By reading your question, it sounds like you want to send out mail via your ISPs SMTP using an e-mail address for a webdomain not hosted by them. Any GOOD ISP will not let you do this.
You may wonder why. Well, if I can do this, then I can forge e-mail addresses and send out any kind of mail I want. That's a good way to get blacklisted.
Basically "port 25 friendly" is also known as "spam friendly".
What I would recommend is seeing if those sites where those domains are hosted allow SMTP services with password authentication. Some place do, and then you can send out mail from any ISP using those mail server.
My personal e-mail is not connected to my ISP. I have password authentication in place.
Looking at the postings, I believe it's very simple.
Did you ever buy a system with Windows on it? Have you ever registered Windows or any software product from any company within the BSA?
Ok, now you're on their main list, but that's not the reason they contact you.... Continue on.
Has more than one new version of the software come out since the last time you registered? Has the last version you registered gone onto a non-supported software list?
If so, I believe now you'll be contacted. So, if you buy systems for business that come with Windows as an OEM and it's registered that you bought it, chances are, even as a Linux user, later on you'll get contacted asking why you haven't paid the licence fees for a new version.
I'll tell you one thing, though. For 99% of the people out there, this is invasion of privacy.
Simple response - don't EVER buy a software licence. Buy software that becomes yours, or pay for the distribution of software under a free licence.
When I first got my laptop I was blown away by how sharp everything was. I'm so used to using LCDs that I request laptops at work just to make sure that I get an LCD.
The real downside has been watching DVDs on it. So sharp I notice every glaring compression error.
I don't know about you guys, but Tom's is one of the prime places I check out for hardware reviews. I don't trust most print sites for the news, like ZDNet, as they easily sell out.
If Samsung thinks Tom's is just an online site, well, they've lost my business. And I really want an LCD. I HATE flicker.
You know, once upon a time, I was a big Microsoft fan. I liked how easy it was to do things, and how empowered I felt in running Windows. The other day I noticed (after a Google search) that Microsoft had a Content Management Server that was using.Net.
Over the past several years I've become very negative towards Microsoft, since my Windows constantly crashed, and they were clearly trying to shut out others.
About a week ago I thought to myself, well maybe there's just too my anti-Microsoft hype. Perhaps some of these e-mails being forwarded to The Register are just hoaxes.
But now today, ZDNet reveals Microsoft trying to disrupt things and act like a big bad monopoly. Now, ZDNet has kissed Microsoft's butt so often it isn't fun, and David Coursey who's now running Anchordesk is such a pro-Microsoft weenies I get sick. But there it is, on a ZDNet site (albeit the UK site, but still).
It's really funny to get these e-mails. They happy most when I'm looking for work, which is exactly the time when I will not be hiring another developer.
The fun part about spam is that spammers don't pay any attention to country domains, or even to check where an address is registered. For example, my address is registered in Finland, and so free cell phones from the US are useless.
Honestly speaking, I don't mind the occasional well-targeted mailing. Once upon a time I use to receive those through the mail. You know, when it's clear that I'm really, REALLY interested in something, and it's something I can buy and use? Then I don't mind.
But please tell me when as a U.S. Citizen living in Finland working as an Information Architect for a mobile services company I'm going to need free U.S. cell phones, a quick route to get a green card, or another intern from some thirld world nation studying at a U.S. university.
The sad reality is that all experience is not the same.
Growing up playing with computers and doing a little BASIC programming and then claiming years of experience as programmer would be joke.
However, if you've been doing C or C++, Java, or whatever as a kid, and doing more than scripts, that real experience.
Very few people would be able to ever claim 'engineering' time as a kid, but some of the best network architects and administrators I've met have been between 18 and 20 years old, having a lot of hands-on practical experience setting up their own network for games, LAN parties, and such. They have REAL experience with problems that aren't usually in the book.
Besides, most companies aren't looking for "computer experience", they're looking for experience in certain skills. Being 20 years old and claiming 5 years of networking experience because you've been in charge of your gaming groups online server and LAN party setups is NOT lying. It's being quite honest.
What's sad here is watching this community itself engaged in rampant discrimination.
I find it really sad how when I post my article now, I have to state my age (25), and how long I consider having experience (15 years), and my justification for it (not all experience is pure work).
I'm currently working as an Information Architect for a company designing mobile applications. Do my experiences with computers as a ten-year-old warez kiddie mean anything? Heck yeah! I grew up with no manuals or anything. Intuitive design was everything!
I was on a computer about 6-8 hours a day during the school year, and probably around 12-14 outside of school. I don't think I've spent as much time on a computer since. Not all of it was playing games or testing out applications, but tweaking systems to run faster, playing with protocols to transfer faster, and so on.
When I graduated high school at 17 (an option NO ONE posting considered so far), I knew more about how DOS and Windows worked than the guy at the PC store. I went to university, played with Solaris and MacOS, and so on.
Nowadays, people don't ask me my age. (Facial hair helps a LOT!) They don't question when I can honsetly says I have 15 years experience with computer systems. And here in Finland, when they do realise that I'm 25, they don't scoff, blink, or otherwise. That's more normal here than not.
But, what's really sad is the bunch of old guys here who question and slander because, well, I guess they're jealous too.
I'd like to point out that I really wanted to moderate today. But there are just too many fools who know lots about computers, less about society, and very little about the law posting mindless bits here.
Ever wonder why corporates and lawmakers look at open source like a bunch of freaks? Think about the guys who promote copyright infringment against corporations, and yet if Microsoft violates the GPL (a copyright infringement), they'd scream bloody murder.
Face it, we're all intellect workers here. I doubt many of us make a career out of building physical objects, or performing physical services. Most of use here either make or will make our careers of our using our minds. And we'd probably like to make money doing it so we can eat, stay warm, and buy more equipment.
The problem is that there are two camps. Those who say that all copying of software/music/etc costs money per copy. That's bullshit. The other camp says it doesn't hurt anybody. Well, tell that to the game companies who didn't make any money because you spent your $50 on blank CD-Rs instead of a single game.
The problem is that no one here thinks about who benefits and loses. People all over have become way too selfish. This counts the users, copiers, corps, etc. Look at the record companies! They want to control distribution of the music through their channels. But if I play the music enough online and get it to enough people, then the artist benefits because people go to the concerts, where t-shirt sales and such benefit the artist. However, what happens to the small record companies that DO promote their artists if they don't make money on the sales? Back when Windows 3.0/3.1 was making the warez scene, Microsoft was yet another competitor. Now they're a monopoly, in no small part thanks to those who wanted the software to be "free".
This isn't piracy. Piracy means we deprive people of what they have to trade. Maybe it's more of a conspiracy, since we all get toghether and affect companies in ways that in our own little world we don't see.
Let me just wrap up and say that your money votes and so do your actions. You can buy all the Linux software you want, but if you're still USING copies of the latest greatest Windows, you promote the monopoly. You may love a band to bits, but if you never contribute anything to them succeeding, you're a leech, not a fan. Why do the rules that we have in the IRC rooms and trading programs and such not apply when we interact with a world in which we can vote with ballots, purchases, and lobbying?
I get what the pundit is saying, but the idea of multiple desktops to do everything is awkward. Calling for that as a matter of usability is to fail to realise the general cluttered state most people leave their desktops.
Yeah, getting rid of the icon is probably a good idea. It is a "box" elsewhere and it's frustrating. Most of the newbies I see go through three stages:
Desktop - It all goes on the desktop until the desktop get's utterly cluttered.
Menus - Once they realise they can build menus, they build menu after menu after menu.
Directories - They realise that they don't need all that stuff all the time, and so, well, they learn to use directories and find it quick.
I don't know about you, but having a directory system I can bring up on my "desktop" that lets me jump through is great. It all depends on how you use the system. But face it, as people becoem power users, the directory structure will come back again and again. Most people can't wait for tech support and thus will always migrate away from the dummy device.
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I just moved back to Europe after living in the US. I have a laptop that plays region 1 DVDs, another that plays region 2. So, I've paid my friggin' licence to play DVDs for region 1 AND 2. So, if I decided to mod a PS2 so I can play both, that SHOULD be legal, since I've already paid my fees. (I'm not going to be using the laptop to play DVDs at the same time as the PS2.)
The other issue is that say I already owned PS2 games. Now should I sell all those and buy more? Or should I fight with power adapters, cable adapters, and getting an NTSC compatible TV to play the games? I know that if my brother comes to visit and I have a PS2, he'll bring his games along.
These limitations are clearly designed to keep us all from buying things out of market, but that's what customs regulations are for. Customs doesn't question me because I have rights to acquire items on both sides of the Atlantic and move things between households. However, if I came back to Finland with a large stack of US PS2 games, well, they might have some questions, and they definitely would start charging me duty if I ordered them via the post.
Of course, if Sony, etc., didn't have all this crap locked down on the systems, MOD chips wouldn't be as interesting for legit buyers like myself. Besides, now that they are on DVD, who wants to spend more money to burn titles than they cost to buy? (Of course, the same argument has gone for the DVD films as well.) Too bad you have to pretty much make the chips "play anything" to get around all the region locks.
If you know a place in the Nordics selling the chip, and especially in Finland if they can do the install for me, that's be great. Go ahead and e-mail me then.
First off, this shows how much we need to have some kind of open registry of certificates. I mean, does anyone really trust Verisign, especially now that they own NSI? I mean, talk about people willing to give up credibility in order to pursue monopoly.
Also, is there not a way in which we can set up some kind of distance authenticity verification? Or routing verification?
What if there was a service set up that allowed us to send out a request through an alternate random routing (for which we got back and traceroute list to verify) and set a codekey on the machine, and then when we connected to the machine, it would only connect if it had the codekey. Even if they spoofed the network connections and routing, then we wouldn't be able to connect, since we'd know that there was no codekey there. Granted, doesn't solve the problem, but it quickly says to me, time to get a new ISP who doesn't let the Feds run the whole deal.
Back before I realised anybody actually archived this stuff, man did I make a bunch of stupid posts.
Do a search for "Peter Buchy" and you'll find all kinds of weird shit.
The amusing part I think was in my high-flying "I'm an amazingly spiritual Christian out to save you" phase. Now I'm a far more sedate Christian, but still (as you'll note) a D&D player.
As much as I would Microsoft to up and go away, well, these ads are not going to kill IE. IE is just too easy to get, runs all the stuff people want, and it comes on their Windows boxes.
However, sites that use these features are likely to lose users. Yeah, they'll keep their techy users who use Mozilla, etc., but their joe-average users will disappear. (Why should I read Boston.com when I can read CNN.com and get none of those crappy ads?)
Case in point is that I almost never visit C|Net or ZDNet anymore. The ads are lousy. The content doesn't justify the annoyance. I use to read Builder.com all the time. Now I just visit Molly.com and see where her latest articles are.
Reality is that advertising is only tolerated as long as it's justified. I click on the ads on Slashdot because they're well targetted. I read BBC News because there are no ads. I used to watch Sci-Fi because there were fewer ads. If it really comes down to it, eventually I'll only visit government sites and my paid subscriptions because like many a business user, I don't have time to wait the 5 seconds on a page while checking to see if an article is worth reading.
Bleem! made three emulation packages for the Dreamcast. EB still has 'em (unlees an emergency recall was issued), and people still buy them. The emulator for Metal Gear Solid has to be the best one out there, and I know a LOT of people have come in to get both since MGS 2 was released.
Working at Electronics Boutique, I can tell you that at least on Friday, we were still selling Bleem! products.
However, looking at how few Dreamcast systems we're selling (we have two new ones left, and the rest are preowned), and how few new PS games are coming out, it really doesn't make sense. The only way to make money for them now would be to find a way for something like XBox to play PS2, PS, Gamecube, and Dreamcast games. But that would invoke serious ire.
Bleem! was a great idea, and made great products, but perhaps the strategy just reached the end of its lifecycle. I wish the guys the best in whatever new ventures they pursue.
Is any teaching courses in Europe? I wonder how much it would cost to get a training seminar set up for in Helsinki, Finland.
I think it'd be of a lot of use for people there, primarily because Linux seems to be the core system used, and there's a lack of familiarity with BSD (IMHO).
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This would be a great analogy if it was accurate, but it isn't. Nations cannot operate without infrastructure, but most terrorist organizations can. You're fighting a different animal, and the weapon that's most effective against one can be entirely ineffective against the other. Think of trying to use an elephant gun (good against elephants, naturally) to kill a swarm of bees, and you'll get the idea.
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Terrorist organisations generally tend to leech of the resources of nations and their infrastructures. That's what makes them hard to find. But then again, it's hard find a bee's nest. Once found, though, no point in using that elephant gun on the swarm. Elephant guns do wonders to bee hives.
As you said "It won't stop stuff from happening, but it will lessen it..", but shooting people when they jaywalk would lessen that too far.
The intent is not the problem, but the looseness of the wording is. That's like saying I can use "suitable force" to keep robbers away, but not specifying. Maybe I think land mines in my yard are suitable force. Without definition, we cannot determine right or wrong or draw the line for a logical argument.
People used to do this via telephone before. Unfortunately it is a standard part of being an educateor at a public school.
Once kids realised the joy of *69 or *53 to return calls or traced them, they tended to stop with the calls. As more students are nailed for doing stupid stuff with computers, then this too will slow.
One recommendation, like everything else. If you deal with lots of people, have a public account and a private account. That way when you want family e-mail, you don't have to dig through as much spam.
This a copy of what I sent to the Senate Judiciary Chairman.
Dear Senator Leahy,
I do hope, as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that you can get S.1252 "School Website Protection Act of 2001" stricken from even being taken to the floor of the Senate.
As you can see from the article in Wired (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45752,0 0.html), the wording of legislation uses the word "affects" rather than "damages". Simply sending an unsolicited e-mail to a teacher (as in teh teacher didn't request the e-mail) whether pertinent to school activities or not, could be considered a federal crime under this legislation. This is a draconian wording. This would also mean that if I, a private citizen, wondered why a school website was so slow and sent out a simple "ping" packet to determine the speed (ping being a common tool used by system administrators and maintainers of websites, which I am), getting the computer to send a response would be affecting the machine.
On the worst level, even sending a http request (a request to view a web page) would be potentially criminal under this legislation. There is no point in protecting a website if it is suddenly illegal to view it.
I subscribed to Anchordesk back before David Coursey took over. At that point it was a reasonable publication that had some neat tips and such.
David Coursey writes his Anchordesk stuff every day with lots of extremely pro-MS and dummied down PC tips. He thinks PCs only run Windows, so you can tell his grand intelligence. With the way he talks about it, I'd swear he used to be a Mac user (Mac vs. PC) who was then brainwashed by MS to talk about PCs.
Anyway, I don't generally have any problems with receiving viruses. My friends aren't that dumb. Most use webmail, Eudora, or Linux. I have Outlook because I've used it in an office situation, but I'm not really interested in the latest fake pic of Anna Kournikova or whatever.
Can we shoot idiots like David Coursey and his friends instead? Running a computer is NOT like taking an SAT (which isn't hard either).
It depends very highly on the type of game and the setting.
The online games do require some quick typing. I've noticed some people don't use the ultra-shortened convential typing, but use military acronyms and so on. I've also noted that on less fast-paced online games, people tend to write out full sentences more often and converse better.
When I used to play games all the time, I was drawn to more strategic games, and not always war-oriented games. My first good computer games was Balance of Power, in which I had to think strategically with no violence. As time went on, I got a number of simulators with very complicated strategy guides that taught me a lot about how to think critically.
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By reading your question, it sounds like you want to send out mail via your ISPs SMTP using an e-mail address for a webdomain not hosted by them. Any GOOD ISP will not let you do this.
You may wonder why. Well, if I can do this, then I can forge e-mail addresses and send out any kind of mail I want. That's a good way to get blacklisted.
Basically "port 25 friendly" is also known as "spam friendly".
What I would recommend is seeing if those sites where those domains are hosted allow SMTP services with password authentication. Some place do, and then you can send out mail from any ISP using those mail server.
My personal e-mail is not connected to my ISP. I have password authentication in place.
I just move every 8 to 12 months.
That more/less guarantees that they don't send me any cards, updates, announcements, etc.
Looking at the postings, I believe it's very simple.
Did you ever buy a system with Windows on it? Have you ever registered Windows or any software product from any company within the BSA?
Ok, now you're on their main list, but that's not the reason they contact you.... Continue on.
Has more than one new version of the software come out since the last time you registered? Has the last version you registered gone onto a non-supported software list?
If so, I believe now you'll be contacted. So, if you buy systems for business that come with Windows as an OEM and it's registered that you bought it, chances are, even as a Linux user, later on you'll get contacted asking why you haven't paid the licence fees for a new version.
I'll tell you one thing, though. For 99% of the people out there, this is invasion of privacy.
Simple response - don't EVER buy a software licence. Buy software that becomes yours, or pay for the distribution of software under a free licence.
Agreed!
When I first got my laptop I was blown away by how sharp everything was. I'm so used to using LCDs that I request laptops at work just to make sure that I get an LCD.
The real downside has been watching DVDs on it. So sharp I notice every glaring compression error.
I don't know about you guys, but Tom's is one of the prime places I check out for hardware reviews. I don't trust most print sites for the news, like ZDNet, as they easily sell out.
If Samsung thinks Tom's is just an online site, well, they've lost my business. And I really want an LCD. I HATE flicker.
You know, once upon a time, I was a big Microsoft fan. I liked how easy it was to do things, and how empowered I felt in running Windows. The other day I noticed (after a Google search) that Microsoft had a Content Management Server that was using .Net.
Over the past several years I've become very negative towards Microsoft, since my Windows constantly crashed, and they were clearly trying to shut out others.
About a week ago I thought to myself, well maybe there's just too my anti-Microsoft hype. Perhaps some of these e-mails being forwarded to The Register are just hoaxes.
But now today, ZDNet reveals Microsoft trying to disrupt things and act like a big bad monopoly. Now, ZDNet has kissed Microsoft's butt so often it isn't fun, and David Coursey who's now running Anchordesk is such a pro-Microsoft weenies I get sick. But there it is, on a ZDNet site (albeit the UK site, but still).
Guess the hype just ain't hype.
It's really funny to get these e-mails. They happy most when I'm looking for work, which is exactly the time when I will not be hiring another developer.
The fun part about spam is that spammers don't pay any attention to country domains, or even to check where an address is registered. For example, my address is registered in Finland, and so free cell phones from the US are useless.
Honestly speaking, I don't mind the occasional well-targeted mailing. Once upon a time I use to receive those through the mail. You know, when it's clear that I'm really, REALLY interested in something, and it's something I can buy and use? Then I don't mind.
But please tell me when as a U.S. Citizen living in Finland working as an Information Architect for a mobile services company I'm going to need free U.S. cell phones, a quick route to get a green card, or another intern from some thirld world nation studying at a U.S. university.
The sad reality is that all experience is not the same.
Growing up playing with computers and doing a little BASIC programming and then claiming years of experience as programmer would be joke.
However, if you've been doing C or C++, Java, or whatever as a kid, and doing more than scripts, that real experience.
Very few people would be able to ever claim 'engineering' time as a kid, but some of the best network architects and administrators I've met have been between 18 and 20 years old, having a lot of hands-on practical experience setting up their own network for games, LAN parties, and such. They have REAL experience with problems that aren't usually in the book.
Besides, most companies aren't looking for "computer experience", they're looking for experience in certain skills. Being 20 years old and claiming 5 years of networking experience because you've been in charge of your gaming groups online server and LAN party setups is NOT lying. It's being quite honest.
What's sad here is watching this community itself engaged in rampant discrimination.
I find it really sad how when I post my article now, I have to state my age (25), and how long I consider having experience (15 years), and my justification for it (not all experience is pure work).
I'm currently working as an Information Architect for a company designing mobile applications. Do my experiences with computers as a ten-year-old warez kiddie mean anything? Heck yeah! I grew up with no manuals or anything. Intuitive design was everything!
I was on a computer about 6-8 hours a day during the school year, and probably around 12-14 outside of school. I don't think I've spent as much time on a computer since. Not all of it was playing games or testing out applications, but tweaking systems to run faster, playing with protocols to transfer faster, and so on.
When I graduated high school at 17 (an option NO ONE posting considered so far), I knew more about how DOS and Windows worked than the guy at the PC store. I went to university, played with Solaris and MacOS, and so on.
Nowadays, people don't ask me my age. (Facial hair helps a LOT!) They don't question when I can honsetly says I have 15 years experience with computer systems. And here in Finland, when they do realise that I'm 25, they don't scoff, blink, or otherwise. That's more normal here than not.
But, what's really sad is the bunch of old guys here who question and slander because, well, I guess they're jealous too.
I'd like to point out that I really wanted to moderate today. But there are just too many fools who know lots about computers, less about society, and very little about the law posting mindless bits here.
Ever wonder why corporates and lawmakers look at open source like a bunch of freaks? Think about the guys who promote copyright infringment against corporations, and yet if Microsoft violates the GPL (a copyright infringement), they'd scream bloody murder.
Face it, we're all intellect workers here. I doubt many of us make a career out of building physical objects, or performing physical services. Most of use here either make or will make our careers of our using our minds. And we'd probably like to make money doing it so we can eat, stay warm, and buy more equipment.
The problem is that there are two camps. Those who say that all copying of software/music/etc costs money per copy. That's bullshit. The other camp says it doesn't hurt anybody. Well, tell that to the game companies who didn't make any money because you spent your $50 on blank CD-Rs instead of a single game.
The problem is that no one here thinks about who benefits and loses. People all over have become way too selfish. This counts the users, copiers, corps, etc. Look at the record companies! They want to control distribution of the music through their channels. But if I play the music enough online and get it to enough people, then the artist benefits because people go to the concerts, where t-shirt sales and such benefit the artist. However, what happens to the small record companies that DO promote their artists if they don't make money on the sales? Back when Windows 3.0/3.1 was making the warez scene, Microsoft was yet another competitor. Now they're a monopoly, in no small part thanks to those who wanted the software to be "free".
This isn't piracy. Piracy means we deprive people of what they have to trade. Maybe it's more of a conspiracy, since we all get toghether and affect companies in ways that in our own little world we don't see.
Let me just wrap up and say that your money votes and so do your actions. You can buy all the Linux software you want, but if you're still USING copies of the latest greatest Windows, you promote the monopoly. You may love a band to bits, but if you never contribute anything to them succeeding, you're a leech, not a fan. Why do the rules that we have in the IRC rooms and trading programs and such not apply when we interact with a world in which we can vote with ballots, purchases, and lobbying?
I get what the pundit is saying, but the idea of multiple desktops to do everything is awkward. Calling for that as a matter of usability is to fail to realise the general cluttered state most people leave their desktops.
Yeah, getting rid of the icon is probably a good idea. It is a "box" elsewhere and it's frustrating. Most of the newbies I see go through three stages:
I don't know about you, but having a directory system I can bring up on my "desktop" that lets me jump through is great. It all depends on how you use the system. But face it, as people becoem power users, the directory structure will come back again and again. Most people can't wait for tech support and thus will always migrate away from the dummy device.
I just moved back to Europe after living in the US. I have a laptop that plays region 1 DVDs, another that plays region 2. So, I've paid my friggin' licence to play DVDs for region 1 AND 2. So, if I decided to mod a PS2 so I can play both, that SHOULD be legal, since I've already paid my fees. (I'm not going to be using the laptop to play DVDs at the same time as the PS2.)
The other issue is that say I already owned PS2 games. Now should I sell all those and buy more? Or should I fight with power adapters, cable adapters, and getting an NTSC compatible TV to play the games? I know that if my brother comes to visit and I have a PS2, he'll bring his games along.
These limitations are clearly designed to keep us all from buying things out of market, but that's what customs regulations are for. Customs doesn't question me because I have rights to acquire items on both sides of the Atlantic and move things between households. However, if I came back to Finland with a large stack of US PS2 games, well, they might have some questions, and they definitely would start charging me duty if I ordered them via the post.
Of course, if Sony, etc., didn't have all this crap locked down on the systems, MOD chips wouldn't be as interesting for legit buyers like myself. Besides, now that they are on DVD, who wants to spend more money to burn titles than they cost to buy? (Of course, the same argument has gone for the DVD films as well.) Too bad you have to pretty much make the chips "play anything" to get around all the region locks.
If you know a place in the Nordics selling the chip, and especially in Finland if they can do the install for me, that's be great. Go ahead and e-mail me then.
First off, this shows how much we need to have some kind of open registry of certificates. I mean, does anyone really trust Verisign, especially now that they own NSI? I mean, talk about people willing to give up credibility in order to pursue monopoly.
Also, is there not a way in which we can set up some kind of distance authenticity verification? Or routing verification?
What if there was a service set up that allowed us to send out a request through an alternate random routing (for which we got back and traceroute list to verify) and set a codekey on the machine, and then when we connected to the machine, it would only connect if it had the codekey. Even if they spoofed the network connections and routing, then we wouldn't be able to connect, since we'd know that there was no codekey there. Granted, doesn't solve the problem, but it quickly says to me, time to get a new ISP who doesn't let the Feds run the whole deal.
Back before I realised anybody actually archived this stuff, man did I make a bunch of stupid posts.
Do a search for "Peter Buchy" and you'll find all kinds of weird shit.
The amusing part I think was in my high-flying "I'm an amazingly spiritual Christian out to save you" phase. Now I'm a far more sedate Christian, but still (as you'll note) a D&D player.
As much as I would Microsoft to up and go away, well, these ads are not going to kill IE. IE is just too easy to get, runs all the stuff people want, and it comes on their Windows boxes.
However, sites that use these features are likely to lose users. Yeah, they'll keep their techy users who use Mozilla, etc., but their joe-average users will disappear. (Why should I read Boston.com when I can read CNN.com and get none of those crappy ads?)
Case in point is that I almost never visit C|Net or ZDNet anymore. The ads are lousy. The content doesn't justify the annoyance. I use to read Builder.com all the time. Now I just visit Molly.com and see where her latest articles are.
Reality is that advertising is only tolerated as long as it's justified. I click on the ads on Slashdot because they're well targetted. I read BBC News because there are no ads. I used to watch Sci-Fi because there were fewer ads. If it really comes down to it, eventually I'll only visit government sites and my paid subscriptions because like many a business user, I don't have time to wait the 5 seconds on a page while checking to see if an article is worth reading.
Bleem! made three emulation packages for the Dreamcast. EB still has 'em (unlees an emergency recall was issued), and people still buy them. The emulator for Metal Gear Solid has to be the best one out there, and I know a LOT of people have come in to get both since MGS 2 was released.
Working at Electronics Boutique, I can tell you that at least on Friday, we were still selling Bleem! products.
However, looking at how few Dreamcast systems we're selling (we have two new ones left, and the rest are preowned), and how few new PS games are coming out, it really doesn't make sense. The only way to make money for them now would be to find a way for something like XBox to play PS2, PS, Gamecube, and Dreamcast games. But that would invoke serious ire.
Bleem! was a great idea, and made great products, but perhaps the strategy just reached the end of its lifecycle. I wish the guys the best in whatever new ventures they pursue.
Is any teaching courses in Europe? I wonder how much it would cost to get a training seminar set up for in Helsinki, Finland.
I think it'd be of a lot of use for people there, primarily because Linux seems to be the core system used, and there's a lack of familiarity with BSD (IMHO).
Ignore the fact that I'm planning on moving back.
Good point here:
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This would be a great analogy if it was accurate, but it isn't. Nations cannot operate without infrastructure, but most terrorist organizations can. You're fighting a different animal, and the weapon that's most effective against one can be entirely ineffective against the other. Think of trying to use an elephant gun (good against elephants, naturally) to kill a swarm of bees, and you'll get the idea.
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Terrorist organisations generally tend to leech of the resources of nations and their infrastructures. That's what makes them hard to find. But then again, it's hard find a bee's nest. Once found, though, no point in using that elephant gun on the swarm. Elephant guns do wonders to bee hives.
Because Leahy is the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and it's still in committee.
As you said "It won't stop stuff from happening, but it will lessen it..", but shooting people when they jaywalk would lessen that too far.
The intent is not the problem, but the looseness of the wording is. That's like saying I can use "suitable force" to keep robbers away, but not specifying. Maybe I think land mines in my yard are suitable force. Without definition, we cannot determine right or wrong or draw the line for a logical argument.
People used to do this via telephone before. Unfortunately it is a standard part of being an educateor at a public school.
Once kids realised the joy of *69 or *53 to return calls or traced them, they tended to stop with the calls. As more students are nailed for doing stupid stuff with computers, then this too will slow.
One recommendation, like everything else. If you deal with lots of people, have a public account and a private account. That way when you want family e-mail, you don't have to dig through as much spam.
This a copy of what I sent to the Senate Judiciary Chairman.
Dear Senator Leahy,
I do hope, as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that you can get S.1252 "School Website Protection Act of 2001" stricken from even being taken to the floor of the Senate.
As you can see from the article in Wired (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45752,0 0.html), the wording of legislation uses the word "affects" rather than "damages". Simply sending an unsolicited e-mail to a teacher (as in teh teacher didn't request the e-mail) whether pertinent to school activities or not, could be considered a federal crime under this legislation. This is a draconian wording. This would also mean that if I, a private citizen, wondered why a school website was so slow and sent out a simple "ping" packet to determine the speed (ping being a common tool used by system administrators and maintainers of websites, which I am), getting the computer to send a response would be affecting the machine.
On the worst level, even sending a http request (a request to view a web page) would be potentially criminal under this legislation. There is no point in protecting a website if it is suddenly illegal to view it.
Adding entries to weblogs also is affecting it.
I subscribed to Anchordesk back before David Coursey took over. At that point it was a reasonable publication that had some neat tips and such.
David Coursey writes his Anchordesk stuff every day with lots of extremely pro-MS and dummied down PC tips. He thinks PCs only run Windows, so you can tell his grand intelligence. With the way he talks about it, I'd swear he used to be a Mac user (Mac vs. PC) who was then brainwashed by MS to talk about PCs.
Anyway, I don't generally have any problems with receiving viruses. My friends aren't that dumb. Most use webmail, Eudora, or Linux. I have Outlook because I've used it in an office situation, but I'm not really interested in the latest fake pic of Anna Kournikova or whatever.
Can we shoot idiots like David Coursey and his friends instead? Running a computer is NOT like taking an SAT (which isn't hard either).
It depends very highly on the type of game and the setting.
The online games do require some quick typing. I've noticed some people don't use the ultra-shortened convential typing, but use military acronyms and so on. I've also noted that on less fast-paced online games, people tend to write out full sentences more often and converse better.
When I used to play games all the time, I was drawn to more strategic games, and not always war-oriented games. My first good computer games was Balance of Power, in which I had to think strategically with no violence. As time went on, I got a number of simulators with very complicated strategy guides that taught me a lot about how to think critically.