My experience bears this out. Right now, I have an old G5 Mac that I dual-boot with 10.4 and 10.5 (I still have some programs that require 10.4). 10.5 is visibly faster. (Although some of the improvement might just be due to disk fragmentation on the older OS, so I don't know).
Long answer: you can, but only in very limited circumstances.
Even longer answer: One way to do it is to simply alter the IP packets that leave your machine so that they show a different return address. This requires hacking your modem, but it can be done. The problem is that the other end of the connection now has no way of sending data back to you. Which means that TCP won't work at all, since it requires confirmation for each packet. The only time when this is useful is if 1) you're using a UDP-based protocol, and 2) you don't care about the data that may be sent back.
Another way is to take control of your ISP's router. In which case, you can redirect the traffic to anywhere you want, and all bets are off. But I imagine this is pretty damn hard to pull off.
So I don't really know what the guy was talking about when he said that this is "easy". He runs an ISP, so he should (theoretically) know better. Maybe he was just hoping that the lawyers don't know any of this.
If there's an ISP that doesn't operate at all outside of your home state, and that doesn't allow any connections to or from any point outside of your state, then you might be able to plausibly argue that the interstate commerce clause doesn't apply to it.
I wonder if you could stick a trailer hitch on a Tesla, then one of those "shelves" and strap a generator to the shelf plugged into the charger and basically drive forever in "hybrid mode"
That's called a "plug-in hybrid". The propulsion is 100% electric, but when the battery gets low, an internal-combustion generator kicks in. I know there are some experimental/home-made ones on the road right now, and some manufacturers (Toyota, maybe others) are actively developing them.
This was sometime in the early 90s. That's the best I can remember. And I couldn't find any solid references either.
There's at least one other person in this thread who remembers this story, so I know I didn't just make it up, but for all I know it could be complete horseshit. On the one hand, it sounds just like the sort of thing that politicians like to do; on the other hand, it sounds just like the sort of thing that Mike Barnicle might have made up to fill up some space on a slow day.
Anybody remember Silly String? Do they even still make that stuff?
A few years ago (can't remember when exactly) some dumb kid in Boston shot at another dumb kid with Silly String. The kid with Silly String all over him then took out a real gun, and shot the first kid dead. Mayor Menino's response to this was a proposal to ban Silly String within city limits.
This isn't exactly the same situation, but the political logic seems strangely reminiscent.
Well, Frank Zappa predicted the iTunes Store back in the 80s. I don't think he'd even heard of the Internet at that point, so his idea was to transmit the data via the phone lines. Other than that, he got it mostly right.
Slashdot Mirror
What's a "sceptic tank"? An armored military vehicle which insists that absolute knowledge of the truth is impossible?
My experience bears this out. Right now, I have an old G5 Mac that I dual-boot with 10.4 and 10.5 (I still have some programs that require 10.4). 10.5 is visibly faster. (Although some of the improvement might just be due to disk fragmentation on the older OS, so I don't know).
I'd be interested to see some real conspiracies
Watergate?
Pidgin is Gaim. They had to rename it for legal reasons, I think. And Adium is just an alternate GUI for the Pidgin/Gaim library.
How do you spoof an IP address?
Short answer: you can't.
Long answer: you can, but only in very limited circumstances.
Even longer answer: One way to do it is to simply alter the IP packets that leave your machine so that they show a different return address. This requires hacking your modem, but it can be done. The problem is that the other end of the connection now has no way of sending data back to you. Which means that TCP won't work at all, since it requires confirmation for each packet. The only time when this is useful is if 1) you're using a UDP-based protocol, and 2) you don't care about the data that may be sent back.
Another way is to take control of your ISP's router. In which case, you can redirect the traffic to anywhere you want, and all bets are off. But I imagine this is pretty damn hard to pull off.
So I don't really know what the guy was talking about when he said that this is "easy". He runs an ISP, so he should (theoretically) know better. Maybe he was just hoping that the lawyers don't know any of this.
How's a gun going to help against some Ukrainian hijacking your DNS?
This could happen for any trusted website, even Slashdot.
Slashdot is a trusted website?
in my industry billion of dollars in product could be wiped out if even one of our pieces of software miscalculates
All that money on the line, and you're willing to trust a program whose source code you can't examine? Amazing.
there really isn't an "Obama is a terrorist" campaign outside of some idiotic right-of-center types
You mean Sarah Palin?
If there's an ISP that doesn't operate at all outside of your home state, and that doesn't allow any connections to or from any point outside of your state, then you might be able to plausibly argue that the interstate commerce clause doesn't apply to it.
however intrastate networks would and should be unfettered by Federal law.
Except nobody's talking about 'intrastate networks', but about the Internet. The Commerce Clause clearly applies here.
It's nice to think so, but it wouldn't have made any difference. A "great ideology" never lets facts get in the way.
If they have a warrant, what's the diff?
I know it's unfashionable to read the article, but would it kill you to at least read the summary?
I wonder if you could stick a trailer hitch on a Tesla, then one of those "shelves" and strap a generator to the shelf plugged into the charger and basically drive forever in "hybrid mode"
That's called a "plug-in hybrid". The propulsion is 100% electric, but when the battery gets low, an internal-combustion generator kicks in. I know there are some experimental/home-made ones on the road right now, and some manufacturers (Toyota, maybe others) are actively developing them.
By the time this car makes it into regular mass-production, (if it ever makes it at all), it'll look just like every other car on the road.
Why, a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured!
While David Carradine is sitting off to the side, playing a bamboo flute.
This was sometime in the early 90s. That's the best I can remember. And I couldn't find any solid references either.
There's at least one other person in this thread who remembers this story, so I know I didn't just make it up, but for all I know it could be complete horseshit. On the one hand, it sounds just like the sort of thing that politicians like to do; on the other hand, it sounds just like the sort of thing that Mike Barnicle might have made up to fill up some space on a slow day.
Help yourself.
Anybody remember Silly String? Do they even still make that stuff?
A few years ago (can't remember when exactly) some dumb kid in Boston shot at another dumb kid with Silly String. The kid with Silly String all over him then took out a real gun, and shot the first kid dead. Mayor Menino's response to this was a proposal to ban Silly String within city limits.
This isn't exactly the same situation, but the political logic seems strangely reminiscent.
Nerf guns don't kill people; hordes of undead flesh-eating zombies do.
OK, your turn.
Well, Frank Zappa predicted the iTunes Store back in the 80s. I don't think he'd even heard of the Internet at that point, so his idea was to transmit the data via the phone lines. Other than that, he got it mostly right.
The Yellow Pages?
To clarify even further, the NIN site is completely slashdotted right now, so the only option is getting the Pirate Bay torrent of Vol I (link above).
I have nothing particularly insightful to add, but I just want to share this truly revolting picture of Steve:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/02/27/eu_fines_microsoft_682_million_in_antitrust_case/1