Seems to be that it was an ignorant attempt at sarcasm, as in "How do you encrypt plastic?" Clearly he's the kind of knuckle dragging moron that shouldn't be making statements regarding the topic at hand.
Then you find out FaceBook still has a log that it was tagged you, and they are selling back door access to certain governments/businesses to said logs.
Except that they claim to not store the data and even recommend that you blur identifying information other than your name. And even if they were storing the IDs, what happens if the fake Gary Walker is just as persistent at providing bogus IDs for verification as you are at providing real IDs? If Google doesn't actually verify the validity of the ID provided, they really don't have any choice but to accept that both Gary Walkers must be real. They'll end up with a database full of real IDs and fake IDs that have been accepted as real.
...But really what needs to happen is that the FCC needs to step in and tell companies that they can't call it unlimited if you can't tether and that you can't charge people for bandwidth and then tell them how they can use it.
Right, like they stepped in and told the companies that they can't call it unlimited when they are going to disconnect you when you reach a secret 5GB cap. Screw tethering, give me the damn unlimited that you sold me.
...Do you pay more to your ISP if you connect a router and two different computers?...
There was a time that every large cable and DSL provider would cripple your connection if they detected a router connected to your modem. For them to un-cripple it (that is, allow the MAC address of your router on their network), many of them charged ridiculous fees. They would often charge more based on the number of computers you told them you were connecting (only idiots were truthful).
Additional notes:
(1) This file used to be named ducklin.htm or ducklin-html.htm or similar based on its original author Paul Ducklin and was made in cooperation with CARO.
(2) The definition of the file has been refined 1 May 2003 by Eddy Willems in cooperation with all vendors.
(3) The content of this documentation (title-only) was adapted 1 September 2006 to add verification of the activity of anti-malware or anti-spyware products. It was decided not to change the file itself for backward-compatibility reasons.
Sure, if you wanna know whether your anti-virus programs is capable of stopping old viruses...
If AT&T Uverse is available in your location, you have a better solution - just get Uverse. Since you have coax run everywhere, the installer(s) will use that to connect the boxes, and the unused ethernet jack on each box is still functional and tied into the network over the coax. I've got a media streamer in the living room connected to the Uverse box there, my bedroom PC connected to the Uverse box, and in my son's room his Xbox and PC are connected to a 4-port hub connected to the Uverse box. It all works perfectly!
Correction:
When future civilization looks back at the thermonuclear war game that you "did not play" and "won", I somehow doubt they will have considered your enemy obliterating you while you did not fight back any sort of victory on your part.
Email and Spam are like global thermonuclear war: the only winning move is not to play.
When future civilization looks back at the thermonuclear war game that you played and "won", I somehow doubt they will have considered your enemy obliterating you while you did not fight back any sort of victory on your part.
The US NEEDS to expire driving licenses and require re-testing every 5 or 10 years. Plus there needs to be stricter testing. This will keep unsafe drivers (yeah you grandma) off the road.
This will also reduce revenue as there will undoubtedly be drivers that will be incapable of renewing their licenses (since, of course, they should not have been issued one to begin with). NO state will intentionally do something that would cause a loss of revenues, even if it amounted to a bit of public safety.
For example, in Florida, if you do not have a driver's license, you cannot own a vehicle. If you cannot own a vehicle, then the State of Florida is not receiving revenue from you in form of vehicle registration fees. From 2002 to 2005, Florida estimated that the number of passenger vehicle registrations was roughly 13.7 million with an increase of 300,000 yearly. That would mean that for 2010, there would be about 16.7 million passenger vehicles registered. That's $768.2 million in revenue for passenger vehicle registrations in 2010 based on the now almost doubled cost of about $46 for a single year renewal (on September 1, 2009, yearly registrations increased from about $27 to about $46).
If suddenly just 5% of drivers were unable to own a vehicle, the state will lose over $38 million the first year alone. And if you really want to be strict about it, 5% is way too low. And then you have to take into account the loss of revenue from failed license renewals, which now costs about $55.
Trust me, a crackdown on license issuing will NEVER happen. And if it does, you can fully expect to be raped with taxes elsewhere.
...The Afghan and Iraqi insurgents have the money...
FTFA:
"Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter."
The funny part is that the U.S. doesn't think the Shiites can't break our code, it's that we think they need Iranian-backed funds to buy a program for $25.95 to do so.
God I love this country. At the very least, the entertainment value is priceless.
I never heard of that. Besides, why would Amazon need to rely on a browser's cookie to identify returning customers when Amazon requires customers to have an account with them and be logged in before purchases are made?
Because if simply logging in or out changed the prices, you'd know right away something was amiss. If it was cookie-driven, then it would not rely on you having to login and Amazon could always show you the inflated price regardless of your login status.
most of the anger is directed toward the music/movie industry's response to piracy- weaken/destroy fair use, demonize all p2p [possibly restricting its use in the future out of fear] suing people as a scare tactic, excessive/un-constitutional fines, DRMed media etc...
...I don't see why these tactics are unreasonable...
So, just so that you can protect your "copyrighted content" from being stolen by someone other than me, you believe that it is "reasonable" to use bogus or flawed "research" to fool the government into a) taking away my legal rights (fair use); b) criminalizing software that can be and is used for legal purposes (P2P); c) abuse our legal system (suing people as scare tactic/impose excessive/unconstitutional fines); and d) crippling your "copyrighted content" so that I cannot exercise my right of fair use after I have purchased your "copyrighted content" (DRM/refer back to a) )?
It is even more difficult to attach a value to the legitimate uses of file-sharing networks, but if you can point me at examples of how file-sharing systems have a positive economic impact on anyone, please let me know.
Really? So you don't see value in a content provider being able to reduce operating expenses by distributing their content via P2P? Just because you are too lazy to do a simple search using any common search engine doesn't mean such examples don't exist. And why exactly does it have to have a positive economic impact on anyone - why does it have to have any economic impact at all? There are many things that have neither a positive economic impact nor any economic impact whatsoever, should those be illegal too?
"Use Sophos's Klingon Anti-Virus to quickly perform an on-demand scan and find viruses, spyware, adware, zero-day threats, Betazoid sub-ether porn diallers and Tribbles that your existing protection might have missed. The software can be run without deactivating your current anti-virus software. Phasers can be left set to stun."
In which case, like the UM175 that is offered by Verizon and some other carriers, it's already moved away by the use of the y-cable. The one that comes with the UM175 is about 3 feet long.
Just wait, and we will soon see a new flood of spamvertised domains that are located under the new gTLDs. And they will use the same content obfuscation techniques that they already employ so that your precious filters will not detect that they are advertising for a domain under ".pills"; your filter will think it is yet another ".com" instead.
If you firewalled out everything from ".pills", it wouldn't matter how obfuscated the link was, you still couldn't load the site if it is in.pills. If all major ISPs were on-board with doing this, the idiots that actually click the links in spam in the first place would no longer be perpetuating the spam problem.
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Seems to be that it was an ignorant attempt at sarcasm, as in "How do you encrypt plastic?" Clearly he's the kind of knuckle dragging moron that shouldn't be making statements regarding the topic at hand.
Then you find out FaceBook still has a log that it was tagged you, and they are selling back door access to certain governments/businesses to said logs.
FTFY
Except that they claim to not store the data and even recommend that you blur identifying information other than your name. And even if they were storing the IDs, what happens if the fake Gary Walker is just as persistent at providing bogus IDs for verification as you are at providing real IDs? If Google doesn't actually verify the validity of the ID provided, they really don't have any choice but to accept that both Gary Walkers must be real. They'll end up with a database full of real IDs and fake IDs that have been accepted as real.
"Citizen" is not synonymous with "consumer", and in this context, "consumer" is the most appropriate term.
I know, right! It's like a news site leaving their articles completely accessible to the public and then threatening the public that if they read more than the first page that they have to pay or face legal action.
Total morons...
I was just curious and asking, that's all. I think I know you. That is you, right? You graduated in 2001?
If there was an option for "I confidently feel that none of these candidates are deserving of my vote", I'd show up every time.
...But really what needs to happen is that the FCC needs to step in and tell companies that they can't call it unlimited if you can't tether and that you can't charge people for bandwidth and then tell them how they can use it.
Right, like they stepped in and told the companies that they can't call it unlimited when they are going to disconnect you when you reach a secret 5GB cap. Screw tethering, give me the damn unlimited that you sold me.
...Do you pay more to your ISP if you connect a router and two different computers?...
There was a time that every large cable and DSL provider would cripple your connection if they detected a router connected to your modem. For them to un-cripple it (that is, allow the MAC address of your router on their network), many of them charged ridiculous fees. They would often charge more based on the number of computers you told them you were connecting (only idiots were truthful).
Additional notes:
(1) This file used to be named ducklin.htm or ducklin-html.htm or similar based on its original author Paul Ducklin and was made in cooperation with CARO.
(2) The definition of the file has been refined 1 May 2003 by Eddy Willems in cooperation with all vendors.
(3) The content of this documentation (title-only) was adapted 1 September 2006 to add verification of the activity of anti-malware or anti-spyware products. It was decided not to change the file itself for backward-compatibility reasons.
Sure, if you wanna know whether your anti-virus programs is capable of stopping old viruses...
If AT&T Uverse is available in your location, you have a better solution - just get Uverse. Since you have coax run everywhere, the installer(s) will use that to connect the boxes, and the unused ethernet jack on each box is still functional and tied into the network over the coax. I've got a media streamer in the living room connected to the Uverse box there, my bedroom PC connected to the Uverse box, and in my son's room his Xbox and PC are connected to a 4-port hub connected to the Uverse box. It all works perfectly!
Correction: When future civilization looks back at the thermonuclear war game that you "did not play" and "won", I somehow doubt they will have considered your enemy obliterating you while you did not fight back any sort of victory on your part.
Email and Spam are like global thermonuclear war: the only winning move is not to play.
When future civilization looks back at the thermonuclear war game that you played and "won", I somehow doubt they will have considered your enemy obliterating you while you did not fight back any sort of victory on your part.
The US NEEDS to expire driving licenses and require re-testing every 5 or 10 years. Plus there needs to be stricter testing. This will keep unsafe drivers (yeah you grandma) off the road.
This will also reduce revenue as there will undoubtedly be drivers that will be incapable of renewing their licenses (since, of course, they should not have been issued one to begin with). NO state will intentionally do something that would cause a loss of revenues, even if it amounted to a bit of public safety.
For example, in Florida, if you do not have a driver's license, you cannot own a vehicle. If you cannot own a vehicle, then the State of Florida is not receiving revenue from you in form of vehicle registration fees. From 2002 to 2005, Florida estimated that the number of passenger vehicle registrations was roughly 13.7 million with an increase of 300,000 yearly. That would mean that for 2010, there would be about 16.7 million passenger vehicles registered. That's $768.2 million in revenue for passenger vehicle registrations in 2010 based on the now almost doubled cost of about $46 for a single year renewal (on September 1, 2009, yearly registrations increased from about $27 to about $46).
If suddenly just 5% of drivers were unable to own a vehicle, the state will lose over $38 million the first year alone. And if you really want to be strict about it, 5% is way too low. And then you have to take into account the loss of revenue from failed license renewals, which now costs about $55.
Trust me, a crackdown on license issuing will NEVER happen. And if it does, you can fully expect to be raped with taxes elsewhere.
...The Afghan and Iraqi insurgents have the money...
FTFA:
"Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter."
The funny part is that the U.S. doesn't think the Shiites can't break our code, it's that we think they need Iranian-backed funds to buy a program for $25.95 to do so.
God I love this country. At the very least, the entertainment value is priceless.
I never heard of that. Besides, why would Amazon need to rely on a browser's cookie to identify returning customers when Amazon requires customers to have an account with them and be logged in before purchases are made?
Because if simply logging in or out changed the prices, you'd know right away something was amiss. If it was cookie-driven, then it would not rely on you having to login and Amazon could always show you the inflated price regardless of your login status.
Here ya go - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2004785759717366066#docid=-5909203400271305794
most of the anger is directed toward the music/movie industry's response to piracy- weaken/destroy fair use, demonize all p2p [possibly restricting its use in the future out of fear] suing people as a scare tactic, excessive/un-constitutional fines, DRMed media etc...
...I don't see why these tactics are unreasonable...
So, just so that you can protect your "copyrighted content" from being stolen by someone other than me, you believe that it is "reasonable" to use bogus or flawed "research" to fool the government into a) taking away my legal rights (fair use); b) criminalizing software that can be and is used for legal purposes (P2P); c) abuse our legal system (suing people as scare tactic/impose excessive/unconstitutional fines); and d) crippling your "copyrighted content" so that I cannot exercise my right of fair use after I have purchased your "copyrighted content" (DRM/refer back to a) )?
It is even more difficult to attach a value to the legitimate uses of file-sharing networks, but if you can point me at examples of how file-sharing systems have a positive economic impact on anyone, please let me know.
Really? So you don't see value in a content provider being able to reduce operating expenses by distributing their content via P2P? Just because you are too lazy to do a simple search using any common search engine doesn't mean such examples don't exist. And why exactly does it have to have a positive economic impact on anyone - why does it have to have any economic impact at all? There are many things that have neither a positive economic impact nor any economic impact whatsoever, should those be illegal too?
Indeed! God forbid AT&T actually have to upgrade their network. What has this world come to?!
'm wndrng hw fr ths cn g whl rmnng ndrstndbl...
So, 512 SMS messages (FTA for the exploit) * $0.20 = US$102.40, which I think is roughly 73GBP.
62.10GBP according to coinmill.com
See http://www.lanana.org/docs/unicode/unicode.txt - scroll down to "Klingon language support"...
"Use Sophos's Klingon Anti-Virus to quickly perform an on-demand scan and find viruses, spyware, adware, zero-day threats, Betazoid sub-ether porn diallers and Tribbles that your existing protection might have missed. The software can be run without deactivating your current anti-virus software. Phasers can be left set to stun."
Haha!
In which case, like the UM175 that is offered by Verizon and some other carriers, it's already moved away by the use of the y-cable. The one that comes with the UM175 is about 3 feet long.
Just wait, and we will soon see a new flood of spamvertised domains that are located under the new gTLDs. And they will use the same content obfuscation techniques that they already employ so that your precious filters will not detect that they are advertising for a domain under ".pills"; your filter will think it is yet another ".com" instead.
If you firewalled out everything from ".pills", it wouldn't matter how obfuscated the link was, you still couldn't load the site if it is in .pills. If all major ISPs were on-board with doing this, the idiots that actually click the links in spam in the first place would no longer be perpetuating the spam problem.