I'll second this - my previous job wasn't in the IT sector, but it WAS call center and it DID involve a lot of IT; my company was developing new LOB software in-house for which I was consulting, and I was working on some of my own projects involving process-and-procedure documentation and some automation using Office to make up for some of the shortcomings of the new system which the developers could not/would not address.
I was promoted to supervisory status for my above-and-beyond work performance and contributions to the company. I was ecstatic at first - with the burden of constantly taking phone calls lifted, I was free to complete these projects I was working on faster...or so I thought. Managers often seem like idiots because they're dealing with everyone else's problems and have no time for their own. Be careful what you wish for.
...and then I got laid off, along with most of my team (save two people, who where able to relocate) and the entire rest of the building. Wheeeee economy!
Building a nuke has nothing to do with "revenge". Since the U.S. has demonstrated its willingness to engage in wars of aggression, any state not closely allied with a nuclear power can only secure itself by obtaining a nuclear deterrent.
And what's with the automatic "if you're not with us you're against us" attitude?
You make a post with a flagrant, sarcastic tone (almost mocking), refuting each and every point made in the original post as if to claim it complete faleshood...and you're not expecting someone to fire back a response defending their position (their COUNTRY of all things) in which it is clear the author feels backed against a wall?
To say (yeah, I'm paraphrasing here) "You're homeland is psychotic and tyranical and you're either stupid to believe otherwise or lying because you're part of the problem" and wonder why someone feels the need to be "defensive" is just plain ignorant, either due to ego or poor writing skill. Doesn't matter what country you're talking about, or even if you're right or not.
That's what is called "trolling"; posting to get a reaction from someone. I'm willing to bet you're not doing it on purpose, which is why I'm willing to feed it. Like I said, no commentary here on who is right or what country is better, etc. All I'm saying is, if you want people to listen, speak softly. And for God's sake, don't bash their ears in first with the big stick.
(Yes, governments on all sides of the world could do well to learn this lesson sooner, rather than later, as well.)
I wonder when we'll stop being modded as Troll or Flamebait for pointing this out; this is the 10th or 11th bad summary I've seen submitted by you-know-who in as many days. I've been here for 10 years, and said editor is REALLY pretty bad.
Notice that the quote from the paper sums things up rather clearly - it's the editorial *addition*.
Except the show isn't coming back to Fox. Comedy Central ordered the episodes. 20th Television, although owned by News Corp, is a separate entity from the Fox broadcast network, and they also produce content for NBC, ABC, and CBS, among others.
That was for the better. Futurama was awesome the way it was, and after 4 seasons and however many movies now, the characters are a little ingrained in our heads. I'm not saying it would automatically make the show suck, but it would certainly run the risk.
it's really sad that, not only are Slashdotters foolish enough to post a results page with their own IP in them, but also that the advice to do so was given by a Slashdot editor!
We've been modded as Flamebait for months when criticizing this guy but... but I mean....really? REALLY? *facepalm*
If I was a subscriber, I'd be canceling. Taco should be pissed, and you should be ashamed of yourselves for posting those Netalyzr direct URLs unless you're testing from a business with a public IP address; and really if we're talking about Comcast home accounts, what good is that?
Everyone that has reported this problem has a Comcast account that is somehow lined with Earthlink service. Even the linked article says so. Why don't we investigate that route? Did Comcast buy out Earthlink recently? Is there some kind of cross-promotional service where you buy from Earthlink over Comcast infrastructure? They fit into this somehow...
It's funny because Comcast has been the most reliable ISP I've ever had. I've had torrents hit 2MB/Sec (not a typo, that's Megabytes), although not sustained. The only problem was when they came to disconnect another apartment in my building and they pulled the plug on me by accident - the fault of the stupid installer guy. Took them a few days to turn it back on which sucked, but I never get over-billed, and it always just works.
Then I saw their commercials with the chick singing in a monotone about "Always dreaming, never stopping" and boy, do I agree with you.
[machine]:~ [user]$ nslookup comcast.sucks.com testserv.mydomain.com ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
This was tested on testserv.mydomain.com (doesn't exist) because I knew it wouldn't respond. I don't have an outside box to test it with, so while not 100% conclusive, according to this test I should still get a DNS response if Comcast is intercepting. ICSI Netalyzr shows the following:
Basic UDP access is available. Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.
The applet was also able to directly request a large DNS response. Direct UDP access to remote MSSQL servers (port 1434) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote FTP servers (port 21) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SSH servers (port 22) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SMTP servers (port 25) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote HTTP servers (port 80) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote POP servers (port 110) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote RPC servers (port 135) is blocked. This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network. Direct TCP access to remote NetBIOS servers (port 139) is blocked. This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network. Direct TCP access to remote IMAP servers (port 143) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SNMP servers (port 161) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote HTTPS servers (port 443) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SMB servers (port 445) is blocked. This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network. Direct TCP access to remote SMTP/SSL servers (port 465) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote secure IMAP servers (port 585) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote authenticated SMTP servers (port 587) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote IMAP/SSL servers (port 993) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote POP/SSL servers (port 995) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote SIP servers (port 5060) is allowed. Direct TCP access to remote BitTorrent servers (port 6881) is allowed.
Are you sure Comcast is doing this, or is it being intercepted by a NAT gateway or proxy?
Though still technically a rumor at this point, word is that 'Futurama' production offices have already opened and that casting is about to move forward.
Let's hope it's all the original cast. Wrong-sounding Muppets where no picnic, either (to paraphrase Family Guy).
These days, it's really hard to separate the highly-moderated trolls from the legit opinions. I guess you just get so used to taking flak from everyone about something that seems so insignificant ("Your opinion is worthless and your manhood is questionable because you like an expensive computer with a piece of fruit for a logo" is not all that uncommon) that you just react as though any criticism is trolling. Apologies, and I'll try not to let it happen again.
He DOES deserve +5, Mr or Ms fanboi. The Linux Kernel is way too much overhyped, and posting an article from 2007 now makes no sense at all. I like GNU stuff, but you can only write so much about a product before you exhaust yourself.
O RLY? All tech news is equal, but some tech news is more equal than others.
Well, of course there's Sprint, but they're in a category all by themselves.
I'll agree there, I used to love Sprint. People now get all excited over text messaging; I was on AIM from a cell phone in 2001, and that thing had a black-and-white liquid-crystal display (like a TI-85)! Durable, too. I got rid of them because I moved out of coverage, and I always thought my bills where a few bucks too high.
So, I switched to AT&T (Cingular at the time), who promptly over-billed me around $1000 for what should have been a $150 three-month period (no overages). To this day they won't even try to resolve it, and it's been in collections for years now. So my credit has a black mark, and I have a Tracfone with less capabilities than my Sprint phone did back 8 years ago (except the crappy camera). They're not getting their money, though, hell with that.
Cell service in the US IS a crock, because no one in this country (besides businesses) bothers to demand good service. See also: landline, television, music, Hollywood, ISPs, and in many ways, Government.
Everyone in "Camp Linux" would cry foul and outrage, while the Mac and Windows camps would point and laugh?
Note: You can switch around any of those platform names in that sentence and it will always be true; it's like a Karnaugh map with all 1s. Unfortunately though, even though that indicates none of us should ever care about the inputs, we apparently missed that lesson in Digital Circuits 101.
Really, I just bought an iPhone in February, and will be amazed if I can get a discount beginning February 2010 or even August 2010, and I understand completely. I could sell my phone right now for $400 easy, so it wouldn't make any sense for AT&T to sell me the better version of my phone for $200.
Stuff like this makes Slashdot look silly too, a massive jump to conclusions over a small minority shouldn't be news.
Welcome to my life as a Mac fan every single time the word "Apple" is mentioned.
...about device news, you're trolling. You don't like it because it's Apple, and it's expensive. You're not entirely familiar with the OS it runs, and some douchebag in Starbucks brags about how productive and virus-free he is because he bought "the BMW of computers".
Not all of us Mac users are like that, and the iPhone isn't a Mac at all. It is very well designed; so well so in fact that it inspires people to make these kinds of "discoveries"; we realize these things are not new because we read Slashdot, which is good enough to give us LOTS to read, including news about cutting edge research to make phones into real-life pointing devices. Now that the iPhone is gaining popularity not just with the super-business-savvy Blackberry crowd, or the yet-to-exist-in-significant-numbers-Android crowd, but with everyone, these ideas can be realized en-masse, which is much more exciting, even if the first attempt at it fails.
In the meantime, I'll see you in 2024, when the next moon landing occurs and Skynet takes over, because apparently events of that type of significance are the only thing your narrow mind cares to read about. PS: You can turn off updates regarding Apple, you know. Mod as Flamebait if you will, but the parent in NO WAY deserves +5 Interesting.
If your nation still felt like it needed to save face after one of the most psychotic and destructive people in modern times lead it via propaganda into committing the Holocaust, you might be a little uncomfortable with any media which might possibly have a negative influence on your population, no matter how slight or unproven that chance is.
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I'll second this - my previous job wasn't in the IT sector, but it WAS call center and it DID involve a lot of IT; my company was developing new LOB software in-house for which I was consulting, and I was working on some of my own projects involving process-and-procedure documentation and some automation using Office to make up for some of the shortcomings of the new system which the developers could not/would not address.
I was promoted to supervisory status for my above-and-beyond work performance and contributions to the company. I was ecstatic at first - with the burden of constantly taking phone calls lifted, I was free to complete these projects I was working on faster...or so I thought. Managers often seem like idiots because they're dealing with everyone else's problems and have no time for their own. Be careful what you wish for.
...and then I got laid off, along with most of my team (save two people, who where able to relocate) and the entire rest of the building. Wheeeee economy!
Building a nuke has nothing to do with "revenge". Since the U.S. has demonstrated its willingness to engage in wars of aggression, any state not closely allied with a nuclear power can only secure itself by obtaining a nuclear deterrent.
I thought Iran was pals with Russia.
And what's with the automatic "if you're not with us you're against us" attitude?
You make a post with a flagrant, sarcastic tone (almost mocking), refuting each and every point made in the original post as if to claim it complete faleshood...and you're not expecting someone to fire back a response defending their position (their COUNTRY of all things) in which it is clear the author feels backed against a wall?
To say (yeah, I'm paraphrasing here) "You're homeland is psychotic and tyranical and you're either stupid to believe otherwise or lying because you're part of the problem" and wonder why someone feels the need to be "defensive" is just plain ignorant, either due to ego or poor writing skill. Doesn't matter what country you're talking about, or even if you're right or not.
That's what is called "trolling"; posting to get a reaction from someone. I'm willing to bet you're not doing it on purpose, which is why I'm willing to feed it. Like I said, no commentary here on who is right or what country is better, etc. All I'm saying is, if you want people to listen, speak softly. And for God's sake, don't bash their ears in first with the big stick.
(Yes, governments on all sides of the world could do well to learn this lesson sooner, rather than later, as well.)
I wonder when we'll stop being modded as Troll or Flamebait for pointing this out; this is the 10th or 11th bad summary I've seen submitted by you-know-who in as many days. I've been here for 10 years, and said editor is REALLY pretty bad.
Notice that the quote from the paper sums things up rather clearly - it's the editorial *addition*.
Except the show isn't coming back to Fox. Comedy Central ordered the episodes. 20th Television, although owned by News Corp, is a separate entity from the Fox broadcast network, and they also produce content for NBC, ABC, and CBS, among others.
That was for the better. Futurama was awesome the way it was, and after 4 seasons and however many movies now, the characters are a little ingrained in our heads. I'm not saying it would automatically make the show suck, but it would certainly run the risk.
it's really sad that, not only are Slashdotters foolish enough to post a results page with their own IP in them, but also that the advice to do so was given by a Slashdot editor!
We've been modded as Flamebait for months when criticizing this guy but... but I mean....really? REALLY? *facepalm*
If I was a subscriber, I'd be canceling. Taco should be pissed, and you should be ashamed of yourselves for posting those Netalyzr direct URLs unless you're testing from a business with a public IP address; and really if we're talking about Comcast home accounts, what good is that?
Everyone that has reported this problem has a Comcast account that is somehow lined with Earthlink service. Even the linked article says so. Why don't we investigate that route? Did Comcast buy out Earthlink recently? Is there some kind of cross-promotional service where you buy from Earthlink over Comcast infrastructure? They fit into this somehow...
kdawson doesn't even read the whole summary - if the headline will cause outrage, it'll get posted. Slashdot pays a troll.
Cars?
It's funny because Comcast has been the most reliable ISP I've ever had. I've had torrents hit 2MB/Sec (not a typo, that's Megabytes), although not sustained. The only problem was when they came to disconnect another apartment in my building and they pulled the plug on me by accident - the fault of the stupid installer guy. Took them a few days to turn it back on which sucked, but I never get over-billed, and it always just works.
Then I saw their commercials with the chick singing in a monotone about "Always dreaming, never stopping" and boy, do I agree with you.
That confirms nothing.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
This was tested on testserv.mydomain.com (doesn't exist) because I knew it wouldn't respond. I don't have an outside box to test it with, so while not 100% conclusive, according to this test I should still get a DNS response if Comcast is intercepting. ICSI Netalyzr shows the following:
Basic UDP access is available.
Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed. The applet was also able to directly request a large DNS response.
Direct UDP access to remote MSSQL servers (port 1434) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote FTP servers (port 21) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SSH servers (port 22) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SMTP servers (port 25) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote HTTP servers (port 80) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote POP servers (port 110) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote RPC servers (port 135) is blocked. This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network.
Direct TCP access to remote NetBIOS servers (port 139) is blocked. This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network.
Direct TCP access to remote IMAP servers (port 143) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SNMP servers (port 161) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote HTTPS servers (port 443) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SMB servers (port 445) is blocked. This is probably for security reasons, as this protocol is generally not designed for use outside the local network.
Direct TCP access to remote SMTP/SSL servers (port 465) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote secure IMAP servers (port 585) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote authenticated SMTP servers (port 587) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote IMAP/SSL servers (port 993) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote POP/SSL servers (port 995) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote SIP servers (port 5060) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote BitTorrent servers (port 6881) is allowed.
Are you sure Comcast is doing this, or is it being intercepted by a NAT gateway or proxy?
NEWS DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
Though still technically a rumor at this point, word is that 'Futurama' production offices have already opened and that casting is about to move forward.
Let's hope it's all the original cast. Wrong-sounding Muppets where no picnic, either (to paraphrase Family Guy).
These days, it's really hard to separate the highly-moderated trolls from the legit opinions. I guess you just get so used to taking flak from everyone about something that seems so insignificant ("Your opinion is worthless and your manhood is questionable because you like an expensive computer with a piece of fruit for a logo" is not all that uncommon) that you just react as though any criticism is trolling. Apologies, and I'll try not to let it happen again.
He DOES deserve +5, Mr or Ms fanboi. The Linux Kernel is way too much overhyped, and posting an article from 2007 now makes no sense at all. I like GNU stuff, but you can only write so much about a product before you exhaust yourself.
O RLY? All tech news is equal, but some tech news is more equal than others.
Well, of course there's Sprint, but they're in a category all by themselves.
I'll agree there, I used to love Sprint. People now get all excited over text messaging; I was on AIM from a cell phone in 2001, and that thing had a black-and-white liquid-crystal display (like a TI-85)! Durable, too. I got rid of them because I moved out of coverage, and I always thought my bills where a few bucks too high.
So, I switched to AT&T (Cingular at the time), who promptly over-billed me around $1000 for what should have been a $150 three-month period (no overages). To this day they won't even try to resolve it, and it's been in collections for years now. So my credit has a black mark, and I have a Tracfone with less capabilities than my Sprint phone did back 8 years ago (except the crappy camera). They're not getting their money, though, hell with that.
Cell service in the US IS a crock, because no one in this country (besides businesses) bothers to demand good service. See also: landline, television, music, Hollywood, ISPs, and in many ways, Government.
*Sigh*
Everyone in "Camp Linux" would cry foul and outrage, while the Mac and Windows camps would point and laugh?
Note: You can switch around any of those platform names in that sentence and it will always be true; it's like a Karnaugh map with all 1s. Unfortunately though, even though that indicates none of us should ever care about the inputs, we apparently missed that lesson in Digital Circuits 101.
Really, I just bought an iPhone in February, and will be amazed if I can get a discount beginning February 2010 or even August 2010, and I understand completely. I could sell my phone right now for $400 easy, so it wouldn't make any sense for AT&T to sell me the better version of my phone for $200.
Stuff like this makes Slashdot look silly too, a massive jump to conclusions over a small minority shouldn't be news.
Welcome to my life as a Mac fan every single time the word "Apple" is mentioned.
...about device news, you're trolling. You don't like it because it's Apple, and it's expensive. You're not entirely familiar with the OS it runs, and some douchebag in Starbucks brags about how productive and virus-free he is because he bought "the BMW of computers".
Not all of us Mac users are like that, and the iPhone isn't a Mac at all. It is very well designed; so well so in fact that it inspires people to make these kinds of "discoveries"; we realize these things are not new because we read Slashdot, which is good enough to give us LOTS to read, including news about cutting edge research to make phones into real-life pointing devices. Now that the iPhone is gaining popularity not just with the super-business-savvy Blackberry crowd, or the yet-to-exist-in-significant-numbers-Android crowd, but with everyone, these ideas can be realized en-masse, which is much more exciting, even if the first attempt at it fails.
In the meantime, I'll see you in 2024, when the next moon landing occurs and Skynet takes over, because apparently events of that type of significance are the only thing your narrow mind cares to read about. PS: You can turn off updates regarding Apple, you know. Mod as Flamebait if you will, but the parent in NO WAY deserves +5 Interesting.
Microsoft Bing: 60% of the time, it works every time.
Well, at least they still make good beer.
Like Monday's post where the Church of Scientology compares Wikipedia's ban to Nazi Germany?
If your nation still felt like it needed to save face after one of the most psychotic and destructive people in modern times lead it via propaganda into committing the Holocaust, you might be a little uncomfortable with any media which might possibly have a negative influence on your population, no matter how slight or unproven that chance is.