It would be more fun to self-destruct the OS directory, leaving in its place a text file explaining the the original problem, and the methods that were taken to correct the problem.
At those rates, for a comfortable living, I could either work 2 weeks out of the year, or work year round and go into full retirement after about 3 years.
The thing that I would really like to know is where all the idiots that buy from spam are. I could easily sell off a few of my surplus bridges and retire.
Actually, I do run some client-side validation, backed up by server-side validation afterwards. For a shopping cart, it can be useful to validate that a CC number wasn't entered incorrectly (CC Check Digit) or isn't expired. I tried doing this server-side only, but too many people would miss the error message on the screen, and just move on to whatever else they wanted to do. The javascript pop-up that appears when they enter an invalid CC number gets their attention, and they re-enter the card number. This little feature saves merchant transaction charges for an incorrect card number, as well as time calling the customer to get the correct card number.
Why do you need to plug in a USB drive? Are you trying to steal data? Are you trying to load a trojan onto the system? Are you trying to load pirated software so you can then call the BSA? Are you trying to load up MP3's and P2P software so that the RIAA will send nasty grams?
If you really think that the IT department is going to let you anywhere close to their servers without having you drug off by security, you need to seek professional help.
Welcome to the 21st century, where everyone is either litigation crazy, seriously covering their asses to keep them from being sued off, or just plain stupid.
I do hope that you just forgot to include the proper <sarcasm/> tags
I do so enjoy reading through threads such as this one. It reminds me of why I switched away from M$ in the first place. M$ free for 7 years and not turning back.
<sarcasm>
Why yes, I regularly go down to Circuit City and just do an impulse buy on whatever HDTV that they have for sale. This could be very helpful, I might learn that Best Buy has it for less. This will make those big ticket impulse buys so much better. After all, there is no way that I could have done price checking on the internet before leaving the house since I never know when I'm going to be carting a new TV home.
</sarcasm>
Personally, I am running bind. My ISP's DNS servers were rather slow to respond.
With most linux distros, all you have to do is install it with your package manager, and then set your machine to use itself, rather than the ISP, as the DNS server. The default configuration that gets installed will generally query the root servers. You will need to check your distros documentation just in case.
For M$ users, DNS server packages, (including bind), are available. I don't have experience with them, as I dumped M$ shortly after XP was released.
Google Search ISC Bind
There is more than enough documentation on how to set-up and run DNS servers available on the net, it is pointless to do that here.
The biggest thing that I don't understand is why people who write such articles don't mention that there are solutions available. It would have simply been a 2 or 3 sentence paragraph in TFA to give links to a way around the censoring. TFAs that were linked to didn't even point out that it was DNS filtering, the link in my original post came from one of TFAs.
Yes, very true, big profitable companies would never shut down their DRM server. It's not like MSN Music, or some of the other big boys will ever go away.
The ISPs don't have a monopoly on usenet servers. A quick google search will show you that. None of the big boys that have quit running their own Usenet are blocking access to outside providers, they just quit providing their own. Good way for them to save some money, and put on a pretty "think of the children" face for the lusers that don't know the full extent of Usenet, but only the NY State AG's blurb about it having some kiddy pr0n. There are SSL encrypted Usenet servers.
But it worked in their six months of road testing. Just because they failed to mention that they drove a bit slower, and did less stop and go city driving doesn't mean anything.
Personally, I think that they are just shooting themselves in the foot. They obviously refuse to learn from their own history.
First, they went after Napster, and were successful in getting that shut-down. And the people moved over on, to bigger, better, faster P2P software.
Now they are trying to chase down all the "bigger, better, faster" P2P softwares. They want to make them a thing of the past. They neglect the fact that every time they try to combat the "problem", people find ways around it.
Doesn't matter what little victory they get, be it filtering, packet inspection, P2P software becoming illegal, they will always loose the following battle. People will find a way around.
With everyone so accustomed to digital piracy, the more they try to stomp it down, the more it goes into the shadows.
This is something that the people want, and will have. The more they push, the more people look for better options. Eventually, they will begin to push the "Joe Six-Pack" file sharers into discovering what Usenet is. With.nzb files, and todays newsreaders, anyone can figure it out once they find out about it. Imagine the fun that big media will have when they try to figure out how to track down what people were getting from that encrypted Usenet server, sitting in some corner of the world where the laws they try to use are laughed at.
I got a friend of mine away from BitTorrent, all it took was downloading something in 1/20th the amount of time that BT would have taken. That and not hogging up all the bandwidth by seeding afterwards was bonus.
2 minute clip, 2 hour movie. If I didn't know what the movie was about, and didn't like the preview, I'd be awful pissed at wasting the bandwidth to DL the whole thing. I'd probably go the extra yard though, wasting a lot more bandwidth, and torrent the thing just for spite.
The people who would want to import this kind of data are the same people that would prefer to analyze things for themselves, rather than rely on someone else's biased interpretation.
I think that when someone searches for "jones day law firm", the first result should be "This Link Removed Due to Potential Trademark Infringement", and the rest pointing to websites with negative views of the firm.
I don't believe in all this everyone's good at everything nonsense any more than you do, and if they started passing kids who didn't deserve it, I'd be as pissed as you are.
Permian High School, out in Odessa Texas, I went there for part of a semester. It IS one of those schools that will pass kids that don't deserve it, unless you count being a stupid fucking jock as deserving the world handed to you on a silver platter so long as you can make touchdowns. I guess that I have a really nasty bias on this issue because of living with shit like that.
You know "Friday Night Lights", both the book, and the TV show. They are based on that worthless shit hole of a school, but they don't go near into the depth of outrageousness of what the school has actually done. Yes, I think it is outrageous to charter a 737 passenger jet to send the football players to the state playoffs. Band, cheerleaders, everyone else got to ride the bus.
But percentage wise, 10.5% of your revenue going into the purchase of the product you sell is a small number, especially if you take into account the fact that you have no product overhead and no worries of shrinkage. Most restaurants will operate with their food costs being 25~30% of their menu prices. The restaurant still has to prepare the food and has to constantly worry about shrinkage.
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It would be more fun to self-destruct the OS directory, leaving in its place a text file explaining the the original problem, and the methods that were taken to correct the problem.
At those rates, for a comfortable living, I could either work 2 weeks out of the year, or work year round and go into full retirement after about 3 years.
The thing that I would really like to know is where all the idiots that buy from spam are. I could easily sell off a few of my surplus bridges and retire.
Actually, I do run some client-side validation, backed up by server-side validation afterwards. For a shopping cart, it can be useful to validate that a CC number wasn't entered incorrectly (CC Check Digit) or isn't expired. I tried doing this server-side only, but too many people would miss the error message on the screen, and just move on to whatever else they wanted to do. The javascript pop-up that appears when they enter an invalid CC number gets their attention, and they re-enter the card number. This little feature saves merchant transaction charges for an incorrect card number, as well as time calling the customer to get the correct card number.
Why do you need to plug in a USB drive? Are you trying to steal data? Are you trying to load a trojan onto the system? Are you trying to load pirated software so you can then call the BSA? Are you trying to load up MP3's and P2P software so that the RIAA will send nasty grams?
If you really think that the IT department is going to let you anywhere close to their servers without having you drug off by security, you need to seek professional help.
Welcome to the 21st century, where everyone is either litigation crazy, seriously covering their asses to keep them from being sued off, or just plain stupid.
I do hope that you just forgot to include the proper <sarcasm /> tags
I do so enjoy reading through threads such as this one. It reminds me of why I switched away from M$ in the first place. M$ free for 7 years and not turning back.
With my cats.
I guess this AC has never had a stalker. Yes, they do actually exist, I've had a couple myself. Trust me, it's more than a little uncomfortable.
Judging from some of the entries, the bogus data would have been more useful.
is whether the BSOD is coming from my machine, or one of the others in the "cloud"?
Damn It Man!!! Why did you have to give them that idea now?
<sarcasm>
Why yes, I regularly go down to Circuit City and just do an impulse buy on whatever HDTV that they have for sale. This could be very helpful, I might learn that Best Buy has it for less. This will make those big ticket impulse buys so much better. After all, there is no way that I could have done price checking on the internet before leaving the house since I never know when I'm going to be carting a new TV home.
</sarcasm>
Personally, I am running bind. My ISP's DNS servers were rather slow to respond.
With most linux distros, all you have to do is install it with your package manager, and then set your machine to use itself, rather than the ISP, as the DNS server. The default configuration that gets installed will generally query the root servers. You will need to check your distros documentation just in case.
Bind packages can also be found for DD-WRT. I don't run them, so I cant say how well they work.
DD-WRT Bind DNS-slave server
http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/others/packages
For M$ users, DNS server packages, (including bind), are available. I don't have experience with them, as I dumped M$ shortly after XP was released.
Google Search
ISC Bind
There is more than enough documentation on how to set-up and run DNS servers available on the net, it is pointless to do that here.
The biggest thing that I don't understand is why people who write such articles don't mention that there are solutions available. It would have simply been a 2 or 3 sentence paragraph in TFA to give links to a way around the censoring. TFAs that were linked to didn't even point out that it was DNS filtering, the link in my original post came from one of TFAs.
Effi: Finnish police censors a critic of censorship
This shows that they are using DNS based filtering. Very easy to get around, run your own DNS servers and bypass your ISP's DNS servers alltogether.
The DRM services will be just as liable as soon as the DRM'd media starts causing peoples computers and MP3 players to catch fire.
Yes, very true, big profitable companies would never shut down their DRM server. It's not like MSN Music, or some of the other big boys will ever go away.
The ISPs don't have a monopoly on usenet servers. A quick google search will show you that. None of the big boys that have quit running their own Usenet are blocking access to outside providers, they just quit providing their own. Good way for them to save some money, and put on a pretty "think of the children" face for the lusers that don't know the full extent of Usenet, but only the NY State AG's blurb about it having some kiddy pr0n. There are SSL encrypted Usenet servers.
But it worked in their six months of road testing. Just because they failed to mention that they drove a bit slower, and did less stop and go city driving doesn't mean anything.
Personally, I think that they are just shooting themselves in the foot. They obviously refuse to learn from their own history.
First, they went after Napster, and were successful in getting that shut-down. And the people moved over on, to bigger, better, faster P2P software.
Now they are trying to chase down all the "bigger, better, faster" P2P softwares. They want to make them a thing of the past. They neglect the fact that every time they try to combat the "problem", people find ways around it.
Doesn't matter what little victory they get, be it filtering, packet inspection, P2P software becoming illegal, they will always loose the following battle. People will find a way around.
With everyone so accustomed to digital piracy, the more they try to stomp it down, the more it goes into the shadows.
This is something that the people want, and will have. The more they push, the more people look for better options. Eventually, they will begin to push the "Joe Six-Pack" file sharers into discovering what Usenet is. With .nzb files, and todays newsreaders, anyone can figure it out once they find out about it. Imagine the fun that big media will have when they try to figure out how to track down what people were getting from that encrypted Usenet server, sitting in some corner of the world where the laws they try to use are laughed at.
I got a friend of mine away from BitTorrent, all it took was downloading something in 1/20th the amount of time that BT would have taken. That and not hogging up all the bandwidth by seeding afterwards was bonus.
Good luck getting your letter past the shredding machine in the mail room, or your phone call back to the states from the call center in India.
2 minute clip, 2 hour movie. If I didn't know what the movie was about, and didn't like the preview, I'd be awful pissed at wasting the bandwidth to DL the whole thing. I'd probably go the extra yard though, wasting a lot more bandwidth, and torrent the thing just for spite.
The people who would want to import this kind of data are the same people that would prefer to analyze things for themselves, rather than rely on someone else's biased interpretation.
I think that when someone searches for "jones day law firm", the first result should be "This Link Removed Due to Potential Trademark Infringement", and the rest pointing to websites with negative views of the firm.
I don't believe in all this everyone's good at everything nonsense any more than you do, and if they started passing kids who didn't deserve it, I'd be as pissed as you are.
Permian High School, out in Odessa Texas, I went there for part of a semester. It IS one of those schools that will pass kids that don't deserve it, unless you count being a stupid fucking jock as deserving the world handed to you on a silver platter so long as you can make touchdowns. I guess that I have a really nasty bias on this issue because of living with shit like that.
You know "Friday Night Lights", both the book, and the TV show. They are based on that worthless shit hole of a school, but they don't go near into the depth of outrageousness of what the school has actually done. Yes, I think it is outrageous to charter a 737 passenger jet to send the football players to the state playoffs. Band, cheerleaders, everyone else got to ride the bus.
Aside from giving closer to real numbers than 10cents transaction cost, nothing.
But percentage wise, 10.5% of your revenue going into the purchase of the product you sell is a small number, especially if you take into account the fact that you have no product overhead and no worries of shrinkage. Most restaurants will operate with their food costs being 25~30% of their menu prices. The restaurant still has to prepare the food and has to constantly worry about shrinkage.