... should be illegal. They need to make a law against those horrible things so they don't let people walk away scott-free. We already have such a law against doing horrible things in my state. Why doesn't California have it already?
If protected content works on Linux, then I can't use the argument that the content providers do not care about the Linux market and its revenues. Then I won't have an excuse for stealing the content and saying that they aren't losing any money from my theft.
Reality is, I don't care. The vast majority of commercial content is crap, anyway. It's not even worth stealing. I just like arguing against whiny CEOs who want everything to be done for them.
Agreed in theory, but not in principle. It won't make much difference now because incumbent providers gained a system from the exclusivity, and hence cheaper, than building a new one.
What is really needed is something similar to the way electricity is delivered in many areas now, like Texas. ONE provider runs the infrastructure... power poles and three phase wiring... or bundles of dark fiber going to everywhere (and not that multiplex crap they call FiOS... I mean a minimum of 4 whole strands to every home). Then a chosen provider can be hooked up at the other end of the strand to provide their service structure. None of the providers needs to invest in the infrastructure. But it also needs to be an open service where people can lease the fibers directly to each other, for example (run 10 Gbps on each of several wavelengths between home and work). Let the cities then run, or contract, that infrastructure. Open it to all providers.
The alignment of good Christian values with the Republicans has always be a match made in hell. Republicans want less regulation of corporations (ultimately, none at all), and McCain will be up against that. He needs to team up with others to get this, even Democrats.
But... in the long term, we need to get rid of gatekeepers altogether. Ã la carte from a gatekeeper that gives you a choice of 500 channels is better than mandatory channel bundles. But neither of those comes close to just doing it all over the internet and choose among 5+ million channels. The gatekeepers just want to have their hands in all the pies to get rich, and provide no value to this at all. His efforts would be better put to getting universal 100mbps fiber access to everyone for the long term. That's sufficient for 2 or 3 channels of good quality 4K video.
We also don’t have enough information to pinpoint how those servers are initially being hacked, but we are thinking through SSHD-based brute force attacks.
So does this mean I need to remove sshd? Doubtful. More likely the initial vector is social engineering or weak passwords (social stupidity). That makes this whole infection uninteresting... it's just an app from the web server perspective. OK, so it can break into your browser with a zero-day. Fix the browser.
This event seems to be powerful enough to rip part of a galaxy apart, and kill everything that might have been alive in the rest of it. But given how far back in time it is, I don't think life had emerged, yet.
Should "how much smaller it is due to the expansion" be "how much smaller it originally was before the red-shift expanded it to give us this still amazingly small wavelength" ?
The article says it is 3.6 billion light years away. But when is that distance applicable? This event happened long, long ago and we are just now seeing it. But was the 3.6 Gly the distance back when it happened? Or is the 3.6 Gly the distance today, when we see it? Given the purported expansion of the universe, this matters.
We can see these past events happen because they were far enough away when they happened. We cannot see most recent events because the light has not gotten here yet (unless the event happens nearby, such as asteroid fragments slamming into a big gaseous planet). We cannot see event events that are even longer back in the past because their light has already gone past us. And, of course, we cannot see the big bang and all the fireworks that happened shortly after it because its light (supposedly) just went out away from all the mass that emerged. There should be an outer boundary/edge where the mass has reached. There should also be an outer boundary/edge of where we can see events that happened at some chosen past time, the furthest being for the time frame back to the big bang. But science has not really explained all this.
Given the point in space where we are today, which direction should we have looked at, if we were here when the light of the big bang passed this point, to have seen it?
One big question is, how far back can we see. We cannot see back to the big bang, so there is a limit, if we confine the question to seeing events within the mass that emerged from the big bang. And how far away is that?
I got a NYT article and I don't have an account there. I don't know what caused your request to get a login page. Maybe they start doing that after they realize they are being slashdotted.
I've had several cases where I needed to deal with public school administrators in a few places around the country. Usually it was computer security issues such as kids doing bad things from the school, or things like school machines infected and sending out spam. Similar kinds of things happen from businesses and universities a lot more because there are more of those around. But I can tell you that a much much higher percentage of the public school administrators are just plain totally incompetent, not just about computers and networks, but just about everything they do, including communicating in English. These people are so stupid in general (a few exceptions exist) I have to call them a totally separate breed. That's how bad it is. I would characterize half of them as wanna-be-politicians who just could not cut the rough and tumble world of dealing with adults who can fight back.
When I actually was in school, I noticed a few administrators were actually good people. Most went on to other jobs elsewhere (probably because they could not deal with the stupidity above them). One later got elected to Congress. The stupid ones stayed where they were.
The teachers, however, were almost all very good people. One friend I met in college who went through teach education graduating at the top of his class and earning other awards, ended up quitting from education after 5 years simply because he could not stand the bureaucratic BS from stupid people.
I thought people involved in educational process are better than this...
16:10 tends to work out better for office work. Sure, the higher res makes it less important. But its the physical size that makes it less important... depending on how much space you have to push the display back.
But once you get up close to the holy grail of true 4k which is 4096, why even bother with 3840? Cinema digital is shot in 4096 (and up). 3840 should be boycotted or even banned.
... like 4096x1728 (digital cinema size plus a few more pixels to make it mathematically right)? Feel free to make the actual LCD pixels a bit smaller so it can all fit in a decent size (not over 80cm, please). Hell, I'd be happy even with 2048x1280 for now so I can avoid the border bumping on 1920x1200.
But I just prefer MY change over YOUR change, since MY change doesn't involve exploiting other people's privacy just to earn advertising revenue. My change would ban most advertising... and it's time for YOU to stop fearing that.
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Now see, if you had lost the remote, it would be within reach ... if you can reach under your butt and into bowels of the couch cushions.
... should be illegal. They need to make a law against those horrible things so they don't let people walk away scott-free. We already have such a law against doing horrible things in my state. Why doesn't California have it already?
If protected content works on Linux, then I can't use the argument that the content providers do not care about the Linux market and its revenues. Then I won't have an excuse for stealing the content and saying that they aren't losing any money from my theft.
Reality is, I don't care. The vast majority of commercial content is crap, anyway. It's not even worth stealing. I just like arguing against whiny CEOs who want everything to be done for them.
There is another issue with providers that needs to be addressed.
I was looking at Verizon FIOS packages yesterday and notices something really bad.
For 50\25 Internet it was $90\month
For 50\25 Internet + Prime HD(210 channels) it was $90\month
Whats wrong with that picture?
Free market is what is wrong. Switch to fair market FTW!
Agreed in theory, but not in principle. It won't make much difference now because incumbent providers gained a system from the exclusivity, and hence cheaper, than building a new one.
What is really needed is something similar to the way electricity is delivered in many areas now, like Texas. ONE provider runs the infrastructure ... power poles and three phase wiring ... or bundles of dark fiber going to everywhere (and not that multiplex crap they call FiOS ... I mean a minimum of 4 whole strands to every home). Then a chosen provider can be hooked up at the other end of the strand to provide their service structure. None of the providers needs to invest in the infrastructure. But it also needs to be an open service where people can lease the fibers directly to each other, for example (run 10 Gbps on each of several wavelengths between home and work). Let the cities then run, or contract, that infrastructure. Open it to all providers.
The alignment of good Christian values with the Republicans has always be a match made in hell. Republicans want less regulation of corporations (ultimately, none at all), and McCain will be up against that. He needs to team up with others to get this, even Democrats.
But ... in the long term, we need to get rid of gatekeepers altogether. Ã la carte from a gatekeeper that gives you a choice of 500 channels is better than mandatory channel bundles. But neither of those comes close to just doing it all over the internet and choose among 5+ million channels. The gatekeepers just want to have their hands in all the pies to get rich, and provide no value to this at all. His efforts would be better put to getting universal 100mbps fiber access to everyone for the long term. That's sufficient for 2 or 3 channels of good quality 4K video.
We also don’t have enough information to pinpoint how those servers are initially being hacked, but we are thinking through SSHD-based brute force attacks.
So does this mean I need to remove sshd? Doubtful. More likely the initial vector is social engineering or weak passwords (social stupidity). That makes this whole infection uninteresting ... it's just an app from the web server perspective. OK, so it can break into your browser with a zero-day. Fix the browser.
Are you afraid of little infected web site? Something wrong with your browser?
... random number exchanges with my friends?
This event seems to be powerful enough to rip part of a galaxy apart, and kill everything that might have been alive in the rest of it. But given how far back in time it is, I don't think life had emerged, yet.
Should "how much smaller it is due to the expansion" be "how much smaller it originally was before the red-shift expanded it to give us this still amazingly small wavelength" ?
The article says it is 3.6 billion light years away. But when is that distance applicable? This event happened long, long ago and we are just now seeing it. But was the 3.6 Gly the distance back when it happened? Or is the 3.6 Gly the distance today, when we see it? Given the purported expansion of the universe, this matters.
We can see these past events happen because they were far enough away when they happened. We cannot see most recent events because the light has not gotten here yet (unless the event happens nearby, such as asteroid fragments slamming into a big gaseous planet). We cannot see event events that are even longer back in the past because their light has already gone past us. And, of course, we cannot see the big bang and all the fireworks that happened shortly after it because its light (supposedly) just went out away from all the mass that emerged. There should be an outer boundary/edge where the mass has reached. There should also be an outer boundary/edge of where we can see events that happened at some chosen past time, the furthest being for the time frame back to the big bang. But science has not really explained all this.
Given the point in space where we are today, which direction should we have looked at, if we were here when the light of the big bang passed this point, to have seen it?
One big question is, how far back can we see. We cannot see back to the big bang, so there is a limit, if we confine the question to seeing events within the mass that emerged from the big bang. And how far away is that?
... of export trade restrictions. Then Dell has to terminate their partnership. That will put the lying Mr. Singh in the spot light.
I got a NYT article and I don't have an account there. I don't know what caused your request to get a login page. Maybe they start doing that after they realize they are being slashdotted.
... the famous phase "I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that room when they discuss ...".
Take apart a modern high-end DSLR camera and you see much well bent electronics (no sensors on it, though).
I've had several cases where I needed to deal with public school administrators in a few places around the country. Usually it was computer security issues such as kids doing bad things from the school, or things like school machines infected and sending out spam. Similar kinds of things happen from businesses and universities a lot more because there are more of those around. But I can tell you that a much much higher percentage of the public school administrators are just plain totally incompetent, not just about computers and networks, but just about everything they do, including communicating in English. These people are so stupid in general (a few exceptions exist) I have to call them a totally separate breed. That's how bad it is. I would characterize half of them as wanna-be-politicians who just could not cut the rough and tumble world of dealing with adults who can fight back.
When I actually was in school, I noticed a few administrators were actually good people. Most went on to other jobs elsewhere (probably because they could not deal with the stupidity above them). One later got elected to Congress. The stupid ones stayed where they were.
The teachers, however, were almost all very good people. One friend I met in college who went through teach education graduating at the top of his class and earning other awards, ended up quitting from education after 5 years simply because he could not stand the bureaucratic BS from stupid people.
I thought people involved in educational process are better than this...
A few are. Gotta look hard to find them.
... and develop an all new protocol. At this point, it won't even need PSTN capability since we are moving away from that.
16:10 tends to work out better for office work. Sure, the higher res makes it less important. But its the physical size that makes it less important ... depending on how much space you have to push the display back.
But once you get up close to the holy grail of true 4k which is 4096, why even bother with 3840? Cinema digital is shot in 4096 (and up). 3840 should be boycotted or even banned.
3840 is not 4k. 4096 is 4k.
... like 4096x1728 (digital cinema size plus a few more pixels to make it mathematically right)? Feel free to make the actual LCD pixels a bit smaller so it can all fit in a decent size (not over 80cm, please). Hell, I'd be happy even with 2048x1280 for now so I can avoid the border bumping on 1920x1200.
Something is clearly very wrong with security there
They have users who can be so easily tricked with false information.
But I just prefer MY change over YOUR change, since MY change doesn't involve exploiting other people's privacy just to earn advertising revenue. My change would ban most advertising ... and it's time for YOU to stop fearing that.
... when the mice become self-aware.
... in their goal to destroy our society of freedom and privacy.