Not so. My successes have been few, and weak... but I'm getting there. Surface mount isn't so tough to solder... it's designing the damn layout in the first place, and paying for a prototype pcb. Personally, I won't be satisfied until I'm capable of designing and building my own PCI card, even if it is some lame 16550 serial port or something.
I wince every time I see a Digikey price. Try www.meci.com too, they're underrated. They have some of the weird connectors that I can't get anywhere else unless I'm willing to buy qty 10,000 and wait 12 weeks lead time.
Well what do you expect? Of course the macs get little use. K-12 doesn't even teach anything resembling computer tech, the most I've ever seen is a classroom full of sheep being taught to type in MS Office. (Who needs to learn to type, after about 40wpm my hunting and pecking started to look pretty slick). They get to play games on the PC, they get to surf around to porn sites on the PC. Think of it this way... go find a car lover, someone who knows every make and model, engine sizes... everything. Plop him down in a car lot full of different types and years of cars, and tell him to pick one. It's anyone's guess which one he'll drive home in right? And the poor guy will probably wish he could go back for a second car. Now find some 18 yr old who can barely drive, and knows nothing. You can easily guess which car it will be... automatic transmission, and new. They'll grab the easiest to drive (the only one they've ever been taught), and the one with the sportiest chassis (video games).
Simply because they have no appreciation of cars at all, and can barely use one anyway.
Find me a school that teaches assembly language, with a choice of 68k/PPC or x86, and I'll show you one where everyone drops x86 ASM after 1 semester, but every student graduates being a master at PPCasm.
With the satellite, since its downstream only, and I don't have a subscription, I would have to spoof the IP. I just get to listen in on the broadcast traffic, and for this reason I'm able to send more than just the initial packet. I could "complete" any number of connections.
It could be the same with the 802.11 too. I don't have to use that for outgoing... only to listen in and be able to insert the proper sequences in my spoofed packets. Why would you do this? Well, for one, it would be much less intrusive to the 802.11 network. They'll only see a few weird incoming packets, which I bet most networks do already. If I actively use that link though, likely IDS would see that as something strange much more quickly, and could even attempt to block it.
With the satellite connection, you could hide very well. The DirecPC satellite covers most of N America, and you could be anywhere on the continent. They can't track reception, only broadcast, which it doesn't use. I suppose they could do a door to door search, of 150 million odd homes, heck, they could even check which have 18" dishes in the yard, and rule some out. But they won't catch you this way.
What about the other side of things? Well, as long as you're on a different backbone (which I would be with my cable modem), then they lose any reasonable way to track you across it. As long as you don't do the same thing for 12 days in a row, they won't have the time to set all this up. Short term spoofs of 2 hours or less, and infrequent, have no reasonable chances of being trackable by the victim. Besides, you wouldn't use this for something lame like DoS. You'd do something you thought they wouldn't be likely to notice anyway, so that you wouldn't tip them off to the fact you have a new toy. So, small chance of being noticed, plus alot of difficulty in tracking it, equals pretty safe.
But, the risk doesn't end there. More and more sysadmins are waking up, and somehow acquiring clues. Chances are, my cable modem couldn't even spoof packets, they'd be blocked at the first router that was properly configged. And even if they aren't, maybe that sysadmin would notice something funny, and report it... the goverment is awful when it comes to tech. But what script kiddies never understand, is they are damn good at conventional sleuthing. Pretty soon, an FBI agent puts together that complaint from AT&T Broadband, and the bank that is being infiltrated with spoofed packets. Then, you are toast. But it would take them many hours, to get the proper warrants, and have backbone admins set things up to allow your spoofs to be followed... it's them skipping that part, and seeing your packets on the other side of the fog, and putting 2 and 2 together, that you would have to worry about. Either that, or being a retard, and bragging about it in some chat room.
How would this have anything to do with faster downloads of multimedia content? I didn't even see that in the article, but this has nothing to do with bandwidth.
Flash is the speediest memory technology? Surely they mean speedier than eeprom.
How does this prevent reboots? I say without any doubt whatsoever, that the majority of reboots has to do with M$'s ~90% marketshare and numerous system level flaws. Does this memory plug its own leaks? Or do third rate OS programmers and ugly billionaire monopolists actually become smarter when exposed to this, sorta like Superman and kryptonite?
I found an old DirecPC pci card, and I have a spare 18" dish.
What keeps me from pointing it at the right bird, sniffing that traffic, finding a suitable IP destination address, and spoofing it? The replies will be broadcast, and I will know the sequence numbers.
More to the point, why can't I go wardriving, and find an open 802.11 proxy? Or hell, setup a wireless relay from it to someplace more comfortable? TCP spoofing is only tough, if you can't think of a way to recieve the reply. You obviously just can't spoof any address, but with both methods, you have a fairly large pool of available ones to work with. The mojo for tcp spoofing isn't quite as deep as infiltrating major backbones.
Which is bad, because they start to get uppity, and believe that they are anything more than faceless little cogs in a vast machine, that can be replaced at the whim of those in charge. I just don't understand why every other machine that a business can buy will work nonstop for weeks, even months at a time, with low maintenance... but these damn employees need breaks sometimes even more often than the every 4 hours mandated by law. Not to mention, having to actually pay them paychecks!
Can you imagine that? *sarcasm off*
Employers can't yet buy robots to do this stuff. They can't manage things well enough to keep a person even 70% busy most of the time. They refuse to allow telecommuting most of the time, so a person can't mix personal and work time very well, if at all. They have a choice, of letting that employee go crazy, and stare at a wall, for 3 hours out of every 8, and have high turnover, or they can provide minimal entertainment and/or look the other way when employees invent their own. Internet access costs them the same, whether or not they check espn.com every 20 minutes. If the employer is that RETARDED that they believe some measurable work would have been performed if internet access hadn't been available to the employee, then I don't even know what to say.
Do I have to feed 3 infants to rabid pit bulls every week, to collect?
Do I have to lock old people up in a dungeon, and feed them moldy dog chow to collect?
Does it require poisoning the water table of a major region or continent?
Or running for political office?
Selling my soul to satan?
Actually, there are even more, but you must see my point by now... there are any number of things that I consider either too tasteless or unethical to want to make money off ot them. And I think raping the entire world, and its first true global network, just so they can own a piece of its soul for all eternity, fits in nicely with the above examples.
To be honest, I've yet to get one right. But ferric chloride is the scapegoat I'm using. That, and etchant tanks, seriously looking at building a spray etcher, with persulfate.
Won't hurt when I have proper copper electroplating tanks, so that I can do real vias.
Or a proper cnc drill.
Or a laminator, so that I can do pretty soldermasks.
If you had ever tried to build your own little hobbyist PCB shop, you'd either be laughing at how stupid your statement just sounded, or crying that it's out of your reach. Damn, what I wouldn't give, to be able to mask even 8k roms.
Think about it a moment. DTV pirates are a smaller group, as is the company persecuting them.
OSS is much larger than DTV pirates, but then so is the group that will be persecuting them.
And if you think the internatioal nature of OSS will save it, think again. Those nations that the US can't bully or cajole into seeing things its way, will simply be firewalled. National firewalls are far from impossible, just look at china. You have to understand, if people manage to avoid these obstacles, that only serves to prove their bogus point. "See how many pirates are slipping through? We must close the gaps!". It may be unwinnable, but the gov still fights a "war on crime". And hell, with that one, its not like the pharmaceutical companies are even opposed to the illegal drug trade.
Dude, sure DivX is dead. For the reasons you stated. But only because they were ahead of their time. 5 years from now, this would have kicked everyone's ass. Record companies are doing their best, to come up with the audio version of divx. They just didn't wait til the frog was sufficiently boiled.
You missed your own analogy. Sure, the existence of dtv pirates shows what you meant. Also shows how OSS will die, when pressed like the dtv pirates have been. Technical excellence won't save linux. Not even popularity.
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The bird was paid for over 2 years ago. Their transmitter facilities have an electric bill that's probably alot more than I'd want to pay out of my paycheck, but is infintismal compared to their revenue. They've added PPV channels, that pick up alot of extra revenue. And in those last 2 years, have their prices went down, or even stayed the same? No. They've went up approximately 6 bucks. Plus, the green light they're recieving from the FTC to merge with the only rival they have... this is one big mess. Profiteering, monopoly. I agree with the AC poster, they're far from being saints.
Besides, they can always stop broadcasting their signal to him... he's not breaking into the transmitting facility to do it, you know.
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Duh. There is some fallacy of loogic here, even if I can't name it. It may be a new one.
First, a similar fallacy regarding another strange phenomena, everyone's favorite reincarnation. Some 5 yr old has nightmares, memories from a "past life". Evidence to support the memories are even accurate. Skeptics rant and rave about it, then the kooks start ranting and raving, and pretty soon, no one is thinking straight.
So what if the memories are accurate? Memories != soul. The 5 yr old isn't the dead guy reborn. He just somehow manages to have his memories... is an amnesiac a new person? No. Memories have little to do with the soul, whatever that is. So does anyone bother to forget about kooky religious conclusions, and look for a mechanism that could relay memories from a dead man to another living? If the phenomena is indeed genuine, I would at least expect to find 2 people alive simultaneously, that have the same memories. I might even expect to find a "transfer" that doesn't involve a dead guy. No one bothers, because they can't see past all their retarded preconceptions.
You are perfectly willing to concede that a particular timeline has the ability to store one set of events, thats a given. You are even willing to concede that it can rewrite over this storage, evidenced by your beliefs about time travel. And yet you won't even consider that such a timeline might have enough storage to store more than one complete timeline? That it is in some way finite? Fuck, I hope we don't use up the max rewrites, or the thing will start dropping bits.
Even if you are correct, and there is only storage enough for one history on the timeline... the person doesn't travel back to the past. The true past, doesn't have him materializing in it. In effect, he would be "resetting" the universe to a former state, with a slight modification (him still in it). If this is what would actually happen, I would expect that some physics experiments somewhere, might detect it. If I were more than an amateur though, I'm certain that there are more than a few flaws with this. Besides, I can't accept that the universe/timeline is finite in this fashion.
Get some critical thinking skills.
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Dude, you're confused. You must have thought you made it back to your own timeline, because here, p0rn still has cheesy soundtracks and skanky women. Oh well, when you find the parallel universe with the good stuff, do me a fave and email the coordinates?
Where's my tinfoil hat when I need it?
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Post from the future.
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I can definitely prove without a doubt, that in 2009, time travel was perfected. So, remembering the slashdot article that inspired me, I decided to come back and let you guys know, so that we could end this silly debate.
Bonus: Intel is going to announce something new on April 15th that will totally kick ass. Look for the share price to jump $50 in the following 2 months.
Note to the SEC: This is a joke, so don't you dare try to prosecute, you asswads.
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Not so. My successes have been few, and weak... but I'm getting there. Surface mount isn't so tough to solder... it's designing the damn layout in the first place, and paying for a prototype pcb. Personally, I won't be satisfied until I'm capable of designing and building my own PCI card, even if it is some lame 16550 serial port or something.
I wince every time I see a Digikey price. Try www.meci.com too, they're underrated. They have some of the weird connectors that I can't get anywhere else unless I'm willing to buy qty 10,000 and wait 12 weeks lead time.
Well what do you expect? Of course the macs get little use. K-12 doesn't even teach anything resembling computer tech, the most I've ever seen is a classroom full of sheep being taught to type in MS Office. (Who needs to learn to type, after about 40wpm my hunting and pecking started to look pretty slick). They get to play games on the PC, they get to surf around to porn sites on the PC. Think of it this way... go find a car lover, someone who knows every make and model, engine sizes... everything. Plop him down in a car lot full of different types and years of cars, and tell him to pick one. It's anyone's guess which one he'll drive home in right? And the poor guy will probably wish he could go back for a second car. Now find some 18 yr old who can barely drive, and knows nothing. You can easily guess which car it will be... automatic transmission, and new. They'll grab the easiest to drive (the only one they've ever been taught), and the one with the sportiest chassis (video games).
Simply because they have no appreciation of cars at all, and can barely use one anyway.
Find me a school that teaches assembly language, with a choice of 68k/PPC or x86, and I'll show you one where everyone drops x86 ASM after 1 semester, but every student graduates being a master at PPCasm.
Emacs is superior. It only takes 30 months to learn it. ;-P
With the satellite, since its downstream only, and I don't have a subscription, I would have to spoof the IP. I just get to listen in on the broadcast traffic, and for this reason I'm able to send more than just the initial packet. I could "complete" any number of connections.
It could be the same with the 802.11 too. I don't have to use that for outgoing... only to listen in and be able to insert the proper sequences in my spoofed packets. Why would you do this? Well, for one, it would be much less intrusive to the 802.11 network. They'll only see a few weird incoming packets, which I bet most networks do already. If I actively use that link though, likely IDS would see that as something strange much more quickly, and could even attempt to block it.
With the satellite connection, you could hide very well. The DirecPC satellite covers most of N America, and you could be anywhere on the continent. They can't track reception, only broadcast, which it doesn't use. I suppose they could do a door to door search, of 150 million odd homes, heck, they could even check which have 18" dishes in the yard, and rule some out. But they won't catch you this way.
What about the other side of things? Well, as long as you're on a different backbone (which I would be with my cable modem), then they lose any reasonable way to track you across it. As long as you don't do the same thing for 12 days in a row, they won't have the time to set all this up. Short term spoofs of 2 hours or less, and infrequent, have no reasonable chances of being trackable by the victim. Besides, you wouldn't use this for something lame like DoS. You'd do something you thought they wouldn't be likely to notice anyway, so that you wouldn't tip them off to the fact you have a new toy. So, small chance of being noticed, plus alot of difficulty in tracking it, equals pretty safe.
But, the risk doesn't end there. More and more sysadmins are waking up, and somehow acquiring clues. Chances are, my cable modem couldn't even spoof packets, they'd be blocked at the first router that was properly configged. And even if they aren't, maybe that sysadmin would notice something funny, and report it... the goverment is awful when it comes to tech. But what script kiddies never understand, is they are damn good at conventional sleuthing. Pretty soon, an FBI agent puts together that complaint from AT&T Broadband, and the bank that is being infiltrated with spoofed packets. Then, you are toast. But it would take them many hours, to get the proper warrants, and have backbone admins set things up to allow your spoofs to be followed... it's them skipping that part, and seeing your packets on the other side of the fog, and putting 2 and 2 together, that you would have to worry about. Either that, or being a retard, and bragging about it in some chat room.
How would this have anything to do with faster downloads of multimedia content? I didn't even see that in the article, but this has nothing to do with bandwidth.
Flash is the speediest memory technology? Surely they mean speedier than eeprom.
How does this prevent reboots? I say without any doubt whatsoever, that the majority of reboots has to do with M$'s ~90% marketshare and numerous system level flaws. Does this memory plug its own leaks? Or do third rate OS programmers and ugly billionaire monopolists actually become smarter when exposed to this, sorta like Superman and kryptonite?
Verdict: Marketing fluff.
I found an old DirecPC pci card, and I have a spare 18" dish.
What keeps me from pointing it at the right bird, sniffing that traffic, finding a suitable IP destination address, and spoofing it? The replies will be broadcast, and I will know the sequence numbers.
More to the point, why can't I go wardriving, and find an open 802.11 proxy? Or hell, setup a wireless relay from it to someplace more comfortable? TCP spoofing is only tough, if you can't think of a way to recieve the reply. You obviously just can't spoof any address, but with both methods, you have a fairly large pool of available ones to work with. The mojo for tcp spoofing isn't quite as deep as infiltrating major backbones.
Where the behavioral psychologist was asking for tips on how to teach spider monkeys algebra and calculus?
Don't get me wrong, spider monkeys are smart little critters. Besides, I think they were MCSD certified too.
Which is bad, because they start to get uppity, and believe that they are anything more than faceless little cogs in a vast machine, that can be replaced at the whim of those in charge. I just don't understand why every other machine that a business can buy will work nonstop for weeks, even months at a time, with low maintenance... but these damn employees need breaks sometimes even more often than the every 4 hours mandated by law. Not to mention, having to actually pay them paychecks!
Can you imagine that?
*sarcasm off*
Employers can't yet buy robots to do this stuff. They can't manage things well enough to keep a person even 70% busy most of the time. They refuse to allow telecommuting most of the time, so a person can't mix personal and work time very well, if at all. They have a choice, of letting that employee go crazy, and stare at a wall, for 3 hours out of every 8, and have high turnover, or they can provide minimal entertainment and/or look the other way when employees invent their own. Internet access costs them the same, whether or not they check espn.com every 20 minutes. If the employer is that RETARDED that they believe some measurable work would have been performed if internet access hadn't been available to the employee, then I don't even know what to say.
Hmm. Limitless income source? I guess it depends.
Do I have to feed 3 infants to rabid pit bulls every week, to collect?
Do I have to lock old people up in a dungeon, and feed them moldy dog chow to collect?
Does it require poisoning the water table of a major region or continent?
Or running for political office?
Selling my soul to satan?
Actually, there are even more, but you must see my point by now... there are any number of things that I consider either too tasteless or unethical to want to make money off ot them. And I think raping the entire world, and its first true global network, just so they can own a piece of its soul for all eternity, fits in nicely with the above examples.
To be honest, I've yet to get one right. But ferric chloride is the scapegoat I'm using. That, and etchant tanks, seriously looking at building a spray etcher, with persulfate.
Won't hurt when I have proper copper electroplating tanks, so that I can do real vias.
Or a proper cnc drill.
Or a laminator, so that I can do pretty soldermasks.
Or a press, so that I can do multilayer.
I just need to win the lottery, that's all.
Should have spent an extra $20, and got a fibrer channel adapter on ebay.
It supports 127 devices without getting fancy, and 65,000 or so, if you have the cash for decent FC hubs or switches.
$1 per gig, for smaller drives. Some hubs are under $300 on ebay. 200mps of bandwidth. You can use STP cat5.
I am to you, what you are to these weenies getting hardons over IDE... I am Ubergeek.
If you had ever tried to build your own little hobbyist PCB shop, you'd either be laughing at how stupid your statement just sounded, or crying that it's out of your reach. Damn, what I wouldn't give, to be able to mask even 8k roms.
I just went to Kmart. Three 4 port USB hubs, total... $89.97.
My soul is assessed at a slightly higher value.
All of them. Still trying to find an atari jaguar, myself...
For doing something ethical and morally righteous?
Think about it a moment. DTV pirates are a smaller group, as is the company persecuting them.
OSS is much larger than DTV pirates, but then so is the group that will be persecuting them.
And if you think the internatioal nature of OSS will save it, think again. Those nations that the US can't bully or cajole into seeing things its way, will simply be firewalled. National firewalls are far from impossible, just look at china. You have to understand, if people manage to avoid these obstacles, that only serves to prove their bogus point. "See how many pirates are slipping through? We must close the gaps!". It may be unwinnable, but the gov still fights a "war on crime". And hell, with that one, its not like the pharmaceutical companies are even opposed to the illegal drug trade.
Subject says it all.
Dude, sure DivX is dead. For the reasons you stated. But only because they were ahead of their time. 5 years from now, this would have kicked everyone's ass. Record companies are doing their best, to come up with the audio version of divx. They just didn't wait til the frog was sufficiently boiled.
You missed your own analogy. Sure, the existence of dtv pirates shows what you meant. Also shows how OSS will die, when pressed like the dtv pirates have been. Technical excellence won't save linux. Not even popularity.
The bird was paid for over 2 years ago. Their transmitter facilities have an electric bill that's probably alot more than I'd want to pay out of my paycheck, but is infintismal compared to their revenue. They've added PPV channels, that pick up alot of extra revenue. And in those last 2 years, have their prices went down, or even stayed the same? No. They've went up approximately 6 bucks. Plus, the green light they're recieving from the FTC to merge with the only rival they have... this is one big mess. Profiteering, monopoly. I agree with the AC poster, they're far from being saints.
Besides, they can always stop broadcasting their signal to him... he's not breaking into the transmitting facility to do it, you know.
Duh. There is some fallacy of loogic here, even if I can't name it. It may be a new one.
First, a similar fallacy regarding another strange phenomena, everyone's favorite reincarnation. Some 5 yr old has nightmares, memories from a "past life". Evidence to support the memories are even accurate. Skeptics rant and rave about it, then the kooks start ranting and raving, and pretty soon, no one is thinking straight.
So what if the memories are accurate? Memories != soul. The 5 yr old isn't the dead guy reborn. He just somehow manages to have his memories... is an amnesiac a new person? No. Memories have little to do with the soul, whatever that is. So does anyone bother to forget about kooky religious conclusions, and look for a mechanism that could relay memories from a dead man to another living? If the phenomena is indeed genuine, I would at least expect to find 2 people alive simultaneously, that have the same memories. I might even expect to find a "transfer" that doesn't involve a dead guy. No one bothers, because they can't see past all their retarded preconceptions.
You are perfectly willing to concede that a particular timeline has the ability to store one set of events, thats a given. You are even willing to concede that it can rewrite over this storage, evidenced by your beliefs about time travel. And yet you won't even consider that such a timeline might have enough storage to store more than one complete timeline? That it is in some way finite? Fuck, I hope we don't use up the max rewrites, or the thing will start dropping bits.
Even if you are correct, and there is only storage enough for one history on the timeline... the person doesn't travel back to the past. The true past, doesn't have him materializing in it. In effect, he would be "resetting" the universe to a former state, with a slight modification (him still in it). If this is what would actually happen, I would expect that some physics experiments somewhere, might detect it. If I were more than an amateur though, I'm certain that there are more than a few flaws with this. Besides, I can't accept that the universe/timeline is finite in this fashion.
Get some critical thinking skills.
Dude, you're confused. You must have thought you made it back to your own timeline, because here, p0rn still has cheesy soundtracks and skanky women. Oh well, when you find the parallel universe with the good stuff, do me a fave and email the coordinates?
Subject says it all.
I can definitely prove without a doubt, that in 2009, time travel was perfected. So, remembering the slashdot article that inspired me, I decided to come back and let you guys know, so that we could end this silly debate.
Bonus: Intel is going to announce something new on April 15th that will totally kick ass. Look for the share price to jump $50 in the following 2 months.
Note to the SEC: This is a joke, so don't you dare try to prosecute, you asswads.