I think what he was saying was that the calls in questions are already "banned". It's enforcement that they are having trouble with. Making the calls "more illegal" doesn't really mean anything if you can't catch them because they are obfuscating their number.
I can attest that hotel room doors are pretty crowbar-resistant. During Katrina I was "essential personnel" and was "evacuated" to the hotel near City Hall so I could be at the ready once the storm passed. About $70k worth of equipment came with me to the hotel room to get it more protected. (Backup servers and their ilk.) The next evening when the national guard guys took us back to our rooms to get our stuff, there were three giant gouges in my door. But the door held. I was both impressed and disgusted. These people also beat up the hotel staff because they were upset that the hotel generators didn't also run the A/C's. Eventually, the hotel was abandoned and left to them. It was just too dangerous to the staff to stay. By the second night, they had defaced much of the hotel with spray painted signs declaring the hotel the "New 4th Ward", a project (slum) from New Orleans. Granted, their homes were flooded, but so was mine. So sad.
They can restrict legal items in large crowded areas. There are restrictions on umbrellas at all the major arenas I've ever gone to. Some won't even allow them on the premises. Sounds reasonable to me.
True. They don't carry $20 shoes at a Mom and Pop shop. Thank god. The shoes Wal-Mart carries are the bargain-basement worst shoes available. In fact, nearly all of Wal-Mart's products are inferior to what could be had locally. Sure, you pay less, but you GET even less. Cheaper != Best Value.
I vote far more often than once every 4 years. Our local government opens the polls as often as 4 times a year. By watching which elections I choose to vote in, they can interpolate what issues I care about more than other. At any rate, I am not too terribly concerned for two reasons. First, the politicians still can't tell which way I personally voted, although the poll operators can, as spot vote counts are currently possible on Diebold machines. I can't personally speak to other machines as I haven't seen them. The second is that since I'm an old fart I vote in every possible poll. I obviously care about everything.:)
What I am far more concerned about is an employer asking its employees under threat of termination to "self-verify" that they had voted in the direction the company preferred. Replace employer with Police, Spouse, Religious group, Financial institution, Organized Crime Family, etc you prefer and hopefully you can see how this could be an issue.
I'm not saying that pushing a magic button that supposedly cuts a bit of paper from another piece of paper that gets shoved into a box I cannot see gives me warm fuzzies with confidence my vote has truly been counted, but I have worked in a place where I know the employees were spot-monitored for their voting records. It made me nervous every time I voted in a way that went against the will of the administration. I should never have been made to have felt pressured like that. I can't tell you how many times I had a sign in my yard for a candidate when I was voting for another.
I still don't know the answer to the problem. After all is said and done, you HAVE to take the word of whoever is counting the votes as well as in the system used, be it paper ballots, electronic voting, or pebbles in a jar.
Number 3 could be problematic. If a vote could be verified, then it can also be coerced. Or bought. Or extorted.
They can already tell too much just by watching which elections you vote in and extrapolating your likelihood of voting in other elections based on past preferences.
Why can't the ISP's intercept all dns request packets to the infected servers and redirect the requests to their own dns server that has been programmed to send all requests save a few exceptions to a web page with explicit instructions and hard coded access to the websites necessary for removal of the virus and ONLY these websites. People can follow rudimentary instructions if they have to.
If they can't figure it out or are totally suspicious, they call the isp who tells them either how to fix it if it's easy, Call Geek Squad or someone in your family if it's not, or "it's legit" if they are simply suspicious.
Attention to these PC has to be paid at some point. May as well be now.
Sure, I can send an email on my iphone, but that's just because it's conveniently with me. If I'm at home or work, my phone stays in my pocket while I use a 'real' computer. I need speed, a larger than 10" screen, good full blown software rather than a thousand one-trick ponies, and for all that is holy, a real keyboard and mouse.
The tablets/phones are fun and useful, but only because they work anywhere. It will never be more useful to me than a PC.
No kidding. That kid was like 8. Ewwww.... If your kid is old enough to ask for mother's milk, he's too old for it. But it played perfectly into Lysa's insanity. She thinks it's normal. -=shudder=-
And to me, I hate being tied to one single itunes account. Itunes was the single reason I didn't get an Ipod. My Sansa Clip can be updated anywhere, sounds great, and has ~ an 18 hour usable charge. My iphone has only the essential music loaded on, for when I forget my Clip.
If I didn't have to go home to update my phone, I'd change it up more often. At any rate, Pandora always works on my iphone when I want to explore new music.
It's Bernoulli's Principle. See it in action: Take a business card, fold down 1/4" flaps on the short edges. Put the card on the table with the flaps pointed down. Now try and blow the card off the table without touching it. It's not impossible, but it sure is hard! The higher-velocity air passing under the card creates a low pressure spot under the card, pulling it toward the table.
Adding thousands and thousands of null routes to a home router would bring it to its knees. Most households can't afford a full blown Cisco router. The burden of processing the null routes would have to go to the ISP, whose systems could handle an extraordinarily large routing table. Once that happens, you'd have to add static routes on either side of the bad route to bypass it. VPN would still bypass it, but it would certainly be non-trivial for most users and would greatly increase the amount of total traffic required by the internet at large, as the pathing is no longer efficient by design but rather being bounced around the world.
So yeah, it would break things.
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I think what he was saying was that the calls in questions are already "banned". It's enforcement that they are having trouble with. Making the calls "more illegal" doesn't really mean anything if you can't catch them because they are obfuscating their number.
Microsoft should by all means copy Apple's walled garden model. Then they can both proceed straight to hell, holding hands.
And it would FINALLY be the year of Linux! =/
Not sure why it's appending a / to the end of the URL. Oh well.
He should call Franz Harary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Harary/
Never underestimate the spending power of preteen girls.
Meals Refusing to Exit. And it's apropos.
I can attest that hotel room doors are pretty crowbar-resistant. During Katrina I was "essential personnel" and was "evacuated" to the hotel near City Hall so I could be at the ready once the storm passed. About $70k worth of equipment came with me to the hotel room to get it more protected. (Backup servers and their ilk.) The next evening when the national guard guys took us back to our rooms to get our stuff, there were three giant gouges in my door. But the door held. I was both impressed and disgusted. These people also beat up the hotel staff because they were upset that the hotel generators didn't also run the A/C's. Eventually, the hotel was abandoned and left to them. It was just too dangerous to the staff to stay. By the second night, they had defaced much of the hotel with spray painted signs declaring the hotel the "New 4th Ward", a project (slum) from New Orleans. Granted, their homes were flooded, but so was mine. So sad.
And accidents DO happen: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-447704/Crushed-council-30-000-classic-car-parked-legally.html
Check out Cow Clicker. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_cowclicker/all/
They can restrict legal items in large crowded areas. There are restrictions on umbrellas at all the major arenas I've ever gone to. Some won't even allow them on the premises. Sounds reasonable to me.
Umm, but that would be 3 + 3 = 6.
True. They don't carry $20 shoes at a Mom and Pop shop. Thank god. The shoes Wal-Mart carries are the bargain-basement worst shoes available. In fact, nearly all of Wal-Mart's products are inferior to what could be had locally. Sure, you pay less, but you GET even less. Cheaper != Best Value.
I vote far more often than once every 4 years. Our local government opens the polls as often as 4 times a year. By watching which elections I choose to vote in, they can interpolate what issues I care about more than other. At any rate, I am not too terribly concerned for two reasons. First, the politicians still can't tell which way I personally voted, although the poll operators can, as spot vote counts are currently possible on Diebold machines. I can't personally speak to other machines as I haven't seen them. The second is that since I'm an old fart I vote in every possible poll. I obviously care about everything. :)
What I am far more concerned about is an employer asking its employees under threat of termination to "self-verify" that they had voted in the direction the company preferred. Replace employer with Police, Spouse, Religious group, Financial institution, Organized Crime Family, etc you prefer and hopefully you can see how this could be an issue.
I'm not saying that pushing a magic button that supposedly cuts a bit of paper from another piece of paper that gets shoved into a box I cannot see gives me warm fuzzies with confidence my vote has truly been counted, but I have worked in a place where I know the employees were spot-monitored for their voting records. It made me nervous every time I voted in a way that went against the will of the administration. I should never have been made to have felt pressured like that. I can't tell you how many times I had a sign in my yard for a candidate when I was voting for another.
I still don't know the answer to the problem. After all is said and done, you HAVE to take the word of whoever is counting the votes as well as in the system used, be it paper ballots, electronic voting, or pebbles in a jar.
Number 3 could be problematic. If a vote could be verified, then it can also be coerced. Or bought. Or extorted. They can already tell too much just by watching which elections you vote in and extrapolating your likelihood of voting in other elections based on past preferences.
No doubt. In fact, I'm somewhat surprised that a PC ignored for this long is still functional.
Why can't the ISP's intercept all dns request packets to the infected servers and redirect the requests to their own dns server that has been programmed to send all requests save a few exceptions to a web page with explicit instructions and hard coded access to the websites necessary for removal of the virus and ONLY these websites. People can follow rudimentary instructions if they have to. If they can't figure it out or are totally suspicious, they call the isp who tells them either how to fix it if it's easy, Call Geek Squad or someone in your family if it's not, or "it's legit" if they are simply suspicious. Attention to these PC has to be paid at some point. May as well be now.
Sure, I can send an email on my iphone, but that's just because it's conveniently with me. If I'm at home or work, my phone stays in my pocket while I use a 'real' computer. I need speed, a larger than 10" screen, good full blown software rather than a thousand one-trick ponies, and for all that is holy, a real keyboard and mouse. The tablets/phones are fun and useful, but only because they work anywhere. It will never be more useful to me than a PC.
No kidding. That kid was like 8. Ewwww.... If your kid is old enough to ask for mother's milk, he's too old for it. But it played perfectly into Lysa's insanity. She thinks it's normal. -=shudder=-
WTF?! If you are fluent enough in these acronyms to parse that sentence, then you didn't need to read it in the first place.
Just hope you don't live in Wyoming or DC if you have to be on a single state list.
And to me, I hate being tied to one single itunes account. Itunes was the single reason I didn't get an Ipod. My Sansa Clip can be updated anywhere, sounds great, and has ~ an 18 hour usable charge. My iphone has only the essential music loaded on, for when I forget my Clip. If I didn't have to go home to update my phone, I'd change it up more often. At any rate, Pandora always works on my iphone when I want to explore new music.
It's Bernoulli's Principle. See it in action: Take a business card, fold down 1/4" flaps on the short edges. Put the card on the table with the flaps pointed down. Now try and blow the card off the table without touching it. It's not impossible, but it sure is hard! The higher-velocity air passing under the card creates a low pressure spot under the card, pulling it toward the table.
By Blizzard, to Activision.
Adding thousands and thousands of null routes to a home router would bring it to its knees. Most households can't afford a full blown Cisco router. The burden of processing the null routes would have to go to the ISP, whose systems could handle an extraordinarily large routing table. Once that happens, you'd have to add static routes on either side of the bad route to bypass it. VPN would still bypass it, but it would certainly be non-trivial for most users and would greatly increase the amount of total traffic required by the internet at large, as the pathing is no longer efficient by design but rather being bounced around the world. So yeah, it would break things.
You really don't think a 'Retina' display doesn't make a huge difference, here?
What?