We have never had complete freedom to say whatever we want. Threatening someone with bodily harm is still against the law. Yelling FIRE in a crowded theater is still against the law.
Actually 'Freedom of speech' is probably the wrong name for it, I keep getting the impressing the term tricks people into think they can say whatever they want. In Dutch it's called 'Vrijheid van meningsuiting' which literally translates to 'Freedom to express your opinion'. To me that seems to cover what it should entail, nobody should be able to prevent you from telling the world what your opinion of something is. However that freedom only applies when you actually have an opinion and are able to express it.
It is educational indeed. Just don't forget to track down what the 'costs' are. It's trivial to get your profit margin down to 1% in the books, all you have to do is spend enough money. Raise the bonuses of the big shots, keep buying assets as a way to 'store' the profit, place big orders with your wife's 'consulting' company, etc.
But I'll grant you there are still companies which simply make a sufficient profit without trying to rip everybody off. The thing is we consider a company to be successful when is has huge profits, not when it manages to provide a decent stable income to a lot of people for decades in a row. But frankly, making an outrageous profit in at the expense of others isn't that hard. Building a company which lasts a century is far more impressive.
You fail to appreciate that most of what keeps humans as well-behaved as most are is FEAR of punishment.
That's just a half truth, it only works to a certain point. Once you put people in a crappy enough situation there will be a point where the difference between being punished or not becomes pretty slim. And at some point you even reach the point where people (feel they) got nothing to loose. I'm pretty sure you can measure the 'wellfare' of the poorest people in a country by looking at the severity of the punishments imposed on crimes. Just think of it, if you got a fine life your not going to risk getting jailed for a week for stealing a TV set. But if your life is crap anyway being jailed might just mean you won't have to worry about getting food on the table for a while. In that case you'll probably take the risk anyway.
I'll leave it to the reader to judge the state of a country when a 4 years sentence is whats needed to stop people from posting stupid stuff on facebook...
Unfortunately, democracy has that weak point. The majority of the people will accept a situation that's not maintainable. It's easy to get elected by promising the workers increases in their pensions.
Well, make me president then. I think I can make every American a millionaire in 4 years. I mean given the current situation it should be to hard to create hyperinflation...
And be sure to set up sieve in Dovecot and the filter plugin in Roundcube. That way you can properly create filtering rules from within the webmail client. Go to http://startssl.com/ for certificates for HTTPS and TLS (on smtp and imap). I'm not using postfix, but exim with sa-exim to do greylisting based upon the spamscore (although postfix may be able to do something similar).
Active power consumption 160 mA
Idle power consumption 120 mA
Hibernate power consumption 40 mA
Not bad but a bit high if you want it to be battery powered.
True, but in that scenario the only sensible thing is to either go and kill some RIAA employees (because thats how you deal with mafia) or to replace all your music with vinyl. I'm a coward, so I did the latter. It does have a nice benefit though, it allows you to pretend you're an audiophile.
You probably don't need to rerip everything. When it was ripped the first time the files probably followed some sort of pattern, look for naming conventions, and stuff like bitrate, encoder, genre etc in the ID3 tags. Figure out what the stuff you ripped yourself looks like and write a shell script to delete everything else. That will probably get it right 99% of the time, and for what's left you got plausible deniability because the have the exact same properties as the ones you ripped yourself.
Which is why the amendment explicitly states that an ISP must offer unfiltered access under the exacts same conditions. They can make you pay extra for the filter, but they can never make you pay extra to loose the filter. Despite all the wining about the amendment from the PVDA (and others) I really can't see how this creates a loophole. (And if it does, they should fix the loophole instead of depriving customers of options.)
So Peugeot managed to build a car that looks like a batmobile, but is barely faster than a 12 year old hot-hatch. An actually 3 seconds slower then a 1990 Lotus Esprit Turbo SE, so in terms of being a proper sports car they are still 22 years behind petrol cars. Still, you have to start somewhere...
Given that cars usually don't go much faster than 90-120 and suck at mileage and maintenance at those levels I don't think it will be a huge problem unless you give everyone exotic sports cars.
Yep, that's a problem when you've got a lot of U.S. build cars. My 5 year old and utterly average and fairly cheap european car doesn't have a dramatic millage at 100mph...
On properly build dual carriageways you should also have a better change of actually avoiding a collision because of the presence of more than one lane, an emergency lane and the lack of nasty stuff like ditches and trees beside the road. Compared to rural roads this makes a huge difference. In low traffic on a properly designed highway driving at 100mph isn't a problem. I've actually averaged 105mph on a two hour drive on an unresctricted highway in Germany. There is another advantage to totally removing the speed limit, you make the driver responsible for choosing a sensible speed depending in the circumstances, when the speed limit is 80 people tend to always drive 80 just because that's the limit. When there is no fixed limit people might actually slow down to a sensible speed in bad weather or on crowded roads.
The article also states that the amount of traffic in absolute did increase. The choose to make a point of the fact that it is decreasing relative to the amount of IPv4 traffic. So IPv6 is still growing, it's just not keeping up with the growth of the rest of the internet.
This only works when your provider has a deal with google to do so, as explained on Google's IPv6 page. For my IPv6 connection at home this works, on my IPv6 capable VPS it doesn't work... So it doesn't just work for everybody, although it will probably work for the rest of the world on IPv6 Day.
Enforcement (or at least serious stimulation) by the Government may well exactly what is required to get IPv6 off the ground. The main problem (on the consumer level at least) is the definitely the lack of equipment. Making it illegal to sell modem/routers which lack IPv6 support will fix that in no time making it way easier for providers to roll out dual-stack to there customers.
Providers could use DHCPv6 on their networks and simply issue an IPv6 range to anyone who's router requests it, no one will notice the difference. But currently that's just pointless because nobody will have an IPv6 capable modem, not even when they bought it yesterday.
I'm getting native dual-stack on my VDSL line at home, along with 7000 other customers. But they had to push their modem manufacturer (AVM) to get it properly implemented. Their list of supported modems is depressingly short, it contains 3 AVM models which basically use the same firmware, one Draytek modem and two Cisco which aren't really what I'd call 'consumer grade'. But it works just fine, I'm pretty certain a customer who doesn't care wouldn't notice the difference.
Changes are you don't even have to remove the platters, I think there's a huge change this is going to be an existing harddisk with a different controller. Just swapping the controller with a standard one will probably just work (although the content will still be encrypted). I'd also be curious how it will detect it's in a different machine, changes are it's not too hard to spoof whatever it uses to identify the host.
There's the problem, every Slashdotter knows this but what about everybody else? Your average consumer doesn't know/care about any of this and until they do, this whole issue is going to continue for the rest of us. As long as the majority of Sony's customers just want to play on their PS3 and believe all hackers are puppy killers Sony doesn't need to care about whether its customers are even aware of being abused.
You should stop worrying about what other people should buy. I want to be able to tinker with my stuff, so I won't buy anything Sony. But when somebody else wants to get screwed by Sony, they are within their rights. Either they will get what they want (e.g. a PS3 which just plays their games) which is fine. Or they will run into something they are not allowed to do by Sony and stop buying it as well. It's their life, their money. That's a free market for you.
Indeed, I've been running a mail server from my home (consumer) DSL line for ages. But I've got a proper ISP which provides a static ip, configurable reverse DNS and which actually has a functioning abuse desk which will actually quarantine lines which send spam. I haven't had any issues getting mail delivered anywhere.
However, what stops you from using your ISP's smtp server as smarthost for outgoing mail? You really shouldn't need external services to get your mail out. A block on port 25 (incoming) is a showstopper, unless your ISP provides a facility to remove the block or to route around it.
I know of a dutch ISP which has a setup where you point your MX to their mailserver which will relay all incoming mail to your server. That setup makes sure an open relay in their network is harmless while still allowing their users to run their own mailservers.
Apart from Apple, AVM also has a handfull of ADSL modems with IPv6 support. I'm actually running native IPv6 on my ADSL line on one of those. Works line a charm, but apart from AVM I don't know any other manufacturer of (consumer) ADSL modems which support IPv6. That really has to change before IPv6 will catch on. I'm not a fan of market regulation, but this is one of those things where it would really help if the government should steps in and forces proper IPv6 support. It could be something fairly simple like not being allowed to call something an 'Internet Connection' if it doesn't come with IPv6.
but even when they do he will get a proper trial in Sweden and if he didn't do anything wrong he doesn't have much to fear.
my gawd there's some chilling irony in that statement. It is exactly the notion used to justify the Patriot Act...
No, there wasn't any irony in that statement. Sweden isn't part of the USA, you shouldn't project the way things go over there on other nations. I have no reason to distrust their justice system in any major way, so I am fairly confident that he will get a fair trial and won't be convicted unless he is properly proven to be guilty.
But all the things you mention are on my list of reasons not to travel into the USA. I'll happily go to Sweden though.
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We have never had complete freedom to say whatever we want. Threatening someone with bodily harm is still against the law. Yelling FIRE in a crowded theater is still against the law.
Actually 'Freedom of speech' is probably the wrong name for it, I keep getting the impressing the term tricks people into think they can say whatever they want. In Dutch it's called 'Vrijheid van meningsuiting' which literally translates to 'Freedom to express your opinion'. To me that seems to cover what it should entail, nobody should be able to prevent you from telling the world what your opinion of something is. However that freedom only applies when you actually have an opinion and are able to express it.
It is educational indeed. Just don't forget to track down what the 'costs' are. It's trivial to get your profit margin down to 1% in the books, all you have to do is spend enough money. Raise the bonuses of the big shots, keep buying assets as a way to 'store' the profit, place big orders with your wife's 'consulting' company, etc.
But I'll grant you there are still companies which simply make a sufficient profit without trying to rip everybody off. The thing is we consider a company to be successful when is has huge profits, not when it manages to provide a decent stable income to a lot of people for decades in a row. But frankly, making an outrageous profit in at the expense of others isn't that hard. Building a company which lasts a century is far more impressive.
You fail to appreciate that most of what keeps humans as well-behaved as most are is FEAR of punishment.
That's just a half truth, it only works to a certain point. Once you put people in a crappy enough situation there will be a point where the difference between being punished or not becomes pretty slim. And at some point you even reach the point where people (feel they) got nothing to loose. I'm pretty sure you can measure the 'wellfare' of the poorest people in a country by looking at the severity of the punishments imposed on crimes. Just think of it, if you got a fine life your not going to risk getting jailed for a week for stealing a TV set. But if your life is crap anyway being jailed might just mean you won't have to worry about getting food on the table for a while. In that case you'll probably take the risk anyway.
I'll leave it to the reader to judge the state of a country when a 4 years sentence is whats needed to stop people from posting stupid stuff on facebook...
Unfortunately, democracy has that weak point. The majority of the people will accept a situation that's not maintainable. It's easy to get elected by promising the workers increases in their pensions.
Well, make me president then. I think I can make every American a millionaire in 4 years. I mean given the current situation it should be to hard to create hyperinflation...
And be sure to set up sieve in Dovecot and the filter plugin in Roundcube. That way you can properly create filtering rules from within the webmail client. Go to http://startssl.com/ for certificates for HTTPS and TLS (on smtp and imap). I'm not using postfix, but exim with sa-exim to do greylisting based upon the spamscore (although postfix may be able to do something similar).
From http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/269
Active power consumption 160 mA
Idle power consumption 120 mA
Hibernate power consumption 40 mA
Not bad but a bit high if you want it to be battery powered.
True, but in that scenario the only sensible thing is to either go and kill some RIAA employees (because thats how you deal with mafia) or to replace all your music with vinyl. I'm a coward, so I did the latter. It does have a nice benefit though, it allows you to pretend you're an audiophile.
You probably don't need to rerip everything. When it was ripped the first time the files probably followed some sort of pattern, look for naming conventions, and stuff like bitrate, encoder, genre etc in the ID3 tags. Figure out what the stuff you ripped yourself looks like and write a shell script to delete everything else. That will probably get it right 99% of the time, and for what's left you got plausible deniability because the have the exact same properties as the ones you ripped yourself.
Which is why the amendment explicitly states that an ISP must offer unfiltered access under the exacts same conditions. They can make you pay extra for the filter, but they can never make you pay extra to loose the filter. Despite all the wining about the amendment from the PVDA (and others) I really can't see how this creates a loophole. (And if it does, they should fix the loophole instead of depriving customers of options.)
So Peugeot managed to build a car that looks like a batmobile, but is barely faster than a 12 year old hot-hatch. An actually 3 seconds slower then a 1990 Lotus Esprit Turbo SE, so in terms of being a proper sports car they are still 22 years behind petrol cars. Still, you have to start somewhere...
It's in the wild !! A Java ... a what??
A java program that takes the 'Write once, run anywhere' mantra to the next level.
Given that cars usually don't go much faster than 90-120 and suck at mileage and maintenance at those levels I don't think it will be a huge problem unless you give everyone exotic sports cars.
Yep, that's a problem when you've got a lot of U.S. build cars. My 5 year old and utterly average and fairly cheap european car doesn't have a dramatic millage at 100mph...
On properly build dual carriageways you should also have a better change of actually avoiding a collision because of the presence of more than one lane, an emergency lane and the lack of nasty stuff like ditches and trees beside the road. Compared to rural roads this makes a huge difference. In low traffic on a properly designed highway driving at 100mph isn't a problem. I've actually averaged 105mph on a two hour drive on an unresctricted highway in Germany. There is another advantage to totally removing the speed limit, you make the driver responsible for choosing a sensible speed depending in the circumstances, when the speed limit is 80 people tend to always drive 80 just because that's the limit. When there is no fixed limit people might actually slow down to a sensible speed in bad weather or on crowded roads.
The article also states that the amount of traffic in absolute did increase. The choose to make a point of the fact that it is decreasing relative to the amount of IPv4 traffic. So IPv6 is still growing, it's just not keeping up with the growth of the rest of the internet.
This only works when your provider has a deal with google to do so, as explained on Google's IPv6 page. For my IPv6 connection at home this works, on my IPv6 capable VPS it doesn't work... So it doesn't just work for everybody, although it will probably work for the rest of the world on IPv6 Day.
Slashdot should definitively start supporting IPv6, it's kinda lame for a tech site not to be a among the first to pick up the new stuff.
Enforcement (or at least serious stimulation) by the Government may well exactly what is required to get IPv6 off the ground. The main problem (on the consumer level at least) is the definitely the lack of equipment. Making it illegal to sell modem/routers which lack IPv6 support will fix that in no time making it way easier for providers to roll out dual-stack to there customers.
Providers could use DHCPv6 on their networks and simply issue an IPv6 range to anyone who's router requests it, no one will notice the difference. But currently that's just pointless because nobody will have an IPv6 capable modem, not even when they bought it yesterday.
I'm getting native dual-stack on my VDSL line at home, along with 7000 other customers. But they had to push their modem manufacturer (AVM) to get it properly implemented. Their list of supported modems is depressingly short, it contains 3 AVM models which basically use the same firmware, one Draytek modem and two Cisco which aren't really what I'd call 'consumer grade'. But it works just fine, I'm pretty certain a customer who doesn't care wouldn't notice the difference.
How do mod points work now? I haven't had any mod points (that I know of) since the redesign.
Stop using Internet Explorer, that will fix it.
Changes are you don't even have to remove the platters, I think there's a huge change this is going to be an existing harddisk with a different controller. Just swapping the controller with a standard one will probably just work (although the content will still be encrypted). I'd also be curious how it will detect it's in a different machine, changes are it's not too hard to spoof whatever it uses to identify the host.
There's the problem, every Slashdotter knows this but what about everybody else? Your average consumer doesn't know/care about any of this and until they do, this whole issue is going to continue for the rest of us. As long as the majority of Sony's customers just want to play on their PS3 and believe all hackers are puppy killers Sony doesn't need to care about whether its customers are even aware of being abused.
You should stop worrying about what other people should buy. I want to be able to tinker with my stuff, so I won't buy anything Sony. But when somebody else wants to get screwed by Sony, they are within their rights. Either they will get what they want (e.g. a PS3 which just plays their games) which is fine. Or they will run into something they are not allowed to do by Sony and stop buying it as well. It's their life, their money. That's a free market for you.
Indeed, I've been running a mail server from my home (consumer) DSL line for ages. But I've got a proper ISP which provides a static ip, configurable reverse DNS and which actually has a functioning abuse desk which will actually quarantine lines which send spam. I haven't had any issues getting mail delivered anywhere.
However, what stops you from using your ISP's smtp server as smarthost for outgoing mail? You really shouldn't need external services to get your mail out. A block on port 25 (incoming) is a showstopper, unless your ISP provides a facility to remove the block or to route around it.
I know of a dutch ISP which has a setup where you point your MX to their mailserver which will relay all incoming mail to your server. That setup makes sure an open relay in their network is harmless while still allowing their users to run their own mailservers.
By requiring an 8pm check-in it ensures the kids are actually at home and not out causing problems.
Wouldn't that be the parents responsibility?
A better system would probably be to call their parents every evening and ask where their kids are.
Apart from Apple, AVM also has a handfull of ADSL modems with IPv6 support. I'm actually running native IPv6 on my ADSL line on one of those. Works line a charm, but apart from AVM I don't know any other manufacturer of (consumer) ADSL modems which support IPv6. That really has to change before IPv6 will catch on. I'm not a fan of market regulation, but this is one of those things where it would really help if the government should steps in and forces proper IPv6 support. It could be something fairly simple like not being allowed to call something an 'Internet Connection' if it doesn't come with IPv6.
They did remove the image on the original article by now...
but even when they do he will get a proper trial in Sweden and if he didn't do anything wrong he doesn't have much to fear. my gawd there's some chilling irony in that statement. It is exactly the notion used to justify the Patriot Act...
No, there wasn't any irony in that statement. Sweden isn't part of the USA, you shouldn't project the way things go over there on other nations. I have no reason to distrust their justice system in any major way, so I am fairly confident that he will get a fair trial and won't be convicted unless he is properly proven to be guilty.
But all the things you mention are on my list of reasons not to travel into the USA. I'll happily go to Sweden though.