Same as I can look at a plane and say it tries to keep its altitude constant, even if I have no fucking clue which control surfaces are used for that, and even less clue what the code running on its computers is.
On the other hand, maybe you did understand that what Comcast is doing is poor-man's QoS and you simply object to their implementation. In which case you should have just said so.
I was simply arguing against the misleading use of the term "filtering" to describe Comcast's actions and pointing out that they are instead actively messing with end-to-end TCP connections by forging resets.
I don't know whether Comcast's true motives are QoS, collusion with the RIAA/MPAA, or something else entirely, but that makes no difference; they are configuring their equipment to actively interfere with their customers' connections, and IMHO, that's just plain Not Cool (TM), regardless of their motivations or the fact that other groups do this as well.
Perhaps I didn't make myself completely clear, but it was a quick off-the-cuff rant, not a rigorous technical treatise. Had I known that someone was going to question my competence, I would have taken more time to compose my post...
On what basis are you claiming that I have "only a limited concept of network equipment"? I saw nothing in your rant that substantiates this allegation.
This isn't mere filtering (which would be bad enough). This is intentional, specific, active tampering. These TCP RST packets are spoofed forgeries. That's much more evil.
Passively dropping packets in an attempt to shape traffic or implement some QoS policy is one thing. Actively "jamming" connections is quite another.
But you forget that, generally, the people of the UK are trying to abolish the licence fee, and thus the income for the BBC. I can't bring myself to think what will happen to the BBC once that happens, which it will if the idiotic masses get their way.
You mean, it might have to compete for its revenue instead of being handed money that was stolen from private citizens? Oh, the horror!
``Periodically there are proposals to mandate the use of a special top level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult" or "unsafe" material or the like. This document explains why this is an ill considered idea from the legal, philosophical, and particularly, the technical points of view.''
Since all legitimate email servers will retry when they get a 400-series error, a legitimate message will go through, at a cost of a time delay.
I think you meant "all legitimate, properly-designed email servers".
Our incoming email is filtered by a Postfix proxy that does, among other things, greylisting. Earlier this week, I had to deal with a "sysadmin" at a remote site whose email system interpreted our SMTP 450 codes as permanent failures (WTF?!?) and bounced emails back to its clients with a message to that effect.
A long chain of emails and phone calls later (why am I spending work time to educate someone I don't know?), he finally indicated understanding, but I put his domain into our whitelist just to be safe.:-) I'm not counting on him fixing (i.e. replacing) his retarded proprietary mail system any time soon.
The other problem with running DD-WRT on an off-the-shelf router, aside from the comparative lack of flexibility, is the distinct possibility of bricking the thing with a bad firmware update, even if you're careful. My Linksys WRT-54G died when the power browned out during a DD-WRT upgrade.
My definition of "careful" flashing would include crossover-cabling the router directly to a PC, and putting them both on a UPS...:-)
1. Nobody is talking about building a whole freaking missile/plane out of Lego, just part of the control system.
2. WTF does Bluetooth range have to do with suicide attackers? The Bluetooth link they're referring to is between a GPS receiver and a flight control system carried on the same airframe, likely right next to each other.
I have heard a lot of good things and read many articles about Costco being responsible corporation
Do they still detain you at the door and conduct a search of your purchases (i.e. your personal property)? If so, they can take their "fair wages" and shove them -- they're still an evil corporation.
It is the height of meglomania to suggest that human beings have a greater impact on the planet than that big-ass hot thing that comes over the horizon every morning.
You're setting up a false dichotomy. It's not a matter of the impact of humanity vs. the impact of the "big-ass hot thing". Rather, it's the way in which humanity's activities (hint: CO2) dovetail with the impact of the "big-ass hot thing" (hint: trapped energy) to create a very bad situation.
Law enforcement agencies, are, by definition, not made up of smart, tech-saavy people. They're made up of people that were the not-so-smart bullies in grade school.
Law, n.: In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
Enforcement, n.: The act of enforcing; compulsion.
Agency, n.: The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
Perhaps you meant "savvy", not "saavy".
Please demonstrate which of these definitions excludes "smart, tech-savvy people".
Please back up your assertion that LEAs are comprised of former bullies.
That site reads like satire. It's a little too cliched and over-the-top.
Consider the name on the blog: Jon Swift. That's probably a reference to Jonathan Swift, who wrote "A Modest Proposal" (satirically proposing that poor children be eaten).
Easy; follow the money. The FAA knows that they could never get away with bullying the airlines to the degree that they push around general aviation with TFRs and other BS.
You know, I actually considered disclaiming my Wikipedia link with something to the effect of "... but you can verify this from any number of other sources", but I guessed, incorrectly, that no one would be enough of a douchebag to make such a tired joke.
"Cabinet officers are nominated by the President and then presented to the United States Senate for confirmation or rejection. If approved, they are sworn in, receive the title 'Secretary', and begin their duties."
iPod may be falling victim to its own popularity iPod is a great product With Apple's continued re-invention of iPod, iPod has managed to keep iPod as "next" The loyalty for iPod
Argh! The term "iPod" is pretentious enough the way it is; please don't propagate Apple's idiotic meme of intentionally excluding definite and indefinite articles ("the" and "a"/"an") when referring to the iPod, in order to make it seem like some sort of conscious anthropomorphic entity as opposed to the straightforward electronic device that it is. The correct usage is "an iPod", or "the iPod", damn it!
I'm sure they meant well when they did this, but the result is truly devastating for many use cases, because it will cause the iPod to always prefer what you have heard recently
Funny... when I hear "truly devastating", I tend to think of explosions, crashes, pandemics, etc. and not -- OH THE HORROR -- my iPod re-playing a song I've heard recently. Maybe it's just me.
I'm pretty sure it says to "fill the earth and subdue it" rather than "overpopulate the earth and make it unlivable, then go extinct".
Okay, but you didn't really answer my question about what the end conditions to this "mandate" would be. We can agree that it stops short of resource starvation and extinction, but "subdue [the Earth]" is pretty vague. Perhaps we've already sufficiently subdued it? At the end of the day, we have no idea what, if anything, was meant by that verse. IMHO, IANA Biblical scholar, etc.
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Same as I can look at a plane and say it tries to keep its altitude constant, even if I have no fucking clue which control surfaces are used for that, and even less clue what the code running on its computers is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_(aircraft)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
On the other hand, maybe you did understand that what Comcast is doing is poor-man's QoS and you simply object to their implementation. In which case you should have just said so.
I was simply arguing against the misleading use of the term "filtering" to describe Comcast's actions and pointing out that they are instead actively messing with end-to-end TCP connections by forging resets.
I don't know whether Comcast's true motives are QoS, collusion with the RIAA/MPAA, or something else entirely, but that makes no difference; they are configuring their equipment to actively interfere with their customers' connections, and IMHO, that's just plain Not Cool (TM), regardless of their motivations or the fact that other groups do this as well.
Perhaps I didn't make myself completely clear, but it was a quick off-the-cuff rant, not a rigorous technical treatise. Had I known that someone was going to question my competence, I would have taken more time to compose my post...
On what basis are you claiming that I have "only a limited concept of network equipment"? I saw nothing in your rant that substantiates this allegation.
This isn't mere filtering (which would be bad enough). This is intentional, specific, active tampering. These TCP RST packets are spoofed forgeries. That's much more evil.
Passively dropping packets in an attempt to shape traffic or implement some QoS policy is one thing. Actively "jamming" connections is quite another.
But you forget that, generally, the people of the UK are trying to abolish the licence fee, and thus the income for the BBC. I can't bring myself to think what will happen to the BBC once that happens, which it will if the idiotic masses get their way.
You mean, it might have to compete for its revenue instead of being handed money that was stolen from private citizens? Oh, the horror!
No, it wouldn't mean that at all.
Thanks for playing.
``Periodically there are proposals to mandate the use of a special top level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult" or "unsafe" material or the like. This document explains why this is an ill considered idea from the legal, philosophical, and particularly, the technical points of view.''
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3675.txt
Since all legitimate email servers will retry when they get a 400-series error, a legitimate message will go through, at a cost of a time delay.
:-) I'm not counting on him fixing (i.e. replacing) his retarded proprietary mail system any time soon.
I think you meant "all legitimate, properly-designed email servers".
Our incoming email is filtered by a Postfix proxy that does, among other things, greylisting. Earlier this week, I had to deal with a "sysadmin" at a remote site whose email system interpreted our SMTP 450 codes as permanent failures (WTF?!?) and bounced emails back to its clients with a message to that effect.
A long chain of emails and phone calls later (why am I spending work time to educate someone I don't know?), he finally indicated understanding, but I put his domain into our whitelist just to be safe.
Easy!
On!
The!
Exclamation!
Points!
There!
Dude!!!
The other problem with running DD-WRT on an off-the-shelf router, aside from the comparative lack of flexibility, is the distinct possibility of bricking the thing with a bad firmware update, even if you're careful. My Linksys WRT-54G died when the power browned out during a DD-WRT upgrade.
:-)
My definition of "careful" flashing would include crossover-cabling the router directly to a PC, and putting them both on a UPS...
1. Nobody is talking about building a whole freaking missile/plane out of Lego, just part of the control system.
2. WTF does Bluetooth range have to do with suicide attackers? The Bluetooth link they're referring to is between a GPS receiver and a flight control system carried on the same airframe, likely right next to each other.
I have heard a lot of good things and read many articles about Costco being responsible corporation
Do they still detain you at the door and conduct a search of your purchases (i.e. your personal property)? If so, they can take their "fair wages" and shove them -- they're still an evil corporation.
It is the height of meglomania to suggest that human beings have a greater impact on the planet than that big-ass hot thing that comes over the horizon every morning.
You're setting up a false dichotomy. It's not a matter of the impact of humanity vs. the impact of the "big-ass hot thing". Rather, it's the way in which humanity's activities (hint: CO2) dovetail with the impact of the "big-ass hot thing" (hint: trapped energy) to create a very bad situation.
Those that do know [Dawkins] [is] a total asshole
Your "source" being an article on a South Park episode? WTF?
Law enforcement agencies, are, by definition, not made up of smart, tech-saavy people. They're made up of people that were the not-so-smart bullies in grade school.
Law, n.: In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
Enforcement, n.: The act of enforcing; compulsion.
Agency, n.: The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
Perhaps you meant "savvy", not "saavy".
Please demonstrate which of these definitions excludes "smart, tech-savvy people".
Please back up your assertion that LEAs are comprised of former bullies.
That site reads like satire. It's a little too cliched and over-the-top.
Consider the name on the blog: Jon Swift. That's probably a reference to Jonathan Swift, who wrote "A Modest Proposal" (satirically proposing that poor children be eaten).
Senator Retard (D-FU) decided that Sims COULD be used to train terrorists, and therefor should be banned.
Wouldn't that be "Senator Retard (R-FU)"?
Theft or confiscation of your computer.
Confiscation IS theft.
Easy; follow the money. The FAA knows that they could never get away with bullying the airlines to the degree that they push around general aviation with TFRs and other BS.
You know, I actually considered disclaiming my Wikipedia link with something to the effect of "... but you can verify this from any number of other sources", but I guessed, incorrectly, that no one would be enough of a douchebag to make such a tired joke.
Who the hell modded this insightful? Did you do any fact-checking whatsoever?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cabine
"Cabinet officers are nominated by the President and then presented to the United States Senate for confirmation or rejection. If approved, they are sworn in, receive the title 'Secretary', and begin their duties."
First, Montana has already been decided in favor of the Democrat.
Second, he was talking about confirming the new nominee (Bob Gates) during the lame-duck period of the existing 55-44-1 Senate.
iPod may be falling victim to its own popularity
iPod is a great product
With Apple's continued re-invention of iPod, iPod has managed to keep iPod as "next"
The loyalty for iPod
Argh! The term "iPod" is pretentious enough the way it is; please don't propagate Apple's idiotic meme of intentionally excluding definite and indefinite articles ("the" and "a"/"an") when referring to the iPod, in order to make it seem like some sort of conscious anthropomorphic entity as opposed to the straightforward electronic device that it is. The correct usage is "an iPod", or "the iPod", damn it!
and the new iPod
Thank you.
I'm sure they meant well when they did this, but the result is truly devastating for many use cases, because it will cause the iPod to always prefer what you have heard recently
Funny... when I hear "truly devastating", I tend to think of explosions, crashes, pandemics, etc. and not -- OH THE HORROR -- my iPod re-playing a song I've heard recently. Maybe it's just me.
I'm pretty sure it says to "fill the earth and subdue it" rather than "overpopulate the earth and make it unlivable, then go extinct".
Okay, but you didn't really answer my question about what the end conditions to this "mandate" would be. We can agree that it stops short of resource starvation and extinction, but "subdue [the Earth]" is pretty vague. Perhaps we've already sufficiently subdued it? At the end of the day, we have no idea what, if anything, was meant by that verse. IMHO, IANA Biblical scholar, etc.