Yes, use a password and give it to your neighbors after they agree not to break the law using your connection.
Its not hard really.
And when the kiddy porn gets traced back to you, you can say I also let my neighbor use it. And the police can look on your neighbors computers for porn.
I'd be more concerned with the neighbors getting infected and it spreading to you as well if you didn't put them on a different network segment than kiddie porn.
You do realize the penny is about 97.5% zinc, not copper, right?
What you see as a copper penny is a zinc slug covered in a thin layer of copper so it looks like a penny. Theres more copper in about an inch of CAT5 than in a penny.
Before that it was 95% zinc for 20 years or so before that. Pennies have been worthless for years, regardless of the virtual value of pennies, the actual value is less than a cent, intentionally... so people don't melt them down.
Pennies are a really shitty source of copper and destroying pennies carries a far worse punishment than simple theft in most cases.
In 85 or so when the Mexican economy tanked, you could cross the Texas border and come back with more silver than you could carry in exchange for a 5 USD bill at one point. There again, the solution was simply to make their silver coins worthless as far as the metals they contained. Of course, the first thing they did was stop doing exchange for coins anywhere near the border, and only do exchange for paper money, making it much harder to turn $5 USD into Mexican coins unless you traveled far enough down into Mexico, making the whole venture a loser.
Windows apps rarely require full advantage of the hardware as there is generally plenty available and the resources available are more or less standard, a keyboard, mouse and monitor.
An android phone has a myrid of different sensors and input devices (buttons, accelerometers, gyros) in many cases they are in completely different configurations.
OS X and Windows are on the same side, sorry to disappoint.
They are relatively standard and predictable OS distributions. The point the GPP is making is that you always know what libraries come with the base system and where they will be installed with OS X and Windows.
Is there some sort of contractual obligation that precludes the developers from saying, "sorry, we haven't tested our app on this $130 non-flashable off-brand 7-inch Android tablet that you got from the local bedding supply store on clearance?"
Nope, but there is plenty of bad publicity that comes when those users bitch about not being able to use your app.
Its too bad slashdot and OSS geeks never seems to that having a working product is far more important to most people than 200 half assed products that work sometimes, partially. Not everyone has this retarded notion that 'choice' is always better than 'functionality', in fact most people don't.
Thats cool, except pretty much any pebble or other bit of debris on the ground is likely far higher than the raised edge, meaning its more or less useless as far as protecting it from anything but a clean table top.
I've broken far too many touch screen phones, I abuse them, no denying it.
Whats always interesting is the way they break, and when. It never seems to be on the big obvious drops, its almost always on small drops that you'd never expect to be enough to do it, but the phone will land in just the right way to stress the screen to the point of breaking. Or maybe it was already stressed from previous drops.
One dropped several feet face down onto gravel, probably 20 times before one day it fell down beside my seat in the car and shattered when it hit the bolt holding the seat belt mechanism in place. A 5cm drop, where it didn't even impact the screen directly broke it.
Another dropped because I was holding it with my shoulder going in the door to my house on to concrete, no problem. Picked it up, took two steps into the house, dropped it on vinyl flooring, on the back and that was the end of it.
The glass breaks because too much force is applies to a small area. A needle requires very little force to break the glass, but its highly unlikely you'll break it by a normal drop from even 10 feet into loose sand. Don't do the same thing on hard surfaces with sharp points.
Actually, with AC power, the electrons just move back and forth a bit, they don't make round trips between the power company and the customer premise. When all is said and done, most of the electrons will be right back where they were to start with.
DC power would be an exchange of the power companies input electrons for the users output electrons.
The article is more retarded than most, but rather than bash it, I'd like to point out what I think is the root of the problem.
Multiple sign ons for every site.
Why do we still not have global single sign on? If not global at least a few defacto standard ones that are actually safe to use. It'd take some browser integration and use some proper challenge/response and one time pad so that when you're authenticating to a 3rd party site it doesn't do the site any good to retain the auth info from your auth provider or yourself...
Come to think of it, why don't we just use Kerberos for everything? Seems like with DNSSEC we could easily have a global authentication system for every app, all controlled by their respective owners.
Then you only need one password or key (whatever 'key' translates too would be entirely up to the end user and authentication provider. You could use digital signatures, hardware devices, simple passwords like now, whatever you wanted in the end for authentication. Tickets are your friend.
Then you just need one, really unique, secure password that you can actually remember.
The downside is, you've just put all your eggs in one basket, but thats more or less the way it works now anyway, at least this way people would be using a better basket and not showing its contents to nearly as many people where it can be stolen.
If you stop looking at it as a geek and start looking at it as a normal user, passwords are ridiculous to manage and don't really relate to a real world key all that great.
Users aren't stupid, the system is, and users don't know how to fix it, and we're not doing our job by not fixing it to make it actually usable rather than unmanagable.
The solutions are already there, and if anyone mentions openid you should be smacked in the face. Its a complete joke from a practical perspective.
Lets start using the systems that were created by really smart people a long time ago rather than inventing new ones that suck.
The fact that HTML is open to all means anyone can implement it in their 'browser'... and they can allow the user to control the browser stores and feeds back to others on the Internet.
Where as if we were talking about something propreitary like say Flash, you run the risk of having very little options over controlling it since there is only one implementation (one useful one anyway) and they aren't going to add any useful features for privacy anytime soon since thats a big reason to use flash on certain sites in the first place (Yes, I know the new versions are better about flash cookie control, just making a point)
Yes, HTML5 has some features that make it easier for you to be tracked, but leaving your front door not only unlocked but also wide open with a sign that says 'I'm out of town for the next 2 weeks' is about the same thing. Their are provisions in place to protect that user.
The problem is, people aren't really honorable, at least not the ones with power and money (rare exceptions excluded). They didn't get power and money by playing 100% fair, they got there by taking advantage of every situation they could.
Patents worked when people were honorable because they did not yet realize the various ways to game the patent system to their advantage. Now, 50 years later, its an industry on its own, with men and women who's sole job is to figure out ways to twist the written laws into a way that suits them rather than the actual, good spirited intention of the laws.
Its not unique to patents, this sort of behavior is simply the way people work, like it or not. Everything works this way on a large scale. Sure you can have a good small business in a small town that flourishes because its good to its customers and its customers like it, but on the large scale it simply doesn't work because someone else is willing to cut every corner possible to take your customers and the customers don't always know that they are hurting themselves by going with the other guy so the other guy wins unless you play his game.
Sad, but true.
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Depends, do you realize that what you are doing likely requires breaking the law. If you're one of those 'I don't watch copyrighted content' then just go fuck yourself because no one cares.
However, if you actually watch content that is even slightly well known than you're either dealing with DRM or stealing it.
Good for you and your $50 WD device that makes it easier for you to steal.
I want a $50 device I can hookup to my TV and watch any TV show I want to watch for free, without commercials, on demand... I also want to flap my arms and fly. One is impossible, the other is impossible if no one ever pays the guys making the content anything, which is what you're looking for.
Content producers are generally douche bags, but you sir are no better. You're breaking the law and being a dirtbag in the exact same ways that the MPAA and RIAA do.
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The model C200 networked media player will play back any file format and has provision for a local hard drive or blue ray drive.
Really? Any format?
You and I define Any in an entirely different way.
You define 'Any' as a set that includes the ones you like, and ignores others because you like them.
I define 'Any' as any, which would include the custom format I use in some of my hardware projects, which I assure you, the C200 won't support anytime soon.
Stop being such a fanboy, and remember that 'Any' does not mean 'the types have need of', otherwise Microsoft is equally correct in saying 'Windows can play any file out of the box' because WMV is the only one that matters too him.
What do you have to convert it from? Stop using silly oddball formats and you won't have that problem.
Sometimes, when you're on the bleeding edge of technology, you bleed.
If you don't want to bleed, use standards... not standards as defined by your definition, but standards as normal people would define them, like you know, the ones everyone actually uses.
I really wish people would stop acting like MythTV doesn't suck. Thats your first mistake./me waves as the MythTV fanboys mod down.
These are fundamental physical limits of mass and energy we're talking about.
Assuming we're right in what we're calling fundamental physical limits...
The arrogance of humans still blows me away, we think we actually know how things work... even though just a basic glance at a history book will show you that we're wrong A LOT, we generally have never gotten anything 100% right, which means theres a really good chance what we think of as 'limits' are in fact not in any way a limit.
We have one group of brilliant people saying you can't exceed the speed of light, ever, ever, never, no way, can't be done.
Then we have another group of brilliant people saying that in fact during the big bang it happened.
One of those groups is wrong, throwing out a rather massive chunk of understanding about how the universe as we know it was formed.
Seems pretty reasonable that the silly things we call 'limits of physics' now are more than likely wrong as well.
Then you go ahead and throw in 'visiting aliens'... because they some how manage to pull it off, but we can't? Thats just a retarded statement.
Uhm, you can also simply not pay your 'debt', wait 7 years and start over.
Its essentially theft, but you don't HAVE to live in debt, you have made a choice to do so.
The rest of your post I won't argue, but there is no 'slave to debt' in America, you just have to give up some of the shit you couldn't afford to buy in the first place.
Also, stop pretending like Fox News is unique and whatever you watch isn't, they are the same.
I own a few of them, they aren't that fast, the bus isn't the issue, regardless of what you've read on some website.
Not that spinning platters are faster, but the bus has been faster than the disks for ages and will continue to do so for ages unless something major changes which isn't likely considering the drives have to use electrical signalling just like the bus does.
Physical access to a device has always meant complete access to the device, regardless of who makes it.
The only difference is how long it takes someone to break into it.
This is basic computer security. Its not computer security 101 because the wouldn't even let you into that class if you didn't know this prerequisite already.
Explain to me how this is any different than the typical OSS reply:
You have the source, fix it/add the feature yourself.
Certainly this is effort better spent improving solutions that are already more capable from the get-go?
The only people that jailbreak are people who want to tinker and the small group of people who want to use an alternate carrier for the iPhone, which immediately gives up features by switching to another provider.
Most people are not geeks. Most people could give a fuck about your Jihad against software that isn't "open". Most people will just buy the device and use it and be happy.
Its only the morons who buy something they didn't actually want, then spend time and effort to jail break it. I've jailbroken my iPhone... and after realizing there was no redeeming reason to do so, no software that was so impressive that I cared... I restored it back to normal and haven't bothered with it since.
Stop being such a fanatic and things don't look nearly as silly.
NoScript is an absolute must have for anyone who knows what they are doing
Actually, users who know what they are doing don't need NoScript, we just don't visit shitty sites in the first place, but hey, whatever makes you feel superior to... well whoever you think NoScript makes you better than.
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Yes, use a password and give it to your neighbors after they agree not to break the law using your connection.
Its not hard really.
And when the kiddy porn gets traced back to you, you can say I also let my neighbor use it. And the police can look on your neighbors computers for porn.
I'd be more concerned with the neighbors getting infected and it spreading to you as well if you didn't put them on a different network segment than kiddie porn.
The page that you get directed to when you first use it that requires you to agree to their ToS might have something to do with the difference.
You do realize the penny is about 97.5% zinc, not copper, right?
What you see as a copper penny is a zinc slug covered in a thin layer of copper so it looks like a penny. Theres more copper in about an inch of CAT5 than in a penny.
http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/?flash=yes&action=fun_facts2
Before that it was 95% zinc for 20 years or so before that. Pennies have been worthless for years, regardless of the virtual value of pennies, the actual value is less than a cent, intentionally ... so people don't melt them down.
Pennies are a really shitty source of copper and destroying pennies carries a far worse punishment than simple theft in most cases.
In 85 or so when the Mexican economy tanked, you could cross the Texas border and come back with more silver than you could carry in exchange for a 5 USD bill at one point. There again, the solution was simply to make their silver coins worthless as far as the metals they contained. Of course, the first thing they did was stop doing exchange for coins anywhere near the border, and only do exchange for paper money, making it much harder to turn $5 USD into Mexican coins unless you traveled far enough down into Mexico, making the whole venture a loser.
Windows apps rarely require full advantage of the hardware as there is generally plenty available and the resources available are more or less standard, a keyboard, mouse and monitor.
An android phone has a myrid of different sensors and input devices (buttons, accelerometers, gyros) in many cases they are in completely different configurations.
OS X and Windows are on the same side, sorry to disappoint.
They are relatively standard and predictable OS distributions. The point the GPP is making is that you always know what libraries come with the base system and where they will be installed with OS X and Windows.
The same can not be said for Linux.
Nope, but there is plenty of bad publicity that comes when those users bitch about not being able to use your app.
Its too bad slashdot and OSS geeks never seems to that having a working product is far more important to most people than 200 half assed products that work sometimes, partially. Not everyone has this retarded notion that 'choice' is always better than 'functionality', in fact most people don't.
Now show me the data usage on that page . Current data usage, not what I got billed last month at part of a bar chart that tells me how great AT&T is.
Thats cool, except pretty much any pebble or other bit of debris on the ground is likely far higher than the raised edge, meaning its more or less useless as far as protecting it from anything but a clean table top.
Its all about the impact.
I've broken far too many touch screen phones, I abuse them, no denying it.
Whats always interesting is the way they break, and when. It never seems to be on the big obvious drops, its almost always on small drops that you'd never expect to be enough to do it, but the phone will land in just the right way to stress the screen to the point of breaking. Or maybe it was already stressed from previous drops.
One dropped several feet face down onto gravel, probably 20 times before one day it fell down beside my seat in the car and shattered when it hit the bolt holding the seat belt mechanism in place. A 5cm drop, where it didn't even impact the screen directly broke it.
Another dropped because I was holding it with my shoulder going in the door to my house on to concrete, no problem. Picked it up, took two steps into the house, dropped it on vinyl flooring, on the back and that was the end of it.
The glass breaks because too much force is applies to a small area. A needle requires very little force to break the glass, but its highly unlikely you'll break it by a normal drop from even 10 feet into loose sand. Don't do the same thing on hard surfaces with sharp points.
Actually, with AC power, the electrons just move back and forth a bit, they don't make round trips between the power company and the customer premise. When all is said and done, most of the electrons will be right back where they were to start with.
DC power would be an exchange of the power companies input electrons for the users output electrons.
The article is more retarded than most, but rather than bash it, I'd like to point out what I think is the root of the problem.
Multiple sign ons for every site.
Why do we still not have global single sign on? If not global at least a few defacto standard ones that are actually safe to use. It'd take some browser integration and use some proper challenge/response and one time pad so that when you're authenticating to a 3rd party site it doesn't do the site any good to retain the auth info from your auth provider or yourself ...
Come to think of it, why don't we just use Kerberos for everything? Seems like with DNSSEC we could easily have a global authentication system for every app, all controlled by their respective owners.
Then you only need one password or key (whatever 'key' translates too would be entirely up to the end user and authentication provider. You could use digital signatures, hardware devices, simple passwords like now, whatever you wanted in the end for authentication. Tickets are your friend.
Then you just need one, really unique, secure password that you can actually remember.
The downside is, you've just put all your eggs in one basket, but thats more or less the way it works now anyway, at least this way people would be using a better basket and not showing its contents to nearly as many people where it can be stolen.
If you stop looking at it as a geek and start looking at it as a normal user, passwords are ridiculous to manage and don't really relate to a real world key all that great.
Users aren't stupid, the system is, and users don't know how to fix it, and we're not doing our job by not fixing it to make it actually usable rather than unmanagable.
The solutions are already there, and if anyone mentions openid you should be smacked in the face. Its a complete joke from a practical perspective.
Lets start using the systems that were created by really smart people a long time ago rather than inventing new ones that suck.
The fact that HTML is open to all means anyone can implement it in their 'browser' ... and they can allow the user to control the browser stores and feeds back to others on the Internet.
Where as if we were talking about something propreitary like say Flash, you run the risk of having very little options over controlling it since there is only one implementation (one useful one anyway) and they aren't going to add any useful features for privacy anytime soon since thats a big reason to use flash on certain sites in the first place (Yes, I know the new versions are better about flash cookie control, just making a point)
Yes, HTML5 has some features that make it easier for you to be tracked, but leaving your front door not only unlocked but also wide open with a sign that says 'I'm out of town for the next 2 weeks' is about the same thing. Their are provisions in place to protect that user.
Patents worked when people were honorable.
The problem is, people aren't really honorable, at least not the ones with power and money (rare exceptions excluded). They didn't get power and money by playing 100% fair, they got there by taking advantage of every situation they could.
Patents worked when people were honorable because they did not yet realize the various ways to game the patent system to their advantage. Now, 50 years later, its an industry on its own, with men and women who's sole job is to figure out ways to twist the written laws into a way that suits them rather than the actual, good spirited intention of the laws.
Its not unique to patents, this sort of behavior is simply the way people work, like it or not. Everything works this way on a large scale. Sure you can have a good small business in a small town that flourishes because its good to its customers and its customers like it, but on the large scale it simply doesn't work because someone else is willing to cut every corner possible to take your customers and the customers don't always know that they are hurting themselves by going with the other guy so the other guy wins unless you play his game.
Sad, but true.
Depends, do you realize that what you are doing likely requires breaking the law. If you're one of those 'I don't watch copyrighted content' then just go fuck yourself because no one cares.
However, if you actually watch content that is even slightly well known than you're either dealing with DRM or stealing it.
Good for you and your $50 WD device that makes it easier for you to steal.
I want a $50 device I can hookup to my TV and watch any TV show I want to watch for free, without commercials, on demand ... I also want to flap my arms and fly. One is impossible, the other is impossible if no one ever pays the guys making the content anything, which is what you're looking for.
Content producers are generally douche bags, but you sir are no better. You're breaking the law and being a dirtbag in the exact same ways that the MPAA and RIAA do.
Really? Any format?
You and I define Any in an entirely different way.
You define 'Any' as a set that includes the ones you like, and ignores others because you like them.
I define 'Any' as any, which would include the custom format I use in some of my hardware projects, which I assure you, the C200 won't support anytime soon.
Stop being such a fanboy, and remember that 'Any' does not mean 'the types have need of', otherwise Microsoft is equally correct in saying 'Windows can play any file out of the box' because WMV is the only one that matters too him.
What do you have to convert it from? Stop using silly oddball formats and you won't have that problem.
Sometimes, when you're on the bleeding edge of technology, you bleed.
If you don't want to bleed, use standards ... not standards as defined by your definition, but standards as normal people would define them, like you know, the ones everyone actually uses.
I really wish people would stop acting like MythTV doesn't suck. Thats your first mistake. /me waves as the MythTV fanboys mod down.
Assuming we're right in what we're calling fundamental physical limits ...
The arrogance of humans still blows me away, we think we actually know how things work ... even though just a basic glance at a history book will show you that we're wrong A LOT, we generally have never gotten anything 100% right, which means theres a really good chance what we think of as 'limits' are in fact not in any way a limit.
We have one group of brilliant people saying you can't exceed the speed of light, ever, ever, never, no way, can't be done.
Then we have another group of brilliant people saying that in fact during the big bang it happened.
One of those groups is wrong, throwing out a rather massive chunk of understanding about how the universe as we know it was formed.
Seems pretty reasonable that the silly things we call 'limits of physics' now are more than likely wrong as well.
Then you go ahead and throw in 'visiting aliens' ... because they some how manage to pull it off, but we can't? Thats just a retarded statement.
Uhm, you can also simply not pay your 'debt', wait 7 years and start over.
Its essentially theft, but you don't HAVE to live in debt, you have made a choice to do so.
The rest of your post I won't argue, but there is no 'slave to debt' in America, you just have to give up some of the shit you couldn't afford to buy in the first place.
Also, stop pretending like Fox News is unique and whatever you watch isn't, they are the same.
Right, because the software license is the most expensive part of the IT budget.
Spoken like someone who has no clue what it costs to run an IT department.
Software license costs are freaking trivial compared to the other costs involved.
OSS won't win if its only selling point is 'its free'.
I fail to see why its such a bad thing that you don't get hired by some jackass who doesn't like you.
I'm pretty sure you're retarded if you want to force your way into working somewhere you aren't wanted.
In the lab, maybe.
Show me one that does it in the real world.
I own a few of them, they aren't that fast, the bus isn't the issue, regardless of what you've read on some website.
Not that spinning platters are faster, but the bus has been faster than the disks for ages and will continue to do so for ages unless something major changes which isn't likely considering the drives have to use electrical signalling just like the bus does.
Physical access to a device has always meant complete access to the device, regardless of who makes it.
The only difference is how long it takes someone to break into it.
This is basic computer security. Its not computer security 101 because the wouldn't even let you into that class if you didn't know this prerequisite already.
True.
However, most people don't want full control and open source.
Most people want 'it works, its easy, and I don't have to fuck with it for 80 hours to get it to work'
I'm sure you fall into this category:
http://xkcd.com/196/
The rest of us don't.
Explain to me how this is any different than the typical OSS reply:
You have the source, fix it/add the feature yourself.
Certainly this is effort better spent improving solutions that are already more capable from the get-go?
The only people that jailbreak are people who want to tinker and the small group of people who want to use an alternate carrier for the iPhone, which immediately gives up features by switching to another provider.
Most people are not geeks. Most people could give a fuck about your Jihad against software that isn't "open". Most people will just buy the device and use it and be happy.
Its only the morons who buy something they didn't actually want, then spend time and effort to jail break it. I've jailbroken my iPhone ... and after realizing there was no redeeming reason to do so, no software that was so impressive that I cared ... I restored it back to normal and haven't bothered with it since.
Stop being such a fanatic and things don't look nearly as silly.
Actually, users who know what they are doing don't need NoScript, we just don't visit shitty sites in the first place, but hey, whatever makes you feel superior to ... well whoever you think NoScript makes you better than.