Before the big IPv4 crunch the start of 2011, there used to be a pretty big number of/8 blocks listed as "reserved" by ARIN, with a last modified date of 1975. Something like 30+ of them.
Quite a few people used such blocks as their internal addressing without ill effect up until the 2011 "IP crunch" when those blocks were finally allocated.
I have to admit I did the same for my tiny home network too. From the mid 90s up until 2010 I was using the 42.x.x.x/8 space internally, however I did this with full knowledge about what I was doing. My router filtered ingress/egress on that route just as it does with the RFC1918 space, and with full knowledge I'd have to renumber if it ever became allocated, which happened at the end of 2010 (September or October, I can't remember. I was renumbered in June.)
But I would never have done this at a site managed or used by more than just myself. At work for example I migrated us from the existing 182.168.1 space into 10.
One of the biggest advantages of doing this is when you deal with a bunch of VPNs all the time. It usually caused issues when your own network and the remote site had the same IP blocks. 192.168.[0/1].x and 10.x were the most popular networks in use to avoid, but even Cisco's VPN concentrators took over most or all of the less well known 172.16.x.x space. The easiest solution was to avoid all of them. This meant either purchsing your own public/20 or larger (only an option for ISPs) or use an unallocated since forever block.
ARINs rules for getting a public block were that you had to already have IP blocks from your two or more providers that are at least half that size, and at least half utilized. You must be BGP routed with two or more providers already, and once you get your ARIN space you have to return your current blocks to the ISPs that allocated them to you. A small/20 would cost $2500/year as well. This is simply not something a home user could ever do.
The only time using public space caused problems was when done out of ignorance. I've seen plenty of networks numbered in 192.x that was not 192.168 for example, unknowingly using public addresses. The same with 193.x. Most of those sites also didn't bother with filtering those blocks at their border routers (some not even filtering RFC1918 space) which is probably the biggest mistake that would have a bite.
This is a direct quote taken from her writings, as in she was not quoting anyone, she directly said this:
Dongles are intended to be small and unobtrusive. Theyâ(TM)re intended for network connectivity and to service as physical licence keys for software. Iâ(TM)d consulted in the past with an automotive shop that needed data recovery and technical support. I know what PCMCIA dongles look like.
She used the word dongle twice, but even worse, she used the term license key which deeply hurts and offends me even more.
I demand she be ejected from the internet and barred never to return again!
At least I know she will understand and thus willingly do so, since we can't have a world where people like her do things that might offend someone else like me.
Of course I'm sure she won't leave the internet quietly or willingly. Fucking hypocrites. Always trying to offend others and then demand special treatment for themselves as some kind of exception to their own rules.
The flaws are "fixed" enough already. If you were to even try to touch any of my hardware (phone, computer, laptops, anything), your arm will be broken in multiple places long before you have the chance to perform a local privilege escalation exploit:P
I mean you act like this is a bug in a network daemon or something!
I agree. If a child lies about their age, the parent should be punished for not preventing their child from lying.
How would you feel knowing your mom and or dad may be fined or even jailed simply because you wish it? Or are you going to claim you never once lied as a child?
You're quite welcome! This has always been a fascinating subject to me, both in terms of the science around it as well as the science fictiony type day dreams it can invoke. (And appologies in advance if this reply turns into a nice long rambling on the subject) We are well on our way to this level of technology already, and the future is looking to be too amazing for words.
The dictionary definition of nanoscale means something related to, or measured in, nanometers which, of course, could include very large objects being measured in nanometers for no other reason other than that's the unit of measurement the person chose. This definition, while fine for a layperson or a generic use dictionary, isn't adequate for academic or professional use.
Thus, either definitively or colloquially, the term "nanoscale" is more specifically, technologically or professionally, restricted to things measuring 1 nanometer or less?
Is that correct or correct enough for a laypersons vocabulary?
I actually wish there was a more definitive answer everyone could agree on to give you. Some say 1nm or less, others say measuring in single digits or fractions of a nm, while others say measuring in the units of nm.
Of course that last one has the very problem you point out. A millimeter is just a million nanometers after all. I can sort of see the point when basing things on the metric scale of 1000's, but that would include objects up to the size of 999nm, before switching to the next unit of measurement (micro), such as this 3D printer is using.
Because nanotechnology specifically refers to objects, devices, and machines built at the atomic/molecular scale, I personally subscribe to the "1nm or less" school of thought in order to link the two more easily for me. However I can definitely understand where others are coming from when using the "under 1nm up to 10nm" definition.
For a direct answer, I would say that yes you are correct, with the condition that larger than 1nm is acceptable (getting less and less acceptable for each order of magnitude higher one goes;)
For a good mental image, say one created a computer that was truly nanoscale, lets say 10 nano meters long, with the same power as your smart phone currently has. You would be able to stack 100 of those devices end to end, and still fit the whole combined structure inside a living human cell with plenty of room left over around it.
Or put another way, my phone is about 5 inches tall. If this was nanoscale and we put 100 of them end to end, 500 inches is almost 13 meters, or just over 40 feet long.
One of the major benefits (that I can see) is that this printer doesn't NEED to print stuff that small - it CAN print stuff that small which means that larger objects can be printed with a greater degree of accuracy. I see the precision being the benefit more so than the scale being the benefit. The majority of commenters here on/. seem to be concentrating on how small they can potentially build things which is great and all but my thoughts immediately went to how larger things can be made with a finer degree of accuracy which means less trimming, greater tolerances, and greater control when prototyping.
That is a very good point! In fact, when looking at the device in comparison to our current high end 3D printers, this is a major advancement that may solve quite a few problems already being run into on the edge cases. Higher tolerances on larger objects is still extremely useful.
I suppose it's not dissimilar to comparing our little home computers, in that we can afford them easily along with all they are capable of, to the "big iron" from the likes of IBM and cray, showing what humanity is capable of at the high end.
This printer most certainly puts a little reprap to shame;}
I certainly wasn't intending to put down their accomplishment, in case it came off that way. But the
It's a bit of a long read, but (IMHO) one of the best sources on the matter is Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler.
He describes the very concept of nanotechnology, defines it as well as much philosophy around it, with plenty of examples of thing that can be done once manufacturing on this scale is achieved.
Such machines do technically already exist, such as the ribosome. Once a similar machine is created that is under complete human control pragmatically, it will be a world altering event.
If you think of the process of a cell performing its work, dividing, assembling its programmed structure, and eventually creating something on the macro scale like a whale or elephant - then you are thinking on the right scale.
The 3D printer referenced in the article is not yet able to produce structures at this scale, let alone functional machines at this scale. At best it might be one step on the path towards true nanotechnology, as smaller tools build smaller tools and so on.
Some additional material on the subject that found recently was on youtube under productive nanosystems While this is purely an artists rendering, one video I happened upon that really brings home the scale factor is their nano-factory video.
This is what most people are referring to when using the term nanotechnology.
I'm fairly certain the GP was not implying WP8 has any of those problems. He said Microsoft has an image problem due to previous products, which is very true.
Older MS phones had a bad image, requiring reboots multiple times a day due to crashes and poor performance. Phones locking up when receiving calls, missing alarms, and the stylus interface that attempted to mirror the desktop on a teeny screen were all problems older WinCE phones had.
Windows 95 was famous for not being able to function much longer than a month at a time without a reboot. All of the pre NT series of windows were very unstable, and were very insecure due to the chosen single user design.
Both of those together created an image in the public mind that Microsoft products crash, are flaky, and can not be relied upon.
Now, compare that to today. Windows 7 and 8 are pretty stable, and much much more secure than predecessors (irrespective to any comparison to their competition) As you say, WP8 has none of those older problems (I am taking your word for that, as I have no experience with windows phones since CE 6 - But at least they didn't stick to the desktop UI!)
Neither of those facts has yet had enough time to change that older image that has been in place for over a decade. They may not until yet another decade has passed.
Peoples purchasing decisions are not based on facts, at least not completely (or even mostly) - so such facts as how great the product actually is, is irrelevant. The facts from the past have tainted their image so much that purchasing decisions of today are being based on that instead.
It may or may not be fair (which is a whole other discussion) but that is pretty much what is going on, and why sales are so low. It doesn't matter how great the product is today, what matters is their experience in the past and their personal limit on taking a chance of the same result again.
Personally, if a person or company screws me over and has no remorse at doing so and no indication they want or will change, I refuse to have that person or company as a part of my life. If a person or company screws me over enough times, even with all the apologies in the world and the best of intentions, after a point I will be distancing myself from them more as well.
It's much easier to convince someone to try something completely new, than it is to convince them to try something they have done before and had a bad experience with.
You got that wrong. Now they will say see, we told you this existed. But if this is what they are willing to show us, think how more powerful the government version is that they won't show us? They can remove you from one video walking down the street, and put you in the same scene last week (ATM time stamp) robbing someone!
That isn't doing the conspiracy theorists justice!
These days there is no need to go through all the work of framing you for a crime and then inventing evidence of it. Oh no.
Instead, they will simply say you broke a secret law, but can't tell you what that law is (for national security after all), but they DO have evidence, but can't show what that is for more national security reasons. A judge will agree that is acceptable, and without seeing the evidence will say it is enough to prove your guilt, and thus you are guilty!
That way they can more efficiently use the secret alien captured computers from the early 50s for reading your thoughts instead of wasting cycles processing video frames. Keeps costs down. Do you have any idea how much CPU time is to rent on secret alien captured computers from the 50s?? Plenty mister, plenty!
Then I remembered it requires Java. So much for that... I'm too lazy to set up a VM just for that.
You imply a VM would help.
Save yourself the overhead, install a 64 bit JRE so there is no browser plugin, and you will be equally as safe as if running it in a VM - only getting 120 FPS instead of 1-2:P
If you arn't running a 64 bit machine, then A) wtf?! and B) Make double/triple sure you remove the browser plugin, else you'll be in a world of hurt.
There have been hundreds to thousands of exploits for the browser plugin these past few years, but thankfully none for the JRE in at least two years, and all those have long since been patched.
After being screwed over by three different banks six different times, I simply stopped using them a few years ago. My record suddenly stops and disappears. Oh noz, eye iz da sus-pissed-us!
Well look on the bright side, at least the men in dark glasses and suits I will be meeting in my near future won't be a complete surprise.
Your post contains a link back to slashdot (5 in fact, all in the header) I just posted a link to copyrighted material.
Thus your post links to a site that links to a link to copyrighted material!
Just like you and these judges said, you are now a criminal deserving of prison time. I very much hope you don't go all hypocritical and refuse to turn yourself in for your admitted crimes.
I pretty much agree with most of your post. I'm going to skip the parts I disagree with, and instead offer some advice I've gained in my own experience.
BTW I can't help but laugh at the idiot anon replies attempting their lame insults of not living in a civilized country. But that's par for the course on slashdot! Nothing useful to offer, so offer the most useless of replies to waste our bandwidth. So on to stopping people from wasting your bandwidth;}
Personally, I've gone through some pretty extreme measures to stop unwanted phone calls and communications. I've always had fairly bad anxiety problems, which have been peeking pretty bad lately. I can't explain rationally the dread I felt when ever my cell phone made noise, as typically less than a tenth of the calls/texts I got were from people I wanted to actually hear from or deal with.
Right now I have a "firewall" program installed on my phone operating in whitelist mode. I also am paying $2.50/mo extra for unlimited text messages, which I had to argue for about two hours with my wireless carrier to get (It's usually $5), but they kept arguing it wasn't possible to disable text message service completely, and I wasn't willing to accept that answer when my printed contract stated otherwise. The contract may have changed since then, but clearly my request is not impossible.
One way of looking at it is that I now don't pay anything additional when incoming text messages go over my previous limit of 100/mo. Another way of looking at it is I'm being forced to pay an extortion fee for that privilege. In the end, $2.50/mo is acceptable to me personally to end the annoying over charges and not have to deal with it anymore. While I am against it on principle, my condition lately has caused even more problems, so it was an easy choice to make. You'll have to decide that one on your own of course, and unfortunately I have no sound advice if you (totally justifiably) choose to stick to the same principles.
As I mentioned, I now use a whitelist for incoming calls and texts. If your number is not in my phones address book, or I don't add an exception rule, I don't even see the call/msg and it does not show up in my call history.
Blocked or private numbers do not even hear the ringing signal, and are disconnected immediately. The same with numbers under 7 digits long, and any toll number prefix. If I especially do not want to hear from someone, I have a special blacklist that any number within simply gets a busy signal when they call. All others I allow to go straight to voicemail.
This way I can at least tell people I am speaking with to first leave me a message, as it's the only way I'll know they called and from where. I can then make a contact entry for them and future calls come through as normal.
With this setup, I perhaps get 1-2 voicemails in a year that are telemarketers. Most that can don't bother to leave messages.
I can also setup lists that only apply at specific times. But so far all I've used that for is one single person, an old friend who isn't as much of a friend these days but I still don't want to lose touch. I've told him no less than 20 times to stop calling me at work multiple times in a row without leaving a message, I am busy and have things to do. A message I can get to when I have a moment. 20 missed calls and no idea why just pisses me off and makes me Not want to spend a second of a break dealing with that. His number specifically is sent to voicemail between 8-5 mon-fri:P
The main reason I choose a firewall package instead of a service such as Google Voice was not wanting to change my phone number. I hear they allow phone number porting now, so that isn't an issue anymore (if true) but it might be an option worth looking into.
Once the allow/block list is in your own hands, you have a lot more power to prevent such annoyances, of course at the expense of some of your time. My logic is, t
It's still good advice to say absolutely nothing, but it's not as simple as most of you seem to believe. By saying nothing, you are condemning yourself to jail.
Sadly you are correct. However by not saying anything you face a year, at most three, in jail. By saying anything you WILL get a life time in prison.
Prison is one of the few places you get a year added to your own sentence for letting someone else beat the shit out of you, or multiple years if you defend yourself. All those ass beatings add up to many decades.
Keep your mouth closed, lie, don't remember, don't know, and again don't say anything.
Just install 64 bit java JRE only. There are no browser plugins in the 64 bit JRE, only the 32 bit JRE, so none of the vulnerabilities released in the past 3 or 4 years will affect you.
As a bonus, since there are no browser addons in 64 bit JRE, you won't ever see that annoying ask toolbar garbage from them again.
Just a tip, as I found this out the hard way. Microsoft has shut down the online activation servers for Office 2003/2007 this new years, and for Office 2003 they have changed their policy on reinstalls to zero (one installation total is allowed) so no phone activation either.
If you Google for "backup office 2003 activation files" you can get the paths for the two files opa11.dat & opa11.bak that you'll want to copy to a safe place. These files are keyed to your install and your windows ID, so are only good if you reimage Windows then reinstall office, or if you just reinstall office on the same Windows install.
I hope this helps you avoid the same nasty surprise I got two months ago.
I am a Time Warner customer, and I signed up during their beta testing roll out back in 1995. I still have my "signup packet" here sitting on the same shelf for these last 18 years, and this is the first time I've touched it in those 18 years.
There is absolutely no mention of an account or an email address with them.
I can only assume an email address would have been assigned to me, but I have no idea how to sign in to it. It looks like they now maintain a customer portal as well, but again I have no idea how to sign in to it.
While I don't use bit torrent these days at all nor download commercial music or movies, for SOME silly reason I have little faith this new system will have zero false positives despite the lack of infringing activity. My online video watching is limited to youtube blip and twitch, primarily gaming videos (completely created by those that post them I should add) and whatever random link clicking youtube may take me to... At least until this last weekend.
I noticed over the weekend my public IP changed, and ever since then my service has been running slow as shit. 20+% packet loss, speeds under 1 megabit (for 10mbit down service), it takes a good 30 minutes to buffer a 10 minute youtube video, and for the first time ever my network meter app is showing a line reporting "Blacklisted IP ratio 5/72"
I can't help but wonder if the two are related, and what sort of situation I might be/get stuck in.
I use Firefox with adblock and noscript with a fairly tight whitelist. They give no details about what "popup" means but the traditional popup I will never see. At least I am not seeing any time warner related URLs under the noscript menu.
I'm now thinking about trying out one of these many VPN services just to see what happens to my connection speeds. The first couple I checked have a free trial period (Either most do or I just got very lucky)
Since the ISPs don't seem to have any issue throwing around accusations without proof, I won't feel so bad having not collected more proof when calling them up complaining about the results with my own assumed accusations.
Perhaps if their phone support techs get enough comments about it, that count will get passed up to someone that matters. Doubtful, but you never know. Maybe I'll get lucky and be one of the calls monitored by a manager. I've never been one to yell or get angry at the poor tech answering the phone, but have no issue bringing up questions they are likely sick of hearing, nor mind playing dumb when they treat me as dumb first.
"Yes sir I know, but we have to follow the trouble shooting guide. Now reboot your computer again, and reboot the cable modem again, I'll wait here..."
"You know I've heard about this new internet monitoring spying thing the US is doing everywhere.. You think it's like in the movies where hearing breathing in the phone would cause my connection to have these problems? I bet that would cause a lot of problems, so many connections to keep up with. Are you absolutely sure that isn't the problem? It still sounds like it to me."
That's even more illegal than just pirating it according to the RIAA. If the RIAA can't have the money, no one can. Once artists get paid without them, their last justification for existing goes poof.
They would much rather go into debt and have all the content creators starve to death than see a world where the people can give money directly to those that create content.
Actually I have audited the first three jailbreaks I ever used. Yes that was three years ago now, but those teams have earned my trust. Perhaps once the team cycles all their members, or completely disappear from the scene, I'll have to reconsider that trust. But until then I trust them far more than your claims against them.
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Before the big IPv4 crunch the start of 2011, there used to be a pretty big number of /8 blocks listed as "reserved" by ARIN, with a last modified date of 1975. Something like 30+ of them.
Quite a few people used such blocks as their internal addressing without ill effect up until the 2011 "IP crunch" when those blocks were finally allocated.
I have to admit I did the same for my tiny home network too.
From the mid 90s up until 2010 I was using the 42.x.x.x/8 space internally, however I did this with full knowledge about what I was doing. My router filtered ingress/egress on that route just as it does with the RFC1918 space, and with full knowledge I'd have to renumber if it ever became allocated, which happened at the end of 2010 (September or October, I can't remember. I was renumbered in June.)
But I would never have done this at a site managed or used by more than just myself.
At work for example I migrated us from the existing 182.168.1 space into 10.
One of the biggest advantages of doing this is when you deal with a bunch of VPNs all the time. It usually caused issues when your own network and the remote site had the same IP blocks. /20 or larger (only an option for ISPs) or use an unallocated since forever block.
192.168.[0/1].x and 10.x were the most popular networks in use to avoid, but even Cisco's VPN concentrators took over most or all of the less well known 172.16.x.x space.
The easiest solution was to avoid all of them.
This meant either purchsing your own public
ARINs rules for getting a public block were that you had to already have IP blocks from your two or more providers that are at least half that size, and at least half utilized. You must be BGP routed with two or more providers already, and once you get your ARIN space you have to return your current blocks to the ISPs that allocated them to you. A small /20 would cost $2500/year as well.
This is simply not something a home user could ever do.
The only time using public space caused problems was when done out of ignorance.
I've seen plenty of networks numbered in 192.x that was not 192.168 for example, unknowingly using public addresses. The same with 193.x.
Most of those sites also didn't bother with filtering those blocks at their border routers (some not even filtering RFC1918 space) which is probably the biggest mistake that would have a bite.
Other categories included adults, who built a wireless home power consumption system."
That's nothing, I've built a whole ton of power consumption systems in my time!
Of course, what the adult winners built was a home power consumption MONITORING system, which is a tiny bit different.
This is a direct quote taken from her writings, as in she was not quoting anyone, she directly said this:
Dongles are intended to be small and unobtrusive. Theyâ(TM)re intended for network connectivity and to service as physical licence keys for software. Iâ(TM)d consulted in the past with an automotive shop that needed data recovery and technical support. I know what PCMCIA dongles look like.
She used the word dongle twice, but even worse, she used the term license key which deeply hurts and offends me even more.
I demand she be ejected from the internet and barred never to return again!
At least I know she will understand and thus willingly do so, since we can't have a world where people like her do things that might offend someone else like me.
Of course I'm sure she won't leave the internet quietly or willingly. Fucking hypocrites. Always trying to offend others and then demand special treatment for themselves as some kind of exception to their own rules.
The flaws are "fixed" enough already. If you were to even try to touch any of my hardware (phone, computer, laptops, anything), your arm will be broken in multiple places long before you have the chance to perform a local privilege escalation exploit :P
I mean you act like this is a bug in a network daemon or something!
Just out of curiousity, which Android App do I go and download/purchase to run and execute iOS applications?
Your "solution" is no different than saying the best way to run one specific windows program is to install linux
I agree. If a child lies about their age, the parent should be punished for not preventing their child from lying.
How would you feel knowing your mom and or dad may be fined or even jailed simply because you wish it? Or are you going to claim you never once lied as a child?
You're quite welcome! This has always been a fascinating subject to me, both in terms of the science around it as well as the science fictiony type day dreams it can invoke. (And appologies in advance if this reply turns into a nice long rambling on the subject)
We are well on our way to this level of technology already, and the future is looking to be too amazing for words.
The dictionary definition of nanoscale means something related to, or measured in, nanometers which, of course, could include very large objects being measured in nanometers for no other reason other than that's the unit of measurement the person chose. This definition, while fine for a layperson or a generic use dictionary, isn't adequate for academic or professional use.
Thus, either definitively or colloquially, the term "nanoscale" is more specifically, technologically or professionally, restricted to things measuring 1 nanometer or less?
Is that correct or correct enough for a laypersons vocabulary?
I actually wish there was a more definitive answer everyone could agree on to give you.
Some say 1nm or less, others say measuring in single digits or fractions of a nm, while others say measuring in the units of nm.
Of course that last one has the very problem you point out. A millimeter is just a million nanometers after all. I can sort of see the point when basing things on the metric scale of 1000's, but that would include objects up to the size of 999nm, before switching to the next unit of measurement (micro), such as this 3D printer is using.
Because nanotechnology specifically refers to objects, devices, and machines built at the atomic/molecular scale, I personally subscribe to the "1nm or less" school of thought in order to link the two more easily for me. However I can definitely understand where others are coming from when using the "under 1nm up to 10nm" definition.
For a direct answer, I would say that yes you are correct, with the condition that larger than 1nm is acceptable (getting less and less acceptable for each order of magnitude higher one goes ;)
For a good mental image, say one created a computer that was truly nanoscale, lets say 10 nano meters long, with the same power as your smart phone currently has.
You would be able to stack 100 of those devices end to end, and still fit the whole combined structure inside a living human cell with plenty of room left over around it.
Or put another way, my phone is about 5 inches tall. If this was nanoscale and we put 100 of them end to end, 500 inches is almost 13 meters, or just over 40 feet long.
One of the major benefits (that I can see) is that this printer doesn't NEED to print stuff that small - it CAN print stuff that small which means that larger objects can be printed with a greater degree of accuracy. I see the precision being the benefit more so than the scale being the benefit. The majority of commenters here on /. seem to be concentrating on how small they can potentially build things which is great and all but my thoughts immediately went to how larger things can be made with a finer degree of accuracy which means less trimming, greater tolerances, and greater control when prototyping.
That is a very good point! In fact, when looking at the device in comparison to our current high end 3D printers, this is a major advancement that may solve quite a few problems already being run into on the edge cases. Higher tolerances on larger objects is still extremely useful.
I suppose it's not dissimilar to comparing our little home computers, in that we can afford them easily along with all they are capable of, to the "big iron" from the likes of IBM and cray, showing what humanity is capable of at the high end.
This printer most certainly puts a little reprap to shame ;}
I certainly wasn't intending to put down their accomplishment, in case it came off that way.
But the
It's a bit of a long read, but (IMHO) one of the best sources on the matter is Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler.
He describes the very concept of nanotechnology, defines it as well as much philosophy around it, with plenty of examples of thing that can be done once manufacturing on this scale is achieved.
Such machines do technically already exist, such as the ribosome. Once a similar machine is created that is under complete human control pragmatically, it will be a world altering event.
If you think of the process of a cell performing its work, dividing, assembling its programmed structure, and eventually creating something on the macro scale like a whale or elephant - then you are thinking on the right scale.
The 3D printer referenced in the article is not yet able to produce structures at this scale, let alone functional machines at this scale.
At best it might be one step on the path towards true nanotechnology, as smaller tools build smaller tools and so on.
Some additional material on the subject that found recently was on youtube under productive nanosystems
While this is purely an artists rendering, one video I happened upon that really brings home the scale factor is their nano-factory video.
This is what most people are referring to when using the term nanotechnology.
I'm fairly certain the GP was not implying WP8 has any of those problems.
He said Microsoft has an image problem due to previous products, which is very true.
Older MS phones had a bad image, requiring reboots multiple times a day due to crashes and poor performance. Phones locking up when receiving calls, missing alarms, and the stylus interface that attempted to mirror the desktop on a teeny screen were all problems older WinCE phones had.
Windows 95 was famous for not being able to function much longer than a month at a time without a reboot. All of the pre NT series of windows were very unstable, and were very insecure due to the chosen single user design.
Both of those together created an image in the public mind that Microsoft products crash, are flaky, and can not be relied upon.
Now, compare that to today. Windows 7 and 8 are pretty stable, and much much more secure than predecessors (irrespective to any comparison to their competition)
As you say, WP8 has none of those older problems (I am taking your word for that, as I have no experience with windows phones since CE 6 - But at least they didn't stick to the desktop UI!)
Neither of those facts has yet had enough time to change that older image that has been in place for over a decade. They may not until yet another decade has passed.
Peoples purchasing decisions are not based on facts, at least not completely (or even mostly) - so such facts as how great the product actually is, is irrelevant.
The facts from the past have tainted their image so much that purchasing decisions of today are being based on that instead.
It may or may not be fair (which is a whole other discussion) but that is pretty much what is going on, and why sales are so low.
It doesn't matter how great the product is today, what matters is their experience in the past and their personal limit on taking a chance of the same result again.
Personally, if a person or company screws me over and has no remorse at doing so and no indication they want or will change, I refuse to have that person or company as a part of my life.
If a person or company screws me over enough times, even with all the apologies in the world and the best of intentions, after a point I will be distancing myself from them more as well.
It's much easier to convince someone to try something completely new, than it is to convince them to try something they have done before and had a bad experience with.
You got that wrong. Now they will say see, we told you this existed. But if this is what they are willing to show us, think how more powerful the government version is that they won't show us? They can remove you from one video walking down the street, and put you in the same scene last week (ATM time stamp) robbing someone!
That isn't doing the conspiracy theorists justice!
These days there is no need to go through all the work of framing you for a crime and then inventing evidence of it. Oh no.
Instead, they will simply say you broke a secret law, but can't tell you what that law is (for national security after all), but they DO have evidence, but can't show what that is for more national security reasons.
A judge will agree that is acceptable, and without seeing the evidence will say it is enough to prove your guilt, and thus you are guilty!
That way they can more efficiently use the secret alien captured computers from the early 50s for reading your thoughts instead of wasting cycles processing video frames.
Keeps costs down. Do you have any idea how much CPU time is to rent on secret alien captured computers from the 50s?? Plenty mister, plenty!
Then I remembered it requires Java. So much for that... I'm too lazy to set up a VM just for that.
You imply a VM would help.
Save yourself the overhead, install a 64 bit JRE so there is no browser plugin, and you will be equally as safe as if running it in a VM - only getting 120 FPS instead of 1-2 :P
If you arn't running a 64 bit machine, then
A) wtf?!
and
B) Make double/triple sure you remove the browser plugin, else you'll be in a world of hurt.
There have been hundreds to thousands of exploits for the browser plugin these past few years, but thankfully none for the JRE in at least two years, and all those have long since been patched.
Yea, I'm likely going to be on a terrorist list.
After being screwed over by three different banks six different times, I simply stopped using them a few years ago. My record suddenly stops and disappears. Oh noz, eye iz da sus-pissed-us!
Well look on the bright side, at least the men in dark glasses and suits I will be meeting in my near future won't be a complete surprise.
Now you are a criminal (I just made it so)
Your post contains a link back to slashdot (5 in fact, all in the header)
I just posted a link to copyrighted material.
Thus your post links to a site that links to a link to copyrighted material!
Just like you and these judges said, you are now a criminal deserving of prison time. I very much hope you don't go all hypocritical and refuse to turn yourself in for your admitted crimes.
I feel the same way, except I believe the cables should have been edited for names of the innocent and so on.
You could have made that shorter by just saying "I believe it should have happened exactly like it did"
Newsflash - nobody cares about you. No black helicopters out there, son.
Posted by Mindcontrolled
Suuuuure, I bet that's exactly what they wanted you to say!
Pretty easy questions to answer.
No one here at all, including the person your "replied" to, claimed the US was doing any better. The point is about China. Way to go off topic.
Second, I assume by your complete refusal to address the parent posters concerns, or the topic at hand, that you are giving China a free pass here?
Why do you feel it's wrong for the USA to do this, but is OK for literally all other countries to do so?
I pretty much agree with most of your post.
I'm going to skip the parts I disagree with, and instead offer some advice I've gained in my own experience.
BTW I can't help but laugh at the idiot anon replies attempting their lame insults of not living in a civilized country. But that's par for the course on slashdot! Nothing useful to offer, so offer the most useless of replies to waste our bandwidth. ;}
So on to stopping people from wasting your bandwidth
Personally, I've gone through some pretty extreme measures to stop unwanted phone calls and communications.
I've always had fairly bad anxiety problems, which have been peeking pretty bad lately. I can't explain rationally the dread I felt when ever my cell phone made noise, as typically less than a tenth of the calls/texts I got were from people I wanted to actually hear from or deal with.
Right now I have a "firewall" program installed on my phone operating in whitelist mode. I also am paying $2.50/mo extra for unlimited text messages, which I had to argue for about two hours with my wireless carrier to get (It's usually $5), but they kept arguing it wasn't possible to disable text message service completely, and I wasn't willing to accept that answer when my printed contract stated otherwise. The contract may have changed since then, but clearly my request is not impossible.
One way of looking at it is that I now don't pay anything additional when incoming text messages go over my previous limit of 100/mo.
Another way of looking at it is I'm being forced to pay an extortion fee for that privilege.
In the end, $2.50/mo is acceptable to me personally to end the annoying over charges and not have to deal with it anymore.
While I am against it on principle, my condition lately has caused even more problems, so it was an easy choice to make.
You'll have to decide that one on your own of course, and unfortunately I have no sound advice if you (totally justifiably) choose to stick to the same principles.
As I mentioned, I now use a whitelist for incoming calls and texts. If your number is not in my phones address book, or I don't add an exception rule, I don't even see the call/msg and it does not show up in my call history.
Blocked or private numbers do not even hear the ringing signal, and are disconnected immediately. The same with numbers under 7 digits long, and any toll number prefix.
If I especially do not want to hear from someone, I have a special blacklist that any number within simply gets a busy signal when they call.
All others I allow to go straight to voicemail.
This way I can at least tell people I am speaking with to first leave me a message, as it's the only way I'll know they called and from where.
I can then make a contact entry for them and future calls come through as normal.
With this setup, I perhaps get 1-2 voicemails in a year that are telemarketers. Most that can don't bother to leave messages.
I can also setup lists that only apply at specific times. :P
But so far all I've used that for is one single person, an old friend who isn't as much of a friend these days but I still don't want to lose touch.
I've told him no less than 20 times to stop calling me at work multiple times in a row without leaving a message, I am busy and have things to do. A message I can get to when I have a moment. 20 missed calls and no idea why just pisses me off and makes me Not want to spend a second of a break dealing with that. His number specifically is sent to voicemail between 8-5 mon-fri
The main reason I choose a firewall package instead of a service such as Google Voice was not wanting to change my phone number.
I hear they allow phone number porting now, so that isn't an issue anymore (if true) but it might be an option worth looking into.
Once the allow/block list is in your own hands, you have a lot more power to prevent such annoyances, of course at the expense of some of your time.
My logic is, t
It's still good advice to say absolutely nothing, but it's not as simple as most of you seem to believe. By saying nothing, you are condemning yourself to jail.
Sadly you are correct. However by not saying anything you face a year, at most three, in jail. By saying anything you WILL get a life time in prison.
Prison is one of the few places you get a year added to your own sentence for letting someone else beat the shit out of you, or multiple years if you defend yourself.
All those ass beatings add up to many decades.
Keep your mouth closed, lie, don't remember, don't know, and again don't say anything.
I think you're mistaken. Open Office never ever has run in the browser plugin.
Or did you even bother to look at the conversation before spouting off?
Just install 64 bit java JRE only. There are no browser plugins in the 64 bit JRE, only the 32 bit JRE, so none of the vulnerabilities released in the past 3 or 4 years will affect you.
As a bonus, since there are no browser addons in 64 bit JRE, you won't ever see that annoying ask toolbar garbage from them again.
Just a tip, as I found this out the hard way.
Microsoft has shut down the online activation servers for Office 2003/2007 this new years, and for Office 2003 they have changed their policy on reinstalls to zero (one installation total is allowed) so no phone activation either.
If you Google for "backup office 2003 activation files" you can get the paths for the two files opa11.dat & opa11.bak that you'll want to copy to a safe place.
These files are keyed to your install and your windows ID, so are only good if you reimage Windows then reinstall office, or if you just reinstall office on the same Windows install.
I hope this helps you avoid the same nasty surprise I got two months ago.
What is the procedure for filing a complaint under this system? I'd really love to write a script and post it in github for everyone to copy.
They only accept complaints through the RIAA and MPAA.
The procedure would be to become a MPAA member and request they make a complaint in your name.
You didn't think this system was for the copyright holders did you?
I am a Time Warner customer, and I signed up during their beta testing roll out back in 1995. I still have my "signup packet" here sitting on the same shelf for these last 18 years, and this is the first time I've touched it in those 18 years.
There is absolutely no mention of an account or an email address with them.
I can only assume an email address would have been assigned to me, but I have no idea how to sign in to it. It looks like they now maintain a customer portal as well, but again I have no idea how to sign in to it.
While I don't use bit torrent these days at all nor download commercial music or movies, for SOME silly reason I have little faith this new system will have zero false positives despite the lack of infringing activity.
My online video watching is limited to youtube blip and twitch, primarily gaming videos (completely created by those that post them I should add) and whatever random link clicking youtube may take me to... At least until this last weekend.
I noticed over the weekend my public IP changed, and ever since then my service has been running slow as shit.
20+% packet loss, speeds under 1 megabit (for 10mbit down service), it takes a good 30 minutes to buffer a 10 minute youtube video, and for the first time ever my network meter app is showing a line reporting "Blacklisted IP ratio 5/72"
I can't help but wonder if the two are related, and what sort of situation I might be/get stuck in.
I use Firefox with adblock and noscript with a fairly tight whitelist. They give no details about what "popup" means but the traditional popup I will never see. At least I am not seeing any time warner related URLs under the noscript menu.
I'm now thinking about trying out one of these many VPN services just to see what happens to my connection speeds. The first couple I checked have a free trial period (Either most do or I just got very lucky)
Since the ISPs don't seem to have any issue throwing around accusations without proof, I won't feel so bad having not collected more proof when calling them up complaining about the results with my own assumed accusations.
Perhaps if their phone support techs get enough comments about it, that count will get passed up to someone that matters. Doubtful, but you never know. Maybe I'll get lucky and be one of the calls monitored by a manager.
I've never been one to yell or get angry at the poor tech answering the phone, but have no issue bringing up questions they are likely sick of hearing, nor mind playing dumb when they treat me as dumb first.
"Yes sir I know, but we have to follow the trouble shooting guide. Now reboot your computer again, and reboot the cable modem again, I'll wait here..."
"You know I've heard about this new internet monitoring spying thing the US is doing everywhere.. You think it's like in the movies where hearing breathing in the phone would cause my connection to have these problems? I bet that would cause a lot of problems, so many connections to keep up with. Are you absolutely sure that isn't the problem? It still sounds like it to me."
That's even more illegal than just pirating it according to the RIAA.
If the RIAA can't have the money, no one can. Once artists get paid without them, their last justification for existing goes poof.
They would much rather go into debt and have all the content creators starve to death than see a world where the people can give money directly to those that create content.
Actually I have audited the first three jailbreaks I ever used. Yes that was three years ago now, but those teams have earned my trust. Perhaps once the team cycles all their members, or completely disappear from the scene, I'll have to reconsider that trust.
But until then I trust them far more than your claims against them.