Yeah he's a master at reverse engineering filesystems. The majority of the tools we had were based on his vplay sources. I think samba.org still hosts them, not sure though because the server isn't responding (tivo.samba.org)
vlm specifically implied that Americans are being extradited to other countries for doing things that aren't illegal in America - I contend that point, and the lack of supporting citation.
No, read his post, he said doing things illegal in the US (as in, against the law in the US) while being in a foreign country. Although Dotcom hasn't been extradited yet, they are pushing for it, and they have successfully extradited other people who have never set foot in the US.
You probably shouldn't throw stones from a glass house, by the way (see your first sentece below.)
And I think you're reading too much into the specific words I wrote, and not enough into the context. Hint: It has far less to do with partisan politics than you think, and far more to do with shit tin-foil-hat-crazy people say.
Well, the "shit tin-foil-hat-crazy people say" about Obama and firearms is correct. Obama said he wants to "reintroduce the ban on assault rifles."
Personally I love assault rifles. In fact, I use them exclusively over pistols for target shooting. Pistols make me nervous, ironically (they just feel so dangerous for how small they are). Probably has to do with the fact that I've been extensively trained with assault rifles in the Army, but never have been trained with a pistol. Besides, in an urban environment its a lot easier to assassinate somebody with a pistol than a rifle. A rifle isn't as inconspicuous as a pistol, and is much harder to conceal.
Besides, If you don't like assault rifles, what are you going to do about it, take it from me at knifepoint?
I'm sure he is, but a lot of big tech companies have declined once they replaced their retiring tech savvy CEO with a salesman. Apple did it once, and they may very well do it again. Yahoo, Hewlette Packard, Xerox...
You seem to know a lot about Microsoft's position on Samba, are you part of the Samba team? I used to have a lot to do with Tridge during his TiVo hacking days.
By the way, if anybody asks, it IS Microsoft's intent that other non-MS clients connect to AD. They specifically built a framework and API to allow 3rd party apps add their own schema to the database and query for user permissions. A few things I've worked with that do this are VMware vCenter and Cisco ACS firewall.
And no, that isn't because the EU made them, they've been doing this since the earlier days of active directory (at least, Server 2003 has this functionality anyways.)
I did a network integration capstone course where we had linux and windows in a single active directory domain, with single sign on and all users and objects in one database. How is this different?
More power to them though, active directory is HUGE in the enterprise space. If you could integrate its security controls and policies into android tablets and smartphones, windows 8 and its lame tablet UI will never see the light of day in big business.
Well, it wouldn't be entirely incorrect in my case. The key is to impress the hell out of somebody in a high place. Even if they themselves don't hire you, word tends to get around.
I participated in a contest held annually in Phoenix called the Avnet Tech Games. In the event I was doing, which included not only practical lab work, but also a written test, the community college students scored 90% and above. The university students were all below 70%.
It only makes sense too when you think about it. Universities focus on the theoretical while community colleges focus on the practical. That, and community college teachers are there to teach, and genuinely care for the success of the students. Most university professors on the other hand are there to do research, and have upwards of 300 students to a class.
I've mentioned on slashdot before about how I have zero debt and the benefits of community college, and the replies I often get are from people with terrible grammar (I've only taken one English class before, by the way) who tell me that I got a cheap education because community college sucks, though they can never offer any reason why they say that. I mean if it was Harvard or MIT, sure, but most public universities that most people attend aren't anything special, yet are still expensive.
Or, they just don't rely on income tax for revenue. States like Nevada work like this; their revenue comes from taxing gambling, so it is mostly the tourists who pay Nevada's taxes. Yet most companies prefer to incorporate in Deleware, who has an income tax.
I recall a while back how Obama was using a talking point about how there was a relatively small building in Grand Cayman which housed some thousands of corporations who didn't really do business there. He blamed it on tax avoidance. Trouble is, the same kind of building exists in Deleware, who has an income tax.
So why Deleware? Wlell, Deleware has very lax laws and the "deregulation" that many socialists decry, which make it much easier to run a business out of there. In many cases they pay even more taxes, but the reduced bureaucratic overhead makes it worth it. The same is true of Cayman, only even fewer regulations. Lower taxation is just another benefit. Trouble is there is a bit of a cost barrier to operate there that medium sized corporations can't afford, but much larger ones can.
As a general rule, adding moe services, even internal ones, opens more holes.
Suppose you manage to find a zero day exploit for ssh, but it only gets you limited user access. But as it turns out, you also have another zero day for x.org, and that onegrapples to get you root access.
Probably not a realistic scenario, but we've seen stranger things happen.
I think you ought to read up on IP routing and border gateway protocol. Specifically, look at what happened when Pakistan blocked YouTube. If you have people fighting over IP assignments, which the US controls, then you have a real mess on your hands. We'd be totally screwed without centralized IP addressing.
I think the whole Megaupload thing should speak for itself. How long have you been reading slashdot? This is frequently discussed here, along with numerous other similar incidents.
I think you're so entrenched in this "us vs them" partisan mess to see past the mistakes of your chosen sports team. That's all that partisan politics is, it's about as much without reason as steelers fans hating cowboys fans.
Given that this is slashdot, which is typically left leaning, chances are that both of the guys you are arguing against vote democrat.
They've always been phasing in new birds to replace older ones, each with a new set of features, pretty much non-stop since they started, using the old ones as spares until they were retired. I believe the phase 2 birds rolling out before the phase 1 deployment even had the full intended coverage. Most civilian implementations probably have a limited feature set (all we really need is mapping) but I don't know if there is any kind of packet signing.
How much do you know about the workings of GPS? I ask because I wonder if there is anything in the current implementation that would prevent adding a digital signature to the tracking signals without breaking compatibility with existing devices?
Basically if the packet isn't signed, we just ignore it. I imagine for mission critical devices (e.g. commercial aircraft relying on IFR) they could upgrade the devices rather quickly. Consumer devices would of course be screwed in the current generation, but I don't really think a terrorist would benefit if somebody made a left turn instead of a right turn to find the nearest KFC.
A hitman maybe, but I think somebody would look into the dark alley that it is pointing into and say "damn iOS maps" and find it the old fashioned way.
Honestly, how is it that the top 1% pay 30% of all taxes, yet the socialists decry that they aren't paying their fair share? Yeah, they're not paying they're fair share, they're paying 30 times their fair share! But we're the 99% right? That means we should only have to pay 1%, amirite?
Funny things you can do with numbers by the way. Did you know that if you have more than $47,000 in income per year, you are in the top 1% of global income earners? It's true.
They could make pretty big bucks with a service like that with that price point as well, but the problem is you have to get basically all of them on board. This is difficult because all of them want to lay down their own terms and prices, and they all think that they deserve a bigger slice of the pie than the next guy.
I think the major issue is that they're still ensconced in the cable world right now. When that falls apart (which I strongly believe it will) they'll have to find a new distribution model. Will it move to something like this? Probably not, what we'll likely end up with are monolithic content providers that operate over the internet, and you either subscribe to it all or nothing at all, like we have now.
I think what would be nice is a unified distribution system that allows you to subscribe or unsubscribe to individual studios willy nilly, or even pay per episode if you'd prefer. They provide their own content servers, and there's an open standard way that any client can connect to them. If they charge too much or you don't like their shows, cancel any time.
You'd probably pay more for the content than you do watch, but you'd probably also pay less than you pay now. Right now I pay $50 a month for digital cable services and only watch maybe 3 channels. If I pay any less, I lose two of the channels I watch. I'm about to just ditch the thing entirely though.
Without corporate involvement, Linux wouldn't be anywhere near what it is today.
OpenOffice and its derivatives (basically the de-facto office suites of linux) itself was born out of corporate interests.
The GPL had the effect (unintended? I don't know as the philosophy of many developers involved in GPL projects seems to vary) of being that the software provides a service, and we don't (necessarily) profit from distributing the software itself, but rather profit from selling the services that it provides, or profit from selling services that provide for its users. Redistributing changes for others to use therefore does not harm your bottom line.
Linux itself was written by Linus Torvalds, not RMS. And as far as I'm aware, other than GCC the majority of corporate distribution of linux to end users doesn't use GNUtils very much (e.g. android, tivo, soho routers, and many others.) Even if they did, they could always just take the BSD implementations which in nearly all cases are every bit as good.
If RMS takes issue with that, he can go promote Hurd (aka Turd) to the world, which has little if any corporate involvement, and likewise is back in the stone age by comparison.
There are some good newznab based providers that I tend to rely upon the most. They work great, and there's basically nothing stopping anybody from building their own.
There's also binsearch.info. Binsearch is easily the most comprehensive nzb index in existence, only downside is that it is also unfiltered, but the bad stuff is easy to spot (e.g. passworded rars are marked as such, and NZB's that aren't anywhere near large enough to be what they claim to be are obviously not what you're looking for.) Generally if I need something obscure, binsearch is a great last resort if nobody else has it.
I use a combination of astraweb and sunnynews. It tends to be that if one doesn't have it, the other does. Combined the two will run you $16ish a month. Worth every penny IMO.
You're working under the assumption that the climate will increase nonstop until then. This is unlikely, however it has happened before. Many, many times before.
And you know, during these warm periods, the earth was much more green than it is now. Macro scale life was also much larger.
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Yeah he's a master at reverse engineering filesystems. The majority of the tools we had were based on his vplay sources. I think samba.org still hosts them, not sure though because the server isn't responding (tivo.samba.org)
vlm specifically implied that Americans are being extradited to other countries for doing things that aren't illegal in America - I contend that point, and the lack of supporting citation.
No, read his post, he said doing things illegal in the US (as in, against the law in the US) while being in a foreign country. Although Dotcom hasn't been extradited yet, they are pushing for it, and they have successfully extradited other people who have never set foot in the US.
You probably shouldn't throw stones from a glass house, by the way (see your first sentece below.)
And I think you're reading too much into the specific words I wrote, and not enough into the context. Hint: It has far less to do with partisan politics than you think, and far more to do with shit tin-foil-hat-crazy people say.
Well, the "shit tin-foil-hat-crazy people say" about Obama and firearms is correct. Obama said he wants to "reintroduce the ban on assault rifles."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/10/24/what-president-obama-says-hell-do-to-your-gun-rights/
Personally I love assault rifles. In fact, I use them exclusively over pistols for target shooting. Pistols make me nervous, ironically (they just feel so dangerous for how small they are). Probably has to do with the fact that I've been extensively trained with assault rifles in the Army, but never have been trained with a pistol. Besides, in an urban environment its a lot easier to assassinate somebody with a pistol than a rifle. A rifle isn't as inconspicuous as a pistol, and is much harder to conceal.
Besides, If you don't like assault rifles, what are you going to do about it, take it from me at knifepoint?
I'm sure he is, but a lot of big tech companies have declined once they replaced their retiring tech savvy CEO with a salesman. Apple did it once, and they may very well do it again. Yahoo, Hewlette Packard, Xerox...
You seem to know a lot about Microsoft's position on Samba, are you part of the Samba team? I used to have a lot to do with Tridge during his TiVo hacking days.
By the way, if anybody asks, it IS Microsoft's intent that other non-MS clients connect to AD. They specifically built a framework and API to allow 3rd party apps add their own schema to the database and query for user permissions. A few things I've worked with that do this are VMware vCenter and Cisco ACS firewall.
And no, that isn't because the EU made them, they've been doing this since the earlier days of active directory (at least, Server 2003 has this functionality anyways.)
Active directory is mostly built around LDAP, Kerberos, and SQL, all of which are open standards.
I did a network integration capstone course where we had linux and windows in a single active directory domain, with single sign on and all users and objects in one database. How is this different?
More power to them though, active directory is HUGE in the enterprise space. If you could integrate its security controls and policies into android tablets and smartphones, windows 8 and its lame tablet UI will never see the light of day in big business.
I wouldn't mind starting a multi-billion dollar a year company. Though I would be careful about sticking a fat salesman in the CEO spot.
Well, it wouldn't be entirely incorrect in my case. The key is to impress the hell out of somebody in a high place. Even if they themselves don't hire you, word tends to get around.
I participated in a contest held annually in Phoenix called the Avnet Tech Games. In the event I was doing, which included not only practical lab work, but also a written test, the community college students scored 90% and above. The university students were all below 70%.
It only makes sense too when you think about it. Universities focus on the theoretical while community colleges focus on the practical. That, and community college teachers are there to teach, and genuinely care for the success of the students. Most university professors on the other hand are there to do research, and have upwards of 300 students to a class.
I've mentioned on slashdot before about how I have zero debt and the benefits of community college, and the replies I often get are from people with terrible grammar (I've only taken one English class before, by the way) who tell me that I got a cheap education because community college sucks, though they can never offer any reason why they say that. I mean if it was Harvard or MIT, sure, but most public universities that most people attend aren't anything special, yet are still expensive.
And my damn iPad makes me misspell Delaware.
Or, they just don't rely on income tax for revenue. States like Nevada work like this; their revenue comes from taxing gambling, so it is mostly the tourists who pay Nevada's taxes. Yet most companies prefer to incorporate in Deleware, who has an income tax.
I recall a while back how Obama was using a talking point about how there was a relatively small building in Grand Cayman which housed some thousands of corporations who didn't really do business there. He blamed it on tax avoidance. Trouble is, the same kind of building exists in Deleware, who has an income tax.
So why Deleware? Wlell, Deleware has very lax laws and the "deregulation" that many socialists decry, which make it much easier to run a business out of there. In many cases they pay even more taxes, but the reduced bureaucratic overhead makes it worth it. The same is true of Cayman, only even fewer regulations. Lower taxation is just another benefit. Trouble is there is a bit of a cost barrier to operate there that medium sized corporations can't afford, but much larger ones can.
Sorry, that one "happens" to get you root access. Not sure how that word got mangled.
As a general rule, adding moe services, even internal ones, opens more holes.
Suppose you manage to find a zero day exploit for ssh, but it only gets you limited user access. But as it turns out, you also have another zero day for x.org, and that onegrapples to get you root access.
Probably not a realistic scenario, but we've seen stranger things happen.
I think you ought to read up on IP routing and border gateway protocol. Specifically, look at what happened when Pakistan blocked YouTube. If you have people fighting over IP assignments, which the US controls, then you have a real mess on your hands. We'd be totally screwed without centralized IP addressing.
I think the whole Megaupload thing should speak for itself. How long have you been reading slashdot? This is frequently discussed here, along with numerous other similar incidents.
I think you're so entrenched in this "us vs them" partisan mess to see past the mistakes of your chosen sports team. That's all that partisan politics is, it's about as much without reason as steelers fans hating cowboys fans.
Given that this is slashdot, which is typically left leaning, chances are that both of the guys you are arguing against vote democrat.
They've always been phasing in new birds to replace older ones, each with a new set of features, pretty much non-stop since they started, using the old ones as spares until they were retired. I believe the phase 2 birds rolling out before the phase 1 deployment even had the full intended coverage. Most civilian implementations probably have a limited feature set (all we really need is mapping) but I don't know if there is any kind of packet signing.
How much do you know about the workings of GPS? I ask because I wonder if there is anything in the current implementation that would prevent adding a digital signature to the tracking signals without breaking compatibility with existing devices?
Basically if the packet isn't signed, we just ignore it. I imagine for mission critical devices (e.g. commercial aircraft relying on IFR) they could upgrade the devices rather quickly. Consumer devices would of course be screwed in the current generation, but I don't really think a terrorist would benefit if somebody made a left turn instead of a right turn to find the nearest KFC.
A hitman maybe, but I think somebody would look into the dark alley that it is pointing into and say "damn iOS maps" and find it the old fashioned way.
As a counterpoint to the one I made, you show me a ratio of what forms of taxes people pay separated by state?
I got an idea; hop on your buggy whip and ride it to this page:
http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5033e47e6bb3f7ab5a000004-900/the-top-10-pay-about-70-of-the-income-taxes.jpg
Or this one:
http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5033e3e3ecad049417000002-900/here-are-the-income-taxes-paid-by-the-respective-income-percentiles-note-how-little-the-bottom-half-pay-blue-note-how-much-more-as-a-percentage-of-the-whole-the-top-5-are-paying.jpg
Honestly, how is it that the top 1% pay 30% of all taxes, yet the socialists decry that they aren't paying their fair share? Yeah, they're not paying they're fair share, they're paying 30 times their fair share! But we're the 99% right? That means we should only have to pay 1%, amirite?
Funny things you can do with numbers by the way. Did you know that if you have more than $47,000 in income per year, you are in the top 1% of global income earners? It's true.
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
How come you're entitled to the earnings of the top 1%, but the rest of the world isn't entitled to your earnings?
They could make pretty big bucks with a service like that with that price point as well, but the problem is you have to get basically all of them on board. This is difficult because all of them want to lay down their own terms and prices, and they all think that they deserve a bigger slice of the pie than the next guy.
I think the major issue is that they're still ensconced in the cable world right now. When that falls apart (which I strongly believe it will) they'll have to find a new distribution model. Will it move to something like this? Probably not, what we'll likely end up with are monolithic content providers that operate over the internet, and you either subscribe to it all or nothing at all, like we have now.
I think what would be nice is a unified distribution system that allows you to subscribe or unsubscribe to individual studios willy nilly, or even pay per episode if you'd prefer. They provide their own content servers, and there's an open standard way that any client can connect to them. If they charge too much or you don't like their shows, cancel any time.
You'd probably pay more for the content than you do watch, but you'd probably also pay less than you pay now. Right now I pay $50 a month for digital cable services and only watch maybe 3 channels. If I pay any less, I lose two of the channels I watch. I'm about to just ditch the thing entirely though.
Without corporate involvement, Linux wouldn't be anywhere near what it is today.
OpenOffice and its derivatives (basically the de-facto office suites of linux) itself was born out of corporate interests.
The GPL had the effect (unintended? I don't know as the philosophy of many developers involved in GPL projects seems to vary) of being that the software provides a service, and we don't (necessarily) profit from distributing the software itself, but rather profit from selling the services that it provides, or profit from selling services that provide for its users. Redistributing changes for others to use therefore does not harm your bottom line.
Linux itself was written by Linus Torvalds, not RMS. And as far as I'm aware, other than GCC the majority of corporate distribution of linux to end users doesn't use GNUtils very much (e.g. android, tivo, soho routers, and many others.) Even if they did, they could always just take the BSD implementations which in nearly all cases are every bit as good.
If RMS takes issue with that, he can go promote Hurd (aka Turd) to the world, which has little if any corporate involvement, and likewise is back in the stone age by comparison.
There are some good newznab based providers that I tend to rely upon the most. They work great, and there's basically nothing stopping anybody from building their own.
There's also binsearch.info. Binsearch is easily the most comprehensive nzb index in existence, only downside is that it is also unfiltered, but the bad stuff is easy to spot (e.g. passworded rars are marked as such, and NZB's that aren't anywhere near large enough to be what they claim to be are obviously not what you're looking for.) Generally if I need something obscure, binsearch is a great last resort if nobody else has it.
I use a combination of astraweb and sunnynews. It tends to be that if one doesn't have it, the other does. Combined the two will run you $16ish a month. Worth every penny IMO.
You're working under the assumption that the climate will increase nonstop until then. This is unlikely, however it has happened before. Many, many times before.
And you know, during these warm periods, the earth was much more green than it is now. Macro scale life was also much larger.
And so how do you propose taking their guns away? With guns? But you don't like guns, remember? And we can't be hypocritical now, can we?