Thanks. Both the uni AND my home connection (T-Online) do this, so it seems it's just a matter of being stuck in Hungary.
I didn't know countries had to buy bandwidth on the backbone for themselves...
The comment: speeds seem to depend on the location of the test server. For example, my connection at university has more than 50MB/s upstream to the server in Hungary (I'm in Hungary myself), but only 1-2MB/s to a California server (as tested by Speedtest.net), so it gives ISPs an opportunity to cheat the tests, like my home provider does: advertises 8MB/s download, with a minimum of 1MB/s at any time, provides ~5-6MB/s to the Hungarian server, and 1MB/s to a US server.
The question: why is it like this? Can someone please explain to me why speeds drop rapidly as the test server moves farther and farther away from my physical location? Is the lag in routing this significant?
By your reasoning, if I tracked you down and beat you to a pulp, you wouldn't be seeking revenge because I was engaging in bad behavior? ...
Can I have an address?
Actually, Adam's friends tested this: the signals, especially the 900MHz band, did interfere with unshielded electronics, but modern planes are mostly shielded. Thus, this limitation is being lifted in Europe.
A Milgram-experiment. I wish this were true. It would actually make sense when nothing else they do does...
Really, I'm thinking of buying a few bricks of modelling clay, an Arduino and some more components, and putting them in my backpack with the Arduino blinking an LED, then explain them at the checkpoint that I just killed all the people in the line. I'd like to see how they'd react to that, especially since I'm committing no crime at all in doing that.
To me, an SD card is a convenient way to expand the (EXTREMELY) limited internal storage of my HTC Universal, but it's also a convenient way to ferry data between a random laptop and my phone without installing ActiveSync on the laptop and setting up a sync relationship, since most laptops these days have a card reader. Therefore I expect the phone to treat the SD card as a separate, preferably FAT32 FS, not as some exotic spanned FS.
Furthermore, I think this is a terrible idea. In my experience, writing to internal storage is orders of magnitude faster than to the SD-slot. If the file system is spanned between the two, I see no reliable to gauge read-write speeds, compute ETR for file operations, and all sorts of problems. I'd be happier if MS introduced some proprietary connector to avoid mistakes like you sketched out with Joe Blow.
WM6.5 has an option to encrypt the card, making it readable only on the device that performed the encryption, but I haven't used it, so I can't tell you how well does it work.
What I do know is that you could always encrypt the whole card with TrueCrypt, making it readable only to YOU, provided you don't share the key.
Clearly MS thinks no income from Kinect sales is better than income from Kinect sales without games...
I didn't take a lot of Economy at university, but I thought corps are supposed to maximize their profits, and achieving any sort of sale counts toward that... But I see your point.
I just read the reply, and my reaction was "Oh please!"
What the fuck could MS lose if the Kinect driver is open-sourced? Hackers will still need to buy the unit itself. "Tamper-resistant"? The Hell? They placed an explosive charge in it, or why do they have to make it tamper-proof? If someone wants to tamper with it, they probably know enough to disable/circumvent/subvert the safeguards, and if the can't, they probably wouldn't mess around with it in the first place
Seriously, why does the US even need a kill switch? In fact, why are those machines accessible from outside in the first place? Even more so, why aren't the actual control devices airgapped from the rest of the network? What happened to security in the architecture?
That may be true, but a problem of this size endangers their own profits too: apart from governments tearing apart the content publishers for fucking up their intel networks, communications, remote sensing, science, etc, they would tear into their own profits: no satellite TV.
Plus, we are near enough to Kessler Syndrome, nobody wants to be the one to give spaceflight the physical coup de grace.
The way this is presented, this only redirect light a few degrees, which isn't going to do much. Now if it could redirect 40-50 upwards to create a nice fill effect... wait, it's still too small and weak. Yeah, just a gimmick, nothing worthwhile.
The way I see it, if you need a flash, you need a bigger camera too, because the puny front lens in the cellphone camera just won't cut it. Unless, of course, if you're aiming for crappy underexposed or motion blurred images, because one of them WILL happen most of the time...
When I graduated high school (in 2008, Hungary), I almost had to hunt hunt for a new calculator, as my Casio fx-82ES, while not programmable, and unable to store text information, has a dot-matrix screen capable of displaying the visual format of equations. The supervising teacher turned it on, and went through the functions one by one to see if it really was as dumb as I claimed it to be, and even then I had to jump through a few hoops to convince him it still fell under the "Permitted" category...
I don't know either, but I'm pretty sure this was done only to silence the public opinion on the US "not doing anything about the hackers!". What's the point of shutting down the networks once the damage is done? Cyberattacks can't be seen coming, like physical ones, and are fundamentally different. Why are those crucial computers networked in the first place, and why aren't they air-gapped?
If anyone's interested, you can read my full opinion at this address.
Cyber-warfare is not about killing people, it's about killing the country.
Think: no mains power, the backup generators can only sustain so much equipment for so long. Since the fuel pumps don't function either, you can't hop down to the gas station to buy some more fuel, and it will eventually run out. Then what? Production grinds to a halt, administration is disabled, communication services non-functional.
All you need then is one act of terrorism. No ambulances, no firefighters, as nobody can call for help. If someone does make it to the hospital, no X-ray, no life-support, no vital monitors, no defibrillator.
And this is just one scenario. Use your imagination!
Granted, Microsoft is the best at making their products more secure. That's because they have the worst security, so it's not hard to improve on that...
As if anyone these days needed the instructions: I'm pretty sure 99.999% of fliers are already familiar with the procedures, there's an illustrated card on the back of every seat, and people can pretty much rely on common sense.
Not that any of that is worth shit when the plane plows into the ground at 160 kmph, and you have lim(0) chance of survival with or without having listened through the lecture.
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Thanks. Both the uni AND my home connection (T-Online) do this, so it seems it's just a matter of being stuck in Hungary.
I didn't know countries had to buy bandwidth on the backbone for themselves...
Okay, this is part comment, part question.
The comment: speeds seem to depend on the location of the test server. For example, my connection at university has more than 50MB/s upstream to the server in Hungary (I'm in Hungary myself), but only 1-2MB/s to a California server (as tested by Speedtest.net), so it gives ISPs an opportunity to cheat the tests, like my home provider does: advertises 8MB/s download, with a minimum of 1MB/s at any time, provides ~5-6MB/s to the Hungarian server, and 1MB/s to a US server.
The question: why is it like this? Can someone please explain to me why speeds drop rapidly as the test server moves farther and farther away from my physical location? Is the lag in routing this significant?
I think a team at Google just set up a new world record in boredom...
Seriously not a good idea. I, personally, would not like a body-wide cancer.
Call me back when nanites are developed far enough to repair tissue damage!
By your reasoning, if I tracked you down and beat you to a pulp, you wouldn't be seeking revenge because I was engaging in bad behavior?
...
Can I have an address?
Actually, Adam's friends tested this: the signals, especially the 900MHz band, did interfere with unshielded electronics, but modern planes are mostly shielded. Thus, this limitation is being lifted in Europe.
A Milgram-experiment. I wish this were true. It would actually make sense when nothing else they do does...
Really, I'm thinking of buying a few bricks of modelling clay, an Arduino and some more components, and putting them in my backpack with the Arduino blinking an LED, then explain them at the checkpoint that I just killed all the people in the line. I'd like to see how they'd react to that, especially since I'm committing no crime at all in doing that.
Don't send the politicians! You want them to start fucking up another planet too, one with no voters yet?
To me, an SD card is a convenient way to expand the (EXTREMELY) limited internal storage of my HTC Universal, but it's also a convenient way to ferry data between a random laptop and my phone without installing ActiveSync on the laptop and setting up a sync relationship, since most laptops these days have a card reader. Therefore I expect the phone to treat the SD card as a separate, preferably FAT32 FS, not as some exotic spanned FS.
Furthermore, I think this is a terrible idea. In my experience, writing to internal storage is orders of magnitude faster than to the SD-slot. If the file system is spanned between the two, I see no reliable to gauge read-write speeds, compute ETR for file operations, and all sorts of problems. I'd be happier if MS introduced some proprietary connector to avoid mistakes like you sketched out with Joe Blow.
WM6.5 has an option to encrypt the card, making it readable only on the device that performed the encryption, but I haven't used it, so I can't tell you how well does it work.
What I do know is that you could always encrypt the whole card with TrueCrypt, making it readable only to YOU, provided you don't share the key.
Clearly MS thinks no income from Kinect sales is better than income from Kinect sales without games...
I didn't take a lot of Economy at university, but I thought corps are supposed to maximize their profits, and achieving any sort of sale counts toward that... But I see your point.
I just read the reply, and my reaction was "Oh please!"
What the fuck could MS lose if the Kinect driver is open-sourced? Hackers will still need to buy the unit itself. "Tamper-resistant"? The Hell? They placed an explosive charge in it, or why do they have to make it tamper-proof? If someone wants to tamper with it, they probably know enough to disable/circumvent/subvert the safeguards, and if the can't, they probably wouldn't mess around with it in the first place
Seriously, why does the US even need a kill switch? In fact, why are those machines accessible from outside in the first place? Even more so, why aren't the actual control devices airgapped from the rest of the network? What happened to security in the architecture?
That may be true, but a problem of this size endangers their own profits too: apart from governments tearing apart the content publishers for fucking up their intel networks, communications, remote sensing, science, etc, they would tear into their own profits: no satellite TV. Plus, we are near enough to Kessler Syndrome, nobody wants to be the one to give spaceflight the physical coup de grace.
I seem to remember that cellphone chargers in the EU have been standardized to use the mini-USB plug and standard.
I second your opinion.
... wait, it's still too small and weak. Yeah, just a gimmick, nothing worthwhile.
The way this is presented, this only redirect light a few degrees, which isn't going to do much. Now if it could redirect 40-50 upwards to create a nice fill effect
The way I see it, if you need a flash, you need a bigger camera too, because the puny front lens in the cellphone camera just won't cut it. Unless, of course, if you're aiming for crappy underexposed or motion blurred images, because one of them WILL happen most of the time...
I'd pay money to see an Apple Vs. Microsoft Vs. Unix-in-all-its-flavors lawsuit
I'm not a guitar expert, or anything, but I expect they could go after Tenacious D and the Pick Of Destiny too
How long until they start suing whichever studio made this movie? Either that, or until they make their own version: "Invasion of the iPod People"
When I graduated high school (in 2008, Hungary), I almost had to hunt hunt for a new calculator, as my Casio fx-82ES, while not programmable, and unable to store text information, has a dot-matrix screen capable of displaying the visual format of equations. The supervising teacher turned it on, and went through the functions one by one to see if it really was as dumb as I claimed it to be, and even then I had to jump through a few hoops to convince him it still fell under the "Permitted" category...
I don't know either, but I'm pretty sure this was done only to silence the public opinion on the US "not doing anything about the hackers!". What's the point of shutting down the networks once the damage is done? Cyberattacks can't be seen coming, like physical ones, and are fundamentally different. Why are those crucial computers networked in the first place, and why aren't they air-gapped?
If anyone's interested, you can read my full opinion at this address.
A common joke among laser enthusiasts. BTW, I want two of those. Plus the driver required.
Cyber-warfare is not about killing people, it's about killing the country.
Think: no mains power, the backup generators can only sustain so much equipment for so long. Since the fuel pumps don't function either, you can't hop down to the gas station to buy some more fuel, and it will eventually run out. Then what? Production grinds to a halt, administration is disabled, communication services non-functional.
All you need then is one act of terrorism. No ambulances, no firefighters, as nobody can call for help. If someone does make it to the hospital, no X-ray, no life-support, no vital monitors, no defibrillator.
And this is just one scenario. Use your imagination!
Granted, Microsoft is the best at making their products more secure. That's because they have the worst security, so it's not hard to improve on that...
As if anyone these days needed the instructions: I'm pretty sure 99.999% of fliers are already familiar with the procedures, there's an illustrated card on the back of every seat, and people can pretty much rely on common sense.
Not that any of that is worth shit when the plane plows into the ground at 160 kmph, and you have lim(0) chance of survival with or without having listened through the lecture.