Getting a "user-id" system doesn't work. It won't be implemented on the serverlevel (praise the $DEITY), and will have to be implemented by bots.
Now, most EFNet servers ban bots. Some allow them, as long as they're not rogue. Now, what kind of problems can one expect if one uses such a bot? Well, we're using one on EFNet#norge, or used to use one. We called it "Norvoice" - and made #norge moderated.
To get voice, you had to apply for voice, with an email. We would 'accept' the application, an email was sent out with a password, which you had to reply to / give the password to norvoice for the account to be activated.
Each account had certain hostmasks associated with it.
Now the problem started. People wanted hostmasks to be added. People claimed to be other people. People forgot their passwords. People changed email addresses. People wanted voice immediately and started harassing the ops for it. (With 400-600 people on a channel, guess what kind of NOISE that generated). People didn't understand the system. People didn't want to give out their email address. People didn't want to be "registered".
And, "improve the systems capability to deal with anonymous assholes" isn't possible when you're not the one running the damn network. chanops have to use the features that are available to them. If features isn't available, then tough luck. Then one uses the features that works - namely banning ISP's. Its a solution. And, even better, its a solution that WORKS.
As a norwegian, and as chanop on efnet#norge, I know quite well how much noise a few idiot-users can generate. Wide bans are not that unusual.
*.no is getting banned from more and more channels on EFNet. That is not very strange, when you consider that online.no doesn't take IRC-abuse complaints very seriously. The same goes for many other norwegian ISP's.
As long as norwegian kiddiots act as they do, and the same goes for the canadian kiddiots, one cannot expect channel operators to take heed of one or two good seeds among the thousands of bad ones.
If you are that desperate to join a certain channel, buy yourself a server somewhere, or get a shell-account from a friend - so that you can bounce of that and onto the IRC-network of your choice. One moment though - make sure that friend of yours is a _Friend_ and not someone that allows everybody to get accounts on his box - or that IP is sure to be banned from several channels as soon as the first kiddie appears.
Oh, and "shut up a few noisemakers".. are you aware of what amount of noise a "few noisemakers" can generate? And are you aware that EFNet just supports 25bans per channel? And that a single floodnet often is far more than 25 flood-klients?
Now, how would you solve that problem? Please, do explain, in detail.
Canada is infamous for its scriptkiddies. As long as its impossible to positively ID a particular person due to IP-jumping, ident-changing and so forth, the only solution is to set an ISP-wide or country-wide ban.
Blame it on the kiddies. If it gets too noisy due to a single country/ISP, then the only logical solution is to ban that country/ISP.
In addition, EFNet#linux and other EFNet channels are infamous for beeing non-friendly and not very helpfull. You would do much better using Openprojectsnet or whatever its named right now. Much more friendly.
I've chosen to live without ANY connection.
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After having some way or another to connect myself first to BBS'es, and then to the Internet since December'94 - i finally got disconnected in July this year (2002). And a wonderful thing it has been.
I'm still connected to the internet from the university or from my workplaces - but after work/study hours, I'm free.
I've actually started reading books again! Yay! I've started walking in the the woods again! Even started watching a tiny little bit of TV (Less than 3 hours a week I would guess). I've started working out again. I've started to hack on my laptop again, instead of wasting time on IRC. I've started watching movies with friends again.
Hell I enjoy beeing disconnected at home. I'm NOT planning on getting an Internet connection at home any time soon. _Maybe_ I'll set up a radio network with friends - but there is just NO WAY i'm gonna get connected 24/7 again. Or have any way of using dialup.:)
So, what would I give up to keep my broadband connection? Nothing! I've given it up without having to. I don't miss it. I don't want it back.
First of all, since _two_ disks got screwed at the same time, you've lost the "normal" chance of getting the data back. RAID-5 ensures that if ONE disk fails, you can get the data back due to the parity-stuff - but not if two disks fail. You probably know this.
So, what needs to be done, is to get one of the disks back online again. That *should* be possible, and if nothing really really bad happened, should, i think, in theory, be as easy as getting a lab to pull the disk-platters out and put a new motor / new electronics on them. I'm not sure about this though;)
Preferrably it could be done by the disk-manufacturer.
You could also check out an excellent company in Norway called IBAS. Check out http://www.ibas.com/america/index.html for their american office. They are really excellent at data reconstruction.
Its not that uncommon. Same thing happened to an array at the University i study at. Remember, the disks are often equally old, and the chance of several disks in an array failing the same years are quite good. When several often fails within the same _year_, chances are pretty good two of them will fail in the same night.
Not that it happens OFTEN, but it DOES happen, and more often than winning in lotto.
In the past couple of months three dinosaurs have passed away. First went Ole Johan Dahl, the other developer of Simula. Then, a week or so ago - Dijkstra passed away. And now Kristen Nygaard.
Are we now in a time where The Elder Ones are passing away?
I've lost 70 pounds since te beginning of february, started out at about 110Kg (242pounds), and now weights in at 77Kg (170pounds). Lost 72 pounds in what.. 6 months and 5 days.:)
I've heard a lot of 'scaremongering' from health personell, claiming that ketosis is dangerous (Blargh! Go fsck off!), I've heard that i'll damage my kidney (Yeah rite). I've heard all kind of idioticy from'em - while I've lost 33kg in almost no time. They tend to shut up when they see my weight loss..:-)
The idiots who claim that low-fat is the solution are invited to please shut their yappers, or continue to gain weight while I continue laughing.
- Eat less
- Eat better
- Eat more greasy food to get satiated fast.
- Eat less carbs, which makes you fat and hungry.
- Exercise!
- Exercise!!
- Exercise damn it!
Oh, and lose weight. I've lost 33kg (70 pounds) in 6 months following this advice.:)
Breakfast: 3 eggs made as an omelett. Fry it in olive oil or a tad of butter. The eggs weight in with about 100kcal each, the butter with about 50 -- hey! You've eaten a good breakfast with only 350kcals. And! You'll be satiated!
Lunchtime: I prefer cheese -- but some people can't digest dairies very well. It depends on the person. I eat about 100grams of cheese for lunch, which gives me some, 350 kcals or somesuch. Goodie.
Dinnertime: Buy yourself a large piece of meat. Most meat from pigs or ox contain 1kcal per 1 gram of meat. Buy yourself a 250-400gram piece of meat, fry it in butter or olive oil. fry some carrots / garlic / onion besides, and you've got yourself a nice 500kcal dinner. And, you'll be satiated.
Now, that diet gives you about 1200kcals per day, you'll be satiated after each meal due to the amount of fat you consume.
And whatever you do. Stay away from pasta, it contains wheat - which contains hellish amounts of kcals. Stay away from too much vegetables. They contain too much carbohydrates, which doesn't make you satiated. Eat more fat and/or meat instead. That makes you satiated, and doesn't contain much kcal per "satiation unit" (if you can divide it in units;).
Oh and for christ sake,listen to atkins - not the idiotic 'health-freaks' who recomends high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets which you have to torture yourself to keep at. I've been eating atkins-like since February, have lost over 70 pounds, and gained a lot of muscle. I _love_ this diet.
The entire point with the low-carb diets is that eating fat makes you eat less. You get satiated, which again makes you stop eating.
If you on the other hand eat almost no fat - you don't get satiated, but gets HUNGY again in no time. Which makes you eat more. Which again makes you fat.
In other words, the atkins diet, and other low-carb diets, address the exact problem of overeating.
Just to be a bit anecdotal. I've lost 70 pounds on a neanderthal/atkins-variant since the beginning of february. Meat is Gooood for you. (Ah, more anecdotal evidence!:)
Oh, and, you know, I don't really care wheter animals needs to be slaughtered to feed me. I'm a human beeing, that means that I eat real food - which again means meat.
Of course, there are always waccos that will try to say that killing animals for food or clothes are bad. To hell with'em. They'll probably be left behind thanks to evolution in a few generations. Especially when they start getting their kids on the same stupid diets from day one..
If Lindows can make money on selling Lindows, its worth it. It doesn't matter what I think. I will probably not touch it.
If they make money of it, some of those money will get funneled back into the community. If they don't make money of it, well, it'll give the difficult linux crowd some more bad publicity when it comes to 'how difficult we are to make money of' - but that really doesn't bother me..:-)
About TransGaming Technologies: TransGaming Technologies is the dominant provider of software portability solutions for game developers and publishers. TransGaming's unique technology allows games designed for one system to be deployed on multiple platforms - faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else. TransGaming Technologies has recently developed strategic relationships with Electronic Arts, the world's premier game developer and publisher; MandrakeSoft the world's largest retail Linux distributor; and MacroVision, the world's most-used PC copy protection provider. TransGaming has a license to the world's top selling game, Electronic Art's "The Sims" and shipped an optimized Linux version just eight weeks after receiving source code.
My emphasis.
So, transgaming will do their very best to work with "copy protection providers", which interfere with what people want to do with their hardware. yay! Good that I've not given in to the urge of donating money to transgaming. Now I know that I never will neither.
Idiot. Some of us don't care about the 'karma' system. Maybe you think of posting good posts as 'whoring' - but you're nothing more than a stupid troll yourself.
Actually, you are the one that doesn't know what you're talking about. I don't remember the specifics, but here is (almost) how it works.
Different processors has different layouts. Newer processors thypically have a longer pipeline, which means that the processor can do several things at the same time. Think 'washing clothes'. You would be stupid if you filled your washing-bag with one kind of clothes, went to the washer. put the clotes in the washer. waited. took the clothes out of the washer, put them in the centifuge, waited, put them to dry, folded them and put them in the drawers, and THEN started to wash another batch.
What you would do, was to dig the washed clothes out of the washing-machine, put them in the centifuge, put a new batch into the washing-machine, take the clothes out of the centifuge and put them to dry, prepare a new batch of clothes.. and pipeline things in that manner.
Now, the same goes for processors, but since different parts of the processors does different things, you need align the instructions in a proper way. A pentium needs the instructions aligned differently from an i386, and when you add MMX, 3dNow! and all sorts of stuff, and the processors have various designs, you can get an even better boost.
If you recompile yourself, you can get about 20+% speedincrease just by compiling for pentium. If you compile for your new Pentium 4 (not sure wheter GCC is optimized for it yet, but lets say it is) - you can get an even better efficiency-increase.
So, when all comes to all - you're the dumb one.;=)
I've had similiar experiences - and very different experiences. In general, if you nag at 'your local admin' - he'll most likely flame you as he's often very busy;)
If you try asking questions on ANY os-related channel on EFNet, you're out of luck. Most people there are som 'l33t that they think they know everything better than everyone. A really sucky attitude - and a real put-off for the opensource movement.
However, try more friendly networks, like openprojectsnet - where, among others, the KDE developers hang out. Really friendly people that can give you excellent help. However, they do want you to at least try to search out things first, and you shouldn't necessarily nag about help in the kde-developers channel, but rather in the KDE-users channel - but that is nitpicking.
But yes, I've seen the responses you quote. From idiots on EFnet. Not on other networks though.
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The problem is mostly related to IRC and EFNet. The most unfriendly network on earth.;)
If you enter #linux, or any other OS or programming channel and ask for help - you'll get flamed. It doesn't matter if you know what you're talking about. Oh, and ops in those channels have a tendency to think "I'm right, and you're wrong. You're saying you're right - so i'll kick you".
The attitude is appalling. However, if you enter openprojectsnet things get better immediately. Friendly people all over the place.:)
On fscking time a slashdot editor with a bit of brains came online and posted the story. I've submitted it, and gotten it rejected a total of 4 times the last 30 hours.
Kudos til Michael for finally getting this freaky case _posted_. Also, please note that http://www.digl-watch.com also seems censored by Google+Scientology+DMCA now.
It seems scary that the DMCA is used in this way. I think Google has opened a can of worms by kneeling in such a way to the Cult of Greed.
Personally, I think choice is good. I won't like Lycoris, because it only includes one application of each kind.
Mandrake is the way to go for newbies for Linux. Its a great distribution. The only sucky thing about mandrake, is its gcc-2.96 , which quite frankly sucks. But that little thing sucks equally bad with RedHat. *sigh*
OKay. now, why do I argue that Gilmore is right? Well its quite simple. You see, if we want to get rid of the chickenboners, we have to:
a) Get rid of all open relays (impossible!)
b) Get rid of all socksproxys (Do we want to get rid of this great way of staying anonymous?)
c) Get rid of all open squid-servers (Do we want to get rid of this great way of staying semi-anonymous?)
d) Get rid of all other ways you can use/abuse all sorts of relays.
The problem is that the fight against spam hurts not only email administrators anymore, but hostmasters, webmasters, people that want to run anonymous proxies of any sort, and so forth. If one wins the fight against anonymous relaying, one removes the option of staying completely (or semi-completely) anonymous in many cases.
Do you think the "antispammers" like anonymous remailers? Nope, not unless you're the customer of one, or that there are ways they may limit/stop the spamflow.
I hate the spam as much as anyone, but I really don't think the solution is to block every possibility of staying anonymous. The solution is to rewrite the fucking mail protocol, not to let _everything_ suffer because of spam beeing intolerable.
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Getting a "user-id" system doesn't work. It won't be implemented on the serverlevel (praise the $DEITY), and will have to be implemented by bots.
Now, most EFNet servers ban bots. Some allow them, as long as they're not rogue. Now, what kind of problems can one expect if one uses such a bot? Well, we're using one on EFNet#norge, or used to use one. We called it "Norvoice" - and made #norge moderated.
To get voice, you had to apply for voice, with an email. We would 'accept' the application, an email was sent out with a password, which you had to reply to / give the password to norvoice for the account to be activated.
Each account had certain hostmasks associated with it.
Now the problem started. People wanted hostmasks to be added. People claimed to be other people. People forgot their passwords. People changed email addresses. People wanted voice immediately and started harassing the ops for it. (With 400-600 people on a channel, guess what kind of NOISE that generated). People didn't understand the system. People didn't want to give out their email address. People didn't want to be "registered".
And, "improve the systems capability to deal with anonymous assholes" isn't possible when you're not the one running the damn network. chanops have to use the features that are available to them. If features isn't available, then tough luck. Then one uses the features that works - namely banning ISP's. Its a solution. And, even better, its a solution that WORKS.
As a norwegian, and as chanop on efnet#norge, I know quite well how much noise a few idiot-users can generate. Wide bans are not that unusual.
.. are you aware of what amount of noise a "few noisemakers" can generate? And are you aware that EFNet just supports 25bans per channel? And that a single floodnet often is far more than 25 flood-klients?
*.no is getting banned from more and more channels on EFNet. That is not very strange, when you consider that online.no doesn't take IRC-abuse complaints very seriously. The same goes for many other norwegian ISP's.
As long as norwegian kiddiots act as they do, and the same goes for the canadian kiddiots, one cannot expect channel operators to take heed of one or two good seeds among the thousands of bad ones.
If you are that desperate to join a certain channel, buy yourself a server somewhere, or get a shell-account from a friend - so that you can bounce of that and onto the IRC-network of your choice. One moment though - make sure that friend of yours is a _Friend_ and not someone that allows everybody to get accounts on his box - or that IP is sure to be banned from several channels as soon as the first kiddie appears.
Oh, and "shut up a few noisemakers"
Now, how would you solve that problem? Please, do explain, in detail.
Canada is infamous for its scriptkiddies. As long as its impossible to positively ID a particular person due to IP-jumping, ident-changing and so forth, the only solution is to set an ISP-wide or country-wide ban.
Blame it on the kiddies. If it gets too noisy due to a single country/ISP, then the only logical solution is to ban that country/ISP.
In addition, EFNet#linux and other EFNet channels are infamous for beeing non-friendly and not very helpfull. You would do much better using Openprojectsnet or whatever its named right now. Much more friendly.
After having some way or another to connect myself first to BBS'es, and then to the Internet since December'94 - i finally got disconnected in July this year (2002). And a wonderful thing it has been.
:)
I'm still connected to the internet from the university or from my workplaces - but after work/study hours, I'm free.
I've actually started reading books again! Yay! I've started walking in the the woods again! Even started watching a tiny little bit of TV (Less than 3 hours a week I would guess). I've started working out again. I've started to hack on my laptop again, instead of wasting time on IRC. I've started watching movies with friends again.
Hell I enjoy beeing disconnected at home. I'm NOT planning on getting an Internet connection at home any time soon. _Maybe_ I'll set up a radio network with friends - but there is just NO WAY i'm gonna get connected 24/7 again. Or have any way of using dialup.
So, what would I give up to keep my broadband connection? Nothing! I've given it up without having to. I don't miss it. I don't want it back.
First of all, since _two_ disks got screwed at the same time, you've lost the "normal" chance of getting the data back. RAID-5 ensures that if ONE disk fails, you can get the data back due to the parity-stuff - but not if two disks fail. You probably know this.
;)
So, what needs to be done, is to get one of the disks back online again. That *should* be possible, and if nothing really really bad happened, should, i think, in theory, be as easy as getting a lab to pull the disk-platters out and put a new motor / new electronics on them. I'm not sure about this though
Preferrably it could be done by the disk-manufacturer.
You could also check out an excellent company in Norway called IBAS. Check out http://www.ibas.com/america/index.html for their american office. They are really excellent at data reconstruction.
Its not that uncommon. Same thing happened to an array at the University i study at. Remember, the disks are often equally old, and the chance of several disks in an array failing the same years are quite good. When several often fails within the same _year_, chances are pretty good two of them will fail in the same night.
Not that it happens OFTEN, but it DOES happen, and more often than winning in lotto.
In the past couple of months three dinosaurs have passed away. First went Ole Johan Dahl, the other developer of Simula. Then, a week or so ago - Dijkstra passed away. And now Kristen Nygaard.
Are we now in a time where The Elder Ones are passing away?
Yay! :) Congrats to you my fellow loser.
I've lost 70 pounds since te beginning of february, started out at about 110Kg (242pounds), and now weights in at 77Kg (170pounds). Lost 72 pounds in what.. 6 months and 5 days. :)
I've heard a lot of 'scaremongering' from health personell, claiming that ketosis is dangerous (Blargh! Go fsck off!), I've heard that i'll damage my kidney (Yeah rite). I've heard all kind of idioticy from'em - while I've lost 33kg in almost no time. They tend to shut up when they see my weight loss.. :-)
The idiots who claim that low-fat is the solution are invited to please shut their yappers, or continue to gain weight while I continue laughing.
I would rather say:
- Eat less
- Eat better
- Eat more greasy food to get satiated fast.
- Eat less carbs, which makes you fat and hungry.
- Exercise!
- Exercise!!
- Exercise damn it!
Oh, and lose weight. I've lost 33kg (70 pounds) in 6 months following this advice. :)
You know what? I think your diet sucks.
I would rather eat the following:
Breakfast: 3 eggs made as an omelett. Fry it in olive oil or a tad of butter. The eggs weight in with about 100kcal each, the butter with about 50 -- hey! You've eaten a good breakfast with only 350kcals. And! You'll be satiated!
Lunchtime: I prefer cheese -- but some people can't digest dairies very well. It depends on the person. I eat about 100grams of cheese for lunch, which gives me some, 350 kcals or somesuch. Goodie.
Dinnertime: Buy yourself a large piece of meat. Most meat from pigs or ox contain 1kcal per 1 gram of meat. Buy yourself a 250-400gram piece of meat, fry it in butter or olive oil. fry some carrots / garlic / onion besides, and you've got yourself a nice 500kcal dinner. And, you'll be satiated.
Now, that diet gives you about 1200kcals per day, you'll be satiated after each meal due to the amount of fat you consume.
And whatever you do. Stay away from pasta, it contains wheat - which contains hellish amounts of kcals. Stay away from too much vegetables. They contain too much carbohydrates, which doesn't make you satiated. Eat more fat and/or meat instead. That makes you satiated, and doesn't contain much kcal per "satiation unit" (if you can divide it in units ;).
Oh and for christ sake,listen to atkins - not the idiotic 'health-freaks' who recomends high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets which you have to torture yourself to keep at. I've been eating atkins-like since February, have lost over 70 pounds, and gained a lot of muscle. I _love_ this diet.
The entire point with the low-carb diets is that eating fat makes you eat less. You get satiated, which again makes you stop eating.
If you on the other hand eat almost no fat - you don't get satiated, but gets HUNGY again in no time. Which makes you eat more. Which again makes you fat.
In other words, the atkins diet, and other low-carb diets, address the exact problem of overeating.
Just to be a bit anecdotal. I've lost 70 pounds on a neanderthal/atkins-variant since the beginning of february. Meat is Gooood for you. (Ah, more anecdotal evidence! :)
Oh, and, you know, I don't really care wheter animals needs to be slaughtered to feed me. I'm a human beeing, that means that I eat real food - which again means meat.
Of course, there are always waccos that will try to say that killing animals for food or clothes are bad. To hell with'em. They'll probably be left behind thanks to evolution in a few generations. Especially when they start getting their kids on the same stupid diets from day one ..
If Lindows can make money on selling Lindows, its worth it. It doesn't matter what I think. I will probably not touch it.
:-)
If they make money of it, some of those money will get funneled back into the community. If they don't make money of it, well, it'll give the difficult linux crowd some more bad publicity when it comes to 'how difficult we are to make money of' - but that really doesn't bother me..
From transgamings press-release:
About TransGaming Technologies:
TransGaming Technologies is the dominant provider of software portability solutions for game developers and publishers. TransGaming's unique technology allows games designed for one system to be deployed on multiple platforms - faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else. TransGaming Technologies has recently developed strategic relationships with Electronic Arts, the world's premier game developer and publisher; MandrakeSoft the world's largest retail Linux distributor; and MacroVision, the world's most-used PC copy protection provider. TransGaming has a license to the world's top selling game, Electronic Art's "The Sims" and shipped an optimized Linux version just eight weeks after receiving source code.
My emphasis.
So, transgaming will do their very best to work with "copy protection providers", which interfere with what people want to do with their hardware. yay! Good that I've not given in to the urge of donating money to transgaming. Now I know that I never will neither.
Idiot. Some of us don't care about the 'karma' system. Maybe you think of posting good posts as 'whoring' - but you're nothing more than a stupid troll yourself.
Actually, you are the one that doesn't know what you're talking about. I don't remember the specifics, but here is (almost) how it works.
;=)
Different processors has different layouts. Newer processors thypically have a longer pipeline, which means that the processor can do several things at the same time. Think 'washing clothes'. You would be stupid if you filled your washing-bag with one kind of clothes, went to the washer. put the clotes in the washer. waited. took the clothes out of the washer, put them in the centifuge, waited, put them to dry, folded them and put them in the drawers, and THEN started to wash another batch.
What you would do, was to dig the washed clothes out of the washing-machine, put them in the centifuge, put a new batch into the washing-machine, take the clothes out of the centifuge and put them to dry, prepare a new batch of clothes.. and pipeline things in that manner.
Now, the same goes for processors, but since different parts of the processors does different things, you need align the instructions in a proper way. A pentium needs the instructions aligned differently from an i386, and when you add MMX, 3dNow! and all sorts of stuff, and the processors have various designs, you can get an even better boost.
If you recompile yourself, you can get about 20+% speedincrease just by compiling for pentium. If you compile for your new Pentium 4 (not sure wheter GCC is optimized for it yet, but lets say it is) - you can get an even better efficiency-increase.
So, when all comes to all - you're the dumb one.
Well, after bombing the shit out of afghanistan, just 'maybe' its allright to help them build up what you destroyed?
They're not exactly in a financian situation to do that themselves.
I've had similiar experiences - and very different experiences. In general, if you nag at 'your local admin' - he'll most likely flame you as he's often very busy ;)
If you try asking questions on ANY os-related channel on EFNet, you're out of luck. Most people there are som 'l33t that they think they know everything better than everyone. A really sucky attitude - and a real put-off for the opensource movement.
However, try more friendly networks, like openprojectsnet - where, among others, the KDE developers hang out. Really friendly people that can give you excellent help. However, they do want you to at least try to search out things first, and you shouldn't necessarily nag about help in the kde-developers channel, but rather in the KDE-users channel - but that is nitpicking.
But yes, I've seen the responses you quote. From idiots on EFnet. Not on other networks though.
The problem is mostly related to IRC and EFNet. The most unfriendly network on earth. ;)
:)
If you enter #linux, or any other OS or programming channel and ask for help - you'll get flamed. It doesn't matter if you know what you're talking about. Oh, and ops in those channels have a tendency to think "I'm right, and you're wrong. You're saying you're right - so i'll kick you".
The attitude is appalling. However, if you enter openprojectsnet things get better immediately. Friendly people all over the place.
'commie' = commodore, not communist.
idiot moderator that moderated the above as a 'troll' should be hanged from his toes.
Hey, you're quoting me. :)
;)
;)
"Church of Scientology uses DMCA to force Google to remove xenu.net" was the title of my submission.
Scientology, DMCA and Google are all 'hot topics' here on slashdot. How could I refrain from commenting?
On fscking time a slashdot editor with a bit of brains came online and posted the story. I've submitted it, and gotten it rejected a total of 4 times the last 30 hours.
Kudos til Michael for finally getting this freaky case _posted_. Also, please note that http://www.digl-watch.com also seems censored by Google+Scientology+DMCA now.
It seems scary that the DMCA is used in this way. I think Google has opened a can of worms by kneeling in such a way to the Cult of Greed.
Personally, I think choice is good. I won't like Lycoris, because it only includes one application of each kind.
Mandrake is the way to go for newbies for Linux. Its a great distribution. The only sucky thing about mandrake, is its gcc-2.96 , which quite frankly sucks. But that little thing sucks equally bad with RedHat. *sigh*
It seems that you've got an itch to scratch ...
I'm sure there are others that want to scratch the same itch.
OKay. now, why do I argue that Gilmore is right? Well its quite simple. You see, if we want to get rid of the chickenboners, we have to:
a) Get rid of all open relays (impossible!)
b) Get rid of all socksproxys (Do we want to get rid of this great way of staying anonymous?)
c) Get rid of all open squid-servers (Do we want to get rid of this great way of staying semi-anonymous?)
d) Get rid of all other ways you can use/abuse all sorts of relays.
The problem is that the fight against spam hurts not only email administrators anymore, but hostmasters, webmasters, people that want to run anonymous proxies of any sort, and so forth. If one wins the fight against anonymous relaying, one removes the option of staying completely (or semi-completely) anonymous in many cases.
Do you think the "antispammers" like anonymous remailers? Nope, not unless you're the customer of one, or that there are ways they may limit/stop the spamflow.
I hate the spam as much as anyone, but I really don't think the solution is to block every possibility of staying anonymous. The solution is to rewrite the fucking mail protocol, not to let _everything_ suffer because of spam beeing intolerable.
end of rant.