Posts by Tom 13 7544 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Agreed enough to give you an upvote, but this bit isn't correct. They're pretty much all about the same. We're currently with Verizon because after the conversion to high def, Comcast had their cable lines so screwed up they were fogging the picture on their cable package. Initially I didn't go with them because they were known to be virus central on shared connections. FIOS and DSL avoided the shared line issues.
In my case it's because the Verizon bill is technically in my landlord's name, so I don't have standing to sue. Even if it were, without being certified as a class, I'd have to go to small claims court where I'd have to pony up the cash to fight their well paid lawyers. So I'd still be out of luck.
You're down in the weeds on this. Come up to a higher level.
Verzion has the pipes to send the data to their customers. They aren't doing it. Therefore it is Verizon's issue, not Netflix. I know what I pay Verizon a month, and I know what I pay Netflix a month. I know what Verizon promised me, I know what Netflix promised me. Verizon is the one who isn't delivering and I'm paying them better than 5 times as much money.
The ALJ conducted an evidentiary hearing from June 1-9, 2009 .. Prior to the hearing, Qimonda tacitly withdrew three of the asserted patents: the '055 patent, the '240 patent, and the '456 patent. Qimonda did not present evidence regarding those patents at the hearing, and did not include any analysis of those patents in its post-hearing briefing.
On October 14, 2009, the ALJ issued his final ID. The ID formally withdrew the '055 patent, the '240 patent, and the '456 patent from the investigation. The ALJ found that based on his claim constructions, Qimonda had not demonstrated that it practices any of the patents in suit. Accordingly, the ALJ ruled that an industry does not exist in the United States that exploits any of the four remaining asserted patents, as required by 19 U.S.C. § 1337(a)(2). The ALJ ruled that certain LSI products infringe certain claims of the' 918 patent, but that no accused products infringe any of the other asserted patents. The ALJ ruled that all of the asserted claims of the '918 patent, and some of the asserted claims of the '434 patent, are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 102, but that the asserted claims of the' 670 and '899 patents are not invalid.
http://www.usitc.gov/publications/337/pub4268_volume_1_of_2.pdf
So Realtech fired the scattergun, but their shells were filled with rock salt, not actual pellets.
And really, it didn't take that much digging for me to find the actual document.
This conventional wisdom, much like complex passwords for everything, is one that needs to be re-examined.
Not all systems are mission critical. In fact, I expect that even most systems that get classified as mission critical don't require the level of security that tests every patch before it is deployed. Those that do most likely have the fund available to do that testing including the manpower required for it. Next, look at the lists of released patches that have broken systems in the last decade. Now compare that with the number of virus signature updates that have broken systems. I think the virus scanners have broken more systems than the patches have and very few places run without auto-updating their virus sigs every single day. Which means that on a rational basis, most systems can probably be auto-updated with relative safety. Certainly many of them can be, especially user boxes.
It wasn't me, but having followed the threads here, I'll wager it was because you were too specific on the OS. In this case some fanbois will be particularly offended that you recommended it in an article about it being compromised by malware. No, it doesn't matter how factually/statistically correct you are.
There's some good stuff out there. Just not on broadcast for the most part.
Although I will confess the next season doesn't look promising. B5, Stargate, Eureka, Sanctuary, and Warehouse 13 are all gone now. All Gone. And I haven't noticed anything promising on the horizon.
There's just one huge gaping hole in your argument.
The Verizon vs Netflix problem isn't in the last mile. It's in the interconnects between the big boys.
Other than that I like the idea. The intermixing of media production, broadcast etc. gives rise to precisely the sorts of problems the Sherman anti-trust act allegedly is intended to alleviate.
Grasshopper, you are suffering a delusion. Verizon is not one company. They only want you to think that. In truth they are many, many small companies. None of whom talk to each other. Especially on the wireless ones. I discovered this over 20 years ago when handling the finances for a small non-profit. For various and sundry reasons three cell phones were purchased in Philadelphia, PA to support a couple of officers. That was about three years before me. Then we decided that we should issue cell phones to more officers. So I bought 4 more from a store in Gaithersburg, MD. And asked them to consolidate the billing for the phones. Took me the better part of two years before I finally found a high level manager who could work out how to do it. The problem in the interim was making sure the right checks got applied to the correct phones so that service wouldn't get cut off.
Oh, I'd be perfectly willing to do that. There would however, be some additional conditions.
1. He will be delivered into the jungle by parachute air drop.
2. Except for the parachute he will be naked when he jumps.
3. He will take no additional supplies with him.
4. He will jump when told to do so by the police escorting him to the jungle.
The police will of course make best efforts to avoid alligator and piranha waters.
Sure he can. That's a time tested method of smuggling someone out of a country. Admittedly it's usually a box not a bag, but it's been done and it is still covered as a document.
No, the reason the Ecuadorians haven't smuggled him out is very, very simple, and something the Assanhats can't comprehend about St. Julian: no other sane person wants this POS in their country.
I doubt he'll get one, but it will have nothing to do with the US, the CIA, or any of the other conspiracies theories posted in the past on these pages. I think the whole thing is just one rabid prog eating another one. So if I were at the CIA, even if I wanted to have a conversation with him, I think I'd steer clear of this whole media circus until well after the sex and bail jumping trials are over. Much easier to nab a guy in the middle of the night AFTER he thinks he's made a clean get away.
You're guessing very very badly and your critical thinking is even worse. HTF do they get their people out if they don't have vehicular access?
The truth is, Assange has nowhere to run to even if he COULD leave the compound. The only reason the Ecuadorians are allowing him to stay is some damn fool screwed up when he first entered the compound, so now if they don't keep him they lose diplomatic face.
The PR types were probably walking the engineering floor, and they kept hearing all the engineers asking "What the F?". Then they walked the production line and they kept hearing all the workers asking "What the F?". And then when they talked with the dealers, they kept being asked "What the F?"
So they figured "Series F" must be a great name for a car because that's what everybody was always talking about.
That part is easy. If you don't, a very large number of people revert to the easiest thing to do, which will get you things like fluffypassword instead of even Fluffypa$sw0rd. And if you know most of the target is all lowercase letters, you've reduced the needed brute force to crack it. It's sort of like a couple years ago when they did a rationality check on security questions for password resets. They realized that while in theory the universe of possibilities is large, when you start looking at actual data you quickly realize that seven colors covers 75% of the answers and Mrs. Smith gets you 23% of all favorite high school teachers.
The problem is, everybody tweaks their required rules differently, AND requires 8/12/16/20 characters AND requires you to change them every 30/60/90 days. For an extreme case I'll pick on my roomie. For work he has to maintain 15+ passwords, none of which can be the same (and the systems are integrated enough to check) which change as often as every 30 days, plus combinations for 5 safes and even the combinations on the safes change every 6 months. A couple years ago every week he was coming into work and getting a message that there had been a confirmed security breach and ALL of the passwords had to be updated. That simply doesn't work for maintaining the security of the environment. So this paper is actually a breath of sanity in a really screwed up mirco-universe.
There is no one size fits all solution, which is part of the problem with the current security regime mindset.
Yes, I use a password manager for a number of sites. It sits on my home PC and I use it to generate keys for sites. Mostly I use it for stuff that I care about with high entropy long passwords (assuming the sites permit). But they are all sites that I plan to access only from home on that one computer. For other sites I have easily remembered (for me) passwords. But then I have to generate passwords on a regular basis for creating or changing user accounts. I do simple things like pick song lyrics, l3Et two short words, smack them together between a date and add some additional characters on the front, end, or both. Other times I look at article headlines I am reading. For example, from this article I might generate: )20nE3d14$h0ulD07(
I'd say, you just have other more important things consuming your time. I'm sure if tomorrow found you independently wealthy so that you were no longer required to work, with friends who were also suddenly independently wealthy and played when you did, you'd be interested in the game once again.
My most game oriented geek friend reviewed a pre-release two weeks ago. He said it looks pretty much like a light re-skinning of the old game so not worth the money. His advice was to stick to whatever you're currently using. If you're just getting started he figures it would be OK.
D&D under WotC has become a Warhammer clone. If you want to play classic D&D you have to use the Pathfinder system. Or maybe Hackmaster if you can find the books.
I haven't played regularly since AD&D, but I have friends who do. D&D is much like Churchill's assessment of Democracy. I've played both simpler and more complicated systems, more realistic and more heroic. For me D&D always hit the sweet spot: complicated enough to be interesting and challenging, not so complex you were more bogged down in bookkeeping than playing.
I've played a system that I think works much better, but it's an unpublished system from a friend. It had stats, a skill matrix based on the stats, and skill costs. After that you rolled straight percentages for success or failure. He had a modifier system for how difficult it was (easy you would succeed at double your skill level, up to exceptionally hard which was 1/4 of your skill level). You'd have to build the skill matrix for the world though.
I'd still assign 55% of the blame to you. I may have still had a Compuserve account about the time that AOL was starting up, but I don't think so. I think I had move to local bulletin board services which were much easier to navigate. I looked at the AOL once. Couldn't stand the kiddie interface which at the same time communicated a Compuserve style service. Also the internet was just coming online and I had access to the raw internet without the need for a Compuserve/AOL/MSN front end. So I never signed up for the service. So it's not like the signs weren't there to warn a discerning consumer.
I did eventually grow to loathe them, but only because when I eventually started tech work, some of our clients were using them for their internet front end and I had no choice but to use them. Windows updates via their dial-up were nearly impossible.
If it's damn near obsolete that means we're currently deploying new technology to replace it. And if it's new technology that we're just now starting to deploy, it is by definition young technology. And the FCCs remit is only to encourage young technology. Which is where we came in at.
Are they going to just use their current plans to build the next one? No? That would be insane you say?
You're quite right. That would be insane. They need to make design changes. Where do you make design changes? At the drawing boards maybe?
So then, "back to the drawing boards" is quite the right phrase. And frankly, was invited when Musk said "Kaboom" in his announcement. If Musk can have a bit of fun with the failure, why can't somebody else?
Absolutely true. There is only one offsetting mitigation, but in this case it happens to be a big one and you admitted to it: Harbinger looks like it equally comes as close as it's possible to outright fraud. And makes an inquiry into whether or not there were other FCC side shenanigans a valid one.
I will admit that while your solution of a pox on both their houses is intriguing, with Dish also being at risk I'm not sure it is one I'd like to pursue. If Dish the company could be excluded, I'm all for it. I'm not a Dish subscriber myself, but both my dad and my brother are. Not much else available in my dad's area. I'd think my brother should have more options in MSP, but don't know.
I think you've hit on the real keys. For a movie theater to be successful, it needs to be a special experience. Your big screen home tv will still not be as big as the theater screen and the sound will always be a bit better. But if the seats are too tight, with insufficient leg room, and there's too much crinkling of candy wrappers or talking on phones, the experience is ruined. And most especially, the floor can't be sticky. That may mean they need to add a couple of people to staff. Escort out people who are talking on their phones*. And if needed, mop out the rows with the spilled drinks.
*I'd almost prefer a sign outside the theater: We employ cell-phone signal suppression equipment on these premises to insure all of our patrons enjoy our movies. But I know that likely breaks local ordinances in more than a few jurisdictions.
Everybody knows movie revenue and profit numbers are far less reliable than the stock prices he examined. Just ask Meatloaf even if it was a different industry. Besides which the investors are the ones buying the shares. So the expectation is that if you see a torrent release and figure that's going to tank profits, you'll dump your shares as fast as you can even if you lose some money just so you won't lose more. Likewise, if you see the torrent release as a benefit, you'll buy more shares. The important bit here is that regardless of which way the trend moves, the percentages as they relate to torrent releases are negligible.
The trailers I don't mind nearly as much as the 20 minutes of commercials they show before they start the trailers. I already bought my Coke/Water/Dots/Popcorn/burger/dog before I came INTO the theater. So all you are doing is irritating the frack out of me. Also, one reminder to turn off your phone is sufficient. It should come right before the trailers start and after that if anybody's phone goes off they should be escorted out of the theater with no refund.
As someone with a fair number of anime watching friends, I've listened to the sub vs dub argument for ages. The simple truth is, they are both subject to very bad work as well as occasional exceptional performances.
There is one valid complaint against most commercial subs: the failure of studios to pay attention to small details. Fan subbers long ago discovered that the optimal subtitles are yellow characters with a thin black outline. Yet most commercial releases continue with solid white characters.
I wouldn't go that far.
It seems obvious to me that the out of circle calls would be subject to standard intercept. But within circle calls won't be. It has always struck me that the biggest problem with switching to encrypted systems is the chicken and egg problem. If you switch to an encrypted system that only talks to itself you have too small a base of people to call. This seems like the best compromise possible. Within the circle you get the encryption, but you don't lose outside connectivity.
Unlike you, the judge is an educated person.
They do not have to prove that was his intention from day one. They only have to prove that at the time he was captured, a significant purpose of the site he was running was to run drugs, and that he knowingly promoted it as such. The captured chats and email are sufficient to bind him over for trial.
As for Amazon and eBay, so long as the people running the sites are:
1) Not actively promoting it for those purposes in advertising, and
2) Taking reasonable actions when notified of such activity, particularly when the notification comes from law enforcement
you aren't engaged in money laundering, drug running, or other felonies.
I have to disagree with that. It's just that the racism doesn't fit the current LSM template. If The Big 0 were white instead of black, he never would have been elected. When Bill Clinton said someone like him would have been bringing in the coffee in most political organizations, it was one of the few truths he ever told. I don't think Bill Clinton is particularly racist. I think he sees and instantaneously evaluates everyone on the basis of what that person can do for him politically. Women... well that's a different story. But even then it would be his SECOND evaluation of them.
I'm inclined to say it is mostly a USA or Europe issue for pretty much the reasons you've outlined: so far we are the only places that have advanced the issue far enough that you get a fair bit of mixing without wholesale riots breaking out to the point that you have to segregate according to race to keep the peace. It's not that we are more evil than other places, it is that we are less.
In addition to your notes about monitoring, I have to re-emphasize the end note on the article. If you are engaged in counter-spying for your country, you go looking for exactly the sorts of people you'd expect to be infiltrating. I'd expect the infiltrator to try to build as patriotic a resume as possible to get to the best information he can. It's what Philby and Hiss did.
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