I don't know what the tolls are going to be, but I bet if tolls were $5-$10 each way, or if you left an hour earlier or later (and saved 30 minutes driving) $1, people would indeed leave earlier and later, spreading out rush hour, but making it less bad at its peak. Of course I leave home at 6:45 or 9:15, and would be hurt by this type of proposal, but the majority of commuters would benefit.
With people commonly working 45-50 hour weeks, there is certainly some flexibility in arrival time while still being present during business hours.
Do people really need to be on the road so bad it costs all their fellow commuters (behind them) an extra however long a single car adds? Lets make them pay enough to find out (of course this argument breaks down when they are arguable paying that same cost in their own wasted time). I also see plenty of crap on the road while in traffic that should be deter able (like mobile advertising signs, random delivery trucks, and traffic vans), it may not add up to too much, but in many areas even a 10%-15% percent drop is the difference between terrible stop and go, and a steady 35MPH.
I don't know if it exists or not, but I think what needs to be done is a "purchased software" category should be added to the menu in Gnome/KDE/XFCE/E17 ect
This could be read from a.purchased in home golder folder or/etc/purchased (or merged from the 2? or somewhere in/opt?)
The menu would simply be a folder structure with symlinks, and maybe a way to store icons.
Then the commercial installer could easily install icons for all environments including future version/projects and users could find them.
the projects could periodically scan this folder and load it into their menu, or load it in realtime or implement it however they pleased, but it would make the install side easier.
I am primarily thinking of little applications from small companies, like a popcap game for example. I think it would lower the barrier for entry for making a stupid little download thing that users could easily install (no need to make an install.sh that intelligently figures out what you are running and adds the item, it is just there, and at the same time isolates these applications from getting in the way of the supported ones.
I want to be clear, I am not saying the Gnome/KDE should use this menu format for their menus, or that they should even standardize and use the same menu. I think it should be an extra system with the sole purpose of making it easy for commercial software to show up in every environments menu.
It is essentially entirely true, without an aggressive attitude.
I would say any urban area I have been to I would consider buying one if I lived there, but when a Yaris (US) 3 door is essentially the same price/mildly cheaper, and has essentially the same mileage, but can fit 4 people, or 2 with a lot more luggage, it is a much better overall deal if parking is not an issue. I live in Philadelphia outside of center city. On excursions to the city there have been times I would have saved 20 minutes and been in a better spot if I had a Smart, and I have a Sub-compact already, but this is a bi-monthly occurance. If I lived in South Philly I would gladly sacrifice car size for the ease of parking.
I don't think safety of the smart is much worse than a Yaris though.
The most troubling thing about the Smart are the fairly large odds it won't exist as a company in 3 years and parts will be hard to get/expensive (it hemorrhages money, and the forfour(which I really liked), and the passion were canceled.
My understanding was that SMART was $12,000 for bare bones (radio ready), $14,500 for loaded (CD, AC) and $17,500 for convertible.
That's a lot more than $2,500, but the bare bones (offering a lot of what a motorcycle would, plus a roof, and maybe safety, and less mileage), but a good deal less that $20,000. And unlike the Tata it would be high-way suitable, and may even be preferred over a motorcycle for certain types of leaving the city trips.
with the exception of buying a cheap (under 30 Euro) phone I was able to do the same (considering I didn't pay for my initial phone, and pay far less monthly than people I know in Europe, I don't find that too expensive).
I was able to place my T-mobile SIM into the other phone, and get coverage in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
I don't know what European (or Aussie) minutes cost, but the privledge cost me $1.00/minute to call home and $2.00 to call Europe (roaming and ridiculous LD, calling Europe from home by land line is.10-.30/minute and doing it with a land line calling card is.03-.06
I would think ATT/Cingular work the same way.
The price of a free phone (about $150.00 off) was paying $65.00/month for a year with 1500 minutes, 300 Text Messages and unlimited (used my minutes) GPRS.
because we all know how worthless it will be for someone to be perceived as having momentum on their side. Their is certainly no self fulilling "electability" component to the primaries.
This page http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/16/matrix_sequel_has_hacker_cred/ has the info on it.
The point was that there were real exploits in SSH, and I used the Matrix because I thought most people would remember the big hub-bub when it was indeed shown fairly accurately in a movie. I also thought using a real example from an obvciously false movie would be entertaining, but I am a fairly dull person, so I guess I shouldn't be shocked if it is not.
The 8 digit code would simply be to access the SSH, you could still use a private key to authenticate.
The whole shifting port knocking pattern is to protect from flaws found in whatever implementation of SSH, not to replace a login.
The private key does not hide the existence of SSH even existing on the server.
This is nothing I would ever implement, but I could see why it may be desirable to have essentially zero open ports on an external machine, but still be able to administer it remotely. Something short of an air gap, but more secure that keep up to date security. Didn't they use an SSH flaw in the Matrix to break in?
I would think that a port knocking daemon could be kept simple enough to prevent buffer overflows, and if all ports are high I don't think it would need to run as root either.
Well having briefly used Vista on a new mid-range laptop, all I can say is that it sucks.
Even with the classic theme it simply feels less responsive than my Ubuntu at home (3 or 4 year old mid-end machine) and my XP laptop at work (2 year old mid-end machine). I would think with the dual-core it should feel better.
On the bright side, I actually thought it was fairly pretty to look at and the UAE was quite nice.
Also, worth noting, even as Apple mocks the Bouncer, the new OSX pops up a message every time you run downloaded software, which would be the type of stuff I thought they were complaining about.
Perhaps a port knocking pattern on a separate set of ports that are never used otherwise.
It should theoretically be impossible to snoop the port not (by virtue of it not being used), but it will be there if and when it is needed.
You could even have it as a seperate 24 hour updating set, long enough that no one should fail it, but still makes snooping it fairly useless.
Of course with up to 3 minutes to used snooped port pattern it is not completely invisible.
If security was super high, and there were a limited number of people needing to access, you could have the login give you an 8 digit code and you would enter that into the client next connection, and it would use that to pick the ports to knock. This would make it impossible to access SSH even after snooping an exchange.
It could also wait 3 minutes before allowing another connection, in the interim running a daemon that accepted and login and spit out "please wait 3 minutes" instead of a real prompt.
I think it has more to do with someone in the family or friends or removed by a degree or 2 buying a Vista certified computer without enough RAM.
Even those forum posts probably relate to that. Vista needs more RAM than the low end systems it is sold on. Especially Laptops. Just like XP was sold with 256MB and had problems, 98 with 16MB(32?) and 95 with 8MB. The new Widows was being sold on last gen hardware and everyone lost (well not the stores that get to sell high-markup RAM).
XP needs 1GB to run background (non-spyware) crap + Office, and Vista needs more. Systems are not being sold with enough and people are complaining. Since all their specs went up and it is slower they see Vista as the problem.
The problem with that system is it leaves the representitives needing more money (running national campaigns).
It does remind me of the idea in a book I read of having the representitives represent last names instead of areas, thus preventing bringing pork projects to their constituents. Your idea has the advantage of 3rd parties though. But who can make an informed choice of 1 of over 500 canidates?
We certainly (well the UK, I don't live there) shouldn't limit the use to a licensed practitioner. Nmap for example (I use it because it is the most dual use tool I can think of), is a great tool for learning how things work. I also use it a lot at both home and work for it's intended purpose (mapping networks) e.g. to identify what IP address my Linux desktop is currently using. Saying that I can't give a friend a tool to figure out what IP address their printer has is silly.
Even tools that may lean towards the hacker side of things are still fairly useful. I used Back Orifice and BOpeep before VNC (I will say that before that I used it for more nefarious, but legal purposes). Should I really need a license to do this?
And anybody with 2 computers has a valid reason to possess these dual use tools, making that a worthless qualification.
I don't know when you went to highschool, but I assure you times are a changing.
I was class of '99 (at a public school, city with median family income of ~75k, with bussing the school was lower though) and the science teachers already had projectors (clear screens they put on the overheads to show powerpoints).
My friend teaches now (Catholic school, and not a great one), and all of the classrooms have smart boards. Even our public schools are getting them in many classrooms in this district (where I live now, median family income ~35k, school district is the city, so that lines up) are getting smart boards and projectors.
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I don't know what the tolls are going to be, but I bet if tolls were $5-$10 each way, or if you left an hour earlier or later (and saved 30 minutes driving) $1, people would indeed leave earlier and later, spreading out rush hour, but making it less bad at its peak. Of course I leave home at 6:45 or 9:15, and would be hurt by this type of proposal, but the majority of commuters would benefit.
With people commonly working 45-50 hour weeks, there is certainly some flexibility in arrival time while still being present during business hours.
Do people really need to be on the road so bad it costs all their fellow commuters (behind them) an extra however long a single car adds? Lets make them pay enough to find out (of course this argument breaks down when they are arguable paying that same cost in their own wasted time). I also see plenty of crap on the road while in traffic that should be deter able (like mobile advertising signs, random delivery trucks, and traffic vans), it may not add up to too much, but in many areas even a 10%-15% percent drop is the difference between terrible stop and go, and a steady 35MPH.
Apple certainly is against content creation.
Now they are planning to end the unlimited, and tell people up front what their limits will be, and the cost of breaking that limit.
Isn't that what we want?
It's so expensive you even need to pay when the weight is negative.
I don't know if it exists or not, but I think what needs to be done is a "purchased software" category should be added to the menu in Gnome/KDE/XFCE/E17 ect
.purchased in home golder folder or /etc/purchased (or merged from the 2? or somewhere in /opt?)
This could be read from a
The menu would simply be a folder structure with symlinks, and maybe a way to store icons.
Then the commercial installer could easily install icons for all environments including future version/projects and users could find them.
the projects could periodically scan this folder and load it into their menu, or load it in realtime or implement it however they pleased, but it would make the install side easier.
I am primarily thinking of little applications from small companies, like a popcap game for example. I think it would lower the barrier for entry for making a stupid little download thing that users could easily install (no need to make an install.sh that intelligently figures out what you are running and adds the item, it is just there, and at the same time isolates these applications from getting in the way of the supported ones.
I want to be clear, I am not saying the Gnome/KDE should use this menu format for their menus, or that they should even standardize and use the same menu. I think it should be an extra system with the sole purpose of making it easy for commercial software to show up in every environments menu.
How is that flaimbait?
It is essentially entirely true, without an aggressive attitude.
I would say any urban area I have been to I would consider buying one if I lived there, but when a Yaris (US) 3 door is essentially the same price/mildly cheaper, and has essentially the same mileage, but can fit 4 people, or 2 with a lot more luggage, it is a much better overall deal if parking is not an issue. I live in Philadelphia outside of center city. On excursions to the city there have been times I would have saved 20 minutes and been in a better spot if I had a Smart, and I have a Sub-compact already, but this is a bi-monthly occurance. If I lived in South Philly I would gladly sacrifice car size for the ease of parking.
I don't think safety of the smart is much worse than a Yaris though.
The most troubling thing about the Smart are the fairly large odds it won't exist as a company in 3 years and parts will be hard to get/expensive (it hemorrhages money, and the forfour(which I really liked), and the passion were canceled.
My understanding was that SMART was $12,000 for bare bones (radio ready), $14,500 for loaded (CD, AC) and $17,500 for convertible.
That's a lot more than $2,500, but the bare bones (offering a lot of what a motorcycle would, plus a roof, and maybe safety, and less mileage), but a good deal less that $20,000. And unlike the Tata it would be high-way suitable, and may even be preferred over a motorcycle for certain types of leaving the city trips.
Well,
.10-.30/minute and doing it with a land line calling card is .03-.06
with the exception of buying a cheap (under 30 Euro) phone I was able to do the same (considering I didn't pay for my initial phone, and pay far less monthly than people I know in Europe, I don't find that too expensive).
I was able to place my T-mobile SIM into the other phone, and get coverage in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
I don't know what European (or Aussie) minutes cost, but the privledge cost me $1.00/minute to call home and $2.00 to call Europe (roaming and ridiculous LD, calling Europe from home by land line is
I would think ATT/Cingular work the same way.
The price of a free phone (about $150.00 off) was paying $65.00/month for a year with 1500 minutes, 300 Text Messages and unlimited (used my minutes) GPRS.
One election does not establish momentum.
A few solid wins does.
One election could not really even be called movement.
Yeah,
because we all know how worthless it will be for someone to be perceived as having momentum on their side. Their is certainly no self fulilling "electability" component to the primaries.
2 things.
/. you are probably guaranteeing enough hits that it won't be dropped.
1) I hope it's not domaintools.com I find it useful
2) by posting cube111.com to
Hell yeah.
NNTP FTW
This page http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/16/matrix_sequel_has_hacker_cred/ has the info on it.
The point was that there were real exploits in SSH, and I used the Matrix because I thought most people would remember the big hub-bub when it was indeed shown fairly accurately in a movie. I also thought using a real example from an obvciously false movie would be entertaining, but I am a fairly dull person, so I guess I shouldn't be shocked if it is not.
The 8 digit code would simply be to access the SSH, you could still use a private key to authenticate.
The whole shifting port knocking pattern is to protect from flaws found in whatever implementation of SSH, not to replace a login.
The private key does not hide the existence of SSH even existing on the server.
This is nothing I would ever implement, but I could see why it may be desirable to have essentially zero open ports on an external machine, but still be able to administer it remotely. Something short of an air gap, but more secure that keep up to date security. Didn't they use an SSH flaw in the Matrix to break in?
I would think that a port knocking daemon could be kept simple enough to prevent buffer overflows, and if all ports are high I don't think it would need to run as root either.
Well having briefly used Vista on a new mid-range laptop, all I can say is that it sucks.
Even with the classic theme it simply feels less responsive than my Ubuntu at home (3 or 4 year old mid-end machine) and my XP laptop at work (2 year old mid-end machine). I would think with the dual-core it should feel better.
On the bright side, I actually thought it was fairly pretty to look at and the UAE was quite nice.
Also, worth noting, even as Apple mocks the Bouncer, the new OSX pops up a message every time you run downloaded software, which would be the type of stuff I thought they were complaining about.
Perhaps a port knocking pattern on a separate set of ports that are never used otherwise.
It should theoretically be impossible to snoop the port not (by virtue of it not being used), but it will be there if and when it is needed.
You could even have it as a seperate 24 hour updating set, long enough that no one should fail it, but still makes snooping it fairly useless.
Of course with up to 3 minutes to used snooped port pattern it is not completely invisible.
If security was super high, and there were a limited number of people needing to access, you could have the login give you an 8 digit code and you would enter that into the client next connection, and it would use that to pick the ports to knock. This would make it impossible to access SSH even after snooping an exchange.
It could also wait 3 minutes before allowing another connection, in the interim running a daemon that accepted and login and spit out "please wait 3 minutes" instead of a real prompt.
It's a DLP projector.
.02ms).
I know they refresh much better than LCDs though 200 times may be a bit stretching it.
If that is mirror flutter rate than it is a solid 5ms max (with some things being quicker, such as black to white being
IAFOS
I think it has more to do with someone in the family or friends or removed by a degree or 2 buying a Vista certified computer without enough RAM.
Even those forum posts probably relate to that. Vista needs more RAM than the low end systems it is sold on. Especially Laptops. Just like XP was sold with 256MB and had problems, 98 with 16MB(32?) and 95 with 8MB. The new Widows was being sold on last gen hardware and everyone lost (well not the stores that get to sell high-markup RAM).
XP needs 1GB to run background (non-spyware) crap + Office, and Vista needs more. Systems are not being sold with enough and people are complaining. Since all their specs went up and it is slower they see Vista as the problem.
A week?, that's nothing.
I once waited 6 weeks for someone with the last 10 MBs of a TV episode (this was of course completly legal home made TV show).
Yes
The problem with that system is it leaves the representitives needing more money (running national campaigns).
It does remind me of the idea in a book I read of having the representitives represent last names instead of areas, thus preventing bringing pork projects to their constituents. Your idea has the advantage of 3rd parties though. But who can make an informed choice of 1 of over 500 canidates?
Russian Bank?
Interesting idea.
Especially because you get the $200.00 tax deduction not to far off from now.
I wish I had known.
We certainly (well the UK, I don't live there) shouldn't limit the use to a licensed practitioner. Nmap for example (I use it because it is the most dual use tool I can think of), is a great tool for learning how things work. I also use it a lot at both home and work for it's intended purpose (mapping networks) e.g. to identify what IP address my Linux desktop is currently using. Saying that I can't give a friend a tool to figure out what IP address their printer has is silly.
Even tools that may lean towards the hacker side of things are still fairly useful. I used Back Orifice and BOpeep before VNC (I will say that before that I used it for more nefarious, but legal purposes). Should I really need a license to do this?
And anybody with 2 computers has a valid reason to possess these dual use tools, making that a worthless qualification.
I don't know when you went to highschool, but I assure you times are a changing.
I was class of '99 (at a public school, city with median family income of ~75k, with bussing the school was lower though) and the science teachers already had projectors (clear screens they put on the overheads to show powerpoints).
My friend teaches now (Catholic school, and not a great one), and all of the classrooms have smart boards. Even our public schools are getting them in many classrooms in this district (where I live now, median family income ~35k, school district is the city, so that lines up) are getting smart boards and projectors.