While the number is still about 2500 deaths lower for Canada, no statistic can take into account the fact that the US has far more urban areas with more people packed more tightly together than Canada.
Errr, this is nonsensical. Per capita I'd wager that more Canadians live in urban areas than in the US.
I wish the origin of this thread didn't start another bullshit Canada versus the US thread - As a Canadian I'm sick of hearing people beating their chest and bleating about how great Canada is, just as I'm sick of all the ridiculous FUD slams at Canada that follow. Anyone mentioning Canada in a thread about the US needs to be brutalized.
NAT does not prevent any kind of packets from moving in either direction.
Right, but NAT in a practical sense (i.e. a Linksys router - the "NAT" that 99.9% of the public is talking about) is effectively a stateful firewall - for every packet coming in from the WAN it tries to match it up with an outbound connection (or it forwards it to a specified machine if the rules are setup such), and packets which don't map it drops to the ground.
Huh? You claim that NAT "does nothing for security", but then go on to claim that it's the same as a firewall that disallows incoming connections : No shit. That's precisely why NAT does "something" for security -- it's like a limited firewall that only allows outgoing connections, or replies to those connections.
Evangelize firewalls, but don't make up nonsensical FUD about NAT to support your argument (especially when you're refuting your own blanket statement).
Out of honest curiousity, what are those additional features? I'm most certainly not a SenderID expert (or even informed layman), but I've browsed through the SenderID documents and the feature seems to be nothing more than listing outbound IPs in your DNS entries. What else does it offer?
I don't think SenderID is anything whatsoever like PGP. Coincidentally I went to Microsoft.com and read about SenderID today to see what the fuss is about. Turns out, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, it's simply an extension record in your DNS MX record that basically lists the possible outgoing IP addresses for email from a certain domain. For instance Citibank would add their outgoing mail servers in their MX record (because presumably only authorized agents will be screwing with the MX record), and any recipient can simply check the MX record and get the possible source IP addresses, rejecting the phish attempt from some server in central Russia. There's a tool to configure the extension block.
As an aside, because invariably someone will mention this, TCP (on which SMTP is based) is connection based, so spoofing isn't an issue.
It's in the article man. One of the most important points made actually. I don't know how much of a divergance there can be from such a statement. If they say "no more graphics driver related BSODs", the *only* possibility is that the driver now sits on ring 3...
I guess I mistakingly base my knowledge of Longhorn on the accumulation of technical information I've read, rather than a random quote in a sparse posting. For instance http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/graph ics-reqs.mspx#XSLTsection126121120120. Here the reliability improvements are categorized as some basic new functions in the display driver, including the ability to reset the video card (who hasn't had a game crash out leaving the otherwise stable desktop in a visually unusable state), as well as some other basic improvements. If a driver fulfills these requirements, it gets the Microsoft seal of approval. I fail to see where the magical switch to ring-3 is mentioned.
On a different note, the really amazing thing about Avalon, and you gotta commend Moft for this, is that they're actually moving the graphics driver to User-mode.
Do you have a source for this? My impression of Avalon is that it's a library and version of Explorer.exe that sits on top of DirectX - of course the video card driver would still be ring 0, and the GDI+++ library (the new Avalon graphics library) would be user mode, just as GDI or GDI+ are today. Avalon represents a new interface application and set of tools for third party applications to use, but it isn't a tremendous plumbing change.
Funny thing about Microsoft software - invariably it hits the market as is dramatically less of a schism than people imagined it to be.
And people wonder why no one believes them when they have a legitimate gripe.
One of the big electric retailers used to allow you to return any electronics up to something like 3 months after the date of purchase for a full refund. I remember being in disbelief hearing that there was a large group of people that would go and buy video cards, wait until just before until the expiry of the return window and then return it for the newest latest and greatest. People wonder why they face such difficulty getting fair treatment from corporations, but usually it's because for every one legitimate issue there are a dozen weasles and thieves trying to abuse the system.
But imagine if you have a dvd player or vcr you want to record from. Or even your videocamera. Hey, look at that! There's a whole lot of things out there that can output in more formats than you dreamed of.
Videocameras and DVD players generally don't have coax outputs. Obviously the use of coax is when you're using this as a tuner, which about 99.99% of people who buy TV cards do.
I agree with the parent of this thread - the nonsensical wire preaching in the review was inane, and clearly was fluff to fill up what was otherwise a fairly empty "review".
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The fact is, there are tons of counterfit bills lower then $50s or $100s, they just aren't spotted as often.
Virtually all counterfeits are detected (and removed from circulation) once they cycle through a chartered bank - the Bank of Canada knows precisely how many counterfeits are seen in circulation in a given year.
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I see them on a monthly basis - that's how most people I know pay rent.
I have to ask - Do you live in a crack house or something? [or have landlords that fly under the government's radar] Where in the world do landlords accept cash as a payment for rent?
I think the largest paper cash purchase I've made in the past five years was...hell I don't think it's more than a $40 dinner at a family restaurant. For everything else it's credit or debit cards, or of course cheques.
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It's not a manual process. There are a large number of automated, and very complex, currency checks that the chartered banks perform.
Wealth is a game (a very high stakes game), and while there are exceptions most people become wealthy by playing the game well, with the participations of others. If someone is basically making themself wealthy by printing money, they are circumventing the rules of the game and undermining the economy.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I don't think "science fiction fans" is overly difficult to comprehend - this is a group that as a whole has an unbelievably optimistic perception of the pace of space travel, and any indications to the contrary are met by absolutely classic denial. Hardly surprizing as many are trying to escape this world for various social reasons, and the idea of hopping on a spaceship and jetting off to some other planet sounds ideal. Personally I'd rather we cure AIDS, solve starvation, clean up our environmental act, and generally live within the reality that we have right now. I suspect that you'll immediately misquote this and parlay that astronomy isn't in opposition to those prior points, again missing that I'm talking specifically about people who are so focused on their dream escape pod that they miss the point.
I know I've been trolled, but it's something I wanted to say.
That's right - it's something you disagree with, so therefore it's a troll. Congratulations on falling upon the weakest, most pathetic debating technique available to the lowly slashdotter.
There's a little itty bit of a gap between seeing the light from a distant star flickering, or detecting minor variances in the movement of a celestial object, and detecting life or life supporting factors. Even if we could somehow magically detect advanced life on a distant planet, we'd be more likely to send a nuke than a welcoming party.
Hardly surprizing to see my original message get moderated down - daring to question the sacred cow of astronomy gets the science fiction fans in a tizzy (the reaction is so unbelievably predictable). Well let me give you some sobering reality, L.Ron Hubbard fans - you will be long decayed in the ground before mankind has any sort of colony on any other planet. Your children's children (or rather your cousins childrens children) will be long dead before a human being leaves this solar system in non-ashes form.
That has to be exciting to anyone who looks up at the sky and wondered.
I sincerely am not trying to be a jerk, and this isn't flamebait, but really: Who cares? There are millions, billions, or trillions of planets out there - and this means what exactly? We can't even reliably support missions to a little rock a stone throw away, much less set up a colony. Visiting the nearest star is, pardon the pun, astronomically more difficult.
Don't get me wrong: I believe in practical astronomy. Research such as ensuring that a big comet doesn't strike the Earth, or discovering asteroids full of lots of goodies that we might practically extract in our, or our children's, lifetime, or that we know so much about planets we might practically be able to visit in the next couple of centuries. However spending our resources on such unattainable information, especially given how quickly this information would be relegated obsolete once we start actually venturing out (imagine the information we'll attain overnight once we setup a large telescope on the moon), seems questionable.
The ASA works because the UK law is behind it, and advertisers know if they don't abide by the ruling they risk being taken to court.
This is like saying that I can act as an official movie censor because I can ultimately complain to the government if the industry doesn't follow my decrees. In other words I have no power beyond a loud voice.
It's even more ridiculous in this case because industry groups generally enforce a much more restrictive set of contraints on their membership than the government does - an advertisement might be legally acceptable (for instance the Microsoft advert would if they properly disclaimed it and gave the appropriate references - let the buyer beware), but morally questionable or of dubious content. Industry groups work to control that to maintain a good name and basically to avoid the legal side of the equation from encroaching on their industry with restrictive regulations. If there were such restrictive regulations, the ASA wouldn't even exist.
Damn frames. You can see the sanctions as a section of the CAP Code. Basically it amounts to negative publicity, and if you're really bad other members of the ASA might refuse to do business with you.
The UK's ASA is a government sponsored body that has the power to levy fines and issue orders that specific advertisements not be used in future.
Sigh. No, the ASA is an industry body whose sanctions basically amount to loudly saying that what you're doing is misleading, and by members possibly punishing a violator by refusing to do business with them. It's all clearly there on their own webpage.
Incidentally, the ASA is one of Britain's better agencies. It seems to have - some - real power, and doesn't seem to abuse it.
The ASA is the industries own self-regulating group, and its "real power" is basically a loud voice. Self-regulating groups are usually setup with the intent of keeping the government out by implying that the industry needs no external control.
Oh I entirely and completely agree that it is misleading - what they compared wasn't Linux versus Windows, it was Linux-as-IBM-would-have-you-have-it versus Windows which is quite a different beast altogether.
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While the number is still about 2500 deaths lower for Canada, no statistic can take into account the fact that the US has far more urban areas with more people packed more tightly together than Canada.
Errr, this is nonsensical. Per capita I'd wager that more Canadians live in urban areas than in the US.
I wish the origin of this thread didn't start another bullshit Canada versus the US thread - As a Canadian I'm sick of hearing people beating their chest and bleating about how great Canada is, just as I'm sick of all the ridiculous FUD slams at Canada that follow. Anyone mentioning Canada in a thread about the US needs to be brutalized.
NAT does not prevent any kind of packets from moving in either direction.
Right, but NAT in a practical sense (i.e. a Linksys router - the "NAT" that 99.9% of the public is talking about) is effectively a stateful firewall - for every packet coming in from the WAN it tries to match it up with an outbound connection (or it forwards it to a specified machine if the rules are setup such), and packets which don't map it drops to the ground.
Huh? You claim that NAT "does nothing for security", but then go on to claim that it's the same as a firewall that disallows incoming connections : No shit. That's precisely why NAT does "something" for security -- it's like a limited firewall that only allows outgoing connections, or replies to those connections.
Evangelize firewalls, but don't make up nonsensical FUD about NAT to support your argument (especially when you're refuting your own blanket statement).
Sender-ID provides for a few other things too...
Out of honest curiousity, what are those additional features? I'm most certainly not a SenderID expert (or even informed layman), but I've browsed through the SenderID documents and the feature seems to be nothing more than listing outbound IPs in your DNS entries. What else does it offer?
I don't think SenderID is anything whatsoever like PGP. Coincidentally I went to Microsoft.com and read about SenderID today to see what the fuss is about. Turns out, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, it's simply an extension record in your DNS MX record that basically lists the possible outgoing IP addresses for email from a certain domain. For instance Citibank would add their outgoing mail servers in their MX record (because presumably only authorized agents will be screwing with the MX record), and any recipient can simply check the MX record and get the possible source IP addresses, rejecting the phish attempt from some server in central Russia. There's a tool to configure the extension block.
As an aside, because invariably someone will mention this, TCP (on which SMTP is based) is connection based, so spoofing isn't an issue.
It's in the article man. One of the most important points made actually. I don't know how much of a divergance there can be from such a statement. If they say "no more graphics driver related BSODs", the *only* possibility is that the driver now sits on ring 3...
h ics-reqs.mspx#XSLTsection126121120120. Here the reliability improvements are categorized as some basic new functions in the display driver, including the ability to reset the video card (who hasn't had a game crash out leaving the otherwise stable desktop in a visually unusable state), as well as some other basic improvements. If a driver fulfills these requirements, it gets the Microsoft seal of approval. I fail to see where the magical switch to ring-3 is mentioned.
I guess I mistakingly base my knowledge of Longhorn on the accumulation of technical information I've read, rather than a random quote in a sparse posting. For instance http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/grap
On a different note, the really amazing thing about Avalon, and you gotta commend Moft for this, is that they're actually moving the graphics driver to User-mode.
Do you have a source for this? My impression of Avalon is that it's a library and version of Explorer.exe that sits on top of DirectX - of course the video card driver would still be ring 0, and the GDI+++ library (the new Avalon graphics library) would be user mode, just as GDI or GDI+ are today. Avalon represents a new interface application and set of tools for third party applications to use, but it isn't a tremendous plumbing change.
Funny thing about Microsoft software - invariably it hits the market as is dramatically less of a schism than people imagined it to be.
And people wonder why no one believes them when they have a legitimate gripe.
One of the big electric retailers used to allow you to return any electronics up to something like 3 months after the date of purchase for a full refund. I remember being in disbelief hearing that there was a large group of people that would go and buy video cards, wait until just before until the expiry of the return window and then return it for the newest latest and greatest. People wonder why they face such difficulty getting fair treatment from corporations, but usually it's because for every one legitimate issue there are a dozen weasles and thieves trying to abuse the system.
Of course this is because most retail shrinkage is due to employee committed crime (rather than the oft blamed customer).
But imagine if you have a dvd player or vcr you want to record from. Or even your videocamera. Hey, look at that! There's a whole lot of things out there that can output in more formats than you dreamed of.
Videocameras and DVD players generally don't have coax outputs. Obviously the use of coax is when you're using this as a tuner, which about 99.99% of people who buy TV cards do.
I agree with the parent of this thread - the nonsensical wire preaching in the review was inane, and clearly was fluff to fill up what was otherwise a fairly empty "review".
The fact is, there are tons of counterfit bills lower then $50s or $100s, they just aren't spotted as often.
Virtually all counterfeits are detected (and removed from circulation) once they cycle through a chartered bank - the Bank of Canada knows precisely how many counterfeits are seen in circulation in a given year.
I see them on a monthly basis - that's how most people I know pay rent.
I have to ask - Do you live in a crack house or something? [or have landlords that fly under the government's radar] Where in the world do landlords accept cash as a payment for rent?
I think the largest paper cash purchase I've made in the past five years was...hell I don't think it's more than a $40 dinner at a family restaurant. For everything else it's credit or debit cards, or of course cheques.
It's not a manual process. There are a large number of automated, and very complex, currency checks that the chartered banks perform.
Wealth is a game (a very high stakes game), and while there are exceptions most people become wealthy by playing the game well, with the participations of others. If someone is basically making themself wealthy by printing money, they are circumventing the rules of the game and undermining the economy.
I feel I speak for wireless users everywhere when I say "Good". What more is there to say?
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I don't think "science fiction fans" is overly difficult to comprehend - this is a group that as a whole has an unbelievably optimistic perception of the pace of space travel, and any indications to the contrary are met by absolutely classic denial. Hardly surprizing as many are trying to escape this world for various social reasons, and the idea of hopping on a spaceship and jetting off to some other planet sounds ideal. Personally I'd rather we cure AIDS, solve starvation, clean up our environmental act, and generally live within the reality that we have right now. I suspect that you'll immediately misquote this and parlay that astronomy isn't in opposition to those prior points, again missing that I'm talking specifically about people who are so focused on their dream escape pod that they miss the point.
I know I've been trolled, but it's something I wanted to say.
That's right - it's something you disagree with, so therefore it's a troll. Congratulations on falling upon the weakest, most pathetic debating technique available to the lowly slashdotter.
There's a little itty bit of a gap between seeing the light from a distant star flickering, or detecting minor variances in the movement of a celestial object, and detecting life or life supporting factors. Even if we could somehow magically detect advanced life on a distant planet, we'd be more likely to send a nuke than a welcoming party.
Hardly surprizing to see my original message get moderated down - daring to question the sacred cow of astronomy gets the science fiction fans in a tizzy (the reaction is so unbelievably predictable). Well let me give you some sobering reality, L.Ron Hubbard fans - you will be long decayed in the ground before mankind has any sort of colony on any other planet. Your children's children (or rather your cousins childrens children) will be long dead before a human being leaves this solar system in non-ashes form.
That has to be exciting to anyone who looks up at the sky and wondered.
I sincerely am not trying to be a jerk, and this isn't flamebait, but really: Who cares? There are millions, billions, or trillions of planets out there - and this means what exactly? We can't even reliably support missions to a little rock a stone throw away, much less set up a colony. Visiting the nearest star is, pardon the pun, astronomically more difficult.
Don't get me wrong: I believe in practical astronomy. Research such as ensuring that a big comet doesn't strike the Earth, or discovering asteroids full of lots of goodies that we might practically extract in our, or our children's, lifetime, or that we know so much about planets we might practically be able to visit in the next couple of centuries. However spending our resources on such unattainable information, especially given how quickly this information would be relegated obsolete once we start actually venturing out (imagine the information we'll attain overnight once we setup a large telescope on the moon), seems questionable.
The ASA works because the UK law is behind it, and advertisers know if they don't abide by the ruling they risk being taken to court.
This is like saying that I can act as an official movie censor because I can ultimately complain to the government if the industry doesn't follow my decrees. In other words I have no power beyond a loud voice.
It's even more ridiculous in this case because industry groups generally enforce a much more restrictive set of contraints on their membership than the government does - an advertisement might be legally acceptable (for instance the Microsoft advert would if they properly disclaimed it and gave the appropriate references - let the buyer beware), but morally questionable or of dubious content. Industry groups work to control that to maintain a good name and basically to avoid the legal side of the equation from encroaching on their industry with restrictive regulations. If there were such restrictive regulations, the ASA wouldn't even exist.
Damn frames. You can see the sanctions as a section of the CAP Code. Basically it amounts to negative publicity, and if you're really bad other members of the ASA might refuse to do business with you.
The UK's ASA is a government sponsored body that has the power to levy fines and issue orders that specific advertisements not be used in future.
Sigh. No, the ASA is an industry body whose sanctions basically amount to loudly saying that what you're doing is misleading, and by members possibly punishing a violator by refusing to do business with them. It's all clearly there on their own webpage.
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Incidentally, the ASA is one of Britain's better agencies. It seems to have - some - real power, and doesn't seem to abuse it.
The ASA is the industries own self-regulating group, and its "real power" is basically a loud voice. Self-regulating groups are usually setup with the intent of keeping the government out by implying that the industry needs no external control.
http://www.asa.org.uk/index.asp
Oh I entirely and completely agree that it is misleading - what they compared wasn't Linux versus Windows, it was Linux-as-IBM-would-have-you-have-it versus Windows which is quite a different beast altogether.