Oh, ok. We're going down that particular path of paranoia.
You do realize that, on every single Android phone (even those with Cyanogenmod), is a bunch of closed-source code often referred to as the "baseband"?
Ostensibly, it's just there to set up the radios and such. What does it do, really?
When I wired my office, I put some outlets 2 feet above the top of the desk.
It looked a little goofy when the room was empty, but works well now that is in use: Just reach over the monitors and plug stuff in.
(Please note: These are still too far away for me to sit in front of my desk, hold an Apple gadget in my hand, and plug it in using the included cable+charging adapter.)
(Please also note that in some regulatory districts, wiring one's own outlets in one's own home may be against the law. Please consult an attorney.)
I challenge you to kill me by applying 5 Volts of DC to any external part of my body, using contact area and spacing equivalent to a Lightning connector.
Who else is game?
(Hint: 5 Volts isn't enough potential to cause problems, because the resistance of skin is too high and the contact area too small to allow any harmful, let alone lethal, current to flow. It just can't happen: Ohm said so.)
Yes. Cydia had a working system on end-user devices for distributing third-party applications on 1st-gen iPhones and iPod Touch months before Apple did.
At the time, Apple was championing the notion that apps weren't even needed; all anyone really needed was HTML5 and a web site to serve it to end-users.
I retired the old 'nix box from routing duty well over a half-decade ago. I got sick of maintaining something with moving parts that -- when it broke -- also prevented me from having Internet access to help me Google a fix. It got replaced with a WRT54GS running Sveasoft (which still works fine, SD card mod and all, though it doesn't get used anymore).
These days, I use an RT-N16 running Shibby. I have no complaints. (And it's a cute little general-purpose headless Linux box in its own right...)
Back to the topic: I don't do ad-blocking at the router. I've considered it, but it seems likely to break lots of stuff in weird ways with the transition between a bog-standard NAT gateway and a magical transparent proxy.
Deforest an area, pave it, over graze and strip off vegetation, have long term droughts and poor forest management that guarantee huge fires that denude the hills, over log and what do you expect will happen?
But then there's the obvious counter-argument: Not everyone has a Rasberry Pi and a spare USB WiFi NIC kicking around, either.
If I were to replace it with newer hardware, what make and model of home router would you recommend for no more than the price of a Raspberry Pi?
You didn't set the bar very high, did you?
From adafruit:
$39.95 Raspberry Pi Model B 512MB RAM $9.95 Adafruit Pi Case- Enclosure for Raspberry Pi Model A or B $11.95 Miniature WiFi (802.11b/g/n) Module: For Raspberry Pi and more $5.95 5V 1A (1000mA) USB port power supply - UL Listed $7.95 SD/MicroSD Memory Card (4 GB SDHC)
That's a grand total of $80.93 to get enough RaspPi to build an access point (some assembly required). (And you still need an Ethernet cable, and a USB cable for power.)
Or, for $50, shipping included you can get the venerable Linksys WRT54GL. Comes pre-assembled with everything you need except third-party software, which is it is widely compatible with.
For a few dollars more than a pile of Raspberry Pi kit, you can also get an Asus RT-N16. It's a beastly little router for the price, and has a gigabit switch built-in along with 802.11n (2.4GHz only, sadly). It's about as compatible with third-party firmware as the WRT54GL.
They're currently going for about $84, shipping included. Also comes pre-assembled with everything needed except software.
No, it's the challenge with reading from a format used by one very niche disk mechanism for a supercomputer.
It may not be _easy_, but it should be a lot easier to read an RLL hard disk.
Actually, reading the Cray disk was probably relatively easy: It was just MFM.
What format is used by a modern disk? It sure as hell isn't plain-old RLL as I remember it from the 80's. I'm going to guess that reading one and getting data from it is going to be quite the adventure in 30 years.
Updating the time twice a day isn't really doing a whole lot of "stuff." With interaction, it's mostly like "HEY! I'm here! What time is it?" "2304" (and not even a "k thx" at the end -- an ACK is really not necessary. Two packets are necessary, one sent, one received.
This could be reduced to 1 packet received and zero sent, since both devices know about what time it is anyway: Without even digging on BT 4.0, I've got to say that mundanities like "subscribing to a RTC in listen-only mode at a prescribed time" would seem like a no-brainer.
I've got a big radio-controlled (via a transmitter in Colorado) wall clock, with hands on it and the whole nine yards. It opens its receiver once every 24 hours, after midnight, looking for a time sync.
It has hung on the wall with its original (included) pair of alkaline AA batteries for about half a decade. It works great. Other mechanical clocks in the house have had their batteries replaced more frequently, and none of the others set themselves automatically via radio....let alone with a radio with a very small antenna that must receive a signal from half a continent away.
The Citizen watch has a solar panel and must only communicate over a few yards at best, and if they're doing it right, it only has to listen at about the prescribed time and never needs to transmit unless requested to do so by a user, or in the event that it misses a time broadcast.
It ought to work indefinitely. (And if it doesn't work that way, please consider this prior art when submitting your patent. Thanks.)
Forget the big evil government; what about plain old county jail? After all, this ain't Git'mo: It's just the place where people get to spend some time after they've done something wrong. There are no interrogations in County; that's up to the courts to figure out.
I spent a month (thirty days to the minute) in a small county jail once over a minor infraction (which consisted of, basically, "pissing off a judge"). Because I also built (and continue to maintain) some of the critical security systems in that facility and knew more about the place than any inmate ever should, and because I was in in a very bad way when I first showed up (I was a very unhappy camper), they wanted to keep me away from other inmates.
I got my own private suite with my own cable TV, an actual bed (a very bad bed, but better than a padded mat on a steel bench), my own shower, my own visitation timeslots, and etc. I could watch what I wanted, shower whenever and for as long as I wanted in relative privacy, and was allowed to sleep whenever.
It should've been like summer camp because of my "special" treatment. And it should've been the best sleep I've ever had, because all I had to think about was visitation every few days, commissary delivery time (yay, a dill pickle to eat and a tube of saltines to ration over the next few days!), medication time, mealtime, TV time, and sleep time. Simple, right?
But I didn't get any good sleep there. At night, after "lights out," the place was loud from other inmates cleaning the halls, and carrying on prolonged conversations with eachother through the ductwork, and it was never actually anything approaching dark. The sounds of heavy steel doors opening and closing, random radio traffic, and people talking echoed jarringly for many hours after "lights out."
During the day it was actually quieter in the hall, and the TV was allowed to be on from 9AM to 11PM (it was switched off at the breaker the rest of the time), which was useful for the drone of a documentary or a news channel: Covering the random and chaotic noises with mundane TV noises let me actually try to get some sleep.
But even in the best case, with all the clanging and goings on and people being released and admitted and rotated (which happened 24x7, since they wanted to make your stay as short as ordered to make room for others as soon as posssible), I didn't get to sleep until 4:00AM. And at 5:30 someone would knock and ask if I wanted to use my razor. And at 6:30 breakfast would show up. And at 7:00 it would be collected. And at 9:30 the nurse would stop by. And at 11:30 lunch would show up. Around 12:00 it would be collected. And at 5:30 dinner would show up, again collected around 6:00. Around 7:00 one of the jail sergeants would usually stop by to chat for half an hour or more, which was actually nice. Somewhere during the evening was another nurse visit, as well -- I forget when.
And then, some nights, around 8:00 the jailer would drop off a commissary order form, and collect it around an hour later. And laundry happened twice a week, also at night. And then, sometimes, they'd show up at random to search my "suite," looking for contraband, making sure I wasn't hoarding too many condiment packets, counting the bedsprings, that sort of thing (even though I was strip-searched after every time I left my cell for any reason, which was very infrequent to begin with).
Oh, and since I was in a bad way when I showed up and possibly an escape risk (I built the door control and intercom systems), I was on suicide watch for the whole month. They'd come and peer at me every 20 minutes, night and day, to see if I was still alive. Sometimes quietly, sometimes intentionally loudly.
Sounds a whole lot like jail, doesn't it? And it was: It's not a place designed to be the utmost of pleasantness, although it was certainly cleaner than any hospital I've ever been in...in fact, I rate its cleanliness second only to a domestic Arm
So the difference between an engineer and an ENG. is that one of them may understand how to use English abbreviations with appropriate capitalization, while the other of them does not. And it is this distinction that makes the relationship between Snowden, USB, and Ethernet obvious.
Please explain what "the DOT," "a cave," Snowden, or whether or not I keep my head buried in sand has to do with the relationship between USB and Ethernet.
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Oh, ok. We're going down that particular path of paranoia.
You do realize that, on every single Android phone (even those with Cyanogenmod), is a bunch of closed-source code often referred to as the "baseband"?
Ostensibly, it's just there to set up the radios and such. What does it do, really?
But Cyanogen can run software which is not open-source, just like every other incarnation of Android.
Are you the lawyer I was alluding to?
As a long-time Cyanogenmod user, I've got to ask:
Cyanogenmod helps this problem...how, exactly?
When I wired my office, I put some outlets 2 feet above the top of the desk.
It looked a little goofy when the room was empty, but works well now that is in use: Just reach over the monitors and plug stuff in.
(Please note: These are still too far away for me to sit in front of my desk, hold an Apple gadget in my hand, and plug it in using the included cable+charging adapter.)
(Please also note that in some regulatory districts, wiring one's own outlets in one's own home may be against the law. Please consult an attorney.)
Oh, just stop.
I challenge you to kill me by applying 5 Volts of DC to any external part of my body, using contact area and spacing equivalent to a Lightning connector.
Who else is game?
(Hint: 5 Volts isn't enough potential to cause problems, because the resistance of skin is too high and the contact area too small to allow any harmful, let alone lethal, current to flow. It just can't happen: Ohm said so.)
What I see:
With only 70 mouths to feed, it takes $40,000,000.00 to turn a profit?
Hello, friend. My name is 2013.
I regret to inform you that 1994 called, and they want their metered Internet back.
Best wishes.
Yes. Cydia had a working system on end-user devices for distributing third-party applications on 1st-gen iPhones and iPod Touch months before Apple did.
At the time, Apple was championing the notion that apps weren't even needed; all anyone really needed was HTML5 and a web site to serve it to end-users.
We all see how well that concept went....
Does this mean that girls cannot be sex objects?
Mulch is good. Mulch turns to compost. Compost makes flowers.
And flowers lead to ponies.
OMG! PONIES!
Bah.
The web is slower today than it ever was.
It's not bloat, but merely progress.
I retired the old 'nix box from routing duty well over a half-decade ago. I got sick of maintaining something with moving parts that -- when it broke -- also prevented me from having Internet access to help me Google a fix. It got replaced with a WRT54GS running Sveasoft (which still works fine, SD card mod and all, though it doesn't get used anymore).
These days, I use an RT-N16 running Shibby. I have no complaints. (And it's a cute little general-purpose headless Linux box in its own right...)
Back to the topic: I don't do ad-blocking at the router. I've considered it, but it seems likely to break lots of stuff in weird ways with the transition between a bog-standard NAT gateway and a magical transparent proxy.
Ponies. I expect that ponies will happen.
Yeah, you're right.
But then there's the obvious counter-argument: Not everyone has a Rasberry Pi and a spare USB WiFi NIC kicking around, either.
You didn't set the bar very high, did you?
From adafruit:
$39.95 Raspberry Pi Model B 512MB RAM
$9.95 Adafruit Pi Case- Enclosure for Raspberry Pi Model A or B
$11.95 Miniature WiFi (802.11b/g/n) Module: For Raspberry Pi and more
$5.95 5V 1A (1000mA) USB port power supply - UL Listed
$7.95 SD/MicroSD Memory Card (4 GB SDHC)
== $75.75. Adding first-class USPS shipping (to Ohio) adds another $5.18.
That's a grand total of $80.93 to get enough RaspPi to build an access point (some assembly required). (And you still need an Ethernet cable, and a USB cable for power.)
Or, for $50, shipping included you can get the venerable Linksys WRT54GL. Comes pre-assembled with everything you need except third-party software, which is it is widely compatible with.
For a few dollars more than a pile of Raspberry Pi kit, you can also get an Asus RT-N16. It's a beastly little router for the price, and has a gigabit switch built-in along with 802.11n (2.4GHz only, sadly). It's about as compatible with third-party firmware as the WRT54GL.
They're currently going for about $84, shipping included. Also comes pre-assembled with everything needed except software.
Actually, reading the Cray disk was probably relatively easy: It was just MFM.
What format is used by a modern disk? It sure as hell isn't plain-old RLL as I remember it from the 80's. I'm going to guess that reading one and getting data from it is going to be quite the adventure in 30 years.
Time will tell.
But they do: Fuel tax.
I buy fuel, pay taxes on it, and they keep the roads working.
(I can also buy untaxed fuel easily enough, but I cannot legally use it in my car on a public road.)
When TFL in TFS describes TFV instead of TFA, R'ing TFA only happens by mistake.
Besides, embedded videos suck.
A miracle! Just wait 'til Jeri Ellsworth hears about this!
Updating the time twice a day isn't really doing a whole lot of "stuff." With interaction, it's mostly like "HEY! I'm here! What time is it?" "2304" (and not even a "k thx" at the end -- an ACK is really not necessary. Two packets are necessary, one sent, one received.
This could be reduced to 1 packet received and zero sent, since both devices know about what time it is anyway: Without even digging on BT 4.0, I've got to say that mundanities like "subscribing to a RTC in listen-only mode at a prescribed time" would seem like a no-brainer.
I've got a big radio-controlled (via a transmitter in Colorado) wall clock, with hands on it and the whole nine yards. It opens its receiver once every 24 hours, after midnight, looking for a time sync.
It has hung on the wall with its original (included) pair of alkaline AA batteries for about half a decade. It works great. Other mechanical clocks in the house have had their batteries replaced more frequently, and none of the others set themselves automatically via radio....let alone with a radio with a very small antenna that must receive a signal from half a continent away.
The Citizen watch has a solar panel and must only communicate over a few yards at best, and if they're doing it right, it only has to listen at about the prescribed time and never needs to transmit unless requested to do so by a user, or in the event that it misses a time broadcast.
It ought to work indefinitely. (And if it doesn't work that way, please consider this prior art when submitting your patent. Thanks.)
I think you raise an interesting point.
Forget the big evil government; what about plain old county jail? After all, this ain't Git'mo: It's just the place where people get to spend some time after they've done something wrong. There are no interrogations in County; that's up to the courts to figure out.
I spent a month (thirty days to the minute) in a small county jail once over a minor infraction (which consisted of, basically, "pissing off a judge"). Because I also built (and continue to maintain) some of the critical security systems in that facility and knew more about the place than any inmate ever should, and because I was in in a very bad way when I first showed up (I was a very unhappy camper), they wanted to keep me away from other inmates.
I got my own private suite with my own cable TV, an actual bed (a very bad bed, but better than a padded mat on a steel bench), my own shower, my own visitation timeslots, and etc. I could watch what I wanted, shower whenever and for as long as I wanted in relative privacy, and was allowed to sleep whenever.
It should've been like summer camp because of my "special" treatment. And it should've been the best sleep I've ever had, because all I had to think about was visitation every few days, commissary delivery time (yay, a dill pickle to eat and a tube of saltines to ration over the next few days!), medication time, mealtime, TV time, and sleep time. Simple, right?
But I didn't get any good sleep there. At night, after "lights out," the place was loud from other inmates cleaning the halls, and carrying on prolonged conversations with eachother through the ductwork, and it was never actually anything approaching dark. The sounds of heavy steel doors opening and closing, random radio traffic, and people talking echoed jarringly for many hours after "lights out."
During the day it was actually quieter in the hall, and the TV was allowed to be on from 9AM to 11PM (it was switched off at the breaker the rest of the time), which was useful for the drone of a documentary or a news channel: Covering the random and chaotic noises with mundane TV noises let me actually try to get some sleep.
But even in the best case, with all the clanging and goings on and people being released and admitted and rotated (which happened 24x7, since they wanted to make your stay as short as ordered to make room for others as soon as posssible), I didn't get to sleep until 4:00AM. And at 5:30 someone would knock and ask if I wanted to use my razor. And at 6:30 breakfast would show up. And at 7:00 it would be collected. And at 9:30 the nurse would stop by. And at 11:30 lunch would show up. Around 12:00 it would be collected. And at 5:30 dinner would show up, again collected around 6:00. Around 7:00 one of the jail sergeants would usually stop by to chat for half an hour or more, which was actually nice. Somewhere during the evening was another nurse visit, as well -- I forget when.
And then, some nights, around 8:00 the jailer would drop off a commissary order form, and collect it around an hour later. And laundry happened twice a week, also at night. And then, sometimes, they'd show up at random to search my "suite," looking for contraband, making sure I wasn't hoarding too many condiment packets, counting the bedsprings, that sort of thing (even though I was strip-searched after every time I left my cell for any reason, which was very infrequent to begin with).
Oh, and since I was in a bad way when I showed up and possibly an escape risk (I built the door control and intercom systems), I was on suicide watch for the whole month. They'd come and peer at me every 20 minutes, night and day, to see if I was still alive. Sometimes quietly, sometimes intentionally loudly.
Sounds a whole lot like jail, doesn't it? And it was: It's not a place designed to be the utmost of pleasantness, although it was certainly cleaner than any hospital I've ever been in...in fact, I rate its cleanliness second only to a domestic Arm
Dear troll,
So the difference between an engineer and an ENG. is that one of them may understand how to use English abbreviations with appropriate capitalization, while the other of them does not. And it is this distinction that makes the relationship between Snowden, USB, and Ethernet obvious.
Did I get that right?
Best wishes,
adolf
Dear troll,
Please explain what "the DOT," "a cave," Snowden, or whether or not I keep my head buried in sand has to do with the relationship between USB and Ethernet.
Sincerely,
adolf
That sounds more like Google buying "them," than they buying "it."
Thank you for the linked citation. Your posting is exemplary in ways that many others fail.
I note one obvious problem with your citation: Therein, it is proclaimed that there are fans of Oracle.
Who are these "fans"? Please elaborate.