Hopefully it does. That's why I donate. I'd say not to worry and that I donated enough for you too but, well, they can always use more. Don't confuse the EFF with FSF or the GNU Project. They're not the same nor are they, shall we say, as zealous. The former gets my money, the latter two do not. I see the EFF to be much the same as I see the ACLU.
No, you're not even *remotely* Libertarian - not even close to "pretty libertarian." I strongly suspect you aren't even remotely aware of the actual political ideology known as Libertarianism.
I realize the word 'media' has many definitions but, for the sake of clarity, I'd suggest we just drop the word media. It's social. Social media implies it's news done by a group and that might be a possibility but, as evidence has shown us, that's not the actual results.
It's the washer-room for modern women and the pot-belly stove for modern men. It's gossip and group-think. It's peer-pressure and conformity. It's your own created echo-chamber, a mental prison of your own choosing. I have been there and I have read quite a bit of content. No, I do not have an account and never have.
It's as social as Slashdot only I probably get more valid news from the comments here than anywhere else. I don't even *have* to give up a bunch of personal information, allow cross-site tracking, or even use a real name. Sure, I'm me and some of us know who I am. Yes, I've been pretty open with who I am. Yes, I elect to do so.
So, I guess, it's really not media so much as it's news media (as seems to be the implication by many) but it is social. Hell, I get more news here, even in the comments, than I suspect *most* people get on Facebook. Well, more valuable news to me, personally. Simply call it a social website and stop pretending that it's valid, vetted, or valuable media when that's only a fraction of a percent of the content.
Are games really worth that these days? I am legitimately curious as to why it's worth it to someone to pay for this, as much as this, and with devices and games that seem to often be reported as being openly evil to their customers. I did play some games a while back. Fallout and Fallout 2 were pretty good but then came Fallout Tactics. I don't think I've really played any games since.
It's Linux. Someone will figure out a way to install it on a toaster. A few of us will even download their work and make our own toasters run Linux. It'll take four weeks and then three hours of figuring out the man pages, each time, to make toast but we'll do it - and we'll like it. We might even make it run our mail server.
Why would anyone want to climb Everest? Why would anyone want to write yet another OS? Why would anyone want to write a new browser? To do something different because it's there.
That said, this is built on FreeBSD. Wouldn't it be easier to just, you know, intercept the data and figure out what it's looking for or doing and then throw a shim layer in there or the likes? By easier I do not mean simple, just easier than going about this in the manner that they're attacking it. I don't recall hearing about any special hardware in there that'd need emulation so, to my uneducated eyes, that would seem a more simple route though this might actually be a step in that direction.
DSL is awesome for that. If my ISP irks me, I just call another service provider and I'm good to go. I don't even lose service - it just magically keeps on working. Note: My ISP doesn't piss me off. I don't know where you live but where I live they are unable to stop the service from being provided by another company. Why? They're telephone lines and the various communications laws meant to protect consumers actually have some benefits to the consumers. Cable is not a societal need, no matter how much we want it to be, and isn't *typically* protected by those same laws.
Potential solution? Point out that cable, for the purpose of communication, should be a protected service and thus covered by the same regulatory conditions as telephones and be watched by the Public Utility Commission. You will probably need to educate some people and you will probably need some help from noisy neighbors but it probably isn't impossible. Cable companies could still exempt television from those rules, of course. You'll almost certainly need to do this at the State level as a municipality almost certainly doesn't have the authority (or capacity) to enact such regulations.
That seems witty and bright but, really, it just means that there are multiple servers and that makes it more difficult to diagnose. I also have no idea how you changed your username to speak on behalf of the other person. Perhaps you're certain they were speaking of the same thing?
If you want to use.torrents to do a deterministic test then have a friend (or just use a server) create a.torrent file for you and you alone - something with a unique username. Then, if you want, you can both use Wireshark simultaneously and compare results. You'll want to do this with more than one friend with each using an ISP that is not your own and, again, for a full picture use and compare Wireshark results. (Which can also detect packet injection.) You may need to do this with multiple friends because it's unlikely that they've got upload bandwidth enough to match your download bandwidth.
Downloading a random torrent from random people is not a good way to say the ISP is screwing with you. Oh, they probably *are* screwing with you but the test proves nothing unless you control the environment. Key point being, unless you're controlling the test environment you can't really point, say, and prove that it is your ISP. It probably is your ISP, they're a bunch of crooked pricks, but you can't really say it for certain. A nice private tracker will help you facilitate such a test.
I live in a *very* remote area and when I connect to my home machine (which I just did) I get varied speeds but not by a whole lot - things don't really slow down. I'm paying for 10/1 Mb service. I get somewhere around 12.5-14/1.5. I am so remote that I had to actually pay for my own lines to be upgraded as well as a CO to be put in because I'm that far from the village.
I don't get cable so cable is not an option. I used to have satellite and, for a while, directional wireless. I'm kind of happy with it. To be honest, it's more than I need. I think the slowest that I've had was a 900 baud acoustic coupler/cradle modem critter from back in the 80s though a friend had a 300 baud for a spell. I'm kind of grateful for what I have.
It's good that I'm grateful because I'm not even sure that I could pay for fiber to be run. I mean, yeah, I can pay for it but I don't think anyone's gonna provide me service out in my home area. I'm about 24 miles outside of the Rangeley, Maine village center. There's a tower not too far away and it even has 4G now. I can use that as backup but I don't really bother.
The DSL is more than adequate and if another company offers me a better service package then I can always use them - I am not stuck with a single company this way and a monopoly is not an issue because others are willing to provide me the service. I do, by default, still use the original company (though they sold and later changed their name) but that's because I'm happy with them. I did use GWI for a while but I'm back on Fairpoint. Fairpoint was, a long time ago, CommTel.
I already donate a significant sum to the EFF on a fairly regular basis. Usually once a year I make a larger donation and then I make a few smaller donations as they pop up in conversations and I am reminded to donate. My most recent donation was 48 BTC when they were worth some ~600 each. It was easier to donate them than to figure out the taxes on them. I did not write off said donation.
Violence and intimidation are required for terrorism. Not that someone gets hurt. There were lots of acts of violence and intimidation. Britain doing it was not terrorism, they were the State, that's run of the mill despotism. There's no need to ascribe more to the word than is required. Sometimes terrorism works for the best. The Jews in Palestine, for example, used terrorism to get the UK to act on their promise.
I had the opportunity to work with many, many municipalities and government officials. They have some strange processes and they have problems but one of the things I learned was that there's actually a difference, in interpretation at least, between the words "shall" and "will." They look the same but one is somehow more binding than the other. It seems, I shall do the dishes is different than I will do the dishes.
My home is in Maine, near the Canadian border, and I've got a few dollars. Nope, climate change won't even begin to bother me or hamper me in the slightest. In fact, I'm in the market for an HMMWV.
I'm mostly kidding but I'm being a bit brutally honest for a reason. I do have both solar and wind and generate more energy than I use, I'm going to buy an EV, and I'm quite heavily invested in Tesla - to the tune of 2000 shares. I even have a true artesian well. The odds of me running out of water, considering I own all the land around me, are basically rather slim.
I, the monster, have probably done more to help mother nature than you.;-) Just something to challenge your views on things. We're not all black-and-white monsters and heroes. Some of us do multiple things, sometimes seemingly conflicting, and have a whole host of varied reasons for doing them.
Err... Sorry about that. I sold and retired with a few dollars in 2007. My "collection" is a bit embarrassing as there are quite a few that I've never even fired.;-) I also had a "thing" for the AR-15-style firearms for a while. I still do, they're lovely plinkers, but I can only account for fewer than a half dozen of the number sold. If emails from my friend are to be believed (and they usually are) that number will probably grow a bit when I return home this spring.
You argued with an idiot. The key lesson is to learn to not argue with idiots. It saves you time and frustration.
I imagine that you thought you were proving something other than that. Well, you have proven something. Albeit not what you intended. You've shown that I am not so good at following my own ideas concerning arguing with idiots.
Freedom comes with risks. There are inherent risks in all freedoms. Should we take them away in the name of safety because someone might be harmed or should we accept that there will be problems? I'd rather not base our legislation on cowardice and fear. You, obviously, don't agree and, fortunately, you lack the capacity to take away my liberties. Powerless and scared is no way to go through life, son.
Citation for that 90% figure? I am a huge fan of roundabouts (rotaries) and am responsible for a whole slew of 'em but I do think you're probably making up numbers without actually thinking someone here might be fluent in these numbers - albeit a bit dated.
I dare say that I speak from a position of authority when I state that the roundabout is sheer lunacy. Having reviewed the process at depth, I can assure you that a standard roundabout would have worked had they simply made it large enough AND with routing the left-turning traffic around the roundabout to avoid needing to account for it in the throughput-limited roundabout. Not only would it have been simpler but it would have been safer. Yes, some land would have had to have been taken for this but they'd actually have more available land because the cluster-fuck of a roundabout would be about 1/4 of the present size.
Err... I didn't click the link but, from the comments, that can only be Swindon. Yes, yes I have studied it at great length and yes, yes I am qualified to opine.
Small nit to pick. The rope puppet shows were from Heron. Yes, Heron was a Greek and his goods did end up in Greece. However, he is fully titled as Heron of Alexandria. It was there, in the library (which was more than a library like we have today), where he worked and spent his time learning. Attributing his work to the Greeks is a bit misleading. I don't think we're even positive that he was born in Greece but I'm unsure of which historian was discussing that and where.
It should, of course, be noted that the territory in question, Alexandria, was not necessarily not-Grecian in many ways at the time. It does bear the name of Alexander for a reason, after all. Many, if not most, of his works were for Egyptian temples. There are a few, not enough, documentaries on his life and inventions.
Unholy, extremely long-lived, bugs of the ocean that live on the floor of the ocean and eat garbage! They're expensive and horrible! Never move to Maine!
Err... I get 'em off the boat at wholesale prices. You can actually buy lobster, it's actually good too, at McDonald's - I've gone there just to try it. It's cheap and it's real lobster in good sized chunks.
But no! Don't move to Maine. They've got a Republican governor who's hell bent on destroying everything. (That's kind of a ritual. Whatever governor we have now is ruining everything and the next one comes along and fixes it and then proceeds to ruin other stuff.) The economy is at a stand-still and the environment is deadly! Also, the black flies and mosquitoes are deadly!
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She does kind of look like a young Kieth Richards in that picture.
Hopefully it does. That's why I donate. I'd say not to worry and that I donated enough for you too but, well, they can always use more. Don't confuse the EFF with FSF or the GNU Project. They're not the same nor are they, shall we say, as zealous. The former gets my money, the latter two do not. I see the EFF to be much the same as I see the ACLU.
No, you're not even *remotely* Libertarian - not even close to "pretty libertarian." I strongly suspect you aren't even remotely aware of the actual political ideology known as Libertarianism.
I realize the word 'media' has many definitions but, for the sake of clarity, I'd suggest we just drop the word media. It's social. Social media implies it's news done by a group and that might be a possibility but, as evidence has shown us, that's not the actual results.
It's the washer-room for modern women and the pot-belly stove for modern men. It's gossip and group-think. It's peer-pressure and conformity. It's your own created echo-chamber, a mental prison of your own choosing. I have been there and I have read quite a bit of content. No, I do not have an account and never have.
It's as social as Slashdot only I probably get more valid news from the comments here than anywhere else. I don't even *have* to give up a bunch of personal information, allow cross-site tracking, or even use a real name. Sure, I'm me and some of us know who I am. Yes, I've been pretty open with who I am. Yes, I elect to do so.
So, I guess, it's really not media so much as it's news media (as seems to be the implication by many) but it is social. Hell, I get more news here, even in the comments, than I suspect *most* people get on Facebook. Well, more valuable news to me, personally. Simply call it a social website and stop pretending that it's valid, vetted, or valuable media when that's only a fraction of a percent of the content.
Are games really worth that these days? I am legitimately curious as to why it's worth it to someone to pay for this, as much as this, and with devices and games that seem to often be reported as being openly evil to their customers. I did play some games a while back. Fallout and Fallout 2 were pretty good but then came Fallout Tactics. I don't think I've really played any games since.
Hmm... I used to be pretty fond of Zork.
Their own page reports that they've fixed a whole host of bugs. They'd not have fixed those bugs if they were bug free.
Here's a recent example:
http://www.openbsd.org/errata5...
I'm not sure why one would lie about such.
It's Linux. Someone will figure out a way to install it on a toaster. A few of us will even download their work and make our own toasters run Linux. It'll take four weeks and then three hours of figuring out the man pages, each time, to make toast but we'll do it - and we'll like it. We might even make it run our mail server.
Mmm... ToastOS.
Why would anyone want to climb Everest? Why would anyone want to write yet another OS? Why would anyone want to write a new browser? To do something different because it's there.
That said, this is built on FreeBSD. Wouldn't it be easier to just, you know, intercept the data and figure out what it's looking for or doing and then throw a shim layer in there or the likes? By easier I do not mean simple, just easier than going about this in the manner that they're attacking it. I don't recall hearing about any special hardware in there that'd need emulation so, to my uneducated eyes, that would seem a more simple route though this might actually be a step in that direction.
DSL is awesome for that. If my ISP irks me, I just call another service provider and I'm good to go. I don't even lose service - it just magically keeps on working. Note: My ISP doesn't piss me off. I don't know where you live but where I live they are unable to stop the service from being provided by another company. Why? They're telephone lines and the various communications laws meant to protect consumers actually have some benefits to the consumers. Cable is not a societal need, no matter how much we want it to be, and isn't *typically* protected by those same laws.
Potential solution? Point out that cable, for the purpose of communication, should be a protected service and thus covered by the same regulatory conditions as telephones and be watched by the Public Utility Commission. You will probably need to educate some people and you will probably need some help from noisy neighbors but it probably isn't impossible. Cable companies could still exempt television from those rules, of course. You'll almost certainly need to do this at the State level as a municipality almost certainly doesn't have the authority (or capacity) to enact such regulations.
That seems witty and bright but, really, it just means that there are multiple servers and that makes it more difficult to diagnose. I also have no idea how you changed your username to speak on behalf of the other person. Perhaps you're certain they were speaking of the same thing?
If you want to use .torrents to do a deterministic test then have a friend (or just use a server) create a .torrent file for you and you alone - something with a unique username. Then, if you want, you can both use Wireshark simultaneously and compare results. You'll want to do this with more than one friend with each using an ISP that is not your own and, again, for a full picture use and compare Wireshark results. (Which can also detect packet injection.) You may need to do this with multiple friends because it's unlikely that they've got upload bandwidth enough to match your download bandwidth.
Downloading a random torrent from random people is not a good way to say the ISP is screwing with you. Oh, they probably *are* screwing with you but the test proves nothing unless you control the environment. Key point being, unless you're controlling the test environment you can't really point, say, and prove that it is your ISP. It probably is your ISP, they're a bunch of crooked pricks, but you can't really say it for certain. A nice private tracker will help you facilitate such a test.
Your point is logical, sound, and topical. It's even reasonable. Your UID suggests that you should know better.
I live in a *very* remote area and when I connect to my home machine (which I just did) I get varied speeds but not by a whole lot - things don't really slow down. I'm paying for 10/1 Mb service. I get somewhere around 12.5-14/1.5. I am so remote that I had to actually pay for my own lines to be upgraded as well as a CO to be put in because I'm that far from the village.
I don't get cable so cable is not an option. I used to have satellite and, for a while, directional wireless. I'm kind of happy with it. To be honest, it's more than I need. I think the slowest that I've had was a 900 baud acoustic coupler/cradle modem critter from back in the 80s though a friend had a 300 baud for a spell. I'm kind of grateful for what I have.
It's good that I'm grateful because I'm not even sure that I could pay for fiber to be run. I mean, yeah, I can pay for it but I don't think anyone's gonna provide me service out in my home area. I'm about 24 miles outside of the Rangeley, Maine village center. There's a tower not too far away and it even has 4G now. I can use that as backup but I don't really bother.
The DSL is more than adequate and if another company offers me a better service package then I can always use them - I am not stuck with a single company this way and a monopoly is not an issue because others are willing to provide me the service. I do, by default, still use the original company (though they sold and later changed their name) but that's because I'm happy with them. I did use GWI for a while but I'm back on Fairpoint. Fairpoint was, a long time ago, CommTel.
I already donate a significant sum to the EFF on a fairly regular basis. Usually once a year I make a larger donation and then I make a few smaller donations as they pop up in conversations and I am reminded to donate. My most recent donation was 48 BTC when they were worth some ~600 each. It was easier to donate them than to figure out the taxes on them. I did not write off said donation.
Pop a hole in the hull and compression will no longer be a problem!
Err... I'm kind of sorry but not sorry enough to not hit submit.
Violence and intimidation are required for terrorism. Not that someone gets hurt. There were lots of acts of violence and intimidation. Britain doing it was not terrorism, they were the State, that's run of the mill despotism. There's no need to ascribe more to the word than is required. Sometimes terrorism works for the best. The Jews in Palestine, for example, used terrorism to get the UK to act on their promise.
I had the opportunity to work with many, many municipalities and government officials. They have some strange processes and they have problems but one of the things I learned was that there's actually a difference, in interpretation at least, between the words "shall" and "will." They look the same but one is somehow more binding than the other. It seems, I shall do the dishes is different than I will do the dishes.
My home is in Maine, near the Canadian border, and I've got a few dollars. Nope, climate change won't even begin to bother me or hamper me in the slightest. In fact, I'm in the market for an HMMWV.
I'm mostly kidding but I'm being a bit brutally honest for a reason. I do have both solar and wind and generate more energy than I use, I'm going to buy an EV, and I'm quite heavily invested in Tesla - to the tune of 2000 shares. I even have a true artesian well. The odds of me running out of water, considering I own all the land around me, are basically rather slim.
I, the monster, have probably done more to help mother nature than you. ;-) Just something to challenge your views on things. We're not all black-and-white monsters and heroes. Some of us do multiple things, sometimes seemingly conflicting, and have a whole host of varied reasons for doing them.
Err... Sorry about that. I sold and retired with a few dollars in 2007. My "collection" is a bit embarrassing as there are quite a few that I've never even fired. ;-) I also had a "thing" for the AR-15-style firearms for a while. I still do, they're lovely plinkers, but I can only account for fewer than a half dozen of the number sold. If emails from my friend are to be believed (and they usually are) that number will probably grow a bit when I return home this spring.
You argued with an idiot. The key lesson is to learn to not argue with idiots. It saves you time and frustration.
I imagine that you thought you were proving something other than that. Well, you have proven something. Albeit not what you intended. You've shown that I am not so good at following my own ideas concerning arguing with idiots.
Freedom comes with risks. There are inherent risks in all freedoms. Should we take them away in the name of safety because someone might be harmed or should we accept that there will be problems? I'd rather not base our legislation on cowardice and fear. You, obviously, don't agree and, fortunately, you lack the capacity to take away my liberties. Powerless and scared is no way to go through life, son.
Citation for that 90% figure? I am a huge fan of roundabouts (rotaries) and am responsible for a whole slew of 'em but I do think you're probably making up numbers without actually thinking someone here might be fluent in these numbers - albeit a bit dated.
I think you'll find that most US roads do not use concrete, not even as a base. They should, but they do not.
I dare say that I speak from a position of authority when I state that the roundabout is sheer lunacy. Having reviewed the process at depth, I can assure you that a standard roundabout would have worked had they simply made it large enough AND with routing the left-turning traffic around the roundabout to avoid needing to account for it in the throughput-limited roundabout. Not only would it have been simpler but it would have been safer. Yes, some land would have had to have been taken for this but they'd actually have more available land because the cluster-fuck of a roundabout would be about 1/4 of the present size.
Err... I didn't click the link but, from the comments, that can only be Swindon. Yes, yes I have studied it at great length and yes, yes I am qualified to opine.
Small nit to pick. The rope puppet shows were from Heron. Yes, Heron was a Greek and his goods did end up in Greece. However, he is fully titled as Heron of Alexandria. It was there, in the library (which was more than a library like we have today), where he worked and spent his time learning. Attributing his work to the Greeks is a bit misleading. I don't think we're even positive that he was born in Greece but I'm unsure of which historian was discussing that and where.
It should, of course, be noted that the territory in question, Alexandria, was not necessarily not-Grecian in many ways at the time. It does bear the name of Alexander for a reason, after all. Many, if not most, of his works were for Egyptian temples. There are a few, not enough, documentaries on his life and inventions.
Unholy, extremely long-lived, bugs of the ocean that live on the floor of the ocean and eat garbage! They're expensive and horrible! Never move to Maine!
Err... I get 'em off the boat at wholesale prices. You can actually buy lobster, it's actually good too, at McDonald's - I've gone there just to try it. It's cheap and it's real lobster in good sized chunks.
But no! Don't move to Maine. They've got a Republican governor who's hell bent on destroying everything. (That's kind of a ritual. Whatever governor we have now is ruining everything and the next one comes along and fixes it and then proceeds to ruin other stuff.) The economy is at a stand-still and the environment is deadly! Also, the black flies and mosquitoes are deadly!