Excuse your inaccuracy by accusing someone of being obtuse? Hrm.
Inaccuracy? Huh? If I'd said it was possible to call 4420 numbers in London from other countries would you call that inaccurate too? That's the number. It starts with 1800. Your local dialing plan may require additional prefixes but they aren't part of the number.
Such as you suggest didn't work when I last tried it - admintedly a while ago. It was a Bank Of America number I was trying and they recommended I try to call through an AT&T number/operator, but when I tried that, it also wouldn't work.
Why not try it now? I will reimburse you the RMB1 next month when I'm back in China.
Preach, brother. A Linksys ATA plus a good-quality DECT cordless phone kicks Skype's ass eight ways to Sunday. Cheaper calls, better phone, full programmability, vendor independence, and ten thousand times better audio quality.
Also, Skype is good for those stupid American companies that think they are being nice by providing 1800 numbers and don't realise that it's impossible/difficult/awkward to dial them from anywhere outside the US (or something like that).
From where is it impossible/difficult/awkward to dial 1800 numbers? I just pick up my mobile and dial. I get a little recorded announcement telling me that the call is not free and I will be billed the normal rate to the USA (about US$0.05/minute) and then it connects. Once in a great while I come across one with geographic restrictions but it's very rare. Same goes when I'm traveling in other countries (usually minus the recording).
Because then an attacker could then XOR two arbitrary encrypted blocks and thus cancel out the OTP entirely, being left with the XOR of the two plaintext messages, facilitating plain text attacks.
The "plaintext" messages in this case are random noise. Assuming my random is in fact random, what sort of plaintext attack can be carried out against that?
I'm just asking what makes people so confident in the VPN system, when it was discovered within a few years of the 'standardization' of WEP and WPA how to break them?
For one thing, the stakes are higher with widely-deployed open VPN protocols and ciphers. Institutions with huge amounts on the line have relied on them. Nobody except consumers and traveling salesmen has depended on WEP/WPA to do anything other than keep bandwidth leechers out.
Higher stakes means more motivation to discover a flaw. So far that hasn't happened with the mainstays, despite other protocols dropping left and right.
Nothing is for certain, but for now I'm reasonably confident in my VPN.
Doesn't work. You can't transmit this way more bits than your pad started with. So you end up with just as many bits worth of shared random data that you started with.
Perhaps a naïve question, but if your new set of pads are random and of fixed size (so you don't need header/directory information), why can't you concatenate them, and then re-use your last pad as many times as necessary to transmit the concatenated message? Since the data being sent are random, this re-use shouldn't provide any information about the key.
Yeah, had similar problems. Eventually I changed it to HTTP-only proxy ("connect" on 443 only) with 128kbps total available to unauthenticated users. Kind of crappy but I figured it was better than nothing.
If it's something I care enough to pirate it's something I'd care enough to buy, rent, borrow, demo, or trial legally, if piracy weren't an option.
This is true for 99% of all instances of piracy.
That's the most grotesquely off-base rectal statistic I've seen on Slashdot all day.
I've been known to download TV shows now and then, mainly because in the country where I live, "official" versions aren't available, are heavily censored, or are years late (other than Stewart and Colbert, freely available online worldwide, bless you Comedy Central).
So first of all it's not about the money.
Secondly, it really is a take-it-or-leave-it thing. If my internet connection isn't working so well, or I need to save bandwidth for work, or anything else, I just read a book instead. There's no chance I'd fork over money for for the vast majority of those shows that I could have just occasionally watched on TV if I were somewhere where they were being shown. There are a few that I really did find enjoyable, and to "make amends" I ordered the DVD sets on Amazon and had them sent to friends in the USA as gifts.
The system in question seems kind of asinine: walk to the nearest kiosk, wait in line, get a receipt, place it in/on your car and PRAY the cop sees it, then go on your way.
Blame for a significant portion of the perceived asininity can be laid at the feet of the original poster, who managed to make it sound much more onerous than it is.
I use this system in France all the time and it works fine. I have parked hundreds of times and never, NEVER waited to use the payment kiosk. In the rare even that there was someone in front of me, by the time I got my coins out, they were finished.
Next, walking half a block to the machine is the worst-case scenario. Only the drivers of the two cars at the far ends of the block actually have to do this. Most just walk a car-lengths, and quite honestly, I feel that anyone in good health who complains about walking a few car-lengths ought to be shot and then made into glue.
Furthermore, you don't have to "pray" the cop sees it. You put it on your dashboard and the parking patrol guy sees it. It's what he does all day long. How complex is your dashboard that a piece of paper placed there requires divine intervention in order to be spotted?
I assume the main reason cities do this is because coin-fed meters are massive vandalism/theft targets. The lost revenue from a stolen meter may not be that significant, but the cost of replacing them surely is. A single hardened target - and one that probably does most of its business in plastic - is a much better bet. I know that of all the things I want my parking fees going to, replacing $1000 meters every year isn't very high on the list.
I think it's the redundant walking that would bother me.
- 1/2 block to meter
- 1/2 block back to car to put receipt on windshield
- Potentially 1/2+ block back in the direction of the meter to get to where you were going in the first place.
As a pedestrian, it is genuinely difficult for me to comprehend this level of laziness. How many times do I have to walk a block out of my way because, due to cars, I can't cross the street where I please? So what? It's walking. It takes virtually no time or energy. Just part of life.
Having to go out of your way an extra block, especially if you're planning on going the other direction, is completely unreasonable.
Walking half a block is a one-minute round trip. If you honestly don't have that much time on your hands, you might as well just double-park in front of the door at the organ transplant centre and worry about the tow later.
In every city I've lived in the law is either to ride on the sidewalk
Curious. In every American city I lived in, it was illegal to ride on the sidewalk (unless you were a child or, in some cases, in a residential-only area).
Which is the way it should be. Riding on the sidewalk is exceptionally dangerous.
And Switzerland requires citizens to have assault rifles in their homes.
Switzerland also requires each person with a gun to undergo rigorous and ongoing training. If that were a requirement in the US I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem with it. Also, each bullet in Switzerland is accounted for.
Despite all this, they still managed to have a pretty gruesome public massacre not that long ago.
Personally, I'd choose the place with the fewest guns every time. Even though it seems to be true that adjusting the mix of gun distribution in gun-heavy societies can improve murder stats, it's also true that having as few as possible almost invariably makes the stats far, far better still. Unfortunately, it's probably too late to do anything about this in the US; years of unenlightened firearm policy has already rendered the country a public-safety writeoff.
Limited accounts are a Windows NT feature. Are you talking about DOS-based Windows? And Linux doesn't offer the sort of security UAC does. You can't casually SUID 0 past UAC with limited access.
Geez, I hope nobody invents selinux and makes it a 15-second installation process on major distros. Oh wait.
It's much much much cheaper for international callers to contact me
Massively superior audio quality
Almost all cordless phones are more comfortable than almost all mobile phones for long calls
Cordless phones irradiate my head less, corded phones don't at all
It's what's used in offices
I can have much more elaborate call handling and routing than the mobile phone operators will allow
I guess if I just made a few quick calls now and then to chat with my friends, a mobile would suffice. Since I have to talk to people in many countries all the time for long periods, a mobile is a disaster.
Yeah, you ever try using ATT in all those empty highway miles in Arizona? Zero to one bars most of the time. In Europe I get strong signals almost everywhere.
I clearly wrote "free to the caller". In Europe (and much of the rest of the world), the caller pays a fee to call a mobile phone. In the US, it costs the same as an ordinary call (typically free).
Frankly, it's ridiculous that the study doesn't take this into account.
I suspect the total per-minute cost is higher in most European markets than in the US, when you take both ends of the call into account.
You want a nice cell phone market, go look at Singapore where you can effectively set yourself up with unlimited free (or near-free) minutes on a prepaid SIM using an Asterisk box, due to the combination of US-style called-party-pays regulatory model + very cheap free-incoming-call plans + termination well under US$0.01 on the open market.
1. You lost the debate.
2. And it's not because of your lack of skills.
3. You lost it on the facts.
I honestly don't see how. What's the fact that's in question here?
Did, as I claimed, the feudal system set the scene for the communist revolution?
Did, as I claimed, the communist revolution lead to an escalating series of atrocities, culminating with the most famous and easily identified, the cultural revolution?
Is the Chinese economy today, as I claimed, heading back toward the same pattern of sharp divisions between owner and worker classes that kicked off the cycle most recently in the 1940s?
If I were you, I would just say, "I was wrong. My apologies."
If you look back over my long and dull Slashdot career, you'll see that I do say that when I'm wrong. I like to learn, and one of the best ways to learn is to confront your own mistakes. Here I simply don't see it. As far as I can tell, I am being vexed by a nitpicker who is so blinded by his desire to show off some irrelevant bit of knowledge he has (about the proximal rather than ultimate cause of the cultural revolution) that he is unable to see the context of my argument.
If there's a reason I "lost", it's because I haven't let this go long ago, and keep responding in this thread like a nincompoop.
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Inaccuracy? Huh? If I'd said it was possible to call 4420 numbers in London from other countries would you call that inaccurate too? That's the number. It starts with 1800. Your local dialing plan may require additional prefixes but they aren't part of the number.
Why not try it now? I will reimburse you the RMB1 next month when I'm back in China.
I have to wonder whether you're being deliberately obtuse. You dial + (or 00) before it, of course, as it's an international call.
Preach, brother. A Linksys ATA plus a good-quality DECT cordless phone kicks Skype's ass eight ways to Sunday. Cheaper calls, better phone, full programmability, vendor independence, and ten thousand times better audio quality.
From where is it impossible/difficult/awkward to dial 1800 numbers? I just pick up my mobile and dial. I get a little recorded announcement telling me that the call is not free and I will be billed the normal rate to the USA (about US$0.05/minute) and then it connects. Once in a great while I come across one with geographic restrictions but it's very rare. Same goes when I'm traveling in other countries (usually minus the recording).
Gotcha. Makes sense, I should have thought of that.
The "plaintext" messages in this case are random noise. Assuming my random is in fact random, what sort of plaintext attack can be carried out against that?
For one thing, the stakes are higher with widely-deployed open VPN protocols and ciphers. Institutions with huge amounts on the line have relied on them. Nobody except consumers and traveling salesmen has depended on WEP/WPA to do anything other than keep bandwidth leechers out.
Higher stakes means more motivation to discover a flaw. So far that hasn't happened with the mainstays, despite other protocols dropping left and right.
Nothing is for certain, but for now I'm reasonably confident in my VPN.
Perhaps a naïve question, but if your new set of pads are random and of fixed size (so you don't need header/directory information), why can't you concatenate them, and then re-use your last pad as many times as necessary to transmit the concatenated message? Since the data being sent are random, this re-use shouldn't provide any information about the key.
No, you can run separate VLANs and subnets and there's no reason they need to see each other.
Yeah, had similar problems. Eventually I changed it to HTTP-only proxy ("connect" on 443 only) with 128kbps total available to unauthenticated users. Kind of crappy but I figured it was better than nothing.
That's the most grotesquely off-base rectal statistic I've seen on Slashdot all day.
I've been known to download TV shows now and then, mainly because in the country where I live, "official" versions aren't available, are heavily censored, or are years late (other than Stewart and Colbert, freely available online worldwide, bless you Comedy Central).
So first of all it's not about the money.
Secondly, it really is a take-it-or-leave-it thing. If my internet connection isn't working so well, or I need to save bandwidth for work, or anything else, I just read a book instead. There's no chance I'd fork over money for for the vast majority of those shows that I could have just occasionally watched on TV if I were somewhere where they were being shown. There are a few that I really did find enjoyable, and to "make amends" I ordered the DVD sets on Amazon and had them sent to friends in the USA as gifts.
Better brush up on your intertube memes, young man.
Blame for a significant portion of the perceived asininity can be laid at the feet of the original poster, who managed to make it sound much more onerous than it is.
I use this system in France all the time and it works fine. I have parked hundreds of times and never, NEVER waited to use the payment kiosk. In the rare even that there was someone in front of me, by the time I got my coins out, they were finished.
Next, walking half a block to the machine is the worst-case scenario. Only the drivers of the two cars at the far ends of the block actually have to do this. Most just walk a car-lengths, and quite honestly, I feel that anyone in good health who complains about walking a few car-lengths ought to be shot and then made into glue.
Furthermore, you don't have to "pray" the cop sees it. You put it on your dashboard and the parking patrol guy sees it. It's what he does all day long. How complex is your dashboard that a piece of paper placed there requires divine intervention in order to be spotted?
I assume the main reason cities do this is because coin-fed meters are massive vandalism/theft targets. The lost revenue from a stolen meter may not be that significant, but the cost of replacing them surely is. A single hardened target - and one that probably does most of its business in plastic - is a much better bet. I know that of all the things I want my parking fees going to, replacing $1000 meters every year isn't very high on the list.
As a pedestrian, it is genuinely difficult for me to comprehend this level of laziness. How many times do I have to walk a block out of my way because, due to cars, I can't cross the street where I please? So what? It's walking. It takes virtually no time or energy. Just part of life.
Walking half a block is a one-minute round trip. If you honestly don't have that much time on your hands, you might as well just double-park in front of the door at the organ transplant centre and worry about the tow later.
Curious. In every American city I lived in, it was illegal to ride on the sidewalk (unless you were a child or, in some cases, in a residential-only area).
Which is the way it should be. Riding on the sidewalk is exceptionally dangerous.
Switzerland also requires each person with a gun to undergo rigorous and ongoing training. If that were a requirement in the US I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem with it. Also, each bullet in Switzerland is accounted for.
Despite all this, they still managed to have a pretty gruesome public massacre not that long ago.
Personally, I'd choose the place with the fewest guns every time. Even though it seems to be true that adjusting the mix of gun distribution in gun-heavy societies can improve murder stats, it's also true that having as few as possible almost invariably makes the stats far, far better still. Unfortunately, it's probably too late to do anything about this in the US; years of unenlightened firearm policy has already rendered the country a public-safety writeoff.
Geez, I hope nobody invents selinux and makes it a 15-second installation process on major distros. Oh wait.
I dunno, I use them because:
I guess if I just made a few quick calls now and then to chat with my friends, a mobile would suffice. Since I have to talk to people in many countries all the time for long periods, a mobile is a disaster.
Guess you need to spend five seconds looking up the difference between "length" and "width".
Yeah, you ever try using ATT in all those empty highway miles in Arizona? Zero to one bars most of the time. In Europe I get strong signals almost everywhere.
Ok, now take into account how much people with landlines are spending to call you.
Frankly, it's ridiculous that the study doesn't take this into account.
I suspect the total per-minute cost is higher in most European markets than in the US, when you take both ends of the call into account.
You want a nice cell phone market, go look at Singapore where you can effectively set yourself up with unlimited free (or near-free) minutes on a prepaid SIM using an Asterisk box, due to the combination of US-style called-party-pays regulatory model + very cheap free-incoming-call plans + termination well under US$0.01 on the open market.
Thanks, sounds good to me!
I honestly don't see how. What's the fact that's in question here?
Did, as I claimed, the feudal system set the scene for the communist revolution?
Did, as I claimed, the communist revolution lead to an escalating series of atrocities, culminating with the most famous and easily identified, the cultural revolution?
Is the Chinese economy today, as I claimed, heading back toward the same pattern of sharp divisions between owner and worker classes that kicked off the cycle most recently in the 1940s?
If you look back over my long and dull Slashdot career, you'll see that I do say that when I'm wrong. I like to learn, and one of the best ways to learn is to confront your own mistakes. Here I simply don't see it. As far as I can tell, I am being vexed by a nitpicker who is so blinded by his desire to show off some irrelevant bit of knowledge he has (about the proximal rather than ultimate cause of the cultural revolution) that he is unable to see the context of my argument.
If there's a reason I "lost", it's because I haven't let this go long ago, and keep responding in this thread like a nincompoop.