I'd get them on Jonathan Swift(Gullivers Travels) or Washington Irving(essays like Wouter van Twiller and novels like Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Ray Bradbury (irritated people is awesome for kids).
These guys really captured my imagination when I was that age and I ended up devouring everything I could find by them. A mini game for me was looking up what words like capricious meant as I read them.
On trips with such books, I'd while away the hours reading and looking strange words up.
My dad had boxes full of pulp sci fi short story books from the 50's and 60's and that's where I got introduced to Asimov and Bradbury. I read every one cover to cover many times and never really got sick of them. As you can imagine, they were falling apart and I had to be careful not to split them on every page turn.
If you can find reprints of these things they are littered with short stories by the greats.
Maybe some of it was a little mature for me at the time, but it's not like it destroyed my innocence and turned me into a psycho or something.
People are way too protective of kids when it comes to great literature. Overtly violent stuff (like the Running Man, Lord of the Flies etc) is probably not a good thing, but mature undertones shouldn't set you off. Repression leads to overcompensation;)
I read 1984, Lord of the flies, and animal farm when I was 13. In retrospect, those were a little intense for my age but made a huge impression on me. Human nature is simply scary... Books that deal with that type of reality are best left for late teens.
My way of dealing with corporate talk like this is not to be a victim. I worked at a major financial firm that wanted to move my team to Ohio to "integrate" with the rest of the units that handled online business, after several mergers.
"Integrate" is a fancy corporate way of saying "downsize" or "trim the fat". As soon as they made the announcement that we were moving within a year and described why, I dusted off my resume and started looking.
3 months later, I got an offer the day they announced the actual date in a short notice meeting. Around half my team stayed with the company and moved, I put my notice in right after the meeting and started working at a security startup 2 weeks later.
Around 6 months later I got an IM from a former coworker that most of the team was getting laid off *after selling their houses and moving to Ohio*. Most bought houses in Ohio, which is pretty depressed right now. Needless to say they are more or less stuck there. There aren't many jobs there. Their mortgages didn't even have time to season.
The moral of the story is: Go with your gut feelings and intuition. If you smell something bad, chances are there's something bad coming. Your gut won't lie to you.
The sooner you make your move the better off you'll be. Right now you have time to get what you want. If you wait, and end up in a bad situation, you might even have to take the first thing you find.
IANAL, but have an entertainment attorney (since I am a publisher/engineer/producer in my spare time) who made a very important point:
You can make fair use of content, just make sure you have the bank account to fight them when they take you to court. The golden rule applies. You can get sued for using a kick drum sample to make an original beat for a new song. Will you get sued for this?
Depends...
Would they win?
Not if you can outlast them financially in court and have the better attorney who can prove that you are making "fair use" to whatever judge is on the case.
It's a lot easier to pay $.99 to license the kick drum sample from a service that sells sound, as long as you keep your reciept:D
Unless vim or emacs is your ide 8) Then there's no download necessary.
IDEs invariably give me a headache and create a bunch of unnecessary work whenever I'm forced to learn a new one. I don't bother now.
Smile, wave, say "I love this Ouijia board!" to your boss, and get your real work done in the old standby. If it compiles, and you checked it in, nobody is the wiser.
That way in 2 months when some busybody convinces your boss that "hey this other IDE pwns that IDE" and they buy it, then try to force it in you with no lube, you are above the fray and can continue being productive.
I just keep it up with some convincing looking code. Whenever no one is looking, I go back to my terminal and continue being productive.
Once in a while, to liven things up, I break it then go talk to one of the interns while the responsible numbnuts try to get the fancy IDE working again.
Moral: Trying to make developers use the latest greatest IDE is like herding cats. You are better off spending that IDE money on the guy that wants it, and getting an espresso machine with a couple of years worth of cartridges for everyone else, using the money you'd have spent on all those licenses.
I know a woman with a masters degree in CS and prefers to run Sun boxes. She hates programming. A CS degree will enable you to be one hell of an admin tho...
That being said I love coding and things would have to get desperate for me to ever wear a pager and babysit servers. Every job I work at, eventually, loses an admin and the boss tries to push me into running servers AND coding or something.
I fix that situation by babysitting the servers, and keeping them running, but letting my projects fall in the trash. Works every time 8). I simply can't function as an adminiveloper because I'm a perfectionist and my code quality goes to shit if I'm interrupted 50 times a day. This eats away at me.
>my friend's vintage first generation g4 still boots up perfectly
So does my Gateway G6 PII 350 using the original 8GB hd. If I recall correctly, I bought it 10 years ago in 1998. I still use it as an IPTABLES firewall/squidproxy/dns/router box. Every year or so, I pull the powersupply and fans to blow the dust out of them. It sits in my basement being an old workhorse and logging script kiddie attempts.
Ahh, the good old days of lead solder. It will be interesting to see how long the tin soldered stuff lasts.
Hopefully when the drive eventually fails I'll be able to find an IDE drive I can plug into it. If not, I'll just have to buy an sata interface for it, provided I can find a PCI one:D
> It boils down to dumb users mainly and the fact that most games have no lockout period for x number of failed attempts, or strong password policy requirements. They are ripe for brute forcing/dictionary attacks...
Part of the blame goes to dumb game companies for not following a "security-by-design" philosophy ; )
It's easy to blame users, and really hard to look in the mirror and point the finger at the guy who's looking back at you.
"Blame the user" is way too prevalent in the gaming industry because they don't like to admit that they didn't (or possibly don't know how to) do a good job with security.
I've _NEVER_ seen a lockout timer on a game for failing to enter the password correctly 3 times.
NCSoft has a lockout on their site and web based user interface, but you are free to try to log in as many times as you like directly in the game.
This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed before anyone starts blaming users.
/QFT. I was thinking the same thing when I read the op.
Congestion on only a few end links can cause a whole interlink to get saturated. I.E. if you have 128 customers on a DSLAM box with 10Mbps to the backbone, and 8 of them saturate their 1.5Mbps link, that's all 128 dealing with shitty network throughput since they connect up to a core link through the same wire. If you multiply that out, the whole backbone gets saturated and everyone gets horrible service.
That's *less* than 5% of people saturating their connections. If they are doing it 24x7 they become a nuisance and the other 123 people can't even look at cnn without experiencing stalled page loads.
P2P _must_ be throttled or no one's QoS can be guaranteed and they'll lose customers. What they should really do, is scale p2p based on demand... IE if someone is saturating their connection as others start sending packets, back off their connection speed as necessary. They shouldn't target p2p traffic specifically, they should apply it to _all_ traffic. Otherwise p2p clients will just start operating on random ports and their rulesets will get out of hand, slowing things down even more.
Trust me, I hate comcast and verizon as much as the next guy, but they gotta do what they gotta do. You can't bend the laws of physics. People that whine about it have sharing issues and are selfish.
They should simply meter it and charge people for what they use beyond 50GB a month or something. "You want to p2p constantly? Fine, we need to upgrade our network to accommodate you, so it's going to cost you."
This would serve fine for people that occasionally need to download a 8GB game they just bought from direct2drive or something, but p2p would get real expensive, real fast, for people that simply log into whatever p2p system and download everything they see.
OSX and linux are immune to viruses and don't get malware!!!
>plant tongue firmly in cheek/end sarcasm
I hate to say it but I told you so. I cringe every time I see some moron recommending linux or OSX "because they don't get viruses and are immune to malware".
And no, I'm not a windows user (except at work, Gentoo at home).
The reason for the "immunity" is that people simply haven't targeted these os's yet. 0day will get here eventually... just give it time.
Ok, yes the traffic will be encrypted, yes the communication is safe.
However, this sets up users to accept *anyone's* cert for that site. If the dns is hijacked or something, and the users are redirected to an attacker's server, the users will already be used to just accepting any certificate and they may accept an attacker's certificate and log into a malicious site, not realizing that the site is counterfeit and being operated by malicous people who are collecting their logins or worse.
The whole purpose of using signed certificates is so that you know the site owner is who they say they are because Verisign checked them out.
This is a very "ghetto" way to do things and I'd personally not use the site, since I have no way to verify it's really their server on a day to day basis. This is especially important when expiration time rolls around since the users will have to accept a cert again. How do they know it's really the same site operator and not an attacker? The attacker could just add a notice to the site: "Our cert has expired, please accept the new one and add an exception.". The user (who's done this once already) will think nothing of accepting the new one regardless of who it really belongs to.
While not dangerous from a technological point of view, it is dangerous from a social angle. This is the whole reason certificate authorities exist, so users can verify who the site owner is, hence the name *Veri* sign. The op should have summoned the power of google for this info.
-Viz
Their driver quality is already on par with nVidia's on linux. Soon it will exceed nVidia's quality, therefore the hardware will be better (since it will work better). ATI's got thousands of eyes looking at the driver code now, where before it might have been 10. This will spill back into windows as other third parties start writing drivers with the supplied specs.
Interesting because I expected this to take at least a year (from last September).
ATi is already ahead of my expectations and my next mobo is an AMD crossfire chipset (which I'm ordering at the end of the month)
8)
nVidia chipsets are terrible. The only thing keeping me there was ATi's terrible driver quality so SLi was the only way to go for the last couple of years. First it was the buggy MCP-55 on the 590 chipset, now it's the memory voltage issues on the 790i. I'm simply not going there again.
I'm still living with the hitching on the 590 I have (due to the buggy southbridge timer, interrupts aren't handled properly and distributed to the cores correctly. this leads to irregular hitching in games due to the choppy interrupt handling) and it's actually a miracle that the linux kernel (and windows) crews were able to handle the issue in the kernel at all.
nVidia is going down... their chipset hardware is substandard and rarely works correctly and this will hurt their GPU sales unless they get on the ball since you need an nVidia chipset to use multiple nVidia GPUs.
It's simply crap at the electrical level. They don't know what they are doing. If you don't believe me, google "790i chipset memory problem"
Then google "590 MCP-55 timer bug". Their primary market is enthusiasts and they are destroying their reputation, and squelching the press (Tom's hardware etc) won't hide it. This, combined with the AMD open source cooperation is the perfect storm that will eventually kill them unless they start making better quality hardware.
AMD has had it's share of issues but at least they admit it when they have a problem and fix it. nVidia doesn't and they are building shit for chipsets. It's too bad only the enthusiasts know what's up, if everyone else cared and really knew what was up, nVidia would be out of business rather quickly.
They need to stick to GPU's and forget about chipsets. It's obvious after a few years that they won't be able to pull it together.
IANAL, but by that same logic, it's ok to walk into a stranger's house, who accidentally left the door unlocked, help yourself to a glass of water, and watch TV.
By turning the knob you ask the door's permission right? Whether or not it's locked, if you don't own or lease the property, and don't ask the tenant for permission, you are trespassing.
You don't ask an inanimate piece of gear for permission, you ask the owner of it, much like you'd ask the owner of a house if it's ok to come in whether or not the door is locked.
I don't believe you can "steal" WiFi. You can, however, trespass on a WiFi network.
-Viz
A stern warning is justified. Just let them know that the stuff they do on a corporate machine can be tracked to them and used as a reason to terminate their employment.
Explain how those sites often have malicious scripts that install malware and can necessitate a re-image, which costs money, time and aggravation.
If I was the guy in TFA, I'd be hiring an attorney right now for a wrongful termination and libel suit and seek punitive damages for sullying his name, as well as his job back. He's not responsible for his administrator's sloppy work and hasn't done anything wrong. A child porn termination is not a good thing to show up when a prospective employer Googles your name.
This is irreparable harm.
-Viz
They show Crysis getting 41.4FPS on a Gigabyte GeForce 9800 X2
However from the linked article in the op (which is the same freaking magazine): Crysis GeForce 9800 GTX: 11.7 FPS, 2x Geforce 9800 GTX: 12.8?
WTF? They think we were born yesterday? They either lied for the first article or they are lying now.
I smell payola and Maximum PC is not to be trusted.
They are either: A. falsely claiming that the 9800 GTX is the fastest current nvidia processor (what about the GX2?), or B. Comparing the GTX280 to a lemon.
This benchmark/comparison is worth almost as much as that Brooklyn Bridge deed I have in my wallet... Wow I just sneezed and it sounded a little like "HBULLSHIT!"
This article is suspect at best. I don't own a 9800GTX (I have a GTS 640 from last year) but if I did I'd take this article with a grain of salt the size of a standard rubik's cube.
Crysis is a DirectX 10 game.
When run under Vista, it features tons of additional effects. Those are the reasons why the speed improvement in Crysis aren't that much impressive under Vista.
-----------------/QFT
There's a lot of additional rendering happening with a DX10 vs. DX9 even using the same game, if you have the DX10 features enabled in the game. A more interesting comparison could have been done using a game which supports DX9 or DX10 on vista, and running it in DX9 mode to compare to XP.
-Viz
>inferior, cost-free tools My favorite ouija board killer is vim... Flame away EMACS guys. Let it be known that EMACS is a great editor too and is even more powerful than vi. There I said it. I still like vim better 8)
Ever since I refused to use an IDE (after people couldn't make up their minds and were on the 3rd one in 5 years) in 1999, I've been more productive than ever. If I change jobs and have to use the latest whizbang IDE, I lose 2 weeks just figuring out where everything is and where to click. With vi I'm up and running immediately. Everyone has their favorite IDE they like to shove down people's throats. You can keep them, all of them.
>Why is it that when an SUV owner gets into an accident, it is because they are aggressive?
I can't see the other cars being aggressive because all I can see in my rear view mirror is the grill of that ford expedition that's riding my bumper. and I'm in the "slow" lane.
Bottom line is SUV operators generally think they are in an arms race with everyone else on the road so they buy the largest heaviest vehicle they can afford. Then they like to flex... I've talked to them and that's what they tell me. They say things like "In an accident, it won't be *me* that dies so they'd better just get out of the way in their little shoeboxes".
This attitude is typical.
Why else would someone living in a rowhouse, in a city, with nothing but a dog, drive a suburban?
That's not the ToS, that's a feature description. ToS is a legal document that looks more like: "11. MONITORING THE SERVICES EarthLink has no obligation to monitor the Services, but may do so and disclose information regarding use of the Services for any reason if EarthLink, in its sole discretion, believes that it is reasonable to do so, including to: satisfy laws, regulations, or governmental or legal requests; operate the Service properly; or protect itself, its employees, its customers or others. See our Privacy Policy. EarthLink may immediately remove your material or information from EarthLink's servers, in whole or in part, which EarthLink, in its sole and absolute discretion, determines to infringe another's property rights or to violate our Acceptable Use Policy or other policies or laws."
In the acceptible use policy: "2. VIOLATIONS OF EARTHLINK'S ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
The following constitute violations of this AUP:
1. Illegal use. Using the Services to transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that, intentionally or unintentionally, violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder. "
Give me your ISP name and I'll pull yours. Violating their rules can result in account termination. That feature you mentioned is guaranteed to only be usable if you don't violate the ToS and AUP. Sharing copyrighted materials is a violation of law so would be an infraction.
That's actually pretty kind for people that violate their ToS, which usually list copyright violations as one of the big no-nos. Technically they could drop them on the first offense then hand them over to the RIAA with all the evidence the RIAA needs.
Personally I'd rather have my service cut off and learn a valuable lesson than get sued by the RIAA. It's doubtful that it's a antitrust violation since they are punishing people that break the rules outlined in their ToS.
Bravo? They are doing their subscribers a favor. They could collect the info, forward it to the RIAA, then let them keep subscribing so the RIAA can surgically get their statistics and log them sharing files until they get a suitably sized sample of their activity to get whatever damage award they want.
Another point: Since shares are publicly accessible on the p2p networks, it's not spying, despite the tin foil hat mentality the author is implying. Spying implies the interception of communication. Sharing files illegally doesn't require spying to see it happening.
All it takes is a p2p program on the same network...
It's the ISPs duty to police illegal activity occurring on their network.
The only danger I see is that people sharing files legally (the copyright owners) could be singled out and dropped erroneously.
I fail to see how this is any worse than an employer firing someone for running a p2p server which is sharing copyrighted files to the world from their employer's network. Copyright violation is copyright violation, and is illegal activity according to current laws.
If you want to fix this problem, write your leaders and have the copyright laws changed. They are the real culprit, not the people abiding the law by policing their networks.
If you care about your machine and what happens to it, it's your job. If you just want to flail around in anger when your box becomes a big paperweight, leave it up to someone else.
It's the job of the authorities to lock up the crackers and other people that commit electronic crimes. It's your job to lock your front door.
At the end of the day, the authorities and your ISP can't do anything until the threat is known. By then the damage is done.
99.9% of stuff can be mitigated with NoScript, a $50 firewall, and a slight change in behavior (stop trying to steal music, porn, movies and software). If you can't take these steps, I'm genuinely amazed that you are capable of showering, starting your car and driving to work and functioning. Most people can, but won't. It sort of flows into that whole "not accepting responsibility for stuff I do" attitude that pervades modern society.
Typical transaction: Dumbass (to self): Sweet I just got the entire collection of every rolling stones song ever made for free! 8) >click Computer: all of your files are belong to us. Send payment to uvebeenpwned@yahoo.com or you won't get your files back, MU HU HA HA.
Dumbass (to IT buddy): My computer is running slow and all my files got encrypted. I think I have spyware. IT Buddy: You use p2p? Dumbass: no, I have no idea what happened, I swear I dun't download.../snicker
point 1: Hopefully I'm not the only one that can see the humor in a Web 2.0 technology based on a Japanese programming language, which is called ARAX.
point 2: Now that Microsoft is embracing, extending, and likely patenting it, we can look forward to 10 more years of broken browser compatibility./golf clap
You've got to love Microsoft. They keep us employed even if we don't use their tools.
The e-vote software needs to seed the data at random intervals from a list. It should store the data hashed.
You filter the resulting seed votes (and remove them) from the results using the same list, but not before validating them all to see if any of it has been changed. If any of the seed data has changed, the results have been tampered with.
The lists should be generated randomly, formulated into data that looks like the rest of the data, and loaded into the voting machine daily to prevent predictability.
It's not rocket science...
Of course the risk is that someone loses the seed data file, or uses the wrong one accidentally. You need to design the system so it's really hard to make this mistake, but is stored in the voting machine hashed with a strong algorithm.
Losing this file would invalidate the machine's results. You'd need to store a list of all voters that used each machine daily, but in a way that you couldn't associate the voters with the votes, so if the worst happend they could be called back to revote.
This would be very fun to build and quite effective...
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>Rendezvous with Rama
+5
Focusing on one genre is silly for kids that age.
I'd get them on Jonathan Swift(Gullivers Travels) or Washington Irving(essays like Wouter van Twiller and novels like Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Ray Bradbury (irritated people is awesome for kids).
These guys really captured my imagination when I was that age and I ended up devouring everything I could find by them. A mini game for me was looking up what words like capricious meant as I read them.
On trips with such books, I'd while away the hours reading and looking strange words up.
My dad had boxes full of pulp sci fi short story books from the 50's and 60's and that's where I got introduced to Asimov and Bradbury. I read every one cover to cover many times and never really got sick of them. As you can imagine, they were falling apart and I had to be careful not to split them on every page turn.
If you can find reprints of these things they are littered with short stories by the greats.
Maybe some of it was a little mature for me at the time, but it's not like it destroyed my innocence and turned me into a psycho or something.
People are way too protective of kids when it comes to great literature. Overtly violent stuff (like the Running Man, Lord of the Flies etc) is probably not a good thing, but mature undertones shouldn't set you off. Repression leads to overcompensation ;)
I read 1984, Lord of the flies, and animal farm when I was 13. In retrospect, those were a little intense for my age but made a huge impression on me. Human nature is simply scary... Books that deal with that type of reality are best left for late teens.
-Viz
My way of dealing with corporate talk like this is not to be a victim. I worked at a major financial firm that wanted to move my team to Ohio to "integrate" with the rest of the units that handled online business, after several mergers.
"Integrate" is a fancy corporate way of saying "downsize" or "trim the fat". As soon as they made the announcement that we were moving within a year and described why, I dusted off my resume and started looking.
3 months later, I got an offer the day they announced the actual date in a short notice meeting. Around half my team stayed with the company and moved, I put my notice in right after the meeting and started working at a security startup 2 weeks later.
Around 6 months later I got an IM from a former coworker that most of the team was getting laid off *after selling their houses and moving to Ohio*. Most bought houses in Ohio, which is pretty depressed right now. Needless to say they are more or less stuck there. There aren't many jobs there. Their mortgages didn't even have time to season.
The moral of the story is: Go with your gut feelings and intuition. If you smell something bad, chances are there's something bad coming. Your gut won't lie to you.
The sooner you make your move the better off you'll be. Right now you have time to get what you want. If you wait, and end up in a bad situation, you might even have to take the first thing you find.
-Viz
Just learn a language soon, preferably before ze Germans get here.
I was about to say the same thing...
IANAL, but have an entertainment attorney (since I am a publisher/engineer/producer in my spare time) who made a very important point:
You can make fair use of content, just make sure you have the bank account to fight them when they take you to court. The golden rule applies. You can get sued for using a kick drum sample to make an original beat for a new song. Will you get sued for this?
Depends...
Would they win?
Not if you can outlast them financially in court and have the better attorney who can prove that you are making "fair use" to whatever judge is on the case.
It's a lot easier to pay $.99 to license the kick drum sample from a service that sells sound, as long as you keep your reciept:D
-Viz
Unless vim or emacs is your ide 8) Then there's no download necessary.
IDEs invariably give me a headache and create a bunch of unnecessary work whenever I'm forced to learn a new one. I don't bother now.
Smile, wave, say "I love this Ouijia board!" to your boss, and get your real work done in the old standby. If it compiles, and you checked it in, nobody is the wiser.
That way in 2 months when some busybody convinces your boss that "hey this other IDE pwns that IDE" and they buy it, then try to force it in you with no lube, you are above the fray and can continue being productive.
I just keep it up with some convincing looking code. Whenever no one is looking, I go back to my terminal and continue being productive.
Once in a while, to liven things up, I break it then go talk to one of the interns while the responsible numbnuts try to get the fancy IDE working again.
Moral: Trying to make developers use the latest greatest IDE is like herding cats. You are better off spending that IDE money on the guy that wants it, and getting an espresso machine with a couple of years worth of cartridges for everyone else, using the money you'd have spent on all those licenses.
Sometimes, the best things in life are free ; )
-Viz
Wearing a pager? /shudder
I know a woman with a masters degree in CS and prefers to run Sun boxes. She hates programming. A CS degree will enable you to be one hell of an admin tho...
That being said I love coding and things would have to get desperate for me to ever wear a pager and babysit servers. Every job I work at, eventually, loses an admin and the boss tries to push me into running servers AND coding or something.
I fix that situation by babysitting the servers, and keeping them running, but letting my projects fall in the trash. Works every time 8). I simply can't function as an adminiveloper because I'm a perfectionist and my code quality goes to shit if I'm interrupted 50 times a day. This eats away at me.
To each his own...
-Viz
>my friend's vintage first generation g4 still boots up perfectly
So does my Gateway G6 PII 350 using the original 8GB hd. If I recall correctly, I bought it 10 years ago in 1998. I still use it as an IPTABLES firewall/squidproxy/dns/router box. Every year or so, I pull the powersupply and fans to blow the dust out of them. It sits in my basement being an old workhorse and logging script kiddie attempts.
Ahh, the good old days of lead solder. It will be interesting to see how long the tin soldered stuff lasts.
Hopefully when the drive eventually fails I'll be able to find an IDE drive I can plug into it. If not, I'll just have to buy an sata interface for it, provided I can find a PCI one :D
-Viz
> It boils down to dumb users mainly
and the fact that most games have no lockout period for x number of failed attempts, or strong password policy requirements. They are ripe for brute forcing/dictionary attacks...
Part of the blame goes to dumb game companies for not following a "security-by-design" philosophy ; )
It's easy to blame users, and really hard to look in the mirror and point the finger at the guy who's looking back at you.
"Blame the user" is way too prevalent in the gaming industry because they don't like to admit that they didn't (or possibly don't know how to) do a good job with security.
I've _NEVER_ seen a lockout timer on a game for failing to enter the password correctly 3 times.
NCSoft has a lockout on their site and web based user interface, but you are free to try to log in as many times as you like directly in the game.
This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed before anyone starts blaming users.
-Viz
/QFT. I was thinking the same thing when I read the op.
Congestion on only a few end links can cause a whole interlink to get saturated. I.E. if you have 128 customers on a DSLAM box with 10Mbps to the backbone, and 8 of them saturate their 1.5Mbps link, that's all 128 dealing with shitty network throughput since they connect up to a core link through the same wire. If you multiply that out, the whole backbone gets saturated and everyone gets horrible service.
That's *less* than 5% of people saturating their connections. If they are doing it 24x7 they become a nuisance and the other 123 people can't even look at cnn without experiencing stalled page loads.
P2P _must_ be throttled or no one's QoS can be guaranteed and they'll lose customers. What they should really do, is scale p2p based on demand... IE if someone is saturating their connection as others start sending packets, back off their connection speed as necessary. They shouldn't target p2p traffic specifically, they should apply it to _all_ traffic. Otherwise p2p clients will just start operating on random ports and their rulesets will get out of hand, slowing things down even more.
Trust me, I hate comcast and verizon as much as the next guy, but they gotta do what they gotta do. You can't bend the laws of physics. People that whine about it have sharing issues and are selfish.
They should simply meter it and charge people for what they use beyond 50GB a month or something. "You want to p2p constantly? Fine, we need to upgrade our network to accommodate you, so it's going to cost you."
This would serve fine for people that occasionally need to download a 8GB game they just bought from direct2drive or something, but p2p would get real expensive, real fast, for people that simply log into whatever p2p system and download everything they see.
-Viz
OSX and linux are immune to viruses and don't get malware!!!
>plant tongue firmly in cheek /end sarcasm
I hate to say it but I told you so. I cringe every time I see some moron recommending linux or OSX "because they don't get viruses and are immune to malware".
And no, I'm not a windows user (except at work, Gentoo at home).
The reason for the "immunity" is that people simply haven't targeted these os's yet. 0day will get here eventually... just give it time.
-Viz
Ok, yes the traffic will be encrypted, yes the communication is safe. However, this sets up users to accept *anyone's* cert for that site. If the dns is hijacked or something, and the users are redirected to an attacker's server, the users will already be used to just accepting any certificate and they may accept an attacker's certificate and log into a malicious site, not realizing that the site is counterfeit and being operated by malicous people who are collecting their logins or worse. The whole purpose of using signed certificates is so that you know the site owner is who they say they are because Verisign checked them out. This is a very "ghetto" way to do things and I'd personally not use the site, since I have no way to verify it's really their server on a day to day basis. This is especially important when expiration time rolls around since the users will have to accept a cert again. How do they know it's really the same site operator and not an attacker? The attacker could just add a notice to the site: "Our cert has expired, please accept the new one and add an exception.". The user (who's done this once already) will think nothing of accepting the new one regardless of who it really belongs to. While not dangerous from a technological point of view, it is dangerous from a social angle. This is the whole reason certificate authorities exist, so users can verify who the site owner is, hence the name *Veri* sign. The op should have summoned the power of google for this info. -Viz
AMD/ATI will fix nVidia 8)
Their driver quality is already on par with nVidia's on linux. Soon it will exceed nVidia's quality, therefore the hardware will be better (since it will work better). ATI's got thousands of eyes looking at the driver code now, where before it might have been 10. This will spill back into windows as other third parties start writing drivers with the supplied specs.
Interesting because I expected this to take at least a year (from last September).
ATi is already ahead of my expectations and my next mobo is an AMD crossfire chipset (which I'm ordering at the end of the month)
8)
nVidia chipsets are terrible. The only thing keeping me there was ATi's terrible driver quality so SLi was the only way to go for the last couple of years. First it was the buggy MCP-55 on the 590 chipset, now it's the memory voltage issues on the 790i. I'm simply not going there again.
I'm still living with the hitching on the 590 I have (due to the buggy southbridge timer, interrupts aren't handled properly and distributed to the cores correctly. this leads to irregular hitching in games due to the choppy interrupt handling) and it's actually a miracle that the linux kernel (and windows) crews were able to handle the issue in the kernel at all.
nVidia is going down... their chipset hardware is substandard and rarely works correctly and this will hurt their GPU sales unless they get on the ball since you need an nVidia chipset to use multiple nVidia GPUs.
It's simply crap at the electrical level. They don't know what they are doing. If you don't believe me, google "790i chipset memory problem"
Then google "590 MCP-55 timer bug". Their primary market is enthusiasts and they are destroying their reputation, and squelching the press (Tom's hardware etc) won't hide it. This, combined with the AMD open source cooperation is the perfect storm that will eventually kill them unless they start making better quality hardware.
AMD has had it's share of issues but at least they admit it when they have a problem and fix it. nVidia doesn't and they are building shit for chipsets. It's too bad only the enthusiasts know what's up, if everyone else cared and really knew what was up, nVidia would be out of business rather quickly.
They need to stick to GPU's and forget about chipsets. It's obvious after a few years that they won't be able to pull it together.
-AC
IANAL, but by that same logic, it's ok to walk into a stranger's house, who accidentally left the door unlocked, help yourself to a glass of water, and watch TV. By turning the knob you ask the door's permission right? Whether or not it's locked, if you don't own or lease the property, and don't ask the tenant for permission, you are trespassing. You don't ask an inanimate piece of gear for permission, you ask the owner of it, much like you'd ask the owner of a house if it's ok to come in whether or not the door is locked. I don't believe you can "steal" WiFi. You can, however, trespass on a WiFi network. -Viz
A stern warning is justified. Just let them know that the stuff they do on a corporate machine can be tracked to them and used as a reason to terminate their employment. Explain how those sites often have malicious scripts that install malware and can necessitate a re-image, which costs money, time and aggravation. If I was the guy in TFA, I'd be hiring an attorney right now for a wrongful termination and libel suit and seek punitive damages for sullying his name, as well as his job back. He's not responsible for his administrator's sloppy work and hasn't done anything wrong. A child porn termination is not a good thing to show up when a prospective employer Googles your name. This is irreparable harm. -Viz
Right, that's why at this link:
(Posted 05/1/08 at 04:20:57PM | by Michael Brown)
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/gigabyte_geforce_9800_x2
They show Crysis getting 41.4FPS on a Gigabyte GeForce 9800 X2
However from the linked article in the op (which is the same freaking magazine):
Crysis GeForce 9800 GTX: 11.7 FPS, 2x Geforce 9800 GTX: 12.8?
WTF? They think we were born yesterday? They either lied for the first article or they are lying now.
I smell payola and Maximum PC is not to be trusted.
They are either:
A. falsely claiming that the 9800 GTX is the fastest current nvidia processor (what about the GX2?), or
B. Comparing the GTX280 to a lemon.
This benchmark/comparison is worth almost as much as that Brooklyn Bridge deed I have in my wallet... Wow I just sneezed and it sounded a little like "HBULLSHIT!"
This article is suspect at best. I don't own a 9800GTX (I have a GTS 640 from last year) but if I did I'd take this article with a grain of salt the size of a standard rubik's cube.
-Viz
Crysis is a DirectX 10 game. When run under Vista, it features tons of additional effects. Those are the reasons why the speed improvement in Crysis aren't that much impressive under Vista. ----------------- /QFT
There's a lot of additional rendering happening with a DX10 vs. DX9 even using the same game, if you have the DX10 features enabled in the game. A more interesting comparison could have been done using a game which supports DX9 or DX10 on vista, and running it in DX9 mode to compare to XP.
-Viz
>inferior, cost-free tools
My favorite ouija board killer is vim...
Flame away EMACS guys. Let it be known that EMACS is a great editor too and is even more powerful than vi. There I said it. I still like vim better 8)
Ever since I refused to use an IDE (after people couldn't make up their minds and were on the 3rd one in 5 years) in 1999, I've been more productive than ever. If I change jobs and have to use the latest whizbang IDE, I lose 2 weeks just figuring out where everything is and where to click. With vi I'm up and running immediately. Everyone has their favorite IDE they like to shove down people's throats. You can keep them, all of them.
-Viz
>Why is it that when an SUV owner gets into an accident, it is because they are aggressive?
I can't see the other cars being aggressive because all I can see in my rear view mirror is the grill of that ford expedition that's riding my bumper. and I'm in the "slow" lane.
Bottom line is SUV operators generally think they are in an arms race with everyone else on the road so they buy the largest heaviest vehicle they can afford. Then they like to flex... I've talked to them and that's what they tell me. They say things like "In an accident, it won't be *me* that dies so they'd better just get out of the way in their little shoeboxes".
This attitude is typical.
Why else would someone living in a rowhouse, in a city, with nothing but a dog, drive a suburban?
If that's not aggressive, I'm not sure what is.
-Viz
That's not the ToS, that's a feature description. ToS is a legal document that looks more like:
"11. MONITORING THE SERVICES
EarthLink has no obligation to monitor the Services, but may do so and disclose information regarding use of the Services for any reason if EarthLink, in its sole discretion, believes that it is reasonable to do so, including to: satisfy laws, regulations, or governmental or legal requests; operate the Service properly; or protect itself, its employees, its customers or others. See our Privacy Policy. EarthLink may immediately remove your material or information from EarthLink's servers, in whole or in part, which EarthLink, in its sole and absolute discretion, determines to infringe another's property rights or to violate our Acceptable Use Policy or other policies or laws."
In the acceptible use policy:
"2. VIOLATIONS OF EARTHLINK'S ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
The following constitute violations of this AUP:
1. Illegal use. Using the Services to transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that, intentionally or unintentionally, violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder.
"
Give me your ISP name and I'll pull yours. Violating their rules can result in account termination. That feature you mentioned is guaranteed to only be usable if you don't violate the ToS and AUP. Sharing copyrighted materials is a violation of law so would be an infraction.
-Viz
That's actually pretty kind for people that violate their ToS, which usually list copyright violations as one of the big no-nos. Technically they could drop them on the first offense then hand them over to the RIAA with all the evidence the RIAA needs.
Personally I'd rather have my service cut off and learn a valuable lesson than get sued by the RIAA. It's doubtful that it's a antitrust violation since they are punishing people that break the rules outlined in their ToS.
Bravo? They are doing their subscribers a favor. They could collect the info, forward it to the RIAA, then let them keep subscribing so the RIAA can surgically get their statistics and log them sharing files until they get a suitably sized sample of their activity to get whatever damage award they want.
Another point: Since shares are publicly accessible on the p2p networks, it's not spying, despite the tin foil hat mentality the author is implying. Spying implies the interception of communication. Sharing files illegally doesn't require spying to see it happening.
All it takes is a p2p program on the same network...
It's the ISPs duty to police illegal activity occurring on their network.
The only danger I see is that people sharing files legally (the copyright owners) could be singled out and dropped erroneously.
I fail to see how this is any worse than an employer firing someone for running a p2p server which is sharing copyrighted files to the world from their employer's network. Copyright violation is copyright violation, and is illegal activity according to current laws.
If you want to fix this problem, write your leaders and have the copyright laws changed. They are the real culprit, not the people abiding the law by policing their networks.
-Viz
If you care about your machine and what happens to it, it's your job. If you just want to flail around in anger when your box becomes a big paperweight, leave it up to someone else.
/snicker
It's the job of the authorities to lock up the crackers and other people that commit electronic crimes. It's your job to lock your front door.
At the end of the day, the authorities and your ISP can't do anything until the threat is known. By then the damage is done.
99.9% of stuff can be mitigated with NoScript, a $50 firewall, and a slight change in behavior (stop trying to steal music, porn, movies and software). If you can't take these steps, I'm genuinely amazed that you are capable of showering, starting your car and driving to work and functioning. Most people can, but won't. It sort of flows into that whole "not accepting responsibility for stuff I do" attitude that pervades modern society.
Typical transaction:
Dumbass (to self): Sweet I just got the entire collection of every rolling stones song ever made for free! 8)
>click
Computer: all of your files are belong to us. Send payment to uvebeenpwned@yahoo.com or you won't get your files back, MU HU HA HA.
Dumbass (to IT buddy): My computer is running slow and all my files got encrypted. I think I have spyware.
IT Buddy: You use p2p?
Dumbass: no, I have no idea what happened, I swear I dun't download...
-r
point 1:
/golf clap
Hopefully I'm not the only one that can see the humor in a Web 2.0 technology based on a Japanese programming language, which is called ARAX.
point 2:
Now that Microsoft is embracing, extending, and likely patenting it, we can look forward to 10 more years of broken browser compatibility.
You've got to love Microsoft. They keep us employed even if we don't use their tools.
-r
The e-vote software needs to seed the data at random intervals from a list. It should store the data hashed. You filter the resulting seed votes (and remove them) from the results using the same list, but not before validating them all to see if any of it has been changed. If any of the seed data has changed, the results have been tampered with. The lists should be generated randomly, formulated into data that looks like the rest of the data, and loaded into the voting machine daily to prevent predictability. It's not rocket science... Of course the risk is that someone loses the seed data file, or uses the wrong one accidentally. You need to design the system so it's really hard to make this mistake, but is stored in the voting machine hashed with a strong algorithm. Losing this file would invalidate the machine's results. You'd need to store a list of all voters that used each machine daily, but in a way that you couldn't associate the voters with the votes, so if the worst happend they could be called back to revote. This would be very fun to build and quite effective...