I prefer to use a Mac, but I make lots of $$$ with Windows based software (which is s staple of my industry)
Exactly right for the substantial number of geeks that use macs nowadays. Most will have a couple of PC's lying around, maybe a Sun machine or two. And regular switchers would have a PC already (with little or no resale value) which they move to the kids room or keep switched off under the desk in case the mac fails, etc... In short people who can afford to buy Apple can afford to have several computers.
If one hit every 3 seconds looks like a DOS attack you need to stop using Altair hardware for your web servers.
It depends on the file type they're serving up. 3 seconds is probably OK for HTML, it becomes at lot less OK if you're sending large PDF's or hulking DOC's
The FBI phones Swartz, Swartz tells them to contact his (Swartz') lawyer. That's how it's in the report.
"SA [REACTED] spoke to SWARTZ, at telephone number [...], and explained that the FBI is looking for information on how SWARTZ was able to compromise the PACER system so that the US COURTS could implement repairs to the system and get PACER running again. SWARTZ stated that he would have to talk to his attorney first and would call SA [REDACTED] back at a later time."
Just more of the atrocious English from people who are quite likely native English speakers that I've come to expect, combined with the failure to recognize this as a problem that you should be doing something about that I have also come to expect. Try reading a book or two. Really, just give it a try, it won't hurt, and it's so obvious that you don't.
I'm not a native English speaker, DO read books but am just as unintelligible in my mother tongue. Sorry about that:-)
Incompetent malice by Swartz maybe. You don't go downloading those amounts of data from someone at that pace without at least a heads up to the admins. It's rude, it's expensive for the host and it endangers service to others and you shouldn't do it. I know netiquette is dead, but this should just be common sense.
Just as an aside on that point, this guy found out about this investigation because he issued a FOIA on himself. If you have any inkling that you might have been looked at, file one. It takes a while, but it's easy.
Actually that's probably incorrect. If you look at the file you see at the bottom the FBI contacts him and he let's them know to speak to his lawyer. Which is a pretty big tip off they're investigating you.
"PACER normally carries an eight cents per page fee, however, by accessing from one of the seventeen libraries, users may search and download data for free.
Between September 4, 2008 and September 22, 2008, PACER was accessed by computers from outside the library utilizing login information from two libraries participating in the pilot project. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts reported that the PACER system was being inundated with requests. One request was being made every three seconds.
[â¦] The two accounts were responsible for downloading more than eighteen million pages with an approximate value of $1.5 million."
So he used a login (which wasn't registered in his name according to the report) to access files from a location not supposed to be used by those logins to download so many documents it began to look like a DOS attack. I'd say the FBI are correct to at least investigate.
They addressed this yesterday in a BBC special. Firstly Graham Chapman is dead and secondly they felt like they were repeating themselves at the end of the original series which is why they quit. Terry Gilliam said that if they would come back they should make the first 4 episodes absolutely awful so by the next one only 2 people would be watching and then when they made their most brilliant show ever these guys would rush out and try to explain to incredulous people how brilliant it was. (Oh, and remakes suck.)
Life of Brian is definitely the best of the films and it has aged well because making fun of religious dogmatics never gets old really. But I highly recommend Spamalot too, basically The Holy Grail in theater form, you could take him to see that and make it a night out. As a film The Meaning of Life is closest to the TV series I think since it feels more like a succession of sketches than a movie.
The mechanics of empire have changed. It used to be that you set a viceroy and imported a colonial administrating class to suck a country dry. Nowadays you set up a "friendly" government who know where their bread is buttered and throw all contracts in a country to US multinationals in which the american elite have interests. It's an empire because these client states basically lose their sovereignty in areas that might pose a threat to profits (as with the famous banana republics where planned land reforms would land you on the "regime change" list) and resources flow from them to the elite of the empire.
What happens with the energy sending coil ? We're just looking at loss in the transfer here, but I assume you'd keep that sucker going day and night to immediately power any device you might happen to carry by it. What's going to be the energy cost of that ?
Wow, a QUANTUM sowing machine ("it's sew easy") and here we are waiting for quantum computing like idiots when Singer is years ahead of us ! Obviously it exists simultaneously as a 32 and a 64 bit machine, but you won't know which until you connect it.
Remember when the iphone just came out and everyone thought they were crazy to get into an overcrowded handset market as an unproven player and Balmer said it would bomb, etc ? They weren't exactly in a position of strength yet when they went into this contract with AT&T.
Yes let's all piss on Apple to prove we're not "fanbois." Yeah Apple has been limiting the iphone, like no MMS or no tethering until recently but who was asking them to do that ? Let's not forget Apple wouldn't be the big looser if they couldn't restrict applications like Skype or Google voice, follow the money. I'm sorry, you can get back to your knee-jerking now.
I find it just as possible, actually even maybe more so, that the whole system could be just simulated. Like we have computer simulations, but our simulation would be just a little bit more advanced.
Except we have actual evidence for evolution and the 'matrix'-like hypothesis you are referring to cannot even be proved scientifically. Be careful not to fall into the trap of going to these pseudo science theories when we actually have very good (and just as wondrous) scientific explanations. Read some books like "The Demon-Haunted World" or "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" about why and how people fall nto these fallacies. They sure helped me.
Really great explanation. I don't think he's trolling either because in my experience this is a very common question from those who don't understand evolution or haven't been taught it correctly. "If we come from monkeys, why are there still monkeys ?" is how my parents, who had little schooling and even less interest in evolution (or religion for that matter), put it. Fortunately they also had enough common sense to encourage me to learn as much as I possibly could on my own and I hope your post will encourage the OP to do the same.
You create a separate account on your pc for "extracurricular activities" and don't log into any sites or provide your real info. That way it's all nicely hidden away (and encrypted if you use something like file vault.) Unless of course they would be targeting by IP which they shouldn't because it would dramatically decrease the usefulness of the ads since a single IP will be shared among family members who belong to widely different demographics. This is all hypothetical of course, now which sites did you say those were ?
I checked my deo, but no aluminum so I googled around and apparently it's an ingredient in antiperspirant which is in some deodorants (mine's the plain kind). Interestingly this turned up some debate on the safety of aluminum use :
"A small study in 17 women with breast cancer was quite widely reported in the news in 2007. It found higher levels of aluminium in the part of the breast nearest the skin, and the authors speculated that aluminium in deodorants might cause breast cancer. But the design of this study was not strong enough to draw that conclusion." From cancerresearchuk
And from wikipedia : "Aluminium, present most often in antiperspirants, but not usually present in non-antiperspirant deodorants, has been established as a neurotoxin in very high doses."
From what I can tell smearing it on your skin is probably OK and ingesting it in more than trace amounts should probably be discouraged:-) Thanks for the tip.
Well silver is safe to eat off, but so-called "medicinal silver" (colloidal silver) when ingested can make you turn blue. It's not unreasonable to look at the application of a supposedly safe material is it ?
Yeah, but apart from kids eating paint chips when the house is demolished after a couple of decades the paint might get powdered into dust and be breathed in by the construction workers or just when someone sands it down or something. (I know: don't inhale, right ?)
We all know about the hazards of lead based paints, so is this safe ? I'm assuming the plastic lining in aluminum cans is there for a reason. Perhaps adding panelling containing a solid aluminum oxide mesh of some sort would be better.
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Unless you gloriously die in battle, they will be to disgusted to show up. I suggest taking your bat'leth and entering an airport, that should be nice and quick.
Yeah on the iPods that's what I meant, you can't connect them with firewire anymore even if you wanted to. I certainly hope they won't frop it on the macs anytime soon. Target mode has saved my bacon more than once.
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I prefer to use a Mac, but I make lots of $$$ with Windows based software (which is s staple of my industry)
Exactly right for the substantial number of geeks that use macs nowadays. Most will have a couple of PC's lying around, maybe a Sun machine or two. And regular switchers would have a PC already (with little or no resale value) which they move to the kids room or keep switched off under the desk in case the mac fails, etc ... In short people who can afford to buy Apple can afford to have several computers.
If one hit every 3 seconds looks like a DOS attack you need to stop using Altair hardware for your web servers.
It depends on the file type they're serving up. 3 seconds is probably OK for HTML, it becomes at lot less OK if you're sending large PDF's or hulking DOC's
The FBI phones Swartz, Swartz tells them to contact his (Swartz') lawyer. That's how it's in the report.
"SA [REACTED] spoke to SWARTZ, at telephone number [...], and explained that the FBI is looking for information on how SWARTZ was able to compromise the PACER system so that the US COURTS could implement repairs to the system and get PACER running again. SWARTZ stated that he would have to talk to his attorney first and would call SA [REDACTED] back at a later time."
Just more of the atrocious English from people who are quite likely native English speakers that I've come to expect, combined with the failure to recognize this as a problem that you should be doing something about that I have also come to expect. Try reading a book or two. Really, just give it a try, it won't hurt, and it's so obvious that you don't.
I'm not a native English speaker, DO read books but am just as unintelligible in my mother tongue. Sorry about that :-)
Incompetent malice by Swartz maybe. You don't go downloading those amounts of data from someone at that pace without at least a heads up to the admins. It's rude, it's expensive for the host and it endangers service to others and you shouldn't do it. I know netiquette is dead, but this should just be common sense.
Just as an aside on that point, this guy found out about this investigation because he issued a FOIA on himself. If you have any inkling that you might have been looked at, file one. It takes a while, but it's easy.
Actually that's probably incorrect. If you look at the file you see at the bottom the FBI contacts him and he let's them know to speak to his lawyer. Which is a pretty big tip off they're investigating you.
From the file :
"PACER normally carries an eight cents per page fee, however, by accessing from one of the seventeen libraries, users may search and download data for free.
Between September 4, 2008 and September 22, 2008, PACER was accessed by computers from outside the library utilizing login information from two libraries participating in the pilot project. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts reported that the PACER system was being inundated with requests. One request was being made every three seconds.
[â¦] The two accounts were responsible for downloading more than eighteen million pages with an approximate value of $1.5 million."
So he used a login (which wasn't registered in his name according to the report) to access files from a location not supposed to be used by those logins to download so many documents it began to look like a DOS attack. I'd say the FBI are correct to at least investigate.
They addressed this yesterday in a BBC special. Firstly Graham Chapman is dead and secondly they felt like they were repeating themselves at the end of the original series which is why they quit. Terry Gilliam said that if they would come back they should make the first 4 episodes absolutely awful so by the next one only 2 people would be watching and then when they made their most brilliant show ever these guys would rush out and try to explain to incredulous people how brilliant it was. (Oh, and remakes suck.)
Life of Brian is definitely the best of the films and it has aged well because making fun of religious dogmatics never gets old really. But I highly recommend Spamalot too, basically The Holy Grail in theater form, you could take him to see that and make it a night out. As a film The Meaning of Life is closest to the TV series I think since it feels more like a succession of sketches than a movie.
The mechanics of empire have changed. It used to be that you set a viceroy and imported a colonial administrating class to suck a country dry. Nowadays you set up a "friendly" government who know where their bread is buttered and throw all contracts in a country to US multinationals in which the american elite have interests. It's an empire because these client states basically lose their sovereignty in areas that might pose a threat to profits (as with the famous banana republics where planned land reforms would land you on the "regime change" list) and resources flow from them to the elite of the empire.
What happens with the energy sending coil ? We're just looking at loss in the transfer here, but I assume you'd keep that sucker going day and night to immediately power any device you might happen to carry by it. What's going to be the energy cost of that ?
Wow, a QUANTUM sowing machine ("it's sew easy") and here we are waiting for quantum computing like idiots when Singer is years ahead of us ! Obviously it exists simultaneously as a 32 and a 64 bit machine, but you won't know which until you connect it.
You should pay more attention ;-) Here's a couple I've unearthed with very little digging : "Is the iPhone a Failure? Maybe!", "The iPhone is a Beta Product", "iPhony - Why Apple's new cell phone isn't really revolutionary", "Why the iPhone is a ripoff", "THE LONG VIEW: Why the iPhone will fail", "iPhone Fever: Not Everyone Buys the Hype", "Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone" and "Apple iPhone Doomed To Failure -- Windows Mobile 7 Plans For 2009 Leaked"
It's easy to point and laugh now, except that all those people are still making predictions as analysts.
And why is it that Apple can't simply say "no"?
Remember when the iphone just came out and everyone thought they were crazy to get into an overcrowded handset market as an unproven player and Balmer said it would bomb, etc ? They weren't exactly in a position of strength yet when they went into this contract with AT&T.
Yes let's all piss on Apple to prove we're not "fanbois." Yeah Apple has been limiting the iphone, like no MMS or no tethering until recently but who was asking them to do that ? Let's not forget Apple wouldn't be the big looser if they couldn't restrict applications like Skype or Google voice, follow the money. I'm sorry, you can get back to your knee-jerking now.
I find it just as possible, actually even maybe more so, that the whole system could be just simulated. Like we have computer simulations, but our simulation would be just a little bit more advanced.
Except we have actual evidence for evolution and the 'matrix'-like hypothesis you are referring to cannot even be proved scientifically. Be careful not to fall into the trap of going to these pseudo science theories when we actually have very good (and just as wondrous) scientific explanations. Read some books like "The Demon-Haunted World" or "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" about why and how people fall nto these fallacies. They sure helped me.
Really great explanation. I don't think he's trolling either because in my experience this is a very common question from those who don't understand evolution or haven't been taught it correctly. "If we come from monkeys, why are there still monkeys ?" is how my parents, who had little schooling and even less interest in evolution (or religion for that matter), put it. Fortunately they also had enough common sense to encourage me to learn as much as I possibly could on my own and I hope your post will encourage the OP to do the same.
I'd go further and say consumers actually DO want this (i.e. the benefits it provides) - but just won't admit it.
AKA the rapist defense. She said no, but we both knew she really wanted it.
You create a separate account on your pc for "extracurricular activities" and don't log into any sites or provide your real info. That way it's all nicely hidden away (and encrypted if you use something like file vault.) Unless of course they would be targeting by IP which they shouldn't because it would dramatically decrease the usefulness of the ads since a single IP will be shared among family members who belong to widely different demographics. This is all hypothetical of course, now which sites did you say those were ?
I checked my deo, but no aluminum so I googled around and apparently it's an ingredient in antiperspirant which is in some deodorants (mine's the plain kind). Interestingly this turned up some debate on the safety of aluminum use :
"A small study in 17 women with breast cancer was quite widely reported in the news in 2007. It found higher levels of aluminium in the part of the breast nearest the skin, and the authors speculated that aluminium in deodorants might cause breast cancer. But the design of this study was not strong enough to draw that conclusion." From cancerresearchuk
And from wikipedia : "Aluminium, present most often in antiperspirants, but not usually present in non-antiperspirant deodorants, has been established as a neurotoxin in very high doses."
From what I can tell smearing it on your skin is probably OK and ingesting it in more than trace amounts should probably be discouraged :-) Thanks for the tip.
Well silver is safe to eat off, but so-called "medicinal silver" (colloidal silver) when ingested can make you turn blue. It's not unreasonable to look at the application of a supposedly safe material is it ?
An easy solution would be to stop eating paint.
Yeah, but apart from kids eating paint chips when the house is demolished after a couple of decades the paint might get powdered into dust and be breathed in by the construction workers or just when someone sands it down or something. (I know: don't inhale, right ?)
We all know about the hazards of lead based paints, so is this safe ? I'm assuming the plastic lining in aluminum cans is there for a reason. Perhaps adding panelling containing a solid aluminum oxide mesh of some sort would be better.
Unless you gloriously die in battle, they will be to disgusted to show up. I suggest taking your bat'leth and entering an airport, that should be nice and quick.
Yeah on the iPods that's what I meant, you can't connect them with firewire anymore even if you wanted to. I certainly hope they won't frop it on the macs anytime soon. Target mode has saved my bacon more than once.
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