"The reality is that with the internet as we know it, tracing any IP activity to the source may or may not be possible in a reasonable amount of time."
This is very simple, when you sign up to the VOIP servcie they have a form that says...
Please Enter the physical address of the phone (this may be different then your billing addres), this information will only be used in the case this line is used to call the registered emergency services for this address. If you enter incorrect information, you encounter problems in contacting or directing emergency response to your home.
Then, when you call 911, your VOIP software sends your physical address... its not done with the IP address or whatever.
As a casual gamer (own around 10 games) and a PS2 owner, I must chime in and state i have bought one memory card for it and have yet to fill it past 60%.
Plus, what does it take to make an Xbox 2? A new graphics card, faster processor, more mem... I mean its just a pc inside.
"wow with the new Xbox2 with 2.4Ghz P4 Celeron, and ATI9600, can render 250 frames per sec at HDspec 1080i. Wooo hooo!"
In the San Francisco Bay area, there exists a company called MetroPCS, where for $35/mnth you get unlimited local calls in the bay area.
Cons Roaming is extremely expensive, $1.99/minute
Doesn't work in Canada (Go Canucks Go!)
MetroPCS seems to be doing quite well...
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I know people are worried that a casino will start tracking that a Customer Relations person gave a well-known married male High Roller $1000 chip number 87654321 which four hours later was cashed by a woman of "questionable employment." Is it fair that the casino now knows the "social habits" of that high roller? Probably not. Suppose the well-know high roller was a Senator.
If casinos starting ratting out the actions of the high rollers, highrollers would just go somewhere else.
I saw an interview with a guy who helps highrollers out (forget the "official name").... it was deffinatly suggested that not only do the Casinos know about the girls, booze and drugs, in some cases they faciliate it.
In your example, if they found that the high rollers chips were getting spent by a women of questionable employment, they'd probably just check to make sure the high roller was happy with the "Services rendered" and make sure he wasn't robbed.
I belive Cox might have eventually aquired the rights to atHome cable. But anyhow, I know for a fact that atHome, and I suggest others, blocked inbound port 80 requests during the CodeRed break because of saturation.
I'm talking about how to earn the $$. Would I still develop? Sure... I've contributed to many opensource projects, but if my employer thinks i should work for less then minumum wage (so they can earn their MILLIONS), I'd rather work at In and Out.
Yes, I call designing such an incredible machine that does all that you described, yet dies because of dust acumuliation stupid.
If I designed an incredbile software program that died 90 days after completion because the logs filled up the hard drives, no one would be calling me smart.
While I'm sure the engineers aren't stupid, the idea that the main reason the probe will cease operation is the acumilation of dust on the solar panels seems really really stupid.
To me, it would be like creating a extremely complicated and great program that would die in 90 days becuase its logs would fill up the Hard Drive.
Still... using ftp.exe was a hack. No control over the connection, no errors, the connection and download procedure was hardcoded as Strings. It was ugly... it needed to go.
My favorite MS API problem was in porting a config application to work with a linux server on a remote machine. This was just a prototype, proof of concept, but it would be shown to upper management, including some that thought we were wasting our time. (Linux isn't supported... its just a fad... it was 1998)
My coworker, an old VAX Hacker, made the linux software create a file 'CONFIGURING', the pressence of which let me know that the machine was busy (Took around 5 minutes). I simply had to ftp the file down and when I got nothing, I could say the CONFIG was over. An ERROR file would contain any error.
He had developed a very simple MFC app that made an system exec call to 'ftp.exe' to download the file. I took his code and incorporated it with the more feature rich config app. The problem was that everytime I polled with ftp.exe the Command prompt window would appear and dissapear. Real Ugly, Real Bad. So I decided I'd just use the CInternetConnection classes in MFC to do the polling. My friend said I should write my own, but I repeated off all the traditional MS axioms of "Supported by Microsoft" bla bla bla...
I whipped it up in less then an hour thinking, cool, Microsoft made this really easy. So I started it, it received the file, so I polled again in 30 seconds and incremented the task bar... everything looked beautiful, it kept polling and recieving the file, incrimient the task bar... and it kept doing this for 10 minutes.
I telneted to the machine, the file was gone, but my software still was polling. Weird... but wait! I betcha its caching the file! So I checked Temporary Internet files and there it was, so I deleted it. Then I checked the API docs, there was a direct flag I could add when creating the connection called NO_CACHE! The MSDN documentation even stated this would turn off caching. I felt that incredible high when you find a perfect solution to your problems. I enabled the flag and recompiled, 100% sure it would work.
It still cached!
WTF! I poured over the documentation and deja news (before google)... Nothing. I should be able to set that flag and it should work. I spent 1 1/2 long hour DAYS trying different things, tempted to go in to the Temporary Interenet files and delete it myself. I COULD not stop it from caching the file!
So I sighed, told the guy, I'm goign to have to write my own socket layer for this. Oh well, give me a few more days.
"Wait" he said... I stopped, expecting to hear how much better VAXes were or how time was wasted on the youth... but instead he asked "What are your IE settings?"
"What? How can IE override my direct calls to the API? That makes no sense, if anything it should use IE settings as default, but I should be able to override that, which I am. The docuentation doesn't even mention that you get your settings from IE! Besides which, I've spent too long doing this and my friend already told me I'd have to end up writing my own ftp client."
"Try IT!" he now ordered. "Ok", I turned off IE's caching... and it worked.
Hmmm... I was working on a machine (Lightjet 5900) that printed 4x8' at 300 dpi. While that image is only 400 megapixel, we were in compition with the Durst Lambda which could print 4' by n. I believe they produced a 4' x 100' @200dpi image as a demonstration, which would be around 2.5 gigapixels. This was around 7 years ago.
We also delt with huge pics taken from 8x10" scans at 2000-4000 dpi. (1 Gpixel to 3 Gpixel) We could print these on E-6(slide) at 11x14" on a lightjet 2000 at 2048 dpi. I'm sure a few scans got into the gigapixels then were reduced.
The point being, file sizes at that size were quite common back 6-7 years ago, I'm sure they've just gotten bigger in the comercial field. Maybe this guy is new to digital photo, but it would only take stitching 2 8x10 scans together to get gigapixels.
I fear the only way to resolve Sarauman's character properly in the context of a long-ass movie would be to rewrite it so he dies in the midst of one of the battles.
There is no way an audience is going to sit through the burning of the shire after 3 hours of ROTK. I mean, that's one long portion of the book, at least 20-30 minutes more movie.
Unfortunatly I have to agree with Jackson on this. The last of the Book ROTK, really was an Eplilogue, I would rather see that on the DVD then sit through it in the movie.
I mean, not only do we have the whole ROTK to get through in one movie, but we havn't even finished the Two Towers book.
I actually like the fact it will be released on DVD rather then just scrapping the footage or not shooting it at all to begin with.
I had the oppurtunity to land a gig as a wedding photographer while a student. So I asked my photography instructors for tips. All of them had done A wedding, only one had done more then one.
His list of horror stories made me reject the job.
Basically the impression I got, is there is NO more high stress photo assignment then weddings. Not only does everyone think they know the best angle, but they all want their own poses. This isn't just the party that paid for the photographer, EVERYONE thinks the photographer is their personal slave.
PLUS, the criteria for a good job may just lie on whether the mother of the groom had a good shot, was/wasn't included in the photo or whether they got the special flower arangement put on the table. In fact, people have tried suing over the fact that out of 20 photos, the stupid bride blinked in every fricken one. Or the one where the groom actually tried to smile was the one when the brides head was turned, and even though the photographer took 40 photos of the pair, Unlce Merv got the picture and THEY didn't pay him squat!
As well, the article makes it seem as if it is a one-day job. PUHleaze, how bout fighting with the lab over whether the prints look good. How bout reviewing 20-40 contact sheets looking for the good pictures.
I actually kinda enjoyed it. I just gave up on any idea that there was some deaper meaning and it turned out it was a fairly cool action flick.
Deep meanings? Ying/Yang was the meaning i think was the basic point of the last 2 movies. I mean the question IS, is this better or worse then total recall (umm... equal)? How bout T2? (worse) How bout eraser man (better).
Of course, at the moment, he can't bring legal force against them for putting anti-choice verbage in their performance of the pledge, but he can (and does) register his disapproval... directly with the offenders, as well. It's all he can do.
I would like to add... it's not just all he can do now, it should be all he can ever do.
The key point here, and the reason the Supreme Court will decide in favor of the Ninth Circuit, is that until congress added "Under God", that phrase was not used when reciting the pledge.
The constituion has simple yet direct and literally applicatble language, when it states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". Congress made a law that established the Christian Religion as the defacto religion by enforcing "Under God" to be added. Its a simple as that.
An easy test case would be if the words "Under Allah" were to replace "Under God", would this not establish Islam in preference over Christianity? How does it not work the other way?
Most frustratingly, the solution is very simple. Remove "Under God" and put the pledge back to what it said before it was changed. Then, if people choose to say "Under God", which is their right, they can. There is no law, I believe, that gives any penalty to saying a pledge that might be different then the established norm.
To the people objecting to the removal, what is your logic? The history of "Under God" is very recent so it can't be an appeal to tradition. The only thing I can think of, is you wish to evangelize your religion.
You have a image with the html (using [ instead of reg)
[img src="" name="bug"]
then you have an onload javascript command that takes the name bug and does
var bugsrc = "http://mysite/bug.gif?x=" + window.xSize + "&y=" +...
bug.src = bugsrc
can't remember the exact window method or field, or even if this is the exact javascript, but it doesn't matter, you get the point.
then when the image loads, on your server you get the url, plus all the extra data. Now of course, instead of just checking the server logs, the.gif could actually be a perl program that `cat`s out a gif at the end. The perl program will take you IP and store it in a database with all your parameters. Now they can track what you did on this site. And if you have multiple sites, you can add all the bugs on the various sites and track an ip between them all.
All very fun, another cool trick is to have a onclose window open that loads a bug with a unique id created on page load, that way you can track how long someone looks at a page.
I can't imagine the fun before webservers cracked down and didn't spit out emails etc.
Well then, Snuggums, why then do you think a release of source could be responsible for a 6 month delay in software? I mean, who EVER heard about releasing the SOURCE to a project? That is sooo unsecure, I betcha nobody's doing it!
Missing XMAS casued a huge drop in the stock price of the whole fricken company... there is no way, if it was ready, that the brass would have allowed it to be bounced 4 months after xmas.
Come on, you think that the whole game was 1 month away from being pressed and sold on the shelves, and they delayed it because of the leak?
Late Sept, news breaks halflife won't be available on Sept 30th. Rumors fly about early 2004, investors freak out about no Xmas, Valve stutters maybe by the holiday season.
Early Oct, source leaked. Why? Hacked? Maybe, maybe a developers was calling BS on the holiday season estimate.
Now, we get word its delayed til April 2004. So, rather then being done in time for XMAS, its now a full 4 months late.
Hmm... smells like "Cover my ass". Some Director was able to sell to the upper brass this lame excuse.
Or
It might be retribution against the hacker. "Hey, we were going to notify we're late, why don't we just blame the hacker as well. See how popular that hacker's going to be with the public when he's the cause of the delay?"
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"The reality is that with the internet as we know it, tracing any IP activity to the source may or may not be possible in a reasonable amount of time."
This is very simple, when you sign up to the VOIP servcie they have a form that says...
Please Enter the physical address of the phone (this may be different then your billing addres), this information will only be used in the case this line is used to call the registered emergency services for this address. If you enter incorrect information, you encounter problems in contacting or directing emergency response to your home.
Then, when you call 911, your VOIP software sends your physical address... its not done with the IP address or whatever.
I agree... I mean a girl stripper on one side, male on the other... (for the girls, so they can't complain)
but 100% no kids.
Even Vegas is wising up that people don't want freakin kids around
My biggest disapointment to D&B was when i went there... there were kids there.
WTF?
I guess if your with your parents you can go. But it just turns it into some chunk-e-cheeze type place.
That place should be 21+ only.
As a casual gamer (own around 10 games) and a PS2 owner, I must chime in and state i have bought one memory card for it and have yet to fill it past 60%.
Plus, what does it take to make an Xbox 2? A new graphics card, faster processor, more mem... I mean its just a pc inside.
"wow with the new Xbox2 with 2.4Ghz P4 Celeron, and ATI9600, can render 250 frames per sec at HDspec 1080i. Wooo hooo!"
In the San Francisco Bay area, there exists a company called MetroPCS, where for $35/mnth you get unlimited local calls in the bay area.
Cons Roaming is extremely expensive, $1.99/minute
Doesn't work in Canada (Go Canucks Go!)
MetroPCS seems to be doing quite well...
I know people are worried that a casino will start tracking that a Customer Relations person gave a well-known married male High Roller $1000 chip number 87654321 which four hours later was cashed by a woman of "questionable employment." Is it fair that the casino now knows the "social habits" of that high roller? Probably not. Suppose the well-know high roller was a Senator.
If casinos starting ratting out the actions of the high rollers, highrollers would just go somewhere else.
I saw an interview with a guy who helps highrollers out (forget the "official name")....
it was deffinatly suggested that not only do the Casinos know about the girls, booze and drugs, in some cases they faciliate it.
In your example, if they found that the high rollers chips were getting spent by a women of questionable employment, they'd probably just check to make sure the high roller was happy with the "Services rendered" and make sure he wasn't robbed.
So you get the chips outside the casino....
Now what? Take them to a bank?
I belive Cox might have eventually aquired the rights to atHome cable. But anyhow, I know for a fact that atHome, and I suggest others, blocked inbound port 80 requests during the CodeRed break because of saturation.
I guess they never lifted it.
Ever hear of Open Source Software?
I'm talking about how to earn the $$. Would I still develop? Sure... I've contributed to many opensource projects, but if my employer thinks i should work for less then minumum wage (so they can earn their MILLIONS), I'd rather work at In and Out.
Yes, I call designing such an incredible machine that does all that you described, yet dies because of dust acumuliation stupid.
If I designed an incredbile software program that died 90 days after completion because the logs filled up the hard drives, no one would be calling me smart.
While I'm sure the engineers aren't stupid, the idea that the main reason the probe will cease operation is the acumilation of dust on the solar panels seems really really stupid.
To me, it would be like creating a extremely complicated and great program that would die in 90 days becuase its logs would fill up the Hard Drive.
Maybe I'll become an auto mechanic instead, I hear they're getting all computerized and stuff...
If someone offered me $5/hour to develop in order to keep my job, I'm supposed to say yes, otherwise I'm a spoiled american?
Puhleze, if In N Out ever pays more for their strict 40/hour per week vrs IT's 80 hour stress filled weeks/weekends, I'd just work for In n Out.
I second the motion, how stupid was it to provide no means of "dusting" the solar panels?
Since it folded up its solar panels for flight is it possible to re fold them up and knock some dust off?
Still... using ftp.exe was a hack. No control over the connection, no errors, the connection and download procedure was hardcoded as Strings. It was ugly... it needed to go.
My favorite MS API problem was in porting a config application to work with a linux server on a remote machine. This was just a prototype, proof of concept, but it would be shown to upper management, including some that thought we were wasting our time. (Linux isn't supported... its just a fad... it was 1998)
... I stopped, expecting to hear how much better VAXes were or how time was wasted on the youth... but instead he asked "What are your IE settings?"
My coworker, an old VAX Hacker, made the linux software create a file 'CONFIGURING', the pressence of which let me know that the machine was busy (Took around 5 minutes). I simply had to ftp the file down and when I got nothing, I could say the CONFIG was over. An ERROR file would contain any error.
He had developed a very simple MFC app that made an system exec call to 'ftp.exe' to download the file. I took his code and incorporated it with the more feature rich config app. The problem was that everytime I polled with ftp.exe the Command prompt window would appear and dissapear. Real Ugly, Real Bad. So I decided I'd just use the CInternetConnection classes in MFC to do the polling. My friend said I should write my own, but I repeated off all the traditional MS axioms of "Supported by Microsoft" bla bla bla...
I whipped it up in less then an hour thinking, cool, Microsoft made this really easy. So I started it, it received the file, so I polled again in 30 seconds and incremented the task bar... everything looked beautiful, it kept polling and recieving the file, incrimient the task bar... and it kept doing this for 10 minutes.
I telneted to the machine, the file was gone, but my software still was polling. Weird... but wait! I betcha its caching the file! So I checked Temporary Internet files and there it was, so I deleted it. Then I checked the API docs, there was a direct flag I could add when creating the connection called NO_CACHE! The MSDN documentation even stated this would turn off caching. I felt that incredible high when you find a perfect solution to your problems. I enabled the flag and recompiled, 100% sure it would work.
It still cached!
WTF! I poured over the documentation and deja news (before google)... Nothing. I should be able to set that flag and it should work. I spent 1 1/2 long hour DAYS trying different things, tempted to go in to the Temporary Interenet files and delete it myself. I COULD not stop it from caching the file!
So I sighed, told the guy, I'm goign to have to write my own socket layer for this. Oh well, give me a few more days.
"Wait" he said
"What? How can IE override my direct calls to the API? That makes no sense, if anything it should use IE settings as default, but I should be able to override that, which I am. The docuentation doesn't even mention that you get your settings from IE! Besides which, I've spent too long doing this and my friend already told me I'd have to end up writing my own ftp client."
"Try IT!" he now ordered. "Ok", I turned off IE's caching... and it worked.
I am still disgusted...
Hmmm... I was working on a machine (Lightjet 5900) that printed 4x8' at 300 dpi. While that image is only 400 megapixel, we were in compition with the Durst Lambda which could print 4' by n. I believe they produced a 4' x 100' @200dpi image as a demonstration, which would be around 2.5 gigapixels. This was around 7 years ago.
We also delt with huge pics taken from 8x10" scans at 2000-4000 dpi. (1 Gpixel to 3 Gpixel) We could print these on E-6(slide) at 11x14" on a lightjet 2000 at 2048 dpi. I'm sure a few scans got into the gigapixels then were reduced.
The point being, file sizes at that size were quite common back 6-7 years ago, I'm sure they've just gotten bigger in the comercial field. Maybe this guy is new to digital photo, but it would only take stitching 2 8x10 scans together to get gigapixels.
I fear the only way to resolve Sarauman's character properly in the context of a long-ass movie would be to rewrite it so he dies in the midst of one of the battles.
There is no way an audience is going to sit through the burning of the shire after 3 hours of ROTK. I mean, that's one long portion of the book, at least 20-30 minutes more movie.
Unfortunatly I have to agree with Jackson on this. The last of the Book ROTK, really was an Eplilogue, I would rather see that on the DVD then sit through it in the movie.
I mean, not only do we have the whole ROTK to get through in one movie, but we havn't even finished the Two Towers book.
I actually like the fact it will be released on DVD rather then just scrapping the footage or not shooting it at all to begin with.
I had the oppurtunity to land a gig as a wedding photographer while a student. So I asked my photography instructors for tips. All of them had done A wedding, only one had done more then one.
His list of horror stories made me reject the job.
Basically the impression I got, is there is NO more high stress photo assignment then weddings. Not only does everyone think they know the best angle, but they all want their own poses. This isn't just the party that paid for the photographer, EVERYONE thinks the photographer is their personal slave.
PLUS, the criteria for a good job may just lie on whether the mother of the groom had a good shot, was/wasn't included in the photo or whether they got the special flower arangement put on the table. In fact, people have tried suing over the fact that out of 20 photos, the stupid bride blinked in every fricken one. Or the one where the groom actually tried to smile was the one when the brides head was turned, and even though the photographer took 40 photos of the pair, Unlce Merv got the picture and THEY didn't pay him squat!
As well, the article makes it seem as if it is a one-day job. PUHleaze, how bout fighting with the lab over whether the prints look good. How bout reviewing 20-40 contact sheets looking for the good pictures.
UGH... $1200 per day? Damn, that's too little.
Thanks for making it sound soooo bad!
I actually kinda enjoyed it. I just gave up on any idea that there was some deaper meaning and it turned out it was a fairly cool action flick.
Deep meanings? Ying/Yang was the meaning i think was the basic point of the last 2 movies. I mean the question IS, is this better or worse then total recall (umm... equal)? How bout T2? (worse) How bout eraser man (better).
There you go.
Of course, at the moment, he can't bring legal force against them for putting anti-choice verbage in their performance of the pledge, but he can (and does) register his disapproval... directly with the offenders, as well. It's all he can do.
... it's not just all he can do now, it should be all he can ever do.
I would like to add
The key point here, and the reason the Supreme Court will decide in favor of the Ninth Circuit, is that until congress added "Under God", that phrase was not used when reciting the pledge.
The constituion has simple yet direct and literally applicatble language, when it states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". Congress made a law that established the Christian Religion as the defacto religion by enforcing "Under God" to be added. Its a simple as that.
An easy test case would be if the words "Under Allah" were to replace "Under God", would this not establish Islam in preference over Christianity? How does it not work the other way?
Most frustratingly, the solution is very simple. Remove "Under God" and put the pledge back to what it said before it was changed. Then, if people choose to say "Under God", which is their right, they can. There is no law, I believe, that gives any penalty to saying a pledge that might be different then the established norm.
To the people objecting to the removal, what is your logic? The history of "Under God" is very recent so it can't be an appeal to tradition. The only thing I can think of, is you wish to evangelize your religion.
Ok, giving up tradesecrets here,
...
.gif could actually be a perl program that `cat`s out a gif at the end. The perl program will take you IP and store it in a database with all your parameters. Now they can track what you did on this site. And if you have multiple sites, you can add all the bugs on the various sites and track an ip between them all.
You have a image with the html (using [ instead of reg)
[img src="" name="bug"]
then you have an onload javascript command that takes the name bug and does
var bugsrc = "http://mysite/bug.gif?x=" + window.xSize + "&y=" +
bug.src = bugsrc
can't remember the exact window method or field, or even if this is the exact javascript, but it doesn't matter, you get the point.
then when the image loads, on your server you get the url, plus all the extra data. Now of course, instead of just checking the server logs, the
All very fun, another cool trick is to have a onclose window open that loads a bug with a unique id created on page load, that way you can track how long someone looks at a page.
I can't imagine the fun before webservers cracked down and didn't spit out emails etc.
Well then, Snuggums, why then do you think a release of source could be responsible for a 6 month delay in software? I mean, who EVER heard about releasing the SOURCE to a project? That is sooo unsecure, I betcha nobody's doing it!
Missing XMAS casued a huge drop in the stock price of the whole fricken company... there is no way, if it was ready, that the brass would have allowed it to be bounced 4 months after xmas.
Come on, you think that the whole game was 1 month away from being pressed and sold on the shelves, and they delayed it because of the leak?
Late Sept, news breaks halflife won't be available on Sept 30th. Rumors fly about early 2004, investors freak out about no Xmas, Valve stutters maybe by the holiday season.
Early Oct, source leaked. Why? Hacked? Maybe, maybe a developers was calling BS on the holiday season estimate.
Now, we get word its delayed til April 2004. So, rather then being done in time for XMAS, its now a full 4 months late.
Hmm... smells like "Cover my ass". Some Director was able to sell to the upper brass this lame excuse.
Or
It might be retribution against the hacker. "Hey, we were going to notify we're late, why don't we just blame the hacker as well. See how popular that hacker's going to be with the public when he's the cause of the delay?"
Just my thoughts..
COME ON!
Someone who has the source, compile them and release the binaries!