But when I see that a 60Mb download actually generates 180Mb worth of data then I can't agree with people saying how much better a torrent is and that the spreading of data is actually a good thing.
A 60Mb download normally "generates" 120Mb of traffic, since it uses 60Mb on the webserver and 60Mb on the client.
It's to be expected that bittorrent uses a little more than that since it's inherently more complex than http, i suspect you saw the 50% increase because shared more of the file than you downloaded - which is good and makes up for some of the leechers.
If AOL had released that kind of data on me, then it's be easy to link my other search history back to this. Fortunately I know that google already know where I live, so i dont have much to fear in searching for directions like that.
Interestingly most of the results i've seen have very few results per user. I probably hit google thousands of times a month.
There is no way in hell i could make a system capable of running a modern OS by myself. However i'm confident that I could make a computer out of transistors that, given enough time and resources, would at least be able to do something. I know i've designed and modelled transistors but i'm a bit more skeptical that I could actually make one, seeing as how i've never used any kind of fabrication equipment.
My home connection is through a Motorola Canopy microwave dish on the roof. I almost always get the 3 down / 1 up that i pay for, tech support is actually technical and the uptime is at least as good as cable was (www.mesanetworks.com).
I'm about 3.5 miles from their base station. Rain doesn't seem to affect things, but heavy snow causes a slight increase in ping time (presumably due to retransmits) but not enough to really be noticable without timing it.
I can, in theory, build a transistor from silicon, build a logic gate from those transistors, build a processor from those gates, write an OS to run on my system and network it to the rest of the world.
Granted i'd have to do more in-depth research to actually pull it off, but i've done each of steps in isolation and have full confidence that i could pull it off.
As it happens i mostly work in very high level stuff, but knowing what goes on under the hood has been a big help to me.
I can think of plenty times that i've started watching something on tivo and then switched off the tv to go do something else. I'm sure that counts as me having viewed the ads.
What about the times that you are watching live tv.
I half wonder if tivo have statistics that show them not doing much damage:)
The way to do it would be for a phisher to gain access to some people's ATM accounts.
They could then hack your account, and use your online billpay to transfer $300 a time to dozens of different ATM accounts. They could then use cloned cards/stolen pins to pull the cash out.
The ATM account holders wouldn't immediately notice since they wouldn't be missing any money and the billpay paper trail wouldn't point to the real culprit.
One of the things that really pisses me off is that I CAN fix things, but i often can't get parts.
I broke the USB assembly on my laptop, but i couldn't find anywhere to buy a new one so I ended up being unable to replace it.
I had a problem with my DVD players D/A converter, but philips wouldn't send me a new one.
At one point I bought a couple of broken cellphones so I could salvage parts to fix my own phone.
Perhaps we could mandate that manufacturers must make fairly priced spare parts available for some number of years after releasing a product. That would probably push up the costs of new goods and make it easier for existing products to be maintained.
I'm in the same boat, I have to specifically call the bank and request that other accounts be added, and even then I can only transfer money within their organization.
However, I'd love to have the ability to do transfers and intl wires from my account like some of my friends in europe can. The fact that many internet banking systems in the US are crippled isn't exactly security.
I wish gmail would let you block foreign languages. I get a lot of chinese and korean spam and even if it wasn't spam i wouldn't be able to read it.
However, these filters are really unfortunate for people who do work in things like the mortgage business... they have lots of problems with spam filters catching their email.
It's not really a bad situation for the retailler. Mostly they run numbers like $/sf or $profit/$salaries, so having a large crowd of people ready to spend big bucks will let them keep those metrics high while reducing their margin.
If these really took off then it'd be more likely to see stores that only open to mobs. Why not start an electronics warehouse that has very low overhead and only opens to groups of 500 or more - you'd keep your running costs very low and probably shift as much product as bestbuy does being open til 10pm.
When I bought my iPod it only played MP3 files, and essentially played every music file I could find on the net. At the time, I could use iTunes to rip my cds and convert them to mp3 just fine.
If the record companies succeed in stopping CDs being ripped (and i know that's technically impossible) then I do indeed HAVE to buy new music from the Apple Owned store - which didn't even exist when i bought my iPod. In launching itms, Apple copted their existing userbase and changes in record label policy to create a near monopoly for their own store.
I suspect you'd be all for GM changing their cars to only work with GM gas, because customers can just choose not to buy their cars because of the bundling. Eventually the free market will stop the bundling, and the people who've already invested in GM cars will eventually get over it.
How exactly do they "know" that it hasn't been accessed?
Perhaps this was an organized gang, they could have booted off a live cd, mounted the hdd in read only mode, pulled the database onto the network and then set up a bungling thief to take the rap.
If you were working for the mob then that would seem like one of the best ways to pull this off without causing suspicion
If you log your DHCP transactions then it looks like
Laptop) Can I use your network?
AP) Sure you can here's and IP address. If you want to access the internet then you'll need this gateway address. These are only good for 24 hours so ask me again if you are still here tommorrow.
Laptop) Thanks!
Your laptop, acting on your behalf, specifically ASKS if it can use the network which was advertized. The access point, acting on behalf of the network owner, then responds with an overwhelming YES.
The closest real world alternative is that you show up to a grocery store late at night. The store is closed, but their control systems left the lights on and the door opens when you walk up to it. You go in, use their bathroom and leave. Not noticing that there are no employees there. Could you really be prosecuted for trespass when their systems let you in and made it seem like you were welcome?
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But when I see that a 60Mb download actually generates 180Mb worth of data then I can't agree with people saying how much better a torrent is and that the spreading of data is actually a good thing.
A 60Mb download normally "generates" 120Mb of traffic, since it uses 60Mb on the webserver and 60Mb on the client.
It's to be expected that bittorrent uses a little more than that since it's inherently more complex than http, i suspect you saw the 50% increase because shared more of the file than you downloaded - which is good and makes up for some of the leechers.
I routinely search for
My Address, My City, My Zip to Somwhere else
If AOL had released that kind of data on me, then it's be easy to link my other search history back to this. Fortunately I know that google already know where I live, so i dont have much to fear in searching for directions like that.
Interestingly most of the results i've seen have very few results per user. I probably hit google thousands of times a month.
Seems like we have a chicken and egg problem here, unless of course his directory included 0 other sites.
Generally you should move that code into a common function and share it, rather than letting it exist as something that's copy pasted.
However, there are plenty of times that copying and pasting chunks of code makes good sense.
Depends on how you measure it.
Sure you can probably afford a six bedroom house with staff on a programmers salary, but you wont be able to afford a nice car or a plasma tv.
I transferred 4 gigs onto our company vpn last night, my upload averaged 0.97mbit for many hours.
Depends on your definition of "pull it off".
There is no way in hell i could make a system capable of running a modern OS by myself. However i'm confident that I could make a computer out of transistors that, given enough time and resources, would at least be able to do something. I know i've designed and modelled transistors but i'm a bit more skeptical that I could actually make one, seeing as how i've never used any kind of fabrication equipment.
My home connection is through a Motorola Canopy microwave dish on the roof. I almost always get the 3 down / 1 up that i pay for, tech support is actually technical and the uptime is at least as good as cable was (www.mesanetworks.com).
I'm about 3.5 miles from their base station. Rain doesn't seem to affect things, but heavy snow causes a slight increase in ping time (presumably due to retransmits) but not enough to really be noticable without timing it.
I graduated in 2003.
I can, in theory, build a transistor from silicon, build a logic gate from those transistors, build a processor from those gates, write an OS to run on my system and network it to the rest of the world.
Granted i'd have to do more in-depth research to actually pull it off, but i've done each of steps in isolation and have full confidence that i could pull it off.
As it happens i mostly work in very high level stuff, but knowing what goes on under the hood has been a big help to me.
I can think of plenty times that i've started watching something on tivo and then switched off the tv to go do something else. I'm sure that counts as me having viewed the ads.
:)
What about the times that you are watching live tv.
I half wonder if tivo have statistics that show them not doing much damage
The way to do it would be for a phisher to gain access to some people's ATM accounts.
They could then hack your account, and use your online billpay to transfer $300 a time to dozens of different ATM accounts. They could then use cloned cards/stolen pins to pull the cash out.
The ATM account holders wouldn't immediately notice since they wouldn't be missing any money and the billpay paper trail wouldn't point to the real culprit.
One of the things that really pisses me off is that I CAN fix things, but i often can't get parts.
I broke the USB assembly on my laptop, but i couldn't find anywhere to buy a new one so I ended up being unable to replace it.
I had a problem with my DVD players D/A converter, but philips wouldn't send me a new one.
At one point I bought a couple of broken cellphones so I could salvage parts to fix my own phone.
Perhaps we could mandate that manufacturers must make fairly priced spare parts available for some number of years after releasing a product. That would probably push up the costs of new goods and make it easier for existing products to be maintained.
I'm in the same boat, I have to specifically call the bank and request that other accounts be added, and even then I can only transfer money within their organization.
However, I'd love to have the ability to do transfers and intl wires from my account like some of my friends in europe can. The fact that many internet banking systems in the US are crippled isn't exactly security.
The problem is that it's easy to broker the sales of ad's.
You can offer to pay 20c for every click to your website, hand out the affiliate codes and have them promise not to use popups.
Of course if they sell them on, then it can get very hard to know who is displaying the ads to the user and if they are following the rules.
I've always assumed this was done somewhat intentionally, in a sort of "don't ask, don't tell" way.
Rebates are good if you are organized and disciplined.
:/
I've only ever had one go missing, and i could live without the 8 dollars.
This will surely end up costing me more
When was the last time you got a spam about viagra. I doubt pfizer executives spell it v14gr4!
No Mohamed Sahirs on the SDN listd n/sdnlist.txt
http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/s
Lots of Sahirs and Mohameds but i dont see that combination.
I wish gmail would let you block foreign languages. I get a lot of chinese and korean spam and even if it wasn't spam i wouldn't be able to read it.
However, these filters are really unfortunate for people who do work in things like the mortgage business... they have lots of problems with spam filters catching their email.
It's not really a bad situation for the retailler. Mostly they run numbers like $/sf or $profit/$salaries, so having a large crowd of people ready to spend big bucks will let them keep those metrics high while reducing their margin.
If these really took off then it'd be more likely to see stores that only open to mobs. Why not start an electronics warehouse that has very low overhead and only opens to groups of 500 or more - you'd keep your running costs very low and probably shift as much product as bestbuy does being open til 10pm.
The simple fact that the recording labels are actively trying to prevent users from ripping their CDs.
If i can't convert a CD to Mp3 then where exactly will the new music come from... unless I buy it from itms.
When I bought my iPod it only played MP3 files, and essentially played every music file I could find on the net. At the time, I could use iTunes to rip my cds and convert them to mp3 just fine.
If the record companies succeed in stopping CDs being ripped (and i know that's technically impossible) then I do indeed HAVE to buy new music from the Apple Owned store - which didn't even exist when i bought my iPod. In launching itms, Apple copted their existing userbase and changes in record label policy to create a near monopoly for their own store.
I suspect you'd be all for GM changing their cars to only work with GM gas, because customers can just choose not to buy their cars because of the bundling. Eventually the free market will stop the bundling, and the people who've already invested in GM cars will eventually get over it.
How exactly do they "know" that it hasn't been accessed?
Perhaps this was an organized gang, they could have booted off a live cd, mounted the hdd in read only mode, pulled the database onto the network and then set up a bungling thief to take the rap.
If you were working for the mob then that would seem like one of the best ways to pull this off without causing suspicion
If you log your DHCP transactions then it looks like
Laptop) Can I use your network?
AP) Sure you can here's and IP address. If you want to access the internet then you'll need this gateway address. These are only good for 24 hours so ask me again if you are still here tommorrow.
Laptop) Thanks!
Your laptop, acting on your behalf, specifically ASKS if it can use the network which was advertized. The access point, acting on behalf of the network owner, then responds with an overwhelming YES.
The closest real world alternative is that you show up to a grocery store late at night. The store is closed, but their control systems left the lights on and the door opens when you walk up to it. You go in, use their bathroom and leave. Not noticing that there are no employees there. Could you really be prosecuted for trespass when their systems let you in and made it seem like you were welcome?
Even moderately naive buyers can known that all usb printers take the same cables.
Surely they just say "no thanks, i've already got one" particularly when faced with the high sticker price.
Over time this technique will surely wear off.