I agree. The C&C series are what made me love RTS type games. C&C, Red Alert etc and the classics of a game studio who just do it right. Sadly, that was killed by EA and nobody has really stepped up to fill the gap:(
The fun part is - that as a non-US citizen, I look at something like this and think "What the hell is the US Government wanting to know what people have on their computer as they visit the US?".
What happened to the whole idea of freedoms and liberty for all that every US history class tells you America was founded on?
The more I hear about this kind of thing happening, the less I want to visit the US and chance of me doing business with American businesses gets lower and lower.
It seems to this foreigner that the US government needs to be told to pull it's fucking head in and act like a government - not the Gestapo.
The money they make off the licensing goes into paying development costs and further research, otherwise it means that the australian tax payer is out of pocket for the benefit of the rest of the world (the CSIRO is a research institute supported by the Australian Government, not a private for-profit company).
Actually, it's more like the Australian tax payers paying for research that financially benefits US companies like Dell, Intel etc etc etc. After all, they are the ones making the money on this, not the rest of the world.
That's still not much of a limit. 250GB/month is over 8GB/day. I don't think I downloaded that much even when I was on a college connection.
Wahhh fucking wahh. If you're thinking you're badly done by for having a limit of 250Gb, I suggest that you look at the plans for the rest of the world and compare. I pay $79.95AU (~$69US, ~46â) for ADSL2+ which gives me ~6Mbit of speed and a 40Gb quota per month.
Plans above 100Gb in the residential space don't really exist in Australia (and in many places of the world). The US broadband market is still waaay more relaxed than the rest of the world - stop whinging and enjoy what you have compared to others.
It's also a little harder for an observer to collect millions of records from junk mail than it is to sniff at a router and log all the traffic automatically.
Riiight - because people can easily sniff traffic at an ADSL DSLAM, wait no, at the L2TP router, wait not even there, oh - at the upstream to a Tier 1 ISP, no, not their either... So where exactly is someone going to sniff your data?
Oh, you're talking about someone on your LAN or Wifi access point? Well then, you have bigger issues!
Even if you're stuck on a cable node, most of the equipment I've seen filter other peoples data out via MAC of the cable modem - so you can't even sniff there...
This being said, where would the so-called 'privacy breech' sniffing take place?
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I have to agree with this. I found myself really disillusioned with IT after working for just over 10 years in network admin, helpdesk, network support at a telco, then deploying VoIP systems, then a NOC environment. It really wasn't what I was hoping for.
So, I bit the bullet.
I'm now training to be a charter pilot, and I'm loving life. I have gone from waking up in the morning and thinking "oh shit, it's time for work again" to jumping out of bed in the morning with a smile on my face.
The decision to do this was the hardest thing in my life. I had the choice to stay in a cosy job that I could do and be unhappy, or take the risk and do what I always dreamed of doing.
I don't regret a it for a second - even though I'm still in the training stage. As an added bonus, now that I'm not screwing around with IT stuff all day, I find it a lot more fun to hack around at home in my downtime too.
There's the whole thought of what happens if I fail - which was a huge weight on my mind a number of months ago, however as time goes by, I believe there is no way to fail. People can see the raw passion I have for what I do now and it impresses them - I think mainly because they see it missing in their own lives.
I guess the bottom line comes down to this. Do what you want in life, but make sure you truly do want it - not want the idea of it. If you succeed or not will depend completely on your attitude and how much you really want it. Nobody ever got rich or successful by not taking chances.
I submit that it's inherently fair and perfectly ethical to disrupt those who invade and steal from others. Even if the theft is one of compute cycles. Usually, we call those who disrupt invaders and thieves "heroes." I agree. Lets invade Iraq.
Is it wrong to do something to an out of control car rolling down a hill on fire towards a school full of people? This is a lot like a computer being part of a botnet.
It is possible you could cause some damage to the car which is not yours by directing it out of the way, but if you don't something bad will certainly happen. As usual on slashdot, the severity of your example is way out of proportion with what is actually happening... How many people has a botnet killed? How many will it kill? Injured? None? Righto - Move along.
While an issue, these things won't endanger life or safety - don't try to justify things by comparing them to things that will.
What else would have helped is the type of EEPROM, the manufacturer, and part number... Something like 27C512 in a 40 pin DIN or similar... Different types of EEPROMs require different equipment...
I agree with the parent 100%. As a pilot myself, I know the number of idiots targeting planes (both light G/A aircraft and airliners) is on the rise. The reason us pilots see this in such a bad way is that in the case of the airline pilot, he has accepted responsibility for a few hundred lives while flying his aircraft. If some moron points a laser at him and impairs his judgement for a second, then that is enough time to put every one of those lives in danger.
I also agree with other posts further up - when you are driving a car and someone blinds you with their high beams because they forget to dim them... Usually, the first reaction is something like "Turns those fucking headlights down moron!". This is because you find it much harder to see where you are going - therefore your safety is being compromised. If you get annoyed at this when it's just you in a car, spare a thought for the pilot who feels this 200+ times worse.
This ban has come from serial offenders - who on a single night, around 15 separate morons with high powered green laser pointers - all in different locations - were targeting airliners on approach to Sydney International Airport. This caused the diversion of multiple flights (6-7 IIRC). Assume average passenger loads of 200 per aircraft and that's 1200 - 1400 peoples lives that these morons were toying with. This is also the reason that the punishment for pointing lasers at aircraft has jumped to 2 years in jail and a massive fine.
So where exactly lies the problem? Implementation?
Don't put too much faith in Simon Hackett... He's great at doing PR, but I wouldn't put my money on him for the technical skills. Some stuff he does well, some stuff he doesn't do well. Internode is flogging WiMax as a way to get government funding and all sorts of stuff - I wouldn't put it past him to say this just so he can sell the plan to the government and investors...
It's also interesting to note that in the case of a fuel pump failure, there is usually enough suction to drag fuel into the engines. We're talking engines that suck 500lb/minute of fuel here - not something like a car...
When fuel pumps fail, you'll probably get a slight decrease in available power, but I would suspect very little decrease in N1/N2. Fuel pump failures are usually not causes of engines stopping.
All of this is free. Like you I have my own domain -- but Gmail's excellent suite of services is too useful to miss out on.
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Your car analogy isn't a particularly good one, as Apple aren't saying they won't repair a phone which has physical faults or non-software related issues. Apple are in no way responsible for the software if it's been modified by the end-user. This is fairly standard stuff in software development/support terms.
Agreed. Here's a better car analogy. You go our and buy a brand new shiny car, take it home and hear that there's a simple modification to the EEPROM in the engine management computer that will give you an extra 20% power. You flash the new EEPROM yourself and install it. A day later, the car engine refuses to work and is pretty much toast. Do you expect the manufacturer of the car to fix everything?
If you said yes, then you're in for a rude awakening...
Because we are a small country we do tend to hold on to assets like this a little bit tighter. Or try to, anyway.
I think this is part of the problem, however the greater problem is that there are companies out there who are already violating patents by producing 802.11g equipment covered by CSIRO patents that STILL do not pay royalties. There was a big deal about this a while ago. Sadly, American companies seem to love to want to overlook this while screaming if somebody overseas violates their patent.
I believe that the people who make gear based on 802.11g & 802.11n should at least be honourable enough to give royalties to the people that invented the technology to enable their products (leading to their income) to exist should get something in return. That's the whole idea of patents, correct?
To boil this down, CSIRO invented the schemes to make 802.11n work. Companies want to use this technology to make money, but don't want to share any of it with the inventor. This sounds like perfect use of the patent system.
Given that I'm the one who wrote that article, and given that most of the code I've recently written is designed to avoid the need for users to touch the command line, that doesn't seem likely. Please don't assume that because you wrote the code you understand what the users want. This is one of the HUGE shortcomings of software development. What the users want, and what the developers do are usually completely separate things.
What do people want? To not have to worry about codecs etc - they just want something that works. Windows allows you to install, pop in a DVD, and away you go playing it. They don't have to worry about anything else and to have to do hack jobs in linux to make it work shows that work needs to be done. The end user sees these flaws and just thinks linux hasn't developed enough to use.
Until linux developers actually get that step right, Linux has no chance at the desktop.
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I prefer to call it the Computer Clit(TM). I've always called it a clit stick.... It fits, as everyone always has trouble using them, some people never know where it is, and even if you do get the damn thing working right - it's never any fun for the operator....
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I agree. The C&C series are what made me love RTS type games. C&C, Red Alert etc and the classics of a game studio who just do it right. Sadly, that was killed by EA and nobody has really stepped up to fill the gap :(
The fun part is - that as a non-US citizen, I look at something like this and think "What the hell is the US Government wanting to know what people have on their computer as they visit the US?".
What happened to the whole idea of freedoms and liberty for all that every US history class tells you America was founded on?
The more I hear about this kind of thing happening, the less I want to visit the US and chance of me doing business with American businesses gets lower and lower.
It seems to this foreigner that the US government needs to be told to pull it's fucking head in and act like a government - not the Gestapo.
The money they make off the licensing goes into paying development costs and further research, otherwise it means that the australian tax payer is out of pocket for the benefit of the rest of the world (the CSIRO is a research institute supported by the Australian Government, not a private for-profit company).
Actually, it's more like the Australian tax payers paying for research that financially benefits US companies like Dell, Intel etc etc etc. After all, they are the ones making the money on this, not the rest of the world.
You mean like this?
That's still not much of a limit. 250GB/month is over 8GB/day. I don't think I downloaded that much even when I was on a college connection.
Wahhh fucking wahh. If you're thinking you're badly done by for having a limit of 250Gb, I suggest that you look at the plans for the rest of the world and compare. I pay $79.95AU (~$69US, ~46â) for ADSL2+ which gives me ~6Mbit of speed and a 40Gb quota per month.
Plans above 100Gb in the residential space don't really exist in Australia (and in many places of the world). The US broadband market is still waaay more relaxed than the rest of the world - stop whinging and enjoy what you have compared to others.
It's also a little harder for an observer to collect millions of records from junk mail than it is to sniff at a router and log all the traffic automatically.
Riiight - because people can easily sniff traffic at an ADSL DSLAM, wait no, at the L2TP router, wait not even there, oh - at the upstream to a Tier 1 ISP, no, not their either... So where exactly is someone going to sniff your data?
Oh, you're talking about someone on your LAN or Wifi access point? Well then, you have bigger issues!
Even if you're stuck on a cable node, most of the equipment I've seen filter other peoples data out via MAC of the cable modem - so you can't even sniff there...
This being said, where would the so-called 'privacy breech' sniffing take place?
I have to agree with this. I found myself really disillusioned with IT after working for just over 10 years in network admin, helpdesk, network support at a telco, then deploying VoIP systems, then a NOC environment. It really wasn't what I was hoping for.
So, I bit the bullet.
I'm now training to be a charter pilot, and I'm loving life. I have gone from waking up in the morning and thinking "oh shit, it's time for work again" to jumping out of bed in the morning with a smile on my face.
The decision to do this was the hardest thing in my life. I had the choice to stay in a cosy job that I could do and be unhappy, or take the risk and do what I always dreamed of doing.
I don't regret a it for a second - even though I'm still in the training stage. As an added bonus, now that I'm not screwing around with IT stuff all day, I find it a lot more fun to hack around at home in my downtime too.
There's the whole thought of what happens if I fail - which was a huge weight on my mind a number of months ago, however as time goes by, I believe there is no way to fail. People can see the raw passion I have for what I do now and it impresses them - I think mainly because they see it missing in their own lives.
I guess the bottom line comes down to this. Do what you want in life, but make sure you truly do want it - not want the idea of it. If you succeed or not will depend completely on your attitude and how much you really want it. Nobody ever got rich or successful by not taking chances.
It is possible you could cause some damage to the car which is not yours by directing it out of the way, but if you don't something bad will certainly happen. As usual on slashdot, the severity of your example is way out of proportion with what is actually happening... How many people has a botnet killed? How many will it kill? Injured? None? Righto - Move along.
While an issue, these things won't endanger life or safety - don't try to justify things by comparing them to things that will.
What else would have helped is the type of EEPROM, the manufacturer, and part number... Something like 27C512 in a 40 pin DIN or similar... Different types of EEPROMs require different equipment...
I agree with the parent 100%. As a pilot myself, I know the number of idiots targeting planes (both light G/A aircraft and airliners) is on the rise. The reason us pilots see this in such a bad way is that in the case of the airline pilot, he has accepted responsibility for a few hundred lives while flying his aircraft. If some moron points a laser at him and impairs his judgement for a second, then that is enough time to put every one of those lives in danger.
I also agree with other posts further up - when you are driving a car and someone blinds you with their high beams because they forget to dim them... Usually, the first reaction is something like "Turns those fucking headlights down moron!". This is because you find it much harder to see where you are going - therefore your safety is being compromised. If you get annoyed at this when it's just you in a car, spare a thought for the pilot who feels this 200+ times worse.
This ban has come from serial offenders - who on a single night, around 15 separate morons with high powered green laser pointers - all in different locations - were targeting airliners on approach to Sydney International Airport. This caused the diversion of multiple flights (6-7 IIRC). Assume average passenger loads of 200 per aircraft and that's 1200 - 1400 peoples lives that these morons were toying with. This is also the reason that the punishment for pointing lasers at aircraft has jumped to 2 years in jail and a massive fine.
Don't put too much faith in Simon Hackett... He's great at doing PR, but I wouldn't put my money on him for the technical skills. Some stuff he does well, some stuff he doesn't do well. Internode is flogging WiMax as a way to get government funding and all sorts of stuff - I wouldn't put it past him to say this just so he can sell the plan to the government and investors...
Wait. Video editing software made by a third party is now classified as basic functionality? When did this happen?
It's also interesting to note that in the case of a fuel pump failure, there is usually enough suction to drag fuel into the engines. We're talking engines that suck 500lb/minute of fuel here - not something like a car...
When fuel pumps fail, you'll probably get a slight decrease in available power, but I would suspect very little decrease in N1/N2. Fuel pump failures are usually not causes of engines stopping.
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Well, maybe without the bats....
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* You agree by using this service that Google Inc can and will store, index and data mine all email that you receive on a permanent basis and use the data for whatever we feel like. You won't have a say in this, you won't know what we do with this data, but we'll have all the dirt we ever need on you. forever.
Yeah - but weird things start coming up when you change the ref=rss to ref=rsr.
Agreed. Here's a better car analogy. You go our and buy a brand new shiny car, take it home and hear that there's a simple modification to the EEPROM in the engine management computer that will give you an extra 20% power. You flash the new EEPROM yourself and install it. A day later, the car engine refuses to work and is pretty much toast. Do you expect the manufacturer of the car to fix everything?
If you said yes, then you're in for a rude awakening...
Because we are a small country we do tend to hold on to assets like this a little bit tighter. Or try to, anyway.
I think this is part of the problem, however the greater problem is that there are companies out there who are already violating patents by producing 802.11g equipment covered by CSIRO patents that STILL do not pay royalties. There was a big deal about this a while ago. Sadly, American companies seem to love to want to overlook this while screaming if somebody overseas violates their patent.
I believe that the people who make gear based on 802.11g & 802.11n should at least be honourable enough to give royalties to the people that invented the technology to enable their products (leading to their income) to exist should get something in return. That's the whole idea of patents, correct?
To boil this down, CSIRO invented the schemes to make 802.11n work. Companies want to use this technology to make money, but don't want to share any of it with the inventor. This sounds like perfect use of the patent system.
Yeah, but that's just australian money. :)
Which is also marching towards $1AU = $1USD... Just like $CAD...
It's currently at $1AUD = $0.8677USD after being around the $0.6US a few years ago...
If you read the article, you see that there's not an engine in the thing right now.
You just need to use your own bi-carb soda and vinegar solution. The forums are coming soon where you can discuss optimal thrust ratios.
But the guy was on a cruise BOAT.
I think it was more likely the failboat.
What do people want? To not have to worry about codecs etc - they just want something that works. Windows allows you to install, pop in a DVD, and away you go playing it. They don't have to worry about anything else and to have to do hack jobs in linux to make it work shows that work needs to be done. The end user sees these flaws and just thinks linux hasn't developed enough to use.
Until linux developers actually get that step right, Linux has no chance at the desktop.
The ROMMON on the G2 has zero network functionality - therefore you can't TFTP anything across. You also can't Xmodem over the console.
The flash card was good, but the bootflash: image was deleted (part of my testing). From this point, it was impossible to recover the router.
I prefer to call it the Computer Clit(TM). I've always called it a clit stick.... It fits, as everyone always has trouble using them, some people never know where it is, and even if you do get the damn thing working right - it's never any fun for the operator....