Except that your COTS set lacks the best part of Tivo: the automatic search and recording of serialized shows. These shows require the viewer to see every episode, in order, to understand, but the network brain donors start moving them around and running them in random order so as to lose the faithful, but small, audience they had built. That way the NBDs can say "see, science fiction doesn't work on TV - more karaoke!"
I too am baffled by the link to a review of the real article rather than the actual webdesignerdepot article.
I don't understand your comment about point 3, which shows a pulldown menu that covers entire screen and requires the scrollbar even after that. It is a perfect example of the article's main thesis that the MS site is poorly organized and prioritized, and that makes it ugly and hard to use. Perhaps you forget that the article is by and for web designers.
Last year the newspaper was full of stories about how the new traffic cameras were going to make those intersections so much safer and save hundreds of lives every year. Well, it worked.
Now they are quietly shutting down the cameras because the number of tickets being issued at those intersections plunged so far that the city budget was badly affected. Now it's back to the cop's word against yours, and no photo evidence.
The RIAA doesn't care about this, unless they can figure out a way to collect a nickel every time that tattoo is scanned - or every time it could be scanned even if no one scans it. That tattoo is a record (of your address), so they own it.
only identifies a phone, not a person. Anybody could be carrying a phone with that number, and for all we know they've cloned the number so you'd better get your best detectives on it RIGHT NOW!
That's a hell of a security risk, having a client connected to both your internal network and external networks simultaneously.
I don't see how it is even possible. The whole point of VPN is that the machines in that net are invisible to the outside world. To connect both through the VPN and around it, you need two connections, one to the network router and one to an external router, which means you are making each internal machine its own VPN. Then you need a DNS running on each machine to decide which connection to use for each packet you send. I think you also need a separate firewall for each machine, but I'm not sure about that.
The way my net works is that each computer has one connection to one router. Messages from client C to ninja server S in the VPN go to the router R once to get the address of S, then C talks directly to S, so the traffic is only travels internally once. Messages from client C to server X outside the VPN go to the router R, which then asks pirate DNS server D for the address to forward the message to X, and again it travels internally once and externally once. When X responds on the outside net, R reads the port it is addressed to and forwards it to the correct port on machine C. Again, it travels internally once. All the internal traffic gets routed internally by R and is never seen by D. Thus, the only way the pirate DNS can hijack a message is if it was addressed to a place that doesn't exist anyway. All they're doing is sending you a substitute 404 page, nothing evol.
What am I missing here?
-- And that's why ninjas are deadlier than pirates.
I think you misunderstand what winning means to authorities. It doesn't mean they halt the behavior they are opposed to; it means they can draw a steady salary by continuously fighting it. If they actually did beat down all the moles, what would they do for a living? Moreover, their failure to end the behavior gives them the excuse they need to keep expanding their power, making their lives that much more intrusive into yours, which is infinitely better than putting the bad guys out of business and getting laid off.
I've just been reading overviews of the ZFS, and this white paper uses a lot of the same buzzwords with what appear to be the same meaning. ZFS is all about reliability, scalability and freedom from lock-in to any device; just like the cloud. I understand cloud computing to have four components:
1. a single ZFS pool which consists of every storage device in the world, using open-format data that are accessible to anyone, anywhere with proper access, and not available to anyone, anywhere who doesn't.
2. applications flexible enough to run on any processor in the world, as in the early descriptions of JAVA with its "write once/run anywhere" theme. In this ideal world, anyone could sit down at any machine and find their data available to them from this one pool, and their apps would run on whatever processor is available from that one pool.
A side effect of this portability is that data would always be migrating to the cheapest provider, and CPU cycles the same. There is no room for vendors to raise prices, as all their customers would instantly and automatically migrate away from them.
3. a reliable way to make micro-payments for those services. Literally in millionths of a cent.
4. reliable security of the data regardless of where it physically resides. One image that I can't shake is what happens in this ideal world when the Chinese government opens a huge new storage farm with a dedicated hydro-electric dam. Suddenly they have physical access to every bit in the world.
The ideal is virtually unlimited, virtually free computing for everyone. Service providers hate that. They want to be able to set their own prices for their locked-in customers by making it cheaper to stay and pay the higher rates than migrate because migration costs more than they'd save. So far, what we are seeing as the clouds are moving in the opposite direction from the cloud.
The recording industry as distribution giants are no longer needed. That is not to say that there is no place left for their business, just none left for them to run it the way that they have been. Bands still need help with getting concert venues and promotion. I'll wager that before the large RIAA members figure it out there will be others jumping inline to provide such as is needed by bands who distribute electronically.
There already are two entities doing this, iTunes and Amazon. Right now they mainly serve the labels because they own the music. But the same model works for an unsigned band with one good song. This even competes with commercial radio, since they both feature music selected by their critics and by other buyers, same as radio stations do but without the payola.
They can't take action to stop the production of kiddie porn because there just isn't very much of it. A few years ago, when the USPS was involved in their entrapment program, they couldn't find enough to support their program so they had to produce it themselves. The United States Postal Service was for a time the biggest producer of illegal porn in the US.
Why would they want to stand up to the guy? He is giving them an excuse to do what they've been wanting to do for a long time, shut down Usenet. It costs them a lot of money, and gains very few new customers in return.
Correct me if I'm wrong as in 25 years of experience in the computer industry, I've never found the need to own a single Apple product, but in my little experience with OS X, most of the advanced interactive features are *LOCKED AWAY* from the user. So how does this make OS X "advanced"?
You are wrong. All the advanced features are available. Nothing is “locked away” (whatever that means). Some features do not have GUIs, but are available through the command line. It appears you are mistaking editing an undocumented registry file for having access to features that are only available that way, while ignoring command line tools that accomplish the same tasks more easily, reliably, and securely.
But this game (TLJ) would not be affected by Sen. Yee’s bill. It only contains sexually frank dialogue. It doesn’t contain any of the violence that Yee claims to be concerned about. And yet it carries the ‘M’ rating. His focus on the graphic violence is one thing, but his avoiding the subject of sex, and even more his using porn as an example, indicate that he is trying to sneak in more restrictions than he lets on.
You talk of “the monopolist” as if it were an unique individual. But in fact, most (e.g., Microsoft, and Wal-mart and SBC) monopolies are publicly owned corporations. If you consider them so harmful, buy them. Taking over a company doesn’t require a single, giant corporation to buy a million shares of the company’s stock all at once; it could also be done by a million individuals who buy one share each. If you don’t like the way a company is being run, buy it. Otherwise, it’s no one’s fault but your own.
The big carriers don't shape traffic. Traffic shaping is something that happens at the network edges, not near the core or backbones. The equipment to do deep packet inspection is not cheap,
It may be expensive to what you say, but nobody does that and nobody needs that. Right in the TCP header are the source and destination port numbers. All you have to do is look for anything coming from or headed for ports you don’t like, and put it on the short bus. Once the filtering slows the packets a little, the edge machines notice it and slow their rate of sending. Moreover, filtering really doesn’t need to be very smart to be effective - the blockage doesn’t need to be perfect to accomplish its purpose. You don’t really have to stop everybody that has a web server running, you just have to stop everyone doing it on port 80. The ones using non-standard ports are probably not going to be eating up enough bandwidth to worry about - because they are non-standard.
Oh, and Comcast is one of the big carriers and they do shape traffic. Their tech support even confirmed it when I called and asked if they did.
You haven't been keeping up with the discussion. SoundExchange will be "collecting royalties" for all artists, even the indies and the unsigned who are not part of the music cartel, and hold them until the artist...oh, who am I kidding? The artists will never see a penny of these royalties that SoundExchange will be collecting in their names.
First they came and they took Novell And I said nothing because I did not use SuSE Then one day they came and they took the people of the Xandros faith And I said nothing because I had no faith left One day they came and they took LG Electronics And I said nothing because I had no Xbox One day they burned Open Office.org And I said nothing because I was born to use Emacs Then one day they came and they took me And I could say nothing because I was as guilty as they were For not speaking out and saying that all men have a right to freedom On any land I was as guilty of genocide As you All of you For you know when a man is free And when to set him free from his slavery So I charge you all with genocide The same as I One of the 18 million dead Jews 18 million dead people -- from Charles Mingus, after Martin Niemöller
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Except that your COTS set lacks the best part of Tivo: the automatic search and recording of serialized shows. These shows require the viewer to see every episode, in order, to understand, but the network brain donors start moving them around and running them in random order so as to lose the faithful, but small, audience they had built. That way the NBDs can say "see, science fiction doesn't work on TV - more karaoke!"
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Joss Whedon is my master now.
And that's why the robot that runs it will have a head the size of a planet.
That would be the ideal material because it is not only dense but imparts its own spin regardless of the barrel.
The problem is when you melt them down to cast bullets, all the denseness runs out.
I too am baffled by the link to a review of the real article rather than the actual webdesignerdepot article.
I don't understand your comment about point 3, which shows a pulldown menu that covers entire screen and requires the scrollbar even after that. It is a perfect example of the article's main thesis that the MS site is poorly organized and prioritized, and that makes it ugly and hard to use. Perhaps you forget that the article is by and for web designers.
That was silly. Everybody knows TeX is not for mp3s. You use Emacs to play your music.
It's hi.rosh'ma. The 'i' is silent. And where's the infamy? They were warned and given a chance to prevent it.
Last year the newspaper was full of stories about how the new traffic cameras were going to make those intersections so much safer and save hundreds of lives every year. Well, it worked.
Now they are quietly shutting down the cameras because the number of tickets being issued at those intersections plunged so far that the city budget was badly affected. Now it's back to the cop's word against yours, and no photo evidence.
The RIAA doesn't care about this, unless they can figure out a way to collect a nickel every time that tattoo is scanned - or every time it could be scanned even if no one scans it. That tattoo is a record (of your address), so they own it.
only identifies a phone, not a person. Anybody could be carrying a phone with that number, and for all we know they've cloned the number so you'd better get your best detectives on it RIGHT NOW!
That's a hell of a security risk, having a client connected to both your internal network and external networks simultaneously.
I don't see how it is even possible. The whole point of VPN is that the machines in that net are invisible to the outside world. To connect both through the VPN and around it, you need two connections, one to the network router and one to an external router, which means you are making each internal machine its own VPN. Then you need a DNS running on each machine to decide which connection to use for each packet you send. I think you also need a separate firewall for each machine, but I'm not sure about that.
The way my net works is that each computer has one connection to one router. Messages from client C to ninja server S in the VPN go to the router R once to get the address of S, then C talks directly to S, so the traffic is only travels internally once. Messages from client C to server X outside the VPN go to the router R, which then asks pirate DNS server D for the address to forward the message to X, and again it travels internally once and externally once. When X responds on the outside net, R reads the port it is addressed to and forwards it to the correct port on machine C. Again, it travels internally once. All the internal traffic gets routed internally by R and is never seen by D. Thus, the only way the pirate DNS can hijack a message is if it was addressed to a place that doesn't exist anyway. All they're doing is sending you a substitute 404 page, nothing evol.
What am I missing here?
--
And that's why ninjas are deadlier than pirates.
I think you misunderstand what winning means to authorities. It doesn't mean they halt the behavior they are opposed to; it means they can draw a steady salary by continuously fighting it. If they actually did beat down all the moles, what would they do for a living? Moreover, their failure to end the behavior gives them the excuse they need to keep expanding their power, making their lives that much more intrusive into yours, which is infinitely better than putting the bad guys out of business and getting laid off.
But then you repeat yourself.
I've just been reading overviews of the ZFS, and this white paper uses a lot of the same buzzwords with what appear to be the same meaning. ZFS is all about reliability, scalability and freedom from lock-in to any device; just like the cloud. I understand cloud computing to have four components:
1. a single ZFS pool which consists of every storage device in the world, using open-format data that are accessible to anyone, anywhere with proper access, and not available to anyone, anywhere who doesn't.
2. applications flexible enough to run on any processor in the world, as in the early descriptions of JAVA with its "write once/run anywhere" theme. In this ideal world, anyone could sit down at any machine and find their data available to them from this one pool, and their apps would run on whatever processor is available from that one pool.
A side effect of this portability is that data would always be migrating to the cheapest provider, and CPU cycles the same. There is no room for vendors to raise prices, as all their customers would instantly and automatically migrate away from them.
3. a reliable way to make micro-payments for those services. Literally in millionths of a cent.
4. reliable security of the data regardless of where it physically resides. One image that I can't shake is what happens in this ideal world when the Chinese government opens a huge new storage farm with a dedicated hydro-electric dam. Suddenly they have physical access to every bit in the world.
The ideal is virtually unlimited, virtually free computing for everyone. Service providers hate that. They want to be able to set their own prices for their locked-in customers by making it cheaper to stay and pay the higher rates than migrate because migration costs more than they'd save. So far, what we are seeing as the clouds are moving in the opposite direction from the cloud.
Episode 1, but it may be in the second hour. It’s when Apophis chooses Daniel Jackson’s wife to be his wife’s new host.
There already are two entities doing this, iTunes and Amazon. Right now they mainly serve the labels because they own the music. But the same model works for an unsigned band with one good song. This even competes with commercial radio, since they both feature music selected by their critics and by other buyers, same as radio stations do but without the payola.
They can't take action to stop the production of kiddie porn because there just isn't very much of it. A few years ago, when the USPS was involved in their entrapment program, they couldn't find enough to support their program so they had to produce it themselves. The United States Postal Service was for a time the biggest producer of illegal porn in the US.
Why would they want to stand up to the guy? He is giving them an excuse to do what they've been wanting to do for a long time, shut down Usenet. It costs them a lot of money, and gains very few new customers in return.
But this game (TLJ) would not be affected by Sen. Yee’s bill. It only contains sexually frank dialogue. It doesn’t contain any of the violence that Yee claims to be concerned about. And yet it carries the ‘M’ rating. His focus on the graphic violence is one thing, but his avoiding the subject of sex, and even more his using porn as an example, indicate that he is trying to sneak in more restrictions than he lets on.
You talk of “the monopolist” as if it were an unique individual. But in fact, most (e.g., Microsoft, and Wal-mart and SBC) monopolies are publicly owned corporations. If you consider them so harmful, buy them. Taking over a company doesn’t require a single, giant corporation to buy a million shares of the company’s stock all at once; it could also be done by a million individuals who buy one share each. If you don’t like the way a company is being run, buy it. Otherwise, it’s no one’s fault but your own.
It may be expensive to what you say, but nobody does that and nobody needs that. Right in the TCP header are the source and destination port numbers. All you have to do is look for anything coming from or headed for ports you don’t like, and put it on the short bus. Once the filtering slows the packets a little, the edge machines notice it and slow their rate of sending. Moreover, filtering really doesn’t need to be very smart to be effective - the blockage doesn’t need to be perfect to accomplish its purpose. You don’t really have to stop everybody that has a web server running, you just have to stop everyone doing it on port 80. The ones using non-standard ports are probably not going to be eating up enough bandwidth to worry about - because they are non-standard.
Oh, and Comcast is one of the big carriers and they do shape traffic. Their tech support even confirmed it when I called and asked if they did.
You haven't been keeping up with the discussion. SoundExchange will be "collecting royalties" for all artists, even the indies and the unsigned who are not part of the music cartel, and hold them until the artist...oh, who am I kidding? The artists will never see a penny of these royalties that SoundExchange will be collecting in their names.
First they came...
First they came and they took Novell
And I said nothing because I did not use SuSE
Then one day they came and they took the people of the Xandros faith
And I said nothing because I had no faith left
One day they came and they took LG Electronics
And I said nothing because I had no Xbox
One day they burned Open Office.org
And I said nothing because I was born to use Emacs
Then one day they came and they took me
And I could say nothing because I was as guilty as they were
For not speaking out and saying that all men have a right to freedom
On any land
I was as guilty of genocide
As you
All of you
For you know when a man is free
And when to set him free from his slavery
So I charge you all with genocide
The same as I
One of the 18 million dead Jews
18 million dead people
-- from Charles Mingus, after Martin Niemöller