While I agree with you, the issue usually isn't the small percentage of technically savvy people who use this, but rather the majority of folks looking to "plug and play". These are the security gaps that allow zombie DDoS attacks to happen so easily, as they open up easy access to lot's of similarly configured boxes.
This router is probably a better alternative for those folks even with this exploit than the alternative of a cable modem and a Windows PC connected directly to the internet with no protection other than the Windows firewall.
If you are tech savvy though I have no idea why you would use this product. Get an old fashioned cable modem and hook it up to a router of your choice. No reason to rely on the cable company to provide you with one.
Most cars have the radio aerial installed outside for starters, and many cars have plastic panelling or fenders that the antennae could be installed behind.
How does that help me with my GPS? Am I going to have to buy and install an aftermarket external antenna to use my TomTom?
While the EMTs were trying to revive him, my other roommate kept the sheriff deputy in the living room as I flushed all the medical pot down the toilet
Where do you live that the sheriff's deputies make a habit of searching the homes of people who call for the EMTs? All you had to do was close the door to the room where it was stored. I assume you've heard of probable cause and the 4th amendment, right?
do you really have much of a problem with the safety test?
Yes, I do have a problem with a safety test. What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand? From a more practical standpoint, where has it ever been shown that safety tests preclude morons from obtaining firearms, drivers licenses, or any other objects that can kill when used incorrectly?
and the best way to hold a gun when it's not being used is with the barrel pointed up
No, the best way to hold a gun when it's not being used is to point it in a safe direction. A blanket statement that you should point it "up" fails to account for situations (apartment buildings) where that is unsafe.
Besides verizon network is the opposite of AT&T's where one is good the other sucks, and vice versa, they both are limited to major cities and roads for full network access.
Huh? Verizon and AT&T are limited to the 'major cities and roads for full network access'? Where do you live where that's the case? Verizon has excellent rural coverage across most of the United States. They also have 3G in their entire footprint. I don't think AT&T can make the same 3G claim but they still have pretty good rural coverage.
As far as purchasing a gun, it's really not that hard.
Now let me explain to you the process in a free state:
Go to gun store.
Select weapon of choice.
Pay for weapon of choice with payment method of choice.
Fill out ATF Form 4473 and wait two minutes while the merchant phones it in.
Take weapon home.
the pistol has to be classified safe, no assault rifles based on the definition in California law, etc.
Hey I forgot about the fact that you guys have your own semi-automatic gun ban. Thanks for reminding me of that. I guess if you put a pistol grip on a rifle and paint it black it's scary and needs to be regulated.
This whole case stinks so bad, I would have to see some hard evidence that anyone on any of those four airplanes had ever even looked a photograph of Saudi Arabia. If there was any hard evidence, they would have tripped over themselves to show it to us already.
How about the cockpit voice recorder from Flight 93? Or do you think they staged the hijacking and subsequent passenger revolt as part of the conspiracy?
Somehow I doubt very much that the rest of the country (aside from maybe New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois) is going to follow California's example and adopt legislation similar to AB962.
California isn't quite the liberal sinkhole that most people think it to be.
It is if you are a gun owner. I thought NYS was bad in this regard -- then I talked to family members from California about what they have to go through to exercise their 2nd amendment rights.
Unstoppable force, meet immovable object.
Don't feel too bad, NYS will be in the same boat in a few years when our chickens come home to roost. Everybody wants big Government but nobody wants to pay for it.
Only thing is, they didn't need the passports after their suicide mission.
Yeah they do. You think you can get into paradise to fuck 45 virgins without documentation of some sort? Can you imagine if they just let anybody into paradise without the proper documentation? You'd have every Tom, Dick and Harry claiming that they died for Allah and eventually the place would run out of virgins. Then where would we be?
Which of course has nothing to do with the fact that American companies (for the most part) don't innovate until forced by law
Yeah, I hate the fact that American companies can't innovate. Thank God the Chinese are around and came up with Google, else we'd all still be using the Yahoo! directory to find our way around the internet.
"Oh no! They're going to outlaw low efficiency TVs when higher efficiency TVs exist!"
I don't really give a damn about TV because I rarely watch it. What does bother me is the fact that the Government is going to mandate that I switch to crappy ass light bulbs that take half a minute to come up to full brightness and will contaminate my house with mercury if dropped.
The CFL mandate is one of the stupidest fucking things ever to come out of Washington. I'm already using them at every location in my house where it makes sense to use them -- i.e: lights that get turned on left on for hours on end. Now they are going to force me to use them in closets (where I need full brightness at once and rarely leave the light on for more than a minute or two) and all other locations? WTF?
As an added bonus, there isn't a single CFL made in the United States. There are still incandescent bulbs produced here. Thank you Uncle Sam, for removing my choice to support American jobs and ensuring that even more of our money leaves the country and goes to China.
Pretty much everything along the lines of this legislation that is pioneered here in California eventually gets adopted by the remaining forty-nine states
I read that as 'if we cant control content distribution and restrict our competition, and screw our own customers out of more money, we don't want any part of it'.
That's one way to read it. The other way to read it is the legitimate concern that potential investors have when people start throwing around ideas like forcing the ILECs/cableco's to open up their networks to companies that didn't help fund the roll out of those networks. Why should I invest my money to build out a broadband network when I can just wait a few years until Congress forces them to let me use it?
Arbor also notes that Internet applications used to use a more diverse set of application-specific protocols and communication stacks, but that has consolidated as well. Traffic these days is concentrated on a small number of Web and video protocols, while peer-to-peer traffic has nosedived in the past two years.
That leads to one of two conclusions:
RIAA has won! Suck on it NewYorkCountryLawyer and all those who doubted that suing your customers was the gateway to success.
RIAA overstated the problem in the first place. Nah, couldn't be.....
And no federal government yet has represented California's interests. Hell we don't even get 80 cents on the dollar back in federal tax money, and what we do get is so wrapped in pork and idiotic regulations it costs almost as much as we get to use.
I hope you realize that's your own damn fault for voting for politicians that seek to expand Government.
I lived there for a few years. Moved back to NY to be closer to family. I'll probably wind leaving again soon because I'm rather sick of paying out 50% of my wages in taxes and not being able to exercise my 2nd amendment rights.
Mores the pity, because I actually like it here. It's one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Too bad that the whole state is being run into the toilet by a handful of powerful asshats from New York City.
Hippie: Because it's the corporations man. The corporations are raping and destroying the world. *takes a hit* We should get rid of all the corporations and like live together somewhere and like help each other. We can have one guy who makes bread and another guy who looks after people's safety.
Stan: You mean like a baker and a cop?
Hippie: You kids just don't understand because you haven't been to college yet.
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While I agree with you, the issue usually isn't the small percentage of technically savvy people who use this, but rather the majority of folks looking to "plug and play". These are the security gaps that allow zombie DDoS attacks to happen so easily, as they open up easy access to lot's of similarly configured boxes.
This router is probably a better alternative for those folks even with this exploit than the alternative of a cable modem and a Windows PC connected directly to the internet with no protection other than the Windows firewall.
If you are tech savvy though I have no idea why you would use this product. Get an old fashioned cable modem and hook it up to a router of your choice. No reason to rely on the cable company to provide you with one.
Most cars have the radio aerial installed outside for starters, and many cars have plastic panelling or fenders that the antennae could be installed behind.
How does that help me with my GPS? Am I going to have to buy and install an aftermarket external antenna to use my TomTom?
While the EMTs were trying to revive him, my other roommate kept the sheriff deputy in the living room as I flushed all the medical pot down the toilet
Where do you live that the sheriff's deputies make a habit of searching the homes of people who call for the EMTs? All you had to do was close the door to the room where it was stored. I assume you've heard of probable cause and the 4th amendment, right?
do you really have much of a problem with the safety test?
Yes, I do have a problem with a safety test. What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand? From a more practical standpoint, where has it ever been shown that safety tests preclude morons from obtaining firearms, drivers licenses, or any other objects that can kill when used incorrectly?
and the best way to hold a gun when it's not being used is with the barrel pointed up
No, the best way to hold a gun when it's not being used is to point it in a safe direction. A blanket statement that you should point it "up" fails to account for situations (apartment buildings) where that is unsafe.
Besides verizon network is the opposite of AT&T's where one is good the other sucks, and vice versa, they both are limited to major cities and roads for full network access.
Huh? Verizon and AT&T are limited to the 'major cities and roads for full network access'? Where do you live where that's the case? Verizon has excellent rural coverage across most of the United States. They also have 3G in their entire footprint. I don't think AT&T can make the same 3G claim but they still have pretty good rural coverage.
They should call it the "Muhammad phone."
Yeah, but then we'll have KFCs and Danish embassies being set on fire all over the world ;)
As far as purchasing a gun, it's really not that hard.
Now let me explain to you the process in a free state:
the pistol has to be classified safe, no assault rifles based on the definition in California law, etc.
Hey I forgot about the fact that you guys have your own semi-automatic gun ban. Thanks for reminding me of that. I guess if you put a pistol grip on a rifle and paint it black it's scary and needs to be regulated.
This whole case stinks so bad, I would have to see some hard evidence that anyone on any of those four airplanes had ever even looked a photograph of Saudi Arabia. If there was any hard evidence, they would have tripped over themselves to show it to us already.
How about the cockpit voice recorder from Flight 93? Or do you think they staged the hijacking and subsequent passenger revolt as part of the conspiracy?
Somehow I doubt very much that the rest of the country (aside from maybe New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois) is going to follow California's example and adopt legislation similar to AB962.
California isn't quite the liberal sinkhole that most people think it to be.
It is if you are a gun owner. I thought NYS was bad in this regard -- then I talked to family members from California about what they have to go through to exercise their 2nd amendment rights.
Unstoppable force, meet immovable object.
Don't feel too bad, NYS will be in the same boat in a few years when our chickens come home to roost. Everybody wants big Government but nobody wants to pay for it.
Only thing is, they didn't need the passports after their suicide mission.
Yeah they do. You think you can get into paradise to fuck 45 virgins without documentation of some sort? Can you imagine if they just let anybody into paradise without the proper documentation? You'd have every Tom, Dick and Harry claiming that they died for Allah and eventually the place would run out of virgins. Then where would we be?
if it has rewards to offer as well as punishments.
Reward: We won't beat the shit out of you if you follow the rules.
Punishment: We will beat the shit out of you when you don't follow the rules.
That's how the reward/punishment system ought to work in prison. You are there because you BROKE THE LAW.
This becomes all the more urgent when over-crowding and under-staffing stress the system severely.
I've always found it pretty ironic that the most liberal state in the country runs the most atrocious prison system. How'd that happen?
Which of course has nothing to do with the fact that American companies (for the most part) don't innovate until forced by law
Yeah, I hate the fact that American companies can't innovate. Thank God the Chinese are around and came up with Google, else we'd all still be using the Yahoo! directory to find our way around the internet.
"Oh no! They're going to outlaw low efficiency TVs when higher efficiency TVs exist!"
I don't really give a damn about TV because I rarely watch it. What does bother me is the fact that the Government is going to mandate that I switch to crappy ass light bulbs that take half a minute to come up to full brightness and will contaminate my house with mercury if dropped.
The CFL mandate is one of the stupidest fucking things ever to come out of Washington. I'm already using them at every location in my house where it makes sense to use them -- i.e: lights that get turned on left on for hours on end. Now they are going to force me to use them in closets (where I need full brightness at once and rarely leave the light on for more than a minute or two) and all other locations? WTF?
As an added bonus, there isn't a single CFL made in the United States. There are still incandescent bulbs produced here. Thank you Uncle Sam, for removing my choice to support American jobs and ensuring that even more of our money leaves the country and goes to China.
Pretty much everything along the lines of this legislation that is pioneered here in California eventually gets adopted by the remaining forty-nine states
And on other matters of legislation the rest of the country is laughing at you.
I read that as 'if we cant control content distribution and restrict our competition, and screw our own customers out of more money, we don't want any part of it'.
That's one way to read it. The other way to read it is the legitimate concern that potential investors have when people start throwing around ideas like forcing the ILECs/cableco's to open up their networks to companies that didn't help fund the roll out of those networks. Why should I invest my money to build out a broadband network when I can just wait a few years until Congress forces them to let me use it?
so we can watch terrorist scum being killed
Fixed that for you.
So when do we get the Google street view segway?
How is it irrelevant? He's complaining about the fact that his state is paying out more in taxes than it takes in. Why do you suppose that is?
From TFA:
Arbor also notes that Internet applications used to use a more diverse set of application-specific protocols and communication stacks, but that has consolidated as well. Traffic these days is concentrated on a small number of Web and video protocols, while peer-to-peer traffic has nosedived in the past two years.
That leads to one of two conclusions:
(I think I'll go wash my mind out with a good Vodka at this point)
Pot works better.
And no federal government yet has represented California's interests. Hell we don't even get 80 cents on the dollar back in federal tax money, and what we do get is so wrapped in pork and idiotic regulations it costs almost as much as we get to use.
I hope you realize that's your own damn fault for voting for politicians that seek to expand Government.
I lived there for a few years. Moved back to NY to be closer to family. I'll probably wind leaving again soon because I'm rather sick of paying out 50% of my wages in taxes and not being able to exercise my 2nd amendment rights.
Mores the pity, because I actually like it here. It's one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Too bad that the whole state is being run into the toilet by a handful of powerful asshats from New York City.
Amazon just makes its shareholders rich.
Did I miss the headline where Google bought back all outstanding shares and converted itself into a non-profit corporation?
What's wrong with that?
Hippie: Because it's the corporations man. The corporations are raping and destroying the world. *takes a hit* We should get rid of all the corporations and like live together somewhere and like help each other. We can have one guy who makes bread and another guy who looks after people's safety.
Stan: You mean like a baker and a cop?
Hippie: You kids just don't understand because you haven't been to college yet.