U.S. ISPS need to be shot.
I am currently sitting on a couch in LaCygne, Kansas. Looking out the window, I can see the place where the fiber (yeah fiber, in a rural area) terminates if I look out the window.
Now guess what the speed is. Go ahead, guess.
512 KBits/320KBits.
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Back home in Texas, my Verizon DLS (non FIOS), is 1.5MBit/384KBit for $30/month. In other words, I can upload from home faster than I can download here in Texas.
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Now guess how much the Kansas line costs a month. Go ahead and guess.
$60/month.
Its all a scam, and there is no basis for it. Greed, pure and simple.
Why the heck would you allow non-hackers to protect you from the people you need to hide from?
I seem to recall that a group like the pirate bay, who made it their business to mask identity from powerful interests created baywords.com for exactly this purpose.
A misconfigured tor node or vpn stream could expose someone to torture or worse. A group like this needs to step back, and ask someone in the know to do it, and just offer funding.
Bunk.
Windows 7 is no better than XP in terms and security - just check the news for the last year or so. Furthermore, many of the last updates applied to XP brought 7's security "features" to XP; things like better canary support, an upgraded (still crap) firewall, and other such things. The notion that 7 is more secure than XP is just bollocks.
Now, I didn't read TFA (who does) but based on the summary, the authors are idiots (water is also wet).
Few buy unlocked phones because the unwashed masses, for the most part, don't know any better.
I have long been of the opinion that it should be unlawful for a cellular company to bundle phones with plans, and tie them to their network.
If people were forced to buy their own cell phone, and have companies forced to service it (I said service, not support) it would solve a lot of problems including:
Less cell phone waste. Because a good phone costs > $400, people will take care of them better. Less crap in our landfills, causing cancer etc.
Prices on cell phone plans would drop like a rock. No more double dipping on text messages, stupid data rate plans, etc
No more stupid kids with a high priced gadget they don't need (you know the ones I'm referring to)
Better cell phones, and faster market presence, as manufacturers will suddenly not be beholden to crap telecom companies, that restrict what the phones can actually do, rather than what the telecom wants to allow
Because cell phone manufacturers no longer have to deal with stupid restrictions, they can concentrate on innovating new features and better software/hardware
In other words, this article is based on an idea that amounts to ignorant nonsense.
The writer understands anything.
IT IS GOOD THAT CRIMINALS DO NOT PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON OUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION.
That basically means that the info is not all that dangerous. It means criminals are afraid of getting caught if they use it, so why spend all that much for it. If the criminals were sure they could get away with it and all they needed was the info, that information would go for a lot higher.
This is not true, and a very silly conclusion.
In reality, credit cards are worth very little, because they are a dime a dozen (pun intended).
Furthermore, the amount of profit that can be gained from a credit card number is very small compared to the amount of profit gained, by say...a World Of Warcraft account, or an SSN for actual identity fraud.
Why would you take a $2,000 credit line on a card, when you can take a $100,000 mortgage in someone else name?
In the future, please remember: "A conclusion is the place where you stopped thinking."
Make no mistake: if Linux were as widely used as Windows, there would be bugs galore to be a-cleaning in Linux land.
This is the same as stating: "If linux had the number of users that microsoft windows had, it would be victim to the same number of viruses, malware, and general script kiddies" which is complete bullshit.
I'm sick of hearing this argument, only a complete tool would believe it. *Nix systems are inherently more secure, due to its security model (file permissions, groups, no admin rights, etc), and to the fact that it literally forces you to not be a complete moron (security wise) while using it. Furthermore, because of the variety of software that can be installed on each box, only the most common programs (apache, nginx, ssl, ssh, etc) would be effective targets to attack, limiting the areas an admin needs to cover.
Due to the above, there are only certain attacks that would be effective to a *Nix system. Off the top of my head, this leaves: privilege escalation, man-in-the-middle, and social engineering (a problem everywhere, regardless of OS).
In short, a Linux machine that is run by a competent administrator is MUCH more difficult to infect or attack than a Windows machine, and the parent is a moron.
This site commits the sin of "click here to read the story -> "oh wait, click here again please, to be sent to the actual story".
Further fail, for being flash driven, and having those ridiculous cnet buttons plastered everywhere. Even worse, the comments system looks like it has been ripped straight from some of those craptacular "PC for morons" sites.
Funny. Over at speakeasy, I can get a line that is not only faster, but guaranteed bandwidth, and is unregulated as far as what I do with it. No idiot company blocking my ports, bitching about my fileserver, etc. Further, I can sign up for a resell plan and make money on my line, with speakeasy doing all the billing. Oh, and I can have that bundled in with VoIP access too? All for around the same $150?
Gratuitous link: http://www.speakeasy.net/home/
Please mr. ISP, tell me again how you aren't a simpering moron?
What a load of crap. I have no idea why boot speed is suddenly all over the media like it's some big thing..
My old desktop (Athlon XP era) does POST -> KDE, including me typing in my login and password, in under 6 seconds. None of this hibernation junk or w/e doohickey crap you youngins are coming up with.
How about that software that plays music, and is attuned to the load of each server?
Or how about using driftnet, pipe the output to a monitor in the lunchroom, complete with login name, so that everyone sees who is looking at amazon.com/porno?
Yeah I know it's not precisely what you asked for, but you can't say you didn't have the same thought.
Also, this is not a contract. Clicking 'I agree' is not a legal way to sign a contract and it is not legal to unilaterally add conditions once a deal is done
Yes they are.
The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, The Federal E-Sign Act (adopted in various states, in various forms), the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (only adopted by two states) and the No Electronic Theft Act all cover this.
Futhermore, courts have always applied paper and pencil principles to electronic contracts; that is, they follow laws designed before computers and apply them in new ways, in order to deal with the Information Age. EULA's are termed Shrink-Wrap Licenses and Browse-Wrap Contracts.
Please refer to your nearest Federal Register section at your local library before spouting such nonsense. Or take a course, which is where above info came from. (Hint: Westlaw Business Law/West Legal Studies: ISBN# 0-324-37721-5, Chapter 17)
I fail to see how this is news.
My crux box (www.crux.nu) boots from POST -> KDE in about 6 seconds. That's *usable* desktop, including the time it takes me to type my un and password. My hardware is not exactly new either, so again, I fail to see what is newsworthy here, or why everyone else has such long boot times.
Could not agree more. The RIAA's past actions in lawsuits have handed Mr. Beckerman far more ammunition than he really needs to fight back.
Have a look at the list of case brief quotes all along the right hand of his website - he is not only someone capable of fighting back, he is intimately familiar with each major case the RIAA has lost.
Besides, this is a net win for everyone; suing a lawyer is a lot like getting into a car wreck with an insurance adjuster.
If I recall, one of the Gundam Wing Anime Series, dealt with the questions of robots in war. It pointed out the most critical question of all:
War is about sacrifice, cost, and essentially fighting for what you believe in, hold dear, and WILL DIE to preserve. If you remove the *human* cost from war, then where is the cost? What will it mean if no-one dies? Will anyone remember what was fought for? Will they even recognize why it was so important in the first place?
Also, if we have mass armies of robots, won't the victor simply be the one with the most natural resources (metal, power, etc) to waste? (Better weapons technology aside)
When the user is done with the computer, just reboot, and it will be back to its original configuration. If users need a 10MB space or whatever for bookmarks, load them to an internal webpage, or allow that space on a spare computer.
No mess, no fuss, easy.
Disclaimer: I used deep freeze on my grandmother's computer because i grew tired of hearing about broken things every time I visited.
That was several years back, and I have not heard a peep since.
Whats all this crap about Bill and Melinda Gates being great samaritans, and Rockefeller being a great donator?
Its all crap.
Billy G does it to promote his Microsoft products and to make politicians feel guilty about not buying M$ when he has "helped their country in the past"
Rockefeller, kept a personal army, and murdered any worker that refused to work, participated in a strike, or said anything else he didn't like. Henry Ford did the same, as did a hundred other "good samaritans"
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What will you do when your SIM dies? Those things should be replaced every few years, just from wear.
Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Madly And Out loud. Wow, that sounds totally offensive! Idiots.
PC World is to accuracy as Microsoft is security. Abort? Fail? Retry?
U.S. ISPS need to be shot.
I am currently sitting on a couch in LaCygne, Kansas. Looking out the window, I can see the place where the fiber (yeah fiber, in a rural area) terminates if I look out the window.
Now guess what the speed is. Go ahead, guess.
512 KBits/320KBits.
/
Back home in Texas, my Verizon DLS (non FIOS), is 1.5MBit/384KBit for $30/month. In other words, I can upload from home faster than I can download here in Texas.
/
Now guess how much the Kansas line costs a month. Go ahead and guess.
$60/month.
Its all a scam, and there is no basis for it. Greed, pure and simple.
Why the heck would you allow non-hackers to protect you from the people you need to hide from?
I seem to recall that a group like the pirate bay, who made it their business to mask identity from powerful interests created baywords.com for exactly this purpose.
A misconfigured tor node or vpn stream could expose someone to torture or worse. A group like this needs to step back, and ask someone in the know to do it, and just offer funding.
Bunk.
Windows 7 is no better than XP in terms and security - just check the news for the last year or so. Furthermore, many of the last updates applied to XP brought 7's security "features" to XP; things like better canary support, an upgraded (still crap) firewall, and other such things. The notion that 7 is more secure than XP is just bollocks.
You can't convert Tex to .doc. Consider yourself told, OP.
Wrong. Tmo uses 1700 and 2100.
Basket
http://basket.kde.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Notetaking_software
Few buy unlocked phones because the unwashed masses, for the most part, don't know any better.
I have long been of the opinion that it should be unlawful for a cellular company to bundle phones with plans, and tie them to their network.
If people were forced to buy their own cell phone, and have companies forced to service it (I said service, not support) it would solve a lot of problems including:
In other words, this article is based on an idea that amounts to ignorant nonsense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy
"No"
Restrict blood flow to their finger tips
Shoot the ends up with cocaine
Shave off the fingerprints with a knife
Voila, no more prints.
Why is this a big deal?
Fluxbox (and probably something else before *box) had tab grouping windows long time ago.
This is not true, and a very silly conclusion.
In reality, credit cards are worth very little, because they are a dime a dozen (pun intended). Furthermore, the amount of profit that can be gained from a credit card number is very small compared to the amount of profit gained, by say...a World Of Warcraft account, or an SSN for actual identity fraud.
Why would you take a $2,000 credit line on a card, when you can take a $100,000 mortgage in someone else name?
In the future, please remember: "A conclusion is the place where you stopped thinking."
Parent poster is full of crap.
Make no mistake: if Linux were as widely used as Windows, there would be bugs galore to be a-cleaning in Linux land.
This is the same as stating: "If linux had the number of users that microsoft windows had, it would be victim to the same number of viruses, malware, and general script kiddies" which is complete bullshit.
I'm sick of hearing this argument, only a complete tool would believe it. *Nix systems are inherently more secure, due to its security model (file permissions, groups, no admin rights, etc), and to the fact that it literally forces you to not be a complete moron (security wise) while using it. Furthermore, because of the variety of software that can be installed on each box, only the most common programs (apache, nginx, ssl, ssh, etc) would be effective targets to attack, limiting the areas an admin needs to cover.
Due to the above, there are only certain attacks that would be effective to a *Nix system. Off the top of my head, this leaves: privilege escalation, man-in-the-middle, and social engineering (a problem everywhere, regardless of OS).
In short, a Linux machine that is run by a competent administrator is MUCH more difficult to infect or attack than a Windows machine, and the parent is a moron.
Fail.
This site commits the sin of "click here to read the story -> "oh wait, click here again please, to be sent to the actual story".
Further fail, for being flash driven, and having those ridiculous cnet buttons plastered everywhere. Even worse, the comments system looks like it has been ripped straight from some of those craptacular "PC for morons" sites.
Way to take a great idea and garbage it.
Funny. Over at speakeasy, I can get a line that is not only faster, but guaranteed bandwidth, and is unregulated as far as what I do with it. No idiot company blocking my ports, bitching about my fileserver, etc. Further, I can sign up for a resell plan and make money on my line, with speakeasy doing all the billing. Oh, and I can have that bundled in with VoIP access too? All for around the same $150? Gratuitous link: http://www.speakeasy.net/home/
Please mr. ISP, tell me again how you aren't a simpering moron?
What a load of crap. I have no idea why boot speed is suddenly all over the media like it's some big thing..
My old desktop (Athlon XP era) does POST -> KDE, including me typing in my login and password, in under 6 seconds. None of this hibernation junk or w/e doohickey crap you youngins are coming up with.
How about that software that plays music, and is attuned to the load of each server?
Or how about using driftnet, pipe the output to a monitor in the lunchroom, complete with login name, so that everyone sees who is looking at amazon.com/porno?
Yeah I know it's not precisely what you asked for, but you can't say you didn't have the same thought.
(driftnet: http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/ )
Yes they are.
The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, The Federal E-Sign Act (adopted in various states, in various forms), the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (only adopted by two states) and the No Electronic Theft Act all cover this.
Futhermore, courts have always applied paper and pencil principles to electronic contracts; that is, they follow laws designed before computers and apply them in new ways, in order to deal with the Information Age. EULA's are termed Shrink-Wrap Licenses and Browse-Wrap Contracts.
Please refer to your nearest Federal Register section at your local library before spouting such nonsense. Or take a course, which is where above info came from. (Hint: Westlaw Business Law/West Legal Studies: ISBN# 0-324-37721-5, Chapter 17)
I fail to see how this is news.
My crux box (www.crux.nu) boots from POST -> KDE in about 6 seconds. That's *usable* desktop, including the time it takes me to type my un and password. My hardware is not exactly new either, so again, I fail to see what is newsworthy here, or why everyone else has such long boot times.
Could not agree more. The RIAA's past actions in lawsuits have handed Mr. Beckerman far more ammunition than he really needs to fight back.
Have a look at the list of case brief quotes all along the right hand of his website - he is not only someone capable of fighting back, he is intimately familiar with each major case the RIAA has lost.
Besides, this is a net win for everyone; suing a lawyer is a lot like getting into a car wreck with an insurance adjuster.
If I recall, one of the Gundam Wing Anime Series, dealt with the questions of robots in war. It pointed out the most critical question of all:
War is about sacrifice, cost, and essentially fighting for what you believe in, hold dear, and WILL DIE to preserve. If you remove the *human* cost from war, then where is the cost? What will it mean if no-one dies? Will anyone remember what was fought for? Will they even recognize why it was so important in the first place?
Also, if we have mass armies of robots, won't the victor simply be the one with the most natural resources (metal, power, etc) to waste? (Better weapons technology aside)
Why make this so difficult? Simply use Deep Freeze http://www.faronics.com/ or Clean Slate http://www.fortresgrand.com/products/cls/cls.htm.
When the user is done with the computer, just reboot, and it will be back to its original configuration. If users need a 10MB space or whatever for bookmarks, load them to an internal webpage, or allow that space on a spare computer.
No mess, no fuss, easy.
Disclaimer: I used deep freeze on my grandmother's computer because i grew tired of hearing about broken things every time I visited. That was several years back, and I have not heard a peep since.
Whats all this crap about Bill and Melinda Gates being great samaritans, and Rockefeller being a great donator?
Its all crap.
Billy G does it to promote his Microsoft products and to make politicians feel guilty about not buying M$ when he has "helped their country in the past"
Rockefeller, kept a personal army, and murdered any worker that refused to work, participated in a strike, or said anything else he didn't like. Henry Ford did the same, as did a hundred other "good samaritans"
So, NO, you check *your* facts.