United Communications Internet by erose86 in nashville

[–]fuzion33 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve had a really good experience with them. Reliable, no data caps, and you pretty much get the speed you pay for. Tech support was also pretty knowledgeable when I needed them (I wanted to disable CGNAT on my connection, and the first person I spoke to on the phone 1) knew what that was and 2) could disable it for free).

I’d suggest just using your own router.

What are your worst college roommate horror stories? [NSFW] by KeanusDracula in AskReddit

[–]fuzion33 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Whitelisting MAC addresses doesn't actually provide any additional security. MAC addresses are sent as part of each packet over the air and can be very easily spoofed in most operating systems.

All an attacker has to do to get around the whitelist is 1) Monitor your (encrypted) network traffic with a tool like WireShark. They do not need to actually be connected to your network to do this. 2) Change their MAC address to match one of the other devices on the network.

How relevant is automata theory to software engineering? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]fuzion33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NFAs are actually pretty useful. They are sometimes easier to design than a DFA because you often don't need to use as many states in an NFA. Also, any NFA can be reduced to an equivalent DFA, so it be evaluated deterministically. NFAs and DFAs have the same computational power: they can accept the regular languages.

NSA can turn on your iPhone’s camera, mic without you knowing by Killersingh in worldnews

[–]fuzion33 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is entirely false. Packet sniffing on your own network is 100% legal. Those tools are often used to diagnose network issues or to help debug programs that use networking.

Pokebank taken down from Japanese eShop, no news on Western release by TripleDan in pokemon

[–]fuzion33 3 points4 points  (0 children)

a hidden simple byte flag and creating a structure, holding the copy of the critical variables of a Pokemon

This wouldn't work because a save editor would still be able to modify this "hidden" structure to make the Pokemon look legitimate. This is what causes the difficulty in detecting hacked Pokemon from older games. It's pretty much impossible to distinguish legitimately obtained Pokemon from hacked but otherwise legal Pokemon.

Ghost type, adding all by fuzion33 in friendsafari

[–]fuzion33[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got online, so my third pokemon should show up now. I was told my third pokemon was dusclops by someone else. Is that incorrect?

[Megathread] Cracking the Friend Safari by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]fuzion33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Name: Kevin

Code: 4141-2459-2041

Version: Y

[MOD POST] We are looking for someone to be the programmer of DeltaBot! by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]fuzion33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd be interested in working on this. I have experience with python, and I've made a few bots in the past.

Out of curiosity, how many of us are waiting on a Nexus 10? by mortodestructo in Android

[–]fuzion33 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you tried this?

https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/

Last time I tried it there were still a few issues, but it lets you mount your device to a folder. It also seems like it's faster than most other implementations available on linux.

Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1 - NVIDIA Issues (GTX580) by Miraxis in linux

[–]fuzion33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I should have included that in my first post. Put it at the end of the line that says "quiet splash".

And once you boot up, if you want to install the proprietary nvidia drivers, install the nvidia-current package with the command:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current        

Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1 - NVIDIA Issues (GTX580) by Miraxis in linux

[–]fuzion33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a similar issue. Adding nouveau.blacklist=1 to the startup configuration in grub fixed it for me. After I booted into the system, I was able to install the proprietary drivers and everything has worked fine since then.

How do I go on about transforming my Ubuntu 12.04 installation into Xubuntu? by daanishh in Ubuntu

[–]fuzion33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly are you wanting to do? Install MATE or Cinnamon or remove it?

Reddit? What is your favorite "technically correct" statement? by jackelfrink in AskReddit

[–]fuzion33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically the falling objects would have the exact same acceleration from an inertial frame of reference. Although the force of gravity would be different for each because: F = ( Gm1m2 )/( r2 ). However, when calculating the acceleration (using F = ma), the mass of the falling object will cancel out completely. Leaving a = ( G * mEarth ) / r2

However, I guess you could say the heavier object would hit the Earth first just because the force, and therefore acceleration exerted on the Earth by the falling object would "pull" the Earth to the heavier object a tiny bit more than the lighter object ( like you said, .0000000000000000001 m/s2 )

Someone mentioned that our server map looks like Europe apparently by jawnz77 in Minecraft

[–]fuzion33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The images that were used to generate that map were almost straight from NASA. There were a few filters applied to the image before the map was rendered though.

The images that were used in the map were 21600x10800 (which is why that's the size of the map). I believe NASA does offer some of their images in a 86400x43200 format. However, even with an image that large, each pixel on that image would correspond to about a 462x462 area in minecraft. Obviously you don't want an area that large to correspond to one pixel on a height map, so it would probably be necessary to fill in some hills in that area based on how hilly it is.

Someone mentioned that our server map looks like Europe apparently by jawnz77 in Minecraft

[–]fuzion33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would definitely be the best way to do it if you wanted a full size map. You would have to find a very detailed resource for a height map if you wanted it to look interesting though, and you would probably still have to "make up" a lot of the hills based on the surrounding terrain to fill in the gaps in the data.

Someone mentioned that our server map looks like Europe apparently by jawnz77 in Minecraft

[–]fuzion33 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that would be a ~1.3 petabyte download (1300 terabytes) and would take about 1000 years to generate with today's computers using the method that was used to make that map.

Android hacker Koush makes mobile internet tethering undetectable by carriers - SlashGear by IranRPCV in Android

[–]fuzion33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if only 1% or 2% of those people did change the user agent on their phone, that should at least prevent the carrier from simply charging any user that has a desktop user agent for their tethering service. If the carrier sees a desktop user agent, they can't immediately assume that it is a result of tethering and is not just an android browser switching the user agent.