wikipedia provides a public internet website intended to be edited by users... a user simply utilized the service as designed, and you believe jail time might be in order?! is that you, adolf? the system wasn't broken, it was used as designed.
a little jobless time might be in order for the system administrators that designed the broken system.
So, uh, was the system not broken and being used as designed, or was it broken and the designers deserving of joblessness?
No they don't. Your edits are still tied to your IP, and so...you can be tracked.
True anonymity is not found through that means, unless you go through some hoops.
Well, if the guy has half a brain he's gone through those hoops. If not, he may find himself in a world of hurt, if he's in the U.S. and the Feds take an interest.
I see. And you're an attorney, and you're familiar with all the jurisdictions involved. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that his activities are, in fact, illegal under U.S. law. Any lawyers in the crowd care to comment upon that?
The dynamic IP ranges is what is causing this blanket-edit bans. Psycho asshats just reset their modems. Assign static IPs to customers and then just ban that/64. Problem fixed..
As to people saying you will be tracked, well, you are already tracked. Each of your IPv4 assignments is tracked by the ISP./64 just specifies a network, not individual. The benefits of static IP outweigh the negatives. It allows you to specify that you will only login from a given/64 to your bank, your stock account, etc...
Back when I had Comcast, they offered what were called "permanent" IPs. Not static, just "permanent", in that the address wouldn't change upon a modem reset, only when Comcast needed to for "network management" purposes. In the two years I had them, I think it changed a couple of times. Once was in response to my upgrading my speed tier. And I agree: static IPs are damned convenient. It really is nice not to have to use a dynamic IP service like DynDNS just to get access to your equipment, and being able to point a domain at your own server.
Dynamic IP pools made a lot more sense back in the days of dial-up, where you had more customers than IP addresses, and connections were being made and dropped to your modem bank on a continuous basis. You just hoped that more wouldn't try to go online than you had addresses to assign to them. That's not the case with the vast majority of broadband connections, which are always on anyway.
I hope he/she is getting in all the laughs now, because when they finally do decide to p0wn him/her, it won't be funny anymore.
Who would "they" be? If this fuckwit is even in the U.S. I'd be surprised. He could be pretty much anywhere: sure, the activity is coming from an address assigned to Verizon, but we may find it belongs to some poor schmuck who had no idea his computer was being used to proxy vandal traffic.
Because if I were Verizon, then I would fear of the bad PR they are already receiving.
Oh please, compared to past public relations debacles, this one doesn't even register on the radar.
No kidding. What percentage of Internet users in the United States have even visited Wikipedia, much less would feel the loss? Verizon's customers are far more concerned about their provider's dickish policies towards them, than the fact that a computer vandal is giving Jimmy Wales' brainchild a hard time, assuming said vandal is even a Verizon customer. He might be routing through a rooted box on Verizon's network for all we know, might even be in another country.
Wikipedia has had trouble with twits and astroturfers since its inception: I'm just surprised it took this long for a really major asshole to go on the offensive.
The link forwards to a conversation between Wikipedia admins. It seems like there is just one user being a prick. Why not just require user registration for IPs that come from Verizon? Hell, why not require registration for every edit on Wikipedia? I love the idea of being able to make anonymous edits, but seriously wouldn't it make their lives easier by just requiring it for everyone?
Why not find out who the little bastard is, and send someone to give him an attitude readjustment. A little jail time might be in order as well, depending upon where he happens to hail from.
This is not the first time a high-profile operation has had a persistent twit cause problems. I remember when CBBS #1, generally recognized as the first computerized bulletin board system, had a similar issue almost thirty years ago. A young man was continually posting offensive messages and generally being a little prick. The board's operator's tracked him down and spoke to his father, and I remember Ward Christensen commenting that "we know now where Mr. Scopes gets his evil ways." I don't remember how it turned out or what they did, but Mr. Scopes' posts abruptly stopped.
There are always children (or adults with childlike mentalities) who enjoy raising hate and discontent simply because they can. The problem with the Internet is that it allows such people to cause a much greater degree of harm than, say, a teenager with a can of spraypaint, as similar as the mindset may be.
Lawyers are *always* under oath. They give one oath when they join the bar, and don't have to give it every time they act in a legal process.
Quite simply, they didn't do anything illegal.
Yes, they did. Presenting false documents as evidence is a crime. They are the ones that presented them in court.
There are still questions... did they do so knowingly, by doing so did they fail to perform due diligence, etc. etc. It seems that nothing is ever as clear-cut as it ought to be.
As an IPhone user I'm only ever using two apps at a time, one in the background and other actively.
Would you feel the same way if the standard iOS supported true multitasking (yes, I know you can jailbreak it, but that's not an officially supported mode)? Your operating system only allows you a couple of tasks, and you're rationalizing that limitation. Whenever I ask someone if their device or software has a specific feature, and they answer "well, why would you want that?" it tells me that a. no, they don't have that feature and b. probably wish they did. To tell the truth, I think if you didn't have that restriction you'd find yourself making a lot better use of your expensive portable computer. But, as you say, true multitasking is coming and I think you'll get a kick out of once you have it.
As an Android user, I often run a number of applications simultaneously (voice nav, music, browsing, alarm app, another app that switches certain features on and off at specific times, email, texting, etc.) and wouldn't be at all pleased if I were as limited as an iPhone user in that regard. You have to look at it not as a simple task-switching business, but the ability to have continuous services running and doing nifty things for you.
it copied the iOS model by Apple by the book - specially the silly restrictions (no multitasking to 3rd party apps, tie-in to a proprietary app, no fscking copy-and-paste, etc.).
Piercing together speculation from various other comments, the leading theory seems to be that it's the result of a dispute between phone manufacturers (Who want removeable media supported) and Microsoft (Who really, really don't).
Fortunately, there are other cell phone operating system vendors (well, pretty much all of them, I think) who haven't chosen to be dicks about this, and grok the idea of "removable" as opposed to "insert and forget."
This is the kind of shit that could kill this particular Windows mobile OS. I know lots of people (myself included) that regularly swap SD cards for different purposes, or even stick in a card from a camera to view the pictures on the phone's display, or send them to someone. Removable storage is removable for a reason.
Anyway, it's a deal-breaker for me. Guess I'll stick with Android for now.
Would you explain your sentence "because diesel engines do not mix air with fuel"? Diesel fuel requires the presence of atmospheric oxygen to burn, so I don't understand your sentence.
He's comparing a carbureted gasoline engine (in which a fuel-air mixture is drawn into the cylinder) to a diesel engine, which is fuel-injected (no carburetor, fuel and air are mixed in the cylinder.) Of course, most modern gasoline automotive engines are fuel-injected anyway, so that comparison is kinda moot.
It's not clear where the number came from. The press release mentions 125MIPS, while the processor itself is available in 132MHz and 144MHz variants.
dom
MHz and MIPS aren't the same thing anyway. But if you want increased thermal tolerance, or just want to use slower peripheral parts, and don't need the speed, underclocking is pretty common.
Yes. In a heartbeat. A coder both willing and able to rapidly acquire new skills who also has a natural head for logic is worth ten programmers who learned their craft out of an O'Reilly textbook, and are in it only for the money. I know it's not cool to say this, not in the modern world where engineers are treated as mass-produced, machine-made interchangeable parts, but experience and talent are actually useful, and no they're not commodities.
So it depends upon who is doing the hiring. I'm a lot like you in that respect, having learned assembler on a 4-bit Rockwell micro back in the seventies, eventually graduating to full 8-bit micros like the 8080 and 6502. I've had two formal programming classes in my life (well, maybe three, now that I think of it.) And I'll admit, when it comes to dealing with large corporate HR departments I don't fit into any of their cute little pigeonholes. But I still found a job working for a company that appreciates both my capabilities as an engineer, and my acquired knowledge of the particular industry we're in.
The problem for most programmers, talented or otherwise, is that a lot of mainstream programming tasks have been thoroughly commoditized: database, Web programming, e-commerce, etc.) So, find something that isn't so mainstream, that requires actual ability as well as some specialized industry-specific knowledge, and you'll likely do just fine.
My personal favorite, and by far the most popular, is the Cyanogenmod ROM. Keep in mind that the relatively open nature of the open-source Android operating system has made this a legitimate affair: this is not remotely comparable to what iPhone users suffer under Apple's heavy-handed rule. Frankly, having used Cyanogen's product (generally faster, more stable, and more featureful than the stock firmware) for over a year now, if a particular phone won't let me install it... well, that's one handset I won't be buying.
As a CyanogenMod user since shortly after getting my N1 I fully agree. Capability to flash custom ROMS and a solid release of CM are prerequisites for me even considering a new phone.
The impressive thing about Kondik & Co. is that they don't make you wait very long for that solid release.
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Visited? Um, basically all of them?
I doubt that. I think you're giving us too much credit.
wikipedia provides a public internet website intended to be edited by users... a user simply utilized the service as designed, and you believe jail time might be in order?! is that you, adolf? the system wasn't broken, it was used as designed.
a little jobless time might be in order for the system administrators that designed the broken system.
So, uh, was the system not broken and being used as designed, or was it broken and the designers deserving of joblessness?
No they don't. Your edits are still tied to your IP, and so...you can be tracked.
True anonymity is not found through that means, unless you go through some hoops.
Well, if the guy has half a brain he's gone through those hoops. If not, he may find himself in a world of hurt, if he's in the U.S. and the Feds take an interest.
No laws are being broken.
I see. And you're an attorney, and you're familiar with all the jurisdictions involved. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that his activities are, in fact, illegal under U.S. law. Any lawyers in the crowd care to comment upon that?
The dynamic IP ranges is what is causing this blanket-edit bans. Psycho asshats just reset their modems. Assign static IPs to customers and then just ban that /64. Problem fixed..
As to people saying you will be tracked, well, you are already tracked. Each of your IPv4 assignments is tracked by the ISP. /64 just specifies a network, not individual. The benefits of static IP outweigh the negatives. It allows you to specify that you will only login from a given /64 to your bank, your stock account, etc...
Back when I had Comcast, they offered what were called "permanent" IPs. Not static, just "permanent", in that the address wouldn't change upon a modem reset, only when Comcast needed to for "network management" purposes. In the two years I had them, I think it changed a couple of times. Once was in response to my upgrading my speed tier. And I agree: static IPs are damned convenient. It really is nice not to have to use a dynamic IP service like DynDNS just to get access to your equipment, and being able to point a domain at your own server.
Dynamic IP pools made a lot more sense back in the days of dial-up, where you had more customers than IP addresses, and connections were being made and dropped to your modem bank on a continuous basis. You just hoped that more wouldn't try to go online than you had addresses to assign to them. That's not the case with the vast majority of broadband connections, which are always on anyway.
I hope he/she is getting in all the laughs now, because when they finally do decide to p0wn him/her, it won't be funny anymore.
Who would "they" be? If this fuckwit is even in the U.S. I'd be surprised. He could be pretty much anywhere: sure, the activity is coming from an address assigned to Verizon, but we may find it belongs to some poor schmuck who had no idea his computer was being used to proxy vandal traffic.
Because if I were Verizon, then I would fear of the bad PR they are already receiving.
Oh please, compared to past public relations debacles, this one doesn't even register on the radar.
No kidding. What percentage of Internet users in the United States have even visited Wikipedia, much less would feel the loss? Verizon's customers are far more concerned about their provider's dickish policies towards them, than the fact that a computer vandal is giving Jimmy Wales' brainchild a hard time, assuming said vandal is even a Verizon customer. He might be routing through a rooted box on Verizon's network for all we know, might even be in another country.
Wikipedia has had trouble with twits and astroturfers since its inception: I'm just surprised it took this long for a really major asshole to go on the offensive.
The link forwards to a conversation between Wikipedia admins. It seems like there is just one user being a prick. Why not just require user registration for IPs that come from Verizon? Hell, why not require registration for every edit on Wikipedia? I love the idea of being able to make anonymous edits, but seriously wouldn't it make their lives easier by just requiring it for everyone?
Why not find out who the little bastard is, and send someone to give him an attitude readjustment. A little jail time might be in order as well, depending upon where he happens to hail from.
This is not the first time a high-profile operation has had a persistent twit cause problems. I remember when CBBS #1, generally recognized as the first computerized bulletin board system, had a similar issue almost thirty years ago. A young man was continually posting offensive messages and generally being a little prick. The board's operator's tracked him down and spoke to his father, and I remember Ward Christensen commenting that "we know now where Mr. Scopes gets his evil ways." I don't remember how it turned out or what they did, but Mr. Scopes' posts abruptly stopped.
There are always children (or adults with childlike mentalities) who enjoy raising hate and discontent simply because they can. The problem with the Internet is that it allows such people to cause a much greater degree of harm than, say, a teenager with a can of spraypaint, as similar as the mindset may be.
Lawyers are *always* under oath. They give one oath when they join the bar, and don't have to give it every time they act in a legal process. Quite simply, they didn't do anything illegal. Yes, they did. Presenting false documents as evidence is a crime. They are the ones that presented them in court.
There are still questions ... did they do so knowingly, by doing so did they fail to perform due diligence, etc. etc. It seems that nothing is ever as clear-cut as it ought to be.
Larry Boucher intended SCSI to be an acronym all along. Pronounced "sexy." That didn't quite happen. I still think you're sexy, Larry.
From sexy to scuzzy in one easy lesson.
Your mom sure is a good student.
I wouldn't know. You'll have to ask Dad about that.
escusi?
si, scuzzi.
Reformat the card using what? Windows formatting tools? Big deal.
It is for 99.999% of the customers of these phones.
As an IPhone user I'm only ever using two apps at a time, one in the background and other actively.
Would you feel the same way if the standard iOS supported true multitasking (yes, I know you can jailbreak it, but that's not an officially supported mode)? Your operating system only allows you a couple of tasks, and you're rationalizing that limitation. Whenever I ask someone if their device or software has a specific feature, and they answer "well, why would you want that?" it tells me that a. no, they don't have that feature and b. probably wish they did. To tell the truth, I think if you didn't have that restriction you'd find yourself making a lot better use of your expensive portable computer. But, as you say, true multitasking is coming and I think you'll get a kick out of once you have it.
As an Android user, I often run a number of applications simultaneously (voice nav, music, browsing, alarm app, another app that switches certain features on and off at specific times, email, texting, etc.) and wouldn't be at all pleased if I were as limited as an iPhone user in that regard. You have to look at it not as a simple task-switching business, but the ability to have continuous services running and doing nifty things for you.
it copied the iOS model by Apple by the book - specially the silly restrictions (no multitasking to 3rd party apps, tie-in to a proprietary app, no fscking copy-and-paste, etc.).
Some books were just meant to be burned.
Piercing together speculation from various other comments, the leading theory seems to be that it's the result of a dispute between phone manufacturers (Who want removeable media supported) and Microsoft (Who really, really don't).
Fortunately, there are other cell phone operating system vendors (well, pretty much all of them, I think) who haven't chosen to be dicks about this, and grok the idea of "removable" as opposed to "insert and forget."
This is the kind of shit that could kill this particular Windows mobile OS. I know lots of people (myself included) that regularly swap SD cards for different purposes, or even stick in a card from a camera to view the pictures on the phone's display, or send them to someone. Removable storage is removable for a reason.
Anyway, it's a deal-breaker for me. Guess I'll stick with Android for now.
Say what now?.... If this is even possible there is something really wrong with the SD card in question...
Well, if one were to take that SD card and hammer it into a fine powder, does that also qualify as "permanent modification"?
Satan has a twin sister?
Yes, and if he will not turn to the dark side, then perhaps she will...
According to this, she already has.
Sheesh, kids today. Get off my lawn.
You Sir, made me feel old looking to your UID.
Is that "old" in people years, or Slashdot years?
Would you explain your sentence "because diesel engines do not mix air with fuel"? Diesel fuel requires the presence of atmospheric oxygen to burn, so I don't understand your sentence.
He's comparing a carbureted gasoline engine (in which a fuel-air mixture is drawn into the cylinder) to a diesel engine, which is fuel-injected (no carburetor, fuel and air are mixed in the cylinder.) Of course, most modern gasoline automotive engines are fuel-injected anyway, so that comparison is kinda moot.
It's not clear where the number came from. The press release mentions 125MIPS, while the processor itself is available in 132MHz and 144MHz variants.
dom
MHz and MIPS aren't the same thing anyway. But if you want increased thermal tolerance, or just want to use slower peripheral parts, and don't need the speed, underclocking is pretty common.
Certainly not "most," as you seem to think.
I read somewhere (not stating it as fact) that a very large area of Africa is unarable due to parasites.
No, Oracle is the love child of microsoft and satan. I too will not use any product they own, nominally "free" or otherwise.
Satan has a twin sister?
would you hire me?
Yes. In a heartbeat. A coder both willing and able to rapidly acquire new skills who also has a natural head for logic is worth ten programmers who learned their craft out of an O'Reilly textbook, and are in it only for the money. I know it's not cool to say this, not in the modern world where engineers are treated as mass-produced, machine-made interchangeable parts, but experience and talent are actually useful, and no they're not commodities.
So it depends upon who is doing the hiring. I'm a lot like you in that respect, having learned assembler on a 4-bit Rockwell micro back in the seventies, eventually graduating to full 8-bit micros like the 8080 and 6502. I've had two formal programming classes in my life (well, maybe three, now that I think of it.) And I'll admit, when it comes to dealing with large corporate HR departments I don't fit into any of their cute little pigeonholes. But I still found a job working for a company that appreciates both my capabilities as an engineer, and my acquired knowledge of the particular industry we're in.
The problem for most programmers, talented or otherwise, is that a lot of mainstream programming tasks have been thoroughly commoditized: database, Web programming, e-commerce, etc.) So, find something that isn't so mainstream, that requires actual ability as well as some specialized industry-specific knowledge, and you'll likely do just fine.
Larry Boucher intended SCSI to be an acronym all along. Pronounced "sexy." That didn't quite happen. I still think you're sexy, Larry.
From sexy to scuzzy in one easy lesson.
My personal favorite, and by far the most popular, is the Cyanogenmod ROM. Keep in mind that the relatively open nature of the open-source Android operating system has made this a legitimate affair: this is not remotely comparable to what iPhone users suffer under Apple's heavy-handed rule. Frankly, having used Cyanogen's product (generally faster, more stable, and more featureful than the stock firmware) for over a year now, if a particular phone won't let me install it ... well, that's one handset I won't be buying.
As a CyanogenMod user since shortly after getting my N1 I fully agree. Capability to flash custom ROMS and a solid release of CM are prerequisites for me even considering a new phone.
The impressive thing about Kondik & Co. is that they don't make you wait very long for that solid release.