but if your going to replace the firmware anyway why would you care about the original sucking?
the reason for the wrt54gs fame is it was/is cheap small low power and customisable. For example i know someone doing a major wireless scanning project using one as the head end (you wan't the antenna leads as short as possible and its a lot easier to set up a wrt54g on the roof in a box than a full PC as its small and can be powered withoug having to worry about the problems of safely doing mains outside.
i'm sure in the uk you can be "sectioned under the mental health act" which allows people who are mentally ill to be treated even if they aren't willing to accept help.
you get a lot of people who really wan't the item but have set a budget, by bidding early you get theese people caught in the heat of the bidding action and encourage them to bust thier budget.
the result is they overpay for the item and you don't get it at all, the only winner is the seller.
sniping does not encourage this behaviour as by the time they see thier outbid its too late.
the other big problem is inter-version compatibility, while this is a lot better than it used to be if you use the advanced features of the applications you pretty much force anyone you share documents with to use the same version as you or re-do the formatting of the docuement.
same numbering system does not mean same price, i belive calls between the US and Canada are generally slightly more expensive than those within either and calls to the small islands in the NANP are often just as expensive as calls to small islands with thier own country codes (read: expensive).
also depending on exactly how laws and regulations are worded doing this may mean locating your entire provider outside the USA and will almost cetainly stop you getting US incoming numbers.
ultimately force is the only way to deal with an issue in which the other party is both uncooperative and prepared to use force themselves. countries as the highest entities in the world cannot just ask a higher power to use force so they have to do it themselves both to each other and on some of thier own citizens.
however they still allow opers to use them - this is quite intentional intentional: maybe bad idea: definately
with a sane ircd you should need at least config level access to steal a services nickname preferablly more, though few ircds seem to limit services nicknames to coming from a server with the services servers name (and taking an arbitary servername on a properly run large network should require config level access to a hub)
Spammers are difficult to catch...Ok but you can catch their so called "sponsors" and break the business model. in principle yes, in practice there are a few complicating factors that mean this doesn't tend to happen.
1: afaict the sponsors tend to by fly by night firms anyway and the spammers really don't care what happens to the clients once they have been paid. 2: afaict spamming is in itself not illegal in the USA or most of the world, many methods spammers use are illegal (using hacked machines, forging sources etc) but the client can easilly claim no knowlage of those. Also companies can claim that they were told the mailer used verified opt-in (the spammer may indeed have told them this and even if not it would be damn near impossible to prove he hadn't).
For example Mortgage...Sooner or later a real "brick & mortar" company has to appear. Money has to be borrowed from a registered company. alternatively it may just be a way to get bank details.............
A lot of SPAMs contain a US toll-free phone number. Why is it so difficult to find the owner/user? if they are smart the number will trace to a company that just buys toll free service and routes it out of the USA or onto a VOIP network (its not illegal to do that is it?)
Things like Porn and illegal softwares are impossible to track. I agree but those proposing "real products" can be tracked. thats assuming they actually ship anything and don't just take the money and run.
This is unrelated; it's because in the UK, there is one network responsible for landlines and not cellphones, so every call between a landline and a cellphone is a 'trunk' call (like you have between different carriers in the US). false: when BT still ran a mobile network calls to thier mobiles from landlines were significantly more expensive than landline to landline (though they were cheaper to other mobile networks). I'm not sure what the situation is post demerger though.
and i'm pretty sure in the US local calls are always free or cheap and long distance always more regardless of the providers involved at the endpoints.
Long-distance calls on landlines here are always within BTs network, so those don't cost as much as calls to cellphones. ever heared of NTL and TELEWEST? thier lines have perfectly normal geographic numbers and cost no extra to call, the same applies to some VOIP services (some try to saddle you with 0845 or 0870 numbers). btw if you can do the registration from a UK ip you can get a uk geographic number free from www.sipgate.co.uk
and since deregulation there is a huge industry of alternate backhaul providers even for situations where both ends of the call are bt landlines.
No. Calls between cellphones on the same network (or on some other networks, depending on your contract) are often cheaper than landlines. true calls on the same mobile network are often cheap, landline to landline tends to be cheaper than mobile to mobile though.
for most mobile phone plans the following inequality holds on the cost of calling:
same mobile network = landline = other mobile network
Why do you have to pay extra for calling someone on their mobile phone instead of on their land line? you are the person who decided the matter was important enough not to wait until the person was back in touch with a landline, the callee on the other hand has little choice but to pick up if its someone they even vaugely recognise (or no caller id). so you should bear the cost of using mobile communication.
Another more common case is if you are roaming abroad and someone calls you from home - they only pay as if you were in your home country, and you pick up the difference. while i've never roamed myself the impression i got was the total cost (combined total payed by both caller and callee) was much higher for roaming mobiles than for just getting a prepay sim in the destination country and telling people to call it (or setting your pbx to do so automatically though a voip provider that gives cheap international rates).
There are certain advantages to both systems, but the "caller pays" system is a little rude on the part of the mobile owner. Forcing your friends bills to go up because you chose to use an expensive gadget is a tad selfish don't you think? yes in caller pays systems having a mobile as your only phone is considered pretty rude unless you can reasonablly justify it to those you are communicate with.
on the other hand it makes people think twice about calling you when your on the move. I'm in the uk and i have NEVER recived a neusense call on my mobile. Even with the do not call list the family landline gets at least one a week and sometimes a lot more. If you wan't to interrupt me when i'm out you should damn well pay the cost of doing so.
mainly because in any stable country the governement keep exclusive control of the ultimate power brogught by control of guns (yes in some contries the goverment allow private gun ownership but the types of guns and what you can do with them are very limited under threat of force from much larger numbers of much better guns)
but they do have plenty of other weapons against you, if you have a subscription they probablly have your credit card and/or bank details (which can be very hard to stop debiting), they also generally have the ability to bury you in court on made up (or dragged up) issues until you go bankrupt.
the only reason corps don't generally have guns is because the government won't let them (or at least won't let them use them even if they do have them).
ultimately with the way banking is setup in the world now once you give a firm your card or bank account details for a subscription its pretty hard to force a cancellation (short of cancelling the thing they are drawing from but that can be very .
only allow generation of html that you know is sane, DO NOT let anything unrecognised go through.
if your just interested in text you can do this as a simple replace operation, < becomes <, & becomes &
if you wan't to offer formatting you have to parse the input and generate known safe html from it. You must also use appropriate sanitisation methods (e.g. make sure users can't embed extra quotes in a quote deliminated string) for anything you pass from input to output.
if you wan't to offer users the ability to have custom javascript given back to them or for admins to edit such script you must take extra steps to ensure the information really was intentionally submitted by the user (or thier machine is so comprimised it doesn't matter anymore)
if your on the ball and rich you can your driving license almost as soon as you turn 17, you just have to learn on private land.
though you are right most people don't actually pass until arround 18, from 17 however they can however drive with someone suitable (had a full license for at least 5 years iirc) in the front passenger seat and may well own or have access to a car (and lets face it drunks aren't the best for following laws).
yes which brings you the freedom to allocate a large block to storr multipef items of the same size rather than bothering the general purpose allocator with each one. Indeed its perfectly possible to write C code that doesn't use a general purpose allocator at all.
it brings you the freedom to cast an appropriately sized integer to a pointer to access an absoloute memory location (not used much in modern desktop development but bloody important in embedded work).
now C and C++ aren't the only languages that can do this (borland style pascal can for example) but they are the only ones that can both do this and (especially in the case of plain C) can be compiled for virtually any processor availible.
is if you have say a photograph of an event which can't easilly be replaced with a known free one there is no way at all to determine if it has yet been allowed to fall into the public domain or not, so its effectively unusable forever.
generally minority carriers means the less common of conduction band electrons or valance band holes, but holes aren't physical items they are just representative of missing electrons (a good analogy for hole current is moving your overdraft from one bank to another, its still money thats moving between banks).
the only things that carry charge in a normal conductor are electrons, ions can also do it but only really in soloutions afaict.
but you will be able to actually use the laptop without a table while the background task runs...........
also some apps (especailly games and editing tools for games) burn 100% CPU all the time, even if your just sitting at the menu screen or viewing an unchanging scene in the editor.
i suspect the maker of this cheating device used a lithium ion battery (to keep the size down) and didn't include (or didn't build to a high enough standard) the nessacery protection circuitry to make it safe
afaict whatever you do you are likely to end up needing to use glasses as you get older because you lose range of focal lengths which can only be corrected by multiple sets of glasses or glasses that change focus as you move your eye (bifocals and varifocals).
iirc lazer surgery can only be done a limited number of times, so its good if you have a fairly static focal range offset but not so smart if your problem is changing. I belive it also carries some risk of blinding (though much lower than it used to be).
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but if your going to replace the firmware anyway why would you care about the original sucking?
the reason for the wrt54gs fame is it was/is cheap small low power and customisable. For example i know someone doing a major wireless scanning project using one as the head end (you wan't the antenna leads as short as possible and its a lot easier to set up a wrt54g on the roof in a box than a full PC as its small and can be powered withoug having to worry about the problems of safely doing mains outside.
i'm sure in the uk you can be "sectioned under the mental health act" which allows people who are mentally ill to be treated even if they aren't willing to accept help.
does anything similar exist in the US?
maybe they were using that as an excuse to try and get cash to spend on thier drug addiction.
you get a lot of people who really wan't the item but have set a budget, by bidding early you get theese people caught in the heat of the bidding action and encourage them to bust thier budget.
the result is they overpay for the item and you don't get it at all, the only winner is the seller.
sniping does not encourage this behaviour as by the time they see thier outbid its too late.
the other big problem is inter-version compatibility, while this is a lot better than it used to be if you use the advanced features of the applications you pretty much force anyone you share documents with to use the same version as you or re-do the formatting of the docuement.
is ooo any better in this regard?
same numbering system does not mean same price, i belive calls between the US and Canada are generally slightly more expensive than those within either and calls to the small islands in the NANP are often just as expensive as calls to small islands with thier own country codes (read: expensive).
also depending on exactly how laws and regulations are worded doing this may mean locating your entire provider outside the USA and will almost cetainly stop you getting US incoming numbers.
Pre-emtive 32-bit multi-tasking
didn't win32s offer this aready for 32 bit apps?
and windows 95 most definately would be rendered unusable by an infinite loop in a 16 bit app.
ultimately force is the only way to deal with an issue in which the other party is both uncooperative and prepared to use force themselves. countries as the highest entities in the world cannot just ask a higher power to use force so they have to do it themselves both to each other and on some of thier own citizens.
however they still allow opers to use them - this is quite intentional
intentional: maybe
bad idea: definately
with a sane ircd you should need at least config level access to steal a services nickname preferablly more, though few ircds seem to limit services nicknames to coming from a server with the services servers name (and taking an arbitary servername on a properly run large network should require config level access to a hub)
Spammers are difficult to catch...Ok but you can catch their so called "sponsors" and break the business model.
in principle yes, in practice there are a few complicating factors that mean this doesn't tend to happen.
1: afaict the sponsors tend to by fly by night firms anyway and the spammers really don't care what happens to the clients once they have been paid.
2: afaict spamming is in itself not illegal in the USA or most of the world, many methods spammers use are illegal (using hacked machines, forging sources etc) but the client can easilly claim no knowlage of those. Also companies can claim that they were told the mailer used verified opt-in (the spammer may indeed have told them this and even if not it would be damn near impossible to prove he hadn't).
For example Mortgage...Sooner or later a real "brick & mortar" company has to appear. Money has to be borrowed from a registered company.
alternatively it may just be a way to get bank details.............
A lot of SPAMs contain a US toll-free phone number. Why is it so difficult to find the owner/user?
if they are smart the number will trace to a company that just buys toll free service and routes it out of the USA or onto a VOIP network (its not illegal to do that is it?)
Things like Porn and illegal softwares are impossible to track. I agree but those proposing "real products" can be tracked.
thats assuming they actually ship anything and don't just take the money and run.
This is unrelated; it's because in the UK, there is one network responsible for landlines and not cellphones, so every call between a landline and a cellphone is a 'trunk' call (like you have between different carriers in the US).
false: when BT still ran a mobile network calls to thier mobiles from landlines were significantly more expensive than landline to landline (though they were cheaper to other mobile networks). I'm not sure what the situation is post demerger though.
and i'm pretty sure in the US local calls are always free or cheap and long distance always more regardless of the providers involved at the endpoints.
Long-distance calls on landlines here are always within BTs network, so those don't cost as much as calls to cellphones.
ever heared of NTL and TELEWEST? thier lines have perfectly normal geographic numbers and cost no extra to call, the same applies to some VOIP services (some try to saddle you with 0845 or 0870 numbers). btw if you can do the registration from a UK ip you can get a uk geographic number free from www.sipgate.co.uk
and since deregulation there is a huge industry of alternate backhaul providers even for situations where both ends of the call are bt landlines.
No. Calls between cellphones on the same network (or on some other networks, depending on your contract) are often cheaper than landlines.
true calls on the same mobile network are often cheap, landline to landline tends to be cheaper than mobile to mobile though.
for most mobile phone plans the following inequality holds on the cost of calling:
same mobile network = landline = other mobile network
Why do you have to pay extra for calling someone on their mobile phone instead of on their land line?
you are the person who decided the matter was important enough not to wait until the person was back in touch with a landline, the callee on the other hand has little choice but to pick up if its someone they even vaugely recognise (or no caller id). so you should bear the cost of using mobile communication.
Another more common case is if you are roaming abroad and someone calls you from home - they only pay as if you were in your home country, and you pick up the difference.
while i've never roamed myself the impression i got was the total cost (combined total payed by both caller and callee) was much higher for roaming mobiles than for just getting a prepay sim in the destination country and telling people to call it (or setting your pbx to do so automatically though a voip provider that gives cheap international rates).
There are certain advantages to both systems, but the "caller pays" system is a little rude on the part of the mobile owner. Forcing your friends bills to go up because you chose to use an expensive gadget is a tad selfish don't you think?
yes in caller pays systems having a mobile as your only phone is considered pretty rude unless you can reasonablly justify it to those you are communicate with.
on the other hand it makes people think twice about calling you when your on the move. I'm in the uk and i have NEVER recived a neusense call on my mobile. Even with the do not call list the family landline gets at least one a week and sometimes a lot more. If you wan't to interrupt me when i'm out you should damn well pay the cost of doing so.
mainly because in any stable country the governement keep exclusive control of the ultimate power brogught by control of guns (yes in some contries the goverment allow private gun ownership but the types of guns and what you can do with them are very limited under threat of force from much larger numbers of much better guns)
but they do have plenty of other weapons against you, if you have a subscription they probablly have your credit card and/or bank details (which can be very hard to stop debiting), they also generally have the ability to bury you in court on made up (or dragged up) issues until you go bankrupt.
the only reason corps don't generally have guns is because the government won't let them (or at least won't let them use them even if they do have them).
ultimately with the way banking is setup in the world now once you give a firm your card or bank account details for a subscription its pretty hard to force a cancellation (short of cancelling the thing they are drawing from but that can be very .
Define "escape all user input properly"
only allow generation of html that you know is sane, DO NOT let anything unrecognised go through.
if your just interested in text you can do this as a simple replace operation, < becomes <, & becomes &
if you wan't to offer formatting you have to parse the input and generate known safe html from it. You must also use appropriate sanitisation methods (e.g. make sure users can't embed extra quotes in a quote deliminated string) for anything you pass from input to output.
if you wan't to offer users the ability to have custom javascript given back to them or for admins to edit such script you must take extra steps to ensure the information really was intentionally submitted by the user (or thier machine is so comprimised it doesn't matter anymore)
if your on the ball and rich you can your driving license almost as soon as you turn 17, you just have to learn on private land.
though you are right most people don't actually pass until arround 18, from 17 however they can however drive with someone suitable (had a full license for at least 5 years iirc) in the front passenger seat and may well own or have access to a car (and lets face it drunks aren't the best for following laws).
yes which brings you the freedom to allocate a large block to storr multipef items of the same size rather than bothering the general purpose allocator with each one. Indeed its perfectly possible to write C code that doesn't use a general purpose allocator at all.
it brings you the freedom to cast an appropriately sized integer to a pointer to access an absoloute memory location (not used much in modern desktop development but bloody important in embedded work).
now C and C++ aren't the only languages that can do this (borland style pascal can for example) but they are the only ones that can both do this and (especially in the case of plain C) can be compiled for virtually any processor availible.
is if you have say a photograph of an event which can't easilly be replaced with a known free one there is no way at all to determine if it has yet been allowed to fall into the public domain or not, so its effectively unusable forever.
generally minority carriers means the less common of conduction band electrons or valance band holes, but holes aren't physical items they are just representative of missing electrons (a good analogy for hole current is moving your overdraft from one bank to another, its still money thats moving between banks).
the only things that carry charge in a normal conductor are electrons, ions can also do it but only really in soloutions afaict.
but you will be able to actually use the laptop without a table while the background task runs...........
also some apps (especailly games and editing tools for games) burn 100% CPU all the time, even if your just sitting at the menu screen or viewing an unchanging scene in the editor.
i suspect the maker of this cheating device used a lithium ion battery (to keep the size down) and didn't include (or didn't build to a high enough standard) the nessacery protection circuitry to make it safe
afaict whatever you do you are likely to end up needing to use glasses as you get older because you lose range of focal lengths which can only be corrected by multiple sets of glasses or glasses that change focus as you move your eye (bifocals and varifocals).
iirc lazer surgery can only be done a limited number of times, so its good if you have a fairly static focal range offset but not so smart if your problem is changing. I belive it also carries some risk of blinding (though much lower than it used to be).
or 3) switch to product placement