The reality is that IPv4 has a limited use. NAT, and DHCP can only prolong it's life for so long. Eventually too many people are on the internet at the same time and then you have a problem. You then have to start dynamically reallocating IP addresses across countries and not just around a city or state. This is impractical and would mean the death of IPv4. Yes, IPv6 has been poorly thought out and poorly implemented. Then again the Internet2 which uses IPv6 is used primarily by universities and academia which is where the internet started. It's going though the same life cycle that the original did and will take the existing sport of the Internet when we finally figure out how to break it and have no way to fix it. When that happens is very debatable and will happen, unless society collapses and the internet dies with us.
I just rolled a 1 on vs Society Collapsing... was that good or bad?
First the MSNBC article sites the American Journal of Preventative Medicine October issue. One small problem with that is you can only read the September Issue. So MSNBC is siting something you cant actually verify on your own. There is a bit of a logic gap when someone says something foolish like the average gamer is 35. For that to be correct the majority of gamers would have to be born before 1974. Any gamer born before 1974 would start to bring down the average. One way this could happen is if Gaming was popular prior to 1974 and has died down in popularity. That would be unlikely since Nintendo, Sony, MS and the almighty Blizzard have continued to bring in more and more every year. A more likely possibility is that in their survey younger and younger gamers no longer consider them selves to be "gamers", or they just tell the crazy shrink to slot off. Since you cant read the study yet to review how they conducted said bone head study we can only speculate.
I used to work at DirectTV and I have a friend who still works at DirectTV as a manager in their local call center in Idaho. I completely agree with you that they should not have your SSN and it's a potential security hole. What they are trying to do is behave like a bank. Your bank and creditors probably have your SSN and wouldn't delete it from their system even if you threatened them. What they do is run a credit check on you when you get their service, just like a bank would. That's what prompts them to ether charge you 500$ to activate the service or 200$ with an annual contract. If you don't have a SSN or other identification you're stuck with a 500$ charge and they will most likely slip an annual contract with your account too at some point. If you default on the contract in some way or don't pay your bill they can even report that to the credit agencies as well. They also use it to track down people stealing services because all those unique ID numbers on your equipment are then married to your SSN. In their minds this allows them to find the "real" you if you're into trying to hack their equipment to get free DTV or sell it to others. If you cancel they still want to be able to track this just in case you're that kind of person. It's the ultimate big brother is watching your but what do you expect from a company that is owned by Rupert Murdoch aka New Corp aka Fox News.
An 8 year old bug is located and then Linus patches the mainline kernel in the repository. How is this faster? Is this patch in Ubuntu yet?
You clearly don't understand what is meant by quick. Quick is the time it takes to patch the bug from the point it's determined that it exists. As I stated originally no one believes that Linux or any software for that matter is bug free.
It depends on the level of secrecy you need for your data. If you have very valuable IP like a blue print for a Anti Matter reactor then it would probabaly be best to Higher an IT Admin that works for you. That way you can do a security and background check and make sure they're up to code. They'll probably still put in some Remote administration stuff but that's normal.
If you're protecting a calendar for a lawyer then outsourcing the IT would be a pretty good bet to save some money since it would be expensive to higher 1 admin for 2 computers.
It really depends on what you're doing and what you're protecting.
I don't think anyone who runs and uses Linux on a serious level believes any software (even Linux) is bug free. The development model in Linux is better mostly due to the level of documentation that goes into public code. What is being illustrated is how bugs are found and resolved in a timely manner in Linux. MS has their own way of doing things, and in some ways it causes many of their problems. If MS had as much respect for documenting their own code as the Linux developers do then the MSDN library wouldn't be as worthless as it is since they have undocumented features all over the place or are those bugs. MS does respond to security issues but it gives the appearance of responding to them way too late. For example simple things like adding a firewall didn't occur to them until years after Linux distributors had made it apart of most if not all installs.
Yes I am odd. I would buy the game for it's campaigns, and yes I want all 3 of them, and that is what I meant by all the game content (I don't care about expansions until they come out but I suspect they'll do three different campaign expansions as well).
I'm clearly the kind of gamer who will play a game with bad game play just to get what I view as a good story. You're clearly the kind of gamer who plays a game for game play and could careless for the story.
Battle.net is kinda critical in this gaming environment. Yes single player is important and lan play is too, but without being able to compete in some organized way online lan functions are kinda pointless. Not everyone has a house capable of holding 5v5 games unless you want to have smelly gamers packed in like sardines, and I don't like playing against the same 5 twits every time I want to play. Good skills come from being challenged by a wide variety of people.
I guess we just have to wait. Too bad I'm going to have to buy the game 3 times to play all 3 types of races and get all the game content.
Again read their terms and conditions under radio transmission law.
Radio Transmission Laws
The use of cellular telephone jamming equipment is prohibited in some countries. It is the responsibility of you, the customer, to ensure that you have the legal right to import these products before purchasing from us. Upon purchasing, you become wholly liable for any legal issues that may occur as a result of the importation and/or use of these products in the destination country.
(i) You understand that:
a. Jammers are not marketed for sale for use in the United States and/or to any customers residing within United States jurisdiction.
b. Jammers are not marketed for sale for use in any other jurisdiction in which such marketing and/or use may be prohibited by law and/or to any customers residing within any such jurisdictions.
c. Use of the jammers is prohibited by United States law and the jammers have not received authorisation by the FCC for use within the United States jurisdiction.
d. Contravention of United States law and the FCC rules may result in a fine and/or imprisonment.
And
(ii) That, in placing this order or making this purchase, you are not contravening the laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction and you will not, by your further actions in completing this purchase, contravene the laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction.
In accordance with the above, Phonejammer.com will not knowingly arrange or otherwise facilitate the import of its products into the United States jurisdiction and will not be held responsible for any prohibited import of its products of which it has either no knowledge or control.
They'd be convicted of breaking international import export laws if they sent one to you in the US anyways.
You should read their own disclaimer. They are illegal to sell or use in the US.
Disclaimer
This device has not been authorized as required by the rules of the FCC. This device is not, and may not, be offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained.
You're One in a Million stat is a bit off. There are only about 90,000 public schools in the US. For one in a million we'd have to have only one shooting every 10 years or more. It's a little more frequent then that unfortunately. Lets step it down just a bit too. Lets go with something more common such as rape. What would happen to the school if someone knew that Girl X would be in the school halls alone at some point in time when the jammer was on and that the only why Girl X would be able to call for help would be to dial 911 ASAP. How would the school know an emergency was happening to turn off the jammer in the first place? This goes for kidnapping as well. If I was looking to kidnap some little elementary school kid you just made it so that the teacher watching from accost the field has to notify the guy watching the jammer first in order to call the cops ASAP. That could mean the difference between a kid missing for lift and a kid returned to his parents.
Certainly a student who is too stupid to turn his cell phone to silent should get detention. It's a learning experience that everyone needs since it seems that there is always some fool leaving his cell phone ringer on during a movie or meeting.
Not to bring up a nasty memory for everyone but didn't Columbine teach us the kids will cell phones can help in an emergency. The last thing someone needs is for someone to plan out some stupid massacre and cut the phone lines and keep the cell phone jammer going.
If someone accidentally linked to GPL'd code and didn't realize the rules they were supposed to be playing by then someone will probably be fired. However, ever since MS decided it had to play with Red Hat and others for the virtualization market it was bound to happen. How long could they play nice and not have to link to the GPL code. They may have thought they could keep it a secret, or maybe they thought they could get around it in the end. I would hope the driver code would be of use to others outside of the Virtualisation field like Wine but I doubt they are of any value outside of their intended environment.
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I just rolled a 1 on vs Society Collapsing... was that good or bad?
First the MSNBC article sites the American Journal of Preventative Medicine October issue. One small problem with that is you can only read the September Issue. So MSNBC is siting something you cant actually verify on your own. There is a bit of a logic gap when someone says something foolish like the average gamer is 35. For that to be correct the majority of gamers would have to be born before 1974. Any gamer born before 1974 would start to bring down the average. One way this could happen is if Gaming was popular prior to 1974 and has died down in popularity. That would be unlikely since Nintendo, Sony, MS and the almighty Blizzard have continued to bring in more and more every year. A more likely possibility is that in their survey younger and younger gamers no longer consider them selves to be "gamers", or they just tell the crazy shrink to slot off. Since you cant read the study yet to review how they conducted said bone head study we can only speculate.
I used to work at DirectTV and I have a friend who still works at DirectTV as a manager in their local call center in Idaho. I completely agree with you that they should not have your SSN and it's a potential security hole. What they are trying to do is behave like a bank. Your bank and creditors probably have your SSN and wouldn't delete it from their system even if you threatened them. What they do is run a credit check on you when you get their service, just like a bank would. That's what prompts them to ether charge you 500$ to activate the service or 200$ with an annual contract. If you don't have a SSN or other identification you're stuck with a 500$ charge and they will most likely slip an annual contract with your account too at some point. If you default on the contract in some way or don't pay your bill they can even report that to the credit agencies as well. They also use it to track down people stealing services because all those unique ID numbers on your equipment are then married to your SSN. In their minds this allows them to find the "real" you if you're into trying to hack their equipment to get free DTV or sell it to others. If you cancel they still want to be able to track this just in case you're that kind of person. It's the ultimate big brother is watching your but what do you expect from a company that is owned by Rupert Murdoch aka New Corp aka Fox News.
You clearly don't understand what is meant by quick. Quick is the time it takes to patch the bug from the point it's determined that it exists. As I stated originally no one believes that Linux or any software for that matter is bug free.
It depends on the level of secrecy you need for your data. If you have very valuable IP like a blue print for a Anti Matter reactor then it would probabaly be best to Higher an IT Admin that works for you. That way you can do a security and background check and make sure they're up to code. They'll probably still put in some Remote administration stuff but that's normal. If you're protecting a calendar for a lawyer then outsourcing the IT would be a pretty good bet to save some money since it would be expensive to higher 1 admin for 2 computers. It really depends on what you're doing and what you're protecting.
I don't think anyone who runs and uses Linux on a serious level believes any software (even Linux) is bug free. The development model in Linux is better mostly due to the level of documentation that goes into public code. What is being illustrated is how bugs are found and resolved in a timely manner in Linux. MS has their own way of doing things, and in some ways it causes many of their problems. If MS had as much respect for documenting their own code as the Linux developers do then the MSDN library wouldn't be as worthless as it is since they have undocumented features all over the place or are those bugs. MS does respond to security issues but it gives the appearance of responding to them way too late. For example simple things like adding a firewall didn't occur to them until years after Linux distributors had made it apart of most if not all installs.
I'm clearly the kind of gamer who will play a game with bad game play just to get what I view as a good story. You're clearly the kind of gamer who plays a game for game play and could careless for the story.
Battle.net is kinda critical in this gaming environment. Yes single player is important and lan play is too, but without being able to compete in some organized way online lan functions are kinda pointless. Not everyone has a house capable of holding 5v5 games unless you want to have smelly gamers packed in like sardines, and I don't like playing against the same 5 twits every time I want to play. Good skills come from being challenged by a wide variety of people.
I guess we just have to wait. Too bad I'm going to have to buy the game 3 times to play all 3 types of races and get all the game content.
They'd be convicted of breaking international import export laws if they sent one to you in the US anyways.
That's because when it does prevent a "rape" the person is charged with stalking
You're One in a Million stat is a bit off. There are only about 90,000 public schools in the US. For one in a million we'd have to have only one shooting every 10 years or more. It's a little more frequent then that unfortunately. Lets step it down just a bit too. Lets go with something more common such as rape. What would happen to the school if someone knew that Girl X would be in the school halls alone at some point in time when the jammer was on and that the only why Girl X would be able to call for help would be to dial 911 ASAP. How would the school know an emergency was happening to turn off the jammer in the first place? This goes for kidnapping as well. If I was looking to kidnap some little elementary school kid you just made it so that the teacher watching from accost the field has to notify the guy watching the jammer first in order to call the cops ASAP. That could mean the difference between a kid missing for lift and a kid returned to his parents. Certainly a student who is too stupid to turn his cell phone to silent should get detention. It's a learning experience that everyone needs since it seems that there is always some fool leaving his cell phone ringer on during a movie or meeting.
That would also be why cell phone jamming equipment is illegal and violates FCC rules. Otherwise ever stalker would carry one.
Not to bring up a nasty memory for everyone but didn't Columbine teach us the kids will cell phones can help in an emergency. The last thing someone needs is for someone to plan out some stupid massacre and cut the phone lines and keep the cell phone jammer going.
If someone accidentally linked to GPL'd code and didn't realize the rules they were supposed to be playing by then someone will probably be fired. However, ever since MS decided it had to play with Red Hat and others for the virtualization market it was bound to happen. How long could they play nice and not have to link to the GPL code. They may have thought they could keep it a secret, or maybe they thought they could get around it in the end. I would hope the driver code would be of use to others outside of the Virtualisation field like Wine but I doubt they are of any value outside of their intended environment.