Cheers for R! I didn't expect to see a statistical programming environment on this list, but I'm not surprised either. R is getting really big in bioinformatics, which is a burgeoning field right now. I used R myself more often in 2011 than in any previous year, and I'm sure I'll use it more this year. If you use Excel, especially if you use macros or VBscript, you should give R a look. Steeper learning curve, but far more powerful and rewarding.
Which means I can use one of the internal-only address ranges to layout my home network, be secured behind a firewall, and not have my network layout be made obvious to anyone else. Which is good, because I have two different sub-nets and two different wifi hotspots in my house.
There's nothing about having a globally unique IP address that implies that your network layout would be obvious to anyone outside your network.
Since I only get one public IP from my ISP, that covers exactly what I need. I'm sure the greedy bastards would like to charge me for each computer I have, but tough.
If we had IPv6 we would all have as many ips as we needed free of charge. This is the only problem for which NAT is an appropriate solution.
Are you implying there's a downside to NAT for a home user?
Sure, two desktops can't seed torrents (or host any other services) without manual configuration of the router. It wreaks havoc on VOIP for instance.
And I can't even begin to tell you the number of large corporations I've worked at with computers all addressed within these ranges. Not having them routable to the rest of the planet is actually a useful thing.
You don't need to have NAT to have those addresses non-routable. You just need your firewall to drop all traffic to those addresses.
They don't really understand the technology. You believe they do but they don't.
No, I don't think they understand the technology at all. I think that they are aware of their ignorance and and the damage it can cause and don't care.
And they do listen to voter outcries if it looks like the public ACTUALLY cares.
Only to the extent that they'll shelve a bill for a while and then resurrect the exact same provisions with a more patriotic acronym.
The sad reality is that if it took a public outcry for them to realize this was a bad idea then they really have no grasp as to what is going on here at all.
No, they know exactly what is going on. The have always known this was a "bad idea" with respect to a functioning internet and healthy society. They don't care, it's good for the people who pay their bills, so fuck the rest of us. The public outcry only showed them it's not going to be as easy to get away with as they thought, but they'll figure out how to do it.
For Congress Creatures(tm), it's all about obtaining the numbers for re-election. If you're disgusted and inclined to vote against them, they *hope* you *won't* vote.
You have two options. You can either vote for someone who could possibly win, or not. Whether you vote for someone who can't win or vote for no one at all doesn't really make a difference. If you vote for someone who could win, you might legitimately knock the congressperson out of his seat. But what have you done? You've just elected someone who shares at least 99% of the same positions as the guy you were disgusted with.
And this is how they get us. Voting Democrat is an endorsement of 99% of the Republican platform. And vice versa. Vote third party or don't vote at all. Voting for either major party is throwing your vote away.
I decided to become an Elections Inspector specifically so I could observe the process from the inside. Having done it for seven years I'm satisfied that our elections are fair and honest.
Of course they are. By the time the voters get to the booth the rigging is done with.
Specifically, you only need the converter box if you want over the air broadcasts. If you have cable or satellite, you don't even need the box, because the cable and satellite boxes can do the conversion for you.
Which would argue against your assertion that people bought new TVs in order to get digital TV.
When a new perfectly serviceable desktop runs $400, you end up incentivizing people to throw infected PCs in the trash or simply not repair infected machines. That's crazy.
It may be crazy, but those are your realistic choices. Complete reinstall, buy a new PC, or continue using a compromised machine. What other option is there?
Market analysts attribute the adoption to people purchasing new TVs to obtain the digital advantage.
Based on what exactly? If you wanted the "digital advantage" all you needed was a converter box. The only reason to buy a new TV is because you wanted a new TV.
It's still not a free phone. Instead of being delighted that you're getting a "free phone" which you actually pay for, you should be upset that you can't get a discount for using your old phone. They are charging you for something you don't necessarily need.
with the iPhone 3GS now free on contract, Apple now has budget buyers covered
That's not free, that's amortized over the length of the contract. That's not for budget buyers, that's for people who are bad at math. You're still spending over a grand for a phone.
Not really. The Constitution is the law. We should be able to sue the government for violation of the Constitution, and more importantly we should be able to sue individual government employees (whether elected or appointed, political or professional) for abuse of their power.
I agree, the switchover to digital TV was a total boondoggle. But there's nothing about that switchover that meant people had to buy new TVs, and if they decided to buy a new TV there was nothing about the switchover that would predispose them to buy flat panels. People bought flat panels because they wanted them, not because of any outside influence. That adoption of digital TV and flat panel technology occured at roughly the same time is just coincidence.
No they didn't. At most, they had to spend $15 on a government subsidized converter box. And if you wanted to buy a new TV, there were CRT HDTVs with ATSC tuners easily available. I have one, it's nice. Flat panel technology caused a lot of turnover because flat panels are desirable to many people.
hasnt it recently leaked that u.s. secret services were behind orchestrating the 'arab spring' that happened around middle east - which hit all of the countries that had u.s. unfriendly governments, but conveniently skipped u.s. backers like jordan, saudi arabia (the hellhole), bahrain and so on ?
Egypt? US foreign policy is astonishingly evil, but you can't assume they are behind everything that happens in the world.
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Cheers for R! I didn't expect to see a statistical programming environment on this list, but I'm not surprised either. R is getting really big in bioinformatics, which is a burgeoning field right now. I used R myself more often in 2011 than in any previous year, and I'm sure I'll use it more this year. If you use Excel, especially if you use macros or VBscript, you should give R a look. Steeper learning curve, but far more powerful and rewarding.
You might know that there's nobody standing over your shoulder. But it's hard to be sure you're safe from Van Eyck phreaking.
The alternative, that an arm of totalitarianism is entirely staffed by people who are ideologically committed, would be far worse.
That would be the DEA.
You can prevent IP and port scans with only a stateful firewall, even if you have a globally unique IP address.
Which means I can use one of the internal-only address ranges to layout my home network, be secured behind a firewall, and not have my network layout be made obvious to anyone else. Which is good, because I have two different sub-nets and two different wifi hotspots in my house.
There's nothing about having a globally unique IP address that implies that your network layout would be obvious to anyone outside your network.
Since I only get one public IP from my ISP, that covers exactly what I need. I'm sure the greedy bastards would like to charge me for each computer I have, but tough.
If we had IPv6 we would all have as many ips as we needed free of charge. This is the only problem for which NAT is an appropriate solution.
Are you implying there's a downside to NAT for a home user?
Sure, two desktops can't seed torrents (or host any other services) without manual configuration of the router. It wreaks havoc on VOIP for instance.
And I can't even begin to tell you the number of large corporations I've worked at with computers all addressed within these ranges. Not having them routable to the rest of the planet is actually a useful thing.
You don't need to have NAT to have those addresses non-routable. You just need your firewall to drop all traffic to those addresses.
NAT is not a physical network separation. An air gap is a physical network separation.
They don't really understand the technology. You believe they do but they don't.
No, I don't think they understand the technology at all. I think that they are aware of their ignorance and and the damage it can cause and don't care.
And they do listen to voter outcries if it looks like the public ACTUALLY cares.
Only to the extent that they'll shelve a bill for a while and then resurrect the exact same provisions with a more patriotic acronym.
How does the US have jurisdiction over this? Wouldn't Kenya be the proper venue?
The sad reality is that if it took a public outcry for them to realize this was a bad idea then they really have no grasp as to what is going on here at all.
No, they know exactly what is going on. The have always known this was a "bad idea" with respect to a functioning internet and healthy society. They don't care, it's good for the people who pay their bills, so fuck the rest of us. The public outcry only showed them it's not going to be as easy to get away with as they thought, but they'll figure out how to do it.
For Congress Creatures(tm), it's all about obtaining the numbers for re-election. If you're disgusted and inclined to vote against them, they *hope* you *won't* vote.
You have two options. You can either vote for someone who could possibly win, or not. Whether you vote for someone who can't win or vote for no one at all doesn't really make a difference. If you vote for someone who could win, you might legitimately knock the congressperson out of his seat. But what have you done? You've just elected someone who shares at least 99% of the same positions as the guy you were disgusted with.
And this is how they get us. Voting Democrat is an endorsement of 99% of the Republican platform. And vice versa. Vote third party or don't vote at all. Voting for either major party is throwing your vote away.
I decided to become an Elections Inspector specifically so I could observe the process from the inside. Having done it for seven years I'm satisfied that our elections are fair and honest.
Of course they are. By the time the voters get to the booth the rigging is done with.
Nothing happened.
Specifically, you only need the converter box if you want over the air broadcasts. If you have cable or satellite, you don't even need the box, because the cable and satellite boxes can do the conversion for you.
Which would argue against your assertion that people bought new TVs in order to get digital TV.
You can say that, but the reality is that there are pretty much no discounts for bringing your own phone to the table with any of the major carriers
That only means that the carriers are ripping people off who already own the hardware they intend to use on their network.
When a new perfectly serviceable desktop runs $400, you end up incentivizing people to throw infected PCs in the trash or simply not repair infected machines. That's crazy.
It may be crazy, but those are your realistic choices. Complete reinstall, buy a new PC, or continue using a compromised machine. What other option is there?
Market analysts attribute the adoption to people purchasing new TVs to obtain the digital advantage.
Based on what exactly? If you wanted the "digital advantage" all you needed was a converter box. The only reason to buy a new TV is because you wanted a new TV.
It's still not a free phone. Instead of being delighted that you're getting a "free phone" which you actually pay for, you should be upset that you can't get a discount for using your old phone. They are charging you for something you don't necessarily need.
with the iPhone 3GS now free on contract, Apple now has budget buyers covered
That's not free, that's amortized over the length of the contract. That's not for budget buyers, that's for people who are bad at math. You're still spending over a grand for a phone.
Not really. The Constitution is the law. We should be able to sue the government for violation of the Constitution, and more importantly we should be able to sue individual government employees (whether elected or appointed, political or professional) for abuse of their power.
I agree, the switchover to digital TV was a total boondoggle. But there's nothing about that switchover that meant people had to buy new TVs, and if they decided to buy a new TV there was nothing about the switchover that would predispose them to buy flat panels. People bought flat panels because they wanted them, not because of any outside influence. That adoption of digital TV and flat panel technology occured at roughly the same time is just coincidence.
No they didn't. At most, they had to spend $15 on a government subsidized converter box. And if you wanted to buy a new TV, there were CRT HDTVs with ATSC tuners easily available. I have one, it's nice. Flat panel technology caused a lot of turnover because flat panels are desirable to many people.
hasnt it recently leaked that u.s. secret services were behind orchestrating the 'arab spring' that happened around middle east - which hit all of the countries that had u.s. unfriendly governments, but conveniently skipped u.s. backers like jordan, saudi arabia (the hellhole), bahrain and so on ?
Egypt? US foreign policy is astonishingly evil, but you can't assume they are behind everything that happens in the world.
What exactly is that supposed to do? I even whitelisted hackertyper.net in noscript. All I get is a black page after hitting "hack".
If you think that's crazy, you should hear On Point with Tom Ashbrook right now. They're talking about tying all this shit to your car!
If you hit a button anyway, why not just hit a button to turn the volume up?