We come down on things like this for the same reason classically trained musicians come down on someone who teaches "how to make music" by bringing in a bunch of people who say "I like music! It could be a great career for you!" and then offering a site where people can take the recording tracks of a few top 40 songs and mash them up themselves.
The big issue is that you then get a bunch of people who say "I know all about how to make music!" who were never actually taught the underpinnings, theory, or skill behind creating original music.
You're right about the "private club" aspect -- the concern though is about people saying "I'm part of your private club too!" who have never even been to a meeting, but just read the minutes.
As long as there's some level of transparency about what's being hyped, I see nothing wrong with it. But we don't want to limit kids' vision of what they can do by putting them in a strictly defined and limited box and tell them it's the whole world.
Just force all ninth graders to learn Scheme instead of Microsoft Word.
Yes, because there are just so many companies looking for people good with Scheme.
Oh wait, no, that's right, companies keep asking for people who know how to use MS Office products.
Teach a ninth grader to use Microsoft Word, and he'll be able to use Microsoft Word. Teach a ninth grader Scheme, and he'll be able to create the successor to Microsoft Word.
Where does this mentality of "only use the tools people use to make money to teach concepts" come from?
Does a ninth grader really need to know how to hold down an office job? Why not go a step further and give all first graders a calculator and stop teaching them basic math? After all, when you get a job, you're expected to know how to use a calculator, not do polynomial division in your head.
Not only can we share the wealth, we can also just make more wealth through robot slaves, and have a bigger pie from which to divide.
I'm a firm believer in "wealth cannot be created or destroyed, only deferred." This means that other than energy coming from outside sources (the sun), we aren't really adding anything to the equation with robot slaves; we're just creating a more efficient energy transferral system -- which IS good. The costs however are in things such as fuels and rare minerals.
If we can make asteroid mining an energy positive endeavour, we can start creating new wealth on earth. Until then, shifting the energy around will just make life better for some at the expense of others. Of course, we're very efficient at doing THAT in North America already.
I'm hoping that the vision you have of larger pies will work out in practice, but the cynic in me sees that as going against the basic underpinnings of the human psyche. Even when we automate all jobs, we still have to deal with the large population of Homo Sapiens Sapiens and their clan/herd mentalities. Free market economies will always be limited by that.
I think he's already suffered prompt and drastic punishment -- before trial. This, in violation of the UCMJ. He got the prompt punishment, just not the swift trial.
If found guilty, he will face further punishment. However, there's at least one rule he broke that should be able to get him life in prison: he used military intel for political gain and bypassed the systems already in place for highlighting these issues first to his superiors and then to the government systems in place outside the military set up to watch it. Since the contents weren't really of immediate military value (but were of a sensitive political nature), there could be some leniency, but he left absolutely no trail of CYA or indications that he first attempted to do the right thing through legal and accepted channels (before leaking to US papers; the whole WikiLeaks issue is really overblown, as it's not so much about HIS actions as it is about Wikileaks actually doing something with the data). In short, he took informatin gained in a military setting, while employed by the military, and treated it as if he were still a civilian.
That's no excuse for the response he got; he SHOULD have had a speedy court martial -- but because he got international politics involved, those same people who are supposed to keep tabs on the military are the ones who he really attacked with his actions.
Summary: he goofed, has admitted it, and will face the consequences. Meanwhile, those whose failings he exposed are out for blood (or at least shutting him up permanently as an example), and so he gets to suffer through extended incarceration and a trial for more severe charges that may stick, legitimate or not.
With a 30 year old TV and a bent-up metal clothes hanger you can usually get pretty good reception on at least a couple Fox stations. CBS and NBC are pretty flaky, and PBS is there, but it sucks.
The rural areas I've been in can't get UHF and VHF analog signals anymore -- remember that broadcasting went digital a few years ago? This means that in addition to your 30-year-old TV and coat hanger, you need a digital conversion box, and possibly the decryption codes for the station you want to watch. As all broadcast centers are mandated to have at least one in-the-clear station (so much for free economy) however, you should be able to pull in at least one decipherable signal with a converter.
Most people I know just gave up and paid the rural premiums for cable when the old analog network started going black.
Economies of scale is one of the benefits of living in an urban area. You get cheap internet, cheap water, cheap electricity, cheap garbage collection, cheap sewer, etc. When you live out in the boonies the land is cheap, but you don;t get the benefits of living in a metropolis.
It's more complicated than that. Where does city water come from? Electricity? Where does your garbage go? Where do you get your food from?
Economies of scale exist, but city-level density can only work with a rural support structure. If farmers have to pay for everything with no cost burden sharing, do you know what happens? First, in order to afford Internet, water, electricity, garbage collection, sewer, etc. they have to raise the prices on what they sell. This means that all these resources that cities depend on are suddenly inflated. End result? Either cities suffer mass inflation, or they get their resources from somewhere else that doesn't have the same expenses. If they do the second, the people in their area who WERE supplying those resources are forced to close up shop and move to the city, decreasing choice and diversity, and also shifting municipal dependency on to people who are willing to subsist at a significantly lower standard of living than the people they're supporting. This never ends well in the long run.
The truth is that people in general always have to pay the true cost of what is consumed... the cost can be deferred, or shifted on to a minority group, but the cost still exists. Under the free market, countries willing to live at a lower standard of living will be equalized with the consumer countries, until the standards of living balance -- that's how the global economy works.
Good for you if this is what you really want; you're basically saying that the US needs to come down a notch or two and share the wealth.
Um... yes... There's this person, probably in another country, that I suspect is trying to gain access to my facebook account. LOL.
Laugh, but the GP is correct. File the paperwork. It's a CYA move, just like you'd do if something fishy was going on at work. Not only does this cover YOU, but it also provides a jumping off point, should some computer crimes force actually stumble on the perp. They can't do a thing against them in many cases unless someone has reported it first. Having a report on file unties all sorts of red tape for their investigations.
That said, reporting it to a local county office isn't going to do much; you need to find the closest computer crimes division that will actually file your report and also add it to the federal/international databases so it can be cross-referenced by other investigators.
Its not ludicrous. We could and should be able to do it, but we dont design our networks to a handle that kind of thing. IMHO, every machine in the building should have a hot spare HDD ready to go and a full user profile stored on the network/backups. We dont have this functionality because its more important to slap a cheap vendor workstation on a desk then it is to build a a proper machine with extra hardware.
The other problem is that you need to deal with when the intrusion was detected when dealing with cleanup and mitigation. If there was an undetected intrusion, followed by backups cycling, user profiles getting backed up to hot spares, etc. and THEN someone notices the intrusion... well, you have to first figure out when the intrusion took place and what systems were possibly touched -- after which you need to follow the cascade of tainted systems until you reach the end.
There's nothing worse than losing a week of work to restore to a tainted snapshot -- other than maybe being unable to audit and verify whether you've cleaned everything up in the first place.
Help me understand - you are mad at the victim? Do you stop talking to friends because they paid for Windows? Don't buy anything with a Samsung-made component?
I'm sure Nikon looked at the cost of fighting and decided it made business sense to pay them. Consider the volume of Android devices Nikon sells vs. Samsung and other cell phone companies. If it doesn't make sense for the cell phone vendors, it is unlikely to make sense for Nikon to fight in court.
Frankly, your anger toward Microsoft might be better directed at Microsoft. And Google. Why hasn't Google challenged this?
I will not be purchasing Nikon products because I want other companies to understand the full price of caving in to patent trolls. I will pay a little more to support a company with a spine and a long term outlook on the situation. Unfortunately it is getting harder and harder to find such companies.
I don't believe there's currently a single producer of a commercial product containing a CCD that doesn't play the patent game. If you know of one, please let us all know.
This means that you're also not purchasing a cellular phone (even the dumb ones are patent encumbered), a computer, a television (HDMI), an automobile, or most other "digital" equipment. And if you take patent trolling seriously, it will also severely hamper what you wear, what sort of house you live in, and even what you use to clean your teeth -- because all these areas involve objects where the producer has to kick back a percentage of profits (or whatever they've agreed to) to some third party who holds patents.
The alternative to paying to license patents is to trade patents, or hold them in a MAD pool. Sometimes, paying is more lucrative to a company, especially when you don't want any strings attached should you choose to stop using the patented technology.
One less brand to ever appear on my shopping list.
You do realize that Nikon already pays both Microsoft and Apple for the patents surrounding its current cameras, right? Mpeg-LA as well. Nikon cameras, while using their own RAW format for image storage, also use JPEG, Quicktime MOV for video, and Microsoft's MTP for data transfer. They also use HDMI connectors as well as USB -- all of which require patents. They also use licenses from SanDisk and the SD cartel for the SD card interface, license to Microsoft for using FAT-32 to format the storage, have licenses for multiple patents on the Li-Ion batteries they use in their devices, the CCDs they use in their sensors, and also have various licenses covering hard and soft interface elements.
To offset this, Nikon holds a whack of their own patents covering everything from button layout (the reason Canon cameras have inferior button layout to Nikon), optics, CCD interface, post-processing technology, storage and transfer formats, etc.
The only thing that really surprises me here is that they were unable to perform a license trade to get the MS patents for free. I guess pay-as-you-go can be cheaper, if you don't plan to use the patent for long and don't want to give away your own patent in the process.
Indeed -- they should name this bill the "Driving All Technology Away" (DATA) bill.... What this will ensure is that no cloud or big iron services are hosted in Illinois. Goodbye tech jobs....
(Of course, I wouldn't actually be surprised to find that MS and Apple have incorporated PDF tools into their kernels. They're run by people who don't understand the concept, and will use any scheme available to lure users into their "walled gardens".;-)
I was going to write an informative explanation of why this is ludicrous, but then realized that the sentence speaks for itself.
Microkernel much? Linux is about the only kernel where you COULD bake PDF tools right in.
Isn't there pretty strong case law against copyrighting APIs? It strikes me that there's not a whole lot to appeal here.
Which is why it's a cash-cow for IP lawyers across the land.... the little bit that can be appealed can be twisted like an animal balloon. I sure hope it doesn't come out toy poodles.
Man, this is really turning into WW1 here. Do you think that Apple will join in, or are they going to be Switzerland?
Whenever you see the TLA "BSA", you're seeing Apple. They've already joined in by proxy. Which sucks for them, because with a win here, they could have much of their IP ripped out from under them or at least held in limbo while their lawyers fight a war of attrition Same goes for MS and Oracle actually.
Don't replace anything right away. Wait until you know what you miss the most. When you miss 'it' the most, note why. Once you have the what and why, start shopping for the best fit, new or old.
B-)
...and by this point, the statute of limitations on the insurance payout has passed, and he gets nothing. He's got a time window to do the replacing here, and it's better not to leave things until the last minute. Somewhere in the middle is probably best.
crime is lower, but more evenly distributed. So the areas of society that were crumbling are now fairly stable (not crumbling further) and OTHER areas that get more headline time have been crumbling. Revisionist "good ol' days" hindsight is definitely at play, but so are other factors.
1. Setting the subnet mask to/30 or whatever only works if you have just enough devices for the available IPs. What if your network has 7 devices? 2. Two devices can share a MAC and IP on a wireless network. On a wired network it confuses the switch, but a wireless network does not have a switch. Depending on how the devices are configures, this situation can even work quite well.
If I needed a wireless network, I would use WPA2 and EAP authentication with certificates. That is harder to break than a simple pre shared key.
1. I fill up all 10 devices with MACs -- most of them dummies. Since there's nothing transmitting these MACs, it's highly unlikely that an attacker could guess them. Therefore, I'm essentially limiting the network to the actually used IPs. 2. That was my point; two devices can share a MAC and IP on a wireless network, but service degradation IS an issue, and the combination of retransmits and handshaking (at least on my hardware) causes significant lag and eventually session drops, requiring renegotiation. I've never seen a situation where devices worked well sharing a single MAC and IP over a wireless router -- it works much like a passive hub, except with an extra layer of abstraction around the wireless connection negotiation. No switch to actively drop the potential collisions, just two devices that degrade each other's performance and trample each other's TCP packets due to buffer overloading.
That said, WPA2 with EAP is a much better choice where all devices support it.
"Correspondence Courses", of which online is the latest incarnation, have always had these problems. Indeed, degrees obtained through this type of self-study are often very highly regarded, not just because you have the degree, but because you had the motivation and tenacity to complete the degree without all the traditional support structure of an bricks-and-mortar college.
Indeed; and I remember taking experimental online courses 20 years ago, where the study associated with the courses had exactly the same findings. Some of the courses attempted to fix the attrition rate by having companion courses that were required to be taken at the same time at a local campus -- this resulted in slightly higher attrition for the meatspace course, and significantly less attrition for the online one.
This was 20 years ago. I had hoped that we had learned a few things since then, not just re-learned the same things.
The benefit of this ober a glue gun, other than the accuracy as noted, is that it can be used as a spot welder for ABS (so you can repair/join/tweak current 3D printed objects). They need to make tip attachments for smoothing/beveling etc....
if i have a device not work for some reason and i see an IP conflict then i'll know right away
Unless you're setting your subnet mask to only be 10 or so addresses, I'd just pick an address outside of your DHCP scope and I'd never conflict. You're treating DHCP as a security measure when it's a convenience measure.
captcha: gateway. How fitting.
I think that's the point; I set my subnet mask to/30 and assign a MAC to each IP. That way, any attackers have to sniff the MAC of an active connection and kick that connection in order to connect. This is very noticeable, and any leecher's going to have a really bad connection (as when my device gets kicked, it's going to attempt to reestablish, kicking them off). Doesn't stop passive surveillance, but it'll stop the leechers.
Not to mention the fact that Michael is well respected in his real job as a law professor and does this mostly out of the goodness of his heart (of course, since his real job is teaching, I'm sure there's crossover with his advocacy hobby).
Yeah, wanting theocracies where the national mythos involves sacrificing yourself to kill your enemy to not have nukes is just foolish. Wanting the entire middle east to not have to go into a nuclear arms race is just 'evil'.
Your idiocy seems to know no bounds. You lack even the most basic ability to think rationally about the world around you.
I had to re-read the gp to assure myself you were actually attempting to respond to it. Congratulations, you made three arguments that had nothing directly to do with the post you were responding to.
GP: "Don't whitewash the west; the individuals in power are no better than those in the mid-east -- we just (currently) have better checks and balances in place"
You: "You're an idiot, we don't want the mid-east getting nukes."
I did read both of those correctly, yes? I think the original point was that we also don't want those in power in the west having such access -- and drones notwithstanding, the US preaches self-sacrifice for God and Country just like the Muslim world. That's a bit of a straw-man to the argument under discussion however. The main point is that we have to be ever vigilant to make society bigger than the people who rise to power in it -- no matter where in the world you live. Let's not focus so much on the mid-east (who have had millenia to hash this stuff out and are still struggling) that we ignore the lessons in the west that have already been learned by previous generations.
But in a different universe, the waveform collapsed into a different state, and the event didn't happen. You just happen to be posting in this one rather than that one.
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We come down on things like this for the same reason classically trained musicians come down on someone who teaches "how to make music" by bringing in a bunch of people who say "I like music! It could be a great career for you!" and then offering a site where people can take the recording tracks of a few top 40 songs and mash them up themselves.
The big issue is that you then get a bunch of people who say "I know all about how to make music!" who were never actually taught the underpinnings, theory, or skill behind creating original music.
You're right about the "private club" aspect -- the concern though is about people saying "I'm part of your private club too!" who have never even been to a meeting, but just read the minutes.
As long as there's some level of transparency about what's being hyped, I see nothing wrong with it. But we don't want to limit kids' vision of what they can do by putting them in a strictly defined and limited box and tell them it's the whole world.
Just force all ninth graders to learn Scheme instead of Microsoft Word.
Yes, because there are just so many companies looking for people good with Scheme.
Oh wait, no, that's right, companies keep asking for people who know how to use MS Office products.
Teach a ninth grader to use Microsoft Word, and he'll be able to use Microsoft Word.
Teach a ninth grader Scheme, and he'll be able to create the successor to Microsoft Word.
Where does this mentality of "only use the tools people use to make money to teach concepts" come from?
Does a ninth grader really need to know how to hold down an office job? Why not go a step further and give all first graders a calculator and stop teaching them basic math? After all, when you get a job, you're expected to know how to use a calculator, not do polynomial division in your head.
Well put :)
Not only can we share the wealth, we can also just make more wealth through robot slaves, and have a bigger pie from which to divide.
I'm a firm believer in "wealth cannot be created or destroyed, only deferred." This means that other than energy coming from outside sources (the sun), we aren't really adding anything to the equation with robot slaves; we're just creating a more efficient energy transferral system -- which IS good. The costs however are in things such as fuels and rare minerals.
If we can make asteroid mining an energy positive endeavour, we can start creating new wealth on earth. Until then, shifting the energy around will just make life better for some at the expense of others. Of course, we're very efficient at doing THAT in North America already.
I'm hoping that the vision you have of larger pies will work out in practice, but the cynic in me sees that as going against the basic underpinnings of the human psyche. Even when we automate all jobs, we still have to deal with the large population of Homo Sapiens Sapiens and their clan/herd mentalities. Free market economies will always be limited by that.
I think he's already suffered prompt and drastic punishment -- before trial. This, in violation of the UCMJ. He got the prompt punishment, just not the swift trial.
If found guilty, he will face further punishment. However, there's at least one rule he broke that should be able to get him life in prison: he used military intel for political gain and bypassed the systems already in place for highlighting these issues first to his superiors and then to the government systems in place outside the military set up to watch it. Since the contents weren't really of immediate military value (but were of a sensitive political nature), there could be some leniency, but he left absolutely no trail of CYA or indications that he first attempted to do the right thing through legal and accepted channels (before leaking to US papers; the whole WikiLeaks issue is really overblown, as it's not so much about HIS actions as it is about Wikileaks actually doing something with the data). In short, he took informatin gained in a military setting, while employed by the military, and treated it as if he were still a civilian.
That's no excuse for the response he got; he SHOULD have had a speedy court martial -- but because he got international politics involved, those same people who are supposed to keep tabs on the military are the ones who he really attacked with his actions.
Summary: he goofed, has admitted it, and will face the consequences. Meanwhile, those whose failings he exposed are out for blood (or at least shutting him up permanently as an example), and so he gets to suffer through extended incarceration and a trial for more severe charges that may stick, legitimate or not.
I think that about sums it all up.
With a 30 year old TV and a bent-up metal clothes hanger you can usually get pretty good reception on at least a couple Fox stations. CBS and NBC are pretty flaky, and PBS is there, but it sucks.
The rural areas I've been in can't get UHF and VHF analog signals anymore -- remember that broadcasting went digital a few years ago? This means that in addition to your 30-year-old TV and coat hanger, you need a digital conversion box, and possibly the decryption codes for the station you want to watch. As all broadcast centers are mandated to have at least one in-the-clear station (so much for free economy) however, you should be able to pull in at least one decipherable signal with a converter.
Most people I know just gave up and paid the rural premiums for cable when the old analog network started going black.
Economies of scale is one of the benefits of living in an urban area. You get cheap internet, cheap water, cheap electricity, cheap garbage collection, cheap sewer, etc. When you live out in the boonies the land is cheap, but you don;t get the benefits of living in a metropolis.
It's more complicated than that. Where does city water come from? Electricity? Where does your garbage go? Where do you get your food from?
Economies of scale exist, but city-level density can only work with a rural support structure. If farmers have to pay for everything with no cost burden sharing, do you know what happens? First, in order to afford Internet, water, electricity, garbage collection, sewer, etc. they have to raise the prices on what they sell. This means that all these resources that cities depend on are suddenly inflated. End result? Either cities suffer mass inflation, or they get their resources from somewhere else that doesn't have the same expenses. If they do the second, the people in their area who WERE supplying those resources are forced to close up shop and move to the city, decreasing choice and diversity, and also shifting municipal dependency on to people who are willing to subsist at a significantly lower standard of living than the people they're supporting. This never ends well in the long run.
The truth is that people in general always have to pay the true cost of what is consumed... the cost can be deferred, or shifted on to a minority group, but the cost still exists. Under the free market, countries willing to live at a lower standard of living will be equalized with the consumer countries, until the standards of living balance -- that's how the global economy works.
Good for you if this is what you really want; you're basically saying that the US needs to come down a notch or two and share the wealth.
Um... yes... There's this person, probably in another country, that I suspect is trying to gain access to my facebook account. LOL.
Laugh, but the GP is correct. File the paperwork. It's a CYA move, just like you'd do if something fishy was going on at work. Not only does this cover YOU, but it also provides a jumping off point, should some computer crimes force actually stumble on the perp. They can't do a thing against them in many cases unless someone has reported it first. Having a report on file unties all sorts of red tape for their investigations.
That said, reporting it to a local county office isn't going to do much; you need to find the closest computer crimes division that will actually file your report and also add it to the federal/international databases so it can be cross-referenced by other investigators.
Its not ludicrous. We could and should be able to do it, but we dont design our networks to a handle that kind of thing. IMHO, every machine in the building should have a hot spare HDD ready to go and a full user profile stored on the network/backups. We dont have this functionality because its more important to slap a cheap vendor workstation on a desk then it is to build a a proper machine with extra hardware.
The other problem is that you need to deal with when the intrusion was detected when dealing with cleanup and mitigation. If there was an undetected intrusion, followed by backups cycling, user profiles getting backed up to hot spares, etc. and THEN someone notices the intrusion... well, you have to first figure out when the intrusion took place and what systems were possibly touched -- after which you need to follow the cascade of tainted systems until you reach the end.
There's nothing worse than losing a week of work to restore to a tainted snapshot -- other than maybe being unable to audit and verify whether you've cleaned everything up in the first place.
Help me understand - you are mad at the victim? Do you stop talking to friends because they paid for Windows? Don't buy anything with a Samsung-made component?
I'm sure Nikon looked at the cost of fighting and decided it made business sense to pay them. Consider the volume of Android devices Nikon sells vs. Samsung and other cell phone companies. If it doesn't make sense for the cell phone vendors, it is unlikely to make sense for Nikon to fight in court.
Frankly, your anger toward Microsoft might be better directed at Microsoft. And Google. Why hasn't Google challenged this?
I will not be purchasing Nikon products because I want other companies to understand the full price of caving in to patent trolls. I will pay a little more to support a company with a spine and a long term outlook on the situation. Unfortunately it is getting harder and harder to find such companies.
I don't believe there's currently a single producer of a commercial product containing a CCD that doesn't play the patent game. If you know of one, please let us all know.
This means that you're also not purchasing a cellular phone (even the dumb ones are patent encumbered), a computer, a television (HDMI), an automobile, or most other "digital" equipment. And if you take patent trolling seriously, it will also severely hamper what you wear, what sort of house you live in, and even what you use to clean your teeth -- because all these areas involve objects where the producer has to kick back a percentage of profits (or whatever they've agreed to) to some third party who holds patents.
The alternative to paying to license patents is to trade patents, or hold them in a MAD pool. Sometimes, paying is more lucrative to a company, especially when you don't want any strings attached should you choose to stop using the patented technology.
er, FAT-32 should read ExFAT
One less brand to ever appear on my shopping list.
You do realize that Nikon already pays both Microsoft and Apple for the patents surrounding its current cameras, right? Mpeg-LA as well. Nikon cameras, while using their own RAW format for image storage, also use JPEG, Quicktime MOV for video, and Microsoft's MTP for data transfer. They also use HDMI connectors as well as USB -- all of which require patents. They also use licenses from SanDisk and the SD cartel for the SD card interface, license to Microsoft for using FAT-32 to format the storage, have licenses for multiple patents on the Li-Ion batteries they use in their devices, the CCDs they use in their sensors, and also have various licenses covering hard and soft interface elements.
To offset this, Nikon holds a whack of their own patents covering everything from button layout (the reason Canon cameras have inferior button layout to Nikon), optics, CCD interface, post-processing technology, storage and transfer formats, etc.
The only thing that really surprises me here is that they were unable to perform a license trade to get the MS patents for free. I guess pay-as-you-go can be cheaper, if you don't plan to use the patent for long and don't want to give away your own patent in the process.
Indeed -- they should name this bill the "Driving All Technology Away" (DATA) bill.... What this will ensure is that no cloud or big iron services are hosted in Illinois. Goodbye tech jobs....
(Of course, I wouldn't actually be surprised to find that MS and Apple have incorporated PDF tools into their kernels. They're run by people who don't understand the concept, and will use any scheme available to lure users into their "walled gardens". ;-)
I was going to write an informative explanation of why this is ludicrous, but then realized that the sentence speaks for itself.
Microkernel much? Linux is about the only kernel where you COULD bake PDF tools right in.
Isn't there pretty strong case law against copyrighting APIs? It strikes me that there's not a whole lot to appeal here.
Which is why it's a cash-cow for IP lawyers across the land.... the little bit that can be appealed can be twisted like an animal balloon. I sure hope it doesn't come out toy poodles.
Man, this is really turning into WW1 here. Do you think that Apple will join in, or are they going to be Switzerland?
Whenever you see the TLA "BSA", you're seeing Apple. They've already joined in by proxy. Which sucks for them, because with a win here, they could have much of their IP ripped out from under them or at least held in limbo while their lawyers fight a war of attrition Same goes for MS and Oracle actually.
Don't replace anything right away. Wait until you know what you miss the most. When you miss 'it' the most, note why. Once you have the what and why, start shopping for the best fit, new or old.
B-)
...and by this point, the statute of limitations on the insurance payout has passed, and he gets nothing. He's got a time window to do the replacing here, and it's better not to leave things until the last minute. Somewhere in the middle is probably best.
crime is lower, but more evenly distributed. So the areas of society that were crumbling are now fairly stable (not crumbling further) and OTHER areas that get more headline time have been crumbling. Revisionist "good ol' days" hindsight is definitely at play, but so are other factors.
1. Setting the subnet mask to /30 or whatever only works if you have just enough devices for the available IPs. What if your network has 7 devices?
2. Two devices can share a MAC and IP on a wireless network. On a wired network it confuses the switch, but a wireless network does not have a switch. Depending on how the devices are configures, this situation can even work quite well.
If I needed a wireless network, I would use WPA2 and EAP authentication with certificates. That is harder to break than a simple pre shared key.
1. I fill up all 10 devices with MACs -- most of them dummies. Since there's nothing transmitting these MACs, it's highly unlikely that an attacker could guess them. Therefore, I'm essentially limiting the network to the actually used IPs.
2. That was my point; two devices can share a MAC and IP on a wireless network, but service degradation IS an issue, and the combination of retransmits and handshaking (at least on my hardware) causes significant lag and eventually session drops, requiring renegotiation. I've never seen a situation where devices worked well sharing a single MAC and IP over a wireless router -- it works much like a passive hub, except with an extra layer of abstraction around the wireless connection negotiation. No switch to actively drop the potential collisions, just two devices that degrade each other's performance and trample each other's TCP packets due to buffer overloading.
That said, WPA2 with EAP is a much better choice where all devices support it.
"Correspondence Courses", of which online is the latest incarnation, have always had these problems. Indeed, degrees obtained through this type of self-study are often very highly regarded, not just because you have the degree, but because you had the motivation and tenacity to complete the degree without all the traditional support structure of an bricks-and-mortar college.
Indeed; and I remember taking experimental online courses 20 years ago, where the study associated with the courses had exactly the same findings. Some of the courses attempted to fix the attrition rate by having companion courses that were required to be taken at the same time at a local campus -- this resulted in slightly higher attrition for the meatspace course, and significantly less attrition for the online one.
This was 20 years ago. I had hoped that we had learned a few things since then, not just re-learned the same things.
The benefit of this ober a glue gun, other than the accuracy as noted, is that it can be used as a spot welder for ABS (so you can repair/join/tweak current 3D printed objects). They need to make tip attachments for smoothing/beveling etc....
if i have a device not work for some reason and i see an IP conflict then i'll know right away
Unless you're setting your subnet mask to only be 10 or so addresses, I'd just pick an address outside of your DHCP scope and I'd never conflict. You're treating DHCP as a security measure when it's a convenience measure.
captcha: gateway. How fitting.
I think that's the point; I set my subnet mask to /30 and assign a MAC to each IP. That way, any attackers have to sniff the MAC of an active connection and kick that connection in order to connect. This is very noticeable, and any leecher's going to have a really bad connection (as when my device gets kicked, it's going to attempt to reestablish, kicking them off). Doesn't stop passive surveillance, but it'll stop the leechers.
Not to mention the fact that Michael is well respected in his real job as a law professor and does this mostly out of the goodness of his heart (of course, since his real job is teaching, I'm sure there's crossover with his advocacy hobby).
Yeah, wanting theocracies where the national mythos involves sacrificing yourself to kill your enemy to not have nukes is just foolish. Wanting the entire middle east to not have to go into a nuclear arms race is just 'evil'.
Your idiocy seems to know no bounds. You lack even the most basic ability to think rationally about the world around you.
I had to re-read the gp to assure myself you were actually attempting to respond to it.
Congratulations, you made three arguments that had nothing directly to do with the post you were responding to.
GP: "Don't whitewash the west; the individuals in power are no better than those in the mid-east -- we just (currently) have better checks and balances in place"
You: "You're an idiot, we don't want the mid-east getting nukes."
I did read both of those correctly, yes? I think the original point was that we also don't want those in power in the west having such access -- and drones notwithstanding, the US preaches self-sacrifice for God and Country just like the Muslim world. That's a bit of a straw-man to the argument under discussion however. The main point is that we have to be ever vigilant to make society bigger than the people who rise to power in it -- no matter where in the world you live. Let's not focus so much on the mid-east (who have had millenia to hash this stuff out and are still struggling) that we ignore the lessons in the west that have already been learned by previous generations.
That must be exactly what I was saying. Who could think otherwise?
*plonk*
Dialectic is used to highlight features in fields of gray. I know many people who think otherwise. Are you one of them?
But in a different universe, the waveform collapsed into a different state, and the event didn't happen. You just happen to be posting in this one rather than that one.
Prove it :)