Vote with your dollars. Don't buy a wireless toaster. Buy one that communicates with your electric blanket via good old fashion CAT-5. Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done.
Ahhh, yer mother wears combat boots! Most are good? Are you still living in 1944? Wake up and smell the new millenium, anyone that spends five million bucks to get a one million dollar job is either too stupid to be in a power position or on the take. We The People need to make the job of politician a little less attractive.
Let's examine this. There is no way to defend against a lone wacko, in fact, if a lone wacko decides you are the target, you're in serious trouble. Because of this, it's probably best to not let these wackos think of you at all. A bad way to stay off of wacko's lists is to send email to half of the Earth every twenty minutes. Eventually you are gonna hit Ted Kaczinsky or John Hinkley Jr. If the house gets burned or the kids get snatched that's an unavoidable side effect of unsolicited commercial email.
It's Cisco software, it won't work for at least fifteen revisions. Until then the machine it runs on will crash randomly. Your data is safer now than it was before they made this announcement.
This repulsive profiteering should cause public opinion to sway against these bastards, but it won't, because "the war on terror" is one of the best marketing ploys ever.
Wow. All those cute names. I'm sure the leaders of the arab world are quaking in their boots. DO you guys have them in reserve in case we decide to bomb someone, or do you make them up on the fly? Do you have meetings? You went to Vietnam, I'm happy for you. Done anything lately? In defense of liberty, I mean. Like for instance do you ever vote? Write your Congressman when he votes for bills that rape our civil liberties? How about not getting all of your news from talk radio? What about the golden one- do you pay your taxes. I mean all of them, not the ten bucks you end up with as a bill after you have your accountants cheat and lie. I'll tell you what we the people are doing. We're trying to prevent people from getting killed. Call me a coward if you like, but I'm too old to be drafted too. I guess poor old me wasn't fortunate enough to be the right age during a war. We aren't repelling the Nazis here, gramps. It's a two-bit dictator who isn't a threat to anyone but the five remaining Kurds. It's a Republican smokescreen. Ask you talk radio God about the "trifecta" remark. Then ask yourself why you are so damn concerned about getting a bunch of people killed for George Bush. DO you own stock in Haliiburton or something?
First off, Joe4U doesn't have a colo. Joe wanna be a big time webpage has a colo. He should also buy a "pager" and hook his MRTG into it, so when he's sleeping, the "pager" can wake him up. if Joe buys a donut shop and it gets it's window broken at 2 am is he going to care enough to go down there and make sure his fryer doesn't get stolen? Most likely. A sad fact about a lot of internet businessmen, and I use that term lightly, is that they have fallen into the AOL line that "the innerweb is easy!". It's not. You wouldn't expect to open a masonry company with no knowledge of masonry, so why do you think you can run a colo? It's a simple concept. Get a system admin or get a lawyer. Might help to also read your contracts before you sign them. Reviseed plan- get a lawyer to read your contract, then get an admin to watch your network. If you want to do it yourself instead, you're gonna get bad legal advice and a shoddy network.
Ok, how about this instead. If you only want 128k, buy 128k. Don't get an OC-3 with a burst plan. If your operation is too small to hire someone that knows how the internet works, perhaps you should scale back a bit. Your bandwidth doesn't take a hit until your resources start giving out web pages or spewing worms all over the place. If the slammer worm doesn't find SQL, your bandwidth hit is pretty small. As in you won't see it. You are saying that if you own a taco restaurant and you send out a radio ad that says "free taco to anyone with the code word, which is Larry" that you aren't responsible for people coming in and getting the tacos. If you feel strongly about this, I suggest you go get half a billion dollars worth of router hardware, dig a trench to every POP in the world, lay some fiber in it, and start your own ISP. Then you can give it all away free to anyone that asks. Until then, your best option is to shop around for someone more your speed. I hear Geocities will give you all the bandwidth you want.
Ok, I work for an ISP, and a damn big one at that. When one of our circuits gets hit with a Ddos, we call our upstream provider and have them block the attack at their router. We incur no cost for this, it's covered under our contract. Of course this is for leased lines, not metered bandwidth in most cases, but the concept remains the same. We watch our own backyard, when something happens we react and get the problem resolved. If one of our cable modems is spamming or spewing slammer all over the Earth, we notice and shut off the offender. If we didn't care to look, we would get negatively impacted, just like the guy that doesn't notice his machine spewing out slammers, or nimda, or getting slashdotted. Take an active role in your internet usage and you are largely immune to this sort of billing. You are responsible for your own stuff, if you aren't taking care of your stuff, I sure as hell shouldn't be expected to eat the cost. It is YOUR FAULT if you get four hundred and eighty million hits. You put up the site. If you get slammer, you should have patched. Quit crying about your bill and administer your system. Ounce of prevention, blah blah blah.
What about the upstream provider for the ISP? Is it their fault too? Try telling that to your water company if a tree root cracks your water line and you use 15 thousand gallons of water. How are they not at fault? They certainly are at fault if their patches aren't up to date.
Wow. I am assuming you just didn't state that clearly, because otherwise that is the most whacked out idea I have ever heard. The "content" isn't going anywhere, neither are the users. How do you propose to differentiate between "content providers" and users? Am I providing content by spewing IM's all over the net? What about a web server on my home machine?
You know, nothing says "I heard this on talk radio" faster than cutesy little names like "Sadly Insane" Or "Demrats". If not us, who? How about no one? If not now, when? Never. I assume from your comment about coming from a time when you learned history in school that you are too old for the draft. It's easy to like a war when it's not your blood seeping into the sand. You want Saddam out of power, great. Get a rifle and a plane ticket and put your ass on the line. We the People don't feel like doing it for you.
You should add Stephen Baxter to your B's. There ain't much harder SF than that. I think you need a Phd in physics to finish reading "Ring" without getting an aneurism. I saw his short story collection "Vacuum Diagrams" for sale at the Winn-Dixie grocery, of all places, and bought it in the interest of science, so the book wouldn't be discovered in the building's wreckage by archeologists in 20 thousand years and give a skewed view of reality. "Our conclusions are this about the late 20th century. People loved chitlins and Big Check soda, and couldn't get enough of adventure stories about superstring theory!"
Chicken or egg?
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What comes first, the science or the fiction? Did you imagine a ring shaped world and then build the physics model afterward, or start with a Dyson Sphere and end up with a ring? Are your creatures created and then put into an ecology, or do you think of an ecology and evolve a creature out of it? Did the Kzinti exist before the Kzinti homeworld?
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Uh, that's really only one word. How about realistic 3D spellcheck?
I wonder why you posted a link that you obviously didn't read. Making diamonds into wafers is on page 4.
Vote with your dollars. Don't buy a wireless toaster. Buy one that communicates with your electric blanket via good old fashion CAT-5. Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done.
Ahhh, yer mother wears combat boots!
Most are good? Are you still living in 1944? Wake up and smell the new millenium, anyone that spends five million bucks to get a one million dollar job is either too stupid to be in a power position or on the take.
We The People need to make the job of politician a little less attractive.
Let's examine this.
There is no way to defend against a lone wacko, in fact, if a lone wacko decides you are the target, you're in serious trouble. Because of this, it's probably best to not let these wackos think of you at all. A bad way to stay off of wacko's lists is to send email to half of the Earth every twenty minutes. Eventually you are gonna hit Ted Kaczinsky or John Hinkley Jr.
If the house gets burned or the kids get snatched that's an unavoidable side effect of unsolicited commercial email.
Because no one can watch it. Who has an HDTV?
It's Cisco software, it won't work for at least fifteen revisions. Until then the machine it runs on will crash randomly. Your data is safer now than it was before they made this announcement.
I just looked, my electrical outlets have only three prongs. What do I use to connect the other five?
Lemme guess, you work for a beverage distributor. No one gets their lines cleaned every week.
Does anyone have a real link to plans for a smt reflow pencil? His link is dead. Google seems unhelpful.
This repulsive profiteering should cause public opinion to sway against these bastards, but it won't, because "the war on terror" is one of the best marketing ploys ever.
Wow. All those cute names. I'm sure the leaders of the arab world are quaking in their boots. DO you guys have them in reserve in case we decide to bomb someone, or do you make them up on the fly? Do you have meetings?
You went to Vietnam, I'm happy for you. Done anything lately? In defense of liberty, I mean. Like for instance do you ever vote? Write your Congressman when he votes for bills that rape our civil liberties? How about not getting all of your news from talk radio? What about the golden one- do you pay your taxes. I mean all of them, not the ten bucks you end up with as a bill after you have your accountants cheat and lie.
I'll tell you what we the people are doing. We're trying to prevent people from getting killed.
Call me a coward if you like, but I'm too old to be drafted too. I guess poor old me wasn't fortunate enough to be the right age during a war.
We aren't repelling the Nazis here, gramps. It's a two-bit dictator who isn't a threat to anyone but the five remaining Kurds. It's a Republican smokescreen. Ask you talk radio God about the "trifecta" remark. Then ask yourself why you are so damn concerned about getting a bunch of people killed for George Bush. DO you own stock in Haliiburton or something?
First off, Joe4U doesn't have a colo. Joe wanna be a big time webpage has a colo. He should also buy a "pager" and hook his MRTG into it, so when he's sleeping, the "pager" can wake him up. if Joe buys a donut shop and it gets it's window broken at 2 am is he going to care enough to go down there and make sure his fryer doesn't get stolen? Most likely.
A sad fact about a lot of internet businessmen, and I use that term lightly, is that they have fallen into the AOL line that "the innerweb is easy!". It's not. You wouldn't expect to open a masonry company with no knowledge of masonry, so why do you think you can run a colo? It's a simple concept. Get a system admin or get a lawyer. Might help to also read your contracts before you sign them. Reviseed plan- get a lawyer to read your contract, then get an admin to watch your network. If you want to do it yourself instead, you're gonna get bad legal advice and a shoddy network.
Ok, how about this instead. If you only want 128k, buy 128k. Don't get an OC-3 with a burst plan. If your operation is too small to hire someone that knows how the internet works, perhaps you should scale back a bit.
Your bandwidth doesn't take a hit until your resources start giving out web pages or spewing worms all over the place. If the slammer worm doesn't find SQL, your bandwidth hit is pretty small. As in you won't see it.
You are saying that if you own a taco restaurant and you send out a radio ad that says "free taco to anyone with the code word, which is Larry" that you aren't responsible for people coming in and getting the tacos.
If you feel strongly about this, I suggest you go get half a billion dollars worth of router hardware, dig a trench to every POP in the world, lay some fiber in it, and start your own ISP. Then you can give it all away free to anyone that asks. Until then, your best option is to shop around for someone more your speed. I hear Geocities will give you all the bandwidth you want.
And you'd get cut off and be in court for not paying your bill.
Ok, I work for an ISP, and a damn big one at that. When one of our circuits gets hit with a Ddos, we call our upstream provider and have them block the attack at their router. We incur no cost for this, it's covered under our contract.
Of course this is for leased lines, not metered bandwidth in most cases, but the concept remains the same. We watch our own backyard, when something happens we react and get the problem resolved. If one of our cable modems is spamming or spewing slammer all over the Earth, we notice and shut off the offender. If we didn't care to look, we would get negatively impacted, just like the guy that doesn't notice his machine spewing out slammers, or nimda, or getting slashdotted.
Take an active role in your internet usage and you are largely immune to this sort of billing. You are responsible for your own stuff, if you aren't taking care of your stuff, I sure as hell shouldn't be expected to eat the cost.
It is YOUR FAULT if you get four hundred and eighty million hits. You put up the site. If you get slammer, you should have patched. Quit crying about your bill and administer your system.
Ounce of prevention, blah blah blah.
What about the upstream provider for the ISP? Is it their fault too?
Try telling that to your water company if a tree root cracks your water line and you use 15 thousand gallons of water.
How are they not at fault? They certainly are at fault if their patches aren't up to date.
Wow. I am assuming you just didn't state that clearly, because otherwise that is the most whacked out idea I have ever heard.
The "content" isn't going anywhere, neither are the users.
How do you propose to differentiate between "content providers" and users? Am I providing content by spewing IM's all over the net? What about a web server on my home machine?
Are there any porn companies out there that want me to plug for them? Please? PLEASE!
http://www.throatpunch.com
In your anonymous FTP directory, do the following
/usr/dict/words | grep -v \' | xargs touch
# cat
Sit back and wait for the spider. In fact, just append those touches to the string Microsoft.
Maybe the postal fees will kill the BSA.
See, there is a difference between conterfeit dope and this. This isn't illegal.
You know, nothing says "I heard this on talk radio" faster than cutesy little names like "Sadly Insane" Or "Demrats".
If not us, who? How about no one? If not now, when? Never.
I assume from your comment about coming from a time when you learned history in school that you are too old for the draft. It's easy to like a war when it's not your blood seeping into the sand.
You want Saddam out of power, great. Get a rifle and a plane ticket and put your ass on the line. We the People don't feel like doing it for you.
You should add Stephen Baxter to your B's. There ain't much harder SF than that. I think you need a Phd in physics to finish reading "Ring" without getting an aneurism. I saw his short story collection "Vacuum Diagrams" for sale at the Winn-Dixie grocery, of all places, and bought it in the interest of science, so the book wouldn't be discovered in the building's wreckage by archeologists in 20 thousand years and give a skewed view of reality.
"Our conclusions are this about the late 20th century. People loved chitlins and Big Check soda, and couldn't get enough of adventure stories about superstring theory!"
What comes first, the science or the fiction? Did you imagine a ring shaped world and then build the physics model afterward, or start with a Dyson Sphere and end up with a ring? Are your creatures created and then put into an ecology, or do you think of an ecology and evolve a creature out of it? Did the Kzinti exist before the Kzinti homeworld?
Or a half second to hit F12 in opera and select "refuse popups". I honestly didn't know that imdb had popups because of that.