You are presenting "beliefs" in a completely positive light.
Take a look at the history of religion before claiming a population wrapped a blissful delusion is a good thing. You'll likely notice that frequently they are slaughtered for not sharing in another group's delusion, manipulated, cheated, or taking part of slaughtering of their own.
I cannot prove that God does not exist but I can make a reasoned decision based on the history of religion and my conclusion is clear.
God is death. God is fear. God is oppression.
If there is a God, and he is good, I can only imagine he would against religion and not for it.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal
As a systems administrator at a hosting company I'd suggest you do the following:
* Use a 3rd party registrar. A real registrar not a reseller of a reseller of a reseller of a registrar. Do not keep domains that have any value with your hosting provider. * Use a 3rd party backup service. Do not depend on your hosting providers backups.
Those are the two biggest mistakes I see customers make all the time.
Since you haven't really given us anything to work with regarding bandwidth, space, and resource usage I can only provide generalized suggestions.
Research the hosting company. * Real legal entity for the company. * Own their own data center (preferably date centers) or at the very least hosted in a respectable DC. * Read customer reviews. Your not looking for a perfect score. I'd find that suspicious. Don't heavily weight reviews either way as every hosting company pisses off some warez kid and some companies that I've worked for previously have paid staff to post good reviews. One in particular even owns and hosts their own promotional sites while setting the setup the site to appear as a happy customer's site. * Talk to their support/sales staff. Ask questions that are difficult.
Pay more than $6.99/mo or whatever the current gimmick for unlimited everything plus the moon.
Do you really want to know why?
Average hosting company pays front of the line employees around $8/h. Most of these are horrible techinicians.
Let's say you put in 6 tickets a month. You've effectively cost them $1.01 for that month.
Now lets say this company has semi-competent technicians at $16/h which you buy you about 25 minutes of tech time per month. This doesn't even factor in hosting costs which aren't cheap.
If each simple problem is contained within it's own abstraction and accepts only valid input there should be no reason why the the code would crash due to invalid input.
I've always validated input at the UI AND in the modules that process the data for this reason. You can't always trust the code that calls your module.
I'm not saying it won't produce nonsense if the inputs are syntactically valid but don't make sense when one is provided with the other but it should produce a error rather than crashing.
"Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works."
Quit conflating "providing a medium for distribution" and "piracy". A torrent tracker or the web service does not make copies of the content they are complaining about. Refusing to comply with a DMCA for content to which a company does not own ("torrent files") is not piracy. Unless you think they can copyright the numbers their potential works may produce when processed with certain algorithms.
As far as I know Sunde has never been accused of pirating anything. ThePiratebay was and still is legal in Sweden.
Just because you can use their service to illegal distribute content does not make the creator a pirate. This would be the equivalent of calling the city a 'drunk driver' because it builds the streets that can be used to facilitate drunk driving.
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Of course! Why didn't the they think of this before?
I mean -- it's brilliant -- vendors restricting our use of our property for our own good, the good of the collective users, or maybe just the good of their bank accounts.
They should do this on cars too. Vehicle manufactures should come equipped with GPS based governors, alcohol detection, sex detection, and reckless driving detection straight from factory. This could even be extended to manual shoulder checks , cellphones, smoking, eating, talking, and everything else that could possibly be dangerous.
I can't wait until PC manufactures starts releasing Windows(tm) computers that are based on the the same principal. Just think. No more spam, malware, viruses, or even legitimate software that Microsoft deems is not "good' for their user base.
How did you collect your statistics when Tor is decentralized? Sure you could analyze the outbound traffic on a exit node but I doubt that this would be enough of a sampling to extrapolate a meaningful conclusion. Since you offer no supporting evidence your claim is irrelevant to the discussion.
I also do not think that the number of child molesters could be large enough to represent a "vast majority" because I doubt the original content producers would distribute a such a high risk material for free. It is much more likely that pedophiles are distributing the material to other pedophiles. I think that it is important to note the difference because while I find either appalling I'd rather have them fapping to "old child pornography" instead of creating a demand for new material and reducing the profit margins of the people that are actually doing these horrible things to children. The lesser of of two evils is still evil but we don't live in a idealistic world.
So your contribution to the discussion is unsubstantiated statements about two different containers while implying a preference for AVI and then note that your opinion is irrelevant because you don't even use Handbreak?
I believe Google's model for hosting is using cheap commodity hardware and making it redundant at the software level.
As far as I am aware cheap video cards do not include a hardware encoder which is what Google would care about at their end. Most users do not know or care if their system has a hardware decoder as they don't understand it's value.
There may not be cheap hardware Ogg Encoders/decoders as of yet but if it gains popularity these should be able at a fraction of the cost of h264 counterparts because there is no license fee per implementation. This also has the advantage of keeping the content fully viewable with a completely free browser.
The SPAM was originating from our network which is an TOS violation which allows us to suspend services. I had already disabled the switch ports and the customer was trying to get it back online.
I had no obligation to waste my time trying looking into the problem to see how the spam was being sent. The customer could have easily went somewhere else instead of accepting the condition for turning the equipment back on.
I think what this "company" was doing had all their spam services in a data-center and only used their connection with them connecting to GRE tunnels.
Then they found smaller dedicated hosting companies that offered cheap servers ($100/mo) and tunneled all their traffic to their hosts at other networks.
It's not a bad tactic as it can sometimes take smaller companies a while to investigate complaints.
We had a "customer" that had 15+ dedicated servers with us. This customer received tons of SPAM complaints. Each time they had a different excuse.
After I disabled the servers and refused to turn them back on without examining them. The "employee" said he wasn't supposed to give me the root passwords but after I said that they would stay down until I got them he reluctantly gave them to me. Upon cursory examination the systems seems clean as a whistle until I realized there were no services actually running. No mail, etc.
Where was the email coming from?
I then found that the customer had GRE tunnels configured. This allowed servers in other data-centers to generate and send the spam through our network without having anything of actual value hosted with us.
The "employee" that was our customer was so convincing that I could have believed that at least he thought his company was legitimate. He even tried to tell me that it was because they couldn't get IP addresses from their current provider they bought dedicated servers from us ($1500/mo) for IP space.
Obviously the customer was terminated as soon as I found the tunnels.
I haven't set foot inside a theater since around 2000.
Reasons: Cost: $15 for a ticket. $10 for a drink. Fuck that. Movie Quality: I haven't seen anything worth more than the two hours to watch it in a long time. Comfort: I ain't going to sit in a crappy chair with who knows what on the seat when I can sit at home with similar quality picture and audio. Time: Why do it on their time tables when you can turn the shit on anytime you want and pause the fucking thing any time you want? MPAA: I'll buy used movies before I'll pay them a fucking dime.
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You are presenting "beliefs" in a completely positive light.
Take a look at the history of religion before claiming a population wrapped a blissful delusion is a good thing. You'll likely notice that frequently they are slaughtered for not sharing in another group's delusion, manipulated, cheated, or taking part of slaughtering of their own.
I cannot prove that God does not exist but I can make a reasoned decision based on the history of religion and my conclusion is clear.
God is death. God is fear. God is oppression.
If there is a God, and he is good, I can only imagine he would against religion and not for it.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal
Hi,
As a systems administrator at a hosting company I'd suggest you do the following:
* Use a 3rd party registrar. A real registrar not a reseller of a reseller of a reseller of a registrar. Do not keep domains that have any value with your hosting provider.
* Use a 3rd party backup service. Do not depend on your hosting providers backups.
Those are the two biggest mistakes I see customers make all the time.
Since you haven't really given us anything to work with regarding bandwidth, space, and resource usage I can only provide generalized suggestions.
Research the hosting company.
* Real legal entity for the company.
* Own their own data center (preferably date centers) or at the very least hosted in a respectable DC.
* Read customer reviews. Your not looking for a perfect score. I'd find that suspicious. Don't heavily weight reviews either way as every hosting company pisses off some warez kid and some companies that I've worked for previously have paid staff to post good reviews. One in particular even owns and hosts their own promotional sites while setting the setup the site to appear as a happy customer's site.
* Talk to their support/sales staff. Ask questions that are difficult.
Pay more than $6.99/mo or whatever the current gimmick for unlimited everything plus the moon.
Do you really want to know why?
Average hosting company pays front of the line employees around $8/h. Most of these are horrible techinicians.
Let's say you put in 6 tickets a month. You've effectively cost them $1.01 for that month.
Now lets say this company has semi-competent technicians at $16/h which you buy you about 25 minutes of tech time per month. This doesn't even factor in hosting costs which aren't cheap.
If each simple problem is contained within it's own abstraction and accepts only valid input there should be no reason why the the code would crash due to invalid input.
I've always validated input at the UI AND in the modules that process the data for this reason. You can't always trust the code that calls your module.
I'm not saying it won't produce nonsense if the inputs are syntactically valid but don't make sense when one is provided with the other but it should produce a error rather than crashing.
A complex program can be broken down into less complex parts until it's reduced to a simple problem.
That is simply not the case.
When I was at college we had a programming class where the teacher was absolutely failure at validating user input.
Example case: Prompt a user for their age and then add 10 years.
Teachers method:
In the keypress event for she would:
Test for 'a-z' and '!@#$%^&*()'.
This would crash spectacularly if a user would input a space for example.
My Method:
In click event for "display age" button:
Test for '0-9'
Exception handling for parsing the string as an integer.
The latter is pretty much impossible to break unless there is a bug in the underlying code for parsing integers.
Properly validate your Input and your output to resources and there is absolutely no reason why your code should crash.
If you consider the service "access to a terminal" and the client the user the term holds.
There are also local DoS exploits that don't require network connections so I'm fairly sure this holds as well.
Hi,
DoS stands for 'Denial of Service' so anything that can cause a system to fail to respond to legitimate requests.
Hi,
Yes, because it's wrong to be an asshole to lawyers and paralegals that send you notices that don't apply to you.
Everywhere is not America. Well, It wasn't until the MPAA/RIAA bought themselves a judge.
"Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_(media)
Quit conflating "providing a medium for distribution" and "piracy". A torrent tracker or the web service does not make copies of the content they are complaining about. Refusing to comply with a DMCA for content to which a company does not own ("torrent files") is not piracy. Unless you think they can copyright the numbers their potential works may produce when processed with certain algorithms.
Hi,
As far as I know Sunde has never been accused of pirating anything. ThePiratebay was and still is legal in Sweden.
Just because you can use their service to illegal distribute content does not make the creator a pirate. This would be the equivalent of calling the city a 'drunk driver' because it builds the streets that can be used to facilitate drunk driving.
Of course! Why didn't the they think of this before?
I mean -- it's brilliant -- vendors restricting our use of our property for our own good, the good of the collective users, or maybe just the good of their bank accounts.
They should do this on cars too. Vehicle manufactures should come equipped with GPS based governors, alcohol detection, sex detection, and reckless driving detection straight from factory. This could even be extended to manual shoulder checks , cellphones, smoking, eating, talking, and everything else that could possibly be dangerous.
I can't wait until PC manufactures starts releasing Windows(tm) computers that are based on the the same principal. Just think. No more spam, malware, viruses, or even legitimate software that Microsoft deems is not "good' for their user base.
Hi,
How did you collect your statistics when Tor is decentralized? Sure you could analyze the outbound traffic on a exit node but I doubt that this would be enough of a sampling to extrapolate a meaningful conclusion. Since you offer no supporting evidence your claim is irrelevant to the discussion.
I also do not think that the number of child molesters could be large enough to represent a "vast majority" because I doubt the original content producers would distribute a such a high risk material for free. It is much more likely that pedophiles are distributing the material to other pedophiles. I think that it is important to note the difference because while I find either appalling I'd rather have them fapping to "old child pornography" instead of creating a demand for new material and reducing the profit margins of the people that are actually doing these horrible things to children. The lesser of of two evils is still evil but we don't live in a idealistic world.
Unfortunately freedom has it's costs.
So your contribution to the discussion is unsubstantiated statements about two different containers while implying a preference for AVI and then note that your opinion is irrelevant because you don't even use Handbreak?
What was the purpose of your post?
Umm... We are talking about "security guards" which are basically high school drop-outs that flunked police academy.
I don't see any mention of trained professionals.
Hi,
I believe Google's model for hosting is using cheap commodity hardware and making it redundant at the software level.
As far as I am aware cheap video cards do not include a hardware encoder which is what Google would care about at their end. Most users do not know or care if their system has a hardware decoder as they don't understand it's value.
There may not be cheap hardware Ogg Encoders/decoders as of yet but if it gains popularity these should be able at a fraction of the cost of h264 counterparts because there is no license fee per implementation. This also has the advantage of keeping the content fully viewable with a completely free browser.
Why is this modded insightful? You state only opinion without supporting arguments.
This is because they let people that shouldn't be anywhere near a production system write software.
Almost all of these issues can be attributed to developers rolling their own date handling functions or misusing built-in functions.
I'd blame some of it on retarded user interfaces that accept two digit year values.
DO NOT REINVENT THE WHEEL!!
If you've got all your data removed it would be interesting to hear which provider did this.
Hi,
Your only option at this point is:
1. Pay for the KVM
2. Bring the system up
3. rsync your data
4. destroy the data on the server.
5. terminate your contract.
The provider already could easily access all your data by booting into single user.
After you have done all this you should post the providers name.
Hi,
The SPAM was originating from our network which is an TOS violation which allows us to suspend services. I had already disabled the switch ports and the customer was trying to get it back online.
I had no obligation to waste my time trying looking into the problem to see how the spam was being sent. The customer could have easily went somewhere else instead of accepting the condition for turning the equipment back on.
I think what this "company" was doing had all their spam services in a data-center and only used their connection with them connecting to GRE tunnels.
Then they found smaller dedicated hosting companies that offered cheap servers ($100/mo) and tunneled all their traffic to their hosts at other networks.
It's not a bad tactic as it can sometimes take smaller companies a while to investigate complaints.
No, it doesn't.
We had a "customer" that had 15+ dedicated servers with us. This customer received tons of SPAM complaints. Each time they had a different excuse.
After I disabled the servers and refused to turn them back on without examining them. The "employee" said he wasn't supposed to give me the root passwords but after I said that they would stay down until I got them he reluctantly gave them to me. Upon cursory examination the systems seems clean as a whistle until I realized there were no services actually running. No mail, etc.
Where was the email coming from?
I then found that the customer had GRE tunnels configured. This allowed servers in other data-centers to generate and send the spam through our network without having anything of actual value hosted with us.
The "employee" that was our customer was so convincing that I could have believed that at least he thought his company was legitimate. He even tried to tell me that it was because they couldn't get IP addresses from their current provider they bought dedicated servers from us ($1500/mo) for IP space.
Obviously the customer was terminated as soon as I found the tunnels.
I haven't set foot inside a theater since around 2000.
Reasons:
Cost: $15 for a ticket. $10 for a drink. Fuck that.
Movie Quality: I haven't seen anything worth more than the two hours to watch it in a long time.
Comfort: I ain't going to sit in a crappy chair with who knows what on the seat when I can sit at home with similar quality picture and audio.
Time: Why do it on their time tables when you can turn the shit on anytime you want and pause the fucking thing any time you want?
MPAA: I'll buy used movies before I'll pay them a fucking dime.
eh?
So where can I get one of these postcards?
Someone seems to have confused someone who can turn on a computer with a competent technician.
The people you speak belong in a call center reading a script to AOL users.
How do these people get these jobs?