RedSheriff is the worst company name I've ever heard. What the fuck? Anyone have any other examples which might knock this fucker off the top of the hill in terms of really dumb names?
An interesting thing follows from your second analogy. Various governments try to enact gun control laws, regulations, etc.; they try to shut down the black market for guns. i'm glad the government isn't saying either of the following:
hey, here's your gun, mr. convicted felon... but i'm going to have to charge you an extra $5.
no more buying cd-rs! they're UNAMERICAN! this is a LIFE OR DEATH ISSUE!
et cetera. it's an interesting situation here, i suppose. i don't agree with what the government's doing, because it's not fair to smaller labels. seriously, though--it's better than what they _could_ be doing, i guess.
There's one post that was modded down to -1, Flamebait (BAD MODERATOR, BAD) which is entirely true, and which contains factual information. xbox.vxd is a file from wolfenstein, snd3d.dll is from MSN messenger or trillian or something... so, this certainly isn't real.
don't run it either! who knows what it *really* does.
I may not be the first naysayer, because I'm reading at +2, but if there are other more informative posts than mine, please mod them up.
Anyway, I don't have any xbox games, but if you strings xbox.vxd, it looks like it has code from *wolfenstein* (the new one) in it. "maps/*.bsp", "Wolf 1.0.0", "D:\....\WolfSP.pdb"... this doesn't seem right. I wonder if this code is really actually ever used by the emulator!
I'll post more on this thread if I find more, I just wanted to get the word out.
But that's Jeff Goldblum. He's not real -- he's a super-human Mac user. Just look at the iPod commercial -- no white man can dance like that *naturally*.
You may notice that on the side of most bottles of cough medicines, there's a little message that says something to the effect of "don't operate cars or heavy machinery while taking this drug."
In most (at least in my experience with Cisco uBR CMTSes) cases, the Class Of Service information is associated (through DHCP) with your cable modem's MAC address. You can change the MAC of your ethernet card, but you'll notice that in most cases, cable providers will limit the number of MAC addresses existing on the Ethernet side of the cable modem, unless you're paying $4.99/mo or whatever for an "additional IP" (additional MAC address! ha! that still kills me.)
In any case, the SNMP monitoring most providers have in place, along with the logs from their DHCP servers -- if I recall correctly, either the CMTS or CPE will modify the DHCP request (most likely it's the CMTS, since it acts as a DHCP relay agent) and tack on the cable modem's address in one of the request option fields -- any provider can track you down pretty easily, as any MAC address on your Ethernet segment is associated with your cable account.
This really is pretty sad indeed. Honestly, it pisses me off that there are some people out there breaking the service agreements which they signed/accepted when they began paying for their service. I live in an apartment with 3 roommates, and the four of us all share one cable modem, all connected through an OpenBSD box running ipfilter. It's a gray area, but the cable installer didn't seem to care what we were running on the machine when he came to hook things up.
It's just ridiculous what cable companies are considering.. the current cable system works pretty well:
The typical setup of the average DOCSIS device is a layer 2 bridge... and the metric your local cable company uses to sell you an additional 'IP' is for each 4.95 you pay, your cable modem gets put in a different class which causes it to download a configuration file at bootup which allows a larger number of MAC addresses to live on the customer side of the bridge.
I'm glad I'll always be able to have an OpenBSD box running PAT (hopefully), but a bunch of my friends in the area who've got little router-boxen would be paying much more than they'd have to if they didn't have that solution readily available.
Seriously, though, this could always end up being one of those things where they buttrig the internet connection so much that you've got to run all sorts of proprietary software on your computer just to authorize your machine to connect to the internet. What happens to those of us who want to run non-MS OSes then?
FWIW, (and it's not worth much) you could use the DC coder's cable to hook up to a modem, as far as I know. But finding a broadband adapter, the dreamcast, and one of these cables would be way more expensive than a silly Linksys (or better, Netgear) nat/firewall box; the hack value is ever-present, though.
Let me qualify this by informing y'all that I worked in a photo lab for a few years -- I'm not talking about CVS or Wal-Mart, I'm talking a quality 1 hour place that also handled a lot of artistic photographers in the area. We took in a lot of disposable cameras -- we're located in a pretty crazy tourist spot -- and I too was fascinated by the recycling of those cameras. We had a pile of the old batteries that would come in the things, and we'd stick 'em in cameras to test, etc.
Anyway, the main problem with this is winding new rolls of film into the cameras then keeping them light-sealed. When you open up most disposable cams, regardless of how carefully you do it, you generally tend to break and bend up the plastic, which in most cases (but not all, if you're ridiculously careful) will create various light leaks, exposing your film. Also, it's hard -- near impossible -- to get your film to wind in the entire way, as disposable cameras tend to be wound out at the factory and when you advance film you're actually pulling it into the can. You've got to expose more of the bottom of the camera to get this to wind right, and it's gotta be done in total darkness. If you can't afford a cheap 35mm consumer-grade camera, don't bother trying to mess with these -- you'll need a dark box, etc. just to reload film. Kinda pointless.
Though, people would bring in these wedding cameras, and we'd tear them apart and they'd be like "be careful! those were expensive!"...they came with insanely shitty film and most of the $30/pop disposable wedding cameras have been recycled 291239 times and are in really horrible shape. People used to be pretty pissed off that we'd tell 'em that...
mm. I go to RIT, and I can tell you that SE is _NOT_ (and I repeat, NOT) a cross between CS and CE. Software Engineering is about engineering the software development process; it has less of a focus on CS's "algorithmic thinking" and more on churning out good, quality code in today's languages. So think about that good and hard.
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That's a lot of porn per month.
mmm... alt.sex.fetish.hamster.duct-tape.
RedSheriff is the worst company name I've ever heard. What the fuck? Anyone have any other examples which might knock this fucker off the top of the hill in terms of really dumb names?
- hey, here's your gun, mr. convicted felon... but i'm going to have to charge you an extra $5.
- no more buying cd-rs! they're UNAMERICAN! this is a LIFE OR DEATH ISSUE!
et cetera. it's an interesting situation here, i suppose. i don't agree with what the government's doing, because it's not fair to smaller labels. seriously, though--it's better than what they _could_ be doing, i guess.There's one post that was modded down to -1, Flamebait (BAD MODERATOR, BAD) which is entirely true, and which contains factual information. xbox.vxd is a file from wolfenstein, snd3d.dll is from MSN messenger or trillian or something... so, this certainly isn't real.
don't run it either! who knows what it *really* does.
I may not be the first naysayer, because I'm reading at +2, but if there are other more informative posts than mine, please mod them up. Anyway, I don't have any xbox games, but if you strings xbox.vxd, it looks like it has code from *wolfenstein* (the new one) in it. "maps/*.bsp", "Wolf 1.0.0", "D:\....\WolfSP.pdb" ... this doesn't seem right. I wonder if this code is really actually ever used by the emulator!
I'll post more on this thread if I find more, I just wanted to get the word out.
I can see it now -- Microsoft Porn XP.NET(tm) -- porn is now on the web!
"dirt cheap" != "money is no object".
thanks! bye!
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It doesn't look like he's emailing him to me at all.
But that's Jeff Goldblum. He's not real -- he's a super-human Mac user. Just look at the iPod commercial -- no white man can dance like that *naturally*.
You may notice that on the side of most bottles of cough medicines, there's a little message that says something to the effect of "don't operate cars or heavy machinery while taking this drug."
does the word 'webcurity' mean?
Alright, Slashdot editors, STOP MAKING UP NEW WORDS. THIS INSTANT. RIGHT NOW.
ok i love you bye bye
In most (at least in my experience with Cisco uBR CMTSes) cases, the Class Of Service information is associated (through DHCP) with your cable modem's MAC address. You can change the MAC of your ethernet card, but you'll notice that in most cases, cable providers will limit the number of MAC addresses existing on the Ethernet side of the cable modem, unless you're paying $4.99/mo or whatever for an "additional IP" (additional MAC address! ha! that still kills me.)
In any case, the SNMP monitoring most providers have in place, along with the logs from their DHCP servers -- if I recall correctly, either the CMTS or CPE will modify the DHCP request (most likely it's the CMTS, since it acts as a DHCP relay agent) and tack on the cable modem's address in one of the request option fields -- any provider can track you down pretty easily, as any MAC address on your Ethernet segment is associated with your cable account.
This is all DOCSIS 1.0, btw.
This really is pretty sad indeed. Honestly, it pisses me off that there are some people out there breaking the service agreements which they signed/accepted when they began paying for their service. I live in an apartment with 3 roommates, and the four of us all share one cable modem, all connected through an OpenBSD box running ipfilter. It's a gray area, but the cable installer didn't seem to care what we were running on the machine when he came to hook things up.
It's just ridiculous what cable companies are considering.. the current cable system works pretty well:
The typical setup of the average DOCSIS device is a layer 2 bridge... and the metric your local cable company uses to sell you an additional 'IP' is for each 4.95 you pay, your cable modem gets put in a different class which causes it to download a configuration file at bootup which allows a larger number of MAC addresses to live on the customer side of the bridge.
I'm glad I'll always be able to have an OpenBSD box running PAT (hopefully), but a bunch of my friends in the area who've got little router-boxen would be paying much more than they'd have to if they didn't have that solution readily available.
Seriously, though, this could always end up being one of those things where they buttrig the internet connection so much that you've got to run all sorts of proprietary software on your computer just to authorize your machine to connect to the internet. What happens to those of us who want to run non-MS OSes then?
FWIW, (and it's not worth much) you could use the DC coder's cable to hook up to a modem, as far as I know. But finding a broadband adapter, the dreamcast, and one of these cables would be way more expensive than a silly Linksys (or better, Netgear) nat/firewall box; the hack value is ever-present, though.
ESR has been voted off the island.
...the protocol is open, and you can write your own implementation (of at least the text data) fairly easily.
Let me qualify this by informing y'all that I worked in a photo lab for a few years -- I'm not talking about CVS or Wal-Mart, I'm talking a quality 1 hour place that also handled a lot of artistic photographers in the area. We took in a lot of disposable cameras -- we're located in a pretty crazy tourist spot -- and I too was fascinated by the recycling of those cameras. We had a pile of the old batteries that would come in the things, and we'd stick 'em in cameras to test, etc.
...they came with insanely shitty film and most of the $30/pop disposable wedding cameras have been recycled 291239 times and are in really horrible shape. People used to be pretty pissed off that we'd tell 'em that...
Anyway, the main problem with this is winding new rolls of film into the cameras then keeping them light-sealed. When you open up most disposable cams, regardless of how carefully you do it, you generally tend to break and bend up the plastic, which in most cases (but not all, if you're ridiculously careful) will create various light leaks, exposing your film. Also, it's hard -- near impossible -- to get your film to wind in the entire way, as disposable cameras tend to be wound out at the factory and when you advance film you're actually pulling it into the can. You've got to expose more of the bottom of the camera to get this to wind right, and it's gotta be done in total darkness. If you can't afford a cheap 35mm consumer-grade camera, don't bother trying to mess with these -- you'll need a dark box, etc. just to reload film. Kinda pointless.
Though, people would bring in these wedding cameras, and we'd tear them apart and they'd be like "be careful! those were expensive!"
Do I get a rebate for my Zip drive if I realize (now) that it's totally useless and I'll never use it?
mm. I go to RIT, and I can tell you that SE is _NOT_ (and I repeat, NOT) a cross between CS and CE. Software Engineering is about engineering the software development process; it has less of a focus on CS's "algorithmic thinking" and more on churning out good, quality code in today's languages. So think about that good and hard.