Simple solution: I have (several) dedicated servers spread out all over the globe. I can route my traffic through any single one of those using a variety of techniques (VPN, static routing, SSH tunnel).
If my ISP decided to block one of my servers' IPs, they would be reading court papers in a heartbeat as they're obstructing my legitimate business - come up with hard evidence of illegal activity, or pay up for my lost income.
More than once I've considered offering VPN access to my servers for a fee (think SecureIX - but much higher capacity:) I just don't think I have the time and patience to deal with a hundred torrent-chugging teenagers and their borrowed credit cards.
It's walking a gray line, but the more the carriers try to control the network, the greater the drive will be to seek workarounds. If/when it becomes socially and commercially viable to do so, a company will rise to provide these anonymity services and they will find a way to be shielded from the law - whether it means buying out a bunch of Florida senators, or setting up in Sealand - shit will happen.
I don't think a judge should be expected to read through 10k pages of vindictive banter in order to decide how to split a marriage. I don't expect them to become an expert in the simple-yet-confusing DNS system either. The important facts should be presented in concise layman's terms.
"Sir, a zone transfer is when you type 'dig google.com axfr'. It is a standard feature of the DNS protocol and software suite. The only way it can be abused is if it is left unprotected by the network administrator, much the same as a house can be abused if you leave your doors and windows unlocked."
J:"I get it. Plaintiff, you're an idiot! Case dismissed."
The fact that these simple truths can be irreversibly concealed through the one-way hash known as legalese, is just evidence that the legal system is broken beyond repair. At least you can brute-force RSA:/
Yep that's what gets me too - flash is too slow for me to care right now.
My question is: why can't they just parallelize or something ? If my ghetto 1024mb Kingston USB stick can do 10mb/sec sustained, stick a couple dozen of those chips in a 3.5" drive-shaped box and max out the SATA bandwidth. Striping works for clunky hard drives, why wouldn't it work for flash ?
You're being overly optimistic by assuming the people who built the system would have thought this through in a productive manner.
Fact is, someone was angry and that someone came up with a bunch of holier-than-thou rules. What, you think the Iraq war is about justice ? No, it's about revenge.
Revenge is innate. Justice is a fabrication of society.
"Bad sound on an iPod has had an impact on a lot of people going back to vinyl"
Yes, because portable audio and hi-fi are the same target market. Fact is, a lot of people have so-so hearing, and most of the rest simply don't give a crap, just like some people don't care about HDTV. The iPod's popularity is proof that its quality is "good enough" for most.
Sure, good vinyl can sound a LOT better than MP3 and even CD, but it's not a hard and fast rule, and more importantly it's a difference that very few people can actually hear. The way the source material is mixed/mastered will usually level the playing field, at least for popular music where there's isn't much detail to be heard in the first place. I'm also the kind of wacko who can often guess what kind of mics and preamps were used on a recording, but I'm well aware that I'm part of a very tiny minority of audio freaks.
Apple could make a pro-audio iPod with built-in T-amp and 1/4" jacks, but it just wouldn't sell. 99.44% of the music comes from 44khz/16 CDs, and not many people are going to invest another $200-300 for a decent set of over-the-ears headphones. Today's music just isn't worth that kind of investment.
That's just a short blob of text passed along with the transaction. The tip feature is actually a fraud-combating measure: when you swipe your card, it gets authorized for the bill amount only. You write the tip amount after the fact, and this number gets transmitted to the credit company later, in batches. It is far too easy for the bar staff to alter that number, simply by turning a 3 into an 8, or adding a digit. If your statement only shows the total amount, it is much harder to know if the number was fudged or not, unless you kept the receipt for comparison. A $5.00 discrepancy on a dinner charge is usually too small to be noticed by most people. Even larger numbers can zoom under the radar - especially at a bar or strip club, people were either too drunk to remember, or too shy to contest the nudie charge.
I haven't seen this type of fraud too often, but a few times are enough to expose yet another gaping hole in the system. Credit cards suck universally, I dare anyone to prove me wrong.
How is revenge any worse than the arbitrary punishment decided in a courtroom or municipal office ? The same wackos, who would beat the "living tar" out of someone over petty theft, are also in offices writing the policies. Just because someone works for the city doesn't magically make them less prone to emotion and irrational behavior.
What's the advantage of having an 832gb SSD versus a pair of 500gb drives in RAID-0 ? Lower power consumption, yes, but I don't see anyone putting a $6000 SSD in a $600 Dell. Faster seeking, sure, but the 100mb/sec throughput seems rather puny when compared with recent Intel chipsets that can shove over 300mb/sec in RAID-5 with good SATA hard drives. Heck, why not split it out into four 200gb SSDs and RAID them ?
I clearly have a short-sighted view of the industry, because I work with massive amounts of audio/video. My sole focus with storage solutions is maximum throughput. For reliability there's RAID 5/6, and for speed there's Ram. Where do these SSDs sit ? What's their ideal purpose ?
Over a decade ago, hard disks were slow and solid state drives were orders of magnitude faster. I remember fooling around with a 2gb SSD in the mid-90's, when 100mb/sec on a PC was mind-blowing. Mind you, that was a DRAM-based SSD, not flash. It pretty much maxed out the PCI bus. I would expect a modern SSD to push at least 1gb/sec over PCI-E, considering how cheap DDR2 ram can push upwards of 3gb/sec in real-world scenarios. Where is that breakneck product ? Something like a modernized, heavy-duty version of the Gigabyte i-Ram would kick ass in these media-rich times.
By the time this standard takes off, the average non-techie still won't be able to tell the Internet apart from a chia pet, and they will still pay $5.99/mo for that cable box "game package" where you can play Solitaire and Minesweeper using your clumsy TV remote.
People don't know, don't care, but most importantly they don't want to work for it. Setting up an HTPC is far more effort than the common fool cares to invest, when it is so much easier to pay the cable company their monthly tithe and drown your misery away with a zillion reality shows.
No, they're worried because they've been peddling an extremely poor product for twenty years and they need to distract people's attention while they come up with the "solution" to this "GPL problem".
You think Blu-ray is overpriced ? I still think DVDs are overpriced, but then so are movie tickets and popcorn.
I think the market has proven, if anything, that everything in Hollywood is inflated.
I've watched HD movies, and they didn't lower my opinion of standard-def at all. I do appreciate hi-def for sports, because it's so damned hard to follow that blurred little puck/ball otherwise, but for movies they can actually worsen the experience. For one, 1080 makes any poor special effects stand out like Rosie O'Donnell in Ethiopia.
There are very few things that benefit from the hi-def treatment. Fortunately for me, I don't care about most of them.
Seeing as I was all of 10 years old when the whole Saddam thing went public, I didn't really understand nor care. It's a wee bit different up here in Canada, we assume people are naturally peaceful - everyone bites their teeth sometimes, but we don't run around with guns. The fact that many former immigrant families are well into their 3rd and 4th generations here might have something to do with it. Most of the city kids here have grown up in a multicultural environment. Russian, Vietnamese, Iraqi - same shit, different food:) It makes it much harder to understand why one group wants to kill the other, when over here we manage to get along no worse than the average uber-white family.
Impractical ? In the 2-3 minutes I've spent reading this article and comments, I probably could have done this to my own router. It's actually pretty easy for any techie to pull off, considering how many modern routers run some sort of embedded Linux system. The firmware isn't some exotic Fortran behemoth like in the good old days, the 21st century is all about commodity hardware and software, cheep cheep!
Anyone with some basic knowledge in developing scrapers/spiders could figure it out in half a day, all it takes is a shell script running on the router.
That comment is so backward, I can't decide whether you did it on purpose or not. It's not that the Iraq war was imaginary, au contraire, it was dutifully imagined by government itself.
Jail is just a different roof over your head. People get shit done from jail, if that's what they want to do.
My point was to have the in-game police serve as a reminder that even real-life police is ineffective in today's society. It doesn't matter how many you nail, there's always a loophole, there's always more.
If the ISPs ruin the internet, we'll just have to take our business elsewhere.
I'm a firm believer in shaking shit up, whether it's for an ISP/telecom, government outfit, or that little sandwich joint down the street. If you, as a customer, are not happy with their service or product, it is your duty to stop consuming it. Apathy is a dangerous thing!
Bah I've broken tons of gear, so what ?:) A lot of the exotic knowledge I possess came from fixing the obscure stuff I had broken. After all, if you don't venture into the unknown, then you're really just a power user.
Hate to break it to you, but I'd like to take advantage of the usability improvements brought forth by modern computing. Just because I'm a CLI guru doesn't mean I should be excluded from clicky interfaces that don't require reading through 60 pages of shoddy online docs in order to throttle a port or route around a dead switch.
10 DIM X(1 TO 4) AS STRING 20 X(1) = "I'm god." 30 X(2) = "You suck." 40 X(3) = "Fuck you, you stupid shit." 50 X(4) = "I'm going to stab you in the face with my superior ninja skillz." 60 FOR I = 1 to 65535 70 FOR J = 1 to 42 80 PRINT SENTENCES(INT(RND(1)*4)+1) 90 NEXT J 100 NEXT I 110 PRINT "To be continued." 120 GOTO 10
Well whenever they figure it out, I want them to restore my ability to dream in code. I stopped writing brilliant code right around the same time I stopped dreaming.
Yes, like the other poster above, I do not dream at all. My nights are just one big void. So's my code.
In most other MMOs, when you cheat the system, they either reverse the damage you've done, or they kick you out (sometimes both).
In Second Life, could it be argued that since crooks exist in real life, they should be allowed to exist in the virtual world ? Then you'll have virtual cops to look out for them and/or make deals with them. If they really want to call it a social experiment, this is precisely the kind of social dynamic they should be pursuing. Real-life people are dumb enough to fall for these schemes, let the virtual tards fall for them as well.
I think it's another case of using what you know. I'm a Linux/iptables guy, my boss is an OpenBSD/pf guy. I hate his BSD boxes, and I'm sure he fears my Linux just the same:) But we both get our things done, and at the end of the day that's all that matters.
I personally think they're both clumsy tools, but that's probably because I've yet to find a simple GUI to work them. Yes, a GUI. I can work simple rules from the command line, but it would be nice to be able to visualize long chains full of jumps.
S'funny, I do that with virtual machines. It's essentially "free", except for a few gigs of disk per instance. When you work in any sort of development or hosting environment, legacy apps and documents need to be a part of your workflow - there's just no way to avoid them.
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Simple solution: I have (several) dedicated servers spread out all over the globe. I can route my traffic through any single one of those using a variety of techniques (VPN, static routing, SSH tunnel).
:) I just don't think I have the time and patience to deal with a hundred torrent-chugging teenagers and their borrowed credit cards.
If my ISP decided to block one of my servers' IPs, they would be reading court papers in a heartbeat as they're obstructing my legitimate business - come up with hard evidence of illegal activity, or pay up for my lost income.
More than once I've considered offering VPN access to my servers for a fee (think SecureIX - but much higher capacity
It's walking a gray line, but the more the carriers try to control the network, the greater the drive will be to seek workarounds. If/when it becomes socially and commercially viable to do so, a company will rise to provide these anonymity services and they will find a way to be shielded from the law - whether it means buying out a bunch of Florida senators, or setting up in Sealand - shit will happen.
I don't think a judge should be expected to read through 10k pages of vindictive banter in order to decide how to split a marriage. I don't expect them to become an expert in the simple-yet-confusing DNS system either. The important facts should be presented in concise layman's terms.
:/
"Sir, a zone transfer is when you type 'dig google.com axfr'. It is a standard feature of the DNS protocol and software suite. The only way it can be abused is if it is left unprotected by the network administrator, much the same as a house can be abused if you leave your doors and windows unlocked."
J:"I get it. Plaintiff, you're an idiot! Case dismissed."
The fact that these simple truths can be irreversibly concealed through the one-way hash known as legalese, is just evidence that the legal system is broken beyond repair. At least you can brute-force RSA
Yep that's what gets me too - flash is too slow for me to care right now.
My question is: why can't they just parallelize or something ? If my ghetto 1024mb Kingston USB stick can do 10mb/sec sustained, stick a couple dozen of those chips in a 3.5" drive-shaped box and max out the SATA bandwidth. Striping works for clunky hard drives, why wouldn't it work for flash ?
You're being overly optimistic by assuming the people who built the system would have thought this through in a productive manner.
Fact is, someone was angry and that someone came up with a bunch of holier-than-thou rules. What, you think the Iraq war is about justice ? No, it's about revenge.
Revenge is innate. Justice is a fabrication of society.
"Bad sound on an iPod has had an impact on a lot of people going back to vinyl"
Yes, because portable audio and hi-fi are the same target market. Fact is, a lot of people have so-so hearing, and most of the rest simply don't give a crap, just like some people don't care about HDTV. The iPod's popularity is proof that its quality is "good enough" for most.
Sure, good vinyl can sound a LOT better than MP3 and even CD, but it's not a hard and fast rule, and more importantly it's a difference that very few people can actually hear. The way the source material is mixed/mastered will usually level the playing field, at least for popular music where there's isn't much detail to be heard in the first place. I'm also the kind of wacko who can often guess what kind of mics and preamps were used on a recording, but I'm well aware that I'm part of a very tiny minority of audio freaks.
Apple could make a pro-audio iPod with built-in T-amp and 1/4" jacks, but it just wouldn't sell. 99.44% of the music comes from 44khz/16 CDs, and not many people are going to invest another $200-300 for a decent set of over-the-ears headphones. Today's music just isn't worth that kind of investment.
That's just a short blob of text passed along with the transaction. The tip feature is actually a fraud-combating measure: when you swipe your card, it gets authorized for the bill amount only. You write the tip amount after the fact, and this number gets transmitted to the credit company later, in batches. It is far too easy for the bar staff to alter that number, simply by turning a 3 into an 8, or adding a digit. If your statement only shows the total amount, it is much harder to know if the number was fudged or not, unless you kept the receipt for comparison. A $5.00 discrepancy on a dinner charge is usually too small to be noticed by most people. Even larger numbers can zoom under the radar - especially at a bar or strip club, people were either too drunk to remember, or too shy to contest the nudie charge.
I haven't seen this type of fraud too often, but a few times are enough to expose yet another gaping hole in the system. Credit cards suck universally, I dare anyone to prove me wrong.
How is revenge any worse than the arbitrary punishment decided in a courtroom or municipal office ? The same wackos, who would beat the "living tar" out of someone over petty theft, are also in offices writing the policies. Just because someone works for the city doesn't magically make them less prone to emotion and irrational behavior.
What's the advantage of having an 832gb SSD versus a pair of 500gb drives in RAID-0 ? Lower power consumption, yes, but I don't see anyone putting a $6000 SSD in a $600 Dell. Faster seeking, sure, but the 100mb/sec throughput seems rather puny when compared with recent Intel chipsets that can shove over 300mb/sec in RAID-5 with good SATA hard drives. Heck, why not split it out into four 200gb SSDs and RAID them ?
I clearly have a short-sighted view of the industry, because I work with massive amounts of audio/video. My sole focus with storage solutions is maximum throughput. For reliability there's RAID 5/6, and for speed there's Ram. Where do these SSDs sit ? What's their ideal purpose ?
Over a decade ago, hard disks were slow and solid state drives were orders of magnitude faster. I remember fooling around with a 2gb SSD in the mid-90's, when 100mb/sec on a PC was mind-blowing. Mind you, that was a DRAM-based SSD, not flash. It pretty much maxed out the PCI bus. I would expect a modern SSD to push at least 1gb/sec over PCI-E, considering how cheap DDR2 ram can push upwards of 3gb/sec in real-world scenarios. Where is that breakneck product ? Something like a modernized, heavy-duty version of the Gigabyte i-Ram would kick ass in these media-rich times.
By the time this standard takes off, the average non-techie still won't be able to tell the Internet apart from a chia pet, and they will still pay $5.99/mo for that cable box "game package" where you can play Solitaire and Minesweeper using your clumsy TV remote.
People don't know, don't care, but most importantly they don't want to work for it. Setting up an HTPC is far more effort than the common fool cares to invest, when it is so much easier to pay the cable company their monthly tithe and drown your misery away with a zillion reality shows.
No, they're worried because they've been peddling an extremely poor product for twenty years and they need to distract people's attention while they come up with the "solution" to this "GPL problem".
You think Blu-ray is overpriced ? I still think DVDs are overpriced, but then so are movie tickets and popcorn.
I think the market has proven, if anything, that everything in Hollywood is inflated.
I've watched HD movies, and they didn't lower my opinion of standard-def at all. I do appreciate hi-def for sports, because it's so damned hard to follow that blurred little puck/ball otherwise, but for movies they can actually worsen the experience. For one, 1080 makes any poor special effects stand out like Rosie O'Donnell in Ethiopia.
There are very few things that benefit from the hi-def treatment. Fortunately for me, I don't care about most of them.
Seeing as I was all of 10 years old when the whole Saddam thing went public, I didn't really understand nor care. It's a wee bit different up here in Canada, we assume people are naturally peaceful - everyone bites their teeth sometimes, but we don't run around with guns. The fact that many former immigrant families are well into their 3rd and 4th generations here might have something to do with it. Most of the city kids here have grown up in a multicultural environment. Russian, Vietnamese, Iraqi - same shit, different food :) It makes it much harder to understand why one group wants to kill the other, when over here we manage to get along no worse than the average uber-white family.
Public education should include the words "I don't know", such as the following example sentences:
"I'm a pill-popping half-breed, so I don't know exactly where the human race came from millions of years ago. Now let's do some grammar!"
or "I eat quiche, so I don't know exactly who/what god is or which god is better than the other ones. Now let's talk about the Roman empire!"
Kids don't need their class teachers to shove even more lies down their throats. That's what parents are for!
Impractical ? In the 2-3 minutes I've spent reading this article and comments, I probably could have done this to my own router. It's actually pretty easy for any techie to pull off, considering how many modern routers run some sort of embedded Linux system. The firmware isn't some exotic Fortran behemoth like in the good old days, the 21st century is all about commodity hardware and software, cheep cheep!
Anyone with some basic knowledge in developing scrapers/spiders could figure it out in half a day, all it takes is a shell script running on the router.
Be afraid!
That comment is so backward, I can't decide whether you did it on purpose or not. It's not that the Iraq war was imaginary, au contraire, it was dutifully imagined by government itself.
Jail is just a different roof over your head. People get shit done from jail, if that's what they want to do.
My point was to have the in-game police serve as a reminder that even real-life police is ineffective in today's society. It doesn't matter how many you nail, there's always a loophole, there's always more.
If the ISPs ruin the internet, we'll just have to take our business elsewhere.
I'm a firm believer in shaking shit up, whether it's for an ISP/telecom, government outfit, or that little sandwich joint down the street. If you, as a customer, are not happy with their service or product, it is your duty to stop consuming it. Apathy is a dangerous thing!
Bah I've broken tons of gear, so what ? :) A lot of the exotic knowledge I possess came from fixing the obscure stuff I had broken. After all, if you don't venture into the unknown, then you're really just a power user.
Hate to break it to you, but I'd like to take advantage of the usability improvements brought forth by modern computing. Just because I'm a CLI guru doesn't mean I should be excluded from clicky interfaces that don't require reading through 60 pages of shoddy online docs in order to throttle a port or route around a dead switch.
So it goes something like (in BASIC code):
:)
10 DIM X(1 TO 4) AS STRING
20 X(1) = "I'm god."
30 X(2) = "You suck."
40 X(3) = "Fuck you, you stupid shit."
50 X(4) = "I'm going to stab you in the face with my superior ninja skillz."
60 FOR I = 1 to 65535
70 FOR J = 1 to 42
80 PRINT SENTENCES(INT(RND(1)*4)+1)
90 NEXT J
100 NEXT I
110 PRINT "To be continued."
120 GOTO 10
Anyone care to port it to Perl ?
Well whenever they figure it out, I want them to restore my ability to dream in code. I stopped writing brilliant code right around the same time I stopped dreaming.
Yes, like the other poster above, I do not dream at all. My nights are just one big void. So's my code.
In most other MMOs, when you cheat the system, they either reverse the damage you've done, or they kick you out (sometimes both).
In Second Life, could it be argued that since crooks exist in real life, they should be allowed to exist in the virtual world ? Then you'll have virtual cops to look out for them and/or make deals with them. If they really want to call it a social experiment, this is precisely the kind of social dynamic they should be pursuing. Real-life people are dumb enough to fall for these schemes, let the virtual tards fall for them as well.
I think it's another case of using what you know. I'm a Linux/iptables guy, my boss is an OpenBSD/pf guy. I hate his BSD boxes, and I'm sure he fears my Linux just the same :) But we both get our things done, and at the end of the day that's all that matters.
I personally think they're both clumsy tools, but that's probably because I've yet to find a simple GUI to work them. Yes, a GUI. I can work simple rules from the command line, but it would be nice to be able to visualize long chains full of jumps.
S'funny, I do that with virtual machines. It's essentially "free", except for a few gigs of disk per instance. When you work in any sort of development or hosting environment, legacy apps and documents need to be a part of your workflow - there's just no way to avoid them.
What is pride without something to be proud of ? There's nothing glamorous about watching the world die every day.