(crappy) IR Blaster, or, if supported, direct serial interface. On some receivers, the serial interface will actually disable the remote so only the tivo will be able to change the channel. (I don't think those are made anymore.)
It's not as easy as melting glass or aluminium, but there is a process to recycle the things. And if one assumes there's a way to reverse the oxidation reaction, the disc can be returned to stores without re-manufacture.
The system is designed to handle human waste, not 3 week old super spicy kung-pow. I think the actual reason such an insane law exists is to cut down on the oil, grease, and fat that eventually clogs pipes.
(Or Raleigh/Wake Co. didn't want Cary to completely corner the shit-stipud city ordinance market.)
Btw, with the required "low flow" bathrooms, flushing a "toiletful" of anything is near impossible.
Ok, just keep the box at positive preasure. Even if it leaks (or the tiny gas molecules crawl through the plastic), it's instantly replaced. Just keep a few tanks on hand at all times.
They are no more wasteful than plastic bottles and aluminium cans. The disc is recyclable. The problem (just like plastic and aluminium) is to get people to actually recycle them.
And passing laws won't help... It hasn't done anything for aluminium cans in Raleigh (NC). It's illegal to dispose of them in the county landfill. However, the law only makes it illegal to dump them in the landfill; there's nothing stopping people from throwing them in their trash. It's the trash collectors that dump them in the landfill.
(BTW, they banned "food waste disposal" devices too. Like that has made any dent at all. Sure, you're house won't pass inspection with one in the kitchen, but there's nothing preventing installation post-inspection. [food waste mucks up the water treatment processes.])
They don't begin to selfdestruct until AFTER you open the package.
The solution is simple... get yourself an old (but still functional) lab quarantine box, put the DVD player in there with the unopened disc, fill with argon (available at any welding supply shop) and watch forever. Just be sure to seal the disc in an argon filled zip-top bag before opening the box to change discs. (Oxygen is what destroys the disc.)
Personally, I give it a few weeks in hacker hands before someone figures out how to kill the reaction.
Obviously, no one has bothered to read the ****ing notice. This hasn't got a damn thing to do with file extensions and mime types. If the URL has a CLSID, that dictates what application receives the file. The file's extension is only there so the stupid stinking human thinks the file is "a pdf" or whatever. The mime type might even say it's a pdf. But the CLSID controls what actually opens it.
In their example, IE doesn't display a file type. It's just blank. But the filename ends with '.pdf' ({3050f4d8-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B}Secunia_Int ernet_Explorer.pdf). Just be sure to make the filename long enough to hide the CLSID.
When you go to a drug dealer to buy oregano, don't be surprised when the cops knock your door down. These people were buying hardware from places they KNEW were not entirely above board. Yes, DTV caught a few dolphins in with their tuna, but you don't hear about all those tuna. 99% (or better) of the purchases from those sites were from people planning to steal service -- and intent is all that matters. If you want a smartcard programmer for a legal project, they can be obtained from proper, reputable, legal venders. (and yes, they're more expensive than the 20$ hacker junk.)
This is no different from buying guns from a guy in an alley. Or a cable TV box from any number of spams.
Don't know about System 4, but the ncsa web server was compiled for 7. And a few hours after I tried it on an SE, I provided it's builder with the solution to the long standing reason for it always crashing on an SE... the stack size was too small.
That would've been 1993 or so. I remember the tale, but not any of the names:-) And I certainly doubt that stuff is still floating around these days. I no longer have that SE -- and I was informed of the drives failing several months after selling it.
Dude. It didn't even sound good on paper. It's up there with Micro-Channel among the Bad Ideas (tm). (MCA, IBM's proprietary, "we ain't tellin' nobody nothin'", bus.)
And suddenly, we're all returned to EISA where the "BIOS" is so stupid one requires a series of "EISA configuration" floppies to do anything. Even moving a card from one slot to another requires the utility to be ran. Without that floppy (usually floppies) you're screwed. (Ever used Compaq "PC"s?)
No thanks. I'll live with the existing BIOS PnP and PCI enumeration. Yes, it's slow, but much simpler and forgiving. My SCSI BIOSes can be configured to scan only a subset of IDs (and the fibre channel controller spends more time giving me a chance to hit Alt-Q than it does scaning for drives -- the drive scan occurs in an instant.)
Bull. See also: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space 70-79, 85-126, 173-187, 189, 190, 197, 223, 240-255, plus some "returned" lower/8's are all unassigned. And that's just the IANA unassigned -- "reserved" -- address space. The RIR's all have unassigned space within their delegations. (at 80% utilization (+/-), they go to IANA for more.)
Yes, they do offer dynamic addresses. And yes, they are greedy... the whole reason they offer static addresses is to attract customers.
(As the customers have permanent connections, they will always be consuming one IP address. So, static or dynamic really doesn't make any technical difference.)
Actually, most (if not all) of the high end router hardware uses FPGAs for hardware routing which means they can be reprogrammed to handle IPv6. This is certainly true of any PXF based Cisco gear. (probablly at or very near line-rate.) Will your 2501 do IPv6 in hardware? Doubtful. But, that isn't a 100k$ router. (it's a 100$ router:-))
How many firewalls can handle IPv6? I don't think the PIX can.
A. The Cisco 7600 Series will support hardware-accelerated IPv6 in calendar year 2003 with the introduction of the next-generation forwarding engine for the Cisco 7600 Series.
This same "self-configuration" BS can be (and is) done in IPv4 networks. It isn't magic. It's a quick, passive network probe... listen to find an IP address and then pick one higher and see if it's in use. Subnet boundries present a problem, but one that can be dealt with.
The IPv4 transition took place when the users of the Internet could all meet together in the same room.
And it wasn't "The Internet" back then. It was ARPANET. Plus, the researchers using the network didn't really care if it was broken for a few days; they had other means of communicating.
People have been crying wolf over the addres space for decades. Year after year, it's the same prediction. We will eventually run out of IPv4 addresses, but I doubt I'll be alive then.
Simson also fails to realize the greed of ISPs. If you think your going to get more than one static, public IP(v4/v6) address, you're an idiot. Very few ISPs explicitly allow more than one computer per account. And almost none provide static addresses -- even if your DSL/cablemodem has held the same address for months, it's still dynamic and subject to change.
..."They said they were police from the recording industry or something..."
But if they leave people like Borrayo with the impression that they're actual law enforcement, that's a mistake.
NEGATIVE. That's a FELONY.
oversees... contractors who sniff out bootleg discs
Apparently without a nose... Did they have any proof other than a hispanic male selling CDs and DVDs from a parking lot booth? They didn't "figure" anything; they blindly assumed guilt based on the person and the place.
the incident reports... explicitly state that the forfeiture is voluntary
Voluntary my ass! A bunch a dudes dressed and behaving like cops "asking" you to hand over your stuff. Right. And I bet they don't carry any weapons either.
continued sale would be a violation of civil and criminal codes (like it isn't aleady?)
The process of confiscating bootleg CDs from street vendors is exactly what the RIAA should be doing," said Jason Schultz
Wrong, Mr. Schultz. RIAA is not a law enforcement division. They have no more right than any other citizen to "confiscate" another persons property.
And that's why you aren't an ISP. Real ISP's don't use [censored] PC's running linux to manage connectivity for their customers. They use high-end, high-speed, dedicated routers from such companies as Cisco and Juniper. (Computers are designed to crunch numbers; Routers are designed to move bits. Don't get them mixed up.)
Trust me. Stats collection and processing is non-trivial.
Like I said, I never tested this on dialup. In Raleigh, Earthlink has like five numbers that land among UUNet, Sprintlink, and Mindspring modem pools. UUNet reseller contracts require port 25 filters -- and they make sure they're there. Mindspring traps port 25, or they used to -- you can blame me for that; it came up on a mailing list a few years ago and I told their engineer how to do it. I don't know about Splint; I refuse to call their broken modem banks.
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C-Band... "big dish" -- or it used to. Does anyone still use a big dish? Everyone I know has moved to mini-dish hardware.
(crappy) IR Blaster, or, if supported, direct serial interface. On some receivers, the serial interface will actually disable the remote so only the tivo will be able to change the channel. (I don't think those are made anymore.)
Uhh, that should be "real honest pr0n"
It's not as easy as melting glass or aluminium, but there is a process to recycle the things. And if one assumes there's a way to reverse the oxidation reaction, the disc can be returned to stores without re-manufacture.
The system is designed to handle human waste, not 3 week old super spicy kung-pow. I think the actual reason such an insane law exists is to cut down on the oil, grease, and fat that eventually clogs pipes.
(Or Raleigh/Wake Co. didn't want Cary to completely corner the shit-stipud city ordinance market.)
Btw, with the required "low flow" bathrooms, flushing a "toiletful" of anything is near impossible.
NC used to do that with glass bottles (if you're old enough to remember such things.)
Ok, just keep the box at positive preasure. Even if it leaks (or the tiny gas molecules crawl through the plastic), it's instantly replaced. Just keep a few tanks on hand at all times.
They are no more wasteful than plastic bottles and aluminium cans. The disc is recyclable. The problem (just like plastic and aluminium) is to get people to actually recycle them.
And passing laws won't help... It hasn't done anything for aluminium cans in Raleigh (NC). It's illegal to dispose of them in the county landfill. However, the law only makes it illegal to dump them in the landfill; there's nothing stopping people from throwing them in their trash. It's the trash collectors that dump them in the landfill.
(BTW, they banned "food waste disposal" devices too. Like that has made any dent at all. Sure, you're house won't pass inspection with one in the kitchen, but there's nothing preventing installation post-inspection. [food waste mucks up the water treatment processes.])
They don't begin to selfdestruct until AFTER you open the package.
The solution is simple... get yourself an old (but still functional) lab quarantine box, put the DVD player in there with the unopened disc, fill with argon (available at any welding supply shop) and watch forever. Just be sure to seal the disc in an argon filled zip-top bag before opening the box to change discs. (Oxygen is what destroys the disc.)
Personally, I give it a few weeks in hacker hands before someone figures out how to kill the reaction.
Obviously, no one has bothered to read the ****ing notice. This hasn't got a damn thing to do with file extensions and mime types. If the URL has a CLSID, that dictates what application receives the file. The file's extension is only there so the stupid stinking human thinks the file is "a pdf" or whatever. The mime type might even say it's a pdf. But the CLSID controls what actually opens it.
t ernet_Explorer.pdf). Just be sure to make the filename long enough to hide the CLSID.
In their example, IE doesn't display a file type. It's just blank. But the filename ends with '.pdf' ({3050f4d8-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B}Secunia_In
When you go to a drug dealer to buy oregano, don't be surprised when the cops knock your door down. These people were buying hardware from places they KNEW were not entirely above board. Yes, DTV caught a few dolphins in with their tuna, but you don't hear about all those tuna. 99% (or better) of the purchases from those sites were from people planning to steal service -- and intent is all that matters. If you want a smartcard programmer for a legal project, they can be obtained from proper, reputable, legal venders. (and yes, they're more expensive than the 20$ hacker junk.)
This is no different from buying guns from a guy in an alley. Or a cable TV box from any number of spams.
Don't know about System 4, but the ncsa web server was compiled for 7. And a few hours after I tried it on an SE, I provided it's builder with the solution to the long standing reason for it always crashing on an SE... the stack size was too small.
:-) And I certainly doubt that stuff is still floating around these days. I no longer have that SE -- and I was informed of the drives failing several months after selling it.
That would've been 1993 or so. I remember the tale, but not any of the names
Heh. I used an SE as a clock in college. (network traffic kept it wrong most of the time.)
Wow. There are three letters I've not heard in a long time. Does anyone even still have a copy of A/UX anymore? (on still readable floppies.)
Dude. It didn't even sound good on paper. It's up there with Micro-Channel among the Bad Ideas (tm). (MCA, IBM's proprietary, "we ain't tellin' nobody nothin'", bus.)
Heh. Looky what I found...
[just click *grin*]
[Alpha ECU (NT)]
[Alpha ECU (VMS)]
And suddenly, we're all returned to EISA where the "BIOS" is so stupid one requires a series of "EISA configuration" floppies to do anything. Even moving a card from one slot to another requires the utility to be ran. Without that floppy (usually floppies) you're screwed. (Ever used Compaq "PC"s?)
No thanks. I'll live with the existing BIOS PnP and PCI enumeration. Yes, it's slow, but much simpler and forgiving. My SCSI BIOSes can be configured to scan only a subset of IDs (and the fibre channel controller spends more time giving me a chance to hit Alt-Q than it does scaning for drives -- the drive scan occurs in an instant.)
- Actually they ran out years ago...
Bull. See also: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-spacYes, they do offer dynamic addresses. And yes, they are greedy... the whole reason they offer static addresses is to attract customers.
(As the customers have permanent connections, they will always be consuming one IP address. So, static or dynamic really doesn't make any technical difference.)
How many firewalls can handle IPv6? I don't think the PIX can.
PXF Accelerated Services AVAILABILITYDoesn't list IPv6 or 12.3 images.
7600...
- Q. Is IPv6 supported on the Cisco 7600 Series?
...A. The Cisco 7600 Series will support hardware-accelerated IPv6 in calendar year 2003 with the introduction of the next-generation forwarding engine for the Cisco 7600 Series.
This same "self-configuration" BS can be (and is) done in IPv4 networks. It isn't magic. It's a quick, passive network probe... listen to find an IP address and then pick one higher and see if it's in use. Subnet boundries present a problem, but one that can be dealt with.
- The IPv4 transition took place when the users of the Internet could all meet together in the same room.
And it wasn't "The Internet" back then. It was ARPANET. Plus, the researchers using the network didn't really care if it was broken for a few days; they had other means of communicating.People have been crying wolf over the addres space for decades. Year after year, it's the same prediction. We will eventually run out of IPv4 addresses, but I doubt I'll be alive then.
Simson also fails to realize the greed of ISPs. If you think your going to get more than one static, public IP(v4/v6) address, you're an idiot. Very few ISPs explicitly allow more than one computer per account. And almost none provide static addresses -- even if your DSL/cablemodem has held the same address for months, it's still dynamic and subject to change.
...staff of ex-cops
...Figur[ed] the discs were bootlegs
..."They said they were police from the recording industry or something..."
- But if they leave people like Borrayo with the impression that they're actual law enforcement, that's a mistake.
NEGATIVE. That's a FELONY.- oversees
... contractors who sniff out bootleg discs
Apparently without a nose... Did they have any proof other than a hispanic male selling CDs and DVDs from a parking lot booth? They didn't "figure" anything; they blindly assumed guilt based on the person and the place.- the incident reports
... explicitly state that the forfeiture is voluntary
Voluntary my ass! A bunch a dudes dressed and behaving like cops "asking" you to hand over your stuff. Right. And I bet they don't carry any weapons either.continued sale would be a violation of civil and criminal codes (like it isn't aleady?)
- The process of confiscating bootleg CDs from street vendors is exactly what the RIAA should be doing," said Jason Schultz
Wrong, Mr. Schultz. RIAA is not a law enforcement division. They have no more right than any other citizen to "confiscate" another persons property.And that's why you aren't an ISP. Real ISP's don't use [censored] PC's running linux to manage connectivity for their customers. They use high-end, high-speed, dedicated routers from such companies as Cisco and Juniper. (Computers are designed to crunch numbers; Routers are designed to move bits. Don't get them mixed up.)
Trust me. Stats collection and processing is non-trivial.
Like I said, I never tested this on dialup. In Raleigh, Earthlink has like five numbers that land among UUNet, Sprintlink, and Mindspring modem pools. UUNet reseller contracts require port 25 filters -- and they make sure they're there. Mindspring traps port 25, or they used to -- you can blame me for that; it came up on a mailing list a few years ago and I told their engineer how to do it. I don't know about Splint; I refuse to call their broken modem banks.
... probablly a function of the local cable provider. Around here, that's TW (RoadRunner)