When an unlocked and unmanned workstation is found in our Dept, the SOP is to place a RICKROLL somewhere in the system. Bonus points for being creative. I have one that is still waiting to go off, because the guy never reboots his computer. He'll never know who did it, or when.
If that is the case, (and I would assume the asshats would do this) then they are opening up themselves to a huge lawsuit. If you're going to measure "bandwidth" and put limits based on usage in terms of bytes (giga/tera) then you best be measuring bytes, and not the packets * MTU, which is a gross over simplification of the measure. There is no way that packets * MTU can be said to equate to anything in "bytes" except for pointy headed managers.
There are too many programs using low level states that need keep alive packets going, that don't measure in MTU size units. MTU is ~1400 bytes, and ping uses 32 bytes... yeah that will work.
If Canonical DID start selling computers, it would force the last vestiges of Hardware bits to make an effort to write good drivers for Linux. The biggest problem, to this day, is drivers. The last time I had a laptop and tried to get wireless LAN working on it in Linux, it was painful. Had to install a wrapper to finally get it to work. Sorry, but that just doesn't cut it. And lets not talk about Video drivers either or you'll really get depressed.
Look, I'm a geek. I can fiddle with settings, google problems, tweak conf files and whatnot to get shit to work. BUT I shouldn't have to. IF Canonical did start making hardware for Ubuntu, this could propel the hardware company to actually start paying attention to Linux.
If you don't like the conditions of China, then don't buy any products made in China. For the Chinese economy which is used by the likes of Apple, IBM, HP, Dell, Sony, Toshiba..... are all based on Chinese factories.
And good luck with that. The switch your internet connection is based on was made in China so by posting to Slashdot, you're just as complicit in all of China's crimes that you're blaming on Apple. Accessory to murder if you will.
OR, you could simply realize that the Chinese people, without making shit for the West, would be worse off than they are making shit for you.
I just suspect that you're a racist bastard and hate the Chinese people and want them 3rd world poor and slaves rather than 2nd world poor and slaves.
Tyranny of the majority. Welcome it. With it, you can vote yourself a raise (along with everyone else) until the system is bankrupt.
This is why the Constitution was LIMITING governance, with prescribed roles and functions and everything else was left to the states, or to the people. But we've long bypassed that whole perspective.
It was one of the reasons we had representative governance (republic) democratically elected. And even that has been perverted by the artificial limitation of 435 Representatives for 350 Million people. I no longer have any meaningful say in who represents me.
Add in the broken two party system (both sides are wrong) and you end up where we are today. Those that live on the dole of others are all voting in one block. We're screwed.
But therin lies the problem. We do, in fact, live in a police state, where guns powerful enough to repel a home invasion are outlawed in favor of the police state. The leftwing gun control freaks have no idea that they've cooked their own goose, in arming the police state while disarming the populace. Not to mention, giving all rights to criminals and stripping rights from law abiding citizens who are trying to protect their lives.
You're simply blind. Both (D) and (R) are completely complicit in robbing us of our "rights". The (D) love to take away 2nd Amendment rights, while establishing "rights" that require taking from others to complete (health care) denying others of their rights. It is a mother's"right" to kill unborn babies, which deny babies the RIGHT to live.
This isn't to say that the (R) are innocent here either, because they are not. As long as any (D) or (R) holds office, our rights are being eroded. Yes, I'm a Libertarian, and I can't stand people who don't know what a "right" is.
Republicrats and Demicans are not the solution to any problem. But neither are the people at the extremes. And for every (R) you don't like, I'm sure there is a (D) on the other side that is just as horrible that you ignore, because... well you might like what they do MOST of the time (or visa versa if you're an (R).
And the (R) are out of whack because the (D) showed themselves out of Whack previously, passing the boondongle of HealthCare reform that does nothing to reform HealthCare other than to create yet another class of people dependent upon Government to provide for them. We've long since passed the days where the productive members of society can provide a "safety net" that has grown beyond original scope with the government version of feature creep.
And when you have the (D) party screaming (literally in some cases) that the fractional budget cut would cause MILLIONS to STARVE to DEATH... THAT is what makes talk of budgets hopeless. Meanwhile we're leveraging our children to be slaves to China and the rest of the world because we don't have the discipline to say NO to increasing out debt beyond our ability to repay it.
Unfortunately we don't have enough people on either side of the isle to realize that we cannot sustain current spending on social programs and military. Instead we get new social programs and a new war.
Change #1 to Municipality owned pathways, then you don't need #2 except as preventative measure. Number 3 is punitive to media companies and customers that want media. If a Media company wants to provide service, let them. With #1 (and #2) #3 is not really needed either. #4 won't ever come close to happening if we have real competition at #3.
SO, the real solution is to have each municipality (city, county, perish.. whatever) put in their own fiber, and charge a set fee to provide service across that fiber. That fee goes to maintaining the cable plant and into the general fund. After that, there is no need for #2-4 at all.
I don't belong to, never been associated with nor ever attended a "tea party" anything. Typical Left Wing Troll that can't fight the facts on merit. Defense is in the Constitution, and that just bugs the crap out of you. It is sad when fact is marked "troll" by those that don't like the facts.
So, who did we wrong for ten guys to hijack four planes and fly them into buildings? Since they were all Saudis, and Saudi Arabia was our friend (ostensibly) and buddies with Bush and Big Oil...
Oh, you mean the Taliban, who were former Muhajadeen, who we supported in their fight against Soviet Invaders, which we supported. Or are you complaining about Saddam, who actually invaded another country.
Or do you mean Bombing Serbia, and Libya for political purposes, one to wag the dog, and the other to do the bidding of France, who gets most of its oil from Lybia? And wasn't the leftwingers the ones who protested Reagan for bombing Libya for an actual sponsoring terrorism?
War is inevitable because men want power, and many are willing to do anything to gain it. And the next "war" is going to be over the Mahdi and probably involve Nukes that nobody seems to be able to contain. And it won't be the "US" that drops the first one.
And all those cow farts? They won't matter a bit, as cows and their kind have been farting for millions of years, and the planet is still here. If we destroy the planet, it isn't going to be by cow farts, but rather it will be because people listen to useful idiots like yourself.
If you think cow farts are important, and all those 4th century throwbacks can be our friends, you're either insane, or stupid.
Yes it is ok. It is more than ok. It is a requirement of our federal government. Read the Constitution.
Besides I'd rather the money go towards keeping our guys safe, while killing the other guy, and breaking their shit, than say.. studying cow farts or whatever.
And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. - Captain Barbosa / US Congresscritter
Then, there are people like me, who use computers as a tool to get things done. I don't care which tool, just give me one that I can use to get the job done. I can use an open ended wrench, closed ended box wrench, or a socket attached to a ratchet on a bolt. Some are easier to use than others, and not one tool fits all needs.
When all you see is nails, everything looks like a hammer. Which is the whole "left" vs "right" problem in a nutshell.
Car Driving down the road collects data is sees (hears) while driving down the road, and you complain about "data" that is spewing forth from random houses being "private"?
Funny world you live in. Don't want your data spewing forth, then don't use WIFI or at least encrypt it.
Don't like those options and you want everyone to ignore your public data? Yeah, good luck with that.
I have, a supposedly "high speed" capability on my line, and yet, I cannot watch Netflix or YouTube without substantial delays in playback. While I'm having trouble with these services, I can load up a DSL Reports Speed test and it clearly shows that my throughput is just fine, for that.
Now, can you tell me that Netflix and Google don't have the servers to fill my pipes, while DSL Reports can?
Mind you, on my virtually unlimited network at work (CA HSN) I NEVER seem to have these problems.
Next is VOIP telephony, which has similar problems as Netflix and YouTube. VOIP is such a low bandwidth usage, that plain old slow DSL should be able to handle it. However, I cannot use Vonage or similar services because the quality just sucks. In fact, AT&T DSL, with slower speeds is faster than Comcast in many ways.
The problem is that the boarder routers of Comcast are prioritizing packets based on destination. That is the ONLY way this shit happens.
Finally, Comcast and AT&T must be taking customer service tips from each other, because both are pure garbage.
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OBL liked his privacy. If a government wants to get you, it will. Privacy is an illusion.
When an unlocked and unmanned workstation is found in our Dept, the SOP is to place a RICKROLL somewhere in the system. Bonus points for being creative. I have one that is still waiting to go off, because the guy never reboots his computer. He'll never know who did it, or when.
If that is the case, (and I would assume the asshats would do this) then they are opening up themselves to a huge lawsuit. If you're going to measure "bandwidth" and put limits based on usage in terms of bytes (giga/tera) then you best be measuring bytes, and not the packets * MTU, which is a gross over simplification of the measure. There is no way that packets * MTU can be said to equate to anything in "bytes" except for pointy headed managers.
There are too many programs using low level states that need keep alive packets going, that don't measure in MTU size units. MTU is ~1400 bytes, and ping uses 32 bytes ... yeah that will work.
The computers were concealed in their heads. They counted cards, and did the math in their heads. It is fairly easy if you have the discipline.
I knew it. Emacs is a virus!
http://xkcd.com/378/
If Canonical DID start selling computers, it would force the last vestiges of Hardware bits to make an effort to write good drivers for Linux. The biggest problem, to this day, is drivers. The last time I had a laptop and tried to get wireless LAN working on it in Linux, it was painful. Had to install a wrapper to finally get it to work. Sorry, but that just doesn't cut it. And lets not talk about Video drivers either or you'll really get depressed.
Look, I'm a geek. I can fiddle with settings, google problems, tweak conf files and whatnot to get shit to work. BUT I shouldn't have to. IF Canonical did start making hardware for Ubuntu, this could propel the hardware company to actually start paying attention to Linux.
Yeah, I'm crazy.
If you don't like the conditions of China, then don't buy any products made in China. For the Chinese economy which is used by the likes of Apple, IBM, HP, Dell, Sony, Toshiba ..... are all based on Chinese factories.
And good luck with that. The switch your internet connection is based on was made in China so by posting to Slashdot, you're just as complicit in all of China's crimes that you're blaming on Apple. Accessory to murder if you will.
OR, you could simply realize that the Chinese people, without making shit for the West, would be worse off than they are making shit for you.
I just suspect that you're a racist bastard and hate the Chinese people and want them 3rd world poor and slaves rather than 2nd world poor and slaves.
The picture is okay. It is the cake that is a lie!
Automatic Weapons.
Ten round clips, not a "gun" but gun control.
I want an Uzi with 50 round clips to repel the police state. Outlawed.
Designed for close combat use and used by swat teams around the world because it is small and easy to use in close quarters.
Next question please
Tyranny of the majority. Welcome it. With it, you can vote yourself a raise (along with everyone else) until the system is bankrupt.
This is why the Constitution was LIMITING governance, with prescribed roles and functions and everything else was left to the states, or to the people. But we've long bypassed that whole perspective.
It was one of the reasons we had representative governance (republic) democratically elected. And even that has been perverted by the artificial limitation of 435 Representatives for 350 Million people. I no longer have any meaningful say in who represents me.
Add in the broken two party system (both sides are wrong) and you end up where we are today. Those that live on the dole of others are all voting in one block. We're screwed.
But therin lies the problem. We do, in fact, live in a police state, where guns powerful enough to repel a home invasion are outlawed in favor of the police state. The leftwing gun control freaks have no idea that they've cooked their own goose, in arming the police state while disarming the populace. Not to mention, giving all rights to criminals and stripping rights from law abiding citizens who are trying to protect their lives.
You mean the "Evil White Slave Owners"
Dude (or Dudette),
You're simply blind. Both (D) and (R) are completely complicit in robbing us of our "rights". The (D) love to take away 2nd Amendment rights, while establishing "rights" that require taking from others to complete (health care) denying others of their rights. It is a mother's"right" to kill unborn babies, which deny babies the RIGHT to live.
This isn't to say that the (R) are innocent here either, because they are not. As long as any (D) or (R) holds office, our rights are being eroded. Yes, I'm a Libertarian, and I can't stand people who don't know what a "right" is.
Republicrats and Demicans are not the solution to any problem. But neither are the people at the extremes. And for every (R) you don't like, I'm sure there is a (D) on the other side that is just as horrible that you ignore, because ... well you might like what they do MOST of the time (or visa versa if you're an (R).
And the (R) are out of whack because the (D) showed themselves out of Whack previously, passing the boondongle of HealthCare reform that does nothing to reform HealthCare other than to create yet another class of people dependent upon Government to provide for them. We've long since passed the days where the productive members of society can provide a "safety net" that has grown beyond original scope with the government version of feature creep.
And when you have the (D) party screaming (literally in some cases) that the fractional budget cut would cause MILLIONS to STARVE to DEATH ... THAT is what makes talk of budgets hopeless. Meanwhile we're leveraging our children to be slaves to China and the rest of the world because we don't have the discipline to say NO to increasing out debt beyond our ability to repay it.
Unfortunately we don't have enough people on either side of the isle to realize that we cannot sustain current spending on social programs and military. Instead we get new social programs and a new war.
Change #1 to Municipality owned pathways, then you don't need #2 except as preventative measure. Number 3 is punitive to media companies and customers that want media. If a Media company wants to provide service, let them. With #1 (and #2) #3 is not really needed either. #4 won't ever come close to happening if we have real competition at #3.
SO, the real solution is to have each municipality (city, county, perish .. whatever) put in their own fiber, and charge a set fee to provide service across that fiber. That fee goes to maintaining the cable plant and into the general fund. After that, there is no need for #2-4 at all.
I don't belong to, never been associated with nor ever attended a "tea party" anything. Typical Left Wing Troll that can't fight the facts on merit. Defense is in the Constitution, and that just bugs the crap out of you. It is sad when fact is marked "troll" by those that don't like the facts.
So, who did we wrong for ten guys to hijack four planes and fly them into buildings? Since they were all Saudis, and Saudi Arabia was our friend (ostensibly) and buddies with Bush and Big Oil ...
Oh, you mean the Taliban, who were former Muhajadeen, who we supported in their fight against Soviet Invaders, which we supported. Or are you complaining about Saddam, who actually invaded another country.
Or do you mean Bombing Serbia, and Libya for political purposes, one to wag the dog, and the other to do the bidding of France, who gets most of its oil from Lybia? And wasn't the leftwingers the ones who protested Reagan for bombing Libya for an actual sponsoring terrorism?
War is inevitable because men want power, and many are willing to do anything to gain it. And the next "war" is going to be over the Mahdi and probably involve Nukes that nobody seems to be able to contain. And it won't be the "US" that drops the first one.
And all those cow farts? They won't matter a bit, as cows and their kind have been farting for millions of years, and the planet is still here. If we destroy the planet, it isn't going to be by cow farts, but rather it will be because people listen to useful idiots like yourself.
If you think cow farts are important, and all those 4th century throwbacks can be our friends, you're either insane, or stupid.
Yes it is ok. It is more than ok. It is a requirement of our federal government. Read the Constitution.
Besides I'd rather the money go towards keeping our guys safe, while killing the other guy, and breaking their shit, than say .. studying cow farts or whatever.
And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. - Captain Barbosa / US Congresscritter
No, I meant that when all you see is nails, every tool looks like a hammer.
This is called "turning a phrase".
You have the right to keep silent. I suggest you exercise that right.
Then, there are people like me, who use computers as a tool to get things done. I don't care which tool, just give me one that I can use to get the job done. I can use an open ended wrench, closed ended box wrench, or a socket attached to a ratchet on a bolt. Some are easier to use than others, and not one tool fits all needs.
When all you see is nails, everything looks like a hammer. Which is the whole "left" vs "right" problem in a nutshell.
Meh
Jews can't eat "bunnies', unless they are chocolate. Real Bunnies aren't Kosher.
Car Driving down the road collects data is sees (hears) while driving down the road, and you complain about "data" that is spewing forth from random houses being "private"?
Funny world you live in. Don't want your data spewing forth, then don't use WIFI or at least encrypt it.
Don't like those options and you want everyone to ignore your public data? Yeah, good luck with that.
Comcast sucks.
I have, a supposedly "high speed" capability on my line, and yet, I cannot watch Netflix or YouTube without substantial delays in playback. While I'm having trouble with these services, I can load up a DSL Reports Speed test and it clearly shows that my throughput is just fine, for that.
Now, can you tell me that Netflix and Google don't have the servers to fill my pipes, while DSL Reports can?
Mind you, on my virtually unlimited network at work (CA HSN) I NEVER seem to have these problems.
Next is VOIP telephony, which has similar problems as Netflix and YouTube. VOIP is such a low bandwidth usage, that plain old slow DSL should be able to handle it. However, I cannot use Vonage or similar services because the quality just sucks. In fact, AT&T DSL, with slower speeds is faster than Comcast in many ways.
The problem is that the boarder routers of Comcast are prioritizing packets based on destination. That is the ONLY way this shit happens.
Finally, Comcast and AT&T must be taking customer service tips from each other, because both are pure garbage.