unlike anywhere else on the internet, AOL is the one place where you can look up almost any topic, or any hobby, and within one or two mouse clicks, find THOUSANDS of people engaged in chat regarding that subject.
No 404 page not found. No inconsistent web page interfaces. No connect timeouts (as long as you can get into AOL, you're a-ok from there).
Two or so mouse clicks and you have found a thriving community of hundreds of thousands of people who are talking about what you want to talk about. You can talk with fellow cancer survivors, or fellow skydivers, and from what I understand, they now even have multimedia (mp3) resources. You can go and engage in mutual admiration of older women, or read the latest gossip on some supermodel, or try your luck at their built in matchmaking service. All at once. All within just a few mouse clicks.
It's like shopping at Minnesota's Mall of America - it's all right there in one place. AOL is also without a doubt one of the most hopping'est hookup spots on the net, bar fraggin' none.
Yes, there are tons of lamers on AOL - hackers, trolls, newbies (whom the/-r4d 31337 snobbies would surely consider "lamers"), pedophiles and spammers galore - but there are also a ton of people worth meeting on there.
The benefit of a closed community the size of AOL is, it is like a small nation in and of itself, complete with the most diverse population of any single spot on the internet. It is the first, most alive, and most happening portal on the net, bar none.
If AOL goes away, that will be the end of the most vibrant and easily accessible community on the net.
Imagine all those people forced to go out and be among us ultra rad 31337 slashdotting rocket scientist h4x0rs. Oh, the annoyance. If you value your holy and most high Internet experience, I suggest we all pray for the good health of AOL as a giant, vibrant, well populated, even closed community.
BTW, this ain't a troll. I say all this as a well versed internet savvy Slackware/RedHat/Debian user who started way back in the CLI days when ya had to download floppy disks to install Linux.
So, uh, why can't someone build a Linux based PVR and figure in the $250 "lifetime" fee right into the purchase price?
When I buy a personal video recorder I do not desire to go back and have them ding me a subscription fee upon a purchase fee. I ALREADY have that with my cable company.
Tivo also tracks your viewing habits.
I stand by a do it yourself solution because it means Tivo isn't dinging me with subscription fees, clamping down with usage restrictions, and I can't be monitored as easily.
Now someone explain to me how these concerns are all aupposed to be a "troll". Sheesh.
I can make my own TIVO using Linux, a bt848 style video capture card, and any number of video capture drivers/software available in Linux. Build a snazzy web based front end to schedule your recordings, and off you go!
The only advantage Tivo has is it skips advertisements (or so I hear).
...was that the page with the news article featured links right to where you could purchase the CD ROMs and RW's, plus the software to burn the CDs. Which basically means anyone can just follow the provided links to buy all the sh-t (except the boat) that will enable them to jump right into the offshore piracy business!
Has ANYONE seen this movie starring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis???
Cheese and Crackers, people, what went on in that movie is what is going on in America right this minute. Terrorists jack us up a good bloody one, and we reply by cutting our own freedoms down to the quick.
This is like some DDoS attack on the Constitution, and we're playing right into it.
VOIP?? Do it yourself and do it for free!
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I am wondering, don't they have PDAs now that have sound capability? If so, why not get a PDA running Linux and Gnomemeeting, get wireless 802.11b access, and chat with someone else with the same setup, for free?
Assuming of course that your PDA has sound capability, and you can hook it up to an available wireless high speed net, and the OTHER person has all of this, too. (Or at least, they are sitting by a computer running Gnomemeeting or Netmeeting.)
The PDA can also do a lot more at the same time, besides acting as an internet "cell phone", so really, it potentially gives more bang for the buck, than a cell phone doing VOIP. (Of course, cell phones are also becoming multifunctional.)
I have already talked to friends using a laptop on a hardline (ethernet) connection. Setting it up for wireless voice chat - or even wireless VIDEO chat - is now a cinch. The drawback is a laptop, even a "notebook", is unwieldy due to its size, as a makeshift cell phone. But it has vastly higher capacities for running software concurrently, and storing data, than a PDA, much less a cell phone.
The point is, we 'hackers' should be working to create an infrastructure where we can easily communicate via voice and perhaps even video, over the internet, WITHOUT extra charges (which VOIP inflicts upon you). We can do it - so why don't we?
You see, this problem is far more widespread than just the issue of vulnerable web servers.
Too many people drive on our roads in cars they know too little about. They don't even install Low Jack or engine kill switches on these things. Heck, they rely on JIFFY LUBE to change their oil!
Some people know as much about their web server as others know about their cars - that is, not much.
When a smart and clever hacker succumbs to the understandable urge to break into your machine and cause mischief, I feel it is the fault of the admin. This is no different than when the law holds the original car owner to be at fault when the owner does not install Lowjack or an engine kill switch, a thief breaks in, steals the vehicle, and causes destruction, injury and death with that car.
Oh waitaminute......this just in......I just found out that the law now holds the THIEF to be responsible for all that damage, and not the owner.
Has the FBI even considered using more nonlethal methods to capture criminals? I mean, haven't they learned their lesson after Waco and *shudder* Ruby Ridge (where a sniper shot an unarmed woman dead, while holding a baby in her arms)?
As for me, I'm: Good at stopping hackers (and knowing their techniques for breaking into systems) Drug free - and will remain so, from the womb to the tomb Not overweight No criminal history
But oops! I'm not a college graduate. And I abhor going after someone with a machine gun when tear gas, flash bang (knockout/stun) grenades and other nonlethal options, are equally as effective, and now readily available.
Dear developer: OpenDJ doesn't crash! Is this a bug or a feature? Will you be putting the crash thingee back in so as to make it comparable to its closed source Windows counterpart?:)
EXACTLY!!!!!!!! The word "Mad Scientist", at worst, comes to mind.
The best thing anyone could do for this boy is to take him over to Lawrence Livermore, educate him on nuclear safety procedures, and quite vigorously complete his training.
Despite his RELATIVELY unsafe procedures, we obviously have one smart kid. I don't know of too many ADULTS who can figure out, much less secure, the knowledge AND materials for a breeder reactor.
I have AT&T ATTBI cable modem service for one PC, and DSL for the other. Doubleplus bandwidth,with what I earn I should just plonk down for a T1:)
I, too, am going FULL BURN as we speak, on my cable modem, downloading anime, music, and everything else I want. I've got my afterburners on with Newsguy, Opennap, Buzzard News, etc. And these downloads are stuff I want but wasn't interested in hunting down before.
My traffic counter for this month says I've racked up roughly 80 gigs this month! Easily 20 times what I normally do.
My DVD-RW is going crazy burning stuff I like, to DVD... it's blowing smoke out the back, LOL!
And when ATTBI hits me with this new pricing scheme, and the party is over, I will hurt them one more time. My friends and I will all send ATTBI letters, after we have UNSUBSCRIBED from their service, explaining that we are dumping them for Pac Bell DSL, which has, at 15mpbs downstream and 128kbps upstream, the SAME bandwidth as ATTBI, but without the fucking RESTRICTIONS. The thing is, most of us already double strap with DSL and Cable. I also pay the same for DSL service as I do for cable.
Then, when this is all over, I'm going to a T1, and I'll share my anime' stuff online, and then the RIAA and cable monopolies really, truly can kiss my big fat booty.
Ya down with DSL? I'm down like hell Ya down with DSL? I'm down like hell Ya down with DSL? I'm down like hell Who's down with DSL? Ya know damn well!!
Especially when I always get these wacked out errors trying to compile audacity:
g++ -c -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib/wx/include -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D__WXGTK__ -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/gtk/1.2.3/lib/glib/include -I/opt/gtk/1.2.3/include -Iallegro Tags.cpp -o obj/Tags.cpp.o Tags.cpp: In function `wxSizer *MakeTagsDialog (wxWindow *, bool, bool)': Tags.cpp:315: `wxFlexGridSizer' undeclared (first use this function) Tags.cpp:315: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) Tags.cpp:315: `gridSizer' undeclared (first use this function) Tags.cpp:315: parse error before `(' Tags.cpp:376: parse error before `(' make: *** [obj/Tags.cpp.o] Error 1
Ingredients 1 market zone with 3 or more $49.95 DSL providers offering 768K down/128K up 50,000 potential customers 10,000 DSL subscribers 1 major cable company ready to offer 1.5 mbps up and down for $39.95/month
Pour the 1 market zone and 10,000 existing DSL subscribers into a, say, 200,000 person city. Then add in the 50,000 potential customers. Stir.
Now add the major cable company into the mix. Just pour it right on top and do not stir.
Let sit until the DSL customers and subscribers alike float right towards the cable company ingredient, seeking the el cheapo $39.95 and 1.5mbps up/down deal.
Stir.
The DSL ingredient will turn green, and then dark red, as the cable modem ingredient neutralizes them into bankruptcy and also makes your mix more sweet and also homogenous.
As the last DSL ingredient is neutralized, take note of how the cable modem ingredient changes color. The cost goes up to $69.95 a month, your upstream is cut to 128Kbps, you are slapped with usage fees for going over 1 kilobyte a month,
I used to use company time to browse the web. But not to use email. But I always exceeded my quotas and got my work done right, too.
Now that I have a DSL connection, I feel like a hypocrite saying I agree with the sovereign right of an employer to rule their property as they see fit (unless they are discriminating). But I never ever did complain when restrictions were handed down; I always knew whose rights were whose.
Make spammers pay by being forced to donate $5 per email to each of the following:
Electronic Freedom Foundation Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email Free Software Foundation DigitalConsumer.org Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Privacy International
We'll have enough lobbying power to stomp the NSA, telemarketers, spammers, AND the RIAA:)
Just in case a follow-up on this is posted, which will certainly result in Richard Stallman being flamed by all the under-achieving gen-x legends in their own mind species of trolls and ingrates, whose very enjoyment of the freedom granted by GNU/Linux was because of Stallman's creation, propagation, and defense of the GPL.
(How's that for the world's longest run-on sentence??)
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... and the total subversion of the free market principles which lie at its core.
The consumer's opinion means nothing now.
"All your music are belong to us." - The Oligarchy.
unlike anywhere else on the internet, AOL is the one place where you can look up almost any topic, or any hobby, and within one or two mouse clicks, find THOUSANDS of people engaged in chat regarding that subject.
/-r4d 31337 snobbies would surely consider "lamers"), pedophiles and spammers galore - but there are also a ton of people worth meeting on there.
No 404 page not found. No inconsistent web page interfaces. No connect timeouts (as long as you can get into AOL, you're a-ok from there).
Two or so mouse clicks and you have found a thriving community of hundreds of thousands of people who are talking about what you want to talk about. You can talk with fellow cancer survivors, or fellow skydivers, and from what I understand, they now even have multimedia (mp3) resources. You can go and engage in mutual admiration of older women, or read the latest gossip on some supermodel, or try your luck at their built in matchmaking service. All at once. All within just a few mouse clicks.
It's like shopping at Minnesota's Mall of America - it's all right there in one place. AOL is also without a doubt one of the most hopping'est hookup spots on the net, bar fraggin' none.
Yes, there are tons of lamers on AOL - hackers, trolls, newbies (whom the
The benefit of a closed community the size of AOL is, it is like a small nation in and of itself, complete with the most diverse population of any single spot on the internet. It is the first, most alive, and most happening portal on the net, bar none.
If AOL goes away, that will be the end of the most vibrant and easily accessible community on the net.
Imagine all those people forced to go out and be among us ultra rad 31337 slashdotting rocket scientist h4x0rs. Oh, the annoyance. If you value your holy and most high Internet experience, I suggest we all pray for the good health of AOL as a giant, vibrant, well populated, even closed community.
BTW, this ain't a troll. I say all this as a well versed internet savvy Slackware/RedHat/Debian user who started way back in the CLI days when ya had to download floppy disks to install Linux.
So, uh, why can't someone build a Linux based PVR and figure in the $250 "lifetime" fee right into the purchase price?
When I buy a personal video recorder I do not desire to go back and have them ding me a subscription fee upon a purchase fee. I ALREADY have that with my cable company.
Tivo also tracks your viewing habits.
I stand by a do it yourself solution because it means Tivo isn't dinging me with subscription fees, clamping down with usage restrictions, and I can't be monitored as easily.
Now someone explain to me how these concerns are all aupposed to be a "troll". Sheesh.
This is not a troll.
Why PAT for PVR functionality when you can do it for free, without any restrictions imposed upon your use?
Jeez.
Jeez louise, people.
I can make my own TIVO using Linux, a bt848 style video capture card, and any number of video capture drivers/software available in Linux. Build a snazzy web based front end to schedule your recordings, and off you go!
The only advantage Tivo has is it skips advertisements (or so I hear).
Never discount the power of do-it-yourself.
...was that the page with the news article featured links right to where you could purchase the CD ROMs and RW's, plus the software to burn the CDs.
Which basically means anyone can just follow the provided links to buy all the sh-t (except the boat) that will enable them to jump right into the offshore piracy business!
Has ANYONE seen this movie starring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis???
Cheese and Crackers, people, what went on in that movie is what is going on in America right this minute. Terrorists jack us up a good bloody one, and we reply by cutting our own freedoms down to the quick.
This is like some DDoS attack on the Constitution, and we're playing right into it.
I am wondering, don't they have PDAs now that have sound capability? If so, why not get a PDA running Linux and Gnomemeeting, get wireless 802.11b access, and chat with someone else with the same setup, for free?
Assuming of course that your PDA has sound capability, and you can hook it up to an available wireless high speed net, and the OTHER person has all of this, too. (Or at least, they are sitting by a computer running Gnomemeeting or Netmeeting.)
The PDA can also do a lot more at the same time, besides acting as an internet "cell phone", so really, it potentially gives more bang for the buck, than a cell phone doing VOIP. (Of course, cell phones are also becoming multifunctional.)
I have already talked to friends using a laptop on a hardline (ethernet) connection. Setting it up for wireless voice chat - or even wireless VIDEO chat - is now a cinch. The drawback is a laptop, even a "notebook", is unwieldy due to its size, as a makeshift cell phone. But it has vastly higher capacities for running software concurrently, and storing data, than a PDA, much less a cell phone.
The point is, we 'hackers' should be working to create an infrastructure where we can easily communicate via voice and perhaps even video, over the internet, WITHOUT extra charges (which VOIP inflicts upon you). We can do it - so why don't we?
I disagree.
...this just in... ...I just found out that the law now holds the THIEF to be responsible for all that damage, and not the owner.
:)
You see, this problem is far more widespread than just the issue of vulnerable web servers.
Too many people drive on our roads in cars they know too little about. They don't even install Low Jack or engine kill switches on these things. Heck, they rely on JIFFY LUBE to change their oil!
Some people know as much about their web server as others know about their cars - that is, not much.
When a smart and clever hacker succumbs to the understandable urge to break into your machine and cause mischief, I feel it is the fault of the admin. This is no different than when the law holds the original car owner to be at fault when the owner does not install Lowjack or an engine kill switch, a thief breaks in, steals the vehicle, and causes destruction, injury and death with that car.
Oh waitaminute...
Nevermind! Forget everything I said above!
Has the FBI even considered using more nonlethal methods to capture criminals? I mean, haven't they learned their lesson after Waco and *shudder* Ruby Ridge (where a sniper shot an unarmed woman dead, while holding a baby in her arms)?
As for me, I'm:
Good at stopping hackers (and knowing their techniques for breaking into systems)
Drug free - and will remain so, from the womb to the tomb
Not overweight
No criminal history
But oops! I'm not a college graduate. And I abhor going after someone with a machine gun when tear gas, flash bang (knockout/stun) grenades and other nonlethal options, are equally as effective, and now readily available.
Oh well.
Wait a minute, Einstein... that was AFRICAN land before those white people came in and forcibly took it from them.
Mugabe took back what originally belonged to his people.
How would you like it if some punk stole your car for a year and then claimed it was his forever? Eh?
All these coding gods telling you to port your code to C and I don't even see one of them having put out a single danged product worth mentioning.
Smell the irony, Jonathan.
Keep on keeping on. Do it in Java, do it in C, but most of all, DO IT RIGHT!!
Dear developer: :)
OpenDJ doesn't crash!
Is this a bug or a feature?
Will you be putting the crash thingee back in so as to make it comparable to its closed source Windows counterpart?
EXACTLY!!!!!!!! The word "Mad Scientist", at worst, comes to mind.
The best thing anyone could do for this boy is to take him over to Lawrence Livermore, educate him on nuclear safety procedures, and quite vigorously complete his training.
Despite his RELATIVELY unsafe procedures, we obviously have one smart kid. I don't know of too many ADULTS who can figure out, much less secure, the knowledge AND materials for a breeder reactor.
Kids like this should be fiercely cultivated.
Yes, but they will also alienate the gamers, too, and there are thousands of them, just waiting to be slapped with these bandwidth charges.
Ever think of that?
I have AT&T ATTBI cable modem service for one PC, and DSL for the other. Doubleplus bandwidth,with what I earn I should just plonk down for a T1 :)
I, too, am going FULL BURN as we speak, on my cable modem, downloading anime, music, and everything else I want. I've got my afterburners on with Newsguy, Opennap, Buzzard News, etc. And these downloads are stuff I want but wasn't interested in hunting down before.
My traffic counter for this month says I've racked up roughly 80 gigs this month! Easily 20 times what I normally do.
My DVD-RW is going crazy burning stuff I like, to DVD... it's blowing smoke out the back, LOL!
And when ATTBI hits me with this new pricing scheme, and the party is over, I will hurt them one more time. My friends and I will all send ATTBI letters, after we have UNSUBSCRIBED from their service, explaining that we are dumping them for Pac Bell DSL, which has, at 15mpbs downstream and 128kbps upstream, the SAME bandwidth as ATTBI, but without the fucking RESTRICTIONS. The thing is, most of us already double strap with DSL and Cable. I also pay the same for DSL service as I do for cable.
Then, when this is all over, I'm going to a T1, and I'll share my anime' stuff online, and then the RIAA and cable monopolies really, truly can kiss my big fat booty.
Ya down with DSL? I'm down like hell
Ya down with DSL? I'm down like hell
Ya down with DSL? I'm down like hell
Who's down with DSL? Ya know damn well!!
Especially when I always get these wacked out errors trying to compile audacity:
g++ -c -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib/wx/include -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D__WXGTK__ -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/gtk/1.2.3/lib/glib/include -I/opt/gtk/1.2.3/include -Iallegro Tags.cpp -o obj/Tags.cpp.o
Tags.cpp: In function `wxSizer *MakeTagsDialog (wxWindow *, bool,
bool)':
Tags.cpp:315: `wxFlexGridSizer' undeclared (first use this function)
Tags.cpp:315: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for
each function it appears in.)
Tags.cpp:315: `gridSizer' undeclared (first use this function)
Tags.cpp:315: parse error before `('
Tags.cpp:376: parse error before `('
make: *** [obj/Tags.cpp.o] Error 1
I won't even dare ask how to fix that.
Ingredients
1 market zone with 3 or more $49.95 DSL providers offering 768K down/128K up
50,000 potential customers
10,000 DSL subscribers
1 major cable company ready to offer 1.5 mbps up and down for $39.95/month
Pour the 1 market zone and 10,000 existing DSL subscribers into a, say, 200,000 person city. Then add in the 50,000 potential customers. Stir.
Now add the major cable company into the mix. Just pour it right on top and do not stir.
Let sit until the DSL customers and subscribers alike float right towards the cable company ingredient, seeking the el cheapo $39.95 and 1.5mbps up/down deal.
Stir.
The DSL ingredient will turn green, and then dark red, as the cable modem ingredient neutralizes them into bankruptcy and also makes your mix more sweet and also homogenous.
As the last DSL ingredient is neutralized, take note of how the cable modem ingredient changes color. The cost goes up to $69.95 a month, your upstream is cut to 128Kbps, you are slapped with usage fees for going over 1 kilobyte a month,
and your city is now screwed royally.
Welcome to capitalism.
Is the Coastal Wave Motion Gun next?
I used to use company time to browse the web. But not to use email. But I always exceeded my quotas and got my work done right, too.
Now that I have a DSL connection, I feel like a hypocrite saying I agree with the sovereign right of an employer to rule their property as they see fit (unless they are discriminating). But I never ever did complain when restrictions were handed down; I always knew whose rights were whose.
Make spammers pay by being forced to donate $5 per email to each of the following:
:)
Electronic Freedom Foundation
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Free Software Foundation
DigitalConsumer.org
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Privacy International
We'll have enough lobbying power to stomp the NSA, telemarketers, spammers, AND the RIAA
Wanna BET?? They could hire nSync as the bloody crew.
Star Blazers could only be done right by J Michael "Babylon 5" Straczinsky(sp?).
Just in case a follow-up on this is posted, which will certainly result in Richard Stallman being flamed by all the under-achieving gen-x legends in their own mind species of trolls and ingrates, whose very enjoyment of the freedom granted by GNU/Linux was because of Stallman's creation, propagation, and defense of the GPL.
(How's that for the world's longest run-on sentence??)
Wow! :)
I bet they're gonna use this computer to make Shrek II