Actually in this case you're just playing Canada Customs Roulette(tm)
Sometimes they'll inspect your package and charge you GST, sometimes they won't. If they do decide to look at it and it's not GSTable they'll still nail you for 5$ for the privledge of them inspecting your package. (You pay the 5$ no matter what the GST collected is)
I'd say I've been hit about 30% of the time on USPS mail which is still better than getting hit by UPS/Fedex where they sometimes try to bill you COD for brokerage, and then send you an invoice in the mail for the same thing to see if you're not paying attention.
I highly recommend you pick up any 'womans' magazine and check the back page of any birth control ad.(There will be several) They ALL have these possible side effects, in fact it's almost like they all use the same copy for their warning message.
The magic weapons will jump at you, hit/block them away.
Run over to one of the two fires (If they aren't both lit at the start light your sword in the main one and then light the other one) and light your sword, when he's moving, wack him with your burning sword, this will take you to another round of block the attacking magic weapons....
Repeat as necessary, I remember this being an annoying fight, not as annoying as fighting the first dragon though:)
I agree, I was originally going to suggest that the problem with this article is that the title isn't exactly right because he's really discussing people with tunnel vision but for some reason didn't leave it in my original reply.
But what you just described isn't what he's discussing.
He's talking about the idiot you always run into who believes there is but one true way, be it editor, language or *gasp* OS.
Just about every day I run into someone who is trying to make their square peg fit a round hole, and when I suggest that perhaps they try a different peg they get indignant and try to drive into me that their * is just so much better than what I suggested even though I can show them how much easier it is to use somthing else. These are the people that will write 500 lines of C when 30-40 lines of perl will do.
Someone who tells me we should use Linux,C or whatever because the other option sucks isn't being an advocate, they're being an idiot. If everyone was an advocate by giving actual points this article wouldn't be needed, unfortunately people like that seem to be few and far between.
The whole point is that people should be more open to the idea that there is more than one way to do things, sometimes the way you're used to isn't the best, and that accepting this fact doesn't make your prefered tool inferior.
You spent all that money to find out that the liquid you're cooling will freeze before you get to the temp you want? I'm sure somthing that costs this much comes with a pretty detailed data sheet.
For those that don't have the time or inclination to look at the whole story here's the deal as I observed it over the last little while.
First Everquest doesn't have that large of a real cheating problem, they're very good at logging any strange client behaviour and banning people the minute they're caught. However, a program was released to the public domain a while back called ShowEQ, this program is a passive sniffer that reads the data stream between the client and the server and displays data that gives the user an advantage over other players, basicly it's a realtime map of all the monsters in a zone with their hps and level.
Verant has been trying to combat this for a while by constantly changing their encryption scheme but has thus far been unsuccessful in locking the people maintaining the program out for more than a few days.
ShowEQ ran on Linux, recently someone released a Windows version and this is what verant claims they were scanning for (The passive client on linux is really impossible for them to detect)
Someone recently posted a message on the EQ message boards asking why verant was scanning the task list of their computer and uploading what was running back to the servers, this is prior to the announcement that they wanted to do this btw, Verant was extremely quiet about this thread until the announcement was made that they were changing the end user license which you have to agree to every time you start the everquest client.
All these threads are still available and it's somewhat interesting to read what Verant's reps posted in response. If you want to see check http://everquest.station.sony.com and click on the message boards link.
Part of Verant's problem is they've been fostering a real Us vs the Players attitude (Although they probably don't intend to, but anyone who's been on a MUS* before realizes that it's just part of the lifecyle of such games) By refusing to answer player questions about game mechanics and such, some people have used ShowEQ to get real answers to these questions, such as how the experience system works and such.
Lets spin this a little, imagine that we're no longer talking about music. Lets say that there was a story posted on/. about someone who took gpl'd code from "insert your fav opensource project here" put it in their product without acknowledgement or contribution and sold it. Now, according to your logic, they're not doing anything wrong. Why is that? Because they didn't really steal anything. They just took a copy of your source code, who cares...it didn't cost you anything right? They would have paid but you know that huge opensource machine would have kept most of the money for themselves and the people who really wrote it probably would have just gotten a few cents on the dollar, in fact, they're doing those coders a favour because they're distributing their work and someone might see it who wants to hire them.....
Are the two scenarios really that much different?
I don't think so, but I tell you this much, under scenario two the header on this story would have been much more hostile and no one would be posting that it was really ok to do it because it 'really wasn't hurting anyone' Gimmie a break, lemmie know when you live in the real world and it's your work being stolen.
I thought I'd start this by pointing out that I have @home in Canada as well, I'm not sure if you're on Shaw, Rogers or Codgeco(sp?) but I have found from discussing with people on the various services that the quality of your service is rarely directly @home's fault and more likely the way your cable company handles it's own end.
I thought I'd post a more positive perspective on my @home experience.
First off I've had the service for around 2 1/2 years now, I had it when it was still known as 'The Wave' because @home was too busy at the time to handle expansion into Canada. I pay around 40$ a month Canadian with tax. My stream caps are 300k/s down, 50k/s up (Up from 100k/s down and 50k/s up when I initially signed up) and I routinely do transfers at these rates. I live in Metro Toronto and I would estimate I easily have over 100 people on my segment, if I were to guess I would say it is probably higher, more like 200. During prime time I do notice more packet loss, but I guess I just accept this, just as I accept that if I go to work during rush hour I will have to contend with more people on the train and it won't be as easy to get a seat etc. I do play quake, everquest without significant problems.
As to @home's handling of open relays, well @home may be bad but my personal cable company (Rogers) seems to actually be developing a clue. They recently did a scan of machines and notified people running mailservers who failed the spam relay check that they would have a week to fix their relay or their service would be disconnected until they could prove to the abuse people that it was fixed. As a side note Rogers allows small personal servers for mail etc, but don't expect to be running the next slashdot affiliate off it:). I found their handling of this incident suprisingly well done considering the horror stories that come up on the Unix@home mailing list about abuse departments disconnecting people because their machine showed open ports for mail and www even though they were only running things for personal use.
I don't use IRC so I really can't comment on that.
My bottom line I guess is, all of @home is not created equal. Check around, ask other people who have been on the service in the area what they think, look and see if you have a local @home users group and see how their general attitude is towards their provider.
Althought I read the article and see that the accused basicly owned up to faking both posts (At least that's my take on the response) assuming that multiple messages from the same ip are by the same person is problematic. At my company we use a firewall with masqing which makes it appear that we are all coming from one ip address, so in the theoretical case that we were to defend our product in a forum like this (Although I wouldn't advocate doing it anonymously) it would look like one person is doing all the posting when it could be multiple people from different departments.
AFAIK a.plan update from Brian Hook (I believe) detailed the architecture for their optimization system. They have all their 'optimizables' in one file which is compiled as a dll. The fallback is naturally a C implmententation of each function. Then for special processors they do optimized versions of each function in a file/dll for that processor. At runtime they detect your processor and load the best dll for the job.
Not only is the X server not that great, in that it will mis-size windows, get colours wrong that work fine on the console of a real unix box but their NFS server had some problems too.
Like if you re-inited the NFS server all the clients would have to reboot or disconnect/ reconnect the share to get it to work again.
I suppose it's better than nothing, but it is very pricey.
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Actually in this case you're just playing Canada Customs Roulette(tm)
Sometimes they'll inspect your package and charge you GST, sometimes they won't. If they do decide to look at it and it's not GSTable they'll still nail you for 5$ for the privledge of them inspecting your package. (You pay the 5$ no matter what the GST collected is)
I'd say I've been hit about 30% of the time on USPS mail which is still better than getting hit by UPS/Fedex where they sometimes try to bill you COD for brokerage, and then send you an invoice in the mail for the same thing to see if you're not paying attention.
I highly recommend you pick up any 'womans' magazine and check the back page of any birth control ad.(There will be several) They ALL have these possible side effects, in fact it's almost like they all use the same copy for their warning message.
Lemmie see if I can remember this.
:)
The magic weapons will jump at you, hit/block them away.
Run over to one of the two fires (If they aren't both lit at the start light your sword in the main one and then light the other one) and light your sword, when he's moving, wack him with your burning sword, this will take you to another round of block the attacking magic weapons....
Repeat as necessary, I remember this being an annoying fight, not as annoying as fighting the first dragon though
I agree, I was originally going to suggest that the problem with this article is that the title isn't exactly right because he's really discussing people with tunnel vision but for some reason didn't leave it in my original reply.
But what you just described isn't what he's discussing.
He's talking about the idiot you always run into who believes there is but one true way, be it editor, language or *gasp* OS.
Just about every day I run into someone who is trying to make their square peg fit a round hole, and when I suggest that perhaps they try a different peg they get indignant and try to drive into me that their * is just so much better than what I suggested even though I can show them how much easier it is to use somthing else. These are the people that will write 500 lines of C when 30-40 lines of perl will do.
Someone who tells me we should use Linux,C or whatever because the other option sucks isn't being an advocate, they're being an idiot. If everyone was an advocate by giving actual points this article wouldn't be needed, unfortunately people like that seem to be few and far between.
The whole point is that people should be more open to the idea that there is more than one way to do things, sometimes the way you're used to isn't the best, and that accepting this fact doesn't make your prefered tool inferior.
You spent all that money to find out that the liquid you're cooling will freeze before you get to the temp you want? I'm sure somthing that costs this much comes with a pretty detailed data sheet.
It says no irony required
:)
*cough cough*
For those that don't have the time or inclination to look at the whole story here's the deal as I observed it over the last little while.
First Everquest doesn't have that large of a real cheating problem, they're very good at logging any strange client behaviour and banning people the minute they're caught. However, a program was released to the public domain a while back called ShowEQ, this program is a passive sniffer that reads the data stream between the client and the server and displays data that gives the user an advantage over other players, basicly it's a realtime map of all the monsters in a zone with their hps and level.
Verant has been trying to combat this for a while by constantly changing their encryption scheme but has thus far been unsuccessful in locking the people maintaining the program out for more than a few days.
ShowEQ ran on Linux, recently someone released a Windows version and this is what verant claims they were scanning for (The passive client on linux is really impossible for them to detect)
Someone recently posted a message on the EQ message boards asking why verant was scanning the task list of their computer and uploading what was running back to the servers, this is prior to the announcement that they wanted to do this btw, Verant was extremely quiet about this thread until the announcement was made that they were changing the end user license which you have to agree to every time you start the everquest client.
All these threads are still available and it's somewhat interesting to read what Verant's reps posted in response. If you want to see check http://everquest.station.sony.com and click on the message boards link.
Part of Verant's problem is they've been fostering a real Us vs the Players attitude (Although they probably don't intend to, but anyone who's been on a MUS* before realizes that it's just part of the lifecyle of such games) By refusing to answer player questions about game mechanics and such, some people have used ShowEQ to get real answers to these questions, such as how the experience system works and such.
I can't believe your post got moderated up.
/. about someone who took gpl'd code from "insert your fav opensource project here" put it in their product without acknowledgement or contribution and sold it.
Lets spin this a little, imagine that we're no longer talking about music. Lets say that there was a story posted on
Now, according to your logic, they're not doing anything wrong. Why is that? Because they didn't really steal anything. They just took a copy of your source code, who cares...it didn't cost you anything right? They would have paid but you know that huge opensource machine would have kept most of the money for themselves and the people who really wrote it probably would have just gotten a few cents on the dollar, in fact, they're doing those coders a favour because they're distributing their work and someone might see it who wants to hire them.....
Are the two scenarios really that much different?
I don't think so, but I tell you this much, under scenario two the header on this story would have been much more hostile and no one would be posting that it was really ok to do it because it 'really wasn't hurting anyone'
Gimmie a break, lemmie know when you live in the real world and it's your work being stolen.
I thought I'd start this by pointing out that I have @home in Canada as well, I'm not sure if you're on Shaw, Rogers or Codgeco(sp?) but I have found from discussing with people on the various services that the quality of your service is rarely directly @home's fault and more likely the way your cable company handles it's own end.
:). I found their handling of this incident suprisingly well done considering the horror stories that come up on the Unix@home mailing list about abuse departments disconnecting people because their machine showed open ports for mail and www even though they were only running things for personal use.
I thought I'd post a more positive perspective on my @home experience.
First off I've had the service for around 2 1/2 years now, I had it when it was still known as 'The Wave' because @home was too busy at the time to handle expansion into Canada. I pay around 40$ a month Canadian with tax. My stream caps are 300k/s down, 50k/s up (Up from 100k/s down and 50k/s up when I initially signed up) and I routinely do transfers at these rates. I live in Metro Toronto and I would estimate I easily have over 100 people on my segment, if I were to guess I would say it is probably higher, more like 200. During prime time I do notice more packet loss, but I guess I just accept this, just as I accept that if I go to work during rush hour I will have to contend with more people on the train and it won't be as easy to get a seat etc. I do play quake, everquest without significant problems.
As to @home's handling of open relays, well @home may be bad but my personal cable company (Rogers) seems to actually be developing a clue. They recently did a scan of machines and notified people running mailservers who failed the spam relay check that they would have a week to fix their relay or their service would be disconnected until they could prove to the abuse people that it was fixed. As a side note Rogers allows small personal servers for mail etc, but don't expect to be running the next slashdot affiliate off it
I don't use IRC so I really can't comment on that.
My bottom line I guess is, all of @home is not created equal. Check around, ask other people who have been on the service in the area what they think, look and see if you have a local @home users group and see how their general attitude is towards their provider.
Althought I read the article and see that the accused basicly owned up to faking both posts (At least that's my take on the response) assuming that multiple messages from the same ip are by the same person is problematic.
At my company we use a firewall with masqing which makes it appear that we are all coming from one ip address, so in the theoretical case that we were to defend our product in a forum like this (Although I wouldn't advocate doing it anonymously) it would look like one person is doing all the posting when it could be multiple people from different departments.
AFAIK a .plan update from Brian Hook (I believe)
detailed the architecture for their optimization
system.
They have all their 'optimizables' in
one file which is compiled as a dll.
The fallback is naturally a C implmententation of each function. Then for special processors they do optimized versions of each function in a
file/dll for that processor.
At runtime they detect your processor and load
the best dll for the job.
Not only is the X server not that great,
in that it will mis-size windows, get colours
wrong that work fine on the console of a real
unix box but their NFS server had some problems
too.
Like if you re-inited the NFS server all the
clients would have to reboot or disconnect/
reconnect the share to get it to work again.
I suppose it's better than nothing, but it is very pricey.
I thought the post office was using linux
:)
to sort the mail.
I'm gonna take a stab at the idea that the
US Postal service collects more than 250M a year.
Is it just me, or do the father's comments
seem a little wacked?
1 minute to encrypt an email? That's got to be
one of the slowest email encryption systems I've
every heard of.
And 30 minutes for RSA??? Common.