There was also a National Geographic 'Science of Star Wars' TV special on (I think) Discovery HD. It was basically a 3-hour infomercial with no useful information, at least not for anyone who makes any reasonable effort to keep current in tech.
Who actually believed the people who were saying that Linux et. al. were going to fail? I mean, there's millions of people who want to use a better OS, and more importantly, many of those people also want to help to make their OS better.
It's the same group that thought the Internet was 'just a fad.' And remember how that group included Microsoft?
It brings up the question, "If you could press a button, and kill all humans on the planet (painlessly), would you?"
Ok, Mr. All-Talk / No-Action. Start with yourself. Do it. Awww, you're just teasing us? You only want to die if everyone else does to? That's what I thought. No commitment. Selfish little prick.
If you wait a few years, you can run these games again on emulated hardware. Almost all of the arcade machines from the 70's, 80's, and most of the 90's can be run through MAME, and similar software exists for Commodore-64, TI99-4/A, Apple ][, NES, SNES, Sega, etc. For your particular quandry, almost all MS-DOS games run on DosBox. It looks as though the next version will run Win 3.x apps as well.
And your better solution is? How do you expect a home ISP to distinguish between a list and a spam server? Chances are, running a list violates the TOS anyway. They're providing bandwidth on the cheap. For 99.999% of users, this provides acceptable service while blocking a very significant quantity of spam. If you want to run a professional service over the Internet, get a business-class ISP. If you want your port 25 open, get a geek-friendly ISP.
Closing port 25 is pointless because the owners of the botnet already know to use the ISP's SMTP server, just like the victim does, to send mail. You won't really stop the spam or DDoS this way, you will just stop normal users from doing something that's easy and useful.
Most ISPs rate-limit outbound SMTP. Some will shut down a client that appears to be spamming, and force the user to call in to reestablish service. It's important to keep in mind that the vast, vast majority of users barely know how a computer works. ISPs are more or less forced to cater to the lowest common denominator. If you don't like that, then use a geek-friendly ISP like SpeakEasy.
I beg to differ. It all lies with where the cash is.
There was "no conclusive evidence" that smoking caused cancer... for 5 decades!
There was no conclusive evidence for a hell of a lot longer than 5 decades, and then there was, and Big Tobacco got sued, and now society is slowly dropping that disgusting habit.
There is too much cash involved to report whatever health hazards long term exposure to EMF might produce. Cell phones.. Wifi.. RFID... OMG.. the tabacco industry looks tiny in comparison.
"OMG? There's so much cash involved?" What kind of mouth-breathing horseshit is that? You think trial lawyers don't have money (well, at least in the US)? You think they can't afford to spend several hundred million on research? You think every single academic researcher on planet Earth is bought off? You think that George Bush, Jacques Chirac, and Vladimir Putin are engaged in a giant conspiracy to cover up for Sony and Samsung? You think that every single newspaper and magazine is covering up for them? You think the hundreds of thousands of people that would be required for this kind of cover-up could keep a straight face? If so, you're the dumbest motherfucker wasting air. The US government can't even cover up a third rate burglary or prisoner abuse in Iraq or selling arms to Contras or a west wing blow-job. The newsies circle each other's mistakes like vultures and would turn each other in out of simple spite. Newsflash: the world's professional worrying class has been on EMF for decades now, with nothing substantial to show for it. If they do come up with something, it will be huge news, trillions of dollars, euros, yen, etc. in lawsuits, we'll adapt, and life will go on (maybe with three eyes and an extra arm or two).
WiFi? RFID? Shit, what if iPods cause cancer? It's possible! Nobody has proven they don't! Wouldn't that be the moral dilemma of all time? Die a slow, painful death, or miss that boost of self-esteem you get from having those white earbeads in? Shit, I have an iPod and I don't even know what I'd do if faced with a hideous choice like that! And besides, you didn't even bring up the big EMF conspiracy theories, like power lines, and microwave ovens that leak harmful radiation! What the hell, even that's small potatoes! Why not go all the way? Let's sue the Sun! It's been bathing us in EMF since, ummmmmmm... the birth of the solar system! Full spectrum! Even X-Rays and Gamma Rays! No hypothesis needed, it's proven that the fucker causes skin cancer, and, even worse (I can barely say it) - uneven tans! I say we sue it, then sentince it to death for crimes against humanity and giving sunburns to enemy combatants even though they're not covered by the Geneva convention and it's soooo not fair, then blow it up, then we don't have to worry about global warming either. Woo hoo! Everybody wins!
Maybe before we recommend psychiatic help, we should verify that their beliefs are not founded in reality.
That's not saying that they're not crazy, but whatevery the situation is, if an entire family has been impacted, it's not normal.
Yes it is normal. People that become frightened of illness - regardless of how ridiculous the fear - often do start to exhibit symptomps of that illness; this is called psychosomatic illeness, and it's extremely common. To make a long story short, I've dealt with this myself. I got my thinking fixed. My problems / symptoms went away.
Responses like yours do a significant disservice to people suffering from this problem - it reinforces their irrational fears and makes them more difficult to treat in the long run. And, incidentally, the link you provided (good one) shows the current status of EMF-related health disorders - there is no conclusive evidence to suggest EMF at the levels typically encountered cause any health disorders. There are a lot of hypothesis floating around, which is all well and good, but going around scaring people to death - or at least illness - in the quest for publicity and grant money is the current fashion for asshole scientists (as opposed to the scientists that are responsible with reporting their theories and results, making sure the appropriate caveats are included, &c).
If I had a nickel for every report I'd read talking about how some study shows a strong link between this and that with a sample size of 5 people picked off of a subway at random with the all-too-common "Control group? We don't need no stinkin' control group!", I'd be too busy spending the money to bother replying to Slashdot posts. You know the rest of the story - the "scientists" report their "results" to some mentally challenged sycophant "reporter" who reprints their press release more or less word-for-word (bonus points if political correctness or the enviroment are involved).
If we're not careful, we'll wind up in a world full of people who expect us to go around proving negatives and saying that if we can't then we need to change everything we do because there's a very good theory that we're all going to die if we don't... fuck... too late.
Then rather shortsighted you are. If I take a home video and want to share it with my friends and family, previously I would have had to upload it somewhere and spend money on web hosting.
That still won't stop the ??AA from suing the shit out of you if your filename bears any resemblence to any of their works of "art".
I wonder what's going to stop **AA from shutting down the login servers. Sure, there might not be trackers to shut down, but a network is no good if nobody can join it. How do you expect to find out who your "peers" are otherwise?
Seed from a country that doesn't have or doesn't enforce copyright laws. Then let the swarm take over for the rest of the world.
Being sophisticated and innovative in member management is one thing, but more importantly is the undeniable fact that pr0n industry actually produces something that viewers want to watch, maybe that is why people are paying to watch it.
Did you have to discuss 'member management' and 'pr0n' in the same sentence? I get the visual of some PHB using an OpenOffice spreadsheet to keep track of... ouch.
Having IBM as a good example to use when pushing for corporate adoption of Firefox is a great thing for people working in this area. Although, it must be said that IBM are less likely to have troublesome components (IE specific webpages, ActiveX components) within any intranet pages than other companies due to their own products in that area (I'm thinking Lotus..).
Actually, I've not been able to get Firefox (1.0.current) to work with the Lotus Domino 6.5.3 web mail template - when you add SSL it keeps thinking your session has expired. Works fine on IE (greviously, tragically, and unfortunately).
Slashdot Mirror
...and then we finish the job with a Slashdotting. Nice.
There was also a National Geographic 'Science of Star Wars' TV special on (I think) Discovery HD. It was basically a 3-hour infomercial with no useful information, at least not for anyone who makes any reasonable effort to keep current in tech.
Gee... I hope we get dinner, a good bottle of wine, and a movie before we get screwed.
If you wait a few years, you can run these games again on emulated hardware. Almost all of the arcade machines from the 70's, 80's, and most of the 90's can be run through MAME, and similar software exists for Commodore-64, TI99-4/A, Apple ][, NES, SNES, Sega, etc. For your particular quandry, almost all MS-DOS games run on DosBox. It looks as though the next version will run Win 3.x apps as well.
No, no, no, your reply is priceless.
Heh... I haven't played TradeWars since the '80s and have no idea what you're talking about...
Trade Wars... best part - giving the sysop custom maps to run that only you and he had copies of...
And your better solution is? How do you expect a home ISP to distinguish between a list and a spam server? Chances are, running a list violates the TOS anyway. They're providing bandwidth on the cheap. For 99.999% of users, this provides acceptable service while blocking a very significant quantity of spam. If you want to run a professional service over the Internet, get a business-class ISP. If you want your port 25 open, get a geek-friendly ISP.
Ummm... there's a slight (sarcasm) difference in ACL overhead involved in the routers.
Some people are on this big-time... they even have a song!
"OMG? There's so much cash involved?" What kind of mouth-breathing horseshit is that? You think trial lawyers don't have money (well, at least in the US)? You think they can't afford to spend several hundred million on research? You think every single academic researcher on planet Earth is bought off? You think that George Bush, Jacques Chirac, and Vladimir Putin are engaged in a giant conspiracy to cover up for Sony and Samsung? You think that every single newspaper and magazine is covering up for them? You think the hundreds of thousands of people that would be required for this kind of cover-up could keep a straight face? If so, you're the dumbest motherfucker wasting air. The US government can't even cover up a third rate burglary or prisoner abuse in Iraq or selling arms to Contras or a west wing blow-job. The newsies circle each other's mistakes like vultures and would turn each other in out of simple spite. Newsflash: the world's professional worrying class has been on EMF for decades now, with nothing substantial to show for it. If they do come up with something, it will be huge news, trillions of dollars, euros, yen, etc. in lawsuits, we'll adapt, and life will go on (maybe with three eyes and an extra arm or two).
WiFi? RFID? Shit, what if iPods cause cancer? It's possible! Nobody has proven they don't! Wouldn't that be the moral dilemma of all time? Die a slow, painful death, or miss that boost of self-esteem you get from having those white earbeads in? Shit, I have an iPod and I don't even know what I'd do if faced with a hideous choice like that! And besides, you didn't even bring up the big EMF conspiracy theories, like power lines, and microwave ovens that leak harmful radiation! What the hell, even that's small potatoes! Why not go all the way? Let's sue the Sun! It's been bathing us in EMF since, ummmmmmm... the birth of the solar system! Full spectrum! Even X-Rays and Gamma Rays! No hypothesis needed, it's proven that the fucker causes skin cancer, and, even worse (I can barely say it) - uneven tans! I say we sue it, then sentince it to death for crimes against humanity and giving sunburns to enemy combatants even though they're not covered by the Geneva convention and it's soooo not fair, then blow it up, then we don't have to worry about global warming either. Woo hoo! Everybody wins!
Responses like yours do a significant disservice to people suffering from this problem - it reinforces their irrational fears and makes them more difficult to treat in the long run. And, incidentally, the link you provided (good one) shows the current status of EMF-related health disorders - there is no conclusive evidence to suggest EMF at the levels typically encountered cause any health disorders. There are a lot of hypothesis floating around, which is all well and good, but going around scaring people to death - or at least illness - in the quest for publicity and grant money is the current fashion for asshole scientists (as opposed to the scientists that are responsible with reporting their theories and results, making sure the appropriate caveats are included, &c).
If I had a nickel for every report I'd read talking about how some study shows a strong link between this and that with a sample size of 5 people picked off of a subway at random with the all-too-common "Control group? We don't need no stinkin' control group!", I'd be too busy spending the money to bother replying to Slashdot posts. You know the rest of the story - the "scientists" report their "results" to some mentally challenged sycophant "reporter" who reprints their press release more or less word-for-word (bonus points if political correctness or the enviroment are involved).
If we're not careful, we'll wind up in a world full of people who expect us to go around proving negatives and saying that if we can't then we need to change everything we do because there's a very good theory that we're all going to die if we don't
You mean like this?
Either that, or I just have a headache.
Hopefully, they'll use 40-bit encryption and rely on a proprietary algorithm as the principal means of ...
What do you mean it's already been done?
Oh well, back to the drawing board.
There's just something so cathartic about that.
Oh, wait, Forbes is still printing Daniel Lyons. Never mind.