Take personal responsibility. Yeah, right. I don't get any spam. I filter it all out. Does that matter? NO! I'm one person and part of a very thin sliver of the total net population.
I remember my first encounter with Red Herring, which was a cutting on the notice board in our office kitchen, talking about how our CEO was leading an up-and-coming business, despite the fact that we all thought there was no future for it.
It took me ages to realise that it wasn't a "the onion" style piss-take.
Pace pretty much rule the UK cable box industry and are providers for a large portion of the world including the US.
If press releases of 18 months or so ago are to be believed, Samsung and SA have UK cable offerings just around the corner.
Seriously though we have a totally closed cable system where all channels are encrypted unlike america where basic analogue cable is provided in the clear.
There are (or were, last time I looked) quite a few clear digital channels on my local NTL cable network. Typically those provided by the BBC, and others available on Free-to-air.
The standard in the UK btw is Euro-DOCSIS - effectively our cable boxes are cable modems with a DVB headend tacked on.
It's called DVB-C, and it's an open standard, with most of the specifications available for free download off the web. EuroDOCSIS is a cable modem standard, which is (mostly) an 8MHz version of DOCSIS.
no but they are using a compatable standard..... Comcast and Charter both use the motorola system. and parts of Time Warner also use it.
But other parts of all 3 run SA networks, and the two aren't compatible with each other, and neither of them are open.
If you want to develop a box to run on either network, you have to jump through lots of hoops to get the relevant data out of either MOT or SA. Since they own the end-to-end system, they can lock out competition on an entire network.
While OpenCable makes it hard to develop an open source system (you can only read their specs under NDA), it does make it a lot easier for people manufacturing closed systems to get in on the monopoly - which I'd see as a step in the right direction.
It's just like seeing the same photo of a scantily clad woman, being used in both a Harley Davidson ad, and also in "Guns & Ammo" and figuring that she really knows how to live!;-)
After one of my ex-employers' rants about how we just needed to turn off our monitors at night, rather than purchase air conditioning, our friendly security guard took to going round turning off all the screens he could see.
Many's the morning you'd come to work and all the workstations would be frozen because he'd turned off the serial console to our NFS server.
The distributed.net key-cracking contest was like this -- you don't have to double check every piece of work because once you've found the key, it is trivial to test it to make sure it's right.
Almost true. That covers the problem of a "false positive" (client says that this is the correct answer, check it to ensure that it is), but does nothing to counter the problem of a "false negative".
What if I have "the" RC5-72 key in a block on my harddisk and, for some reason or other, I report that I didn't find the key in there? The rest of the network carries on cracking away for tens of years only to find that they exhausted the keyspace without finding anything - and they have to start again.
Hmm, all changed since I was there (1991-1994, back when it was in the Old Library). We started out with a Prime and a handful of Sun 3s/4s, later followed by a bunch of SGI boxen. They also had labs full of X terminals.
The only PCs I ever saw there were running kermit and FTP so I could transfer stuff between my Atari ST and the Unix network.
I guess they got to the stage where the old kit couldn't handle the work they wanted to do with it and switched over to commodity machines. Shame it's gone the way it has, though.
Given how the article refers to the halcyon days of the old machines with built-in BASIC interpreters, etc., what about running one of the many emulators available?
I grew up doing Z80 on an Amstrad CPC (although it had a built-in BASIC, too) and 68000 on an Atari ST. I recently tried out a couple of the great ST emulators and had no trouble firing up my old editor/assembler combo (which I paid for, as it happens) and messing with my old source code.
I actually think there's some value to be had in playing with older systems under emulation - either in BASIC, for its ease-of-use, or even in assembler for the sheer hardcore value.
They're the one band that make me consider firing up a P2P tool and trying to find some of their stuff. I've *never* seen any of their music on sale here in the UK.
I had a friend at uni (Californian doing JYA) who gave me copies of her tape-based albums, but they're long since lost.
Where this would be useful, IMHO, is if your company had an account with Zingo and you could hail it knowing that you didn't actually have to foot the bill yourself (rather than wait for a CabCharge one). Sadly, they don't actually do corporate accounts, so I still can't see why you'd want it.
Their FAQ is pushing the ability to get one at night, or when it's raining, without having to stand outside, which is fair enough, I guess. If you're a jessie.
IIRC, the old GI (now Motorola) boxes (and anything that hooks up to their headends, I guess) has a low frequency (10s of MHz) "Out Of Band" link back to the headend. That coupler likely filters out that frequency band, which stops the communication back to the headend.
You'd like to think that the box would retry and connect if the filter were removed, as well as the cited reason of the cableco being alerted when the box doesn't respond to a ping.
Either way, you'd have to be a moron to believe it'd work and those that do deserve everything they get, IMHO.
Straying a bit offtopic, but I suffer way more from being sent email viruses than I ever have from spam. I might see 1 spam (maybe 1k - 20k bytes) every couple of days, whereas I get anything from 20 to 100 copies of Klez or Yaha, at 45k - 188k bytes each per day.
AFAICT, all those came from the fact that I made the mistake of listing my real email address when I uploaded a Winamp skin. It was up for less than a week in December, and I'm still getting viruses now. The hotmail one I put up to replace it (only ever used for that Winamp skin) gets a similar level.
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MS can take this patent and basically shut down ANY web site out there.
Presumably your IIS license covers the patent, though, so only people using non-IIS webservers would really be affected.
Take personal responsibility. Yeah, right. I don't get any spam. I filter it all out. Does that matter? NO! I'm one person and part of a very thin sliver of the total net population.
Don't vote either, eh?
I remember my first encounter with Red Herring, which was a cutting on the notice board in our office kitchen, talking about how our CEO was leading an up-and-coming business, despite the fact that we all thought there was no future for it.
It took me ages to realise that it wasn't a "the onion" style piss-take.
Bah, just used my last mod point.
Pace pretty much rule the UK cable box industry and are providers for a large portion of the world including the US.
If press releases of 18 months or so ago are to be believed, Samsung and SA have UK cable offerings just around the corner.
Seriously though we have a totally closed cable system where all channels are encrypted unlike america where basic analogue cable is provided in the clear.
There are (or were, last time I looked) quite a few clear digital channels on my local NTL cable network. Typically those provided by the BBC, and others available on Free-to-air.
The standard in the UK btw is Euro-DOCSIS - effectively our cable boxes are cable modems with a DVB headend tacked on.
It's called DVB-C, and it's an open standard, with most of the specifications available for free download off the web. EuroDOCSIS is a cable modem standard, which is (mostly) an 8MHz version of DOCSIS.
no but they are using a compatable standard.....
Comcast and Charter both use the motorola system.
and parts of Time Warner also use it.
But other parts of all 3 run SA networks, and the two aren't compatible with each other, and neither of them are open.
If you want to develop a box to run on either network, you have to jump through lots of hoops to get the relevant data out of either MOT or SA. Since they own the end-to-end system, they can lock out competition on an entire network.
While OpenCable makes it hard to develop an open source system (you can only read their specs under NDA), it does make it a lot easier for people manufacturing closed systems to get in on the monopoly - which I'd see as a step in the right direction.
It's just like seeing the same photo of a scantily clad woman, being used in both a Harley Davidson ad, and also in "Guns & Ammo" and figuring that she really knows how to live! ;-)
Where can I find this photo?
After one of my ex-employers' rants about how we just needed to turn off our monitors at night, rather than purchase air conditioning, our friendly security guard took to going round turning off all the screens he could see.
Many's the morning you'd come to work and all the workstations would be frozen because he'd turned off the serial console to our NFS server.
Perhaps they live in different areas, between which, as Anonymous Coward suggested, the quality of care differs.
I thought it was illegal to encrypt over wireless connections
That'd go a fair way to explaining WEP.
Is there a problem with you and the matrix being happy?
Is it because there's a problem with you and the matrix being happy that you came to see me?
The distributed.net key-cracking contest was like this -- you don't have to double check every piece of work because once you've found the key, it is trivial to test it to make sure it's right.
Almost true. That covers the problem of a "false positive" (client says that this is the correct answer, check it to ensure that it is), but does nothing to counter the problem of a "false negative".
What if I have "the" RC5-72 key in a block on my harddisk and, for some reason or other, I report that I didn't find the key in there? The rest of the network carries on cracking away for tens of years only to find that they exhausted the keyspace without finding anything - and they have to start again.
(and it tends to leave mineral deposits in your shower/bathtub).
So, what, they shower in Evian?
The most you can do is *threaten* someone overseas, unless you're willing to put a lot of time and money into the problem.
/me steals AtariDatacenter's stuff.
Ah, right. I briefly had visions of you fighting the redcoats over our evil imperialist attitude towards copyright, or something.
One person blatently stole a bunch of stuff for a commercial site. Worse, they were in England.
Forgive my ignorance, but how does the person being in England make it worse?
Hmm, all changed since I was there (1991-1994, back when it was in the Old Library). We started out with a Prime and a handful of Sun 3s/4s, later followed by a bunch of SGI boxen. They also had labs full of X terminals.
:-)
The only PCs I ever saw there were running kermit and FTP so I could transfer stuff between my Atari ST and the Unix network.
I guess they got to the stage where the old kit couldn't handle the work they wanted to do with it and switched over to commodity machines. Shame it's gone the way it has, though.
Good luck with yer results, btw
"According to occult scientist Terence McKenna, the end of the world as we know it will occur at 11:10 PM, December 22, 2012[...]"
Which timezone was that, again? Or are we expecting the world to end in 24 arbitrarily defined chunks throughout the day?
Given how the article refers to the halcyon days of the old machines with built-in BASIC interpreters, etc., what about running one of the many emulators available?
I grew up doing Z80 on an Amstrad CPC (although it had a built-in BASIC, too) and 68000 on an Atari ST. I recently tried out a couple of the great ST emulators and had no trouble firing up my old editor/assembler combo (which I paid for, as it happens) and messing with my old source code.
I actually think there's some value to be had in playing with older systems under emulation - either in BASIC, for its ease-of-use, or even in assembler for the sheer hardcore value.
Right, that's it. I'm adding you as a friend. After this and yesterday's description of foosball, it had to be done.
So that's what foosball is. Heard the name quite a lot on US TV programmes and films we get over here, but never realised what it was.
Is the name derived from the German "Fussball"?
They're the one band that make me consider firing up a P2P tool and trying to find some of their stuff. I've *never* seen any of their music on sale here in the UK.
I had a friend at uni (Californian doing JYA) who gave me copies of her tape-based albums, but they're long since lost.
Ah, the memories...
Where this would be useful, IMHO, is if your company had an account with Zingo and you could hail it knowing that you didn't actually have to foot the bill yourself (rather than wait for a CabCharge one). Sadly, they don't actually do corporate accounts, so I still can't see why you'd want it.
Their FAQ is pushing the ability to get one at night, or when it's raining, without having to stand outside, which is fair enough, I guess. If you're a jessie.
IIRC, the old GI (now Motorola) boxes (and anything that hooks up to their headends, I guess) has a low frequency (10s of MHz) "Out Of Band" link back to the headend. That coupler likely filters out that frequency band, which stops the communication back to the headend.
You'd like to think that the box would retry and connect if the filter were removed, as well as the cited reason of the cableco being alerted when the box doesn't respond to a ping.
Either way, you'd have to be a moron to believe it'd work and those that do deserve everything they get, IMHO.
Straying a bit offtopic, but I suffer way more from being sent email viruses than I ever have from spam. I might see 1 spam (maybe 1k - 20k bytes) every couple of days, whereas I get anything from 20 to 100 copies of Klez or Yaha, at 45k - 188k bytes each per day.
AFAICT, all those came from the fact that I made the mistake of listing my real email address when I uploaded a Winamp skin. It was up for less than a week in December, and I'm still getting viruses now. The hotmail one I put up to replace it (only ever used for that Winamp skin) gets a similar level.