Did you know that in most cases, you only need to bypass whatever method is used for checking your location. The server that does this, is usually not the one you stream your video from. It means that after passing the location check, you can actually connect directly to the video server for watching the video itself (and suffer much less from connectivity issues, if at all).
"Basically we are interested in proxying content only for certain domains. The actual streaming media sits on CDN networks and is usually not geo-locked. The amount of proxying we'll end up doing will be relatively insignificant compared to a VPN-based setup."
In case you want to try it out, there is a free service that does it. I'm a customer of a paid one which combines both VPN ("ibVPN") and DNS ("ibDNS") based services. On the paid front there are many other services that offer similar functionality. Most offer several hours of free trial, so you could see which ones works best for you.
Having said that, did you try contacting your ISP for support? Perhaps they change something in their routing tables which happens to work very bad for you? Maybe they can help.
The idea is very nice. Give people the ability to answer their doorbell from wherever they are. The proposed implementation of this idea might be an overkill but the by idea itself is still rather innovative. It basically takes an existing concept of an Intercom and enhances it to become easier to install at home and to be able to reach you wherever you are by establishing a connection to a device you already own.
I guess Israel's academia is no better than its military or (most of) its politicians
The Academia in Israel is actually considered to be one of the last remaining "Strongholds of the left wing" (I guess it only applies to the Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa universities) and are regularly attacked by the Israeli media because of it.
Unless of course you are saying I should run DOSBox on Linux on Javascript... which of course is just as mad and cool...
Hehe, true. Yet it does sound like an impending performance trouble. I would have started off with Ally-Cat It wouldn't demand much and it was my first PC game ever:)
Thanx, it looks very polished and comes bundled with some cool stuff like Commander Keen 4, demo version of X-COM: UFO Defense. Will try it out on my MacBook.
uuencode / uudecode are indeed FTW in this case. I can already imagine Firefox Add-ons that make automated use of those and provide you with an FTP-styled Front-End GUI.
Something is happening that is new, but we can't describe how or why it is new."
Reminds me of "Winter 2008's smash hit" (literally). Conficker.B worm featured a mysterious payload hashing which turned out to be the first known "production" use of MD6
"In 1999, a new virus, Win32/Crypto, was discovered... Today, in 2011, variants of Win32/Alureon are bringing this old-school technique back to life..."
Now I understand. As a tribute to the 1999 Win32/Crypto, the summery of this article has been formulated like the virus-hoax chain-mails of that era.
They'll have to come up with some alternate gestures
A good alternative might be having the area below the screen become touch-sensitive. Then you can just have a Home-icon drawn there and tap on it (rather then press) to get Home, double tap to open the Task-manager and etc. This might not trigger any Buttonophobia among Apple's upper management. It would be nice if additionally, this area would accept single finger swipe gestures and a two finger pinch gesture that are configurable.
Test Multi-Touch Gestures for iPad - This beta release contains a preview of new Multi-Touch gestures for iPad. You can use four or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen; swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar; and swipe left or right between apps. We are providing this preview before releasing them to the public to understand how these gestures work with your apps. Test them and give us your feedback on the Apple Developer Forums.
I attempted a 4-finger-pinch on an iPod-Touch-4th-Gen development device with the latest 4.3 iOS Beta. Beside of being a very uncomfortable thing to perform on a small screen, I didn't notice anything else happening.
Actually, organisms using each others code sounds way more like our world than ones that can't leech off each other. They already pointed out viruses, and plenty of species exist today that need other species to continue to survive.. in fact pretty much all animals need to eat other lifeforms because we can't draw energy from the sun directly.
Moreover, If the Endosymbiotic theory is correct, then our cells have statically-linked external code.
I've also got to question the sense of naming a botnet like this. Sure it's memorable, but what's to stop Chuck Norris from taking legal action against the researchers who coined the name? I certainly wouldn't want my name associated with a criminal enterprise.
Reuters Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:21pm: Tough-guy actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris sued publisher Penguin on Friday over a book he claims unfairly exploits his famous name, based on a satirical Internet list of "mythical facts" about him.
"Norris, whose real name is Carlos Ray Norris, claims in the suit he is protective of what his name is associated with."
Long time ago, I used to work in a team that developed internal applications for a company that makes speech-recognition engines. One time I was told that the company needs a Database containing histogram tables of European First and Last names, for each Country/Region in Europe. This DB was needed for generating random data-sets with X - name couples (based on the relevant region histogram, pick X First and X Last names and then just concatenate them together).
For this purpose, I was given a retail DVD of a phone-book application. Whatever DB format the application was using seemed to be encrypted or propitiatory (that's a logical or). While the application query system was rather good (for this purpose), it did limit the amount of result fields you could mark for export (or copy), to something like 10 fields at a time. So, I wrote a little tool (wasn't complicated) that automatically made queries and read each of the resulting pages. For each result row, the first and last names were appended into separate text files of which file-names were linked to the query that produced them. A perl script later, the Databse was ready.
Given such an application that allows you to export any field from it (even if it is indented that users would only do "manual" copies of small chunks). Could a person who rips the full phone-directory, use it for commercial purposes? For example, sell a module that enables users of eCommerce sites to have their Shipment details and Phone number fields be auto-completed (after filling the First Name,Last Name,Country,City fields).
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There was this case in which GT440 where modified to report themselfs as GTX660:
http://m.hexus.net/business/ne...
Did you know that in most cases, you only need to bypass whatever method is used for checking your location. The server that does this, is usually not the one you stream your video from. It means that after passing the location check, you can actually connect directly to the video server for watching the video itself (and suffer much less from connectivity issues, if at all).
Look at this trick for example.
"Basically we are interested in proxying content only for certain domains. The actual streaming media sits on CDN networks and is usually not geo-locked. The amount of proxying we'll end up doing will be relatively insignificant compared to a VPN-based setup."
In case you want to try it out, there is a free service that does it. I'm a customer of a paid one which combines both VPN ("ibVPN") and DNS ("ibDNS") based services. On the paid front there are many other services that offer similar functionality. Most offer several hours of free trial, so you could see which ones works best for you.
Having said that, did you try contacting your ISP for support? Perhaps they change something in their routing tables which happens to work very bad for you? Maybe they can help.
They don't have too much data, they have insufficient affordable storage.
or insufficient affordable "cpu time". Performing tasks like "Multiple sequence alignment", Finding "Motifs in sequences" and even running a "Basic Local Alignment Search Tool" means using probabilistic models which requires a lot of computation.
You mean 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
More info here
The idea is very nice. Give people the ability to answer their doorbell from wherever they are.
The proposed implementation of this idea might be an overkill but the by idea itself is still rather innovative.
It basically takes an existing concept of an Intercom and enhances it to become easier to install at home and to be able to reach you wherever you are by establishing a connection to a device you already own.
Completely agree beside of one exception:
I guess Israel's academia is no better than its military or (most of) its politicians
The Academia in Israel is actually considered to be one of the last remaining "Strongholds of the left wing" (I guess it only applies to the Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa universities) and are regularly attacked by the Israeli media because of it.
This is a brilliant idea. It is even field proven in the area's past :)
Unless of course you are saying I should run DOSBox on Linux on Javascript... which of course is just as mad and cool...
Hehe, true. Yet it does sound like an impending performance trouble. I would have started off with Ally-Cat It wouldn't demand much and it was my first PC game ever :)
and if you are using a Mac, I recommend
http://boxerapp.com/
(It uses dosbox)
Thanx, it looks very polished and comes bundled with some cool stuff like Commander Keen 4, demo version of X-COM: UFO Defense.
Will try it out on my MacBook.
uuencode / uudecode for the win, right?
uuencode / uudecode are indeed FTW in this case. I can already imagine Firefox Add-ons that make automated use of those and provide you with an FTP-styled Front-End GUI.
Just thinking about all those classic DOS apps that will never see the light of day otherwise
It might make you happy to know that you can already enjoy old classic DOS games on your machine by using DOSBox.
how do you get anything INTO this machine to make it do anything useful?
Well, you could try using copy/paste to echo Base-64 encoded data into a file and then base64 -d it back to binary form on the emulator.
Something is happening that is new, but we can't describe how or why it is new."
Reminds me of "Winter 2008's smash hit" (literally). Conficker.B worm featured a mysterious payload hashing which turned out to be the first known "production" use of MD6
"In 1999, a new virus, Win32/Crypto, was discovered... Today, in 2011, variants of Win32/Alureon are bringing this old-school technique back to life..."
Now I understand.
As a tribute to the 1999 Win32/Crypto, the summery of this article has been formulated like the virus-hoax chain-mails of that era.
They'll have to come up with some alternate gestures
A good alternative might be having the area below the screen become touch-sensitive. Then you can just have a Home-icon drawn there and tap on it (rather then press) to get Home, double tap to open the Task-manager and etc. This might not trigger any Buttonophobia among Apple's upper management. It would be nice if additionally, this area would accept single finger swipe gestures and a two finger pinch gesture that are configurable.
On their What's new in iOS 4.3 page (You need an Apple ID to view link) they wrote:
Test Multi-Touch Gestures for iPad - This beta release contains a preview of new Multi-Touch gestures for iPad. You can use four or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen; swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar; and swipe left or right between apps. We are providing this preview before releasing them to the public to understand how these gestures work with your apps. Test them and give us your feedback on the Apple Developer Forums.
I attempted a 4-finger-pinch on an iPod-Touch-4th-Gen development device with the latest 4.3 iOS Beta. Beside of being a very uncomfortable thing to perform on a small screen, I didn't notice anything else happening.
I am usually very critical of GMO tech but even I have to say this is cool.
With great GMO tech, comes great responsibility.
Actually, organisms using each others code sounds way more like our world than ones that can't leech off each other. They already pointed out viruses, and plenty of species exist today that need other species to continue to survive.. in fact pretty much all animals need to eat other lifeforms because we can't draw energy from the sun directly.
Moreover, If the Endosymbiotic theory is correct, then our cells have statically-linked external code.
I've also got to question the sense of naming a botnet like this. Sure it's memorable, but what's to stop Chuck Norris from taking legal action against the researchers who coined the name? I certainly wouldn't want my name associated with a criminal enterprise.
Reuters Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:21pm: Tough-guy actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris sued publisher Penguin on Friday over a book he claims unfairly exploits his famous name, based on a satirical Internet list of "mythical facts" about him.
"Norris, whose real name is Carlos Ray Norris, claims in the suit he is protective of what his name is associated with."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2129580420071222
Long time ago, I used to work in a team that developed internal applications for a company that makes speech-recognition engines.
One time I was told that the company needs a Database containing histogram tables of European First and Last names, for each Country/Region in Europe.
This DB was needed for generating random data-sets with X - name couples (based on the relevant region histogram, pick X First and X Last names and then just concatenate them together).
For this purpose, I was given a retail DVD of a phone-book application.
Whatever DB format the application was using seemed to be encrypted or propitiatory (that's a logical or).
While the application query system was rather good (for this purpose), it did limit the amount of result fields you could mark for export (or copy), to something like 10 fields at a time.
So, I wrote a little tool (wasn't complicated) that automatically made queries and read each of the resulting pages.
For each result row, the first and last names were appended into separate text files of which file-names were linked to the query that produced them.
A perl script later, the Databse was ready.
Given such an application that allows you to export any field from it (even if it is indented that users would only do "manual" copies of small chunks).
Could a person who rips the full phone-directory, use it for commercial purposes?
For example, sell a module that enables users of eCommerce sites to have their Shipment details and Phone number fields be auto-completed (after filling the First Name,Last Name,Country,City fields).