A perfectly valid reason to not hire a black or mexican person, or to deny them access to a club, is pretty straightforward. Let's say I've previously hired a black/mexican person, and possibly several of them, because I'm required to by law. They all ended up stealing from me, not working and just standing about, or something like that. Another black man that comes to the bar looking for work with similar character traits as the previous goons comes along, and I now have a valid reason to not hire them.
Now, if some cool black or mexican guy came along and wanted a job at my pub, then sure, he has the job.
No it wouldn't. It'd be more like me going into engineering (like my father), at he same school he did (Duke), and meeting the son of oen of my dad's college friends who, like his dad, also went into engineering at the same school. The degree doesn't even ahve to be the same. This kind of thing happens all the time. With something as remote as galactic rebellion, its conceiveable that someone would be heavily influenced by their father's decisions while growign up, etc. And osme of it is genetic. Luke becoming a Jedi, like his father. Luke being on a remote desert planet, like his father. etc.
What I want to see is Harrision Solo come back for Episode III and play Han Solo's father with Chewie. I think that'd be a marvelous plot twist. Maybe have his dad be a CorSec officer or something - i don't know how the novels portray him.
Egad, I watch too many movies. I knew exactly where that reference came from, and from whom, before I'd read a sentence or two - simply due to the sentence structure. And I've never fully seen It's A Wonderful Life.
Well, my camera adjusts to the flicker rate of the light source. If I focus on a TV, then pop on over to a monitor, the flicker adjusts quite quickly. Only time there's a problem is when there's conflicting flickers - florescence and a TV, for instance.
If you're going to talk about something, you could try being exacting.
I've got a Canon z40 (about as low-end digital as you can get), and it's got this feature that allows it to automatically adjust to flicker. It helps compensate for florescence and things of that nature, why couldn't it help for something like this?
I don't know how you can manage to say that. Films already flicker at about 25Hz - 25 frames per second. Maybe you're fortunate to not have to go to a non-digital theatre, I don't know. I've personally never been to a digital theatre, so I can't compare.
A caching server? You must be nuts. That cost would be exhorbinant. Not only that, but I suspect the main bandwidth hog would be large files and music transfer, etc. There's no percieveable way that such a setup could be financially competitive with fiber to every house. None. Not for a town-wide LAN.
Besides, it's a relatively trivial matter to wire from block to block, if you're going to bother wiring things at all. Certainly more trivial than a caching server per block plus a wifi AP - it'd have to be put in someone's yard, after all. Who owns it? The city? Who maintains it? There's a lot of cost involved there.
As far as someone 'leeching from the cat5', that's all you need to say to let me know you know absolutely nothing about networking. You don't use cat5 for outdoors.
So why not get Mitnick to teach what he knows to others? That seems much greater a value than having him do the work directly, IMO. Stage scenarios and teach the 'kids' how to work the social ropes.
Granted, he was held without a trial for a long time, and he got used as a scrapegoat for a large part of things, but I'd still not trust him with security, directly. Have him train competent people that already know what they're doing.
You don't seem to understand the concept. What good would wifi access points do just to bridge a couple blocks together? The bandwidth isn't sufficient. The only situation I could see is use a single AP per block (exhorbinantly expensive), and wire the blocks together. You'd not save much (if any) by doing it that way. Not only that, but it defeats the point of wiring with fiber (or even copper) in the first place: wifi can do 11Mbit, but in practice it's less. Sometimes 3Mbit, sometimes 7 or 8Mbit.
If you're using a single wifi AP for even a single block, you're going to run into problems with this scenario. I don't care how fast the wires are, you're only going to get 8Mbit onto the pipe at a time, and that's amongst (say) 10 households, and maybe 5 of those households will want to use it at once. That's going to choke them down quite a lot - maybe to 1Mbit each.
That's simply not an acceptable speed for a neighborhood LAN. You're still going to be picky about people leeching from your system, because the rest of the neighborhood won't be able to use the internet or do much else while they're leeching from you, and then you'll get in trouble with your neighbors. Not cool. It might be an acceptable pipe for -just- internet, but simply forget about filesharing.
Yep, the only people that register their guns/carry concealed with a license are those that are the law abiding citizens.
Thus making a 'concealed weapons permit' completely pointless and self defeating - just like gun registration. It helps nobody but the gov't in controling your life and gathering information on you.
Is killing a CEO and act of social justice? No, it's murder.
No, it would probably be considered assassination, particularly political assassination. Especially if you make it known after the fact why it was done, so it can have political/economic reprecussoins.
The problem with that is that it relies quite extensively on the generosity of others to share limitted things (internet bandwidth) to you for free which they paid for. That's exactly why file sharing on the internet doesn't work well.
Not only that, but wifi APs don't have the bandwidth for a setup like this, especially since they'd be in a grid fashion and be a flat network, as opposed to simply wifi internet access, which is simply an upstream network (which requires significantly less bandwidth).
If in the case that the bank is a monopoly and is effectively harming the wellfare of the public, then yes, breaking into a bank would be considered freedom fighting. Just like killing the CEOs of America's corporations could be considered 'freedom fighting' (due to their rape of the American wage).
In that same sense, hacking a MS box is freedom fighting, etc.
This is an 'educational' type project, and something that the college might not mind endorsing - especially if the college CS professors live in town. Considering colleges and universities gets bandwidth for a fraction of what a commercial entity does, they could probably offer the bandwidth to the community with that fraction in mind, with a little extra added to cover the overhead of on-campus bandwidth.
That is, unless, the college isn't already raping its students with exhorbinant bandwidth prices.
If you've got a LAN with over 9 thousand hosts on it, many of them belonging to college-aged students, you have little, if any, need for the rest of the internet at high download speeds. Why do you need those high download speeds? Porn, warez, movies, and music. What do most college students have in plethora? Porn, warez, movies, and music.
The main difference between this LAN and a P2P network is that you're more likely to know the person, and they're less likely to throttle you back or limit your leeching because it might 'damage their performance' (you could take several gigs of anything in a matter of moments at 100Mbit).
The main problem I think you'd run into is legal - for instance, you'd have to worry about the RIAA getting connected somewhere and suing your ass. I'd think there'd be some sort of clause in the contract that says you can't use something you find on the LANeighborhood to get someone in legal trouble, nor can you allow someone else to use the network for that purpose. Granted, it's not like the MP/RIAA wouldn't -know- explicitly that almost everyone on the network is pirating anyway.
This system is used already used to steal from students here at SDSU. I'm talking about the administration, not the students, though. And that's beyond the already-exhorbinant prices they charge (1.05$ for a 20oz soda from the machine, and varying amounts for their food in the cafeteria).
I started to notice my money was disappearing from my meal plan my first year here, since I tend to pay pretty close attention to things of that vein and am generally able to keep pretty good mental track of where my money goes. For the next couple weeks I kept records of the funds in my meal account (and my 'HoboDough"), and noticed that each transaction deducted an additional 5 cents from the 'advertised' price on the product right before the actual price was charged, and a quick eye could catch the.05 flash on the LCDs of the cafeteria cash registers right before the meal charge did (at least before they replaced them with newer registers this past fall).
Nowhere is this mentioned in meal plans, and very few people raelize that it's being done; those that do realize it's being done don't really care. "It's only 5 cents"... but it's still stealing, and adds up to be about 40$ per student per year (given a 2 meal-a-day basis). With 9 thousand students (as this school as), that's $360,000.
Another solution to this problem is computer-operated fighters. I don't see that as being a problem by the time we get to space, since they're already working on the concept.
I'm personally a big fan of WWII era planes, but I've never thought they'd have much of a chance against anything that modern.
A harrier is a pretty sweet plane, too. They'd fare decently in combat, with good pilots, against modern US warplanes. There's a reason why the brits still use 'em:)
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A perfectly valid reason to not hire a black or mexican person, or to deny them access to a club, is pretty straightforward. Let's say I've previously hired a black/mexican person, and possibly several of them, because I'm required to by law. They all ended up stealing from me, not working and just standing about, or something like that. Another black man that comes to the bar looking for work with similar character traits as the previous goons comes along, and I now have a valid reason to not hire them.
Now, if some cool black or mexican guy came along and wanted a job at my pub, then sure, he has the job.
No it wouldn't. It'd be more like me going into engineering (like my father), at he same school he did (Duke), and meeting the son of oen of my dad's college friends who, like his dad, also went into engineering at the same school. The degree doesn't even ahve to be the same. This kind of thing happens all the time. With something as remote as galactic rebellion, its conceiveable that someone would be heavily influenced by their father's decisions while growign up, etc. And osme of it is genetic. Luke becoming a Jedi, like his father. Luke being on a remote desert planet, like his father. etc.
Your arguement is very simple.
What I want to see is Harrision Solo come back for Episode III and play Han Solo's father with Chewie. I think that'd be a marvelous plot twist. Maybe have his dad be a CorSec officer or something - i don't know how the novels portray him.
Egad, I watch too many movies. I knew exactly where that reference came from, and from whom, before I'd read a sentence or two - simply due to the sentence structure. And I've never fully seen It's A Wonderful Life.
Well, my camera adjusts to the flicker rate of the light source. If I focus on a TV, then pop on over to a monitor, the flicker adjusts quite quickly. Only time there's a problem is when there's conflicting flickers - florescence and a TV, for instance.
However, this technique DOES present a huge wad of tax payer cash being used for the will of a corrupt monopoly!
If you're going to talk about something, you could try being exacting.
I've got a Canon z40 (about as low-end digital as you can get), and it's got this feature that allows it to automatically adjust to flicker. It helps compensate for florescence and things of that nature, why couldn't it help for something like this?
I don't know how you can manage to say that. Films already flicker at about 25Hz - 25 frames per second. Maybe you're fortunate to not have to go to a non-digital theatre, I don't know. I've personally never been to a digital theatre, so I can't compare.
A caching server? You must be nuts. That cost would be exhorbinant. Not only that, but I suspect the main bandwidth hog would be large files and music transfer, etc. There's no percieveable way that such a setup could be financially competitive with fiber to every house. None. Not for a town-wide LAN.
Besides, it's a relatively trivial matter to wire from block to block, if you're going to bother wiring things at all. Certainly more trivial than a caching server per block plus a wifi AP - it'd have to be put in someone's yard, after all. Who owns it? The city? Who maintains it? There's a lot of cost involved there.
As far as someone 'leeching from the cat5', that's all you need to say to let me know you know absolutely nothing about networking. You don't use cat5 for outdoors.
Who else - David Hastlehoff :P If he can prance about in baywatch, why not his own movie? :P
So what have you done about it? cc fraud is a federal offense, I believe. They screwed you over, it's time they get some of it coming back at them.
Certainly there's someone you could milk for $ before you turn them in.
So why not get Mitnick to teach what he knows to others? That seems much greater a value than having him do the work directly, IMO. Stage scenarios and teach the 'kids' how to work the social ropes.
Granted, he was held without a trial for a long time, and he got used as a scrapegoat for a large part of things, but I'd still not trust him with security, directly. Have him train competent people that already know what they're doing.
You don't seem to understand the concept. What good would wifi access points do just to bridge a couple blocks together? The bandwidth isn't sufficient. The only situation I could see is use a single AP per block (exhorbinantly expensive), and wire the blocks together. You'd not save much (if any) by doing it that way. Not only that, but it defeats the point of wiring with fiber (or even copper) in the first place: wifi can do 11Mbit, but in practice it's less. Sometimes 3Mbit, sometimes 7 or 8Mbit.
If you're using a single wifi AP for even a single block, you're going to run into problems with this scenario. I don't care how fast the wires are, you're only going to get 8Mbit onto the pipe at a time, and that's amongst (say) 10 households, and maybe 5 of those households will want to use it at once. That's going to choke them down quite a lot - maybe to 1Mbit each.
That's simply not an acceptable speed for a neighborhood LAN. You're still going to be picky about people leeching from your system, because the rest of the neighborhood won't be able to use the internet or do much else while they're leeching from you, and then you'll get in trouble with your neighbors. Not cool. It might be an acceptable pipe for -just- internet, but simply forget about filesharing.
Yep, the only people that register their guns/carry concealed with a license are those that are the law abiding citizens.
Thus making a 'concealed weapons permit' completely pointless and self defeating - just like gun registration. It helps nobody but the gov't in controling your life and gathering information on you.
Is killing a CEO and act of social justice? No, it's murder.
No, it would probably be considered assassination, particularly political assassination. Especially if you make it known after the fact why it was done, so it can have political/economic reprecussoins.
The problem with that is that it relies quite extensively on the generosity of others to share limitted things (internet bandwidth) to you for free which they paid for. That's exactly why file sharing on the internet doesn't work well.
Not only that, but wifi APs don't have the bandwidth for a setup like this, especially since they'd be in a grid fashion and be a flat network, as opposed to simply wifi internet access, which is simply an upstream network (which requires significantly less bandwidth).
If in the case that the bank is a monopoly and is effectively harming the wellfare of the public, then yes, breaking into a bank would be considered freedom fighting. Just like killing the CEOs of America's corporations could be considered 'freedom fighting' (due to their rape of the American wage).
In that same sense, hacking a MS box is freedom fighting, etc.
Wouldn't this make ip routing, masquerading, and forwarding tools illigal as well?
IPTABLES and IPCHAINS, to name a few. And CISCO routers, maybe? Or how about Linksys home routers for your average cable modem user?
Looks like everyone's in trouble.
This is an 'educational' type project, and something that the college might not mind endorsing - especially if the college CS professors live in town. Considering colleges and universities gets bandwidth for a fraction of what a commercial entity does, they could probably offer the bandwidth to the community with that fraction in mind, with a little extra added to cover the overhead of on-campus bandwidth.
That is, unless, the college isn't already raping its students with exhorbinant bandwidth prices.
If you've got a LAN with over 9 thousand hosts on it, many of them belonging to college-aged students, you have little, if any, need for the rest of the internet at high download speeds. Why do you need those high download speeds? Porn, warez, movies, and music. What do most college students have in plethora? Porn, warez, movies, and music.
The main difference between this LAN and a P2P network is that you're more likely to know the person, and they're less likely to throttle you back or limit your leeching because it might 'damage their performance' (you could take several gigs of anything in a matter of moments at 100Mbit).
The main problem I think you'd run into is legal - for instance, you'd have to worry about the RIAA getting connected somewhere and suing your ass. I'd think there'd be some sort of clause in the contract that says you can't use something you find on the LANeighborhood to get someone in legal trouble, nor can you allow someone else to use the network for that purpose. Granted, it's not like the MP/RIAA wouldn't -know- explicitly that almost everyone on the network is pirating anyway.
This was exactly what I was thinking about when I said a harrier could hold it's own in modern air combat.
This system is used already used to steal from students here at SDSU. I'm talking about the administration, not the students, though. And that's beyond the already-exhorbinant prices they charge (1.05$ for a 20oz soda from the machine, and varying amounts for their food in the cafeteria).
.05 flash on the LCDs of the cafeteria cash registers right before the meal charge did (at least before they replaced them with newer registers this past fall).
I started to notice my money was disappearing from my meal plan my first year here, since I tend to pay pretty close attention to things of that vein and am generally able to keep pretty good mental track of where my money goes. For the next couple weeks I kept records of the funds in my meal account (and my 'HoboDough"), and noticed that each transaction deducted an additional 5 cents from the 'advertised' price on the product right before the actual price was charged, and a quick eye could catch the
Nowhere is this mentioned in meal plans, and very few people raelize that it's being done; those that do realize it's being done don't really care. "It's only 5 cents"... but it's still stealing, and adds up to be about 40$ per student per year (given a 2 meal-a-day basis). With 9 thousand students (as this school as), that's $360,000.
Another solution to this problem is computer-operated fighters. I don't see that as being a problem by the time we get to space, since they're already working on the concept.
Provided we ever get to space.
But not if Superman were to eat beans for lunch!
I doubt it would be much different than pushing out a particularly solid poop, anyway. This is superman we're talking about, after all!
I'm interested - why?
:)
I'm personally a big fan of WWII era planes, but I've never thought they'd have much of a chance against anything that modern.
A harrier is a pretty sweet plane, too. They'd fare decently in combat, with good pilots, against modern US warplanes. There's a reason why the brits still use 'em