Java as an idea was great....write a program that compiles once and the binary can run on anything.
<rant> Java as an implementation has failed miserably for just the reason mentioned by the parent. I have encountered too many apps that won't run unless a specific version of the VM is available.
Then there is Tomcat, evil software container...I have lost too many hours of my life trying to keep that beast happy....just today I got an email from a colleague who wants to restart tomcat weekly because something is causing it to leak file descriptors. More than 1024 files open at the same time...I could probably figure it out, but that would again be more hours lost to java. </rant>
I am waiting for speed caps during peak periods and unlimited data quantities.
Streaming media is only going to grow, and the impact felt by me when my Netflix stream breaks 5 times in 10 mins, is irritating. During peak periods I have no problems with a bandwidth cap to 1 or 2 simultaneous streams.
But I do take issue when ISPs whine about all the bytes downloaded at 3AM when it costs them nothing extra. Don't limit total bytes....but do make sure each customer gets their share of peak.
Crucially, they said, the phone data is stored by AT&T, and not by the government as in the N.S.A. program. It is queried for phone numbers of interest mainly using what are called “administrative subpoenas,” those issued not by a grand jury or a judge but by a federal agency, in this case the D.E.A.
Sounds like they get everything they want without much review...
Try that argument the next time you are obnoxious in a bar and they kick you out. There may be a back door to the bar, but just because you use it to enter a second time doesn't mean you get to stay.
If you get a disguise and try to come back through front or back door doesn't entitle you entrance either. I am pretty sure if you keep coming back you are going to end up in a 6x8 cell.
Forgive my ignorance but I fail to see the difference between a separate password manager app, and password management in a browser that has the necessary crypto to secure the passwords on the disk, and reveal them only with proper credentials (aka master password).
Only advantage I see for a password manager is that it could be used across different applications.
The problem with the browsers is that they make it all too easy with the ubiquitous "save password?" every time one is entered. I know I can turn off the function, but most people don't and they do blindly save them.
I never knew that Chrome didn't have anything between the user and the plaintext password....how many people take their computers in for service not realizing that the techs behind the counter now have access to their bank, health and other info?
Perhaps more to the point - You can't trust GPS to get you to your destination. Period. This story demonstrates an active attack on that, but the crew of any vehicle always needs to have a backup plan available at a moment's notice. If you really want to point fingers here, try the ship's navigator who somehow failed to notice that reality didn't match his charts.
The scary bit is whether the navigator even knows how to read charts any more. Or do dead reckoning or celestial navigation.
The transportation industry is relying more and more on technology and less on human knowlege to get from point A to point B. GPS, Airline Autopilots and Instrument Landing Systems, train automation are all making significant in-roads to the point that the humans on board are just blindly trusting it.
I foresee the auto industry going in the same direction. I tease my kids that their kids will not know how to drive a car. Indeed my kids have never looked at a paper map.
Just today I renewed a subscription for 365 days of delivery to my front door. $228.00 gets me not only the news, but something to line the cat's litterbox, package filler, and tabletop protection for those messy kitchen table projects.
And the ad's don't jiggle, make noise, change color or otherwise become overtly obnoxious that I want to download Ad-Block. I don't mind a little advertising...sometimes I want to see what is out there.
Finally, I don't mind if my greasy fingers get on the paper.
Why destroy all ads and marketing? We still need a mechanism that allows us to know what is available, and at what price.
What I want to destroy is the means for marketers to set prices of goods and services based on "targeted" information that seemingly have no relation to the product or service being purchased. I hate when people in Florida have are offered a product via a WWW site that costs more than the same exact product offered to someone in Massachusetts. It is even worse when you take a look at the picture on a global basis. I hate it when I pay $100 more for an airline seat than the guy sitting next to me. We both got the same exact service, but at wildly divergent prices.
Make a good product...sell it at a price point determined by supply and demand (which I am guessing won't fluctuate each minute) where a reasonable profit can be had, and be happy with it. Probably a little naive...
I have been using the GNOME shell in Fedora 15 -> 17. Once they added the "extensions" interface it made it palatable as I have a number of extensions that give me back some of the old features. I do like the http://extensions.gnome.org/ interface though...makes it easy to find and add the needed extensions. But I can't honestly say that the changes GNOME3 introduced were worth the trouble. The workflow isn't greatly enhanced and the learning curve was bad enough to make me curse more than once.
I haven't seen a single interface enhancement that I can say was worth the headache: Windows XP -> Windows 7 ( I finally turned off Aero). I won't try Windows 8 unless I have to. Firefox upcoming v25 changes have me scared. MS-office ribbons suck.
In most cases I see these as a solution looking for a problem...
It is only "screaming" now, because almost nobody uses it.
I have always been surprised at the fact that no company I have ever worked with demands encryption for Emails. Even attachments are rarely encrypted even though ZIP provides an easy "shared password" type of encryption. Every Email transmitted in cleartext can be read by just about every sysadmin, and unless they are using encrypted SMTP can be read by anybody sniffing the internet.
Once Email encryption becomes ubiquitous (if ever...) it won't be screaming any more.
Looking at the filing date and the Assignee's on the patent you will see that this patent was originally filed by AT&T in 1992. This was in the glory days between the original 1984 divestiture of the Bell operating companies and the 1994 split of AT&T Long Lines and AT&T Networks (aka Western Electric). AT&T Networks became Lucent Technologies, which then merged in 2007 with Alcatel to become Alcatel-Lucent.
Probably won't happen. Most retailers are sensitive about advertising...the price advertised will always be the cash price if they are adding the surcharge, while a second retailer who doesn't add the surcharge either matches the price and eats the surcharge, or advertises a higher price. Either way the second retailer is going to end up matching the business practices of the guy down the street.
I have no idea how the retailers are going to react. But I fully expect to see healthcare providers who take credit cards tack on the extra surcharge. The interesting thing is how the insurance companies react...I am guessing no reimbursement for the optional fee.
I am guessing restaurants are also going to tack on the surcharge.
Same way any Windows box gets compromised...two most common:
-- A security flaw is found in the distro and the patches are not up-to-date. -- Someone installs some other program as root which contains the trojan.
Linux is just as vulnerable as Windows to these attacks....
While it may increase the liquidity of the market, it doesn't necessarily promote good ideas.
Society benefits when good ideas are promoted through shareholder investments. The stock market did just great for 100 years without algorithmic trading, and the intro to algorithmic trading has caused several large instabilities in just the past two years:
This amazing graphic illustrates the effect of this type of trading on the volumes, and...I believe that instabilities will only get worse with this type of activity.
As the underlying article states the growth of "Quote SPAM" is really the problem. Most of this is "testing the waters" where a quote is tossed out to see the response and immediately cancelled with no resulting trade.
Actually this is a pretty good way to do two factor authentication. In theory, you need possession of the login credentials as well as possession of the phone to do the transaction.
RSA SecureID with the "number that changes once a minute" is another two factor authentication system that is in wide use, and if I understand the attack vector would be just as easy to compromise with a trojan in the PC. Just have the Banks WWW site ask for the securID token for some innocuous thing (sync the securID for example), and trojan takes care of the rest.
The fact that they were able to infect two devices for a single user testifies to the ingenuity of this attack. If I am honest with myself, I can't say I would be immune to it either...even though I am probably more sensitive than the average computer user. I still find myself being the lemming when accessing some site and wanting to get the transaction done. Click here, put in code there, who knows whether it is legit or not. Especially since this trojan did some sort of greasemonkey type injection directly into the banks real WWW page.
It is more complicated than that. This is all about what today's society expects and how people conform to those expectations.
I believe a better analogy would be "I draw a picture, make a large number of copies, and leave them in a public building. Do I expect that people walking by won't pick one up?".
The answer depends on how hard it is to make the copy, where in the public building the copies were left, what notices were posted at the door of the public building, what the passer-by intends to do with the copy, and whether the original producer is deprived of anything.
If each copy was an oil painting on canvas I suppose you might reasonably expect a passer-by to leave them lie. Especially if that passer-by intends to pick up the entire stack and sell them on a street corner. After all each copy cost the original artist something in materials and time, and I would be depriving the original artist of those costs.
If each copy was a photocopy, I can't see anyone assuming that they can't pick up a copy. Material/time costs to the original artist are minimal, so as a passer-by I won't feel that I have deprived anybody of anything by picking up a copy to take home and hang on my wall. In today's society a stack of photocopies in a public place implies they are to be taken.
Of course, if I take that photocopy and publish it in my newspaper in order to sell more newspapers, The original artist might have cause to object, as that act isn't generally supported in today's society.
In GitHub, if I put some sourcecode there, and make no attempt to protect it with password or license, I don't feel today's society would not allow me to object to people downloading it for personal use. But if I include it in a project for sale, I should take care to read the licenses and get the necessary permissions.
The only thing universal healthcare brought you was waiting lines and mediocre care if you're in any country but norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK.
Ever try getting an appointment for a specialist for a non-urgent procedure in the USA? While I am sure it isn't every case, I have been told a couple of times that the "first available slot" is 6-8 weeks out, and only after the first visit can the procedure be scheduled which may be delayed yet another couple of weeks.
I live in Florida, have decent corporate Health Insurance (~ $5000 per year premium from my paycheck, plus $25 copays for every visit up to $2000, plus 10% of all charges for any procedure). Most all procedures are now done off premises in Surgical centers where you get 2 bills: the doctors, and the facility which tend to total to more than $1000 per procedure to my insurance company ($100 or more out of pocket). Add to the "wait" and the "cost" that I must find an "in-network" provider.
Sounds like "standing in line" to me.....I have lived 11 years in Europe and Asia, and have always found the health care better overseas than in the USA. I think most of that is because the lawyers aren't as involved in healthcare overseas. Go see any USA provider and count the number of forms you need to read and sign.
I can't wait to see what kind of malware this type of scheme would produce. I have no proof, but if feels like running a compiled bytecode would be easier to exploit than text based javascript.
I will agree with this....having dealt with AT&T as a vendor, I would say their customer service people probably have no idea who in the company might be able to answer the question, so it easier to just punt and give the "proprietary" answer.
Furthermore, I would guess they know which market the caller is coming from, and whether they are the only provider in the area. If they know you can't vote with your feet, they are much less inclined to make you happy.
I had the same problem...once they started charging for exceeding the bandwidth caps I wrote a program to log usage.
I have an old Fedora box with two ethernet cards doing the router work (everything to and from the house goes through this box) and use Etherape to track the usage. A cronjob once a minute makes sure Etherape is always running, and a kill -10 every minute gets it to dump the usage data in XML which I process into a CSV for analysis and charting.
Surprisingly, their monthly usage figures have matched my full month calculations within 1%.
What irritates me is that their monthly totals are not available on their WWW site for a full week after the end of the month, and their current month totals are also delayed a couple of days sometimes wildly inaccurate since they are missing days. Example is the November totals for my account seem to be currently missing 2-5 November, and they haven't posted 12,13 November yet. Hence they show lower usage than what I really used. If this were the end of the month, I might think I can squeeze that extra download in before the end of the month, but I am sure they would figure it out and charge for it.
I hit this issue once when I breached the 150Gb cap with 6 hours remaining. They claim to sell you another 50Gb for $10, but of course that doesn't roll into the next month. That is where I would complain....if they are going to charge by the Gb, they need to accurately report usage during the month.
AT&T just sent me a letter that they are switching me to U-verse with a 250Gb cap. They claim it will be the same price as DSL for the next year, but after that who knows....only other game in town is Comcast which cost even more.
Waited in line outside an elementary school for 1.5 hours. Everybody was civil and no electioneering to be seen. We had a 7 page optical ballot (use black pen to fill in the little ovals), which is scanned as you are leaving. There were 12 amendments to the Florida constitution which were all very wordy, and which all seem to be special interest or religious in nature.
I noticed that they had put the output of the "zero'ing" on the wall for those to inspect that the optical readers had been set to zero. We had to show a picture ID to vote, which everybody had.
I was number 225 for the day who voted...the precinct captain told me that they normally only get 200-250 for the whole day....I was there at 11AM.
The flaw in the DMCA is that costs for filing a counter notice are not "easily" refundable from the entity filing a faulty takedown notice.
Make the media companies filing faulty takedown notices pay the attorney/other costs of the rightful owners for the restoring content the media companies incorrectly took down and we will see a lot less of this.
Perhaps the law should state that each takedown notice, and each counter claim requires an escrow amount that will go to the rightful owner after settling ownership. Loser pays the others' costs....
If you are sure you are the owner then nothing to worry about.
You think that democrats are the only ones who behave like this? Republicans aren't susceptible to this type of abuse of power?
Do you really think that this is a "blueness" trait and not just a bunch of politicians spouting to get in the news? There are plenty of incidents where politicians of all colors who abuse their governmental powers against people who don't think like them. I don't think either party can claim with a straight face that they are better at supporting the constitution.
I am tired of people using recent incidents as "proof" of their point...there are lots of data points in historical record, and I while I haven't done the statistical analysis I would guess that there is a nice even distribution in the "abuse of power" category.
I personally will get much more information/analysis/correlation with an awk/sed script then I will get with any SQL query, with the added benefit that I can import data from ANY text file and correlate it. I won't be dependent on having all data I am analyzing be in a common format. TEXT is a common denominator....most any binary file can be converted to text and then the resulting text files can be analyzed. It doesn't work the other way around. You example of windows event logs is perfect....When I want to correlate them to some other text file that isn't in that format, I have to convert them.
It is pretty arrogant on the part of those RedHat devs to think that any system they will devise will have the entire ecosystem of Linux running to use it. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. That will always be the case.
I have no idea how they do it, but if I were designing to thwart your idea, OnStar would be part of the Engine Control Unit, and the only way to disable it would be a FW update or replacing the ECU with a third party unit that doesn't include OnStar. Then they hit you with DMCA for reverse engineering their software or void the warranty because of non-factory parts. I suppose you could always try to locate the antenna and clip that off, but you haven't disabled it....
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Java as an idea was great....write a program that compiles once and the binary can run on anything.
<rant>
Java as an implementation has failed miserably for just the reason mentioned by the parent. I have encountered too many apps that won't run unless a specific version of the VM is available.
Then there is Tomcat, evil software container...I have lost too many hours of my life trying to keep that beast happy....just today I got an email from a colleague who wants to restart tomcat weekly because something is causing it to leak file descriptors. More than 1024 files open at the same time...I could probably figure it out, but that would again be more hours lost to java.
</rant>
I am waiting for speed caps during peak periods and unlimited data quantities.
Streaming media is only going to grow, and the impact felt by me when my Netflix stream breaks 5 times in 10 mins, is irritating. During peak periods I have no problems with a bandwidth cap to 1 or 2 simultaneous streams.
But I do take issue when ISPs whine about all the bytes downloaded at 3AM when it costs them nothing extra. Don't limit total bytes....but do make sure each customer gets their share of peak.
From the TFA:
Crucially, they said, the phone data is stored by AT&T, and not by the government as in the N.S.A. program. It is queried for phone numbers of interest mainly using what are called “administrative subpoenas,” those issued not by a grand jury or a judge but by a federal agency, in this case the D.E.A.
Sounds like they get everything they want without much review...
Try that argument the next time you are obnoxious in a bar and they kick you out. There may be a back door to the bar, but just because you use it to enter a second time doesn't mean you get to stay.
If you get a disguise and try to come back through front or back door doesn't entitle you entrance either. I am pretty sure if you keep coming back you are going to end up in a 6x8 cell.
Forgive my ignorance but I fail to see the difference between a separate password manager app, and password management in a browser that has the necessary crypto to secure the passwords on the disk, and reveal them only with proper credentials (aka master password).
Only advantage I see for a password manager is that it could be used across different applications.
The problem with the browsers is that they make it all too easy with the ubiquitous "save password?" every time one is entered. I know I can turn off the function, but most people don't and they do blindly save them.
I never knew that Chrome didn't have anything between the user and the plaintext password....how many people take their computers in for service not realizing that the techs behind the counter now have access to their bank, health and other info?
Perhaps more to the point - You can't trust GPS to get you to your destination. Period. This story demonstrates an active attack on that, but the crew of any vehicle always needs to have a backup plan available at a moment's notice. If you really want to point fingers here, try the ship's navigator who somehow failed to notice that reality didn't match his charts.
The scary bit is whether the navigator even knows how to read charts any more. Or do dead reckoning or celestial navigation.
The transportation industry is relying more and more on technology and less on human knowlege to get from point A to point B. GPS, Airline Autopilots and Instrument Landing Systems, train automation are all making significant in-roads to the point that the humans on board are just blindly trusting it.
I foresee the auto industry going in the same direction. I tease my kids that their kids will not know how to drive a car. Indeed my kids have never looked at a paper map.
Just today I renewed a subscription for 365 days of delivery to my front door. $228.00 gets me not only the news, but something to line the cat's litterbox, package filler, and tabletop protection for those messy kitchen table projects.
And the ad's don't jiggle, make noise, change color or otherwise become overtly obnoxious that I want to download Ad-Block. I don't mind a little advertising...sometimes I want to see what is out there.
Finally, I don't mind if my greasy fingers get on the paper.
Try killing a spider with a kindle...
Why destroy all ads and marketing? We still need a mechanism that allows us to know what is available, and at what price.
What I want to destroy is the means for marketers to set prices of goods and services based on "targeted" information that seemingly have no relation to the product or service being purchased. I hate when people in Florida have are offered a product via a WWW site that costs more than the same exact product offered to someone in Massachusetts. It is even worse when you take a look at the picture on a global basis. I hate it when I pay $100 more for an airline seat than the guy sitting next to me. We both got the same exact service, but at wildly divergent prices.
Make a good product...sell it at a price point determined by supply and demand (which I am guessing won't fluctuate each minute) where a reasonable profit can be had, and be happy with it. Probably a little naive...
I have been using the GNOME shell in Fedora 15 -> 17. Once they added the "extensions" interface it made it palatable as I have a number of extensions that give me back some of the old features. I do like the http://extensions.gnome.org/ interface though...makes it easy to find and add the needed extensions. But I can't honestly say that the changes GNOME3 introduced were worth the trouble. The workflow isn't greatly enhanced and the learning curve was bad enough to make me curse more than once.
I haven't seen a single interface enhancement that I can say was worth the headache: Windows XP -> Windows 7 ( I finally turned off Aero). I won't try Windows 8 unless I have to. Firefox upcoming v25 changes have me scared. MS-office ribbons suck.
In most cases I see these as a solution looking for a problem...
It is only "screaming" now, because almost nobody uses it.
I have always been surprised at the fact that no company I have ever worked with demands encryption for Emails. Even attachments are rarely encrypted even though ZIP provides an easy "shared password" type of encryption. Every Email transmitted in cleartext can be read by just about every sysadmin, and unless they are using encrypted SMTP can be read by anybody sniffing the internet.
Once Email encryption becomes ubiquitous (if ever...) it won't be screaming any more.
Looking at the filing date and the Assignee's on the patent you will see that this patent was originally filed by AT&T in 1992. This was in the glory days between the original 1984 divestiture of the Bell operating companies and the 1994 split of AT&T Long Lines and AT&T Networks (aka Western Electric). AT&T Networks became Lucent Technologies, which then merged in 2007 with Alcatel to become Alcatel-Lucent.
Probably won't happen. Most retailers are sensitive about advertising...the price advertised will always be the cash price if they are adding the surcharge, while a second retailer who doesn't add the surcharge either matches the price and eats the surcharge, or advertises a higher price. Either way the second retailer is going to end up matching the business practices of the guy down the street.
I have no idea how the retailers are going to react. But I fully expect to see healthcare providers who take credit cards tack on the extra surcharge. The interesting thing is how the insurance companies react...I am guessing no reimbursement for the optional fee.
I am guessing restaurants are also going to tack on the surcharge.
Same way any Windows box gets compromised...two most common:
-- A security flaw is found in the distro and the patches are not up-to-date.
-- Someone installs some other program as root which contains the trojan.
Linux is just as vulnerable as Windows to these attacks....
While it may increase the liquidity of the market, it doesn't necessarily promote good ideas.
Society benefits when good ideas are promoted through shareholder investments. The stock market did just great for 100 years without algorithmic trading, and the intro to algorithmic trading has caused several large instabilities in just the past two years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_capital
This amazing graphic illustrates the effect of this type of trading on the volumes, and ...I believe that instabilities will only get worse with this type of activity.
http://www.nanex.net/aqck/2804.HTML
As the underlying article states the growth of "Quote SPAM" is really the problem. Most of this is "testing the waters" where a quote is tossed out to see the response and immediately cancelled with no resulting trade.
Fundamentally, it is simply gambling.
Actually this is a pretty good way to do two factor authentication. In theory, you need possession of the login credentials as well as possession of the phone to do the transaction.
RSA SecureID with the "number that changes once a minute" is another two factor authentication system that is in wide use, and if I understand the attack vector would be just as easy to compromise with a trojan in the PC. Just have the Banks WWW site ask for the securID token for some innocuous thing (sync the securID for example), and trojan takes care of the rest.
The fact that they were able to infect two devices for a single user testifies to the ingenuity of this attack. If I am honest with myself, I can't say I would be immune to it either...even though I am probably more sensitive than the average computer user. I still find myself being the lemming when accessing some site and wanting to get the transaction done. Click here, put in code there, who knows whether it is legit or not. Especially since this trojan did some sort of greasemonkey type injection directly into the banks real WWW page.
It is more complicated than that. This is all about what today's society expects and how people conform to those expectations.
I believe a better analogy would be "I draw a picture, make a large number of copies, and leave them in a public building. Do I expect that people walking by won't pick one up?".
The answer depends on how hard it is to make the copy, where in the public building the copies were left, what notices were posted at the door of the public building, what the passer-by intends to do with the copy, and whether the original producer is deprived of anything.
If each copy was an oil painting on canvas I suppose you might reasonably expect a passer-by to leave them lie. Especially if that passer-by intends to pick up the entire stack and sell them on a street corner. After all each copy cost the original artist something in materials and time, and I would be depriving the original artist of those costs.
If each copy was a photocopy, I can't see anyone assuming that they can't pick up a copy. Material/time costs to the original artist are minimal, so as a passer-by I won't feel that I have deprived anybody of anything by picking up a copy to take home and hang on my wall. In today's society a stack of photocopies in a public place implies they are to be taken.
Of course, if I take that photocopy and publish it in my newspaper in order to sell more newspapers, The original artist might have cause to object, as that act isn't generally supported in today's society.
In GitHub, if I put some sourcecode there, and make no attempt to protect it with password or license, I don't feel today's society would not allow me to object to people downloading it for personal use. But if I include it in a project for sale, I should take care to read the licenses and get the necessary permissions.
The only thing universal healthcare brought you was waiting lines and mediocre care if you're in any country but norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK.
Ever try getting an appointment for a specialist for a non-urgent procedure in the USA? While I am sure it isn't every case, I have been told a couple of times that the "first available slot" is 6-8 weeks out, and only after the first visit can the procedure be scheduled which may be delayed yet another couple of weeks.
I live in Florida, have decent corporate Health Insurance (~ $5000 per year premium from my paycheck, plus $25 copays for every visit up to $2000, plus 10% of all charges for any procedure). Most all procedures are now done off premises in Surgical centers where you get 2 bills: the doctors, and the facility which tend to total to more than $1000 per procedure to my insurance company ($100 or more out of pocket). Add to the "wait" and the "cost" that I must find an "in-network" provider.
Sounds like "standing in line" to me.....I have lived 11 years in Europe and Asia, and have always found the health care better overseas than in the USA. I think most of that is because the lawyers aren't as involved in healthcare overseas. Go see any USA provider and count the number of forms you need to read and sign.
I can't wait to see what kind of malware this type of scheme would produce. I have no proof, but if feels like running a compiled bytecode would be easier to exploit than text based javascript.
I will agree with this....having dealt with AT&T as a vendor, I would say their customer service people probably have no idea who in the company might be able to answer the question, so it easier to just punt and give the "proprietary" answer.
Furthermore, I would guess they know which market the caller is coming from, and whether they are the only provider in the area. If they know you can't vote with your feet, they are much less inclined to make you happy.
I had the same problem...once they started charging for exceeding the bandwidth caps I wrote a program to log usage.
I have an old Fedora box with two ethernet cards doing the router work (everything to and from the house goes through this box) and use Etherape to track the usage. A cronjob once a minute makes sure Etherape is always running, and a kill -10 every minute gets it to dump the usage data in XML which I process into a CSV for analysis and charting.
Surprisingly, their monthly usage figures have matched my full month calculations within 1%.
What irritates me is that their monthly totals are not available on their WWW site for a full week after the end of the month, and their current month totals are also delayed a couple of days sometimes wildly inaccurate since they are missing days. Example is the November totals for my account seem to be currently missing 2-5 November, and they haven't posted 12,13 November yet. Hence they show lower usage than what I really used. If this were the end of the month, I might think I can squeeze that extra download in before the end of the month, but I am sure they would figure it out and charge for it.
I hit this issue once when I breached the 150Gb cap with 6 hours remaining. They claim to sell you another 50Gb for $10, but of course that doesn't roll into the next month. That is where I would complain....if they are going to charge by the Gb, they need to accurately report usage during the month.
AT&T just sent me a letter that they are switching me to U-verse with a 250Gb cap. They claim it will be the same price as DSL for the next year, but after that who knows....only other game in town is Comcast which cost even more.
Waited in line outside an elementary school for 1.5 hours. Everybody was civil and no electioneering to be seen. We had a 7 page optical ballot (use black pen to fill in the little ovals), which is scanned as you are leaving. There were 12 amendments to the Florida constitution which were all very wordy, and which all seem to be special interest or religious in nature.
I noticed that they had put the output of the "zero'ing" on the wall for those to inspect that the optical readers had been set to zero. We had to show a picture ID to vote, which everybody had.
I was number 225 for the day who voted...the precinct captain told me that they normally only get 200-250 for the whole day....I was there at 11AM.
The flaw in the DMCA is that costs for filing a counter notice are not "easily" refundable from the entity filing a faulty takedown notice.
Make the media companies filing faulty takedown notices pay the attorney/other costs of the rightful owners for the restoring content the media companies incorrectly took down and we will see a lot less of this.
Perhaps the law should state that each takedown notice, and each counter claim requires an escrow amount that will go to the rightful owner after settling ownership. Loser pays the others' costs....
If you are sure you are the owner then nothing to worry about.
You think that democrats are the only ones who behave like this? Republicans aren't susceptible to this type of abuse of power?
Do you really think that this is a "blueness" trait and not just a bunch of politicians spouting to get in the news? There are plenty of incidents where politicians of all colors who abuse their governmental powers against people who don't think like them. I don't think either party can claim with a straight face that they are better at supporting the constitution.
I am tired of people using recent incidents as "proof" of their point...there are lots of data points in historical record, and I while I haven't done the statistical analysis I would guess that there is a nice even distribution in the "abuse of power" category.
It depends on your skill set.
I personally will get much more information/analysis/correlation with an awk/sed script then I will get with any SQL query, with the added benefit that I can import data from ANY text file and correlate it. I won't be dependent on having all data I am analyzing be in a common format.
TEXT is a common denominator....most any binary file can be converted to text and then the resulting text files can be analyzed. It doesn't work the other way around. You example of windows event logs is perfect....When I want to correlate them to some other text file that isn't in that format, I have to convert them.
It is pretty arrogant on the part of those RedHat devs to think that any system they will devise will have the entire ecosystem of Linux running to use it. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. That will always be the case.
I have no idea how they do it, but if I were designing to thwart your idea, OnStar would be part of the Engine Control Unit, and the only way to disable it would be a FW update or replacing the ECU with a third party unit that doesn't include OnStar. Then they hit you with DMCA for reverse engineering their software or void the warranty because of non-factory parts. I suppose you could always try to locate the antenna and clip that off, but you haven't disabled it....