It isn't happening on anywhere near the same scale elsewhere. The US has well and truly taken it to the next level. Saying it happens everywhere might make you feel better, but it doesn't make it true.
Didn't your parents teach you that, "He's doing it too!" isn't a valid excuse. If I shot and killed someone and tried to use the excuse that other people do it too, should I expect people to let me off?
Slashdot is a US site with a large US audience. US issues matter to the readers. Also, as Michael Jackson said, you have to start with the man in the mirror. Change starts at home.
If you want to criticise others, take the moral high ground, be seen as a human rights leader, and call yourself the land of the free, you need to do more than talk. You need to actually put these principles into practice. Right now you look like phenomenal hypocrites.
That said: There really should be an easily-identifiable way in Firefox to restore a closed tab without using a keyboard. Perhaps an entry next to "New Tab" under the now-hidden-by-default file menu would suffice.
There is - in fact I never use the keyboard shortcut: History menu, Recently Closed Tabs, choose the one you want back from the submenu. Of course you actually have to make the menu bar visible to find it, but doesn't everyone do that anyway?
In finance we use them for performance monitoring and debugging. You have machines with CDMA or GPS time sources logging packets captured from passive taps on each side of your switches, routers, servers, etc. It lets you produce very accurate and detailed latency statistics. Also when things go wrong you have an exact record of everything that went in or out on the network to help you reproduce and fix it. Admittedly we don't actually get NICs with the transmit functionality removed, but the passive taps prevent anything transmitted from going anywhere, so we get a similar effect.
Yeah, but the world is often full of ironies -- if you want to do basic things like get hybrid sleep or hibernate on a Mac you have to engage in minor programming. To get the Mac to stay awake when you close the lid requires minor programming. Getting the Mac to wake on network command or application response requires minor programming.
Wake on LAN is a single checkbox, so you're flat out wrong on that one. Suppressing sleep with lid closed would be nice, I'll give you that. But what exactly is "hybrid sleep" and why would I need "hibernate"? If the battery goes completely dead, it will restore RAM from disk. The most common use case (i.e. flip notebook shut, take it somewhere, flip it open, start using it) is covered very well, and this is something that Linux still doesn't get right, and I see nothing to suggest it gets the other cases you've mentioned any more right. Anyway, I care far more about being able to use my notebook computer while travelling than I do about checklists, and OSX definitley does that better. (Yes, Lion and Mountain Lion are shit, Final Cut Pro X is shit, and the new Mac Pro is shit. I may not ever buy another Mac. But at least for now, Linux isn't a viable alternative on a notebook, and whatever I choose will have to run Adobe Lightroom because there's really no alternative for me.)
You've launched an emotive personal attack and presented no evidence. I don't believe Kim's on my side, I think he's just opportunistic. But if his file sharing network really was illegal as you claimed, he could have been charged on summons. He still hasn't been charged with any crimes. You're the one making accusations - the onus is on you to provide evidence. Put up or shut up.
He operated a file sharing service. What you shared on it wasn't his business.
It doesn't matter how often you argue that, it doesn't make it any more accurate. He has no right to the proportion of income he gained from illegal activities, especially not once he'd become aware that his service was being used that way.
It doesn't matter how often you argue against that - it doesn't make you any less wrong. He operated a service that had potential for legitimate and illegitimate uses. I used it maybe twice to shift encrypted zip archives of music projects I was working on with friends. I never downloaded infringing material from it. I remember it being plastered with ads. I didn't click any of them, but I'm pretty sure those ads are how Dotcom was making his money.
Last time I checked, online advertising wasn't illegal. In fact, Google and others are praised for their advertising-based "free to play" revenue models. Dotcom wasn't making money off copyright infringement, he was making money off advertisements on a file sharing service that had substantial non-infringing uses. No-one was actually directly making money off copyright infringement on MegaUpload. Well, unless someone was uploading encrypted media, then selling decryption keys or something, but then the use of MegaUpload is incidental anyway.
may I kindly suggest configuring your laptop not to go to sleep when the lid closes? It really doesn't have to do that if you don't wish it to
No you may not. I want it to spin down the disk for shock resistance while it's in my bag, and cut its power consumption so I'll have a useful amount of battery left when I get to wherever I'm going. I'm not going to shut down, because I don't want to lose where I was in all my applications. This is as bad as Microsoft IIS "it's not a bug - it's a feature" spin.
Parent is a troll, but s/he has a point. All this talk about sleep mode being useless sounds more than a little silly from the POV of a Mac user. Macs have had fast, reliable sleep/wake since the second generation G3s around 2000. Windows has kinda caught up. You really want this if you actually use a notebook computer. I don't want to have to go saving and closing everything then shutting down when it's time to get on the plane, then having to open it all again and get back to where I was once I'm on my way to Hong Kong. I just want to be able to flip it shut and put it in the bag, then flip it open when I'm in my seat and be right where I was.
Secondly, intercepting data of suspected criminals - and there is a lot of good evidence that this guy was engaging in criminal activity - seems sensible. It shouldn't be all cloak and dagger, and "signals intelligence" should just be regarded as another way of collecting evidence.
If there's plenty of good evidence, why didn't they charge him on summons? Why did they break down his door special ops style? If it's a criminal matter, there's a process for obtaining and serving a warrant. If it's a civil matter, there's a process for bringing a complaint. Neither was followed.
Thirdly, people like this, who are essentially making huge bank by distributing other people's work, don't really deserve their income. They are the flip side of the copyright cartel.
He operated a file sharing service. What you shared on it wasn't his business. He took down files when requested. He complied with relevant laws. By your logic, manufacturers of zip-lock bags don't deserve their income, because the product is used to facilitate drug trades.
Lolwut? If it was a backdoor you wouldn't see that on your computer's firewall because it would be done from withing the HSPA modem itself, on the outboard side of the USB port, beyond the firewall. I hate to break it to you, but something on your computer is connecting to these evil Chinese IP addresses. You should probably work out what it is before it turns your computer Communist.
(Yes, I do have a Huawei HSPA modem; no it doesn't connect to Chinese IP addresses in any way visible through a firewall on the computer; no I haven't tried tapping the air interface to check for actual hardware backdoors; no I don't believe China is out to get me or the parent.)
MIRVs in their current form didn't exist back then, and you can't really spread MIRVs that broadly anyway - they all have to target within a certain radius.
Yeah,it is important, because in Asia you can relatively easily point your antenna across the border and get overseas channels if your TV can tune/decode them. In Vietnam you can pick up Cambodian, Thai and Chinese TV channels, and the TV sets sold there have a massive array of options to let you choose colour standard, field rate, audio subcarrier frequency, etc. to ensure that you can decode and view anything you can receive. DPKR doesn't look so kindly on such features.
The problem is that you're not just using your bandwidth. These are residential lines, not dedicated, and as such are shared between other nearby users. It's not the type of traffic that they care about, it's the quantity. These no server clauses are there so they have a framework to cancel users who are running a datacenter out of their house, using terabytes of traffic per month. People who do so "leech" the available bandwidth from everyone in the area.
The solution to this is to simply not oversell your backhaul: don't sell speeds and quotas you can't deliver. I know quotas and bandwidth control are not popular here, but no matter how fat you make your pipes, people will clog them, and if you want the best overall experience for everyone, you need to do something about it.
Have a certain maximum burst up/down rate, throttle it to a maximum sustained rate under continuous load, after say five minutes saturated, and ramp it back up when the usage backs off. Also implement a monthly up/down transfer quota.
Let people use their quota as they like, and importantly be transparent about it: give them tools to monitor their usage, current restrictions, etc. This will let them see if the service is adequate for their needs and plan for upgrades if necessary.
Back in my day, leeching meant finding a way to impersonate someone else on a dial-in server and using bandwidth against their quota. That made sense - you were using what someone else was entitled to. Later it came to mean downloading from peer-to-peer networks without sharing. Still made sense - you took from the community without contributing. But just using your own bandwidth for something someone doesn't smile on? Where's the leeching in that? Now get off my lawn!
Yeah, I've seen reviews that I think have to be written by the competition, such as a review of a hotel in Tokyo complaining that wifi was slow, when the hotel didn't have wifi at all (only ethernet, which was plenty fast).
I think we need to commission a study on global sales patterns for different CFL colour temperatures. Think we can get a government grant with travel allowance to to conduct the research?
Well I can counter your anecdote with one of my own. I bought my Galaxy S3 because of the Samsung features. I love multi-window, local SyncML over USB or WiFi so my contacts and calendar don't go through the "cloud", Kies Air for accessing phone data through the browser, the Samsung image gallery application, the ability to easily upgrade/downgrade/crossgrade and even load "frankenfirmware" using Odin3, etc. I never sign in to any Google services from my phone - I've made a point of not entering a Google login or password once.
There probably isn't specific research on it, but you could get sales figures from a major retailer of these lamps. Anyway I don't think that's true. It's actually relatively hard to get warm 2700K CFLs, at least here in Australia. The 4200K "cool white" and 5000K "day white" lamps are far easier to find on shelves.
Yeah, private mode is more for protecting you from other users of the same computer than from the people at the other end of the wire. I run Ghostery, but it's not perfect: stuff like hitwise that runs at the ISP can still be used to profile the sequence of page requests from your IP address.
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There is - in fact I never use the keyboard shortcut: History menu, Recently Closed Tabs, choose the one you want back from the submenu. Of course you actually have to make the menu bar visible to find it, but doesn't everyone do that anyway?
In finance we use them for performance monitoring and debugging. You have machines with CDMA or GPS time sources logging packets captured from passive taps on each side of your switches, routers, servers, etc. It lets you produce very accurate and detailed latency statistics. Also when things go wrong you have an exact record of everything that went in or out on the network to help you reproduce and fix it. Admittedly we don't actually get NICs with the transmit functionality removed, but the passive taps prevent anything transmitted from going anywhere, so we get a similar effect.
Wake on LAN is a single checkbox, so you're flat out wrong on that one. Suppressing sleep with lid closed would be nice, I'll give you that. But what exactly is "hybrid sleep" and why would I need "hibernate"? If the battery goes completely dead, it will restore RAM from disk. The most common use case (i.e. flip notebook shut, take it somewhere, flip it open, start using it) is covered very well, and this is something that Linux still doesn't get right, and I see nothing to suggest it gets the other cases you've mentioned any more right. Anyway, I care far more about being able to use my notebook computer while travelling than I do about checklists, and OSX definitley does that better. (Yes, Lion and Mountain Lion are shit, Final Cut Pro X is shit, and the new Mac Pro is shit. I may not ever buy another Mac. But at least for now, Linux isn't a viable alternative on a notebook, and whatever I choose will have to run Adobe Lightroom because there's really no alternative for me.)
You've launched an emotive personal attack and presented no evidence. I don't believe Kim's on my side, I think he's just opportunistic. But if his file sharing network really was illegal as you claimed, he could have been charged on summons. He still hasn't been charged with any crimes. You're the one making accusations - the onus is on you to provide evidence. Put up or shut up.
It doesn't matter how often you argue against that - it doesn't make you any less wrong. He operated a service that had potential for legitimate and illegitimate uses. I used it maybe twice to shift encrypted zip archives of music projects I was working on with friends. I never downloaded infringing material from it. I remember it being plastered with ads. I didn't click any of them, but I'm pretty sure those ads are how Dotcom was making his money.
Last time I checked, online advertising wasn't illegal. In fact, Google and others are praised for their advertising-based "free to play" revenue models. Dotcom wasn't making money off copyright infringement, he was making money off advertisements on a file sharing service that had substantial non-infringing uses. No-one was actually directly making money off copyright infringement on MegaUpload. Well, unless someone was uploading encrypted media, then selling decryption keys or something, but then the use of MegaUpload is incidental anyway.
No you may not. I want it to spin down the disk for shock resistance while it's in my bag, and cut its power consumption so I'll have a useful amount of battery left when I get to wherever I'm going. I'm not going to shut down, because I don't want to lose where I was in all my applications. This is as bad as Microsoft IIS "it's not a bug - it's a feature" spin.
Parent is a troll, but s/he has a point. All this talk about sleep mode being useless sounds more than a little silly from the POV of a Mac user. Macs have had fast, reliable sleep/wake since the second generation G3s around 2000. Windows has kinda caught up. You really want this if you actually use a notebook computer. I don't want to have to go saving and closing everything then shutting down when it's time to get on the plane, then having to open it all again and get back to where I was once I'm on my way to Hong Kong. I just want to be able to flip it shut and put it in the bag, then flip it open when I'm in my seat and be right where I was.
If there's plenty of good evidence, why didn't they charge him on summons? Why did they break down his door special ops style? If it's a criminal matter, there's a process for obtaining and serving a warrant. If it's a civil matter, there's a process for bringing a complaint. Neither was followed.
He operated a file sharing service. What you shared on it wasn't his business. He took down files when requested. He complied with relevant laws. By your logic, manufacturers of zip-lock bags don't deserve their income, because the product is used to facilitate drug trades.
Not really - transaction processing takes far to long because the network has to agree on it.
Camels aren't OK for Jews to eat, but they are for Muslims. Halal is a lot less restrictive than kosher, but rather arbitrary at times.
Only if you're using something like DOCSIS cable - ADSL and FTTH have dedicated last-mile links per user.
Didn't work for me - he inherited my non-sleeping ways!
Lolwut? If it was a backdoor you wouldn't see that on your computer's firewall because it would be done from withing the HSPA modem itself, on the outboard side of the USB port, beyond the firewall. I hate to break it to you, but something on your computer is connecting to these evil Chinese IP addresses. You should probably work out what it is before it turns your computer Communist.
(Yes, I do have a Huawei HSPA modem; no it doesn't connect to Chinese IP addresses in any way visible through a firewall on the computer; no I haven't tried tapping the air interface to check for actual hardware backdoors; no I don't believe China is out to get me or the parent.)
MIRVs in their current form didn't exist back then, and you can't really spread MIRVs that broadly anyway - they all have to target within a certain radius.
Yeah,it is important, because in Asia you can relatively easily point your antenna across the border and get overseas channels if your TV can tune/decode them. In Vietnam you can pick up Cambodian, Thai and Chinese TV channels, and the TV sets sold there have a massive array of options to let you choose colour standard, field rate, audio subcarrier frequency, etc. to ensure that you can decode and view anything you can receive. DPKR doesn't look so kindly on such features.
The solution to this is to simply not oversell your backhaul: don't sell speeds and quotas you can't deliver. I know quotas and bandwidth control are not popular here, but no matter how fat you make your pipes, people will clog them, and if you want the best overall experience for everyone, you need to do something about it.
Have a certain maximum burst up/down rate, throttle it to a maximum sustained rate under continuous load, after say five minutes saturated, and ramp it back up when the usage backs off. Also implement a monthly up/down transfer quota.
Let people use their quota as they like, and importantly be transparent about it: give them tools to monitor their usage, current restrictions, etc. This will let them see if the service is adequate for their needs and plan for upgrades if necessary.
Back in my day, leeching meant finding a way to impersonate someone else on a dial-in server and using bandwidth against their quota. That made sense - you were using what someone else was entitled to. Later it came to mean downloading from peer-to-peer networks without sharing. Still made sense - you took from the community without contributing. But just using your own bandwidth for something someone doesn't smile on? Where's the leeching in that? Now get off my lawn!
Yeah, I've seen reviews that I think have to be written by the competition, such as a review of a hotel in Tokyo complaining that wifi was slow, when the hotel didn't have wifi at all (only ethernet, which was plenty fast).
Lol you think I ever run a browser without ghostery? I don't even log in to /. on my phone. You underestimate my paranoia!
I think we need to commission a study on global sales patterns for different CFL colour temperatures. Think we can get a government grant with travel allowance to to conduct the research?
I really don't like Google. Samsung firmware lets me run Android without using Google services. What's your problem?
Well I can counter your anecdote with one of my own. I bought my Galaxy S3 because of the Samsung features. I love multi-window, local SyncML over USB or WiFi so my contacts and calendar don't go through the "cloud", Kies Air for accessing phone data through the browser, the Samsung image gallery application, the ability to easily upgrade/downgrade/crossgrade and even load "frankenfirmware" using Odin3, etc. I never sign in to any Google services from my phone - I've made a point of not entering a Google login or password once.
There probably isn't specific research on it, but you could get sales figures from a major retailer of these lamps. Anyway I don't think that's true. It's actually relatively hard to get warm 2700K CFLs, at least here in Australia. The 4200K "cool white" and 5000K "day white" lamps are far easier to find on shelves.
Yeah, private mode is more for protecting you from other users of the same computer than from the people at the other end of the wire. I run Ghostery, but it's not perfect: stuff like hitwise that runs at the ISP can still be used to profile the sequence of page requests from your IP address.