"I do not intend to force my opinions down people's throats, like you appear to enjoy doing"
I can't for the life of me figure out where I have done that, however I'll disregard for now...
"I made no pretense of speaking for everyone here "
I guess your use of the word our in your original reply must have thrown me off. Somehow I took that to mean more than 1 person.
"Perhaps before giving classes on being subjective you should accept that people might have opinions different to yours."
Umm...that's kinda what I meant by my saying "you don't speak for everyone here, so perhaps let the rest of us decide whether we felt it was "well written", "normal" or "interesting".".
"you might learn that insulting people is not a good way to convince them, let alone to encourage a dialogue."
Normally I would agree with you here, I guess.....although it seems to have worked in this case, hasn't it.
Or that it was a well written chronicle of our geeky, nerdy daily lives? Well, it was not. Neither "normal", nor interesting nor well written.
I enjoyed the read...it was a funny story to which I can relate and to me, was better than reading about some new video card that zitty teenagers like yourself will run out and buy so you can finally accumulate more "frags" than your friends on whatever the game-of-the-week is. This is called "subjective". You'll learn about it when you reach high school. Furthermore, you don't speak for everyone here, so perhaps let the rest of us decide whether we felt it was "well written", "normal" or "interesting".
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...and then, if even for only a moment, remind yourself that they provided for you for at least the first dozen or so years of your life, and that this is really a small favour for them to ask in the grand scheme of things.
So, you have computers sitting around with POS line cards in them, I guess ? And I/O hardware capable of sending/receiving that much data at once ? Let's try to keep this apples and apples, shall we ? Save the oranges for a fruit salad.
Never confuse "Lazy_ass_user computing" with "computing for people who have better things to do with their time than fuck around searching for drivers on some poorly designed manufacturer website".
Yes, I'm well aware of/.'s subscription service. I'm also aware that it's only $5 USD for 1000 pages. I would submit that this still falls under the aforementioned "you get what you pay for" scenario, given the relatively small percentage of duplicate articles versus original ones.
I can only imagine the physical distress you're caused by having to skip over an article that you've already seen before. As it turns out, many folks have other things to do with their time than stare at (insert fav browser here) and click refresh checking out new/. stories all day. As for the editors, shame on them for not catching a duplicate in the many thousands of stories they sift through every day in order to provide you with some reading material at no charge to you whatsoever. Does the expression "you get what you pay for" mean anything to you? Seriously...
Yeah...root....cuz the user 'nobody' can easily gain access to that. Or if the webserver is using suExec, the user account more than likely has access to just su - without any problem. Riiiight...
Yes, I can't imagine how NIST could ever adopt pieces of such a "crappy" system. SI units anyone? It seems YOUR 'colony' couldn't make up its mind.....or did you even know that you used to be a series of colonies ? Likely not...
Of course they won't. The signs will be in miles, since the US insist on maintaining their archaic measurement units instead of migrating to something more widely accepted, like metric. As for the guy working at the station, he'll be fine, as long as they build a Tim Horton's beside it.
You seem to have forgotten to end your sentence with "..in countries which actually have laws for such things, which are few and far between.". Please don't assume that all/. readers are from the U.S.
Obviously, your ISP is some sort of mom and pop shop then ? No moderately-sized ISP that I know of would bother trying to keep up with the morons that run SPEWS...it's a hopeless cause, for the most part. I'd venture a guess that SPEWS will survive PERHAPS another 6 months before people who use their service realize how brain-dead they are, and take their business elsewhere. One can only hope...
What about the telemarketers that call us at home and work, trying to sell things? Aren't we going to target them too? After all, they interrupt us doing legitimate things like washing dishes, doing laundry, being intimate, etc. That goes for door to door salesmen too. This guy is sending you a message that can be deleted with a single keystroke or mouse click. Annoying ? Sure. Worth multiple/. posts/threads ? Not likely. Hell, I feel guilty just replying. That being said, I put on my biologist hat and make note of the waste being generated in snail-mail bombing him. Do people actually think he'll stop spamming because of this ? I can assure you, he won't. As he's marching his junk mail to the curb in garbage bags, he's warming up his car to drive to the bank with his 6-7 figure paycheque.
Are you sure you didn't mean "I couldn't care less" here ? If you could care less, then you actually do care about Masterpiece Theatre, C-SPAN, etc. For some reason, that (rather common) slip up really bothers me. Anyhow...carry on!
If you complain of being constantly bombarded with spam all day long, then you're probably spending too much time at the computer. If you work at a computer all day and complain of this, relax...spam is easy to spot, and can be skipped over in your inbox, or better yet, filtered. What bothers ME much more, are the advertising methods which force me to take time away from what I'm doing...such as door-to-door sales, and telemarketing. I'd much rather see these people put away for a couple years.....and these methods have been in use for DECADES.
How exactly did you want your ISP to notify you of the alleged spam that they filtered for you ? You might as well just use a web-mail solution like Hotmail to receive your email, so you can manually read the ones you like and check your "filtered" folder whenever you like. Keeping in mind, it's still the MUA that's performing the filtering here.
Does it not seem at least a little unreasonable to ask your ISP to provide you with full access to the internet and all it has to offer, with the exception of this, and this, and this, and this... ? Where do we draw the line ? "Please don't let my kids see any websites containing the word 'bleh', but let my second cousin see them when he's visiting from Chattanooga". Mail filtering CAN be properly implemented, but the ISPs aren't the ones who should be doing it...their clientel are far too diverse, and have differing needs. Should it be an option for the customer ? Perhaps, but it could incur additional costs, which in turn, would be passed on to the consumer.
...and then it would email you about it being abused, causing your inbox to fill up. Over time, your conditioned "fear" response of getting more spam would force you to be nice to it, no matter what it did to you.
Perhaps also of note is the fact that DALnet reaches their 110-140K numbers with less than HALF the number of linked servers (22-26, versus 45-52 on IRCnet, EFnet and QuakeNet. See netsplit.de stats once again). At any rate, congratulations EFnet. It's certainly not a record, but still something to be proud of.
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Well Jeez. Don't go getting all sauer over it.
Bwaha....dammit....that's just good humour. Cheers.
"I do not intend to force my opinions down people's throats, like you appear to enjoy doing"
I can't for the life of me figure out where I have done that, however I'll disregard for now...
"I made no pretense of speaking for everyone here "
I guess your use of the word our in your original reply must have thrown me off. Somehow I took that to mean more than 1 person.
"Perhaps before giving classes on being subjective you should accept that people might have opinions different to yours."
Umm...that's kinda what I meant by my saying "you don't speak for everyone here, so perhaps let the rest of us decide whether we felt it was "well written", "normal" or "interesting".".
"you might learn that insulting people is not a good way to convince them, let alone to encourage a dialogue."
Normally I would agree with you here, I guess.....although it seems to have worked in this case, hasn't it.
Or that it was a well written chronicle of our geeky, nerdy daily lives? Well, it was not. Neither "normal", nor interesting nor well written.
I enjoyed the read...it was a funny story to which I can relate and to me, was better than reading about some new video card that zitty teenagers like yourself will run out and buy so you can finally accumulate more "frags" than your friends on whatever the game-of-the-week is. This is called "subjective". You'll learn about it when you reach high school.
Furthermore, you don't speak for everyone here, so perhaps let the rest of us decide whether we felt it was "well written", "normal" or "interesting".
...and then, if even for only a moment, remind yourself that they provided for you for at least the first dozen or so years of your life, and that this is really a small favour for them to ask in the grand scheme of things.
POS over OC192 is way faster
So, you have computers sitting around with POS line cards in them, I guess ? And I/O hardware capable of sending/receiving that much data at once ? Let's try to keep this apples and apples, shall we ? Save the oranges for a fruit salad.
Never confuse "Lazy_ass_user computing" with "computing for people who have better things to do with their time than fuck around searching for drivers on some poorly designed manufacturer website".
....and you're clearly still afraid of us, as you're posting as AC. We'll find you...don't you worry...
Yes, I'm well aware of /.'s subscription service. I'm also aware that it's only $5 USD for 1000 pages. I would submit that this still falls under the aforementioned "you get what you pay for" scenario, given the relatively small percentage of duplicate articles versus original ones.
I can only imagine the physical distress you're caused by having to skip over an article that you've already seen before. As it turns out, many folks have other things to do with their time than stare at (insert fav browser here) and click refresh checking out new /. stories all day.
As for the editors, shame on them for not catching a duplicate in the many thousands of stories they sift through every day in order to provide you with some reading material at no charge to you whatsoever.
Does the expression "you get what you pay for" mean anything to you?
Seriously...
If you're that concerned about someone else's karma they're accumulating here, you need to find something else to do with your time.
Yeah...root....cuz the user 'nobody' can easily gain access to that. Or if the webserver is using suExec, the user account more than likely has access to just su - without any problem. Riiiight...
Yes, I can't imagine how NIST could ever adopt pieces of such a "crappy" system. SI units anyone? It seems YOUR 'colony' couldn't make up its mind.....or did you even know that you used to be a series of colonies ? Likely not...
Of course they won't. The signs will be in miles, since the US insist on maintaining their archaic measurement units instead of migrating to something more widely accepted, like metric.
As for the guy working at the station, he'll be fine, as long as they build a Tim Horton's beside it.
You seem to have forgotten to end your sentence with "..in countries which actually have laws for such things, which are few and far between.". Please don't assume that all /. readers are from the U.S.
Obviously, your ISP is some sort of mom and pop shop then ? No moderately-sized ISP that I know of would bother trying to keep up with the morons that run SPEWS...it's a hopeless cause, for the most part. I'd venture a guess that SPEWS will survive PERHAPS another 6 months before people who use their service realize how brain-dead they are, and take their business elsewhere. One can only hope...
....maybe you'll bump into each other then. You can take a smoke break while he fixes your cach register, dumb ass.
What about the telemarketers that call us at home and work, trying to sell things? Aren't we going to target them too? After all, they interrupt us doing legitimate things like washing dishes, doing laundry, being intimate, etc. That goes for door to door salesmen too. This guy is sending you a message that can be deleted with a single keystroke or mouse click. Annoying ? Sure. Worth multiple /. posts/threads ? Not likely. Hell, I feel guilty just replying.
That being said, I put on my biologist hat and make note of the waste being generated in snail-mail bombing him.
Do people actually think he'll stop spamming because of this ? I can assure you, he won't. As he's marching his junk mail to the curb in garbage bags, he's warming up his car to drive to the bank with his 6-7 figure paycheque.
I could care less about Masterpiece Theater,
Are you sure you didn't mean "I couldn't care less" here ? If you could care less, then you actually do care about Masterpiece Theatre, C-SPAN, etc. For some reason, that (rather common) slip up really bothers me.
Anyhow...carry on!
If you complain of being constantly bombarded with spam all day long, then you're probably spending too much time at the computer. If you work at a computer all day and complain of this, relax...spam is easy to spot, and can be skipped over in your inbox, or better yet, filtered.
What bothers ME much more, are the advertising methods which force me to take time away from what I'm doing...such as door-to-door sales, and telemarketing. I'd much rather see these people put away for a couple years.....and these methods have been in use for DECADES.
How exactly did you want your ISP to notify you of the alleged spam that they filtered for you ? You might as well just use a web-mail solution like Hotmail to receive your email, so you can manually read the ones you like and check your "filtered" folder whenever you like. Keeping in mind, it's still the MUA that's performing the filtering here.
Does it not seem at least a little unreasonable to ask your ISP to provide you with full access to the internet and all it has to offer, with the exception of this, and this, and this, and this... ? Where do we draw the line ? "Please don't let my kids see any websites containing the word 'bleh', but let my second cousin see them when he's visiting from Chattanooga".
Mail filtering CAN be properly implemented, but the ISPs aren't the ones who should be doing it...their clientel are far too diverse, and have differing needs. Should it be an option for the customer ? Perhaps, but it could incur additional costs, which in turn, would be passed on to the consumer.
...and then it would email you about it being abused, causing your inbox to fill up. Over time, your conditioned "fear" response of getting more spam would force you to be nice to it, no matter what it did to you.
Perhaps also of note is the fact that DALnet reaches their 110-140K numbers with less than HALF the number of linked servers (22-26, versus 45-52 on IRCnet, EFnet and QuakeNet. See netsplit.de stats once again). At any rate, congratulations EFnet. It's certainly not a record, but still something to be proud of.