That was a brand of cat litter I used about 20 years ago, it was made out of recycled newspaper and I always liked the name. Looks like they still make it, I wonder how long before it gets discontinued due to a lack of raw materials.
"Ebola is scary. It's a deadly disease. But we know how to stop it."
Full stop, that's it. Quit worrying. For better or for worse, the United States is not eastern Africa. We cannot and will not have a massive epidemic here. A coworker of mine died from H1N1 "swine flu" a few years back. RIP Dusty. Swine flu was a valid health concern, it was something to be alarmed about and take extraordinary precautions against. Ebola is not.
Media's doing what media does, hyping and scaring to rake in eyeballs and sell their advertisements.
NCSI is designed to respond to changes in network conditions, and examines the status of a network connection in a variety of ways. First it uses an active probe to determine the status. For example, in an active probe NCSI tests connectivity by trying to reach http://www.msftncsi.com/ a simple Web site that exists only to support the functionality of NCSI. Eventually, as other programs begin generating Internet traffic, NCSI switches to a passive monitoring process that assumes responsibility for detecting changes to the network status.
Every time a network configuration event occurs (meaning that something has changed in the network configuration), the NCSI process performs several tests to identify the network's connectivity status. The first step NCSI performs is a DNS query for www.msftncsi.com. The second step is and HTTP get request for http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.t.... This file is a plain-text file and contains only the text "Microsoft NCSI." Last it will perform a DNS query for dns.msftncsi.com.
The URLs used by NCSI can be changed via Group Policy, i.e. you can have it check for the presence of some local server, so that it doesn't bug the shit out of users on a network without external connectivity. Several weeks ago, Microsoft was having global DNS troubles, and many users reported seeing the "trouble" icon in the tray even though their internet connection was working just fine; the problem was that msftncsi.com wasn't resolving. Whoops.
You think a fake Facebook account is bad, how about having a cop take over your ID and use it to become a stripper! In 2003, Ohio law enforcement agents "appropriated" a woman's drivers license and SSN, and assigned them to an undercover officer who went to work as a stripper for 3 months as part of a sting operation on strip clubs. And the victim in that case hadn't been arrested for (nor consented to) a damn thing.
Pointing to a 2002 change in Ohio's law aimed at fighting identity theft, [the prosecutor] said police are allowed to assume anyone's identity as long as it's part of an investigation.
Fucking outrageous. Law enforcement in the US is out of control and has been so for quite some time.
I can't help but think that there's more to this story. I hate Comcast and it's fun to rail on them, but there's no proof yet that they've done anything horrible here. What appears to have happened is that a customer used his position (or knowledge he gained through his position) at work to escalate his own personal billing issue to someone at Comcast who had zero to do with the situation, and it backfired. Until or unless the recording of the phone call is made public, nobody really knows what went down and everything else is useless speculation.
There are plenty of 100% legitimate, proven reasons to hate Comcast. This might not be one of them.
Presumably this is about searching with a warrent.
Which is fine. They can still get a warrant. If they think John Doe is a suspect in a kidnapping, they can go swear an affidavit before a judge and get a warrant to search John Doe's stuff, including his phone. Nothing has changed there. If John Doe isn't too cooperative, that may present an inconvenience, but it's not one that didn't already exist back before Apple or Google announced their intent to encrypt things. Where, or even whether, encryption happens has zero to do with warrants.
So why would the government suddenly be upset if nothing has changed with regards to warrants?
Because lately they aren't getting warrants.
They've become accustomed to going on all sorts of extrajudicial fishing expeditions, whether that's digging through troves of data illegally intercepted by the NSA, or seizing and offloading the contents of peoples' phones without any legal basis, etc. What rustles their jimmies is that now they'll have to actually get a warrant for John Doe and his phone, as opposed to just sending some dubious administrative subpoena over to Apple.
According to whom, and what reason do you have to trust them? I'm not sure where you are, but for me, duckduckgo.com resolves to an IP on Amazon AWS and is hosted in the United States. These days I have no choice but to operate under the assumption that any server in the US is logging everything, whether by choice or under force of some secret court order from the US government. Giant providers like Amazon in particular. Unlike Lavabit, they can't afford to just shut everything down when presented with a dubious government demand.
In the meantime you might look at QuickEdit mode for the command prompt, if you haven't already. I've spent so much time in PuTTY over the years that I've grown accustomed to right-click being paste when I'm in a shell. This also works in cmd if you set it to use QuickEdit mode (having to hit Enter to copy a selection is just plain unintuitive, though).
It's not really a feature of Windows if you have to use a third-party utility, is it? That's like saying Napster has been a feature of Windows since 2000.
I agree, but I don't think you'll find that anyone at 4chan truly wishes death or bodily harm on their opponents, at least not in a quantity that's meaningfully different from society at large. Sure there are psychopaths walking around out there, some of them do have a desire or a compulsion to harm other people, most of them have never heard of 4chan or/b/.
When you provide people with an anonymous or quasinonymous platform for speech, interesting things happen. You'll get a lot of "niggers should be lynched," for example, but hand those guys a rope and they aren't going to do anything. You'll get a lot of "female game dev should be bound and gagged," but put any of those guys in the same room as her, they're not even going to make eye contact.
These are not real threats, not even real wishes or desires, it's a bunch of people venting steam on a message board. Go to a sports discussion forum (or sit down at a bar) and you'll get a slightly more socially acceptable variation on the same theme. "Romo's a homo, someone needs to sack him good and break his fucking neck." Those guys don't wish real physical harm on anyone either. Nobody pays them any attention, though, because there aren't buzzwords like 4chan or hacker to throw around and make a big scary news story.
Yes, rich people when they get money stick it under mattresses in order to deny the money from the economy
Yes, they do, and they're hoarding more of it than ever; "members of this global elite are stashing an average $600 million each -- 10 times more than a year ago."
Maybe there's hope for people yet - though I wouldn't put it past some to actually try it, there's no reason to believe that it has already transpired.
Never "misunderestimate" the average idiot. Hundreds of people have been happy to pour rubbing alcohol on their bodies and light themselves on fire this year, and there's no shortage of YouTube/Vine/LiveLeak videos to prove that this is going on. Believe it, there are people who are putting their new iPhones into their microwaves. They just can't prove it because they're too busy nuking the only camera they own.
BBB seems to be like the various state medical and dental boards, a group-help thing that suppresses complaints for members.
No, BBB is far worse.
Medical and dental boards are at least state sanctioned and have some level of certification and verification involved; you have to actually have a degree and a license to become a member. BBB, on the other hand, will happily sell you an A- rating for a nonexistent business called "Hamas" (yes, after the terror group), or take $395 to upgrade your listing from C to A+ overnight.
The real problem is that millions of consumers, especially seniors, look to BBB as some beacon of fairness and respectability. People will threaten to "call the BBB" as if they're part of FTC or some other government agency and can actually step in and take enforcement action or correct a perceived wrong. This is absolutely bogus, and that message needs to get out as far and wide as possible. When I was working retail 20 years ago and someone would say they were going to "call the BBB" over something, we'd hand our phone across the counter and ask if they wanted the phone book (nobody ever took us up on the offer).
Back on topic, there are tons of not-entirely-substantiated anecdotes of Yelp behaving this way as well. I wish someone would catch them in the act like ABC news got BBB on camera.
How does Apple and Bono's new magical DRM know the difference between me putting the song I bought on my Nexus and copying it for a friend?
They don't! So please, buy an iPhone! That way we can make sure you get Bono's new music. Then we know you like it, because your iPhone automatically downloaded it over your expensive cellular data plan without your authorization, er, um, I mean, you intentionally downloaded it! On purpose, because you like it! There are hundreds of millions of fans of U2 and iTunes!
It's even that way in some parts of the US, but only the very few places where municipalities got the ball rolling before Comcast and friends could lobby for laws making it illegal. Chattanooga has awesome municipal fiber, for example. In most states, the ISPs have bought and paid for legislation or entered into heavy-handed agreements that prevent other cities from implementing a similar network. Washington DC has miles of fiber sitting around dark because their agreements with ISPs don't allow them to sell service to residents. A 100 gigabit network is already there, it would cost very little to turn it up, but no, Verizon might lose some FiOS money and we can't have that.
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I wish I had some seed money, I'd buy some Bitcoin ATMs and resell them with my own custom software written by the Office Space crew.
OK Brits, any other vowels you feel like tossing in there?!
Ever hear the expression "yesterday's news"?
That was a brand of cat litter I used about 20 years ago, it was made out of recycled newspaper and I always liked the name. Looks like they still make it, I wonder how long before it gets discontinued due to a lack of raw materials.
MM's, the good old days!
Yes, NSA is now arguing that metadata should be private. Go figure.
On 10 October 1994, Opera CTO Hakon Lie posted a proposal for Cascading HTML style sheets.
How come?
Sorry, someone had to do it. :)
"Ebola is scary. It's a deadly disease. But we know how to stop it."
Full stop, that's it. Quit worrying. For better or for worse, the United States is not eastern Africa. We cannot and will not have a massive epidemic here. A coworker of mine died from H1N1 "swine flu" a few years back. RIP Dusty. Swine flu was a valid health concern, it was something to be alarmed about and take extraordinary precautions against. Ebola is not.
Media's doing what media does, hyping and scaring to rake in eyeballs and sell their advertisements.
And adding to the list, Windows does it as well. It's called Network Connection Status Indicator.
NCSI is designed to respond to changes in network conditions, and examines the status of a network connection in a variety of ways. First it uses an active probe to determine the status. For example, in an active probe NCSI tests connectivity by trying to reach http://www.msftncsi.com/ a simple Web site that exists only to support the functionality of NCSI. Eventually, as other programs begin generating Internet traffic, NCSI switches to a passive monitoring process that assumes responsibility for detecting changes to the network status.
Every time a network configuration event occurs (meaning that something has changed in the network configuration), the NCSI process performs several tests to identify the network's connectivity status. The first step NCSI performs is a DNS query for www.msftncsi.com. The second step is and HTTP get request for http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.t.... This file is a plain-text file and contains only the text "Microsoft NCSI." Last it will perform a DNS query for dns.msftncsi.com.
The URLs used by NCSI can be changed via Group Policy, i.e. you can have it check for the presence of some local server, so that it doesn't bug the shit out of users on a network without external connectivity. Several weeks ago, Microsoft was having global DNS troubles, and many users reported seeing the "trouble" icon in the tray even though their internet connection was working just fine; the problem was that msftncsi.com wasn't resolving. Whoops.
You think a fake Facebook account is bad, how about having a cop take over your ID and use it to become a stripper! In 2003, Ohio law enforcement agents "appropriated" a woman's drivers license and SSN, and assigned them to an undercover officer who went to work as a stripper for 3 months as part of a sting operation on strip clubs. And the victim in that case hadn't been arrested for (nor consented to) a damn thing.
Pointing to a 2002 change in Ohio's law aimed at fighting identity theft, [the prosecutor] said police are allowed to assume anyone's identity as long as it's part of an investigation.
Fucking outrageous. Law enforcement in the US is out of control and has been so for quite some time.
I can't help but think that there's more to this story. I hate Comcast and it's fun to rail on them, but there's no proof yet that they've done anything horrible here. What appears to have happened is that a customer used his position (or knowledge he gained through his position) at work to escalate his own personal billing issue to someone at Comcast who had zero to do with the situation, and it backfired. Until or unless the recording of the phone call is made public, nobody really knows what went down and everything else is useless speculation.
There are plenty of 100% legitimate, proven reasons to hate Comcast. This might not be one of them.
Presumably this is about searching with a warrent.
Which is fine. They can still get a warrant. If they think John Doe is a suspect in a kidnapping, they can go swear an affidavit before a judge and get a warrant to search John Doe's stuff, including his phone. Nothing has changed there. If John Doe isn't too cooperative, that may present an inconvenience, but it's not one that didn't already exist back before Apple or Google announced their intent to encrypt things. Where, or even whether, encryption happens has zero to do with warrants.
So why would the government suddenly be upset if nothing has changed with regards to warrants?
Because lately they aren't getting warrants.
They've become accustomed to going on all sorts of extrajudicial fishing expeditions, whether that's digging through troves of data illegally intercepted by the NSA, or seizing and offloading the contents of peoples' phones without any legal basis, etc. What rustles their jimmies is that now they'll have to actually get a warrant for John Doe and his phone, as opposed to just sending some dubious administrative subpoena over to Apple.
DuckDuckGo doesn't save search history
According to whom, and what reason do you have to trust them? I'm not sure where you are, but for me, duckduckgo.com resolves to an IP on Amazon AWS and is hosted in the United States. These days I have no choice but to operate under the assumption that any server in the US is logging everything, whether by choice or under force of some secret court order from the US government. Giant providers like Amazon in particular. Unlike Lavabit, they can't afford to just shut everything down when presented with a dubious government demand.
In the meantime you might look at QuickEdit mode for the command prompt, if you haven't already. I've spent so much time in PuTTY over the years that I've grown accustomed to right-click being paste when I'm in a shell. This also works in cmd if you set it to use QuickEdit mode (having to hit Enter to copy a selection is just plain unintuitive, though).
It's not really a feature of Windows if you have to use a third-party utility, is it? That's like saying Napster has been a feature of Windows since 2000.
Pants are optional, but recommended for you.
The only thing they suck at is... heavy dark matter on the back of the bowl.
As Steve Jobs would say, you must be holding it wrong (or maybe holding it too long?).
I agree, but I don't think you'll find that anyone at 4chan truly wishes death or bodily harm on their opponents, at least not in a quantity that's meaningfully different from society at large. Sure there are psychopaths walking around out there, some of them do have a desire or a compulsion to harm other people, most of them have never heard of 4chan or /b/.
When you provide people with an anonymous or quasinonymous platform for speech, interesting things happen. You'll get a lot of "niggers should be lynched," for example, but hand those guys a rope and they aren't going to do anything. You'll get a lot of "female game dev should be bound and gagged," but put any of those guys in the same room as her, they're not even going to make eye contact.
These are not real threats, not even real wishes or desires, it's a bunch of people venting steam on a message board. Go to a sports discussion forum (or sit down at a bar) and you'll get a slightly more socially acceptable variation on the same theme. "Romo's a homo, someone needs to sack him good and break his fucking neck." Those guys don't wish real physical harm on anyone either. Nobody pays them any attention, though, because there aren't buzzwords like 4chan or hacker to throw around and make a big scary news story.
Yes, rich people when they get money stick it under mattresses in order to deny the money from the economy
Yes, they do, and they're hoarding more of it than ever; "members of this global elite are stashing an average $600 million each -- 10 times more than a year ago."
Maybe there's hope for people yet - though I wouldn't put it past some to actually try it, there's no reason to believe that it has already transpired.
Never "misunderestimate" the average idiot. Hundreds of people have been happy to pour rubbing alcohol on their bodies and light themselves on fire this year, and there's no shortage of YouTube/Vine/LiveLeak videos to prove that this is going on. Believe it, there are people who are putting their new iPhones into their microwaves. They just can't prove it because they're too busy nuking the only camera they own.
BBB seems to be like the various state medical and dental boards, a group-help thing that suppresses complaints for members.
No, BBB is far worse.
Medical and dental boards are at least state sanctioned and have some level of certification and verification involved; you have to actually have a degree and a license to become a member. BBB, on the other hand, will happily sell you an A- rating for a nonexistent business called "Hamas" (yes, after the terror group), or take $395 to upgrade your listing from C to A+ overnight.
The real problem is that millions of consumers, especially seniors, look to BBB as some beacon of fairness and respectability. People will threaten to "call the BBB" as if they're part of FTC or some other government agency and can actually step in and take enforcement action or correct a perceived wrong. This is absolutely bogus, and that message needs to get out as far and wide as possible. When I was working retail 20 years ago and someone would say they were going to "call the BBB" over something, we'd hand our phone across the counter and ask if they wanted the phone book (nobody ever took us up on the offer).
Back on topic, there are tons of not-entirely-substantiated anecdotes of Yelp behaving this way as well. I wish someone would catch them in the act like ABC news got BBB on camera.
Thanks for the link, I was curious about that, too. "RapidScat" sounds like what I do after chili night.
How does Apple and Bono's new magical DRM know the difference between me putting the song I bought on my Nexus and copying it for a friend?
They don't! So please, buy an iPhone! That way we can make sure you get Bono's new music. Then we know you like it, because your iPhone automatically downloaded it over your expensive cellular data plan without your authorization, er, um, I mean, you intentionally downloaded it! On purpose, because you like it! There are hundreds of millions of fans of U2 and iTunes!
Love,
Apple+Bono
It's even that way in some parts of the US, but only the very few places where municipalities got the ball rolling before Comcast and friends could lobby for laws making it illegal. Chattanooga has awesome municipal fiber, for example. In most states, the ISPs have bought and paid for legislation or entered into heavy-handed agreements that prevent other cities from implementing a similar network. Washington DC has miles of fiber sitting around dark because their agreements with ISPs don't allow them to sell service to residents. A 100 gigabit network is already there, it would cost very little to turn it up, but no, Verizon might lose some FiOS money and we can't have that.
I believe you're referring to Java Anon Proxy/JAP.
Take off your pants and stand in traffic and you, too, can meet new grateful friends!