Unless your house is a Faraday cage Google could get that information with one of their WiFi aware vans. It's not your friend who gives out information about your wireless network, it's you, as a consequence of having one.
Fail. If said friend goes to said Faraday-caged house and logs on to said caged WiFi, said friend will still be giving out said information to said Google.
They only know as much as you tell them, and agree to give them to retain.
W R O N G Google knows the sum total of all things all people have told them.
Consider facebook. If your friend sends you a facebook invite email, facebook creates a profile for you and links the profile to that friend, the supplied name, and the supplied email address.
If you later sign up for facebook with completely fake information but that same email address, facebook digs up that profile and gives you recommendations on who to add.
You never supplied facebook any real information beyond your spam email address. OTHER PEOPLE provided real information about you, and facebook has it and you have no rights over it.
Yes, there's a disclaimer, but facebook is exploiting that fact that your jackass friends on facebook are morons who will tell them your address and social security number if prompted.
Google does the same thing. You can't hide from them because someone you know in real life will be dumb enough to supply them with your information. The only consent they need is that of the supplier, not that of the person the information pertains to.
Not all players have to implement it, but yes, this IS possible.
Players HAVE to be upgradeable by disc (download an ISO from the site), via internet / flash drive, OR via LOLSERVICEPORT (send it in for service and wait 2-6 weeks).
Players CAN read firmware upgrades off of the actual Blu Ray and do a live update the first time you try to play a title that has revoked your player's keys.
I doubt this will ever be used though, simply because there's tons of models out there each requiring unique firmware and you'd have to get all the (major) manufacturers coordinated to get firmwares onto a shipping disc.
Interesting. I thought updates were only meant to be required for non-playback features. Lame.
Why would you think that? That's the whole key (lol) to their encryption schemes.
DVD got hacked because a shitty player had its keys basically out in the open. Can't revoke those keys. Once you got they keys for one player, you broke CSS. They then started doing stupid shit that they liked to do with game CDs and some audio CDs. Fuck up the structure, include damaged areas that ripping programs would fail when trying to read, etc. That's why DVD rippers have "path player" options, where they only take paths navigable by standard menu options that a dumb dvd player and user would use.
Blu Ray got hacked because Power DVD is a piece of shit. You can revoke those keys. And they did. That's why Power DVD has to be updated every fucking week. Getting one player's keys means that all discs up until that point are hacked. Future discs can revoke those keys, and you'll have to get a new set of keys to decrypt those discs.
They're working on a more permanent solution to breaking Blu Ray encryption, (including a fully emulated JVM), but as far as I know it's still mostly a matter of attacking players (usually Power DVD) to get keys every time the industry rolls out a new blacklist (this typically coincides with major releases).
There's no difference between an "edge device" and a "core device".
There are only the requirements of the network and the capabilities of the switch.
If the requirements of the network can be met by a old, low-end model, then there's nothing wrong with using that.
Your rant is the equivalent of saying: OMG guys did you see those monitors they're using at that office?! They're 1680 x 1050! All their HD content is going to be scaled terribly! And they're TN panels, too! And none of them have been calibrated!!!!
Generally, when pulling a scam such as this, open source is the way to go. If you go closed source you've got one point of creation, distribution, and collection (of $ stolen). If you go open source, there's an amorphous blob of contributors and reviewers and distributors making it orders of magnitude more difficult to litigate.
From a user's perspective, freeware is the same as open source. A typical user will.N E V E R. read source code. A typical user will.N E V E R. understand what a repository is. A user will.A L W A Y S. download shitware if it promises them 5 minutes of entertainment.
The article is correctly advising users to be wary of free (open source or not) programs. The alternative is explaining to the user that there are safe places to get free things and there are dangerous places to get free things, and then teaching them how to distinguish between the two, and how to actually access the safe repositories. If you believe this is possible, then you have never dealt with a typical user.
From a user's perspective, code from MS or Apple or even Adobe is "safe". From a user's perspective, code from sourceforge is unsafe. From a user's perspective, Linux is unsafe.
Linux zealots have been trying to lead the masses to their side of the pasture for what, a billion years now? The problem is they do very little to educate people. Support? "Ask on the forums." "Sorry, your chipset is only partially supported." Liability? "Linux is provided and maintained for free. If shit goes wrong, oops!"
The masses want dead simple shit. Ubuntu is the dead simple version Linux for retards. But for your fancy FOSS there's no dead simple support line where they can talk to a robot. There's no dead simple interactive help tutorials. There's no dead simple corporate entity to bitch at, or if need be, sue.
Saying open source code is safer because others can review it is about as horse shitty of a claim as peer review making academia better or that Wikipedia is a legitimate source of information.
To an outside observer who knows nothing about the code and can't review it themselves, they have to trust the repository. To an outside observer who knows nothing about the review process, there is little to no difference between the review process at your FOSS repository vs. the review process at Download.com . They make similar claims - free software, claims that it does what they want, assurances that it's safe, etc.
The fucking trick to all of this is that 99% of Linux fanboys are outside observers. They can't review the code themselves, and they don't know the details of the review process. Even if they are programmers they simply don't have the time to review every line of code and every included library. Unless they're a reviewer themselves they don't any knowledge of the actual (vs. claimed, see academia and Wikipedia) process, who is involved, and who is accountable.
So yes, in the end, FOSS is as potentially dangerous freeware. It obviously isn't 99.99% of the time, but when educating users on what to do and what not to do, you've got to dumb it down.
So now instead of saying "They're using an old switch and I think it's dumb." you're saying "They're using an old switch that doesn't do what they need because of this and this and this and I think it's dumb because of this and this.".
Maybe if you had said WHY in your initial bitchfest you would have had less people laughing at you. Instead, you threw out a generalization to which I responded "Solid product lasts a long time and does the job. Is this a problem in your Bizarro world?".
In your bitching, you neglected to mention that the company has far outgrown the switch. Protip: Most companies are small and will stay small and will be well served by such a switch. And they would be hard-pressed to find one built today that will last for 10 years.
So, you're suggesting that H.264 and other MPEG implementations be developed for years at the cost of untold millions and then given away free, just because?
I agree that patent trolling is annoying shit, and I agree that it'd be nice to have a free option.
But here's the kicker: The open source community has not created a free codec worth a damn, and never will. The open source community DOES infringe on patents and DOES steal code and ideas. VP8 is almost certainly no different.
X computers from Dell will cost you Y, and I could have them here, configured, and installed in a week.
A study will cost you Z, and will take several weeks. I will likely end up recommending the Dells, at which point you will still have to pay Y and wait a week for delivery/configuration/installation.
Z >>>>>>>>>>> Y.
Those are the only numbers you would need to show them.
He are some other words that certain people think are words, but aren't:
Flammable Non-flammable Synergy Irregardless
And yes, all the "externalities" of fossil fuels are what I referred to as the "evil" aspect of them. They exist, sure, but not to the degree that anyone gives a shit, not to the degree that they cause any real harm, etc. So they're going to legislate carbon emissions as evil, and prop up "green" energy solutions as "good".
This is despite the fact that "green" energy solutions are far less efficient (in terms of all real and measurable costs vs output), and are often just as damaging to the environment. (See wind farms, solar panel production, hydroelectric dams, etc.)
In short, the carbon tax is nothing but a power play to create a new, valueless market where there was none before and to get a little upheaval going on the status quo.
We have the answer for our electricity needs. No one wants to use it. If they really cared about the environment, they would be laughing at the prospect of solar, wind, gas, etc.
Here's what you do. You go to techbargains.com slickdeals.net techdealdigger.com techdeals.net etc.
CTRL+F DELL
Note specs and prices. Do this for a week.
Then next week, jump on the first deal that meets or beats the best deal from last week.
Then order up a bunch of machines.
If the number you're ordering is an issue, just call Dell, ask for the supervisor, and then get X machines at the quoted price after agreeing to upgrade them all to the 3-year, NBD warranty.
Corporate will love the price. Whoever manages the machines (you?) will love the NBD warranty for when a PSU fails, or a fan starts getting noisy. (When, not if.) You won't have had to do any real work.
No, before. If X is more efficient than Y, X will require less input (labor) to get the same amount of output than Y.
Accounting for the "externalities" (this isn't a word, by the way) simply means considering fossil fuels evil (for no reason grounded in logic or science) and then tacking on an "evil" input to make them a worse choice.
But people didn't buy into the "evil" bullshit, so now they're going to force new taxes on carbon outputs in order to get people to go "green".
This is the equivalent of saying a hippie is more physically fit than a pro athlete, then breaking the athletes legs to "prove" your point.
Jobs are lost in the fossil fuel industry. What makes you think there won't be new jobs in whatever we do to replace them? The world economy is going to change significantly in the next decade whether we like it or not. Why not embrace the change and be a leading nation into the future? China is investing more in clean/renewable energy than the US. Can we afford to be behind the curve?
Jobs are lost in the fossil fuel industry. What makes you think there won't be new jobs in whatever we do to replace them?
By definition, if "green energy" is any more efficient than fossil fuel, it will require less work and less jobs.
As we get better at anything, we need less labor to achieve the same level of production.
But we all know "green energy" is the least efficient of all. So yes, green energy will create jobs. And I'll have to pay for it.
We have the answer to our energy woes. We've had it for decades. And we won't fucking use it because morons are afraid.
If a business can't survive without paying for the property destruction that is the result of doing business, why should anyone shed a tear for it?
Yet you'll throw a fucking parade to convince people that the banks, GM, etc. were too big to fail and that really stupid people who bought shit they couldn't afford need to be saved from their own stupidity, at my expense.
This will be allowed only if it prevents small traders from abusing the market while not affecting the profits of the big traders.
That's exactly what this is. A lot of small traders made a lot of profit when their old buy orders triggered at ridonkulously low prices.
The big traders were pissed that they only got to eat up 99% of the potential that day.
So now, when a "circuit breaker" trips, your limit order will be tossed out, and the big boys will get to put their orders in first once trading is resumed.
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Unless your house is a Faraday cage Google could get that information with one of their WiFi aware vans. It's not your friend who gives out information about your wireless network, it's you, as a consequence of having one.
Fail.
If said friend goes to said Faraday-caged house and logs on to said caged WiFi, said friend will still be giving out said information to said Google.
They only know as much as you tell them, and agree to give them to retain.
W R O N G
Google knows the sum total of all things all people have told them.
Consider facebook.
If your friend sends you a facebook invite email, facebook creates a profile for you and links the profile to that friend, the supplied name, and the supplied email address.
If you later sign up for facebook with completely fake information but that same email address, facebook digs up that profile and gives you recommendations on who to add.
You never supplied facebook any real information beyond your spam email address. OTHER PEOPLE provided real information about you, and facebook has it and you have no rights over it.
Yes, there's a disclaimer, but facebook is exploiting that fact that your jackass friends on facebook are morons who will tell them your address and social security number if prompted.
Google does the same thing. You can't hide from them because someone you know in real life will be dumb enough to supply them with your information. The only consent they need is that of the supplier, not that of the person the information pertains to.
Not all players have to implement it, but yes, this IS possible.
Players HAVE to be upgradeable by disc (download an ISO from the site), via internet / flash drive, OR via LOLSERVICEPORT (send it in for service and wait 2-6 weeks).
Players CAN read firmware upgrades off of the actual Blu Ray and do a live update the first time you try to play a title that has revoked your player's keys.
I doubt this will ever be used though, simply because there's tons of models out there each requiring unique firmware and you'd have to get all the (major) manufacturers coordinated to get firmwares onto a shipping disc.
Interesting. I thought updates were only meant to be required for non-playback features. Lame.
Why would you think that?
That's the whole key (lol) to their encryption schemes.
DVD got hacked because a shitty player had its keys basically out in the open. Can't revoke those keys. Once you got they keys for one player, you broke CSS. They then started doing stupid shit that they liked to do with game CDs and some audio CDs. Fuck up the structure, include damaged areas that ripping programs would fail when trying to read, etc. That's why DVD rippers have "path player" options, where they only take paths navigable by standard menu options that a dumb dvd player and user would use.
Blu Ray got hacked because Power DVD is a piece of shit. You can revoke those keys. And they did. That's why Power DVD has to be updated every fucking week. Getting one player's keys means that all discs up until that point are hacked. Future discs can revoke those keys, and you'll have to get a new set of keys to decrypt those discs.
They're working on a more permanent solution to breaking Blu Ray encryption, (including a fully emulated JVM), but as far as I know it's still mostly a matter of attacking players (usually Power DVD) to get keys every time the industry rolls out a new blacklist (this typically coincides with major releases).
So, you still don't get it.
There's no difference between an "edge device" and a "core device".
There are only the requirements of the network and the capabilities of the switch.
If the requirements of the network can be met by a old, low-end model, then there's nothing wrong with using that.
Your rant is the equivalent of saying:
OMG guys did you see those monitors they're using at that office?! They're 1680 x 1050! All their HD content is going to be scaled terribly! And they're TN panels, too! And none of them have been calibrated!!!!
Generally, when pulling a scam such as this, open source is the way to go. If you go closed source you've got one point of creation, distribution, and collection (of $ stolen). If you go open source, there's an amorphous blob of contributors and reviewers and distributors making it orders of magnitude more difficult to litigate.
From a user's perspective, freeware is the same as open source. A typical user will .N E V E R. read source code. A typical user will .N E V E R. understand what a repository is. A user will .A L W A Y S. download shitware if it promises them 5 minutes of entertainment.
The article is correctly advising users to be wary of free (open source or not) programs. The alternative is explaining to the user that there are safe places to get free things and there are dangerous places to get free things, and then teaching them how to distinguish between the two, and how to actually access the safe repositories. If you believe this is possible, then you have never dealt with a typical user.
From a user's perspective, code from MS or Apple or even Adobe is "safe". From a user's perspective, code from sourceforge is unsafe. From a user's perspective, Linux is unsafe.
Linux zealots have been trying to lead the masses to their side of the pasture for what, a billion years now? The problem is they do very little to educate people. Support? "Ask on the forums." "Sorry, your chipset is only partially supported."
Liability? "Linux is provided and maintained for free. If shit goes wrong, oops!"
The masses want dead simple shit.
Ubuntu is the dead simple version Linux for retards.
But for your fancy FOSS there's no dead simple support line where they can talk to a robot.
There's no dead simple interactive help tutorials.
There's no dead simple corporate entity to bitch at, or if need be, sue.
Saying open source code is safer because others can review it is about as horse shitty of a claim as peer review making academia better or that Wikipedia is a legitimate source of information.
To an outside observer who knows nothing about the code and can't review it themselves, they have to trust the repository. To an outside observer who knows nothing about the review process, there is little to no difference between the review process at your FOSS repository vs. the review process at Download.com . They make similar claims - free software, claims that it does what they want, assurances that it's safe, etc.
The fucking trick to all of this is that 99% of Linux fanboys are outside observers. They can't review the code themselves, and they don't know the details of the review process. Even if they are programmers they simply don't have the time to review every line of code and every included library. Unless they're a reviewer themselves they don't any knowledge of the actual (vs. claimed, see academia and Wikipedia) process, who is involved, and who is accountable.
So yes, in the end, FOSS is as potentially dangerous freeware. It obviously isn't 99.99% of the time, but when educating users on what to do and what not to do, you've got to dumb it down.
So now instead of saying "They're using an old switch and I think it's dumb." you're saying "They're using an old switch that doesn't do what they need because of this and this and this and I think it's dumb because of this and this.".
Maybe if you had said WHY in your initial bitchfest you would have had less people laughing at you. Instead, you threw out a generalization to which I responded "Solid product lasts a long time and does the job. Is this a problem in your Bizarro world?".
In your bitching, you neglected to mention that the company has far outgrown the switch. Protip: Most companies are small and will stay small and will be well served by such a switch. And they would be hard-pressed to find one built today that will last for 10 years.
I blame you. You and lead-free solder, RoHS, etc.
Or just get your script embedded in someone else's website through cross-site scripting or an ad network willing to look the other way for money.
Ad networks that are willing to look the other way for money are called "ad networks".
Rule number one of having a job:
Don't Piss Off Your Boss.
I like how "Do Your Job" isn't number one.
It's probably in the low twenties.
A switch is a switch.
Performance and feature set were known at the time of purpose.
The switch was chosen for a reason.
If it gets the job done, then what are you complaining about?
How will a NewFangledSuperSwitch make things better?
How much will it cost?
How long will it be until you recommend NewerRangledSuperDuperSwitch?
I've seen companies where their "core switch" was a Cisco 2548. This wasn't 10 years ago, this was last year! Unreal.
Solid product lasts a long time and does the job.
Is this a problem in your Bizarro world?
Are you fucking joking?
The first thing to go when ripping a DVD is the FBI warning.
The ISA has nothing to do with it.
We're not talking about low level attacks, we're talking about the overall landscape at the top level.
We couldn't even get that shit right if we were given ideal hardware.
1) Why are they poring dispersants on the oil spill instead of coagulants [treehugger.com]?
Because they want to make it look like the problem is fixed. They don't give a fuck about fixing it.
It would take decades of constant work to clean up even a fraction of the shit that's gushed out of that hole so far.
So, you're suggesting that H.264 and other MPEG implementations be developed for years at the cost of untold millions and then given away free, just because?
I agree that patent trolling is annoying shit, and I agree that it'd be nice to have a free option.
But here's the kicker: The open source community has not created a free codec worth a damn, and never will. The open source community DOES infringe on patents and DOES steal code and ideas. VP8 is almost certainly no different.
X computers from Dell will cost you Y, and I could have them here, configured, and installed in a week.
A study will cost you Z, and will take several weeks. I will likely end up recommending the Dells, at which point you will still have to pay Y and wait a week for delivery/configuration/installation.
Z >>>>>>>>>>> Y.
Those are the only numbers you would need to show them.
But it's not a word. I'm sorry.
He are some other words that certain people think are words, but aren't:
Flammable
Non-flammable
Synergy
Irregardless
And yes, all the "externalities" of fossil fuels are what I referred to as the "evil" aspect of them. They exist, sure, but not to the degree that anyone gives a shit, not to the degree that they cause any real harm, etc. So they're going to legislate carbon emissions as evil, and prop up "green" energy solutions as "good".
This is despite the fact that "green" energy solutions are far less efficient (in terms of all real and measurable costs vs output), and are often just as damaging to the environment. (See wind farms, solar panel production, hydroelectric dams, etc.)
In short, the carbon tax is nothing but a power play to create a new, valueless market where there was none before and to get a little upheaval going on the status quo.
We have the answer for our electricity needs. No one wants to use it. If they really cared about the environment, they would be laughing at the prospect of solar, wind, gas, etc.
Hemilogue?
Semilogue?
Rob Malda's boner is a hemi-demi-semi-log?
I find it much easier to carry a piccolo.
No need to know how to play it - just blast away on it whenever someone's being an asshole on their phone.
Here's what you do.
You go to techbargains.com slickdeals.net techdealdigger.com techdeals.net etc.
CTRL+F DELL
Note specs and prices.
Do this for a week.
Then next week, jump on the first deal that meets or beats the best deal from last week.
Then order up a bunch of machines.
If the number you're ordering is an issue, just call Dell, ask for the supervisor, and then get X machines at the quoted price after agreeing to upgrade them all to the 3-year, NBD warranty.
Corporate will love the price.
Whoever manages the machines (you?) will love the NBD warranty for when a PSU fails, or a fan starts getting noisy. (When, not if.)
You won't have had to do any real work.
Everyone wins.
No, before.
If X is more efficient than Y, X will require less input (labor) to get the same amount of output than Y.
Accounting for the "externalities" (this isn't a word, by the way) simply means considering fossil fuels evil (for no reason grounded in logic or science) and then tacking on an "evil" input to make them a worse choice.
But people didn't buy into the "evil" bullshit, so now they're going to force new taxes on carbon outputs in order to get people to go "green".
This is the equivalent of saying a hippie is more physically fit than a pro athlete, then breaking the athletes legs to "prove" your point.
Fist Prose
Jobs are lost in the fossil fuel industry. What makes you think there won't be new jobs in whatever we do to replace them? The world economy is going to change significantly in the next decade whether we like it or not. Why not embrace the change and be a leading nation into the future? China is investing more in clean/renewable energy than the US. Can we afford to be behind the curve?
Jobs are lost in the fossil fuel industry. What makes you think there won't be new jobs in whatever we do to replace them?
By definition, if "green energy" is any more efficient than fossil fuel, it will require less work and less jobs.
As we get better at anything, we need less labor to achieve the same level of production.
But we all know "green energy" is the least efficient of all. So yes, green energy will create jobs. And I'll have to pay for it.
We have the answer to our energy woes.
We've had it for decades.
And we won't fucking use it because morons are afraid.
If a business can't survive without paying for the property destruction that is the result of doing business, why should anyone shed a tear for it?
Yet you'll throw a fucking parade to convince people that the banks, GM, etc. were too big to fail and that really stupid people who bought shit they couldn't afford need to be saved from their own stupidity, at my expense.
This will be allowed only if it prevents small traders from abusing the market while not affecting the profits of the big traders.
That's exactly what this is.
A lot of small traders made a lot of profit when their old buy orders triggered at ridonkulously low prices.
The big traders were pissed that they only got to eat up 99% of the potential that day.
So now, when a "circuit breaker" trips, your limit order will be tossed out, and the big boys will get to put their orders in first once trading is resumed.