I've been wondering the same thing myself for quite sometime, with a twist.
Why don't they make any keyboards with the keypad on the lefthand side? That way I could still use my (right-handed) ergonomic mouse, and still have the convenience of a keypad (great for fraggin) and still be comfortable.
You'd think someone would have done all this all ready.
The fact remains that many institutions have what used to be "Class A" and "Class B" networks allocated to them, and they doubtlessly are not using all those addresses.
True, which is why the question we should be asking is not why these companies were alloted these address spaces, over 5 years ago, but why are they still allotted if there is now a better way to distribute the space.
As is pointed out in another post in this thread, Stanford willingly gave unused space back. Maybe others should unwillingly do the same.
Your pontificating about CIDR is not relevant.
It was relevant, even if it was a bit tangential, however I was not pontificating. Pontification is when you state your opinions in an indignant manner, not facts. You should check out a dictionary.
I didn't refer to you as an MCSE, it is the certification itself that I was reffering to, which I myself have. This is why I am aware of how much they tried to drive the old structure (and so much other outdated crap) home, and the reason that people who are better at memorizing posted test answers, vice actually understanding how things work, are far more likely to pass.
My overall point was more about how hearing Classes mentioned 5 years after they were done away with drives me nuts, because of my pedantic nature.
Also, I disagree that my comment was at all insightful, I was trying more or less to be informative. It took no great insight to say "They don't do it like that no more".
Your post is actually interesting, but completely incorrect as there is no such thing as Class A, B, or C addresses anymore, nor have there been for a long time now.
In November of 1996, RFC 2050 regarding Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines, and Classless
Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) was introduced and used ever since.
Unfortunately, some people, and certifications (coMCSEugh) cling to the old Class structure, and demand that people remember it, in order to go about properly mucking up large networks with a limited understanding of routing protocols (TCP/IP is a routed protocol, not a routing protocol) .
Dunno if this is a legitimate question, or not, but it at least deserves a little clarification.
POP3 is only for retieval of mail residing on the server. It does not send outbound mail, therefore you would not be at risk of having your machine abused by spammers for such stuff. However, it's always a good idea to close any ports you don't actually use.
SMTP is what you need to worry about. If your SMTP service is running from the default system setup, it is much more likely that you are open for abuse.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article yet. I just felt the need to flame this "Insightful" poster.
I thought facts were by definition true
I'm not sure where you went to school, or even if you did, but somewhere back in the 2nd or 3rd grade, we were taught the differences between facts and opinions, which have absolutely nothing to do with true or false, right or wrong. There were many little boys and girls that struggled with that, and so we review again...
A fact is a statement of something being actual, whereas an opinion is an appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter.
As an example of a fact, I make the following statement...
  
You are an ignorant troll.
I can not prove this true or false at the moment, but it is a statement of fact, be it true or false. You may disprove it, but it becomes an untrue fact, which is still a fact.
As an example of a opinion, I make the following statement...
  
I believe that you are an ignorant troll.
There is nothing you can do about my opinion, as it is an appraisal formed in my mind about a particular matter, so no matter if you manage to prove it true or false, I can choose to believe it regardless if I wish, as it is my opinion.
You have an incredibly powerful grasp of the obvious, along with the idiot who moderated you up.
Neither the slashdot article, nor the article it refers to says anything about it being an online exhibit, but thank you for pointing it out with your bold letters.
Perhaps you were just stunned by the word door, as in "has closed it's doors". It's the big rectangle with the knob. Try opening it.
Actually, I've talked to that guy. The limestone cavern is on the northern side of Kansas City, and after reading about him in a Wired article, Me and a few friends called him up to see if he'd let us root through his stuff.... It seems quite a bit of the stock he bought off of Atari is unopened and unmarked, he's just got so much of it he hasn't had a chance to go through it all.
Dumbass that I am, I never called him back, because I didn't have the time available to plan on meeting him there as far in advance as he asked, that is too say, I don't know if I have free time tomorrow let alone two weeks from now.
This is like car and driver saying "Chevy has made a new car, that is only 2 grand, gets 110 mpg, and goes from 0-60 in 4.7 second! Its the greats car we ever seen, full of new features.....but we shouldnt buy them! because that will put ford out of buisness"
No, it's more like saying "Chevy has made a new car, that is only 2 grand, gets 110 mpg, and goes from 0-60 in 4.7 second, but it requires a special kind of road to drive on, and if we all buy one then the department of transportation will upgrade all the roads, but other cars won't be able to use them, so we'll have to buy Chevy's forever, and once we're dependent on them they can lower their quality and service and we'll have to accept it!"
I hate poor analogies. But you sounded real cool.
-Tommy
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I'm impressed. That is a very well written article. You have inspired me to risk electrocuting myself yet again.
Just curious though, how loud is it exactly? You mention in the side bar that most users won't tolerate the noise, and in your conclusion you say "the new fan is no louder than the fan-farm I had in the old case", but how loud is that?
I think this about wraps up my views on NZSGs as well, but additionally, even if the perfect game coud be created, where competition for resources etc weren't taking place, there will always be one person better than those he is cooperating with, and conciously or not he will begin competing with their flaws.
I'd much rather compete against a person outright than compete with their inability to support themselves, and have to carry them.
And MUDs are an excellent example. There is not a MUD I've ever seen that doesn't have at least one person who has gotten bored and turned to trying to kill other people. Even the ones that ban it have players looking for loopholes.
The entire concept of an NZSG is boring, if it's even possible. What is the point of a game that doesn't have some form of valuable reward for completion? And what could be valuable that you wouldn't have to compete for?
Sure, I'm off-topic, but that was spoken like a true non-alcoholic, holier-than-thou person.
I am God Damned tired of this lacsadasical attitude of "all colas taste the same". NOTHING mixes with Jack Daniels like Coke does. Admittedly, RC Cola isn't bad and will do in a pinch, but it's not Coke. And don't get me started on Pepsi... too late.
Living in the middle of nowhere now (Decatur IL) every damned bar for miles serves Pepsi products. HOW CAN A BAR NOT STOCK COKE? How many liquors do people order with Coke every damned day. This is driving me nuts. And unlike in a restaraunt, where the waitress will ask you, "Is Pepsi Ok?", like she could do anything about it and it doesn't frigging matter anyhow, when you're order a drink, they try to sneak it on past you. And if you don't believe that I can tell the difference, you obviously don't drink many mixed drinks, and you've certainly never been out drinking with me.
No offense, but how could this possibly be a good idea?
Buy a computer for someone else to use, so that you can have some part time cycles VS buying a computer for yourself and setting on your local network where you can have the cycles always?
In any case, is it a good thing to have people publishing design documents for killer virii?
Isn't that what this post does? Or at the very least, builds on design for killer virii?
The script kiddies which came up with ILOVEYOU weren't smart enough to design something really nasty,...
How do you know that the opposite isn't true? Maybe they were smart enough to design something that wasn't really nasty? It certainly wouldn't have taken any amount of programming genius to delete those mp3s/jpgs rather than renaming them. It seems to me that ILOVEYOU was a gentle slap on the wrist, which certainly made a large quantity of the users I know, just the tiniest bit more security aware. Perhaps that was the intent, perhaps it wasn't, but underestimating your opponents has never won a battle.
... and HNN are just providing inspiration, which means they'd be liable in the event such a worm was released.
Maybe we shouldn't post these kind of things, so that we can't debate the implications, or try to find ways to defend our systems before the script kiddies come up with something new. Then of course, people would be saying HNN was liable in the event that they knew such a thing was possible and they kept it to themselves.
Grep is the coolest bird in the world. I like to check up on him when at work throughout the day. I've known this bird as long as they've had him, and he never ceases to amaze me.
We have built this giant computer to simulate Nuclear Explosions. Previously, we couldn't predict the outcome of a Nuclear Explosion. We did not know if it would kill a few million people, or a few billion. Until we had the ability to simulate it we couldn't be sure, and if we aren't sure, then we can't protect you. So please continue to send us more tax dollars to support the electric bill for our new Nuclear Explosion Simulator(TM) and we can continue to protect you. Also, it's good for children.
On an unrelated note, please feel free to update your PGP keys to the longest possible key length you can use, we believe you have every right to your privacy.
Yours Truly, Big Brother
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On a more serious note, how much ass would we kick if we could get this badboy to join Team Slashdot over at distributed.net?
This is an American film. It was not made in Japan. As such, it is a landmark. Could you imagine seeing an American made film like this 10 years ago? 5 years? 1 year?
This movie kicked ass, and I remember going to see it in the theatre with my best friend when I was but 11 years old. What's more, it was in 3D. There is one scene in particular where a slave-driver cracks a whip right at the audience, and I remember it as being one of the coolest things I had ever seen.
Been looking for the 3D version on Video ever since. Anyone got a clue?
Slashdot Mirror
I've been wondering the same thing myself for quite sometime, with a twist.
Why don't they make any keyboards with the keypad on the lefthand side? That way I could still use my (right-handed) ergonomic mouse, and still have the convenience of a keypad (great for fraggin) and still be comfortable.
You'd think someone would have done all this all ready.
-Tommy
True, which is why the question we should be asking is not why these companies were alloted these address spaces, over 5 years ago, but why are they still allotted if there is now a better way to distribute the space.
As is pointed out in another post in this thread, Stanford willingly gave unused space back. Maybe others should unwillingly do the same.
Your pontificating about CIDR is not relevant.
It was relevant, even if it was a bit tangential, however I was not pontificating. Pontification is when you state your opinions in an indignant manner, not facts. You should check out a dictionary.
  -Tommy
I didn't refer to you as an MCSE, it is the certification itself that I was reffering to, which I myself have. This is why I am aware of how much they tried to drive the old structure (and so much other outdated crap) home, and the reason that people who are better at memorizing posted test answers, vice actually understanding how things work, are far more likely to pass.
My overall point was more about how hearing Classes mentioned 5 years after they were done away with drives me nuts, because of my pedantic nature.
Also, I disagree that my comment was at all insightful, I was trying more or less to be informative. It took no great insight to say "They don't do it like that no more".
  -Tommy
In November of 1996, RFC 2050 regarding Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines, and Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) was introduced and used ever since.
Unfortunately, some people, and certifications (coMCSEugh) cling to the old Class structure, and demand that people remember it, in order to go about properly mucking up large networks with a limited understanding of routing protocols (TCP/IP is a routed protocol, not a routing protocol) .
  -Tommy
POP3 is only for retieval of mail residing on the server. It does not send outbound mail, therefore you would not be at risk of having your machine abused by spammers for such stuff. However, it's always a good idea to close any ports you don't actually use.
SMTP is what you need to worry about. If your SMTP service is running from the default system setup, it is much more likely that you are open for abuse.
  -Tommy
This is reminds me of that whole "red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors" tradgedy in kindergarten. No wonder I dropped out.
  -Tommy
I thought facts were by definition true
I'm not sure where you went to school, or even if you did, but somewhere back in the 2nd or 3rd grade, we were taught the differences between facts and opinions, which have absolutely nothing to do with true or false, right or wrong. There were many little boys and girls that struggled with that, and so we review again...
A fact is a statement of something being actual, whereas an opinion is an appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter.
As an example of a fact, I make the following statement...
   You are an ignorant troll.
I can not prove this true or false at the moment, but it is a statement of fact, be it true or false. You may disprove it, but it becomes an untrue fact, which is still a fact.
As an example of a opinion, I make the following statement...
   I believe that you are an ignorant troll.
There is nothing you can do about my opinion, as it is an appraisal formed in my mind about a particular matter, so no matter if you manage to prove it true or false, I can choose to believe it regardless if I wish, as it is my opinion.
  -Tommy
I wonder what old "Dr. Fad" is up to these days.
-Tommy
That's not bacterial meningitis, that's a one shot of whiskey too many. Lose the "wake up" part and you've got your meningitis.
-Tommy
You have an incredibly powerful grasp of the obvious, along with the idiot who moderated you up.
Neither the slashdot article, nor the article it refers to says anything about it being an online exhibit, but thank you for pointing it out with your bold letters.
Perhaps you were just stunned by the word door, as in "has closed it's doors". It's the big rectangle with the knob. Try opening it.
-Tommy
Guys name is Bill Houlehan.
-Tommy
Actually, I've talked to that guy. The limestone cavern is on the northern side of Kansas City, and after reading about him in a Wired article, Me and a few friends called him up to see if he'd let us root through his stuff.... It seems quite a bit of the stock he bought off of Atari is unopened and unmarked, he's just got so much of it he hasn't had a chance to go through it all.
Dumbass that I am, I never called him back, because I didn't have the time available to plan on meeting him there as far in advance as he asked, that is too say, I don't know if I have free time tomorrow let alone two weeks from now.
Very cool guy though.
-Tommy
No, it's more like saying "Chevy has made a new car, that is only 2 grand, gets 110 mpg, and goes from 0-60 in 4.7 second, but it requires a special kind of road to drive on, and if we all buy one then the department of transportation will upgrade all the roads, but other cars won't be able to use them, so we'll have to buy Chevy's forever, and once we're dependent on them they can lower their quality and service and we'll have to accept it!"
I hate poor analogies. But you sounded real cool.
-Tommy
I'm impressed. That is a very well written article. You have inspired me to risk electrocuting myself yet again.
Just curious though, how loud is it exactly? You mention in the side bar that most users won't tolerate the noise, and in your conclusion you say "the new fan is no louder than the fan-farm I had in the old case", but how loud is that?
-Tommy
I think this about wraps up my views on NZSGs as well, but additionally, even if the perfect game coud be created, where competition for resources etc weren't taking place, there will always be one person better than those he is cooperating with, and conciously or not he will begin competing with their flaws.
I'd much rather compete against a person outright than compete with their inability to support themselves, and have to carry them.
And MUDs are an excellent example. There is not a MUD I've ever seen that doesn't have at least one person who has gotten bored and turned to trying to kill other people. Even the ones that ban it have players looking for loopholes.
The entire concept of an NZSG is boring, if it's even possible. What is the point of a game that doesn't have some form of valuable reward for completion? And what could be valuable that you wouldn't have to compete for?
-Tommy
Sure, I'm off-topic, but that was spoken like a true non-alcoholic, holier-than-thou person.
I am God Damned tired of this lacsadasical attitude of "all colas taste the same". NOTHING mixes with Jack Daniels like Coke does. Admittedly, RC Cola isn't bad and will do in a pinch, but it's not Coke. And don't get me started on Pepsi... too late.
Living in the middle of nowhere now (Decatur IL) every damned bar for miles serves Pepsi products. HOW CAN A BAR NOT STOCK COKE? How many liquors do people order with Coke every damned day. This is driving me nuts. And unlike in a restaraunt, where the waitress will ask you, "Is Pepsi Ok?", like she could do anything about it and it doesn't frigging matter anyhow, when you're order a drink, they try to sneak it on past you. And if you don't believe that I can tell the difference, you obviously don't drink many mixed drinks, and you've certainly never been out drinking with me.
Sorry, I'll leave now.
-Tommy
No offense, but how could this possibly be a good idea?
Buy a computer for someone else to use, so that you can have some part time cycles VS buying a computer for yourself and setting on your local network where you can have the cycles always?
-Tommy
In any case, is it a good thing to have people publishing design documents for killer virii?
Isn't that what this post does? Or at the very least, builds on design for killer virii?
The script kiddies which came up with ILOVEYOU weren't smart enough to design something really nasty,...
How do you know that the opposite isn't true? Maybe they were smart enough to design something that wasn't really nasty? It certainly wouldn't have taken any amount of programming genius to delete those mp3s/jpgs rather than renaming them. It seems to me that ILOVEYOU was a gentle slap on the wrist, which certainly made a large quantity of the users I know, just the tiniest bit more security aware. Perhaps that was the intent, perhaps it wasn't, but underestimating your opponents has never won a battle.
Maybe we shouldn't post these kind of things, so that we can't debate the implications, or try to find ways to defend our systems before the script kiddies come up with something new. Then of course, people would be saying HNN was liable in the event that they knew such a thing was possible and they kept it to themselves.
I prefer it the way it is.
-Tommy
Indeed.
Grep is the coolest bird in the world. I like to check up on him when at work throughout the day. I've known this bird as long as they've had him, and he never ceases to amaze me.
He's a lot of fun in person too.
2. No one knew about the show.
Damn right. I live in Kansas City, and reading this article on Slashdot is the first I heard about it. A little local advertising wouldn't have hurt.
I didn't know about it until is was already in progress, and it was talked about here on Slashdot.
Oops, well, can't catch em all.
-Tommy
Get yerself a copy and enjoy calling in sick fer the next three days!!
I would hate your job. Having to call in sick just to get a weekend of gaming in.
Dear Citizen,
We have built this giant computer to simulate Nuclear Explosions. Previously, we couldn't predict the outcome of a Nuclear Explosion. We did not know if it would kill a few million people, or a few billion. Until we had the ability to simulate it we couldn't be sure, and if we aren't sure, then we can't protect you. So please continue to send us more tax dollars to support the electric bill for our new Nuclear Explosion Simulator(TM) and we can continue to protect you. Also, it's good for children.
On an unrelated note, please feel free to update your PGP keys to the longest possible key length you can use, we believe you have every right to your privacy.
Yours Truly,
Big Brother
-----
On a more serious note, how much ass would we kick if we could get this badboy to join Team Slashdot over at distributed.net?
-Tommy
I'm not taking legal action, and I'm not attempting to have this post removed or anything else silly...
I'm just poiting out that it has been discussed before.
Thanks for making me look like the Karma Whoring Fool I am though.
-Tommy
You could have at least found a different link, there's about a thousand copies of this letter on the web.
-Tommy
Let's go for 15.
Starchaser: Legend of Orin
This movie kicked ass, and I remember going to see it in the theatre with my best friend when I was but 11 years old. What's more, it was in 3D. There is one scene in particular where a slave-driver cracks a whip right at the audience, and I remember it as being one of the coolest things I had ever seen.
Been looking for the 3D version on Video ever since. Anyone got a clue?
-Tommy