who will hand down the first federal regulation of video games in American history... which will be to all our detriment and thanks entirely to the greed behind micro transactions.
"A farm of just 20 Oyster 800 devices would generate sufficient power for up to 15,000 homes"
or... 1 device can power 750 homes.
121 bitcoins at current exchange rates. It'd take you about 4 months to make that using that machine. Of course, that all depends on the market for bitcoins which is anyones guess.
About 121 bitcoins at the current exchange rate.
I've been to Ethiopia and the clean water issue was pretty much the biggest problem there. Their cities are the very definition of "ancient" I doubt there's any place on earth that's had humans living in large numbers for as long. Buildings are packed so close together there is hardly room for new ones, and the space between the buildings is filled with "homes" thrown together out of cinder blocks, Joshua tree timber and corrugated steel (this is where the middle class live.) Underneath all of this is the plumbing of the city... it's very... very... very old. When a water main brakes, a city truck comes with shovels and a replacement pipe. Ethiopians flock to the truck and grab shovels, dig out the pipe and replace it. The government dudes then hand them cash for their trouble. All the sewer pipes lead to the same place... the river. Where do they get water? You guessed it, the river. there is no simple solution to this system. There are millions of 100+ year old sewage pipes draining into that river. All the pipes are so old they likely all leak and exchange contents between themselves all the time. So even if you could get clean water to begin with it'd likely not be clean when it arrived. You can't dig up the old pipes because they all run under buildings literally older than Jesus in some cases and there are simply no utility records at all.
On top of every building thats owned by anyone with money is a water tank. They pay other companies to come and fill that tank dailly or weekly. Showering with this water would be too expensive so this is your drinking water and you shower in the tainted water and keep your mouth closed. Another problem is the way bathrooms are designed in Africa and the middle east. In every place I stayed there was a bathtub with no shower head. Instead they had a sprayer on a hose that was part of the tubs faucet that could hang up high if you wanted it. I was told this has something to do with the muslim religion or something, I dont really know. But this sort of setup is against code in the US. Why? Because you can lay the hose down into the tub. If you have the tube full of water, and wash yourself in it... now the water is dirty. If the hose is laying in the water it can now siphon the dirty water back into the water supply. Every single tub is like this.
The only thing that I saw that was really working there was bottled water. It was plentiful and it was cheap. I could get a liter of good bottled water for about 10 cents. That's still a lot for the poor there, but, with a little more effort it could be made even cheaper.
Despite all this, the fact of the mater was water born illness was so common they didn't even bother to treat it in most cases. They wait until it becomes a real health problem. We adopted our son there and when we got back our entire family were basically on antibiotics for a full year afterwards. The stuff is so easy to spread, especially when you have a child in diapers that you cure one familly member and a week later another gets sick... in the end the doctor got fed up and just put everyone, even our dog on antibiotics at the same time for 6 weeks strait and finally we were rid of it.
Doesn't have a sound intellectual argument? Why do they need one? What is the sound intellectual argument for requiring ANY business to collect ANY taxes on behalf of another party for the ANY government? No government has a sovereign right to your money. Paying taxes is not patriotic or moral.
I shut it off anyway. If you don't have a wire, you don't connect to my network.
This seems like a good way to make yourself obsolete overnight. Someones got an adapter so their hugely popular device can still use your aging cable spec... but you come along and say NO! You can't use our cable! In a fight over which cable spec to use whome do you think will win? Apple who somehow even got Auto manufactures to include ipod docks on stock cards? Or HDMI LLC who will, most assuredly, not exist in 20 years irrelevant of how this fight turns out?
I don't think anyone says "this pushed me to piracy"
Those of us of a like mind don't consider it piracy. They do not "take" anything from anyone. No-one lost a thing. Peer-to-peer file sharing has introduced many to music the industry would never have allowed them to hear had they not found their own means to get to the music. The same goes for video.
Since the introduction of filesharing the amount of music/video produced has exploded. Would many of these new indie projects exist without filesharing? The Music and Movie INDUSTRIES are dieing... and the art forms of Music and Video production are benefiting from it.
Dear Anonymous/lolzsec whoever...
Please do something useful for a change and crush this "Copyright enforcement system." I've worked for at least half of the companies mentioned here and most of them can't even communicate well enough internally to get a customer billed correctly, much less communicate between themselves to organize a proper system to penalize customers for supposedly violating copyrights they have no vested interest in maintaining for companies that are likely competitors. To this very day, large infrastructure projects between the various carriers are still ordered and built via email and spreadsheets.
This system will be no different than the old system which consists of nothing more than an email address at the ISP, likely called copyright@att.net or infringement@att.net or in verizons case it's 1 guy: patrick.m.flaherty@verizon.com... amazing. They might change this to some super secret email for the new and improved system but I doubt that would be a problem for the likes of you to figure out. Then you need to get a sample of the complaint. They will all be in the same format so the various ISPs scripts can handle them.
Look up the ISPs registered IP ranges
write a script that looks up recent movies/music, randomly picks a title
Ping an IP address in the Target ISPs list, if it returns the ping fire a fake infringement complaint for the randomly chosen title
repeat for the ISPs entire IP range once a week
The system will collapse almost immediately. If the system costs the ISPs ANY money at all they will drop it like a hot potato. I doubt any of them have more than 5 people working in infringement. The most I've ever seen were 3 and they were swamped when the complaints spiked at 50 per day.
If the CIA invented a device that listened into every phone call in the entire world, real time and dumped it all as a WAV file on a storage device in the basement, would that really do them any good at all?
I'll believe Microsoft before I believe politicians... and that's saying something.
How much you want to bet we paid $100k+ for the encoder... lol
The real mystery is how NASA managed to compress the 93Kb wave file into a 120Kb MP3 file. Solving that might explain some of their budgetary issues.
Everyone needs to calm down and learn how politics works. This is a "give-away" the republicans threw in the mix... the price-tag is relatively small, but public interest is high. So when they haggle, the democrats can claim they saved the program. The democrats constituents will think its a big win while the republicans constituents could care less. How many times did congress/NASA propose cutting funding to Hubble? I lost count myself.
I find it hilarious that we basically said the same thing and I got modded "troll" lol
Cell? As in terrorist cell? REALLY? lol @ the "independent" media.
A fool and his money are soon parted... I'm all for idiots buying $100 cables. It helps sort the wheat from the chaff. If someone tells me such and such speakers are great and then mentions their $100 cables, I know not to take their advice on the speakers. etc...
The problem is, the box stores use the $100 cables as an excuse to sell the $2 cables for $30+... So now, when I have a cable go bad, there's no place in town to get a replacement at a reasonable price and I have to wait 3 days for it to arrive from newegg.
Yes, in the USA it's a lot easier. They just lie to us and our media is too lazy to check any of it out. It's a lot cheaper than Chinas method.