What the hell are you talking about?
Who said anything about rights?
When I cut a cheque I demand the service that was advertised. don't you?
If not, then I think you are going to have a lot of trouble in this capitalist world.
as if the companies owed you the internet or something. Umm.... perhaps you haven't heard of this thing called "commerce"... here's how it works: one person/entity give another person/entity a quantity of money(you know about money right?) and in exchange the other person/entity gives the first person/entity a product or service.
You give them "money" then they "owe" you a product or service.
Maybe I'm picky but when I pay for an Internet connection I expect to be able to do whatever the feck I want with the IP protocol and any other IP-aware systems that happen to be connected to the Internet. The web is a pretty important IP-based system that I use all the time but it is only one of the many wonderfull systems that operate on the Internet using the Internet Protocol. I personally hate ISPs/network admins who give me gibbled Internet access where barely anything except web access works properly.
David Wilkins can take a long walk off a short pier. Stephen Harper (our douchebag PM) should tell the american government to go fuck themselves until they apologize, pay reperations and swear they will never ever kidnap and torture our citizens again.
116-3 Q. Do some users of KaZaA fool people 4 with fake content? 6 A. I don't have any firsthand experience 7 with that. Either he is not an expert on Kazaa or this is deliberate lie. Given the proportion of deliberately mis-labelled (fake) files on kazaa the probability that an expert or even a casual user might never encounter any is virtually zero.
40kbps, which is 40,000 bits per second, but when my browser claimed 4.0KB/sec download speed I knew it was pulling 32,768 bits per second. snicker. I guess it IS confusing eh? 40kbps (Kilo Bits Per Second) == 40 * 1024 bits == 40,960 bits per second 4.0KB/s (Kilo Bytes per Second) == 4 * 1024 * 8 == 32,768 bits per second
I realize your 40,000 was probably just a mistake... I'm just sayin'.....
oh, and I agree that Mebibytes or whatever word they chose is utter crap. I call on all techies around the world to never -ever- use those inane words. Let them die quickly. (along with whatever committee members voted for that nomenclature) If we can't kill these words I suggest we gather a mob and burn down the corporate offices of the hdd manufacturers as punishment for starting this whole damn circus by lying about their drive sizes.
Ok, so voip software echo-cancellation may be clunky but what about pro-audio echo cancellation? I'm thinking here of the rock-concert stuff. The audio output is of high quality and yet the mics pick up a heck of alot of output from the speakers. Somehow the manufacturers of this equipment manage to eliminate the echo (usually)completely and in real-time without computers. I have no idea what technique is used but I DO know that it works very very well.
Echo cancellation technology has been available in pro-audio equipment for many years and in consumer electronics for quite some time. It is cheap and effective.
I don't personally know how it works but I use it all the time. You can put a mic on a stage, send the output from that mic through lots of cables, mixers and amps then blast it out through 15 different speakers at ear-damaging volume levels all in a tiny crowded bar and still not have a feedback loop problem.
That could not happen. I'll cite a 2003 electoral commission report on their first internet voting trial: "No evidence of fraud was found." When fraud leaves no evidence you can't find out that your vote was mis-cast and you can't become dienfranchised. Problem solved.
the system was built by ES&S, a US company subject to the patriot act. ES&S staff had user accounts on the system which were temporarily disabled on election day. (at least they were asked to do so...)
Ballots can be traced back to voters. An "encryption key" allowing the matching of a ballot to a registered voter is split, half given to Unisys(the supplier) and half to the Municipal Council.
Usernames and passwords are sent by snail-mail
approx. 5% of registered internet voters were unable to vote online because they only had 40-bit ssl support in their browsers!?!?!?!?!??! (sweet jebus, there are people using 40-bit ssl in this day and age?!?!?!)
There were no controls on the "counting" of the Internet ballots. None. Basically a Unisys employee dialed-into their servers from a laptop, grabbed the results, formatted them into reports by hand using Word and Access then printed them. It was entirely a 'trust unisys' setup, there weren't even any prescribed controls/procedures for ensuing the laptop was clean. The report does at least note that they realized this was a problem.
The cost of the election was 685,000 pounds. That compares with 47,000 pounds for the previous year when they did not have to pay for Internet voting systems.
Absolutely NO mention of security on the voters PC. None. It is as if they didn't even realize that compromising the home PCs might be a significant attack vector.
They are simply getting desperate to find something for which people might be willing to pay these huge fees. My company provides webcasting services and we looked into providing live streaming video to cellphones. Hockey games and stuff like that. Holy fracking fees batman! It is totally impossible to use telus/bell/rogers data services for anything usefull. It would cost us $50-100 to stream a farking highlight reel from a hockey game. Entire games are totally out of the question. Yes, that's $50-100 per viewer per fracking video!!!! If you swing a deal with them you can get a video delivered for about $20 per viewer. utterly ridiculous. It would seriously be cheaper to use puralator to send people DVDs overnight.
Somehow they think people might be willing to pay $4 for a tiny porno jpeg.
Dear phone company execs, when you are reviewing a project plan and you see "billing per KB" it is time to scrap the plan and start over.
You join it and, if you have file sharing enabled, your computer becomes a zombie. That is just wrong. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
Let me repharse that for ya: users who don't keep their systems up-to-date with the latest security patches and users who blindly accept invalid ssl certificates will get owned. p.s. risk increased somewhat when wireless networks are involved.
why do articles written for complete newbies get posted here on slashdot? This is supposed to be "news for nerds" not techno-fluff peices for CEOs and US senators.
This is nothing more than a promotional gimmick. An iPod price survey is not the same as a big mac price survey for various reasons (primarily, ipods are imported not manufactured locally). If you want to compare cost of living you should go look at the mig mac index, the iPod index is for entertainment purposes only.
Leaking a movie script like that is NOT COOL. You've totally ruined the movie-going experience for me.
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You seem to have missed the whole point. In a country like Canada your assertion that it would require hundreds of people to steal an election is correct. Ditto for the USA in the past.
The problem today is that with these voting computers a single black-hat could have done the job by himself (or with the help of a couple of friends) in your last election.
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You're right. I'm sorry. For a moment there I forgot that so many people really, in their hearts, don't mind killing children.
Also, I mistakenly thought that the election was all about picking a good leadership team. In fact, as you suggest, it is all about my-side versus your-side and which side wins. Obviously any complaints I might have are sour-grapes because my-side didn't win. The mountain of dead bodies argument is an obvious cover for my personal shame for backing the wrong team.
The 3k dead US soldiers are a fucking tragedy that GWB is responsible for. I'd just like to remind you/everyone that non-citizens are people too. You don't have to do anything for them, I'm not asking you to care about them. I'm just saying that their lives are important enough that when we kill them we should take the time to put a check-mark in a box to track the number of souls we extinguish. And when we quote the cost in lives of our wars we include the dead women and children in the number.
"...but he's not Adolph Hilter. Heck, he's not even Richard Nixon." Hitler: millions dead Nixon: millions dead Bush: hundreds of thousands dead
Ok, you are correct. I guess it is ok then.
"...all from a guy who everyone ridicules as been a moron"
That makes no sense. Do you realize that there are several people in the republican party? several people in the white house, several people in several federal agencies? A group can carry out complex operations even though the group's front-man is not too bright. I think it is likely that you already know this and are just trying to confuse the issue. That is highly irresponsible behaviour when the stakes are this high.
"he was a friendly likable guy" and "they felt he was protecting them from danger"
I can't argue with you there. It is pretty depressing that american voters (maybe everyone else too, i don't know) have such poor judgement and lack of reading comprehension skills that they can come to wildly inaccurate conclusions like that.
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First, I agree with you about Kerry.
Second, you sir/madam are an ass. You voted to re-elect that murderous criminal? How do you sleep at night? Do you have nightmares about the tens of thousands of dead women and children?
Beautiful. However, I don't think I'm the fattest or pimpliest so your script may need a little tweaking... Also, I suggest that she will need Valla Maldoran as a second in command or something.. she makes me tingly.
insightful? today's mod's are drunk. 1) folks are regularly downloading entire seasons of TV episodes using bittorrent. That makes for 50-70GB torrents. 2) 20GB? I doubt the regular traffic will be using a datarate like that. DVD movie torrents are 4-9GB, but far more popular are the xvid avi files at 700-1500MB. When more HD movies are released they will probably be posted as 2-6GB avi files.
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I agree completely.
p.s. Diebold sucks
Maybe I'm picky but when I pay for an Internet connection I expect to be able to do whatever the feck I want with the IP protocol and any other IP-aware systems that happen to be connected to the Internet.
The web is a pretty important IP-based system that I use all the time but it is only one of the many wonderfull systems that operate on the Internet using the Internet Protocol.
I personally hate ISPs/network admins who give me gibbled Internet access where barely anything except web access works properly.
David Wilkins can take a long walk off a short pier.
Stephen Harper (our douchebag PM) should tell the american government to go fuck themselves until they apologize, pay reperations and swear they will never ever kidnap and torture our citizens again.
4 with fake content?
6 A. I don't have any firsthand experience
7 with that. Either he is not an expert on Kazaa or this is deliberate lie.
Given the proportion of deliberately mis-labelled (fake) files on kazaa the probability that an expert or even a casual user might never encounter any is virtually zero.
40kbps (Kilo Bits Per Second) == 40 * 1024 bits == 40,960 bits per second
4.0KB/s (Kilo Bytes per Second) == 4 * 1024 * 8 == 32,768 bits per second
I realize your 40,000 was probably just a mistake...
I'm just sayin'
oh, and I agree that Mebibytes or whatever word they chose is utter crap.
I call on all techies around the world to never -ever- use those inane words.
Let them die quickly.
(along with whatever committee members voted for that nomenclature)
If we can't kill these words I suggest we gather a mob and burn down the corporate offices of the hdd manufacturers as punishment for starting this whole damn circus by lying about their drive sizes.
Ok, so voip software echo-cancellation may be clunky but what about pro-audio echo cancellation?
I'm thinking here of the rock-concert stuff. The audio output is of high quality and yet the mics pick up a heck of alot of output from the speakers. Somehow the manufacturers of this equipment manage to eliminate the echo (usually)completely and in real-time without computers.
I have no idea what technique is used but I DO know that it works very very well.
Echo cancellation technology has been available in pro-audio equipment for many years and in consumer electronics for quite some time.
It is cheap and effective.
I don't personally know how it works but I use it all the time.
You can put a mic on a stage, send the output from that mic through lots of cables, mixers and amps then blast it out through 15 different speakers at ear-damaging volume levels all in a tiny crowded bar and still not have a feedback loop problem.
That could not happen.
I'll cite a 2003 electoral commission report on their first internet voting trial:
"No evidence of fraud was found."
When fraud leaves no evidence you can't find out that your vote was mis-cast and you can't become dienfranchised.
Problem solved.
Here is the Electoral Commission report for the Rushmoor district from 2003.
Relevant info starts at page 5
http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/media/adobepdf/interne
Interesting points from the report:
An "encryption key" allowing the matching of a ballot to a registered voter is split, half given to Unisys(the supplier) and half to the Municipal Council.
Basically a Unisys employee dialed-into their servers from a laptop, grabbed the results, formatted them into reports by hand using Word and Access then printed them. It was entirely a 'trust unisys' setup, there weren't even any prescribed controls/procedures for ensuing the laptop was clean.
The report does at least note that they realized this was a problem.
They are simply getting desperate to find something for which people might be willing to pay these huge fees.
My company provides webcasting services and we looked into providing live streaming video to cellphones.
Hockey games and stuff like that.
Holy fracking fees batman!
It is totally impossible to use telus/bell/rogers data services for anything usefull.
It would cost us $50-100 to stream a farking highlight reel from a hockey game. Entire games are totally out of the question.
Yes, that's $50-100 per viewer per fracking video!!!!
If you swing a deal with them you can get a video delivered for about $20 per viewer. utterly ridiculous.
It would seriously be cheaper to use puralator to send people DVDs overnight.
Somehow they think people might be willing to pay $4 for a tiny porno jpeg.
Dear phone company execs, when you are reviewing a project plan and you see "billing per KB" it is time to scrap the plan and start over.
oops, i meant "Alaskan senators"
Move along folks, nothing to see here.
Let me repharse that for ya: users who don't keep their systems up-to-date with the latest security patches and users who blindly accept invalid ssl certificates will get owned.
p.s. risk increased somewhat when wireless networks are involved.
why do articles written for complete newbies get posted here on slashdot?
This is supposed to be "news for nerds" not techno-fluff peices for CEOs and US senators.
This is nothing more than a promotional gimmick.
An iPod price survey is not the same as a big mac price survey for various reasons (primarily, ipods are imported not manufactured locally).
If you want to compare cost of living you should go look at the mig mac index, the iPod index is for entertainment purposes only.
Leaking a movie script like that is NOT COOL.
You've totally ruined the movie-going experience for me.
You seem to have missed the whole point.
In a country like Canada your assertion that it would require hundreds of people to steal an election is correct.
Ditto for the USA in the past.
The problem today is that with these voting computers a single black-hat could have done the job by himself (or with the help of a couple of friends) in your last election.
You're right. I'm sorry.
For a moment there I forgot that so many people really, in their hearts, don't mind killing children.
Also, I mistakenly thought that the election was all about picking a good leadership team.
In fact, as you suggest, it is all about my-side versus your-side and which side wins.
Obviously any complaints I might have are sour-grapes because my-side didn't win. The mountain of dead bodies argument is an obvious cover for my personal shame for backing the wrong team.
The 3k dead US soldiers are a fucking tragedy that GWB is responsible for.
I'd just like to remind you/everyone that non-citizens are people too.
You don't have to do anything for them, I'm not asking you to care about them.
I'm just saying that their lives are important enough that when we kill them we should take the time to put a check-mark in a box to track the number of souls we extinguish.
And when we quote the cost in lives of our wars we include the dead women and children in the number.
Your reasoning is flawed.
"...but he's not Adolph Hilter. Heck, he's not even Richard Nixon."
Hitler: millions dead
Nixon: millions dead
Bush: hundreds of thousands dead
Ok, you are correct. I guess it is ok then.
"...all from a guy who everyone ridicules as been a moron"
That makes no sense. Do you realize that there are several people in the republican party? several people in the white house, several people in several federal agencies?
A group can carry out complex operations even though the group's front-man is not too bright.
I think it is likely that you already know this and are just trying to confuse the issue.
That is highly irresponsible behaviour when the stakes are this high.
"he was a friendly likable guy" and "they felt he was protecting them from danger"
I can't argue with you there.
It is pretty depressing that american voters (maybe everyone else too, i don't know) have such poor judgement and lack of reading comprehension skills that they can come to wildly inaccurate conclusions like that.
First, I agree with you about Kerry.
Second, you sir/madam are an ass.
You voted to re-elect that murderous criminal?
How do you sleep at night? Do you have nightmares about the tens of thousands of dead women and children?
Beautiful.
However, I don't think I'm the fattest or pimpliest so your script may need a little tweaking...
Also, I suggest that she will need Valla Maldoran as a second in command or something.. she makes me tingly.
This thread is useless without pictures!
oh wait, this is slashdot not fark.
insightful? today's mod's are drunk.
1) folks are regularly downloading entire seasons of TV episodes using bittorrent.
That makes for 50-70GB torrents.
2) 20GB? I doubt the regular traffic will be using a datarate like that.
DVD movie torrents are 4-9GB, but far more popular are the xvid avi files at 700-1500MB.
When more HD movies are released they will probably be posted as 2-6GB avi files.
"...because Sony doesn't want porn on Blu-ray (just as with Betamax)."
dwa-ha-ha-ha
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
I have to wonder if it really is true, the citation in tfa is third-hand.
How could any CEO make such a decision for their company?
It directly affects their revenues. I don't believe it is true.
The IEC can go take a long walk down a short pier.
I'll never use their ridiculous naming scheme.
It is a stain on the language.
Now I'm going to go try and clear up a few gibblebytes from my tribblebyte drive array.