Looks like I was half right as I can't find them at any of my nearby postal facilities.
Maybe you are looking in the wrong place.
When I bought some stamps at an ATM, the stamps were forever stamps. It makes inventory easier, since there is only one kind of "first class stamp", they can remotely change the price, and are quite convenient.
But I wonder how much bittorrent "traffic shaping" (blocking) will effect ISP scores?
That is a good thing: combining network performance with how much the ISP fucks with your traffic into one easy score.
Bittorrent is a pretty good benchmarking system: it checks upload, download, making tons of connections, bulk data transfer, and is considered by some people to be "evil". That really is a fairly good combination of network parameters.
If you came up to me with a subpoena asking who had IP address 192.168.1.X on this day at this time, even if I still had the logs on my DHCP server, it would take a significant amount of forensics (IE, an audit of every laptop my friends or neighbors own) to determine who the culprit was.
How do you "audit" to find out what a MAC address was temporarily set to?
DHCP logs only get you from IP to MAC, they don't tell you anything about what that MAC is being used by.
One thing I hate about the transition from 2D to 3D is, especially in 3-rd person games, how controlling the camera becomes as important as controlling the character.
Look at how many Playstation games have one stick for controlling the character and the other stick for controlling the camera, which just isn't an issue with a 2D game.
Since BT is giving Phorm a MitM position in their network, does this mean that Phorm would be able to read the email of anyone that uses Yahoo Zimbra, even if they try to use https?
though i'm still waiting for public wireless internet access to gain more widespread adoption so we can start seeing true wireless internet radios.
You mean like this, although the reviews seem to be poor.
There are internet clock radios, and this one even has Slacker.
As for the rest of your comment: yeah. The DMCA is a bad law.
Ideally if DRM was protected by law, the consumers should be protected as well. Free replacement discs since backups aren't allowed. Guaranteed money back if the activation servers go offline, or a DRM free version. A DRM free version of the media in escrow for when(if?) the media goes into public domain. If the media is tied to a piece of hardware, free replacement if that hardware is broken or no longer functional. Free upgrades in media, like DVD to Blu-Ray, since you can't copy stuff.
If you are looking for something like an MP3 player, an interesting one I got recently is the Slacker G2.
It doesn't interact with my Ubuntu computer at all, and only works with Windows computers for transferring songs.
But, it will automatically download songs over wifi based on stations I add to it through the Slacker.com website, and then it keeps track of what I played, what I like and don't like, and will change the songs automatically based on that. The free service has a few ads, but the ads are honestly less than on most of the "commercial free" Sirius channels. Custom channels can be made and sent to the G2 as well.
Basically they tried to replicate their internet radio experience on a handheld mp3 player, and they pretty much succeeded, with wifi required only every 30 days. (It isn't a wifi radio, it is an automatically updating mp3 player)
Since it seems like they store a copy of the websites visited, could a website have a license that is "only end users can keep a copy of the data on this site", and then sue Phorm if they keep the data? Or would their impersonating other servers be fraud, especially if people have the "opt-out" cookie?
Looking at the wiki diagram of what they do, that is just insane. They are a man in the middle, adding cookies, hiding cookies, redirecting requests to unrelated sites, etc. They are slowing down every site, and what happens if they get overloaded? Does everything come to a halt?
Imagine if someone got a server on a network and added an entry to webwise.net to the/etc/hosts file (or equivalent), they would get a record of every site that everyone with the extra DNS entry visited. Combine a server with a DNS poisoning attack, and you can get the traffic for a large number of people. Maybe people should point www.webwise.net to a non-routing address to be safe?
Plus, if they are basing opt-out on a cookie, they are still doing deep packet inspection, since the cookie isn't in the TCP/IP packet headers (being an application layer thing and all).
I would think that people would want to opt out of Phorm interacting with their data at all, not setting a flag that is essentially "don't use this data for marketting purposes."
Just because the (in this case).odt file is set to "------r--" doesn't mean that it doesn't contain scripts that OpenOffice.org is going to ignore just based on the file permissions. That file could easily contain scripts that the reading program is going to execute, so just setting the files to noexec permissions isn't going to change how the reading application is going to read it.
Coat the (live, perhaps) pigeon with butter, and then throw it hard enough that it gets fried in flight, assuming you are in an atmosphere. You might need to add a bit of aluminum foil to even out the heating.
Imagine there was a gas station selling a special "HP+" gas that made the car more fun to drive, but had a chance of ruining the engine, requiring a rebuild before the car would work again.
You are saying "why worry about how often it ruins the engine, it gives a +100HP boost!"
The GP is saying "will this gas break my engine like some of the other HP+ fuels out there?"
Anti-virus really shouldn't be needed (Obligatory XKCD), but if they are going to offer the updates for free as well, that could be a good thing.
It could also be a very bad thing, since it would lead to a near monoculture of OS+antivirus, so you only have to crack one platform and the associated antivirus to write a virus, and don't really have to worry about other antivirus software products.
Antivirus is "enumerate the bad" which generally doesn't work well, instead of having a whitelist of acceptable software.
Well, if you throw them in the right direction with the right velocity...
Assuming you don't have to enter or exit any atmospheres, it could work. The catching site would be messy, and would give Mike Rowe an excuse to go into space.
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And lets have the military start using the B-52 again. Oh yeah, they never stopped.
The 747 was introduced in 1969, so just because it is an old design doesn't mean it is worthless.
Even more, to crackproof your software, you have to prevent everybody from performing any kind of attack.
If anyone anywhere in the world cracks your software even once, it is available for everyone else to use.
Plus, in this case they are trying to crackproof something running on the person the cracker's own hardware, in his house.
Maybe you are looking in the wrong place.
When I bought some stamps at an ATM, the stamps were forever stamps. It makes inventory easier, since there is only one kind of "first class stamp", they can remotely change the price, and are quite convenient.
So I can rotate those dollars 90 degrees and they are real dollars?
A legitimate question is:
Can anyone modify the firmware and run the modified firmware on the device, or has it been TiVo'd?
And the tags, holy crap.
Before they weren't that bad.
Now, they look horrible and have a javascript program that takes a long time to run to do... something to the tags.
I can't even turn the tags off. They suck now, use a ton of CPU, lock up my browser, and aren't any more useful than the old tags.
And that isn't even getting into the stupid "story" tag.
CDs are digital.
They mean downloads?
Or music with no physical medium that is sold?
(Go ahead, mod me +1i Pedantic)
Unless the resistor can store more than 1 level of resistance.
That is a good thing: combining network performance with how much the ISP fucks with your traffic into one easy score.
Bittorrent is a pretty good benchmarking system: it checks upload, download, making tons of connections, bulk data transfer, and is considered by some people to be "evil". That really is a fairly good combination of network parameters.
That would be a FPS, and that does work well.
I don't usually run around with my eyes 10 feet back and 10 feet in the air with the direction that my feet move based on where my "eyes" are.
How do you "audit" to find out what a MAC address was temporarily set to?
DHCP logs only get you from IP to MAC, they don't tell you anything about what that MAC is being used by.
One thing I hate about the transition from 2D to 3D is, especially in 3-rd person games, how controlling the camera becomes as important as controlling the character.
Look at how many Playstation games have one stick for controlling the character and the other stick for controlling the camera, which just isn't an issue with a 2D game.
Since BT is giving Phorm a MitM position in their network, does this mean that Phorm would be able to read the email of anyone that uses Yahoo Zimbra, even if they try to use https?
You mean like this, although the reviews seem to be poor.
There are internet clock radios, and this one even has Slacker.
As for the rest of your comment: yeah. The DMCA is a bad law.
Ideally if DRM was protected by law, the consumers should be protected as well. Free replacement discs since backups aren't allowed. Guaranteed money back if the activation servers go offline, or a DRM free version. A DRM free version of the media in escrow for when(if?) the media goes into public domain. If the media is tied to a piece of hardware, free replacement if that hardware is broken or no longer functional. Free upgrades in media, like DVD to Blu-Ray, since you can't copy stuff.
And so on.
If you are looking for something like an MP3 player, an interesting one I got recently is the Slacker G2.
It doesn't interact with my Ubuntu computer at all, and only works with Windows computers for transferring songs.
But, it will automatically download songs over wifi based on stations I add to it through the Slacker.com website, and then it keeps track of what I played, what I like and don't like, and will change the songs automatically based on that. The free service has a few ads, but the ads are honestly less than on most of the "commercial free" Sirius channels. Custom channels can be made and sent to the G2 as well.
Basically they tried to replicate their internet radio experience on a handheld mp3 player, and they pretty much succeeded, with wifi required only every 30 days. (It isn't a wifi radio, it is an automatically updating mp3 player)
Since it seems like they store a copy of the websites visited, could a website have a license that is "only end users can keep a copy of the data on this site", and then sue Phorm if they keep the data? Or would their impersonating other servers be fraud, especially if people have the "opt-out" cookie?
Looking at the wiki diagram of what they do, that is just insane. They are a man in the middle, adding cookies, hiding cookies, redirecting requests to unrelated sites, etc. They are slowing down every site, and what happens if they get overloaded? Does everything come to a halt?
Imagine if someone got a server on a network and added an entry to webwise.net to the /etc/hosts file (or equivalent), they would get a record of every site that everyone with the extra DNS entry visited. Combine a server with a DNS poisoning attack, and you can get the traffic for a large number of people.
Maybe people should point www.webwise.net to a non-routing address to be safe?
Plus, if they are basing opt-out on a cookie, they are still doing deep packet inspection, since the cookie isn't in the TCP/IP packet headers (being an application layer thing and all).
I would think that people would want to opt out of Phorm interacting with their data at all, not setting a flag that is essentially "don't use this data for marketting purposes."
But that is my point.
Just because the (in this case) .odt file is set to "------r--" doesn't mean that it doesn't contain scripts that OpenOffice.org is going to ignore just based on the file permissions. That file could easily contain scripts that the reading program is going to execute, so just setting the files to noexec permissions isn't going to change how the reading application is going to read it.
How would that prevent something like:
? Maybe this just removes everything in the home directory or spawns a server of some kind that doesn't need sudo, or is some kind of root exploit.
Hmm, you could combine both of those.
Coat the (live, perhaps) pigeon with butter, and then throw it hard enough that it gets fried in flight, assuming you are in an atmosphere. You might need to add a bit of aluminum foil to even out the heating.
Data and a meal.
Car analogy:
Imagine there was a gas station selling a special "HP+" gas that made the car more fun to drive, but had a chance of ruining the engine, requiring a rebuild before the car would work again.
You are saying "why worry about how often it ruins the engine, it gives a +100HP boost!"
The GP is saying "will this gas break my engine like some of the other HP+ fuels out there?"
Anti-virus really shouldn't be needed (Obligatory XKCD), but if they are going to offer the updates for free as well, that could be a good thing.
It could also be a very bad thing, since it would lead to a near monoculture of OS+antivirus, so you only have to crack one platform and the associated antivirus to write a virus, and don't really have to worry about other antivirus software products.
Antivirus is "enumerate the bad" which generally doesn't work well, instead of having a whitelist of acceptable software.
Well, if you throw them in the right direction with the right velocity...
Assuming you don't have to enter or exit any atmospheres, it could work. The catching site would be messy, and would give Mike Rowe an excuse to go into space.
It would just be a "dead pigeon" protocol.
From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_picture#History
A system that automatically scanned and sent over a wire a 2-d image has apparently existed since 1881: http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10463545, as a "photo telegraph", although a system using conductive ink was invented in 1861
5kW is 6.7HP, so why would a CVT sized for 300HP "snap that like a matchstick"?
Did you mean 5MW?