you don't have to submit to a credit check for a hamburger either, but you do when you buy a car.
That's funny - I have bought 3 cars so far and not once did I need to "submit" to a credit check by the seller or anything even vaguely resembling one.
the airline has "a right to know who you are" if that's the condition they sell their tickets under.
Does that right include blaming the government and claiming that the condition is not their policy but the government's?
If you refuse to go thru the extra security check, you are a potential threat to the other passengers (who knows if you have a gun hidden somewhere?)
And just how does carrying an ID prevent you from "having a gun hidden somewhere?"
Airport ID checks are NOT about security, they are "security theater" - looks good to people who do not know any better, but does absolutely nothing to improve security and often makes it worse in the long run.
Airport ID check are about revenue protection - the only purpose they serve is to prevent legitimate ticket purchasers from reselling their tickets.
This is the kind of schizo and totally wasteful policy you get when the agency that regulates an industry is also tasked with promoting the industry. Whoever thought that FAA should handle those two conflicting tasks was a real moron.
As long as Google tells people items where removed from their search because of their government, then Google is still providing information in the form of #2 instead of #4 like other search engines might, or the absense of any search engine would be.
Is there any indication that Google does tell people that some results are being censored? I doubt it. Early on, they used to report search results that had been removed because of DMCA censoring, but even then the removal notice was the last result in the search. I haven't seen one of those for years, so I doubt they do it any more. They probably won't do it for the Chinese either.
What would be cool, and would help them regain some of their "do no evil" karma is if there was a "bug" in the censorship filter that accidentally let through a complete search result every now and then, totally at random, to ip addresses that had a high probabilty of being just regular machines and not state enforcer machines.
> I'm just guessing, but wouldn't ssh tunnels be readily identifiable if a smart network admin wanted to look for them?
No, the port forwarding is done within the encrypted channel.
You said what I said.
I don't want to pin up a session for days or weeks, I want it to look like a normal https session - put it up, do a transfer, tear it down. Leaving it pinned up for long periods with sporadic traffic is bound to draw attention to it.
Here's a surprisingly cogent article (surpisingly so for a hobbiest web site like anandtech, that is) about how trends in cpu manufacturing processes may make Itanium a bigger winner in the near future:
Anyone got a good, robust re-writing proxy tool like that? Preferrably with at least some sort of minimal security to prevent joe-random from using it without a login/password.
private sector companies and their employees have to bid against each other for work. The company that provides the best service for the best price tends to win the business. Does the public employee union bid against anyone?
That is usually the case at the start of privatization, but what usually happens is that the contractor becomes "embedded" in the job and changing to a new contractor involves all kinds of additional expenses in the forms of retraining and general loss of institutional knowledge. At that point, it becomes easier (and is perceived to be cheaper) to (permanently) stick with the now embedded contractor - even if their rates are significantly higher than the other bidders.
Thus, you typically end up with exactly the same result as you do with the public employees, except now most of the excess goes to the owners of the contractor and less goes to the people who actually do the work.
I'm all for a competitive environment to keep costs under control, but the way privatization is usually implemented in the USA does not produce that result. Instead, it is just another way for the rich to get richer at the expensive of the taxpayers and the regular employees.
An apologist is someone who uses reason to defend a position.
Baloney. Even your own dictionary citation does not support your claim - the word "reason" shows up precisely zero times. You want to just keep making stuff up, go ahead but all it does is reveal how thin and unrealistic your facade is.
The rest of your reply is pretty much the same irrational bunk, you add nothing new to support your view of some imaginary country that bears little resemblence to the real USA.
So, you found the link to the card that was exactly as descibed - locked up in DRM. Then you wave your hands and say that something else is out there, or will be out there. So, basically the only evidence you've got for your claims disproves them, but you go on to re-assert them again now with even less supporting evidence than you had the first time. I may be a smartass, but you are clearly a wrongass.
And there are plenty of over seas makers that will be happy to create better working cards for us (ie: no Vista DRM). You can count on it.
Yeah, just like there are all those overseas makers of commercially available DirecTV and Echostar decrypters...
Note that the definition includes defense of ANY doctrine, ANY policy, or ANY institution. So, let me get this straight - you want me to stop arguing in defense. Not of anything in particular - but just in general. Riiight... maybe you should get a dictionary before you use words you clearly do not understand.
Substitute the word victim for apologist and your complaint about inanity is just as valid. That was my point. Too bad you got lost in the trees and didn't see the forest.
Which - if any - do you disagree with?
I disagree with this:
1 - People have the power and thus responsibility over gov't. If it's systematically messed up it's our fault.
People no longer have the power. The fault lies with those who, over the intervening generations since the revolution, let it go. They are not us.
Now it would be quixotic to think that we could actually all agree to stop paying taxes tomorrow, but it's not quixotic to point that the power is ours whether we use it or not.
First you postulate an example of the people weilding this power you attribute to them, and then immediate admit that it is quixotic to think that they would use it. As far as I can tell, you are agreeing that it is ridiculous to think all but the most egregious power grabs can reasonably be expected to be countered by the regular citizenry.
And you call the other guy "quixotic." That is ridiculously idealistic. Like all institutions, government's #1 goal is to increase its own range of influence and power. The people who work there are professionals, they work every day to increase their power. Voters have their own lives to worry about, in no way can they compete with people in government who are dedicated to increasing their power.
It is like buying a car - most people get fleeced because the salesman sells cars everyday, he knows all the tricks of the trade, all the ways that customers are easily fooled into paying too much. Meanwhile the average buyer makes a purchase once every couple of years, he's get less than 1/100th the time and resources that the salesman does. Sometimes a smart buyer will get the upperhand. But the salesman doesn't care, he knows that on average he'll come out on top.
The same thing with institutional government - the ocassional smart citizen, even smart special interest group, will be able to block an egregious power grab. But most citizens just simply do not have the time or resources to keep the power-grabbers in check 20% of the time, much less 100%.
I have also recently seen an HDTV capture card with CableCard support. (can't find the link). Plug that in and voila -- you have your HD-PVR.
This is at least the second post you have made with this claim. I challenge you to put up or shut up. Find that link. Then read the details on the other end. You will find that it doesn't work the way you think it works. The output of the card is encryped and locked up with DRM and will only play back on the systems the OP specified, i.e. treacherous computing systems.
Try using a shorter USB cable. Unlike firewire, USB throughput is latency dependent, so the longer your USB cable, the slower your throughput - and possibly the higher your cpu utilization. Sounds stupid, but I have seen it myself.
And by the way, is it one of/.'s top priorities to attack religion every chance it gets?
I don't see anyone here "attacking religion." Isn't it the ID'ers themselves who claim loud and proud that ID is science not religion? You know, so that it should be taught in science class?
Higher quality drives use, naturally, higher quality DACs. It results in a better video and audio output. However, it also means that they're as a result FAR more sensitive to even the smallest fingerprints and scratches on the disk.
False. The quality of the DAC has nothing, zero, zilch, to do with the player's ability to read a disc. You might just possibly have had a point if you said ADC instead of DAC, but even then it doesn't make sense - a higher quality ADC will have wider tolerances, not smaller.
but anything that spits out an analog output (or decoded digital out, as is the case with video DVDs over DVI/HDMI)
LOL! There are no DACs in the DVI datapath at all.
If they can guarantee 100-year lifespan with a bit of gold then surely the problem with normal discs is over-stated.
The gold is there to replace the aluminum because gold won't oxidize. Kodak used to make similar archival quality discs, I still have a few spindles of them.
Is there any software that allows you to check on the status of the dye layer? It would be good to know before hand that you're using nearly all the error correction on a disk so that you can replace it when you have the chance.
Yes. At least for DVDs. But you have to have a drive that supports it. Plextor burners typically come with software that can report error rates. Then there is KProbe for some other drives, read the docs for the details.
As a rule of thumb, when purchasing blank media, prefer "made in japan" over the others. But be careful, two otherwise identical looking spindles of blank media from the same brand may differ solely in the "made in japan" / "made in china" fine print.
I'd really like to have a laptop with a few GB of flash memory that acts as a read and write cache for the hard drive. With a good caching algorithm, it should be possible to keep the hard drive spun down most of the time and save a ton of energy
Why do you pontificate on a subject about which you know so little? Laserdisc list prices were always in the range from $30 to $40 with few exceptions. As the format matured the producers learned there was a cinephile market that would gladly pay higher prices for special editions of certain titles. You could easily pay over $100 for such editions but in every case I know of you also had the option of purchasing a standard edition of the same title for the standard price.
The only prices I ever encountered were in the $40+ range, and often much higher, but not being a collector I didn't shop for bargains, just noticed them in the occasional store. So the low end of that is in deed cheaper than VHS rental pricing, but still not anywhere near as cheap as the low-end of the DVD market has been for the last couple of years.
More likely they are choosing titles that will exploit the increased visual and audio quality afforded by HD. In the backwaters of the net I found a HD version of the 5th Element, muxed with a DTS track, and it is some glorious eye-candy (ear-candy as well). If I were sucker enough to buy one of these BLU-DEATH-RAY 5th Elements, I would expect even higher quality than the ~15GB version I have now.
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you don't have to submit to a credit check for a hamburger either, but you do when you buy a car.
That's funny - I have bought 3 cars so far and not once did I need to "submit" to a credit check by the seller or anything even vaguely resembling one.
the airline has "a right to know who you are" if that's the condition they sell their tickets under.
Does that right include blaming the government and claiming that the condition is not their policy but the government's?
If you refuse to go thru the extra security check, you are a potential threat to the other passengers (who knows if you have a gun hidden somewhere?)
And just how does carrying an ID prevent you from "having a gun hidden somewhere?"
Airport ID checks are NOT about security, they are "security theater" - looks good to people who do not know any better, but does absolutely nothing to improve security and often makes it worse in the long run.
Airport ID check are about revenue protection - the only purpose they serve is to prevent legitimate ticket purchasers from reselling their tickets.
This is the kind of schizo and totally wasteful policy you get when the agency that regulates an industry is also tasked with promoting the industry. Whoever thought that FAA should handle those two conflicting tasks was a real moron.
As long as Google tells people items where removed from their search because of their government, then Google is still providing information in the form of #2 instead of #4 like other search engines might, or the absense of any search engine would be.
Is there any indication that Google does tell people that some results are being censored? I doubt it. Early on, they used to report search results that had been removed because of DMCA censoring, but even then the removal notice was the last result in the search. I haven't seen one of those for years, so I doubt they do it any more. They probably won't do it for the Chinese either.
What would be cool, and would help them regain some of their "do no evil" karma is if there was a "bug" in the censorship filter that accidentally let through a complete search result every now and then, totally at random, to ip addresses that had a high probabilty of being just regular machines and not state enforcer machines.
What terrible thing could have happened that would make a school district shell out $369,000 and hire two technicians for an eye scanner?
The CEO of the scanner company joined the school's board of directors. Follow the money.
> I'm just guessing, but wouldn't ssh tunnels be readily identifiable if a smart network admin wanted to look for them?
No, the port forwarding is done within the encrypted channel.
You said what I said.
I don't want to pin up a session for days or weeks, I want it to look like a normal https session - put it up, do a transfer, tear it down. Leaving it pinned up for long periods with sporadic traffic is bound to draw attention to it.
Here's a surprisingly cogent article (surpisingly so for a hobbiest web site like anandtech, that is) about how trends in cpu manufacturing processes may make Itanium a bigger winner in the near future:
http://anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2598
Why not just tell SSH to run on port 80 on your home machine?
Gotta run through the outgoing proxy at site. I'm presuming that an https proxy won't do generic ssh proxying.
I'm just guessing, but wouldn't ssh tunnels be readily identifiable if a smart network admin wanted to look for them?
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I'd like to run to a web-proxy at home that I can just point my browser to ala:
https://mycablemodem.cable.net:4567/
that will then access any website and rewrite any internal links to go back through the proxy itself, so for example:
http://www.yahoo.com/ becomes https://mycablemodem.cable.net:4567/http://www.ya
Anyone got a good, robust re-writing proxy tool like that? Preferrably with at least some sort of minimal security to prevent joe-random from using it without a login/password.
private sector companies and their employees have to bid against each other for work. The company that provides the best service for the best price tends to win the business. Does the public employee union bid against anyone?
That is usually the case at the start of privatization, but what usually happens is that the contractor becomes "embedded" in the job and changing to a new contractor involves all kinds of additional expenses in the forms of retraining and general loss of institutional knowledge. At that point, it becomes easier (and is perceived to be cheaper) to (permanently) stick with the now embedded contractor - even if their rates are significantly higher than the other bidders.
Thus, you typically end up with exactly the same result as you do with the public employees, except now most of the excess goes to the owners of the contractor and less goes to the people who actually do the work.
I'm all for a competitive environment to keep costs under control, but the way privatization is usually implemented in the USA does not produce that result. Instead, it is just another way for the rich to get richer at the expensive of the taxpayers and the regular employees.
An apologist is someone who uses reason to defend a position.
Baloney. Even your own dictionary citation does not support your claim - the word "reason" shows up precisely zero times. You want to just keep making stuff up, go ahead but all it does is reveal how thin and unrealistic your facade is.
The rest of your reply is pretty much the same irrational bunk, you add nothing new to support your view of some imaginary country that bears little resemblence to the real USA.
So, you found the link to the card that was exactly as descibed - locked up in DRM. Then you wave your hands and say that something else is out there, or will be out there. So, basically the only evidence you've got for your claims disproves them, but you go on to re-assert them again now with even less supporting evidence than you had the first time. I may be a smartass, but you are clearly a wrongass.
And there are plenty of over seas makers that will be happy to create better working cards for us (ie: no Vista DRM). You can count on it.
Yeah, just like there are all those overseas makers of commercially available DirecTV and Echostar decrypters...
Note that the definition includes defense of ANY doctrine, ANY policy, or ANY institution. So, let me get this straight - you want me to stop arguing in defense. Not of anything in particular - but just in general. Riiight... maybe you should get a dictionary before you use words you clearly do not understand.
Substitute the word victim for apologist and your complaint about inanity is just as valid. That was my point. Too bad you got lost in the trees and didn't see the forest.
Which - if any - do you disagree with?
I disagree with this:
1 - People have the power and thus responsibility over gov't. If it's systematically messed up it's our fault.
People no longer have the power. The fault lies with those who, over the intervening generations since the revolution, let it go. They are not us.
Now it would be quixotic to think that we could actually all agree to stop paying taxes tomorrow, but it's not quixotic to point that the power is ours whether we use it or not.
First you postulate an example of the people weilding this power you attribute to them, and then immediate admit that it is quixotic to think that they would use it. As far as I can tell, you are agreeing that it is ridiculous to think all but the most egregious power grabs can reasonably be expected to be countered by the regular citizenry.
Quit being a victim.
Quit being an apologist.
Gov't has only as much power as we let it have.
And you call the other guy "quixotic." That is ridiculously idealistic. Like all institutions, government's #1 goal is to increase its own range of influence and power. The people who work there are professionals, they work every day to increase their power. Voters have their own lives to worry about, in no way can they compete with people in government who are dedicated to increasing their power.
It is like buying a car - most people get fleeced because the salesman sells cars everyday, he knows all the tricks of the trade, all the ways that customers are easily fooled into paying too much. Meanwhile the average buyer makes a purchase once every couple of years, he's get less than 1/100th the time and resources that the salesman does. Sometimes a smart buyer will get the upperhand. But the salesman doesn't care, he knows that on average he'll come out on top.
The same thing with institutional government - the ocassional smart citizen, even smart special interest group, will be able to block an egregious power grab. But most citizens just simply do not have the time or resources to keep the power-grabbers in check 20% of the time, much less 100%.
I have also recently seen an HDTV capture card with CableCard support. (can't find the link). Plug that in and voila -- you have your HD-PVR.
This is at least the second post you have made with this claim. I challenge you to put up or shut up. Find that link. Then read the details on the other end. You will find that it doesn't work the way you think it works. The output of the card is encryped and locked up with DRM and will only play back on the systems the OP specified, i.e. treacherous computing systems.
Try using a shorter USB cable. Unlike firewire, USB throughput is latency dependent, so the longer your USB cable, the slower your throughput - and possibly the higher your cpu utilization. Sounds stupid, but I have seen it myself.
What shall be can be the is of what was
- Lao Fu Tzu
Is that suppossed to be "Laof ut zu" - Laugh at you? Because that's what I think you are doing at all the people trying to parse out that saying.
And by the way, is it one of /.'s top priorities to attack religion every chance it gets?
I don't see anyone here "attacking religion." Isn't it the ID'ers themselves who claim loud and proud that ID is science not religion? You know, so that it should be taught in science class?
All I see are attacks on pseudo-science.
The claim that we don't know how bees fly is by no means central to ID.
This is just propaganda.
However it is:
1) Funny propaganda
2) Entirely believable propaganda given the public perception of ID believera
Higher quality drives use, naturally, higher quality DACs. It results in a better video and audio output. However, it also means that they're as a result FAR more sensitive to even the smallest fingerprints and scratches on the disk.
False. The quality of the DAC has nothing, zero, zilch, to do with the player's ability to read a disc. You might just possibly have had a point if you said ADC instead of DAC, but even then it doesn't make sense - a higher quality ADC will have wider tolerances, not smaller.
but anything that spits out an analog output (or decoded digital out, as is the case with video DVDs over DVI/HDMI)
LOL! There are no DACs in the DVI datapath at all.
If they can guarantee 100-year lifespan with a bit of gold then surely the problem with normal discs is over-stated.
The gold is there to replace the aluminum because gold won't oxidize. Kodak used to make similar archival quality discs, I still have a few spindles of them.
Is there any software that allows you to check on the status of the dye layer? It would be good to know before hand that you're using nearly all the error correction on a disk so that you can replace it when you have the chance.
Yes. At least for DVDs. But you have to have a drive that supports it. Plextor burners typically come with software that can report error rates. Then there is KProbe for some other drives, read the docs for the details.
As a rule of thumb, when purchasing blank media, prefer "made in japan" over the others. But be careful, two otherwise identical looking spindles of blank media from the same brand may differ solely in the "made in japan" / "made in china" fine print.
I'd really like to have a laptop with a few GB of flash memory that acts as a read and write cache for the hard drive. With a good caching algorithm, it should be possible to keep the hard drive spun down most of the time and save a ton of energy
You are not the only one thinking of that.
Why do you pontificate on a subject about which you know so little? Laserdisc list prices were always in the range from $30 to $40 with few exceptions. As the format matured the producers learned there was a cinephile market that would gladly pay higher prices for special editions of certain titles. You could easily pay over $100 for such editions but in every case I know of you also had the option of purchasing a standard edition of the same title for the standard price.
The only prices I ever encountered were in the $40+ range, and often much higher, but not being a collector I didn't shop for bargains, just noticed them in the occasional store. So the low end of that is in deed cheaper than VHS rental pricing, but still not anywhere near as cheap as the low-end of the DVD market has been for the last couple of years.
More likely they are choosing titles that will exploit the increased visual and audio quality afforded by HD. In the backwaters of the net I found a HD version of the 5th Element, muxed with a DTS track, and it is some glorious eye-candy (ear-candy as well). If I were sucker enough to buy one of these BLU-DEATH-RAY 5th Elements, I would expect even higher quality than the ~15GB version I have now.