Anyway, if there are any other people who have contributed so much but been recognized so little, I'd love to know about them.
I reported large numbers of e-mail spammers to their ISPs over the years, and got the offending IP addresses appropriately nominated to MAPS for blacklisting.
I also wrote a bunch of enhancements to IRC server software in the 90s made over 4000 beneficial edits on Wikipedia, and probably added about 10000 comments to Slashdot; there's gotta be something in there.......
No, receiving stolen goods is a crime. The act of paying is irrelevant.
However, you received them before learning they were stolen.
Book 'em danno!
And that's just a simple scenario.
Imagine the pawn shop owner tells you (after you signed the credit card slip, and he loaded the TV in your car),
that the television was so cheap, because his brother stole something the shop traded to get the TV, or robbed a bank, and the shop used the money to buy extra televisions -- or - the pawn shop reported "vandalism"; tricked the insurance company into reimbursing them for their entire inventory.
Consider the latter cases, where the shopper has still facilitated a crime, which they were unaware of until after the fact, despite the goods themselves not being stolen goods.
While it's obvious that no actual money was lost (just transferred into EVE Online corporate pockets)
That already happened, when players paid for game time; which some of them may have traded for ISKs.
They just hadn't realized the loss, until the destruction of the apparent in game thing they got; which is not a real-world thing.
Some lost money today..... as for others..... welll... . I think you can imagine, that Eve the game might not necessarily last forever.
Every ounce of time and energy spent, may eventually be thermalized into high-entropy valueless particles
and i mean the ones that sell the same device over many years like a game console. PS3, xbox 360, wii u, nintendo 3ds, etc
The Xbox 360 and PS3 use 802.11n.... they are not part of the problem.
An old printer that only supports 802.11b or 802.11g should definitely go; it's worth the replacement cost to "upgrade" to non-G supporting wireless hardware. It's probably so old at this point, that the drum is near end of life anyways,
and everyone knows........ a new printer is cheap, the ink is the expensive part.
it is only so it can facilitate two-factor authentication...apparently."
In other words.... if my bank sends me a SMS message with a code in order to login,
Facebook can now swipe my second factor verification number up to their server,
and the fellow who compromised Facebook's servers who also somehow guessed my bank password,
can now complete the 2 factor auth to my bank just fine.
The Standard data connection to any FTP server is (23)
No. Port 23 is the WKP of the Telnet service.
An error is the ports about 32768 as it's anything abover 1024 that's fair game with the ephemral ports being above 49151- the registered ports
The default ephemeral port range in Linux and many operating systems is 32768 to 61000.
The remote end is not entitled to make assumptions about what range ephemeral ports may be allocated from by the opposite end. The remote system has free use of all valid port addresses (IP):(PORT). ; many different operating systems have different choices, 4096 to 65534 is also common, and the client is required to support any port number.
Basically, anything above 1024 is classified as the High Range as they're available to a User and not restricted to Administrator/Root privlaged software and I've seen my client
This is a Unix convention. Ports below 1024 are WKP, and by tradition, Unix only allows root to bind() these ports for an outgoing connection, or to listen for an incoming one.
Most that allow public/anonomous connections restrict those connections to 32768 and higher for logging purposes.
There are certainly FTP servers that will restrict the PORT command against using a port in the WKP range.
they don't necessarily want only the moderately rich to have children. Plumbers' kids grow up to be tax payers just as well and the world needs many more plumbers' kids than they do the born-into-money types.
I am content with plumbers raising children; as long as they have the means to meet the basic needs of their children. I am OKAY with them receiving public assistance and there being no later repurcussions against them, as long as the requirement for public assistance was verifiably caused by unexpected events, or the parents were not taking actions such as getting an artificial insemination procedure: with the intent of having a child, that they could clearly not afford at the time.
Your last line seems to agree though that to the donor falls no blame, even though you did blame them in the other post. So that's a tad confusing, but I may be misreading that:)
For one thing... I believe the donor should in fact be liable, at least to the extent, of any compensation the donor received, for public assistance costs, to ensure they are not aiding and abetting in artificial insemination of a child into unsafe or unpleasant living circumstances. For example: If they received $500 for donating their sperm, at least $500, if the taxpayers ultimately had to pay $6000, plus a penalty should be recoverable from the donor --- if the donor cannot show evidence of due dilligence on their part.
Further: I believe the medical professionals who assisted with the insemination, should perhaps have some liability as well, in certain cases, where public assistance is later applied for.
I would exclude conditions in which due dilligence could be shown, and the requirement for assistance was due to unexpected disability, or unemployment, for example.
I am not supportive of enablers being able to assist a woman to get pregnant, and leave all liability to the mother and to the state, if something goes wrong.
If FileZilla is only given access to the FTP port then it should block this behavior, correct?
What "FTP" port? Every FTP transfer requires a control connection and a data connection --- the data connection is established based on a procedure that depends on transfer mode -- there is standard mode, or passive mode (for firewall traversal).
In either case, the destination port number is not a specific FTP port, but a port number dynamically allocated by the server and presented to the client, or vice-versa
In Passive mode, to establish the data connection, the FTP client must open a connection back to the server ON ANY PORT specified by the server, sourced from its ftp-data port.
In Active mode, the client must select an ephemeral port from the 32768 to 65535 range, send it over the control connection, and accept a TCP connection from the server.
The program seems to consist of being spied on by the returnee's cooperative neighbors.
Isaiah 3:5
“I will make mere youths their officials; children will rule over them.”
People will oppress each other—man against man, neighbor against neighbor.
The young will rise up against the old, the nobody against the honored.
man will seize one of his brothers in his father’s house, and say,
“You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!”
But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house;
do not make me the leader of the people.”
Jerusalem staggers,
Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it. Woe to them!
They have brought disaster upon themselves.
"
Graphics and gameplay improved with the sequels but it's still football strategy.
That's not good enough. The burden of proof rests with the plaintiffs, to show a preponderance of the evidence, that the works were strikingly similar, not that they were just both football strategy games within the same genre, with similar operation and game mechanics.
But there will be a trace leading to the computer the TOR exit point is running on.
If an exit node is used; the client is supposed to be anonymous, the server is not.
On the other hand..... if the remote site uses a Tor hidden service instead of an exit node; then
both client and server are supposed to be anonymous.
In practice, the server might be traceable --- if you have realtime monitoring of numerous internet backbone points; by using a large number of messages from clients with specified timing patterns, and statistical techniques, to identify places where packets with the proper timing pattern are showing up.
How is this the fault of the jury, rather than the fault of the defense team?
It's the fault of the plaintiff, that the jury weren't presented with a side-by-side showing of versions of the game, OR any evidence sufficient to show that later editions were similar.
It doesn't matter which party's "fault" it is though, or if it was nobody's fault.
It is the Judge's job to dismiss the case, if he reviews the jury's verdict, and he finds that it was not possible for them to have reasonably made the finding, based on what was presented.
It seems to be more like a dispute between developer and employer.
EA owned the rights to the game; they had signed with the programmer, an agreement for the developer to be compensated by royalties for the first edition.
For the second/third/later years editions, they claimed to have paid a team of developers to rewrite the software from scratch, so they could get out of having to pay royalties for future versions.
I'm sure from EA's point of view --- the millions of dollars in sales of later editions of the game were not attributable to the work of the programmer of the first edition or any individual software developer, but the valuable brand name they developed for their company and the product in partnership with Madden, and EA's fan base.
Judges rule on matters of law, juries on facts of the case. If it's overturned by a judge, that means there was some legal problem with the first trial.
In this case, the jury made a finding, that the Judge ruled the jury could not reasonably have made.
The Jury was claiming finding the later editions of the game to be nearly identical ------ without the jury having been presented for side-by-side comparison as evidence
Those languages came really easy to me because of the Latin. The backlash I have with this is, the law should be that kids need 2 credits in programming AND 2 credit in a foreign language instead of this malarky.
I agree.... at least 2 semesters of foreign language, at least 2 semesters of programming language, AND at least 1 extra semester of computational mathematics -- Applied numerical computation with art, biology, physics or engineering, using computers and mathematics to build simulations, models, or to solve nth-order multivariable calculus, advanced trig, differential equations, statistics, or 3-dimensional architecture or graphical design problems.
With plenty of sites, I couldn't pull more than 1Mb/s. Your throughput is still totally dependent on the throughput of every point from their disk to you.
It's dependant on more than throughput. Most file transfers are performed over TCP as well, which means that the bandwidth delay product that matters.
For example: the maximum possible throughput will be limited by an amount that depends on the Round-Trip Latency, and the maximum TCP window size; even if the connections are 5 gigabits end to end; at 200 milliseconds of latency, the maximum possible TCP transfer speed with the standard window settings, will be about 2 Megabits. At 80 milliseconds of latency, the maximum throughput of a TCP stream is 25 MB/s.
Using BitTorrent, Microtransport protocol, or a large number of TCP streams; sidesteps limitations for long-fat networks related to TCP congestion controls --- since the link capacity used will converge with the link capacity, and the BitTorrent protocol is specifically designed to provide a much much better congestion control algorithm than what is available in TCP protocols such as FTP --- BitTorrent or UDP-based file transfer software are much better choices of protocol for file transfers over links exceeding 100 megabits.
My laptop couldn't saturate a GigE line. The same as the previous statement applies.
Old hardware....... today ISPs are using 10Gig circuits, and a laptop with a reasonably specced Haswell proc can easily push or pull much more than 1 gigabit.
The idea that people want to buy something for their phone and have it work on their tablet and PC is absolutely something people want.
Yes.... they want to buy something on their Android phone, or iPhone, and have it work on their PC. That feature alone is not going to switch anyone to the abysmally bare Windows phone products, and their windows 8 store that has few useful apps.
Metal tracer is conductive - no? While the equipment it may be attached to is low voltage there's no telling what's likely to happen later
Metal tracer is not and can't be attached to network equipment.
The metal tracer will typically only be in the outdoor cable, which may often contain additional armoring, causing it to be expensive, or Icky pick, causing it to not be allowed inside, due to the cable's high flammability.
More likely than not, there is a fiber splice at the point of entry, and the cabling transitions from outdoor cable, to an indoor rated cable; with no metal tracer. No metal gets near the ONT or other device for terminating the cable, THEN there is no reason for extra grouding requirements on the ONT gear.
The purpose of metal tracer, is to enable a fiber locate -- the technique requires a technician to place an induction device along the length of a cable.
A signal in the form of a current (RF signal) is induced in the tracer cable, and the signal is then received by a remote receiver device, in order to locate the cable.
So YES, the tracer is definitely conductive --- the very process of locating the cable requires that the cable be conductive and Non-Grounded, in order to act as an antenna for inducing the signal in the receiver/tracer.
Sperm donors are like blood donors, you got nothing for volunteering the effort, and you dont get to choose where your stuff will going to end up.
The few sperm donors who are accepted by a sperm bank generally get from $3000 to $6000 over the period on a contract basis over a year -- they have to donate a few times a week, and they generally get paid if it maximal quality highly-fertile sperm discharge suitable for freezing.
Since this was some sort of Craigslist deal;
I doubt the donor here got $6K, but I also doubt the donor received $0.
Still. I view this as little different from prostitution.
From a biological perspective... the male is being paid, so the woman can use his seed to have the same biological result as sexual intercourse.
That's hilarious! Why should the sperm donor be responsible
For the same reason gun vendors are required to perform due dilligence on their customers, with a background check.
The donor is acting as an enabler. It's really no different than if the donor had donated the sperm through natural sexual intercourse. The donor is still acting as the enabler.
And the donor is responsible for their actions that facilitate the creation of a new life.
If the donor hasn't done their due dilligence, then their actions could result in a new life being created under deplorable conditions.
If the donor hasn't done their due dilligence, then they could be directly responsible for US THE TAXPAYERS incurring large amounts of costs. Like the $6000 in taxpayer money burned to facilitate this pregnancy.
It is eminently reasonable, that the authorities should hold the donor complicit seek recovery of this amount, especially against any revenue generated by the donation of sperm; which involuntarily injured the taxpayers in this way.
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Anyway, if there are any other people who have contributed so much but been recognized so little, I'd love to know about them.
I reported large numbers of e-mail spammers to their ISPs over the years, and got the offending IP addresses appropriately nominated to MAPS for blacklisting.
I also wrote a bunch of enhancements to IRC server software in the 90s made over 4000 beneficial edits on Wikipedia, and probably added about 10000 comments to Slashdot; there's gotta be something in there.......
No, receiving stolen goods is a crime. The act of paying is irrelevant.
However, you received them before learning they were stolen. Book 'em danno!
And that's just a simple scenario.
Imagine the pawn shop owner tells you (after you signed the credit card slip, and he loaded the TV in your car), that the television was so cheap, because his brother stole something the shop traded to get the TV, or robbed a bank, and the shop used the money to buy extra televisions -- or - the pawn shop reported "vandalism"; tricked the insurance company into reimbursing them for their entire inventory.
Consider the latter cases, where the shopper has still facilitated a crime, which they were unaware of until after the fact, despite the goods themselves not being stolen goods.
But, if the owner tells me it's cheap because his cousin stole it, then I'm engaging in an illegal transaction..
And if he tells you this after you already paid, or after you already loaded it into your car and just need to pay the debt?
"No returns, exchanges, or refunds"
While it's obvious that no actual money was lost (just transferred into EVE Online corporate pockets)
That already happened, when players paid for game time; which some of them may have traded for ISKs. They just hadn't realized the loss, until the destruction of the apparent in game thing they got; which is not a real-world thing.
Some lost money today..... as for others..... welll... . I think you can imagine, that Eve the game might not necessarily last forever.
Every ounce of time and energy spent, may eventually be thermalized into high-entropy valueless particles
You are supposed to use a different phone for 2-factor authentication. If you lump all into one, what's the whole point?
I'm not going to buy a separate phone to use as authenticator, for each 2factor website I need to browse to on my PC.
and i mean the ones that sell the same device over many years like a game console. PS3, xbox 360, wii u, nintendo 3ds, etc
The Xbox 360 and PS3 use 802.11n.... they are not part of the problem.
An old printer that only supports 802.11b or 802.11g should definitely go; it's worth the replacement cost to "upgrade" to non-G supporting wireless hardware. It's probably so old at this point, that the drum is near end of life anyways, and everyone knows........ a new printer is cheap, the ink is the expensive part.
Keep the number of requests below 1000.
I suggest reporting the number range in Base2. 1000 is a pretty small number of requests.
it is only so it can facilitate two-factor authentication...apparently."
In other words.... if my bank sends me a SMS message with a code in order to login, Facebook can now swipe my second factor verification number up to their server, and the fellow who compromised Facebook's servers who also somehow guessed my bank password, can now complete the 2 factor auth to my bank just fine.
The Standard data connection to any FTP server is (23)
No. Port 23 is the WKP of the Telnet service.
An error is the ports about 32768 as it's anything abover 1024 that's fair game with the ephemral ports being above 49151- the registered ports
The default ephemeral port range in Linux and many operating systems is 32768 to 61000. The remote end is not entitled to make assumptions about what range ephemeral ports may be allocated from by the opposite end. The remote system has free use of all valid port addresses (IP):(PORT). ; many different operating systems have different choices, 4096 to 65534 is also common, and the client is required to support any port number.
Basically, anything above 1024 is classified as the High Range as they're available to a User and not restricted to Administrator/Root privlaged software and I've seen my client
This is a Unix convention. Ports below 1024 are WKP, and by tradition, Unix only allows root to bind() these ports for an outgoing connection, or to listen for an incoming one.
Most that allow public/anonomous connections restrict those connections to 32768 and higher for logging purposes.
There are certainly FTP servers that will restrict the PORT command against using a port in the WKP range.
they don't necessarily want only the moderately rich to have children. Plumbers' kids grow up to be tax payers just as well and the world needs many more plumbers' kids than they do the born-into-money types.
I am content with plumbers raising children; as long as they have the means to meet the basic needs of their children. I am OKAY with them receiving public assistance and there being no later repurcussions against them, as long as the requirement for public assistance was verifiably caused by unexpected events, or the parents were not taking actions such as getting an artificial insemination procedure: with the intent of having a child, that they could clearly not afford at the time.
Your last line seems to agree though that to the donor falls no blame, even though you did blame them in the other post. So that's a tad confusing, but I may be misreading that :)
For one thing... I believe the donor should in fact be liable, at least to the extent, of any compensation the donor received, for public assistance costs, to ensure they are not aiding and abetting in artificial insemination of a child into unsafe or unpleasant living circumstances. For example: If they received $500 for donating their sperm, at least $500, if the taxpayers ultimately had to pay $6000, plus a penalty should be recoverable from the donor --- if the donor cannot show evidence of due dilligence on their part.
Further: I believe the medical professionals who assisted with the insemination, should perhaps have some liability as well, in certain cases, where public assistance is later applied for. I would exclude conditions in which due dilligence could be shown, and the requirement for assistance was due to unexpected disability, or unemployment, for example.
I am not supportive of enablers being able to assist a woman to get pregnant, and leave all liability to the mother and to the state, if something goes wrong.
If FileZilla is only given access to the FTP port then it should block this behavior, correct?
What "FTP" port? Every FTP transfer requires a control connection and a data connection --- the data connection is established based on a procedure that depends on transfer mode -- there is standard mode, or passive mode (for firewall traversal).
In either case, the destination port number is not a specific FTP port, but a port number dynamically allocated by the server and presented to the client, or vice-versa
In Passive mode, to establish the data connection, the FTP client must open a connection back to the server ON ANY PORT specified by the server, sourced from its ftp-data port.
In Active mode, the client must select an ephemeral port from the 32768 to 65535 range, send it over the control connection, and accept a TCP connection from the server.
The program seems to consist of being spied on by the returnee's cooperative neighbors.
Isaiah 3:5
Graphics and gameplay improved with the sequels but it's still football strategy.
That's not good enough. The burden of proof rests with the plaintiffs, to show a preponderance of the evidence, that the works were strikingly similar, not that they were just both football strategy games within the same genre, with similar operation and game mechanics.
But there will be a trace leading to the computer the TOR exit point is running on.
If an exit node is used; the client is supposed to be anonymous, the server is not.
On the other hand..... if the remote site uses a Tor hidden service instead of an exit node; then both client and server are supposed to be anonymous.
In practice, the server might be traceable --- if you have realtime monitoring of numerous internet backbone points; by using a large number of messages from clients with specified timing patterns, and statistical techniques, to identify places where packets with the proper timing pattern are showing up.
How is this the fault of the jury, rather than the fault of the defense team?
It's the fault of the plaintiff, that the jury weren't presented with a side-by-side showing of versions of the game, OR any evidence sufficient to show that later editions were similar.
It doesn't matter which party's "fault" it is though, or if it was nobody's fault. It is the Judge's job to dismiss the case, if he reviews the jury's verdict, and he finds that it was not possible for them to have reasonably made the finding, based on what was presented.
What a mess they are, and always will be.
It seems to be more like a dispute between developer and employer.
EA owned the rights to the game; they had signed with the programmer, an agreement for the developer to be compensated by royalties for the first edition.
For the second/third/later years editions, they claimed to have paid a team of developers to rewrite the software from scratch, so they could get out of having to pay royalties for future versions.
I'm sure from EA's point of view --- the millions of dollars in sales of later editions of the game were not attributable to the work of the programmer of the first edition or any individual software developer, but the valuable brand name they developed for their company and the product in partnership with Madden, and EA's fan base.
Judges rule on matters of law, juries on facts of the case. If it's overturned by a judge, that means there was some legal problem with the first trial.
In this case, the jury made a finding, that the Judge ruled the jury could not reasonably have made.
The Jury was claiming finding the later editions of the game to be nearly identical ------ without the jury having been presented for side-by-side comparison as evidence
Those languages came really easy to me because of the Latin. The backlash I have with this is, the law should be that kids need 2 credits in programming AND 2 credit in a foreign language instead of this malarky.
I agree.... at least 2 semesters of foreign language, at least 2 semesters of programming language, AND at least 1 extra semester of computational mathematics -- Applied numerical computation with art, biology, physics or engineering, using computers and mathematics to build simulations, models, or to solve nth-order multivariable calculus, advanced trig, differential equations, statistics, or 3-dimensional architecture or graphical design problems.
Well, you've disproved nobody.
I just disproved nobody too.
Can I please have my $1000000 prize now? :)
With plenty of sites, I couldn't pull more than 1Mb/s. Your throughput is still totally dependent on the throughput of every point from their disk to you.
It's dependant on more than throughput. Most file transfers are performed over TCP as well, which means that the bandwidth delay product that matters.
For example: the maximum possible throughput will be limited by an amount that depends on the Round-Trip Latency, and the maximum TCP window size; even if the connections are 5 gigabits end to end; at 200 milliseconds of latency, the maximum possible TCP transfer speed with the standard window settings, will be about 2 Megabits. At 80 milliseconds of latency, the maximum throughput of a TCP stream is 25 MB/s.
Using BitTorrent, Microtransport protocol, or a large number of TCP streams; sidesteps limitations for long-fat networks related to TCP congestion controls --- since the link capacity used will converge with the link capacity, and the BitTorrent protocol is specifically designed to provide a much much better congestion control algorithm than what is available in TCP protocols such as FTP --- BitTorrent or UDP-based file transfer software are much better choices of protocol for file transfers over links exceeding 100 megabits.
My laptop couldn't saturate a GigE line. The same as the previous statement applies.
Old hardware....... today ISPs are using 10Gig circuits, and a laptop with a reasonably specced Haswell proc can easily push or pull much more than 1 gigabit.
The idea that people want to buy something for their phone and have it work on their tablet and PC is absolutely something people want.
Yes.... they want to buy something on their Android phone, or iPhone, and have it work on their PC. That feature alone is not going to switch anyone to the abysmally bare Windows phone products, and their windows 8 store that has few useful apps.
Metal tracer is conductive - no? While the equipment it may be attached to is low voltage there's no telling what's likely to happen later
Metal tracer is not and can't be attached to network equipment. The metal tracer will typically only be in the outdoor cable, which may often contain additional armoring, causing it to be expensive, or Icky pick, causing it to not be allowed inside, due to the cable's high flammability.
More likely than not, there is a fiber splice at the point of entry, and the cabling transitions from outdoor cable, to an indoor rated cable; with no metal tracer. No metal gets near the ONT or other device for terminating the cable, THEN there is no reason for extra grouding requirements on the ONT gear.
The purpose of metal tracer, is to enable a fiber locate -- the technique requires a technician to place an induction device along the length of a cable.
A signal in the form of a current (RF signal) is induced in the tracer cable, and the signal is then received by a remote receiver device, in order to locate the cable.
So YES, the tracer is definitely conductive --- the very process of locating the cable requires that the cable be conductive and Non-Grounded, in order to act as an antenna for inducing the signal in the receiver/tracer.
Sperm donors are like blood donors, you got nothing for volunteering the effort, and you dont get to choose where your stuff will going to end up.
The few sperm donors who are accepted by a sperm bank generally get from $3000 to $6000 over the period on a contract basis over a year -- they have to donate a few times a week, and they generally get paid if it maximal quality highly-fertile sperm discharge suitable for freezing.
Since this was some sort of Craigslist deal; I doubt the donor here got $6K, but I also doubt the donor received $0.
Still. I view this as little different from prostitution. From a biological perspective... the male is being paid, so the woman can use his seed to have the same biological result as sexual intercourse.
That's hilarious! Why should the sperm donor be responsible
For the same reason gun vendors are required to perform due dilligence on their customers, with a background check.
The donor is acting as an enabler. It's really no different than if the donor had donated the sperm through natural sexual intercourse. The donor is still acting as the enabler.
And the donor is responsible for their actions that facilitate the creation of a new life.
If the donor hasn't done their due dilligence, then their actions could result in a new life being created under deplorable conditions.
If the donor hasn't done their due dilligence, then they could be directly responsible for US THE TAXPAYERS incurring large amounts of costs. Like the $6000 in taxpayer money burned to facilitate this pregnancy.
It is eminently reasonable, that the authorities should hold the donor complicit seek recovery of this amount, especially against any revenue generated by the donation of sperm; which involuntarily injured the taxpayers in this way.