26. We conclude that the best means of assuring the development of a retail market for
navigation devices is to require cable operators to allow subscribers to self-install CableCARDs. We
believe cable operators should have time to train staff and develop more robust customer support
infrastructures and procedures, and provide nine months to comply for any operators that allow
subscribers on any of their systems to self-install any cable modems89 or leased set-top boxes.90 We are
not persuaded by arguments that cable operators could not support activation of retail CableCARD
devices within this reasonable transition period. However, we are concerned that a cable operator that
does not permit self-installation of any equipment that attaches to its network may not have the customer
support infrastructures in place to handle self-installations and may need a longer transition period.91
Therefore, we will allow cable operators that do not have any self-installation support in place twelve
months to phase in this self-installation requirement.92 We also require cable operators to inform their
subscribers about the self-installation option when they request CableCARDs.93
From long experience I know that the steps of normal (Canadian) escalators are incorrect for your knees. Walking up or down them is bad for you. Stand, on the right, as much as you can.
Maybe it's just me, but I had to read the summary a couple of times before I saw the ref to New York.
That's NEW YORK. This is news, but local news. It looks like Cablevision is the local cablevision supplier. Sucks to live in New York, but they probably have OTA digital ABC there...
MB
The new example is much clearer. Basic structure follows well. All the magic numbers in the code that I looked at matched too, and there are quite a few. Looks like it was massaged at least a bit, probably just to fit in with the local code environment not to obscure it.
But... The article points out only two weaknesses in this code borrowing. MS did not feed back any (unknown at this point) enhancements to the source. And they did not offer the source under the right license.
It is a real but very minor issue. If it wasn't MS it would not even be interesting.
Funny, the current Cisco VPN has multiple ways of getting through NAT. NAT-T, udp encapsulation and others. You can even layer them. I find it funny to look in the connect log where it notes each time it had to tunnel through a NAT layer during setup.
MB
Working from the BBC report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021547.stm Canada reports 2 deaths in 1530 cases giving a raw rate of 0.1%.
Mexico reports 97 deaths in 5029 cases giving a raw rate of 1.9%.
The US reports 17 deaths in 8975 cases giving a raw rate of 0.2%.
The world totals are 117 deaths in 19,315 cases giving a raw rate of 0.6%.
Now, I know the infection rate is institutionally, and systematically under reported in Canada. That means the Canadian death rate is like an upper bound. Assuming ten percent of the world's 6.8 billion inhabitants are infected, then under 680 thousand to 13 million people will die from this. On the Canadian data, I put it at under half a million if the virus does not become more deadly next fall.
MB
If you want a new feature that might really fly, how about this: ABP gains a setting for each type of ad it can technically distinguish ( text, flash, whatever ) and the user can set it to the maximum number of that type allowed on each page. Defaults of zero get the current behavior.
The webmasters get to add a tag on each type of ad listing the priority order for showing them. If the user says OK, two text ads, then the webmaster gets to say which two are shown.
Neither thing is particularly difficult. Neither one leaves a huge door open for abuse.
Vancover BC (BC Transit) just rolled out a system based on text messaging. You read the number on the bus stop, fire a text message to transit with the reference number, and it replies with the time of arrival of the next bus. There is an additional parameter if it is a multi route stop, you can ask for the next bus on one particular route. Seems to work great. I know of two regular users already. They do not have GPS on all the busses yet, so some are 'scheduled time' instead of real time. They are planning a full GPS roll out. ( BCT pays for both messages too )
MB
It took about two minutes to tune adblock plus to clear away the worst offences.
No dilbert....js
No dilbert....swf
Quite reasonable now.
And this is the first site I have fine tuned this way ever.
MB
The shell company and the subcontracted developers (Samba etc) cannot release the documentation.
BUT, they can create a reference implementation with normal source code comments and release that without any limits. This will effectively document the protocols. The hoi polloi just can't read Microsoft's documentation directly.
And if the documentation is incorrect, there are recourses. And if patents come into play, there are recourses. And if the documentation gets out of date, there are recourses. And if you read the docs you are only NDA for three months (patents, not so much, as ususal)
This actually looks really good. Fingers crossed the inevitable gotchas are small and can be lived with.
This is not about the pirates. This is about the slow take up of IE 7 on the desktops. At our site, IE 7 is still test mode (site admins only). I have no interest in rolling this disruption out to our users. I use it every day and am still not used to it.
Now, as a critical update, there will be a push to get it out. Sure, we can turn it off in WSUS. But the users are going to ask why we are not keeping up with their home machines.
Yuk.
MB
We get masses of backscatter spam (looks like a joe job, but it isn't intentional). The most effective seems to be to check the recipient at smtp time and reject the message. SMTP time delays help some, but not enough by themselves. Then run the remaining two percent through SA with lots of inputs and we get maybe 0.1% of incoming spam delivered at this point.
Please stop bouncing spam to forged senders. We can live with the aimed spam, but all that backscatter is a huge waste of net resources. MB
We just had municipal elections here in British Columbia and I used a 'voting machine'. You mark off your votes on a letter size piece of paper by darkening the circles. Then you feed it face down into a scanner, which deposits the page in the ballot box after tallying it.
Election results are available quickly from the machine.
Hand recounts are perfectly possible because of the hard copy record.
What is so difficult about requiring hard copy records? Votes are worth one sheet of paper.
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26. We conclude that the best means of assuring the development of a retail market for navigation devices is to require cable operators to allow subscribers to self-install CableCARDs. We believe cable operators should have time to train staff and develop more robust customer support infrastructures and procedures, and provide nine months to comply for any operators that allow subscribers on any of their systems to self-install any cable modems89 or leased set-top boxes.90 We are not persuaded by arguments that cable operators could not support activation of retail CableCARD devices within this reasonable transition period. However, we are concerned that a cable operator that does not permit self-installation of any equipment that attaches to its network may not have the customer support infrastructures in place to handle self-installations and may need a longer transition period.91 Therefore, we will allow cable operators that do not have any self-installation support in place twelve months to phase in this self-installation requirement.92 We also require cable operators to inform their subscribers about the self-installation option when they request CableCARDs.93
From long experience I know that the steps of normal (Canadian) escalators are incorrect for your knees. Walking up or down them is bad for you. Stand, on the right, as much as you can.
Sorry about that rush guy.
MB
OK, I bit.
I have xcalc and it runs from a command line fine. But not from this PDF.
Document Viewer 2.26.1
using poppler 0.15.5 cairo
from evince.
)P
MB
Maybe it's just me, but I had to read the summary a couple of times before I saw the ref to New York. That's NEW YORK. This is news, but local news. It looks like Cablevision is the local cablevision supplier. Sucks to live in New York, but they probably have OTA digital ABC there... MB
I get free coffee, did at last job too MB
The new example is much clearer. Basic structure follows well. All the magic numbers in the code that I looked at matched too, and there are quite a few. Looks like it was massaged at least a bit, probably just to fit in with the local code environment not to obscure it.
But ...
The article points out only two weaknesses in this code borrowing. MS did not feed back any (unknown at this point) enhancements to the source. And they did not offer the source under the right license.
It is a real but very minor issue. If it wasn't MS it would not even be interesting.
MB
Funny, the current Cisco VPN has multiple ways of getting through NAT. NAT-T, udp encapsulation and others. You can even layer them. I find it funny to look in the connect log where it notes each time it had to tunnel through a NAT layer during setup. MB
Working from the BBC report at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021547.stm
Canada reports 2 deaths in 1530 cases giving a raw rate of 0.1%.
Mexico reports 97 deaths in 5029 cases giving a raw rate of 1.9%.
The US reports 17 deaths in 8975 cases giving a raw rate of 0.2%.
The world totals are 117 deaths in 19,315 cases giving a raw rate of 0.6%.
Now, I know the infection rate is institutionally, and systematically under reported in Canada. That means the Canadian death rate is like an upper bound. Assuming ten percent of the world's 6.8 billion inhabitants are infected, then under 680 thousand to 13 million people will die from this. On the Canadian data, I put it at under half a million if the virus does not become more deadly next fall.
MB
Stoopid ting smashed my firefox tree. tks for linkie
Nice.
If you want a new feature that might really fly, how about this:
ABP gains a setting for each type of ad it can technically distinguish ( text, flash, whatever ) and the user can set it to the maximum number of that type allowed on each page. Defaults of zero get the current behavior.
The webmasters get to add a tag on each type of ad listing the priority order for showing them. If the user says OK, two text ads, then the webmaster gets to say which two are shown.
Neither thing is particularly difficult. Neither one leaves a huge door open for abuse.
MB
Candian Mind Products http://mindprod.com/ for Java. Good info, and some of the dirt too.
Vancover BC (BC Transit) just rolled out a system based on text messaging. You read the number on the bus stop, fire a text message to transit with the reference number, and it replies with the time of arrival of the next bus. There is an additional parameter if it is a multi route stop, you can ask for the next bus on one particular route. Seems to work great. I know of two regular users already. They do not have GPS on all the busses yet, so some are 'scheduled time' instead of real time. They are planning a full GPS roll out. ( BCT pays for both messages too ) MB
It took about two minutes to tune adblock plus to clear away the worst offences. No dilbert ... .js
No dilbert ... .swf
Quite reasonable now.
And this is the first site I have fine tuned this way ever.
MB
Thanks
My favourite, and posted on my wall, reputedly winner of some contest:
"Caution: accidents with chainsaws are rarely trivial"
MB
It is actually easy to find candidates, but how about travelling to mexixo? http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=20.558767,-88.630174&spn=0.003541,0.005021&t=h&z=18&om=1 This could be anything, but an ancient structure is one of the possiblilities. MB
The shell company and the subcontracted developers (Samba etc) cannot release the documentation.
BUT, they can create a reference implementation with normal source code comments and release that without any limits. This will effectively document the protocols. The hoi polloi just can't read Microsoft's documentation directly.
And if the documentation is incorrect, there are recourses.
And if patents come into play, there are recourses.
And if the documentation gets out of date, there are recourses.
And if you read the docs you are only NDA for three months (patents, not so much, as ususal)
This actually looks really good. Fingers crossed the inevitable gotchas are small and can be lived with.
MB
This is not about the pirates. This is about the slow take up of IE 7 on the desktops. At our site, IE 7 is still test mode (site admins only). I have no interest in rolling this disruption out to our users. I use it every day and am still not used to it. Now, as a critical update, there will be a push to get it out. Sure, we can turn it off in WSUS. But the users are going to ask why we are not keeping up with their home machines. Yuk. MB
It's colder, and we pay more for gas. Yippee kay ay ...
Results 1 - 10 of about 951,000 for "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0". (0.12 seconds) Almost a million, get going people!
We get masses of backscatter spam (looks like a joe job, but it isn't intentional). The most effective seems to be to check the recipient at smtp time and reject the message. SMTP time delays help some, but not enough by themselves. Then run the remaining two percent through SA with lots of inputs and we get maybe 0.1% of incoming spam delivered at this point.
Please stop bouncing spam to forged senders. We can live with the aimed spam, but all that backscatter is a huge waste of net resources.
MB
Looks like it just dropped off the net.
Now that's stunning. Eleven pages on how to keep control of something many users do not even know exists.
This whole voting machine issue is so lame.
We just had municipal elections here in British Columbia and I used a 'voting machine'. You mark off your votes on a letter size piece of paper by darkening the circles. Then you feed it face down into a scanner, which deposits the page in the ballot box after tallying it.
Election results are available quickly from the machine.
Hand recounts are perfectly possible because of the hard copy record.
What is so difficult about requiring hard copy records? Votes are worth one sheet of paper.
Chuck
That is a goofy idea.
What about custom or in-house software?
What about frequently released software?
You are going to get Symantec to add a signature for the program you just compiled, so you can send it to your clients?
MB