Hey slashdot....just show the fucking posts when I browse at -1 No need to sugar coat it for me.....I've been here a few years and I can handle it. It's a real pain in the ass to have to load a comment in another window and then go back to where I was reading.
I think it's time the IT industry as a whole(worldwide) just stops buying from US tech companies. Fuck it....let the big, rich corporations fight our battle in congress. When these big tech companies see their sales drop down near $0 they will panic and do almost anything to fix it.
I know I'll be checking out the "block lists" before I start building up another data center and with some creative shipping I can get equipment from almost anywhere in the world:) I vote with my dollars too!
Thank you for explaining this better! You are correct that anyone can walk down any street anywhere and tell anyone else what they see. The issue here is the retaining of that data indefinitely BUT, only allowing government agencies access to that data!
I would not have as much of an issue with this plan IF they allowed public access to the stored data so we could snoop on the Politicians, DA's and Judges just as much as they will snoop on us.
Did anyone stop to think that perhaps someone from the rental car agency could have actually been the person driving the car at the time of the accident? They do pick-up and deliver cars too. And just as well, an operator at the ISP could have been the person using the IP address at the time of the incident and it would be the burden of the ISP to prove otherwise!
or maybe make the new.XXX TLD IPv6 only.....with all the pre-registrations that would really drive the site operators to switch and eventually the end users too.
I couldn't imagine running an on-line business and not having some sort of back-up plan in place in case the US government did make a mistake or just decided to seize my registrars servers for some reason.
I also know that as long as my site has an IP address and a net connection my "customers" and the rest of the Internet will be able to access my systems. I am NOT dependent on ANY US based ICANN root server to keep my sites on-line and my business operating and/or making a profit. I often wonder if ANY shareholders are aware of these critical flaws in nearly all companies on-line infrastructure !!....once those caches time-out your on-line business is DEAD...period!...NO DNS = No more money to PAY CEO's bonuses and to pay dividends to shareholders. How much has your company spent on back-up systems and redundant net links? will any of it matter if your customers can't reach the site? I would sure hate to be the head of an IT department if my domains got pulled and the CEO, Board of Directors, shareholders and customers couldn't get their e-mail
The Cesidian Root was crucial in keeping the wikileaks.org domain on-line after the seizure and since we have root servers world-wide now, no government can take down any domain or TLD we serve. We also offer TLD's that you won't find available on any ICANN server and if you really need it we can provide you with a custom TLD.
I'm not suggesting that my way is the only way but, after seeing the "bandwidth" monitoring on my DD-WRT enabled wireless routers( I have several) I wasn't really impressed. They don't track overall usage for very long and they don't track different types of traffic at all. They also don't differentiate between IP's.
Bandwidthd does track usage for up to a year, and months and weeks and days and tracks different types of traffic and tracks by IP address as well as the whole LAN. It also was a great place to setup a firewall since all traffic on the LAN passes through this box now so I wanted a system with a bit more power and reliability than a basic Linksys wireless router running on flash ram.
I'm sure there are several other ways to do this too.
Build your own "meter"... Setup a cheap little spare box with 2 nic cards in bridged mode.They will not require a Real IP address so anyone can set this up!! Then just install bandwidthd and Apache2. It may not be perfect but, at least YOU will know about what your usage is and have something to show to back you up.
I've had this setup for years now and Thankfully I've never needed it...sure nice to know what my systems are doing bandwidth wise though!!
Doubt anyone here would need it it but, if someone does need some help with this setup feel free to email me.
I would be all in favor of this IF it also included any and ALL elected officials and anyone serving the public such as Judges, DA's and police officers. These people above all should have absolutely nothing to hide and should be forced to deal with the false positives just as much if not more than the average person.
There are alternative DNS roots already. http://cesidianroot.net/ The Cesidian Root comes to mind right away and I'm sure there are others although I'm pretty sure AlterNIC and OpenRoot have been shut down:(
I have no issue( I've been using IPv6 just fine for the last 2 years and have an IPv6 cert from he.net) but, the millions of people that may/might be required to Flash their own hardware may have plenty of issues. and he is not correct....there may be plenty of ISP's that ask/require an end user to make changes to the settings on a cable modem or router...this is trouble...always will be...Period.
Talk to Ron Harwood. I'm pretty sure he was the original author of the game and he may still tinker with the online version. Best place to get in touch with him that I know of is at http://www.blacknova.net/ (They develop an online version of TradeWars2000) You can also get the source code and setup a game on your own from that site. Or for some fun just join mine at http://www.frodoslair.net/blacknova/
There is a version of Trade Wars available online now. It's called BlackNova Traders. I have it running on my home server here: http://www.frodoslair.net/blacknova/ (please be gentle...it's not Slashdot proof!!) I spent hundreds or perhaps thousands of hours playing Trade Wars back in the old BBS days on my trusty Commodore64 and BlackNova is a pretty good clone for the web.
yup...I didn't have to learn how to gap a spark plug or change the oil or any of that fun stuff. Just had to learn how to "point" the wheels and "click" the right pedals.
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And yet you return again to experience that same feeling over and over
I'd say the same but, I can not see your comment
Hey slashdot....just show the fucking posts when I browse at -1
No need to sugar coat it for me.....I've been here a few years and I can handle it.
It's a real pain in the ass to have to load a comment in another window and then go back to where I was reading.
I think it's time the IT industry as a whole(worldwide) just stops buying from US tech companies.
Fuck it....let the big, rich corporations fight our battle in congress. When these big tech companies see their sales drop down near $0 they will panic and do almost anything to fix it.
I know I'll be checking out the "block lists" before I start building up another data center and with some creative shipping I can get equipment from almost anywhere in the world :)
I vote with my dollars too!
Thank you for explaining this better!
You are correct that anyone can walk down any street anywhere and tell anyone else what they see.
The issue here is the retaining of that data indefinitely BUT, only allowing government agencies access to that data!
I would not have as much of an issue with this plan IF they allowed public access to the stored data so we could snoop on the Politicians, DA's and Judges just as much as they will snoop on us.
Did anyone stop to think that perhaps someone from the rental car agency could have actually been the person driving the car at the time of the accident?
They do pick-up and deliver cars too.
And just as well, an operator at the ISP could have been the person using the IP address at the time of the incident and it would be the burden of the ISP to prove otherwise!
BRAVO! .... :)
I just blew Mug root beer all over my shiny new LED Acer 20" wide LCD monitor
or maybe make the new .XXX TLD IPv6 only.....with all the pre-registrations that would really drive the site operators to switch and eventually the end users too.
Yet another reason not to use Google for anything other than what it is...A search engine.
An ISP that blocks ANY incoming connections isn't an ISP.
Fixed that for ya.
I couldn't imagine running an on-line business and not having some sort of back-up plan in place in case the US government did make a mistake or just decided to seize my registrars servers for some reason.
Full disclosure before I continue....I run 2 of the Cesidian Root Servers
I also know that as long as my site has an IP address and a net connection my "customers" and the rest of the Internet will be able to access my systems. I am NOT dependent on ANY US based ICANN root server to keep my sites on-line and my business operating and/or making a profit.
I often wonder if ANY shareholders are aware of these critical flaws in nearly all companies on-line infrastructure !!....once those caches time-out your on-line
business is DEAD...period!...NO DNS = No more money to PAY CEO's bonuses and to pay dividends to shareholders.
How much has your company spent on back-up systems and redundant net links? will any of it matter if your customers can't reach the site? I would sure hate
to be the head of an IT department if my domains got pulled and the CEO, Board of Directors, shareholders and customers couldn't get their e-mail
The Cesidian Root was crucial in keeping the wikileaks.org domain on-line after the seizure and since we have root servers world-wide now, no government
can take down any domain or TLD we serve.
We also offer TLD's that you won't find available on any ICANN server and if you really need it we can provide you with a custom TLD.
I'm not suggesting that my way is the only way but, after seeing the "bandwidth" monitoring on my DD-WRT enabled wireless routers( I have several) I wasn't really impressed. They don't track overall usage for very long and they don't track different types of traffic at all. They also don't differentiate between IP's.
Bandwidthd does track usage for up to a year, and months and weeks and days and tracks different types of traffic and tracks by IP address as well as the whole LAN.
It also was a great place to setup a firewall since all traffic on the LAN passes through this box now so I wanted a system with a bit more power and reliability than
a basic Linksys wireless router running on flash ram.
I'm sure there are several other ways to do this too.
Build your own "meter" ... Setup a cheap little spare box with 2 nic cards in bridged mode.They will not require a Real IP address so anyone can set this up!! Then just install bandwidthd and Apache2. It may not be perfect but, at least YOU will know about what your usage is and have something to show to back you up.
I've had this setup for years now and Thankfully I've never needed it...sure nice to know what my systems are doing bandwidth wise though!!
Doubt anyone here would need it it but, if someone does need some help with this setup feel free to email me.
I would be all in favor of this IF it also included any and ALL elected officials and anyone serving the public such as Judges, DA's and police officers.
These people above all should have absolutely nothing to hide and should be forced to deal with the false positives just as much if not more than the average person.
There are alternative DNS roots already. http://cesidianroot.net/ The Cesidian Root comes to mind right away and I'm sure there are others although I'm pretty sure AlterNIC and OpenRoot have been shut down :(
Guess what has to be done to have IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack? The IP stack of every IPv4 host needs to be updated!
at worst they have to wait for a timeout on every pageload which makes web browsing EXCRUCIATINGLY slow).
If the site is not on IPv6 they shouldn't have DNS entries for thier v6 addresses so why would people have to wait for a timeout?
I have no issue( I've been using IPv6 just fine for the last 2 years and have an IPv6 cert from he.net) but, the millions of people that may/might be required to Flash their own hardware may have plenty of issues.
and he is not correct....there may be plenty of ISP's that ask/require an end user to make changes to the settings on a cable modem or router...this is trouble...always will be...Period.
OMG Olaf just told everyone they should not even notice the change over when asked what people needed to buy or do to get on IPv6!!
::1/128 ftw :)
You might be surprised. Check out all the women on anywebcam.com someday.
This is already being done. The Cesidian Root has been providing an alternative global DNS for years.
They even still resolve wikileaks.org
Full Disclosure: I run 2 of the root servers/resolvers for the Cesidian Root and fully support IPv6 too :)
Talk to Ron Harwood. I'm pretty sure he was the original author of the game and he may still tinker with the online version.
Best place to get in touch with him that I know of is at http://www.blacknova.net/ (They develop an online version of TradeWars2000)
You can also get the source code and setup a game on your own from that site.
Or for some fun just join mine at http://www.frodoslair.net/blacknova/
There is a version of Trade Wars available online now. It's called BlackNova Traders.
I have it running on my home server here: http://www.frodoslair.net/blacknova/ (please be gentle...it's not Slashdot proof!!)
I spent hundreds or perhaps thousands of hours playing Trade Wars back in the old BBS days on my trusty Commodore64 and BlackNova is a pretty good clone for the web.
yup...I didn't have to learn how to gap a spark plug or change the oil or any of that fun stuff. Just had to learn how to "point" the wheels and "click" the right pedals.
I really didn't get annoying though until they tried to bury my ass.
Nonsense! you were annoying long before this whole facebook thing started :P~