If a grocery store cut the ads out of a magazine and replaced them with their own (or rather, pasted their ads over the magazine's) before its put on the shelves, that'd be the same sort of deal. Even if they said "You agree by coming in to our store that you'll get our ads in magazines", the magazine folks would be pissy.
While they could stop selling magazines to such stores, website operators can't determine if you have Gator installed before delivering you content.
bet you could hook it up to a pda and just keep it in your pocket, too. or add a 802.11b-type PCMCIA card to it and access it wireless from your palm to your pocket.:)
Hahaha. Well, that's actually a very good comparison! You've shown disloyalty, be prepared for your responsibilities to be shared, and for you to become irrelevant.
The spam problem could probably be taken care of if they did not track bandwidth used within their network. IE traffic from their mail server to you. This could be expanded to include their news server and web server (it should definitely include the web site that contains the tracking information, otherwise people will be paying to see how close they are to the cap.:) )
Yeah, it's tempting to hit Kazaa and the like to get 'em. I just wish there was a way I could get them (all) "legit" from the producers, even as a rental.
Fox wasn't carrying the show, if I understand right - it was your local Fox affiliate. Here, in Seattle, it's been UPN.
According to TiVo, I've been watching most of the 2001 episodes lately, which should mean I'm nearly caught up to Season 6.
(Regarding DVDs, I made a post about this as well, but to add to the concept, it'd be great if we could at least *rent* the DVDs of the shows, even if they don't let us purchase them yet.. I know I'm still seeing episodes I've never seen before and I'd love to be fully caughtup. The ep you mention, I haven't seen yet.:( )
I'd love to get all of the episodes on CD or DVD somehow - unfortunately only the first season seems to be available, and for a hefty price. I'd rather wait until they're all available before starting a collection since there's no guarantee they'd all be released.
What if instead of being banned, they were ranked, and if they're a certain rank they can only get in to certain games. The ranking being stored on the master servers of course.
Then the people with the cheats would be ranked "Best" and would only get to play with others that cheat or superhuman players. Maybe the superhuman players (there would be very few of these at this level) would then be able to appeal.
The cheaters in this case do think about the game from someone else's point of view. They just don't care if anyone gets upset about what they're doing.
One of the biggest reasons sites succumb to/. is because their pages are created dynamically, either through PHP, perl (or ick, mod_perl), ASP, etc. If all you're serving is static content and you have your web server tweaked properly (in Apache, KeepAlive off, MinSpareServers 4, MaxSpareServers 4, StartServers == MaxClients) you can serve many hundreds of pages per second.
It's things like this that remind me of the good ol' days of the Internet. Call me nostalgic, but I have fond memories of the fishcams, the Internet-connected Coke machines, the Internet-controlled robotics, etc. It didn't matter if they were first, they were still fun toys.
That's what I thought as well, but then I heard from others in the Seattle area that it was out for them, too. So if we were filtered, a LOT of us were filtered, inappropriately. Any way you slice it, AT&T fucked up. Heh.
Well, somehow AT&T has managed to shut off my cable TV, but left my cable modem (mostly) up. So I try to call their customer service line and it's busy.
That's right, I'm getting a busy signal from AT&T, one of the largest telcos in the world. This is progress!
It's not unusual for a merchant to ask for your credit card to process the refund. So, they ask for that again, and it's compared against a hash generated from the original order. Tada, easy as pie.
To make all of your files and directory world-readable with one command:
$ chmod -R go+rwX.
(the X is the key, you don't have to worry about executables vs. directories)
Need a list of numbers of letters or anything? Check out jot (on FreeBSD, maybe on others):
$ jot 3 1 2 3
$ jot -w %c 3 65 A B C
(This is especially useful with for loops - "for i in `jot 20`;do touch foo.$i;done" will generate foo.1 through foo.20. Extra hint: -w %02d will give you a leading zero on 0-9)
grep's -A, -B, and -C flags can be very useful. Using them, you can have grep display the lines immediately before and/or after a match.
If you have a lot of files in a directory, so many that "*" complains of the argument length, bash (and probably other shells) can let you get around this by changing your command to one using a for loop. It won't be as fast, but it won't churn for several minutes only to tell you it won't work.;)
instead of:
$ rm *
do
$ for i in *;do rm $i;done
You can get a list of all files in your directory excluding . and.. with 'ls -A'.
One of the most annoying things about 'less', at least in Debian and probably other dists, is that it clears the screen when you exit. Ugh! You can fix this problem by setting PAGER='less -X' in your environment.
"So parents shouldn't allow children to go to the *library*?"
Parents shouldn't allow children to go *anywhere* unsupervised until they've tought their children to think for themselves in regards to pornography, hate speech, etc. They're going to run in to it anyways, even if it's just in mild forms - you're.. THEY're much better off understanding how to deal with it rather than being shielded from it.
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If a grocery store cut the ads out of a magazine and replaced them with their own (or rather, pasted their ads over the magazine's) before its put on the shelves, that'd be the same sort of deal. Even if they said "You agree by coming in to our store that you'll get our ads in magazines", the magazine folks would be pissy.
While they could stop selling magazines to such stores, website operators can't determine if you have Gator installed before delivering you content.
ISPs pay way less than $4/GB. less than 10% of that.
yeah, this sure belongs here, when the openssh vulnerability was left in a slashback. go /.! and uh, upgrade your openssh kiddies.
this is all but the PDA input and firewire:
:)
terapin mine
bet you could hook it up to a pda and just keep it in your pocket, too. or add a 802.11b-type PCMCIA card to it and access it wireless from your palm to your pocket.
They should not carry the magazines at all, if they find them offensive. Duh. It's that simple.
Hahaha. Well, that's actually a very good comparison! You've shown disloyalty, be prepared for your responsibilities to be shared, and for you to become irrelevant.
If you're so good at making change and upset when others aren't, why don't you just pay the exact amount?
put a clause in the employment contract "You must make use of the source respository and backup systems we provide or you're fired." ;)
You could pay me a few bucks to go to their place and teach them how to use bookmarks. :)
The spam problem could probably be taken care of if they did not track bandwidth used within their network. IE traffic from their mail server to you. This could be expanded to include their news server and web server (it should definitely include the web site that contains the tracking information, otherwise people will be paying to see how close they are to the cap. :) )
Yeah, it's tempting to hit Kazaa and the like to get 'em. I just wish there was a way I could get them (all) "legit" from the producers, even as a rental.
Fox wasn't carrying the show, if I understand right - it was your local Fox affiliate. Here, in Seattle, it's been UPN.
:( )
According to TiVo, I've been watching most of the 2001 episodes lately, which should mean I'm nearly caught up to Season 6.
(Regarding DVDs, I made a post about this as well, but to add to the concept, it'd be great if we could at least *rent* the DVDs of the shows, even if they don't let us purchase them yet.. I know I'm still seeing episodes I've never seen before and I'd love to be fully caughtup. The ep you mention, I haven't seen yet.
I'd love to get all of the episodes on CD or DVD somehow - unfortunately only the first season seems to be available, and for a hefty price. I'd rather wait until they're all available before starting a collection since there's no guarantee they'd all be released.
What if instead of being banned, they were ranked, and if they're a certain rank they can only get in to certain games. The ranking being stored on the master servers of course.
Then the people with the cheats would be ranked "Best" and would only get to play with others that cheat or superhuman players. Maybe the superhuman players (there would be very few of these at this level) would then be able to appeal.
The cheaters in this case do think about the game from someone else's point of view. They just don't care if anyone gets upset about what they're doing.
One of the biggest reasons sites succumb to /. is because their pages are created dynamically, either through PHP, perl (or ick, mod_perl), ASP, etc. If all you're serving is static content and you have your web server tweaked properly (in Apache, KeepAlive off, MinSpareServers 4, MaxSpareServers 4, StartServers == MaxClients) you can serve many hundreds of pages per second.
:-)
You might need dual NICs or a gigE though.
It's things like this that remind me of the good ol' days of the Internet. Call me nostalgic, but I have fond memories of the fishcams, the Internet-connected Coke machines, the Internet-controlled robotics, etc. It didn't matter if they were first, they were still fun toys.
I dunno what market you're in but in the US market bandwidth prices are falling (thanks to Cogent, can't wait for that Chap. 11).
:)
Many web hosts, large and small, will charge small sites by the GB, so you can use all you want.
I can't help but think this post came from 1999 or something.
"General Relativity is only needed where spacetime is not flat (i.e. in the presence of gravity)"
So basically, everywhere in the known universe, except in our minds?
That's what I thought as well, but then I heard from others in the Seattle area that it was out for them, too. So if we were filtered, a LOT of us were filtered, inappropriately. Any way you slice it, AT&T fucked up. Heh.
Well, somehow AT&T has managed to shut off my cable TV, but left my cable modem (mostly) up. So I try to call their customer service line and it's busy.
That's right, I'm getting a busy signal from AT&T, one of the largest telcos in the world. This is progress!
It's not unusual for a merchant to ask for your credit card to process the refund. So, they ask for that again, and it's compared against a hash generated from the original order. Tada, easy as pie.
Uhm, the entertainment industry basically did just that: TiVo equity investors
To make all of your files and directory world-readable with one command:
.
$ chmod -R go+rwX
(the X is the key, you don't have to worry about executables vs. directories)
Need a list of numbers of letters or anything? Check out jot (on FreeBSD, maybe on others):
$ jot 3
1
2
3
$ jot -w %c 3 65
A
B
C
(This is especially useful with for loops - "for i in `jot 20`;do touch foo.$i;done" will generate foo.1 through foo.20. Extra hint: -w %02d will give you a leading zero on 0-9)
grep's -A, -B, and -C flags can be very useful. Using them, you can have grep display the lines immediately before and/or after a match.
If you have a lot of files in a directory, so many that "*" complains of the argument length, bash (and probably other shells) can let you get around this by changing your command to one using a for loop. It won't be as fast, but it won't churn for several minutes only to tell you it won't work. ;)
instead of:
$ rm *
do
$ for i in *;do rm $i;done
You can get a list of all files in your directory excluding . and .. with 'ls -A'.
One of the most annoying things about 'less', at least in Debian and probably other dists, is that it clears the screen when you exit. Ugh! You can fix this problem by setting PAGER='less -X' in your environment.
"So parents shouldn't allow children to go to the *library*?"
Parents shouldn't allow children to go *anywhere* unsupervised until they've tought their children to think for themselves in regards to pornography, hate speech, etc. They're going to run in to it anyways, even if it's just in mild forms - you're.. THEY're much better off understanding how to deal with it rather than being shielded from it.