you've chosen to cast this in a negative light as against something. the alternative view is that is is promoting a more rational approach to resource utilization. the easiest way to demonstrate this is using something you can relate to: our own behavior.
If banner ads fail, more and more sites will be forced into a pay model, and the days of the "Free Internet" will be almost over.
the internet was free before you got here. stop acting like it's the end of the world if companies without a business model fail to survive on ad revenues. hell, I'd prefer to go back to the days of the text internet if it would only get rid of all the crap.
one form of extremism breeds another. in this case, microsoft hasn't done the industry any favours by abusing it's monopoly. there will come a time of reckoning and innocents will undoubtedly be caught up in the storm.
Is the difference between an outright lie and a deception really that important here anyway?
Not here in the good 'ol USA. Cause everything we hear is true and we just lap it up. Here's a good example: things are going so poorly because we're doing such a good job. That's right. If you lost a loved one overseas or got your apartment downgraded to a cardboard box, that's the price of unbridled success. Thanks for playing!
Rasterman sounds pretty bitter. Enlightenment never really made it. I guess his ego is bruised. If Enlightenment was the only viable future for the Linux desktop, then he'd be right.
it's highly unlikely that humans will stop the rise of the seas. it's basically inevitable, unavoidable and unstoppable. we're quibbling over the timeframe. however, no one can tell you exactly (or even approximately) how much human activity has influenced this progression, if in fact it has.
the problem is that humans have this pesky habit of building their civilizations right along the shoreline. it's not a good long-term plan when you're in the thawing cycle. building further north becomes problematic during the freezing cycle because glaciers tend to be fairly persistent and, oh, huge and unstoppable.
humans have this other rather irksome habit of being, on the whole, fairly short-sighted. most civilizations aren't really planned. no where is it ingrained in our personalities to go out of our way to make sure our current agenda has any real positive bearing on future generations. and don't go thinking you're going to make a difference. the power is in the hands of the governments and megacorps.
behold the USA, pinnacle of "Democracy" and "Freedom"! how much of the wrangling that occurs in Washington, DC every day has the enlightened future of humans in mind? bingo if you said, "zippo, zilch and nada". it's grubbing for money and power with the occasional kissing of babies and touching of cripples to please the electorate. and no where else is any better.
oh, wait, it looks like florida is flooding. well, we just didn't see that coming. quick, who do we blame? who can I use this against? sorry, until we have a global change of consciousness and get past our basic animal instincts, it'll be slow and perilous going.
why is everyone is so hysterical about global warming? do they not know that this is part of the larger ice-age cycle that repeats about every 20k years? we're in the warming period. we go from nearly covered in ice to nearly devoid of ice (with huge sea-level fluctuations) and then back again. is there some kind of expectation that this change is linear? that there will be no bursts of exponential change followed by other plateaus? that these kinds of global changes will not create increased levels of extinction? hey, maybe humans are influencing the cycle. maybe we've shortened it a few thousand years. maybe nobody really knows jack shit but needs something to bitch about between commercials.
any politician that is not strongly in favor of alternate forms of energy is a dick. not because fossil fuels are inherently evil (ok, the corps behind them may be), but more importantly, they're never going to get us off this idiot-infested rock. oh, and they're not renewable. go nuclear! it's god's favorite power source. check out, oh, say, the rest of the universe if you're in doubt. hey, god can't be wrong.
...because the bill makes it illegal to import such equipment. trying to get around this only makes you a criminal and eligible to spent time in the pokey with meaner people than yourself.
your lecturer is advocating security through obscurity. by that measure, the most secure possible web server is one you've written yourself, regardless of your competence level, because it's one of a kind.
I would like to see that point of view competently defended in the public court of security experts.
The simple fact of the matter is that if Microsoft had honored the first consent decree they probably wouldn't be in this mess. Instead they thumbed their nose at the court and went straight back to business as usual. They deserve to have their products pulled from the market at this point. The industry would be far stronger if it had to figure out how to live without Microsoft.
that is, unless you give a shit about what you're recording. something about the use of the word security in conjunction with camera leads me to believe you might, however.
if you're not using RAID, you're gamlbing with your data. it's very unlikely, but I've had two drives (in an array) fail catastrophically in the period of 1 hour. at 50-100gb/drive, without RAID, that's a lot of lost data.
You simply can't run most Java programs without either a JVM or a bundled compiler. The reason for this is dynamic class loading. You can load classes by arbitrary name, from urls, from byte codes you've created on the fly in memory, etc, etc. These classes cannot be precompiled. So you either need a JVM to interpret them, a compiler to compile them, or both in the form of a jitted JVM.
Why do people complain about the size of the JVM? Every scripting language has to have the equivalent in the form of an interpreter. The *base* perl installation on Linux is 21MB. That's without docs and a UI toolkit (Java includes both). I don't hear complaints about the size of Perl's interpreter or the heft of the Tk or Gtk toolkit libraries.
Would people like Java more if it didn't have byte codes? If we had a Java shell like Perl, Tcl and Python? Skip the byte codes and let it be tokenized each and every time? Or is it just the cross-platform talk that rankles everyone? Maybe it's Sun's stupid open/not-open antics. Or perhaps it's just language l33t1sm.
Easier said than done. If this wasn't part of the application's design or if it's relatively sophisticated, making these changes can be non-trival. And (shock/horror) if you don't have the source code, it's impossible without OS assistance.
and Microsoft dances away from this with a slap on the wrist. The only saving grace I can think of is that this will go a long way towards fueling the fires of Microsoft paranoia brewing outside the US. More non-US governments will look seriously for Microsoft-free solutions as it becomes crystal clear that the US goverment and Microsoft are sharing the same toothbrush and underwear.
but they will never catch a single family dwelling doing it. the ONLY way to detect it is to watch bandwidth and look for 60-70 connections coming out of that cablemodem
Sorry, but this is 100% wrong. My brother-in-law was running NAT on a Linux firewall at home with a few PC's behind it and MediaGeneral shut him down. How? They snooped the User-Agent in the HTTP headers. It gives away quite a lot of information. They basically called him up one day and said, "Hi, we see you're running 2 Linux boxes and a Windows box behind a NAT. This is against our TOS so either a) pay us more money, b) shut them down or c) we will disconnect your service.
There are only a few ways around this and they all involve running a proxy server that can generate fake headers (like squid).
Since there are also other ways of detecting NAT with multiple sources (many enumerated above), I suggest you also take other precautions. Harden your firewall. Drop ALL inbound traffic (UDP and TCP) unless it can be correllated (stateful firewalling). Learn more about your IP stack.
And when they come for you, either lie with a real convincing story or pony up the $6.95/mo.
Did you do it? How well does it work? I was thinking of doing the same thing, but thought better of it since it would be a major fn() hassle if it didn't work out.
I'd like to have see chips that incorporate the CPU, RAM and something equivalent to the North+South bridge. Motherboards should be designed to take 1-32 of these plugged into some godawfulfast bus. CPU and RAM should be one in the same and scale together. RAM co-located w/ the CPU would be much, much faster. Most systems and applications can scale with more threads or CPU's. CPU's by themselves are just about as fast as they need to be for any task that cannot be divided into multiple threads (I'm not talking about poorly written progams). This whole getup would be significantly more elegant, reduce parts and complexity and probably be cheaper to produce in the long-run.
I don't see this as the same as a system-on-a-chip. With those, you're integrating video and audio. I'd either rather NOT see that integrated at all or have a portion of this new CPU combo thingy incorporate a DSP or FPGA region(s).
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you've chosen to cast this in a negative light as against something. the alternative view is that is is promoting a more rational approach to resource utilization. the easiest way to demonstrate this is using something you can relate to: our own behavior.
If banner ads fail, more and more sites will be forced into a pay model, and the days of the "Free Internet" will be almost over.
the internet was free before you got here. stop acting like it's the end of the world if companies without a business model fail to survive on ad revenues. hell, I'd prefer to go back to the days of the text internet if it would only get rid of all the crap.
one form of extremism breeds another. in this case, microsoft hasn't done the industry any favours by abusing it's monopoly. there will come a time of reckoning and innocents will undoubtedly be caught up in the storm.
Is the difference between an outright lie and a deception really that important here anyway?
Not here in the good 'ol USA. Cause everything we hear is true and we just lap it up. Here's a good example: things are going so poorly because we're doing such a good job. That's right. If you lost a loved one overseas or got your apartment downgraded to a cardboard box, that's the price of unbridled success. Thanks for playing!
of a company/industry seeking legal protection for an otherwise obsolete/broken business model. sound familiar?
Rasterman sounds pretty bitter. Enlightenment never really made it. I guess his ego is bruised. If Enlightenment was the only viable future for the Linux desktop, then he'd be right.
this has been predicted by tree-hugging morons every decade for the last god-knows-how-long. get over it. it's not "damning" because it's not true.
it's highly unlikely that humans will stop the rise of the seas. it's basically inevitable, unavoidable and unstoppable. we're quibbling over the timeframe. however, no one can tell you exactly (or even approximately) how much human activity has influenced this progression, if in fact it has.
the problem is that humans have this pesky habit of building their civilizations right along the shoreline. it's not a good long-term plan when you're in the thawing cycle. building further north becomes problematic during the freezing cycle because glaciers tend to be fairly persistent and, oh, huge and unstoppable.
humans have this other rather irksome habit of being, on the whole, fairly short-sighted. most civilizations aren't really planned. no where is it ingrained in our personalities to go out of our way to make sure our current agenda has any real positive bearing on future generations. and don't go thinking you're going to make a difference. the power is in the hands of the governments and megacorps.
behold the USA, pinnacle of "Democracy" and "Freedom"! how much of the wrangling that occurs in Washington, DC every day has the enlightened future of humans in mind? bingo if you said, "zippo, zilch and nada". it's grubbing for money and power with the occasional kissing of babies and touching of cripples to please the electorate. and no where else is any better.
oh, wait, it looks like florida is flooding. well, we just didn't see that coming. quick, who do we blame? who can I use this against? sorry, until we have a global change of consciousness and get past our basic animal instincts, it'll be slow and perilous going.
why is everyone is so hysterical about global warming? do they not know that this is part of the larger ice-age cycle that repeats about every 20k years? we're in the warming period. we go from nearly covered in ice to nearly devoid of ice (with huge sea-level fluctuations) and then back again. is there some kind of expectation that this change is linear? that there will be no bursts of exponential change followed by other plateaus? that these kinds of global changes will not create increased levels of extinction? hey, maybe humans are influencing the cycle. maybe we've shortened it a few thousand years. maybe nobody really knows jack shit but needs something to bitch about between commercials.
any politician that is not strongly in favor of alternate forms of energy is a dick. not because fossil fuels are inherently evil (ok, the corps behind them may be), but more importantly, they're never going to get us off this idiot-infested rock. oh, and they're not renewable. go nuclear! it's god's favorite power source. check out, oh, say, the rest of the universe if you're in doubt. hey, god can't be wrong.
um, that's about it.
...because the bill makes it illegal to import such equipment. trying to get around this only makes you a criminal and eligible to spent time in the pokey with meaner people than yourself.
your lecturer is advocating security through obscurity. by that measure, the most secure possible web server is one you've written yourself, regardless of your competence level, because it's one of a kind.
I would like to see that point of view competently defended in the public court of security experts.
The simple fact of the matter is that if Microsoft had honored the first consent decree they probably wouldn't be in this mess. Instead they thumbed their nose at the court and went straight back to business as usual. They deserve to have their products pulled from the market at this point. The industry would be far stronger if it had to figure out how to live without Microsoft.
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The Oxymoronic guides to...
Object Oriented Assembly Language
Presentable Perl Programming
Pithy Python Programming
Reusable Tcl Structures
Java in a Nutshell (oh, wait, that's been done)
Don't worry about RAID if you don't want to
that is, unless you give a shit about what you're recording. something about the use of the word security in conjunction with camera leads me to believe you might, however.
if you're not using RAID, you're gamlbing with your data. it's very unlikely, but I've had two drives (in an array) fail catastrophically in the period of 1 hour. at 50-100gb/drive, without RAID, that's a lot of lost data.
You simply can't run most Java programs without either a JVM or a bundled compiler. The reason for this is dynamic class loading. You can load classes by arbitrary name, from urls, from byte codes you've created on the fly in memory, etc, etc. These classes cannot be precompiled. So you either need a JVM to interpret them, a compiler to compile them, or both in the form of a jitted JVM.
Why do people complain about the size of the JVM? Every scripting language has to have the equivalent in the form of an interpreter. The *base* perl installation on Linux is 21MB. That's without docs and a UI toolkit (Java includes both). I don't hear complaints about the size of Perl's interpreter or the heft of the Tk or Gtk toolkit libraries.
Would people like Java more if it didn't have byte codes? If we had a Java shell like Perl, Tcl and Python? Skip the byte codes and let it be tokenized each and every time? Or is it just the cross-platform talk that rankles everyone? Maybe it's Sun's stupid open/not-open antics. Or perhaps it's just language l33t1sm.
is here: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/phot -02-02.html
Easier said than done. If this wasn't part of the application's design or if it's relatively sophisticated, making these changes can be non-trival. And (shock/horror) if you don't have the source code, it's impossible without OS assistance.
and Microsoft dances away from this with a slap on the wrist. The only saving grace I can think of is that this will go a long way towards fueling the fires of Microsoft paranoia brewing outside the US. More non-US governments will look seriously for Microsoft-free solutions as it becomes crystal clear that the US goverment and Microsoft are sharing the same toothbrush and underwear.
but they will never catch a single family dwelling doing it. the ONLY way to detect it is to watch bandwidth and look for 60-70 connections coming out of that cablemodem
Sorry, but this is 100% wrong. My brother-in-law was running NAT on a Linux firewall at home with a few PC's behind it and MediaGeneral shut him down. How? They snooped the User-Agent in the HTTP headers. It gives away quite a lot of information. They basically called him up one day and said, "Hi, we see you're running 2 Linux boxes and a Windows box behind a NAT. This is against our TOS so either a) pay us more money, b) shut them down or c) we will disconnect your service.
There are only a few ways around this and they all involve running a proxy server that can generate fake headers (like squid).
Since there are also other ways of detecting NAT with multiple sources (many enumerated above), I suggest you also take other precautions. Harden your firewall. Drop ALL inbound traffic (UDP and TCP) unless it can be correllated (stateful firewalling). Learn more about your IP stack.
And when they come for you, either lie with a real convincing story or pony up the $6.95/mo.
Did you do it? How well does it work? I was thinking of doing the same thing, but thought better of it since it would be a major fn() hassle if it didn't work out.
I'd like to have see chips that incorporate the CPU, RAM and something equivalent to the North+South bridge. Motherboards should be designed to take 1-32 of these plugged into some godawfulfast bus. CPU and RAM should be one in the same and scale together. RAM co-located w/ the CPU would be much, much faster. Most systems and applications can scale with more threads or CPU's. CPU's by themselves are just about as fast as they need to be for any task that cannot be divided into multiple threads (I'm not talking about poorly written progams). This whole getup would be significantly more elegant, reduce parts and complexity and probably be cheaper to produce in the long-run.
I don't see this as the same as a system-on-a-chip. With those, you're integrating video and audio. I'd either rather NOT see that integrated at all or have a portion of this new CPU combo thingy incorporate a DSP or FPGA region(s).
Whoa, time to put down the crack pipe.
Goddamn, this is funny and insightful. Curse the moderating system that will not allow me to mod this up further!
Perhaps after 5, each mod point should count for half. Too many 5's getting handed out these days. It's not as much the mark of distinction anymore.
that leaves TiVo and ReplayTV as the main standing competitors
What about the promising new addition to the playfield:
Moxi?
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