This is most likely exactly what they are trying to accomplish. This is also very shortsighted, as it will be abuse of a monopoly and will probably land them in trouble with the Justice Department.
I'm not saying they won't get around to it this time, but on the Photobridge we were (unofficially?) promised that they would open source it, and they never did.
Having been burned before, I'll believe it when I see it.
K9 is the best I have tried for Windows, and free
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If you are using a Windows box for your kids, try K9
It's free for home use and the database is the best I have found, with very few of the false positives that you get from other filters (like finding source code examples on somebody's random blog).
It allows you to block video and file sharing sites, P2P, social networking sites, etc., as well as gambling, violence, hate, sex, nudity, etc. so it has a lot of options to turn on or off, giving the parent control. Apparently, it's very hard to uninstall without the password, too.
I don't work for them or anything, just a Dad with kids on the internet.
I have set up Ubuntu as a desktop on a couple old laptops and the users haven't called me back, they are still using it and they actually really like it, especially how fast it is on old hardware and the fact that it is an up-to-date OS (instead of 2000, for instance). These are not geeks or hobbyists, just average computer users.
On one machine, I spent about 30 minutes setting up the wireless card. But I've spent as long or longer getting a wireless card to work on Windows as well. There was also a laptop where Ubuntu wouldn't install at all. But I also had a laptop where XP SP2 would lock it up constantly, but it ran fine on Ubuntu. Nothing's perfect when trying to support every old combination of hardware.
But for the most part, starting with Hardy Heron, hardware just works. There are no major issues and you don't have to go to the command line for anything. You just do the install and it all works. Setting up network printers is 10X easier on Linux, and USB printers appear with zero effort.
I agree it's not ready for business because of the apps that don't run on it, but give it time. The strides made in hardware support in the last 2 years have been amazing and I wouldn't be surprised to see Wine and Mono come into their own in the next 2 years. Then it will be ready for business.
But it's ready for home users now. If all a user does it a few documents, web browsing, e-mail and view pictures and videos, Linux works now. In fact, it's far less likely to be compromised by a virus or trojan, so for many people it would actually be an improvement over Windows.
That all sounds fine and good, but the reality is that the previous version (written in COBOL) did the EXACT same thing 8 years ago.
Mainframes are not immune to downtime and if they go down, they certainly don't recover as quickly as PCs do. Have you ever booted one up? Yikes! Hope you have half a day.
Anyway, it sounds like a version upgrade or a network problem hosed it, either of which was equally likely if a mainframe were at the core.
US banks seem to have an antagonistic relationship with their consumers. They try to nickel and dime and not return any charge they possibly can. This leads to a lack of trust on the part of the consumer.
We have lots of grass and hay here. Why a very small percentage of beef producers insisted on making their cows cannibals and getting the whole industry banned all over the world is beyond me. Feeding cows cows is now illegal in the US, so we really shouldn't see a recurrence of this unless someone breaks the law.
I'm sure lots of reputable companies are trying to sell SK very fine beef and would gladly comply with whatever regulations were necessary to do so.
I grilled up some nice Porterhouse steaks yesterday and they were yummy. I wasn't afraid in the least and I feel fine. My wife also bought T-Bones and Rib Eye but we're going to freeze those. I'm not afraid of those either.:) And she got them all on sale.
That depends. How much of the scientific method was used on the creation experiments? How much was used on the ones in the textbook? In some cases, creationists do the scientific method better. For instance, the Oort cloud is an entirely unscientific concept, as far as the scientific method goes. It had zero evidence until this week, and even that is pretty questionable for something so readily accepted as fact.
I assume this is the type of dialog that she would want.
Personally, I don't care if the source is alien chasers or whoever. If they have a repeatable scientific experiment, regardless of whether it is damaging to some tenet of evolution or the big bang or whatever, I want it taught!
Anything else is censorship of the truth, and holds back the progression of scientific understanding.
Google Analytics and Facebook currently have unreasonably low TTL values that this wouldn't help.
Implement the fix anyway. If they don't want to get pwned, they can raise their TTL. And without the patch, they get pwned even easier.
Google and Microsoft have unreasonably high 4 day TTLs and if something happened they could be down for 4 days!
If they get pwned by not having the patch, they could be down for half a day every day for the next year. And they could always lower their TTL values.
I have burned CDs that are already 20 years old that work just fine. All of them. I know there were a few burned CD lots that suffered datarot, but I really doubt that CDs are that fragile. I fully expect those CDs to still be valid 5 years from now (even 20 years from now, to be honest).
Still, redundancy is the key, if you have the space. I am certain there will be ways to read ISO or Joliet format CDs 25 years from now. I could read a 5 1/4 floppy disk today, if I had to (those have lasted over 25 years as well).
I recently cancelled because of the TV season starting (well, early with the Olympics), but I used Netflix on Firefox all the time and didn't have any problems except Instant Viewing. Had to switch to IE for that.
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This is most likely exactly what they are trying to accomplish. This is also very shortsighted, as it will be abuse of a monopoly and will probably land them in trouble with the Justice Department.
I'm not saying they won't get around to it this time, but on the Photobridge we were (unofficially?) promised that they would open source it, and they never did.
http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?t=500
Having been burned before, I'll believe it when I see it.
If you are using a Windows box for your kids, try K9
It's free for home use and the database is the best I have found, with very few of the false positives that you get from other filters (like finding source code examples on somebody's random blog).
It allows you to block video and file sharing sites, P2P, social networking sites, etc., as well as gambling, violence, hate, sex, nudity, etc. so it has a lot of options to turn on or off, giving the parent control. Apparently, it's very hard to uninstall without the password, too.
I don't work for them or anything, just a Dad with kids on the internet.
Yeah, I had heard that before too.
Interesting that there is no mention of that on the Wikipedia entry, since it certainly has the potential to factor into what is going on here.
NAT's can handle over 16 million. You just have to use 10.x.x.x instead of 192.168.x.x.
Apparently you haven't used Linux lately.
I have set up Ubuntu as a desktop on a couple old laptops and the users haven't called me back, they are still using it and they actually really like it, especially how fast it is on old hardware and the fact that it is an up-to-date OS (instead of 2000, for instance). These are not geeks or hobbyists, just average computer users.
On one machine, I spent about 30 minutes setting up the wireless card. But I've spent as long or longer getting a wireless card to work on Windows as well. There was also a laptop where Ubuntu wouldn't install at all. But I also had a laptop where XP SP2 would lock it up constantly, but it ran fine on Ubuntu. Nothing's perfect when trying to support every old combination of hardware.
But for the most part, starting with Hardy Heron, hardware just works. There are no major issues and you don't have to go to the command line for anything. You just do the install and it all works. Setting up network printers is 10X easier on Linux, and USB printers appear with zero effort.
I agree it's not ready for business because of the apps that don't run on it, but give it time. The strides made in hardware support in the last 2 years have been amazing and I wouldn't be surprised to see Wine and Mono come into their own in the next 2 years. Then it will be ready for business.
But it's ready for home users now. If all a user does it a few documents, web browsing, e-mail and view pictures and videos, Linux works now. In fact, it's far less likely to be compromised by a virus or trojan, so for many people it would actually be an improvement over Windows.
You picked the wrong choice to show him why COBOL is hated.
Typical Mainframe COBOL
I once worked at a place where they were trademarking a .com name for use on the internet. I went and looked it up and it was not even registered yet.
IANAL, but isn't just easier to register it first? You know, cause then no one else can get it...
I'm reading this from my other computer, you insensitive clod!
People marry people who cheated on their former spouse all the time...
The same principle applies.
If a pig farmer gets a subsidy, you can't go take a pig.
Of course not. Because there isn't one. Because they paid them to NOT raise pigs...
Sheesh, come on people, don't you know how pig farmer subsidies work?!
That all sounds fine and good, but the reality is that the previous version (written in COBOL) did the EXACT same thing 8 years ago.
Mainframes are not immune to downtime and if they go down, they certainly don't recover as quickly as PCs do. Have you ever booted one up? Yikes! Hope you have half a day.
Anyway, it sounds like a version upgrade or a network problem hosed it, either of which was equally likely if a mainframe were at the core.
US banks seem to have an antagonistic relationship with their consumers. They try to nickel and dime and not return any charge they possibly can. This leads to a lack of trust on the part of the consumer.
We have lots of grass and hay here. Why a very small percentage of beef producers insisted on making their cows cannibals and getting the whole industry banned all over the world is beyond me. Feeding cows cows is now illegal in the US, so we really shouldn't see a recurrence of this unless someone breaks the law.
I'm sure lots of reputable companies are trying to sell SK very fine beef and would gladly comply with whatever regulations were necessary to do so.
I grilled up some nice Porterhouse steaks yesterday and they were yummy. I wasn't afraid in the least and I feel fine. My wife also bought T-Bones and Rib Eye but we're going to freeze those. I'm not afraid of those either. :) And she got them all on sale.
That depends. How much of the scientific method was used on the creation experiments? How much was used on the ones in the textbook? In some cases, creationists do the scientific method better. For instance, the Oort cloud is an entirely unscientific concept, as far as the scientific method goes. It had zero evidence until this week, and even that is pretty questionable for something so readily accepted as fact.
I assume this is the type of dialog that she would want.
Personally, I don't care if the source is alien chasers or whoever. If they have a repeatable scientific experiment, regardless of whether it is damaging to some tenet of evolution or the big bang or whatever, I want it taught!
Anything else is censorship of the truth, and holds back the progression of scientific understanding.
Really?
You basically said:
No, but it's better than nothing.
Implement the fix anyway. If they don't want to get pwned, they can raise their TTL. And without the patch, they get pwned even easier.
If they get pwned by not having the patch, they could be down for half a day every day for the next year. And they could always lower their TTL values.
Not really seeing the problems here.
Implement the patch.
Sorry, he changed < to <=
It wasn't an off-by-one error. It is now preferring the TTL value to the new one in the case of a tie in trust level.
Close, he changed %lt; to %lt;=
Don't use the same name, they're usually Trademarked.
And if you copied 100% of the size hinting, they would claim you were copying the program portion.
But, in essence, yes.
I have burned CDs that are already 20 years old that work just fine. All of them. I know there were a few burned CD lots that suffered datarot, but I really doubt that CDs are that fragile. I fully expect those CDs to still be valid 5 years from now (even 20 years from now, to be honest).
Still, redundancy is the key, if you have the space. I am certain there will be ways to read ISO or Joliet format CDs 25 years from now. I could read a 5 1/4 floppy disk today, if I had to (those have lasted over 25 years as well).
all good lawyers are compassionate
Where is this mythical creature you speak of?
I recently cancelled because of the TV season starting (well, early with the Olympics), but I used Netflix on Firefox all the time and didn't have any problems except Instant Viewing. Had to switch to IE for that.
Mac used to have the little cartoony Mac guy with X's over his eyes AND NO ERROR MESSAGES!
Thanks, Apple, that's real helpful to have to hold a switch on the side of the machine and get dumped into a debugger to find out what's wrong.
Race condition in their thread programming lead to a deadlock situation?
In my experience, Fry's only gives store credit for software, even if you used a credit card. But still, it's better than nothing.