So every pr0n page view going through NAT takes 200 new external ports, with associated timeouts and state tables surely a good nat should be able to remove the entries from the table as soon as it sees the connection close at least for TCP (for UDP you have to rely on timeouts since there are no proper close messages).
and if you wan't to be really clever you can reuse the same external port for multiple connections provided those connections have different targets.
10x the median household income per child If you mean the median annual household income then that is rather on the low side, even a normal house could easilly be worth more than that in some areas.
Also I bet people would just find ways to move thier kids and thier wealth out of your tax system.
Aren't most distros sold or given away on pressed CDs, The stable releases are but anyone who wan'ts to get involved with thier distros future (if only to the extent of making sure all thier stuff still runs when the next version comes out) needs to track the development version and for that the fast connection is extremely usefull.
'Course, $300 would be a small price to pay to get a working copy of XP to make the machine actually worthwhile, but for some strange reason no one seems to want to sell XP any more, almost like the manufacturer is bullying them... newegg claim to have it in stock and quite cheap too even for full retail. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16837116195
the problem with most electoral systems is you basically have to choose one or a very small number of issues that are important to you and then use those issues to choose between the small number of candidates who stand more than a snowballs chance in hell of winning.
so issues which aren't of paramount importance to a significant portion of the electorate get decided by the lobbyists who fund the politicians campaigns.
You also have the problem that most if not all sucessfull polititicans outright lie in thier manifestos.
the police could not get a warrant to search a home for a stolen piano, and then arrest the owner because they found drugs in a cabinet, because they could not have reasonably expected to find the piano in the cabinet no put pirate software/music/movies can be stored on things like USB sticks which are pretty small so they could reasonablly expect to find them almost anywhere.
Afaict the trick for the cops when doing a fishing expedition is to get a warrant to look for something small and easilly hidden (papers is a classic), that way they can "reasonablly" expect that it might be hidden almost anywhere.
ususally when copying commercial media you end up reencoding because blanks generally have lower capacities.
this is seen a lot with copying dvds, you can get dual layer blanks but they are pretty pricey so afaict most low end (read: people copying for friends and people selling obvious pirate copies on the street, the counterfieters are a whold different ball game) DVD pirates recompress with tools like DVD shrink. With the HD formats I don't think it's even possible to get burnable media that matches the capacity of the commercial disks.
IMO if you've got any sense what you do is save this tutorial (since this kind of probablly illegal information may not stay in one place for long) and the required tools to go with it and make sure you have a HD-DVD-ROM drive.
actually buying the burner/media and doing the transfer can wait until the burners and media come down to a more acceptable price.
not much but you know non x86/amd64 desktop linux is even more of a niche market than x86/amd64 desktop linux. Intel and amd are the clear leader in the desktop/laptop cpu buisness both in terms of marketshare and in terms of performance. Even apple (a long time ppc supporter) has now switched to intel.
I would say it is more like saying horse/cart combinations are obsolete. Sure a few people hang on to them either for nostalgic reasons or because they have convinced themselves they are better but IMO that doesn't stop them being obsolete.
the trouble is while one bad descision is barely perceptable a load of bad descisions stacked together make the difference between an app that is fast and responsive even on old hardware and a peice of horrible bloatware.
and sometimes programmers make really horrible descisions like trying to delete elements from the middle of an array and move up everything after it. Sometimes programmers read large blocks of data into strings and try to use string manipulation on them etc. Theese bad descisions are imperceptible on the small datasets the dev typcially tests with but far more substatial when the data in question grows to hundreds of megabytes.
It reminds me of a recovery effort I tried last year, trying to recover some interesting data from some files generated on a NeXT cube from years ago. I realized the documents were just dumps of the Objective C objects themselves. IMO the powerfull serialisation formats of modern langauges are even worse than just dumping out C structs. If an app just dumps out C structs then you can probablly figure out the binary format pretty quickly with just the source for the app and a pagefull or so of information on the C compiler used. The application designer still has to pay some attention to file format design because structures containing pointers can't be saved directly.
For a modern serialisation format things are typically far worse, the app developer is less likely to pay attention to KISS when he can serialise any arbitary graph of objects and you need both the apps code and a load of information on how the language serialises stuff.
I guess they mean "negotiations" in the sense of hostage negotiations or similar. That is basically to persude the criminals that resistance is futile and attempts to resist will just make the situation worse for them (not an easy task when the criminal knows full well that even if they cooperate they are still looking at serious time in prison).
Just from a guess, I'd say the "interviewers" probably tend to ask enough leading questions where in a state of panic you might make up something reasonably convincing but wrong. Or for legitimate suspects who are hardened to torture techniques they could still give mis-information based just enough on the truth to be believable. Sure but there are a couple techniques the torturer can use to at least partially get arround that.
* they can check that the information is consistant with thier other sources. * if they have captured a group of people who are all belived to have the information they can keep torturing until they get a consistant story out of all of them.
I'm sure there are cases where torture doesn't work but that is rather different from being useless.
MSDNAA is per department, at my uni CS and informatics (now merged but they weren't at the time I did a course from one of them) have MSDNAA but EEE which is the department i'm in do not. I did do one course from informatics last year which according to MS made me eligable but I was never told how I could get such software.
having used eclipse for java I often wish I had a similarlly powerfull IDE for other languages, the ability to pull out a chunk of code into it's own method or rename something throughout a project in one step or generate a complete set of stubs for an interface quickly and easilly is a huge boon in my experiance.
for instance, if by some unthought-of chain of events the cleartext encryption key ever gets swapped to disk, the game is over, no need to break the strong crypto itself If you are serious about protecting your data you should really be using encrypted swap or no swap at all anyway.
MSDNAA has been arround for a while, but it had to be joined by a department and the department had to pay. At my uni my department (EEE) is not part of the program meaning I can't get the free software not easilly (according to MS I would technically be allowed to get it during a year where I took a course from CS or informatics but I have never been told if and how I can actually get it under that program as an EEE student doing one course from informataics).
Now MS is going one step further and offering products directly to students. This is a very tempting offer though I can't seem to find any clear information on what if any strings are attatched.
It is utterly unclear to me why anyway would even need unencrypted protocols for *anything* you do online. afaict most websites (with the exception of ecommerce sites) don't support encryption because of the large extra costs involved both in terms of the extra hardware needed and in terms of the costs (both purchase and management) of all the IPs and certificates needed.
and if the websites you wan't to use don't support encryption then you have to use an unencrypted connection to them.
let's say that I got that lucky and figure out that in fact P=NP. Oh-la-la. What I would do is create a private business around my solution, making money solving problems without giving out the details of the solution itself. You can try but with something that valuable don't be surprised if some people with very large rescourses (think three letter agencies) try to steal it.
let's say I come up with a way to totally remove HIV from a human's body somehow (let's say it takes 6 months to complete the treatment and let's say I do it by injecting the person with synthetic antibodies that are specific to HIV and swim in the bloodstream just collecting the virus until there is none left.)
All I have to do to cash in is open my own treatment center and anyone who comes in has to stay in for the entire period of time it takes to finish the treatment and then another month or so for the synthetic antibodies to leave the body altogether. I don't have to give out the details of what exactly I do and how exactly I do it to make money. Right, you will of course have to set up that treatment center in a country with a weak and/or currupt governement as I very much doubt western governements would tollerate a place that kept people effectively prisoner while administering unapproved medical treatmenet. Such countries are not generally a good place to set up if you wan't your secrets to stay secret.
and if one "patient" escapes from the prison you keep them in after treatment or even manages to smuggle out a package with a blood sample your secret is basically toast.
IMO trade secrets in general are not a good soloution for either the inventor or the general public. For the inventor they force paranoia about leaks severely limiting the market. For the general public they leave the risk that the information may never make it's way into the public domain.
It seems to me that you can only really appreciate HD if you are prepared to either sit very close to a TV or do an installation that makes a very large (and therefore expensive) TV the dominant feature of one of your rooms.
Afaict that isn't how most people watch TV and videos, they sit or lie on the sofa watching an ordinary sized TV in one corner of thier living room.
A lot of people are buying HD ready TVs but afaict they are only doing that either because nearly all LCD TVs are HD ready or because they wan't a TV that can double up as a PC monitor.
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So every pr0n page view going through NAT takes 200 new external ports, with associated timeouts and state tables
surely a good nat should be able to remove the entries from the table as soon as it sees the connection close at least for TCP (for UDP you have to rely on timeouts since there are no proper close messages).
and if you wan't to be really clever you can reuse the same external port for multiple connections provided those connections have different targets.
Blu-Ray had two major advantages:
1. Number of studios offering titles
2. Better marketing
3. Supported as standard on a major game console.
10x the median household income per child
If you mean the median annual household income then that is rather on the low side, even a normal house could easilly be worth more than that in some areas.
Also I bet people would just find ways to move thier kids and thier wealth out of your tax system.
Aren't most distros sold or given away on pressed CDs,
The stable releases are but anyone who wan'ts to get involved with thier distros future (if only to the extent of making sure all thier stuff still runs when the next version comes out) needs to track the development version and for that the fast connection is extremely usefull.
how do oil drillers replace/remove bits without the cladding getting in the way?
'Course, $300 would be a small price to pay to get a working copy of XP to make the machine actually worthwhile, but for some strange reason no one seems to want to sell XP any more, almost like the manufacturer is bullying them...
newegg claim to have it in stock and quite cheap too even for full retail.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16837116195
but still a hell of a lot cheaper than the kit needed to do this conversion.
isn't there at least one hybrid player on the market too?
the problem with most electoral systems is you basically have to choose one or a very small number of issues that are important to you and then use those issues to choose between the small number of candidates who stand more than a snowballs chance in hell of winning.
so issues which aren't of paramount importance to a significant portion of the electorate get decided by the lobbyists who fund the politicians campaigns.
You also have the problem that most if not all sucessfull polititicans outright lie in thier manifestos.
the police could not get a warrant to search a home for a stolen piano, and then arrest the owner because they found drugs in a cabinet, because they could not have reasonably expected to find the piano in the cabinet
no put pirate software/music/movies can be stored on things like USB sticks which are pretty small so they could reasonablly expect to find them almost anywhere.
Afaict the trick for the cops when doing a fishing expedition is to get a warrant to look for something small and easilly hidden (papers is a classic), that way they can "reasonablly" expect that it might be hidden almost anywhere.
ususally when copying commercial media you end up reencoding because blanks generally have lower capacities.
this is seen a lot with copying dvds, you can get dual layer blanks but they are pretty pricey so afaict most low end (read: people copying for friends and people selling obvious pirate copies on the street, the counterfieters are a whold different ball game) DVD pirates recompress with tools like DVD shrink. With the HD formats I don't think it's even possible to get burnable media that matches the capacity of the commercial disks.
IMO if you've got any sense what you do is save this tutorial (since this kind of probablly illegal information may not stay in one place for long) and the required tools to go with it and make sure you have a HD-DVD-ROM drive.
actually buying the burner/media and doing the transfer can wait until the burners and media come down to a more acceptable price.
not much but you know non x86/amd64 desktop linux is even more of a niche market than x86/amd64 desktop linux. Intel and amd are the clear leader in the desktop/laptop cpu buisness both in terms of marketshare and in terms of performance. Even apple (a long time ppc supporter) has now switched to intel.
I would say it is more like saying horse/cart combinations are obsolete. Sure a few people hang on to them either for nostalgic reasons or because they have convinced themselves they are better but IMO that doesn't stop them being obsolete.
the trouble is while one bad descision is barely perceptable a load of bad descisions stacked together make the difference between an app that is fast and responsive even on old hardware and a peice of horrible bloatware.
and sometimes programmers make really horrible descisions like trying to delete elements from the middle of an array and move up everything after it. Sometimes programmers read large blocks of data into strings and try to use string manipulation on them etc. Theese bad descisions are imperceptible on the small datasets the dev typcially tests with but far more substatial when the data in question grows to hundreds of megabytes.
It reminds me of a recovery effort I tried last year, trying to recover some interesting data from some files generated on a NeXT cube from years ago. I realized the documents were just dumps of the Objective C objects themselves.
IMO the powerfull serialisation formats of modern langauges are even worse than just dumping out C structs. If an app just dumps out C structs then you can probablly figure out the binary format pretty quickly with just the source for the app and a pagefull or so of information on the C compiler used. The application designer still has to pay some attention to file format design because structures containing pointers can't be saved directly.
For a modern serialisation format things are typically far worse, the app developer is less likely to pay attention to KISS when he can serialise any arbitary graph of objects and you need both the apps code and a load of information on how the language serialises stuff.
I guess they mean "negotiations" in the sense of hostage negotiations or similar. That is basically to persude the criminals that resistance is futile and attempts to resist will just make the situation worse for them (not an easy task when the criminal knows full well that even if they cooperate they are still looking at serious time in prison).
Just from a guess, I'd say the "interviewers" probably tend to ask enough leading questions where in a state of panic you might make up something reasonably convincing but wrong. Or for legitimate suspects who are hardened to torture techniques they could still give mis-information based just enough on the truth to be believable.
Sure but there are a couple techniques the torturer can use to at least partially get arround that.
* they can check that the information is consistant with thier other sources.
* if they have captured a group of people who are all belived to have the information they can keep torturing until they get a consistant story out of all of them.
I'm sure there are cases where torture doesn't work but that is rather different from being useless.
MSDNAA is per department, at my uni CS and informatics (now merged but they weren't at the time I did a course from one of them) have MSDNAA but EEE which is the department i'm in do not. I did do one course from informatics last year which according to MS made me eligable but I was never told how I could get such software.
having used eclipse for java I often wish I had a similarlly powerfull IDE for other languages, the ability to pull out a chunk of code into it's own method or rename something throughout a project in one step or generate a complete set of stubs for an interface quickly and easilly is a huge boon in my experiance.
if it takes anywhere near that long then you either have a really really crappy PC or some other major problem.
for instance, if by some unthought-of chain of events the cleartext encryption key ever gets swapped to disk, the game is over, no need to break the strong crypto itself
If you are serious about protecting your data you should really be using encrypted swap or no swap at all anyway.
MSDNAA has been arround for a while, but it had to be joined by a department and the department had to pay. At my uni my department (EEE) is not part of the program meaning I can't get the free software not easilly (according to MS I would technically be allowed to get it during a year where I took a course from CS or informatics but I have never been told if and how I can actually get it under that program as an EEE student doing one course from informataics).
Now MS is going one step further and offering products directly to students. This is a very tempting offer though I can't seem to find any clear information on what if any strings are attatched.
It is utterly unclear to me why anyway would even need unencrypted protocols for *anything* you do online.
afaict most websites (with the exception of ecommerce sites) don't support encryption because of the large extra costs involved both in terms of the extra hardware needed and in terms of the costs (both purchase and management) of all the IPs and certificates needed.
and if the websites you wan't to use don't support encryption then you have to use an unencrypted connection to them.
let's say that I got that lucky and figure out that in fact P=NP. Oh-la-la. What I would do is create a private business around my solution, making money solving problems without giving out the details of the solution itself.
You can try but with something that valuable don't be surprised if some people with very large rescourses (think three letter agencies) try to steal it.
let's say I come up with a way to totally remove HIV from a human's body somehow (let's say it takes 6 months to complete the treatment and let's say I do it by injecting the person with synthetic antibodies that are specific to HIV and swim in the bloodstream just collecting the virus until there is none left.)
All I have to do to cash in is open my own treatment center and anyone who comes in has to stay in for the entire period of time it takes to finish the treatment and then another month or so for the synthetic antibodies to leave the body altogether. I don't have to give out the details of what exactly I do and how exactly I do it to make money.
Right, you will of course have to set up that treatment center in a country with a weak and/or currupt governement as I very much doubt western governements would tollerate a place that kept people effectively prisoner while administering unapproved medical treatmenet. Such countries are not generally a good place to set up if you wan't your secrets to stay secret.
and if one "patient" escapes from the prison you keep them in after treatment or even manages to smuggle out a package with a blood sample your secret is basically toast.
IMO trade secrets in general are not a good soloution for either the inventor or the general public. For the inventor they force paranoia about leaks severely limiting the market. For the general public they leave the risk that the information may never make it's way into the public domain.
It seems to me that you can only really appreciate HD if you are prepared to either sit very close to a TV or do an installation that makes a very large (and therefore expensive) TV the dominant feature of one of your rooms.
Afaict that isn't how most people watch TV and videos, they sit or lie on the sofa watching an ordinary sized TV in one corner of thier living room.
A lot of people are buying HD ready TVs but afaict they are only doing that either because nearly all LCD TVs are HD ready or because they wan't a TV that can double up as a PC monitor.