I would think that an ISP would be able to block and drop anything they receive from the outside if its IP address starts with '192.168.', '127.' or '10.', and there are several others that can be screened for -- are there reasons that ISPs don't do this?
They should block far more than that. They have an IP range. Anything going out with a source that's not in the IP range should be blocked, imho.
I think the person who submitted of this story is just a little too paran.... *HUH*! Who's that!?!
Suppose I use a nospam.com email address on slashdot. Suppose some spammer harvests the address from slashdot.org, and sends a spam to it. Does that say *anything* about what the email address was *ever* used for? Naah.
Even when I use it to subscribe to hmmm let's say mp3.com or some, and they send me a newsletter. Does that say anything about me? Can they collect any information that's valuable to advertisers that way? Naah.
Anyways, it's just plain *rude* te use an existing domain in an anti-spam munge. Those people get the junk that's meant for you.
On Usenet, RFC1036 tells you to use a valid email address. It's rude not to check the email, people can have a valid reason to email you. Discussions can become off-topic, or a one on one discussion, perhaps your article got canceled for some reason and the canceler wants to send you a cancel notice, etcetera.
If you really want to munge the email address, simply use something that never can and will exist (like a non-existing tld, or a domain name with an underscore in it) and put.invalid behind it.
Email clients with some clue will recognize the.invalid and understand that the address is not valid.
Example: fake.email@slash_dot.invalid
One Usenet, it's best to munge your From address and use a valid Reply-To address. From addresses are very easy to harvest very rapidly from the overview database, while you'd have to retrieve all headers seperately to harvest the Reply-To headers. A friend of mine tested it by using spamtraps, and after three months, out of +- 550 spams.... 550 were send to the From address.
2 power supplies blowing air out 1 fan in the front bottom taking air in 1 CPU fan 3 harddisks 1 burner with a lil fan
The harddisks make quite a lot of noise... enough to spin down 2 of the three harddisks after 10 minutes of inactivity. (man hdparm)
I installed a seperate power switch for the burner
I bought a good quality CPU fan with ball bearings
Same goes for the power supplies btw. Those fans are some standard size and you can order yourself a nice quiet metal industrial ball bearing good quality fan for it, replacing the cheap crappy plastic junk that's usually in there.
Just check where the noise comes from and see what you can do about it.
Last week, I saw a friend walking down the street. I had a little chitchat with him, and among other things, I told him that those dealers on the 34th street are selling a lot of heroin again.
Next day, he gets caught for heroin posession.
The day after, I get sued for telling him where he could buy the stuff?
This agreement just allows US companies in the EU to export data from the EU, even tho they are recognised not to meet EU standards.
That's not entirely true. First, it also has impact on companies in the USA doing business with consumers in the EU via the web.
The agreement makes the company responsible while they would gain "safe harbor" from prosecution or lawsuits by EU governments.
I read that as: "You can do what you want with my personal data and I can't do a damn thing about it". If they're responsible, give me the right to file a complaint. That's not too weird, is it?
Now, are we aware of the Gnutellas the minute some of these companies become active, we believe that there will be a way to after them.
Gnutella isn't made by a company. It's free software, made by a couple dozen volunteers around the world. It's not even made to specifically share mp3's. Who are you gonna sue? The users?
comparing that kind of home taping to basically going on the Internet and getting 1st generation, perfect digital copies of master recordings from all the world, is just not a fair comparison.
You don't realize though, that at the time the home taping was an issue, there was no better quality. If you record a good 'ole black disc to tape, it's exactly the same quality. Mp3 on the other hand, is worse than the original CD. If you decode it and burn it on a CD, it gets even worse. So you can use it only when sitting behing your computer... What's the difference with you listening to songs you don't own in the car again? Only the quantity... so let's keep it at that.
I think I first heard the word Napster probably in December or January, A lot of the people who advise me are very Internet savvy.
I really think you should get yourself some new advisors. Napster's been around faaar longer than that. Its popularity has increased tremendously in the last few month though. I wonder what got them all the media attention. Duh.
We don't want these 3rd party services like Napster taken for granted, taken for granted that we want to be part of their system.
That should indeed be your right. I mean, compare it to software. Most programmers, open source programmers included, stick some sort of license on our software. Suppose some company includes someone's GPL'd code into a propietary product, that wouldn't make us very happy either.
but I know we're also quite smart.
Yet you talk like you're on crack half the time. I'm serious. Hopping topics, a lot of sentences don't make any sense. Aren't drugs illegal overthere?
Right... there's no unified UI for linux. I, for example, don't even have a "logoff" thingie anywhere. I just hit the "Exit" button in my button bar. Or I pick "Exit Fvwm" in the root menu. Or I smash ^D to terminate a console window.
Good luck to anyone who wants to write such a document;)
2.Bite the bullet, do it, and contribute to the violation of the GPL
It's not a violation of the GPL. I can take a GPL'd program, modify it and keep the modifications for myself. If I distribute it, *then* I have the obligation to make my modifications public under the GPL.
The company the guy's working for uses his program but doesn't distribute it. They don't violate the GPL.
The problem he is facing is that if he writes code for his boss, the code will be owned by his boss and he can't merge it with his original code and distribute it under the GPL.
It'd be cool if the management would agree to him using the code for the original source and distribution under the GPL. It may be easy to convince them, just point at the fact that they use your program for free, too.
So, its OK to ask/demand that we supply guns when its convient to you - but call us barbarians when you don't.
Excuse me for my ignorance, sir, but what does this have to do with *privately* owned guns? Do you take your own handgun with you when you join the army?
Metallica hand delivered 335,435 Napster user names to the startup's San Mateo, Calif., office on May 3. (For added effect, it handed the names over on 60,000 pages of paper instead of simply using a few floppy disks.)
335,435 user names on 60k pages of paper makes about 5 user names per page. Sounds like bullshit to me.
On May 8, 1997 the FCC assigned iSKY Ka-Band (20 to 30 GHz), fixed-satellite service (FSS) licenses at orbital locations of 73 west longitude and 109.2 west longitude.
Okay so these are geostationary satellites, they're in a fixed spot above the earth. This means they're at an altitude of approximately 36,000 kilometers, otherwise they'd move around the earth.
So each connection request will have to travel 72,000 kilometer, from earth to the satellite and back. If you'd request information from Europe, it'll have to travel another 8,000 kilometer, a total of 80,000 kilometer.
Now if you have a normal (DSL, Cable, phone) connection, this is only the 8,000 kilometer. The transmition speeds for copper or fiber are the same, so it'll take 10 times longer for your request to arrive at a server in Europe. And then the server sends a reply... For servers closer to you, the difference is even more dramatic.
Unless they come up with a whole network of low orbit satellites, ping times will be horrible.
Slashdot Mirror
They should block far more than that. They have an IP range. Anything going out with a source that's not in the IP range should be blocked, imho.
What he meant was this:
;-)
# nslookup localhost.localhost.com
Server: ns1.a2000.nl
Address: 62.108.1.65
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: localhost.localhost.com
Address: 127.0.0.1
I'd go for warez.slashdot.org
I think the person who submitted of this story is just a little too paran.... *HUH*! Who's that!?!
.invalid behind it.
.invalid and understand that the address is not valid.
Suppose I use a nospam.com email address on slashdot. Suppose some spammer harvests the address from slashdot.org, and sends a spam to it. Does that say *anything* about what the email address was *ever* used for? Naah.
Even when I use it to subscribe to hmmm let's say mp3.com or some, and they send me a newsletter. Does that say anything about me? Can they collect any information that's valuable to advertisers that way? Naah.
Anyways, it's just plain *rude* te use an existing domain in an anti-spam munge. Those people get the junk that's meant for you.
On Usenet, RFC1036 tells you to use a valid email address. It's rude not to check the email, people can have a valid reason to email you. Discussions can become off-topic, or a one on one discussion, perhaps your article got canceled for some reason and the canceler wants to send you a cancel notice, etcetera.
If you really want to munge the email address, simply use something that never can and will exist (like a non-existing tld, or a domain name with an underscore in it) and put
Email clients with some clue will recognize the
Example: fake.email@slash_dot.invalid
One Usenet, it's best to munge your From address and use a valid Reply-To address. From addresses are very easy to harvest very rapidly from the overview database, while you'd have to retrieve all headers seperately to harvest the Reply-To headers. A friend of mine tested it by using spamtraps, and after three months, out of +- 550 spams.... 550 were send to the From address.
The following code in junkbuster/proxomitron will remove the right mouse click disable "feature"
That's very cool. Thank you.
Debian's ported to a *lot* of architectures.
Let's see...
2 power supplies blowing air out
1 fan in the front bottom taking air in
1 CPU fan
3 harddisks
1 burner with a lil fan
The harddisks make quite a lot of noise... enough to spin down 2 of the three harddisks after 10 minutes of inactivity. (man hdparm)
I installed a seperate power switch for the burner
I bought a good quality CPU fan with ball bearings
Same goes for the power supplies btw. Those fans are some standard size and you can order yourself a nice quiet metal industrial ball bearing good quality fan for it, replacing the cheap crappy plastic junk that's usually in there.
Just check where the noise comes from and see what you can do about it.
What I personally would like very much is an option to refresh pages on the tabs in an interval, x being minutes or some.
Damn inflation these days
Last week, I saw a friend walking down the street. I had a little chitchat with him, and among other things, I told him that those dealers on the 34th street are selling a lot of heroin again.
Next day, he gets caught for heroin posession.
The day after, I get sued for telling him where he could buy the stuff?
Duh?
That's not entirely true. First, it also has impact on companies in the USA doing business with consumers in the EU via the web.
The agreement makes the company responsible while they would gain "safe harbor" from prosecution or lawsuits by EU governments.
I read that as: "You can do what you want with my personal data and I can't do a damn thing about it". If they're responsible, give me the right to file a complaint. That's not too weird, is it?
You don't realize though, that at the time the home taping was an issue, there was no better quality. If you record a good 'ole black disc to tape, it's exactly the same quality. Mp3 on the other hand, is worse than the original CD. If you decode it and burn it on a CD, it gets even worse. So you can use it only when sitting behing your computer... What's the difference with you listening to songs you don't own in the car again?
Only the quantity... so let's keep it at that.
I really think you should get yourself some new advisors. Napster's been around faaar longer than that. Its popularity has increased tremendously in the last few month though. I wonder what got them all the media attention. Duh.
That should indeed be your right. I mean, compare it to software. Most programmers, open source programmers included, stick some sort of license on our software. Suppose some company includes someone's GPL'd code into a propietary product, that wouldn't make us very happy either.
Yet you talk like you're on crack half the time. I'm serious. Hopping topics, a lot of sentences don't make any sense. Aren't drugs illegal overthere?
Consider yourself two walls with a couple of holes.
One of the walls (including holes) is free for everyone to see. The other wall is hidden by a curtain.
Which wall is easier to fix?
Right... there's no unified UI for linux. I, for example, don't even have a "logoff" thingie anywhere. I just hit the "Exit" button in my button bar. Or I pick "Exit Fvwm" in the root menu. Or I smash ^D to terminate a console window.
Good luck to anyone who wants to write such a document
It's not a violation of the GPL. I can take a GPL'd program, modify it and keep the modifications for myself. If I distribute it, *then* I have the obligation to make my modifications public under the GPL.
The company the guy's working for uses his program but doesn't distribute it. They don't violate the GPL.
The problem he is facing is that if he writes code for his boss, the code will be owned by his boss and he can't merge it with his original code and distribute it under the GPL.
It'd be cool if the management would agree to him using the code for the original source and distribution under the GPL. It may be easy to convince them, just point at the fact that they use your program for free, too.
Excuse me for my ignorance, sir, but what does this have to do with *privately* owned guns? Do you take your own handgun with you when you join the army?
Article: 335,435 user names on 60k pages of paper makes about 5 user names per page. Sounds like bullshit to me.
That's because in the open source world, the fix would be there long before they have a chance of posting the story
Okay so these are geostationary satellites, they're in a fixed spot above the earth. This means they're at an altitude of approximately 36,000 kilometers, otherwise they'd move around the earth.
So each connection request will have to travel 72,000 kilometer, from earth to the satellite and back. If you'd request information from Europe, it'll have to travel another 8,000 kilometer, a total of 80,000 kilometer.
Now if you have a normal (DSL, Cable, phone) connection, this is only the 8,000 kilometer. The transmition speeds for copper or fiber are the same, so it'll take 10 times longer for your request to arrive at a server in Europe. And then the server sends a reply... For servers closer to you, the difference is even more dramatic.
Unless they come up with a whole network of low orbit satellites, ping times will be horrible.
Microsoft put up this page to write to members of the White House, Congress and State Officials, to tell them what we think...
So why wouldn't we use that!?
Microsoft put up this page to write to members of the White House, Congress and State Officials and tell them what we think...
So why wouldn't we use that!?
Microsoft put up this page to write to members of the White House, Congress and State Officials...
So why wouldn't we use that!?
April Fools is *only* on the first, you brat!
Here is the right link to the freshmeat submission.
Have fun today pals,
Duckie
April fools!! :)
Have fun today pals,
Duckie