I have AT&T DSL in Atlanta, and they are applying a pretty major cap on my connection. I'm paying for the mid-range DSL service.
Using BitTorrent, when my upload rates reach 15k per second, my download rates drop to almost 0, "ping google.com" takes over 2 seconds for each reply, and web page requests take forever. If I cap BitTorrent uploads at 14k, ping and download times go back to normal.
I never had this problem with Comcast, but Comcast had WAY too many service outages in my area. On many weeks, it was like not having Internet access at all.
...Microsoft should be afraid of all its competitors. Vista is so bad that they should be very afraid. Too many of its features go against what users want and slow the OS down in the process (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/03 8227&from=rss).
Anyone who claims Vista is faster is either lying or barely using their computer's power. As a developer, I beat the hell out of machines, and Vista is terribly slow compared to XP. On a laptop, it is unbearable (much slower, lower battery life, crashes on suspend or hibernate).
If Microsoft tries to force users to upgrade to Vista, I will switch to anything else. I like XP, but I don't think I'll be switching to Vista (even after a few service packs).
...is that they'd have to cut open your head to use it on you. Otherwise I'd be ready to go buy myself some tin foil to make a nice hat (and some very dark shades). I'm not into conspiracy theories, but some kinds of power people just shouldn't be allowed to have.
Ok, forget I mentioned that one. I didn't mean for it to detract from the others I mentioned. I'd heard it was terrible, which is why I hadn't seen it.
There are plenty of others, like Gattaca, Scanners, Videodrome, and Minority Report. I haven't seen "I, Robot", but if it's even a little bit like the book...
That's a good point, however there are several variables to consider. My wife and I have been to Vietnam a few times, and while she would feel safe walking around in Hanoi (which is more traditional), she wouldn't feel safe walking around in Saigon (which is more westernized). The crime rate in the latter is so high that I wouldn't even feel safe walking around Saigon at night.
I'm not saying that all Buddhist countries are safe, or that all Buddhist countries are 100% Buddhist. I'm just saying that if location has that much of an impact, then how the kids are raised seems to have more to do with it than genetics.
Read some travel guides, and they will consistently point out that predominantly Buddhist countries are consistently the safest countries to travel through, especially for women traveling alone. So unless they have inherently better genes than their neighboring non-Buddhist countries (where genes have undoubtedly mingled), the statistics would seem to point to upbringing, laws, and community having a more significant impact than genes.
Over 99% of Internet users wouldn't have a clue how to use Wireshark. "What are all these SYN messages? Are they caused by a virus or spyware?"
Actually, that's a gross exaggeration. Very few Internet users would even be able to figure out how to start a capture in Wireshark. The more timid ones wouldn't even make it to the "No capture interface selected!" error, and most of the rest would be lost when they ran into that.
If Ferret successfully dumbs it down, then it could be quite useful to a lot of Internet users. In that case, I wouldn't say it was a sniffer on steroids though. More like a "for dummies" version.
So if something like the sun gets in the way and blocks/distorts the transmission, can signals be routed through satellites put in place near Mercury or Venus? Given how rarely the first 4 planets line up, it could be five 9's.;-)
Yes, you are. And you forgot the link for our linguistically-challenged readers: pedantic. You also forgot to capitalize a few letters. If you're going to be pedantic, at least do it properly.;-)
Anyone who tries hard to secure their app tries to find the most unique way to seed their key generation process. By grabbing a bunch of unique hardware ID's, they may simply be trying to make it more difficult for hackers to find the key generation pattern to crack your calls.
They may not win, but winning isn't necessarily the goal. Just the hassle and cost of fighting a law suit will cause most people to fold pretty quickly. It's called malicious prosecution, and it's illegal, but it's nearly impossible to convict anyone of that, especially if they have even a tenuous claim to a real grievance.
I've heard that most judges won't award malicious prosecution damages because it will piss off the lawyers, and the judges started out as lawyers (so many of their friends are lawyers).
Don't be an ass. I never said I didn't find gopher and ftp in college. I said "it wasn't an option when I was in middle or high school", which was before 1990 and before I had any kind of Internet connection at all - or a computer more powerful than a C64 or a modem faster than 300 baud.
And you said it yourself, the quality from a BBS on a C64 was so poor that it wasn't an attractive option (8-bit color really sucked for photos). Today kids have much more incentive to hack their school networks, especially if they don't have Internet access at home.
If you're already an employed developer, like I am, you're most likely too old to have started out this way. Almost no one had ever heard of www.anything.com when I started college (1990). Surfing for porn wasn't an option when I was in middle or high school, though I do have a few fond memories of strip poker for the C64.;-)
The younger kids are doing this today. I work with a company that develops an adult content filtering device, so I hear stories from the IT admins at the schools. The kids often set their sights on game sites that have been banned, but porn is still pretty high on the list. Games are what got me interested in programming, but if the web had been around back then, it probably would've been games and porn.;-)
I agree with most of that. The only point I would differ on is that they charge way too much per season for most TV shows. There are some shows I would like to have, but not at $50 or more per season. They're taking something we're used to getting for free (with ads) and assigning a fairly high price tag to it. Yes, I know how many hours of entertainment it is, but it's still kind of a lot to ask when you've already seen it for free.
Take Heroes for example. I'd much rather go to nbc.com and watch any episode any time than pay for it (too expensive), record it (no cable, so quality is poor) or download it without ads (illegal). The online versions have one commercial per break instead of the several they have on TV, it's free to watch, and it's extremely convenient. Bravo to NBC for moving in the right direction with it. I would probably watch (or at least try) a lot more shows that I can't see now if they were all online like this. I'd also kick my TV to the curb. The only problem I have with Heroes is not being able to save the episodes locally.
I'd really love to see the TV and movie companies distribute - via BitTorrent - free low-res shows with a few ads in them. All they have to do is make it too convenient for anyone to want to bother with the illegal, ad-free versions. Sure some people will edit the commercials out before saving it to a DVD, but that takes time most people won't care to spend, and by then they've already seen the commercials anyway (most people will watch it before they edit it, and you have to look at the ads to determine what frames to cut out). I can't imagine anyone risking legal action by uploading or downloading an ad-free version if the legal version is that easy to obtain.
The BitTorrent trackers could be used to gauge show popularity, and companies can release progressively higher-res versions, each with different commercials, to increase ad revenues.
He didn't say "literacy". He said "computer literacy". Here are all the things they can learn from it (often in this order):
1) How to use a mouse. 2) How to launch and use a web browser. 3) What local files and folders are, and why it's a good idea to save your favorite videos locally in your own folder. 4) How to hide things stored locally so your parent, boss, girlfriend, etc. can't find it. 5) How to install and use P2P software (often followed by how to install anti-malware software). 6) How to locate and install video and audio codecs. 7) How to find and use anonymous proxies to circumvent those pesky web filtering devices. 8) How to set up their own proxies, write scripts or programs, and/or hack the filtering device to circumvent it.
Some kids end up becoming programmers, IT specialists, or even hackers just to be able to see a boob.;-)
It was more like a small bump being sanded away than a bubble popping, but here's two more:
1) Terrible "out of the box" wifi support. How many years is it going to take for the developers to add WEP/WPA configuration to the install? A lot of people use protected wireless networks at home now, and once you install the OS, you're dead in the water because you can't get online to figure out how to configure the interface for WEP/WPA. It would be awesome if the install wouldn't LET the average user attempt to format/partition the drive until AFTER it managed to connect to the Internet.
2) Terrible "out of the box" game support, which is caused by a number of things. Not allowing Linux distros to ship with binary drivers is pretty high on the list. The average desktop user doesn't want to try installing drivers. Every time I've done it, I've been forced to find and manually edit xorg.conf (even in Ubuntu 6.10). However, most desktop users do want to be able to play the latest games. For this reason alone, I think the open source community should ditch Linux and focus on a BSD (or similar) derivative that's written solely for games and that always ships with the latest binary drivers. Other apps will port easily enough, but good game support should be built in from the ground up.
There can never be a complete "list" of Skype servers because when you install Skype for the first time, your PC may become a new Skype server. If you're on a DSL connection, the IP address of your server may change every few days or weeks, and there's no way to keep track of a list of potentially millions of servers that can change every day. The Skype traffic is encrypted and obfuscated, making it very difficult to detect.
To block Skype, you either need to block all outbound traffic that's not going through a very tightly controlled proxy server, or you need to buy a blocking appliance like NetSpective (http://verso.com/enterprise/netspective/index.asp ). The last I checked, NetSpective was the only device that could block Skype without forcing your traffic through a proxy. It's able to sniff out Skype traffic and shut down all Skype connections as soon as they're created.
I almost forgot. Being married and having kids is also a disadvantage. I'm married with two kids, and I now have a much harder time keeping pace with the single developers. None of us work more than 40 hours a week, but what we do at home in our spare time (and I have almost no spare time now) makes a very noticeable difference.
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I have AT&T DSL in Atlanta, and they are applying a pretty major cap on my connection. I'm paying for the mid-range DSL service.
Using BitTorrent, when my upload rates reach 15k per second, my download rates drop to almost 0, "ping google.com" takes over 2 seconds for each reply, and web page requests take forever. If I cap BitTorrent uploads at 14k, ping and download times go back to normal.
I never had this problem with Comcast, but Comcast had WAY too many service outages in my area. On many weeks, it was like not having Internet access at all.
...Microsoft should be afraid of all its competitors. Vista is so bad that they should be very afraid. Too many of its features go against what users want and slow the OS down in the process (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/03 8227&from=rss).
Anyone who claims Vista is faster is either lying or barely using their computer's power. As a developer, I beat the hell out of machines, and Vista is terribly slow compared to XP. On a laptop, it is unbearable (much slower, lower battery life, crashes on suspend or hibernate).
If Microsoft tries to force users to upgrade to Vista, I will switch to anything else. I like XP, but I don't think I'll be switching to Vista (even after a few service packs).
...is that they'd have to cut open your head to use it on you. Otherwise I'd be ready to go buy myself some tin foil to make a nice hat (and some very dark shades). I'm not into conspiracy theories, but some kinds of power people just shouldn't be allowed to have.
We'd never run out of fuel. However, would we all end up talking funny because of the helium pollution?
Ok, forget I mentioned that one. I didn't mean for it to detract from the others I mentioned. I'd heard it was terrible, which is why I hadn't seen it.
There are plenty of others, like Gattaca, Scanners, Videodrome, and Minority Report. I haven't seen "I, Robot", but if it's even a little bit like the book...
That's a good point, however there are several variables to consider. My wife and I have been to Vietnam a few times, and while she would feel safe walking around in Hanoi (which is more traditional), she wouldn't feel safe walking around in Saigon (which is more westernized). The crime rate in the latter is so high that I wouldn't even feel safe walking around Saigon at night.
I'm not saying that all Buddhist countries are safe, or that all Buddhist countries are 100% Buddhist. I'm just saying that if location has that much of an impact, then how the kids are raised seems to have more to do with it than genetics.
Read some travel guides, and they will consistently point out that predominantly Buddhist countries are consistently the safest countries to travel through, especially for women traveling alone. So unless they have inherently better genes than their neighboring non-Buddhist countries (where genes have undoubtedly mingled), the statistics would seem to point to upbringing, laws, and community having a more significant impact than genes.
Over 99% of Internet users wouldn't have a clue how to use Wireshark. "What are all these SYN messages? Are they caused by a virus or spyware?"
Actually, that's a gross exaggeration. Very few Internet users would even be able to figure out how to start a capture in Wireshark. The more timid ones wouldn't even make it to the "No capture interface selected!" error, and most of the rest would be lost when they ran into that.
If Ferret successfully dumbs it down, then it could be quite useful to a lot of Internet users. In that case, I wouldn't say it was a sniffer on steroids though. More like a "for dummies" version.
So if something like the sun gets in the way and blocks/distorts the transmission, can signals be routed through satellites put in place near Mercury or Venus? Given how rarely the first 4 planets line up, it could be five 9's. ;-)
Yes, you are. And you forgot the link for our linguistically-challenged readers: pedantic. You also forgot to capitalize a few letters. If you're going to be pedantic, at least do it properly. ;-)
Anyone who tries hard to secure their app tries to find the most unique way to seed their key generation process. By grabbing a bunch of unique hardware ID's, they may simply be trying to make it more difficult for hackers to find the key generation pattern to crack your calls.
They may not win, but winning isn't necessarily the goal. Just the hassle and cost of fighting a law suit will cause most people to fold pretty quickly. It's called malicious prosecution, and it's illegal, but it's nearly impossible to convict anyone of that, especially if they have even a tenuous claim to a real grievance.
I've heard that most judges won't award malicious prosecution damages because it will piss off the lawyers, and the judges started out as lawyers (so many of their friends are lawyers).
Pirate movies are great! Especially the one with Christie McNichol. ;-)
You don't need a telescope. Just look at the sun. The light coming from it is about 8 minutes old.
That won't be available until "House Builder 2.0" comes out.
Of course. And the devout followers will try their best to make sure the bible is right. This is my favorite bumper sticker of all time:
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Don't be an ass. I never said I didn't find gopher and ftp in college. I said "it wasn't an option when I was in middle or high school", which was before 1990 and before I had any kind of Internet connection at all - or a computer more powerful than a C64 or a modem faster than 300 baud.
And you said it yourself, the quality from a BBS on a C64 was so poor that it wasn't an attractive option (8-bit color really sucked for photos). Today kids have much more incentive to hack their school networks, especially if they don't have Internet access at home.
If you're already an employed developer, like I am, you're most likely too old to have started out this way. Almost no one had ever heard of www.anything.com when I started college (1990). Surfing for porn wasn't an option when I was in middle or high school, though I do have a few fond memories of strip poker for the C64. ;-)
;-)
The younger kids are doing this today. I work with a company that develops an adult content filtering device, so I hear stories from the IT admins at the schools. The kids often set their sights on game sites that have been banned, but porn is still pretty high on the list. Games are what got me interested in programming, but if the web had been around back then, it probably would've been games and porn.
I agree with most of that. The only point I would differ on is that they charge way too much per season for most TV shows. There are some shows I would like to have, but not at $50 or more per season. They're taking something we're used to getting for free (with ads) and assigning a fairly high price tag to it. Yes, I know how many hours of entertainment it is, but it's still kind of a lot to ask when you've already seen it for free.
Take Heroes for example. I'd much rather go to nbc.com and watch any episode any time than pay for it (too expensive), record it (no cable, so quality is poor) or download it without ads (illegal). The online versions have one commercial per break instead of the several they have on TV, it's free to watch, and it's extremely convenient. Bravo to NBC for moving in the right direction with it. I would probably watch (or at least try) a lot more shows that I can't see now if they were all online like this. I'd also kick my TV to the curb. The only problem I have with Heroes is not being able to save the episodes locally.
I'd really love to see the TV and movie companies distribute - via BitTorrent - free low-res shows with a few ads in them. All they have to do is make it too convenient for anyone to want to bother with the illegal, ad-free versions. Sure some people will edit the commercials out before saving it to a DVD, but that takes time most people won't care to spend, and by then they've already seen the commercials anyway (most people will watch it before they edit it, and you have to look at the ads to determine what frames to cut out). I can't imagine anyone risking legal action by uploading or downloading an ad-free version if the legal version is that easy to obtain.
The BitTorrent trackers could be used to gauge show popularity, and companies can release progressively higher-res versions, each with different commercials, to increase ad revenues.
He didn't say "literacy". He said "computer literacy". Here are all the things they can learn from it (often in this order):
;-)
1) How to use a mouse.
2) How to launch and use a web browser.
3) What local files and folders are, and why it's a good idea to save your favorite videos locally in your own folder.
4) How to hide things stored locally so your parent, boss, girlfriend, etc. can't find it.
5) How to install and use P2P software (often followed by how to install anti-malware software).
6) How to locate and install video and audio codecs.
7) How to find and use anonymous proxies to circumvent those pesky web filtering devices.
8) How to set up their own proxies, write scripts or programs, and/or hack the filtering device to circumvent it.
Some kids end up becoming programmers, IT specialists, or even hackers just to be able to see a boob.
It was more like a small bump being sanded away than a bubble popping, but here's two more:
1) Terrible "out of the box" wifi support. How many years is it going to take for the developers to add WEP/WPA configuration to the install? A lot of people use protected wireless networks at home now, and once you install the OS, you're dead in the water because you can't get online to figure out how to configure the interface for WEP/WPA. It would be awesome if the install wouldn't LET the average user attempt to format/partition the drive until AFTER it managed to connect to the Internet.
2) Terrible "out of the box" game support, which is caused by a number of things. Not allowing Linux distros to ship with binary drivers is pretty high on the list. The average desktop user doesn't want to try installing drivers. Every time I've done it, I've been forced to find and manually edit xorg.conf (even in Ubuntu 6.10). However, most desktop users do want to be able to play the latest games. For this reason alone, I think the open source community should ditch Linux and focus on a BSD (or similar) derivative that's written solely for games and that always ships with the latest binary drivers. Other apps will port easily enough, but good game support should be built in from the ground up.
There can never be a complete "list" of Skype servers because when you install Skype for the first time, your PC may become a new Skype server. If you're on a DSL connection, the IP address of your server may change every few days or weeks, and there's no way to keep track of a list of potentially millions of servers that can change every day. The Skype traffic is encrypted and obfuscated, making it very difficult to detect.
p ). The last I checked, NetSpective was the only device that could block Skype without forcing your traffic through a proxy. It's able to sniff out Skype traffic and shut down all Skype connections as soon as they're created.
To block Skype, you either need to block all outbound traffic that's not going through a very tightly controlled proxy server, or you need to buy a blocking appliance like NetSpective (http://verso.com/enterprise/netspective/index.as
I almost forgot. Being married and having kids is also a disadvantage. I'm married with two kids, and I now have a much harder time keeping pace with the single developers. None of us work more than 40 hours a week, but what we do at home in our spare time (and I have almost no spare time now) makes a very noticeable difference.