I was supposed to read it for my english class, unfortunately we had a small chimney fire that winter and lost everything in our den. I'll have to check it out.
Life's gonna suck more, once people start getting addicted to virtual reality- a digital escape that will take some portion of people with addictive personalities, and mess their lifes up quite nicely. "Hey Bobby, you sure seem depressed- why don't you slip this helmet on each and every night for the rest of your life right after you get home from work? Heck... that job's just slowing you down come to think. These little babies are solar powered anyways. Hey, just don't forget to unplug and eat every 12 hours, ok there kiddo?"
I doubt that in 2012 the average person will have that box in the corner of their living room that they call the computer. "The network will be the computer".:D I also doubt we will be using hard drives in the same sense as today. But that wont matter cause there's no typical computer to store it in anyways.
I wonder when the last remnants of slashdot will fade away... I could see it alive and kicking in 2012 to be honest with you. Not as it is, but at least in name and scope. I could see it being more elite and underground, too.
Anyone remember a PBS show that pretended to be a couple decades from now, reporting then current day events? I flipped in on the tail end of the show- one blurb had a couple who have never met, but got married in cyberspace, and she never wanted to meet him cause she was afraid that if she saw what he really looked like, she would be disgusted, and another blurb where a couple had a hacker controlling all of their appliances. I'm not asking if anyone else saw it so much as what were some of the other clips in that show?
Meh nah. Hey, I bet if you collected all the domains on all the real email addresses of all the people who have posted comments in this forum right here right now, that some very large number of those domains would have fake information... I know mine would (well, not that one. I've always figured that someone would pay someone else some good money to despamify slashdot email addys, given the IT nerds they are guarenteed to go to, so I dont use it here)
I would love to hear someone's guess on this as well. I'd guess... 8 minutes.
A google search didn't yield any results, so I guess no one has thought about this yet.
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But using PINE over an ssh connection IS interactive. I've used PINE since '97- I was a junior in high school working at the local ISP. Never looked at another client since. You can configure SSH to disallow passwords. The plain text-ness of PINE means I get to avoid sneaky formatting spams, avoiding lewd spam porn, and I never stop once to worry about viruses. I don't want for my mail to download. It's not a hack- an account is an account- whether you leave your system wide open or not is up to you. Heck, make their shell PINE- globally disallow subshells and all that mess- blah. Whatever..
I prefer the bipolar approach- on personal machines, run as admin||root. On work machines, always always the regular user, unless you need admin||root. Make sure you have much different passwords so that you think about what you're doing (personal passwords="meh", work passwords="50m3.0th3r-th1ng-2362hj", to force you to think on the work machines) Then after a few system screw ups from running as admin||root on your personal stuff, you train yourself enough to know when you're doing something risky or stupid, and that seems to be enough time to avoid regular disasters. Either that or just alias su='export PS1=#' and get on with your simple life.
I'll stop playing "big brother" with my mail server when the spammers stop DDOSing it! You say censorship, I say protection. Besides, we let our customers opt out of the global filter at the user level.
How does it feel knowing that you, amongst others, have helped to inspire four decades of technically minded people to apply themselves to bring some portion of reality to the fiction you have portrayed?
755? If they were able to execute my password file, they'd be in for a big surprise- my password file, when run as an sh script, will mail me their shadow file, add an account for me, mail me their IP, and then flood ping their gateway. Sure, I got a funny log in, but it's worth the 4 to 5 IPs I get a year of machines I hackback automatically.
Even though they're still downloading, you have to admit, with them not all uploading, their ISP doesnt so much view them as a field of hungry high speed servers, who all want a piece. Even if all an ISPs customers were leechers, and the ISP was able to handle it, by limiting their uploads to a very small amount, you have just saved half of your aggregate bandwidth.
As an ISP, I have to admit that doing this to avoid legal reasons is a good idea, although it's a band aid, lazy, and irresponsable. Sometimes you gotta do these things when you're understaffed and cant pay a legal department to do it the Right Way.
If you want a 512kbit connection all to yourself, you should be paying the same an ISP pays for 512k- roughly 650 to 800 dollars a month for the port charge and data hookup. ISPs make money by overselling their service. They dont have to sell to a person, and if a person breaks their model, they can stop selling them service. I was just gonna say life ain't fair, but... this is fair.
Suing someone else is more satisfying than anything else- how else can you cash in on a person's hard earned worth through their mistake, AND also to have someone in power say "You were the one who was right, not them!" You ever see an M5 tailgating a Corsica? Why not?:D
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Anyone remember Fahrenheit 451?
I was supposed to read it for my english class, unfortunately we had a small chimney fire that winter and lost everything in our den. I'll have to check it out.
Life's gonna suck more, once people start getting addicted to virtual reality- a digital escape that will take some portion of people with addictive personalities, and mess their lifes up quite nicely. "Hey Bobby, you sure seem depressed- why don't you slip this helmet on each and every night for the rest of your life right after you get home from work? Heck... that job's just slowing you down come to think. These little babies are solar powered anyways. Hey, just don't forget to unplug and eat every 12 hours, ok there kiddo?"
Nah, when they spoke to the computer, it was always much louder, and if they were alone in the room, always rhetorical.
I doubt that in 2012 the average person will have that box in the corner of their living room that they call the computer. "The network will be the computer". :D I also doubt we will be using hard drives in the same sense as today. But that wont matter cause there's no typical computer to store it in anyways.
I wonder when the last remnants of slashdot will fade away... I could see it alive and kicking in 2012 to be honest with you. Not as it is, but at least in name and scope. I could see it being more elite and underground, too.
Anyone remember a PBS show that pretended to be a couple decades from now, reporting then current day events? I flipped in on the tail end of the show- one blurb had a couple who have never met, but got married in cyberspace, and she never wanted to meet him cause she was afraid that if she saw what he really looked like, she would be disgusted, and another blurb where a couple had a hacker controlling all of their appliances. I'm not asking if anyone else saw it so much as what were some of the other clips in that show?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=46404&cid=4781 432
Meh nah. Hey, I bet if you collected all the domains on all the real email addresses of all the people who have posted comments in this forum right here right now, that some very large number of those domains would have fake information... I know mine would (well, not that one. I've always figured that someone would pay someone else some good money to despamify slashdot email addys, given the IT nerds they are guarenteed to go to, so I dont use it here)
"Humans of our time do not actually consume the products our country is most advertised in random spams, which is email we did not want."
:)
There. Now this will get archived in a few weeks, and will cancel out your worries. Move along
A limerick has 5 lines... drink less ale!
I would love to hear someone's guess on this as well. I'd guess... 8 minutes.
A google search didn't yield any results, so I guess no one has thought about this yet.
But using PINE over an ssh connection IS interactive. I've used PINE since '97- I was a junior in high school working at the local ISP. Never looked at another client since. You can configure SSH to disallow passwords. The plain text-ness of PINE means I get to avoid sneaky formatting spams, avoiding lewd spam porn, and I never stop once to worry about viruses. I don't want for my mail to download. It's not a hack- an account is an account- whether you leave your system wide open or not is up to you. Heck, make their shell PINE- globally disallow subshells and all that mess- blah. Whatever..
here's my favorite
>/dev/hda1
I prefer the bipolar approach- on personal machines, run as admin||root. On work machines, always always the regular user, unless you need admin||root. Make sure you have much different passwords so that you think about what you're doing (personal passwords="meh", work passwords="50m3.0th3r-th1ng-2362hj", to force you to think on the work machines) Then after a few system screw ups from running as admin||root on your personal stuff, you train yourself enough to know when you're doing something risky or stupid, and that seems to be enough time to avoid regular disasters. Either that or just alias su='export PS1=#' and get on with your simple life.
how many subscribers there are to slashdot?
I'll stop playing "big brother" with my mail server when the spammers stop DDOSing it! You say censorship, I say protection. Besides, we let our customers opt out of the global filter at the user level.
How does it feel knowing that you, amongst others, have helped to inspire four decades of technically minded people to apply themselves to bring some portion of reality to the fiction you have portrayed?
That will never happen.
A company will never make me angry enough to get out of this chair. They will spend billions of dollars to make me stay in this chair.
If they blocked a website and diverted me to a similar one for a small fee, I WILL get out of this chair.
And they would quiver at the thought of that.
755? If they were able to execute my password file, they'd be in for a big surprise- my password file, when run as an sh script, will mail me their shadow file, add an account for me, mail me their IP, and then flood ping their gateway. Sure, I got a funny log in, but it's worth the 4 to 5 IPs I get a year of machines I hackback automatically.
s/Coward//g
Now where do we find the world's densest admin to run it?
Your version of amazing is my version of lazy-admin syndrome. :D
I just read in the article about the satelites and assumed there would be an EM burst.
*blink*
Even though they're still downloading, you have to admit, with them not all uploading, their ISP doesnt so much view them as a field of hungry high speed servers, who all want a piece. Even if all an ISPs customers were leechers, and the ISP was able to handle it, by limiting their uploads to a very small amount, you have just saved half of your aggregate bandwidth.
As an ISP, I have to admit that doing this to avoid legal reasons is a good idea, although it's a band aid, lazy, and irresponsable. Sometimes you gotta do these things when you're understaffed and cant pay a legal department to do it the Right Way.
If you want a 512kbit connection all to yourself, you should be paying the same an ISP pays for 512k- roughly 650 to 800 dollars a month for the port charge and data hookup. ISPs make money by overselling their service. They dont have to sell to a person, and if a person breaks their model, they can stop selling them service. I was just gonna say life ain't fair, but... this is fair.
Suing someone else is more satisfying than anything else- how else can you cash in on a person's hard earned worth through their mistake, AND also to have someone in power say "You were the one who was right, not them!" You ever see an M5 tailgating a Corsica? Why not? :D