Urm.... have you tried setting your upload cap? My line maxes out (admittedly, UK cable) at about 600kb/s *BUT* only if i lock the upload to around the 20-25kb/s region... Allow it to go unrestricted and it'll eat all your timeslots on the cable with upload packets forcing your downstream rate to suffer...
But hardware firewalls do have logs, meaning you can track down larry in accounts and ask him politely why his pc is sending 500,000 emails a day, and more specifically, why he decided it was a good idea to double click britneyspearsnude.jpg.exe at work...
Better yet, get the HR bod that deals with misuse of computer systems (read: looking at porn at work) to come along at the same time and really go for them...
Shout at enough users and eventually they'll learn...
I do have a minor issue with your post (and yes, I'm already waiting for the offtopic mod, dont care, wanted to put in my opinion on the side topic;) ):
It's not a perfect analogy, but it seems to me a pretty reasonable attempt to do something, involving the right people - users of web sites and admins of web sites - without stomping all over everyone else's use of the Internet. As a parent to a rather smart 3 year old, and with another 2 on the way currently, I can honestly say that website users and admins of web sites are *COMPLETELY* the wrong people to be doing something...
1) Most paedophiles are people the children in question already kno... So how does a website monitoring anything help anyone?
2) Be a good parent. Keep an eye on what your kids do online... hell, I was a little tearaway when I was younger on a 56k modem... Im going to be getting teh internets logged as soon as my son gets his own pc, if for no other reason than to teach him that people are always watching you, and to give him the challange of breaking the protections I've put in place... Might keep my brain fresh with the challenge too.
3) And I kno this sounds dumb, but *IF* your kids are going to hang out on myspace e.t.c. educate them to the dangers - dont give out personal info e.t.c. blah blah blah... If they're old enough to be getting unfettered net access they're old enough to understand if properly explained why giving some_random_n00b their full life story, address, school timetable and regular bus routes is a *BAD* idea...
4) One minor problem with this system - throw away email addresses along with latency used for signing up to sites. Pedo A could validly create a new email address, inform the police/whoever and as soon as his fone was back on the hook click submit on myspace... then fone the police back up "Oh sorry, I made a typo giving you my new address, its abcDe not abcEd @ blah.com" - who wants to bet the change wont be registered and passed on, and viola - he now has a myspace/facebook/whatever account...
That's not strictly true. Atheism stems from a basic tenet that God does not exist.
Since we have no evidence that God exists, but no evidence that he does not exist, both atheism and religion are merely opposite sides of the same coin. The rational scientific position is agnostic - We have insufficient evidence either way, lets run some more tests:P
It's official - when you see SoC and the first thing you think of is a world of warcraft spell you've played too much:( Where's the number for MMORPG'ers anonymous?
At the risk of my Karma (and I notice the irony in that statement), could you please explain to me how Jesus = God? I seem to recall according to the bible Jesus = God's Son, and didn't he himself say that he wasn't God, just the celestial equivalent of a messenger boy? I've never had this satisfactorily explained....
You are joking right? The LD50 (level at which 50% of the pop. can be expected to die) from caffeine is only 1 or 2 grams... thats not many cups of espresso (or about 6 no-doze iirc)... Also, caffeine is not benign. Psilocin is a benign drug pyhsically speaking (no known LD50, no known physical long term side effects) - but caffeine? Constriction of blood vessels, mood swings, and a "binge" of anywhere from 3 cups of espresso up can lead to palpitations, dizzyness, breathlessness, long term heart damage, e.t.c....
Of course they would. Any research institution with half a brain would shut up and call every government they could - that way at least there's a chance of deflecting the thing, or else launching a "all-or-nothing-colony" endevour. I mean, c'mon, just imagine the world-wide panic if it were announced. There'd be no way we could save ourselves, the proles would all be running round getting wasted...
Ah, but the child porn they were distributing had been released by the FBI as part of an entrapment plan - therefore the feds had the copyrights to it... And the FBI know full well they stand a better chance of getting you to serve a long term with Copyright breach charges than with child porno charges:( (Note: This is intended as a joke... not too sure if it isn't true tho:'( )
Heh... monitor size has nothing to do with budget necissarily - I've just graduated from Southampton Uni - we're one of the best in the country for Comp Sci, and our labs are all (bar the Macs) running on dual-head or single 17"-ers...
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You forgot to mention that most of the "new" features are done *better* by the competition - check out the search bar for instance (yes, FF does save the state when opening a new window)
Ok... Quick question for you - have you ever tried to work on 10+ websites, plus a half-dozen ssh windows, plus a copy of eclipse, a media player of choice (winamp?), and maybe a word/pdf doc viewer or two listing specs? Oh, yea, on a single monitor of less than 19" (most monitors I come across are 15's or 17's...). If you can *see* which tab you want with all that in the task bar, then I may have a job for you as an optical telescope...;) As an aside, if anything UNIX (by which I will read Linux, and more specifically X) users would be less excited - we have multiple desktops built into the OS as standard...
Heh... true, but the question is, what do the police see as reasonable... I've known people before now with a half or full 9-bar for personal use only... and that's not exactly regarded as such (the guys in question *were* going through about an ounce or two a week, so it's only a month's stash, but still...)
Also depends where in the country you are - the Devon police for example used to take a very strict line (the good side being there were hardly any coppers around...)
Please keep in mind the fact that I was thinking of the period when I was smoking heavily - at which time, getting caught with more than about a quarter meant being charged with intent to supply... (not that anyone ever got caught, but the threat was real enough)... Oh, and it depends *where* in the uk you smoke - if I'd got busted at my old house (about two doors down from a school) I'd be looking at porridge, w/o a shadow of a doubt - personal use be damned...
To be fair to your country (as I understand it), you don't have a "tax" (the tv license isn't obligatory, just nearly so... and often enforced with just as many goons in suits...) paid television channel, so all the media companies actually have to pay out of their profits for the programs... The BBC afaik doesn't (as long as it doesn't make a loss) - they're a public service, like pavements. About the only British institution that I'm actually still proud of - and the only one I'm getting more proud of as time goes by:D Hell, I'd probably still pay my TV license even if we didn't have a tv, just for the web content alone - they deserve it.
As someone who has "gotten better" after (almost certainly drug induced) wide ranging paranoia & hypochondria (not to mention the full blown panic attacks), I'm left wondering if a fair chunk of drug related psychosis are due the the drugs illegal nature... I mean, a percentage of users are constantly (even if only subconciously) paranoid about getting busted - add to this anti-drugs propaganda causing health fears and you have people living with near-constant paranioa... And given that afaik most cannaboid-based psychosis is commonly viewed as some paranoia derivative (hypochondria, paranoid schitzophrenia, etc.), it does seem possible that there's some link. (Especially when you consider that psychadelics - marijuana, coke, LSD, 'shrooms & Mescaline derivatives - tend to put the user in a rather programmable state anyway...)
Simple... Standard user downloads approximatly one hour of pron per day, encoded in "scrunched" divx = around 400mb then add 600mb of DRM, and you end up with a "user required download" or URD of 1 gig... The average user will complain if a movie that they are paying for takes longer to download than to watch (or at least will do when they're on supposedly "SUPER-FAST-AmazingLine"), so you've got to get it to them in around a hour. 30mbit/sec = approx 300kb/sec actual download = approx 18mb/minute or around 1gb/hour:P
Hence 30 megabits is the absolute minimum.
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And ironically enough, yellow on blue is the old amstrad console colourscheme, which I use where I can in shells to this day :)
Urm.... have you tried setting your upload cap? My line maxes out (admittedly, UK cable) at about 600kb/s *BUT* only if i lock the upload to around the 20-25kb/s region... Allow it to go unrestricted and it'll eat all your timeslots on the cable with upload packets forcing your downstream rate to suffer...
But hardware firewalls do have logs, meaning you can track down larry in accounts and ask him politely why his pc is sending 500,000 emails a day, and more specifically, why he decided it was a good idea to double click britneyspearsnude.jpg.exe at work... Better yet, get the HR bod that deals with misuse of computer systems (read: looking at porn at work) to come along at the same time and really go for them... Shout at enough users and eventually they'll learn...
If the only reason you don't kill people in real life is because you can't get away with it, you should go into politics. ;)
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It's not a perfect analogy, but it seems to me a pretty reasonable attempt to do something, involving the right people - users of web sites and admins of web sites - without stomping all over everyone else's use of the Internet. As a parent to a rather smart 3 year old, and with another 2 on the way currently, I can honestly say that website users and admins of web sites are *COMPLETELY* the wrong people to be doing something...
1) Most paedophiles are people the children in question already kno... So how does a website monitoring anything help anyone?
2) Be a good parent. Keep an eye on what your kids do online... hell, I was a little tearaway when I was younger on a 56k modem... Im going to be getting teh internets logged as soon as my son gets his own pc, if for no other reason than to teach him that people are always watching you, and to give him the challange of breaking the protections I've put in place... Might keep my brain fresh with the challenge too.
3) And I kno this sounds dumb, but *IF* your kids are going to hang out on myspace e.t.c. educate them to the dangers - dont give out personal info e.t.c. blah blah blah... If they're old enough to be getting unfettered net access they're old enough to understand if properly explained why giving some_random_n00b their full life story, address, school timetable and regular bus routes is a *BAD* idea...
4) One minor problem with this system - throw away email addresses along with latency used for signing up to sites. Pedo A could validly create a new email address, inform the police/whoever and as soon as his fone was back on the hook click submit on myspace... then fone the police back up "Oh sorry, I made a typo giving you my new address, its abcDe not abcEd @ blah.com" - who wants to bet the change wont be registered and passed on, and viola - he now has a myspace/facebook/whatever account...
That's not strictly true. Atheism stems from a basic tenet that God does not exist. Since we have no evidence that God exists, but no evidence that he does not exist, both atheism and religion are merely opposite sides of the same coin. The rational scientific position is agnostic - We have insufficient evidence either way, lets run some more tests :P
It's official - when you see SoC and the first thing you think of is a world of warcraft spell you've played too much :( Where's the number for MMORPG'ers anonymous?
Interestingly Enough, my WEP key is a variant along a similar line of thought :)
At the risk of my Karma (and I notice the irony in that statement), could you please explain to me how Jesus = God? I seem to recall according to the bible Jesus = God's Son, and didn't he himself say that he wasn't God, just the celestial equivalent of a messenger boy? I've never had this satisfactorily explained....
You are joking right? The LD50 (level at which 50% of the pop. can be expected to die) from caffeine is only 1 or 2 grams... thats not many cups of espresso (or about 6 no-doze iirc)... Also, caffeine is not benign. Psilocin is a benign drug pyhsically speaking (no known LD50, no known physical long term side effects) - but caffeine? Constriction of blood vessels, mood swings, and a "binge" of anywhere from 3 cups of espresso up can lead to palpitations, dizzyness, breathlessness, long term heart damage, e.t.c....
Of course they would. Any research institution with half a brain would shut up and call every government they could - that way at least there's a chance of deflecting the thing, or else launching a "all-or-nothing-colony" endevour. I mean, c'mon, just imagine the world-wide panic if it were announced. There'd be no way we could save ourselves, the proles would all be running round getting wasted...
Ah, but the child porn they were distributing had been released by the FBI as part of an entrapment plan - therefore the feds had the copyrights to it... And the FBI know full well they stand a better chance of getting you to serve a long term with Copyright breach charges than with child porno charges :( (Note: This is intended as a joke... not too sure if it isn't true tho :'( )
Heh... monitor size has nothing to do with budget necissarily - I've just graduated from Southampton Uni - we're one of the best in the country for Comp Sci, and our labs are all (bar the Macs) running on dual-head or single 17"-ers...
You forgot to mention that most of the "new" features are done *better* by the competition - check out the search bar for instance (yes, FF does save the state when opening a new window)
Ok... Quick question for you - have you ever tried to work on 10+ websites, plus a half-dozen ssh windows, plus a copy of eclipse, a media player of choice (winamp?), and maybe a word/pdf doc viewer or two listing specs? ;)
Oh, yea, on a single monitor of less than 19" (most monitors I come across are 15's or 17's...). If you can *see* which tab you want with all that in the task bar, then I may have a job for you as an optical telescope...
As an aside, if anything UNIX (by which I will read Linux, and more specifically X) users would be less excited - we have multiple desktops built into the OS as standard...
You mean you stopped??? So that's why those discographies were downloading so slowly..... :P
Heh... true, but the question is, what do the police see as reasonable... I've known people before now with a half or full 9-bar for personal use only... and that's not exactly regarded as such (the guys in question *were* going through about an ounce or two a week, so it's only a month's stash, but still...) Also depends where in the country you are - the Devon police for example used to take a very strict line (the good side being there were hardly any coppers around...)
Please keep in mind the fact that I was thinking of the period when I was smoking heavily - at which time, getting caught with more than about a quarter meant being charged with intent to supply... (not that anyone ever got caught, but the threat was real enough)... Oh, and it depends *where* in the uk you smoke - if I'd got busted at my old house (about two doors down from a school) I'd be looking at porridge, w/o a shadow of a doubt - personal use be damned...
To be fair to your country (as I understand it), you don't have a "tax" (the tv license isn't obligatory, just nearly so... and often enforced with just as many goons in suits...) paid television channel, so all the media companies actually have to pay out of their profits for the programs... The BBC afaik doesn't (as long as it doesn't make a loss) - they're a public service, like pavements. About the only British institution that I'm actually still proud of - and the only one I'm getting more proud of as time goes by :D
Hell, I'd probably still pay my TV license even if we didn't have a tv, just for the web content alone - they deserve it.
As someone who has "gotten better" after (almost certainly drug induced) wide ranging paranoia & hypochondria (not to mention the full blown panic attacks), I'm left wondering if a fair chunk of drug related psychosis are due the the drugs illegal nature... I mean, a percentage of users are constantly (even if only subconciously) paranoid about getting busted - add to this anti-drugs propaganda causing health fears and you have people living with near-constant paranioa... And given that afaik most cannaboid-based psychosis is commonly viewed as some paranoia derivative (hypochondria, paranoid schitzophrenia, etc.), it does seem possible that there's some link. (Especially when you consider that psychadelics - marijuana, coke, LSD, 'shrooms & Mescaline derivatives - tend to put the user in a rather programmable state anyway...)
Just my perspective on this...
Brilliant... That's the best description of gov't propaganda I've read for a long time :D
Dude, Beethoven is blatantly better than the beatles - i mean, have you *SEEN* him play in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure?
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Ah... no, twas my maths that's fubar... Hey, I've not had much sleep recently....
Simple... Standard user downloads approximatly one hour of pron per day, encoded in "scrunched" divx = around 400mb then add 600mb of DRM, and you end up with a "user required download" or URD of 1 gig... The average user will complain if a movie that they are paying for takes longer to download than to watch (or at least will do when they're on supposedly "SUPER-FAST-AmazingLine"), so you've got to get it to them in around a hour. 30mbit/sec = approx 300kb/sec actual download = approx 18mb/minute or around 1gb/hour :P
Hence 30 megabits is the absolute minimum.