Comcast just turned IPv6 on for my residential connection, out of nowhere. On the stats page it says "Modem IP mode: IPv6 only". So it almost seems like they are using IPv6 only for transport. I guess it's time to upgrade my router from Fedora 10....?
They don't want you using the old school tree-type menu. That has almost always been a backup option- from quick launch to pinning to click-type-search, there have always been faster ways to run applications than sifting through a giant menu. If you pin things to the start menu and/or let it automatically show you the most popular 10 programs, you almost never have to use a menu. When you do, it is faster and easier to hit the windows key and start typing the name of the program you want to run.
I agree that the desktop app versus real app is somewhat annoying, but it is by no means "broken". Like any other operating system in the world, you have to know which program to run when you want to do something.
I agree. I picked up a Win8 tablet at a store, imagining I would hate it. And I kind of did. But then I bought one anyway, because I wanted a tablet with Windows on it. There is like one page of reading that you have to do to understand the new paradigm, and you are off to the races. You basically have to learn 4 things: what swiping in from each side does. Once you learn that, it is plenty usable. Even in standard desktop mode. The only thing I have trouble with touch is very finely grained websites (tiny radio buttons or clicking one letter versus another). Easily solved with a Bluetooth Mouse or a digitizer stick thing. The touch keyboard is great.
So, it takes 5 minutes to learn, and maybe a day or two of use to be completely up to speed on it. How hard is that? So grandma and the lead secretary need to have a cheat sheet made for them. They need that for ANY change.
Meanwhile, I have a machine that's a fully functional tablet that doesn't even need a desktop mode if I don't want it. And all the way to a fully functional computer if I plug a keyboard and mouse into it. And if I get a Windows phone, it pretty much works the same for me.
The only real difference is that the start menu is a little bigger. You can customize it, pin things to the taskbar, use alt-tab and the windows key just like a normal computer. Windows key and type "notep" and notepad appears, just like Win 7.
I just looked at my D3200. Full auto only allows you to adjust flash mode, af area mode, focus mode, release mode and raw/jpg modes. Programmed auto mode lets you additionally adjust flash compensation, ev compensation, metering, ISO and white balance.
So it can be viewed either as "full Automatic with a few more choices available" or "A+S mode".
Check out the 35mm 1.8f AFS-G lens- it's a great prime lens for most situations.
And there will still be plenty of photographers out there recording history. They'll just be all independent contractors, instead of mostly independent contractors. Shit, half the photos in newspapers are amateur or stringer photos anyway.
I don't know about anyone else, but a newspaper is the last place I turn to for quality photography. It is literally the cheapest possible printing method, on the cheapest possible paper.
There is not an expectation of privacy in the hallway, however. If this guy was in the hallway and could hear what was going on inside the office, the people in the office were responsible for speaking too loudly.
If I remember my telecom correctly, a T1 is 26 ISDN lines concatenated together.
I doubt there is much to worry about. The physical medium is far less important than the underlying knowledge of communications and troubleshooting. Copper will hang around for a while, but for someone with experience in the field, it shouldn't matter what kind of wires are hooking stuff up.
I know a lot of companies that pull that same shit. "Making the vendor fix the problem will cost too much, just throw it away!" It makes me crazy. At some point, damn the cost and make them do what they said they would do. It's not an economic issue, it's a quality control issue. Vendors will try to get away with whatever they can. What happens next time when they slip something through that you don't notice? Your customers get fucked.
No person shall [...] be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, [...]
You can't be forced to testify against yourself. For example, you can't be forced to make the choice between admitting to the crime or facing contempt charges. But you can be forced to provide evidence if it exists. This case is an interesting one, because it is right on the edge of the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. The judge isn't forcing him to *say* anything. He is just compelling him to perform an action. Not unlike compelling a defendant to provide a blood sample.
I personally believe that this violates the spirit of the law, but it might be the kind of technicality that the supreme court will see differently.
You have no protection against submitting physical evidence. If you have something and have a legal subpoena for it, they can take it. If you claim not to have it, they will just convince a judge that they need a search warrant. The 5th amendment is about testimony. You have the right to remain silent, that's pretty much it.
The laws have exceptions for law enforcement personnel who view it in the course of their duties. And more generally, there are a lot of judgement calls and grey areas in the law. A picture of your daughter in the bathtub making a funny face in along with the rest of your family photos? No problem. The same image in a folder marked "jerkoff material" would be illegal.
They have tools for that. It's basically a ups that clocks onto the AC waveform and then there is a sort of fork thing they use to hotwire the power cable.
Proper security shouldn't depend on the client browser. If you want HTTP traffic to go through a proxy, force it to at the bottleneck (ISP connection) not at the individual clients.
That seems like a lot of hassle for not a lot of payoff. Every time something breaks or gets moved, they have to call IT to reenable the port? Just so you can imagine that you have security? I guess nobody ever heard of MAC address spoofing.
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Comcast just turned IPv6 on for my residential connection, out of nowhere. On the stats page it says "Modem IP mode: IPv6 only". So it almost seems like they are using IPv6 only for transport. I guess it's time to upgrade my router from Fedora 10....?
The connection is probably fine, but can the servers push out the data that fast?
Plus, with IPv6 and jumbo packets, gigabit can be even faster.
They don't want you using the old school tree-type menu. That has almost always been a backup option- from quick launch to pinning to click-type-search, there have always been faster ways to run applications than sifting through a giant menu. If you pin things to the start menu and/or let it automatically show you the most popular 10 programs, you almost never have to use a menu. When you do, it is faster and easier to hit the windows key and start typing the name of the program you want to run.
I agree that the desktop app versus real app is somewhat annoying, but it is by no means "broken". Like any other operating system in the world, you have to know which program to run when you want to do something.
I agree. I picked up a Win8 tablet at a store, imagining I would hate it. And I kind of did. But then I bought one anyway, because I wanted a tablet with Windows on it. There is like one page of reading that you have to do to understand the new paradigm, and you are off to the races. You basically have to learn 4 things: what swiping in from each side does. Once you learn that, it is plenty usable. Even in standard desktop mode. The only thing I have trouble with touch is very finely grained websites (tiny radio buttons or clicking one letter versus another). Easily solved with a Bluetooth Mouse or a digitizer stick thing. The touch keyboard is great.
So, it takes 5 minutes to learn, and maybe a day or two of use to be completely up to speed on it. How hard is that? So grandma and the lead secretary need to have a cheat sheet made for them. They need that for ANY change.
Meanwhile, I have a machine that's a fully functional tablet that doesn't even need a desktop mode if I don't want it. And all the way to a fully functional computer if I plug a keyboard and mouse into it. And if I get a Windows phone, it pretty much works the same for me.
The only real difference is that the start menu is a little bigger. You can customize it, pin things to the taskbar, use alt-tab and the windows key just like a normal computer. Windows key and type "notep" and notepad appears, just like Win 7.
All this is is haters hatin'.
I just looked at my D3200. Full auto only allows you to adjust flash mode, af area mode, focus mode, release mode and raw/jpg modes. Programmed auto mode lets you additionally adjust flash compensation, ev compensation, metering, ISO and white balance.
So it can be viewed either as "full Automatic with a few more choices available" or "A+S mode".
Check out the 35mm 1.8f AFS-G lens- it's a great prime lens for most situations.
It's like they are designed specifically to create diffraction blur.
I think P mode lets you adjust the ISO and white balance manually, where full auto doesn't.
And there will still be plenty of photographers out there recording history. They'll just be all independent contractors, instead of mostly independent contractors. Shit, half the photos in newspapers are amateur or stringer photos anyway.
You still have to wait for the newspapers to be printed and delivered.
I don't know about anyone else, but a newspaper is the last place I turn to for quality photography. It is literally the cheapest possible printing method, on the cheapest possible paper.
There is not an expectation of privacy in the hallway, however. If this guy was in the hallway and could hear what was going on inside the office, the people in the office were responsible for speaking too loudly.
Not anywhere I've seen.
If I remember my telecom correctly, a T1 is 26 ISDN lines concatenated together.
I doubt there is much to worry about. The physical medium is far less important than the underlying knowledge of communications and troubleshooting. Copper will hang around for a while, but for someone with experience in the field, it shouldn't matter what kind of wires are hooking stuff up.
There are different pinouts for the motherboard headers. You have to pick/guess the right one to make them work.
I know a lot of companies that pull that same shit. "Making the vendor fix the problem will cost too much, just throw it away!" It makes me crazy. At some point, damn the cost and make them do what they said they would do. It's not an economic issue, it's a quality control issue. Vendors will try to get away with whatever they can. What happens next time when they slip something through that you don't notice? Your customers get fucked.
No person shall [...] be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, [...]
You can't be forced to testify against yourself. For example, you can't be forced to make the choice between admitting to the crime or facing contempt charges. But you can be forced to provide evidence if it exists. This case is an interesting one, because it is right on the edge of the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. The judge isn't forcing him to *say* anything. He is just compelling him to perform an action. Not unlike compelling a defendant to provide a blood sample.
I personally believe that this violates the spirit of the law, but it might be the kind of technicality that the supreme court will see differently.
Files in a cache folder are less suspect than files in a folder created by a user of the computer labeled "kid fucking".
By "breaking" the encryption, they probably just guessed or found the correct password.
You have no protection against submitting physical evidence. If you have something and have a legal subpoena for it, they can take it. If you claim not to have it, they will just convince a judge that they need a search warrant. The 5th amendment is about testimony. You have the right to remain silent, that's pretty much it.
The laws have exceptions for law enforcement personnel who view it in the course of their duties. And more generally, there are a lot of judgement calls and grey areas in the law. A picture of your daughter in the bathtub making a funny face in along with the rest of your family photos? No problem. The same image in a folder marked "jerkoff material" would be illegal.
They have tools for that. It's basically a ups that clocks onto the AC waveform and then there is a sort of fork thing they use to hotwire the power cable.
Don't connect equipment with pirated software onto your company's network. Done.
Proper security shouldn't depend on the client browser. If you want HTTP traffic to go through a proxy, force it to at the bottleneck (ISP connection) not at the individual clients.
That seems like a lot of hassle for not a lot of payoff. Every time something breaks or gets moved, they have to call IT to reenable the port? Just so you can imagine that you have security? I guess nobody ever heard of MAC address spoofing.