Why? Because a self-important turd who may have seen it once or twice decided "Ohh that's terrible!" and complained without appreciating the shock value or the humour of having been fooled into staring into that gaping thing.
Rhonda Clarke is no better than having Tipper Gore or Laura Bush deciding what's appropriate for the internet. She's a desk clerk with an unimportant job in an relatively unheard of part of the world yet with her one gripe she can take down what has become a virtual institution on the net.
Certainly it wasn't considered funny by all, but who is she to dictate what is and isn't funny? "But.. but.. Christmas Island can decide what's appropriate for their TLD!" Fine. Goatsecx may move on to other pastures for its home but it won't be the same.
Mikey adds ".. retail value, $1 billion; wholesale value,
maybe $1 million or so "
Do you have any real data to
back this up, Michael, or is this yet another of your unnecessary
and unwanted biased editorials? Not that I'm in the pro-Microsoft
camp but a 1000-to-1 profit line sounds pretty high. This is shoddy
"journalism".
Feel free to bitch slap me and any subsequent
thread.
I had an '83 Subaru GL. My friends would laugh when the hood was opened and they saw the spare tire mounted above the motor. Not sure if that's where Subaru puts them nowadays..
That explains why he's so lawsuit-happy; he has 19 wives to support.
Re:It's not Sparc 5, it's Ultra 5!
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Sun Sparc 5 Nostalgia
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· Score: 2, Insightful
You're retarded.
Well maintained and engineered stuff lasts longer. Works for Sun, Mac, SGI, IBM etc. Put your "Taiwan-made MoBo and CPU" against it for years and see what lasts longer on average.
Now that I have your attention, Mr. Expert, please post non-AC with your real-life stories and I'll counter them.
Back in early/mid 80's we had to power the computers with
coal-fired generators. The geeks would take turns going into the mine
to dig out a few buckets of the stuff. We'd lose two or three people a
month in "the pit", but dammit, the data had to flow! Pink slips
would fly if a single 110/300 baud modem lost power. We were
dedicated!
Now all these young punks with their
Just-Plug-Into-the-AC-Outlet-and-Let-the-Power-Com pany-Do-All-The-Work
Computers.. spoiled brats.. they wouldn't know a day of work if it
hit them in the head.
Harummmmph...
Remind me to tell
you how we put the hole in doughnuts back in the day...
I get so fucking irate when someone suggests "D-uh, just buy a new 128 CPU 640 THz Intel machine and put Linux on it!" for a mundane task.
In the room next to my office we have an 8 CPU SGI Challenge system. It doesn't do much for "real work" now-a-days (the newer Origins on the SAN do the grunt work) but it still runs some networking stuff and logging. That thing is a damn tank, I'm sure it will outlast my great-great grandkids:)
If you need a high availability service (DNS comes to mind) with minimal downtime a "pizza box" is a great unit. It will run forever and a day until some hardware finally gives out. That may take a while too as they aren't super-mass produced shit, they're decently engineered equipment.
Hmm... I just re-read that article. The RIAA send that letter out on December 16. The court ruling came out on December 19. Did they have an insider tip them off that the ruling was to go against them?
On the other hand, probably some real gems, which we'll never know about anyway because they don't get any publicity
I'm not entirely convinced this is the case. One genre of music I really like is fast, heavy thrashing death metal. A search on Google for words like that will get me to many pages devoted to smaller groups. A P2P search to get some of this music as a test drive will be all I need to decide to buy or not.
Yes, I've bought CDs from many unheard of bands this way. Radio stations play a song or two from a CD knowing the other 10 tracks suck.
Interestingly you can return a burger at Mcdonalds if you don't like it but buying a CD or DVD is a one way street in the vast majority of cases.
Re:This is one area the US could get left behind..
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The State of IPv6
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Notice how North American-based networking gear manufacturers (Cisco, Nortel, et al) are all offering IPv6-ready devices? Ironically, it will be North Americans that will be late to the party.
The telecoms sat on their thumbs during the dot-com-boom on IPv6, they won't be too eager to spend the money now that cash is tight.
A good idea is to add RBLs to e.g. spamassasin and assign them a +2 score.
I use SPEWS level 1 (and some country blacklists) on an OpenBSD firewall which redirects to spamd based on the rules. The problem with spamassassin is that it process the mail after it has come into your system and used up your resources. On a large mail system this can be quite costly.
Slashdot Mirror
Why are you pissed?
Why? Because a self-important turd who may have seen it once or twice decided "Ohh that's terrible!" and complained without appreciating the shock value or the humour of having been fooled into staring into that gaping thing.
Rhonda Clarke is no better than having Tipper Gore or Laura Bush deciding what's appropriate for the internet. She's a desk clerk with an unimportant job in an relatively unheard of part of the world yet with her one gripe she can take down what has become a virtual institution on the net.
Certainly it wasn't considered funny by all, but who is she to dictate what is and isn't funny? "But.. but.. Christmas Island can decide what's appropriate for their TLD!" Fine. Goatsecx may move on to other pastures for its home but it won't be the same.
Rhonda Clarke is a self-righteous cunt.
Sure, the
I'm still fuming about that.
slashdotters don't know 3 people each if you discount both parents and Mittens the cat.
Storing these copies in warehouses costs money. Shipping the product costs money. Development costs money. Bug fixes (which MS does) costs money...
Microsoft doesn't tell their people to go home after they release V1.0 of a product.
man.. defending MS.. next thing you know I'll be going to church..
Mikey adds "
Do you have any real data to back this up, Michael, or is this yet another of your unnecessary and unwanted biased editorials? Not that I'm in the pro-Microsoft camp but a 1000-to-1 profit line sounds pretty high. This is shoddy "journalism".
Feel free to bitch slap me and any subsequent thread.
I had an '83 Subaru GL. My friends would laugh when the hood was opened and they saw the spare tire mounted above the motor. Not sure if that's where Subaru puts them nowadays..
The missing landers have already been brought underground for reverse engineering by the natives. They want insight into the invaders.
Darl McBride is a Mormon
That explains why he's so lawsuit-happy; he has 19 wives to support.
You're retarded.
Well maintained and engineered stuff lasts longer. Works for Sun, Mac, SGI, IBM etc. Put your "Taiwan-made MoBo and CPU" against it for years and see what lasts longer on average.
Now that I have your attention, Mr. Expert, please post non-AC with your real-life stories and I'll counter them.
That's right.. the Mac has been dying for 20 years now. Another 10 should just about wrap it up..
ISPs keep a copy of what IP was leased to what MAC at what times.
Try saying that to the poor geeks that were laying in hospital beds dying of black lung. Some of them never got past their first pocket protector.
Back in early/mid 80's we had to power the computers with coal-fired generators. The geeks would take turns going into the mine to dig out a few buckets of the stuff. We'd lose two or three people a month in "the pit", but dammit, the data had to flow! Pink slips would fly if a single 110/300 baud modem lost power. We were dedicated!
Now all these young punks with their Just-Plug-Into-the-AC-Outlet-and-Let-the-Power-Co
Harummmmph...
Remind me to tell you how we put the hole in doughnuts back in the day...
I get so fucking irate when someone suggests "D-uh, just buy a new 128 CPU 640 THz Intel machine and put Linux on it!" for a mundane task.
In the room next to my office we have an 8 CPU SGI Challenge system. It doesn't do much for "real work" now-a-days (the newer Origins on the SAN do the grunt work) but it still runs some networking stuff and logging. That thing is a damn tank, I'm sure it will outlast my great-great grandkids
Rubbish.
If you need a high availability service (DNS comes to mind) with minimal downtime a "pizza box" is a great unit. It will run forever and a day until some hardware finally gives out. That may take a while too as they aren't super-mass produced shit, they're decently engineered equipment.
Hmm... I just re-read that article. The RIAA send that letter out on December 16. The court ruling came out on December 19. Did they have an insider tip them off that the ruling was to go against them?
On the other hand, probably some real gems, which we'll never know about anyway because they don't get any publicity
I'm not entirely convinced this is the case. One genre of music I really like is fast, heavy thrashing death metal. A search on Google for words like that will get me to many pages devoted to smaller groups. A P2P search to get some of this music as a test drive will be all I need to decide to buy or not.
Yes, I've bought CDs from many unheard of bands this way. Radio stations play a song or two from a CD knowing the other 10 tracks suck.
Interestingly you can return a burger at Mcdonalds if you don't like it but buying a CD or DVD is a one way street in the vast majority of cases.
Notice how North American-based networking gear manufacturers (Cisco, Nortel, et al) are all offering IPv6-ready devices? Ironically, it will be North Americans that will be late to the party.
The telecoms sat on their thumbs during the dot-com-boom on IPv6, they won't be too eager to spend the money now that cash is tight.
I'm sure it will be a badge of honour in small English villages to say "Aye, I get me pr0n from tha' big tit in the sky!"
A good idea is to add RBLs to e.g. spamassasin and assign them a +2 score.
I use SPEWS level 1 (and some country blacklists) on an OpenBSD firewall which redirects to spamd based on the rules. The problem with spamassassin is that it process the mail after it has come into your system and used up your resources. On a large mail system this can be quite costly.
Google's blocked the www.sco.com googlebomb
The bastards!
Not when I last looked. Maybe the "google dance" will fix that? (assuming that still happens, I dunno)
Just found this: McBride was singing a slightly different tune back in October..
Man, that is some serious hair gel.
Pssst, Darl.. Some 17 year old punk named Mike Rowe is running his website on Linux! You better file suit against him, too!