Do you really think they are that smart? I wouldn't give them that much credit. I would suspect they are either wholly blocking the port or throttling it at their router. Either way, what you say about kazaa is not true. My firewall (read iptables) gets thousands of hits from people TRYING to get stuff off of me when I run kazaa, etc.; but I never have any trouble downloading.
'services' that use upstream bandwidth? Funny, everything uses upstream bandwidth. Even the ACK packets while I'm downloading stuff via FTP. Could be interesting if I can't use that upstream pipe.
I don't see what the problem with running a web server on a cable connection or ftp is. Most cable ISPs have your upstream capped to a much lower speed than your downstream. Also, most other people are going to use the majority of their bandwidth downstream anyway. The problem isn't the people that are serving the files, but the people that are getting the files. They're sucking up much more bandwidth than the people who are merely hosting.
Probably, and it also checks driver updates to see if they're signed or not, but you can still tell it to install (since not every driver is going to be signed, especially if it was just released).
Since they are going after people who are sharing movies, if word gets out, I'm sure most people will learn quickly how to not share anything on the P2P networks, thus making them useless for most people. Then the only ones who will get these notices are those who are too clueless to disable sharing. If no one is sharing, then P2P isn't very fun.
1.5 Mbps from DSL? Most are 256/512kbps or 1 Mbps. My cable downstream from Time Warner is about 3 Mbps peak, and even in the evening when it supposedly is "crowded" I see no slow down at all. I can get the same speeds any time of day. My upstream is about 512 kbps, most of friends with DSL have far less than that. I think I'll take my cable over your DSL anyday.
IIRC Tree-ring data is used to 'calibrate' carbon-14 dating, because they usually don't exactly match up too well. Carbon-14 dating is relatively decent for younger things that were at one time alive. Of course, I can't quite figure out how coal, which is supposed to be millions of years since dead, stills has detectable levels of C-14 in it. I think that dating techniques are far from any kind of closed book, and need much more refinement than we currently have. We might be on the right track, but they need much more work.
Do you not know how radiocarbon dating works? When all those nuclear tests were done it f'd up the amount of Carbon-14 in the atmosphere. Thus, in the future, it will be difficult to date objects from 1950+.
I suppose, but what I see in this case is more an attempt to point at a huge hole in these systems and say "Hey, fix it your morons." Locking up people who do it isn't going to fix the problem. They are only trying to point out a problem with how information is given out. Obviously, someone could easily do this with more malicious intents.
Its already standard practice at companies like that to verify information of the callers.
Apparently while it may be "standard practice", it isn't followed very much of the time. It's very easy to convince people you are someone else even with very little of their personal information. How often have you called somewhere and to make sure you are you, they read your address to you and ask if it is correct? Imagine if when you booted up your OS instead of login: and password: it asked for whatever personal information you had, then made a judgement call as to whether or not you are actually you, without demanding a specific username and password combination?
Yup, it's okay the rest of the time to give out personal information to random people on the phone. I experienced this the other day with the local electric company.
My sister and I had rented an apartment together a year ago, and there was a problem with how the electric bill was handled when it was shut off. I called up and spoke to the person and then outright asked them to check my sister's records for any correlating information. I gave him her name, and he gave me her address, phone number, and a whole crapload of other information, with no indication that we were actually related other than that we shared the same last name. Granted, she really is my sister, and I already knew the information he told me, I was quite surprised they actually gave that information out to someone other than the account holder.
buttons don't look that much different than they do on a Handspring, what are you seeing that I'm not? I think it would still put far too much strain on your thumbs and wrist to play games with it, since the buttons are positions too close to the lower edge.
Was it 2000 or 98 that crashed during the the big demonstration with bill on stage? XP Pro is the only Windows release I have used that I have yet to see a BSoD. I have used: Windows 3.1 (actually, it didn't crash too often on me, but then, it wasn't really a multi-tasking os anyway..), 95, 98, 98 SE, NT 3.51, 2000 workstation (nt 4), XP Professional.
It's simple. Smart web admins will start denying referrers from slashdot. Then it will reduce the/. effect on their server. Many places already do this. An obligatory link to a google cache prior to posting would be good enough for me. Or maybe contact the person who runs the site and get approval first, as well as approval to borrow some pictures or whatnot, since that's what every wants to look at anyway.
You forgot one: Steal a few grand from all your employees, get elected to high political offices, and then condemn your peers when they get caught with their pants down and 2 billion short.
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Many who are now in high school or just entering college were taught in primary school that they could spell words however they wanted to, instead of spelling them the proper way, because that would stifle their creativity or something. I wasn't part of this, but I know many people who were, and A WHOLE LOT OF THEM cannot spell for crap. Does anyone have a clue what I am talking about or can back this up for me?
Buick has been GM for a very long time. For the interested or uninformed, GM owns/operates/has a large stake in the following automobile makes:
Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, EV1, Holden, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Open, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, Vauxhall. As well the former 'Geo' which is now operated by Chevy anyway.
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Do you really think they are that smart? I wouldn't give them that much credit. I would suspect they are either wholly blocking the port or throttling it at their router. Either way, what you say about kazaa is not true. My firewall (read iptables) gets thousands of hits from people TRYING to get stuff off of me when I run kazaa, etc.; but I never have any trouble downloading.
'services' that use upstream bandwidth? Funny, everything uses upstream bandwidth. Even the ACK packets while I'm downloading stuff via FTP. Could be interesting if I can't use that upstream pipe.
I don't see what the problem with running a web server on a cable connection or ftp is. Most cable ISPs have your upstream capped to a much lower speed than your downstream. Also, most other people are going to use the majority of their bandwidth downstream anyway. The problem isn't the people that are serving the files, but the people that are getting the files. They're sucking up much more bandwidth than the people who are merely hosting.
What bug-free and/or 100% secure OS's exist? How would ever know if it was 100% secure?
Probably, and it also checks driver updates to see if they're signed or not, but you can still tell it to install (since not every driver is going to be signed, especially if it was just released).
Since they are going after people who are sharing movies, if word gets out, I'm sure most people will learn quickly how to not share anything on the P2P networks, thus making them useless for most people. Then the only ones who will get these notices are those who are too clueless to disable sharing. If no one is sharing, then P2P isn't very fun.
1.5 Mbps from DSL? Most are 256/512kbps or 1 Mbps. My cable downstream from Time Warner is about 3 Mbps peak, and even in the evening when it supposedly is "crowded" I see no slow down at all. I can get the same speeds any time of day. My upstream is about 512 kbps, most of friends with DSL have far less than that. I think I'll take my cable over your DSL anyday.
IIRC Tree-ring data is used to 'calibrate' carbon-14 dating, because they usually don't exactly match up too well. Carbon-14 dating is relatively decent for younger things that were at one time alive. Of course, I can't quite figure out how coal, which is supposed to be millions of years since dead, stills has detectable levels of C-14 in it. I think that dating techniques are far from any kind of closed book, and need much more refinement than we currently have. We might be on the right track, but they need much more work.
Do you not know how radiocarbon dating works? When all those nuclear tests were done it f'd up the amount of Carbon-14 in the atmosphere. Thus, in the future, it will be difficult to date objects from 1950+.
"summary: Big honking monoliths beam in from the future."
Sounds like 2001 to me. Except those monoliths somehow sparked great changes in humanity.
You also get things like a few nuclear weapon explosions messing it up too.
I suppose, but what I see in this case is more an attempt to point at a huge hole in these systems and say "Hey, fix it your morons." Locking up people who do it isn't going to fix the problem. They are only trying to point out a problem with how information is given out. Obviously, someone could easily do this with more malicious intents.
Its already standard practice at companies like that to verify information of the callers.
Apparently while it may be "standard practice", it isn't followed very much of the time. It's very easy to convince people you are someone else even with very little of their personal information. How often have you called somewhere and to make sure you are you, they read your address to you and ask if it is correct? Imagine if when you booted up your OS instead of login: and password: it asked for whatever personal information you had, then made a judgement call as to whether or not you are actually you, without demanding a specific username and password combination?
except the criminals involved are 'l33t and say stuff like "Mad propz".
What makes them criminals? Did I miss something?
Yup, it's okay the rest of the time to give out personal information to random people on the phone. I experienced this the other day with the local electric company.
My sister and I had rented an apartment together a year ago, and there was a problem with how the electric bill was handled when it was shut off. I called up and spoke to the person and then outright asked them to check my sister's records for any correlating information. I gave him her name, and he gave me her address, phone number, and a whole crapload of other information, with no indication that we were actually related other than that we shared the same last name. Granted, she really is my sister, and I already knew the information he told me, I was quite surprised they actually gave that information out to someone other than the account holder.
buttons don't look that much different than they do on a Handspring, what are you seeing that I'm not? I think it would still put far too much strain on your thumbs and wrist to play games with it, since the buttons are positions too close to the lower edge.
and NT 4.0 as well.
Was it 2000 or 98 that crashed during the the big demonstration with bill on stage? XP Pro is the only Windows release I have used that I have yet to see a BSoD. I have used: Windows 3.1 (actually, it didn't crash too often on me, but then, it wasn't really a multi-tasking os anyway..), 95, 98, 98 SE, NT 3.51, 2000 workstation (nt 4), XP Professional.
It's simple. Smart web admins will start denying referrers from slashdot. Then it will reduce the /. effect on their server. Many places already do this. An obligatory link to a google cache prior to posting would be good enough for me. Or maybe contact the person who runs the site and get approval first, as well as approval to borrow some pictures or whatnot, since that's what every wants to look at anyway.
You forgot one: Steal a few grand from all your employees, get elected to high political offices, and then condemn your peers when they get caught with their pants down and 2 billion short.
Many who are now in high school or just entering college were taught in primary school that they could spell words however they wanted to, instead of spelling them the proper way, because that would stifle their creativity or something. I wasn't part of this, but I know many people who were, and A WHOLE LOT OF THEM cannot spell for crap. Does anyone have a clue what I am talking about or can back this up for me?
Open = Opel, and EV1 is the up and coming line of electric vehicles from GM.
They also have joint-venture sort of deals going on with: Fiat, Fuji/Subaru, Isuzu, and Suzuki.
Buick has been GM for a very long time. For the interested or uninformed, GM owns/operates/has a large stake in the following automobile makes:
Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, EV1, Holden, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Open, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, Vauxhall. As well the former 'Geo' which is now operated by Chevy anyway.
ar, stupid html crap that should read 0 < x < 10.
psh, I'd take 1.1.1.1 over 123.123.123.123 Any of the x.x.x.x where 0 x 10 addresses would be my first choice.