I reenable the services, and get the updates - I then disable the services and guess what?
No phoning home.
...except when it downloads updates. Do you really think they'd be so stupid to make it a unary process? Of course it phones home when you connect to fetch updates. You wouldn't even see the packet go by in the initial handshake. "Hi, I'm a pirated copy of Windows XP running from 1.2.3 4, please send me the following updates."
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Another problem I had with the ATI was that the suspend function is broken, which is really terrible.
It must be your particular card. I can suspend, hibernate and resume without any issues here at all. I'm pretty impressed, for a seamless, fast, 2D/3D driver. Granted, I don't do games, but the one I do test it with (bzflag), really works well.
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You're probably right, since the graphics card in here is the biggest, baddest card ATI made for laptops ~1 year ago; an ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2] (Radeon 9500).
I'm happily running Xgl here with zero artifacts or problems, nice and speedy. I can flip the card into powersave mode too if I want to double my battery life. Works like a charm.
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If the current administration continues down the path its going, with its self-destructive, Holier-than-thou (and-everyone-else) mentality, thinking that they are the World Police, they may actually NEED these bunkers, not to defend against a foreign attack, but to defend against a domestic uprising.
Note to those who currently think they are in "power": WE the people, give you your rights and power, you do not give them to us. There are many more of us than you (and you are MADE of many of us). You might not want to get on our bad side, and you might want to consider re-reading your Constitution, Bill of Rights and
Declaration of Independence.
Scary but true, General Michael Hayden, former head of the NSA (yes, the one being accused of wiretapping millions of Americans without a warrant), doesn't even know the 4th Amendment, and insists he does. He's going for a position to head the CIA? Scary, scary stuff.
Repeat to yourself: Erosion of civil liberties... is a threat to national security.
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Also, most how-to forum posts range from "its one step on nvidia, and 3 pages of shit for ATI" to "if you even want to try this, get a Nvidia card".
That must have been years ago, or some NVidia fanboy fud.
On current ATI Linux drivers, using a current (i.e. 2-years old to current) Linux distribution, it was literally this easy:
Launch ATI installer package under Linux
Choose your distribution from the installer's menu (a radio button selection)
Click Next to have it output a package for your distribution.
Exit and install the.rpm/.deb/etc. package it creates.
Restart X
Done.
I literally didn't have to read a single page of anything. It Just Worked(tm), as expected.
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Funny thing too... ATI's 2D/3D Linux drivers are absolutely amazing on my Thinkpad T42p here. They work solidly and I'm getting ~2,000fps in 1600x1200@24bpp on this laptop. Their setup tool builds packages for Ubuntu, Red Hat, SuSE and others right from the installer itself, including for Debian Unstable, Ubuntu Dapper and other "less-than-stable" distributions.
All I see and hear are complaints about NVidia's drivers, compatibility and installation problems.
Yes, ATI isn't one of the good guys because they're doing this as binary drivers, but they are certainly allowed to do so, since they have their own IP to protect. They are, however, one of the good guys in my opinion because they are extending an arm into the Linux community to help improve and support their cards and drivers under Linux, natively.
Am I the only one who finds it slightly disturbing that all of these new proposed bills and laws seem to come directly out of books like Orwell's 1984, Soylent Green, Gattaca?
What's the difference between a chip under the arm, and a tattoo on the arm for the purposes of "marking" people? How are we any better than them, for suggesting it?
Note to the current administration: These were not meant to be scripts or a HOWTO on how to run a government, these were meant to be a warning about how things can (and probably will) turn out if you take the wrong path.
Oh, and p.s., your time and chances to screw up this country even more, are up. Game over. Thanks for playing, but now its our turn.
After all, if the legislators in question aren't doing anything corrupt they should have nothing to worry about...
No, no, no, no and NO!
This is EXACTLY the kind of reverse logic that is allowing them to strip our rights piece by piece every single day.
"Well, if you have nothing to hide, you don't mind us putting a gps in your vehicle, tagging you with this little RFID module under the skin and mounting cameras in every room of your house, do you? Oh, and we'll need all of your passwords and pin numbers too. You have nothing to hide, right? So just hand them over.
Don't fall for it, fight for your rights. Remember, WE give power to the government, not the reverse. Check the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and Constitution if you're confused.
I'm curious, because I've called every single provider (including Yahoo!, SNET and others) that provide "business class DSL" (i.e. no ports blocked, static IP), and none of them do it. I live in New London, btw... which is one of the higher-density cities in this side of CT. Either the wires going from CO to the pole outside the house are garbage, or there just isn't enough signal to provide a solid connection at this speed.
I'm going to call my provider and see if they're capping me or something.
Here in Southeastern Connecticut, I pay $149.00 for a connection rated at 1.5Mb-6.0Mb/384-608Kb DSL connection, and I regularly see 200k/sec. downloads and 42k/sec. uploads. Since this is the only game in town that doesn't filter ports or protocols (and I live in a VERY large town).
I'm forced to pay these rates if I want anything that resembles a quality connection. I'm also about 7,000 feet from the CO, so my connection should be faster, but it isn't.
I read stories about how people pay $60/month for a 3Mbps connection, and it makes me sick. I just did a speed test at from dslreports.com, and here's what it said:
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-06-02 08:35:50 EST:
1681 / 467
Your download speed : 1681 kbps or 210.1 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 67 kbps or 58.4 KB/sec.
I've had the telco out here, filters on the pole, house connection and every phone jack. Everything is top-notch quality wire and connections. Its just THAT SLOW around here, apparently... or I'm being lied to.
That's precisely the point. In the event of a worldwide, thermonuclear war, the Internet and the citizens in "disconnected" contries would still be able to communicate with each other, to rebuild their lives and their communities.
Nobody controls the Internet, and yet everybody does. That's the point.
I've recently found myself explaining to people why the US has added a tax onto their telephone bills to help fund the Spanish/American war, a war which ended over 108 years ago. Why is there an 18% tax on alcohol in Philadelphia to help fund WWII, and other silly rider taxes.
Which brings me to my point.
Q: Why are they trying to tax [insert item here]?
A: Because they can.
They'd tax air if they think they could get away with it.
Reporting vulnerabilities is the right thing to do. Period. Its not for the brave, its for those who know what is right and what is wrong.
Please don't bend to the media pressure to keep these things secret, unreported or silent. This is what is causing our mess with the current administration, where "leakers" are associated with "whistleblowers". Don't me misled, these people are patriots, and they're doing exactly what they should be doing.. exposing the flaws in the system so they can be addressed and improved.
Doing the right thing for the common good, is NEVER wrong. Keep reporting them, keep the fixes coming, keep improving the situation for all.
I am reminded of a famous quote here: When one pours water into the harbor, all boats rise at once.
From there, one would have a good battle citing the 4th and 5th amendments and actually strike down the law in question. The EFF and ACLU would probably help with this.
Would that be the same 4th Amendment that Michael Hayden, former head of the NSA can't even quote correctly? Now this same person is vying for a spot heading up the CIA.
Apparently even quoting him the exact verbage of the 4th Amendment isn't enough to get him to listen and understand it.
Unless you are just posting for self gratification and don't care if anyone reads or understands what you are saying, than spelling and grammar do matter.
The proper spelling of that word in that context is "then", so that makes your post rate a -2 for spelling AND grammar errors.;)
But not disclosing your passphrase, password or keys IS the crime in this case. So its a Catch-22 now. This is exactly how the current administration (at least in the US) is working things out. They'll make it all doublespeak, so no matter what, you're screwed.
Wait a minute... you have to give up your fingerprints?
In the US, by law (which of course, they don't seem to follow themselves anyway), they are not legally allowed to fingerprint you unless you're arrested. Even then, since fingerprints are personal property, they are not allowed to take them unless you waive your rights to your personal property (which of course, you should NEVER do).
There was a legal precedent on this, but I can't seem to locate it at the moment.
If enough large companies are purchasing these to the degree that a company manufactures this equipment...exclusively.. doesn't that strike an interesting chord?
The irony is that the sabre-rattling crowd screams "Use encryption!", but what they don't realize is that encryption is essentially illegal, in the US. Sure, you can use it, but if you refuse to hand over your password, passphrase, keys.. you've broken the law, and will be arrested and jailed until you do hand over your keys/passwords.
Nice world we live in, eh?
Our obligation as a citizen of this great nation is to defend it against all aggressors, foreign and domestic. Defend the nation, not the government. It may not be necessary now, but may someday become necessary to defend this nation against the government, just as was done in 1776.
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There is ONLY ONE valid Content-type for XHTML content, and that is application/xml+xhtml, not text/html.
Thankfully, MSIE doesn't even support XHTML at all, so we're safe there... for now.
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...except when it downloads updates. Do you really think they'd be so stupid to make it a unary process? Of course it phones home when you connect to fetch updates. You wouldn't even see the packet go by in the initial handshake. "Hi, I'm a pirated copy of Windows XP running from 1.2.3 4, please send me the following updates."
It must be your particular card. I can suspend, hibernate and resume without any issues here at all. I'm pretty impressed, for a seamless, fast, 2D/3D driver. Granted, I don't do games, but the one I do test it with (bzflag), really works well.
You're probably right, since the graphics card in here is the biggest, baddest card ATI made for laptops ~1 year ago; an ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2] (Radeon 9500).
I'm happily running Xgl here with zero artifacts or problems, nice and speedy. I can flip the card into powersave mode too if I want to double my battery life. Works like a charm.
If the current administration continues down the path its going, with its self-destructive, Holier-than-thou (and-everyone-else) mentality, thinking that they are the World Police, they may actually NEED these bunkers, not to defend against a foreign attack, but to defend against a domestic uprising .
Note to those who currently think they are in "power": WE the people, give you your rights and power, you do not give them to us. There are many more of us than you (and you are MADE of many of us). You might not want to get on our bad side, and you might want to consider re-reading your Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence.
Scary but true, General Michael Hayden, former head of the NSA (yes, the one being accused of wiretapping millions of Americans without a warrant), doesn't even know the 4th Amendment, and insists he does. He's going for a position to head the CIA? Scary, scary stuff.
Repeat to yourself: Erosion of civil liberties... is a threat to national security.
That must have been years ago, or some NVidia fanboy fud.
On current ATI Linux drivers, using a current (i.e. 2-years old to current) Linux distribution, it was literally this easy:
I literally didn't have to read a single page of anything. It Just Worked(tm), as expected.
Funny thing too... ATI's 2D/3D Linux drivers are absolutely amazing on my Thinkpad T42p here. They work solidly and I'm getting ~2,000fps in 1600x1200@24bpp on this laptop. Their setup tool builds packages for Ubuntu, Red Hat, SuSE and others right from the installer itself, including for Debian Unstable, Ubuntu Dapper and other "less-than-stable" distributions.
All I see and hear are complaints about NVidia's drivers, compatibility and installation problems.
Yes, ATI isn't one of the good guys because they're doing this as binary drivers, but they are certainly allowed to do so, since they have their own IP to protect. They are, however, one of the good guys in my opinion because they are extending an arm into the Linux community to help improve and support their cards and drivers under Linux, natively.
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Am I the only one who finds it slightly disturbing that all of these new proposed bills and laws seem to come directly out of books like Orwell's 1984, Soylent Green, Gattaca?
What's the difference between a chip under the arm, and a tattoo on the arm for the purposes of "marking" people? How are we any better than them, for suggesting it?
Note to the current administration: These were not meant to be scripts or a HOWTO on how to run a government, these were meant to be a warning about how things can (and probably will) turn out if you take the wrong path.
Oh, and p.s., your time and chances to screw up this country even more, are up. Game over. Thanks for playing, but now its our turn.
No, no, no, no and NO !
This is EXACTLY the kind of reverse logic that is allowing them to strip our rights piece by piece every single day.
"Well, if you have nothing to hide, you don't mind us putting a gps in your vehicle, tagging you with this little RFID module under the skin and mounting cameras in every room of your house, do you? Oh, and we'll need all of your passwords and pin numbers too. You have nothing to hide, right? So just hand them over.
Don't fall for it, fight for your rights. Remember, WE give power to the government, not the reverse. Check the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and Constitution if you're confused.
Who are you going through?
I'm curious, because I've called every single provider (including Yahoo!, SNET and others) that provide "business class DSL" (i.e. no ports blocked, static IP), and none of them do it. I live in New London, btw... which is one of the higher-density cities in this side of CT. Either the wires going from CO to the pole outside the house are garbage, or there just isn't enough signal to provide a solid connection at this speed.
I'm going to call my provider and see if they're capping me or something.
Here in Southeastern Connecticut, I pay $149.00 for a connection rated at 1.5Mb-6.0Mb/384-608Kb DSL connection, and I regularly see 200k/sec. downloads and 42k/sec. uploads. Since this is the only game in town that doesn't filter ports or protocols (and I live in a VERY large town).
I'm forced to pay these rates if I want anything that resembles a quality connection. I'm also about 7,000 feet from the CO, so my connection should be faster, but it isn't.
I read stories about how people pay $60/month for a 3Mbps connection, and it makes me sick. I just did a speed test at from dslreports.com, and here's what it said:
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-06-02 08:35:50 EST:
1681 / 467
Your download speed : 1681 kbps or 210.1 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 67 kbps or 58.4 KB/sec.
I've had the telco out here, filters on the pole, house connection and every phone jack. Everything is top-notch quality wire and connections. Its just THAT SLOW around here, apparently... or I'm being lied to.
Just one word: NOBODY .
That's precisely the point. In the event of a worldwide, thermonuclear war, the Internet and the citizens in "disconnected" contries would still be able to communicate with each other, to rebuild their lives and their communities.
Nobody controls the Internet, and yet everybody does. That's the point.
I've recently found myself explaining to people why the US has added a tax onto their telephone bills to help fund the Spanish/American war, a war which ended over 108 years ago. Why is there an 18% tax on alcohol in Philadelphia to help fund WWII, and other silly rider taxes.
Which brings me to my point.
They'd tax air if they think they could get away with it.
Reporting vulnerabilities is the right thing to do. Period. Its not for the brave, its for those who know what is right and what is wrong.
Please don't bend to the media pressure to keep these things secret, unreported or silent. This is what is causing our mess with the current administration, where "leakers" are associated with "whistleblowers". Don't me misled, these people are patriots, and they're doing exactly what they should be doing.. exposing the flaws in the system so they can be addressed and improved.
Doing the right thing for the common good, is NEVER wrong. Keep reporting them, keep the fixes coming, keep improving the situation for all.
I am reminded of a famous quote here: When one pours water into the harbor, all boats rise at once .
Pardon my ignorance, but I don't get it. Was Jesus forgetful? Is that what this is teaching us?
Would that be the same 4th Amendment that Michael Hayden, former head of the NSA can't even quote correctly? Now this same person is vying for a spot heading up the CIA.
Apparently even quoting him the exact verbage of the 4th Amendment isn't enough to get him to listen and understand it.
The proper spelling of that word in that context is "then", so that makes your post rate a -2 for spelling AND grammar errors. ;)
But not disclosing your passphrase, password or keys IS the crime in this case. So its a Catch-22 now. This is exactly how the current administration (at least in the US) is working things out. They'll make it all doublespeak, so no matter what, you're screwed.
Now where did I put my Civil War handbook again?
Wait a minute... you have to give up your fingerprints?
In the US, by law (which of course, they don't seem to follow themselves anyway), they are not legally allowed to fingerprint you unless you're arrested. Even then, since fingerprints are personal property, they are not allowed to take them unless you waive your rights to your personal property (which of course, you should NEVER do).
There was a legal precedent on this, but I can't seem to locate it at the moment.
The use of illegal government spying on innocent citizens is proliferating.
Your move now.
...(and no, you may not have my encryption keys).
Do you have a citation for this? I'm anxious to see if this is true..
The irony is that the sabre-rattling crowd screams "Use encryption!", but what they don't realize is that encryption is essentially illegal, in the US. Sure, you can use it, but if you refuse to hand over your password, passphrase, keys.. you've broken the law, and will be arrested and jailed until you do hand over your keys/passwords.
Nice world we live in, eh?
Our obligation as a citizen of this great nation is to defend it against all aggressors, foreign and domestic . Defend the nation, not the government. It may not be necessary now, but may someday become necessary to defend this nation against the government, just as was done in 1776.
Hey, if the NSA can do it without warrants, why can't we?
The problem isn't HTML vs. XHTML and passing self-closing tags as HTML, the problem is that 99.999% of people using XHTML content in their pages, are not sending the proper XHTML Content-type for those pages.
There is ONLY ONE valid Content-type for XHTML content, and that is application/xml+xhtml, not text/html.
Thankfully, MSIE doesn't even support XHTML at all, so we're safe there... for now.
This writeup is very clear on the matter.
In other words, you have no references or citations. That's what I thought. Sorry, but rectal approximations don't cut it in this century. Try again.