Also, I figure a lot of people who live in that state will just list a friend's address in another state. Since nothing physical is being delivered, there's no effect on the actual purchase if one does this.
Here's how I solve this problem. I use iptables to block inbound ssh except for from one highly secure IP address. Then, I have a simple perl daemon set up which requires you to attempt to connect to one port, then another, and then it will open ssh to new connections for the next 60 seconds. The daemon doesn't respond to those connection requests. Just notes them.
The result? Someone has to guess the two "knock knock" ports, which is basically impossible. I don't get zillions of logon attempts, because my site appears to be a black hole.
And, if the daemon dies, I just access the server from the aforementioned very secure server.
Sadly, I think that's all we can expect from Microsoft at this point. They're too scared to make any major changes to the OS, given Vista's terrible reception.
I was actually kind of excited when I read the headline here. I thought maybe they were going to propose bringing up the full OS "instantly." This limited OS thing doesn't seem particularly useful to me. My Dell laptop already has an "instant on" media player thing, and I never use it.
TCP and ICMP is not a good way to test this. Plenty of IPs won't respond to a ping and don't have any TCP ports open for inbound connections (SYN flag set).
Really, I just think there's so much data out there that it's hard to do this effectively without compromising things. I'm not sure what the solution is, but letting a search engine go wild on the government's data seems possibly worse than the current state of affairs.
I've had this exact problem with Google. I made some porting for a set of code. My porting used Qt, which is distributed under a different license than the standard one Google uses. Anyway, it took like 6 months for the code to get posted online.
Does anyone else think the false start thing in track is kind of silly? They charge the first false start to the "field"? So there's some incentive for people who will likely lose to false start once just in hopes of messing others up.
My thing is i don't understand why people don't just make unsecured wifi routers that firewall one user from another. That way, you can get on the internet from it, but it's much harder to hack others on the same segment.
There's no question that copyright issues are developing in a way that pushes more power to the top of the pyramid at the expense of the little guy.
And, like it or not Google is not that much smaller than the largest companies in the US. They need to protect their image as much as anyone. And, features such as the "Cached" link on their website (among many, many others) have copyright implications.
All this means there's really no reason for Google to take a risk with their reputation by having a "loose cannon" blogging about practices which could have direct implications for Google.
This is what we really need. Yes I know there's software out there for a laptop, and yes I know there are $800 devices for this, but there should be a OLPC type device with a decent sized screen that you can put on your piano or music stand or whatever and grab music off a shared drive or flash RAM card.
One of these days people will figure out that people really do want single-purpose devices, like the Tivo or iPod, but for other, less pervasive, uses.
This article is basically Microsoft PR. Yeah yeah I recognize that you're dealing with a person or persons who did this of their own volition, but I'm sure there's more to the story than that.
If I were a manager at Microsoft I'd try to get articles like this out there as well.
Back a few years ago I did a lot of BT downloading. More recently, my only experience was in downloading a copy of Fedora 9. Surprisingly, Comcast was even hitting me with this RST garbage on that download. Pretty tiresome. If they're going to filter BT at least they could provide us some way to identify our transfers as "legitimate."
Not to mention the fact that, seeing as I do very little BT, why did they target me so quickly?
Watch out! Those gold farmers may get way ahead of you on WoW. Best either to play both or pay someone in a foreign country to play WoW for you while you're away.
I couldn't agree more. I recently installed Fedora 9 on a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop and everything was working from the get-go, including the Compiz wizardry. The only glitch was with the wi-fi card. I had to first connect the machine to the hardwired ethernet for it to download some sort of driver before it could find my wi-fi.
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Also, I figure a lot of people who live in that state will just list a friend's address in another state. Since nothing physical is being delivered, there's no effect on the actual purchase if one does this.
Here's how I solve this problem. I use iptables to block inbound ssh except for from one highly secure IP address. Then, I have a simple perl daemon set up which requires you to attempt to connect to one port, then another, and then it will open ssh to new connections for the next 60 seconds. The daemon doesn't respond to those connection requests. Just notes them.
The result? Someone has to guess the two "knock knock" ports, which is basically impossible. I don't get zillions of logon attempts, because my site appears to be a black hole.
And, if the daemon dies, I just access the server from the aforementioned very secure server.
Where does that energy go normally? Into heat? I mean, energy can't really be lost so it must go somewhere.
Sadly, I think that's all we can expect from Microsoft at this point. They're too scared to make any major changes to the OS, given Vista's terrible reception.
I've run Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop for over a year without a single lockup.
Now, I also run VirtualBox and Windows XP under that. *That* has locked up several times. So if that's what you mean, I agree.
I was actually kind of excited when I read the headline here. I thought maybe they were going to propose bringing up the full OS "instantly." This limited OS thing doesn't seem particularly useful to me. My Dell laptop already has an "instant on" media player thing, and I never use it.
TCP and ICMP is not a good way to test this. Plenty of IPs won't respond to a ping and don't have any TCP ports open for inbound connections (SYN flag set).
The thing that confuses me is there are less than 10B people in the world. So.....
Hilarious. Just hilarious.
Mod parent up. Inkscape is a great product for the whiteboarding side of this problem.
Same situation at my college actually. Jobs in computing are the "new i-banking" I guess.
Really, I just think there's so much data out there that it's hard to do this effectively without compromising things. I'm not sure what the solution is, but letting a search engine go wild on the government's data seems possibly worse than the current state of affairs.
Nice one. I was expecting the first post to be something about the world being 5000 years old. I guess I'll have to wait 15 minutes for that comment.
Right. And what does it even mean? If all it means is setting a bit somewhere in memory, shouldn't that be measured in nanoseconds?
I've had this exact problem with Google. I made some porting for a set of code. My porting used Qt, which is distributed under a different license than the standard one Google uses. Anyway, it took like 6 months for the code to get posted online.
Does anyone else think the false start thing in track is kind of silly? They charge the first false start to the "field"? So there's some incentive for people who will likely lose to false start once just in hopes of messing others up.
Sheesh. I guess no industry is immune to this whole trademarking / patent trolling issue. For some reason I thought agriculture might be. Silly me.
My thing is i don't understand why people don't just make unsecured wifi routers that firewall one user from another. That way, you can get on the internet from it, but it's much harder to hack others on the same segment.
There's no question that copyright issues are developing in a way that pushes more power to the top of the pyramid at the expense of the little guy.
And, like it or not Google is not that much smaller than the largest companies in the US. They need to protect their image as much as anyone. And, features such as the "Cached" link on their website (among many, many others) have copyright implications.
All this means there's really no reason for Google to take a risk with their reputation by having a "loose cannon" blogging about practices which could have direct implications for Google.
This is what we really need. Yes I know there's software out there for a laptop, and yes I know there are $800 devices for this, but there should be a OLPC type device with a decent sized screen that you can put on your piano or music stand or whatever and grab music off a shared drive or flash RAM card. One of these days people will figure out that people really do want single-purpose devices, like the Tivo or iPod, but for other, less pervasive, uses.
This article is basically Microsoft PR. Yeah yeah I recognize that you're dealing with a person or persons who did this of their own volition, but I'm sure there's more to the story than that. If I were a manager at Microsoft I'd try to get articles like this out there as well.
Not to mention the fact that, seeing as I do very little BT, why did they target me so quickly?
Watch out! Those gold farmers may get way ahead of you on WoW. Best either to play both or pay someone in a foreign country to play WoW for you while you're away.
I couldn't agree more. I recently installed Fedora 9 on a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop and everything was working from the get-go, including the Compiz wizardry. The only glitch was with the wi-fi card. I had to first connect the machine to the hardwired ethernet for it to download some sort of driver before it could find my wi-fi.
All this strikes me as a more-or-less semantic argument. Yes the system has flaws, and yes it's the best we've got. Nothing to see here...