First you'd log in as root, since the old UID-based system is still being enforced. You'd need to do this from the console to get put into a role which is able to transition to something interesting. so what you are saying is that while the people have the root password the box has been configured in such a way that a root login from remote isn't really root.
which is ok if the admin has local acess to the machine but renders the system pretty useless otherwise.
Did you know that it's possible for heterosexual couples to have sex without the woman getting pregnant? Yes, sex doesn't automatically cause preganancy and there are a number of methods to influence the chances of it happening (in either direction). I don't belive any contraception methods other than complete avoidance of conventional sex are considered 100% effective.
So, toll fraud prevention technologies never prevented much toll fraud. but from the sound of things it did push the cost of it from the telcos onto other buisnesses.
which from the telcos pov sounds as good as stamping it out.
I'm not sure I follow you because there's accepted medical protocol and there's not accepted protocol, aka malpractise. While we don't have your multi-million dollar lawsuits (though we of course pay damages to people that have been mistreated) we do have medical review boards which can do everything from give you a mild criticism to having your license revoked, which is basicly the end of your medical career. right, the trouble with huge damages as a punishment measure is that people who are vulnerable to them get insurance and insurers can only determine risk in a fairly rough manner. The end result is everyone pays more to give a few malpractice victims huge windfalls.
whereas being chucked out of the proffesion has far more direct affects on the person who performed the malpractice.
that may be the case it may have been poor maintinance. On the other hand it may have just been a random unexpected failure or been sabotage or whatever.
either way even if the driver is sent to prison afterwards that isn't going to de-cripple you or bring you back to life.
from a self preservation perspective its better to get out of the way of an oncoming vehicle that isn't showing signs of stopping even if you are in the right.
i just wish junctions were better designed for predestrians, they seem to be designed to give us the minimum time to make one crossing then make us wait an entire cycle before crossing the next branch of the junction.
here in manchester uk near the ex-umist multi-story car park we have an even more fucked up junction, its a crossroads but one of the roads is a one way road coming in. for a huge ammount of the cycle this road is red for cars but also red for predestrians.
i was under the impression that glasses that are worn by people when they are out and about (as apposed to glasses that are only worn for specific activities like reading) are often not glass anymore because glass is prone to dangerous breakage.
Even before levels were added, there used to be SE Linux systems on the net with public root passwords. (one Gentoo, and one either Debian or Red Hat) You could log in as root, look around a tad, append a message to a file, run a few processes... and that was about it. You couldn't load drivers, reboot, read log files, install software, etc. SE Linux locked the system down good and hard. so how exactly were theese boxes administered?
unless there is an admin there with physical access who doesn't mind doing a hard reboot and can get to the box early in the boot process before the selinux stuff kicks in you are going to have to have some kind of administrative login, it may not be called root and it may not have a uid of 0 but it needs to be there.
I mentioned ogg to the lead sound programmer at the last games company I worked at and they started using it at their generic format. It still had to be converted to a console specific format for the runtime, because the hardware was designed to handle certain types of streams, and audio isn't cheap to transform cpu-wise. i'd have thought for your master format you'd wan't to be using something lossless like flac? throwing away quality before there is a good reason too seems like a bad idea to me.
note that if you want to work directly from the root you have to do a lot more work because the roots won't recurse for you they will simply tell you what server to try next.
not that doing that would be impossible for a botnet ofc
but what matters with regards decay time is not the drag itself but the decceleration due to drag and per the acceleration equation that is inversely proportional to mass.
the solar arrays may be big but i bet the debris still has a much larger ratio of frontal area to mass than the IIS
As a matter of fact, if I found out that AIM, MSN, Google, Yahoo! would capitulate to authorities and turn over information on me based solely on some suspicion that they might need access to my IM logs, I'd re-register at all of them with completely bogus information and single use mail accounts. i hate to break it to you but they probablly would.
a raid on a datacenter is going to be far far more trouble for them than just handing over the data requested.
is its unstable due to the resistance from the thin atnosphere up there, even the IIS has to be boosted on a fairly regular basis and that is pretty big.
so long term all this debris should come down and burn up.
umm, i'm pretty sure that recent versions of workstation have quite a few features aimed at developers and demo guys that server does not have.
also i belive vmware server's graphics support is intended for emergency admin not real use (that is i belive it supports remote use but is somewhat sluggish)
i never managed to get vmware server installed on my custom kernel based debian box though (it asks you about building a custom kernel module during the install but there don't seem to be any docs on how to try again if you fail the first time).
bittorrent can SAVE the cable provider money in terms of services offered per cost maybe its possible to trap the tracker protocol but i'd imagine its pretty nontrivial (is there even a standard port for trackers?) and i don't belive bittorrent
this also assumes you are big enough to have multiple customers downloading the same torrents and aren't scared of the ??AA (not blocking bittorrent is one thing but actively helping it is quite another)
finally reducing the cost per download is not a saving if it increases the ammount of data downloaded by a larger factor.
given how apple seems to encourage use of dmgs for distributing mac files (a mac file is defined here as a file that contains actual information in the resource fork) i'd say a security issue (iirc it was a "crash but potential arbitary code" one) sounds pretty serious to me.
bittorrent helps content providers save bandwidth/money at thier end by (ab)using the upload capacity of users to provide most of the traffic to other users.
before bittorrent if you wanted to distribute a large file to lots of people in an easy and safe manner you had to upload it to a server and pay hosting grade bandwidth charges (at least if you wanted any semblance of reliability)
P2P in general but particularlly bittorrent due to its clever design of having the data come from anywhere while only having to trust the original releaser of the torrent significantly increased the total ammount of internet traffic because (when used with unlimited broadband packages) noone was paying full price for that traffic.
This left the providers of unlimited broadband packages with three options: 1: stop offering unlimited services (some of the geekier ones have actually done this but generally users like the ) 2: actually provide the extra bandwidth, (this is cost prohibitive for small isps who pay similar prices to the aformentioned server rates for thier upstream, also its cost prohibitive for many DSL ISPs due to prices charged for links from the ISP to the DSL backend network, finally those who are both large enough and not reliant on someone elses DSL backend network there is the simple fact that they don't wan't thier broadband packages competing with thier own leased line packages) 3: keep offering "unlimited" service but throttle/block/traffic shape recognised P2P and possiblly some other traffic too.
Most ISPs at least here in the uk seem to have gone with the third option.
Nobody would want to go from "unlimited" service to a metered service where you have to watch how much you download as not to run up the bill. I probablly will for my next DSL connection.
Right now i'm at uni most of the time where P2P is banned by policy (and with the uni as the only option i'm not going to try breaking it) and using UTs server browser (which attempts to contact all servers that the master server tells it about) seems to set off some kind of trouble detection system rendering UT unplayable for a while (not sure of the exact time but i'm pretty sure its less than a half hour) but other than that the connection rocks.
I'd much rather have a known cap than to be at the mercy of whatever shaping mechanisms my ISP decides to use to make my "unlimited" connection viable.
Or they get together with the bittorrent people and work out a way they can run a caching server so they aren't fetching the same thing 5000 times from outside their network and wasting bandwidth. i'd imagine ISPs don't wan't to deal with the (legal and bad publicity) implications of running a cache for a protocol that is mostly used for pirates.
also bittorrent would be tricky to forced proxy, modifying the torrent file at download time would cause issues (people don't just transfer torrents via the web and you'd also be leaving the user with a torrent that was by normal standards currupt) and the rest of the stuff can be on virtually any port. I guess you could possiblly find a way to forced proxy the tracker connection after picking its port out of the torrent during download but even that would be a bit of a pain.
A sensible approach to make you happy (maybe) would be to limit the amount of bandwidth at each QoS level defined. If you want to burn your 500mb/month of highest QoS on bittorrent then so be it. Make the lowest tier of QoS truly unlimited. or some scheme like that. yeah that'd be the ideal soloution, problem is afaict is virtually zero support for proper QOS at the client/server side, so you'd have to build a home router with a special configuration interface and then teach users how to configure it to detect thier high priority traffic and treat it as such.
i thought it had fallen off because we dislike labour but don't like the tories much better, the lib dems are interesting/usefull as a third party but you get the impression that they couldn't handle things if they won.
also our system means that in many cases its simply not possible to vote for say the greens or an independentent candidate because there is simply no such candidate on the form and our constituency based system means that even when they do run they have a snowballs chance in hell of getting any seats (unlike the proportional representation european parliment where the greens usually pick up at least a couple of seats).
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First you'd log in as root, since the old UID-based system is still being enforced. You'd need to do this from the console to get put into a role which is able to transition to something interesting.
so what you are saying is that while the people have the root password the box has been configured in such a way that a root login from remote isn't really root.
which is ok if the admin has local acess to the machine but renders the system pretty useless otherwise.
Did you know that it's possible for heterosexual couples to have sex without the woman getting pregnant?
Yes, sex doesn't automatically cause preganancy and there are a number of methods to influence the chances of it happening (in either direction). I don't belive any contraception methods other than complete avoidance of conventional sex are considered 100% effective.
So, toll fraud prevention technologies never prevented much toll fraud.
but from the sound of things it did push the cost of it from the telcos onto other buisnesses.
which from the telcos pov sounds as good as stamping it out.
they may be able to do things together with thier sexual organs but there is no way they are going to end up with pregnancy or whatever.
I'm not sure I follow you because there's accepted medical protocol and there's not accepted protocol, aka malpractise. While we don't have your multi-million dollar lawsuits (though we of course pay damages to people that have been mistreated) we do have medical review boards which can do everything from give you a mild criticism to having your license revoked, which is basicly the end of your medical career.
right, the trouble with huge damages as a punishment measure is that people who are vulnerable to them get insurance and insurers can only determine risk in a fairly rough manner. The end result is everyone pays more to give a few malpractice victims huge windfalls.
whereas being chucked out of the proffesion has far more direct affects on the person who performed the malpractice.
seems like your a geek who feels comfortable with console apps,is fast on the keyboard, and can remember lots of key combinations.
thats fine but you should remember you are not representitive of most users.
that may be the case it may have been poor maintinance. On the other hand it may have just been a random unexpected failure or been sabotage or whatever.
either way even if the driver is sent to prison afterwards that isn't going to de-cripple you or bring you back to life.
from a self preservation perspective its better to get out of the way of an oncoming vehicle that isn't showing signs of stopping even if you are in the right.
i just wish junctions were better designed for predestrians, they seem to be designed to give us the minimum time to make one crossing then make us wait an entire cycle before crossing the next branch of the junction.
here in manchester uk near the ex-umist multi-story car park we have an even more fucked up junction, its a crossroads but one of the roads is a one way road coming in. for a huge ammount of the cycle this road is red for cars but also red for predestrians.
i was under the impression that glasses that are worn by people when they are out and about (as apposed to glasses that are only worn for specific activities like reading) are often not glass anymore because glass is prone to dangerous breakage.
except its not a few years, iirc its over two bloody decades.
thats arround half your working life (assuming you start work at 20 and retire at sixty-something)
well itunes is as dependent on the cooperation of the members of the riaa (and its foriegn counterparts) as the CD distribution system is.
and using bittorrent to distribute such music is unquestionablly illegal.
Even before levels were added, there used to be SE Linux systems on the net with public root passwords. (one Gentoo, and one either Debian or Red Hat) You could log in as root, look around a tad, append a message to a file, run a few processes... and that was about it. You couldn't load drivers, reboot, read log files, install software, etc. SE Linux locked the system down good and hard.
so how exactly were theese boxes administered?
unless there is an admin there with physical access who doesn't mind doing a hard reboot and can get to the box early in the boot process before the selinux stuff kicks in you are going to have to have some kind of administrative login, it may not be called root and it may not have a uid of 0 but it needs to be there.
I mentioned ogg to the lead sound programmer at the last games company I worked at and they started using it at their generic format. It still had to be converted to a console specific format for the runtime, because the hardware was designed to handle certain types of streams, and audio isn't cheap to transform cpu-wise.
i'd have thought for your master format you'd wan't to be using something lossless like flac? throwing away quality before there is a good reason too seems like a bad idea to me.
note that if you want to work directly from the root you have to do a lot more work because the roots won't recurse for you they will simply tell you what server to try next.
not that doing that would be impossible for a botnet ofc
but what matters with regards decay time is not the drag itself but the decceleration due to drag and per the acceleration equation that is inversely proportional to mass.
the solar arrays may be big but i bet the debris still has a much larger ratio of frontal area to mass than the IIS
As a matter of fact, if I found out that AIM, MSN, Google, Yahoo! would capitulate to authorities and turn over information on me based solely on some suspicion that they might need access to my IM logs, I'd re-register at all of them with completely bogus information and single use mail accounts.
i hate to break it to you but they probablly would.
a raid on a datacenter is going to be far far more trouble for them than just handing over the data requested.
is its unstable due to the resistance from the thin atnosphere up there, even the IIS has to be boosted on a fairly regular basis and that is pretty big.
so long term all this debris should come down and burn up.
umm, i'm pretty sure that recent versions of workstation have quite a few features aimed at developers and demo guys that server does not have.
also i belive vmware server's graphics support is intended for emergency admin not real use (that is i belive it supports remote use but is somewhat sluggish)
i never managed to get vmware server installed on my custom kernel based debian box though (it asks you about building a custom kernel module during the install but there don't seem to be any docs on how to try again if you fail the first time).
bittorrent can SAVE the cable provider money in terms of services offered per cost
maybe its possible to trap the tracker protocol but i'd imagine its pretty nontrivial (is there even a standard port for trackers?) and i don't belive bittorrent
this also assumes you are big enough to have multiple customers downloading the same torrents and aren't scared of the ??AA (not blocking bittorrent is one thing but actively helping it is quite another)
finally reducing the cost per download is not a saving if it increases the ammount of data downloaded by a larger factor.
given how apple seems to encourage use of dmgs for distributing mac files (a mac file is defined here as a file that contains actual information in the resource fork) i'd say a security issue (iirc it was a "crash but potential arbitary code" one) sounds pretty serious to me.
bittorrent helps content providers save bandwidth/money at thier end by (ab)using the upload capacity of users to provide most of the traffic to other users.
before bittorrent if you wanted to distribute a large file to lots of people in an easy and safe manner you had to upload it to a server and pay hosting grade bandwidth charges (at least if you wanted any semblance of reliability)
P2P in general but particularlly bittorrent due to its clever design of having the data come from anywhere while only having to trust the original releaser of the torrent significantly increased the total ammount of internet traffic because (when used with unlimited broadband packages) noone was paying full price for that traffic.
This left the providers of unlimited broadband packages with three options:
1: stop offering unlimited services (some of the geekier ones have actually done this but generally users like the )
2: actually provide the extra bandwidth, (this is cost prohibitive for small isps who pay similar prices to the aformentioned server rates for thier upstream, also its cost prohibitive for many DSL ISPs due to prices charged for links from the ISP to the DSL backend network, finally those who are both large enough and not reliant on someone elses DSL backend network there is the simple fact that they don't wan't thier broadband packages competing with thier own leased line packages)
3: keep offering "unlimited" service but throttle/block/traffic shape recognised P2P and possiblly some other traffic too.
Most ISPs at least here in the uk seem to have gone with the third option.
Nobody would want to go from "unlimited" service to a metered service where you have to watch how much you download as not to run up the bill.
I probablly will for my next DSL connection.
Right now i'm at uni most of the time where P2P is banned by policy (and with the uni as the only option i'm not going to try breaking it) and using UTs server browser (which attempts to contact all servers that the master server tells it about) seems to set off some kind of trouble detection system rendering UT unplayable for a while (not sure of the exact time but i'm pretty sure its less than a half hour) but other than that the connection rocks.
I'd much rather have a known cap than to be at the mercy of whatever shaping mechanisms my ISP decides to use to make my "unlimited" connection viable.
Or they get together with the bittorrent people and work out a way they can run a caching server so they aren't fetching the same thing 5000 times from outside their network and wasting bandwidth.
i'd imagine ISPs don't wan't to deal with the (legal and bad publicity) implications of running a cache for a protocol that is mostly used for pirates.
also bittorrent would be tricky to forced proxy, modifying the torrent file at download time would cause issues (people don't just transfer torrents via the web and you'd also be leaving the user with a torrent that was by normal standards currupt) and the rest of the stuff can be on virtually any port. I guess you could possiblly find a way to forced proxy the tracker connection after picking its port out of the torrent during download but even that would be a bit of a pain.
A sensible approach to make you happy (maybe) would be to limit the amount of bandwidth at each QoS level defined. If you want to burn your 500mb/month of highest QoS on bittorrent then so be it. Make the lowest tier of QoS truly unlimited. or some scheme like that.
yeah that'd be the ideal soloution, problem is afaict is virtually zero support for proper QOS at the client/server side, so you'd have to build a home router with a special configuration interface and then teach users how to configure it to detect thier high priority traffic and treat it as such.
i thought it had fallen off because we dislike labour but don't like the tories much better, the lib dems are interesting/usefull as a third party but you get the impression that they couldn't handle things if they won.
also our system means that in many cases its simply not possible to vote for say the greens or an independentent candidate because there is simply no such candidate on the form and our constituency based system means that even when they do run they have a snowballs chance in hell of getting any seats (unlike the proportional representation european parliment where the greens usually pick up at least a couple of seats).