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At first (and subsequent so far) glance, this guy appears to be awesome. He founded Xmission, which was the host of Maddox, an author who I feel would have been censored by other ISPs a long time ago. His policies also appear to be sane, and he seems to genuinely want input from the public (the Wiki goes a long way in my eyes). I would vote for him if I was in his district.

• Static IP address
• SSH access to server space
• 3 email accounts
• 100GB/mo bandwidth limit
• No port lock-downs (i.e. SMTP is open but they run a bot to check for open relays)
• Commitment to open-source (openssh, horde, exim, etc.)
• Downloads from XMission's mirror site don't count against bandwidth limit

I typically vote Republican and have voted for Hatch in the past but I feel that Pete's attention to his customers (through XMission) will translate to his constituents. I will definitely vote for him this fall.

His ISP also hosts Maddox. I'd vote for him.

Umm, unless Angelina Jolie's kid has a website, I don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. WTF is "Maddox", this? I don't think it's the biggest threat on, say, General Motors' radar.

...there was a radio guy that stole his piece about Cameron Diaz : http://maddox.xmission.com/.

No, they copied his work and claimed it wrongfully as theor own, this is known as fraud. The only reason they call it steling/theft is because they wrongfully believe that we are too stupid to concieve fraud. "It makes mroe sense than stealing, so why go with logic?" they think.

Plagiarism = wrongful fraud != (NOT) theft

I have been reading this guy's stuff for a couple years, and it's already happened to him a couple times. Just recently, there was a radio guy that stole his piece about Cameron Diaz : http://maddox.xmission.com/.

I think part of the problem is that most of the print press doesn't realize how many people actually read this stuff. Maddox has a counter on each of his articles that shows unique visitors, and at the time of this radio guy ripping him off, this article already had 312,000 visitors, and over 100 million total for his site.

It is well known that real men use vi.

"Suddenly they are the ultimate vehicle for brand-bashing, personal attacks, political extremism and smear campaigns."

I think blogs without user comments are destined to failure.

I don't know, Dooce and Maddox get a hefty helping of readers without any kind of comments system above emailing the author.

Shampoo your crotch? Come up with your own jokes; don't steal from Maddox (check the updates). This is Slashdot, man. Possibly the hardest place to plagarize and get away with it.

Yea, but you're capped at 100 Gigs.

Parts of Utah now have a 15 Mbit SYMMETRIC connection available, which is enough to make any torrenting geek happy (one ISP doing this is here). That's $44/mo, and they're doing 30 Mbit symmetric for $109/mo (although technically that's a "business" package). Mostly, I'm happy to see a non-stupid upstream finally available in a home package (and looks like they don't bother blocking port 80, either).

http://maddox.xmission.com/dare_devil.html

That is all.

$10 - $18 MILLION dollars? What are they using? Solid gold antennas?

My company, XMission recently completed a large free wireless project in downtown Salt Lake City. We did this in cooperation with Salt Lake City government but at no cost to the taxpayer. We've also installed free wireless in the city library, two ski resorts, several coffee shops and restaurants. The cost is cheapter than running television or newspaper advertising but for us the exposure is better.

This site has details on how we're able to do reliable and truly free wireless without costing the taxpayer millions.

$10 - $18 MILLION dollars? What are they using? Solid gold antennas?

My company, XMission recently completed a large free wireless project in downtown Salt Lake City. We did this in cooperation with Salt Lake City government but at no cost to the taxpayer. We've also installed free wireless in the city library, two ski resorts, several coffee shops and restaurants. The cost is cheapter than running television or newspaper advertising but for us the exposure is better.

This site has details on how we're able to do reliable and truly free wireless without costing the taxpayer millions.

amen brother

XMission is a local Utah ISP that actively promotes Linux (they have a link to this on their main page) and also provide mirrors for many open source projects. They use Linux for their web servers as well as for users' web space. One of the best ISPs out there.

XMission is a local Utah ISP that actively promotes Linux (they have a link to this on their main page) and also provide mirrors for many open source projects. They use Linux for their web servers as well as for users' web space. One of the best ISPs out there.

XMission is a local Utah ISP that actively promotes Linux (they have a link to this on their main page) and also provide mirrors for many open source projects. They use Linux for their web servers as well as for users' web space. One of the best ISPs out there.

I own some of their clothes. I've never once visited or had the desire to visit their website. The website is simply not a major component of their business. Maddox had a hilarious article where he compared his traffic ranking to that of PepsiCo, McDonalds, and so on. Apparently, people are more interested in reading about hairy balls than visiting Pepsi's website.

There are several locations in this area that have free WiFi provided by a local ISP, and the general feeling is that the free service attracts customers and is good for business. (I've also heard and read blog postings from several customers of those businesses who claim that the wireless service is one of their reasons for choosing those businesses over competitors.)

For more info:

http://maddox.xmission.com/dumbassjocks.html/

It looks like Maddox.

At bottom of page.

The resemblance is uncanny.

I figured The Best Page In the Universe (Maddox) would have been noted somewhere in there :)

Read this please.

You mean, like your kids?
http://maddox.xmission.com/beat.html

>> OK, so if the whole point of a vegan or vegetarian's lifestyle is to preserve life, ponder this. Over 100,000 animals are killed every time 1 acre of land is plowed to plant those precious soybeans.

>More of which is used to feed animals than humans.

>Pathetic. Try again. If you're sick of hearing the rhetoric, try not spreading it around.

So, killing less animals is better than killing more? To quote Maddox, "that's like me saying I'm going to eat meat only 364 out of 365 days of the year in an effort to 'limit' the suffering, I'm doing my part to prevent suffering" ... "A murderer who kills 10 people is no better off than a murderer who kills 20 if the murder is avoidable." ... "Unless you plant, grow and pick your own crops, you're not doing everything you can to 'limit' the suffering."

In short, your vegetarianism has absolutely nothing to do with preventing the suffering of animals, rather, it has everything to do with preventing the suffering of your conscience.

(quotes from: http://maddox.xmission.com/grill.html and http://maddox.xmission.com/hatemail.cgi )

>> OK, so if the whole point of a vegan or vegetarian's lifestyle is to preserve life, ponder this. Over 100,000 animals are killed every time 1 acre of land is plowed to plant those precious soybeans.

>More of which is used to feed animals than humans.

>Pathetic. Try again. If you're sick of hearing the rhetoric, try not spreading it around.

So, killing less animals is better than killing more? To quote Maddox, "that's like me saying I'm going to eat meat only 364 out of 365 days of the year in an effort to 'limit' the suffering, I'm doing my part to prevent suffering" ... "A murderer who kills 10 people is no better off than a murderer who kills 20 if the murder is avoidable." ... "Unless you plant, grow and pick your own crops, you're not doing everything you can to 'limit' the suffering."

In short, your vegetarianism has absolutely nothing to do with preventing the suffering of animals, rather, it has everything to do with preventing the suffering of your conscience.

(quotes from: http://maddox.xmission.com/grill.html and http://maddox.xmission.com/hatemail.cgi )

Homage to Contra 3
Seven reasons why Xbox can suck it

Homage to Contra 3
Seven reasons why Xbox can suck it

http://maddox.xmission.com/junk_the_junk.html

Because the whales deserve it.

I mean LDS can be trusted. Way back in 1978, only 110 years after the slaves were freed, and 10 years after MLK was shot for trying to teach white men like those in the LDS how to be civilized, the LDS acknowledges that black men were smart enough to be priests. Of course, they still seem to believe women are inferior.

Perhaps we can get 80% of the fine people in Mississippi or texas to make the act of a black boy whistling at a white women a death offense. Oh wouldn't that be fun.

...but you have to admit that "deranged, goose-stepping lemmings" is pretty damned funny.

Sure it's funny...it's a scream...but I have to say I expected a little more substance and a little less vitriol.

If I want to read a funny rant, I'll go visit my good friend Maddox.

...and if I want to participate in such a rant, I'll just visit Slashdot.

... I'm going to eat THREE.

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"Clearly the list is fraudulent. Maddox is on the B list? I've never heard of most of the A list but I'd think getting a book deal off of having a well read blog would put you on the A list of blogging. Afterall, that's the point of having one."

I agree with you. I clicked on some of the "A List" links and found mostly news aggregation sites. One of the random "A List" clicks had the top posting as a link to The Onion, the second link on the same page to a CNN type story. Why does an amateur news aggregation site make "A list" while people who are making original material like Bruce Sterling and Maddox get delegated to the B list? The list doesn't even include Robert X. Cringely Robert X. Cringely, one of the original bloggers who blogged on the internet before these people who wrote this crappy list ever even knew what the internet was. I guess it doesn't matter because Cringely, Maddox and Sterling will keep writing their original material about relevant things while "Blogebrity" and it's "A list" keep writing about their toothpaste woes, or what brand of shoes they like, hoping for some venture capital so they can sell out without ever having contributed one iota of anything, original thought or otherwise, to society.

Or as Maddox would say, "It doesn't matter, bag my groceries"

1. I have several e-mail accounts to deal with
2. I chat on IRC daily
3. I follow several USENET news groups
4. I routinely post on a variety of message boards
5. I subscribe to Mental Floss, SysAdmin Magazine and Columbus Monthly
6. I read /. and technocrat and fark and El Reg and Something Awful and Google News and Groklaw and The Onion and Maddox and Ars Technica and USA Today and NewsForge every single day
7. I use Stumble Upon to find random, new and interesting web sites
8. ...AND I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!!!

Screw bills....we'll drop pennies on them.

People should check out Viewtiful Joe and Ikaruga. Squash Halo, those are difficult games. Each is very very worthwhile. Ikaruga should have been a bloody best-seller in 3 months but people who advertise games advertise games that can be beaten easily proving that advertisings like easy games. They're turning the next generation into a bunch of gaming pansies.

People should check out Viewtiful Joe and Ikaruga. Squash Halo, those are difficult games. Each is very very worthwhile. Ikaruga should have been a bloody best-seller in 3 months but people who advertise games advertise games that can be beaten easily proving that advertisings like easy games. They're turning the next generation into a bunch of gaming pansies.

Well, I'd call that a pretty subjective and ill-informed judgement. Trying to keep away from the flamebait and encourage civil discourse, I'm aware of a lot of people who consider the LDS practice of post-mortem "baptism" at least odd, and some people were mightily offended when it was found that they were applying it to Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Of course, if we want to visit the historical files, then the LDS's history of polygamy and "blood atonement" (murdering the sinner, commonly for adultery, but sometimes just for leaving the church or challenging the leadership or being in the wrong place at the wrong time) would make a lovely flamefest. The modern LDS formally repudiated "blood atonement" in 1978, but major splinter sects still advocate it.

But yes, it's pretty far afield for slashdot, and most individual Mormons are "good folk".

The site says it's looking for writers that "have strong opinions" and are 'stylish, original and witty.'"

In that case, they should hire Maddox http://maddox.xmission.com/.

Man, I'm not even that old -- turning twenty in a month or so -- but what happened to a good ol' fashioned beating?

We have struck back. We are the ones with nice careers and futures while the jocks and cool guys are bagging our groceries.

Do you Love your kid?

Some arguments that Maddox raises in this article about discipline do make sense. His site isn't to be taken seriously but that isn't to say that he never raises any good arguments. I agree with his last statement:

Remember: never take shit from your kids. You make payments on the house, utilities, their clothes, school, and their food. You own them. If they don't like it, they can move out. If you love your kids, love them enough to beat them so that they don't grow up to be idiots.

people don't know the difference between discipline and child abuse.

Kids today certainly aren't like what we used to be when I was 8-10 yrs old. For one thing, they seem more spoiled. Are parents getting too soft?

Do you Love your kid?

Some arguments that Maddox raises in this article about discipline do make sense. His site isn't to be taken seriously but that isn't to say that he never raises any good arguments. I agree with his last statement:

Remember: never take shit from your kids. You make payments on the house, utilities, their clothes, school, and their food. You own them. If they don't like it, they can move out. If you love your kids, love them enough to beat them so that they don't grow up to be idiots.

people don't know the difference between discipline and child abuse.

Kids today certainly aren't like what we used to be when I was 8-10 yrs old. For one thing, they seem more spoiled. Are parents getting too soft?

"Because XP came out about the same time OSX did (you didn't think the "X" in "XP" was an original marketing idea, did you?) this guy assumes OSX can't have progressed any faster than XP has."

Apple didn't come up with it either, obviously; in fact, there's really no evidance to show that Microsoft was copying Apple. No, they were aiming at something far lower, the X-TREME marketing boom around 2000. Think about it, every product that came out around 2000 had an "X" in it, sometimes two, maybe three Xs to enhance the X-TREMEness of the product. From computers to jock straps everything had to have an "X" in the name.

To be fair, Apple had a number of legitimate reasons to use "X" in their OS name, one is to give it association to the other popular Unix interface, "X Windows", probably a good marketting stratagy towards Linux users (though I'm guessing most Linux users are two savvy to be bought by names alone, though no-one really excapes advertising). The other legitimate reason was... well, 10 comes after 9, but since it was a totally new OS, they wanted to write it diferently, hence the roman numeral.

This is not to say that there wasn't a bit of X-TREME marketting that went into the name, after all, they could have come up with a totally new OS name and restarted the numbering at "1". They were justifiably reluctant to do so, though, since it might scare off many Mac OS Classic users, especially with all the "rumors" that it was based on a high-level operating system that only geeks use. All and all, "OS X" was a good choice for an OS name for Apple, even if it is a bit bland.

Microsoft, on the other hand, had no legitimate reason for calling their operating system "XP" other than:

1. X-TREME Marketing
2. Their competetor has an "X" in their name -- this is a sorry reason since Windows has a vast majority of the market share... they should name their poducts and act as if they're the leaders, even if they aren't.
3. XP Rhymes with NT -- I dunno, maybe if they're lucky, it'll appear in a hit rap song.

For more commentary on X-TREME marketing, visit:
http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=xtreme_bullshit

The only reason you posted this story was to work in the phrase "camel jockey" without being labeled as blatantly racist.

What's next, "News for Niggars?"

(Yes, I know I'm not Dave Chappelle, but hopefully it's funny.)

p

Your best bet is probably checking the newsgroup rec.games.pinball, or the Mr Pinball classifieds at http://www.xmission.com/~daina/classified/.

It also helps to be looking for older pins. A Twilight Zone will still cost a couple thousand. Medieval Madness seems to stay at about $5000. But go back 15 or 20 years, and pins are around $500.

In case you've never seen this before - Here's Maddox's suggestion to CompUSA in order to help them become a better store. Yes he does rant on rebates .. ;)

Enjoy!