Posts by NP-Hardass 61 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2013
https://github.com/google/samba-documents-provider/pull/10
Looks like they received and merged a PR to set the minimum SMB protocol to SMB2.
They also have https://github.com/google/samba-documents-provider/issues/7 which looks like they are working to fix the issue of allowing manual selection of protocol version.
Well, I think the term limited has specific context when discussing plans. Unlimited is supposed to refer to the amount of data transferred. No one says you'll have unlimited speed, unlimited use of your choosing, unlimited child porn, etc, etc. Now, that being said, I disagree with throttling users just because they are "unlimited," and I agree that AT&T should have notified customers, but I totally disagree with your assertions that unlimited means you can do whatever the hell you want on it. Unlimited is proposed vs a capped data transfer limit, so inherently, the unlimited means unlimited data, and nothing else.
If you re locked out from a network because a govt chooses to lock you out, you can roll your own mobile networks. This was done using mobile cell sites during tha Arab Spring. If the gov't decides to lock you out using a kill switch, you are SOL.
There is a major difference between a killswitch and network lockout.
I think you are missing a fair bit of the other commentary in the article.
While increasing speed, it also increases traffic by multiplexing communications, which would further hamper networks.
Stateful systems aren't equipped to handle distributed state, thus pretty much any system that isn't an endpoint of a MCTCP connection is useless at doing anything besides simply forwarding the packets.
What I will agree with you on the whims of corportations is regarding the research on "side channel attacks." I don't really understand why being able to infer throughput, congestion, packet delay, etc of other ISPs is an issue. None of that information sounds horribly proprietary, but what do I know.
OKCupid has a proud history of coming up with interesting (and absurd) analyses of their users and habits. They have done so publicly since 2009: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/about/. Plus, the website works by having you answer endless questions about yourself, it's a data analytics playground, unlike some creepers like Facebook.
I know that i'm using them as a free service, but I'd like to see No-IP offer me some compensation for the down time (obviously Microsoft would be responsible). Upgrade to premium service for a couple of months or just disable the nagging login requirement for a little while. I mean, once they finally got my account up and running again, I received an email saying that my domain (which was confirmed active not more than a week before the lockout) was canceled from inactivity. They just had some major bugs on their end with the whole ordeal and my feelings on their reactions to the customers (albeit some non-paying) was one of lack of care.
Kill switch renders the device inoperable, where as network blocking is only the connection between a device and a network. Case in point: Arab Spring saw governments shutting down networks to prevent communication between protesters, and protesters rolling in mobile cell sites to bypass the govt controlled networks. Kill switch could allow the government to prevent any comm, through networks in their control or not.
Article doesn't mention the judge citing this, but what would prohibit an American from having their data stored outside of the US. That would effectively allow said American to be out of the reach of <Insert US Gov Agency> if they were limited to the US only.
I don't agree with the decision, just thought this was an interesting angle to look at.
"But he was acting in support of Mr Greenwald's activities as a journalist. I accept that the Schedule 7 stop constituted an indirect interference with press freedom, though no such interference was asserted by the claimant at the time."
It's only illegal if you tell the government at the time they do it, that what they are doing is illegal. That makes too much sense.
Lost in the bowels of his website:
"Dr. Joseph obtained his Ph.D. from UHS/The Chicago Medical School, and completed his training at the VAMC/Yale University Medical School Seizure Unit, Department of Neurology, Neuropsychology Section. Joseph completed the Ph.D. program, including his Ph.D. dissertation in two years, and by graduation had more scientific publications than most of the faculty."
http://brainmind.com/publications.html (search for A VERY BRIEF BIOGRAHICAL RESEARCH NOTE [it's like a billion lines down])
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