BT already has in place a system called CleanFeed [wikipedia.org]. CleanFeed uses Deep Packet Inspection, so DNS changes won't affect it. Implementation is likely to be trivial - it costs next to zero to add an entry to a table.
And let's not forget that this type of action tends to reduce the ISP's bandwidth usage, hence reducing its costs. A few customers will be lost also, but don't forget that those customers are probably unprofitable for the ISP (as they are high bandwidth users).
Yeah, we should just execute people immediately after they are arrested. That whole trial and appeals process is such a waste of time. I mean, who cares if innocent people get executed? </sarcasm>
People don't deserve the death penalty. Society deserves to rid themselves of people through the death penalty.
Society can "rid themselves" of such people by locking them up for the rest of their lives. Killing them is just a form of revenge that brutalizes society and costs more than killing them. It's neither humane, ethical, nor efficient.
Furthermore, with the murder rate much higher in the USA than other westernized societies, it doesn't appear to be effective as a deterrent (and would anything be a deterrent to someone with such a low IQ?).
It's like you're hiding a dead body in the trunk of your car... and you've modified it with a special lock that cannot be forced. This is the equivalent of them getting a warrant on searching your car, and you being forced to come up with a key.
Actually, it's not quite. RTFA, because they are not insisting that she provides the key to unlock the car/hard drive, instead, they are providing the option that she can type in her password, (keeping the passphrase secret) to unlock the drive and then allow access to the police. I'm not sure how one proves the chain of evidence at this point.
But, back to the car analogy, what if your defense is that your car was stolen and modified after the theft? What if your defense on the computer is that a prior owner (or a virus, or someone who did some maintenance on it) left behind the compressed folders? The problem is that providing the key or even just unlocking the encrypted folders provides the information that you were aware of the folders and their contents.
The article doesn't say whether or not juries will be told that she unlocked the drive, which is another material detail.
Actually, you are the liar.
Let me quote from TSA procedures:
Where the FSD has waived TSO rescreening, TSOs who leave the screening
checkpoint area and are completely out of sight for rest breaks, lunch, etc. need not be rescreened upon
returning to the screening checkpoint after presenting their TSA employee ID or local airport ID for
review by a TSO or designated TSA representative. However, where the FSD has elected to waive TSO
rescreening, the FSD must implement random screening of TSOs returning from breaks.
See, nothing about them remaining within a secure area. So, perhaps where you work, the FSD had not elected to waive rescreening, but I spoke to a TSA screener in DFW airport and he told me that they were only screened at the start of their shifts. In fact, I got the impression that the screening of TSA agents either did not really happen, or wasn't thorough.
So, let's see, I have a citation, versus you, an anonymous person who claims to be a former TSA screener (and given the contempt such people are held in, even if you were a screener, why should anyone believe you?).
Actually, it is worse. The TSA agents are screened when their shift starts, then, they are allowed to leave the screening area and return to the secure area without re-screening. They can go and get their lunch and return without screening.
So the screening they receive in the morning is irrelevant.
I spend a lot of time doing this on Ubuntu as well, except for the anti-virus. Replace that with drivers and hardware that isn't working properly, setting the resolution,
Let me call BS right there. "setting the resolution"? Supported versions of Ubuntu can re-set the resolution dynamically. Plug in a projector? Ubuntu detects it, and it can be configured very easily. Drivers and hardware not working? I don't doubt that it happens occasionally, but an everyday experience?
you put the CD in, boot up, click next through a few screens entering the information it asks for, and then it spits out the CD and boots to a working OS about 10 minutes later
And then how long to install the applications you need? Plus install the updates, plus install the anti-virus, plus, plus...
You can't compare installing WIndows 7 to installing a Linux distro.
Oh, and if the machine is not the newest, Windows 7 may not have drivers for it -- you may have to hunt down and install a network driver, or live with a crappy generic VESA graphics driver. I speak from experience here.
I expect some Windows fanboy will now mod me down for daring to suggest that Windows 7 isn't the solution to world peace and the answer to the eternal questions of life, the universe and everything.
He predicted that some of his real users will notice the error when viewing the home page:
No, he predicted that the people who run the scrapers would be suggesting to him that his website displayed "gmail.com -- not real users, but scraper-owners pretending to be real users.
The security from the TSA scanners is a myth. Someone recently told me that he has flown several times with a knife in his hand-baggage. The scanner operators don't see it because it is amongst other metal (musical instrument).
I wonder how fancy their corporate HQ offices are.
Tesla recently moved into their new manufacturing facility -- it cost $50M -- the former NUMMI factory in Fremont, CA (New United Motor Manufacturing Inc --which was a joint GM/Toyota venture). Coincidentally, Toyota invested $50M in Tesla. Since the NUMMI factory operated for over 30 years, I wonder what environmental issues there might be if the factory was ever completely decommissioned. But I guess that Toyota no longer has to worry about that (GM doesn't have to worry about it either, but that is because GM went through bankruptcy)
I have a pet rock by my desk that I was told (when I bought it) it would ward off attacks by hackers. It's been a great purchase, since we haven't been hacked. It cost a lot less than $100k! What a bargain!
But seriously, how many groups of hackers/crackers are out there? How do you know that paying off the group will not actually encourage attacks (since, by paying, you express doubt in your own security)?
I am guessing said washer had a separate spin dryer or such. They are much less complicated that way, as there is not all the gearing and stuff to make the same engine go from a sedate rpm to the crazy that is the spin cycle.
The one that lasted over 20 years? Nope. There was no separate spin dryer. It did the whole range from sedate rpm to crazy fast. The only reason I got rid of it was that the drum had started to rust out and I could not stop the leaks.
If your washing machine actually broke in a major way (burned out motor, drum leak, etc.), then you just got really, really unlucky
The main gearbox (with plastic gears) broke such that it was not economically replaceable. Using Google, I determined that this was not an unusual problem for that model (a Maytag) at about 4-5 years old. So, no, the only time I was unlucky was when I chose that model.
My parents bought a microwave within a few years of when they first became common (early/mid-80s) and it has been replaced exactly once, and that replacement is still in use
I have noticed that too. I had a washer that was over 20 years old (I bought it used, all I knew was they stopped making them 20 years earlier). Its replacement lasted less than 5 years.
I believe that the US has seen big drops in real incomes, only hidden by low-cost imports form the US, but the real impact will hit when people realize that they have to replace supposedly durable goods every couple of years.
Real currencies like the Gold eagle coins that are real coins made from real gold have a value outside of currency. you can turn them into jewelery, melt them down, etc....
The problem with your statement is that that gold has little intrinsic value. It is not a terribly useful metal (it has uses, but a lot of gold is used for purely decorative purposes). It has been estimated that 19% of all gold that has been mined is in reserves. Plenty more has been used to make objects that have no utility and hence their value is determined by the value of the gold (do you see the circular nature of the value of gold now?). If you melt down a gold coin, you have what exactly? Just gold -- you can think of this as an "unmanufacturing" process, in which a product is turned back into its raw ingredients. In essence, gold's value today is determined in the same way as a fiat currency -- people believe it has value. But if governments sold off their reserves, its value would plummet.
and are automatically refundable on the consumer end
Good luck trying to actually get that refund. The one time I did, I just got a run-around between the bank and the merchant (it was an ISP who had stopped providing service, but not stopped billing me and presumably other users). I only lost about 100 quid, so I didn't try too hard, but still, I lost most of my faith in direct debit from that incident.
The OU -- the institution that charges non-UK residents approximately twice the tuition and then sends region 2 encoded DVDs to US residents.
Apart from the cluelessness of sending a region-2 encoded disk to the USA, there is the added question of why the disks are region-encoded at all.
I can accept the issue of double the cost for non-UK residents (it's market pricing, rather than cost-based), but they really should encourage those non-UK residents to take more courses, not put them off with incompatible DVDs.
OK, it wasn't a major barrier for me -- since we have DVD player that plays just about any disk, but not everyone has such a player, or in the case of a PC, potentially lock their DVD drive to a certain region by changing the region state too many times.
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And let's not forget that this type of action tends to reduce the ISP's bandwidth usage, hence reducing its costs. A few customers will be lost also, but don't forget that those customers are probably unprofitable for the ISP (as they are high bandwidth users).
And, you only had insurance against fire, not theft.
Not in California
Let me award you a well-deserved "whoosh".
Yeah, we should just execute people immediately after they are arrested. That whole trial and appeals process is such a waste of time. I mean, who cares if innocent people get executed? </sarcasm>
Society can "rid themselves" of such people by locking them up for the rest of their lives. Killing them is just a form of revenge that brutalizes society and costs more than killing them. It's neither humane, ethical, nor efficient.
Furthermore, with the murder rate much higher in the USA than other westernized societies, it doesn't appear to be effective as a deterrent (and would anything be a deterrent to someone with such a low IQ?).
Actually, it's not quite. RTFA, because they are not insisting that she provides the key to unlock the car/hard drive, instead, they are providing the option that she can type in her password, (keeping the passphrase secret) to unlock the drive and then allow access to the police. I'm not sure how one proves the chain of evidence at this point.
But, back to the car analogy, what if your defense is that your car was stolen and modified after the theft? What if your defense on the computer is that a prior owner (or a virus, or someone who did some maintenance on it) left behind the compressed folders? The problem is that providing the key or even just unlocking the encrypted folders provides the information that you were aware of the folders and their contents.
The article doesn't say whether or not juries will be told that she unlocked the drive, which is another material detail.
32-bit x86 != i386.
Heck, the original Pentium was i586, with Pentium II as i686. Why not target i686?
http://www.papersplease.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tsa_screening_mgmt_sop.pdf
See, nothing about them remaining within a secure area. So, perhaps where you work, the FSD had not elected to waive rescreening, but I spoke to a TSA screener in DFW airport and he told me that they were only screened at the start of their shifts. In fact, I got the impression that the screening of TSA agents either did not really happen, or wasn't thorough.
So, let's see, I have a citation, versus you, an anonymous person who claims to be a former TSA screener (and given the contempt such people are held in, even if you were a screener, why should anyone believe you?).
Who is the liar?
Actually, it is worse. The TSA agents are screened when their shift starts, then, they are allowed to leave the screening area and return to the secure area without re-screening. They can go and get their lunch and return without screening.
So the screening they receive in the morning is irrelevant.
Let me call BS right there. "setting the resolution"? Supported versions of Ubuntu can re-set the resolution dynamically. Plug in a projector? Ubuntu detects it, and it can be configured very easily. Drivers and hardware not working? I don't doubt that it happens occasionally, but an everyday experience?
And then how long to install the applications you need? Plus install the updates, plus install the anti-virus, plus, plus...
You can't compare installing WIndows 7 to installing a Linux distro.
Oh, and if the machine is not the newest, Windows 7 may not have drivers for it -- you may have to hunt down and install a network driver, or live with a crappy generic VESA graphics driver. I speak from experience here.
I expect some Windows fanboy will now mod me down for daring to suggest that Windows 7 isn't the solution to world peace and the answer to the eternal questions of life, the universe and everything.
No, your english comprehension failed.
No, he predicted that the people who run the scrapers would be suggesting to him that his website displayed "gmail.com -- not real users, but scraper-owners pretending to be real users.
The security from the TSA scanners is a myth. Someone recently told me that he has flown several times with a knife in his hand-baggage. The scanner operators don't see it because it is amongst other metal (musical instrument).
You don't give him the finger. The correct equivalent English gesture requires 2 fingers.
Tesla recently moved into their new manufacturing facility -- it cost $50M -- the former NUMMI factory in Fremont, CA (New United Motor Manufacturing Inc --which was a joint GM/Toyota venture). Coincidentally, Toyota invested $50M in Tesla. Since the NUMMI factory operated for over 30 years, I wonder what environmental issues there might be if the factory was ever completely decommissioned. But I guess that Toyota no longer has to worry about that (GM doesn't have to worry about it either, but that is because GM went through bankruptcy)
I have a pet rock by my desk that I was told (when I bought it) it would ward off attacks by hackers. It's been a great purchase, since we haven't been hacked. It cost a lot less than $100k! What a bargain!
But seriously, how many groups of hackers/crackers are out there? How do you know that paying off the group will not actually encourage attacks (since, by paying, you express doubt in your own security)?
Maybe not prior art, but you can't get trademark protection for "descriptive" marks.
The one that lasted over 20 years? Nope. There was no separate spin dryer. It did the whole range from sedate rpm to crazy fast. The only reason I got rid of it was that the drum had started to rust out and I could not stop the leaks.
The main gearbox (with plastic gears) broke such that it was not economically replaceable. Using Google, I determined that this was not an unusual problem for that model (a Maytag) at about 4-5 years old. So, no, the only time I was unlucky was when I chose that model.
I have noticed that too. I had a washer that was over 20 years old (I bought it used, all I knew was they stopped making them 20 years earlier). Its replacement lasted less than 5 years.
I believe that the US has seen big drops in real incomes, only hidden by low-cost imports form the US, but the real impact will hit when people realize that they have to replace supposedly durable goods every couple of years.
The problem with your statement is that that gold has little intrinsic value. It is not a terribly useful metal (it has uses, but a lot of gold is used for purely decorative purposes). It has been estimated that 19% of all gold that has been mined is in reserves. Plenty more has been used to make objects that have no utility and hence their value is determined by the value of the gold (do you see the circular nature of the value of gold now?). If you melt down a gold coin, you have what exactly? Just gold -- you can think of this as an "unmanufacturing" process, in which a product is turned back into its raw ingredients. In essence, gold's value today is determined in the same way as a fiat currency -- people believe it has value. But if governments sold off their reserves, its value would plummet.
They will put this at the bottom of a 50-page EULA that no-one reads past the first page anyway.
This is a big step, but the fact that it doesn't apply to law enforcement makes its utility very limited.
Good luck trying to actually get that refund. The one time I did, I just got a run-around between the bank and the merchant (it was an ISP who had stopped providing service, but not stopped billing me and presumably other users). I only lost about 100 quid, so I didn't try too hard, but still, I lost most of my faith in direct debit from that incident.
The OU -- the institution that charges non-UK residents approximately twice the tuition and then sends region 2 encoded DVDs to US residents.
Apart from the cluelessness of sending a region-2 encoded disk to the USA, there is the added question of why the disks are region-encoded at all.
I can accept the issue of double the cost for non-UK residents (it's market pricing, rather than cost-based), but they really should encourage those non-UK residents to take more courses, not put them off with incompatible DVDs.
OK, it wasn't a major barrier for me -- since we have DVD player that plays just about any disk, but not everyone has such a player, or in the case of a PC, potentially lock their DVD drive to a certain region by changing the region state too many times.