"And just how do you propose monitoring this system?"
Why does it need monitoring?
"What if I run a mailing list or support group from home, why would I want to pay another $20 to send out 50 emails to poeople, and at what point would this firewall cut me off?"
Presumably since the firewall is in your cable modem you can configure it how you like. If you can't THEN there would be problems.. Lets complain about them then instead of trying to shoot down what could be a good idea.
"What if a new game comes out which makes a odd form of connection for multi-play. Or perhaps my software dose something thats not viewed as "normal" by Joe Schmoe, M.C.S.E.
And what could I do about it?"
Refer to my previous answer? This wouldn't be controlled by the ISP's just recommended by them. Most users wouldn't be affected, and those that were can probably figure out how to configure the thing just like a standard router?
Did you select from that "form" randomly or did you want to actually make an insighful point?
(x) Users of email will not put up with it Actually if implemented properly (allowing people to configure it) people WILL put up with it..
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once No. Every user that gets one of these things helps.
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email Huh?
(x) Open relays in foreign countries No. Every user that gets this helps.
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical I think this is practical. Just like a regular firewall is practical. (Might as well make this thing a proper full blown hardware firewall)
(x) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks (x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually Pardon?
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid company for suggesting it. Yes - very amusing. We're all laughing at your stupidity.
This is not a fix-all solution. But it's a simple solution that would help to alleviate some of the spam problem.
I swear the average IQ of a slashdotter must be amazingly low.. Did you somehow manage to read the summary, not the article and NONE of the comments?
It stops people from sending alot of emails.. not one.. you know this spam thing.. its where people send alot of emails at once.. whereas most people don't do that...
This would limit the rate of outgoing emails (or presumably anything else) to a limit that most people wouldn't hit in normal use. If implemented this limit would be configurable in the "firewall" so that users who know what they are doing can alter it.
It is different to software "reverse firewalls" such as Zonealarm as it couldn't easily be turned off by viruses and the like. But on the other hand it lets anything through once.
It would be beneficial to prevent the massing hordes of clueless broadband users from being juicy targets to the spammmer - since each zombie could only send out a pathetically tiny number per hour.
Okay then how about a real life example from my country (Australia). A "hacker" was using a computer to pump sewerage into a local river as described by this article. Now its entirely possible the same scenario could happen but instead using a widespread virus with a backdoor.
Is that example real enough and plausible enough for you?
Okay I agree its up to the individual to clean their systems. So when I goto an infected site its THEIR responsibility that they didn't keep their site clean. If they had I wouldn't have been infected. So therefore as soon as the site admin knows his site is infected he should shut it down. Just like companies withdraw products when they are faced with bribery by people who put poison inside the products.
In rare cases a computer virus could easily cause death. Imagine if that had gotten into a system being used to monitor a critical system. The idea that computers CAN'T kill is obviously wrong.
But lets think up a better analogy. Credit card swipers were attached to banks in Sydney, as soon as police found out they announced exactly which banks were being targetted. So in this situation the worst that can happen is loss of money.
Its hardly fair to protect the "person" who was spreading the virus (albeit through not keeping their systems secure), and not do everything to clean systems that were infected. And to do everything means helping people identify if they've been infected.
umm the DIGITAL photo can be hashed just like any other file on a computer. Presumably if they are storing a copy of the fingerprint on a digital device in some format they can hash that too..
storing the hash itself is as simple as getting any old database and putting the string in there.. dead easy (even i could do this)
So process is: 1. Give passport to airport person for checking 2. They download your data from the chip to the computer. 3.Verify that the chip and the photo whatever on the passport match 4. Verify that the hash of the digital files match those in the database. 5. Remove digital files from computer 6. Return passport 7. Person gets on plane/enters country.
what university did you goto? my uni newspaper is hated by the administration.... so much so that there are now two.. the student one and the one put out by the administration:p
Step 1: Get a scanner Step 2: scan it Step 3: print it.
But I agree that its not the optimal solution.. which would of course be to have the negatives.. or the original high res digitals..
My point was that if you can't find him in 20 years and don't have the negatives.. then worrying about copyright is the least of your issues.. just copy the damn things and if the photographer appears out of the woodwork then the problem is solved (but possibly a new one created:p)
but if you can't find him in 20 years.. then it's highly unlikely he's going to care about one of the hundreds of weddings he's photographed at being copied..
perhaps you should just do what you like with your photos?
First was the whole Firefox used to be called Thunderbird gem...
The keyboard shortcuts were sorta useful (but I knew most of them anyway and probably won't need to remember more)
But the "Advanced Configuration Options" consisted of two changes that I consider fluff at best as both are not required at all..
Then the performance settings seemed to be the same tip rehashed for some reason without actually explaining what each config setting does.. Most unprofessional imho.
Then the Themes, Extensions and Conclusion was nothing but fluff...
All in all I rate the article as an underesearched peice of fluff, possible suitable for someone who probably hasn't heard of firefox and hence isn't going to bother with anyone more than the keyboard shortcuts... Why can't people who do these things figure out what their audience is and write to that?
And naturally anyone who wanted any credibility at all would bother to do the smallest amount of research and would know it was originally called Phoenix....
Seriously I don't get whats so hard.. phoenix -> firebird -> firefox..
No.. in this case Dance Dance Revolution hastened heart attack
You read that to mean that DDR hastens all people towards heart attack which is obviously untrue - so the headline might be misleading, but only to people like you.
but is it self-defeating in the sense that even IF there are multiple solutions supporting wildly different playing styles.. there will still be players who charge through every level, and there are those who prefer to take their time and explore all avenues of progression..
Personally I can't wait till we are able to play games that allow us utilise varying strategies... I don't mean open-ended games (if a plot is done well in a game I find it can be very rewarding working my way through) but rather games that present me with a problem.. and rather than doing XYZ to get through.. I can do whatever I might think could maybe work in real life.. (or might work in whatever imaginary world I'm currently playing in..) I'm really hoping that HL2 lives up to the hype.. although I sorta doubt that it will..
to most of us that type of stuff isn't very useful.. sure alot of us have done it at some stage (high school) but what bearing does asking such questions actually have on how well i can do my totally unrelated work...
if perhaps you were asking simple algorithmic questions... maybe boolean algebra simplification then i could see some benefit..
Thats exactly what they've done.. and since they wanted to give SCO as MUCH chance as possible to:
1. produce the evidence
2. destroy their own argument
3. bankrupt SCO in legal fees
its taken this long...
If it was a short case noone would have cared about it and the benefits to Linux and FOSS wouldn't have occured...
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"And just how do you propose monitoring this system?"
Why does it need monitoring?
"What if I run a mailing list or support group from home, why would I want to pay another $20 to send out 50 emails to poeople, and at what point would this firewall cut me off?"
Presumably since the firewall is in your cable modem you can configure it how you like. If you can't THEN there would be problems.. Lets complain about them then instead of trying to shoot down what could be a good idea.
"What if a new game comes out which makes a odd form of connection for multi-play. Or perhaps my software dose something thats not viewed as "normal" by Joe Schmoe, M.C.S.E.
And what could I do about it?"
Refer to my previous answer? This wouldn't be controlled by the ISP's just recommended by them. Most users wouldn't be affected, and those that were can probably figure out how to configure the thing just like a standard router?
Did you select from that "form" randomly or did you want to actually make an insighful point?
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
Actually if implemented properly (allowing people to configure it) people WILL put up with it..
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
No. Every user that gets one of these things helps.
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
Huh?
(x) Open relays in foreign countries
No. Every user that gets this helps.
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
I think this is practical. Just like a regular firewall is practical. (Might as well make this thing a proper full blown hardware firewall)
(x) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
Pardon?
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid company for suggesting it.
Yes - very amusing. We're all laughing at your stupidity.
This is not a fix-all solution. But it's a simple solution that would help to alleviate some of the spam problem.
I swear the average IQ of a slashdotter must be amazingly low.. Did you somehow manage to read the summary, not the article and NONE of the comments?
It stops people from sending alot of emails.. not one.. you know this spam thing.. its where people send alot of emails at once.. whereas most people don't do that...
The manufacturers will make the cable modems ect with this feature and the ISP will sell them.. or they'll become common and everyone will have one...
The problem with anti-virus software is its an ongoing commitment.. with this thing there would be much less user maintenance needed.
This would limit the rate of outgoing emails (or presumably anything else) to a limit that most people wouldn't hit in normal use. If implemented this limit would be configurable in the "firewall" so that users who know what they are doing can alter it.
It is different to software "reverse firewalls" such as Zonealarm as it couldn't easily be turned off by viruses and the like. But on the other hand it lets anything through once.
It would be beneficial to prevent the massing hordes of clueless broadband users from being juicy targets to the spammmer - since each zombie could only send out a pathetically tiny number per hour.
Okay then how about a real life example from my country (Australia). A "hacker" was using a computer to pump sewerage into a local river as described by this article. Now its entirely possible the same scenario could happen but instead using a widespread virus with a backdoor.
Is that example real enough and plausible enough for you?
Okay I agree its up to the individual to clean their systems. So when I goto an infected site its THEIR responsibility that they didn't keep their site clean. If they had I wouldn't have been infected. So therefore as soon as the site admin knows his site is infected he should shut it down. Just like companies withdraw products when they are faced with bribery by people who put poison inside the products.
In rare cases a computer virus could easily cause death. Imagine if that had gotten into a system being used to monitor a critical system. The idea that computers CAN'T kill is obviously wrong.
But lets think up a better analogy. Credit card swipers were attached to banks in Sydney, as soon as police found out they announced exactly which banks were being targetted. So in this situation the worst that can happen is loss of money.
Its hardly fair to protect the "person" who was spreading the virus (albeit through not keeping their systems secure), and not do everything to clean systems that were infected. And to do everything means helping people identify if they've been infected.
umm the DIGITAL photo can be hashed just like any other file on a computer. Presumably if they are storing a copy of the fingerprint on a digital device in some format they can hash that too..
storing the hash itself is as simple as getting any old database and putting the string in there.. dead easy (even i could do this)
So process is:
1. Give passport to airport person for checking
2. They download your data from the chip to the computer.
3.Verify that the chip and the photo whatever on the passport match
4. Verify that the hash of the digital files match those in the database.
5. Remove digital files from computer
6. Return passport
7. Person gets on plane/enters country.
sounds pretty simple really..
what university did you goto? my uni newspaper is hated by the administration.... so much so that there are now two.. the student one and the one put out by the administration :p
RTFA! They tested everyone piece of RAM in every possible configuration...
DUH...
Step 1: Get a scanner
:p)
Step 2: scan it
Step 3: print it.
But I agree that its not the optimal solution.. which would of course be to have the negatives.. or the original high res digitals..
My point was that if you can't find him in 20 years and don't have the negatives.. then worrying about copyright is the least of your issues.. just copy the damn things and if the photographer appears out of the woodwork then the problem is solved (but possibly a new one created
but if you can't find him in 20 years.. then it's highly unlikely he's going to care about one of the hundreds of weddings he's photographed at being copied..
perhaps you should just do what you like with your photos?
First was the whole Firefox used to be called Thunderbird gem...
The keyboard shortcuts were sorta useful (but I knew most of them anyway and probably won't need to remember more)
But the "Advanced Configuration Options" consisted of two changes that I consider fluff at best as both are not required at all..
Then the performance settings seemed to be the same tip rehashed for some reason without actually explaining what each config setting does.. Most unprofessional imho.
Then the Themes, Extensions and Conclusion was nothing but fluff...
All in all I rate the article as an underesearched peice of fluff, possible suitable for someone who probably hasn't heard of firefox and hence isn't going to bother with anyone more than the keyboard shortcuts... Why can't people who do these things figure out what their audience is and write to that?
And naturally anyone who wanted any credibility at all would bother to do the smallest amount of research and would know it was originally called Phoenix....
Seriously I don't get whats so hard.. phoenix -> firebird -> firefox..
all of which are still downloadable including phoenix
"However, broadcasters aren't required to keep a tape of their broadcasts so, rarely, an indecency complaint gets dismissed for lack of evidence."
I rarely get constipated so perhaps I should take laxitive all the time
No.. in this case Dance Dance Revolution hastened heart attack
You read that to mean that DDR hastens all people towards heart attack which is obviously untrue - so the headline might be misleading, but only to people like you.
Why not try to google for it?
The 2nd result seems to answer your question...
Follow the link and you'll see:
Important Customers who have deployed Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2 are not at risk.
Yet on the SP2 page it says:
WARNING!
This technical preview is unsupported and is intended for testing purposes only. Do not use in production environments.
Am I the only one who finds this a bit stupid? Oh well...
menu's and form validation are what javascript should be used for... but instead it's a fully blown programming language...
I call karma whore
I can't find the original source though... pity...
but is it self-defeating in the sense that even IF there are multiple solutions supporting wildly different playing styles.. there will still be players who charge through every level, and there are those who prefer to take their time and explore all avenues of progression..
Personally I can't wait till we are able to play games that allow us utilise varying strategies... I don't mean open-ended games (if a plot is done well in a game I find it can be very rewarding working my way through) but rather games that present me with a problem.. and rather than doing XYZ to get through.. I can do whatever I might think could maybe work in real life.. (or might work in whatever imaginary world I'm currently playing in..) I'm really hoping that HL2 lives up to the hype.. although I sorta doubt that it will..
I would wanna hope it didn't run like a Chevy.. we don't drive them... It should run like a well oiled HQ ute :p
and you run a math teachers office right?
to most of us that type of stuff isn't very useful.. sure alot of us have done it at some stage (high school) but what bearing does asking such questions actually have on how well i can do my totally unrelated work...
if perhaps you were asking simple algorithmic questions... maybe boolean algebra simplification then i could see some benefit..
Thats exactly what they've done.. and since they wanted to give SCO as MUCH chance as possible to:
1. produce the evidence
2. destroy their own argument
3. bankrupt SCO in legal fees
its taken this long...
If it was a short case noone would have cared about it and the benefits to Linux and FOSS wouldn't have occured...
jeez don't you read groklaw at all?
You've already found gputils its a great place to start...
/. style i'm going to ignore that: :p
For the pic16f and 18f series also check out the small device c compiler (works with other MCU's too).
There is a related GNU pic site at www.gnupic.org it lists pretty much everything you might need.
You asked about development tools for platforms other than windows - but in true
winpicprog - i've found is quite good, i've yet to find anything in linux or bsd quite as complete...
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As far as programming resources go since I'm actualy focusing on compiling c code for the pic using sdcc i've found that:
Nathan Hursts page on sdcc and the pic14 port (for pic 16 series)
and
Martin Dubuc's pic16 port
have been invaluable resources.