PS - I pay for 50 down and 10 up. Given that I live in DC and we have great pipes, I actually get about 55 down and 14 up. Easy to get to insane numbers when you have insane bandwidth for home use.
Hehe - I have been out of town for a couple of weeks. I consoled into my home box yesterday to check something out. Turns out I left my freenet node running before I left town. Whoops - there is 688 GB I'll never see again. Thank goodness my ISP is not yet employing limits on usage (though the day is sure coming)
Are you sure about Mr. Handy? 0:16-0:17 tells me that Mr. Handy has a bit of murder-death-kill in his chips. He's soooooooooooooooo handy indeed.../em looks suspiciously at floating robot
I hate to repost a statement, but I made this a couple of days ago in regards to java in another/. story.
Who do we trust? We gotta trust someone/something at some point. I use VPN, proxies, Tor, Freenet, and some other things frequently. Still though, I gotta trust Google with some of my mail. I gotta trust Comcast with some of my pipes. Heck, I gotta trust the Devs of Tor/Freenet for that matter. I gotta trust Apple/Samsung/HTC/et al with the hardware.
I could crawl though every line of precompiled code for the services mentioned above. Still doesn't help me with the pipes. Even RTS/Torvalds/the EFF has to trust some part of the process in the modern world.
I wish there was more of a vetting process for those who want to check everything out. Sadly, there isn't at the present time, and likely there will never be a 100% vetting process. Maybe a different question to ponder is how do we increase the trust in those where we HAVE to lay some trust?
Look me in the eye and tell me you compile everything from source, after verifying each line of code. Do you trust Mozilla? Canonical? Berkeley? What an asinine statement.
This, and/endthread. I have enjoyed/. lo these many moons, but these types of "questions" border on something you'd see on the late (and little missed) Call for Help on TechTV. Please, please start raising the bar again, huh?
I agree with the AC - kludges are part of the tech world sadly. Who among us hasn't hammered a proverbial round peg into a proverbial square hole once in a while to deliver a project on time, make a customer happy, etc. I can't imagine anyone who takes pride in their work likes using kludges, but sometimes they gotta be done...
I do both. local backups and remote. Not advocating one over the other, but I have used Crashplan for the last two years and am happy with it. $60.00 a year and it has saved me twice. Currently I have 788.4GB backed up on it - they are very very loose about the amount you can back up (thankfully)
Guess that says something else about me as well. I lived in a shady part of South Florida for a bit. I owned a shotgun and a pistol at the time. If someone was egregious enough to break in, I was prepared (with training and legally owning said firearms).
When I moved elsewhere, I sold them, as I could not justify a pressing need for them anymore. Yes, I agree with the GP - civilized may not have been my adjective of choice, perhaps "appropriate" would be better. Sure seems appropriate enough to defend myself and my property if someone is going to be bold enough to commit a break-in. How is defending yourself considered to be barbaric?
I don't know about the hiding portion - any hacker with any skills at all are going to find them. I for one would be far more interested in someone who hides their SSID than someone in a faceless mass of wifis. Makes me think that they are relying on being hidden, and thus have fewer layers of defense.
Unless they have Space Police out there. Who knows how this would turn out, but it does raise another issue - when we finally get off of our collective asses and start a more aggressive space program(s), who the heck is gonna regulate commodities, etc out in space?
Yup, but you need an appointment (don't do a walkin for God's sakes!) and be sure to make a backup of your stomach as they are not responsible for previously undigested substances.
Man I had such a flashback....New Year's Eve, 2002. My dating partner at the time was out of town, so I hunkered down to do some UO - a game I had put about four years into by that time.
My little excursion out for the evening as a Tamer turned into an epic battle for both my and my irreplaceable pets - a Nightmare (fire breathing horse) and my Dragon. This was before pet summoning etc....you could spend hours finding the perfect beastie to tame, then spend hours more honing their skills. By hours, I mean weeks, months, etc. Once they died, they died.
And mine did. After about a two hour struggle (went down a bad tunnel into a spawn of Balrons then got flanked by another set) both pets went down. I ported out...confused, sad, befuddled as to what happened, distraught...those little pixels were under my watchful eye for two frigging years, and now they were gone. Gone!
A way to say even though I have never logged into Eve, I know what that feeling is like. Emotional? Yep. Boring, nope.
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PS - I pay for 50 down and 10 up. Given that I live in DC and we have great pipes, I actually get about 55 down and 14 up. Easy to get to insane numbers when you have insane bandwidth for home use.
Hehe - I have been out of town for a couple of weeks. I consoled into my home box yesterday to check something out. Turns out I left my freenet node running before I left town. Whoops - there is 688 GB I'll never see again. Thank goodness my ISP is not yet employing limits on usage (though the day is sure coming)
Are you sure about Mr. Handy? 0:16-0:17 tells me that Mr. Handy has a bit of murder-death-kill in his chips. He's soooooooooooooooo handy indeed... /em looks suspiciously at floating robot
Because they don't know any better.
I hate to repost a statement, but I made this a couple of days ago in regards to java in another /. story.
Who do we trust? We gotta trust someone/something at some point. I use VPN, proxies, Tor, Freenet, and some other things frequently. Still though, I gotta trust Google with some of my mail. I gotta trust Comcast with some of my pipes. Heck, I gotta trust the Devs of Tor/Freenet for that matter. I gotta trust Apple/Samsung/HTC/et al with the hardware.
I could crawl though every line of precompiled code for the services mentioned above. Still doesn't help me with the pipes. Even RTS/Torvalds/the EFF has to trust some part of the process in the modern world.
I wish there was more of a vetting process for those who want to check everything out. Sadly, there isn't at the present time, and likely there will never be a 100% vetting process. Maybe a different question to ponder is how do we increase the trust in those where we HAVE to lay some trust?
Indeed and well said Sire. My faith in tech humanity and common sense is somewhat restored (at least for tonight).
Look me in the eye and tell me you compile everything from source, after verifying each line of code. Do you trust Mozilla? Canonical? Berkeley? What an asinine statement.
Thank you for the RL chuckle :)
This, and /endthread. I have enjoyed /. lo these many moons, but these types of "questions" border on something you'd see on the late (and little missed) Call for Help on TechTV. Please, please start raising the bar again, huh?
I agree with the AC - kludges are part of the tech world sadly. Who among us hasn't hammered a proverbial round peg into a proverbial square hole once in a while to deliver a project on time, make a customer happy, etc. I can't imagine anyone who takes pride in their work likes using kludges, but sometimes they gotta be done...
Damn stupid dropdowns - unmodding this as flamebait.
I am not affiliated with Digital Ocean either, but a pal of mine told me about it a few months ago - very nice responsive support and decent prices.
He can get a free year of EC2 hosting. Windowz and Linux both. Amazon may be a Big Corporation but this ain't bad
Entirely offtopic, (and I am prepared for the karma hit) but today is my birthday!
I do both. local backups and remote. Not advocating one over the other, but I have used Crashplan for the last two years and am happy with it. $60.00 a year and it has saved me twice. Currently I have 788.4GB backed up on it - they are very very loose about the amount you can back up (thankfully)
Guess that says something else about me as well. I lived in a shady part of South Florida for a bit. I owned a shotgun and a pistol at the time. If someone was egregious enough to break in, I was prepared (with training and legally owning said firearms).
When I moved elsewhere, I sold them, as I could not justify a pressing need for them anymore. Yes, I agree with the GP - civilized may not have been my adjective of choice, perhaps "appropriate" would be better. Sure seems appropriate enough to defend myself and my property if someone is going to be bold enough to commit a break-in. How is defending yourself considered to be barbaric?
In Soviet Russia, the dog throws...wait, that doesn't make a lot of sense.
In Soviet Russia, the electronics steal...huh, what?
In Soviet Russia, dogs steal elec.....hmmmmm
little help here, guys?
Indeed. I don't like the idea of standing out in any fashion. In this case, hiding your SSID will attract more attention then not, IMO
I don't know about the hiding portion - any hacker with any skills at all are going to find them. I for one would be far more interested in someone who hides their SSID than someone in a faceless mass of wifis. Makes me think that they are relying on being hidden, and thus have fewer layers of defense.
Unless they have Space Police out there. Who knows how this would turn out, but it does raise another issue - when we finally get off of our collective asses and start a more aggressive space program(s), who the heck is gonna regulate commodities, etc out in space?
Yup, but you need an appointment (don't do a walkin for God's sakes!) and be sure to make a backup of your stomach as they are not responsible for previously undigested substances.
Man I had such a flashback....New Year's Eve, 2002. My dating partner at the time was out of town, so I hunkered down to do some UO - a game I had put about four years into by that time.
My little excursion out for the evening as a Tamer turned into an epic battle for both my and my irreplaceable pets - a Nightmare (fire breathing horse) and my Dragon. This was before pet summoning etc....you could spend hours finding the perfect beastie to tame, then spend hours more honing their skills. By hours, I mean weeks, months, etc. Once they died, they died.
And mine did. After about a two hour struggle (went down a bad tunnel into a spawn of Balrons then got flanked by another set) both pets went down. I ported out...confused, sad, befuddled as to what happened, distraught...those little pixels were under my watchful eye for two frigging years, and now they were gone. Gone!
A way to say even though I have never logged into Eve, I know what that feeling is like. Emotional? Yep. Boring, nope.
Don't worry - we'll do the security review for you!
This should be modded up for your username alone lol
Like, never. Out of the box and away she goes...good luck to thee!
Same :)