Well, ya got a problem here, namely "no control group".
What ya need to do here is to just tell people to fire SAMs with wild abandon at anything with wings... then see what the shootdown percentage is between FedEx planes and those of other carriers.
Worst case would be 256 bits (32 bytes) for source and destination IPv6 addresses.
>48 for a mac.
Not worth collecting; the MAC address that would actually be in the packet at the time would be that of the last switch/router the packet passed through... unless you are collecting this data at all of the users' gateways.
>another datetime for disconnect.
How do you do this for UDP? UDP does not have a "connect/disconnect" paradigm; you just throw packets at the port and hope they stick. (Same goes for TCP connections which are abandoned and timeout rather than go through a disconnect or reset.)
Besides, if ISPs had to track connections with enough data to make those logs worthwhile as evidence, they would also have to log HTTP packets as well, in order to distinguish requests to multiple sites on the same server and IP address... after all, it wouldn't do to confuse people connecting to www.stuff-money-in-denny-hasterts-thong.com with those surfing www,win-a-date-with-mark-foley.com, should those two sites happen to be on the same server.
Or, considering that we're definitely moving more towards MCE TV setups, a TV that will tell you when you have an email? I know there are certain risks and problems associated with this and it may well be more trouble than it's worth
I can see it now. You and your date are curled up on the couch watching "Lost" or some such, then all of a sudden your TV goes *beep* -- "Tired of being called needle-dick? Add four inches to your manhood..."
Computers have the advantage of being impartial (if that is how they're programmed) and unlikely to make mistakes (again, depending on programming). Humans are generally anything but unbiased and infallible.
And guess who programs the computers? I mean, jesucristo, people.
Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress should be required reading for anyone who thinks that throwing technology at an election will make the election more honest. I cannot freaking believe the number of times I see someone saying "Let's let a computer do it, because it's impartial and honest". If you're too cheap to buy your own copy, here's a relevant extract referring to, surprisingly enough, a national election tallied by a computer:
If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with sense of humor.
Next election around here, I'm gonna volunteer one of my computers to be used to count votes, because that computer was brought up to be faithful, upstanding, walk elderly grammas across the street, and has an honest bezel. Cross my heatsink and hope to crash. (I won't mention that the particular system I have in mind has been sitting unpatched on a cable internet system for the last year and probably has more trojans and rootkits than original OS code.)
Google is collecting an enormous amount of informaiton about you and what you are searching on, who you email and IM with and about what, about where you go and when (calendar), etc. If the govenrment was doing this we'd have a revolution.
The government IS doing it, and the vast majority of the country doesn't give a rat's ass.
Apparently it's easy for the dogs to sniff out *only* the pirate DVDs because those are the ones that haven't washed in months and smell like salt-tack and grog.
And they're all rated ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR................
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Well, ya got a problem here, namely "no control group".
What ya need to do here is to just tell people to fire SAMs with wild abandon at anything with wings... then see what the shootdown percentage is between FedEx planes and those of other carriers.
How about Del Rey Crater?
Or, another humble suggestion from Larry Niven.
Nah, that queue was flushed some time ago.
Friends don't let friends buy $ony.
Worst case would be 256 bits (32 bytes) for source and destination IPv6 addresses.
>48 for a mac.
Not worth collecting; the MAC address that would actually be in the packet at the time would be that of the last switch/router the packet passed through... unless you are collecting this data at all of the users' gateways.
>another datetime for disconnect.
How do you do this for UDP? UDP does not have a "connect/disconnect" paradigm; you just throw packets at the port and hope they stick. (Same goes for TCP connections which are abandoned and timeout rather than go through a disconnect or reset.)
Besides, if ISPs had to track connections with enough data to make those logs worthwhile as evidence, they would also have to log HTTP packets as well, in order to distinguish requests to multiple sites on the same server and IP address... after all, it wouldn't do to confuse people connecting to www.stuff-money-in-denny-hasterts-thong.com with those surfing www,win-a-date-with-mark-foley.com, should those two sites happen to be on the same server.
I can see it now. You and your date are curled up on the couch watching "Lost" or some such, then all of a sudden your TV goes *beep* -- "Tired of being called needle-dick? Add four inches to your manhood..."
And the next channel down is the inside of your sexy neighbor's washer. Just wait until you can TiVo THAT. :-)
Yeah? You've never hung out near Baggage Claim then.
Stern is an important figure in the history of radio like Nero was an important figure in the history of Rome.
If it did, your DH would probably complain about your breath smelling like herring.
IRAQ.
It's developed quite a fork, though :-)
And guess who programs the computers? I mean, jesucristo, people.
Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress should be required reading for anyone who thinks that throwing technology at an election will make the election more honest. I cannot freaking believe the number of times I see someone saying "Let's let a computer do it, because it's impartial and honest". If you're too cheap to buy your own copy, here's a relevant extract referring to, surprisingly enough, a national election tallied by a computer:
Next election around here, I'm gonna volunteer one of my computers to be used to count votes, because that computer was brought up to be faithful, upstanding, walk elderly grammas across the street, and has an honest bezel. Cross my heatsink and hope to crash. (I won't mention that the particular system I have in mind has been sitting unpatched on a cable internet system for the last year and probably has more trojans and rootkits than original OS code.)
Yeah, first they rootkit my laptop, now they want to destroy the evidence.
Just imagine the hilarity that would have ensured had one of their batteries caught fire aboard an airplane.
(If you just thought, "if I had a girlfriend, how would I get her to stay in my briefcase?", you might be a /.er)
Just wait until "Apollo XIII: Brokeback CSM".
Or a high-ranking position in the Executive Branch.
Of course, look what happened to Hugo Pinero (the protagonist in "Life-Line", from whence the RAH quote comes from) in the end.
... in the form of legalization of all illegal immigrants.
Dogs are already alerting to "Poseidon" by rolling over and whining.
And they're all rated ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR................
"candygram..."
Just wait until it's time to spawn some child processes.
reject_unauth_pipelining is your friend.