Netflix used to serve movies using IPv6 according to our college's traffic logs (if fact, they were about the only IPv6 traffic out there at the time). They one day it stopped. Around that time, news sites starting reporting that Netflix now streams from Amazon. Amazon doesn't support IPv6.
Why are we in America so terrified of the human body?
One word: Christian Right
body hostility is an old christian tradition. Not really sure where it came from, probably as a counterpoint to the much more relaxed romans and then it just stuck.
Yet "body hostility" also exists in numerous other cultures, such as many of those in Asia, that weren't influenced by the Christian Right.
So, instead of repeating tired tropes about scapegoat groups, how about we place the blame where it really belongs: different people are different.
If the device was such that it would terrify (much more highly trained than the TSA goons) air crew, what the holy fuck was it doing on the plane in the first place, let alone in the cabin or outside of a container in cargo, with the power source disconnected?
Because robots, science fair projects, and all manner of things which this item actually qualifies as, are allowed on planes. If there was a disconnect between the TSA and the flight crew it was that the TSA apparently doesn't have a way to notify that a suspicious item was inspected yet found "legal."
I've tried a fair number of similar products, but only CrashPlan had the feature set that made me happy. With it, I can have multiple backup sets and have them going to a NAS, a friend's machine, a headless Linux box in another state that I control, and CrashPlan's own servers. With a key that I control, and a price even a cheapskate like me enjoys paying.
MAC address filtering is very loose security. MAC addresses arent private things, and aren't hidden when a computer is communicating. To build a list of MAC addresses that are allowed on the network (by simply seeing the machines that are on the network), and then change your machine's MAC to match is fairly trivial.
Not even remotely true. This is a third-party product using its own update mechanism. Apple has never been involved in the updating of Skype, nor is Microsoft involved when Skype is run on Windows.
People, and their ignorate hatred, truly amaze me.
I don't think you had all the things shut off that you think you did. For example, did you turn off Ping (Apple's social network wannabe, not anything ICMP related)?
There's many of these first-party services, and countless third-party that could be involved. I won't pretend to like it (I don't at all, I too want my devices to fully sleep). But I also won't pretend that it is worse. Especially as a ping (ICMP this time) is unable to transmit anything remotely close to what Microsoft's HTTP method of checking network availability could.
But that isn't what's going on. Not even remotely. What he is describing is simply a device that automatically joins a network that you've already agreed to trust. Period. Full Stop. There's no, "trying to reach a specific Apple website, and being able to figure out if there's a portal that it needs to pass through". And as I and other's have already stated in this thread, there's easy ways to disable this automatic joining.
Further, iOS fully discloses this behavior in unmissable (save for the GP apparently) plain text in the WiFi preferences.
He's wrong. Flat out wrong. And so are all the mods that blindly modded him up to spread the ignorance.
I never said Mac OS X doesn't phone home. I was referring to the activity the misguided AC posted. Nothing is being transmitted to any central service in his "oh so evil" scenario. I don't know how you felt the need to bring Mac OS X into the discussion.
But, since you did bring up that OS, in today's networked world online dictionary's, network searches, widgets pulling data, and OS update checks are all expected functionality that users demand, expected behavior, and certainly not a big deal.
On the other hand, while Microsoft's behavior in TFA also isn't a big deal, it isn't expected.
Its not phoning home to the mothership (Microsoft or Apple) unlike TFA. Nor can that be used to track your actions. You're simply connecting to discrete WiFi networks that you _already_ said you trust. Don't like it? Forget the network. And as far as the 3G connection goes, it is *gasp* a cell phone. That's how a *gasp* cell phone functions.
Geohot seems to think the things he would lose in a civil suit has value. You seem to think the things Geohot would lose in a civil suit do not. Regardless of your opinions, and mine, armchair quarterbacks like us don't have to live with the consequences.
The bandwidth available to your neighborhood at any given time period is consumed.
No it isn't. What you are seeing as a slowdown is overselling. Overselling has nothing to do with usage caps and the mythical consumption. The pipes may be full but still nothing is consumed.
If everyone in your neighborhood was _under_ their cap and still got on at the same time, you'd have the same problem. If everyone in your neighborhood was _over_ their cap and still got on at the same time, you'd have the same problem.
Also, (especially now days) not all types of Internet connections are subject to the whims of your neighbors. As the anti-UBB people are stating the ISPs are simply avoiding infrastructure improvements.
this is a great video on why usage based billing is a scam.
I can't watch the video right now, but is it a scam due to a problem with a certain implementation of usage based billing or is it due to some insurmountable flaw in the basic concept?
The concept. The fine video states (correctly as far as I'm concerned) that as bits are not a manufactured physical product, nor are they ever consumed, you shouldn't be charged for usage (i.e. consumption).
It also goes on to state that 1) bandwidth gets cheeper the more people use it, 2) that if ISPs are having a problem because a few ruin it for the many they over sold, and 3) makes allegations that usage based billing is a result of ISPs wanting to charge for content (TV, voice, etc.) that the Internet allows for for free.
This topic can get easily tainted with other issues ("I pay for the electricity I use, and that's fair, why isn't this fair too?") and I feel the video does a nice job explaining the Anti-UBB position.
A dictionary is a responsive collection of definitions to the popular usage of the term. As english is "living" and evolves over times, there will be instances where the popular definition doesn't match the dictionary's.
I think it easy to say "cult" is one of those words as, I believe, the majority of people view that word with a negative slant.
[...] where were they when Bush and the Republican congress took Clinton's balanced budget and ran up the biggest deficit in history? [...] Where was their cry to vote against incumbents when the Republican held the majority and were running up the debt?
So because they are late you're going to discount their argument? Doing the right thing in spite of it of it being timely is still better than not doing the right thing because you think you may have taken too long.
You sir and an idiot and need to be removed from the gene pool. I feel sorry for your children, they got short changed.
And what about your children? Having a father who's reading comprehension is so low, and temper is so high, that he'll excessively fly off the handle about something he's wrong about cannot be good for them.
Read the parent again. If you need your hand held to lead you to your mistake you're beyond hope.
Until that happens, check out Sandboxie. Sandboxie is a fantastic piece of software that I've been using for years on my browser (and more importantly at home, my wife's and son's). It is largely transparent, and regularly updated. And, it works with any software, not just the browser.
The entire focus, and reason for being, of Linux and *BSD are different from one another. This was _especially_ true in the early days, and still continues in varying, but enough, degrees today. The license may be helpful but to say that it is the "most important reason" for Linux' popularity is ignoring _way_ too many factors.
>* GPL (a user-rights license) vs BSD. Compare the popularity of Linux versus FreeBSD.
Since when does the license have anything to do with the popularity of a particular operating system? If an OS' license is a factor then by your own choice of metric the Windows license is the "best."
Linux is more popular than *BSD for a large number of reasons. If the license is a factor in its popularity at all, it would be just one reason among many.
See if your router supports port triggering or look for that feature in your next router. It is a way to automate port forwarding, and would help you in your setup without being the security risk UPnP is.
I have no expirence in this either, but I wonder if submerging the non-moving parts in a non-conductive fluid or even just oil would work for you in keeping the electronic parts from water.
Additionally, it may be best to do away with moving parts like fans (would you need them anyway?), hard dives (use flash storage), and CD-ROMs (maybe use a removable one just when you need it).
Here in the USA, we have an interesting cultural/political phenomenon: many lower middle class people strongly support the republican party whose policies are very biased towrads helping the very rich.
You must mean, of course, that this is interesting when compated to the the lower middle class people strongly supporting the Democrat whose policies are also very biased towards helping the very rich?
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Really? Are you sure?
Netflix used to serve movies using IPv6 according to our college's traffic logs (if fact, they were about the only IPv6 traffic out there at the time). They one day it stopped. Around that time, news sites starting reporting that Netflix now streams from Amazon. Amazon doesn't support IPv6.
Why are we in America so terrified of the human body?
One word: Christian Right
body hostility is an old christian tradition. Not really sure where it came from, probably as a counterpoint to the much more relaxed romans and then it just stuck.
Yet "body hostility" also exists in numerous other cultures, such as many of those in Asia, that weren't influenced by the Christian Right.
So, instead of repeating tired tropes about scapegoat groups, how about we place the blame where it really belongs: different people are different.
If the device was such that it would terrify (much more highly trained than the TSA goons) air crew, what the holy fuck was it doing on the plane in the first place, let alone in the cabin or outside of a container in cargo, with the power source disconnected?
Because robots, science fair projects, and all manner of things which this item actually qualifies as, are allowed on planes. If there was a disconnect between the TSA and the flight crew it was that the TSA apparently doesn't have a way to notify that a suspicious item was inspected yet found "legal."
Yeah. They are a smart company who has made some smart software. I really can't speak highly enough about them.
Let me +1 CrashPlan too.
I've tried a fair number of similar products, but only CrashPlan had the feature set that made me happy. With it, I can have multiple backup sets and have them going to a NAS, a friend's machine, a headless Linux box in another state that I control, and CrashPlan's own servers. With a key that I control, and a price even a cheapskate like me enjoys paying.
It is really worth checking out.
MAC address filtering is very loose security. MAC addresses arent private things, and aren't hidden when a computer is communicating. To build a list of MAC addresses that are allowed on the network (by simply seeing the machines that are on the network), and then change your machine's MAC to match is fairly trivial.
Not even remotely true. This is a third-party product using its own update mechanism. Apple has never been involved in the updating of Skype, nor is Microsoft involved when Skype is run on Windows.
People, and their ignorate hatred, truly amaze me.
I don't think you had all the things shut off that you think you did. For example, did you turn off Ping (Apple's social network wannabe, not anything ICMP related)?
http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/how-to-shut-off-ping-and-increase-battery-life-with-ios-4-3-20110321/
There's many of these first-party services, and countless third-party that could be involved. I won't pretend to like it (I don't at all, I too want my devices to fully sleep). But I also won't pretend that it is worse. Especially as a ping (ICMP this time) is unable to transmit anything remotely close to what Microsoft's HTTP method of checking network availability could.
But that isn't what's going on. Not even remotely. What he is describing is simply a device that automatically joins a network that you've already agreed to trust. Period. Full Stop. There's no, "trying to reach a specific Apple website, and being able to figure out if there's a portal that it needs to pass through". And as I and other's have already stated in this thread, there's easy ways to disable this automatic joining.
Further, iOS fully discloses this behavior in unmissable (save for the GP apparently) plain text in the WiFi preferences.
He's wrong. Flat out wrong. And so are all the mods that blindly modded him up to spread the ignorance.
I never said Mac OS X doesn't phone home. I was referring to the activity the misguided AC posted. Nothing is being transmitted to any central service in his "oh so evil" scenario. I don't know how you felt the need to bring Mac OS X into the discussion.
But, since you did bring up that OS, in today's networked world online dictionary's, network searches, widgets pulling data, and OS update checks are all expected functionality that users demand, expected behavior, and certainly not a big deal.
On the other hand, while Microsoft's behavior in TFA also isn't a big deal, it isn't expected.
How is that, "even worse?"
Its not phoning home to the mothership (Microsoft or Apple) unlike TFA. Nor can that be used to track your actions. You're simply connecting to discrete WiFi networks that you _already_ said you trust. Don't like it? Forget the network. And as far as the 3G connection goes, it is *gasp* a cell phone. That's how a *gasp* cell phone functions.
Geohot seems to think the things he would lose in a civil suit has value. You seem to think the things Geohot would lose in a civil suit do not. Regardless of your opinions, and mine, armchair quarterbacks like us don't have to live with the consequences.
Once again, you are confusing capacity with consumption. Once you realize the difference between the two I have a gold star with your name on it.
The bandwidth available to your neighborhood at any given time period is consumed.
No it isn't. What you are seeing as a slowdown is overselling. Overselling has nothing to do with usage caps and the mythical consumption. The pipes may be full but still nothing is consumed.
If everyone in your neighborhood was _under_ their cap and still got on at the same time, you'd have the same problem.
If everyone in your neighborhood was _over_ their cap and still got on at the same time, you'd have the same problem.
Also, (especially now days) not all types of Internet connections are subject to the whims of your neighbors. As the anti-UBB people are stating the ISPs are simply avoiding infrastructure improvements.
I can't watch the video right now, but is it a scam due to a problem with a certain implementation of usage based billing or is it due to some insurmountable flaw in the basic concept?
The concept. The fine video states (correctly as far as I'm concerned) that as bits are not a manufactured physical product, nor are they ever consumed, you shouldn't be charged for usage (i.e. consumption).
It also goes on to state that 1) bandwidth gets cheeper the more people use it, 2) that if ISPs are having a problem because a few ruin it for the many they over sold, and 3) makes allegations that usage based billing is a result of ISPs wanting to charge for content (TV, voice, etc.) that the Internet allows for for free.
This topic can get easily tainted with other issues ("I pay for the electricity I use, and that's fair, why isn't this fair too?") and I feel the video does a nice job explaining the Anti-UBB position.
A dictionary is a responsive collection of definitions to the popular usage of the term. As english is "living" and evolves over times, there will be instances where the popular definition doesn't match the dictionary's.
I think it easy to say "cult" is one of those words as, I believe, the majority of people view that word with a negative slant.
An argument cannot be made successfully with anecdotal evidence. Even without knowing you, I know you know that.
[...] where were they when Bush and the Republican congress took Clinton's balanced budget and ran up the biggest deficit in history? [...] Where was their cry to vote against incumbents when the Republican held the majority and were running up the debt?
So because they are late you're going to discount their argument? Doing the right thing in spite of it of it being timely is still better than not doing the right thing because you think you may have taken too long.
You sir and an idiot and need to be removed from the gene pool. I feel sorry for your children, they got short changed.
And what about your children? Having a father who's reading comprehension is so low, and temper is so high, that he'll excessively fly off the handle about something he's wrong about cannot be good for them.
Read the parent again. If you need your hand held to lead you to your mistake you're beyond hope.
Until that happens, check out Sandboxie. Sandboxie is a fantastic piece of software that I've been using for years on my browser (and more importantly at home, my wife's and son's). It is largely transparent, and regularly updated. And, it works with any software, not just the browser.
http://sandboxie.com/
I still disagree completely.
The entire focus, and reason for being, of Linux and *BSD are different from one another. This was _especially_ true in the early days, and still continues in varying, but enough, degrees today. The license may be helpful but to say that it is the "most important reason" for Linux' popularity is ignoring _way_ too many factors.
>* GPL (a user-rights license) vs BSD. Compare the popularity of Linux versus FreeBSD.
Since when does the license have anything to do with the popularity of a particular operating system? If an OS' license is a factor then by your own choice of metric the Windows license is the "best."
Linux is more popular than *BSD for a large number of reasons. If the license is a factor in its popularity at all, it would be just one reason among many.
See if your router supports port triggering or look for that feature in your next router. It is a way to automate port forwarding, and would help you in your setup without being the security risk UPnP is.
I have no expirence in this either, but I wonder if submerging the non-moving parts in a non-conductive fluid or even just oil would work for you in keeping the electronic parts from water.
Additionally, it may be best to do away with moving parts like fans (would you need them anyway?), hard dives (use flash storage), and CD-ROMs (maybe use a removable one just when you need it).
You must mean, of course, that this is interesting when compated to the the lower middle class people strongly supporting the Democrat whose policies are also very biased towards helping the very rich?