seems to be. Ten years ago i look enviously at the US because of the connectivity they had. Today i have a 18/1 mbit dsl connection without caps for 30 Euros/month and just have to wonder what happened over there (probably nothing)
I don't think that people in the US realize how creepy "Country First" is. In germany only right wing partys like the NPD, who wishes to remove democracy and return to national socialism, would dare to use a slogan like this. Nowhere else you'll ever see a statement like this
Just wrote an email to my girlfriend reminding her how much she loved me and asked if there could be anything she wouldn't do to prolong my life with her. Still waiting for an answer, but it'll give me an advantage to start the discussion
very true. I work at an isp support hotline and we have many customers excusing for using vista. "i know it sucks but it came preinstalled with the new computer". Vista has an incredibly bad reputation, at least here in germany. And market penetration must be quite low as only about 1 out of 20 persons calling has vista installed (might be that there are just no problems if you're using vista. naaah;))
the problem is that i won't be used just for that once it's installed. Little story from germany: Some years ago our politicians decided to charge trucks for using our highways. So they ordered an system (Toll collect) that tracks which road is used by which truck, most of it is done with a little on board unit. But to prevent abuse they installed controll points on all major streets in germany. Which, of course, can be used to track arbitrary vehicles. But that was no problem, since politicians of all partys promised never to use the data for anything else.
That was until some person (don't remember exactly what happened) was hit by a truck on a rest station and killed IIRC. Since nobody wanted to be the one to tell them not to use the data in this case there was a precedent and it's now used in relation to severe crimes.
Want to bet how long until it's used for minor problems like missing insurance? What's preventing this infrastructure being abused much more in the furture? There is no way to prevent it but not to install it in the first place
Besides not being the same as google trends, this tool is not allowed by the TOS of google. Automatic querying of their services without prior permission is forbidden by google. But since it probably won't put any noticeable load on their network they most likely won't care
IIRC the client didn't check the password but told the server how long the password was. So you could just tell the server the password is one char and then brute force it
well, at least in germany there are laws against such behaviour of corporations. Those comsumer protection laws were passed because people don't tolerate stuff like that here so it does matter what people think (in regard to this probably not too important stuff)
I agree basically with everything you said, but...
> Besides, I see a bigger problem in kids who think this sort of thing is ok to do.... kids... think...
That's the problem. Most kids doen't really understand the possible damage they could do with something like that, they don't really think or are not able to grasp it. And then there are the 5% people who are just plain assholes. Intersect those groups and you get incidents like this (besides that he obviously was quite clever, so he probably is just an asshole)
I really don't get it. I live in germany and have a 18mbit/1mbit dsl connection for 32 euros/month. I can download as much as i want and i can't remember ever hearing from anyone being disconnected or his connection being throttled.
Why is this no problem here? What's the difference?
parent is right. Everytime i read a story about internet access in the US i'm amazed how things have changed. 10 years ago everyone here (germany) looked enviously at the connections you had, now things have changed. 60 GB a month, what a joke. I have an 18mbit connection for 32 euros a month and i regularly transfer more than 100 GB a month. There is no way my ISP is going to cap me for that because it's just not that unusual. So why is this possible here and not in the US?
It might be that Catholicism is seen as more "accepting/open-minded" in the US because there are really cracy fundamentalists there. In europe Catholicism is seen (at least by younger people) as what it is: a cracy cult which forces you too believe stupid things and does horrible things too. Some examples? A person becomes infallible by vote. You have too believe "wonders" like the spontanious bleeding of people. You're not allowed to use condoms (great job in africa! fucking genocidal assholes) and so on.
So it's really great that the catholic church is open about their horrible deeds in the past while continuing to promote some other horrible ideas. And i'm really way impressed that they don't deny evolution, they must be so modern and not stupid...
Lets get real here. Why is a religion meassured against the most cracy and can then be proud to be not as hilarous? That Catholicism seems better is just because you have even more cracy religions over there.
>The Gentoo thread quoted above is about people discovering that writing to optical drives is horribly slow and puts a lot of load on the CPU in comparison to dealing with hard disks
First sentence of the thread: "Has anyone noticed a slowness or unresponiveness during disk access on a NForce4 Ultra system with a serial ata disk attached to it?"
So no, no optical drives and i have the same problem with my nforce 4/AMD 64 SATA setup here.
Try darcs (http://www.abridgegame.org/darcs/). Should do everything you need and has the advantage that you can create multiple repos for different purposes which all base on a single base repository. So i have a repository with all my config files and several others for different users which can pull their changes on top of the standard stuff. The syntax is quite easy to learn too.
Only drawback is that it is quite slow with really big repositories (e.g. linux kernel).
Lua is used in ion3 (a window manager). It's very easy to learn if you're already experienced in a programming language and is quite powerful (most people here probably wished at one time for the possibility to use code in some configuration file)
then you've never used many, many tabs. As i'm writing i've 20 tabs open (and yes, i really need them) in opera and there is no noticeable lag. When i do the same with firefox you can feel how it gets slower and sloooooower the more tabs you use.
It's a pity because there are many things i like in firefox (especially the plugins and the spell checker) but it's just too annoying to get slowed down by your browser just because you need many tabs
My problem is that there is a flash game (dice wars, simple but nice) which has a real annoying sound and i can't find a way to just quiet flash and/or firefox.
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spent over $10k paying for doctors to diagnose a problem that I eventually figured out MYSELF with just some research on the Web
So who is the idiot here? SCRN ;)
change your setup or your provider. If you're neighbor "sucks up" all the bandwidth you probably have cable and brought on the problem yourself
seems to be. Ten years ago i look enviously at the US because of the connectivity they had. Today i have a 18/1 mbit dsl connection without caps for 30 Euros/month and just have to wonder what happened over there (probably nothing)
I don't think that people in the US realize how creepy "Country First" is. In germany only right wing partys like the NPD, who wishes to remove democracy and return to national socialism, would dare to use a slogan like this. Nowhere else you'll ever see a statement like this
Now if I could just convince my wife...
Just wrote an email to my girlfriend reminding her how much she loved me and asked if there could be anything she wouldn't do to prolong my life with her. Still waiting for an answer, but it'll give me an advantage to start the discussion
"Avoid Vista like the plague."
very true. I work at an isp support hotline and we have many customers excusing for using vista. "i know it sucks but it came preinstalled with the new computer". Vista has an incredibly bad reputation, at least here in germany. And market penetration must be quite low as only about 1 out of 20 persons calling has vista installed (might be that there are just no problems if you're using vista. naaah ;))
the problem is that i won't be used just for that once it's installed. Little story from germany: Some years ago our politicians decided to charge trucks for using our highways. So they ordered an system (Toll collect) that tracks which road is used by which truck, most of it is done with a little on board unit. But to prevent abuse they installed controll points on all major streets in germany. Which, of course, can be used to track arbitrary vehicles. But that was no problem, since politicians of all partys promised never to use the data for anything else. That was until some person (don't remember exactly what happened) was hit by a truck on a rest station and killed IIRC. Since nobody wanted to be the one to tell them not to use the data in this case there was a precedent and it's now used in relation to severe crimes. Want to bet how long until it's used for minor problems like missing insurance? What's preventing this infrastructure being abused much more in the furture? There is no way to prevent it but not to install it in the first place
not yet. But since one can use bodyfat to create biodiesel and with the rising cost of oil, an unbalanced budget ...
Google doesn't give out any more keys for this api, only old keys continue to work. So if you don't already have a key you're out of luck
Besides not being the same as google trends, this tool is not allowed by the TOS of google. Automatic querying of their services without prior permission is forbidden by google. But since it probably won't put any noticeable load on their network they most likely won't care
IIRC the client didn't check the password but told the server how long the password was. So you could just tell the server the password is one char and then brute force it
well, at least in germany there are laws against such behaviour of corporations. Those comsumer protection laws were passed because people don't tolerate stuff like that here so it does matter what people think (in regard to this probably not too important stuff)
I agree basically with everything you said, but ...
... kids ... think ...
> Besides, I see a bigger problem in kids who think this sort of thing is ok to do.
That's the problem. Most kids doen't really understand the possible damage they could do with something like that, they don't really think or are not able to grasp it. And then there are the 5% people who are just plain assholes. Intersect those groups and you get incidents like this (besides that he obviously was quite clever, so he probably is just an asshole)
I really don't get it. I live in germany and have a 18mbit/1mbit dsl connection for 32 euros/month. I can download as much as i want and i can't remember ever hearing from anyone being disconnected or his connection being throttled.
Why is this no problem here? What's the difference?
great, now they're going to rip our bones out to make sperm. Way to go, traitor!
parent is right. Everytime i read a story about internet access in the US i'm amazed how things have changed. 10 years ago everyone here (germany) looked enviously at the connections you had, now things have changed. 60 GB a month, what a joke. I have an 18mbit connection for 32 euros a month and i regularly transfer more than 100 GB a month. There is no way my ISP is going to cap me for that because it's just not that unusual. So why is this possible here and not in the US?
It might be that Catholicism is seen as more "accepting/open-minded" in the US because there are really cracy fundamentalists there. In europe Catholicism is seen (at least by younger people) as what it is: a cracy cult which forces you too believe stupid things and does horrible things too. Some examples? A person becomes infallible by vote. You have too believe "wonders" like the spontanious bleeding of people. You're not allowed to use condoms (great job in africa! fucking genocidal assholes) and so on.
...
So it's really great that the catholic church is open about their horrible deeds in the past while continuing to promote some other horrible ideas. And i'm really way impressed that they don't deny evolution, they must be so modern and not stupid
Lets get real here. Why is a religion meassured against the most cracy and can then be proud to be not as hilarous? That Catholicism seems better is just because you have even more cracy religions over there.
>The Gentoo thread quoted above is about people discovering that writing to optical drives is horribly slow and puts a lot of load on the CPU in comparison to dealing with hard disks
First sentence of the thread:
"Has anyone noticed a slowness or unresponiveness during disk access on a NForce4 Ultra system with a serial ata disk attached to it?"
So no, no optical drives and i have the same problem with my nforce 4/AMD 64 SATA setup here.
>Americans take their privacy too seriously to ignore this if this becomes public
The same people who didn't really care that their phone calls were (and probably still are) recorded?
Try darcs (http://www.abridgegame.org/darcs/). Should do everything you need and has the advantage that you can create multiple repos for different purposes which all base on a single base repository. So i have a repository with all my config files and several others for different users which can pull their changes on top of the standard stuff. The syntax is quite easy to learn too.
Only drawback is that it is quite slow with really big repositories (e.g. linux kernel).
Insightful? Moderators really need to read this
Lua is used in ion3 (a window manager). It's very easy to learn if you're already experienced in a programming language and is quite powerful (most people here probably wished at one time for the possibility to use code in some configuration file)
>bremsstrahlung (= energy loss due to curves, grows very fast with decreasing particle mass,
You probably meant that it grows with increasing particle mass
then you've never used many, many tabs. As i'm writing i've 20 tabs open (and yes, i really need them) in opera and there is no noticeable lag. When i do the same with firefox you can feel how it gets slower and sloooooower the more tabs you use.
It's a pity because there are many things i like in firefox (especially the plugins and the spell checker) but it's just too annoying to get slowed down by your browser just because you need many tabs
My problem is that there is a flash game (dice wars, simple but nice) which has a real annoying sound and i can't find a way to just quiet flash and/or firefox.