After this, I think it would be rather intelligent to be able to do JUST WHAT YOU DESCRIBED.
Having a big honking 'Emergency backup power' socket they can EASILY plug into, as well as several (at least twice as many as required, three times would be better) generators stored relatively close, say within 12 hours but not so close that a natural disaster is likely to take out all 3 of the backup sets. Stick one up on a mountain, one in somewhere as far away from a fault line as possible, and another one in another country with an airplane/skycrane standing by to move it into position. These generators would be tested weekly to confirm operation, and would under no circumstances be used for anything other than being shipped to a SPECIFIC plant to provide power in this sort of cases. No sharing of this resource, its too damn important. None of this 'oh, we got a 50hz genset, but need a 60hz one! Doh!' Test the damn things before the reactor goes live. Inspect them regularly by outside parties (not the power company responsible for the plant, someone who actually gets paid more to find infractions so they actually LOOK for them)
Yea, so it wouldn't be a big honking plug, but for fucks sake BAD BAD shit happens when power can't be had for keeping cooling online when the reactor has to stop providing its own power, its just fucking stupid to not have an EASY way to get something hooked up in before the batteries run out. In 12 hours, they should have been able to get something shipped in from the west coast of America, stored in the NAPA valley region or something. So what happens is 'Oh shit, tsunami hit Japan, scramble the transport with backup genset and worry about if its actually needed while in flight, it can turn around if need be'. Problem more or less solved. Short of a nuclear war, nothing thats going to take out the NAPA valley region of california is also going to take out Japan so in exchange, they do the same for west coast reactors in the US.
As for hooking it up... if they had planned for it, the only difference would be bigger connectors and the fact that you'd have to use heavy equipment to move the cables and secure the connections rather than your hand. Radiation levels really didn't go bad until several DAYS after the actual event.
How exactly is "Windows traffic" on a phone indistinguishable from "Windows traffic" on a PC, yet somehow those are both different from iOS traffic?
Its not, they are all distinguishable for things like web traffic, SSH would be more difficult to detect, but not impossible.
First and formost, if they see your iPhone downloading Flash files, they know you're tethering. Java is another tale tale sign that you're tethering.
Second, HTTP headers/UserAgent strings. Obvious easy way to determine you're using something other than WebKit on iOS. Assuming you bother to change your UA string on your PC, there are other headers (Accepts comes to mind, though I don't know what webkit sends by default so it may not be useful) that can be used. The company SandVine makes a business out of being able to fingerprint connections on the fly.
Then comes the data rate the phone is actually capable of dealing with in applications versus how quickly it can just get it from the radio and dump it to the tethered device. In most cases your tethered PC can consume data faster than any application on the phone, so thats a big indicator if you're using more data constantly than any known phone app can process it. You download a gig of data tethered faster than it can be written to flash and they know you're tethered.
Finally,... TCP/IP connection fingerprinting. You can detect the OS with a reasonable level of accuracy just based on the connection establishment phase. SYN/ACK handling gives a way a lot, just ask the nmap guys.
No artificial cap needed, the link is simply saturated and instead of taking one piece of the pie, you take 10.
Example: (the numbers are made up for illustrative purposes only)
Link speed: 100mb Number of active transfers: 100. Each transfer speed: 1mb You use 1 connection, you get 1mb
What you've done, is instead of taking just 1 share, you're taking 10.
So it turns into: Link speed: 100mb Number of active transfers: 109 Each transfer speed: 0.917mb You use 10 connections (adding an addition 9 from before) and everyons rate drops a LITTLE bit, but since you are taking more shares, you get data faster, at 9.17mb.
More connections actually results in slower transfers across the board once the link is saturated because of the overhead involved in using separate connections. You're in fact just making the problem worse, which is why most sites place limits on the number of connections from any one host.
Unlike physical abuse, it's rather unlikely that any child would be (emotionally) harmed by sex if shitheads like you didn't make a big deal out of it.
You said:
Err, no, a child can actually be killed by that act, and the resulting bleed-out.
So he said 'if there is no physical damage, there would be no harm if society stopped making a big deal out of it.
and you said 'Yes, there would be physical harm'... how can there be physical harm in a situation where there is no physical harm.
If there was no physical abuse, there is 0 chance of bleeding out... if there is physical abuse its a different story. You need a reading comprehension class.
Rape is emotionally damaging because society treats women who have been raped as if they are different and dirty where we treat a man who has been beaten up as though he was just beaten up.
Assuming no pregnancy, STD transmission or other physical damage all other 'emotional' damage from sex is purely because we've invented emotional damage and made women feel dirty for having it happen to them.
In the justice system in which he was tried it is entirely legal to set someone up in a sting operation and mislead the suspect until they break the law (even though technically they he didn't break it, he clearly intended to do so).
Cops can set you up, sell you drugs, even use them with you (at least in this state) and you still go to jail for breaking the law and they don't. When there intent is to catch the bad guys, it doesn't matter that the misled you as long as you knowingly broke the law.
They can't tell you 'I'm a cop and its legal to smoke crack with me' and then put you in jail. They can say 'want to hit the crack pipe and rape this 12 year old? No, I'm not a cop' and if you agree to it, they can put you in jail.
You don't get out of the punishment for a crime just because you got duped into being caught. Sorry, reality is entirely different from your fantasy land. If you don't want to get caught commiting a crime... DON'T COMMIT THE CRIME.
You do realize there is no actual requirement to read you 'Miranda warning' before they question you right? CSI and all the other TV shows you watch are not reality.
Heh, I was op in a rather well known EFNet warez channel, we had absolutely no problem keeping people out that attracted the police. Back when EFNet was more or less the wild west.
No kiddie porn, no carding, no being an obvious target for the cops. It wasn't even a little difficult. Considering our target audience was the more unsavory group, I'm guessing you just didn't know what you were doing. I'll admit, we had a rather impressive (in abilities, not size) botnet to handle the problem users, but... what you're telling me sounds more like someone fucking with you, not an actual cop.
Actually most of your post sounds pretty phony to me. I'd wager a good chunk of change that no such events took place.
No, they don't. They need the transaction id, nothing more.
I know, we do CC transactions all the time and never have a CC number longer than the time it takes for a web page to pass it off to authorize.net. We can still easily refund the transaction or adjust the value down if need be.
There are also methods for recurring billing that do basically the same thing, we get a reference ID, at the end of the billing period we send a 'bill these reference IDs for the price determined when the reference was setup' and they return a list of successful and unsuccessful transactions.
Authorize.NET handles all the work for us, allowing us to not be bound by all the rules of PCI and not having to worry so much about what happens if your DB gets hacked, we have no CC numbers for anyone to steal.
Compare the ratio of links to pirated material on Google to that on IsoHunt. IsoHunt loses.
Compare the response of Google to a takedown request to that of IsoHunt. IsoHunt loses.
Google makes at least a minimal attempt at not being a part of the distribution chain, IsoHunt on the other hand makes no attempt. IsoHunt loses.
You can argue that IsoHunt isn't doing anything wrong all you want, and you'll be a part of the small minority of idiots who think they'll win this battle. Good luck with that.
2) Clearly you've never used isohunt. Isohunt doesn't distribute material. Nor *.tor files. It doesn't even provide a tracker! It's simply google with the "filetype torrent" tag.
How convient that every excludes the fact that the results returned are almost exclusively for content which isn't legal to distribute.
You're trying to split hairs and it doesn't work that way. The point of isohunt is to find pirate torrents, every one knows that. Just because theres a Linux torrent linked once in a while doesn't change the fact that the other 99.99% of their links are to pirated material.
The guy who tells you how to find an assassin is still considered a criminal, even if he doesn't do the killing or even if he just connects you to some other person thats known to have contacts with assassins.
What they do from a technical standpoint is irrelevant when its clear that the intent is to facilitate illegal activities.
The requirement is that if you allow online signups, you need to have in app signups as well.
My cable company doesn't allow online signups (yet, there was talk in the data center about allowing any unrecognized cable modem to be configured when connected to allow access/redirection to a signup page, but that never happened).
Since you can't signup online, Apple's rule doesn't apply.
You need to learn to tell the difference between free and hidden cost.
TimeWarner gives 'Free HD' to anyone renting an HD box... you can't get the Free HD without renting a box or a cable card, so its not free, its just the cost is hidden in the rental fees of something else.
And he doesn't give a flying fuck. His business is making sure people are not anonymous, tracked, and well documented.
moot may have a valid point, but his goals are entirely different than Zuckerberg's.
Facebook is all about selling the data for people who are easily manipulated, Zuckerberg knows EXACTLY what he's doing, and he doesn't care that its 'A Bad Thing'. He's probably rather proud of it actually. You gotta admit, Facebook throws in its users face on a monthly basis that they are idiots and they keep on loving it.
Its the content producers that prevent it from happening, not the distributors... which is still just as retarded.
But... much like counting netflix against your bandwidth usage, but not their own services, it also costs TWC more money to pipe video out onto the internet than it does to pipe it to their own network... just like long distance costs providers more than local calls.
The content producers have required contractual obligations by companies like TWC that prevent them from doing things like making a way for you to view it from outside your home.
Do you know how much effort went into just getting the legal OK for TWC to give you a DVR... and then the outrageous amount of bullshit that happened to get network DVR allowed? And why you won't find things like a 30 second skip forward button on the remote with your TWC dvr...
I'm sure TWC is going to do what they can to maximize their profit, but its not always them that makes the restrictions, just like its generally not them that require you to buy package deal for channels, its the people providing the channels... that want to say they've sold just as many 'cooking network' subscriptions as HBO... so advertisers think advertising on the cooking network is worth what they are being charged.
And its illegal to use OTA for public display of sporting events. I realize sports aren't big to slashdot users, but if you've ever watched any major sporting event like a NFL or MLB game, or a big race... the first thing you hear and see is a 'no rebroadcasting without permission'.
(Off-topic: but you would have to admit the "derivative works" parts of the GPLv2 is vague terminology, and can give odd ideas like using gcc means you must open your code.)
Fortunately, at least in America, there is legal precedent already which says that the GCC example doesn't hold true. MS doesn't own your word docs, Adobe doesn't own your PSDs and GNU doesn't own your binaries, no matter how much anyone tells you otherwise.
BitTorrent Trackers are a centralized hub. While anyone can run a tracker, everyone thats sharing still has to use the tracker to find others.
While an entirely P2P setup sounds great, from a practical standpoint, it pretty much is an utter failure when you have dynamic addressing and routing... i.e. the way the Internet works.
You have to find out how to find other users from somewhere, someone thats trusted to not feed you bogus information. In a true P2P mesh, where no one is 'trusted' its (from a practical standpoint) impossible to prevent rogue nodes from screwing up the system. The damage may be limited, but it still occurs.
You can (using PKI) prevent someone from pretending to be someone they aren't, but you still have to find them, and a rogue node can ruin that for anyone that uses it.
Why can't they power the turbines using the heat which is built up and causing problems?
I understand the reactors were shut down, but clearly they are generating enough heat to cause problems from the by products of normal operation, so why can't that heat be used as if the reactors were operating until it dissipates to the point that it no longer generates steam and is no longer a problem?
If theres enough steam to cause a pressure issue, surely they have enough steam to power the generators to some extent since the pressure which would cause problems would clearly be higher than that of normal operations.
I admit I'm ignorant of the answer, so could someone educate me as to why they turbines can't use this excess heat to provider power to the plant itself?
Why can't they run the turbines/generators for themselves until the heat is dissipated?
What exactly does this "expert" think would be happening if the reactor were producing it's normal operating heat right about now?
The plant wouldn't be having problems because it would still have power to run the cooling pumps?
For that matter, pardon the ignorance. but why can't this excessive energy be used to operate the turbines in order to power the pumps to keep things marginally sane?
The only reason to call something 3G vs 4G is to create new marketing speak. So I say kill the xG tag.
The latter won't happen because of the former.
You, myself and every other person with subject matter knowledge know its completely retarded... but the general population doesn't, and the marketers are throwing far more resources at it than we have to return fire with.
They've won this round, we'll have to wait until Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T or some other carrier has a distinct advantage and can provide the bandwidth consistently so they have a reason to go back to real values rather than marketingspeak.
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Hindsight is 20/20 and all but ...
After this, I think it would be rather intelligent to be able to do JUST WHAT YOU DESCRIBED.
Having a big honking 'Emergency backup power' socket they can EASILY plug into, as well as several (at least twice as many as required, three times would be better) generators stored relatively close, say within 12 hours but not so close that a natural disaster is likely to take out all 3 of the backup sets. Stick one up on a mountain, one in somewhere as far away from a fault line as possible, and another one in another country with an airplane/skycrane standing by to move it into position. These generators would be tested weekly to confirm operation, and would under no circumstances be used for anything other than being shipped to a SPECIFIC plant to provide power in this sort of cases. No sharing of this resource, its too damn important. None of this 'oh, we got a 50hz genset, but need a 60hz one! Doh!' Test the damn things before the reactor goes live. Inspect them regularly by outside parties (not the power company responsible for the plant, someone who actually gets paid more to find infractions so they actually LOOK for them)
Yea, so it wouldn't be a big honking plug, but for fucks sake BAD BAD shit happens when power can't be had for keeping cooling online when the reactor has to stop providing its own power, its just fucking stupid to not have an EASY way to get something hooked up in before the batteries run out. In 12 hours, they should have been able to get something shipped in from the west coast of America, stored in the NAPA valley region or something. So what happens is 'Oh shit, tsunami hit Japan, scramble the transport with backup genset and worry about if its actually needed while in flight, it can turn around if need be'. Problem more or less solved. Short of a nuclear war, nothing thats going to take out the NAPA valley region of california is also going to take out Japan so in exchange, they do the same for west coast reactors in the US.
As for hooking it up ... if they had planned for it, the only difference would be bigger connectors and the fact that you'd have to use heavy equipment to move the cables and secure the connections rather than your hand. Radiation levels really didn't go bad until several DAYS after the actual event.
How exactly is "Windows traffic" on a phone indistinguishable from "Windows traffic" on a PC, yet somehow those are both different from iOS traffic?
Its not, they are all distinguishable for things like web traffic, SSH would be more difficult to detect, but not impossible.
First and formost, if they see your iPhone downloading Flash files, they know you're tethering. Java is another tale tale sign that you're tethering.
Second, HTTP headers/UserAgent strings. Obvious easy way to determine you're using something other than WebKit on iOS. Assuming you bother to change your UA string on your PC, there are other headers (Accepts comes to mind, though I don't know what webkit sends by default so it may not be useful) that can be used. The company SandVine makes a business out of being able to fingerprint connections on the fly.
Then comes the data rate the phone is actually capable of dealing with in applications versus how quickly it can just get it from the radio and dump it to the tethered device. In most cases your tethered PC can consume data faster than any application on the phone, so thats a big indicator if you're using more data constantly than any known phone app can process it. You download a gig of data tethered faster than it can be written to flash and they know you're tethered.
Finally, ... TCP/IP connection fingerprinting. You can detect the OS with a reasonable level of accuracy just based on the connection establishment phase. SYN/ACK handling gives a way a lot, just ask the nmap guys.
No artificial cap needed, the link is simply saturated and instead of taking one piece of the pie, you take 10.
Example: (the numbers are made up for illustrative purposes only)
Link speed: 100mb
Number of active transfers: 100.
Each transfer speed: 1mb
You use 1 connection, you get 1mb
What you've done, is instead of taking just 1 share, you're taking 10.
So it turns into:
Link speed: 100mb
Number of active transfers: 109
Each transfer speed: 0.917mb
You use 10 connections (adding an addition 9 from before) and everyons rate drops a LITTLE bit, but since you are taking more shares, you get data faster, at 9.17mb.
More connections actually results in slower transfers across the board once the link is saturated because of the overhead involved in using separate connections. You're in fact just making the problem worse, which is why most sites place limits on the number of connections from any one host.
The GP post said:
Unlike physical abuse, it's rather unlikely that any child would be (emotionally) harmed by sex if shitheads like you didn't make a big deal out of it.
You said:
Err, no, a child can actually be killed by that act, and the resulting bleed-out.
So he said 'if there is no physical damage, there would be no harm if society stopped making a big deal out of it.
and you said 'Yes, there would be physical harm' ... how can there be physical harm in a situation where there is no physical harm.
If there was no physical abuse, there is 0 chance of bleeding out ... if there is physical abuse its a different story. You need a reading comprehension class.
Rape is emotionally damaging because society treats women who have been raped as if they are different and dirty where we treat a man who has been beaten up as though he was just beaten up.
Assuming no pregnancy, STD transmission or other physical damage all other 'emotional' damage from sex is purely because we've invented emotional damage and made women feel dirty for having it happen to them.
Wrong.
In the justice system in which he was tried it is entirely legal to set someone up in a sting operation and mislead the suspect until they break the law (even though technically they he didn't break it, he clearly intended to do so).
Cops can set you up, sell you drugs, even use them with you (at least in this state) and you still go to jail for breaking the law and they don't. When there intent is to catch the bad guys, it doesn't matter that the misled you as long as you knowingly broke the law.
They can't tell you 'I'm a cop and its legal to smoke crack with me' and then put you in jail. They can say 'want to hit the crack pipe and rape this 12 year old? No, I'm not a cop' and if you agree to it, they can put you in jail.
You don't get out of the punishment for a crime just because you got duped into being caught. Sorry, reality is entirely different from your fantasy land. If you don't want to get caught commiting a crime ... DON'T COMMIT THE CRIME.
Right, because doing any of that would change the fact that the guy committed a crime.
You do realize there is no actual requirement to read you 'Miranda warning' before they question you right? CSI and all the other TV shows you watch are not reality.
Heh, I was op in a rather well known EFNet warez channel, we had absolutely no problem keeping people out that attracted the police. Back when EFNet was more or less the wild west.
No kiddie porn, no carding, no being an obvious target for the cops. It wasn't even a little difficult. Considering our target audience was the more unsavory group, I'm guessing you just didn't know what you were doing. I'll admit, we had a rather impressive (in abilities, not size) botnet to handle the problem users, but ... what you're telling me sounds more like someone fucking with you, not an actual cop.
Actually most of your post sounds pretty phony to me. I'd wager a good chunk of change that no such events took place.
Blind friendly photo viewing website ... fucking brilliant really, whats it do, read off the pixel colors pixel by pixel?
No, they don't. They need the transaction id, nothing more.
I know, we do CC transactions all the time and never have a CC number longer than the time it takes for a web page to pass it off to authorize.net. We can still easily refund the transaction or adjust the value down if need be.
There are also methods for recurring billing that do basically the same thing, we get a reference ID, at the end of the billing period we send a 'bill these reference IDs for the price determined when the reference was setup' and they return a list of successful and unsuccessful transactions.
Authorize.NET handles all the work for us, allowing us to not be bound by all the rules of PCI and not having to worry so much about what happens if your DB gets hacked, we have no CC numbers for anyone to steal.
Compare the ratio of links to pirated material on Google to that on IsoHunt. IsoHunt loses.
Compare the response of Google to a takedown request to that of IsoHunt. IsoHunt loses.
Google makes at least a minimal attempt at not being a part of the distribution chain, IsoHunt on the other hand makes no attempt. IsoHunt loses.
You can argue that IsoHunt isn't doing anything wrong all you want, and you'll be a part of the small minority of idiots who think they'll win this battle. Good luck with that.
2) Clearly you've never used isohunt. Isohunt doesn't distribute material. Nor *.tor files. It doesn't even provide a tracker! It's simply google with the "filetype torrent" tag.
How convient that every excludes the fact that the results returned are almost exclusively for content which isn't legal to distribute.
You're trying to split hairs and it doesn't work that way. The point of isohunt is to find pirate torrents, every one knows that. Just because theres a Linux torrent linked once in a while doesn't change the fact that the other 99.99% of their links are to pirated material.
The guy who tells you how to find an assassin is still considered a criminal, even if he doesn't do the killing or even if he just connects you to some other person thats known to have contacts with assassins.
What they do from a technical standpoint is irrelevant when its clear that the intent is to facilitate illegal activities.
The requirement is that if you allow online signups, you need to have in app signups as well.
My cable company doesn't allow online signups (yet, there was talk in the data center about allowing any unrecognized cable modem to be configured when connected to allow access/redirection to a signup page, but that never happened).
Since you can't signup online, Apple's rule doesn't apply.
You need to learn to tell the difference between free and hidden cost.
TimeWarner gives 'Free HD' to anyone renting an HD box ... you can't get the Free HD without renting a box or a cable card, so its not free, its just the cost is hidden in the rental fees of something else.
So you just need the right tuner ... one that can handle CableCard(s) ...
http://www.cetoncorp.com/products.php
Problem solved.
And he doesn't give a flying fuck. His business is making sure people are not anonymous, tracked, and well documented.
moot may have a valid point, but his goals are entirely different than Zuckerberg's.
Facebook is all about selling the data for people who are easily manipulated, Zuckerberg knows EXACTLY what he's doing, and he doesn't care that its 'A Bad Thing'. He's probably rather proud of it actually. You gotta admit, Facebook throws in its users face on a monthly basis that they are idiots and they keep on loving it.
Its the content producers that prevent it from happening, not the distributors ... which is still just as retarded.
But ... much like counting netflix against your bandwidth usage, but not their own services, it also costs TWC more money to pipe video out onto the internet than it does to pipe it to their own network ... just like long distance costs providers more than local calls.
The content producers have required contractual obligations by companies like TWC that prevent them from doing things like making a way for you to view it from outside your home.
Do you know how much effort went into just getting the legal OK for TWC to give you a DVR ... and then the outrageous amount of bullshit that happened to get network DVR allowed? And why you won't find things like a 30 second skip forward button on the remote with your TWC dvr ...
I'm sure TWC is going to do what they can to maximize their profit, but its not always them that makes the restrictions, just like its generally not them that require you to buy package deal for channels, its the people providing the channels ... that want to say they've sold just as many 'cooking network' subscriptions as HBO ... so advertisers think advertising on the cooking network is worth what they are being charged.
And its illegal to use OTA for public display of sporting events. I realize sports aren't big to slashdot users, but if you've ever watched any major sporting event like a NFL or MLB game, or a big race ... the first thing you hear and see is a 'no rebroadcasting without permission'.
(Off-topic: but you would have to admit the "derivative works" parts of the GPLv2 is vague terminology, and can give odd ideas like using gcc means you must open your code.)
Fortunately, at least in America, there is legal precedent already which says that the GCC example doesn't hold true. MS doesn't own your word docs, Adobe doesn't own your PSDs and GNU doesn't own your binaries, no matter how much anyone tells you otherwise.
BitTorrent Trackers are a centralized hub. While anyone can run a tracker, everyone thats sharing still has to use the tracker to find others.
While an entirely P2P setup sounds great, from a practical standpoint, it pretty much is an utter failure when you have dynamic addressing and routing ... i.e. the way the Internet works.
You have to find out how to find other users from somewhere, someone thats trusted to not feed you bogus information. In a true P2P mesh, where no one is 'trusted' its (from a practical standpoint) impossible to prevent rogue nodes from screwing up the system. The damage may be limited, but it still occurs.
You can (using PKI) prevent someone from pretending to be someone they aren't, but you still have to find them, and a rogue node can ruin that for anyone that uses it.
If someone is attacking the USS Enterprise, we care less about the environmental damage and more about killing the aggressor.
Why can't they power the turbines using the heat which is built up and causing problems?
I understand the reactors were shut down, but clearly they are generating enough heat to cause problems from the by products of normal operation, so why can't that heat be used as if the reactors were operating until it dissipates to the point that it no longer generates steam and is no longer a problem?
If theres enough steam to cause a pressure issue, surely they have enough steam to power the generators to some extent since the pressure which would cause problems would clearly be higher than that of normal operations.
I admit I'm ignorant of the answer, so could someone educate me as to why they turbines can't use this excess heat to provider power to the plant itself?
Why can't they run the turbines/generators for themselves until the heat is dissipated?
What exactly does this "expert" think would be happening if the reactor were producing it's normal operating heat right about now?
The plant wouldn't be having problems because it would still have power to run the cooling pumps?
For that matter, pardon the ignorance. but why can't this excessive energy be used to operate the turbines in order to power the pumps to keep things marginally sane?
The only reason to call something 3G vs 4G is to create new marketing speak. So I say kill the xG tag.
The latter won't happen because of the former.
You, myself and every other person with subject matter knowledge know its completely retarded ... but the general population doesn't, and the marketers are throwing far more resources at it than we have to return fire with.
They've won this round, we'll have to wait until Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T or some other carrier has a distinct advantage and can provide the bandwidth consistently so they have a reason to go back to real values rather than marketingspeak.