What's a good router to buy for home / small business that has a minimum feature set: uses DHCP, has some static IP addresses, has a LAN-only config web page, no stupid app store in my router, and no remote access, etc)?
I have a Linksys EA6900, and it makes me nervous because it is chok full of features that I don't use and I never plan on using. Each and every one is probably an exploit waiting to happen. Personally, I think if such routers are easily hacked because of poorly implemented features and are responsible for fraud, they should be considered fodder for product liability lawsuits.
Speaking as one who is tired of sorting through consumer grade routers every few years, I'd love it if 90% of these "smart router" crapware products just went away. Someone said that the best technology is that which disappears from the user's consciousness, but somehow router manufacturers think that their best play is to worm their way into your attention like an insecure child "Hey, look what I can do! Look at me me me!
Yeah, I'm DLink and look what I can do. Real smooth.
Do I need to access an app store on my router? No. Do I need a warm, fuzzy javascript interface? No. Do I need to configure my home router when I'm not at home? No, no, no and those sorts of features probably contribute the lion's share of vulnerabilities.
What I need is a simple, CGI interface to set up basic routing parameters and WiFi that goes more than 20 feet and forget all about the router. I would actually pay up for that.
So in a nutshell, they compared the cost of the most inefficient method of in-memory string concatenation versus an efficient method of in-memory string concatenation: the memory in the latter case being a buffered file writer. Lololol!!!
Not sure why Andrus Nomm is charged with anything. Was he responsible for business decisions at the company?
If he was just a developer, I'm wondering if we'll start seeing a more prosecutions against developers working for a DOJ targeted company just to get them to roll on their bosses. In this case, is he any more responsible for other peoples' file sharing than Kim Dotcom's secretary?
As for his own illegal download, yeah, him and about 2 billion other people, (probably also including Kim Dotcom's secretary).
His assets have been seized, he only gets enough from the authorities to cover his living expenses and his own legal fees. He cannot afford to hire lawyers for other people.
France went nuclear a long time ago, and they adopted it at a pace that if replicated around the world would cut C02 emissions to levels recommended by the IPCC. Nuclear energy is the only viable technology we have at the moment that can both reduce CO2 emissions meaningfully and avoid throwing an additional billions of people into poverty.
Not handling hyphens, minus signs or whatever: it doesn't surprise me in the least.
Why don't eBook publishers use a typesetting system based on TeX or LaTeX? Good grief. I was formatting complex mathematical formulas and pretty printing them to Postscript and PDF before the lot of you were born. And not just text with mere hyphens.
Is there something I'm missing, or are eBooks a major step backwards in formatting? Really. I can't tell you how many computer science and mathematics eBooks I've returned to Amazon or B&N because of the sh***y formatting of code and math formulas. Not just when eBooks first came out, but on and on, year after year, and it doesn't get better. It strikes me as the laziness of corporations.
A better experiment would be to have participants choose to shock themselves or shock other people "for the greater good".
People are primed for all kinds of oppressive behavior as long as it doesn't hit them and if it makes them feel morally superior: true or false? Let's find out.
... stop whacking people for thinking outside the box.
This implies a greater tolerance for dissenters, and more time to think critically on the job. You can't think critically about anything if you are so jammed up with work that you don't have time to take a break.
This has nothing to do with education reformers favorite whipping post: memorization. Good memorization skills actually help critical thinking because you don't have to suck time looking up obvious stuff you should already know.
There needs to be a cost for issuing overbroad DMCA takedown notices.
If a court finds out later that a company had no standing or no good reason to make a DMCA claim that resulted in a takedown, there should be statutory damages. Let's start at $10000 per infraction.
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Thank you Judge Alvin Hellerstein for not automatically siding with mega corporations over their hapless customers.
Does it really make sense to spend money on CS education while importing cheap H1B labor?
As long as you're spending someone else's money.
What's a good router to buy for home / small business that has a minimum feature set: uses DHCP, has some static IP addresses, has a LAN-only config web page, no stupid app store in my router, and no remote access, etc)?
I have a Linksys EA6900, and it makes me nervous because it is chok full of features that I don't use and I never plan on using. Each and every one is probably an exploit waiting to happen. Personally, I think if such routers are easily hacked because of poorly implemented features and are responsible for fraud, they should be considered fodder for product liability lawsuits.
Lot's of commenters with posting as "anonymous coward". Hoping for a job at Google someday?
Speaking as one who is tired of sorting through consumer grade routers every few years, I'd love it if 90% of these "smart router" crapware products just went away. Someone said that the best technology is that which disappears from the user's consciousness, but somehow router manufacturers think that their best play is to worm their way into your attention like an insecure child "Hey, look what I can do! Look at me me me!
Yeah, I'm DLink and look what I can do. Real smooth.
Do I need to access an app store on my router? No. Do I need a warm, fuzzy javascript interface? No. Do I need to configure my home router when I'm not at home? No, no, no and those sorts of features probably contribute the lion's share of vulnerabilities.
What I need is a simple, CGI interface to set up basic routing parameters and WiFi that goes more than 20 feet and forget all about the router. I would actually pay up for that.
That's what buffered files are supposed to do: make slow disk writes appear as if they are as performant as memory writes.
So in a nutshell, they compared the cost of the most inefficient method of in-memory string concatenation versus an efficient method of in-memory string concatenation: the memory in the latter case being a buffered file writer. Lololol!!!
Maybe code should be written by Political Science majors from now on. It's important that the right categories take credit.
Lol, one of my favorite Trek one-liners is that Romulan ambassador hissing: "It's a faaaaaake!"
Not sure why Andrus Nomm is charged with anything. Was he responsible for business decisions at the company?
If he was just a developer, I'm wondering if we'll start seeing a more prosecutions against developers working for a DOJ targeted company just to get them to roll on their bosses. In this case, is he any more responsible for other peoples' file sharing than Kim Dotcom's secretary?
As for his own illegal download, yeah, him and about 2 billion other people, (probably also including Kim Dotcom's secretary).
His assets have been seized, he only gets enough from the authorities to cover his living expenses and his own legal fees. He cannot afford to hire lawyers for other people.
The district superintendent of this school is Mr. Bill Boyd
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Home is behind, the world ahead. And there are many paths to tread...
Let this be a lesson to all of the architects out there who have a tendency to over-generalize, even to the point of abstracting away useful features.
I am sorry - this was meant for another thread. (I am so embarrassed!)
More reason to encrypt everything digital. Should just encrypt by default.
France went nuclear a long time ago, and they adopted it at a pace that if replicated around the world would cut C02 emissions to levels recommended by the IPCC. Nuclear energy is the only viable technology we have at the moment that can both reduce CO2 emissions meaningfully and avoid throwing an additional billions of people into poverty.
These are good points, thanks for elucidating.
Not handling hyphens, minus signs or whatever: it doesn't surprise me in the least.
Why don't eBook publishers use a typesetting system based on TeX or LaTeX? Good grief. I was formatting complex mathematical formulas and pretty printing them to Postscript and PDF before the lot of you were born. And not just text with mere hyphens.
Is there something I'm missing, or are eBooks a major step backwards in formatting? Really. I can't tell you how many computer science and mathematics eBooks I've returned to Amazon or B&N because of the sh***y formatting of code and math formulas. Not just when eBooks first came out, but on and on, year after year, and it doesn't get better. It strikes me as the laziness of corporations.
I thought the enhanced NSA and GCHQ surveilance was about combating terrorism. Or is that rationale just given in the United States?
A better experiment would be to have participants choose to shock themselves or shock other people "for the greater good".
People are primed for all kinds of oppressive behavior as long as it doesn't hit them and if it makes them feel morally superior: true or false? Let's find out.
Well played, sir. Well played.
I honestly don't know why anyone cares. Let them believe whatever they want to believe, it doesn't affect me or my family.
... stop whacking people for thinking outside the box.
This implies a greater tolerance for dissenters, and more time to think critically on the job. You can't think critically about anything if you are so jammed up with work that you don't have time to take a break.
This has nothing to do with education reformers favorite whipping post: memorization. Good memorization skills actually help critical thinking because you don't have to suck time looking up obvious stuff you should already know.
I wonder when customer service will start being more proactive by calling customers.
"Hello, this is Comcast. How may we upsell you?"
There needs to be a cost for issuing overbroad DMCA takedown notices.
If a court finds out later that a company had no standing or no good reason to make a DMCA claim that resulted in a takedown, there should be statutory damages. Let's start at $10000 per infraction.