Actually I don't fail to make a distinction, I don't need to make a distinction. The intension of the company doesn't affect the impression such material could make on a child, which is what net nanny etc are (in theory) there to provide. Protection from such content, just because the "upstanding" (oxymoron?) porn sites move to.xxx wouldn't validate the original posters comment that netnanny wouldn't be needed. Please pay attention to the scope of the comment you are replying too.
Because there are all the other sites out there that are either scams or just get a chuckle out of posting nude pictures of something on the web. Take the explosion of personal websites + cheap webcams in consideration. Do you really believe that every teenage girl that decides to do naughty things in front of a webcam is going to spring for a.xxx domain before doing so?
To put it simply you are wrong. You mean to tell me that if they had approved a.xxx TDL that all the porn sites in the world would just change their domain names and live happily ever after quarantined in the.xxx TDL. No, you are out of your idealistic mind if you truly believe this. If you don't and were trying to be witty, then I look to the moderators and ask why oh why is this rated 4 (at the time of my post)
I mean this in the nicest way possible, don't be a tool. Most places don't have the workstations shipped directly to the workers either. Which would give them ample time to decide what the end user gets.. you know like whether they deserve the nice mouse that came with the system or the one with the nervous tick off the admins desk.
I was pretty impressed that the page loaded... but then to be able to download the AVI's that is unheard of! Don't webservers know they are supposed to just laydown and die when they are posted on slashdot?!?!
and if you are afraid that won't shut him down, try this on your firewall:
while true; do wget -O/dev/null www.raisethefist.com; done
Re:The lack of localization of the net
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That is one of the exact things that got me interested in the Internet way back when. The fact that it doesn't matter where you are located, what age you are, your skin color, etc... It gives the opportunity for a group of people to exchange ideas that normally would walk by eachother on the street and have no interest in talking to eachother. Be it for reasons of descrimination, type casting, lack of knowledge that you might have something in common. But if you happen to see the person in a chat room about there is a damn good chance they are interested in that subject, so the ice breaker is out of the way. You just start talking and have fun.
But if you want localization you can seek it out... For example there was a large issue around here awhile back with some bus drivers, and sure enough browse to the local news channel and they have a public forum up where people are discussing their views on the subject. If you feel that there is no vent for your local subject matter, make one. spend the couple of dollars on a domain that would make sense to people in your area and start a small site with what you think is missing in your area. With programs like frontpage and dreamweaver and the zillions of script archives out there it's really not that hard to put together a beginner site anymore... So don't complain about it on slashdot, do something about it.
If you are a freak so am I... and I will _still_ probably buy the Next Generation DVDs. I have EVERY Next Generation on the little columbia house video deal that came out a few years ago. I can guarantee I don't watch those.... I don't even own a VCR anymore.
Thank you for reviewing my optoins, but no I don't have to admit that IIS is a good webserver. I have used both extensively and I would pick apache over IIS any day. Reasons:
- I can use a text terminal to administrate it, no waiting for my pretty windows desktop to display across my pc anywhere/vnc connection
- I can look at the source if I have a problem
- There are PLENTY of sources for help with problems with apache. Google being the only one really needed. I had a problem with IIS that I had to pull favors with friends working at Microsoft JUST to get the definition of an error code as it was "unpublished"
- It doesn't crash as much, if it ever does I don't have to reboot to get things happy again.
- Unlike Microsofts IIS knowledge base I have never seen any comment related to apache that stated that a re-install of the OS was the _only way_ to make the web server serve ssl ever again (might be fixed now that SP2 is out)
- it is insanely fast at dynamic content
- I can throw things in front of it like khttpd, tux as it runs on operating systems that let me do kooky stuff like that
I am getting tired of listing reasons... please give me some reasons that I should like IIS?
I am assuming you meant complacent, if not then this response will make no sense:) To me it would seem kind of hard to be any other way when you are acting as the glue to pre-existing components. Unless you are planning on re-writing/modifying all of them.
How else do you expect him to respond? Well I don't like the way you comply with this 3rd party product that requires your files to be like this!
How about this. If you don't like the pricing for the available service, dont use it. Companies listen to their wallets not their customers groaning on slashdot. I personally don't see how $50 is too much for cable. What other service for that price offers that DOWNSTREAM capacity. If you want to upload large amounts of things either get sdsl or a T1.
And it doesn't matter what newsgroup you are interested in archiving, if it is 3 gigs it's 3 gigs no matter what... 3 megs of porn is the same as 3 megs of linux archives... It's the server resources that are the problem.
Re:They don't have any! (I had good service from M
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That is probably because getting good service from most tech support departments is alot like a lottery. You hope you get the right spot in the call queue and don't have someone who is either a. asleep at the wheel
b. realizes they are in a shit job
c. Has no wheel to be asleep at
d. has dealt with too many shitty customers that day and just feels like being a dick to you
e. you are one of the shitty customers (see d)
Most times I call tech support for and get bad service, I call right back, go through the whole process again and am satisfied.
I am assuming while you are out pricing these word processing computers you are also making sure they will play the latest games and have room for your mp3 library. Take a stroll through any store that sells prebuilt systems and you will see computers that cost less than $2000 out the door. And I can guarantee any computer that you will find on a shelf like that is MORE than capable of processing words.
On to why gaming consoles shouldn't do everything for everyone. When was the last time you saw a repair man walk in with one tool that would remodel a house. It doesn't exist, sure sure if you stay up as late as I do you will see them on qvc while looking for something decent, but they don't work. The reason games on gaming consoles turn out so well is the developers know EXACTLY what hardware they are going to be run on.
If you start producing gaming consoles that need to run word and excel and etc etc etc.. then there will have to be software updates and upgradability and support for printer drivers and blah blah blah. All of those things are one reason windows has instability. A poorly written driver can make your windows box about as useful as your toaster. I personally don't want to be playing Mario Cart and have to reboot because my gaming console crashed.
Wow... so did you have to sign up for your tin hat or do they just assign you one when you reach the level of conspiracy theory generation you have reached:)
Re:Wonder which LARGE retailer it could be?
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Aren't we cute, why yes I read the article but I was trying to clarify for the poster I was replying to that it wasn't just simply taking the cards that were, as he put it, "begging to be taken" were not piles of money waiting to be claimed. And they would actually have to put some effort into making the cards useful. And the fact that they are just laying there is no more a problem than the fact that they could get the cards legit and recode them after spending the $2 they put on them.
And if you have a problem with me trying to help out the reader which I replied to, without being a jackass and pointing out that had he read the article, the fact that they were just laying out did you no good, then you can well.. lick my balls.
I have to disagree with you on this point. To make a CGI movie good you have to have good actors. Where do you think they get the posturing of the bodies and the facial expressions? They record both the audio AND the video of the reciting of the script by the actors. If you have access to a movie that has EXCELENT CGI work, Final Fantasy is a the top of my list, take a look at that movie. Then drag out some other movie that has the same actor actually on camera, notice any similarities?
There is a reason the CGI models folow the movement of the voices behind them. Good acting isn't just in the voice, it requires the use of the body and especially the face.
Re:Wonder which LARGE retailer it could be?
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Having worked for Wal-Mart a few years back, you are welcome to steal as many of those gift cards as you want.... they do you no good unless you are going to change the mag strip to match another customers card... There is no money associated with that card until you run through the register and have them "activated." I used to use them all the time as gas at the gas station in the back of the parking lot was cheaper if you used a Wal-Mart gift card.
There is one thing you are missing here, change scares these people for a reason. When was the last time your land line went down? And it was something the telco could do without running a line out of reach of the drunk drivers. It's cool and all to say wow they should do this and that and upgrade the other do-hicky, with all these cutting edge technologies. What is the problem with cutting edge technologies? Glad you asked, we don't know the weaknesses of them yet! I don't blame the telephone company for not switching to IP based networks across the board when the old copper is working fine. There is something to be said for stability, or at least you will think so when you are having a heart attack and you can't call the hospital because there is a DNS issue.
Please at least get your facts straight if you are going to make a huge rant. 10Mbps is not a T3, it is a fraction of a T3. I would love it if @home had given me a T3, which would be equivalent to 45Mbps. And cost me 15,000 per month, just got a rate quote the other day;) And around here I can get a T1 line and bandwidth for $750~.
I am on comcast and regularly get above T1 speeds downstream, now upstream that is another story, I am pretty sure 56k modems get better upstream than me;) So if you do alot of uploading or try to ssh somewhere while morpheus is letting people leach from you, your screwed;) I personally think they went a little overboard on the upstream cap but I guess that isn't my decision to make so I will live with it. And as far as stability my cablemodem has gone out once since I moved to my current address (123 days according to my firewall). And didn't go out once in the 8 months I lived at my previous address. So I say bang for the buck Comcast has everybody beat around here (Nashville, TN area)
Yes there is Tech Support for Linux, and just the same as the Microsoft version you can pay for it. That also answers a previous posters question about how to make money in linux... http://www.redhat.com/services/techsupport/ You don't have to make money off the actual code you write, write a wondeful application and setup a website that offers implementation and tech-support services for that or possibly other products as well. There is money to be made and it doesn't have to revolve around locking your code in the vault under your house.
Your sob story is wonderful.... What you are saying is you want your cake and want to eat it as well. I am sure at some point you have been glad that you live in a rural area due to less traffic, less people, lower prices on stuff, etc... But as soon as there is one inconvenience you raise holy hell about unfair business practices and the such.
You get the perks of being in a rural area and also the downfalls. Just as someone living in the city gets the perks of being in a big city (bandwidth galore, plenty of attractions, etc..) and the downsides (traffic, taxes, cost of living, etc...).
If this turns into another microsoft bashing party, some people need to get a clue. This isn't Microsofts fault, I don't see a database server as something that should have a pretty wizard or wonderful config tool. And Microsoft is not the only database server out there that has no password by default. First off the top of my head would be MySQL. Every install I have ever done of MySQL has always been followed up with the setting of the "root" password. If the administrators of internet accessable systems can't take the time to set passwords on all their services admin interfaces then they deserve what they get. If this were some backdoor that would work no matter how much care the admin took to secure the service then great. Lets get pissed at Microsoft and bitch a little. But don't forget that stuff on the other side of the fence is no better. How long has the BIND source code been available to look at? And how often in the past have there been AMAZINGLY big holes in BIND? Instead of doing nothing but bitching about the problem, lets try and come up with some solutions and get the word out on safe programming/administration practices.
If you do as the first response to my comment suggests it isn't that hard at all. You keep your dynamic engine, but you have it output static pages in the live tree of the site. Next time you update your database you regenerate the pages. I know for sure with linux if you use this method the performance gain is unreal, linux is REALLY good at keeping bits of the filesystem in memory. Tie that together with khttpd and you have one smoking webserver.
I just tried to load amdmb and I hate to question peoples design choices but I really have to ask why does it take about 100 sql queries to generate any page on the site. There were like 20 in the header section, 20 more in the navbar, 10 or so in the left nav, etc.... Mabey you guys should make a bit of that stuff static. Just a suggestion:)
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Actually I don't fail to make a distinction, I don't need to make a distinction. The intension of the company doesn't affect the impression such material could make on a child, which is what net nanny etc are (in theory) there to provide. Protection from such content, just because the "upstanding" (oxymoron?) porn sites move to .xxx wouldn't validate the original posters comment that netnanny wouldn't be needed. Please pay attention to the scope of the comment you are replying too.
.xxx domain before doing so?
Because there are all the other sites out there that are either scams or just get a chuckle out of posting nude pictures of something on the web. Take the explosion of personal websites + cheap webcams in consideration. Do you really believe that every teenage girl that decides to do naughty things in front of a webcam is going to spring for a
To put it simply you are wrong. You mean to tell me that if they had approved a .xxx TDL that all the porn sites in the world would just change their domain names and live happily ever after quarantined in the .xxx TDL. No, you are out of your idealistic mind if you truly believe this. If you don't and were trying to be witty, then I look to the moderators and ask why oh why is this rated 4 (at the time of my post)
I mean this in the nicest way possible, don't be a tool. Most places don't have the workstations shipped directly to the workers either. Which would give them ample time to decide what the end user gets.. you know like whether they deserve the nice mouse that came with the system or the one with the nervous tick off the admins desk.
I was pretty impressed that the page loaded... but then to be able to download the AVI's that is unheard of! Don't webservers know they are supposed to just laydown and die when they are posted on slashdot?!?!
and if you are afraid that won't shut him down, try this on your firewall: /dev/null www.raisethefist.com; done
while true; do wget -O
That is one of the exact things that got me interested in the Internet way back when. The fact that it doesn't matter where you are located, what age you are, your skin color, etc... It gives the opportunity for a group of people to exchange ideas that normally would walk by eachother on the street and have no interest in talking to eachother. Be it for reasons of descrimination, type casting, lack of knowledge that you might have something in common. But if you happen to see the person in a chat room about there is a damn good chance they are interested in that subject, so the ice breaker is out of the way. You just start talking and have fun.
But if you want localization you can seek it out... For example there was a large issue around here awhile back with some bus drivers, and sure enough browse to the local news channel and they have a public forum up where people are discussing their views on the subject. If you feel that there is no vent for your local subject matter, make one. spend the couple of dollars on a domain that would make sense to people in your area and start a small site with what you think is missing in your area. With programs like frontpage and dreamweaver and the zillions of script archives out there it's really not that hard to put together a beginner site anymore... So don't complain about it on slashdot, do something about it.
If you are a freak so am I... and I will _still_ probably buy the Next Generation DVDs. I have EVERY Next Generation on the little columbia house video deal that came out a few years ago. I can guarantee I don't watch those.... I don't even own a VCR anymore.
Thank you for reviewing my optoins, but no I don't have to admit that IIS is a good webserver. I have used both extensively and I would pick apache over IIS any day. Reasons:
- I can use a text terminal to administrate it, no waiting for my pretty windows desktop to display across my pc anywhere/vnc connection
- I can look at the source if I have a problem
- There are PLENTY of sources for help with problems with apache. Google being the only one really needed. I had a problem with IIS that I had to pull favors with friends working at Microsoft JUST to get the definition of an error code as it was "unpublished"
- It doesn't crash as much, if it ever does I don't have to reboot to get things happy again.
- Unlike Microsofts IIS knowledge base I have never seen any comment related to apache that stated that a re-install of the OS was the _only way_ to make the web server serve ssl ever again (might be fixed now that SP2 is out)
- it is insanely fast at dynamic content
- I can throw things in front of it like khttpd, tux as it runs on operating systems that let me do kooky stuff like that
I am getting tired of listing reasons... please give me some reasons that I should like IIS?
I am assuming you meant complacent, if not then this response will make no sense :) To me it would seem kind of hard to be any other way when you are acting as the glue to pre-existing components. Unless you are planning on re-writing/modifying all of them.
How else do you expect him to respond? Well I don't like the way you comply with this 3rd party product that requires your files to be like this!
How about this. If you don't like the pricing for the available service, dont use it. Companies listen to their wallets not their customers groaning on slashdot. I personally don't see how $50 is too much for cable. What other service for that price offers that DOWNSTREAM capacity. If you want to upload large amounts of things either get sdsl or a T1.
And it doesn't matter what newsgroup you are interested in archiving, if it is 3 gigs it's 3 gigs no matter what... 3 megs of porn is the same as 3 megs of linux archives... It's the server resources that are the problem.
That is probably because getting good service from most tech support departments is alot like a lottery. You hope you get the right spot in the call queue and don't have someone who is either a. asleep at the wheel
b. realizes they are in a shit job
c. Has no wheel to be asleep at
d. has dealt with too many shitty customers that day and just feels like being a dick to you
e. you are one of the shitty customers (see d)
Most times I call tech support for and get bad service, I call right back, go through the whole process again and am satisfied.
I am assuming while you are out pricing these word processing computers you are also making sure they will play the latest games and have room for your mp3 library. Take a stroll through any store that sells prebuilt systems and you will see computers that cost less than $2000 out the door. And I can guarantee any computer that you will find on a shelf like that is MORE than capable of processing words.
On to why gaming consoles shouldn't do everything for everyone. When was the last time you saw a repair man walk in with one tool that would remodel a house. It doesn't exist, sure sure if you stay up as late as I do you will see them on qvc while looking for something decent, but they don't work. The reason games on gaming consoles turn out so well is the developers know EXACTLY what hardware they are going to be run on.
If you start producing gaming consoles that need to run word and excel and etc etc etc.. then there will have to be software updates and upgradability and support for printer drivers and blah blah blah. All of those things are one reason windows has instability. A poorly written driver can make your windows box about as useful as your toaster. I personally don't want to be playing Mario Cart and have to reboot because my gaming console crashed.
wow somebody is on their period, easy tiger...
Wow... so did you have to sign up for your tin hat or do they just assign you one when you reach the level of conspiracy theory generation you have reached :)
Aren't we cute, why yes I read the article but I was trying to clarify for the poster I was replying to that it wasn't just simply taking the cards that were, as he put it, "begging to be taken" were not piles of money waiting to be claimed. And they would actually have to put some effort into making the cards useful. And the fact that they are just laying there is no more a problem than the fact that they could get the cards legit and recode them after spending the $2 they put on them.
And if you have a problem with me trying to help out the reader which I replied to, without being a jackass and pointing out that had he read the article, the fact that they were just laying out did you no good, then you can well.. lick my balls.
I have to disagree with you on this point. To make a CGI movie good you have to have good actors. Where do you think they get the posturing of the bodies and the facial expressions? They record both the audio AND the video of the reciting of the script by the actors. If you have access to a movie that has EXCELENT CGI work, Final Fantasy is a the top of my list, take a look at that movie. Then drag out some other movie that has the same actor actually on camera, notice any similarities?
There is a reason the CGI models folow the movement of the voices behind them. Good acting isn't just in the voice, it requires the use of the body and especially the face.
Having worked for Wal-Mart a few years back, you are welcome to steal as many of those gift cards as you want.... they do you no good unless you are going to change the mag strip to match another customers card... There is no money associated with that card until you run through the register and have them "activated." I used to use them all the time as gas at the gas station in the back of the parking lot was cheaper if you used a Wal-Mart gift card.
There is one thing you are missing here, change scares these people for a reason. When was the last time your land line went down? And it was something the telco could do without running a line out of reach of the drunk drivers. It's cool and all to say wow they should do this and that and upgrade the other do-hicky, with all these cutting edge technologies. What is the problem with cutting edge technologies? Glad you asked, we don't know the weaknesses of them yet! I don't blame the telephone company for not switching to IP based networks across the board when the old copper is working fine. There is something to be said for stability, or at least you will think so when you are having a heart attack and you can't call the hospital because there is a DNS issue.
Please at least get your facts straight if you are going to make a huge rant. 10Mbps is not a T3, it is a fraction of a T3. I would love it if @home had given me a T3, which would be equivalent to 45Mbps. And cost me 15,000 per month, just got a rate quote the other day ;) And around here I can get a T1 line and bandwidth for $750~.
I am on comcast and regularly get above T1 speeds downstream, now upstream that is another story, I am pretty sure 56k modems get better upstream than me ;) So if you do alot of uploading or try to ssh somewhere while morpheus is letting people leach from you, your screwed ;) I personally think they went a little overboard on the upstream cap but I guess that isn't my decision to make so I will live with it. And as far as stability my cablemodem has gone out once since I moved to my current address (123 days according to my firewall). And didn't go out once in the 8 months I lived at my previous address. So I say bang for the buck Comcast has everybody beat around here (Nashville, TN area)
Yes there is Tech Support for Linux, and just the same as the Microsoft version you can pay for it. That also answers a previous posters question about how to make money in linux... http://www.redhat.com/services/techsupport/ You don't have to make money off the actual code you write, write a wondeful application and setup a website that offers implementation and tech-support services for that or possibly other products as well. There is money to be made and it doesn't have to revolve around locking your code in the vault under your house.
Your sob story is wonderful.... What you are saying is you want your cake and want to eat it as well. I am sure at some point you have been glad that you live in a rural area due to less traffic, less people, lower prices on stuff, etc... But as soon as there is one inconvenience you raise holy hell about unfair business practices and the such.
You get the perks of being in a rural area and also the downfalls. Just as someone living in the city gets the perks of being in a big city (bandwidth galore, plenty of attractions, etc..) and the downsides (traffic, taxes, cost of living, etc...).
If this turns into another microsoft bashing party, some people need to get a clue. This isn't Microsofts fault, I don't see a database server as something that should have a pretty wizard or wonderful config tool. And Microsoft is not the only database server out there that has no password by default. First off the top of my head would be MySQL. Every install I have ever done of MySQL has always been followed up with the setting of the "root" password. If the administrators of internet accessable systems can't take the time to set passwords on all their services admin interfaces then they deserve what they get. If this were some backdoor that would work no matter how much care the admin took to secure the service then great. Lets get pissed at Microsoft and bitch a little. But don't forget that stuff on the other side of the fence is no better. How long has the BIND source code been available to look at? And how often in the past have there been AMAZINGLY big holes in BIND? Instead of doing nothing but bitching about the problem, lets try and come up with some solutions and get the word out on safe programming/administration practices.
If you do as the first response to my comment suggests it isn't that hard at all. You keep your dynamic engine, but you have it output static pages in the live tree of the site. Next time you update your database you regenerate the pages. I know for sure with linux if you use this method the performance gain is unreal, linux is REALLY good at keeping bits of the filesystem in memory. Tie that together with khttpd and you have one smoking webserver.
I just tried to load amdmb and I hate to question peoples design choices but I really have to ask why does it take about 100 sql queries to generate any page on the site. There were like 20 in the header section, 20 more in the navbar, 10 or so in the left nav, etc.... Mabey you guys should make a bit of that stuff static. Just a suggestion :)