SOPA IS DELAYED not cancelled they didn't kill it they are posturing and trying to figure out what to change about the bill before they have hearings on the bill
correction 3Mbps is 3,000,000 bits of data per second, not a baud rate like smartphone scanning which is a symbol rate. so for instance a 4-bit symbol code will give a 2400 baud rate to transmit 9600 bps. also qr codes are larger than 32x32 i didn't look it up it's slightly more than 2900 8-bit bytes per frame. the rest of the comment is valid math though.
here is the truth for ya, 3Mbps is a transmission of 3 million symbols or pulses. symbol based protocols while complex can increase bandwidth drastically(although pulse transmission require almost no overhead as any computer or person can tap a button/generate a pulse rapidly). i remember when dialup seemed slow, despite that i got a full 115000 symbols per second under a compressed protocol. 3 million symbols if 16x16 pixel 8 color imagecodes should at_full_load theoretically transmit a file of 6.144e+09 every second. last i checked cellphones could detect 32x32 with 12 orientation pixels, albeit in black and white. so really the question is, what made dialup seem so slow at 300 baud that is still 281 ascii words per minute or 3.5 80 wpm typists. this is the god honest truth as well as i know it
consider it this way. 1 phone per person. 1 ipad/tablet/ereader per adult, 1 laptop per student 1 desktop per house -- plus several smart tvs, plus 1 wifi gateway plus game machines blah blah blah. marketing was clearly relying on a future of thorium reactors every few blocks away. i just recently learned the earth and it's magnetosphere are based on thorium reactions in the magma layers of the planet. widespread computing has its drawbacks.
"he never understood how *so many* people can drop their phones into toilets."
it is because they secretly feel like they have a shitty job and want a break from all the pointlessness. it's not even at a conscious level for most of them.
i have seen malware come from av software. usually cutrate av that is freeware. it costs money to fight viruses, even with that money big av firms are a target to some hackers.
like trying to make money. like trying to listen to music, like upgrading corp edition to windows genuine. like blatantly believing you can just google or man-page the problem. or better yet, because you trust someone who was wrong and insisted they could solve your problems with formats.
remember this: what you define as a virus someone else saw as a tactical advantage, or even as a religious duty.
i have seen people's computers fail for no better reason than because they used cheap av software from overseas.
the prefered way to deal with malware and av is to run a virtual machine set up, where the root host doesn't connect to anything but say a serial console, and the rest of the machine is virtual machines that when infected can be detected and rolled over using software. this is easily done on open source, closed source requires paying money to do the same thing. some anti-virus packages take use of the same things a virus does on windows then it proceeds to quarantine the software the hacker tries to deploy. i don't do this as a profession so i have no skills at it myself, but i know that a virus designed for one type of hardware/software will not be able to detect any well hidden vm master when only the vm slaves are visible, and networked according to the setup of your internal IT guys.
for home users its a bit harder, mind you i have cleaned off viruses machines mainly by saving 'essential files' formatting installing etc but i have from time to time found 'dirty' free av software that essentially i had to manually go to the programs directory deleting the av app and using a registry cleaner to remove av software that refuses to uninstall.
the second paragraph defines what i have done in practice. the former i only know about from reading what other claim work.
this is why i use web-mail it lets you flag spam and read it too, because of image blocking and treating scripts as text. sure that means your email data is on someone's web-server possibly in the cloud but of course you have to assume hackers or sysadmins might be able to break into it. i don't trust computers with anything private anymore.
"There's plenty of empty space in the world, but people don't want to be in empty space."
wrong wrong wrong. where i live open space is a preference. they didn't want to live in big cities here. not everyone wants to be here who is here, but in general it's the type of mentality that big cities are full of greedy backward thinkers that narrow down living to the hours spent in come cage built by greedy land owners to make expensive houses for workers in big cities with long commutes.
and i totally know why people get here and then try to bring the city with them, computers and tvs aren't always what the people living here care about. and i know very well that people living in big cities are not happier, and many wish they could just escape the grinding mill that is big city life.
personally as long as I've got a computer and satellite link (and necessities) I'm good.
hey well there's a guy selling built to withstand nuclear bunker apartments -- formerly missile silos from the cold war. i heard he only filled two of 8 units, it may not be what congress gets, but hey it can survive infection and nuclear futures.
it's like the twilight zone episode where they 'homeschool' a girl trying to develop mental telepathy from moving images from pieces of paper. then the 'real' teacher teaches the girl to speak with her lips by having the students all 'think' the same thought at her...
when i was learning about computers there was a lot of disinformation. i kept finding uses for computers and people kept telling me stupid things about computers. i have yet to find a genuine source of real information, that doesn't hype things. scam people, or otherwise propagate only truth. mainly i see people trying to inhibit the learning curve, people deliberately lying, or people desperately seeking money from disinformation.
personally i fight hard against the disinformation, i don't like it when people suck up to me, and i hate people judging me for having thoughts when i have a pretty good grip on what actions i take based off the information inside my mind. even if most of the thoughts in my mind is gibberish. even if it means i no longer do what people think i am supposed to do. i read. i think. i remember. for me that is all i need to do to feel like i am at least informed and not just a number.
if you've got 5 tb of files, 25gb doesn't seem so huge. besides you assume that it needs to keep track of every block, when you only need to hash every file, but yes, that is a massive burden on resources. and in implementation it would require loads of ram or a large swapfile, and all just to save disc space over burdening processor/ram requests.
this isn't the first time they've been that devoted to destroying the internet. i recall sony installing rootkits on users who purchased their music to watch for p2p downloads.
the freebsd port tree was the first attempt at a 'voluntary' walled garden, eg they would monitor and fix the ports tree, and you wouldn't get virused in the expected lifespan of the hardware. debian improved on the concept. with repositories, and ubuntu took away root with sudo commands... i realize from the software side there is no mechanism against installing 3rd party software, or making your user root, but the people who they intended to run the stuff wouldn't actually know they weren't in a walled guarden, if they followed the advice of their elders.
"and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites." aka dns poisoning by legal mandate. any hacker anywhere to get a site sued just has to get a movie file on their hdd. this is insanity in it's final hours, goodbye slashdot goodbye any linking service
the more we rely on machines to filter things the more machines we need, meanwhile the resources available always grow less than before.
computers can filter text easily, which is why facebook memes use images to spread, because simple machines can parse text. stored images can become corrupt, but (real time) processing images uses a lot of graphical horsepower, which ironically the big corps again control.
if either sopa or protect-ip come into play it essentially makes the USA a giant blackhole for the internet, where anything not on a whitelist can't get past the routers because the laws require realtime takedowns based on ip ranges, which means the internet all of a sudden isn't everywhere. so called urls breakdown because bots can be used by foreign terrorists to force the 'legal' takedown notice bots can now instead of create a notice instead bans can directly remove ips from whitelisted providers such as youtube, facebook, google plus.
and then the machine constantly creates a list of blocked ranges with no allowed ranges on something the machines can't verify as being illegal. the fact of the matter is that as it is, only one of ten torrent users is on the radar of the machines, because the ips of the movie and copyright agents are well known and are easier to block than it is to prove that the other 9 of 10 torrent users are in fact breaking laws since they don't know what country they are agents of.
these laws if passed create a pattern of internet blackholes in every country that passes them. it can be done, but the laws create a tool for terrorists to essentially poison the dns system from the guise of stopping illegal downloads.
fail, give women shopping malls, perfume, air conditioning, and all the modern kitchen tools and a line of credit, and she probably won't even want to dirty herself with sex. of all the women i've met, the more they have to lose the less they care about reproducing the species.
and the same thing applies to men, only the wacos who think they need to appease a god and make babies by the dozen still popout many babies.
i don't like being alone, but i'm 34 years strong as a single un married, un reproduced citizen in part because i do not believe in bringing more children into this world. i don't even think i would like sex, because of how dirty it is.
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SOPA IS DELAYED not cancelled they didn't kill it they are posturing and trying to figure out what to change about the bill before they have hearings on the bill
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120113/23560217407/sopa-delayed-cantor-promises-it-wont-be-brought-to-floor-until-issues-are-addressed.shtml
correction 3Mbps is 3,000,000 bits of data per second, not a baud rate like smartphone scanning which is a symbol rate. so for instance a 4-bit symbol code will give a 2400 baud rate to transmit 9600 bps. also qr codes are larger than 32x32 i didn't look it up it's slightly more than 2900 8-bit bytes per frame. the rest of the comment is valid math though.
here is the truth for ya, 3Mbps is a transmission of 3 million symbols or pulses. symbol based protocols while complex can increase bandwidth drastically(although pulse transmission require almost no overhead as any computer or person can tap a button/generate a pulse rapidly).
i remember when dialup seemed slow, despite that i got a full 115000 symbols per second under a compressed protocol.
3 million symbols if 16x16 pixel 8 color imagecodes should at_full_load theoretically transmit a file of 6.144e+09 every second. last i checked cellphones could detect 32x32 with 12 orientation pixels, albeit in black and white. so really the question is, what made dialup seem so slow at 300 baud that is still 281 ascii words per minute or 3.5 80 wpm typists.
this is the god honest truth as well as i know it
consider it this way. 1 phone per person. 1 ipad/tablet/ereader per adult, 1 laptop per student 1 desktop per house -- plus several smart tvs, plus 1 wifi gateway plus game machines blah blah blah.
marketing was clearly relying on a future of thorium reactors every few blocks away. i just recently learned the earth and it's magnetosphere are based on thorium reactions in the magma layers of the planet.
widespread computing has its drawbacks.
"he never understood how *so many* people can drop their phones into toilets."
it is because they secretly feel like they have a shitty job and want a break from all the pointlessness. it's not even at a conscious level for most of them.
The only real way to kill a Model M is to throw it into the fires of Mount Dhoom, where it was forged.
There fixed that for you.
the only technological solution is to have a magnetic breakaway cord like the original xbox controllers.
apparently you've never heard of Deft linux http://www.deftlinux.net/ probably not court proof enough but for forensics on the cheap...
i have seen malware come from av software. usually cutrate av that is freeware. it costs money to fight viruses, even with that money big av firms are a target to some hackers.
"If you're getting infected, you're doing something wrong."
like trying to make money. like trying to listen to music, like upgrading corp edition to windows genuine. like blatantly believing you can just google or man-page the problem. or better yet, because you trust someone who was wrong and insisted they could solve your problems with formats.
remember this: what you define as a virus someone else saw as a tactical advantage, or even as a religious duty.
i have seen people's computers fail for no better reason than because they used cheap av software from overseas.
the prefered way to deal with malware and av is to run a virtual machine set up, where the root host doesn't connect to anything but say a serial console, and the rest of the machine is virtual machines that when infected can be detected and rolled over using software. this is easily done on open source, closed source requires paying money to do the same thing. some anti-virus packages take use of the same things a virus does on windows then it proceeds to quarantine the software the hacker tries to deploy. i don't do this as a profession so i have no skills at it myself, but i know that a virus designed for one type of hardware/software will not be able to detect any well hidden vm master when only the vm slaves are visible, and networked according to the setup of your internal IT guys.
for home users its a bit harder, mind you i have cleaned off viruses machines mainly by saving 'essential files' formatting installing etc but i have from time to time found 'dirty' free av software that essentially i had to manually go to the programs directory deleting the av app and using a registry cleaner to remove av software that refuses to uninstall.
the second paragraph defines what i have done in practice. the former i only know about from reading what other claim work.
this is why i use web-mail it lets you flag spam and read it too, because of image blocking and treating scripts as text. sure that means your email data is on someone's web-server possibly in the cloud but of course you have to assume hackers or sysadmins might be able to break into it. i don't trust computers with anything private anymore.
"There's plenty of empty space in the world, but people don't want to be in empty space."
wrong wrong wrong. where i live open space is a preference. they didn't want to live in big cities here. not everyone wants to be here who is here, but in general it's the type of mentality that big cities are full of greedy backward thinkers that narrow down living to the hours spent in come cage built by greedy land owners to make expensive houses for workers in big cities with long commutes.
and i totally know why people get here and then try to bring the city with them, computers and tvs aren't always what the people living here care about. and i know very well that people living in big cities are not happier, and many wish they could just escape the grinding mill that is big city life.
personally as long as I've got a computer and satellite link (and necessities) I'm good.
hey well there's a guy selling built to withstand nuclear bunker apartments -- formerly missile silos from the cold war. i heard he only filled two of 8 units, it may not be what congress gets, but hey it can survive infection and nuclear futures.
it's like the twilight zone episode where they 'homeschool' a girl trying to develop mental telepathy from moving images from pieces of paper. then the 'real' teacher teaches the girl to speak with her lips by having the students all 'think' the same thought at her...
when i was learning about computers there was a lot of disinformation. i kept finding uses for computers and people kept telling me stupid things about computers. i have yet to find a genuine source of real information, that doesn't hype things. scam people, or otherwise propagate only truth. mainly i see people trying to inhibit the learning curve, people deliberately lying, or people desperately seeking money from disinformation.
personally i fight hard against the disinformation, i don't like it when people suck up to me, and i hate people judging me for having thoughts when i have a pretty good grip on what actions i take based off the information inside my mind. even if most of the thoughts in my mind is gibberish. even if it means i no longer do what people think i am supposed to do. i read. i think. i remember. for me that is all i need to do to feel like i am at least informed and not just a number.
if you've got 5 tb of files, 25gb doesn't seem so huge. besides you assume that it needs to keep track of every block, when you only need to hash every file, but yes, that is a massive burden on resources. and in implementation it would require loads of ram or a large swapfile, and all just to save disc space over burdening processor/ram requests.
this isn't the first time they've been that devoted to destroying the internet. i recall sony installing rootkits on users who purchased their music to watch for p2p downloads.
parody is legal in the usa. and this is definitely parody.
the freebsd port tree was the first attempt at a 'voluntary' walled garden, eg they would monitor and fix the ports tree, and you wouldn't get virused in the expected lifespan of the hardware. debian improved on the concept. with repositories, and ubuntu took away root with sudo commands... i realize from the software side there is no mechanism against installing 3rd party software, or making your user root, but the people who they intended to run the stuff wouldn't actually know they weren't in a walled guarden, if they followed the advice of their elders.
even more odd were my results. which plainly made facebook #1 as of 2010 datasets for unique visitors. over 150 million uniques.
http://webtrends.about.com/b/2010/03/15/the-top-10-most-popular-social-networks.htm
you might want to do some research before you put your foot in your mouth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act
"and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites."
aka dns poisoning by legal mandate. any hacker anywhere to get a site sued just has to get a movie file on their hdd. this is insanity in it's final hours, goodbye slashdot goodbye any linking service
the problem is a recursive loop.
the more we rely on machines to filter things the more machines we need, meanwhile the resources available always grow less than before.
computers can filter text easily, which is why facebook memes use images to spread, because simple machines can parse text. stored images can become corrupt, but (real time) processing images uses a lot of graphical horsepower, which ironically the big corps again control.
if either sopa or protect-ip come into play it essentially makes the USA a giant blackhole for the internet, where anything not on a whitelist can't get past the routers because the laws require realtime takedowns based on ip ranges, which means the internet all of a sudden isn't everywhere. so called urls breakdown because bots can be used by foreign terrorists to force the 'legal' takedown notice bots can now instead of create a notice instead bans can directly remove ips from whitelisted providers such as youtube, facebook, google plus.
and then the machine constantly creates a list of blocked ranges with no allowed ranges on something the machines can't verify as being illegal. the fact of the matter is that as it is, only one of ten torrent users is on the radar of the machines, because the ips of the movie and copyright agents are well known and are easier to block than it is to prove that the other 9 of 10 torrent users are in fact breaking laws since they don't know what country they are agents of.
these laws if passed create a pattern of internet blackholes in every country that passes them. it can be done, but the laws create a tool for terrorists to essentially poison the dns system from the guise of stopping illegal downloads.
people are stupid though. parents seem to think it's grand to lie to their children to the point of ridiculousness.
fail, give women shopping malls, perfume, air conditioning, and all the modern kitchen tools and a line of credit, and she probably won't even want to dirty herself with sex. of all the women i've met, the more they have to lose the less they care about reproducing the species.
and the same thing applies to men, only the wacos who think they need to appease a god and make babies by the dozen still popout many babies.
i don't like being alone, but i'm 34 years strong as a single un married, un reproduced citizen in part because i do not believe in bringing more children into this world. i don't even think i would like sex, because of how dirty it is.
"Amazing that some people like to say they spread everywhere, AND they're sterile."
you might be surprised what some people want. seeds that go sterile and no place to get not sterile seeds. that would almost make a bible story.