my iphone has a significantly faster 'chip' than my old Nokia or SonyEricsson and yet it still has a better battery life... Maybe put away your overgeneralization spell for the day.
Our son is 'socially awkward'... Through the end of grade 4, had trouble making friends, was bullied, and acting up in school. We always knew he was bright but just didn't understand why he was socially 'different'. As a parent, it breaks your heart to see your little boy want so much to have a friend or two but be rejected at every attempt; and then to come home with another bullying story... After a year of psych-ed assessments, talking to a pediatrician, and his GP, and doing a _lot_ of reading, we ended up with a diagnosis. Our son is classified within the school system as 'gifted' with some minor tendencies towards ASD. While it doesn't mean what you are probably thinking, it does provide an explanation for his behavior... He's not interested in the same things his peers in his neighborhood school were interested in... He was generally speaking/acting above his pay-grade, and monopolizing the conversation. He can't read visual cues, or subtle facial expressions. In school, he doesn't finish assignments because he can't come to grips with doing 3 pages of subtraction/addition largely because he's been doing it since he was 3. So he was bored, and acting out. I see a lot of myself in him... I did mediocre to poor at school because nobody paid attention to the fact that I just 'got' stuff and didn't need it hammered into my thick skull; I was bored and so turned into the class hyperactive clown... This served me ok in grade school but then I got to University and discovered that my lack of study skills, inability to take notes, and inability to understand how I needed to learn, caused me to need to abort my post-sceondary education...
My son is now in a school for gifted children. It doesn't mean they're teaching them nuclear physics in grade 5; it just means he has a slightly enriched program in the areas in which he is strong (language, verbal, written, research, math, music) but he is also being taught how his brain is wired and what he needs to do in order to use it effectively. After his first day at the new school, he came home excited because he'd made 6 new friends, and that he'd met "his people". He no longer has tummy aches and headaches every day (stress), and is now the happy child he should be.
So you might think this shit is ridiculous, but this diagnosis has led to a better understanding of our son, and has turned his life around. Both his mother and I had very similar school experiences, and we wish we'd had someone pay attention to what was going on in our brains...
radiothermostat.com and a shell script that uses curl... Have it poll the thermostat, when it sees the temperature raised over your threshold, it moves into '30 minute' state... When 30 minutes is over, move to slowly adjusting the temperature back to your target threshold... When you're back, go to the monitor state...
I've been running my own mail server since my first 'domain' ended in.uucp (and also didn't have rDNS but whatever)... I likely have greater clue than most mail server admins who reject mail as spam for not having rDNS. I continue to run my own mail server and refuse to relay through my ISP's mail server. This way I can check my logs and know that my e-mail was accepted by a remote MX which is a useful debugging tool when someone says "I didn't get that e-mail"... ISP's tend to change their email policies at the drop of a hat and suddenly, without prior knowledge, your mails stop getting through because someone decided to disallow.tar.gz attachments, or whatever. My ability to add a PTR record to my subnets doesn't tell you anything about my ability to run a mail server nor does it say anything about my e-mail policies. I know lots of retard windows admins who know how to add a PTR record but I wouldn't trust them to reboot my son's computer, let alone run a reliable mail server. So if you're using the presence of rDNS to detect clue, then you are without clue. Given that PTR records are largely free-form, there is no valuable information in the content of a PTR record. Just because many sizable companies have jumped on the bandwagon, doesn't mean they're intelligent either. I only recently had to relent and add a PTR to my mail server IP because e-mails to my customer were bouncing due to Brightmail arbitrarily deciding that my site was a spam site due to the lack of rDNS. Since my customer is directly tied to my revenue and the smartypants admins at Brightmail won't accept a logic and fact based argument, I had no choice but to relent.
The standard refrain of "it's FOSS! If you don't like it, fix it!" is retarded. As a long time FOSS developer, I have my own projects that use up my free time. Projects that I want to work on and contribute my own way. I don't have time to fix other code that, while qualified to fix it, is not related to my project... Sometimes you can look at another piece of code and say "this is crap, someone needs to fix this"...
For example, there are parts of mythtv that suck ass.. I've submitted a few bug reports, a few of them have been fixed.. I've even submitted a patch that I outlined as completely wrong but submitted as an illustration that it worked around a specific problem for me... But I don't have time to do the rewrite the subsystem in question... I don't want to hack mythtv; I just want to watch TV after I'm done hacking for the day. Does that mean I should shut up and not point out deficiencies in hopes that someone will fix them?
I'm an old greying kind of guy... I've been writing code with some variant of 'vi' for going on 20 years or so... The place I'm at now, I'm one of about 4 'old guys'... We use 'vi'... Corporately we use cvs, bugzilla, manually hacked up nightly build and regression testing. It works well and our code is safe. Occasionally some young whippersnapper will come in and shake his head at us old guys not using Eclipse/Git/whatever... "I'm surprised you guys get any work done at all!"... It doesn't take long for little Johnny to see that we typically can code circles around him... Frankly, I don't give a rats what tools someone uses, as long as they're good. So I agree with the basic sentiment that SCM, CI, test suites, etc, are all vital and necessary, I don't think it's of much value to criticize the choice of tool... Oh yeah, and emacs sucks.
I guess my point, which was admittedly not well stated, is that as a dual-income household, all these people already have this problem. They'll just have it more frequently... Unfortunately, most people instead choose to send their sick kid to school and pass their child-care problem onto the rest of us.. These are the ones complaining about having no option on the fridays off because school's not open to offload their kid.
I have friends who have high-profile careers... They send their kids to private school; have arranged for after school care, and then have arranged for the nanny to pickup their children and take them home, feed them, entertain them, and get them ready for bed; the nanny then does some laundry and prepares supper for the parents, who come home about 9PM... Parents come home, spend a few minutes with the kids, and then put the kids to bed. These are the people who are complaining about the cost of arranging an extra day of childcare.
These are people who should not have had children.
If this schedule is so onerous on you, then I shudder to think what happens when your child becomes ill. I'm pretty sure I know what happens, based on the kids in my sons class who show up coughing/sneezing because their parents are too busy at work to take a few days off to keep little johnny at home... So then my kid gets sick and the rest of my family gets sick, and _I_ have to miss work... I'm a contractor so I don't get "sick leave", I just lose money. We see many advantages in having one of us stay home...
I have plenty of filtration in my fuel system so I don't need extra. I also don't need additives. I fill my gerry cans in winter and I recently used one that I filled two years ago and my truck ran quite nicely so I don't agree with the assertion that 'diesel goes bad'... All fuel can get condensation in it but I keep my gerry cans full and I have a good filter that seperates any water out of the fuel. I also have no trouble starting my truck down at -40C, mostly because I use a Webasto. My truck is far more reliable than my wife's Honda Pilot at -40C.
I drive a diesel land cruiser up here in canada, eh? It's not all fancy and electronic... Mechanical injectors and a mechanical denso injection pump.. Diesel here in Canada typically hovers around the price of gasoline... Sometimes higher, sometimes lower... The price of diesel fluctuates after gasoline does; perhaps because there's lower turnover on the diesel pumps.
One advantage to diesel that is a disadvantage with gasoline is that diesel can live in a gerry can or tank for months and not go 'bad' whereas gasoline has a shelf life of about a month... If you don't drive your vehicle frequently, you need to add fuel stabilizer to the tank. This is why people have trouble with gas powered 'toys' and 'tools' (chain saws, outboard motors, lawn mowers, RVs)... They don't get used regularly enough and the fuel sits around...
I can also fuel up at the grocery store, if I want to pay extra for canola oil... Or if my wife is deep-frying tempura or something, I can pour the fat through a coffee filter straight into my tank and my truck actually likes it...
The new diesels are so sensored up the wazoo that I'm not sure this sort of thing is advisable...
Another problem with diesel is that in extreme cold temperatures, it gels. Here in Canada, starting about september, my mileage drops about 2mpg(US) because the producers have switched to 'winter diesel'... About May, my mileage returns.
My son has been driving my truck, offroad, since he was 6. I like the idea that if I'm injured and incapable of driving, my son will be able to get the two of us out to the nearest road... He's almost 10 now so having him drive me closer to civilization in an extreme emergency is not inconceivable..
He's also been helping to fix my truck since he was 4 and rebuilt the entire front axle of my 4x4 when he was 8.. Not because I think he should, but because he wanted to. Been teaching him how to weld, also.
The thermostat in my house reads in integers. I can set the temperature to an integer number of degrees C. It's pretty easy to tell the difference between 22 or 23C... One might be 'just right' and the other might be 'too hot'. The problem is, the thermostat will control the temperature of the house to +/-2degrees. So 24C is quite a bit hotter than 20C, when it's set to 22C. I'd rather set the thermostat to 71F and have the temperature range from 69 to 73F. This is exactly what we do, even though we live in canada; we have the programmable thermostat set to fahrenheit so we have finer control of the temperature.
I bought unlocked iphones for wife and I because she doesn't want a data plan or caller-ID, and I don't want things like voice mail, call waiting, visual voice mail, etc etc... So we pick and choose our features instead of being tied to our providers' "iphone plan"... Our total monthly bill is about half what it would be if we went on-contract for a subsidized phone... Over 3 years (minimum contract period for an iphone here in Canada), we save far far more than the difference between the subsidized and full price of the phone... The very few times that my wife wants to check her e-mail is when we're out at the cottage and I'm with her. I turn on 'personal hotspot' for her and she checks her mail...
Not everyone uses their phone the way the carriers want them to.
15 years ago, datasheets were in thick books lying on your desk, email came in inter-office envelopes tied with the little string around the two rivets, also on your desk, consoles were down the hall in the machineroom, and your logic analyzer was on a 5 foot tall cart that you wheeled next to your bench. Your one monitor was a Wyse-50 terminal. When you really needed to debug something nasty, you printed it off on the line printer and went to the cafeteria where you could spread it out on the tables...
Now we have monitors. logic analyzers are the size of a cellphone and plug into a USB port, same with scopes. Datasheets come in pdf form, meetings are automatically added to your 'calendar' and inter-office mail is sent to you all day long.
Without my second monitor, I can't easily get to my 3rd or 4th.
Thank god for Synergy+... My corporate PC with Outlook is far right... 2 middle monitors are my coding monitors, and consoles to my embedded targets, jtag debugger window, etc... Far left monitor is web browser and datasheet displayer. I might even pull up a logic analyzer window on the far left.
My cows used to make fun of me but I see they all now have at least 2 monitors and some of them 3 or 4...
So I dug an old Catalyst switch out of the closet, put my cable modem on one port, my Time Capsule WAN port on another; put them on their own VLAN. I set another port to be the replication port such that all traffic on the cable modem is replicated to this port. I plugged this port into an unused ethernet port on one of my servers. I run MRTG on this port. I found that my bandwidth accounting more or less matched what my cableco was reporting. Unfortunately, in the process I also discovered that there were a dozen or so hosts in my neighborhood that were ARP-spamming so I started a tcpdump of packets that were not for me or from me and have been logging all of them. After 3 months of doing this, it would appear that these spurious ARP's account for 4% of my monthly bandwidth allotment. From this I deduce that the cableco is querying the counts directly from my cable modem and not any sort of upstream router. I'm currently collecting data and will present an accurate accounting to them when I get my first usage bill. I realize they will probably say something to the effect of that traffic being outside of their control but I will point out that everyone on my street or neighborhood or whatever the granularity of my head-end is paying for this traffic. At $2.00/GB of over-usage, multiplied by the number of people on my street who could potentially be over their monthly cap, they are raking in a tidy profit for what amounts to non-internet traffic. I figure the local media will be most interested in this math.
"Not only are you learning how to think in math, but you are learning how to break down your thinking so you can check it step by step to make sure there are no flaws. THAT is why we math teachers make you show your work. I, for one, don't care if you get the correct answer or not. I care about how you arrived at your answer, if you can show me the process you used to get to it, and if, in the case of an incorrect answer, you can find the flaw in your thought process that lead to your mistake."
See, if that were true in my experience at university, I'd have done well. My calculus final exams were worth 50% of my grade (the rest of the grade being the midterm, and some 'lab' work from the TA). The 50% finals had 3 questions. Long-ish proofs. The way they were graded was "look at the answer, if the answer is wrong, then 0 points for that question. If the answer was right, then go back and deduct marks for your work." So, if your work was good, the answer largely correct (except you inadvertantly dropped a '-' sign somewhere along the way), you get 0 marks.
I hadn't thought of that application but it's interesting... I imagine that after 9 months, the baby you've been filming will seem a lot larger and more troublesome than the pesky camera..
- many shows are not available in my country (Canada)... - When the shows do appear in canada, they are 1 or more seasons after originally aired. - I enjoy discussing certain shows online with my friends in other countries
additionally:
- broadcast schedules are sporadic. ie: this season of BigBangTheory has not been regularly broadcast week after week after week. So I prefer to wait until the entire season has been broadcast and then watch the season as a whole. - the broadcaster or local distributor often puts animated ads on the bottom of content, occasionally covering up subtitles or other text that is part of the content. - my local cableco compresses the crap out of HD content so pirated content is of higher quality, less blotchy. - pirated content has had the commercials removed. - my cableco messes with the encoding so frequently that my capture methods aren't reliable. (firewire on DCT6200) - a PVR from my cableco has limited disk space, can not accomodate additional disks added, and can not be backed up. - I also don't have the flexibility to transfer recorded content from my cableco's PVR to my laptop so I can watch it on the plane.
HOWEVER, I pay my cableco monthly anyway. Most of the content I do pirate, is content that would have eventually recorded or at least have come into my home via coax on the cableco's network.. The rest of the content, (foreign content) is I guess truly being pirated but I probably can't buy the DVD's due to region code issues anyway so I'm not a lost sale there anyway.
Sure, it's a fairly weak justification but I feel morally 'ok' with my decisions.
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my iphone has a significantly faster 'chip' than my old Nokia or SonyEricsson and yet it still has a better battery life... Maybe put away your overgeneralization spell for the day.
Our son is 'socially awkward'... Through the end of grade 4, had trouble making friends, was bullied, and acting up in school. We always knew he was bright but just didn't understand why he was socially 'different'. As a parent, it breaks your heart to see your little boy want so much to have a friend or two but be rejected at every attempt; and then to come home with another bullying story... After a year of psych-ed assessments, talking to a pediatrician, and his GP, and doing a _lot_ of reading, we ended up with a diagnosis. Our son is classified within the school system as 'gifted' with some minor tendencies towards ASD. While it doesn't mean what you are probably thinking, it does provide an explanation for his behavior... He's not interested in the same things his peers in his neighborhood school were interested in... He was generally speaking/acting above his pay-grade, and monopolizing the conversation. He can't read visual cues, or subtle facial expressions. In school, he doesn't finish assignments because he can't come to grips with doing 3 pages of subtraction/addition largely because he's been doing it since he was 3. So he was bored, and acting out. I see a lot of myself in him... I did mediocre to poor at school because nobody paid attention to the fact that I just 'got' stuff and didn't need it hammered into my thick skull; I was bored and so turned into the class hyperactive clown... This served me ok in grade school but then I got to University and discovered that my lack of study skills, inability to take notes, and inability to understand how I needed to learn, caused me to need to abort my post-sceondary education...
My son is now in a school for gifted children. It doesn't mean they're teaching them nuclear physics in grade 5; it just means he has a slightly enriched program in the areas in which he is strong (language, verbal, written, research, math, music) but he is also being taught how his brain is wired and what he needs to do in order to use it effectively. After his first day at the new school, he came home excited because he'd made 6 new friends, and that he'd met "his people". He no longer has tummy aches and headaches every day (stress), and is now the happy child he should be.
So you might think this shit is ridiculous, but this diagnosis has led to a better understanding of our son, and has turned his life around. Both his mother and I had very similar school experiences, and we wish we'd had someone pay attention to what was going on in our brains...
You were probably the bully, weren't you?
radiothermostat.com and a shell script that uses curl... Have it poll the thermostat, when it sees the temperature raised over your threshold, it moves into '30 minute' state... When 30 minutes is over, move to slowly adjusting the temperature back to your target threshold... When you're back, go to the monitor state...
I've been running my own mail server since my first 'domain' ended in .uucp (and also didn't have rDNS but whatever)... I likely have greater clue than most mail server admins who reject mail as spam for not having rDNS. I continue to run my own mail server and refuse to relay through my ISP's mail server. This way I can check my logs and know that my e-mail was accepted by a remote MX which is a useful debugging tool when someone says "I didn't get that e-mail"... ISP's tend to change their email policies at the drop of a hat and suddenly, without prior knowledge, your mails stop getting through because someone decided to disallow .tar.gz attachments, or whatever. My ability to add a PTR record to my subnets doesn't tell you anything about my ability to run a mail server nor does it say anything about my e-mail policies. I know lots of retard windows admins who know how to add a PTR record but I wouldn't trust them to reboot my son's computer, let alone run a reliable mail server. So if you're using the presence of rDNS to detect clue, then you are without clue. Given that PTR records are largely free-form, there is no valuable information in the content of a PTR record. Just because many sizable companies have jumped on the bandwagon, doesn't mean they're intelligent either. I only recently had to relent and add a PTR to my mail server IP because e-mails to my customer were bouncing due to Brightmail arbitrarily deciding that my site was a spam site due to the lack of rDNS. Since my customer is directly tied to my revenue and the smartypants admins at Brightmail won't accept a logic and fact based argument, I had no choice but to relent.
sigh. I hate people.
The standard refrain of "it's FOSS! If you don't like it, fix it!" is retarded. As a long time FOSS developer, I have my own projects that use up my free time. Projects that I want to work on and contribute my own way. I don't have time to fix other code that, while qualified to fix it, is not related to my project... Sometimes you can look at another piece of code and say "this is crap, someone needs to fix this"...
For example, there are parts of mythtv that suck ass.. I've submitted a few bug reports, a few of them have been fixed.. I've even submitted a patch that I outlined as completely wrong but submitted as an illustration that it worked around a specific problem for me... But I don't have time to do the rewrite the subsystem in question... I don't want to hack mythtv; I just want to watch TV after I'm done hacking for the day. Does that mean I should shut up and not point out deficiencies in hopes that someone will fix them?
I'm an old greying kind of guy... I've been writing code with some variant of 'vi' for going on 20 years or so... The place I'm at now, I'm one of about 4 'old guys'... We use 'vi'... Corporately we use cvs, bugzilla, manually hacked up nightly build and regression testing. It works well and our code is safe. Occasionally some young whippersnapper will come in and shake his head at us old guys not using Eclipse/Git/whatever... "I'm surprised you guys get any work done at all!" ... It doesn't take long for little Johnny to see that we typically can code circles around him... Frankly, I don't give a rats what tools someone uses, as long as they're good. So I agree with the basic sentiment that SCM, CI, test suites, etc, are all vital and necessary, I don't think it's of much value to criticize the choice of tool... Oh yeah, and emacs sucks.
Does that make them 'oxy-morons'?
I guess my point, which was admittedly not well stated, is that as a dual-income household, all these people already have this problem. They'll just have it more frequently... Unfortunately, most people instead choose to send their sick kid to school and pass their child-care problem onto the rest of us.. These are the ones complaining about having no option on the fridays off because school's not open to offload their kid.
I have friends who have high-profile careers... They send their kids to private school; have arranged for after school care, and then have arranged for the nanny to pickup their children and take them home, feed them, entertain them, and get them ready for bed; the nanny then does some laundry and prepares supper for the parents, who come home about 9PM... Parents come home, spend a few minutes with the kids, and then put the kids to bed. These are the people who are complaining about the cost of arranging an extra day of childcare.
These are people who should not have had children.
If this schedule is so onerous on you, then I shudder to think what happens when your child becomes ill. I'm pretty sure I know what happens, based on the kids in my sons class who show up coughing/sneezing because their parents are too busy at work to take a few days off to keep little johnny at home... So then my kid gets sick and the rest of my family gets sick, and _I_ have to miss work... I'm a contractor so I don't get "sick leave", I just lose money. We see many advantages in having one of us stay home...
I have plenty of filtration in my fuel system so I don't need extra. I also don't need additives. I fill my gerry cans in winter and I recently used one that I filled two years ago and my truck ran quite nicely so I don't agree with the assertion that 'diesel goes bad'... All fuel can get condensation in it but I keep my gerry cans full and I have a good filter that seperates any water out of the fuel. I also have no trouble starting my truck down at -40C, mostly because I use a Webasto. My truck is far more reliable than my wife's Honda Pilot at -40C.
I drive a diesel land cruiser up here in canada, eh? It's not all fancy and electronic... Mechanical injectors and a mechanical denso injection pump.. Diesel here in Canada typically hovers around the price of gasoline... Sometimes higher, sometimes lower... The price of diesel fluctuates after gasoline does; perhaps because there's lower turnover on the diesel pumps.
One advantage to diesel that is a disadvantage with gasoline is that diesel can live in a gerry can or tank for months and not go 'bad' whereas gasoline has a shelf life of about a month... If you don't drive your vehicle frequently, you need to add fuel stabilizer to the tank. This is why people have trouble with gas powered 'toys' and 'tools' (chain saws, outboard motors, lawn mowers, RVs)... They don't get used regularly enough and the fuel sits around...
I can also fuel up at the grocery store, if I want to pay extra for canola oil... Or if my wife is deep-frying tempura or something, I can pour the fat through a coffee filter straight into my tank and my truck actually likes it...
The new diesels are so sensored up the wazoo that I'm not sure this sort of thing is advisable...
Another problem with diesel is that in extreme cold temperatures, it gels. Here in Canada, starting about september, my mileage drops about 2mpg(US) because the producers have switched to 'winter diesel'... About May, my mileage returns.
My son has been driving my truck, offroad, since he was 6. I like the idea that if I'm injured and incapable of driving, my son will be able to get the two of us out to the nearest road... He's almost 10 now so having him drive me closer to civilization in an extreme emergency is not inconceivable..
He's also been helping to fix my truck since he was 4 and rebuilt the entire front axle of my 4x4 when he was 8.. Not because I think he should, but because he wanted to. Been teaching him how to weld, also.
The thermostat in my house reads in integers. I can set the temperature to an integer number of degrees C. It's pretty easy to tell the difference between 22 or 23C... One might be 'just right' and the other might be 'too hot'. The problem is, the thermostat will control the temperature of the house to +/-2degrees. So 24C is quite a bit hotter than 20C, when it's set to 22C. I'd rather set the thermostat to 71F and have the temperature range from 69 to 73F. This is exactly what we do, even though we live in canada; we have the programmable thermostat set to fahrenheit so we have finer control of the temperature.
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Mine is all '*'s ...
I bought unlocked iphones for wife and I because she doesn't want a data plan or caller-ID, and I don't want things like voice mail, call waiting, visual voice mail, etc etc... So we pick and choose our features instead of being tied to our providers' "iphone plan"... Our total monthly bill is about half what it would be if we went on-contract for a subsidized phone... Over 3 years (minimum contract period for an iphone here in Canada), we save far far more than the difference between the subsidized and full price of the phone... The very few times that my wife wants to check her e-mail is when we're out at the cottage and I'm with her. I turn on 'personal hotspot' for her and she checks her mail...
Not everyone uses their phone the way the carriers want them to.
yes, ok. I'm old..
15 years ago, datasheets were in thick books lying on your desk, email came in inter-office envelopes tied with the little string around the two rivets, also on your desk, consoles were down the hall in the machineroom, and your logic analyzer was on a 5 foot tall cart that you wheeled next to your bench. Your one monitor was a Wyse-50 terminal. When you really needed to debug something nasty, you printed it off on the line printer and went to the cafeteria where you could spread it out on the tables...
Now we have monitors. logic analyzers are the size of a cellphone and plug into a USB port, same with scopes. Datasheets come in pdf form, meetings are automatically added to your 'calendar' and inter-office mail is sent to you all day long.
Without my second monitor, I can't easily get to my 3rd or 4th.
Thank god for Synergy+ ... My corporate PC with Outlook is far right... 2 middle monitors are my coding monitors, and consoles to my embedded targets, jtag debugger window, etc... Far left monitor is web browser and datasheet displayer. I might even pull up a logic analyzer window on the far left.
My cows used to make fun of me but I see they all now have at least 2 monitors and some of them 3 or 4...
So I dug an old Catalyst switch out of the closet, put my cable modem on one port, my Time Capsule WAN port on another; put them on their own VLAN. I set another port to be the replication port such that all traffic on the cable modem is replicated to this port. I plugged this port into an unused ethernet port on one of my servers. I run MRTG on this port. I found that my bandwidth accounting more or less matched what my cableco was reporting. Unfortunately, in the process I also discovered that there were a dozen or so hosts in my neighborhood that were ARP-spamming so I started a tcpdump of packets that were not for me or from me and have been logging all of them. After 3 months of doing this, it would appear that these spurious ARP's account for 4% of my monthly bandwidth allotment. From this I deduce that the cableco is querying the counts directly from my cable modem and not any sort of upstream router. I'm currently collecting data and will present an accurate accounting to them when I get my first usage bill. I realize they will probably say something to the effect of that traffic being outside of their control but I will point out that everyone on my street or neighborhood or whatever the granularity of my head-end is paying for this traffic. At $2.00/GB of over-usage, multiplied by the number of people on my street who could potentially be over their monthly cap, they are raking in a tidy profit for what amounts to non-internet traffic. I figure the local media will be most interested in this math.
This is about 29 days worth:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3858284544 2011-05-02 15:31 notmine.cap
tcpdump -n -r notmine.cap arp | wc -l
reading from file notmine.cap, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet)
47256871
$ bc -l
47256871*46
2173816066
That's about 2GB of ARP packets in nearly a month.
All new mac-addresses get 24 hours of free access; after that they're blocked for 1 week... Adjust thresholds accordingly...
"Not only are you learning how to think in math, but you are learning how to break down your thinking so you can check it step by step to make sure there are no flaws. THAT is why we math teachers make you show your work. I, for one, don't care if you get the correct answer or not. I care about how you arrived at your answer, if you can show me the process you used to get to it, and if, in the case of an incorrect answer, you can find the flaw in your thought process that lead to your mistake."
See, if that were true in my experience at university, I'd have done well. My calculus final exams were worth 50% of my grade (the rest of the grade being the midterm, and some 'lab' work from the TA). The 50% finals had 3 questions. Long-ish proofs. The way they were graded was "look at the answer, if the answer is wrong, then 0 points for that question. If the answer was right, then go back and deduct marks for your work." So, if your work was good, the answer largely correct (except you inadvertantly dropped a '-' sign somewhere along the way), you get 0 marks.
I hadn't thought of that application but it's interesting... I imagine that after 9 months, the baby you've been filming will seem a lot larger and more troublesome than the pesky camera..
Yes. I think that's fairly well known isn't it?
I pirate my TV content. Here's why:
- many shows are not available in my country (Canada)...
- When the shows do appear in canada, they are 1 or more seasons after originally aired.
- I enjoy discussing certain shows online with my friends in other countries
additionally:
- broadcast schedules are sporadic. ie: this season of BigBangTheory has not been regularly broadcast week after week after week. So I prefer to wait until the entire season has been broadcast and then watch the season as a whole.
- the broadcaster or local distributor often puts animated ads on the bottom of content, occasionally covering up subtitles or other text that is part of the content.
- my local cableco compresses the crap out of HD content so pirated content is of higher quality, less blotchy.
- pirated content has had the commercials removed.
- my cableco messes with the encoding so frequently that my capture methods aren't reliable. (firewire on DCT6200)
- a PVR from my cableco has limited disk space, can not accomodate additional disks added, and can not be backed up.
- I also don't have the flexibility to transfer recorded content from my cableco's PVR to my laptop so I can watch it on the plane.
HOWEVER, I pay my cableco monthly anyway. Most of the content I do pirate, is content that would have eventually recorded or at least have come into my home via coax on the cableco's network.. The rest of the content, (foreign content) is I guess truly being pirated but I probably can't buy the DVD's due to region code issues anyway so I'm not a lost sale there anyway.
Sure, it's a fairly weak justification but I feel morally 'ok' with my decisions.