I wish I had not used up my mod points yesterday, so I could mod you down you stupid idiot. I am an american citizen, and I want a counterstrike, I want one now, I want whatever organization, person, country whatever, Blasted back to the GOD Damned stone age, leveled, nuked, invaded, strung up by the short and curlies. There is no peace, there is only war when, and deserved war when crap like this happens. I bet the prick(s) who did this got in the country on H1B Visa's. So lets throw all of them out of the country while we are at it.
1. Compuserve, works pretty well for this and is fairly inexpensive, very much international
2. A little higher scale is UUNET Pal,(its on the Compuserve network actually), again very much international
3. Ok, this one will probably get me Trolled, but YES AOL is a potential Option for you they will let you pick up mail from other SMTP servers. and there is international access.
4. AT&T Worldnet should also be considered, I do not know the full extent of the network however.
5. Agian I'll get trolled, but you could also consider MSN.
1. Sick of paying outragous prices for software.
2. More resources to go to to solve problems when working in open source OS'es, Verses M$, and MAC which hide things.
3. If my code could be helped by changes to the core of the OS, I can write that change and even propose it to be included in the OS for everyone.
4. Same for Applications such as apache, if I write a mod for Apache it might even become part of Apache.
5. Get recognised my work as a person, not as a nebulous group that might or might not get a personal credit.
6. In somecases becuase its the only choice, if i write a driver for some companies hardware so it will work in my Linux Box I certainly can't try and sell it, they would Sue me over IP rights. Byt if I give it away well then I think thats much less likely anyway.
7. Because wide colaboration by many people makes for better code, less bugs overtime, and dfinately better testing by a diverse set of hardware/software conbinations.
8. My code could be useful elsewhere, if I write a program for windows, if probably only ever going to run on windows. If I write a program for Linux/BSD/or another Open OS...well it will probably run on Linux/BSD/Solaris/Windows/or something thats not even there yet, it might get translated into lanugages I don't even speak.
I would love it if I could pick and choose the lego parts I want, like a lego hardware store. I guess we would never convince them to have serve yourself bins in the toy store, but that would be cool. Then it would be possible to go there, pick the parts you want for your next lego project, and maybe pay for them buy the pound like screws at the hardware store. This would totally open the market up, at least in my opinion. I wouldn't even mind if I had a web site to do this at, I need 20 of these, 4 of those, 80 of these...!
Its funny you say that, I have an as yet unpublished Novel, written around the the story, that created as I built my lego space ships. i still have all the ships packing in boxes, just in case I ever finish getting the book in a publishable form, so if they want to make a movie, they can see the real models of all the ships.
What I have always wanted is Lego CAD...I have seen a few attempt here and there, but nothing that was ever totally there or truely usuable. Can you Imagine what something like this well realized could teach a kid to do. Hell, the expirence in working 3D space on the computer would be amazing for a kid to learn(or me to play with) I have always found the 3D CAD/Modeling stuff clunky and hard to wrap my head around. If I could go to my computer and assemble the thing I wanted in 3D space as lego Pieces, then use a rendering function in the software to give it a real world look(take all those sharp corners off) WOW! And imagine something like this as a Level editing tool in Quake or Unreal!
Just my over excited toughts.
BTW anyone ever seen stuff like this I might have overlooked?
I am a Web developer. And I know for a fact that playing with Legos as a kid(Hell I still do, I admit it) has a dirrect effect on my ability to build web sites, write scripts, etc. I am sure if someone did the research they would discover that all the best Programmers played with Legos alot as Kids.
You know it's aways surprised me, esspecially after reading articles like this that there are things the providers have not already done.
(Disclaimer: I am NOT promoting these ideas nor do I sugguest ever using them, in FACT please Don't). If the providers want to control content, and delievery, how come they give out real world IP's? They would have much finer control, if the cable modem nets, and home DSL nets were basically giant NAT networks, use one real IP hide the users behind it with private IP's they can get on and interact with the internet(Basic Dumb user happy), the compnay can control what flows on their net(Ie. Good bye servers, and other bandwidth hogs). Then they could charge a higher rate to get a real IP(more Yes infact please more) to the people(Like us) who want real world access, and know Yes we will run servers, no we really are not interested in your extended services, we know how to do that ourselves, and yes we are probably going to take up more bandwidth, please segment us off the main router so we don't slow down the causal browsers. Just a thought.
We had similar incidents here, one or two inwhich guys were caught with porn, the machine was seized(it was one in a common area but with profiles enabled so we could tell who was doing what) replaced with an Identical machine, and then searched for evidence. We also had a guy get caught dispersing trade secrets via AOLIM, about an as yet unreleased product, he got canned as well.
It is writing and any one that does not see it as such is really the problem since they don't understand the current state of things. If Congresspersons do not understand my desire to address them via email, or consider Email an inferior form then they really should catch up with the times. The Written word is the written word no matter what form it takes after all.
personally I have never considered that I would have privacy in the work place I will probably take a Karma hit for saying so, but seriously your there at work to work. If your doing something besides working(goofing off, flirting, looking for your next job, whatever) then expect to get slapped for it. Maybe I just have screwed up work ethic, but if they are paying you the company that you work for should be able to expect you to be doing something that benifits them, not browsing the lastest porn site. If you want to do those other things on a break/lunch then go away from the company to do it.
This is exactly why, cases like his, and Felton's need to go to court, and need to have excellent lawers presenting them. The only way to get a bad law struck down is to go to court and prove its a bad law these days. Once Congress has pocketed the $$$ they are not gonna do a damn thing to reverse the assine law that they wrote, no matter how much we complain, and protest. Politicians don't listen to the people that elect them at all anymore. I write letter after letter to my congresspersons(as well as many others) I never get a reply so much as yes we got your letter. I know the govenment was setup is this representative system for a reason, it seems to me that if our reps are not voting in congress the way we the citizens feel, then there is something wrong with the system. The real fact is that our tiny voice is lost in the vast expanse, of those who don't know, don't care, are too stupid to care, or have to much cash with which to enforce thier opinion. I want campain finance reform that says Politician's must run on their own money and taking money/goods/services from anyone else is a Bribe pure and simple.
Well I tried to write to Mdam Seantor, but it appears that her web site(ugh Webmail) doesn't accept well thoughtout, carefully considered letters. I had to shorten my responses to something that probably didn't truely get the point across, due to the limited space available for a response.
It wouln't really have any effect the open nature of the protocol, means the bounty hunter could simply right a client that does nothing more than cature IP's. remember the Client needs to know your Ip so it connect to you to get the content your sharing, therefore they could code I client that just read IP's, not matter if the Bearshare, Limewire client hid them or not in its display.
First of all I have to congratulate Verizon for something, OUCH! (OK ~Grude~ nice going Versizon, on resisting pressure)
Ok, on to the rant....
Why aren't all ISP's doing this. Why is it that they don't understand their legal role here is to do nothing and should remain that way. They are granted enhanced service provider status under the law in the US. They are just like the Phone company, they provide a line, but can legally take no responsibility for whats on that line. The second they take any responsibility for whats on the line they loose that status. Perhaps because Verizon is in the phone business, they understand this and resisting pressure because they know thier legal standing in this, but more companies should be following the example. It seems to me that perhaps AOL is also understanding of this, lests consider they own Winamp which for alot of the world is the only way they know how to play that MP3 they just downloaded.
So far my provider for my Cable modem has not caved as far as I know and shows no signs of doing so, of course I never check my mail their, or hardly ever read their web site so who knows, it might have just changed.
I repeat, it is simply my desire to run my own mail server, and web host for my own personal purposes. I have plenty of expirence running these services, I was an internet user before there was ever a web, I remember using archie for god sakes. My Cable modem is the only choiuce I have other than 56K dialup for internet connection in my area. I run my own mail server, because I know that the only reason its gonna be down is if I take it down. I can have as many addresses as I like, for whatever purposes. I can store as much mail as I like so long as I don't run out of disk. The same goes for my web server, I can post what i like, when I like, not have to worry about service restrictions. For what i do with either of them or my FTP for that matter, 39.95 a month and 500K of bandwidth is good, I don't need to pay outragous fees to co-locate my server somewhere where its out of my control. I still contend it should be my right to do what I want with that line.
I beg to differ.
If I desire to run a private mail server for myself, and a little webs ite for myself, I shouldn't have to pay the insane fees that are rquired to co-locate a machine, nor have to live under the restrictions of remote web hosting. I have co-located in the past wehn it was a business reality that I need a highbandwidth, 100% uptime line with 24/7 Monitoring for something I am doing and thats worth the $$$, but for my personal mail there is no reason I should have to do that and it should be my right to do so. I should have the right to negotiate my service agreement. Esspecially when I have only one method of access available to me. I live in the US and I have some rights to act. I also have the right to ask that my rights get some defense.
I seem to remeber there was a similar system for Genesis/SNES a few years back. I forget who made it, Madcatz I think, it cost like 79.99. It was a ring that you setup on the floor it fired infrared beams upward at the ceiling(and therefore required a somewhat flat aka NON-stucco or pithched ceiling). I seem to remember results were mixed(I was working in a game store at the time), again depending on the ceiling. I do remember one kid who bought one said it worked great, cause his parents had a mirror on the ceiling of the living room(shudders at image that evokes remembering what kids parents looked like)
I am not the an all knowing seer, but you had to figure this was coming, and we have heard rumblings before. Its been appearent, in things like the road runner services sending montly news letters about the great things you can find(for a fee). Its inevitable that eventually the network providers, would want to become contant providers and start showing preference for the content they wish to provide over the content that an intelligent user could search for on their own.
The Time has come for us to start demanding freedom of connection. Once the ISP has given us a line and an IP(Via Cable/DSL/Whatever) we should have everyright to do what WE want with that connection. If the world in this article comes to pass then and ISP would be looking at our packets for service type. Then saying "well thats a Quake packet no need to rush with that one, this packet thats coming through showing the lastest commercial for Chevy Trucks(who our database says paid us this month) via Realaudio(Who is the exclusive preferred video content provider for out network) is much more important. The way it should be, for the most part is, and should remain is equal consideration for all packets. Big Business please get off the internet, the real internet users(not the AOL lamers) have more important things to do. The true probelm is that its hard to get to the backbone, and because of that we have little control of what happens on the way there. Things should get opened up more, and that would solve some problems. it should be my choice what traffic I give and take and what i do with my connection if i want to run a web server, and a mail server of my own(which I do, in violation of the terms of service with my cable provider) then I should be able too. They really peved me as it appears they recently blocked my server from being able to answer DNS queries, which took my domain down for several days while I was away on a trip. They are the only game in town for high speed internet, and its annoying to not beable to do what i wish with my connection(verizon will not do DSL to far away, refuses to ISDN(to slow anyway), and refuses to create the infrastructure for anything else so i am stuck with my cable modem. I hate to involve the govenment, but perhaps its time for some consumer protection laws reguarding the internet.
It was economic reality that this would eventually happen. The average person might be willing to pay for this equipment, since they don't know there is any option. However the high end power users know there are other options, and they know that the RDRAM Memory is over priced, over rated, and under powered.
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I wish I had not used up my mod points yesterday, so I could mod you down you stupid idiot. I am an american citizen, and I want a counterstrike, I want one now, I want whatever organization, person, country whatever, Blasted back to the GOD Damned stone age, leveled, nuked, invaded, strung up by the short and curlies. There is no peace, there is only war when, and deserved war when crap like this happens. I bet the prick(s) who did this got in the country on H1B Visa's. So lets throw all of them out of the country while we are at it.
1. Compuserve, works pretty well for this and is fairly inexpensive, very much international
2. A little higher scale is UUNET Pal,(its on the Compuserve network actually), again very much international
3. Ok, this one will probably get me Trolled, but YES AOL is a potential Option for you they will let you pick up mail from other SMTP servers. and there is international access.
4. AT&T Worldnet should also be considered, I do not know the full extent of the network however.
5. Agian I'll get trolled, but you could also consider MSN.
1. Sick of paying outragous prices for software.
2. More resources to go to to solve problems when working in open source OS'es, Verses M$, and MAC which hide things.
3. If my code could be helped by changes to the core of the OS, I can write that change and even propose it to be included in the OS for everyone.
4. Same for Applications such as apache, if I write a mod for Apache it might even become part of Apache.
5. Get recognised my work as a person, not as a nebulous group that might or might not get a personal credit.
6. In somecases becuase its the only choice, if i write a driver for some companies hardware so it will work in my Linux Box I certainly can't try and sell it, they would Sue me over IP rights. Byt if I give it away well then I think thats much less likely anyway.
7. Because wide colaboration by many people makes for better code, less bugs overtime, and dfinately better testing by a diverse set of hardware/software conbinations.
8. My code could be useful elsewhere, if I write a program for windows, if probably only ever going to run on windows. If I write a program for Linux/BSD/or another Open OS...well it will probably run on Linux/BSD/Solaris/Windows/or something thats not even there yet, it might get translated into lanugages I don't even speak.
Your rock thanks!
I would love it if I could pick and choose the lego parts I want, like a lego hardware store. I guess we would never convince them to have serve yourself bins in the toy store, but that would be cool. Then it would be possible to go there, pick the parts you want for your next lego project, and maybe pay for them buy the pound like screws at the hardware store. This would totally open the market up, at least in my opinion. I wouldn't even mind if I had a web site to do this at, I need 20 of these, 4 of those, 80 of these...!
Its funny you say that, I have an as yet unpublished Novel, written around the the story, that created as I built my lego space ships. i still have all the ships packing in boxes, just in case I ever finish getting the book in a publishable form, so if they want to make a movie, they can see the real models of all the ships.
What I have always wanted is Lego CAD...I have seen a few attempt here and there, but nothing that was ever totally there or truely usuable. Can you Imagine what something like this well realized could teach a kid to do. Hell, the expirence in working 3D space on the computer would be amazing for a kid to learn(or me to play with) I have always found the 3D CAD/Modeling stuff clunky and hard to wrap my head around. If I could go to my computer and assemble the thing I wanted in 3D space as lego Pieces, then use a rendering function in the software to give it a real world look(take all those sharp corners off) WOW! And imagine something like this as a Level editing tool in Quake or Unreal!
Just my over excited toughts.
BTW anyone ever seen stuff like this I might have overlooked?
I am a Web developer. And I know for a fact that playing with Legos as a kid(Hell I still do, I admit it) has a dirrect effect on my ability to build web sites, write scripts, etc. I am sure if someone did the research they would discover that all the best Programmers played with Legos alot as Kids.
But seriously, and I know its been said, WHY NOT CLONE WARS
Hook the tivo up to a EMC Cellera Media Server Box, the Ultimate hack!
You know it's aways surprised me, esspecially after reading articles like this that there are things the providers have not already done. (Disclaimer: I am NOT promoting these ideas nor do I sugguest ever using them, in FACT please Don't). If the providers want to control content, and delievery, how come they give out real world IP's? They would have much finer control, if the cable modem nets, and home DSL nets were basically giant NAT networks, use one real IP hide the users behind it with private IP's they can get on and interact with the internet(Basic Dumb user happy), the compnay can control what flows on their net(Ie. Good bye servers, and other bandwidth hogs). Then they could charge a higher rate to get a real IP(more Yes infact please more) to the people(Like us) who want real world access, and know Yes we will run servers, no we really are not interested in your extended services, we know how to do that ourselves, and yes we are probably going to take up more bandwidth, please segment us off the main router so we don't slow down the causal browsers. Just a thought.
if your gonna express an opinion at least post as yourself and stand up for your beliefs....
We had similar incidents here, one or two inwhich guys were caught with porn, the machine was seized(it was one in a common area but with profiles enabled so we could tell who was doing what) replaced with an Identical machine, and then searched for evidence. We also had a guy get caught dispersing trade secrets via AOLIM, about an as yet unreleased product, he got canned as well.
It is writing and any one that does not see it as such is really the problem since they don't understand the current state of things. If Congresspersons do not understand my desire to address them via email, or consider Email an inferior form then they really should catch up with the times. The Written word is the written word no matter what form it takes after all.
personally I have never considered that I would have privacy in the work place I will probably take a Karma hit for saying so, but seriously your there at work to work. If your doing something besides working(goofing off, flirting, looking for your next job, whatever) then expect to get slapped for it. Maybe I just have screwed up work ethic, but if they are paying you the company that you work for should be able to expect you to be doing something that benifits them, not browsing the lastest porn site. If you want to do those other things on a break/lunch then go away from the company to do it.
This is exactly why, cases like his, and Felton's need to go to court, and need to have excellent lawers presenting them. The only way to get a bad law struck down is to go to court and prove its a bad law these days. Once Congress has pocketed the $$$ they are not gonna do a damn thing to reverse the assine law that they wrote, no matter how much we complain, and protest. Politicians don't listen to the people that elect them at all anymore. I write letter after letter to my congresspersons(as well as many others) I never get a reply so much as yes we got your letter. I know the govenment was setup is this representative system for a reason, it seems to me that if our reps are not voting in congress the way we the citizens feel, then there is something wrong with the system. The real fact is that our tiny voice is lost in the vast expanse, of those who don't know, don't care, are too stupid to care, or have to much cash with which to enforce thier opinion. I want campain finance reform that says Politician's must run on their own money and taking money/goods/services from anyone else is a Bribe pure and simple.
Well I tried to write to Mdam Seantor, but it appears that her web site(ugh Webmail) doesn't accept well thoughtout, carefully considered letters. I had to shorten my responses to something that probably didn't truely get the point across, due to the limited space available for a response.
It wouln't really have any effect the open nature of the protocol, means the bounty hunter could simply right a client that does nothing more than cature IP's. remember the Client needs to know your Ip so it connect to you to get the content your sharing, therefore they could code I client that just read IP's, not matter if the Bearshare, Limewire client hid them or not in its display.
First of all I have to congratulate Verizon for something, OUCH! (OK ~Grude~ nice going Versizon, on resisting pressure)
Ok, on to the rant.... Why aren't all ISP's doing this. Why is it that they don't understand their legal role here is to do nothing and should remain that way. They are granted enhanced service provider status under the law in the US. They are just like the Phone company, they provide a line, but can legally take no responsibility for whats on that line. The second they take any responsibility for whats on the line they loose that status. Perhaps because Verizon is in the phone business, they understand this and resisting pressure because they know thier legal standing in this, but more companies should be following the example. It seems to me that perhaps AOL is also understanding of this, lests consider they own Winamp which for alot of the world is the only way they know how to play that MP3 they just downloaded.
So far my provider for my Cable modem has not caved as far as I know and shows no signs of doing so, of course I never check my mail their, or hardly ever read their web site so who knows, it might have just changed.
I repeat, it is simply my desire to run my own mail server, and web host for my own personal purposes. I have plenty of expirence running these services, I was an internet user before there was ever a web, I remember using archie for god sakes. My Cable modem is the only choiuce I have other than 56K dialup for internet connection in my area. I run my own mail server, because I know that the only reason its gonna be down is if I take it down. I can have as many addresses as I like, for whatever purposes. I can store as much mail as I like so long as I don't run out of disk. The same goes for my web server, I can post what i like, when I like, not have to worry about service restrictions. For what i do with either of them or my FTP for that matter, 39.95 a month and 500K of bandwidth is good, I don't need to pay outragous fees to co-locate my server somewhere where its out of my control. I still contend it should be my right to do what I want with that line.
I beg to differ. If I desire to run a private mail server for myself, and a little webs ite for myself, I shouldn't have to pay the insane fees that are rquired to co-locate a machine, nor have to live under the restrictions of remote web hosting. I have co-located in the past wehn it was a business reality that I need a highbandwidth, 100% uptime line with 24/7 Monitoring for something I am doing and thats worth the $$$, but for my personal mail there is no reason I should have to do that and it should be my right to do so. I should have the right to negotiate my service agreement. Esspecially when I have only one method of access available to me. I live in the US and I have some rights to act. I also have the right to ask that my rights get some defense.
I seem to remeber there was a similar system for Genesis/SNES a few years back. I forget who made it, Madcatz I think, it cost like 79.99. It was a ring that you setup on the floor it fired infrared beams upward at the ceiling(and therefore required a somewhat flat aka NON-stucco or pithched ceiling). I seem to remember results were mixed(I was working in a game store at the time), again depending on the ceiling. I do remember one kid who bought one said it worked great, cause his parents had a mirror on the ceiling of the living room(shudders at image that evokes remembering what kids parents looked like)
I am not the an all knowing seer, but you had to figure this was coming, and we have heard rumblings before. Its been appearent, in things like the road runner services sending montly news letters about the great things you can find(for a fee). Its inevitable that eventually the network providers, would want to become contant providers and start showing preference for the content they wish to provide over the content that an intelligent user could search for on their own.
The Time has come for us to start demanding freedom of connection. Once the ISP has given us a line and an IP(Via Cable/DSL/Whatever) we should have everyright to do what WE want with that connection. If the world in this article comes to pass then and ISP would be looking at our packets for service type. Then saying "well thats a Quake packet no need to rush with that one, this packet thats coming through showing the lastest commercial for Chevy Trucks(who our database says paid us this month) via Realaudio(Who is the exclusive preferred video content provider for out network) is much more important. The way it should be, for the most part is, and should remain is equal consideration for all packets. Big Business please get off the internet, the real internet users(not the AOL lamers) have more important things to do. The true probelm is that its hard to get to the backbone, and because of that we have little control of what happens on the way there. Things should get opened up more, and that would solve some problems. it should be my choice what traffic I give and take and what i do with my connection if i want to run a web server, and a mail server of my own(which I do, in violation of the terms of service with my cable provider) then I should be able too. They really peved me as it appears they recently blocked my server from being able to answer DNS queries, which took my domain down for several days while I was away on a trip. They are the only game in town for high speed internet, and its annoying to not beable to do what i wish with my connection(verizon will not do DSL to far away, refuses to ISDN(to slow anyway), and refuses to create the infrastructure for anything else so i am stuck with my cable modem. I hate to involve the govenment, but perhaps its time for some consumer protection laws reguarding the internet.
It was economic reality that this would eventually happen. The average person might be willing to pay for this equipment, since they don't know there is any option. However the high end power users know there are other options, and they know that the RDRAM Memory is over priced, over rated, and under powered.