I hate to applaud AT&T on anything, but they have made a ginuwine commitment to a nuetral network refusing to partake in shaping until forced by legislation or until they find a solution that dosn't hurt their customer base. All it takes for traffic shaping to fail is for one person so not do it...then everyone goes to that one person. At the same time AT&T is rolling out increased infrastructure. I upload consistently at 112 kps almost 24/7 (I backup 10 gig files almost daily to colocated servers). My clients cable provider disconnects their internet if excessive upstream is detected...it seems like this is more of an issue for the cable companies rather than dsl providers becuase DSL providers sell dedicated BW as opposed to portions of shared BW (like cable does).
There is a $10,000 award plus a computer to a hacker that remotley roots an operating system. The hacking competition has three machines, windows, linux and mac. For the last two years Mac has been the first machine to be compromised.
It's still more secure than windows imo, just a little fun fact.
Speaking of internet browsing, Opera 9.50 just came out as well. Has full text history search and my favorite feature...Opera Sync. I opened 10 of the same internet sites with Opera and Firefox 3 and compared the memory imprint, FF3 was 10 mb greater. Opera was already configured to grab a ton of my RSS feeds, so I believe without RSS feeds bein pulled 9.50 could have had a good 20 mb on ff3.
Just wanted to shed some light on a lesser known, but in my opinion, very good browser.
I disagree. I have a program that I made that automatically quantifies time spent in programs and time spent on work related tasks.
Over the course of a year my reports indicate the following:
IM almost always detracts from productivty becuase IM's either interrupted or shifted my focus to a non-working task, required status changes to prevent interruptions, and is often used for procrastination. This was the finding of a one-year quantification of my working habits using IM with clients on the same list as IM with friends. Even client conversations often got off task.
If you limit your IM to short work related need-only basis with no friends on your list at work, it is more efficient than calling and the IM logging functionality makes it easy to reference work. Using IM Logging for information (on trillians search interface) was faster than email lookup and desktop search). Small gain there.
Short Answer, for the majority of users IM will detract from productivity. If the IM environment is strictly controlled with no friends and co-works only IMing on a need-information-now basis, then IM can be a great productivity enhancment for short conversations (versus the phone).
If it gets bad enough deep down inside, we all know we will just go on a killing spree when they take our porn collection away.
Here's a tip, get yourself a secured remote machine, preferably in a non-police state, use tor for all your internet browsing and specifify your secured remote machine as the Tor exit node. If you are using a remote server on a t3+ as an exit node, you will average about 80 kb/s on the tor network which is not bad AT ALL. Now the police state is cock blocked from associating your traffic with you, unless they were able to monitor your exit node and your machine at the same time (e.g. dont hack your neighbor to use for an exit node, get an overseas machine if you can. If you can't you can use the default Tor network, just dont send anything sensitive over a non-SSL connection). You can use a squid + Privoxy combo to increase Tor speed. Now that your internet chat, email, and tor are anonymous you need to protect against theft\government. This requires having data remote (again better if overseas) syncronized with your local files. If your poor (you should be by now if your in the US) use XDrive or something similar. Finally, we need our hardrives or parts of our hardrive to be encrypted. I reccomend using TrueCrypt then backing up the remote container since TrueCrypt supports plausible deniabilty. That's it, when the feds come knocking, give them your machine, deny it has the plans to assisnate bush, while your machine is gone download your last backup of your encrypted drive, post assassination plan on/. where they can't find me becuase my traffic is so obfuscated and execute assassination plan. See the law isn't that bad...is it ^_^
The irony in all this is the bigger picture. Our founding fathers in the US escaped England for its goverments control of trade law and fiscal policies.
Our trade agreements to managage music and video downloading will just annoy the crap out of the public. It is NOT a solution to pirating.
Sounds familar? The US is becoming the UK. Although we don't have cameras on our streets, were gonna have them in our asses soon.
As another slashdotter pointed out, this is the governments way of getting legislation passed for a completly different reason than to regulate piracy. It will be used to regulate much more...
My fellow slashdotters, its time to start an open source project to build our own manmade island/space colony that we will declare as a soverign nation...one nation, under gpl, for liberty and porn for all...
Based upon the genealogy of the patriarchs as contained in Scripture, once one has determined the date of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, one should be able to arrive at a reasonably close determination for the Date of Creation. That dates creation around ~4106 BC. Also, christians are required by the gospel to accept the bible as the absolute word of god with no exceptions. If you do not fully believe in the virgin birth, jesus's ressurection, the flood, etc. then you are not christian by definition of the bible.
I prefer the Jefferson Bible, he removed all the BS from the bible. It cut the bible from 1660 (the one I found in my trash) to 46 pages of useful information.
Article diverts attention from the real issue. Attacks are going to happen, the fact that there are so many that penetrated reveals a lack of policy enforcment by the government applied to the contractors. Fed government should also be smart enough to remove secret work from a remote networked machine. This article shows the US's pompous attitude towards IT.
Has anyone else noticed that the EU legislates technology issues very fast and they make appropriate decisions for their people? I wonder why the US is having so much trouble properly legislating IT?
Not to mention the ISPs in some countries (the police state, UK especially) will try to limit service by machine with mac address (forcing you to use mac spoofing to allow a router).
I wonder how this kind of legislation would be interpreted in the US. Corporations would argue they had the right to collect and anylze data for research as they see fit...however, as mentioned above, this poses a privacy issue becuase the governmet becomes the all seeing eye. A possible compromise would be giving corporations a right to withold data from the government? Just some food for thought since the U.S. is dominated by corporate interest.
It dosnt matter if indivudal sites track the refferer variable. EACH site would need to track that information. Even then, the information would stay decentralized. The concern with search engines is a single centralization of mass behaviorial data, which (in my opinion), is a security threat. The chance of many decentralized sources tracking and losing information is unlikley.
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I hate to applaud AT&T on anything, but they have made a ginuwine commitment to a nuetral network refusing to partake in shaping until forced by legislation or until they find a solution that dosn't hurt their customer base. All it takes for traffic shaping to fail is for one person so not do it...then everyone goes to that one person. At the same time AT&T is rolling out increased infrastructure. I upload consistently at 112 kps almost 24/7 (I backup 10 gig files almost daily to colocated servers). My clients cable provider disconnects their internet if excessive upstream is detected...it seems like this is more of an issue for the cable companies rather than dsl providers becuase DSL providers sell dedicated BW as opposed to portions of shared BW (like cable does).
There is a $10,000 award plus a computer to a hacker that remotley roots an operating system. The hacking competition has three machines, windows, linux and mac. For the last two years Mac has been the first machine to be compromised. It's still more secure than windows imo, just a little fun fact.
opera has ad block built in
Not sure about yahoo...but they fixed a js compatibilty relating to imeem. I deleted my 'View in IE' button for the first time =)
Speaking of internet browsing, Opera 9.50 just came out as well. Has full text history search and my favorite feature...Opera Sync. I opened 10 of the same internet sites with Opera and Firefox 3 and compared the memory imprint, FF3 was 10 mb greater. Opera was already configured to grab a ton of my RSS feeds, so I believe without RSS feeds bein pulled 9.50 could have had a good 20 mb on ff3.
Just wanted to shed some light on a lesser known, but in my opinion, very good browser.
I disagree. I have a program that I made that automatically quantifies time spent in programs and time spent on work related tasks.
Over the course of a year my reports indicate the following:
IM almost always detracts from productivty becuase IM's either interrupted or shifted my focus to a non-working task, required status changes to prevent interruptions, and is often used for procrastination. This was the finding of a one-year quantification of my working habits using IM with clients on the same list as IM with friends. Even client conversations often got off task.
If you limit your IM to short work related need-only basis with no friends on your list at work, it is more efficient than calling and the IM logging functionality makes it easy to reference work. Using IM Logging for information (on trillians search interface) was faster than email lookup and desktop search). Small gain there.
Short Answer, for the majority of users IM will detract from productivity. If the IM environment is strictly controlled with no friends and co-works only IMing on a need-information-now basis, then IM can be a great productivity enhancment for short conversations (versus the phone).
If it gets bad enough deep down inside, we all know we will just go on a killing spree when they take our porn collection away.
/s on the tor network which is not bad AT ALL. Now the police state is cock blocked from associating your traffic with you, unless they were able to monitor your exit node and your machine at the same time (e.g. dont hack your neighbor to use for an exit node, get an overseas machine if you can. If you can't you can use the default Tor network, just dont send anything sensitive over a non-SSL connection). You can use a squid + Privoxy combo to increase Tor speed. Now that your internet chat, email, and tor are anonymous you need to protect against theft\government. This requires having data remote (again better if overseas) syncronized with your local files. If your poor (you should be by now if your in the US) use XDrive or something similar. Finally, we need our hardrives or parts of our hardrive to be encrypted. I reccomend using TrueCrypt then backing up the remote container since TrueCrypt supports plausible deniabilty. That's it, when the feds come knocking, give them your machine, deny it has the plans to assisnate bush, while your machine is gone download your last backup of your encrypted drive, post assassination plan on /. where they can't find me becuase my traffic is so obfuscated and execute assassination plan. See the law isn't that bad...is it ^_^
Here's a tip, get yourself a secured remote machine, preferably in a non-police state, use tor for all your internet browsing and specifify your secured remote machine as the Tor exit node. If you are using a remote server on a t3+ as an exit node, you will average about 80 kb
The irony in all this is the bigger picture. Our founding fathers in the US escaped England for its goverments control of trade law and fiscal policies. Our trade agreements to managage music and video downloading will just annoy the crap out of the public. It is NOT a solution to pirating. Sounds familar? The US is becoming the UK. Although we don't have cameras on our streets, were gonna have them in our asses soon. As another slashdotter pointed out, this is the governments way of getting legislation passed for a completly different reason than to regulate piracy. It will be used to regulate much more... My fellow slashdotters, its time to start an open source project to build our own manmade island/space colony that we will declare as a soverign nation...one nation, under gpl, for liberty and porn for all...
Based upon the genealogy of the patriarchs as contained in Scripture, once one has determined the date of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, one should be able to arrive at a reasonably close determination for the Date of Creation. That dates creation around ~4106 BC. Also, christians are required by the gospel to accept the bible as the absolute word of god with no exceptions. If you do not fully believe in the virgin birth, jesus's ressurection, the flood, etc. then you are not christian by definition of the bible.
I prefer the Jefferson Bible, he removed all the BS from the bible. It cut the bible from 1660 (the one I found in my trash) to 46 pages of useful information.
Ignore the 3 I made a typo, I meant comes out in 8 days.
Fedora 9 comes out 8 days 3
Damn I thought Rossvyazokhrankultura was a good random string of characters....there goes my password.
i also want to encourage you to wikileak it.
Those damn terrorists attacked the titanic by planting an ice burg in the middle of the ocean. Solution? Attack Iran.
Everyone meet in Boston and DoS UK servers. It's the only way to tell the motherland that we will not put up with outrageous taxes.
I swear slashdot has the funniest sigs...
She cannot have a measured IQ of 228 becuase she took the Stanford-Binet test which would only give her 167+.
Article diverts attention from the real issue. Attacks are going to happen, the fact that there are so many that penetrated reveals a lack of policy enforcment by the government applied to the contractors. Fed government should also be smart enough to remove secret work from a remote networked machine. This article shows the US's pompous attitude towards IT.
Could be implemented in a way to defend against rocket\missle attacks? Possibly in a better way than Star Wars program.
Has anyone else noticed that the EU legislates technology issues very fast and they make appropriate decisions for their people? I wonder why the US is having so much trouble properly legislating IT?
Not to mention the ISPs in some countries (the police state, UK especially) will try to limit service by machine with mac address (forcing you to use mac spoofing to allow a router).
Computer Learning was a huge part of my school growing up. Elementary and Middle School taught with interactive games.
We Had:
Magic Garden (math, vocab, typing speed, was givien to us in first grade on Mac machines and early pcs)
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (was in our library)
Oregon Trail (was in our library, on an early mac)
Accelerated Reader program (quizzing system where books are worth points for reading based on difficulty and size)
I cant remember the others. I remember I learned the words dexterity, vitality, and mana from games when I was young.
This post is not a dupe. We are just in a parrellel universe...
I wonder how this kind of legislation would be interpreted in the US. Corporations would argue they had the right to collect and anylze data for research as they see fit...however, as mentioned above, this poses a privacy issue becuase the governmet becomes the all seeing eye. A possible compromise would be giving corporations a right to withold data from the government? Just some food for thought since the U.S. is dominated by corporate interest.
It dosnt matter if indivudal sites track the refferer variable. EACH site would need to track that information. Even then, the information would stay decentralized. The concern with search engines is a single centralization of mass behaviorial data, which (in my opinion), is a security threat. The chance of many decentralized sources tracking and losing information is unlikley.