The child porn blocking is enforced only on DNS servers. It is not mandatory, so ISP may opt not to block traffic. And of course you can run your own name servers (provided your ISP does not block port 53) even if your ISP blocks child porn.
I would assume in "circles" it is known how to circumvent this blocking. And I guess many will use TOR or some VPN to hide their tracks. DNS-level blocking just makes it more difficult to police to pick the "easy ones" who would not use any hiding techniques if everything would just work by default.
Many of those who are participating have experience on writing commercial i.e. closed text books and the work estimate is reasonable. With that group the amount of work done in a weekend is the same or larger that is done by the author on text book. Probably part of illustrations and editing work made by publisher will be missing by end of weekend. The text and content looks reasonable as I just pulled it from github and compiled.
There has already been lots of discussion in local media "those are stealing money from publishers", "how they are going to get living" and usual stuff related to open source software. And that is a good thing - specailly becase crowdsourced and crowdfunded language teaching book was killed by authorities.
The fact is, that only very few text book writers earn living just by making text books in Finland. If you have only a about 5 million speaking Finnish, you do not sell many books even if you get manage write a bestseller for elementary school. This book is for the first course in high school "long" mathematics, that is taken only by about 10000 students annually. In addition, aftermarkets are quite active, so at best one is able to sell 5000 books - and of course that is divided further between different publishers. Taken that writer gets some 2 € for a book, it is easy to make then math - annual salary for qualified high school math teacher (15y experience, additional education; i.e. one that would be able to write a book) is 50000 €. And typically there are at least 3 persons sharing the profits, so after marginal taxes one may afford to pay holiday flight tickets.
I, as a father of 3rd year high school student, would have welcomed this three years earlier.
Earlier I used backup2l to first make local backup and then rsync to server. The only problem was it was wasting disk space on each host, specially laptops.
Recently I moved to bup, provides more efficient backups with very small local storage. Now I have in every laptop, desktop and my email server (all running either Debian or Ubuntu) in/etc/cron.daily/bup-backup:
#!/bin/sh
echo Backup starting at $(hostname) $(date)
bup index -u/var/mail/home/var/lib/mysql
bup save -r backups.example.com: -n $(hostname)/var/mail/home/var/lib/mysql
echo Backup ending at $(hostname) $(date)
Because I do not want remote root logins on my file server at home, there is a need for small tweak in/root/.ssh/config:
Host backup.example.com
User bupups
Compression yes
HostName filesrv.example.com
Now as each system backups to the same bup archive, deduplication is taken care automagically.
Each month I rsync/home/bupups to external USB drive that is stored in different place in case of fire or other mishap it will be protected. At some point I've considered installing a low-power server at my father-on-law place for automated off-site backups; will keep the off-line copy in any case.
Of course, I do not much care about taking backups from movies, music - expect maybe some kids love; but they are already on some USB drive to entertain them while travelling...
Unfortunately, it was too slow compared to wheeled counterpart even if it made very little damage to forest floor. But for very sensitive environments a man and a horse are more efficient considering the cost of the harvester. Only 3 units were build, one is at display at Lusto forest museum.
A competitor, owner of Ponsse, Einari Vidgren was claimed to say: "If they make walking harvester, we make a running one".
However, I really think that what Sony did requires some kind of punishment. Require them to pay punitive damages to consumers, fine them substantially, do something.
Maybe in US that would work, but Finnish legal system does know about punitive damages. Victims are paid with actual damages that in some cases can be significant - like young person injured and not able to work on profession she is studying for: damages are amount of salary earned in life-time. But no slap-like damages to customers. Goverment may ask for wrongfully earned money and issue fine.
Spreadsheets, graphics and diagrams are one thing that benefit from maximal area. However, for other applications I maximise them only vertically, if any. I have configured title-bar double-click to expand window vertically.
Text editors, terminals, email message panels run 80 character wide as they have always been. A browser window where I type this is a bit wide, 1175 px, but it still leaves room for window below be that much visible I would notice if it scrolls. If web page is too wide for it, then C-- few times will make it behave.
On 7" netbook using Ubuntu 10.10 most windows are maximised and there the usage is just fine - expect for those dialogs that do not fit on screen. But if screen size is 1280x800 or better I very seldom maximize windows.
GP sounds like a nice troll. Unless you replace air with 1000-fold more dense material it is impossible to cool a person to hypothermia in few seconds, no matter what is temperature and wind speed are. A human can spend comfortably tens of minutes at temperatures well below 200K even naked (or swimsuit) and this is used to heal pains in rheumatoid arthritis.
And as one who lives in north, I can imagine the amount of snow taken air with wind over 30 m/s. Invisible in your dreams.
What is a check, or a cheque? Living in Finland, I think I saw one in actual use last time in very early nineties - almost twenty years ago.
Same for me, I guess I signed last cheque in 1989, since then it has been cash, debit and credit cards or electronic banking. Buyers of our apartment paid with cheque in 1999, but they were a bit strange in other ways too.
All the actual mail I get and care about is bills - that I could, with one call, convert to fully "electronic" PDF-only service.
And those are not ones I need to get as dead-tree print imitation. Many regular payments are based on direct payments: I get a notification email week or two in advance and I do not need to do anything to get them paid (except to make sure that there is enough money on account). If there is something wrong with those (so far none), and I want to challenge it I can remove it.
For me that experiment would not work, because about alI physical mail I receive are on physical for a reason.
At least for GSM frequencies: 84 subjects (for total 600 trials) had to guess if mobile phone was on, or if it state changed. If one had 3 out of 4 right, 50 euro reward was given. No-one claimed that, even if there was six persons that told being very sensitive to "mobile phone radiation".
It is hard to see how maximum 35 degree C water (with 1 bar pressure) could be steam bomb. That is the water temperature I have running inside floors. Even if water coming into heat exchanger may some times exceed 100 C, and you can get seriously injured if you are close to pipe break, I prefer it much to system having flame and exploding gas.
Most of time the heat is by-product of electric power plant, so distributed heating is a good way to improve overall efficiency.
Even if the paint blocks radio waves, it would be usable only in windowless rooms without electricity. Radio waves have a property going where you do not want to, and not going where you want.
For example, I know multiple RF-shielded rooms that were very good when they were build in early 1970s. However, one has no problems using cell phone inside of those. To get sufficent protection to GHz rf signals, you must have proper filters in all wires going to room, including all copper network cables and power lines. Same for all ventilation and doors.
The paint is just the easy part that you can replace with copper plates. The rest is much harder.
Why anyone would like to have LTE base station of their own? There is this technology called WLAN that you have been able to buy for more than then years and have your private wireless network where you need.
WiMAX (or similar like Flash-OFDM) do have some uses, but most likely to serve some niche markets. LTE is just another radio technology mobile phones support: like UMTS and HSDPA was add after GSM, so will LTE be available
For me it has been sufficient to have in laptop both WLAN and bluetooth to connect via mobile phone. In many cases I do not even bother to check for open/public WLAN as they may be limited with allowed protocols or they modify traffic by inserting advertisement. UMTS provides mostly just fine bandwidth I need for my work. And in places with bad UMTS coverage one does not find open WLANs too much either.
There exists WLAN APs that have 3G phone in it. Just SIM card in and you can just use (and share, if you like) connectivity via WLAN. Similar one for Flash-OFDM and most likely for WiMAX and LTE exists soon too.
BTW: UMTS does support using WLAN as radio interface: if your home has bad coverage, but you have ADSL line and WLAN AP, your phone can resort using WLAN access for calls too. Just WLAN is more energy-hungry compared to GSM and UMTS native radio network.
With unlimited dataplans the laptop use dominates traffic volume. I do not remember now exact figures, but in one European network more than 95% of traffic volume is from laptops. The network has unlimited dataplans starting from 9.95€
It is funny to see US carriers to cripple phones to save their business model.
That was total crap, was he selling some solution for it?
At first, I do not know any large-scale deployment of Mobile-IP. 3G networks provide mobility below IP and they do not use any "complex network triangulation" in it. Mobile-IP does have its weakness, but AFAIK the latest RFCs should provide quite solid (not worse-than-fixed) protection from DOS.
You can somewhat DOS high-speed data channels in 3G networks by sending packets with at intervals, but that is limited to single sector in base station, so that is not a big problem either. Battery drain DOS can be a real problem, but that is pretty much solved if you close your browser and your data channel is closed. If you do not have active data connections, nobody can sen you packets.
Again, was it some North-Zimbabwe 3G provider that took hit from 4.5GB data transfer? Last time I checked, it was less than 10 second traffic volume at small-country 3G providers. From "peer-to-peer Web sites".
This seems to be a very nice option. I just tested (on 9.04) and seems that the guest was given a home directory at/tmp/ but had no acceess rights to/home (even if/home has mode 755). According to spec, the AppArmor is used to limit access.
Much better than system I used earlier (passwordless guest account with only local gdm login allowed).
Perhaps, in Finland, one cannot sign away this particular right.
You are right: it is not possible to give "you can read all my email" right to employer. If, for example, you are leave (or sick) and your manager thinks that there is a critical information in your mailbox, he cannot just ask system admin to open your mailbox and get that message.
To read the message, the employer must first try to contact you to open the message. If that fails, then there is certain procedure how a needed message is first searched (basicly email subject, sender and date are only allowed). Then message is opened and all of this (including opened message) is recorded and handed to you when you came back.
Well, the Finland has nowadays one of most stricts privacy laws. What Nokia wants to do, is the thing US companies do routinely every day claiming that they has to do it to protect shareholder value.
The law at present proposed form is nowhere close to laws (if one exist) in many "civilized" countries, not to talk about totalitarian countries. Like one not-so-democratic east of Finland, and one we-listen-your-communication west of Finland.
It is actually quite funny, that the existing law is known as "Lex Sonera" (Sonera was a former state-own telco now part of TeliaSonera). The former CEO of Sonera wanted to find out which employees leaked information to press by getting call records of many people (board members, other employees and journalists). This obviously backfired and we got one of most strict implementations of EU privacy laws.
Now Nokia with other companies wants to get some of those rights back (earlier the law was unclear for computer communications, but the right of privacy existed there) they unofficially had before that. Of course, we as citizens and employees do not want to give that away. Even if I need to do extra tricks when I do my work to keep user data private.
I personally like very much that Finnish law tries to protect employees: often the situation in working life is quite uneven and the employer has upper hand in many cases. Laws put some limits on that, even if cannot protect in all cases.
The number of rejected votes has been less than 1% in most muncipal elections.
In Finnish voting, a number of choisen candidate is written in booth by pen on paperboard sheet, that is then folded, stamped by official and put into ballot box. Many of invalid votes can be considered as protest votes (vulgar drawings, names of fictional charactes), but some of votes are rejected because number cannot be clearly identified (like 1 or 7). In larger cities, there are more than 100 candidates, so numbers can be upto 3 digits.
It is not that uncommon to have laws that are older than the nation. For example Finnish criminal law dates to 19th December in 1889 (Happy 119th birthday!) and is given by Tsar Alexander III of Russia.
Of course, it has been updated many times, last time 14th November this year.
The weight of cable would push metal pins against each other, if tab is on the bottom and pins are above.
However, I'm not sure if this has any importantance in the real life.
1) This CPU runs on **4 watts!** I'm not sure my cell phone can run on 4 watts in standby.
In cell phone industry they have "3 watt limit" that is the maximum power consumption that a mobile phone can have. It is not about batteries but heat: you do not want burn your hands on mobile.
Yeah, the 10/100 ain't so great, but you can always put a GigE NIC in one of the PCI slots.
If you compare ethernet power consumption at 10, 100, or 1000 Mbit/s, you can see that it rises quite rapidly. For most of time home server is perfectly ok with 10 Mbit/s, when you stream video you may like to have 100 Mbit/s and when transfereing files gigabit is nice. But it is waste to keep 24/7 running server at gigabit.
I've had VIA Epia-based board as home dsl gateway, automation server, video server and dvb vdr box. It is some difference when you have system running 24/7 if it consumes 30W (my epia system with disk powersave) or 150+W (old athlon based computer that has about same cpu power).
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The child porn blocking is enforced only on DNS servers. It is not mandatory, so ISP may opt not to block traffic. And of course you can run your own name servers (provided your ISP does not block port 53) even if your ISP blocks child porn.
I would assume in "circles" it is known how to circumvent this blocking. And I guess many will use TOR or some VPN to hide their tracks. DNS-level blocking just makes it more difficult to police to pick the "easy ones" who would not use any hiding techniques if everything would just work by default.
And DNSSEC breaks with DNS blocking, as designed.
Many of those who are participating have experience on writing commercial i.e. closed text books and the work estimate is reasonable. With that group the amount of work done in a weekend is the same or larger that is done by the author on text book. Probably part of illustrations and editing work made by publisher will be missing by end of weekend. The text and content looks reasonable as I just pulled it from github and compiled.
There has already been lots of discussion in local media "those are stealing money from publishers", "how they are going to get living" and usual stuff related to open source software. And that is a good thing - specailly becase crowdsourced and crowdfunded language teaching book was killed by authorities.
The fact is, that only very few text book writers earn living just by making text books in Finland. If you have only a about 5 million speaking Finnish, you do not sell many books even if you get manage write a bestseller for elementary school. This book is for the first course in high school "long" mathematics, that is taken only by about 10000 students annually. In addition, aftermarkets are quite active, so at best one is able to sell 5000 books - and of course that is divided further between different publishers. Taken that writer gets some 2 € for a book, it is easy to make then math - annual salary for qualified high school math teacher (15y experience, additional education; i.e. one that would be able to write a book) is 50000 €. And typically there are at least 3 persons sharing the profits, so after marginal taxes one may afford to pay holiday flight tickets.
I, as a father of 3rd year high school student, would have welcomed this three years earlier.
And of course forgot configuration at server end; in /home/bupups/.ssh/authorized_keys there is a line for each host:
command="BUP_DEBUG=0 BUP_FORCE_TTY=3 bup server",no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC...
Earlier I used backup2l to first make local backup and then rsync to server. The only problem was it was wasting disk space on each host, specially laptops.
Recently I moved to bup, provides more efficient backups with very small local storage. Now I have in every laptop, desktop and my email server (all running either Debian or Ubuntu) in /etc/cron.daily/bup-backup:
#!/bin/sh /var/mail /home /var/lib/mysql /var/mail /home /var/lib/mysql
echo Backup starting at $(hostname) $(date)
bup index -u
bup save -r backups.example.com: -n $(hostname)
echo Backup ending at $(hostname) $(date)
Because I do not want remote root logins on my file server at home, there is a need for small tweak in /root/.ssh/config:
Host backup.example.com
User bupups
Compression yes
HostName filesrv.example.com
Now as each system backups to the same bup archive, deduplication is taken care automagically.
Each month I rsync /home/bupups to external USB drive that is stored in different place in case of fire or other mishap it will be protected. At some point I've considered installing a low-power server at my father-on-law place for automated off-site backups; will keep the off-line copy in any case.
Of course, I do not much care about taking backups from movies, music - expect maybe some kids love; but they are already on some USB drive to entertain them while travelling...
At 1997 John Deere developed Plusjack in a venture Plustech.
Unfortunately, it was too slow compared to wheeled counterpart even if it made very little damage to forest floor. But for very sensitive environments a man and a horse are more efficient considering the cost of the harvester. Only 3 units were build, one is at display at Lusto forest museum.
A competitor, owner of Ponsse, Einari Vidgren was claimed to say: "If they make walking harvester, we make a running one".
However, I really think that what Sony did requires some kind of punishment. Require them to pay punitive damages to consumers, fine them substantially, do something.
Maybe in US that would work, but Finnish legal system does know about punitive damages. Victims are paid with actual damages that in some cases can be significant - like young person injured and not able to work on profession she is studying for: damages are amount of salary earned in life-time. But no slap-like damages to customers. Goverment may ask for wrongfully earned money and issue fine.
Doesn't everyone do this?
I do not do that: bash: /etc/hosts: Permission denied
But might try
if NoScript would not take care of most JS junk.
I thought this is just right the site designer intended http://i.imgur.com/NfvOG.png (with noscript).
Spreadsheets, graphics and diagrams are one thing that benefit from maximal area. However, for other applications I maximise them only vertically, if any. I have configured title-bar double-click to expand window vertically.
Text editors, terminals, email message panels run 80 character wide as they have always been. A browser window where I type this is a bit wide, 1175 px, but it still leaves room for window below be that much visible I would notice if it scrolls. If web page is too wide for it, then C-- few times will make it behave.
On 7" netbook using Ubuntu 10.10 most windows are maximised and there the usage is just fine - expect for those dialogs that do not fit on screen. But if screen size is 1280x800 or better I very seldom maximize windows.
Hey, some of us still have cradle modems and BBS software...
But do you have telephone network to connect modems and does to network extend beyond local central office?
GP sounds like a nice troll. Unless you replace air with 1000-fold more dense material it is impossible to cool a person to hypothermia in few seconds, no matter what is temperature and wind speed are. A human can spend comfortably tens of minutes at temperatures well below 200K even naked (or swimsuit) and this is used to heal pains in rheumatoid arthritis. And as one who lives in north, I can imagine the amount of snow taken air with wind over 30 m/s. Invisible in your dreams.
What is a check, or a cheque? Living in Finland, I think I saw one in actual use last time in very early nineties - almost twenty years ago.
Same for me, I guess I signed last cheque in 1989, since then it has been cash, debit and credit cards or electronic banking. Buyers of our apartment paid with cheque in 1999, but they were a bit strange in other ways too.
All the actual mail I get and care about is bills - that I could, with one call, convert to fully "electronic" PDF-only service.
And those are not ones I need to get as dead-tree print imitation. Many regular payments are based on direct payments: I get a notification email week or two in advance and I do not need to do anything to get them paid (except to make sure that there is enough money on account). If there is something wrong with those (so far none), and I want to challenge it I can remove it.
For me that experiment would not work, because about alI physical mail I receive are on physical for a reason.
At least for GSM frequencies: 84 subjects (for total 600 trials) had to guess if mobile phone was on, or if it state changed. If one had 3 out of 4 right, 50 euro reward was given. No-one claimed that, even if there was six persons that told being very sensitive to "mobile phone radiation".
Also some other tests were done about effects on humans, but with no results. Kwon, Myoung Soo: Effects of mobile phone electromagnetic field: behavioral and neurophysiological measurements, PhD thesis.
It is hard to see how maximum 35 degree C water (with 1 bar pressure) could be steam bomb. That is the water temperature I have running inside floors. Even if water coming into heat exchanger may some times exceed 100 C, and you can get seriously injured if you are close to pipe break, I prefer it much to system having flame and exploding gas.
Most of time the heat is by-product of electric power plant, so distributed heating is a good way to improve overall efficiency.
Even if the paint blocks radio waves, it would be usable only in windowless rooms without electricity. Radio waves have a property going where you do not want to, and not going where you want.
For example, I know multiple RF-shielded rooms that were very good when they were build in early 1970s. However, one has no problems using cell phone inside of those. To get sufficent protection to GHz rf signals, you must have proper filters in all wires going to room, including all copper network cables and power lines. Same for all ventilation and doors.
The paint is just the easy part that you can replace with copper plates. The rest is much harder.
Why anyone would like to have LTE base station of their own? There is this technology called WLAN that you have been able to buy for more than then years and have your private wireless network where you need.
WiMAX (or similar like Flash-OFDM) do have some uses, but most likely to serve some niche markets. LTE is just another radio technology mobile phones support: like UMTS and HSDPA was add after GSM, so will LTE be available
For me it has been sufficient to have in laptop both WLAN and bluetooth to connect via mobile phone. In many cases I do not even bother to check for open/public WLAN as they may be limited with allowed protocols or they modify traffic by inserting advertisement. UMTS provides mostly just fine bandwidth I need for my work. And in places with bad UMTS coverage one does not find open WLANs too much either.
There exists WLAN APs that have 3G phone in it. Just SIM card in and you can just use (and share, if you like) connectivity via WLAN. Similar one for Flash-OFDM and most likely for WiMAX and LTE exists soon too.
BTW: UMTS does support using WLAN as radio interface: if your home has bad coverage, but you have ADSL line and WLAN AP, your phone can resort using WLAN access for calls too. Just WLAN is more energy-hungry compared to GSM and UMTS native radio network.
With unlimited dataplans the laptop use dominates traffic volume. I do not remember now exact figures, but in one European network more than 95% of traffic volume is from laptops. The network has unlimited dataplans starting from 9.95€
It is funny to see US carriers to cripple phones to save their business model.
That was total crap, was he selling some solution for it?
At first, I do not know any large-scale deployment of Mobile-IP. 3G networks provide mobility below IP and they do not use any "complex network triangulation" in it. Mobile-IP does have its weakness, but AFAIK the latest RFCs should provide quite solid (not worse-than-fixed) protection from DOS.
You can somewhat DOS high-speed data channels in 3G networks by sending packets with at intervals, but that is limited to single sector in base station, so that is not a big problem either. Battery drain DOS can be a real problem, but that is pretty much solved if you close your browser and your data channel is closed. If you do not have active data connections, nobody can sen you packets.
Again, was it some North-Zimbabwe 3G provider that took hit from 4.5GB data transfer? Last time I checked, it was less than 10 second traffic volume at small-country 3G providers. From "peer-to-peer Web sites".
This seems to be a very nice option. I just tested (on 9.04) and seems that the guest was given a home directory at /tmp/ but had no acceess rights to /home (even if /home has mode 755). According to spec, the AppArmor is used to limit access.
Much better than system I used earlier (passwordless guest account with only local gdm login allowed).
Perhaps, in Finland, one cannot sign away this particular right.
You are right: it is not possible to give "you can read all my email" right to employer. If, for example, you are leave (or sick) and your manager thinks that there is a critical information in your mailbox, he cannot just ask system admin to open your mailbox and get that message.
To read the message, the employer must first try to contact you to open the message. If that fails, then there is certain procedure how a needed message is first searched (basicly email subject, sender and date are only allowed). Then message is opened and all of this (including opened message) is recorded and handed to you when you came back.
Well, the Finland has nowadays one of most stricts privacy laws. What Nokia wants to do, is the thing US companies do routinely every day claiming that they has to do it to protect shareholder value.
The law at present proposed form is nowhere close to laws (if one exist) in many "civilized" countries, not to talk about totalitarian countries. Like one not-so-democratic east of Finland, and one we-listen-your-communication west of Finland.
It is actually quite funny, that the existing law is known as "Lex Sonera" (Sonera was a former state-own telco now part of TeliaSonera). The former CEO of Sonera wanted to find out which employees leaked information to press by getting call records of many people (board members, other employees and journalists). This obviously backfired and we got one of most strict implementations of EU privacy laws.
Now Nokia with other companies wants to get some of those rights back (earlier the law was unclear for computer communications, but the right of privacy existed there) they unofficially had before that. Of course, we as citizens and employees do not want to give that away. Even if I need to do extra tricks when I do my work to keep user data private.
I personally like very much that Finnish law tries to protect employees: often the situation in working life is quite uneven and the employer has upper hand in many cases. Laws put some limits on that, even if cannot protect in all cases.
The number of rejected votes has been less than 1% in most muncipal elections.
In Finnish voting, a number of choisen candidate is written in booth by pen on paperboard sheet, that is then folded, stamped by official and put into ballot box. Many of invalid votes can be considered as protest votes (vulgar drawings, names of fictional charactes), but some of votes are rejected because number cannot be clearly identified (like 1 or 7). In larger cities, there are more than 100 candidates, so numbers can be upto 3 digits.
It is not that uncommon to have laws that are older than the nation. For example Finnish criminal law dates to 19th December in 1889 (Happy 119th birthday!) and is given by Tsar Alexander III of Russia.
Of course, it has been updated many times, last time 14th November this year.
The weight of cable would push metal pins against each other, if tab is on the bottom and pins are above. However, I'm not sure if this has any importantance in the real life.
In cell phone industry they have "3 watt limit" that is the maximum power consumption that a mobile phone can have. It is not about batteries but heat: you do not want burn your hands on mobile.
Yeah, the 10/100 ain't so great, but you can always put a GigE NIC in one of the PCI slots.If you compare ethernet power consumption at 10, 100, or 1000 Mbit/s, you can see that it rises quite rapidly. For most of time home server is perfectly ok with 10 Mbit/s, when you stream video you may like to have 100 Mbit/s and when transfereing files gigabit is nice. But it is waste to keep 24/7 running server at gigabit.
I've had VIA Epia-based board as home dsl gateway, automation server, video server and dvb vdr box. It is some difference when you have system running 24/7 if it consumes 30W (my epia system with disk powersave) or 150+W (old athlon based computer that has about same cpu power).