Halifax is nowhere close to being a "large population centre". In 1995, the place wasn't much over six figures.
Okay, poor choice of words. There were cities and large towns not classified as cities in the U.S. that had broadband in 1995/1996.
See above.
It's not how rural or isolated a place is. The issue is that there's "small" population centers near or even inside a huge population center that don't have broadband. For instance, Boston (population 589,281) definitely has broadband access, but outling suburbs and rural areas near Boston do not. These places aren't isolated at all - they're near a huge population center.
The problem is that when most of the large population center already has broadband, it isn't worth wiring the small population center. It isn't cost effective to wire up the additional "small" population center for a few thousand people that may or may not purchase broadband. It takes more money to replace all the old wiring, build additional support facilities, and add aditional staff than would be brought in by these few potential customers. In many cases, the additional support facilities are in place, but the providers still won't provide broadband access, because of difficulties with the last mile. In other words, the provider has to rewire thousands of communities and hundreds of thousands of homes, because the last few hundred feet of cable can't handle broadband. In cities, this isn't an issue, because businesses are close enough to homes that home users get the benefit of rewiring due to business demand. However it's different in the suburbs and rural areas where there isn't much commerce, the terrain is difficult, and most of the infrastructure needs to be replaced. There's a reason that brand new communities almost always get broadband first - new infrastructure.
Where I'm from (Halifax, Nova Scotia), we've had residential broadband access in some form or another since as far back as 1995 or 1996.
Many of the large population centers in the U.S. have had residential broadband access since 1995 too.
On the other hand, there isn't a whole lot of "wasteland" to fill between towns, meaning that setting up so many additional connections will always yield a decent increase in subscriber base.
That's the problem. Everything ends up being relative, because of it. In the U.S. a large percentage of metropolitian areas have suburbs that extend hundreds of miles from the nearest city that fill up these wastelands. In other words, you have to wire millions of homes outwards from the city for hundreds of miles. This ends up not being cost effective even when there are literally thousands of customers who want broadband. The places that are easiest to wire with higher ability to pay are wired first, because that is cost effective. This means that millions of people don't have broadband.
Just for perspective, central New Jersey is directly in between New York City and and Philadelphia, two of the most populous areas in the U.S. New Jersey has a population of 10,000 people per square mile. However, there is still no broadband access to much of central, NJ. Why? Because it simply isn't cost effective to wire up a "small" subscriber base of 100,000 people.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. This is just the excuse you need to purchase that new equipment you've been lusting over. Just remember to put, "patch security hole", on the purchase req.
So I have a friend who has an Ipod. He buys his music from iTunes. He presses sync or whatver it is, and I copy said music. Legal then eh?
No, that's still a copyright violation. You end up with a copy of a copyright protected work that you didn't purchase. Reverse engineering doesn't copy the protected work. It creates a separate implementation that interoperates with the original work. This has been done for years, and in the U.S. it is legal. It's also the main reason the PC BIOS has so many implementations.
I agree. I've been with Godaddy for 5 years now, and I haven't had any issues so far. I've set my account up to automatically renew my domains every time they expire, and it works flawlessly. They send out emails at periodic intervals to let you know the status of your account. They also send actual letters to you to let you know about important issues that effect the domain name system, your privacy, etc. It seems like they actually care about their customers.
Yup, that's it exactly. This is the way reverse engineering has been done for decades. What you normally do is use two teams. The first team is licensed to use the software or hardware and is the only user. The second team creates the software or hardware to emulate what is being reverse engineered and has absolutely no contact with what is being reverse engineered - not even for testing purposes. The first team provides the second team with requirements and tests the second team's product for compatibility.
I dunno, that sounds to me a lot like justifying screwing someone's wife by saying something like, "hey she was passed out in my bedroom".
Well, if we're going to use bad sex analogies, it's more like:
You invite a couple over to your home. The guy decides to screw his wife right there on your kitchen table. Instead of ignoring them or stopping them, you proceed to watch them fuck to find out how they have intercourse. The guy then leaves, and you do his wife right there in the exact same way he just did. She doesn't notice the difference. Filthy slut.
No, he doesn't need to use the tool. A licensed user excercises the tool while Tridge watches the packets go back and forth from client to server. There are only so many operations that an SCM system can perform, so Tridge just needs to yell out general operations for the user to perform, such as, "check in a file", "merge two files", etc. Tridge could also be familiar with the BK commands without having actually used the tool (i.e. somone could describe it to him), so he could just yell out those commands to the user.
there is no way to disable the wireless link. Sure, there's a button that says "Disable Wireless". There's a menu option not to assign a DHCP address to a wireless client. But these DO NOT WORK.
I just tested this with my DGL-4300, and it does not have either of these issues.
D-Link have a pretty good reputation but some niggles such as crashing under extreme load and the tendency of the DSL 5**T series to make a whining noise while running mean I'll still be steering clear of them
Well, I have good news for you on both counts. I've run BitTorrent through my DGL-4300 at my maximum bandwith for over a week on the initial firmware with no instability issues. It's the first router that I've been able to do this with. Furthermore, it has no annoying whining problems. As far as I can tell, it makes no noise at all.
After getting 2 BEFW11S4 Wireless routers+switches that had bad switches (connections randomly die, the router needs to be reooted) and then not being able to get any support from the Indian Tech Support
I have the initial version of that router. Yes, I have encountered all sorts of instability issues with it. However, you know the thing that really pissed me off?
Linksys initially lied on their packaging! That's right, they lied. The packaging specifically said that the router had 128-bit WEP encryption, but after I opened the box and set it up I found out that it only supported 64-bit WEP encryption. The manual even said that it only supported 64-bit WEP encryption! After that I immediately took it back to the store and told the management, who complained to Linksys.
That should have been the end of it. I should not have bought anything from Linksys after that. Unfortunately, it was the cheapest wireless router around, and a couple months after the incident there was a firmware update that added 128-bit WEP. I fell for it, and purchased the router only to find out that it also had instability issues (after return policy expired, of course).
After several firmware updates, it finally settled down, and I've had a hard time finding a stable replacement with 802.11g for it. I finally replaced it recently with the D-Link 4300, and I couldn't be happier.
Seriously, though, it's a really nice router. I bought it to replace my ancient Linksys router, and the D-Link 4300 is the first router I've used that I've had no serious complaints about.
I was pleasantly surprised by these features that most other routers don't have:
Supports WPA-2 with AES and a backup RADIUS server
Has an integrated Gigabit Ethernet switch
QoS with both automatic and manual settings that autodetects uplink speed
You can make all your configuration changes first, and then commit them
The web admin pages both function and appear correctly in browsers other than IE
Amazingly, the initial version was actually stable right out of the box! The only issue was that the initial firmware didn't handle looping back to an internal address from an internal address using the router's external address. This, however, was fixed in the first firmware update. Other than that, I have had no other issues with the D-Link at all. It was been rock solid.
Also, the blue lights are damn cool.
My $20 Netgear wireless router
Be careful, the inexpensive Netgear (like the RP614 for instance) have a bug where certain well known ports (tftp, telnet) on the router are open to the Internet (Yes, the WAN port - check it out with nmap). Furthermore, these ports cannot be closed either by forwarding rules or using DMZ - they always go to the router. It is a serious bug.
If I'm ever in a situation where (politely!) offering true information is going to get me in some sort of trouble, I make sure that that situation changes very shortly.
You probably shouldn't go to work anywhere that has Union employees, then. They can file a grievance against you and your supervisor if you piss them off. The worst part is that you can't do anything about this other than leave the company.
My friend had a new chair delivered to the his mailbox near the secretary's office. After it was delevered, he tried to move the chair from the mailboxes to his office (which was 50 feet away). Unfortunately, there happened to be a Millwright walking by who saw him move the chair. The Union guy immediately came over and told my friend that he had to put in a work order to have the chair moved.
My friend tried to reason with the guy and politely pointed out how his office was only fifty feet away, putting in a work order would take a long time to get through the system, he was sitting in a broken chair, and the new chair was blocking the hallway which is a fire hazard. The Union guy was furious. He immediately filed a grievance against my friend. Subsequently, my friend and the department head had to go talk to the Union representatives in a formal hearing. My friend had disciplinary action taked against him. The chair eventually got moved, but it took weeks.
If my friend had simply apologized and left the chair where it was, he could have waited until the Union guys left at 5 and moved the chair to his office.
The moral of the story is that you have to pick your battles, and trying to educate the masses just isn't a good idea.
The Pi symbol/. uses for Math articles is very appropriate in this case, because Ramanujan also came up with a formula for the numerical representation of Pi That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the article text, and I was kind of disappointed it wasn't about that particular aspect of Ramanujan.
Why is that so hard to believe? The update has been out for months.
If not, then installing SP2 *is* an extra step.
It might be an extra step if you like to screw with your default settings. Expert users usually do. They turn off Automatic Updates, because they either want to do it themselves or have a fear that their machine will not function after a security update. I didn't change my default settings for my pre-SP1 machine, and I've had SP1 and SP2 installed automatically for me without any extra steps.
Each one would be evaulated separately for default security. Make sense?
Yes, each one should be evaluated separately, the way every different OS version is evaluated separately.
Yeah, I'll give you that one. I have done the same upgrade you have, and you do have to turn the firewall on. It does prompt for Automatic Updates, though. Mine downloaded and installed SP2 on it's own. I don't know why yours didn't.
I got another machine through an OEM before SP1 was even out, and that machine had the firewall turned on (Wasn't it called a filter then?), and Windows filesharing turned off. Automatic Updates was also turned on, and it has downloaded and installed SP1 and SP2 with no issues. Pretty cool actually.
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Okay, poor choice of words. There were cities and large towns not classified as cities in the U.S. that had broadband in 1995/1996.
See above.
It's not how rural or isolated a place is. The issue is that there's "small" population centers near or even inside a huge population center that don't have broadband. For instance, Boston (population 589,281) definitely has broadband access, but outling suburbs and rural areas near Boston do not. These places aren't isolated at all - they're near a huge population center.
The problem is that when most of the large population center already has broadband, it isn't worth wiring the small population center. It isn't cost effective to wire up the additional "small" population center for a few thousand people that may or may not purchase broadband. It takes more money to replace all the old wiring, build additional support facilities, and add aditional staff than would be brought in by these few potential customers. In many cases, the additional support facilities are in place, but the providers still won't provide broadband access, because of difficulties with the last mile. In other words, the provider has to rewire thousands of communities and hundreds of thousands of homes, because the last few hundred feet of cable can't handle broadband. In cities, this isn't an issue, because businesses are close enough to homes that home users get the benefit of rewiring due to business demand. However it's different in the suburbs and rural areas where there isn't much commerce, the terrain is difficult, and most of the infrastructure needs to be replaced. There's a reason that brand new communities almost always get broadband first - new infrastructure.
Many of the large population centers in the U.S. have had residential broadband access since 1995 too.
On the other hand, there isn't a whole lot of "wasteland" to fill between towns, meaning that setting up so many additional connections will always yield a decent increase in subscriber base.
That's the problem. Everything ends up being relative, because of it. In the U.S. a large percentage of metropolitian areas have suburbs that extend hundreds of miles from the nearest city that fill up these wastelands. In other words, you have to wire millions of homes outwards from the city for hundreds of miles. This ends up not being cost effective even when there are literally thousands of customers who want broadband. The places that are easiest to wire with higher ability to pay are wired first, because that is cost effective. This means that millions of people don't have broadband.
Just for perspective, central New Jersey is directly in between New York City and and Philadelphia, two of the most populous areas in the U.S. New Jersey has a population of 10,000 people per square mile. However, there is still no broadband access to much of central, NJ. Why? Because it simply isn't cost effective to wire up a "small" subscriber base of 100,000 people.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. This is just the excuse you need to purchase that new equipment you've been lusting over. Just remember to put, "patch security hole", on the purchase req.
No, that's still a copyright violation. You end up with a copy of a copyright protected work that you didn't purchase. Reverse engineering doesn't copy the protected work. It creates a separate implementation that interoperates with the original work. This has been done for years, and in the U.S. it is legal. It's also the main reason the PC BIOS has so many implementations.
Good news! Today it's up to a whopping 25 minutes!
Go WPI. Smaller, cheaper, same state, and not nearly as many super-competitive assholes.
I get medieval and mount the bad drive's heads on a pike.
I agree. I've been with Godaddy for 5 years now, and I haven't had any issues so far. I've set my account up to automatically renew my domains every time they expire, and it works flawlessly. They send out emails at periodic intervals to let you know the status of your account. They also send actual letters to you to let you know about important issues that effect the domain name system, your privacy, etc. It seems like they actually care about their customers.
Yup, that's it exactly. This is the way reverse engineering has been done for decades. What you normally do is use two teams. The first team is licensed to use the software or hardware and is the only user. The second team creates the software or hardware to emulate what is being reverse engineered and has absolutely no contact with what is being reverse engineered - not even for testing purposes. The first team provides the second team with requirements and tests the second team's product for compatibility.
I really don't see how. At no time is Tridge using BK.
Well, if we're going to use bad sex analogies, it's more like:
You invite a couple over to your home. The guy decides to screw his wife right there on your kitchen table. Instead of ignoring them or stopping them, you proceed to watch them fuck to find out how they have intercourse. The guy then leaves, and you do his wife right there in the exact same way he just did. She doesn't notice the difference. Filthy slut.
I just tested this with my DGL-4300, and it does not have either of these issues.
Well, I have good news for you on both counts. I've run BitTorrent through my DGL-4300 at my maximum bandwith for over a week on the initial firmware with no instability issues. It's the first router that I've been able to do this with. Furthermore, it has no annoying whining problems. As far as I can tell, it makes no noise at all.
I have the initial version of that router. Yes, I have encountered all sorts of instability issues with it. However, you know the thing that really pissed me off?
Linksys initially lied on their packaging! That's right, they lied. The packaging specifically said that the router had 128-bit WEP encryption, but after I opened the box and set it up I found out that it only supported 64-bit WEP encryption. The manual even said that it only supported 64-bit WEP encryption! After that I immediately took it back to the store and told the management, who complained to Linksys.
That should have been the end of it. I should not have bought anything from Linksys after that. Unfortunately, it was the cheapest wireless router around, and a couple months after the incident there was a firmware update that added 128-bit WEP. I fell for it, and purchased the router only to find out that it also had instability issues (after return policy expired, of course).
After several firmware updates, it finally settled down, and I've had a hard time finding a stable replacement with 802.11g for it. I finally replaced it recently with the D-Link 4300, and I couldn't be happier.
Because it's BLACK, duh!
Seriously, though, it's a really nice router. I bought it to replace my ancient Linksys router, and the D-Link 4300 is the first router I've used that I've had no serious complaints about.
I was pleasantly surprised by these features that most other routers don't have:
- Supports WPA-2 with AES and a backup RADIUS server
- Has an integrated Gigabit Ethernet switch
- QoS with both automatic and manual settings that autodetects uplink speed
- You can make all your configuration changes first, and then commit them
- The web admin pages both function and appear correctly in browsers other than IE
Amazingly, the initial version was actually stable right out of the box! The only issue was that the initial firmware didn't handle looping back to an internal address from an internal address using the router's external address. This, however, was fixed in the first firmware update. Other than that, I have had no other issues with the D-Link at all. It was been rock solid.Also, the blue lights are damn cool.
My $20 Netgear wireless router
Be careful, the inexpensive Netgear (like the RP614 for instance) have a bug where certain well known ports (tftp, telnet) on the router are open to the Internet (Yes, the WAN port - check it out with nmap). Furthermore, these ports cannot be closed either by forwarding rules or using DMZ - they always go to the router. It is a serious bug.
At a place I used to work, whenever someone overeducated made an ID-10t mistake we called them, "too highly trained".
You probably shouldn't go to work anywhere that has Union employees, then. They can file a grievance against you and your supervisor if you piss them off. The worst part is that you can't do anything about this other than leave the company.
My friend had a new chair delivered to the his mailbox near the secretary's office. After it was delevered, he tried to move the chair from the mailboxes to his office (which was 50 feet away). Unfortunately, there happened to be a Millwright walking by who saw him move the chair. The Union guy immediately came over and told my friend that he had to put in a work order to have the chair moved.
My friend tried to reason with the guy and politely pointed out how his office was only fifty feet away, putting in a work order would take a long time to get through the system, he was sitting in a broken chair, and the new chair was blocking the hallway which is a fire hazard. The Union guy was furious. He immediately filed a grievance against my friend. Subsequently, my friend and the department head had to go talk to the Union representatives in a formal hearing. My friend had disciplinary action taked against him. The chair eventually got moved, but it took weeks.
If my friend had simply apologized and left the chair where it was, he could have waited until the Union guys left at 5 and moved the chair to his office.
The moral of the story is that you have to pick your battles, and trying to educate the masses just isn't a good idea.
That's because they didn't read the article first to find out what his gender is:
He's a guy:
The Pi symbol /. uses for Math articles is very appropriate in this case, because Ramanujan also came up with a formula for the numerical representation of Pi
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the article text, and I was kind of disappointed it wasn't about that particular aspect of Ramanujan.
Why is that so hard to believe? The update has been out for months.
If not, then installing SP2 *is* an extra step.
It might be an extra step if you like to screw with your default settings. Expert users usually do. They turn off Automatic Updates, because they either want to do it themselves or have a fear that their machine will not function after a security update. I didn't change my default settings for my pre-SP1 machine, and I've had SP1 and SP2 installed automatically for me without any extra steps.
Each one would be evaulated separately for default security. Make sense?
Yes, each one should be evaluated separately, the way every different OS version is evaluated separately.
No, it uses a different set of privileges. "Debugger Users" is NOT the same group as "Administrators". Administrator privileges are not required.
I got another machine through an OEM before SP1 was even out, and that machine had the firewall turned on (Wasn't it called a filter then?), and Windows filesharing turned off. Automatic Updates was also turned on, and it has downloaded and installed SP1 and SP2 with no issues. Pretty cool actually.
No actually they don't. They do require debugger privileges, but that's not the same thing.