Just today I visited a web site with the hackable SSL (Checked with netcraft), and several places that should have been SSL that were just plain normal unencrypted pages.
Did I e-mail the web master about this? Not just no, but HELL NO!
At best, they would ignore the advice, and at worst, I could have a "friendly" visit from the FBI to explain my "hacking" activities in relation to this bank site. No thank you! I won't open an account there now because (without going any deeper than what my web browser shows when I visit the site) their security is a joke.
At least I won't have anything to explain to the FBI.
Well, it was an interesting, well-written, provocative and intelligent show on Fox; is anyone therefore surprised that they're doing away with it?
Not particularly surprised, no. Imagine that you have a product to sell. Now, do you want to sell to thoughtful, intelligent, and insightful people (that can see through hype, false analogies, and while they may ogle the cheese/beef cake, won't let it influence buying decisions), or do you want to sell to a drooling Cro-Magnon that doesn't have the IQ to pour p*ss out of a boot, and will buy anything you put a sexy model in the ad? It is sad, but Galliger's remark about the brightness knob is true*.
Television execs are anything but stupid. They know where the bread is buttered.
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*"They ought to have a knob to turn up the intelligence of Television. It's got a knob called brightness, but it don't work!"
they did not... they seem to go for bottom barrel regarding techs
I know at some places I've worked, the question is "Well, if they're that good, then they wouldn't settle for our wage. They'll just leave when a better paying job rolls around. Better to hire someone that will stay."
do you think the answer to having an massive and unreliable network is to build a second identical network?"
Obviously, if something fails due to design, then duplicating the design duplicates the problem. While this can be a useful troubleshooting tool, it makes somewhat less sense for production enviroments.
I would be willing to guess that the network was one giant collision domain, and that the trouble springs from that. But it is just a guess.
So you'd be ok with the FBI trashing your house for a little matter of not paying your power bill?
The crime committed here is simple theft of services. Never mind the fancy dancy legal jargon, it's a smoke screen.(IANAL)
Why does it have to be gun totin', badge weilding, cuff-em-and-stuff-em action? Do these people strike you as the dangerous type? Must they be subdued under threat of their life? Why?
I sleep in blissful peace because of this product: Connected Online Backup
So you are comfortable with your backups residing with a dot com company. While farming out things can be nice for garbage and other waste removal, I don't think I'd be happy with someone else doing my backups. But then, I'm hypercritical and paranoid. Some of the technical people I respect have taken this view, but I'm too old fashioned to like it much.
Tempatures in fire proof safes will rise enough to destroy media. Unless the safe is rates MEDIA fireproof (or some such, I foget) it won't be enough to have usable backups after a fire.
A good alternitave is to put your backups in a safe in the back yard.
How likely is it that the spammers get gobs of bandwidth and turn around and relay off of verio's mail servers?
Not likely at all. The message being sent here is when a Verio exec tries to e-mail his mother, and gets his e-mail bounced. This shows the exec that being on a block list is, perhaps, not the best idea in the whole wide world. Then, if legitimate users are using Verio's corporate relays, their mail gets blocked.
Yes, I am currently blocking all VERIO netblocks. Every last one of 'em. On over 22,000 mail boxes.
Those that really need to contact us can use a Yahoo account. At least until Yahoo decides they really don't want to provide e-mail services to Verio's customer base. Nudge. Nudge.
Walk into a cube farm with 150 other people. What a great way to meet your cube neighbor from across the building...
Or classrooms. Wow. No more cramming. Just switch over the the class Poindexter and get the right answer.
Oh, wait! I know! Let's use these at the office of father^h^h^h^h^h^h homeland security! Now theres no way to trace who's looking up your data for personal gain!
but I think what people fail to realize is that for many businesses, less people is *just fine*, if those people are paying.
I once fired 7 customers... and my billable hours went up 35%. Now I was doing about the same amount of work, but was getting 1/3 more money.
Some customers are too expensive to keep if they keep getting a free ride. The 7 in question here kept turning in call backs on things outside the scope of work, and demanding that these items be "fixed" before they would pay for the previous work. Since it's my policy not to bill for work the customer doesn't accept, it was getting too expenseive to let these keep sucking on the tit. So it was Bubh bye for them.
One kept calling back, wanting more work done, and I finally told him that I felt that my competitor could better serve their needs. "But they won't come out to us anymore!" they said. "I won't anymore myself", I said.
What prompted me to do this was the 'armor plate your email address' feature in my user settings here on Slashdot. It made me curious if having my e-mail address viewable in the comments I make would mean I'd recieve lots of Spam. My curiosity is satisfied: You can get a good deal of SPAM if you don't use the 'armor plating'.
Even if you do use "armor plate", you still get spammed. My e-mail as above is getting spammed, and the only place it's ever used is on slashdot. Spammers are not stupid, they are lazy. When circumstances require, they take a smart pill and gain the required +IQ to complete their mission; spamming your box.
And yes, the IP blocks under my control all refuse e-mail from APNIC and RIPE. Deal. We are local and don't do business with folks overseas. You need to talk to us, you can get a Yahoo account.
Cool. So did you give a like amount to EFF or whatever? I've no problem with someone wanting to see a good flic, just giving money to RIAA and MPAA to beat us up with, then not giving a like amount (or a precentage!) to EFF (or someone).
When are we going to stop giving money to RIAA and MPAA? I can tell you when I'm going to start boycotting them.... I've been at it for almost 2 years now. I haven't seen Spider Man, didn't buy the new CD from that band, didn't check out that Pay Per View move, or any thing like that. I buy my books from Baen, off of their webscription site, because the authors get double the money than from paperback sales.
I trade a lot with friends. I buy a movie, when I do, second hand from a second hand store (Hollywood doesn't get their cut that way.)
I've given to causes that are willing to fight RIAA and MPAA.
So, what have YOU done? Obviously quite a few of you went to see Spider Man.
I worked for AmTote for a number of years, so herefor I know of which I speak.
It's common practice to transfer the matrix of a pick 6 after the 5th race is official. The is because of the size of the matrix otherwise.
My question is "where was the state supervisor during this?"
I'll refrain from saying more here, but beleive me, there is a whole lot more to this story than's been said, and a lot of things that will tell the tale if anyone looks.
I can tell you that during my time with AmTote, the tote operator couldn't change bets at all, only place a bet (just like everyone else did, at a ticket machine), or he could cancel them. And big muddy footprints all over when he did. I don't know that this is still the case, but I would think so.
In all honesty, I have an axe to grid with AutoTote, because of something one of their operators did to me during a race. Doesn't matter now, I guess.
Oh god. Just when I thought we were getting rid of apple talk crap. And before you mod this down as a troll, (which it ain't) show me a large network where you did apple talk, punk. Small networks don't count. It has to be large, as in over 50 routers. THEN you can mod it down.
Ah, but is that bandwidth your property? Is bandwidth even considered property from a legal standpoint? You may call it property all you want but until you can formulate a legal argument and prove it in a court of law then your words mean absolutely nothing.
IANAL
If you buy, rent, lease, or contract for a service, it's chattel. If it's chattel, it's property.
If you rent a car from Avis, and while you are parked in the parking lot for Home Depot, and I put a lock on your car so you can't drive it, then I'm commiting a tortious interfearance with your contract with Avis, and depriving you of the use of something you paid for.
Even if I unlock it before you come out, it's actionable, because you MIGHT use it and you paid for it.
If I put a govenor on your rental car to keep you from going over 25 MPH, still a problem. I'm keeping you from using your rental car the way you leased it.
When you "buy" internet access, you are buying a service from someone. If I send you spam, you can't use that bandwidth while I'm sending. When I send you spam, it takes space in your mail box, depriving you of the use of that space. When you download your mail, I'm using space on your system to store spam, space you can't use for anything else until it's deleted.
As you can see, every phase of sending spam once it hits your ISP is depriving you of something you paid to use, never agreed to let me use, and is stolen every time I send you spam.
I've seen spammers try to use this arguement, and they get shot down pretty quickly.
What will a total restore look like under DRM? (EG: Now, just re-install everything. Under DRM, will software have to be re-authorized for the new install?)
What will a hardware migration look like? (Now, just re-load software, restore data. Under DRM, how will that affect data?)
What happens if a software vender requiring authorization after a reload goes out of business? How can the software be brought back into use without authorization keys?
When current applications go end of life, how will data from those old applications be accessed in archival mode? (Think IRS audit six years from today, and you are using, say, Quick Books.)
How will all this be affected with XP goes End of Life?
They looked at the open and flexible system of e-mail that gave birth to much of the Net and decided that this system created too much freedom--at least for spammers.
Block lists don't take any freedom from spammers. It never prevents them from sending all the e-mail they want. It's just that when it hits a server of someone that doesn't want to hear their speach, the "mute" button gets hit.
Why spammers think that keeping their message out of my inbox is restricting freedom of speech, I'll never understand. Are they not my eyes, are they not my ears? Can I not decide what I'll use my time to read, to hear, to think about? So what if it's the greatest thing since round wheels. If I choose to close my mind to it, trying to sell me the goose that lays golden eggs isn't going to overcome my "buyers resistance".
Not only are spammers stupid, they are persistantly stupid. In the Darwinan game of the Internet, they rank below the Doo-doo of the Do Do.
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You could be one of the thousands at SBC that were laid off... just after SBC announced record profits.
Or you could be a cube warior at Gateway, 5 days unpaid leave. Or one of the folks at AOHell that's getting a nice pink card for Xmas.
Sure, it sucks you aren't getting a bonus. Think of continued employment as a bonus. Yes. That helps.
I hate to be treated like just another sales op. I'm human, not a sale, nor a target, nor willing to have loud mouthed a** holes push junk on me.
Great example: Today Blue Cross/Blue Shield sent an ad for their product to my mother-in-law. She's been dead almost 10 years.
Not only do "targeted" adverts turn me off, they are factually incorrect much of the time.
Did I e-mail the web master about this? Not just no, but HELL NO!
At best, they would ignore the advice, and at worst, I could have a "friendly" visit from the FBI to explain my "hacking" activities in relation to this bank site. No thank you! I won't open an account there now because (without going any deeper than what my web browser shows when I visit the site) their security is a joke.
At least I won't have anything to explain to the FBI.
Not particularly surprised, no. Imagine that you have a product to sell. Now, do you want to sell to thoughtful, intelligent, and insightful people (that can see through hype, false analogies, and while they may ogle the cheese/beef cake, won't let it influence buying decisions), or do you want to sell to a drooling Cro-Magnon that doesn't have the IQ to pour p*ss out of a boot, and will buy anything you put a sexy model in the ad? It is sad, but Galliger's remark about the brightness knob is true*.
Television execs are anything but stupid. They know where the bread is buttered.
--=--
*"They ought to have a knob to turn up the intelligence of Television. It's got a knob called brightness, but it don't work!"
I know at some places I've worked, the question is "Well, if they're that good, then they wouldn't settle for our wage. They'll just leave when a better paying job rolls around. Better to hire someone that will stay."
Obviously, if something fails due to design, then duplicating the design duplicates the problem. While this can be a useful troubleshooting tool, it makes somewhat less sense for production enviroments.
I would be willing to guess that the network was one giant collision domain, and that the trouble springs from that. But it is just a guess.
So you'd be ok with the FBI trashing your house for a little matter of not paying your power bill?
The crime committed here is simple theft of services. Never mind the fancy dancy legal jargon, it's a smoke screen.(IANAL)
Why does it have to be gun totin', badge weilding, cuff-em-and-stuff-em action? Do these people strike you as the dangerous type? Must they be subdued under threat of their life? Why?
So you are comfortable with your backups residing with a dot com company. While farming out things can be nice for garbage and other waste removal, I don't think I'd be happy with someone else doing my backups. But then, I'm hypercritical and paranoid. Some of the technical people I respect have taken this view, but I'm too old fashioned to like it much.
A good alternitave is to put your backups in a safe in the back yard.
Not likely at all. The message being sent here is when a Verio exec tries to e-mail his mother, and gets his e-mail bounced. This shows the exec that being on a block list is, perhaps, not the best idea in the whole wide world. Then, if legitimate users are using Verio's corporate relays, their mail gets blocked.
Yes, I am currently blocking all VERIO netblocks. Every last one of 'em. On over 22,000 mail boxes. Those that really need to contact us can use a Yahoo account. At least until Yahoo decides they really don't want to provide e-mail services to Verio's customer base. Nudge. Nudge.
Or classrooms. Wow. No more cramming. Just switch over the the class Poindexter and get the right answer.
Oh, wait! I know! Let's use these at the office of father^h^h^h^h^h^h homeland security! Now theres no way to trace who's looking up your data for personal gain!
No, I'm not bitter.
I once fired 7 customers... and my billable hours went up 35%. Now I was doing about the same amount of work, but was getting 1/3 more money.
Some customers are too expensive to keep if they keep getting a free ride. The 7 in question here kept turning in call backs on things outside the scope of work, and demanding that these items be "fixed" before they would pay for the previous work. Since it's my policy not to bill for work the customer doesn't accept, it was getting too expenseive to let these keep sucking on the tit. So it was Bubh bye for them.
One kept calling back, wanting more work done, and I finally told him that I felt that my competitor could better serve their needs. "But they won't come out to us anymore!" they said. "I won't anymore myself", I said.
Even if you do use "armor plate", you still get spammed. My e-mail as above is getting spammed, and the only place it's ever used is on slashdot. Spammers are not stupid, they are lazy. When circumstances require, they take a smart pill and gain the required +IQ to complete their mission; spamming your box.
And yes, the IP blocks under my control all refuse e-mail from APNIC and RIPE. Deal. We are local and don't do business with folks overseas. You need to talk to us, you can get a Yahoo account.
Cool. So did you give a like amount to EFF or whatever? I've no problem with someone wanting to see a good flic, just giving money to RIAA and MPAA to beat us up with, then not giving a like amount (or a precentage!) to EFF (or someone).
I trade a lot with friends. I buy a movie, when I do, second hand from a second hand store (Hollywood doesn't get their cut that way.) I've given to causes that are willing to fight RIAA and MPAA.
So, what have YOU done? Obviously quite a few of you went to see Spider Man.
Laugh. It's funny.
Too bad I can't get this kind of service when someone steals my lawn mower.
It's common practice to transfer the matrix of a pick 6 after the 5th race is official. The is because of the size of the matrix otherwise.
My question is "where was the state supervisor during this?"
I'll refrain from saying more here, but beleive me, there is a whole lot more to this story than's been said, and a lot of things that will tell the tale if anyone looks.
I can tell you that during my time with AmTote, the tote operator couldn't change bets at all, only place a bet (just like everyone else did, at a ticket machine), or he could cancel them. And big muddy footprints all over when he did. I don't know that this is still the case, but I would think so.
In all honesty, I have an axe to grid with AutoTote, because of something one of their operators did to me during a race. Doesn't matter now, I guess.
sigh
That sucks.
You young whippersnappers! Impressed with any new geegaw. We had Butler in a box in my day, and it was good enough for me!
Seriously, this isn't new, guys and gals. I rememer Butler in a Box from waaaaaaay back.
So bluelight was using MS products for it's ISP? Guess we know why it's bankrupt (cheap M$ shot).
Oh god. Just when I thought we were getting rid of apple talk crap. And before you mod this down as a troll, (which it ain't) show me a large network where you did apple talk, punk. Small networks don't count. It has to be large, as in over 50 routers. THEN you can mod it down.
IANAL
If you buy, rent, lease, or contract for a service, it's chattel. If it's chattel, it's property.
If you rent a car from Avis, and while you are parked in the parking lot for Home Depot, and I put a lock on your car so you can't drive it, then I'm commiting a tortious interfearance with your contract with Avis, and depriving you of the use of something you paid for.
Even if I unlock it before you come out, it's actionable, because you MIGHT use it and you paid for it.
If I put a govenor on your rental car to keep you from going over 25 MPH, still a problem. I'm keeping you from using your rental car the way you leased it.
When you "buy" internet access, you are buying a service from someone. If I send you spam, you can't use that bandwidth while I'm sending. When I send you spam, it takes space in your mail box, depriving you of the use of that space. When you download your mail, I'm using space on your system to store spam, space you can't use for anything else until it's deleted.
As you can see, every phase of sending spam once it hits your ISP is depriving you of something you paid to use, never agreed to let me use, and is stolen every time I send you spam.
I've seen spammers try to use this arguement, and they get shot down pretty quickly.
What will a total restore look like under DRM? (EG: Now, just re-install everything. Under DRM, will software have to be re-authorized for the new install?)
What will a hardware migration look like? (Now, just re-load software, restore data. Under DRM, how will that affect data?)
What happens if a software vender requiring authorization after a reload goes out of business? How can the software be brought back into use without authorization keys?
When current applications go end of life, how will data from those old applications be accessed in archival mode? (Think IRS audit six years from today, and you are using, say, Quick Books.) How will all this be affected with XP goes End of Life?
Block lists don't take any freedom from spammers. It never prevents them from sending all the e-mail they want. It's just that when it hits a server of someone that doesn't want to hear their speach, the "mute" button gets hit.
Why spammers think that keeping their message out of my inbox is restricting freedom of speech, I'll never understand. Are they not my eyes, are they not my ears? Can I not decide what I'll use my time to read, to hear, to think about? So what if it's the greatest thing since round wheels. If I choose to close my mind to it, trying to sell me the goose that lays golden eggs isn't going to overcome my "buyers resistance".
Not only are spammers stupid, they are persistantly stupid. In the Darwinan game of the Internet, they rank below the Doo-doo of the Do Do.