I was seeing this error until I logged in with the Amazon account I have which has Prime. Afterward, I saw it one more time, then a reload resulted in the page working.
Soooo... login, mash F5 a few times.
Site devs didn't test for the test case in which the user wasn't yet logged in, or failed to blow out their browser cache before doing that test.
Even if what you say is true, that will not prevent me from being stalked by police, arrested, being falsely accused (with all the legal expenses and notoriety that entails), and my blood taken by force.
I have a twin brother who is a criminal with a lengthy record; the only reason he's not still a guest of the State of Washington is changes in Washington's Three Strike laws.
Like HELL I'm going to let these websites set me up for false accusation for his crimes.
By the way: if the government falsely accuses you of a crime and it costs you a six figure legal bill to defend yourself, too bad. You're out the money, and no prosecutor in the world gives a damn about that or has any incentives to not do so. Had to sell your house? Too bad.
With a law enforcement mindset like that, I think we understand a little better why Oklahoma generated Timothy McVeigh. While I do not condone what McVeigh did, I understand the path that led him there.
No doubt all of this is in bits and pieces elsewhere. Feel free to mark redundant.
1. The GPS system is owned and operated by the military. Civilians are secondary users. They get to turn it off any time they want, or reduce its accuracy, etc.
2. People already use readily-available GPS jammers, primarily to steal LoJack-equipped cars. Not sure why they're legal to sell, as a device intended solely for disabling a military-owned system, but http://www.thesignaljammer.com...
3. My money is on the military testing its resiliency to deliberate wide-area jamming or attacks on GPS satellites. It's an obvious way to seriously affect the US military without shooting soldiers, so some countries/NGOs might be more willing to do this than, say, blowing up a bus. My money is also on testing during thesummer during the day because pilots can... y'know... look out the window and see where they are. VFR conditions pretty much guaranteed. (yes, yes, at FL180 up you're in class A airspace and always are on instrument rules, but even A380 pilots need to use eyeballs)
4. There are no commercial aircraft that rely ONLY on GPS. VOR and DME are widely used (especially VOR), and pilots are trained to be able to navigate using those methods (evne non-commercial license holders and non-instrument-rating license holders).
5. I'm a pilot. Only private, but I can navigate perfectly well without GPS, and the plane I most commonly rent doesn't even have GPS. And as a pilot, I'm nothing special. If I were flying in that area, I'd do nothing differently whatsoever.
6. I'm not sure what's up with that Embraer. Something to look up tonight.
Digital. Finger. Heh.
Yeah, they can easily be forged, forced, or stolen (yes, the bad guys WILL lop off digits in Japan. It's a thing.). Anyone with graphite powder and a piece of cellophane tape can get your credentials.
Bad idea. Add if you're compromised, you can't change it.
I believe those meatbags are commonly referred to as: "Ugly bags of mostly water"
As long as you don't ask about the glowy bits. Or the probe code.
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Where do I begin...
With OnLive, you could play Crysis at 30fps on medium settings at 720p on a Celeron-equipped netbook with an Intel GMA950. So no, you were not getting the kind of thing integrated video can offer.
Latency depends entirely upon the quality of the network link between you and the data center. OnLive was not intended for people in Yellowknife or Cheyenne or the Azores; it was for people in densely-populated well-wired urban areas in which they had data centers. That's a lot of people, but no, it's not everyone, nor is there any sort of requirement that it be for everyone. Part of the setup was a latency/bandwidth test that you were supposed to run before you signed up. And if your ISP oversubscribed your last-mile connection to the point where you couldn't use it between 7pm and 10pm... yeah, that's a problem, but it's not universal, and it's not anything OnLive could do anything about, any more than Ford is responsible for whether on not your street has potholes. I suggest beating your ISP over the head with a lead pipe in such cases.
Yes, there's a loss of single-pixel detail. It's not perfect, and there is no requirement that it be so (any more that there is a requirement that lossy audio be forbidden for sale). Expectations must be reasonable (as must expectation-setting).
OnLive's video was tuned for 4 to 6 mbps with less than 30ms of latency, with low packet loss (less than 1%). Under such circumstances, it did well. When network conditions deteriorated, it had some automatic fallbacks to keep the framerate above 30fps for as long as possible; it would remain at least usable down to 2.5mbps/5% loss, though it wasn't pretty under those conditions. It was far, far more than glorified RDP and VNC (it wasn't a video memory buffer; the hardware captured and processed the digital video stream from a DVI interface and the digital audio stream as taken from SPDIF outputs, and injected control with a virtual USB HID). It was good tech. Low latency was achieved by essentially running unbuffered and a couple of other things that I'm not sure whether I could talk about yet.
But as I mentioned earlier, the real failure was the inability to make the deals with third parties that would turn that tech into something worth paying for.
Ex-Onlive employee here (I left a couple of years ago). I've been hearing from my OnLive friends... yup. Big big layoff. Hire these people if you see 'em, folks, they're good workers who know their stuff and have a work ethic.
The tech works, and has been fine for almost three years now; I was doing all my gaming through OnLive when I worked there, and was about 50 miles form the data center. The trouble as I see it is the same that I saw back when I left: it ceased being a technology play when it worked well enough, and turned into a business development play. They needed to:
sign the majority of the major publishers
get them to release new titles simultaneously with physical retail
convince the publishers to charge somewhat less than physical retail and
form revenue-sharing-based transit agreements and peering deals with major ISPs to keep OnLive traffic out of the bandwidth caps
Unfortunately, none of the biz dev plays were driven to success.
Tech is easy. Business is hard. CUtting deals is hardest of all.
Thanking Anonymous for stealing my credit card info to demonstrate Sony's/Stratfor's/whatever's poor IT practices is akin to thanking an arsonist for burning down my house to demonstrate that it's flammable.
There's not a shred of morality or good intention in Anonymous. None. They're vandals and thieves who never got over resenting authority figures when they were 13. Having the ability to run Metasploit against a video game host doesn't change the basic mindset.
So to punish Sony for hurting their customers, Anonymous hurts Sony customers. But Anonymous is stealing credit card info for YOUR benefit!
Good going, guys. Way to take the moral high road and to convince the public to support you. What's next, scrambling blood types in breached medical records databases to teach insurance companies a lesson with dead patients, so you can portray yourselves as Robin Hoods with a pile of bodies?
A few high-profile media darlings compared to thousands of breaches per day... no. Hackers aren't going to jail. You're still orders of magnitude more likely to do jail time for shoplifting a candy bar than for exposing a few hundred thousand people to identity theft or for selling a few thousand credit card numbers or engaging in online extortion.
This is a time-honored way of targeting a particular company. It sounds expensive, but if your motivation is commercial or governmental *coughcoughstux* it's extremely cheap compared to the alternatives (bribery, breaking-and-entering, rubber-hose cryptography). It's also a great way of finding out whether your own organization is aware of malware trouble; this technique is commonly used as part of security audits performed by companies hired to find out how good your company really is.
A company I worked for a few years ago hired a security auditing firm to check up on ourselves (only a few people were told, and we were told to keep quiet to ensure that our day-to-day practices were tested, not our "crap, someone's checking!" performance). They were unable to penetrate the network from the outside (including wirelessly) or socially engineer their way past reception or weasel out a password, but they got in via the USB-stick-in-the-parking-lot method. They told us afterwards that this is an extremely effective technique, as primate curiosity is almost unstoppable.
But you DO need FCC approval on a per-device level to transmit in the cellular spectrum. And unlike in ham radio in which all you get for unlicensed transmissions is a stern lecture from a cranky old man (the reality is that the FCC only acts on the very worst transgressions in the ham band), if you transmit on cellular frequencies without an approved device, the FCC will be all over your ass. Because of the potential for serious harmful disruption; you might even end up on the DHS radar and discover first-hand how paper-thin the veneer of "civil rights" actually is. Disabling a portion of a city's phone infrastructure is just the kind of thing that Really Bad People would love to do.
Cellular spectrum isn't Citizen's Band. Homebrew will land your ass in front of a judge.
Also, there are serious restrictions on what you can and cannot do and say on the ham bands. You cannot engage in work-related topics (that's what commercial bands are for). You are not allowed anonymity; your callsign has to be given, and it's in a publicly searchable database. You are forbidden to encrypt your traffic (digital or otherwise), or even engage in coded speech. You're not supposed to swear. You MUST get out of the way of emergency traffic. And nobody needs a warrant to listen in or record your conversations.
Ham radio is great fun and is useful in regional emergencies like Hurricane Katrina, but is in no way a substitute for a telephone (socially, technologically, or legally).
Now, if someone came up with a user-configurable platform with an approved radio and approved locked-down radio driver code (which is separate from OS code, as people who write jailbreaking software know), there might be a very small niche market for that. But it's only a niche; don't fool yourselves otherwise. Slashdotters are not the center of the world, do not drive social or legal policy, and for that we should all count ourselves lucky.
Think of all the economic activity this will generate:
Blackmail - "Hey, Mr. CEO, I wonder if your wife knows you were at that leather bar at 10:40pm last night."
Industrial espionage - "The CEO was tracked to the headquarters of a certain component supplier. Could this mean an entry into a certain hardware market?"
Kidnapping - no. That's not even close to a joke. It happens.
Assault - "Today, protesters hounding a CEO turned violent as they cornered him at a local coffee shop..."
Yeah, I think it's best for everyone involved that it doesn't happen. There are legitimate uses for position-tracking (delivery truck driver, armored car services, school busses, etc.), but if you're not in a position which explicitly requires such tracking, no fucking way.
And despite all the knee-jerk CEO-hate that college freshman have, no, it's not okay to force physical risk and privacy invasion onto someone else, even IF they are a big bad scary exploiting evil-because-he-has-money-and-you-don't CEO. This is why we don't let children make decisions for others.
Which candidate promises to give me more tax money taken from other people?
a) BreadAndCircuses-crat
b) CircusesAndBread-lican
c) CrankyOldCoot-itarian (never happen)
Votes are bought and sold every day. How do you think the US deficit got as high as it has? Greek foreign debt? Spanish public debt? Voters, when offered a chance to tax anyone except themselves, do so.
While I'm sure the data quoted is accurate, I'm not seeing it here locally. In my group (20 of us, QA + development product group in a networking products company with about 2,000 employees), 9 are female, and an eyeball-survey says that this is about normal for the rest of the engineering organization. Same for candidates whom I interview; about half are female.
Where are all these all-male companies? Could other tech-oriented industries (defense, etc.) be getting lumped in with Silicon Valley style companies, and if so, is that really an accurate assessment?
So Monsanto are they only people that could do that?
In the past seed lines were created by government agriculture programs I see no reason why that could not be the case today.
Brazil could continue to use these products without paying, when you have your own country you can do stuff like that.
So where are the new crops coming from? Why is Monsanto winning? All politics aside, could it be because they're better at such research than government-funded programs because (unlike government research) they are incentivized to work harder and produce results? Government-funded research has little incentive to push hard, and I would actually argue has an incentive not to (gotta keep the government dollars flowing, and successfully finishing a project STOPS the income... while with private research, successfully finishing the project STARTS the income).
Monsanto might not be the only people capable of producing such crops, but right now, they're just about the only people who ARE producing such crops. If people have a problem with that, the solution isn't to cripple Monsanto. It's for everyone else to improve, rather than just suck public research dollars. You're paid to perform.
In which case the incentive to develop pest-resistant, high-yield and other modified crops that allow supporting 7+ billion people goes away. Monsanto isn't a charity, and would be absolutely within their rights to stop allowing Brazil to use their products. Yield per acre goes down, food prices go up, and the very poorest starve. Bottom line: cash-grabbing research companies with a shrill "big corporations bad! Seizure of money good!" results in zero reason to try to develop new crops or medicines. Does anybody stop to think about the consequences of attacking pharmaceutical and food companies and making cash grabs like this?
But who cares about THAT? It's only equatorial brown-skinned people who will feel the worst of it, and they don't count for anything at all, right, privileged white-boy apologists? Fuck the brown people, we gotta get our SUE on, because that makes mama's-boy college kids feel powerful! We're not the ones who are going to go hungry.
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I was seeing this error until I logged in with the Amazon account I have which has Prime. Afterward, I saw it one more time, then a reload resulted in the page working.
Soooo... login, mash F5 a few times.
Site devs didn't test for the test case in which the user wasn't yet logged in, or failed to blow out their browser cache before doing that test.
Pine. Okay, fine. AlPine.
Good luck trying to exploit it with a poisoned SVG file or malicious Javascript.
And you are a criminal defense lawyer?
Even if what you say is true, that will not prevent me from being stalked by police, arrested, being falsely accused (with all the legal expenses and notoriety that entails), and my blood taken by force.
Like happened IN THIS CASE.
https://www.sfgate.com/busines...
I have a twin brother who is a criminal with a lengthy record; the only reason he's not still a guest of the State of Washington is changes in Washington's Three Strike laws.
Like HELL I'm going to let these websites set me up for false accusation for his crimes.
By the way: if the government falsely accuses you of a crime and it costs you a six figure legal bill to defend yourself, too bad. You're out the money, and no prosecutor in the world gives a damn about that or has any incentives to not do so. Had to sell your house? Too bad.
With a law enforcement mindset like that, I think we understand a little better why Oklahoma generated Timothy McVeigh. While I do not condone what McVeigh did, I understand the path that led him there.
No doubt all of this is in bits and pieces elsewhere. Feel free to mark redundant.
1. The GPS system is owned and operated by the military. Civilians are secondary users. They get to turn it off any time they want, or reduce its accuracy, etc.
2. People already use readily-available GPS jammers, primarily to steal LoJack-equipped cars. Not sure why they're legal to sell, as a device intended solely for disabling a military-owned system, but http://www.thesignaljammer.com...
3. My money is on the military testing its resiliency to deliberate wide-area jamming or attacks on GPS satellites. It's an obvious way to seriously affect the US military without shooting soldiers, so some countries/NGOs might be more willing to do this than, say, blowing up a bus. My money is also on testing during thesummer during the day because pilots can... y'know... look out the window and see where they are. VFR conditions pretty much guaranteed. (yes, yes, at FL180 up you're in class A airspace and always are on instrument rules, but even A380 pilots need to use eyeballs)
4. There are no commercial aircraft that rely ONLY on GPS. VOR and DME are widely used (especially VOR), and pilots are trained to be able to navigate using those methods (evne non-commercial license holders and non-instrument-rating license holders).
5. I'm a pilot. Only private, but I can navigate perfectly well without GPS, and the plane I most commonly rent doesn't even have GPS. And as a pilot, I'm nothing special. If I were flying in that area, I'd do nothing differently whatsoever.
6. I'm not sure what's up with that Embraer. Something to look up tonight.
Digital. Finger. Heh. Yeah, they can easily be forged, forced, or stolen (yes, the bad guys WILL lop off digits in Japan. It's a thing.). Anyone with graphite powder and a piece of cellophane tape can get your credentials. Bad idea. Add if you're compromised, you can't change it.
I believe those meatbags are commonly referred to as: "Ugly bags of mostly water"
As long as you don't ask about the glowy bits. Or the probe code.
Where do I begin...
With OnLive, you could play Crysis at 30fps on medium settings at 720p on a Celeron-equipped netbook with an Intel GMA950. So no, you were not getting the kind of thing integrated video can offer.
Latency depends entirely upon the quality of the network link between you and the data center. OnLive was not intended for people in Yellowknife or Cheyenne or the Azores; it was for people in densely-populated well-wired urban areas in which they had data centers. That's a lot of people, but no, it's not everyone, nor is there any sort of requirement that it be for everyone. Part of the setup was a latency/bandwidth test that you were supposed to run before you signed up. And if your ISP oversubscribed your last-mile connection to the point where you couldn't use it between 7pm and 10pm... yeah, that's a problem, but it's not universal, and it's not anything OnLive could do anything about, any more than Ford is responsible for whether on not your street has potholes. I suggest beating your ISP over the head with a lead pipe in such cases.
Yes, there's a loss of single-pixel detail. It's not perfect, and there is no requirement that it be so (any more that there is a requirement that lossy audio be forbidden for sale). Expectations must be reasonable (as must expectation-setting).
OnLive's video was tuned for 4 to 6 mbps with less than 30ms of latency, with low packet loss (less than 1%). Under such circumstances, it did well. When network conditions deteriorated, it had some automatic fallbacks to keep the framerate above 30fps for as long as possible; it would remain at least usable down to 2.5mbps/5% loss, though it wasn't pretty under those conditions. It was far, far more than glorified RDP and VNC (it wasn't a video memory buffer; the hardware captured and processed the digital video stream from a DVI interface and the digital audio stream as taken from SPDIF outputs, and injected control with a virtual USB HID). It was good tech. Low latency was achieved by essentially running unbuffered and a couple of other things that I'm not sure whether I could talk about yet.
But as I mentioned earlier, the real failure was the inability to make the deals with third parties that would turn that tech into something worth paying for.
Tell me about it, he refused to use mouthwash or brush his tooth in-between.
I'm an ex-employee, too. Weren't you the guy who used to suck my dick in the restrooms every day at about noon?
No, that was some troll from Slashdot.
Ex-Onlive employee here (I left a couple of years ago). I've been hearing from my OnLive friends... yup. Big big layoff. Hire these people if you see 'em, folks, they're good workers who know their stuff and have a work ethic.
The tech works, and has been fine for almost three years now; I was doing all my gaming through OnLive when I worked there, and was about 50 miles form the data center. The trouble as I see it is the same that I saw back when I left: it ceased being a technology play when it worked well enough, and turned into a business development play. They needed to:
Unfortunately, none of the biz dev plays were driven to success.
Tech is easy. Business is hard. CUtting deals is hardest of all.
Thanking Anonymous for stealing my credit card info to demonstrate Sony's/Stratfor's/whatever's poor IT practices is akin to thanking an arsonist for burning down my house to demonstrate that it's flammable.
There's not a shred of morality or good intention in Anonymous. None. They're vandals and thieves who never got over resenting authority figures when they were 13. Having the ability to run Metasploit against a video game host doesn't change the basic mindset.
So to punish Sony for hurting their customers, Anonymous hurts Sony customers. But Anonymous is stealing credit card info for YOUR benefit!
Good going, guys. Way to take the moral high road and to convince the public to support you. What's next, scrambling blood types in breached medical records databases to teach insurance companies a lesson with dead patients, so you can portray yourselves as Robin Hoods with a pile of bodies?
Hackers going to jail? Since when?
A few high-profile media darlings compared to thousands of breaches per day... no. Hackers aren't going to jail. You're still orders of magnitude more likely to do jail time for shoplifting a candy bar than for exposing a few hundred thousand people to identity theft or for selling a few thousand credit card numbers or engaging in online extortion.
This country has fucked-up priorities.
This is a time-honored way of targeting a particular company. It sounds expensive, but if your motivation is commercial or governmental *coughcoughstux* it's extremely cheap compared to the alternatives (bribery, breaking-and-entering, rubber-hose cryptography). It's also a great way of finding out whether your own organization is aware of malware trouble; this technique is commonly used as part of security audits performed by companies hired to find out how good your company really is.
A company I worked for a few years ago hired a security auditing firm to check up on ourselves (only a few people were told, and we were told to keep quiet to ensure that our day-to-day practices were tested, not our "crap, someone's checking!" performance). They were unable to penetrate the network from the outside (including wirelessly) or socially engineer their way past reception or weasel out a password, but they got in via the USB-stick-in-the-parking-lot method. They told us afterwards that this is an extremely effective technique, as primate curiosity is almost unstoppable.
But you DO need FCC approval on a per-device level to transmit in the cellular spectrum. And unlike in ham radio in which all you get for unlicensed transmissions is a stern lecture from a cranky old man (the reality is that the FCC only acts on the very worst transgressions in the ham band), if you transmit on cellular frequencies without an approved device, the FCC will be all over your ass. Because of the potential for serious harmful disruption; you might even end up on the DHS radar and discover first-hand how paper-thin the veneer of "civil rights" actually is. Disabling a portion of a city's phone infrastructure is just the kind of thing that Really Bad People would love to do.
Cellular spectrum isn't Citizen's Band. Homebrew will land your ass in front of a judge.
Also, there are serious restrictions on what you can and cannot do and say on the ham bands. You cannot engage in work-related topics (that's what commercial bands are for). You are not allowed anonymity; your callsign has to be given, and it's in a publicly searchable database. You are forbidden to encrypt your traffic (digital or otherwise), or even engage in coded speech. You're not supposed to swear. You MUST get out of the way of emergency traffic. And nobody needs a warrant to listen in or record your conversations.
Ham radio is great fun and is useful in regional emergencies like Hurricane Katrina, but is in no way a substitute for a telephone (socially, technologically, or legally).
Now, if someone came up with a user-configurable platform with an approved radio and approved locked-down radio driver code (which is separate from OS code, as people who write jailbreaking software know), there might be a very small niche market for that. But it's only a niche; don't fool yourselves otherwise. Slashdotters are not the center of the world, do not drive social or legal policy, and for that we should all count ourselves lucky.
Dear Princess Ahmadinejad,
Non-proliferation, "bonus" software, or Tomahawks. Choose no less than one.
Your faithful adversary,
The Non-Jihadist World
Think of all the economic activity this will generate: Blackmail - "Hey, Mr. CEO, I wonder if your wife knows you were at that leather bar at 10:40pm last night."
Industrial espionage - "The CEO was tracked to the headquarters of a certain component supplier. Could this mean an entry into a certain hardware market?"
Kidnapping - no. That's not even close to a joke. It happens.
Assault - "Today, protesters hounding a CEO turned violent as they cornered him at a local coffee shop..."
Yeah, I think it's best for everyone involved that it doesn't happen. There are legitimate uses for position-tracking (delivery truck driver, armored car services, school busses, etc.), but if you're not in a position which explicitly requires such tracking, no fucking way.
And despite all the knee-jerk CEO-hate that college freshman have, no, it's not okay to force physical risk and privacy invasion onto someone else, even IF they are a big bad scary exploiting evil-because-he-has-money-and-you-don't CEO. This is why we don't let children make decisions for others.
Which candidate promises to give me more tax money taken from other people?
a) BreadAndCircuses-crat
b) CircusesAndBread-lican
c) CrankyOldCoot-itarian (never happen)
Votes are bought and sold every day. How do you think the US deficit got as high as it has? Greek foreign debt? Spanish public debt? Voters, when offered a chance to tax anyone except themselves, do so.
Baryonic matter ("normal" matter from our perspective) is the minority.
WE are the Goatse Universe.
NOOOOOOOoooo ... oh, wait, that's not what you said. Phew.
Well, goatse IS in our universe... so, yeah, kinda.
While I'm sure the data quoted is accurate, I'm not seeing it here locally. In my group (20 of us, QA + development product group in a networking products company with about 2,000 employees), 9 are female, and an eyeball-survey says that this is about normal for the rest of the engineering organization. Same for candidates whom I interview; about half are female.
Where are all these all-male companies? Could other tech-oriented industries (defense, etc.) be getting lumped in with Silicon Valley style companies, and if so, is that really an accurate assessment?
Baryonic matter ("normal" matter from our perspective) is the minority.
WE are the Goatee Universe.
So Monsanto are they only people that could do that?
In the past seed lines were created by government agriculture programs I see no reason why that could not be the case today.
Brazil could continue to use these products without paying, when you have your own country you can do stuff like that.
So where are the new crops coming from? Why is Monsanto winning? All politics aside, could it be because they're better at such research than government-funded programs because (unlike government research) they are incentivized to work harder and produce results? Government-funded research has little incentive to push hard, and I would actually argue has an incentive not to (gotta keep the government dollars flowing, and successfully finishing a project STOPS the income... while with private research, successfully finishing the project STARTS the income).
Monsanto might not be the only people capable of producing such crops, but right now, they're just about the only people who ARE producing such crops. If people have a problem with that, the solution isn't to cripple Monsanto. It's for everyone else to improve, rather than just suck public research dollars. You're paid to perform.
In which case the incentive to develop pest-resistant, high-yield and other modified crops that allow supporting 7+ billion people goes away. Monsanto isn't a charity, and would be absolutely within their rights to stop allowing Brazil to use their products. Yield per acre goes down, food prices go up, and the very poorest starve. Bottom line: cash-grabbing research companies with a shrill "big corporations bad! Seizure of money good!" results in zero reason to try to develop new crops or medicines. Does anybody stop to think about the consequences of attacking pharmaceutical and food companies and making cash grabs like this?
But who cares about THAT? It's only equatorial brown-skinned people who will feel the worst of it, and they don't count for anything at all, right, privileged white-boy apologists? Fuck the brown people, we gotta get our SUE on, because that makes mama's-boy college kids feel powerful! We're not the ones who are going to go hungry.