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Please learn some grammar. That subject is very confusing. Possessive is "their" - "there" is a place. Sorry to be language nazi but I had to read that subject line 4 times to decipher what the heck you were trying to say.
Wouldn't work. These people are sending their mail through open relays, not ones that they're paying for. They're stealing a tiny fraction of a cent for use of the server now. If that server got charged back for forwarding the spam, they'd just be incurring charges on the people running the open relay.
On 2nd thought, maybe that's not such a bad thing. Maybe people would be "encouraged" to secure their open relays when they get the $70,000 bill from their ISP for forwarding all those spams.
sick of the woes of the 2 gig limit on zip's data structure
Not only that, there are apparently file number limits also. I recently had to archive up a few million small files, and ZIP just exploded. I tried InfoZIP on Linux and WinZIP, and both did the same thing, created the ZIP file but then it didn't work.
So I used RAR. I really don't ever use anything else anymore; RAR is what they have to surpass now.
Yeah, the only time I use ZIP anymore is to send stuff to people who I know have WinZIP and are too clueless to even think about moving them up.
RAR is far and away better, including Linux support from the manufacturer (rather than from 3rd parties, which will lag in feature implementation). It's not open source, but the same license works across platforms and the unRAR thing is free beer everywhere.
No, this is an example of goverment interference in a capatalistic society. Perhaps it is correct to say that this is how elected (some might say corrupt) government (such as the US has) works.
The capatalist thing to do is to let companies that cannot respond to new technologies and markets die a natural death while new companies take their place.
Unfortunately this means that people will be displaced from jobs, and they must be willing to learn new things in order to be employable at new positions. People don't like this, they want to just stay doing the same old thing forever, so they get their elected officials to try to maintain the status quo.
In the end it will result in stifling of new technologies and that country will ultimately pay a price.
This is simply not true. I can guarantee you that the two teams that I belong to are not cheating. Of course, the biggest one only recently topped 100K WUs for 55 members (only about 20 active members).
I think that there are a lot of people cheating, but to say that every team is cheating is not really fair. Perhaps any team over 1000 members will have a high likelihood of a cheater being in it.
These people don't give a rat's ass about the science, they're just trying to win the geek tractor pull and if they have to use illegal fuel or slash the other guy's tires, they'll do it.
Buncha f***in a**h*les. *I* am in it for the science. I'm not a huge contributor but I do what I can, and am approaching 10K work units. I'd hate to think that all the work units me and thousands of other people have done over the years are going to have to be thrown out because these jerks were just trying to win the game.
I don't see how anyone gets satisfaction out of winning by cheating, but obviously they must. To me you're just proving you can figure out how to cheat and don't really care about the project.
Maybe they could salvage the science by throwing out any results from anyone that submitted more than (name some number, like 100,000) work units, thereby eliminating a great number of cheaters.
No set-top box will EVER play DivX 3.11 - it's a hacked Microsoft codec. If anyone ever built and marketed a player that used it, MS would sue their asses to oblivion, and they'd win. DivX 4 and 5 (which are better codecs anyway) were independently written, rather than just hacked MS code.
I am personally kind of surprised that they were even able to get online. Sure there's a market for coast-to-coast single channel coverage, but how much of the market can truck drivers cover?
Most people spend 99%+ of their time driving within 50 miles of home, where one radio station will cover them. Anyone who's all that picky about what they listen to will probably want to listen to CDs anyway. Personally I'm probably going to get a car MP3 player (I was waiting for an OGG player but I'm tired of waiting).
I spend $120 a year but I send it to public radio.
I don't think it reprograms the eeprom. If it did, the new MAC address would survive being removed from one computer and put into another. In my tests it reverts back to the factory MAC even when you reinstall the OS.
I thought they the MAC address was burned in to the chips themselves
It is stored on a PROM on the card. And the driver reads it, and stores it in computer memory. Then you go into the driver settings and override it, assuming the driver allows that; it's up to the driver.
The NIC never sends its MAC out on its own. The MAC is incorporated into the packet by the driver. The driver can send whatever the hell it wants to for the MAC address.
In Windows the changeablility of the MAC address depends on your driver. On my Dell laptop it's as easy as going into the NIC's properties and changing the number. On my desktop here at work I don't see an obvious way to do it.
Under Linux I think it's just ifconfig with some options.
That's for sure. I have to buy a new floppy drive every time I use it. That's because I only use a floppy drive about once every 12 to 18 months when someone gives me a floppy instead of emailing files to me. By then, my floppy drive is level full of dust and cat hair. At least on the Dell laptop I can pull the floppy drive and put it in a bag to keep it clean.
I've always been a bit suspicious that there was some guidance in solutions, possibly so that there are always two differently-built machines in the competition. I've seen EVERY episode of both the UK and the US competition including the current UK season (which is GREAT BTW).
As far as I can remember, there have NEVER been two identically-designed builds (OK, UK Power Pullers was close, except small engine/auto xmission vs large/manual); it seems that ONCE in a while the two teams would do the same thing, or at least, start out trying to until it became obvious that there weren't enough parts for both teams to do the same thing.
Furthermore, when the US and UK shows do identical challenges, the two design solutions seem always to be identical (White Water 2001 - one airboat, one jet-boat on each show). This makes me think that the experts have been coached beforehand. I have seen Scrapheap Commandments and realize that a lot of work goes into preparing the 'heap with proper equipment, but it seems that actually telling the experts "You build a jet-boat, you build an air-boat" would be crossing the line.
Comments?
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I must say that though I thought the show was running out of ideas, the current season is VERY good, nice new challenges. Can't wait to see the US show do the "Rapid Fire" idea that the UK show used this year (maybe next season).
Whatever the answer, it's still one of the best shows out there. There's a big following of the show among my friends, and I'll pretty much watch whatever you show up on to check it out. Also my 11-year-old daughter has really taken to science (and welding (!)) since getting in to watching Scrapheap. Also in case you didn't know about it, several science-leaning science fiction conventions (at least in the midwest) are having mini-scrapheap challenges - indoors, a pile of stuff, build XYZ thing (smaller-than-a-breadbox scrapheap).
Thanks for a great show! New ideas in TV wasteland are rare.
Keep in mind that the wide shots of the teams working do have flood lights in shot. The cameras compensating for this will cause the sky to go black in contrast, whereas shooting soft-lit subjects close up with the sky in the background will still allow the sky some brightness even at the same time of day.
But if you watch "Scrapheap: The Commandments" (don't know if this is available in the US), they as much as say that some of the teams have to be given some help in order that they have anything to show.
IOW, if she was used to OO.o, she would say that MS Office "sucked" for exactly the same reasons?
I use OO.o - my wife uses WP8/Windows (I used it too until I got OO.o). I like OO.o better but WP8 is nice as well. I find OO.o just works a little easier than WP at everything I do. Of course "what I do" is to write simple documents that are NOT terribly dependent on exact formatting, and doing relatively simple spreadsheets which I seldom print out (they're only for doing product comparisons, etc and I just need to look at them and play with the numbers until I have a satisfactory answer).
The filter gets flipped out of the way when you turn on Nightshot. It's true this blocks a lot of IR, but not all of it. A remote control puts out a fair amount of light, it's easy to see it lighting a small chunk of a bright surface (such as a movie screen); a projector should be able to do better.
True, when the Nightshot is turned on, removing the IR block filter, you can use a remote control as a flashlight.
Still, it wouldn't take much. Just an IR laser (VERY CHEAP) being panned around the screen by a rotating mirror would bug the hell out of anyone trying to watch the movie on a recorded version.
Camcorders are sensitive to IR that our eyes are not. Why not just project a nice 60's style spinning swirl pattern in IR? You could build this out of garage sale junk for about $50 and it would make any videotaped version of a movie pretty much unwatchable, and not be visible to humans.
As a side benefit, it would also allow MIB to root out unregistered space aliens; they'd be the ones complaining about the weird patterns on the screen.
What purpose does this serve?
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The people doing the wardriving/walking/chalking are not doing anything illegal, AFAIK. The people running the network left a door open on a public street. If they don't want people in, they should lock the door.
The only purpose of this would be to determine whether people were looking for open networks. I can save them some money right here: the answer is "yes" - now spend your money securing your network instead of hiring consultants and "investigating."
I don't fault the company making the honeypot in this case. They're simply taking advantage of the cluelessness of companies.
I can't imagine why you'd want to BUY this though; renting one should be enough. You rent, you find out people are snooping around, you take the thing back and start concentrating on locking down.
Even better; hire someone to come by once every few months and try to break into your network. If they can, then fix the problem. Repeating this occasionally takes care of the departments/individuals that go down to Fry's and buy a WAP and install it without the knowledge of the IT dept.
Does this take into account heat dissipation? I don't think so. This is only a measure of heat generation. If the drive is able to dump heat to the air efficiently where it can be dumped to the outside via a fan, then that's different than generating the heat and retaining it.
Some people will want both numbers. If you're building a system with very little ventilation, you don't even want the heat generated in the first place. But if you're just looking for reliability of the drive, maybe generating heat is OK if the drive can keep its temperature down.
Uh, no. I have a couple of servers for which I just need a bunch of space. I don't give a DAMN about performance; they could all be ATA-33 for all I care. I want them quiet, cool, and reliable. It's about time someone did this review (hopefully someday soon I'll be able to read it, when it's not/.'d anymore.)
No, going to war won't help. Companies these days wouldn't fail to enforce a patent no matter what was going on. The only way they'd cooperate with infringing companies would be under presidential order and threat of being shot for treason. And even if that happened, the minute the threat was over, they'd be in court suing for compensation.
She meant JOB security, namely hers and other MS employees.
No, really, security is just their new buzzword. "We're all working on security now."
If Bill had called for MS to increase their twinkie awareness, then no matter what they were doing, they'd call it a twinkie. "We changed the EULA." Why? "Because we're always working to increase the level of twinkies in our products."
It's you, you're going deaf. 128k MP3's sound like hell. They're OK for listening to music on cheap headphones while mowing the lawn or something, but in any kind of real situation, 192 or 256K mp3 is minimally acceptable. I'm anxiously awaiting the first OGG compatible portable.
Of course, depending on the kind of music you listen to, munging up the waveform may not have any noticable effect:-/
Ditto. I do buy Sony stuff if their product is clearly the best choice, and if it contains no proprietary media/etc. I won't consider them when buying a DV camcorder if it's a model that has a damn memory stick for stills, for instance. Don't even get me started about Digital8.
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Please learn some grammar. That subject is very confusing. Possessive is "their" - "there" is a place.
Sorry to be language nazi but I had to read that subject line 4 times to decipher what the heck you were trying to say.
Wouldn't work. These people are sending their mail through open relays, not ones that they're paying for. They're stealing a tiny fraction of a cent for use of the server now. If that server got charged back for forwarding the spam, they'd just be incurring charges on the people running the open relay.
On 2nd thought, maybe that's not such a bad thing. Maybe people would be "encouraged" to secure their open relays when they get the $70,000 bill from their ISP for forwarding all those spams.
sick of the woes of the 2 gig limit on zip's data structure
Not only that, there are apparently file number limits also. I recently had to archive up a few million small files, and ZIP just exploded. I tried InfoZIP on Linux and WinZIP, and both did the same thing, created the ZIP file but then it didn't work.
So I used RAR. I really don't ever use anything else anymore; RAR is what they have to surpass now.
Yeah, the only time I use ZIP anymore is to send stuff to people who I know have WinZIP and are too clueless to even think about moving them up.
RAR is far and away better, including Linux support from the manufacturer (rather than from 3rd parties, which will lag in feature implementation). It's not open source, but the same license works across platforms and the unRAR thing is free beer everywhere.
thats just the way that capitalism 'works'
No, this is an example of goverment interference in a capatalistic society. Perhaps it is correct to say that this is how elected (some might say corrupt) government (such as the US has) works.
The capatalist thing to do is to let companies that cannot respond to new technologies and markets die a natural death while new companies take their place.
Unfortunately this means that people will be displaced from jobs, and they must be willing to learn new things in order to be employable at new positions. People don't like this, they want to just stay doing the same old thing forever, so they get their elected officials to try to maintain the status quo.
In the end it will result in stifling of new technologies and that country will ultimately pay a price.
This is simply not true. I can guarantee you that the two teams that I belong to are not cheating. Of course, the biggest one only recently topped 100K WUs for 55 members (only about 20 active members).
I think that there are a lot of people cheating, but to say that every team is cheating is not really fair. Perhaps any team over 1000 members will have a high likelihood of a cheater being in it.
These people don't give a rat's ass about the science, they're just trying to win the geek tractor pull and if they have to use illegal fuel or slash the other guy's tires, they'll do it.
Buncha f***in a**h*les. *I* am in it for the science. I'm not a huge contributor but I do what I can, and am approaching 10K work units. I'd hate to think that all the work units me and thousands of other people have done over the years are going to have to be thrown out because these jerks were just trying to win the game.
I don't see how anyone gets satisfaction out of winning by cheating, but obviously they must. To me you're just proving you can figure out how to cheat and don't really care about the project.
Maybe they could salvage the science by throwing out any results from anyone that submitted more than (name some number, like 100,000) work units, thereby eliminating a great number of cheaters.
No set-top box will EVER play DivX 3.11 - it's a hacked Microsoft codec. If anyone ever built and marketed a player that used it, MS would sue their asses to oblivion, and they'd win. DivX 4 and 5 (which are better codecs anyway) were independently written, rather than just hacked MS code.
I am personally kind of surprised that they were even able to get online. Sure there's a market for coast-to-coast single channel coverage, but how much of the market can truck drivers cover?
Most people spend 99%+ of their time driving within 50 miles of home, where one radio station will cover them. Anyone who's all that picky about what they listen to will probably want to listen to CDs anyway. Personally I'm probably going to get a car MP3 player (I was waiting for an OGG player but I'm tired of waiting).
I spend $120 a year but I send it to public radio.
...and Buy.com has it for $28.31 plus free shipping.
I don't think it reprograms the eeprom. If it did, the new MAC address would survive being removed from one computer and put into another. In my tests it reverts back to the factory MAC even when you reinstall the OS.
I thought they the MAC address was burned in to the chips themselves
It is stored on a PROM on the card. And the driver reads it, and stores it in computer memory. Then you go into the driver settings and override it, assuming the driver allows that; it's up to the driver.
The NIC never sends its MAC out on its own. The MAC is incorporated into the packet by the driver. The driver can send whatever the hell it wants to for the MAC address.
In Windows the changeablility of the MAC address depends on your driver. On my Dell laptop it's as easy as going into the NIC's properties and changing the number. On my desktop here at work I don't see an obvious way to do it.
Under Linux I think it's just ifconfig with some options.
That's for sure. I have to buy a new floppy drive every time I use it. That's because I only use a floppy drive about once every 12 to 18 months when someone gives me a floppy instead of emailing files to me. By then, my floppy drive is level full of dust and cat hair.
At least on the Dell laptop I can pull the floppy drive and put it in a bag to keep it clean.
I've always been a bit suspicious that there was some guidance in solutions, possibly so that there are always two differently-built machines in the competition. I've seen EVERY episode of both the UK and the US competition including the current UK season (which is GREAT BTW).
As far as I can remember, there have NEVER been two identically-designed builds (OK, UK Power Pullers was close, except small engine/auto xmission vs large/manual); it seems that ONCE in a while the two teams would do the same thing, or at least, start out trying to until it became obvious that there weren't enough parts for both teams to do the same thing.
Furthermore, when the US and UK shows do identical challenges, the two design solutions seem always to be identical (White Water 2001 - one airboat, one jet-boat on each show). This makes me think that the experts have been coached beforehand. I have seen Scrapheap Commandments and realize that a lot of work goes into preparing the 'heap with proper equipment, but it seems that actually telling the experts "You build a jet-boat, you build an air-boat" would be crossing the line.
Comments?
-- end of question, begin rambling --
I must say that though I thought the show was running out of ideas, the current season is VERY good, nice new challenges. Can't wait to see the US show do the "Rapid Fire" idea that the UK show used this year (maybe next season).
Whatever the answer, it's still one of the best shows out there. There's a big following of the show among my friends, and I'll pretty much watch whatever you show up on to check it out. Also my 11-year-old daughter has really taken to science (and welding (!)) since getting in to watching Scrapheap. Also in case you didn't know about it, several science-leaning science fiction conventions (at least in the midwest) are having mini-scrapheap challenges - indoors, a pile of stuff, build XYZ thing (smaller-than-a-breadbox scrapheap).
Thanks for a great show! New ideas in TV wasteland are rare.
Keep in mind that the wide shots of the teams working do have flood lights in shot. The cameras compensating for this will cause the sky to go black in contrast, whereas shooting soft-lit subjects close up with the sky in the background will still allow the sky some brightness even at the same time of day.
But if you watch "Scrapheap: The Commandments" (don't know if this is available in the US), they as much as say that some of the teams have to be given some help in order that they have anything to show.
IOW, if she was used to OO.o, she would say that MS Office "sucked" for exactly the same reasons?
I use OO.o - my wife uses WP8/Windows (I used it too until I got OO.o). I like OO.o better but WP8 is nice as well. I find OO.o just works a little easier than WP at everything I do. Of course "what I do" is to write simple documents that are NOT terribly dependent on exact formatting, and doing relatively simple spreadsheets which I seldom print out (they're only for doing product comparisons, etc and I just need to look at them and play with the numbers until I have a satisfactory answer).
The filter gets flipped out of the way when you turn on Nightshot.
It's true this blocks a lot of IR, but not all of it. A remote control puts out a fair amount of light, it's easy to see it lighting a small chunk of a bright surface (such as a movie screen); a projector should be able to do better.
True, when the Nightshot is turned on, removing the IR block filter, you can use a remote control as a flashlight.
Still, it wouldn't take much. Just an IR laser (VERY CHEAP) being panned around the screen by a rotating mirror would bug the hell out of anyone trying to watch the movie on a recorded version.
Camcorders are sensitive to IR that our eyes are not. Why not just project a nice 60's style spinning swirl pattern in IR? You could build this out of garage sale junk for about $50 and it would make any videotaped version of a movie pretty much unwatchable, and not be visible to humans.
As a side benefit, it would also allow MIB to root out unregistered space aliens; they'd be the ones complaining about the weird patterns on the screen.
The people doing the wardriving/walking/chalking are not doing anything illegal, AFAIK. The people running the network left a door open on a public street. If they don't want people in, they should lock the door.
The only purpose of this would be to determine whether people were looking for open networks. I can save them some money right here: the answer is "yes" - now spend your money securing your network instead of hiring consultants and "investigating."
I don't fault the company making the honeypot in this case. They're simply taking advantage of the cluelessness of companies.
I can't imagine why you'd want to BUY this though; renting one should be enough. You rent, you find out people are snooping around, you take the thing back and start concentrating on locking down.
Even better; hire someone to come by once every few months and try to break into your network. If they can, then fix the problem. Repeating this occasionally takes care of the departments/individuals that go down to Fry's and buy a WAP and install it without the knowledge of the IT dept.
Does this take into account heat dissipation? I don't think so. This is only a measure of heat generation. If the drive is able to dump heat to the air efficiently where it can be dumped to the outside via a fan, then that's different than generating the heat and retaining it.
Some people will want both numbers. If you're building a system with very little ventilation, you don't even want the heat generated in the first place. But if you're just looking for reliability of the drive, maybe generating heat is OK if the drive can keep its temperature down.
Uh, no. I have a couple of servers for which I just need a bunch of space. I don't give a DAMN about performance; they could all be ATA-33 for all I care. I want them quiet, cool, and reliable. /.'d anymore.)
It's about time someone did this review (hopefully someday soon I'll be able to read it, when it's not
No, going to war won't help. Companies these days wouldn't fail to enforce a patent no matter what was going on. The only way they'd cooperate with infringing companies would be under presidential order and threat of being shot for treason. And even if that happened, the minute the threat was over, they'd be in court suing for compensation.
She meant JOB security, namely hers and other MS employees.
No, really, security is just their new buzzword. "We're all working on security now."
If Bill had called for MS to increase their twinkie awareness, then no matter what they were doing, they'd call it a twinkie. "We changed the EULA." Why? "Because we're always working to increase the level of twinkies in our products."
It's you, you're going deaf. 128k MP3's sound like hell. They're OK for listening to music on cheap headphones while mowing the lawn or something, but in any kind of real situation, 192 or 256K mp3 is minimally acceptable. I'm anxiously awaiting the first OGG compatible portable.
:-/
Of course, depending on the kind of music you listen to, munging up the waveform may not have any noticable effect
Ditto. I do buy Sony stuff if their product is clearly the best choice, and if it contains no proprietary media/etc. I won't consider them when buying a DV camcorder if it's a model that has a damn memory stick for stills, for instance. Don't even get me started about Digital8.