I think TFA suggests that something unique about two phones makes this work. When in practise, two phones will merely make it work twice as quickly (if it works at all).
Since this arrangment works both on the Google end and the Customer end, Verizon ends up getting paid twice for the google traffic.
However Verizon would like to be paid three times for the Google traffic. You can bet if they win that, then they'll start charging customers extra for "faster" access to google. Their accountants would be thrilled if they could charge 4 times for the same product.
I'm with a small isp (www.mesanetworks.net) and they seem to undersell my connection. It's supposed to have a 2.5Mb downstream but i rarely get less than 3 in speed tests. It also seems to burst up to about 8 Mb for a second or two when you start a download - makes the web very snappy.
i'm certainly not a excessive bandwidth user, but i do generate a fair amount of vpn and internet radio traffic.
It it can analyze a 640x480 image and tell if it's a fake or not then it can be beaten.
There are only so many pixels and so many combinations thereof that it'd quite simply have to be possible to make a fake image that meets all the criteria for a real one.
I used to work for a big company that suffered from the same problem. In some production environments, the developers couldn't even look at the log files without filing a request with IT.
When it comes to dealing with projects. We'd mention that we'd complete development on 9.114.1.3 on July 1st, it'd be QA'd by the end of the month and then passed to IT for deployment.
Managment would then be the ones that took our deployment spec and dates to IT and pretty much force them to commit.
The lack of agility is very frustrating (and one of the reasons i left) but make sure that your management chain are aware that it's not your fault. We had root at one point, and a misguided developer managed to clean out / with an rsync typo.
OTOH our IT was stable as a rock. Our servers were rarely down for more than a few minutes a year. The UPSs and Gensets all kicked in properly whenever the powercompany managed to sever both the redundant powerfeeds simultaneously. In 4 years we were only down once due to hardware failure and once more due to IT's mistake.
In the US you can't just be pulled over because the officer suspects you are drunk. You actually have to commit an infraction.
I supsect the common ones are:
1) speeding 2) not keeping a safe distance 3) poor lane control 4) out of date vehical tags/tail light out etc.. 5) failing to signal for a turn 6) failing to stop at a stop light
If the car can more or less take care of 1-3 then it does reduce your chances of getting caught.
Unfortunately the US still has a culture where it's considered acceptable to drink and drive. Perhaps this sort of system can be combined with one that makes sure the drivers eyes are following the road correctly so it won't be so easy to abuse.
You need to emulate stateful behavior, so you have to have some way to recognize that a client has returned. Giving a cookie to the client is the only way i can think of to recongize the returning client.
Typically you make sure that you either give the client some random data that you've associated with them, or perhaps a cryptographically signed token. The idea being that that if the client modifies it then it'll be worthless.
However nothing stops the client swapping credentials with another client, and i cant see any way to design around that. Am i missing something here?
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Say you give some 64 byte randomly generated credential to the user as the cookie slashdot_cred. You store that in your database against their account, and then when they return that string you "know" that you've reached them. Typically that cookie is scoped to ".slashdot.org" so it can be read on it.slashdot.org and games.slashdot.org.
Now, when the user visits evil.org it requests that a cookie called slashdot_cred be set for the site ".org." It has 2 dots in it, so it's set as a valid cookie and then next time you hit/. you'll hand over some alternate credential from evil.org.
Opportunities for exploiting this seem very limited. The only one i can think of are store affiliate programs. I know that if you visit a link that i give you for shutterstock then they'll set a cookie with my id so that i'll get the referral credit if you sign up within 30 days.
I'm not sure what goes into that cookie, but i might be able to make my own.com fake it and get credit for any signups that happen.
They need a web application where a customer can type in the serial number from their receipt, it looks that up in a database to see what they bought, they supply name and address and in 6-8 weeks sends them a check.
That's going to take another year to implement... i wish i worked software development at that pace.
Better yet, instead of doing rebates they could just reduce their prices... that would show they didn't hate their customers.
Most of the less-technical people i know can tell you if they have a dell, compaq or mac... but i'd be surprised if many know if they run Intel or AMD and the significance of that.
The Apple and brand is far better known amongst non-techy users...
Apple are in a good position because they can demand a premium for their products. By switching to the x86 platform they are unlikely to be in a position where they cant offer a premium product because their architecture doesn't support it.
From a migration standpoint, hopefully there will soon be Windows emulators that take advantage of the virtualization on the CPU. A lot more users will be enticed onto the mac if it's straightforward to run the software they need.
It doesn't take that long to be halfway decent at DDR. If you practice at home for a month or two then you could probably get to a standard where people will gather round and watch in awe.
These are certainly interesting points, but they rely on highly pulicized facts about the laws in an area. It's not hard to know that florida lets people have concealed weapons and georgia doesn't.
I find it hard to keep track of which towns nearby allow smoking in bars and which don't - there's a mish mash of different laws and regulations.
If gun control were implementated on a truly local basis then you'd need to actually research which places had the tightest controls and chose to carry out crime in those areas.
It's a reasonable short term solution as it displaces crime, however if everyone was allowed a concealed weapon then would crime just go away?
Also do you have the stats for that british figure. Anecdotally it would seem to be true, although i've never had a home in either country broken in to.
The difference between your dogs and many criminals is that your dogs will bark at the mailman several times, and be punished several times before they learn that it's a bad idea.
Consider the burglar that's already broken into a dozen homes with no consequence. He'll experience positive reinforcement that he can indeed be above the law.
My wife has worked in the cj system and i've met some of the inmates she's worked with. Some people are in jail for having a dozen DUIs and honestly believe they were unlucky the last time, because they were "only driving 4 blocks" and somehow got caught.
My use of the word "caught" above may have been inappropriate. It would be better to stay that many criminals don't expect to be caught or if they are don't expect to really be punished.
The reality is that very few burglars are shot by homeowners. I really would not be surprised if the cost-benifit analysis of burglarizing a home in this town vs driving ten miles and burglarizing a home in a gun-free town would favor doing it now rather than driving (at least for someone with poor reasoning skills).
For development questions i recall MS tech support being very expensive. I used it once and i think the question cost nearly $500 and the answer for all the money was a succinct "You can't do that".
Given a quantity discount the tech support hours that they provide must be at least $250 each, so that's $125k of "free" tech support. I doubt i'll be licensing their code any time soon.
Unfortunately many criminals have poor impulse control and critical reasoning... it's doubtful that they would consider something like this when it would mean having to travel somewhere else and delay their crime.
Virtually no criminal expects to be caught, which removes many of the things that rational people would see as deterrants (ie the death penalty).
In the place I used to work, the girl that had the office next to me happened to have the thermostat for that part of the building. Unfortunately she tended to feel the cold more than most, and in the heat of the Colorado summer had to use a space heater to offset the air-conditioning.
Of course the thermostat then registered that her office was warmer than it should have been and cranked up the A/C. The net effect for me is that my office would get colder and colder.
I'd be tempted to get a MS-licensed audio player since it'll work with Yahoo Music Unlimited, so long as i plug it into my pc every 30 days and license my subscription.
As long as Yahoo music is $5/month for unlimted streaming and copying to PlaysForSure devices then i really cant see me going back to itms.
Apple still appear to be missing an "unlimited" option, which will probably hurt them in the long term.
The wires had been pulled - they were in the process of switching from hundreds of twisted pair to a single fibre run. As such the pipe was empty, but still terminated in a datacenter in another building.
I'm not certain it was a PVC pipe - it was probably installed in the 50s or 60s for the telephone network in a building that was maybe built in the 20s. I'm not sure how standard plumbing and electrical conduit were back then.
Quite a few years ago when I was at university, they were completely renovating some building. The construction workers saw a 6in pvc pipe and figured it was the line down to the sewer. They went on their merry way and hooked up all the toilets in the building.
Now it turns out that this pipe actually used to carry the phone and data cables over to the main datacenter, and a few days later raw sewage starts appearing behind their patch panels.
At least IT had a laugh about it, posted a message on their website apologizing for the sh*tty network performance.
I've got a $25 UPS which keeps my microwave modem, router and VoIP running. I then have a cordless base station that has battery backup. All in all i can keep calling and surfing for about 45 minutes when the power dies.
I suspect most of the energy probably goes on keeping the microwave link up, but it's still a pretty decent solution for me.
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I think TFA suggests that something unique about two phones makes this work. When in practise, two phones will merely make it work twice as quickly (if it works at all).
Since this arrangment works both on the Google end and the Customer end, Verizon ends up getting paid twice for the google traffic.
However Verizon would like to be paid three times for the Google traffic. You can bet if they win that, then they'll start charging customers extra for "faster" access to google. Their accountants would be thrilled if they could charge 4 times for the same product.
I know some organizations essentially dodge bandwidth charges by running their own connection to major peer points.
The bbc certainly use that approach in the UK to keep their costs affordable.
However in that case, then they are doing part of the ISPs job so it seems fair.
They seem good at letting me sit on the phone for hours on end.
Placing large metal objects round the phones until their signal strength meters read 1 bar would be an easy way to max out the power consumption.
However this is obviously BS. Especially as phones all talk to the tower, so using two of them serves no other purpose than halfing the cook time.
This is your brain on CDMA
I'm with a small isp (www.mesanetworks.net) and they seem to undersell my connection. It's supposed to have a 2.5Mb downstream but i rarely get less than 3 in speed tests. It also seems to burst up to about 8 Mb for a second or two when you start a download - makes the web very snappy.
i'm certainly not a excessive bandwidth user, but i do generate a fair amount of vpn and internet radio traffic.
It it can analyze a 640x480 image and tell if it's a fake or not then it can be beaten.
There are only so many pixels and so many combinations thereof that it'd quite simply have to be possible to make a fake image that meets all the criteria for a real one.
I used to work for a big company that suffered from the same problem. In some production environments, the developers couldn't even look at the log files without filing a request with IT.
When it comes to dealing with projects. We'd mention that we'd complete development on 9.114.1.3 on July 1st, it'd be QA'd by the end of the month and then passed to IT for deployment.
Managment would then be the ones that took our deployment spec and dates to IT and pretty much force them to commit.
The lack of agility is very frustrating (and one of the reasons i left) but make sure that your management chain are aware that it's not your fault. We had root at one point, and a misguided developer managed to clean out / with an rsync typo.
OTOH our IT was stable as a rock. Our servers were rarely down for more than a few minutes a year. The UPSs and Gensets all kicked in properly whenever the powercompany managed to sever both the redundant powerfeeds simultaneously. In 4 years we were only down once due to hardware failure and once more due to IT's mistake.
I'm virtually certain that all DUI checkpoints pull vehicals over at random - not just picking on people who appear to be intoxicated.
Granted i've only ever encountered one, and they seemed to be pulling off every other car and letting the other half go past.
In the US you can't just be pulled over because the officer suspects you are drunk. You actually have to commit an infraction.
I supsect the common ones are:
1) speeding
2) not keeping a safe distance
3) poor lane control
4) out of date vehical tags/tail light out etc..
5) failing to signal for a turn
6) failing to stop at a stop light
If the car can more or less take care of 1-3 then it does reduce your chances of getting caught.
Unfortunately the US still has a culture where it's considered acceptable to drink and drive. Perhaps this sort of system can be combined with one that makes sure the drivers eyes are following the road correctly so it won't be so easy to abuse.
How else could a site work?
You need to emulate stateful behavior, so you have to have some way to recognize that a client has returned. Giving a cookie to the client is the only way i can think of to recongize the returning client.
Typically you make sure that you either give the client some random data that you've associated with them, or perhaps a cryptographically signed token. The idea being that that if the client modifies it then it'll be worthless.
However nothing stops the client swapping credentials with another client, and i cant see any way to design around that. Am i missing something here?
Now, when the user visits evil.org it requests that a cookie called slashdot_cred be set for the site ".org." It has 2 dots in it, so it's set as a valid cookie and then next time you hit /. you'll hand over some alternate credential from evil.org.
Opportunities for exploiting this seem very limited. The only one i can think of are store affiliate programs. I know that if you visit a link that i give you for shutterstock then they'll set a cookie with my id so that i'll get the referral credit if you sign up within 30 days.
I'm not sure what goes into that cookie, but i might be able to make my own .com fake it and get credit for any signups that happen.
They need a web application where a customer can type in the serial number from their receipt, it looks that up in a database to see what they bought, they supply name and address and in 6-8 weeks sends them a check.
That's going to take another year to implement... i wish i worked software development at that pace.
Better yet, instead of doing rebates they could just reduce their prices... that would show they didn't hate their customers.
Most of the less-technical people i know can tell you if they have a dell, compaq or mac... but i'd be surprised if many know if they run Intel or AMD and the significance of that.
The Apple and brand is far better known amongst non-techy users...
http://www.brandchannel.com/start1.asp?fa_id=298
I'd bet that intel needs Apple.
Apple are in a good position because they can demand a premium for their products. By switching to the x86 platform they are unlikely to be in a position where they cant offer a premium product because their architecture doesn't support it.
From a migration standpoint, hopefully there will soon be Windows emulators that take advantage of the virtualization on the CPU. A lot more users will be enticed onto the mac if it's straightforward to run the software they need.
it must be "mostly harmless"
It doesn't take that long to be halfway decent at DDR. If you practice at home for a month or two then you could probably get to a standard where people will gather round and watch in awe.
These are certainly interesting points, but they rely on highly pulicized facts about the laws in an area. It's not hard to know that florida lets people have concealed weapons and georgia doesn't.
I find it hard to keep track of which towns nearby allow smoking in bars and which don't - there's a mish mash of different laws and regulations.
If gun control were implementated on a truly local basis then you'd need to actually research which places had the tightest controls and chose to carry out crime in those areas.
It's a reasonable short term solution as it displaces crime, however if everyone was allowed a concealed weapon then would crime just go away?
Also do you have the stats for that british figure. Anecdotally it would seem to be true, although i've never had a home in either country broken in to.
The difference between your dogs and many criminals is that your dogs will bark at the mailman several times, and be punished several times before they learn that it's a bad idea.
Consider the burglar that's already broken into a dozen homes with no consequence. He'll experience positive reinforcement that he can indeed be above the law.
My wife has worked in the cj system and i've met some of the inmates she's worked with. Some people are in jail for having a dozen DUIs and honestly believe they were unlucky the last time, because they were "only driving 4 blocks" and somehow got caught.
My use of the word "caught" above may have been inappropriate. It would be better to stay that many criminals don't expect to be caught or if they are don't expect to really be punished.
The reality is that very few burglars are shot by homeowners. I really would not be surprised if the cost-benifit analysis of burglarizing a home in this town vs driving ten miles and burglarizing a home in a gun-free town would favor doing it now rather than driving (at least for someone with poor reasoning skills).
For development questions i recall MS tech support being very expensive. I used it once and i think the question cost nearly $500 and the answer for all the money was a succinct "You can't do that".
Given a quantity discount the tech support hours that they provide must be at least $250 each, so that's $125k of "free" tech support. I doubt i'll be licensing their code any time soon.
Unfortunately many criminals have poor impulse control and critical reasoning... it's doubtful that they would consider something like this when it would mean having to travel somewhere else and delay their crime.
Virtually no criminal expects to be caught, which removes many of the things that rational people would see as deterrants (ie the death penalty).
I'd make a crappy criminal.
In the place I used to work, the girl that had the office next to me happened to have the thermostat for that part of the building. Unfortunately she tended to feel the cold more than most, and in the heat of the Colorado summer had to use a space heater to offset the air-conditioning.
Of course the thermostat then registered that her office was warmer than it should have been and cranked up the A/C. The net effect for me is that my office would get colder and colder.
I'd be tempted to get a MS-licensed audio player since it'll work with Yahoo Music Unlimited, so long as i plug it into my pc every 30 days and license my subscription.
As long as Yahoo music is $5/month for unlimted streaming and copying to PlaysForSure devices then i really cant see me going back to itms.
Apple still appear to be missing an "unlimited" option, which will probably hurt them in the long term.
The wires had been pulled - they were in the process of switching from hundreds of twisted pair to a single fibre run. As such the pipe was empty, but still terminated in a datacenter in another building.
I'm not certain it was a PVC pipe - it was probably installed in the 50s or 60s for the telephone network in a building that was maybe built in the 20s. I'm not sure how standard plumbing and electrical conduit were back then.
Quite a few years ago when I was at university, they were completely renovating some building. The construction workers saw a 6in pvc pipe and figured it was the line down to the sewer. They went on their merry way and hooked up all the toilets in the building.
Now it turns out that this pipe actually used to carry the phone and data cables over to the main datacenter, and a few days later raw sewage starts appearing behind their patch panels.
At least IT had a laugh about it, posted a message on their website apologizing for the sh*tty network performance.
I've got a $25 UPS which keeps my microwave modem, router and VoIP running. I then have a cordless base station that has battery backup. All in all i can keep calling and surfing for about 45 minutes when the power dies.
I suspect most of the energy probably goes on keeping the microwave link up, but it's still a pretty decent solution for me.