See, here's the problem with what you said. While I think it's fine for people to sell changes to (BSD or similar) open source software, the GPL is written explicitly to prevent the piggybacking that you do. So in essence, you're saying that you don't like the GPL because it prevents you from doing what it is written to prevent.
As far as employer work, the GPL only applies to distribution, presumably public. Making changes and using it internally wouldn't be covered, though it would be nice to release the changes if they're useful, it doesn't seem to be required.
The basic spirit of the GPL, and the people who license with it (including myself), is that I put in a lot of work to write this - and I'm perfectly happy for you to use it and change it, but not to close off your changes to it. Since you may have saved a ton of cash by using my software, it's not too much to ask to see the changes you've made.
They were using Kismet, which by default captures all unencrypted packets it hears. They forgot to change the default - which, incidentally, is something the WiFi owners are guilty of as well.
It would be different if they changed the configuration in order to capture packets, instead of simply forgot.
Over here at UPenn, they've rolled out 802.11n campus-wide, and I've hit the max at 300Mbps or so. They'll be rolling out gigabit in the next year or two...
Jesus, you have *no* idea what you're talking about.
First of all, only a small portion of the force is on at any given time. It's not like there are 10k cops walking around all the time, they need to sleep occasionally and take days off. And the ones that are on duty but not going to a call are patrolling, not watching TV. Second of all, if somebody wants to report it, they have to come and take the report. That's how it works - they don't just seek out posts. Third of all, while somebody complaining about a Facebook post seems a little silly, it could easily be a serious death threat from a crazy ex, or something. We don't know - but it could easily be something that you'd want to report. Fourth of all, why are the *police* part of this "whining women" bunch? Support that statement
In short, fuck off. You're not clever or witty, just a stupid asshole. It's a travesty that some other stupid asshole thought you qualified as "Insightful"
But barely anybody pays for fire service like people in this county do... almost everywhere else rolls it into the city tax (which isn't itemized). The whole reason for this was the fact that the FD *can't* compel people to pay, since the city has no power of taxation over the county.
And even in a successfully fought fire, there is a tremendous amount of damage - almost certainly at least the cost of the bill, in the best case. This guy's house most probably wasn't worth that much - what could you take from him? And why is this the FD's job? They'd need to employ, or otherwise pay, for this process.
Basically, it's easy to imagine that he'd be no better off with a heavily damaged house and belongings, and a big bill, than he would be with no house (what he has now). Couple that in with the fact that the FD would have an unduly difficult time recovering their costs, and it's pretty reasonable that they didn't bother. Checking the insurance/protection list at dispatch-time for his house number is much more straightforward.
And by the way, the FD in this case would've intervened to the degree necessary to rescue anybody trapped. Nobody was, so they didn't do anything but protect the neighbor
Nobody was in the house, and if there were I'm sure they would've intervened and (hopefully) recovered their costs.
First of all, firefighters swear no such oath. Second of all, this wasn't their area of obligation - had there been a fire in the city, they damn sure should've been there as opposed to this backwater area Third of all, fire departments are ridiculously expensive to run; that's why it should be a tax across everybody! They can't let this guy get away with not paying and getting service anyways, or everybody would do it and the FD just wouldn't be able show up at all out of town. Fourth of all, the obligation they *did* have was to his neighbor who *did* pay the fee that year. They kept *his* house safe
This guy was burning his trash while refusing to pay for fire service. He was probably one of the ones refusing to pay a tax increase for county fire service. He doesn't exactly deserve any sympathy.
They could, but it would probably be about $5000 and he wouldn't pay it anyway. If everybody did that, got the bill and didn't pay it, the FD wouldn't be able to operate.
It's a shame, but he knew the risks when he didn't pay for the service.
Nobody expects him to pay. Even a fine of 1 million dollars (1/1000 of the amount) would be essentially impossible to pay - that's many people's lifetime earnings before expenses.
This is clearly a no-more-fucking-around sort of fine. Whatever they fined him at, he wouldn't be paying it, so might as well use the actual amount to send a message.
The bittorrent checksum may be subverted (unlikely and difficult) but not very useful unless you were able to supply every block (as I remember, each block is checksummed as well as the whole thing).
But, the packages are signed with the distro's key anyway, which is essentially impossible to fake.
Because thousands of people need to know where planes are - every airport needs to know where every plane in its vicinity is. And in any case, it's pretty easy to find planes anyway. They're pretty obvious in the sky, and they give off heat (what SAMs use) - neither of which can be encrypted.
In any case, it looks like the government had nothing to do with this.
Flint and steel is pretty straightforward, though a bit unintuitive. If struck right, you'll actually knock bits of steel off - these have a lot of kinetic energy since you were moving the (much bigger) objects pretty quickly. The blob of steel will glow red hot and light stuff on fire.
Looks really cool. I haven't messed around with D-STAR since I don't like the idea of being tied into a specific system (seems to contravene the point of amateur radio). I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this to see where it heads.
I had a really awesome idea just now for transmitting this at 1200bps using AFSK Bell 202 (like APRS) and hacking up live voice using entirely existing equipment (TNCs, etc). But the given example of 1050 bytes/3.75s works out by my math to 2240bps. I guess you could run it over 9600bps packet, with room to spare (text chat?)
We got complacent in the last few years. Since there was too much money in viruses, nobody caused mayhem for fun - it was all spam botnets and the like, something the writer could monetize.
This isn't a kid reminiscing about the shits-and-giggles days. I daresay the writers of this virus are hoping to profit in a big way.
This is the stuff of the 'movie virus', where some well-spoken sinister-looking guy goes and shuts down a city for ransom money.
OK. You don't get it. Let me try and explain it a little bit better - admittedly, the other explanations are a bit lacking.
A one time pad is an encryption key of the same length as the original message. For a 15 character message, I need a 15 character pad. But I can construct a pad to give me *every single message of length 15*. So I have no way of figuring out which one it is, because I can make it say *anything*, as long as the length is right.
So I could try and brute-force a message of length 10, but I'd be able to "decrypt" every word and phrase of length 10.
*This* is why OTP is the only 'secure' encryption - it's precisely because the tumblers on our virtual lock never fall into place, since they often do anyways.
Games are even worse than video. I tried playing Curveball on a mobile device, and it wouldn't keep the game still - dragging just moved the game, not the ball. I had to tap at exactly the right spot at exactly the right time.
Then I tried to play a puzzle game, where the spacebar reset the playing field. I didn't think that one through, obviously - it was a no go.
I found a third random game, don't recall the name, but it made a huge distinction between hovering and clicking. No go on a touchscreen.
So let me ask you. If I have a flash game and need to rewrite it anyways to get it to work at all, let alone well, on a mobile device - why wouldn't I just write it for that device, or cross-platform HTML5?
All Steve Jobs has been saying is: Desktop paradigms don't work on a mobile device. That's why Apple made millions on a mobile device with a properly-thought out control scheme, and why they've done it again and again and again.
If they allowed desktop apps natively, or with easy ports, much of the software would be terrible to use. If you don't believe me, have you tried using a VNC client to control your computer from your phone? It's virtually useless, and saved (at best) for emergencies.
I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I'm not a complete idiot either. Jobs, for all his control-freak tendencies, makes a Titanic-sized boatload of sense, and most people agree.
90% of the "broken" PCs I have been asked to look at were totally bogged down with malware.
Likewise. See the third paragraph in my post:
Contrast that with the PC users I know, who end up buying a brand new computer every 2-3 years since 'it's broken'. Now I know it just needs a reformat to be good as new, but they don't.
Sure, I suggest a format, and it works great - but most users decide it's broken and time to replace. Apple can offer something that they won't feel that way about, so Apple wins out for *most* users.
Well, Akami has been doing the exactly the same thing for a long time. Steam had been doing something very similar for a long time. In essence, any time you pick a nearby mirror for your Linux distro you're doing basically the same thing.
The key difference between this and net neutrality is that Google's service wouldn't degrade if they didn't stick a datacenter in. It stays as it was. But by cutting out 3-4 hops, Google's customers on Verizon get better latency and (perhaps) bandwidth, and Verizon pays less for backbone.
Google *already* has datacenters all over the world, in prime fiber locations, for the same reasons. What's new this time is that it's actually in a telco's datacenter. That's not that radical.
Parent is either stupid or a troll. I don't care which.
Look, regardless of what you think about Macs and PCs, how many *average* PC users keep a computer more than 5 years and are satisfied with it? How about Mac users? I don't know about you, but in my sample group, half the Macs I know of acquaintances having are several years old. It never occurs to them to replace it.
Contrast that with the PC users I know, who end up buying a brand new computer every 2-3 years since 'it's broken'. Now I know it just needs a reformat to be good as new, but they don't.
Average non-technical liberal arts major hears "Our 5 year old Macs are working great!" and "My Windows machine crapped out on me in two years" and realizes, unlike you, that the Mac is at worst two and a half times the cost of the Windows machine. So, they make a prudent investment and buy a Mac - security, simplicity, and quality all come free. So, they made the sound financial choice *without considering the time most people lose screwing around with a PC for 5 years*
When you're used car shopping do you pick the 1989 Geo Metro with 200k miles on the transmission for $300 over the 2002 Honda with 80k for $3000? Sure, at first you'll save money - but not for long...
Hmm. From my personal experience doing EMS, out of the hundred or so motor vehicle accidents I've been to, all but one has been caused by somebody over 30, and mostly women. Most involved cellphones. The one exception involved a teenager on a very icy road at night, and both drivers screwed up so there was no clear cause. Admittedly, we don't do many highway accidents so those may be different (but it's true for the 10 or so I've seen).
Maybe it's the area I live in. And of course these are just anecdotes - but it's a lot of anecdotes.
You must have bad luck. Neither I, nor anybody I know with jailbroken phones, has any bookmark issues. I have heard of MMS and FaceTime issues, but I don't really use either.
Frankly, though, the jailbreaks are less necessary for me than they were on 2.0/3.0. Multitasking, copy/paste, Bluetooth keyboards etc are all built in now, and done better than the unofficial apps (as professional as they are). I was browsing through Cydia the other day and while I installed the usual MobileTerminal, ssh, etc - that I didn't really need any of the stuff I'd had. I'll keep it jailbroken for now, since I'm developing a GPS utility that doesn't work properly in the simulator, and I want to finish it before I spend the $99. But I'm - for the first time - not too worried about losing the jailbreak from a practical standpoint.
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See, here's the problem with what you said. While I think it's fine for people to sell changes to (BSD or similar) open source software, the GPL is written explicitly to prevent the piggybacking that you do. So in essence, you're saying that you don't like the GPL because it prevents you from doing what it is written to prevent.
As far as employer work, the GPL only applies to distribution, presumably public. Making changes and using it internally wouldn't be covered, though it would be nice to release the changes if they're useful, it doesn't seem to be required.
The basic spirit of the GPL, and the people who license with it (including myself), is that I put in a lot of work to write this - and I'm perfectly happy for you to use it and change it, but not to close off your changes to it. Since you may have saved a ton of cash by using my software, it's not too much to ask to see the changes you've made.
They were using Kismet, which by default captures all unencrypted packets it hears. They forgot to change the default - which, incidentally, is something the WiFi owners are guilty of as well.
It would be different if they changed the configuration in order to capture packets, instead of simply forgot.
Over here at UPenn, they've rolled out 802.11n campus-wide, and I've hit the max at 300Mbps or so. They'll be rolling out gigabit in the next year or two...
Jesus, you have *no* idea what you're talking about.
First of all, only a small portion of the force is on at any given time. It's not like there are 10k cops walking around all the time, they need to sleep occasionally and take days off. And the ones that are on duty but not going to a call are patrolling, not watching TV.
Second of all, if somebody wants to report it, they have to come and take the report. That's how it works - they don't just seek out posts.
Third of all, while somebody complaining about a Facebook post seems a little silly, it could easily be a serious death threat from a crazy ex, or something. We don't know - but it could easily be something that you'd want to report.
Fourth of all, why are the *police* part of this "whining women" bunch? Support that statement
In short, fuck off. You're not clever or witty, just a stupid asshole. It's a travesty that some other stupid asshole thought you qualified as "Insightful"
It depends what they meant, though I'm not sure you want to know.
But barely anybody pays for fire service like people in this county do... almost everywhere else rolls it into the city tax (which isn't itemized). The whole reason for this was the fact that the FD *can't* compel people to pay, since the city has no power of taxation over the county.
And even in a successfully fought fire, there is a tremendous amount of damage - almost certainly at least the cost of the bill, in the best case. This guy's house most probably wasn't worth that much - what could you take from him? And why is this the FD's job? They'd need to employ, or otherwise pay, for this process.
Basically, it's easy to imagine that he'd be no better off with a heavily damaged house and belongings, and a big bill, than he would be with no house (what he has now). Couple that in with the fact that the FD would have an unduly difficult time recovering their costs, and it's pretty reasonable that they didn't bother. Checking the insurance/protection list at dispatch-time for his house number is much more straightforward.
And by the way, the FD in this case would've intervened to the degree necessary to rescue anybody trapped. Nobody was, so they didn't do anything but protect the neighbor
Nobody was in the house, and if there were I'm sure they would've intervened and (hopefully) recovered their costs.
First of all, firefighters swear no such oath.
Second of all, this wasn't their area of obligation - had there been a fire in the city, they damn sure should've been there as opposed to this backwater area
Third of all, fire departments are ridiculously expensive to run; that's why it should be a tax across everybody! They can't let this guy get away with not paying and getting service anyways, or everybody would do it and the FD just wouldn't be able show up at all out of town.
Fourth of all, the obligation they *did* have was to his neighbor who *did* pay the fee that year. They kept *his* house safe
This guy was burning his trash while refusing to pay for fire service. He was probably one of the ones refusing to pay a tax increase for county fire service. He doesn't exactly deserve any sympathy.
They could, but it would probably be about $5000 and he wouldn't pay it anyway. If everybody did that, got the bill and didn't pay it, the FD wouldn't be able to operate.
It's a shame, but he knew the risks when he didn't pay for the service.
Nobody expects him to pay. Even a fine of 1 million dollars (1/1000 of the amount) would be essentially impossible to pay - that's many people's lifetime earnings before expenses.
This is clearly a no-more-fucking-around sort of fine. Whatever they fined him at, he wouldn't be paying it, so might as well use the actual amount to send a message.
It must suck to be you, and I mean that in the most sincere way possible.
The bittorrent checksum may be subverted (unlikely and difficult) but not very useful unless you were able to supply every block (as I remember, each block is checksummed as well as the whole thing).
But, the packages are signed with the distro's key anyway, which is essentially impossible to fake.
Quite right, I should've made that more clear. My main point is, the steel (ideally) isn't doing anything to the flint, but the other way around.
Because thousands of people need to know where planes are - every airport needs to know where every plane in its vicinity is. And in any case, it's pretty easy to find planes anyway. They're pretty obvious in the sky, and they give off heat (what SAMs use) - neither of which can be encrypted.
In any case, it looks like the government had nothing to do with this.
Flint and steel is pretty straightforward, though a bit unintuitive. If struck right, you'll actually knock bits of steel off - these have a lot of kinetic energy since you were moving the (much bigger) objects pretty quickly. The blob of steel will glow red hot and light stuff on fire.
Looks really cool. I haven't messed around with D-STAR since I don't like the idea of being tied into a specific system (seems to contravene the point of amateur radio). I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this to see where it heads.
I had a really awesome idea just now for transmitting this at 1200bps using AFSK Bell 202 (like APRS) and hacking up live voice using entirely existing equipment (TNCs, etc). But the given example of 1050 bytes/3.75s works out by my math to 2240bps. I guess you could run it over 9600bps packet, with room to spare (text chat?)
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I just about shat my pants.
We got complacent in the last few years. Since there was too much money in viruses, nobody caused mayhem for fun - it was all spam botnets and the like, something the writer could monetize.
This isn't a kid reminiscing about the shits-and-giggles days. I daresay the writers of this virus are hoping to profit in a big way.
This is the stuff of the 'movie virus', where some well-spoken sinister-looking guy goes and shuts down a city for ransom money.
OK. You don't get it. Let me try and explain it a little bit better - admittedly, the other explanations are a bit lacking.
A one time pad is an encryption key of the same length as the original message. For a 15 character message, I need a 15 character pad. But I can construct a pad to give me *every single message of length 15*. So I have no way of figuring out which one it is, because I can make it say *anything*, as long as the length is right.
So I could try and brute-force a message of length 10, but I'd be able to "decrypt" every word and phrase of length 10.
*This* is why OTP is the only 'secure' encryption - it's precisely because the tumblers on our virtual lock never fall into place, since they often do anyways.
The correct situation in this, as in all cases, is for the original author to issue a takedown notice. I bet they already have one on hand...
Games are even worse than video. I tried playing Curveball on a mobile device, and it wouldn't keep the game still - dragging just moved the game, not the ball. I had to tap at exactly the right spot at exactly the right time.
Then I tried to play a puzzle game, where the spacebar reset the playing field. I didn't think that one through, obviously - it was a no go.
I found a third random game, don't recall the name, but it made a huge distinction between hovering and clicking. No go on a touchscreen.
So let me ask you. If I have a flash game and need to rewrite it anyways to get it to work at all, let alone well, on a mobile device - why wouldn't I just write it for that device, or cross-platform HTML5?
All Steve Jobs has been saying is: Desktop paradigms don't work on a mobile device. That's why Apple made millions on a mobile device with a properly-thought out control scheme, and why they've done it again and again and again.
If they allowed desktop apps natively, or with easy ports, much of the software would be terrible to use. If you don't believe me, have you tried using a VNC client to control your computer from your phone? It's virtually useless, and saved (at best) for emergencies.
I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I'm not a complete idiot either. Jobs, for all his control-freak tendencies, makes a Titanic-sized boatload of sense, and most people agree.
90% of the "broken" PCs I have been asked to look at were totally bogged down with malware.
Likewise. See the third paragraph in my post:
Contrast that with the PC users I know, who end up buying a brand new computer every 2-3 years since 'it's broken'. Now I know it just needs a reformat to be good as new, but they don't.
Sure, I suggest a format, and it works great - but most users decide it's broken and time to replace. Apple can offer something that they won't feel that way about, so Apple wins out for *most* users.
You make an awful lot of assertions. In fact, the summary even talks about people like you who just make assertions about how 'young people' are.
Can you support any of them? Because the article supports the opposite.
Well, Akami has been doing the exactly the same thing for a long time. Steam had been doing something very similar for a long time. In essence, any time you pick a nearby mirror for your Linux distro you're doing basically the same thing.
The key difference between this and net neutrality is that Google's service wouldn't degrade if they didn't stick a datacenter in. It stays as it was. But by cutting out 3-4 hops, Google's customers on Verizon get better latency and (perhaps) bandwidth, and Verizon pays less for backbone.
Google *already* has datacenters all over the world, in prime fiber locations, for the same reasons. What's new this time is that it's actually in a telco's datacenter. That's not that radical.
Parent is either stupid or a troll. I don't care which.
Look, regardless of what you think about Macs and PCs, how many *average* PC users keep a computer more than 5 years and are satisfied with it? How about Mac users? I don't know about you, but in my sample group, half the Macs I know of acquaintances having are several years old. It never occurs to them to replace it.
Contrast that with the PC users I know, who end up buying a brand new computer every 2-3 years since 'it's broken'. Now I know it just needs a reformat to be good as new, but they don't.
Average non-technical liberal arts major hears "Our 5 year old Macs are working great!" and "My Windows machine crapped out on me in two years" and realizes, unlike you, that the Mac is at worst two and a half times the cost of the Windows machine. So, they make a prudent investment and buy a Mac - security, simplicity, and quality all come free. So, they made the sound financial choice *without considering the time most people lose screwing around with a PC for 5 years*
When you're used car shopping do you pick the 1989 Geo Metro with 200k miles on the transmission for $300 over the 2002 Honda with 80k for $3000? Sure, at first you'll save money - but not for long...
Hmm. From my personal experience doing EMS, out of the hundred or so motor vehicle accidents I've been to, all but one has been caused by somebody over 30, and mostly women. Most involved cellphones. The one exception involved a teenager on a very icy road at night, and both drivers screwed up so there was no clear cause. Admittedly, we don't do many highway accidents so those may be different (but it's true for the 10 or so I've seen).
Maybe it's the area I live in. And of course these are just anecdotes - but it's a lot of anecdotes.
You must have bad luck. Neither I, nor anybody I know with jailbroken phones, has any bookmark issues. I have heard of MMS and FaceTime issues, but I don't really use either.
Frankly, though, the jailbreaks are less necessary for me than they were on 2.0/3.0. Multitasking, copy/paste, Bluetooth keyboards etc are all built in now, and done better than the unofficial apps (as professional as they are). I was browsing through Cydia the other day and while I installed the usual MobileTerminal, ssh, etc - that I didn't really need any of the stuff I'd had. I'll keep it jailbroken for now, since I'm developing a GPS utility that doesn't work properly in the simulator, and I want to finish it before I spend the $99. But I'm - for the first time - not too worried about losing the jailbreak from a practical standpoint.