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Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall?
Anonymous Coward writes "In a paper published today, the point is made that ISPs should filter some ports (e.g. 135) for good. I guess given what everyone sees hitting their various firewalls these days, this may make sense. But wasn't the Internet supposed to be 'open' at one point? Or are we to the point where Internet=Web (and maybe AIM). The author of the paper is operating DShield and I guess has some insight into this issue. He made the same points before on various mailing lists."
u nigs can suck a fat dick and pour out a little liqour fo my dead homies
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da presidint is on my TV!! turn on channel 5!
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But if you block all the ports, then the hookers will have no business!
Ha ha h.... yeah okey, I'm sorry..... sigh.
E.
Never rub another man's rhubarb - The Joker
If that's the lesson you walked away with? Then you walked away with the wrong one. My point wasn't about the magnitude (although that can be important) of our acts, but the fact that the "Fuck you! I'll do what I want." attitude is incompatiable with a world that shares things, be it water, air, road, or the internet.
The only thing that keeps us from going extinct is because there are still plenty of people who don't embrace such, and we all(1) are the better because of it.
(1) Even the ones who do.
I managed to get a static out of my ISP by claiming that "my linux DHCP client wouldnt grab an IP from their server for whatever reason". At this point they were dumbfounded by tha fact that I use linux as my desktop and handed a static right over. The only draw back is I have to re-explain it anytime I have to call in-- and thats usually just to ask if the network is down or if it's just me, 99.9% of the time it's them ;)
hmm.. maybe i should have posted this as anon...
and yes users do care about usability, otherwise they wouldnt run windows.
Users care about price, not usability. If they really cared about usability, they most certainly would not be running Windows.
really ? last i checked windows XP upgrade costed more than redhat, suse, slack, gentoo (you get the idea yet ?) etc .....
users care about usability, usability in their mind is the same thing as familiarity.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." --Albert Einstein
Are you suggesting that Linux is more usable than Windows? I scoff.
The most usable computer system on the market right now is almost certainly the Macintosh.