Comment Re:Shorewall (Score 1) 187
AFAIK, Fedora 20 has a very good firewall offering, and it is presented as a dynamic software, meaning that you can make changes to network protections, etc., on the fly.
AFAIK, Fedora 20 has a very good firewall offering, and it is presented as a dynamic software, meaning that you can make changes to network protections, etc., on the fly.
Indeed.
And I worry about 100W @ 5V, that's 20 A!
Sounds a bit troublesome through these small connectors.
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I think that it is possible as the power will be supplied on 180degree pairs of wires.
So you're that guy who races up to red lights and then has to slam on the brakes.
Here's what happens. You and I are stopped at a light with you in front of me. There's another light 20 seconds away at 35 mph or 10 seconds way at 70mph. The first light turns green and the second is due to turn green in 20 seconds. You arrive at the second light in 10 seconds and have to come to a complete stop. I arrive in 20 seconds the moment the second light turns green but I have to stop because of you. Everyone behind me also has to stop because of you. Your actions caused us all to decelerate and accelerate unnecessarily.
Actually, I wouldn't stop. I'd slow down giving you enough room to accelerate so to minimize my change in speed, but most people wouldn't apply that forethought.
The concept of aliasing is not applicable to the timing of traffic lights for a number of reasons. First, you're going the wrong way, a more reasonable answer would be 17.5 mph also works for lights timed for 35mph, but that's not true either. The timing is a phase variance, not a change in frequency. There's pretty much nothing you can do to beat the system of lights timed for a given speed other than drive that speed. That's a pretty optimal solution anyway.
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We had an interesting situtation at a local traffic jam. It was on a through street in a residential community.
Two police officers worked together. They determined the number of cars that could get through on a light, and one of then walked back in the queue. He had them shut off the motors until the queue in front was clear, then he let in a another packet of vehicles. It worked out well. Polution was down, but there was some discomfort in that the A/C in the car had some catch-up to do.
I for one used this service to share files between my Ubuntu desktops, it worked seamlessly. It is especially useful for development files (programs and scripts) that I share between my different workplaces.
If anyone has a replacement suggestion that integrates well with the Ubuntu desktop, I would be glad to hear from it.
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Dropbox or Spider Oaks.
I have made the open offer before that anyone who thinks waterboarding isn't torture is welcome to explain to me why that is, as long as they can do it while being waterboarded until I am satisfied with what they are saying is the truth.
water boarding is a beautiful torture. It leaves no physical bruises. Allows the perpertrators to be in denial and get away with it.
It only has consequences if the victim drowns or dies of a heart attack. Blue bodies from interrogators are signs of oxygen deprivation.
It's as simple as asking: "do you want to take that risk"?
There's plenty of people in the world willing to participate to something that will likely end their lives, as long as they perceive it as heroic. It's one of the freedoms I value in a civilized world.
With that being said, 15 years ago I would have volunteered, but today, for the sake of my family, I wouldn't.
on earh, that person may be a paraplegic, but in space, he would become as agile as the person with legs. Ergo, for this individual (a Steven Hawkins ) health category of person, it would be advantageous.
If the trip has the high risk of failing (death), then why should I be complicit in the risk?
Why should they be on a network at all? My refrigerator does just fine with a basic thermostat, electrical fusing, a device to pour water into a mold, dump it in a bin when frozen, then stop dumping it when the bin fills up, a switch to turn on the light when the door opens and a fan so it runs without the need to be defrosted. The additional gewgaws don't help with core operation.
Same with a stove or a microwave. For safety's sake, it should only be able to be turned on by someone who is physically present.
Sometimes, there is just no real point in adding a device to the IoT, and the fewer devices that have networks, the fewer attack vectors an attacker will have to operate with.
This doesn't mean that isolated networks are bad... for example a vehicle needs the CANBus. However, if one doesn't need to have that functionality in a toaster, why built it in?
If we have to have a network or bus for statuses, why not a read-only bus, essentially like a serial port with the return line cut so the device can send status messages out, but not have them go back. The basic concept of a data diode. This way, one can tell if their fridge is over temperature, but a blackhat can't log on and turn the fridge off and spoil someone's steak stash.
There are appliances that I would absolutely like to have under internet access. Here are a few and my justifications.
a) I am a working stiff: In the AM, I put a roast in the oven, I set the turn on time for 20 minutes / lb (50 min/kilo) and I leave for work. Suddenly I have to work late. I want to delay the cooking of the roast.
b) I have a setback thermostat in the house. I would like the heat/air-conditioner to turn on to normal temp 1.5 hrs before I plan to arrive. I am coming home late, and want the system to start 1.5 hrs later.
c) I have a keypad access to the garage. I have a repair man coming for the washer/dryer. When he arrives, I want to see who she/he is, and then change the keypad code once to allow him in.
d) Usually turn on the sprinklers early am, but I know it is going to rain tomorrow. I want the system to skip a watering and therefore I use my cell to tell the sprinkler system to skip the day. Ditto if the gardener is coming to work in the yard or on the flower beds.
Probably you noticed that most of the access is not to control temperature, but to control when a device that is preset to a temperature or action, that it may start or be stopped. And of course, access security. If I have a security system that alarms to me about someone in the house, I want to see if it is my mother-in-law visiting, or a stranger. And I want an event message sent to me if someone goes into the master bedroom.
Looking back, you can actually see a timeline of their PR bullshit.
1. "Here, the new Metro! It's shiny and cool, and you'll be so much more productive!"
2. "The new Metro is great! Really, it is! If for some odd reason you don't instantly fall in love with it, it only means that you haven't tried it!"
3. "Metro is good! And the only people who don't like it yet are those that didn't give it a chance and try it for a while."
4. "Metro is really useful, trust us! You just need to give it a try and use it for a while and get used to it. Honestly, once you're used to it you'll wonder how you could live without it."
5. "Ok, for the time being you can switch back to old style, but you'll see that you'll do it less and less frequently and you'll eventually embrace Metro, most applications will only be useful in Metro anyway!"
6. "Well, it seems that at least for now we have to allow using "old style" for more apps, because there are still those luddites that can't accept change. But you WILL find Metro useful at some point in the future, maybe the time isn't right yet!"
7. "Ok, ok... the world is not ready yet for Metro it seems."
Still waiting for the "Ok, ok... we admit, we tried to fix something that wasn't broken and realized that looking for a problem with a solution nobody wants is the wrong way 'round."
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This is a bail the boat guys, The desktop and laptop manufacturers want to put android on their devices and via dual boot, give the user the option of Android/Linux or Windows. We've got to plug the hole in the boat. Keep on bailing guys, while we negotiate with the hardware guys.
Part of the problem here is "downing their tools" which is an idiom that is not used in American english. While I was able to take a guess at what it meant it is confusing and awkward to those who are not familiar with the idiom.
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where I live, downing the tools is also accompanied with "Walking off the job", or "a mini grievance strike",
>>> COULD move from price and quality to 'who has the best patent lawyer'?
>> What COULD? How about we accept the reality it's already happened?
> It's only happened to a small extent - if patent trolls are protected you can write off the USA as a source for innovation, period.
Sorry, I must disagree. It has not happened to a small extent. It's pervasive throughout all of the US legal system, when combined with bullying by rich corporations. Actually, some victims would rather pay for dubious patents than risk losing lots of money in a legal victory.
It's not just some magical powers that make China advance so fast; entrepreneurs are freer to try new things. Everybody says China only copies the West -- and surely it happens, sometimes very faithfully even -- but they're also experimenting with several innovations in design alone. They have still a lot of things to learn about customer satisfaction, but they succeeded in having a faster innovation cycle.
OTOH, the USA is becoming more and more trapped in legal bureaucracy. And it's not unintentional.
I download Russian Software and the reason is, that they embellish the USA software with add-ons, add-ons that in the USA might or probably be under a USA patent. Russia does not allow patents on software. Algorithms are not patentable is their rule. And yes, their software is in English or Russian.
In my youth, if you could not focus, you were given a desk at the back of the class. That was done so that you would not disturb the rest of the class.
In 2008 and thereafter, better methods of detecting and working with autism has evolved. Now in our Montreal public schools, we practice "No child left behind".
My daughter specializes in breaking through the autistic child's barriers and personality problems, and getting the child to learn, and even do homework. That child, hopefully, after highschool, may have enough self discipline to attend college or university.
But it is expensive, as my daughter, a teacher to autistic children is a 1 on 1 dedicated resource. Hopefully, that investment will mean that society will not have to support the child, when he/she reaches adulthood/maturity.
Parents of the autistic children are most grateful for what the school board is doing and funding. My daughter also teaches parents how to re-enforce the child's social skills and learning. The hard part is the initial task of getting the child to be responsive and having him/her out of her own cloud.
What I do in my bedroom has no bearing on how I treat my secretary. If I can keep my private life private, and not have it spill over to public, then what am I guilty of?
Given the above example I say, "the new Mozilla leader has a right to a past, and from a nomination committee, was found to be the best candidate. He is there because he was the best of the very fine group of candidates. I say he stays as CEO
Judge him for what he will do as CEO
If you keep the minimum wage at 7.25, then a couple without kids, both of whom are on minimum wage, can barely get by. $15.50 for two, with medical insurance, taxes, food, lodging, car expense have no net net money, and thus, can't buy the goods or services they need.
Too low a minimum wage kills the economy. They also cannot put anything away for retirement.
In Quebec, and most Canadian provinces, we have the minimum wage at 11.25, allowing a couple to bring in at least $20/hr. At 800/week, they can afford to live quite reasonably, but not luxuriously, and even put a few pennies away for retirement.
They would even have money to cover a dental bill, or some other needs, besides clothing.
It is not correct for a person (a discount store, or restaurent worker) to have to beg money to get help for a dental bill, or to repair a car that has not been in an accident. Why, the price of Gasoline per gallon is almost at the minimum wage in NY for waiter and waitress workers.
May cause sparks when they hit a rock. I haven't noticed many rocks on the greens of golf courses, but I'm not a golfer. Also, if a shower of sparks came off your club and started a conflagration wouldn't you notice?
One could suppose that after a ball got hit into the rough, that in trying to play honestly, the player used the club alone to clear the ball to the green, and in that process of a few missed swings, those tiny embers of titanium started the golf fires.
So, now the rule must be, do not play golf when there is a drought.
Put another way:
* Netflix pays for their bandwidth
* Customers pay for their bandwidth
And yet, AT&T wants more money because they think they have the right to charge Netflix more to pass through their tollbooth.
People aren't paying for "Internet except for Netflix" and Netflix isn't paying their bandwidth costs for "Internet except for consumers."
AT&T, and other providers, should have no right to put up walls. If there are issues of peering, those should be working out at the peering level, and not at the application/service or individual business level.
The news about Apple being willing to pay for AppleTV to have a "special line" to consumers is particularly worrisome and strikes the core of the problems with anti-net neutrality positions: they create unfair markets with barriers to competition. Netflix may complain, but they can (and do! with Comcast) pay if they have to. Apple can afford to pay the gatekeepers as well.
But some new startup (Aereo, for example) or small business? They can't and won't be able to pay those gatekeeper tolls to reach consumers. And they'll be prevented from competing or disrupting.
Big business will thrive in an anti-net neutrality world. Honestly, it might even help Netflix in the long run as barriers to any competing service will be high. But it's anticompetitive and small businesses and startups alike will be prevented from innovating, and maybe even be driven out of the market by an inability to pay these tolls.
Are we going to need to build a second internet? We have highways and backroads, so why not have an alternative internet. Let the big boys get off the one we have and go to their own for that kind of traffic between major cities.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
