Dish TV gives hundreds of channels for only $35/month...
Half of the channels Dish gives you for that price are ones that they should be paying you for. There's a whole swath of channels along the likes of QVC, HSN, etc. I'd pay a little more not to have to sift through them while I'm looking for actual content...
Or, to look at Apple products, a $99 AppleTV, and a selection of iPhones, iPads, and/or iPods touches, which many people already have.
I don't know what Apple is waiting for. Seems like a simple thing for us to be sitting around the TV playing a game while we chat. Eg. Scrabble where the main board is up on the TV with the letters in each person's iPhone. When it's your turn, drag each letter off the phone and it appears on the TV to be positioned as desired. This would even work on many games in pass-the-pad mode. One iPad being passed from player to player with the main screen or scoreboard on the TV so all can plan or track the action.
I suspect it's not too far away, given AirPlay and rumors about apps on the ATV, but it's hard to know for sure with Apple's tight-lipped disclosure policy...
You can see the completion status of the torrent for other members in the swarm, you could confirm downloading by monitoring it over time. Swarm trackers could indeed flag each other as pirates - to get the longest and greatest number of connections to downloaders, they have to complete the torrent themselves first.
Section 2..3, paragraph 2:
The function of the upload in addition was reduced to a minimum (handshaking). The IPP international IPTRACKER merely stores the data of the hosts connected with, if the package verification succeeds.
Parsing that broken English, it appears their modified client downloads, but does not upload. Presumably, other forensic and research clients don't actually upload either, meaning they wouldn't report on each other because they're not actually "making available."
A client that actually does upload valid data would likely not stand in court. That's like saying, "In order to catch this guy killing someone, I had to kill someone myself."
I always wished that AMD had named their Athlon chips Atinum instead.
1. They came out roughly the same time as Itanium
2. They were 64-bit (x86-64 instead of Itanium's IA64)
3. They were touted as the next generation after x86 (as was IA-64)
4. The name started with A (for AMD, where Itanium started with I for Intel)
5. The name was a metal with the first phonem(s) removed (Pl-Atinum vs. T-Itanium)
6. Platinum is more costly and precious than Titanium
For those that lack the history, x86-64 (and the Athlon) was a resounding success; so much so that Intel begrudgingly followed AMD's lead for their consumer grade 64-bit chips. Intel's attempt to push Itanium and the IA64 architecture faltered with the much simpler and sensical upgrade path that AMD's lineup offered.
I wonder if litigious HP will sue AMD too, since the success of the X86-64 architecture contributed to Itanium's failure as a platform, and thus Oracle's withdrawal of support for it.
If you're running that command in a plain shell outside of screen, it may not complete. Specifically, ifdown would complete, closing all TCP connections, including your SSH session. When sshd dies, it closes its pseudo-tty, and kills all commands spawned in that tty, including the shell that was forking an ifup process. It's a classic race condition. It may have time to start and run ifup before the tty is killed, but it may not.
The way around this, as others have mentioned, is to use screen. When the login tty is killed, the shell running in your screen session stays running, so your ifup command doesn't get terminated.
Remember Sony's heyday? When they came out the the coolest Walkman players and headphones?
They used to be a great tech company. They built things that enthusiasts loved. I still remember fondly my WM-10. It was a sad day when I dropped it and broke the headphone jack.
There are two things that I believe led them to the brink of the disaster they currently find themselves in:
1) Proprietary technology: Sony's history with proprietary technology goes back decades. A partial list: - Betamax (VHS won even though technologically inferior) - MD (CDs were more versatile and sounded better) - Memory Sticks (an unneeded but pricy competitor to SD, CF, etc.) - Bluray (I still wish HD-DVD had won that war).
IBM learned their lesson about proprietary commodity hardware when their PS/2 attempt tanked.
2) Purchase of Columbia Pictures (1989): With this purchase, their media arm became the tail that wagged the dog, and it continued with their purchase of BMG. They forgot about enabling their customers with technology, and used their technology to inhibit their customers instead, all in the name of protecting their media. This led them to blunders such as their use of XCP and MediaMax rootkits They still haven't learned their lesson, as it continues with BD+
Several cable companies are falling into this same trap. When a single entity owns both the media and the distribution channel, consumer trust evaporates as the entity inevitably tries to tie the two into a monopoly.
When will it end? And can we as consumers ever trust them again?
I seriously doubt it. I haven't bought any Sony gear for nearly a decade, and I don't think I'm the only one.
Given the inherently high velocities of spacecraft, be it in orbit or between bodies, it doesn't take much mass to damage things. Coat a weight in radar-absorbing foam and get it in the way of whatever you're trying to damage. Call it a space-mine. Explode something in their path and call it ack-sierra.
Beyond that, due to weight/energy densities, conservation of momentum will be important, but spacecraft wouldn't have the ability aircraft have to deflect air via their wings to change the direction of their momentum. There's nothing in space to push against... I don't anticipate it would look like a dogfight at all because of this.
It would probably look most like naval warfare, where the combatants lob missiles and minimally guided shells at each other. Missiles wouldn't change the attacker's momentum, whereas the recoil from shells would.
Does anyone else see a parallel with GPL versions?
GPL v2 was decent and widely used, but the arrogant overseers decided to overstep their bounds when updating to a new point release, ignoring community feedback and concerns. While some people followed willingly to GPL v3, many simply jumped ship to licenses with less onerous terms, such as MIT, ASL, etc.
I wish someone would fork GPL v2 and keep the legal strength improvements while jettisoning the forced patent licensing and "de-Tivoising" provisions. I'm fed up with RMS's proselytizing.
Steve? Is that you? Or are you some other Apple employee that took his lessons to heart?
I just love it when someone say, "I'm looking for a motorcycle," and some smart alec says, "What you really need is a pickup," like he knows better than the OP what it is he really wants...
How about we keep the name but only refer to it in the historical sense? As in, "Remember when the Department of Homeland Security existed and made everyone's live miserable with no noticeable improvement in homeland security?"
Speaking as a programmer, programmers are not designers.... Letting programmers design UIs is how we get software like emacs or vi
There's a big difference between a CLI and a GUI. Please don't confuse them.
Vi and emacs were designed to be used at a teletype. An 84-key (or less) keyboard with no cursor control keys. No mouse. Refresh rate limited by the modem baud rate. And for that type of environment, they shine.
To say vi or emacs have any relevance to today's GUI interfaces is a huge stretch. I too speak as a programmer, and while I agree that not all programmers are designers, not all programmers are programmers either. A good programmer writes what the end user wants, whether it be an easy to use GUI or a well designed engine underneath that UI. The interface is just another part of translating requirements into a working implementation.
If you want a GUI version of vi, I'd suggest WinVI32. Or notepad. For those of us that prefer CLI, don't knock our choice of editor.
I think you missed the point. Entirely. By a huge margin.
My three year old can use the iPad. His grandmother watched in amazement while he turned it on, went to the home screen, scrolled through it until he found is favorite ABC words game, ran it, adjusted the volume, and started tracing the letters to spell out some basic words. And that was last year. AT TWO YEARS OLD!
I love Linux. I'm all for teaching kids to use it when they're ready to. I used it as my primary desktop for over a year until I reluctantly switched to a Mac for better business app support. But I don't think my three year old would be interested in Ubuntu on a Dell Mini.
Unless you've used an iPad and have kindergarden aged kids, STFU.
This system would be easy for any ISP to game. QOS routing is already in place in all ISP networks. All any one of them would need is an example whitebox (eg. one of their employees or their friends), and they could ensure all packets destined for the target host are treated with the highest priority. All we can tell from that graph is CableVision doesn't do that...
Remeber too that ISPs route packets differently depending on the destination provider among other things. Anyone remember the debacle about Comcast refusing to peer Level 3? They thought the traffic was lopsided, and as a result, all Netflix customers on their network were routed over a congested transit link which they refused to embiggen.
StartSSL says they're down due to a security breach, not an inability to patch their servers. It's possible the attackers used the vulnerability mentioned here to breach the site, but that's a stretch. It could have been one of many other vulnerabilities.
And the untrusted site error you're receiving is due to a certificate problem at the site you're visiting. Blah.com's certificate is possibly self-signed or the issuer's certificate was revoked. Or their certificate is simply created wrong. In any case, the site certificate is not maintained and tested properly.
What this thread is discussing is an underlying protocol vulnerability. You're not generally going to be able to correlate things like that to specific website errors.
We all know what address those coins went to, and if allinvain kept a copy of his wallet.dat, he/she could publish it and, by examining coins we receive, we'd all be able to identify them if we were to receive them in the future.
This is analogous to keeping a list of the serial numbers of the 5000 $100 bills you kept on your bedroom_dresser.dat when some masked gunman broke through your door to steal them. We'd be able to recognize the burgler's mask, and identify the bills by serial if we saw them again. But they're gone baby gone!
Are we responsible for checking the serial number of each dollar we receive against a blacklist to see if it got stolen from someone in the past? I don't remember signing that agreement...
It's an expensive lesson for allinvain to learn, but he/she simply should have protected his/her wallet.dat better. When you're connected to the internet, you're <100ms from every creep out there.
I introduced ~75 elementary school kids to scratch.... The kids really enjoyed it...
Key word being kids. Kids don't attend the university. (Well, in theory, anyway...)
The point being, scratch may be great for kids who don't know how to type or are just learning the core principles of logic (if, while, and, or, etc.). I would think a university should be targeting a more mature student.
Plus, if someone has started an IT degree without ever having written a program or taught themselves a programming language, I believe they're there for the wrong reasons and it's just as well they wash out. Those are the ones that aspire to be merely adequate.
They might try management instead. The pay is better and sub-par performance seems to be tolerated...
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Regrettable that the liability lawsuit necessarily follows a breach. The breach is the regrettable part; get it?
Half of the channels Dish gives you for that price are ones that they should be paying you for. There's a whole swath of channels along the likes of QVC, HSN, etc. I'd pay a little more not to have to sift through them while I'm looking for actual content...
Or, to look at Apple products, a $99 AppleTV, and a selection of iPhones, iPads, and/or iPods touches, which many people already have.
I don't know what Apple is waiting for. Seems like a simple thing for us to be sitting around the TV playing a game while we chat. Eg. Scrabble where the main board is up on the TV with the letters in each person's iPhone. When it's your turn, drag each letter off the phone and it appears on the TV to be positioned as desired. This would even work on many games in pass-the-pad mode. One iPad being passed from player to player with the main screen or scoreboard on the TV so all can plan or track the action.
I suspect it's not too far away, given AirPlay and rumors about apps on the ATV, but it's hard to know for sure with Apple's tight-lipped disclosure policy...
You can see the completion status of the torrent for other members in the swarm, you could confirm downloading by monitoring it over time. Swarm trackers could indeed flag each other as pirates - to get the longest and greatest number of connections to downloaders, they have to complete the torrent themselves first.
Section 2..3, paragraph 2:
Parsing that broken English, it appears their modified client downloads, but does not upload. Presumably, other forensic and research clients don't actually upload either, meaning they wouldn't report on each other because they're not actually "making available."
A client that actually does upload valid data would likely not stand in court. That's like saying, "In order to catch this guy killing someone, I had to kill someone myself."
That's from memory, so test on an easily recoverable system before you try it on your critical production server with no OOB access channel...
I always wished that AMD had named their Athlon chips Atinum instead.
1. They came out roughly the same time as Itanium
2. They were 64-bit (x86-64 instead of Itanium's IA64)
3. They were touted as the next generation after x86 (as was IA-64)
4. The name started with A (for AMD, where Itanium started with I for Intel)
5. The name was a metal with the first phonem(s) removed (Pl-Atinum vs. T-Itanium)
6. Platinum is more costly and precious than Titanium
For those that lack the history, x86-64 (and the Athlon) was a resounding success; so much so that Intel begrudgingly followed AMD's lead for their consumer grade 64-bit chips. Intel's attempt to push Itanium and the IA64 architecture faltered with the much simpler and sensical upgrade path that AMD's lineup offered.
I wonder if litigious HP will sue AMD too, since the success of the X86-64 architecture contributed to Itanium's failure as a platform, and thus Oracle's withdrawal of support for it.
If you're running that command in a plain shell outside of screen, it may not complete. Specifically, ifdown would complete, closing all TCP connections, including your SSH session. When sshd dies, it closes its pseudo-tty, and kills all commands spawned in that tty, including the shell that was forking an ifup process. It's a classic race condition. It may have time to start and run ifup before the tty is killed, but it may not.
The way around this, as others have mentioned, is to use screen. When the login tty is killed, the shell running in your screen session stays running, so your ifup command doesn't get terminated.
One big plus: you're opponent can't wield the "wishy-washy" label over you. "It's not my stance, it's that of the people."
Another plus: you get to brush off the lobbyists with, "you're talking to the wrong person. Go convince my constituents."
Go. Experiment. Learn. Then run for a federal congress-critter position. They could all use a little more "by the people, for the people."
Remember Sony's heyday? When they came out the the coolest Walkman players and headphones?
They used to be a great tech company. They built things that enthusiasts loved. I still remember fondly my WM-10. It was a sad day when I dropped it and broke the headphone jack.
There are two things that I believe led them to the brink of the disaster they currently find themselves in:
1) Proprietary technology: Sony's history with proprietary technology goes back decades. A partial list:
- Betamax (VHS won even though technologically inferior)
- MD (CDs were more versatile and sounded better)
- Memory Sticks (an unneeded but pricy competitor to SD, CF, etc.)
- Bluray (I still wish HD-DVD had won that war).
IBM learned their lesson about proprietary commodity hardware when their PS/2 attempt tanked.
2) Purchase of Columbia Pictures (1989): With this purchase, their media arm became the tail that wagged the dog, and it continued with their purchase of BMG. They forgot about enabling their customers with technology, and used their technology to inhibit their customers instead, all in the name of protecting their media. This led them to blunders such as their use of XCP and MediaMax rootkits They still haven't learned their lesson, as it continues with BD+
Several cable companies are falling into this same trap. When a single entity owns both the media and the distribution channel, consumer trust evaporates as the entity inevitably tries to tie the two into a monopoly.
When will it end? And can we as consumers ever trust them again?
I seriously doubt it. I haven't bought any Sony gear for nearly a decade, and I don't think I'm the only one.
RIP, Sony - 1946 - 201x
So what you're saying is, Star Trek had it right once again!
Given the inherently high velocities of spacecraft, be it in orbit or between bodies, it doesn't take much mass to damage things. Coat a weight in radar-absorbing foam and get it in the way of whatever you're trying to damage. Call it a space-mine. Explode something in their path and call it ack-sierra.
Beyond that, due to weight/energy densities, conservation of momentum will be important, but spacecraft wouldn't have the ability aircraft have to deflect air via their wings to change the direction of their momentum. There's nothing in space to push against... I don't anticipate it would look like a dogfight at all because of this.
It would probably look most like naval warfare, where the combatants lob missiles and minimally guided shells at each other. Missiles wouldn't change the attacker's momentum, whereas the recoil from shells would.
It will be a good source for ATM faceplates that skimmers can hide their gear under...
And who will be footing the costs of the rescue effort when things inevitably go pear-shared on this misguided publicity-hound?
I'm just sayin'... be mindful of where your donations go.
Does anyone else see a parallel with GPL versions?
GPL v2 was decent and widely used, but the arrogant overseers decided to overstep their bounds when updating to a new point release, ignoring community feedback and concerns. While some people followed willingly to GPL v3, many simply jumped ship to licenses with less onerous terms, such as MIT, ASL, etc.
I wish someone would fork GPL v2 and keep the legal strength improvements while jettisoning the forced patent licensing and "de-Tivoising" provisions. I'm fed up with RMS's proselytizing.
"$2500 a year" it says. Just how many times will they allow a dead person to be shot into space?
"Today, we say farewell to Uncle Bob's left arm. We're all thankful knowing it will be joining his torso and the rest of his limbs in heaven. Amen"
"Psst! Aunt Sally, no more tax breaks, please. We're all sick of driving out here to see yet another funeral/blast off."
Steve? Is that you? Or are you some other Apple employee that took his lessons to heart?
I just love it when someone say, "I'm looking for a motorcycle," and some smart alec says, "What you really need is a pickup," like he knows better than the OP what it is he really wants...
Password authentication is so last century. You should be using public key authentication for security.
Put these lines in your sshd_config:
PubkeyAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication no
Oh, wait... cracking RSA keys is what this thread is about. NM.
How about we keep the name but only refer to it in the historical sense? As in, "Remember when the Department of Homeland Security existed and made everyone's live miserable with no noticeable improvement in homeland security?"
Speaking as a programmer, programmers are not designers. ... Letting programmers design UIs is how we get software like emacs or vi
There's a big difference between a CLI and a GUI. Please don't confuse them.
Vi and emacs were designed to be used at a teletype. An 84-key (or less) keyboard with no cursor control keys. No mouse. Refresh rate limited by the modem baud rate. And for that type of environment, they shine.
To say vi or emacs have any relevance to today's GUI interfaces is a huge stretch. I too speak as a programmer, and while I agree that not all programmers are designers, not all programmers are programmers either. A good programmer writes what the end user wants, whether it be an easy to use GUI or a well designed engine underneath that UI. The interface is just another part of translating requirements into a working implementation.
If you want a GUI version of vi, I'd suggest WinVI32. Or notepad. For those of us that prefer CLI, don't knock our choice of editor.
I think you missed the point. Entirely. By a huge margin.
My three year old can use the iPad. His grandmother watched in amazement while he turned it on, went to the home screen, scrolled through it until he found is favorite ABC words game, ran it, adjusted the volume, and started tracing the letters to spell out some basic words. And that was last year. AT TWO YEARS OLD!
I love Linux. I'm all for teaching kids to use it when they're ready to. I used it as my primary desktop for over a year until I reluctantly switched to a Mac for better business app support. But I don't think my three year old would be interested in Ubuntu on a Dell Mini.
Unless you've used an iPad and have kindergarden aged kids, STFU.
This system would be easy for any ISP to game. QOS routing is already in place in all ISP networks. All any one of them would need is an example whitebox (eg. one of their employees or their friends), and they could ensure all packets destined for the target host are treated with the highest priority. All we can tell from that graph is CableVision doesn't do that...
Remeber too that ISPs route packets differently depending on the destination provider among other things. Anyone remember the debacle about Comcast refusing to peer Level 3? They thought the traffic was lopsided, and as a result, all Netflix customers on their network were routed over a congested transit link which they refused to embiggen.
Not likely, and no.
StartSSL says they're down due to a security breach, not an inability to patch their servers. It's possible the attackers used the vulnerability mentioned here to breach the site, but that's a stretch. It could have been one of many other vulnerabilities.
And the untrusted site error you're receiving is due to a certificate problem at the site you're visiting. Blah.com's certificate is possibly self-signed or the issuer's certificate was revoked. Or their certificate is simply created wrong. In any case, the site certificate is not maintained and tested properly.
What this thread is discussing is an underlying protocol vulnerability. You're not generally going to be able to correlate things like that to specific website errors.
We all know what address those coins went to, and if allinvain kept a copy of his wallet.dat, he/she could publish it and, by examining coins we receive, we'd all be able to identify them if we were to receive them in the future.
This is analogous to keeping a list of the serial numbers of the 5000 $100 bills you kept on your bedroom_dresser.dat when some masked gunman broke through your door to steal them. We'd be able to recognize the burgler's mask, and identify the bills by serial if we saw them again. But they're gone baby gone!
Are we responsible for checking the serial number of each dollar we receive against a blacklist to see if it got stolen from someone in the past? I don't remember signing that agreement...
It's an expensive lesson for allinvain to learn, but he/she simply should have protected his/her wallet.dat better. When you're connected to the internet, you're <100ms from every creep out there.
I introduced ~75 elementary school kids to scratch. ... The kids really enjoyed it...
Key word being kids. Kids don't attend the university. (Well, in theory, anyway...)
The point being, scratch may be great for kids who don't know how to type or are just learning the core principles of logic (if, while, and, or, etc.). I would think a university should be targeting a more mature student.
Plus, if someone has started an IT degree without ever having written a program or taught themselves a programming language, I believe they're there for the wrong reasons and it's just as well they wash out. Those are the ones that aspire to be merely adequate.
They might try management instead. The pay is better and sub-par performance seems to be tolerated...
<flame>your comments here
When infant children scream you out of bed...
I was thinking the same thing. Either these people don't have young children. Or they ARE young children...