Apple routinely deletes posts discussing known defects; it's very well known among Apple-using techies. Apple has done it in almost every case where there have been hardware defects of any kind.
Bloody oath they do. Apple have been denying a problem with SuperDrives for well over a year...
"Sir please close the raincoat and move along, you're scaring the pidgeons."
You know, In great humour, I think you've just about hit the nail on the head with what this is all about. In a world where people don't care enough about each other to help out at accident scenes and take on ANY personal responsibility at all, public shaming has an amazing effect on peoples behaviour.
If you throw some junk on the ground, and someone yells out to you to pick it up and everyone stops and looks at you it has two outcomes. 1) You'll probably pick it up and be embarassed that people are watching you, and 2) you probably take care to put your junk in the bin next time.
It's amazing what people think they can get away with under the guise that they are anonymous nobodies (aka faceless minions) - but as soon as someone gets singled out for sub-standard behaviour, things change quick quickly.
This is what happens when people around the globe stop caring about their fellow citizens - it's not just in the UK. Have a look through history (and even to this day) in small communities where everybody knows everyone else. There is a lot less crime, a lot less bad behaviour - as word gets around what you're doing and the whole town will know what you're up to. This doesn't happen today in large cities etc as theres just too many people - this leads to people thinking they can do anything without any chances of repercussion.
While the solution of cameras everywhere isn't the best, how else do you try to weed out unsocial behaviour in large population areas?
To make up for it however, it's legal to modchip a game console in Australia. DVD region codes are also frowned upon - multi-region players are available off the shelf from pretty much anywhere - and it's also legal to modify your player to play any region DVDs if it doesn't come that way.
Our federal court ruled that it was not fair and an abuse of corporations power to restrict what zones people can watch DVDs from and would have an adverse effect on customers. At least we're not totally nuts:)
The problem is, it's only a dual P3 system with 1Gb of RAM... Most desktops have more grunt these days. The one thing it does seem to be however is stable. The real issue is that the server does of a lot of realtime drawing of maps (http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/maps). These really chew through CPU space - and this is only drawing a fraction of the details that we have at any one time. It just begs for a dual xeon so we can overlay sat photos etc:P
Yeah - I agree... I'd say around 98% of what I get is spam... An extract from my daily logwatch:
Milter: data, reject=550 5.7.1 Blocked by SpamAssassin: 545 Time(s)
This is one day. There are a grant total of 9 mailboxes on that server and 4 mailing lists. The number of legit emails on that day was around 18. The number of messages rejected varies anywhere from around 400 to 800 per day with roughly the same amount of legit messages going through.
It's annoying as all hell, and I wish I didn't have to put up with it - as it means the machine (which I donated to host a number of community wireless networking sites) will need an upgrade just to help with spam scanning. Something I really can't afford to do - not everyone can blow $2-3k on a new server to keep up with spam:(
Wouldn't a more believable reply have been "My computer crashed and it wouldn't boot up. The only way I could get it going again was to get a friend to reformat it".
Hmmm ok - so I'm not the only one with this issue... I get about an hours usage out of my year old G4 powerbook - however it's always been around that mark. Interestingly enough, in System Profiler, I see:
Battery Information:
Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 3784
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 3782
Amperage (mA): 0
Voltage (mV): 12488
Cycle Count: 140
I think a 'cycle count' is more a case of how many times the charger has been plugged in more than fully charge/discharge cycles - as I hardly ever take my machine off mains power - due to such sucky battery life. Hopefully, when I organise a replacement for this, I'll get some decent battery life!
This has happened to the ridiculous extreme till they are literally fighting "gods".
I can see that you've never really understood what's going on then... The Ori are about as much "Gods" as the Gould. The Ori are ascended beings - ie humans that followed the path to enlightenment and ascended into a pure energy form. Just like humans, some of them are flawed.
The Ori represent the fact that humans are greedy and power hungry - and this has transfered into the ascended state. Keep in mind Anubas had also ascended! The Ori are NOT gods - just selfish higher beings that are being shown to have human traits.
If you think they are battling Gods, then you must have missed a memo or something.
Our fellow humans do not act civilized unless you can reach out and smack them... Then they act civilized.
I couldn't agree more. I would love to see this happen more often to the asshats who really deserve it. Maybe it will make people think twice about acting like a complete asshole if they knew that they actions will incur reactions - such as a bitch slap.
When people are truely anonymous, the majority act like complete retards. It's almost sickening.
This linear sequence of discourse inscribed in an electron-based medium yields no value whilst lacking lithography, daguerreotypy, or other for of relevant pictorial representation!.
I've used apt-get for years on Redhat. I'd say it's just as stable as on Debian. Sure, it didn't come installed by the OS but it only took one simple command to install it.
Ahhh yes. Now lets have a look how hard that is shall we?:)
Hmmm - so apt is already in the Fedora repos.... that means running 'yum install apt' and you're done. So remind me again, what makes Debian so special? Surely it can't be apt if apt is available elsewhere....
PPTP is known to be a faulty protocol. The designers of the protocol, Microsoft, recommend not to use it due to the inherent risks.
Sure thing! Do you honestly think that the NSA etc throughout the world can't decrypt PPTP VPNs in real time? While this probably won't stop government agencies from wanting to know what you're doing if they feel like it, it does make things a lot harder for other companies that want to use the law to their advantage to nail people (think RIAA/MPAA/local equivalent). This is because they can't get the records from your ISP anymore.
It would be nicer if they allowed you to use IPSec, but this is a lot more resource hungry when you're doing a few thousand (hundred thou?) sessions. I'd still trust it more than nothing - but a better method of connectivity would be better.
But if a significant minority of users were to do the same thing, it would probably result in a complete collapse of any usuable bandwidth. Which is exactly the kind of thing I would expect a bunch of MBA's to come up with.
Ahhh - but what they didn't include in this press release is that the card is so advanced that it opens up a sub-space window to tunnel data through. This means that your data travels faster than normal light because it's in a sub-space window. The reason for this is obvious - because there's less space in sub-space.
The idea was used under license from the creators of the Stargate and incorporated into a network card for everyone to use. The only reason linux is on the card is that a DHD is required.
The really bad news however is that because of the way this card works, to get any possible chances of having any improvement, you need to have one of these at each end - otherwise the auto-negotiation of the card falls back to Ethernet from Sub-Ethernet.
Same reasons that Verisign's wildcard service was decried, among other things this will cause every name.cm to resolve so it's going to at least screw with some spam blocking methods. If other countries follow suit then it gets even messier.
Last time I checked, Verisign wasn't a country or even a government service. It's a private company. That's where the difference lies.
Third and Finally - Even though TV tells you that cell phone triangulation is a common practice, it's not. Triangulating on a cell phone call requires police, on foot, with three antennas, to find the right signal and take a measurement, from there they sit down with a map and work it out. This isn't built into the phone system, and its certainly not automatic. One reason for this is that one of the better ways to triangulate a signal is to measure the signal strength - if cell phone providers measured signal strength at all their towers consumer groups could gain access to those records durring the disclosure period of a civil suit to prove that large regions of their networks do not work sufficently.
Really? Wow. Thanks for telling me this. Nice to know it's complete rubbish. I work for a telco, and the guys across the dividers from us do live call tracing and mobile location all the time. It takes about 5-10 minutes and is usually accurate to within 200 metres. The neat part about GSM is that as your phone uses timeslots, the delay can be measured between your phone and the tower (like a ping). You then know how far away the phone is from the tower (because radio waves travel at a known speed). You phone is also always in contact with more than one cell station at a time. Add up all three factors (timeslow, delay, and different locations) and the system gives you a street name and approximate number.
Of course, this is all done after a an official document comes through with what circumstances. Usually it's for people threatening suicide. Every now and again it's a kidnapping or something major. It's harsh on these guys when their call trace comes back too late and the news the next day shows that 2 kids were kidnapped by their dad and murdered. True story - give these guys some credit.
Don't worry, proof of prior art exists: the entire Internet.
This is the networking equivalent of patenting the fork.
I think you'll find they're thinking of the P2P nature of Skype to get around NAT/firewalls etc that will not allow a direct connection between sites - so they discover a third party and shuffle all comms via that third party also running skype. This is why Skype will always use bandwidth even if you're not in a call.
This strikes a good note with me at the moment... There's a fault with a section of the Southern Cross data cable that connects Australia to the US. This means it currently has limited access. Suddenly, my ISP lost *all* international connectivity. Interestingly enough, when I use a proxy of my ISPs upstream provider, I can get through to international sites.
This makes me think that there is already a two-tier internet - as this case obviously demonstrates. It seems that their wholesale traffic/customers aren't as important as its own. Nice way to wipe out tens of thousands of users off a network.
Even if you imagine one particular protocol is predominantly used for wrong-doing - you can't reasonably penalise the legal uses of that protocol. If you actually succeeded in shutting down one protocol - another can be invented overnight. This is simply the wrong approach to dealing with copyright violations.
Correct! I say we ban that damn FTP protocol! That's used for nothing but file sharing! And it's used over the Internet.
RTFM mate. This is not reinventing the wheel. It's adding a few more spokes, better tires and tougher rubber.
Yet I bet it still only takes a single nail to make the whole thing useless:|
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I talked to Maxis a few years ago about asking if I could put up a copy of the original SimCity that I bought on 2 x 720Kb floppies online for people to download free of charge.
After a week, I got a reply back saying that no, I'm not allowed to as it's a copyrighted work. I'd love to offer this for people, as the original SimCity is a blast to play because of it's simplicity - even if you have to jump through hoops to make it work!
Will you take them seriously now that you know IFPI stands for "International Federation of the Phonograph Industry"? It's an appropriately anachronistic name for an organisation determined to block progress in music distribution.
Just think, in this day and age, it'd be more like "What's a phonograph? and why does it have to be protected?"
I wonder if it'd be just as silly concept to have these groups to protect things like manual printing presses, and then try to extend that to everything from typewriters, to photocopiers to the modern printing presses.
1) One has to wonder if the excitement generated by Deep Impact is just going to spawn a whole series of experiments involving slamming large impactors onto heavenly bodies... if only for the publicity of smashing a heavenly body.
That's one way to describe the mating process I guess.......
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Bloody oath they do. Apple have been denying a problem with SuperDrives for well over a year...
http://superdrive.crc.id.au/
So when the earth gets a floater in the pool, it's one big mutha. Try fishing that out with a net
You know, In great humour, I think you've just about hit the nail on the head with what this is all about. In a world where people don't care enough about each other to help out at accident scenes and take on ANY personal responsibility at all, public shaming has an amazing effect on peoples behaviour.
If you throw some junk on the ground, and someone yells out to you to pick it up and everyone stops and looks at you it has two outcomes. 1) You'll probably pick it up and be embarassed that people are watching you, and 2) you probably take care to put your junk in the bin next time.
It's amazing what people think they can get away with under the guise that they are anonymous nobodies (aka faceless minions) - but as soon as someone gets singled out for sub-standard behaviour, things change quick quickly.
This is what happens when people around the globe stop caring about their fellow citizens - it's not just in the UK. Have a look through history (and even to this day) in small communities where everybody knows everyone else. There is a lot less crime, a lot less bad behaviour - as word gets around what you're doing and the whole town will know what you're up to. This doesn't happen today in large cities etc as theres just too many people - this leads to people thinking they can do anything without any chances of repercussion.
While the solution of cameras everywhere isn't the best, how else do you try to weed out unsocial behaviour in large population areas?
To make up for it however, it's legal to modchip a game console in Australia. DVD region codes are also frowned upon - multi-region players are available off the shelf from pretty much anywhere - and it's also legal to modify your player to play any region DVDs if it doesn't come that way.
:)
Our federal court ruled that it was not fair and an abuse of corporations power to restrict what zones people can watch DVDs from and would have an adverse effect on customers. At least we're not totally nuts
Yeah! because we all know how awesome Gnomes default startup sound is ;) It hurts my ears every time I hear it!
The problem is, it's only a dual P3 system with 1Gb of RAM... Most desktops have more grunt these days. The one thing it does seem to be however is stable. The real issue is that the server does of a lot of realtime drawing of maps (http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/maps). These really chew through CPU space - and this is only drawing a fraction of the details that we have at any one time. It just begs for a dual xeon so we can overlay sat photos etc :P
;)
Of course, all this slows down spam processing
Yeah - I agree... I'd say around 98% of what I get is spam... An extract from my daily logwatch:
:(
Milter: data, reject=550 5.7.1 Blocked by SpamAssassin: 545 Time(s)
This is one day. There are a grant total of 9 mailboxes on that server and 4 mailing lists. The number of legit emails on that day was around 18. The number of messages rejected varies anywhere from around 400 to 800 per day with roughly the same amount of legit messages going through.
It's annoying as all hell, and I wish I didn't have to put up with it - as it means the machine (which I donated to host a number of community wireless networking sites) will need an upgrade just to help with spam scanning. Something I really can't afford to do - not everyone can blow $2-3k on a new server to keep up with spam
Wouldn't a more believable reply have been "My computer crashed and it wouldn't boot up. The only way I could get it going again was to get a friend to reformat it".
I think a 'cycle count' is more a case of how many times the charger has been plugged in more than fully charge/discharge cycles - as I hardly ever take my machine off mains power - due to such sucky battery life. Hopefully, when I organise a replacement for this, I'll get some decent battery life!
I can see that you've never really understood what's going on then... The Ori are about as much "Gods" as the Gould. The Ori are ascended beings - ie humans that followed the path to enlightenment and ascended into a pure energy form. Just like humans, some of them are flawed.
The Ori represent the fact that humans are greedy and power hungry - and this has transfered into the ascended state. Keep in mind Anubas had also ascended! The Ori are NOT gods - just selfish higher beings that are being shown to have human traits.
If you think they are battling Gods, then you must have missed a memo or something.
I couldn't agree more. I would love to see this happen more often to the asshats who really deserve it. Maybe it will make people think twice about acting like a complete asshole if they knew that they actions will incur reactions - such as a bitch slap.
When people are truely anonymous, the majority act like complete retards. It's almost sickening.
And for the old timers among us:
This linear sequence of discourse inscribed in an electron-based medium yields no value whilst lacking lithography, daguerreotypy, or other for of relevant pictorial representation!.
Why yes I do fark.
Ahhh yes. Now lets have a look how hard that is shall we?
# yum search apt | grep apt.i386
apt.i386 0.5.15lorg3.2-6.fc6 extras-developme
Hmmm - so apt is already in the Fedora repos.... that means running 'yum install apt' and you're done. So remind me again, what makes Debian so special? Surely it can't be apt if apt is available elsewhere....
Sure thing! Do you honestly think that the NSA etc throughout the world can't decrypt PPTP VPNs in real time? While this probably won't stop government agencies from wanting to know what you're doing if they feel like it, it does make things a lot harder for other companies that want to use the law to their advantage to nail people (think RIAA/MPAA/local equivalent). This is because they can't get the records from your ISP anymore.
It would be nicer if they allowed you to use IPSec, but this is a lot more resource hungry when you're doing a few thousand (hundred thou?) sessions. I'd still trust it more than nothing - but a better method of connectivity would be better.
Ahhh - but what they didn't include in this press release is that the card is so advanced that it opens up a sub-space window to tunnel data through. This means that your data travels faster than normal light because it's in a sub-space window. The reason for this is obvious - because there's less space in sub-space.
The idea was used under license from the creators of the Stargate and incorporated into a network card for everyone to use. The only reason linux is on the card is that a DHD is required.
The really bad news however is that because of the way this card works, to get any possible chances of having any improvement, you need to have one of these at each end - otherwise the auto-negotiation of the card falls back to Ethernet from Sub-Ethernet.
It's just like magic really.
<sarcasm>Yeah! How dare they have their country code as a typo-squat of
Last time I checked, Verisign wasn't a country or even a government service. It's a private company. That's where the difference lies.
Third and Finally - Even though TV tells you that cell phone triangulation is a common practice, it's not. Triangulating on a cell phone call requires police, on foot, with three antennas, to find the right signal and take a measurement, from there they sit down with a map and work it out. This isn't built into the phone system, and its certainly not automatic. One reason for this is that one of the better ways to triangulate a signal is to measure the signal strength - if cell phone providers measured signal strength at all their towers consumer groups could gain access to those records durring the disclosure period of a civil suit to prove that large regions of their networks do not work sufficently.
Really? Wow. Thanks for telling me this. Nice to know it's complete rubbish. I work for a telco, and the guys across the dividers from us do live call tracing and mobile location all the time. It takes about 5-10 minutes and is usually accurate to within 200 metres. The neat part about GSM is that as your phone uses timeslots, the delay can be measured between your phone and the tower (like a ping). You then know how far away the phone is from the tower (because radio waves travel at a known speed). You phone is also always in contact with more than one cell station at a time. Add up all three factors (timeslow, delay, and different locations) and the system gives you a street name and approximate number.
Of course, this is all done after a an official document comes through with what circumstances. Usually it's for people threatening suicide. Every now and again it's a kidnapping or something major. It's harsh on these guys when their call trace comes back too late and the news the next day shows that 2 kids were kidnapped by their dad and murdered. True story - give these guys some credit.
It's true.
Don't worry, proof of prior art exists: the entire Internet.
This is the networking equivalent of patenting the fork.
I think you'll find they're thinking of the P2P nature of Skype to get around NAT/firewalls etc that will not allow a direct connection between sites - so they discover a third party and shuffle all comms via that third party also running skype. This is why Skype will always use bandwidth even if you're not in a call.
This strikes a good note with me at the moment... There's a fault with a section of the Southern Cross data cable that connects Australia to the US. This means it currently has limited access. Suddenly, my ISP lost *all* international connectivity. Interestingly enough, when I use a proxy of my ISPs upstream provider, I can get through to international sites.
This makes me think that there is already a two-tier internet - as this case obviously demonstrates. It seems that their wholesale traffic/customers aren't as important as its own. Nice way to wipe out tens of thousands of users off a network.
Food for thought.
Even if you imagine one particular protocol is predominantly used for wrong-doing - you can't reasonably penalise the legal uses of that protocol. If you actually succeeded in shutting down one protocol - another can be invented overnight. This is simply the wrong approach to dealing with copyright violations.
Correct! I say we ban that damn FTP protocol! That's used for nothing but file sharing! And it's used over the Internet.
RTFM mate. This is not reinventing the wheel. It's adding a few more spokes, better tires and tougher rubber.
:|
Yet I bet it still only takes a single nail to make the whole thing useless
I talked to Maxis a few years ago about asking if I could put up a copy of the original SimCity that I bought on 2 x 720Kb floppies online for people to download free of charge.
After a week, I got a reply back saying that no, I'm not allowed to as it's a copyrighted work. I'd love to offer this for people, as the original SimCity is a blast to play because of it's simplicity - even if you have to jump through hoops to make it work!
Will you take them seriously now that you know IFPI stands for "International Federation of the Phonograph Industry"? It's an appropriately anachronistic name for an organisation determined to block progress in music distribution.
Just think, in this day and age, it'd be more like "What's a phonograph? and why does it have to be protected?"
I wonder if it'd be just as silly concept to have these groups to protect things like manual printing presses, and then try to extend that to everything from typewriters, to photocopiers to the modern printing presses.
1) One has to wonder if the excitement generated by Deep Impact is just going to spawn a whole series of experiments involving slamming large impactors onto heavenly bodies... if only for the publicity of smashing a heavenly body.
That's one way to describe the mating process I guess.......