No, the suspect shouldn't have talked to the police at all. Never talk to police, consent to any kind of search, or offer anything that you aren't legally required to.
Since changing my SSH ports to something really high (above 50000), I have had exactly *zero* failed password attempts in the last 14 months.
That means that you haven't been attacked by a portscanning bot yet. I don't know that any exist yet, so you would be safe until they do. Really, wouldn't any port other than 22 that isn't used for anything else bots attack work?
And in the 3rd millennium, I have an mp3 player that updates the songs on it automatically. (Try out the slacker.com web player, the portable is very close to that)
Unfortunately for me, my ISP seems to have installed some sort of brain-dead filtering that interrupts continuous connections after about 2 minute and makes them hang, probably as a Bittorrent blocking feature.
Here is a tool that was made to detect reset packets forged by the ISP to kill connections.
limitation on liability to the retail price of the item
The punishment has to be a bit above the retail price. Limit it to something small, like 3x the lowest street price or some specific number, whichever is higher. Higher for commercial copyright infringement, of course.
If the liability limit is the retail price, that would kill GNU and similar copyleft licenses.
I think the cars pulse the lights at ~50% most of the time, then switch to 100% when the brakes are applied.
That is my experience with newer Cadillac and Gillig vehicles. For some stupid reason it is at about 60-70Hz, and they couldn't be bothered to put any kind of capacitor in the tail light assembly.
I dunno. Lots of people claim they can see the 'flicker' on a CRT with a 70 hz vertical refresh rate. If I turn my head wayyyyyy to the left or right, putting the monitor in my peripheral vision, I might be able to see the flicker on a 60 hz, but never at 70 hz or higher.
Just because you don't have some trait doesn't mean that other people don't. In this case, that trait is how fast your eyes can see. Congratulations, you have slower eyes.
I am one of those people. It isn't just "flicker", I can see the image-black-image-black pattern of the CRT at 60Hz without doing any tricks like waving my hand in front of the monitor or using the side of my vision.
I can't stand to be in the same room as a CRT monitor running at 60Hz, it is almost physically painful to see. When I had a CRT I had to run it at 85Hz to be able to use it for any period of time, but still had to make the text white on black, turn the brightness down, and such.
If it doesn't bother you, then imagine replacing every CRT with a strobe light running fast, as bright as the monitor. That would be annoying and distracting, right?
Imagine that tail lights of cars and buses were red strobe lights. Around here, that is actually a reality, with most of the new buses and some new cars having tail lights running at 60Hz. It is extremely obvious to me, where I can instantly point out which cars in a long line have blinking LED tail lights.
Yeah, that fucking annoys me as well. Why can't they use something like 1kHz, not 60Hz? Or can I put a strobe light that has been colored red on the back of my car?
A cars electrical system runs at 12v DC, more or less, DC being the important thing there.
They can choose any frequency they want for the tail lights, so for the parking lights, which are normally used at night, they choose something around 60-70Hz. It is like they are trying to be annoying.
I was once in a Lexus that used that same system for the lights in the dash as well. I couldn't look at any of the dials or indicators in that car, so it was a good thing I wasn't driving.
On a small scale, this works well... so isn't this prior art?
Because a chemical in small quantities inside a house can have very different effects from that same chemical in the atmosphere.
Just look at ozone: in a house, it is toxic with no benefits unless you want to sterilize a room. In the upper atmosphere, it is a very important protection against UV.
Wouldn't most cables in modern planned housing developments have most of the necessary connections {sewer, water, power, phone} also have useful but not necessary connections {cable TV, natural gas, etc} when the whole subdivision is built, so that they don't have to dig up roads to install connections to houses each time a service is ordered.
If installing the cable involves crossing roads, highways, etc. they can't just install cables every few months when a new customer orders their service.
Now, if you mean between something at the end of a driveway to a house, yeah, that very much might be true. But I am talking about from the house or that point (the difference isn't huge, relatively speaking) to the CO.
Not everyone has all of those options or even most of them.
Personally I have: DSL, dial-up, or fixed wireless, and currently use the fixed wireless as the DSL maxes out at 256KBps up/down. Satellite isn't the same, due to the high ping, and if people live on the north side of a hill that also might not be an option.
If people only have DSL and cable as options for high-speed internet, and the cable and DSL provider both decide to charge $100/month, what options do you have?
"Uncle Sam internet" would be a very bad idea. I am saying that you should be able to say "I want XYZ internet to be connected to the * cable from my house", and that cable is physically switched to XYZ internet in the CO or wherever the cables terminate.
How many options do you have for phone, or power *cables* going to your house?
The service doesn't have to be a monopoly, and shouldn't. If you abstract that service into "internet access", then it very much can have competition.
Where did I say that "internet is a monopoly"? I didn't even mention "internet" in my original post at all. Note that I also said that choice is good, but I am also realistic. The service can easily be competitive, so it should be.
Companies should be barred from owning the service provider and the cable from the central location to the house where feasible.
The last mile is going to be a monopoly, whether it be water, sewer, cable, electricity, phone, or fiber. You aren't going to have people running a cable to your house in case you might want to use it. If there is already a cable TV connection to a house, the value of adding a second one is very low.
What shouldn't be a monopoly at all is the service provider. The last mile is going to be a monopoly, but the service provider doesn't have to be. Let any company hook up their DSL/phone equipment to the cable going to your house.
Wouldn't killing the host cause the degradation to cease?
Plus, it wouldn't exactly "leave no trace". If it caused organs to fail, there would have to be enough to detect, and the dead person wouldn't excrete anything, so it would all be there.
Yeah, my complaint with Ubuntu is that they have too much of this "scan everything on the hard drive, taking up a ton of CPU for something you might not use"
I resorted to "chmod a-x/usr/bin/nasty_program", to keep it off.
How about not starting those scanning things unless I actually use the service?
They should be taught how to use a "word processor", be it OpenOffice.org Writer, Word, WordPerfect, Write, LaTeX (as LyX), HTML, etc. Have each be taught for a week, so they can see that even though things look different, each application has a way of doing the same thing.
Or are you saying that Word doesn't change every few years (like adding in a "Ribbon" instead of menus), so they should be taught a version of Word that is going to be out of date by the time they graduate?
Teach them how to *use* a computer, not how to repeat a specific set of steps, so they don't freeze up when things change slightly.
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No, the suspect shouldn't have talked to the police at all. Never talk to police, consent to any kind of search, or offer anything that you aren't legally required to.
It can't help you.
Don't just take my word, how about a law professor and a cop?
On my nano-screen, it is the right size.
That means that you haven't been attacked by a portscanning bot yet.
I don't know that any exist yet, so you would be safe until they do. Really, wouldn't any port other than 22 that isn't used for anything else bots attack work?
So then brute force attacks would be preceded by an open port check?
Unless you use some kind of port knocking attempt, that wouldn't solve much of anything for long.
RON POCTOPUS!!!
And in the 3rd millennium, I have an mp3 player that updates the songs on it automatically. (Try out the slacker.com web player, the portable is very close to that)
Here is a tool that was made to detect reset packets forged by the ISP to kill connections.
Also, you might try using some public DNS servers, like http://www.opendns.com/
The punishment has to be a bit above the retail price. Limit it to something small, like 3x the lowest street price or some specific number, whichever is higher. Higher for commercial copyright infringement, of course.
If the liability limit is the retail price, that would kill GNU and similar copyleft licenses.
That is my experience with newer Cadillac and Gillig vehicles. For some stupid reason it is at about 60-70Hz, and they couldn't be bothered to put any kind of capacitor in the tail light assembly.
Just because you don't have some trait doesn't mean that other people don't. In this case, that trait is how fast your eyes can see. Congratulations, you have slower eyes.
I am one of those people. It isn't just "flicker", I can see the image-black-image-black pattern of the CRT at 60Hz without doing any tricks like waving my hand in front of the monitor or using the side of my vision.
I can't stand to be in the same room as a CRT monitor running at 60Hz, it is almost physically painful to see. When I had a CRT I had to run it at 85Hz to be able to use it for any period of time, but still had to make the text white on black, turn the brightness down, and such.
If it doesn't bother you, then imagine replacing every CRT with a strobe light running fast, as bright as the monitor. That would be annoying and distracting, right?
Imagine that tail lights of cars and buses were red strobe lights. Around here, that is actually a reality, with most of the new buses and some new cars having tail lights running at 60Hz. It is extremely obvious to me, where I can instantly point out which cars in a long line have blinking LED tail lights.
Yeah, that fucking annoys me as well. Why can't they use something like 1kHz, not 60Hz? Or can I put a strobe light that has been colored red on the back of my car?
A cars electrical system runs at 12v DC, more or less, DC being the important thing there.
They can choose any frequency they want for the tail lights, so for the parking lights, which are normally used at night, they choose something around 60-70Hz. It is like they are trying to be annoying.
I was once in a Lexus that used that same system for the lights in the dash as well. I couldn't look at any of the dials or indicators in that car, so it was a good thing I wasn't driving.
Is there any other kind?
Or does "digital" now mean "not on CD"?
Because a chemical in small quantities inside a house can have very different effects from that same chemical in the atmosphere.
Just look at ozone: in a house, it is toxic with no benefits unless you want to sterilize a room.
In the upper atmosphere, it is a very important protection against UV.
Considering he was drilling for geothermal heat sources, I would say he got his calculations just right.
Some pipes with circulating coolant dropped into a magma chamber would be a great source of heat.
Wouldn't most cables in modern planned housing developments have most of the necessary connections {sewer, water, power, phone} also have useful but not necessary connections {cable TV, natural gas, etc} when the whole subdivision is built, so that they don't have to dig up roads to install connections to houses each time a service is ordered.
If installing the cable involves crossing roads, highways, etc. they can't just install cables every few months when a new customer orders their service.
Now, if you mean between something at the end of a driveway to a house, yeah, that very much might be true. But I am talking about from the house or that point (the difference isn't huge, relatively speaking) to the CO.
Not everyone has all of those options or even most of them.
Personally I have: DSL, dial-up, or fixed wireless, and currently use the fixed wireless as the DSL maxes out at 256KBps up/down. Satellite isn't the same, due to the high ping, and if people live on the north side of a hill that also might not be an option.
If people only have DSL and cable as options for high-speed internet, and the cable and DSL provider both decide to charge $100/month, what options do you have?
"Uncle Sam internet" would be a very bad idea. I am saying that you should be able to say "I want XYZ internet to be connected to the * cable from my house", and that cable is physically switched to XYZ internet in the CO or wherever the cables terminate.
How many options do you have for phone, or power *cables* going to your house?
The service doesn't have to be a monopoly, and shouldn't.
If you abstract that service into "internet access", then it very much can have competition.
Where did I say that "internet is a monopoly"? I didn't even mention "internet" in my original post at all.
Note that I also said that choice is good, but I am also realistic. The service can easily be competitive, so it should be.
Companies should be barred from owning the service provider and the cable from the central location to the house where feasible.
Wrong.
The USPS has a government protected monopoly on mailing first and third class letters.
FedEx/UPS are allowed to ship priority letters, but not first class letters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#Universal_Service_Obligation_and_the_Postal_Monopoly
The last mile is going to be a monopoly, whether it be water, sewer, cable, electricity, phone, or fiber.
You aren't going to have people running a cable to your house in case you might want to use it. If there is already a cable TV connection to a house, the value of adding a second one is very low.
What shouldn't be a monopoly at all is the service provider. The last mile is going to be a monopoly, but the service provider doesn't have to be. Let any company hook up their DSL/phone equipment to the cable going to your house.
Wouldn't killing the host cause the degradation to cease?
Plus, it wouldn't exactly "leave no trace". If it caused organs to fail, there would have to be enough to detect, and the dead person wouldn't excrete anything, so it would all be there.
A judge reading NYCL's comments on /.?
That would be one informed judge, the kind that the RIAA would hate.
(Hey, maybe that judge would know the difference between a MAC address and a IP address)
My Intel processor claims that 63.99 bits should be enough for everybody.
Because /. has jumped the shark?
Yeah, my complaint with Ubuntu is that they have too much of this "scan everything on the hard drive, taking up a ton of CPU for something you might not use"
I resorted to "chmod a-x /usr/bin/nasty_program", to keep it off.
How about not starting those scanning things unless I actually use the service?
NO!
They should be taught how to use a "word processor", be it OpenOffice.org Writer, Word, WordPerfect, Write, LaTeX (as LyX), HTML, etc. Have each be taught for a week, so they can see that even though things look different, each application has a way of doing the same thing.
Or are you saying that Word doesn't change every few years (like adding in a "Ribbon" instead of menus), so they should be taught a version of Word that is going to be out of date by the time they graduate?
Teach them how to *use* a computer, not how to repeat a specific set of steps, so they don't freeze up when things change slightly.