All the cable modems I've used (UK) have always downloaded a an image over TFTP on boot. As I understand it they can come up with a very minimal loader and reach out for their config to the local "node" for configuration, and this can include new firmware. On the support line they're adamant that you reboot the things before proceeding past the IVR. Which makes sense.
The last I heard about it the different levels of service (bronze/silver/gold they were at the time, 5/10/20Mbit/s) are just based on the MAC the modem sends on this initial config/handshake. When I moved from 20 to 50 I was told to reboot the modem and it came up will an all new shiny more craptastic than ever web interface as well as setting it's WAN port to 50Mbit/s
You can have a client side key BTW. It's a complete dick to setup and each UA is different so it's really not viable for a product for the unwashed masses. But for something like Lavabit I don't think would be unreasonable.
Ladar had a hard enough time making ends meet with the service as it was, adding something like that to the mix would have alienated a huge portion of his userbase.
You would think his users would be pretty savvy but he spent lots of time and money walking people through simple tasks like configuring Outlook or Thunderbird to check their email. I'm pretty sure support was his biggest operating expense.
I should have said for a product like Lavabit, ie mail as secure/private as SMTP likely gets right now, I hope it wouldn't be unreasonable. However, in my heart of hearts, I knew it was too much to ask for.
I guess anyone that knows how to create and setup a client side TLS cert and key would also already know privacy and SMTP can't really live together, and would setup a deaddrop for gpg encrypted messages.
Yes you could do that two seconds worth of testing, in basically every browser these days even. But then you couldn't write a link bait article about the possibility that they are doing it.
When I attempted a similar thing on a C64 the external 5.25" disk drive was similarly inoperable. Turned out the elastic bands from the motor to the little ring that camped the disk had just gotten too lose with age.
Was a pain in the ass finding one that was tight enough to stay on and not to tight just just stop anything moving but got it eventually.
Might be worth popping the lid off and checking yours?
This is just a common misconception over what Moore said, and what his law means. Hint: it has nothing to do with the clock speed or even directly the prefromace of your CPUs.
Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. Which is still very much the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moore%27s_law_graph.svg
Bitcoin doesn't work by passing tokens around to represent the value. In a Bitcoin spend the value is simply added to the wallet/address's balance. Any further spend is deducted from the wallets balance.
The "coin" is not a single token that lives on and is broken apart to be spent, so there's no way a coin could self destruct after being transferred.
I understand fractional coins. I was over simplifying for brevity. I'll give you a hint. You have to move the coins between two wallets you own before you create a coin that will "break" when it goes in to the third's wallet. The Third wallet accepts a coin that no one will take afterwards. The coin becomes undependable.
You can burn fiat cash, and fire gold bars into space. What are the consequences of those actions? Other coins are presumably worth more because there are now fewer of them.
I would think in a 'tulip bulb' bubble supply is not entirely the important variable. Growing demand would be the driving force behind valuation. Losing a few coins would matter not at all. Maybe even a lot of coins.
Sure, you can just print more cash. With gold bars the gold would become (I assume) more valuable. But at what point does it seesaw and there isn't enough of it to be of any value? I guess with BTC there are satoshi's.
I'm using the onboard/ondie Intel HD4000 and it works. You might have a driver that is blacklisted. Chrome and I think other browsers have a list of drivers known to allow execution of dangerous shader code and block WebGL in those cases.
This is what sdfjkl is intending I think. Have the TVs/Whatever on the other side so they can't scan your network shares to get the information to send back the HQ.
I would be much more effective, straightforward and ultimately more useful though, to firewall the TVs from the internet outbound so they can collect data all they like and never send it home.
Both actually. They might need access to your internal network to access your file shares and whatnot, but you'll want to make sure they can access only the parts you want them to, and nothing else, so they can't for example log onto your unsecured printer and collect a list of most recent print jobs, including filenames.
And they might need to access the internet to download firmware updates and stream video, but you don't want them to "LG phone home" and report your midget porn viewing habits, so you'll block that.
Of course all that requires quite a bit of knowledge, time and equipment to set up and is therefore quite unrealistic, so you're better off just hooking up your laptop via HDMI and putting the damn TV into monitor mode, "smart" be damned.
Did they mean underground? Seems like an underground motorway would be even more impressive or unusual than this building.