I disagree with your assessment. The risk is so tiny that the severe penalties don't even register for me. Should the improbably happen, I think I'll be remembered as the guy who cooperated with the police to investigate his neighbor.
You seem to be of the mindset that everyone is out to get you and there are cops eagerly staking out your house, waiting for someone to frame you so that they can send you to PMITA prison. What's the cost of that, though? Can you imagine what society would be like if everyone refused to be neighborly because of the (exceedingly unlikely) possibility it might harm them? I don't want to live like that and I won't. Go ahead and keep DHCP logs - that's easy and prudent - but don't choose to spend your life in fear.
There are no "UK" or "US" rules. There are agreements between people and the businesses providing services to them. In my case, I'm complying with my agreement, and still would be if I lived in the UK and had the same contract.
Dumb people have open hotspots. Smart people have closed hotspots. Very smart people have open, secure hotspots. Since I'm egotistical and put myself in the final category, let me explain:
My WAP is wide open to anyone who wants to connect to browse the web, check their email, etc. It's an OpenWRT firewall that allows regular, NATted access to the Internet but nothing more than SSH and OpenVPN (with SSL certs) to the LAN. I live on a quiet cul-de-sac, so the only people connecting to it would be my neighbors (whom I like and trust not to download kiddie porn), visitors, or people sitting in my driveway when I'm not home (whom said neighbors would probably take pictures of - yeah, I'm serious).
So what' s the downside here? I'm doing something nice for neighbors and visitors without any security exposure. Now, maybe I'm a unique supergenius and every other WAP operator in the country is stupidly naive, but I don't think that's the case.
Despite all their talk about developers, developers, developers, when they can get away with it, they care about developers not one bit.
Microsoft loves developers - Windows developers. They hate dirty hippie possibly-Mac-using cross-platform developers, especially when they're working on inherently open stuff like the web.
Making something that'll run on Windows and only Windows? Ballmer will personally build a shrine to you. Writing a web app that works on stuff other than IE? Partly cloudy and a chance of raining chairs.
We must soon advance on a personal level to no longer need more than the quintessential Australian aboriginal. Imagine, if you will, yourself in their clothes by the side of a road as a glutton in a SUV drives by, when re-evaluate the meaning of "primitive".
Imagine the same Aborigine seeing your coddled butt parked in a Starbucks with a laptop and sneering at your "gluttonous" neighbors.
I can't speak for everyone, but I bought an iPod Touch for all the non- music stuff, like a great mobile browser and about 20 apps I use daily. I already had (and loved) a Sansa running Rockbox, but haven't turned it on since I got the iTouch.
It'd be silly to judge a laptop solely on its worth as a portable MP3 player. In my opinion, the same holds for iPod Touches and iPhones.
I don't shop at Best Buy, but I disagree with the practice of wasting other people's time and money, which is what this is.
I agree with you in general, but this is Best Try^HBuy we're talking about. I've personally witnessed them ripping off friends and family so many times that I no longer care what schemes people find to return the favor. I wouldn't do it because that would violate my personal ethics, but I wouldn't think less of someone else for doing it. Again, this is with Best Buy specifically and not stores in general.
...but it'll probably be a lot faster, especially if you're running more than one query in parallel. Seriously, PostgreSQL scales much better than MySQL, and that's pretty crucial when almost no one makes single-core server hardware anymore.
And - let's face it - neither can most of/.'s users. I remember setting up an OpenBSD firewall back in the late 90s, and I did most of my firewall rules configuration by copying someone else's rules.
If you can write a shell script, you can write a good, stateful firewall with OpenBSD. Its "pf.conf" has the cleanest, most straightforward syntax I've ever seen for such things. I struggled for weeks setting up a good firewall with FreeBSD's ipfw back in the day, but my non-network-admin coworkers have no trouble hacking around in OpenBSD's config.
Are those really tarnished brands, though? Or just ones that fell by the wayside? I haven't seen their gear in years, but the last I did see was pretty decent.
In the Unites States, it affects around 72,000 people, most of whose ancestors come from Africa. The disease occurs in about 1 in every 500 African-American births and 1 in every 1000 to 1400 Hispanic-American births. About 2 million Americans, or 1 in 12 African Americans, carry the sickle cell trait.
...making your closing amusingly ironic:
How much does it suck to be so wrong? Your cognitive dissonance must be at a record high.
The idea that I don't like, is to elevate a inventation to the sacred level. We born in a blank slate, almost everything is learned, and everything that we learn was invented or created.
That in mind, I can think of few things more worthy of sacred status than a vessel for transferring information about things that were invented or created to someone who is still a blank slate. Do you value who you are now? Who would you be if I'd never once read printed material? The difference between the two is exactly how sacred you think books are.
Doctorow gives his books away for free on his website, yet is on the New Your Times bestseller list.
I downloaded his "Eastern Standard Tribe" to read on my iPod. I loved it so much that I bought a physical copy after I finished. I've never opened it and likely never will, but now I own the book for all the reasons that Doctorow said I might want to.
So I'd say he's right. He put his money where his mouth is, and by all metrics it seems to be paying off.
Let me start over. SJW is psychoactive. That's not a criticism but an observation; if it wasn't, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I don't know anything about SJW dosing, but let's say it's 100mg of active ingredient for a regular adult. Brand A has 50mg of active ingredient. Brand B's "extra stress relief" has 400mg. Brand C makes a horse pill, but it's usually mainly stems and scrap for 25mg actual active ingredient. A deal with a local farmer yields a 200mg batch this week.
That is a recipe for disaster. Self-medicating people who are already in a bad frame of mind (or wouldn't be taking it in the first place) could be bouncing between nearly-placebo and megadosing. How that screws with their brain chemistry is anybody's guess.
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Lotteries are strictly regulated.
But giveaway sweepstakes are pretty common. Ask Publishers Clearing House.
I was, actually, but my open AP isn't against my ISP's residential service agreement.
I disagree with your assessment. The risk is so tiny that the severe penalties don't even register for me. Should the improbably happen, I think I'll be remembered as the guy who cooperated with the police to investigate his neighbor.
You seem to be of the mindset that everyone is out to get you and there are cops eagerly staking out your house, waiting for someone to frame you so that they can send you to PMITA prison. What's the cost of that, though? Can you imagine what society would be like if everyone refused to be neighborly because of the (exceedingly unlikely) possibility it might harm them? I don't want to live like that and I won't. Go ahead and keep DHCP logs - that's easy and prudent - but don't choose to spend your life in fear.
There are no "UK" or "US" rules. There are agreements between people and the businesses providing services to them. In my case, I'm complying with my agreement, and still would be if I lived in the UK and had the same contract.
Dumb people have open hotspots. Smart people have closed hotspots. Very smart people have open, secure hotspots. Since I'm egotistical and put myself in the final category, let me explain:
My WAP is wide open to anyone who wants to connect to browse the web, check their email, etc. It's an OpenWRT firewall that allows regular, NATted access to the Internet but nothing more than SSH and OpenVPN (with SSL certs) to the LAN. I live on a quiet cul-de-sac, so the only people connecting to it would be my neighbors (whom I like and trust not to download kiddie porn), visitors, or people sitting in my driveway when I'm not home (whom said neighbors would probably take pictures of - yeah, I'm serious).
So what' s the downside here? I'm doing something nice for neighbors and visitors without any security exposure. Now, maybe I'm a unique supergenius and every other WAP operator in the country is stupidly naive, but I don't think that's the case.
Despite all their talk about developers, developers, developers, when they can get away with it, they care about developers not one bit.
Microsoft loves developers - Windows developers. They hate dirty hippie possibly-Mac-using cross-platform developers, especially when they're working on inherently open stuff like the web.
Making something that'll run on Windows and only Windows? Ballmer will personally build a shrine to you. Writing a web app that works on stuff other than IE? Partly cloudy and a chance of raining chairs.
We must soon advance on a personal level to no longer need more than the quintessential Australian aboriginal. Imagine, if you will, yourself in their clothes by the side of a road as a glutton in a SUV drives by, when re-evaluate the meaning of "primitive".
Imagine the same Aborigine seeing your coddled butt parked in a Starbucks with a laptop and sneering at your "gluttonous" neighbors.
why must this be seen as a threat to OSS? because stallman says so?
WTF are you on about? The same RMS who says "we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can"? I don't think you understand the whole concept of Free Software.
How do you brick an iPod when you're on the road and away from firmware updates, short of physically breaking it?
I can't speak for everyone, but I bought an iPod Touch for all the non- music stuff, like a great mobile browser and about 20 apps I use daily. I already had (and loved) a Sansa running Rockbox, but haven't turned it on since I got the iTouch.
It'd be silly to judge a laptop solely on its worth as a portable MP3 player. In my opinion, the same holds for iPod Touches and iPhones.
Yet the one done by man will end the earth when all the ones in the wild never did?
The other ones were Natural. These new ones are made from harsh chemicals and might give the Earth cancer.
...but the Kindle is a hardware platform.
...except when it's not.
Why can't I buy a frame that simply displays a .RSS on the internet? [snip etc etc etc ]
You want a Chumby. Mine does all that, and you can SSH into it.
I don't shop at Best Buy, but I disagree with the practice of wasting other people's time and money, which is what this is.
I agree with you in general, but this is Best Try^HBuy we're talking about. I've personally witnessed them ripping off friends and family so many times that I no longer care what schemes people find to return the favor. I wouldn't do it because that would violate my personal ethics, but I wouldn't think less of someone else for doing it. Again, this is with Best Buy specifically and not stores in general.
STAND BACK! I'M GOING TO TRY PSEUDOSCIENCE!
Be careful what you ask for.
some more lower case junk here to pacify the filter.
It may not be as fast as MySQL
...but it'll probably be a lot faster, especially if you're running more than one query in parallel. Seriously, PostgreSQL scales much better than MySQL, and that's pretty crucial when almost no one makes single-core server hardware anymore.
3 years after I started offering hosting I got one request for it, and when I explained that there wasn't much demand I got this little speech.
On behalf of competent hosts everywhere, I say this sincerely: thanks for the customers!
And - let's face it - neither can most of /.'s users. I remember setting up an OpenBSD firewall back in the late 90s, and I did most of my firewall rules configuration by copying someone else's rules.
If you can write a shell script, you can write a good, stateful firewall with OpenBSD. Its "pf.conf" has the cleanest, most straightforward syntax I've ever seen for such things. I struggled for weeks setting up a good firewall with FreeBSD's ipfw back in the day, but my non-network-admin coworkers have no trouble hacking around in OpenBSD's config.
Are those really tarnished brands, though? Or just ones that fell by the wayside? I haven't seen their gear in years, but the last I did see was pretty decent.
Blacks do not have a higher tendency for sickle-cell anemia, a certain group of people in Africa do. Blacks in the US do not have that trait.
ORLY? The US Government says:
...making your closing amusingly ironic:
How much does it suck to be so wrong? Your cognitive dissonance must be at a record high.
The idea that I don't like, is to elevate a inventation to the sacred level. We born in a blank slate, almost everything is learned, and everything that we learn was invented or created.
That in mind, I can think of few things more worthy of sacred status than a vessel for transferring information about things that were invented or created to someone who is still a blank slate. Do you value who you are now? Who would you be if I'd never once read printed material? The difference between the two is exactly how sacred you think books are.
Doctorow gives his books away for free on his website, yet is on the New Your Times bestseller list.
I downloaded his "Eastern Standard Tribe" to read on my iPod. I loved it so much that I bought a physical copy after I finished. I've never opened it and likely never will, but now I own the book for all the reasons that Doctorow said I might want to.
So I'd say he's right. He put his money where his mouth is, and by all metrics it seems to be paying off.
Let me start over. SJW is psychoactive. That's not a criticism but an observation; if it wasn't, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I don't know anything about SJW dosing, but let's say it's 100mg of active ingredient for a regular adult. Brand A has 50mg of active ingredient. Brand B's "extra stress relief" has 400mg. Brand C makes a horse pill, but it's usually mainly stems and scrap for 25mg actual active ingredient. A deal with a local farmer yields a 200mg batch this week.
That is a recipe for disaster. Self-medicating people who are already in a bad frame of mind (or wouldn't be taking it in the first place) could be bouncing between nearly-placebo and megadosing. How that screws with their brain chemistry is anybody's guess.
My sole criticism was that it was unregulated and unstandardized. I'm not sure why you're taking that personally.