Why not ask your ISP if it is legal to "sublet" your connection and thereby deprive them of a revenue stream?
Funny use of the word sublet, makes me think of subletting an appartment that you own, including the internet access. Should your roommate have to buy his own line?
A government strong enough to prevent it's own overthrow is a bad government
I'd look at it from the opposite side -- A government that only stays in power because its people prefer it is by definition a good one. Otherwise it would be replaced.
Yes you can, it's called an ex-post-facto law, latin for "After the fact". They're against the US constitution, yes, but theres a few being upheld now. From Wikipedia:
One current U.S. law that has an ex post facto effect is the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. This law, which imposes new registration requirements on convicted sex offenders, gives the U.S. Attorney General the authority to apply the law retroactively
Ex-post-facto laws are fine in the eyes of the public as long as they only impact scary evil people.
Theres also instances that aren't exactly ex-post-facto, but can be applied similarly. Best example I can think of is a new drug coming out. No laws against it, so you acquire some. Law gets passed without you knowing and you're stuck with possession.
If AT&T techies actually read slashdot then they would be smart enough to setup the system with more than just a browser user agent tag and a phone number.
How would you set it up then? Assuming the predefined goal is "Allow iphone users free service with no hassle", what would you do if not sniff user agents?
The only way I could think of to do this more 'securely' would be a full network scan to see how their tcp stack behaves, possibly looking at tcp sequence numbers and timestamps to find any quirks.
This of course would seriously complicate things, and still be vulnerable to more advanced spoofing. More complication means more errors means spending more money on techs, likely much more than you'd lose to a few hackers browsing slashdot for free.
Or I guess you could just make iphone users come to the counter and train starbucks employees on how to check and add a mac address, and hope nobody has a problem handing their iphone over.. Not the route I'd go.
Because the picture is of entirely legal acts, only justified on the premise of "people who get off on that stuff are the type that will commit violent crimes". Thats the thought crime, they want to make this illegal because of something you might do after watching it.
Tell that to all the times I recked my friends linux box while learning linux through his shell (Thanks Adam).
One little typo or forgetting your CWD and you're deleting a lot. As it should be, really.
The real problem with SQL Servers behavior as I understand it is just that we've been so conditioned to blow through installers without reading or paying attention due to how many of them are just carbon copies of each other.
It would be like if there was a default password you had to set with./configure --default-password=hax and you just went straight for a./configure && make && make install without bothering to notice.
The solution of course being better package management. Apt solves this by rarely prompting you when it isn't something it really needs a decision on. Windows could benefit a lot from a port of apt and some good packaging standards (even if third party)
They have no legal basis so they can't take legal action against you, but they're well within their rights to cease providing their service to you(i.e ban you).
They can do that for any reason they want or for no reason at all.
Also downloading is still often enough to get you passed a lot of legal threshholds. "Just because I downloaded that album doesn't mean I listened to it" wouldn't stop an RIAA copyright lawsuit.
Because a 42" will have the same black bars, and you might as well just get a 37"..which has the same black bars..so you might as well get an ipod video.
The answer is all in movies being different aspect ratios. HDTV is 16:9, so if you're watching HD TV programming there will be no bars (assuming they arent showing clips of NTSC stuff, then you get pillarbars on the sides).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image) explains in more detail.
The upside is on a widescreen display you'll get LESS letterboxing on movies, but unless they either crop it or stretch it you won't get it full screen.
Likewise, Jetpack fuel is stored on the server. If it wasn't, it would have been hacked ten minutes after the game was released. In Quake style games, everything important is serverside.
It is on the server, which is why this isn't a matter of hacking the network and replacing a "jpfuel=10" with "jpfuel=100". It's a matter of tricking the server into running the "regenerateJpFuel()" function for you more often than anyone else. This would happen if its ran in the player.think() function instead of in some main server.think loop.
Lagged out clients don't have their.think() ran at all. Conversely, over-active clients get theirs ran more often than clients currently stuck processing something.
These are quakec terms, I have little experience modding outside of QC so they may have renamed it, but thats the gist of it.
I'm really not making this stuff up, a few examples:
Check The NS2.0 Changelog
o removed frame-rate dependence for building structures and jetpack usage.
Or look at the documentation for one of the QuakeWorld clients that implemented a fix known as Independent Physics:
If you cannot achieve standard 77 FPS, your physics will be a little different.
You may notice that if you try playing with cl_physfps 30 (or cl_maxfps 30 when
not using independent physics). Your jumps (and rocket-jumps) won't be that fast and high
as with 77 FPS.
Admittedly it's been so long since I've trickjumped I can't cite WHICH jumps aren't possible without certain fps, but I know its well known in both the QW and Q3 communities.
Since quake1, and everything dervived from it in some way.
Yes its not a 'wise decision', but not all decisions can be made based on whats most logical..sometimes you need to cut corners based on what will work fastest or easiest.
In quake your movespeed and your ability to move/accelerate in the air is based entirely on your fps. Some trick jumps can't be done without a certain framerate.
In quake3 that changes more into your jump height, but the same end result -- Some jumps require certain fps to become possible.
In any HL based game your ability to slide up a steep wall instead of slide down it is impacted by your fps (and also the servers framerate).
In TFC hwguy assault cannon and a few other weapons would fire more often with higher fps.
In Natural Selection(1.x) how quick your jetpack fuel replenishes is based on your fps. Enough FPS and you could fly forever.
Theres more, but the tl;dr version: Any game that uses quake's "player.think()" system to do calculations will fire off more.think()s per second on clients with higher framerate.
Theres a plugin called Stylish that extends that. It doesn't do anything that FF can't do manually via editing of userStyles.css, but it does make it a lot easier to swap around. There is also a collection of customized styles at userstyles.org, although it's constantly a cat and mouse game of catching up with peoples layout changes, and you still end up with ugly images that expect the original background.
I'd suggest Crossover or WINE. which reminds me, why can't Windows run Compiz or Konqueror or any of the other programs available for years on *nix systems?
Really not the argument to make.
Konq has ran fine on windows as another poster poitned out.
Compiz is too low level to really be portable to other windowing systems.
Why not name some of the actual commmon open source apps, like say firefox, vim, pidgin, nmap, etc? Yeah, because if its really worth running it has been ported to windows.
Compare to: foobar2000, ventrilo, utorrent, digsby.. and thats just from my list of currently running apps.
Right now most new games are coded specifically for Windows making use of APIs that are either not documented at all or documented very poorly making porting these games difficult or even impossible by third parties.
It's documented well enough for game developers to make their games with.
Of course thats assuming they offer this service to you, which they likely won't. Take a look at some US-wide comcast speedtests sometime -- I've seen them range from ~3mbits to ~15mbits. If theres nobody competing with them locally, they have no financially incentive to upgrade their lines or offer better packages.
If you're downloading from something that supports resuming like HTTP or FTP, couldn't you use some kind of modified download splitter to break it up into multiple concurrent downloads, each getting restarted if it falls below a certain threshhold?
Not exactly the nicest thing to do to someones webserver, but would pretty much entirely negate comcast's throttling.
I forgot to mention my preference -- Trustable single signon solutions like pgp agents and ssh agents. Admittedly if your host is compromised you're at greater risk, but for home use and for managing a lot of servers this can be a massive time saver and again arguably keep you more secure.
I just wish there was a way to shove all your remote website logins in through the same system. Would put microsoft, yahoo, and google's single signon stuff to shame, and arguably be able to replace openid (just go by your public key)
Does anybody know why that is, or if anyone is working on changing that? I could see some kind of minimalist X11 'bnc' type program hold the apps display and bring it back once you re-launch your X server. Since all your apps are separate processes..why should they go down with their display?
I'd argue you're worse off. Getting used to typing your password >20 times a day will lead to you typing it with much less concern for security, and being more apt to fall for a look-a-like program/page/whatever, not to mention over the shoulder attacks and other out of band security issues.
I have a Dell 1707FP and if the 1901 is the same, you might want to move the keyboard/mouse to the two ports on the back near the DVI port -- Free the side ports up for usb thumbdrives/ipods/other more transitory connections.
Do you have any idea WHY they do it? Do you really think its some spite for your country or something?
Some broadcast company in your country bought the exclusive rights to rebroadcast Southpark in your country. Comedy Central has the exclusive rights in America. The Comedy Channel has the exclusive rights in Canada.
Comedy Channel has been streaming southpark for Canadians online for a long time now.
Comedy Central is now doing the same for America.
Bitch to whoever owns the rights in your country, not to Comedy Central or South Park Studios.
If Ron Paul were in charge of this we'd still be just as far behind, but at least we'd individually have more money due to not paying taxes to the telecom companies to roll out fiber they never actually did.
If your university runs windows, try hitting alt+shit+numlock (alt/shift have to be the left side) to enable mouse keys, then with numlock on hit * and then 5 to middleclick.
The old way of games purchasing is dying out at a rapid rate for pc gamers. We don't need to go into shops, we have steam, or play.com, or amazon, to name but a few online locations. Most polls that talk of reduced pc game sales aren't taking these online sources into account. It's been several years since I bought a game in a shop, a bargain bin copy of Rise of the Middle Kingdom.
I think the biggest reason is for the most part PC gamers know what they want already. Console gamers see some pretty screenshots and art on the box and think hey, this Orange Box looks like a good deal.
PC gamers played TF back in 1998 and have been waiting for tf2 ever since, only to pre-order orangebox once it was available on steam and start playing the beta a month early.
Due to mod-ability and better multiplayer, PC games seem to last longer so you're more inclined to stick to the one you know and ride it out longer, whereas on consoles you're stuck taking more risks on whatever is available because you beat all that there is to beat on the game you have.
Shaping only works as long as you can recognize and classify the data.
Not entirely true. It works better the more you know about your data, but even knowing nothing you can get good results with a simple rule of prioritizing small packets.
My original QoS setup was just a simple rule of anything small gets priority over anything large. This is enough to make (most) VoIP, games, SSH, and anything else that is lots of small real time packets all get through over lots of full queued packets (transfers).
Admittedly BitTorrent was what hurt my original setup, as you end up with a lot of slow peers each trickling transfers in slowly. You could get around this with a hard limit of overall packet rate, or with connection tracking and limiting the number of IPs you hold a connection with per second (and then block things like UDP and ICMP)
Yeah its an ugly solution, but we're all the ISP's bitch anyways, so they can do what they want.
And, although fluff, Aero is actually COOL to play with. Useful? not really. but cool.
I'd say parts of it are useful. I still like compiz better for its alttab animation, but having windows animate better makes it easier to keep track of what you're doing (i.e firefox pops up a dialog, you see it animate in then animate out when you close it) and also makes it more obvious to new users.
Slashdot Mirror
You can, but then instead of seeing the story with a reasonable headline you'll not see it at all (short of a dupe from a better editor)
Then again with rss feeds its harder and harder to justify coming to slashdot.
Funny use of the word sublet, makes me think of subletting an appartment that you own, including the internet access. Should your roommate have to buy his own line?
I'd look at it from the opposite side -- A government that only stays in power because its people prefer it is by definition a good one. Otherwise it would be replaced.
From Wikipedia:
Ex-post-facto laws are fine in the eyes of the public as long as they only impact scary evil people.
Theres also instances that aren't exactly ex-post-facto, but can be applied similarly. Best example I can think of is a new drug coming out. No laws against it, so you acquire some. Law gets passed without you knowing and you're stuck with possession.
How would you set it up then? Assuming the predefined goal is "Allow iphone users free service with no hassle", what would you do if not sniff user agents?
The only way I could think of to do this more 'securely' would be a full network scan to see how their tcp stack behaves, possibly looking at tcp sequence numbers and timestamps to find any quirks.
This of course would seriously complicate things, and still be vulnerable to more advanced spoofing. More complication means more errors means spending more money on techs, likely much more than you'd lose to a few hackers browsing slashdot for free.
Or I guess you could just make iphone users come to the counter and train starbucks employees on how to check and add a mac address, and hope nobody has a problem handing their iphone over.. Not the route I'd go.
Because the picture is of entirely legal acts, only justified on the premise of "people who get off on that stuff are the type that will commit violent crimes". Thats the thought crime, they want to make this illegal because of something you might do after watching it.
Tell that to all the times I recked my friends linux box while learning linux through his shell (Thanks Adam).
./configure --default-password=hax and you just went straight for a ./configure && make && make install without bothering to notice.
One little typo or forgetting your CWD and you're deleting a lot. As it should be, really.
The real problem with SQL Servers behavior as I understand it is just that we've been so conditioned to blow through installers without reading or paying attention due to how many of them are just carbon copies of each other.
It would be like if there was a default password you had to set with
The solution of course being better package management. Apt solves this by rarely prompting you when it isn't something it really needs a decision on. Windows could benefit a lot from a port of apt and some good packaging standards (even if third party)
They have no legal basis so they can't take legal action against you, but they're well within their rights to cease providing their service to you(i.e ban you).
They can do that for any reason they want or for no reason at all.
Also downloading is still often enough to get you passed a lot of legal threshholds. "Just because I downloaded that album doesn't mean I listened to it" wouldn't stop an RIAA copyright lawsuit.
Because a 42" will have the same black bars, and you might as well just get a 37"..which has the same black bars..so you might as well get an ipod video. The answer is all in movies being different aspect ratios. HDTV is 16:9, so if you're watching HD TV programming there will be no bars (assuming they arent showing clips of NTSC stuff, then you get pillarbars on the sides). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image) explains in more detail. The upside is on a widescreen display you'll get LESS letterboxing on movies, but unless they either crop it or stretch it you won't get it full screen.
Since quake1, and everything dervived from it in some way.
.think()s per second on clients with higher framerate.
Yes its not a 'wise decision', but not all decisions can be made based on whats most logical..sometimes you need to cut corners based on what will work fastest or easiest.
In quake your movespeed and your ability to move/accelerate in the air is based entirely on your fps. Some trick jumps can't be done without a certain framerate.
In quake3 that changes more into your jump height, but the same end result -- Some jumps require certain fps to become possible.
In any HL based game your ability to slide up a steep wall instead of slide down it is impacted by your fps (and also the servers framerate).
In TFC hwguy assault cannon and a few other weapons would fire more often with higher fps.
In Natural Selection(1.x) how quick your jetpack fuel replenishes is based on your fps. Enough FPS and you could fly forever.
Theres more, but the tl;dr version: Any game that uses quake's "player.think()" system to do calculations will fire off more
Theres a plugin called Stylish that extends that. It doesn't do anything that FF can't do manually via editing of userStyles.css, but it does make it a lot easier to swap around.
There is also a collection of customized styles at userstyles.org, although it's constantly a cat and mouse game of catching up with peoples layout changes, and you still end up with ugly images that expect the original background.
Really not the argument to make.
Konq has ran fine on windows as another poster poitned out.
Compiz is too low level to really be portable to other windowing systems.
Why not name some of the actual commmon open source apps, like say firefox, vim, pidgin, nmap, etc? Yeah, because if its really worth running it has been ported to windows.
Compare to: foobar2000, ventrilo, utorrent, digsby.. and thats just from my list of currently running apps.
It's documented well enough for game developers to make their games with.
Of course thats assuming they offer this service to you, which they likely won't. Take a look at some US-wide comcast speedtests sometime -- I've seen them range from ~3mbits to ~15mbits. If theres nobody competing with them locally, they have no financially incentive to upgrade their lines or offer better packages.
If you're downloading from something that supports resuming like HTTP or FTP, couldn't you use some kind of modified download splitter to break it up into multiple concurrent downloads, each getting restarted if it falls below a certain threshhold?
Not exactly the nicest thing to do to someones webserver, but would pretty much entirely negate comcast's throttling.
I forgot to mention my preference -- Trustable single signon solutions like pgp agents and ssh agents. Admittedly if your host is compromised you're at greater risk, but for home use and for managing a lot of servers this can be a massive time saver and again arguably keep you more secure.
I just wish there was a way to shove all your remote website logins in through the same system. Would put microsoft, yahoo, and google's single signon stuff to shame, and arguably be able to replace openid (just go by your public key)
Does anybody know why that is, or if anyone is working on changing that? I could see some kind of minimalist X11 'bnc' type program hold the apps display and bring it back once you re-launch your X server. Since all your apps are separate processes..why should they go down with their display?
I'd argue you're worse off. Getting used to typing your password >20 times a day will lead to you typing it with much less concern for security, and being more apt to fall for a look-a-like program/page/whatever, not to mention over the shoulder attacks and other out of band security issues.
I have a Dell 1707FP and if the 1901 is the same, you might want to move the keyboard/mouse to the two ports on the back near the DVI port -- Free the side ports up for usb thumbdrives/ipods/other more transitory connections.
Do you have any idea WHY they do it? Do you really think its some spite for your country or something?
Some broadcast company in your country bought the exclusive rights to rebroadcast Southpark in your country. Comedy Central has the exclusive rights in America. The Comedy Channel has the exclusive rights in Canada.
Comedy Channel has been streaming southpark for Canadians online for a long time now.
Comedy Central is now doing the same for America.
Bitch to whoever owns the rights in your country, not to Comedy Central or South Park Studios.
If Ron Paul were in charge of this we'd still be just as far behind, but at least we'd individually have more money due to not paying taxes to the telecom companies to roll out fiber they never actually did.
If your university runs windows, try hitting alt+shit+numlock (alt/shift have to be the left side) to enable mouse keys, then with numlock on hit * and then 5 to middleclick.
Fuck silly restrictions.
I think the biggest reason is for the most part PC gamers know what they want already. Console gamers see some pretty screenshots and art on the box and think hey, this Orange Box looks like a good deal.
PC gamers played TF back in 1998 and have been waiting for tf2 ever since, only to pre-order orangebox once it was available on steam and start playing the beta a month early.
Due to mod-ability and better multiplayer, PC games seem to last longer so you're more inclined to stick to the one you know and ride it out longer, whereas on consoles you're stuck taking more risks on whatever is available because you beat all that there is to beat on the game you have.
Not entirely true. It works better the more you know about your data, but even knowing nothing you can get good results with a simple rule of prioritizing small packets.
My original QoS setup was just a simple rule of anything small gets priority over anything large. This is enough to make (most) VoIP, games, SSH, and anything else that is lots of small real time packets all get through over lots of full queued packets (transfers).
Admittedly BitTorrent was what hurt my original setup, as you end up with a lot of slow peers each trickling transfers in slowly. You could get around this with a hard limit of overall packet rate, or with connection tracking and limiting the number of IPs you hold a connection with per second (and then block things like UDP and ICMP)
Yeah its an ugly solution, but we're all the ISP's bitch anyways, so they can do what they want.
I'd say parts of it are useful. I still like compiz better for its alttab animation, but having windows animate better makes it easier to keep track of what you're doing (i.e firefox pops up a dialog, you see it animate in then animate out when you close it) and also makes it more obvious to new users.