It's actually pretty common. A person might be on call 24/7, but if that means more than a few calls a year at night then something isn't right. Being on call shouldn't mean that you're being regularly woken up at night.
It means you can never be out of the area/state/country, it means you can never go camping in the woods away from technology, it means you can never get drunk, etc.
I wrote my senators and representative, and told them I oppose SOPA and PIPA. It may not be much, but it is worth it and it is ridiculously easy now that they have websites that accept messages.
Have you voiced your opinion, other than on some website that the policy makes never see?
It's also ridiculously easy to have an unpaid intern hit the delete key for all those emails.
You're paranoid. The DMCA allows reverse engineering for research.
No it doesn't. The reverse engineering clause only applies when there is no suitable official method of enabling compatibility, i.e., the company has gone belly up. There's also that fairly recent ruling that specifically says jailbreaking a phone is okay because moronic judges don't understand technology.
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Extreme amateurs and non-programmers are what gave Adobe Flash a bad reputation in the first place. In the hands of a real programmer Flash wasn't nearly so obtrusive and slow.
You mean the same kind of amateurs that created the game Angry Birds flagrantly copied?
When considering "how many lives are we willing to sacrifice for the facade of security", I hope everyone will keep in mind that the radiation exposure from one of these scanners is considerably less than the elevated cosmic-ray dose you get from putting yourself above 30,000 feet of atmospheric shielding for a few hours as you fly to your destination.
And instead of passing through you it is absorbed by a mere fraction of your total mass, making it orders of magnitude worse.
Holy shit you're fucking stupid. Your ISP will only let you use an approved modem with a registered MAC address. This restriction can be lifted by calling your ISP. If you have never seen this restriction, you are probably using a modem supplied by your ISP.
Your ISP will only allow that modem to communicate with a certain client MAC address. This restriction can be lifted by waiting for X amount of time, rebooting all devices (client, router, modem), or calling your ISP. If you have never seen this restriction, you are probably using a modem/router combo supplied by your ISP, or have never plugged in a new, powered-on client to your modem and immediately checked internet access.
The proposed solution to anonymizing your location data was to change your router's MAC address. Many routers let you change the MAC address you present to the modem. This feature exists because people typically buy a router and want to drop it in and have it work. If the router uses its own MAC, the modem will not give it an IP address because that MAC doesn't match the MAC of the old router / computer.
Changing your MAC address in this fashion will thwart Google or others mapping your shit if the MAC presented to the modem is the same as that in the BSSID. It will also result in your internet connection being fucked every time you change it, and your ISP getting tired of your shit.
Changing your MAC address in this fashion will do nothing to thwart Google or others mapping your shit out if the MAC presented to the modem is different from that in the BSSID. It will still result in your internet connection being fucked every time you change it, and your ISP getting tired of your shit.
MAC addresses aren't magic. MAC addresses aren't fixed. MAC addresses aren't secure. Your ISP sees your MAC address. You can change the MAC address your ISP can see. The only MAC address you can change on a consumer router is the one your ISP sees. This address can indeed be the same as the one Google would see via the BSSID, but that was never the fucking point of any of the last 3847629 posts.
I'm assuming that this technology will also come with the elusive holographic storage we've been hearing about, as well as those nearly disposable folding color displays as well.
Yes, that's fine, but why is your modem sending it's WIFI-side MAC upstream to the router, and not the router-side MAC? Does the device not have two interfaces? What am I missing here? My shitty whatever-the-hell-it-is-brand wifi DSL modem has a WIFI interface and a DSL interface with two different MACs. Pretty damn sure that centuryqwestlink doesn't know (or care) about the WIFI side.
Pretty damn sure that they only reason they don't care is because they control that hardware and know it's a fixed MAC.
Your modem has a MAC address that the Cable/DSL provider registers. If you buy your own modem, you'll have to call them up and tell them the MAC. They do this to make sure people don't fuck with shit.
Similarly, your modem expects a specific MAC address and locks out new MAC addresses. Sometimes the modem will forward this MAC on to your ISP, sometimes it does all the checking on its own. If the modem forwards the information to the ISP, then your options to get shit working if you've been locked out are: Wait for some undefined amount of time, try some reboot voodoo, or call up the ISP and have them do shit. If the modem does not forward the information to the ISP, your options to get shit working if you've been locked out are: Wait for some undefined amount of time or try some reboot voodoo.
If you have a modem that simply has a single ethernet port, that you hook up to your PC or router, then the MAC address the modem sees is that of the PC or router, and you can be locked out if you buy a new PC/router and connect that directly to the modem. If you use one of those shitty modem+router combos, then the MAC the modem sees is fixed, and you shouldn't ever run into the issue, because the MAC never changes.
What is your modem doing sending its WIFI MAC to the upstream DSL/ Cable router in the first place?
Many ISPs require you to tell them if you have a new MAC Address. Access gets cut off if the modem sees a different MAC than the DSL/Cable line says it should be seeing.
Many ISPs require you to tell them if you have a new MAC Address. Access gets cut off if the modem sees a different MAC than the DSL/Cable line says it should be seeing.
Wait, are you saying that the Google Street View cars (if they're still doing it) or an Android's wifi device magically know that a non broadcasting wifi AP is even there?
WHAT MAGIC IS THIS?
Yeah, I don't think you've thought this through properly.
(Incidentally, you can still name your AP whatever you like, even with broadcast being off. Otherwise, how do you associate a laptop or another wifi based device?)
Google maps you regardless of whether or not your SSID is set to broadcast. It's not magic, you just have no idea what you're talking about.
Google has every right to use your SSID for geolocation purposes. The privacy whiners all seem to conveniently forget that when you operate a wifi access point, you are BROADCASTING your SSID to anyone within range. It is the same as if you switched on an AM or FM radio transmitter in your home or business and continuously spoke into the microphone: "My network is named kitty-net... my network is named kitty-net... my network is named kitty-net..."
If you don't want something known to anyone within range, you might consider not BROADCASTING it. Every access point in the world has the ability to shut off its SSID announcements.
Rapists have every right to use your body for rape purposes. The anti-rape whiners all seem to conveniently forget that when you dress sexily, you are BROADCASTING your desire for sex to anyone within sight. It is the same as if you switched on a neon "fuck me" sign in your home or business and continuously stood by the window naked.
It's not legislation passed by congress, but it is law - it is a written rule enforced by a governmental agency. And it was passed by the head dipshits in that agency.
More practically, it presupposes that his traffic is being captured. To capture 100% of the traffic of the Internet exceeds all forms of storage.
HELLO! McFLY!! We have quantum computers and quantum storage. Just buy the largest hard drive on the market and fill it with qubits. The qubits will hold all possible states at the same time, thus you have captured all packets ever sent over the internet, and you have also written all the works of Shakespeare.
This doesn't help with one of the most common uses of asymmetric keys, which is secure initial key exchange...
The only secure initial key exchange that will ever exist is IN PERSON, BY HAND. And even then you have to be cautious.
No matter how complicated (either logistically or mathematically) you make your handshakes, EVERYTHING about encryption boils down to a key sharing problem.
Why not just use whatever variety of pipes they used to shout about the upcoming test? I heard about the upcoming test from at least a dozen different sources, but was completely unaware of it when it actually happened.
Have any of you actually read that net neutrality shit that they're talking about repealing?
The law so many people are vehemently defending explicitly allows ISPs to pull the same sort of bullshit that Comcast was doing when people started crying about net neutrality in the first place. What was passed as net neutrality was a joke. And now Congress is wasting time pretending they want to repeal it.
It's all a fucking distraction, and you're all fucking falling for it.
However, as you can see from the popularity of Netflix streaming where the original compression quality ranges from awful to only marginally watchable, nobody much cares about quality.
Those people are the common pigs - they'll eat anything you put in front of them, and they have HDTVs connected through a fucking VCR's RF converter. Netflix quality is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking bad.
The thing I always wonder about Hadoop is how important can it get? It's only useful if you have too much data for an RDBMS, right? It seems like only JPMorgan and other giant companies could make use of it. Am I wrong?
There's no such thing as too much data for an RDBMS. There is such a thing as poor database planning and a shitty schema, though.
I take it you don't know what the phrase "one of X" means, because you have perfectly described what I mean by "Java is ONE OF THE most inefficient languages ever" by listing more of them.
Are people really this dumb these days?
Yes, yes they are. All I hear is java this, python that. People care more about being able to throw shit on a wall and have it run than they do about performance, reliability, or functionality.
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It's actually pretty common. A person might be on call 24/7, but if that means more than a few calls a year at night then something isn't right. Being on call shouldn't mean that you're being regularly woken up at night.
It means you can never be out of the area/state/country, it means you can never go camping in the woods away from technology, it means you can never get drunk, etc.
I learn to sleep through it. My wife is on call very nearly 24-7 and gets called multiple times every night.
How much does she charge to sleep over and to let you call her your wife?
Yes, because people who are on call 24/7 never sleep...
Someone who is on call 24/7 is a slave.
I wrote my senators and representative, and told them I oppose SOPA and PIPA. It may not be much, but it is worth it and it is ridiculously easy now that they have websites that accept messages.
Have you voiced your opinion, other than on some website that the policy makes never see?
It's also ridiculously easy to have an unpaid intern hit the delete key for all those emails.
You're paranoid. The DMCA allows reverse engineering for research.
No it doesn't.
The reverse engineering clause only applies when there is no suitable official method of enabling compatibility, i.e., the company has gone belly up. There's also that fairly recent ruling that specifically says jailbreaking a phone is okay because moronic judges don't understand technology.
Extreme amateurs and non-programmers are what gave Adobe Flash a bad reputation in the first place. In the hands of a real programmer Flash wasn't nearly so obtrusive and slow.
You mean the same kind of amateurs that created the game Angry Birds flagrantly copied?
When considering "how many lives are we willing to sacrifice for the facade of security", I hope everyone will keep in mind that the radiation exposure from one of these scanners is considerably less than the elevated cosmic-ray dose you get from putting yourself above 30,000 feet of atmospheric shielding for a few hours as you fly to your destination.
And instead of passing through you it is absorbed by a mere fraction of your total mass, making it orders of magnitude worse.
Holy shit you're fucking stupid.
Your ISP will only let you use an approved modem with a registered MAC address.
This restriction can be lifted by calling your ISP.
If you have never seen this restriction, you are probably using a modem supplied by your ISP.
Your ISP will only allow that modem to communicate with a certain client MAC address.
This restriction can be lifted by waiting for X amount of time, rebooting all devices (client, router, modem), or calling your ISP.
If you have never seen this restriction, you are probably using a modem/router combo supplied by your ISP, or have never plugged in a new, powered-on client to your modem and immediately checked internet access.
The proposed solution to anonymizing your location data was to change your router's MAC address.
Many routers let you change the MAC address you present to the modem. This feature exists because people typically buy a router and want to drop it in and have it work. If the router uses its own MAC, the modem will not give it an IP address because that MAC doesn't match the MAC of the old router / computer.
Changing your MAC address in this fashion will thwart Google or others mapping your shit if the MAC presented to the modem is the same as that in the BSSID. It will also result in your internet connection being fucked every time you change it, and your ISP getting tired of your shit.
Changing your MAC address in this fashion will do nothing to thwart Google or others mapping your shit out if the MAC presented to the modem is different from that in the BSSID. It will still result in your internet connection being fucked every time you change it, and your ISP getting tired of your shit.
MAC addresses aren't magic. MAC addresses aren't fixed. MAC addresses aren't secure. Your ISP sees your MAC address. You can change the MAC address your ISP can see. The only MAC address you can change on a consumer router is the one your ISP sees. This address can indeed be the same as the one Google would see via the BSSID, but that was never the fucking point of any of the last 3847629 posts.
I'm assuming that this technology will also come with the elusive holographic storage we've been hearing about, as well as those nearly disposable folding color displays as well.
You forgot "efficient solar panels".
Yes, that's fine, but why is your modem sending it's WIFI-side MAC upstream to the router, and not the router-side MAC? Does the device not have two interfaces? What am I missing here? My shitty whatever-the-hell-it-is-brand wifi DSL modem has a WIFI interface and a DSL interface with two different MACs. Pretty damn sure that centuryqwestlink doesn't know (or care) about the WIFI side.
Pretty damn sure that they only reason they don't care is because they control that hardware and know it's a fixed MAC.
Your modem has a MAC address that the Cable/DSL provider registers. If you buy your own modem, you'll have to call them up and tell them the MAC.
They do this to make sure people don't fuck with shit.
Similarly, your modem expects a specific MAC address and locks out new MAC addresses. Sometimes the modem will forward this MAC on to your ISP, sometimes it does all the checking on its own. If the modem forwards the information to the ISP, then your options to get shit working if you've been locked out are: Wait for some undefined amount of time, try some reboot voodoo, or call up the ISP and have them do shit. If the modem does not forward the information to the ISP, your options to get shit working if you've been locked out are: Wait for some undefined amount of time or try some reboot voodoo.
If you have a modem that simply has a single ethernet port, that you hook up to your PC or router, then the MAC address the modem sees is that of the PC or router, and you can be locked out if you buy a new PC/router and connect that directly to the modem.
If you use one of those shitty modem+router combos, then the MAC the modem sees is fixed, and you shouldn't ever run into the issue, because the MAC never changes.
What is your modem doing sending its WIFI MAC to the upstream DSL/ Cable router in the first place?
Many ISPs require you to tell them if you have a new MAC Address.
Access gets cut off if the modem sees a different MAC than the DSL/Cable line says it should be seeing.
What does this have to do with Obama ? This is the Judicial branch, not the Executive.
"while the White House is arguing for expanding the law even further."
Many ISPs require you to tell them if you have a new MAC Address.
Access gets cut off if the modem sees a different MAC than the DSL/Cable line says it should be seeing.
Wait, are you saying that the Google Street View cars (if they're still doing it) or an Android's wifi device magically know that a non broadcasting wifi AP is even there?
WHAT MAGIC IS THIS?
Yeah, I don't think you've thought this through properly.
(Incidentally, you can still name your AP whatever you like, even with broadcast being off. Otherwise, how do you associate a laptop or another wifi based device?)
Google maps you regardless of whether or not your SSID is set to broadcast.
It's not magic, you just have no idea what you're talking about.
Google has every right to use your SSID for geolocation purposes. The privacy whiners all seem to conveniently forget that when you operate a wifi access point, you are BROADCASTING your SSID to anyone within range. It is the same as if you switched on an AM or FM radio transmitter in your home or business and continuously spoke into the microphone: "My network is named kitty-net ... my network is named kitty-net ... my network is named kitty-net ..."
If you don't want something known to anyone within range, you might consider not BROADCASTING it. Every access point in the world has the ability to shut off its SSID announcements.
Rapists have every right to use your body for rape purposes. The anti-rape whiners all seem to conveniently forget that when you dress sexily, you are BROADCASTING your desire for sex to anyone within sight. It is the same as if you switched on a neon "fuck me" sign in your home or business and continuously stood by the window naked.
I'd rather get cancer than the hantavirus.
Law?
Passed?
I thought this was about FCC regulations...
It's not legislation passed by congress, but it is law - it is a written rule enforced by a governmental agency. And it was passed by the head dipshits in that agency.
More practically, it presupposes that his traffic is being captured. To capture 100% of the traffic of the Internet exceeds all forms of storage.
HELLO! McFLY!!
We have quantum computers and quantum storage. Just buy the largest hard drive on the market and fill it with qubits. The qubits will hold all possible states at the same time, thus you have captured all packets ever sent over the internet, and you have also written all the works of Shakespeare.
This doesn't help with one of the most common uses of asymmetric keys, which is secure initial key exchange...
The only secure initial key exchange that will ever exist is IN PERSON, BY HAND. And even then you have to be cautious.
No matter how complicated (either logistically or mathematically) you make your handshakes, EVERYTHING about encryption boils down to a key sharing problem.
Why not just use whatever variety of pipes they used to shout about the upcoming test?
I heard about the upcoming test from at least a dozen different sources, but was completely unaware of it when it actually happened.
Have any of you actually read that net neutrality shit that they're talking about repealing?
The law so many people are vehemently defending explicitly allows ISPs to pull the same sort of bullshit that Comcast was doing when people started crying about net neutrality in the first place. What was passed as net neutrality was a joke. And now Congress is wasting time pretending they want to repeal it.
It's all a fucking distraction, and you're all fucking falling for it.
However, as you can see from the popularity of Netflix streaming where the original compression quality ranges from awful to only marginally watchable, nobody much cares about quality.
Those people are the common pigs - they'll eat anything you put in front of them, and they have HDTVs connected through a fucking VCR's RF converter.
Netflix quality is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking bad.
Black don't crack. And neither will these nanotubes.
The thing I always wonder about Hadoop is how important can it get? It's only useful if you have too much data for an RDBMS, right? It seems like only JPMorgan and other giant companies could make use of it. Am I wrong?
There's no such thing as too much data for an RDBMS.
There is such a thing as poor database planning and a shitty schema, though.
I take it you don't know what the phrase "one of X" means, because you have perfectly described what I mean by "Java is ONE OF THE most inefficient languages ever" by listing more of them.
Are people really this dumb these days?
Yes, yes they are.
All I hear is java this, python that. People care more about being able to throw shit on a wall and have it run than they do about performance, reliability, or functionality.