For those that don't know, we currently have had pretty far right leaning neo-conservative governments (still not as far right as the US tea party, but pretty bad).
They have been caught lying to parliament and making illegal backroom deals in the past, yet because the Liberals can't seem to field a leader who isn't a blithering idiot (Dion) or perceived as weak (Ignatief) our left of centre vote gets split between Liberals, NDP and Green (which combined makes up over 50%) and the right of centre vote goes all towards the Conservatives.
It just goes to show you, that first past the post doesn't work well...
Well, ActiveSync (exchange push) is one good use of these idle TCP connections. The thing though is that idle TCP connections use absolutely no bandwidth. ActiveSync will open an HTTP TCP connection and ping every now and then, increasing the time between pings to find out how long the network supports idle connections. Once it stops receiving replies to the pings, it tears down that connection, opens a new one, and keeps the ping interval at the last known successful time. If there's no actual data being processed (new emails being sent/received, calendar entries, etc) then no traffic other than the pings will be passed, and these are small packets. The goal being to find the longest time possible that the connection can stay open between having to send pings, as any data uses bandwidth, battery, etc. Once ActiveSync
Setting up a TCP connection takes way more bandwidth and battery than leaving an idle connection open. And having to keep doing it, over and over, if the network operator is killing idle TCP connections, will drain a battery extremely quickly, and generate way more network traffic in the long run.
So why do carriers do it? Shitty NAT implementations. Up here in Canada Rogers, until recently, used NAT and the 10.x.x.x block for all wireless data users. Their NAT router would kill idle connections quickly to keep overload ports available for all it's customers. At one point it got so bad that the battery on my iphone 3G was draining in 2 hours tops if I kept push on for my exchange server.
Thanks for creating something amazing Rob. Good luck in your future endeavors.
As a going away present I would like to award you with this limited edition, naked and petrified Natalie Portman statue that if you take it to Soviet Russia she will pour hot grits down YOU!
I generally like ubisoft games, but after the crap I dealt with trying to play Assassin's Creed 2, there's not a chance in hell I will buy another one with this sort of DRM on it.
They must be getting paid by the hour. No sane IT department deploys site wide OS upgrades by installing it, individually, by hand, on each machine. Maybe reboot and hit F12 and pick pxeboot or boot off of WDS/Ghostcast media and have the rest pushed down.
"Real religions" are just as fake as the one proposed by file sharers. That's the point. Why does one group get to have their imaginary friends but another doesn't?
First of all, we are AMERICANS over here, but that aside...
Yes, you are Americans, but only for 2 reasons, and not the reasons you may think: 1. You don't really have an appropriate country population identifier so 'American' came into use. 2. The population of the USA is in the super continent of America.
It is a technically incorrect and fuzzy term. The long name of your country is "United States of America". Now the argument posed by many is that the "United States of Mexico" uses the name Mexico, so the "United States of America" can use America. This however is incorrect because of the usage of the word "of" in these two cases. In the first case, America already existed as a super continent, so the usage of the word "of" in "United States of America" means "composed or made from" (e.g.: A dress of silk). However in the case of "United States of Mexico" where there was no Mexico before its formation the usage of the word of means "specified as, named or called" (e.g.: the Garden of Eden). As you can see, the short name of "United States of America" is actually "United States", and not "America".
This is further reinforced by not only scholarly use but your governments own use. When needing to abbreviate the country name on maps or globes it is always "United States of America" or "United States", but never simply "America". Also the initialism "USA" can be further shortened to "US", as seen on the top level domain name, in various military services (USMC, US Navy, US Coastguard, USS for United States Ship), in government agencies (United States Senate, United States Congress), etc. However USA is never shortened to simply A, there is no American Marine Corps, American Navy, AS for American Ship, American Senate, etc.
The only reason "American" is in widespread use is because, in english anyways, saying "United Statsian" sounds weird and has more syllables. The reason why most citizens in the US like to call their country "America" is due to ego and the education system. Everyone else in the world refers to your country by its proper name: the United States, or "The States" for short.
Celsius is problematic because the degrees are too large, thus not really a better system, and is actually separate from the metric system anyway, so I wouldn't count that fact.
Celsius is an official SI derived unit of measurement for temperature, and therefore is part of the metric system.
'Deys combin' through ur net-dumps, 'Deys snatchin ur packets up, Tryin' ta read 'em so y'all need ta, Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts, Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts, Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts, An' hide yo' passwords cause they backdoorin' everybody out here.
You don't have to come an' confess, we lookin' for you, We gon find you, We gon find you. So we can run and check DAT, Run and check DAT, Run and check DAT, Homeboy, home-home, homeboy.
We got your source code and you left timestamps and all, You are so dumb, You are really dumb, fo' real. I was attacked by the NSA on black projects. So dumb, so dumb, so dumb, so.
'Deys combin' through ur net-dumps, 'Deys snatchin ur packets up, Tryin' ta read 'em so y'all need ta, Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts, Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts, Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts, An' hide yo' passwords cause they backdoorin' everybody out here.
You don't have to come an' confess, we lookin' for you, We gon find you, We gon find you. So we can run and check DAT, Run and check DAT, Run and check DAT, Homeboy, home-home, homeboy.
From what I know about the DMCA, it's illegal to reverse engineer a copyrighted software
Again, I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. No, you are reading the linked article wrong. It states that because copyrighted works may be protected by a technological protection measure, and defeating them is illegal under DMCA, and defeating them is required to reverse engineer, then by extension reverse engineering would not be possible. It's not that reverse engineering is illegal, just not possible because of the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA. Infact the DMCA has a special clause which allows breaking DRM for interoperability reverse engineering:
Section 1201(f) states in part that "a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs"
This however, does NOT apply is this case. What is the technological protection measure protecting the unlocking application? You could monitor everything the application does, every single command it sends to the CPU, without really doing anything to the application itself.
Keep in mind, the only circumvention prevented under the DMCA is that of protection measures that protect copyrighted works. A method cannot be copyrighted and by extension the method in which the intel software unlocks features of a CPU cannot be copyrighted. Methods fall under the realms of patents and trade secrets.
Since its a software unlock, it can come down to a DMCA violation
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. That said, good luck getting the DMCA to cover this. The DMCA makes "circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work" illegal. A "work" is defined as a copyrighted work. In this case what you are circumventing is access to features of s CPU, not a copyrighted work, like a DVD movie.
I can assure you sir, that it is not just kids who cry at the thought of needles piercing their skin. As one with such a phobia I hope this technology makes it into practice ASAP.
As a Canadian citizen who has visited the US a few times in the past, I'm actually scared to travel to your country, knowing what I know about what you do to some of your guests.
MW3 was horrid, MW4 was quite a bit better than 3. The good games were made by activision though, that's where the huge community sprang from, and it was a glorious time.
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You can't form a majority government unless you win 50% +1 of the seats in the house. To do that you do NOT need 50%+1 of the vote.
For those that don't know, we currently have had pretty far right leaning neo-conservative governments (still not as far right as the US tea party, but pretty bad).
They have been caught lying to parliament and making illegal backroom deals in the past, yet because the Liberals can't seem to field a leader who isn't a blithering idiot (Dion) or perceived as weak (Ignatief) our left of centre vote gets split between Liberals, NDP and Green (which combined makes up over 50%) and the right of centre vote goes all towards the Conservatives.
It just goes to show you, that first past the post doesn't work well...
... how many forged certs are now in the wild? Nuke the CA, they are incompetent.
ESXi (vSphere Hypervisor) is free.
Well, ActiveSync (exchange push) is one good use of these idle TCP connections. The thing though is that idle TCP connections use absolutely no bandwidth. ActiveSync will open an HTTP TCP connection and ping every now and then, increasing the time between pings to find out how long the network supports idle connections. Once it stops receiving replies to the pings, it tears down that connection, opens a new one, and keeps the ping interval at the last known successful time. If there's no actual data being processed (new emails being sent/received, calendar entries, etc) then no traffic other than the pings will be passed, and these are small packets. The goal being to find the longest time possible that the connection can stay open between having to send pings, as any data uses bandwidth, battery, etc. Once ActiveSync
Setting up a TCP connection takes way more bandwidth and battery than leaving an idle connection open. And having to keep doing it, over and over, if the network operator is killing idle TCP connections, will drain a battery extremely quickly, and generate way more network traffic in the long run.
So why do carriers do it? Shitty NAT implementations. Up here in Canada Rogers, until recently, used NAT and the 10.x.x.x block for all wireless data users. Their NAT router would kill idle connections quickly to keep overload ports available for all it's customers. At one point it got so bad that the battery on my iphone 3G was draining in 2 hours tops if I kept push on for my exchange server.
Thanks for creating something amazing Rob. Good luck in your future endeavors.
As a going away present I would like to award you with this limited edition, naked and petrified Natalie Portman statue that if you take it to Soviet Russia she will pour hot grits down YOU!
I generally like ubisoft games, but after the crap I dealt with trying to play Assassin's Creed 2, there's not a chance in hell I will buy another one with this sort of DRM on it.
The design for both chips is the same, since it's the same fucking chip, and therefore cost exactly the same amount of money to design.
Why are you trying to defend intel here? This is pure money grabbing.
... is you keep having to take it.
They must be getting paid by the hour. No sane IT department deploys site wide OS upgrades by installing it, individually, by hand, on each machine. Maybe reboot and hit F12 and pick pxeboot or boot off of WDS/Ghostcast media and have the rest pushed down.
"Real religions" are just as fake as the one proposed by file sharers. That's the point. Why does one group get to have their imaginary friends but another doesn't?
American moderators just made my point about ego for me. :)
First of all, we are AMERICANS over here, but that aside...
Yes, you are Americans, but only for 2 reasons, and not the reasons you may think: 1. You don't really have an appropriate country population identifier so 'American' came into use. 2. The population of the USA is in the super continent of America.
It is a technically incorrect and fuzzy term. The long name of your country is "United States of America". Now the argument posed by many is that the "United States of Mexico" uses the name Mexico, so the "United States of America" can use America. This however is incorrect because of the usage of the word "of" in these two cases. In the first case, America already existed as a super continent, so the usage of the word "of" in "United States of America" means "composed or made from" (e.g.: A dress of silk). However in the case of "United States of Mexico" where there was no Mexico before its formation the usage of the word of means "specified as, named or called" (e.g.: the Garden of Eden). As you can see, the short name of "United States of America" is actually "United States", and not "America".
This is further reinforced by not only scholarly use but your governments own use. When needing to abbreviate the country name on maps or globes it is always "United States of America" or "United States", but never simply "America". Also the initialism "USA" can be further shortened to "US", as seen on the top level domain name, in various military services (USMC, US Navy, US Coastguard, USS for United States Ship), in government agencies (United States Senate, United States Congress), etc. However USA is never shortened to simply A, there is no American Marine Corps, American Navy, AS for American Ship, American Senate, etc.
The only reason "American" is in widespread use is because, in english anyways, saying "United Statsian" sounds weird and has more syllables. The reason why most citizens in the US like to call their country "America" is due to ego and the education system. Everyone else in the world refers to your country by its proper name: the United States, or "The States" for short.
Celsius is problematic because the degrees are too large, thus not really a better system, and is actually separate from the metric system anyway, so I wouldn't count that fact.
Celsius is an official SI derived unit of measurement for temperature, and therefore is part of the metric system.
These guys did: http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
'Deys combin' through ur net-dumps,
'Deys snatchin ur packets up,
Tryin' ta read 'em so y'all need ta,
Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts,
Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts,
Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts,
An' hide yo' passwords cause they backdoorin' everybody out here.
You don't have to come an' confess, we lookin' for you,
We gon find you,
We gon find you.
So we can run and check DAT,
Run and check DAT,
Run and check DAT,
Homeboy, home-home, homeboy.
We got your source code and you left timestamps and all,
You are so dumb,
You are really dumb, fo' real.
I was attacked by the NSA on black projects.
So dumb, so dumb, so dumb, so.
'Deys combin' through ur net-dumps,
'Deys snatchin ur packets up,
Tryin' ta read 'em so y'all need ta,
Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts,
Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts,
Hide yo' keys, hide yo' crypts,
An' hide yo' passwords cause they backdoorin' everybody out here.
You don't have to come an' confess, we lookin' for you,
We gon find you,
We gon find you.
So we can run and check DAT,
Run and check DAT,
Run and check DAT,
Homeboy, home-home, homeboy.
Even if the service was advertised as having no limit ("unlimited")?
From what I know about the DMCA, it's illegal to reverse engineer a copyrighted software
Again, I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
No, you are reading the linked article wrong. It states that because copyrighted works may be protected by a technological protection measure, and defeating them is illegal under DMCA, and defeating them is required to reverse engineer, then by extension reverse engineering would not be possible. It's not that reverse engineering is illegal, just not possible because of the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA. Infact the DMCA has a special clause which allows breaking DRM for interoperability reverse engineering:
Section 1201(f) states in part that "a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs"
This however, does NOT apply is this case. What is the technological protection measure protecting the unlocking application? You could monitor everything the application does, every single command it sends to the CPU, without really doing anything to the application itself.
Keep in mind, the only circumvention prevented under the DMCA is that of protection measures that protect copyrighted works. A method cannot be copyrighted and by extension the method in which the intel software unlocks features of a CPU cannot be copyrighted. Methods fall under the realms of patents and trade secrets.
Since its a software unlock, it can come down to a DMCA violation
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. That said, good luck getting the DMCA to cover this. The DMCA makes "circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work" illegal. A "work" is defined as a copyrighted work. In this case what you are circumventing is access to features of s CPU, not a copyrighted work, like a DVD movie.
This would be beyond the scope of copyright law.
I can assure you sir, that it is not just kids who cry at the thought of needles piercing their skin. As one with such a phobia I hope this technology makes it into practice ASAP.
As a Canadian citizen who has visited the US a few times in the past, I'm actually scared to travel to your country, knowing what I know about what you do to some of your guests.
I'll stay up here, thanks.
MW3 was horrid, MW4 was quite a bit better than 3. The good games were made by activision though, that's where the huge community sprang from, and it was a glorious time.
I've got the same combination on my luggage!
If real businesses like Walmart can track all of their data in SQL databases that scale just fine, Dziuba argues, surely your company can, too.
Oddly enough I'm trying to get to walmart.ca right now, and it's down....
Probably via Dropship. It's much more economical to outsource to mercs like Wolf's Dragoons or the Northwind Highlanders than to keep your own stock of mechs around.