I'm getting www.opennic.unrated.net could not be found blah blah... Have they been blown off the root servers? That would be an unfortunate decision...
I'm not sure if three quarts would be enough to screw up a normal sized person. Once in high school a friend and I drank a gallon each for "fun" without serious ill effects. Once at the end of a bout of serious dehydration in desert backpacking, I drank eight quarts before things started "flowing through", but that was over the span of about an hour. I've had it happen, though, as well - once in a misguided effort to chase off severe gastric problems, I drank far too much tap water over a few hours. The "intoxication" part of it is frighteningly powerful and real. Eventually your body stops generating and releasing urine (effort to hold on to salts?), and you're in real danger of heart stoppage from weak electrolyte levels. I could feel my pulse weakening and getting thready - yech.
Remember that the MD5 hashes are the values used by popular P2P software to enable synchronized multi-source downloading of a file. If everybody "sharing" modifies files to affect MD5 hash values, then the P2P networks essentially fall apart into single source FTP-like downloading.
My ISP gives a web interface allowing detailed server-side SpamAssassin configuration per user account. I guess this might be too much for a large ISP with users that don't understand much about email and filtering. Maybe that's part of why I avoid large ISPs.:)
Ditto on turbulent versus laminar flow for heat transfer. The mixing in the core and thin boundary layer for turbulent flow essentially expose more of the core flow more intimately with the surface, enhancing heat transfer. There is a cost, though, as the thin boundary layer increases surface shear stress and increases pumping requirements for the higher drag. (Laminar flow is more efficient mechanically but achieves less heat transfer. It makes sense in a no-free-lunch way.) Also the increased viscous dissipation for the turbulent flow will actually heat up the fluid some - but shouldn't be significant for the water flow considered. If you tried to cool with a bundle of super-tiny fibers using high-volume high-pressure flows of mollasses it might.:)
So if they spend money on a protection procedure, and someone finds a way to destroy that protection, then harm was caused to the producer.
One could also assert that if a company expects to sell some physical object, but not to provide the customer with the FULL actual contents of the object, but instead to intentionally limit access to the object, that they had best use adequate and appropriate protections on the physical object.
IIRC, I never agreed to any license when I purchased a DVD or CD. If they fail to protect that physical object themselves but expect the content protected, then they're depending upon honest behavior and possibly license agreements for their "rights". Illegitimate distribution of copyrighted material invokes civil liabilities, some day it might be a crime. Simply reading copyrighted material at a level that's present in a purchased product but inadequately protected should NOT be a crime IMO. This whole business makes the concept of property ownership a joke, which is where I can see a constitutional objection.
It seems it is essentially illegal to look too closely at anything that you buy from another if they deign that their encoding of information is "secret". It feels like they could accuse a person of modifying a plain text configuration file in a software product because they didn't intend it to be edited. Or accuse you of "illegal modifications" for scanning and building an index of a book that you bought. The seeming actual technical scope of this law is either far beyond the intent of those who approved it, or they're willing to crush individuals in favor of companies. The law is so broad that it could only be selectively enforced. Wonderful policy... not
And if you're intelligent and smart for long enough, some might eventually call you wise.:)
Good distinction. As an aside, isn't it frustrating to have a vocabulary that must be limited for something like 90% of your communications? Adults tend to feel embarrassed when they are hit with a word in conversation that they don't understand, and blame the speaker for obfuscating... so we dumb down... the subtlest form of censorship
Is there any practical difference between an open relay box that spams you and a virus-compromised box that sends you viruses plus potentially future spam from the compromise?
Should virus-compromised machines that send out undesired emails be RBL'ed like open relays?
Whatever they're running on the SMTP server side at my ISP seems to be doing appropriate things. I can't tell whose software it is, they may prefer to keep it obscure.
When it finds anything (and it caught all of the Sobig.F stuff) I get a notice email with subject like:
VIRUS (Worm.Sobig.F) IN MAIL TO YOU (from (spoofed sender from [xxx.yyy.zzz.www]))
You also have a misconception. The police in the United State are under no obligation to protect you. They are there to deter crime and enforce laws. If you are in the process of being assaulted and call 911, you cannot hold the police responsible failing to protect you when they show up 20 minutes to an hour after the perpetrator has fled the scene leaving you in a pool of your own blood. The courts have repeatedly held this to be true. Regardless of what the TV tries to tell you and what some departments paint of the side of their patrol cars, the police have no legal duty to protect you. They only have a duty to enforce the laws by issuance of citations or arrest of criminals. Even their powers of arrest are limited by the risk to by standers. Police cannot arrest a criminal if the attempt to apprehend would pose a danger to the public at large.
Corollary: DO NOT call the police unless there is something that they can/will actually do to help you. IMO in most cases calling the police exposes you to an incredible world of unexpected possibilities. Twice recently in Denver mentally challenged people have been shot and killed by police after police were asked to intervene in a domestic situation. The families end up angry at the police. The police have no choice when a mentally challenged person charges them with a knife. Avoid these situations whenever possible by taking as much responsibility for your own circumstances as possible.
Wasn't there a prototype effort involving the encapsulation of primitive "SSDI7" Smoke Signal DNS Information within the birds, abandoned due to a high rate of dropped packets and the realization of the efficiency improvements of a better encoding?
You might be able to recover the heat into the feed for a hot water heater, though you'd need to over-engineer the heat exchange to cope with the transient flows into the heater.
It showed up as a critical update for me as well. I started laughing... I take it it's a WHQL version and they're so far behind on those that I probably wouldn't consider using it. Worse yet, there's no bloody information that I could see describing anything about versioning or why they consider the driver update "critical". Take it or leave it.
Anybody install it? WTF is up with it? Something in a newer Nvidia driver break DX 9.0b? Sheesh...
Yep. Unfortunately Joe User who is ignorant of the internals of his system is neither willing to learn needed skills for maintenance, nor to pay a pro for maintenance until the damn thing is broken beyond their ability to use it at all. In some sense they deserve the limited utility and reliability that they get from their systems. OTOH it's messing it up for everybody else now that they're on the global network. The only idiot-proof systems will by necessity have limited flexibility.
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I'm getting www.opennic.unrated.net could not be found blah blah... Have they been blown off the root servers? That would be an unfortunate decision...
Ahh... it is enough. Thanks for the info
Am I the only one for whom CNET is still C64 BBS software? 10.0 was a nice rev... :)
I'm not sure if three quarts would be enough to screw up a normal sized person. Once in high school a friend and I drank a gallon each for "fun" without serious ill effects. Once at the end of a bout of serious dehydration in desert backpacking, I drank eight quarts before things started "flowing through", but that was over the span of about an hour. I've had it happen, though, as well - once in a misguided effort to chase off severe gastric problems, I drank far too much tap water over a few hours. The "intoxication" part of it is frighteningly powerful and real. Eventually your body stops generating and releasing urine (effort to hold on to salts?), and you're in real danger of heart stoppage from weak electrolyte levels. I could feel my pulse weakening and getting thready - yech.
Or send it over a modem or private network...
Remember that the MD5 hashes are the values used by popular P2P software to enable synchronized multi-source downloading of a file. If everybody "sharing" modifies files to affect MD5 hash values, then the P2P networks essentially fall apart into single source FTP-like downloading.
My ISP gives a web interface allowing detailed server-side SpamAssassin configuration per user account. I guess this might be too much for a large ISP with users that don't understand much about email and filtering. Maybe that's part of why I avoid large ISPs. :)
The blacklist providers aren't making anybody use their lists. They're not restraining trade.
Ditto on turbulent versus laminar flow for heat transfer. The mixing in the core and thin boundary layer for turbulent flow essentially expose more of the core flow more intimately with the surface, enhancing heat transfer. There is a cost, though, as the thin boundary layer increases surface shear stress and increases pumping requirements for the higher drag. (Laminar flow is more efficient mechanically but achieves less heat transfer. It makes sense in a no-free-lunch way.) Also the increased viscous dissipation for the turbulent flow will actually heat up the fluid some - but shouldn't be significant for the water flow considered. If you tried to cool with a bundle of super-tiny fibers using high-volume high-pressure flows of mollasses it might. :)
One could also assert that if a company expects to sell some physical object, but not to provide the customer with the FULL actual contents of the object, but instead to intentionally limit access to the object, that they had best use adequate and appropriate protections on the physical object.
IIRC, I never agreed to any license when I purchased a DVD or CD. If they fail to protect that physical object themselves but expect the content protected, then they're depending upon honest behavior and possibly license agreements for their "rights". Illegitimate distribution of copyrighted material invokes civil liabilities, some day it might be a crime. Simply reading copyrighted material at a level that's present in a purchased product but inadequately protected should NOT be a crime IMO. This whole business makes the concept of property ownership a joke, which is where I can see a constitutional objection.
It seems it is essentially illegal to look too closely at anything that you buy from another if they deign that their encoding of information is "secret". It feels like they could accuse a person of modifying a plain text configuration file in a software product because they didn't intend it to be edited. Or accuse you of "illegal modifications" for scanning and building an index of a book that you bought. The seeming actual technical scope of this law is either far beyond the intent of those who approved it, or they're willing to crush individuals in favor of companies. The law is so broad that it could only be selectively enforced. Wonderful policy... not
Damn, beat me to that one.
Laugh if you will, but the Russians had this deployed in large cities in the middle 80's...
And if you're intelligent and smart for long enough, some might eventually call you wise. :)
Good distinction. As an aside, isn't it frustrating to have a vocabulary that must be limited for something like 90% of your communications? Adults tend to feel embarrassed when they are hit with a word in conversation that they don't understand, and blame the speaker for obfuscating... so we dumb down... the subtlest form of censorship
Is there any practical difference between an open relay box that spams you and a virus-compromised box that sends you viruses plus potentially future spam from the compromise?
Should virus-compromised machines that send out undesired emails be RBL'ed like open relays?
Whatever they're running on the SMTP server side at my ISP seems to be doing appropriate things. I can't tell whose software it is, they may prefer to keep it obscure.
When it finds anything (and it caught all of the Sobig.F stuff) I get a notice email with subject like:
I could cope with g changing. I'd be much more concerned if G changed...
Yes
Corollary: DO NOT call the police unless there is something that they can/will actually do to help you. IMO in most cases calling the police exposes you to an incredible world of unexpected possibilities. Twice recently in Denver mentally challenged people have been shot and killed by police after police were asked to intervene in a domestic situation. The families end up angry at the police. The police have no choice when a mentally challenged person charges them with a knife. Avoid these situations whenever possible by taking as much responsibility for your own circumstances as possible.
Wasn't there a prototype effort involving the encapsulation of primitive "SSDI7" Smoke Signal DNS Information within the birds, abandoned due to a high rate of dropped packets and the realization of the efficiency improvements of a better encoding?
You might be able to recover the heat into the feed for a hot water heater, though you'd need to over-engineer the heat exchange to cope with the transient flows into the heater.
Surely a few people saw that... whew - amazing mix of arrogant self-importance, ennui, and total lack of substance. Let 'em starve
It showed up as a critical update for me as well. I started laughing... I take it it's a WHQL version and they're so far behind on those that I probably wouldn't consider using it. Worse yet, there's no bloody information that I could see describing anything about versioning or why they consider the driver update "critical". Take it or leave it.
Anybody install it? WTF is up with it? Something in a newer Nvidia driver break DX 9.0b? Sheesh...
Yep. Unfortunately Joe User who is ignorant of the internals of his system is neither willing to learn needed skills for maintenance, nor to pay a pro for maintenance until the damn thing is broken beyond their ability to use it at all. In some sense they deserve the limited utility and reliability that they get from their systems. OTOH it's messing it up for everybody else now that they're on the global network. The only idiot-proof systems will by necessity have limited flexibility.
I would also be dubious of MS implementing well enough to prevent some exploit down the road that will allow hijacking the patch channel.