I'm sorry, AC. Good luck. Maybe try to start up a thing ushering people to the cloud. Not much start-up investment, good chance you can handle it, not saturated yet, and you just need to know a few people to talk into letting you do it for them, then one client leads to more and eventually you're in the black again. Maybe.
He was bipolar, with paranoid delusions most amplified during mixed episodes (happy and not happy psychosis in the same package -- a bad trip).
And you're right, that he was a manic depressive with persecutory delusions and that he was indeed being spied upon by law enforcement doesn't mean he wasn't nuts -- obviously the case in Hemingway's case. Maybe it was self-fulfilling.
I'm one of the guys who received one of these letters over a porn torrent. It instructs me to log into their website (I haven't) to find out how much they want, offer's off the table March something yada yada. My ISP guy suggests I just lie low and ignore the thing.
This may have been a Slowloris DoS attack by some patriotic 2600 guy, not necessarily a massive coordinated multinational assault. That perl script is effective on threading web servers including Apache. I just tested it out, took down my badass 100mbps server (just the web server stalling up until the script is aborted) with a dinky server on a DSL line just by opening up a bunch of TCP sockets really really slowly, using less than 20KB/s. That's Tor friendly.
Then I installed mod_qos, tried to attack myself again, no slowdown, problem solved.
If this attack gets the right amount of attention it could turn a lot of people on (4channers mainly who are yapping up Slowlaris as their replacement for LOIC) to DoSing with this software. So for those of you using Apache, you may want to fire up mod_qos (Apache2 instructions). Actually you may want it regardless for general performance purposes.
I gotta say, hacking a high-profile politician's email account (ESPECIALLY when they are running for vice president, which means everything of theirs is being watched 24/7) is a really stupid idea. There's pretty much no way you can get away with that nowadays...
clearly you don't fully appreciate the seductiveness of epic lulz for which this was done
One reason exaggerating the signal reporting ain't cool is that the weaker the reception a phone gets the more it beefs up the transmission power. So for example some of us want to know whether or not if we keep our phone overnight by the bed it gets a significantly lower signal than if it's by the window so that we know where we ought to leave it when it's sleepy time but if this phone reports a full signal in either location (but the transceiver behaves differently) then not having that information may lead to unideal nocturnal positioning. You dig?
Wonder if AT&T had anything to do with that. Anyway, nice to know they kept their distance from my Nexus One, crapware and misleadingware alike.
In addition to being a bigger market sales-wise of phones with Android on them, the Android application market is much less saturated than Apple's, for now at least, which I believe is a good thing for aspiring developers.
Most if not all of the comments in this thing that aren't defending the government or just attacking Google for involving themselves in politics and breaking laws only make minor concessions that Google is a "little less trash" than Baidu in terms of functionality and advertisements. If I were their government I wouldn't have crafted those comments any differently. Even if ChinaSMACK is apparently in the US, would it not be in there interests to go a little soft on the Chinese government? Just a little? C'mon. Ten bucks says they're not blocked by the Great Firewall even though Google Blogs is.
I did my own research interviewing Chinafolk. Granted I was using Google Buzz and so were they but still. Read it. Without flying to Shanghai or wardialing internationally for opinions that might be about the closest you can get to the truth in this matter.
Worth noting, on the human end of this, if you ask someone born in Hong Kong if they're Chinese, the answer is often no while they judge you as being ignorant.
As a frustrated AT&T subscriber in NYC (I suppose that's a bit redundant) I would like to shock the government with some tests of America's fastest 3G network in midtown Manhattan during the day but this website with all that fancy javascript and registration stuff doesn't seem too friendly for this.
Currently I use dslreports but I'm not sure if AT&T somehow throttles or bursts or shapes data that appears to be speed tests nor do I know if the random data this site blasts out gets compressed through AT&T. The only speed test for my phone I know is reliable is by tethering through WMWifiRouter and downloading a Debian iso. Not very convenient and I'm just mesmerized that the likes of PCWorld actually claims that in NYC their testing of AT&T averaged >1500Kbps / >700kbps down/up when yesterday I got 16kbps and 32kbps with ridiculous latencies on the street in the 50s and 40s both around 1pm and then 6pm. I guess they're testing on Mondays at 2am.
Any other mobile friendly sites for testing would be appreciated along with any other at&t rants.
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Third word in.
Why does everyone love the word further?
And if you were smart enough, you would have used the subjunctive mood when phrasing a state of unreality.
> Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy?
No.
Don't forget double the spectral efficiency over the HSDPA family... kind of a selling point for New Yorkers and sports fans and carriers.
I know I could use Google, but why give them even more information then they already get.
Why not?
I'm sorry, AC. Good luck. Maybe try to start up a thing ushering people to the cloud. Not much start-up investment, good chance you can handle it, not saturated yet, and you just need to know a few people to talk into letting you do it for them, then one client leads to more and eventually you're in the black again. Maybe.
Why? Because, if you think about it, that's an unrealistic, unhelpful and an undesirable alternative.
He was bipolar, with paranoid delusions most amplified during mixed episodes (happy and not happy psychosis in the same package -- a bad trip).
And you're right, that he was a manic depressive with persecutory delusions and that he was indeed being spied upon by law enforcement doesn't mean he wasn't nuts -- obviously the case in Hemingway's case. Maybe it was self-fulfilling.
You don't capitalize by or other short prepositions in titles. How long have you been doing this? Maybe set this as your homepage for a few days.
VLC rules by the way.
Yeah search master? You sure it's not using Baidu?
From the source..
I'm one of the guys who received one of these letters over a porn torrent. It instructs me to log into their website (I haven't) to find out how much they want, offer's off the table March something yada yada. My ISP guy suggests I just lie low and ignore the thing.
What do?
This may have been a Slowloris DoS attack by some patriotic 2600 guy, not necessarily a massive coordinated multinational assault. That perl script is effective on threading web servers including Apache. I just tested it out, took down my badass 100mbps server (just the web server stalling up until the script is aborted) with a dinky server on a DSL line just by opening up a bunch of TCP sockets really really slowly, using less than 20KB/s. That's Tor friendly.
Then I installed mod_qos, tried to attack myself again, no slowdown, problem solved.
If this attack gets the right amount of attention it could turn a lot of people on (4channers mainly who are yapping up Slowlaris as their replacement for LOIC) to DoSing with this software. So for those of you using Apache, you may want to fire up mod_qos (Apache2 instructions). Actually you may want it regardless for general performance purposes.
I gotta say, hacking a high-profile politician's email account (ESPECIALLY when they are running for vice president, which means everything of theirs is being watched 24/7) is a really stupid idea. There's pretty much no way you can get away with that nowadays...
clearly you don't fully appreciate the seductiveness of epic lulz for which this was done
yes, stock browser > settings > enable plugins > on demand
ARRRRGH!! Nobody wants to hear the details...we know all we need to from the title and excerpt.
you read the excerpts?
you sure about that?
If you said "We need feminine gender detection interlocks" then I'd be able to respond that I agree with at least one of your brilliant ideas.
One reason exaggerating the signal reporting ain't cool is that the weaker the reception a phone gets the more it beefs up the transmission power. So for example some of us want to know whether or not if we keep our phone overnight by the bed it gets a significantly lower signal than if it's by the window so that we know where we ought to leave it when it's sleepy time but if this phone reports a full signal in either location (but the transceiver behaves differently) then not having that information may lead to unideal nocturnal positioning. You dig?
Wonder if AT&T had anything to do with that. Anyway, nice to know they kept their distance from my Nexus One, crapware and misleadingware alike.
In addition to being a bigger market sales-wise of phones with Android on them, the Android application market is much less saturated than Apple's, for now at least, which I believe is a good thing for aspiring developers.
man I hate you guys..
I think that's what they call this, the Pope making an issue out of Internet transparency out of nowhere.
Most if not all of the comments in this thing that aren't defending the government or just attacking Google for involving themselves in politics and breaking laws only make minor concessions that Google is a "little less trash" than Baidu in terms of functionality and advertisements. If I were their government I wouldn't have crafted those comments any differently. Even if ChinaSMACK is apparently in the US, would it not be in there interests to go a little soft on the Chinese government? Just a little? C'mon. Ten bucks says they're not blocked by the Great Firewall even though Google Blogs is.
I did my own research interviewing Chinafolk. Granted I was using Google Buzz and so were they but still. Read it. Without flying to Shanghai or wardialing internationally for opinions that might be about the closest you can get to the truth in this matter.
good information.
Worth noting, on the human end of this, if you ask someone born in Hong Kong if they're Chinese, the answer is often no while they judge you as being ignorant.
As a frustrated AT&T subscriber in NYC (I suppose that's a bit redundant) I would like to shock the government with some tests of America's fastest 3G network in midtown Manhattan during the day but this website with all that fancy javascript and registration stuff doesn't seem too friendly for this.
Currently I use dslreports but I'm not sure if AT&T somehow throttles or bursts or shapes data that appears to be speed tests nor do I know if the random data this site blasts out gets compressed through AT&T. The only speed test for my phone I know is reliable is by tethering through WMWifiRouter and downloading a Debian iso. Not very convenient and I'm just mesmerized that the likes of PCWorld actually claims that in NYC their testing of AT&T averaged >1500Kbps / >700kbps down/up when yesterday I got 16kbps and 32kbps with ridiculous latencies on the street in the 50s and 40s both around 1pm and then 6pm. I guess they're testing on Mondays at 2am.
Any other mobile friendly sites for testing would be appreciated along with any other at&t rants.
always appreciate your go-there humor, grub