I wouldn't trust a nuclear reactor if it was a day old. What, it's not going to have a problem someday? What am I trusting here?
I will trust that whenever there is an accident, and there will be an accident, it will evolve into a problem that will take thousands of years to cure. All the nuclear meltdowns we've had are still going on.
I've been using watt-a-vision for the past year and have been pretty happy with it, but it connects to the old style meters. Now I'm in an apt building, so I'm not sure if I'm effected but here's my opinion on the pros and cons.
I should make clear that this won't be the same experience but I'll try to give my opinions on each (some assumptions are going to be made) Info: the watt-a-vison just is an optical counter that hooks up to a box that connects via wifi to my network, sends stats to watt-a-vision, where I can view a graph of my usage Pros
I can monitor my electricty usage from one central point, unlike tweet-a-watt like devices. It's set and forget. It helps a lot when I forget to turn off my ps3. I can backcheck my usage against my bill. Since it's got a web interface, I can use any modern device for viewing. It's on *my* network with my security
Cons:
Somebody else has an idea of what my energy consumption is (watt-a-vision) and could determine occupancy based on usage.
Now I'm going to talk about the SoCal Edision implementation.
Their own network,with means if it's compromised, somebody is going to have a lot of info. No way to backcheck your usage independately unless you put tweet-a-watt devices everywhere.
As for the RF issue, I dunno how much these things transmit but I do have an RF meter and there's several apps on the iphone at least that will use the magnetometers as a teslameter, so that could be useful.
With that being said, I'm about about smart technology, but I would rather the tech be mostly in my hands than mostly in any company's.
I personally applaud the technology and look forward to seeing a world with this in widespread use but I love my car and have absolutely no intention of replacing it. Now, I'll add all the sensors, (already have most in place hooked up via arduino) but how is this going to work for manual/standard transmissions? In any case, not my car.
It's actually legal in the state of Cali to lane split. In addtion, bicycles have been known to do this too. It's a valid point, how about you not be a cunt on the internet?
This statement gets my complete support. Been using Intel i915 for XBMC for at least 3 years and it's been a rock solid experience. I had some initial trouble when the kernel mode setting was introduced (before you needed an app to write to the video bios so you could get the 1920x1080 resolution) but extremely minor and long past, I have to agree, I'll be looking for Intel net time I put together a HTPC.
I'm currently using a mac mini with the Intel i910 driver and a broadcom crystalhd mini-pci-E card. 1920x1080, both CPUs run at about 30% decoding 1080p. Works very well for me.
Agreed, that was my inital reaction as well, but at least it's not locked to facebook users (I don't have one and was able to read it) and his facebook post got what I dare call "insightful" responses, namely that Comcast's app pulls entirely from within thier network, so why would it count against your cap if there was no peering/transit costs to deliver your packets. Fair arguement, in my mind. Of course, I think download caps are EVIL.
OK, so you go out and vote for Ron Paul in the primaries. He doesn't win. Maybe Santorum is the nominee. Now who do you vote for in the general election?
Are you really saying that it's a weapons enrichment program, contrary to our own CIA and national security reports? Also keep in mind that civilian generation of nuclear power is within their rights under the IAEA?
I mean, if you have some evidence, please produce it. Fear doesn't count.
Also, at this point, with a foreign hostile nuclear power fighting wars of occupation on both sides of their country, I would want a nuke too.
Actually the point of storing email in SQL isn't just for indexing, there's a huge speed advantage. DBMail (which I've administered and installed) is used for high volume mail transactions, on the order of 200,000k per sec. Also, having a DB backend carries with it all the advantages of having a DB, snapshots, mirroring, cross-regional updates, backups, etc. I agree, you can definitely get by without it but having email in a database is nice.
I'm no longer so naive that I can't recognize the futility of saying "You can't prove a negative, and under our system of jurisprudence, the burden lays on them having to prove you are guilty, not you having to prove you are innocent"....but that's no longer true is it, if indeed it ever was. It makes me sad that we are falling into that.
My other point, if there's any to be made, is that if you allow your router to have open access for all, you can claim common carrier status and be exempt from the actions of your "users". Comcast doesn't get arrested for someone downloading kiddie porn using their network, why should you?
3rd point and this is the most important, is that there is an increasing digital divide between those who have and those who don't. If you are poor, out of work, etc, it's a lot easier to get a laptop than it is to get internet service. I don't want my bandwidth abused as I am a heavy downloader but I have WRT-DD installed and I'll be looking into segregating and rate limiting my wireless connection.
The older I get, the more I realize that it's going to be important for the good of all for people to start breaking free of the corporate binds. In the future, I can't help thinking that there might be some poor kid, with an old laptop, and having even a 5k connection (remember that?) might mean the difference between having a future and not having one.
So, do what you want, all of you but I'm the type of guy who runs tor on his laptop hooked to his iphone all night just to piss off ATT. Flooding our corporate overseers with lots of misleading info is one good way to hide yourself. There's a lot of good reasons to consider doing this but separate VLAN and rate limiting are mandatory first
Then my next missile will be a 100KiloTon yield. Jam away at 1000 watts, I'll be close enough to vaporize you.
Remember the answer to a technical foe is by being crude. They have a lot of tech to make your missile miss the target, make the missile big enough to include the target even at the widest miss.
That's the strength of crude solutions tho, for the amount of money it would take for you to make one missile, I could easily make 5000 jammers. Maybe even have enough left over to bury close enough to the missile's launch point to make the creator regret making such a big bomb.
The problem with that it's not just what you say and post, it's what your friends say and post, and what their friends say and post about you. How do you know how and when something can be detrimental to you? A woman lost a personal injury case because she took pictures of a vacation and used a smiley face in her status.
And I have to say, my impression of the company as a whole is that they suck royal balls. I love my laptop, I spoiled myself and got the best m15x money could buy, right? They made a mistake on the nameplate. They refused to even sell me another, they said that they don't offer them as seperate accessories and since I didn't immediately notify them, tough for me. I went out of town the day after I got my laptop, and didnt notice right away. Anyway, long story short, I love my laptop, works great with Linux, but I recommend as a customer that Alienware is one of those, buy it and hope you never have to deal with them companies.
I have one and it's great!! I've got 950 books on there and I'm trying to break a thousand. Not a single ebook was bought from Sony or Amazon and none of them have drm! If you are a bibliophile, the Sony Reader is the best. I haven't tried the Kindle, but why would I want to? The Sony is much slicker and I have no need to "instant buy" hardware.
Six years ago, that would've made me proud. Now, it kind of makes me really depressed. I have not logged in to Slashdot in years. But felt moved enough log in and agree with your statement. I hope our reputation is not tarnished beyond repair.
I would like to add my formal support for this statement as well. As Americans, we have to ask ourselves if this is what we want America to be.
I don't normally check slashdot but I did see your reply and I can only hope that this gets to you.
I think I would catch you with the report that looks for large amounts of traffic going to home IP blocks used by broaband ISPs in my region of the country. You do have broadband right?
Sure you could. It's easy to argue hypotheticals but if the best and the brightest of oh say, Sprint (just to name one) couldn't catch me, I have very high doubts as to your ability to. But then again, I haven't worked in environments that have that sort of draconian policies and if I were unfortunate enougth to land such a position, you wouldn't have to worry, I would soon be gone on my own initiative.
FYI, I have broadband and colospace on both sides of the country. That's not even counting the help of my friends boxes.
I get resumes from admins like you all the time and I throw them in the trash.
Trust me, you've never gotten a resume from an admin like me and I would in all likelihood either be above you from sheer experience or soon to take your job. It's happened before.
I would like to see how you would keep a city wide network running for 20,000 users without laying down rules and enforcing them.
If you are going to quote me, quote me fully. I said "Being a good admin is not laying down rules and then enforcing them like a tyrant". Nowhere did I say not to enforce rules, but your
"All ports blocked at the firewall for outbound traffic. You must connect to a server that is permitted to access the service you need. This access is logged.
For web traffic three proxy servers are allowed past this block for ports 80 and 443. This access is logged."
makes you look like an asshole admin, not a guru. Stop powertripping.
try to be a benevolent tyrant and were you in my place with your outlook you would soon be unemployed or back in the bush leagues where you belong.
And yet, here I am gainfully employed, doing work I love and probably making more than you in a better atmosphere.
And forgive me for staying on point but the question was about denying access to home email with a thread of How?. It did not ask what we do to make our networks more usable or did you not RTFA. Attention to detail and remain on task, nope. There goes the resume in the trash again.
It's obvious to anyone with a brain (I know that that excludes you) that my comments were addressed to your comments, not to the general tone of the thread, whatever it may have been. If that's the smartest comment you have, I suspect the reason you throw resumes away is because you can't read them.
I have over 8,000 High School students who disagree and many would love to test your theory.
Ah, a school admin. That explains it. I'm sorry but you are not a big dog.
I am sure you work in some magical place with unlimited budgets, lots of help, users who never do anything stupid and get to upgrade to the latest hardware every quarter but I live in the real world and that is how we have to do it just to keep the trains running on time.
No, I'm actually just smart. I probably know more than you do too.
I am sure you have special insight into what new threats are coming down the pipe and have full confidence that Microsoft, Cisco and your leet hacker skills will keep you bullet proof. I will hedge my bets and play it safe thank you very much.
Microsoft? Wow, that really does explain it. I've actually left Cisco behind, I got tired of the routing world a long time ago. My leet hacker skills do keep me bulletproof tho, or as near as can be. You hedge your bets and play it safe. That attitude will take you far. Just not that far.
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I wouldn't trust a nuclear reactor if it was a day old. What, it's not going to have a problem someday? What am I trusting here?
I will trust that whenever there is an accident, and there will be an accident, it will evolve into a problem that will take thousands of years to cure. All the nuclear meltdowns we've had are still going on.
Hopefully this guy won't be mad at the shoutout.
There is a lot of work being done to make GnuRadio in general more accessable
GQRX http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gnu-radio/gqrx-sdr
I have a USRP2 and I agree, the cost is prohibative, but to be fair, some of the SMD parts are as much as $45 bux each, and it's a 8 layer PCB.
Hmm, not quite as sexy if you can't transmit.
I've been using watt-a-vision for the past year and have been pretty happy with it, but it connects to the old style meters. Now I'm in an apt building, so I'm not sure if I'm effected but here's my opinion on the pros and cons.
I should make clear that this won't be the same experience but I'll try to give my opinions on each (some assumptions are going to be made)
Info: the watt-a-vison just is an optical counter that hooks up to a box that connects via wifi to my network, sends stats to watt-a-vision, where I can view a graph of my usage
Pros
I can monitor my electricty usage from one central point, unlike tweet-a-watt like devices.
It's set and forget.
It helps a lot when I forget to turn off my ps3.
I can backcheck my usage against my bill.
Since it's got a web interface, I can use any modern device for viewing.
It's on *my* network with my security
Cons:
Somebody else has an idea of what my energy consumption is (watt-a-vision) and could determine occupancy based on usage.
Now I'm going to talk about the SoCal Edision implementation.
Their own network,with means if it's compromised, somebody is going to have a lot of info.
No way to backcheck your usage independately unless you put tweet-a-watt devices everywhere.
As for the RF issue, I dunno how much these things transmit but I do have an RF meter and there's several apps on the iphone at least that will use the magnetometers as a teslameter, so that could be useful.
With that being said, I'm about about smart technology, but I would rather the tech be mostly in my hands than mostly in any company's.
I personally applaud the technology and look forward to seeing a world with this in widespread use but I love my car and have absolutely no intention of replacing it. Now, I'll add all the sensors, (already have most in place hooked up via arduino) but how is this going to work for manual/standard transmissions? In any case, not my car.
It's actually legal in the state of Cali to lane split. In addtion, bicycles have been known to do this too. It's a valid point, how about you not be a cunt on the internet?
I hope we keep extensive, redundant dna samples. There's no reason we can't at least keep a record for posterity.
This statement gets my complete support. Been using Intel i915 for XBMC for at least 3 years and it's been a rock solid experience. I had some initial trouble when the kernel mode setting was introduced (before you needed an app to write to the video bios so you could get the 1920x1080 resolution) but extremely minor and long past, I have to agree, I'll be looking for Intel net time I put together a HTPC.
I'm currently using a mac mini with the Intel i910 driver and a broadcom crystalhd mini-pci-E card. 1920x1080, both CPUs run at about 30% decoding 1080p. Works very well for me.
And years from now, if the United States wins this World war that has already begun, we will teach our children, that they started it first.
@elashish14
Agreed, that was my inital reaction as well, but at least it's not locked to facebook users (I don't have one and was able to read it) and his facebook post got what I dare call "insightful" responses, namely that Comcast's app pulls entirely from within thier network, so why would it count against your cap if there was no peering/transit costs to deliver your packets. Fair arguement, in my mind. Of course, I think download caps are EVIL.
I did the exact same thing.
OK, so you go out and vote for Ron Paul in the primaries. He doesn't win. Maybe Santorum is the nominee. Now who do you vote for in the general election?
You write in "Ron Paul".
As always, Ron Paul.
Are you really saying that it's a weapons enrichment program, contrary to our own CIA and national security reports? Also keep in mind that civilian generation of nuclear power is within their rights under the IAEA?
I mean, if you have some evidence, please produce it. Fear doesn't count.
Also, at this point, with a foreign hostile nuclear power fighting wars of occupation on both sides of their country, I would want a nuke too.
Actually the point of storing email in SQL isn't just for indexing, there's a huge speed advantage. DBMail (which I've administered and installed) is used for high volume mail transactions, on the order of 200,000k per sec. Also, having a DB backend carries with it all the advantages of having a DB, snapshots, mirroring, cross-regional updates, backups, etc. I agree, you can definitely get by without it but having email in a database is nice.
Do you think the powers that be care about some Mom/Pop Vietnamese grocery store?
...prove you are innocent...
I'm no longer so naive that I can't recognize the futility of saying "You can't prove a negative, and under our system of jurisprudence, the burden lays on them having to prove you are guilty, not you having to prove you are innocent"....but that's no longer true is it, if indeed it ever was. It makes me sad that we are falling into that.
My other point, if there's any to be made, is that if you allow your router to have open access for all, you can claim common carrier status and be exempt from the actions of your "users". Comcast doesn't get arrested for someone downloading kiddie porn using their network, why should you?
3rd point and this is the most important, is that there is an increasing digital divide between those who have and those who don't. If you are poor, out of work, etc, it's a lot easier to get a laptop than it is to get internet service. I don't want my bandwidth abused as I am a heavy downloader but I have WRT-DD installed and I'll be looking into segregating and rate limiting my wireless connection.
The older I get, the more I realize that it's going to be important for the good of all for people to start breaking free of the corporate binds. In the future, I can't help thinking that there might be some poor kid, with an old laptop, and having even a 5k connection (remember that?) might mean the difference between having a future and not having one.
So, do what you want, all of you but I'm the type of guy who runs tor on his laptop hooked to his iphone all night just to piss off ATT. Flooding our corporate overseers with lots of misleading info is one good way to hide yourself. There's a lot of good reasons to consider doing this but separate VLAN and rate limiting are mandatory first
Then my next missile will be a 100KiloTon yield. Jam away at 1000 watts, I'll be close enough to vaporize you.
Remember the answer to a technical foe is by being crude. They have a lot of tech to make your missile miss the target, make the missile big enough to include the target even at the widest miss.
That's the strength of crude solutions tho, for the amount of money it would take for you to make one missile, I could easily make 5000 jammers. Maybe even have enough left over to bury close enough to the missile's launch point to make the creator regret making such a big bomb.
The problem with that it's not just what you say and post, it's what your friends say and post, and what their friends say and post about you. How do you know how and when something can be detrimental to you? A woman lost a personal injury case because she took pictures of a vacation and used a smiley face in her status.
And I have to say, my impression of the company as a whole is that they suck royal balls. I love my laptop, I spoiled myself and got the best m15x money could buy, right? They made a mistake on the nameplate. They refused to even sell me another, they said that they don't offer them as seperate accessories and since I didn't immediately notify them, tough for me. I went out of town the day after I got my laptop, and didnt notice right away. Anyway, long story short, I love my laptop, works great with Linux, but I recommend as a customer that Alienware is one of those, buy it and hope you never have to deal with them companies.
I have one and it's great!! I've got 950 books on there and I'm trying to break a thousand. Not a single ebook was bought from Sony or Amazon and none of them have drm! If you are a bibliophile, the Sony Reader is the best. I haven't tried the Kindle, but why would I want to? The Sony is much slicker and I have no need to "instant buy" hardware.
Six years ago, that would've made me proud. Now, it kind of makes me really depressed. I have not logged in to Slashdot in years. But felt moved enough log in and agree with your statement. I hope our reputation is not tarnished beyond repair.
I would like to add my formal support for this statement as well. As Americans, we have to ask ourselves if this is what we want America to be.
SealBeater
I think I would catch you with the report that looks for large amounts of traffic going to home IP blocks used by broaband ISPs in my region of the country. You do have broadband right?
Sure you could. It's easy to argue hypotheticals but if the best and the brightest of oh say, Sprint (just to name one) couldn't catch me, I have very high doubts as to your ability to. But then again, I haven't worked in environments that have that sort of draconian policies and if I were unfortunate enougth to land such a position, you wouldn't have to worry, I would soon be gone on my own initiative.
FYI, I have broadband and colospace on both sides of the country. That's not even counting the help of my friends boxes.
I get resumes from admins like you all the time and I throw them in the trash.
Trust me, you've never gotten a resume from an admin like me and I would in all likelihood either be above you from sheer experience or soon to take your job. It's happened before.
I would like to see how you would keep a city wide network running for 20,000 users without laying down rules and enforcing them.
If you are going to quote me, quote me fully. I said "Being a good admin is not laying down rules and then enforcing them like a tyrant". Nowhere did I say not to enforce rules, but your
makes you look like an asshole admin, not a guru. Stop powertripping.
try to be a benevolent tyrant and were you in my place with your outlook you would soon be unemployed or back in the bush leagues where you belong.
And yet, here I am gainfully employed, doing work I love and probably making more than you in a better atmosphere.
And forgive me for staying on point but the question was about denying access to home email with a thread of How?. It did not ask what we do to make our networks more usable or did you not RTFA. Attention to detail and remain on task, nope. There goes the resume in the trash again.
It's obvious to anyone with a brain (I know that that excludes you) that my comments were addressed to your comments, not to the general tone of the thread, whatever it may have been. If that's the smartest comment you have, I suspect the reason you throw resumes away is because you can't read them.
I have over 8,000 High School students who disagree and many would love to test your theory.
Ah, a school admin. That explains it. I'm sorry but you are not a big dog.
I am sure you work in some magical place with unlimited budgets, lots of help, users who never do anything stupid and get to upgrade to the latest hardware every quarter but I live in the real world and that is how we have to do it just to keep the trains running on time.
No, I'm actually just smart. I probably know more than you do too.
I am sure you have special insight into what new threats are coming down the pipe and have full confidence that Microsoft, Cisco and your leet hacker skills will keep you bullet proof. I will hedge my bets and play it safe thank you very much.
Microsoft? Wow, that really does explain it. I've actually left Cisco behind, I got tired of the routing world a long time ago. My leet hacker skills do keep me bulletproof tho, or as near as can be. You hedge your bets and play it safe. That attitude will take you far. Just not that far.
SealBeater