Well, calculate the power needs of 1000 miles of ducting and air pumps and let me know if it is really the same amount of energy.
It seems the resistive load will win, and digital logic seems an easy way to get extra work out of a resistive load. Especially for home use, because digital bits are easy to store. In a factory, there are a lot more choices.
Oh I see now you don't actually work in the industry
What industry is that? I didn't mention it in this comment. Did you read the part I wrote that said
If you turn your conclusions into presumptions all you do is go in a circle like an idiot.
So you want to be more truthy by forming an idiotic belief about what industry I work in? That wouldn't make your comments any more considered.
What industry do you imagine a person would need to work in to know that "Everything needs a network connection somewhere, and every network eventually needs a connection to the internet" is a false statement? It seems actually that anybody who works in any industry that uses networks should be able to evaluate the statement. There isn't one narrow industry where the Appointed Poobahs would have the Secret Knowledge of What Is A Network.;) And surely people who work with networking would know it, though the funniest part is that most of the workers who work with networks are not in any particular industry, they're distributed across all industries.
Don't sell yourself short, I'm sure you can impersonate a macho cheesehead and run around the circular logic one more lap and say something even stupider.
Oh, I don't know, NOT turning off Javascript so sites actually work?
LOL that explains it! You only have room for one solution to a type of problem, so you can't make choices or use different browsers for different use cases.
Sounds like your online experience is somewhat different from the average slashdot user.
For the record, some of us are capable of turning features off, and also back on. They also have various extensions to help with that. Well, depending on your browser choices, anyways.
Doesn't everybody wait for their lives to be refreshed at the end of Bluescreen? Surely they do if they've been celebrating Business Software Appreciation since Clippiver!
A bunch of electrons in a grid. Some people like it if the pattern is one way, some like it another way, but everybody gets the electrons they deserve.
It makes perfect sense if you assume that some of those word groups are proper nouns. I don't know what Alleged For Connectivity makes, but I'm assuming it is either a comedy product or a childs toy.
Yeah, McFly, like you didn't see the past 20 years of AI headlines?! Let me guess, you just took a shortcut here from the past, and missed it?
And are lots of people suing each other, or are the same few people suing each other over and over again? Maybe the bot can tell us what is really going on.
or should they just be forced to give their product away for free and surrender all IP?
They shouldn't be forced to do anything at all, hopefully we can all agree they they've been forced to do way too much already. Hopefully they can find some peace and a quieter life.
and what gets installed isn't everything that runs on the target system.
The real problem isn't the software, it is the wrench that the programmers live within arms reach of.
Who cares how many squirrels are in the software? Hate to say it, there is nothing these guys can to regain trust at this point. Everybody knows about the wrench now, everybody knows they had no choice. Everybody knows they live in a country without individual rights where there is no way for the courts or anybody else to protect an individual business from being manipulated.
If they'd moved somewhere else when the bad stuff started, they might be able to recover trust. But they didn't, instead they were a search platform for their clients' secrets! Small whoopsie there, right? I mean, clients of security software can forgive that, right?
Rare earth metals are not localized, they're deposited all over the world. They're rare because they're spread out and it is expensive to concentrate them. The US was a major producer before the Chinese started selling cheaper.
Your whole post boils down to the false claim, "Everything needs a network connection somewhere, and every network eventually needs a connection to the internet."
If you turn your conclusions into presumptions all you do is go in a circle like an idiot.
This is one of the secrets of power efficiency; if extra heat is doing work, then application efficiency approaches 100% because most waste is heat!
Of course in the summer it often goes the other way, and you pay twice for the heat; once for the electricity that got wasted, and again to run an air conditioner.
Presumably google as an advertising platform will also be better placed to prevent it, so this just moves online advertising closer to a monopoly, rather than "killing" it.
If you come from a religiously diverse area there will almost always be at least one student in the class who isn't allowed to make pledges, and then it does indeed serve to indoctrinate children in the culture of Free Speech; "No Billy, we don't ask Timmy why he doesn't say the pledge, we just accept his choice."
If you have good teachers, they can do these things in a way that makes most of the parents happy. A lot of public schools are there to help the parents with whichever version of the indoctrination they support!
Or at least, if Democrats control the school board that is what happens.
a VPN only gives you privacy if you're using it to connect to a private network.
If you're using it to connect to the public network, your usage might actually be public, not private, and the network might be a public service, not a private anything.
Encouraging trial and exploration before it's a critical need is an excellent learning opportunity.
Well, yes, but asking questions of people on the internet might not actually encourage trial and exploration at all, and it may not be a significantly useful learning opportunity compared to, say, access to wikipedia.
The correct answer is, "If you don't know, you don't need one," and that remains true for a student who is interested in learning more; indeed, it is after learning more that they might come to discover that they do have a use case for it after all.
Not every detail of computing benefits from diving in without reading the manual; in many cases, if you're not going to invest the time to understand even the basics then you won't be able to make effective use of the tool at all.
The first thing to understand is that there is no difference between "datacenter" and "ISP." The room at the ISP where the computers live is called the "datacenter," and a hosting company that has a datacenter is also known as an ISP.
I don't know about now, but around ~2002 when they were installing the stuff at a lot of places, they just had a network closet that the government controlled, (and rented from the ISP!) protected by access card. They simply route all the normal upstream traffic through that room; fiber going in, fiber coming back out. Presumably running through a passive tap that dumps out to somewhere; probably over their own VPN directly to their datacenter.
So the answer is potentially "yes," though the NSA would apparently split hairs and claim that even though your data is stored on their server, they didn't have "access" to your data until they typed a data search into their interface. Not everybody agrees that that is what the words mean.
The NSA almost always knows where your endpoints are. That's their job. And if they don't, they know it, and your name is probably on a list now.
There is one other very important thing that a VPN protects you from: unwarranted surveillance.
Well, don't forget to subtract the increased chances of having all your traffic recorded! I mean, maybe it protects you from surveillance, maybe it makes it more likely that you're on the list of people to surveil.
The reality is that you don't know; it isn't knowable. Who is being secretly watched is of course a secret, and the details and processes change over time, at unknown intervals. All the public data on it is suspect and could be designed just to get people used to being surveilled.
Other use cases, like for those of us who are actually creating a Virtual Private Network so that we can have private routing tunneled over a public network, well then we know exactly what we're getting, and indeed the tool is proven effective.
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Well, calculate the power needs of 1000 miles of ducting and air pumps and let me know if it is really the same amount of energy.
It seems the resistive load will win, and digital logic seems an easy way to get extra work out of a resistive load. Especially for home use, because digital bits are easy to store. In a factory, there are a lot more choices.
Oh I see now you don't actually work in the industry
What industry is that? I didn't mention it in this comment. Did you read the part I wrote that said
If you turn your conclusions into presumptions all you do is go in a circle like an idiot.
So you want to be more truthy by forming an idiotic belief about what industry I work in? That wouldn't make your comments any more considered.
What industry do you imagine a person would need to work in to know that "Everything needs a network connection somewhere, and every network eventually needs a connection to the internet" is a false statement? It seems actually that anybody who works in any industry that uses networks should be able to evaluate the statement. There isn't one narrow industry where the Appointed Poobahs would have the Secret Knowledge of What Is A Network. ;) And surely people who work with networking would know it, though the funniest part is that most of the workers who work with networks are not in any particular industry, they're distributed across all industries.
Don't sell yourself short, I'm sure you can impersonate a macho cheesehead and run around the circular logic one more lap and say something even stupider.
Oh, I don't know, NOT turning off Javascript so sites actually work?
LOL that explains it! You only have room for one solution to a type of problem, so you can't make choices or use different browsers for different use cases.
Sounds like your online experience is somewhat different from the average slashdot user.
For the record, some of us are capable of turning features off, and also back on. They also have various extensions to help with that. Well, depending on your browser choices, anyways.
Ignorance is to tools you don't use as ignorance is to security risks you didn't know you were exposed to: T/F
Surely you can do better.
How do we know we're not already the computers?
Doesn't everybody wait for their lives to be refreshed at the end of Bluescreen? Surely they do if they've been celebrating Business Software Appreciation since Clippiver!
And what do we get?
A bunch of electrons in a grid. Some people like it if the pattern is one way, some like it another way, but everybody gets the electrons they deserve.
It makes perfect sense if you assume that some of those word groups are proper nouns. I don't know what Alleged For Connectivity makes, but I'm assuming it is either a comedy product or a childs toy.
Yeah, McFly, like you didn't see the past 20 years of AI headlines?! Let me guess, you just took a shortcut here from the past, and missed it?
And are lots of people suing each other, or are the same few people suing each other over and over again? Maybe the bot can tell us what is really going on.
LOL if you thought the problem was the handling of ASCII then you should have just given up, seen his 4 digits, and stayed off the lawn.
or should they just be forced to give their product away for free and surrender all IP?
They shouldn't be forced to do anything at all, hopefully we can all agree they they've been forced to do way too much already. Hopefully they can find some peace and a quieter life.
and what gets installed isn't everything that runs on the target system.
The real problem isn't the software, it is the wrench that the programmers live within arms reach of.
Who cares how many squirrels are in the software? Hate to say it, there is nothing these guys can to regain trust at this point. Everybody knows about the wrench now, everybody knows they had no choice. Everybody knows they live in a country without individual rights where there is no way for the courts or anybody else to protect an individual business from being manipulated.
If they'd moved somewhere else when the bad stuff started, they might be able to recover trust. But they didn't, instead they were a search platform for their clients' secrets! Small whoopsie there, right? I mean, clients of security software can forgive that, right?
Rare earth metals are not localized, they're deposited all over the world. They're rare because they're spread out and it is expensive to concentrate them. The US was a major producer before the Chinese started selling cheaper.
So get used to saying "Germany" when you're talking about what the rules are in your country. ;)
Your whole post boils down to the false claim, "Everything needs a network connection somewhere, and every network eventually needs a connection to the internet."
If you turn your conclusions into presumptions all you do is go in a circle like an idiot.
This is one of the secrets of power efficiency; if extra heat is doing work, then application efficiency approaches 100% because most waste is heat!
Of course in the summer it often goes the other way, and you pay twice for the heat; once for the electricity that got wasted, and again to run an air conditioner.
3) Browsers and plugins WILL give us control over this. Hopefully sooner than later.
I've had control over this stuff in my browser for about two decades, what are you doing differently?
Presumably google as an advertising platform will also be better placed to prevent it, so this just moves online advertising closer to a monopoly, rather than "killing" it.
Your Europe Dogma is outdated.
The legal drinking age is 18 in Spain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Netherlands, Ukraine, and a bunch of other places in Europe.
There is no country called Europe, and drinking laws vary by country.
If you come from a religiously diverse area there will almost always be at least one student in the class who isn't allowed to make pledges, and then it does indeed serve to indoctrinate children in the culture of Free Speech; "No Billy, we don't ask Timmy why he doesn't say the pledge, we just accept his choice."
If you have good teachers, they can do these things in a way that makes most of the parents happy. A lot of public schools are there to help the parents with whichever version of the indoctrination they support!
Or at least, if Democrats control the school board that is what happens.
I'm 41 years old and I'm still finding out what the words in the lyrics really were, and feeling embarrassed.
At 14 I was at least smart enough to be sure I knew what all those words were. ;) Nevermind the music, or the point.
a VPN only gives you privacy if you're using it to connect to a private network.
If you're using it to connect to the public network, your usage might actually be public, not private, and the network might be a public service, not a private anything.
This is a 14 year old student.
Encouraging trial and exploration before it's a critical need is an excellent learning opportunity.
Well, yes, but asking questions of people on the internet might not actually encourage trial and exploration at all, and it may not be a significantly useful learning opportunity compared to, say, access to wikipedia.
The correct answer is, "If you don't know, you don't need one," and that remains true for a student who is interested in learning more; indeed, it is after learning more that they might come to discover that they do have a use case for it after all.
Not every detail of computing benefits from diving in without reading the manual; in many cases, if you're not going to invest the time to understand even the basics then you won't be able to make effective use of the tool at all.
The first thing to understand is that there is no difference between "datacenter" and "ISP." The room at the ISP where the computers live is called the "datacenter," and a hosting company that has a datacenter is also known as an ISP.
I don't know about now, but around ~2002 when they were installing the stuff at a lot of places, they just had a network closet that the government controlled, (and rented from the ISP!) protected by access card. They simply route all the normal upstream traffic through that room; fiber going in, fiber coming back out. Presumably running through a passive tap that dumps out to somewhere; probably over their own VPN directly to their datacenter.
So the answer is potentially "yes," though the NSA would apparently split hairs and claim that even though your data is stored on their server, they didn't have "access" to your data until they typed a data search into their interface. Not everybody agrees that that is what the words mean.
The NSA almost always knows where your endpoints are. That's their job. And if they don't, they know it, and your name is probably on a list now.
There is one other very important thing that a VPN protects you from: unwarranted surveillance.
Well, don't forget to subtract the increased chances of having all your traffic recorded! I mean, maybe it protects you from surveillance, maybe it makes it more likely that you're on the list of people to surveil.
The reality is that you don't know; it isn't knowable. Who is being secretly watched is of course a secret, and the details and processes change over time, at unknown intervals. All the public data on it is suspect and could be designed just to get people used to being surveilled.
Other use cases, like for those of us who are actually creating a Virtual Private Network so that we can have private routing tunneled over a public network, well then we know exactly what we're getting, and indeed the tool is proven effective.