No, but they have a list of potential marks that get used, cleaned and then sold again and anything not profitable gets dropped from the list before it gets sold again.
FYI I did tech support for a company that claimed to be selling anti telemarketing packages. They tried to keep me from finding out what they really did but it didn't take me long to figure out what they were doing and how all of their internal processes worked and it turned out they were mainly ripping off old people by buying lists of people who were ripped off promising them a refund and then ripping them off again. Thankfully I had dropped them as a client and was long gone before the police raided the place.
The magic words are "I have power of attorney" (even if it's not true) once they think that the person they are calling cannot legally agree to anything they usually back off. They don't respect the law, their only worry is if they get payed or not.
Strangely enough I cut back on album purchases when Napster died since I had no way to find new stuff I like and nothing I like was ever on the radio. Thankfully YouTube finally replaced Napster for my sampling needs but there were a few years in between the two where I bought absolutely nothing music wise.
I'd say the RIAA out right blew their own leg off.
Pro tip. SYN packets are frighteningly easy to spoof and you are matching based on them.
Not only can your solution not be able to tell a good from bad one, it can't tell a real connection from a fake one. A firewall running this can have random hosts added to it by any attacker sending it the right packets.
If you post something three times to a discussion you should expect someone to call you out on the shortcomings and no amount of condescension on your part will fix the shortcomings of what you posted.
The filter would not be on the NAT interface but the servers are not in the office with the developers so connections from all of them would be from the same IP. That's multiple connections per hour for completely legitimate reasons.
Your "generalized solution" is not the starting point of anything. It's completely blind since it cannot tell the difference between a good or bad connection attempt and it treats them both as bad. Much better to use something like fail2ban (which we use extensively) since it can tell the difference between good and bad and will only block the bad actors.
If I ever did this on any of my employer's servers I wouldn't expect to keep my job for much longer. Any countermeasure that cannot tell the difference between good and bad attempts is worthless. Imagine a room full of webdevs behind a NAT that use SCP to transfer files and then take a guess at the resulting productivity after your "solution" is implemented.
It could also be the clause requiring the government create a "registry of implantable devices" which some of my more paranoid friends have somehow taken to mean "a chip implanted for tracking".
I used Linux in the late 90s and I really don't miss my younger siblings crashing my Linux machine by switching back and forth from X to console too quickly. I also don't miss having to enter modelines to get my screen working or write my dialup scripts from scratch.
FYI I don't know what distro you are using but I still recompile since precompiled kernels don't come with things like RDP (I'm experimenting). It's even easier than it was in the 90s.
MS was caught using third world countries to stack ISO committees with their supporters to help them ram a very flawed standard through an ISO approval process.
Quite often binary drivers are written by people who, either ported the code from other Operating Systems, or must maintain the code in such as way as to be able to share the code base with operating systems having different driver models. A pure free driver can lose a lot of cruft and can often have things like memory management better tuned for the system or interact with the hardware in more efficient ways.
The NVIDIA Ethernet driver from a few years back was a good example of that. The Linux people created a free driver that ran a lot faster than the binary driver forcing NVIDA to abandon their driver.
This. Just because they now have a possible idea of what the solution is, does not mean they have the expertise to fix it. Years ago we had a company show up at our office offering to pay us a rather large amount for our software and they interviewed me extensively on the internals of the software I wrote. In the end they didn't take the sale and we later heard they were trying to redesign their internal software around my design including (gasp) using a daemon to handle the internal state and only using the database for storing account data and game history.
How well did that work out for them you ask? It didn't. A couple of years later their entire project was dead. My design wasn't all that innovative to someone who actually knows how to code but It turns out that programmers who only know how to do make wrappers for databases couldn't replicate any of it.
I had the accidental click problem but I fixed it on Linux by running an app to disable the trackpad while I am typing. I set mine to disable the trackpad for 1 second after any key press and I've eliminated accidental trackpad clicks entirely.
How do you define "easily user-upgradable"? Of the major notebook brands, only HP joins them in BIOS locking their mini PCIE slot so that third party wireless cards cause the machine not to boot. That's hardly customer friendly.
OS and application loading both involve a lot or random reads. I have three computers setup with OS/APPS on SSD and data on spinning hard drive since I have far more data than I have OS and applications and a small SSD was a cheap addition to the machines. In all three cases (two Linux machines, one Windows) the result was a huge improvement in both OS start up time and application load times. It is enough of an improvement that several apps I used to just leave open now get closed when I'm not using them.
In our office we have a 2 TB NAS for backing up desktops and posting files that need to be shared to the whole office. Guess what it runs? Linux + samba + a custom web interface. The fun thing about SAMBA these days is that a lot of people running it don't realize they are running it.
True enough but I do enjoy being asked for my gtalk username only to get the "no, that's your email address, I want your gtalk" response only to talk them into trying it and having it work.
The nice thing about Google Talk is that it is XMPP based so it will interface with anyone running a Jabber server so in my case the address is username@myserver so it is more like email works which is how IM should have been designed from the start. The fewer single vendor solutions we have on the internet, the better off we all are.
No, that's just the excuse they use to keep you from blaming them for the fact that you can only buy cards from them at 3x the actual cost. If that were true then there would be no aftermarket antennas for WiFi routers.and the antennas would all be permanently attached. Not all OEMs lock the wireless card either. Did you miss the part where I said I'd done it before? Dell, Acer and Apple do not lock the Wireless card. In fact, laptop manufacturers who do this are in the minority.
A few months back I bought a Lenovo with a wireless card with a glitch so I did the first thing I have done with every other laptop I've ever owned when presented with this problem: I ordered a new wireless card. What happens? I get a post error about an unauthorized wireless card and the Laptop refused to boot until I removed it. Until Lenovo gets it through its head that if I pay for it than it is MY laptop and only I have the right to determine what cards are "authorized" I will not buy another Lenovo product.
Apple has some good products but you have gone much too far drinking the coolade. Apple did nothing to contribute to the invention those displays they simply bought the highest res LCD panels and added them to their systems.
The "fusion" drives are standard hybrid drives that use flash as the cache for the spinning media. Support is not baked into OS X and everything they described in the link you listed are functions provided by the drive firmware. The fact that they make it seem like OS X is doing anything for this at all is just laughable since I could throw the drive into a windows 2000 system and still have everything in that paragraph still apply.
I guess they finally realized their earbuds were terrible but the replacement doesn't look like it would be anywhere near as good as my Sennheiser ear canal set.
Good luck with that. A few years back I turned on a bunch of warnings and added annotations to make GCC warn on misuse of format strings only to have the second programmer on the project turn them all off again on the portions of the code he was maintaining because he thought they generated too much noise. The resulting failure when the new servers were 64 bit rather than the 32 bit machine he was developing on was the only thing that convinced him to clean up any of it.
I disagree, SQL is a skill in it's own right and someone practicing multiple skill sets will rarely be as good as someone who specializes in it. If there is an agreement between the SQL devs and the devs handling whatever other language interacts with it on the needed data and what form it's in, I find it's it's actually better to have them as separate functions.
The downside, as with any other language, is when someone starts trying to show off how clever they are or when you have the "if all you have is a hammer" type of person.
Generally when Microsoft wants something to look good internally they bundle discounted licenses with as many deals as possible to inflate the numbers.
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No, but they have a list of potential marks that get used, cleaned and then sold again and anything not profitable gets dropped from the list before it gets sold again.
FYI I did tech support for a company that claimed to be selling anti telemarketing packages. They tried to keep me from finding out what they really did but it didn't take me long to figure out what they were doing and how all of their internal processes worked and it turned out they were mainly ripping off old people by buying lists of people who were ripped off promising them a refund and then ripping them off again. Thankfully I had dropped them as a client and was long gone before the police raided the place.
The magic words are "I have power of attorney" (even if it's not true) once they think that the person they are calling cannot legally agree to anything they usually back off. They don't respect the law, their only worry is if they get payed or not.
Strangely enough I cut back on album purchases when Napster died since I had no way to find new stuff I like and nothing I like was ever on the radio. Thankfully YouTube finally replaced Napster for my sampling needs but there were a few years in between the two where I bought absolutely nothing music wise.
I'd say the RIAA out right blew their own leg off.
Pro tip. SYN packets are frighteningly easy to spoof and you are matching based on them.
Not only can your solution not be able to tell a good from bad one, it can't tell a real connection from a fake one. A firewall running this can have random hosts added to it by any attacker sending it the right packets.
If you post something three times to a discussion you should expect someone to call you out on the shortcomings and no amount of condescension on your part will fix the shortcomings of what you posted.
The filter would not be on the NAT interface but the servers are not in the office with the developers so connections from all of them would be from the same IP. That's multiple connections per hour for completely legitimate reasons.
Your "generalized solution" is not the starting point of anything. It's completely blind since it cannot tell the difference between a good or bad connection attempt and it treats them both as bad. Much better to use something like fail2ban (which we use extensively) since it can tell the difference between good and bad and will only block the bad actors.
If I ever did this on any of my employer's servers I wouldn't expect to keep my job for much longer. Any countermeasure that cannot tell the difference between good and bad attempts is worthless. Imagine a room full of webdevs behind a NAT that use SCP to transfer files and then take a guess at the resulting productivity after your "solution" is implemented.
It could also be the clause requiring the government create a "registry of implantable devices" which some of my more paranoid friends have somehow taken to mean "a chip implanted for tracking".
I used Linux in the late 90s and I really don't miss my younger siblings crashing my Linux machine by switching back and forth from X to console too quickly. I also don't miss having to enter modelines to get my screen working or write my dialup scripts from scratch.
FYI I don't know what distro you are using but I still recompile since precompiled kernels don't come with things like RDP (I'm experimenting). It's even easier than it was in the 90s.
MS was caught using third world countries to stack ISO committees with their supporters to help them ram a very flawed standard through an ISO approval process.
Quite often binary drivers are written by people who, either ported the code from other Operating Systems, or must maintain the code in such as way as to be able to share the code base with operating systems having different driver models. A pure free driver can lose a lot of cruft and can often have things like memory management better tuned for the system or interact with the hardware in more efficient ways.
The NVIDIA Ethernet driver from a few years back was a good example of that. The Linux people created a free driver that ran a lot faster than the binary driver forcing NVIDA to abandon their driver.
This. Just because they now have a possible idea of what the solution is, does not mean they have the expertise to fix it. Years ago we had a company show up at our office offering to pay us a rather large amount for our software and they interviewed me extensively on the internals of the software I wrote. In the end they didn't take the sale and we later heard they were trying to redesign their internal software around my design including (gasp) using a daemon to handle the internal state and only using the database for storing account data and game history.
How well did that work out for them you ask? It didn't. A couple of years later their entire project was dead. My design wasn't all that innovative to someone who actually knows how to code but It turns out that programmers who only know how to do make wrappers for databases couldn't replicate any of it.
I had the accidental click problem but I fixed it on Linux by running an app to disable the trackpad while I am typing. I set mine to disable the trackpad for 1 second after any key press and I've eliminated accidental trackpad clicks entirely.
How do you define "easily user-upgradable"? Of the major notebook brands, only HP joins them in BIOS locking their mini PCIE slot so that third party wireless cards cause the machine not to boot. That's hardly customer friendly.
OS and application loading both involve a lot or random reads. I have three computers setup with OS/APPS on SSD and data on spinning hard drive since I have far more data than I have OS and applications and a small SSD was a cheap addition to the machines. In all three cases (two Linux machines, one Windows) the result was a huge improvement in both OS start up time and application load times. It is enough of an improvement that several apps I used to just leave open now get closed when I'm not using them.
In our office we have a 2 TB NAS for backing up desktops and posting files that need to be shared to the whole office. Guess what it runs? Linux + samba + a custom web interface. The fun thing about SAMBA these days is that a lot of people running it don't realize they are running it.
True enough but I do enjoy being asked for my gtalk username only to get the "no, that's your email address, I want your gtalk" response only to talk them into trying it and having it work.
The nice thing about Google Talk is that it is XMPP based so it will interface with anyone running a Jabber server so in my case the address is username@myserver so it is more like email works which is how IM should have been designed from the start. The fewer single vendor solutions we have on the internet, the better off we all are.
No, that's just the excuse they use to keep you from blaming them for the fact that you can only buy cards from them at 3x the actual cost. If that were true then there would be no aftermarket antennas for WiFi routers.and the antennas would all be permanently attached. Not all OEMs lock the wireless card either. Did you miss the part where I said I'd done it before? Dell, Acer and Apple do not lock the Wireless card. In fact, laptop manufacturers who do this are in the minority.
A few months back I bought a Lenovo with a wireless card with a glitch so I did the first thing I have done with every other laptop I've ever owned when presented with this problem: I ordered a new wireless card. What happens? I get a post error about an unauthorized wireless card and the Laptop refused to boot until I removed it. Until Lenovo gets it through its head that if I pay for it than it is MY laptop and only I have the right to determine what cards are "authorized" I will not buy another Lenovo product.
Apple has some good products but you have gone much too far drinking the coolade. Apple did nothing to contribute to the invention those displays they simply bought the highest res LCD panels and added them to their systems.
The "fusion" drives are standard hybrid drives that use flash as the cache for the spinning media. Support is not baked into OS X and everything they described in the link you listed are functions provided by the drive firmware. The fact that they make it seem like OS X is doing anything for this at all is just laughable since I could throw the drive into a windows 2000 system and still have everything in that paragraph still apply.
I guess they finally realized their earbuds were terrible but the replacement doesn't look like it would be anywhere near as good as my Sennheiser ear canal set.
Good luck with that. A few years back I turned on a bunch of warnings and added annotations to make GCC warn on misuse of format strings only to have the second programmer on the project turn them all off again on the portions of the code he was maintaining because he thought they generated too much noise. The resulting failure when the new servers were 64 bit rather than the 32 bit machine he was developing on was the only thing that convinced him to clean up any of it.
I disagree, SQL is a skill in it's own right and someone practicing multiple skill sets will rarely be as good as someone who specializes in it. If there is an agreement between the SQL devs and the devs handling whatever other language interacts with it on the needed data and what form it's in, I find it's it's actually better to have them as separate functions.
The downside, as with any other language, is when someone starts trying to show off how clever they are or when you have the "if all you have is a hammer" type of person.
Generally when Microsoft wants something to look good internally they bundle discounted licenses with as many deals as possible to inflate the numbers.
No, it really isn't doing fine. Instead of the usual uptick in sales with a new Windows release, PC sales dropped 21% during the month after Windows 8 was released.