On IPv6, they shouldn't ever be giving you less than a/64 and a/48 if you request it (or pay more or whatever). NATing is apparently against the law, but we overlook it because otherwise IPv4 would be broken already. My thinking is that NATing on IPv6 will continue to be OK for security reasons, but it's supposed to be completely unnecessary since we'll have enough IPv6 addresses to give one to every grain of sand on earth or whatever.
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If you use the BSD license you end up with OSX and (I mean this as seriously as I can say it): fuck Apple. I think Apple is a great reason to never chose the BSD license.
Encryption that relies on hard problems on computers we're accustomed to, sure, but there are also quantum crypto methods that will become cheap and available in the future. There are special things you can do with quantum crypto (that you can use today if you're rich) that you can't do with ordinary crypto too -- like detecting when people listen in. I don't think this represents the end of home crypto, perhaps a long vacation though.
Perhaps tithing to the local churches is the reason people hate taxes so much? Perhaps the money the churches didn't pay in taxes could have been used to feed the poor? And surely you're aware that feeding the poor and helping the homeless is certainly not something the evil bronze age deity from the bible would be interested in.
Those goals are entirely human ones. And I without the churches, people would organize and do the very same things without having to pretend there's some all knowing all powerful deity that wants them to do it.
There's no question that churches do this. And studies show that religious people give more to charities and so forth. You definitely have that right.
I just think it's an invisible tax (on believers and nonbelievers alike) and the cost of people choosing to have faith is just to high.
I can. I blame religion. I think in every example everywhere of anything religion related, it has harmed society in some important way. When it does "help" society it's an illusion. Theists sometimes claim you can't have morals without religion, but it seems obvious to me that the morals they teach are just the things you have to do to live in herds like we do.
It's a lot easier to set up a wireless internet base station than you might think. My company can set one up for roughly $26,000 -- not counting various hidden costs.
You can do this on the unlicensed bands on a first come first serve basis, or you can get licenses sometimes fairly cheap. We get 3.65MHz licenses in an affordable way.
The economics of copper are a little different. Fiber is actually cheaper now, but to run a line from the C/O out to a house costs like $5,000 (seriously, that's if you have your own construction crew); so making your money back is going to take a long while -- particularly since this doesn't even count tech support or bandwidth costs.
In short, it costs a ridiculous amount of money to bring bandwidth to consumers that are only going to be paying $30/m or $60/m. It's surprisingly hard to make ends meet.
That is the primary reason you don't see a lot more competition. The only people that can afford to do it are people doing a half assed job (you see lots of wireless companies like that) or giant companies like ATT. There are exceptions of course -- I think my company is one.
I call BS on this. I don't think about electricity when I power up my laptop. I don't think about it when I turn on the lights, the coffee maker, nor even the air conditioning. I don't think about it when I draw a hot bath for the wife.
If the rate was affordable, and it should be if it's a utility, I'll just use what I want and pay the bill when it comes.
... personally, I would love to move to a purely metered service, perhaps with some monthly minimum. I like my downloads to go really fast, but I rarely download things. My thinking is that the ISPs would very much overcharge for the transfers (at first), but overall this would be a much better model.
The reality is that an ISP cannot make money reselling bandwidth at 10th the cost of the actual bandwidth if people are actually going to expect to be able to use it 24x7. That just doesn't make any kind of sense. So unless you're in the mood to backhaul your own T1 to your house (1.5megs sure sounds slow doesn't it... $300/m not counting termination fees); how can you realistically expect the ISP to do this for you for $30/m? They can't. They depend on you not using it all the time or they can't make any money.
So they're either going to fuck with our connections *or* we can pay for what we use. Something is going to give and I'd rather they treat all my traffic the same, so I'd rather pay for a metered service like I do with electricity.
So for something like Google Voice, if they're bridging SIP to the PSTN, you absolutely don't want your caller ID showing up as the trunk identifier or billing number for their equipment. My reading of these bills doesn't outlaw it.
Exactly. Agreed. My reading of the bill doesn't outlaw this practice either. I think Google voice will be just fine -- particularly, since (despite popular belief); the courts tend to act sanely... even if somewhat randomly. I think in arguments it would be clear the intent is not to deceive the caller since a return call should probably go through to all my attached devices.
The above is the most important point in the thread. Science is not about belief -- it's about evidence. And the another important difference between belief and science is that science can change based on evidence and beliefs do not. They act as filters on new information instead.
I was referring to USvsFEC 1/21/10. Scalia was pretty clear in saying that you can't separate the human speaker from the corporation, so the corporation in effect has human rights. To claim otherwise is "sophistry" (see footnote 7).
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf
In order to limit the speech of a corporation in any way it will take a constitutional amendment.
although other measures (such as limiting their spending and ties with the media) will probably be necessary as well.
You can't really do any of these things without a new constitutional amendment that says companies are not people and do not deserve human rights. SCOTUS said so, very clearly.
If you want to play games, you wind up using windows. I do all my work in Linux. I make a really good living on Linux. All my email, code, and facebook statuses are written from a linux terminal. But when it's time to sit down and play games, I play them on windows like god intended.
So, I did actually buy copies of XP, because I use it. I think that's fair. The bottom line is that if everyone (including your mom) used linux, then eventually anyone could be tricked (including your mom) into clicking some bit of malware and it would have no problem at all running on linux.
In fact, I bet it'd be even harder to track down on linux since it could pick from all manor of cool hiding places. Your mom might really be inclined to type the root password if the malware were smart enough to pop up a gksudo. Problem solved. They can install simple shell scripts and to co-opt your already super powerful botnet node for their purposes!!
Yeah, windows is a big pile of shit, but your argument is spurious. AV and malware detectors suck. Malware sucks. But signature based detectors are really the only choice for the time being -- maybe forever. As such, just pick something really easy to install and plan on reinstalling windows in a few months. You might even make it a couple years. Problem solved.
I'm not an expert on firearms or anything, but I do believe bullet proof vests are best at blocking hollow points and FJM goes through them fairly reliably... The cheapest armor anyway.
Anyway, regarding your malware software. MSSE seems to include that anyway. Your best defense against it is reinstalling the OS anyway, why even bother with trying to clean it up. You can detect it with the naked eye (typically).
I just fail to see the hullaballoo with all this software. All it really does is slow down your computer. Just plan on reinstalling your OS from time to time and quit taking it so seriously.
Microsoft Security Essentials. It's really the only choice imo. All the others are trying to sell you something. Now, if you're willing to pay, there are perhaps better choices. The most important thing to remember is to not take it too awful seriously. All AV sucks, badly. It's reactive and it only detects a small percentage of the naughty things. It's the only option, but it sucks. MSSE is good.
False positives suck. Antivirus software is also virtually useless for all but the very oldest viruses. I went through a long process of reporting a virus going to my customers several times per minute. It took 6 months to get the big three I wanted to list the virus to actually list it. 6 months.
This whole signature based BS has got to stop. Frequent false positives (and they happen all the time) aren't even the worst thing about this "technology."
I don't know about anyone else, but when I was an undergrad, I was a solid C- student. Part of this was my complete inability to take notes in any meaningful way.
The ability to bring my laptop to class to take notes has changed me to an A+ student. I now have an exact and perfect 4.0 GPA with only two classes left on my masters degree. For me, the biggest difference has been really complete notes. Not only do I find that the notes help later, but I find I'm able to concentrate about 4000% better than I used to when I didn't have anything to focus on.
For me and other dysgraphia sufferers (and if you're wondering tests are a serious problem still, but fortunately I test really fast so I just take lots of breaks); I'd expect an exception. And if I didn't get one, I'd head right the fuck down to the Disability Student Resource Center to get them to force the professor to be less of a fucking douchebag.
Yes, I do see some students reading random web pages and playing games during a lecture, but I fail to see how this is a problem for the university since they'll just end up taking the class again to refill the slot with the W/I (withdraw incomplete) in it.
you don't have to have a paypal account to make a payment with paypal. You can make a payment *through* paypal as a regular old boring ccard transaction.
It's the merchants that really get shafted...
I noticed that paypal is really the only option for selling software in the webos appstore. That's pretty depressing imo.
The same is true for any website with mouse rollovers and css:hover effects, yet somehow touch screen devices do just fine on the web. Miracle? No. But hover effects don't work and life moves on.
I highly recommend Lewis' Elemtns of the Theory of Computation. Garey's Computers and Intractability seems to get quoted a lot as well. I'm not sure how important this stuff is in every day computing, but if you want to learn computability, these two cover everything.
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On IPv6, they shouldn't ever be giving you less than a /64 and a /48 if you request it (or pay more or whatever). NATing is apparently against the law, but we overlook it because otherwise IPv4 would be broken already. My thinking is that NATing on IPv6 will continue to be OK for security reasons, but it's supposed to be completely unnecessary since we'll have enough IPv6 addresses to give one to every grain of sand on earth or whatever.
If you use the BSD license you end up with OSX and (I mean this as seriously as I can say it): fuck Apple. I think Apple is a great reason to never chose the BSD license.
Encryption that relies on hard problems on computers we're accustomed to, sure, but there are also quantum crypto methods that will become cheap and available in the future. There are special things you can do with quantum crypto (that you can use today if you're rich) that you can't do with ordinary crypto too -- like detecting when people listen in. I don't think this represents the end of home crypto, perhaps a long vacation though.
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Perhaps tithing to the local churches is the reason people hate taxes so much? Perhaps the money the churches didn't pay in taxes could have been used to feed the poor? And surely you're aware that feeding the poor and helping the homeless is certainly not something the evil bronze age deity from the bible would be interested in.
Those goals are entirely human ones. And I without the churches, people would organize and do the very same things without having to pretend there's some all knowing all powerful deity that wants them to do it.
There's no question that churches do this. And studies show that religious people give more to charities and so forth. You definitely have that right.
I just think it's an invisible tax (on believers and nonbelievers alike) and the cost of people choosing to have faith is just to high.
I can. I blame religion. I think in every example everywhere of anything religion related, it has harmed society in some important way. When it does "help" society it's an illusion. Theists sometimes claim you can't have morals without religion, but it seems obvious to me that the morals they teach are just the things you have to do to live in herds like we do.
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It's a lot easier to set up a wireless internet base station than you might think. My company can set one up for roughly $26,000 -- not counting various hidden costs.
You can do this on the unlicensed bands on a first come first serve basis, or you can get licenses sometimes fairly cheap. We get 3.65MHz licenses in an affordable way.
The economics of copper are a little different. Fiber is actually cheaper now, but to run a line from the C/O out to a house costs like $5,000 (seriously, that's if you have your own construction crew); so making your money back is going to take a long while -- particularly since this doesn't even count tech support or bandwidth costs.
In short, it costs a ridiculous amount of money to bring bandwidth to consumers that are only going to be paying $30/m or $60/m. It's surprisingly hard to make ends meet.
That is the primary reason you don't see a lot more competition. The only people that can afford to do it are people doing a half assed job (you see lots of wireless companies like that) or giant companies like ATT. There are exceptions of course -- I think my company is one.
I call BS on this. I don't think about electricity when I power up my laptop. I don't think about it when I turn on the lights, the coffee maker, nor even the air conditioning. I don't think about it when I draw a hot bath for the wife.
If the rate was affordable, and it should be if it's a utility, I'll just use what I want and pay the bill when it comes.
Agreed.
The reality is that an ISP cannot make money reselling bandwidth at 10th the cost of the actual bandwidth if people are actually going to expect to be able to use it 24x7. That just doesn't make any kind of sense. So unless you're in the mood to backhaul your own T1 to your house (1.5megs sure sounds slow doesn't it ... $300/m not counting termination fees); how can you realistically expect the ISP to do this for you for $30/m? They can't. They depend on you not using it all the time or they can't make any money.
So they're either going to fuck with our connections *or* we can pay for what we use. Something is going to give and I'd rather they treat all my traffic the same, so I'd rather pay for a metered service like I do with electricity.
So for something like Google Voice, if they're bridging SIP to the PSTN, you absolutely don't want your caller ID showing up as the trunk identifier or billing number for their equipment. My reading of these bills doesn't outlaw it.
Exactly. Agreed. My reading of the bill doesn't outlaw this practice either. I think Google voice will be just fine -- particularly, since (despite popular belief); the courts tend to act sanely... even if somewhat randomly. I think in arguments it would be clear the intent is not to deceive the caller since a return call should probably go through to all my attached devices.
The above is the most important point in the thread. Science is not about belief -- it's about evidence. And the another important difference between belief and science is that science can change based on evidence and beliefs do not. They act as filters on new information instead.
I was referring to USvsFEC 1/21/10. Scalia was pretty clear in saying that you can't separate the human speaker from the corporation, so the corporation in effect has human rights. To claim otherwise is "sophistry" (see footnote 7). http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf
In order to limit the speech of a corporation in any way it will take a constitutional amendment.
although other measures (such as limiting their spending and ties with the media) will probably be necessary as well.
You can't really do any of these things without a new constitutional amendment that says companies are not people and do not deserve human rights. SCOTUS said so, very clearly.
paypal sided with you? then you're certainly correct. QED.
If you want to play games, you wind up using windows. I do all my work in Linux. I make a really good living on Linux. All my email, code, and facebook statuses are written from a linux terminal. But when it's time to sit down and play games, I play them on windows like god intended.
So, I did actually buy copies of XP, because I use it. I think that's fair. The bottom line is that if everyone (including your mom) used linux, then eventually anyone could be tricked (including your mom) into clicking some bit of malware and it would have no problem at all running on linux.
In fact, I bet it'd be even harder to track down on linux since it could pick from all manor of cool hiding places. Your mom might really be inclined to type the root password if the malware were smart enough to pop up a gksudo. Problem solved. They can install simple shell scripts and to co-opt your already super powerful botnet node for their purposes!!
Yeah, windows is a big pile of shit, but your argument is spurious. AV and malware detectors suck. Malware sucks. But signature based detectors are really the only choice for the time being -- maybe forever. As such, just pick something really easy to install and plan on reinstalling windows in a few months. You might even make it a couple years. Problem solved.
I'm not an expert on firearms or anything, but I do believe bullet proof vests are best at blocking hollow points and FJM goes through them fairly reliably... The cheapest armor anyway.
Anyway, regarding your malware software. MSSE seems to include that anyway. Your best defense against it is reinstalling the OS anyway, why even bother with trying to clean it up. You can detect it with the naked eye (typically).
I just fail to see the hullaballoo with all this software. All it really does is slow down your computer. Just plan on reinstalling your OS from time to time and quit taking it so seriously.
Microsoft Security Essentials. It's really the only choice imo. All the others are trying to sell you something. Now, if you're willing to pay, there are perhaps better choices. The most important thing to remember is to not take it too awful seriously. All AV sucks, badly. It's reactive and it only detects a small percentage of the naughty things. It's the only option, but it sucks. MSSE is good.
False positives suck. Antivirus software is also virtually useless for all but the very oldest viruses. I went through a long process of reporting a virus going to my customers several times per minute. It took 6 months to get the big three I wanted to list the virus to actually list it. 6 months.
This whole signature based BS has got to stop. Frequent false positives (and they happen all the time) aren't even the worst thing about this "technology."
The ability to bring my laptop to class to take notes has changed me to an A+ student. I now have an exact and perfect 4.0 GPA with only two classes left on my masters degree. For me, the biggest difference has been really complete notes. Not only do I find that the notes help later, but I find I'm able to concentrate about 4000% better than I used to when I didn't have anything to focus on.
For me and other dysgraphia sufferers (and if you're wondering tests are a serious problem still, but fortunately I test really fast so I just take lots of breaks); I'd expect an exception. And if I didn't get one, I'd head right the fuck down to the Disability Student Resource Center to get them to force the professor to be less of a fucking douchebag.
Yes, I do see some students reading random web pages and playing games during a lecture, but I fail to see how this is a problem for the university since they'll just end up taking the class again to refill the slot with the W/I (withdraw incomplete) in it.
It's the merchants that really get shafted...
I noticed that paypal is really the only option for selling software in the webos appstore. That's pretty depressing imo.
The same is true for any website with mouse rollovers and css :hover effects, yet somehow touch screen devices do just fine on the web. Miracle? No. But hover effects don't work and life moves on.
Anyway, the OP was talking about the FAA. FAA is to DOT as TSA is to DHS.
I highly recommend Lewis' Elemtns of the Theory of Computation. Garey's Computers and Intractability seems to get quoted a lot as well. I'm not sure how important this stuff is in every day computing, but if you want to learn computability, these two cover everything.
See, I thought it was TSA.