Uh huh. And why not? Should people also be encouraged/forced to play their own species, race, and career in games? Am I some sort of deviate because my main character is a 300-pound orc who's probably too dumb to memorize an alphabet? Then why should it be a problem for someone to role play a gender they're not? The whole point of RPGs is pretending to be something different for a little while.
"My coworkers and I were in a particularly heated meeting recently. Our management team had thrown a ridiculous project our way, and later yelled at us for not completing it to their non-existant specifications. When we met to discuss possible ways to satisfy this lose-lose situation, no one had any plausible ideas. During a break in conversation, I said, 'What we need to do is five-man the Baron'.
At least four people present laughed, including my boss."
I know I saw the TeamSpeak icon on a coworker's laptop the other day, and came very close to asking him what game it was for. Boy, it would be disturbing finding out he was on the same server; especially if he were a member of the other faction...
As far as i can tell, they don't offer the $20/unlimited bytes a la carte plan anymore, you have to be grandfathered into it. I went to change my plan options about a month ago and noticed it wasn't listed, so I stuck with the one you describe. I've been using it for almost two years over three sony/ericsson phones.
And they won it all back when every reader of slashdot bought a macbook pro and/or intel imac after being brainwashed with Apple stories for four consecutive days.
"To me the great hope is that now these little video recorders are around and people who normally wouldn't make movies are going to be making them. And suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camcorder and for once, the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed, forever, and it will really become an art form." -- Francis Ford Coppola, "Hearts of Darkness"
...once I get to my parents' anyway. But the 6 hour flight is gonna kill me. I gotta find some way to get WoW on the plane. Please, stewardess, you don't want to make me stop using my cellphone. If I miss the MC raid, I'll cry.
*twitch*
I can feel the withdrawal symptoms manifesting already.
"plausible deniability" != "security"
on
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· Score: 1
While everyone will be quick to point out the nuclear applications, "Energy research" also includes a lot of complex modeling for fossil fuels. They do a lot of number crunching on undersea oil/gas deposits and modelling said deposits to determine the best way to get at the fuels.
Maybe us open source folk should write a new Code Red version that uses the same explot and installs a service pack after it gets in, and then erases all the nasty things out of the scripts directories that the other code reds put there...
...then it automatically sends the maintainer a bill for our services.
Slashdotter: I wish to complain about
this company what I read about not half an
hour ago on this very website.
Me: Oh yes, the, uh, the Workstation manufacturer...What's,uh...What's
wrong with it?
S: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. it's dead,
that's what's wrong with it!
M: No, no, it's uh,...it's resting.
S: Look, matey, I know a dead company when I see one, and
I'm looking at one right now.
M: No no it's not dead, it's, it's restin'! Remarkable company,
the SGI, idn'it, ay? Powerfull CPUs!
S: The CPUs don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
M: Nononono, no, no! It's resting!
S: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up!
(shouting)
'Ello, Mister Bob Bishop! I've got a lovely fresh government
contract for you if you show...
M: There, it moved!
S: No, it didn't, that was you faking a press release!
M: I never!!
S: Yes, you did!
M: I never, never did anything...
S: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO SGI!!!!!
Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine
o'clock alarm call!
I'm both a customer of residential broadband and an employee at a DSL ISP -- and I'm not a customer of my own company. For my DSL line, I accept the fact that it's a consumer product and shouldn't be expected to have all the functionality of a product for which someone else (e.g. a business) is paying 4 to 10 times as much. It's ridiculous to assume that your $50/mo connection (which the company is probably losing money on, if not breaking even) can run a web server and a DNS server and what-have-you. If you think that you're entitled to everything and entitled to it for free, get over yourself, get a job and pay for what you use.
On the other hand, where I work, I didn't hesitate to block inbound port 80. It's the first large-scale compulsory filtering of any kind we've done on dialup or broadband. It sort of hurt to do so, but with Code Red et al propogating like rabbits, it had to be done. If (business) users contact us and explain that they're running apache or a patched IIS server, I'll gladly set up an exception for them. But with something like Code Red, everyone has to do their part to stop it from spreading. Despite near-domination by commercial entities, it's still a community which requires upkeep by all participants.
What?! Since when did your OS become a style choice? It's not something you should change just because you "get bored" with it! It's a tool that you select based on your needs. (That's not to say anything of the other "tools" which seem to frequently post stories to/. nowadays.)
As a DSL provider, I have to say that PPPoX is the *only* way to easily scale to huge DSL deployments and maintain at least a limited degree of security without sacrificing tons of bytes per user in configuration. By using PPPoE or PPPoX, despite the "overhead" the user has to deal with, you suddenly can treat all your DSLs just like dialup users -- and configure every DSL PVC identically and then deal with bandwidth allocation, IP address assignment, etc through RADIUS. The alternative is extremly painful for anything more than a few dozen users.
And it's not all that big of a headache on the user end, no matter how much people like to gripe about it.
MS (and every other software company) have you agree not to hold them responsible for any loss of any kind (and due to any cause... even negligence). If I were a computer company, I'd have you agree to the same thing.
Now, the question for the lawyers is if the negligence is to the point that they are in breach of their portion of the EULA, which would put the users in a position to demand something in return (service, patches, upgrades, money, bill's head on a platter, etc).
I want to buy a decomissioned submarine -- a diesel one -- and sneak around the globe snipping transoceanic cables. Cyberterrorism of the physical kind. Cut them in two places, several miles apart so that repair is virtually impossible. After ruining a few gigabits worth of transcontinental traffic, start demanding money from the data carriers who own and operate the cables. Boy would it be fun. And profitable.
Ricochet was FAR from a "wireless networking" access technology. Ricochet was more like "wireless dialup that happens to be about as fast as ISDN, maybe a bit faster if you're lucky." Sure, they used 802.11 in their distribution network but it was 900mhz serial for the "last mile."
Pretty much the only way to cost-effectively enter a market with wireless *BROADBAND* internet access is by being a small company with knowledge of the economic climate and physical characteristics of a region. Trying to develop a business plan that encompasses offering wireless service on the rolling, treeless hills of Southern California and also the dense brush of New England is virtually impossible.
If you want information about the ISPs who are offering wireless broadband service using 802.11 and other technologies (personally, I think wireless ATM would make a lot more sense than wireless Ethernet, but that's a topic for another day), go to where the WISPs talk about it themselves... ISP Planet's isp-wireless mailing list (and associated archives) at www.isp-wireless.com.
As if content providers didn't have enough problem
s as it is, with hits coming in at innundating rates, imagine what they'll have to do when the limiting factor on all data transactions becomes the bandwidth of their hard drives and memory in the servers? I mean, "last mile ethernet" may sound great, but who's going to upgrade the backbones to multiple OC-4098 circuits to handle the new traffic? And what do the providers do once they've spent their entire start up capital on their own gigabit connection (you know, something with more QoS than Ethernet and therefore a higher pricetag) just so people don't bitch about their service being slow?
It's a double-edged sword. Rapidly increasing the bandwidth at the fringes of the Internet instead of the core is going to cause some serious problems and side-effects.
While for a long time I've agreed with John Q. Slashdotuser that Carnivore is an invasion of privacy and the like, I've recently changed my view.
I work for a medium-sized ISP. Not too long ago, we had a server that was broken into and used for launching DDOS attacks, despite being well-maintained with security patches and intrusion detection systems. While rummaging through the system after the break-in was detected, the logs pointed to a couple other ISPs, as would be expected.
When I went to contact the other providers, one of them responded *much* quicker than usual for a major hosting company. We exchanged six emails in the course of an hour regarding the specifics of the system compromise, and shortly thereafter I received a call from our boys in the bureau.
It turns out that there had been a carnivore system at the other provider watching specifically for the perpetrator of the attack on our server. The traffic that was captured there helped diagnose the breakins (along with many others).
In talking with the agent, I *quickly* realized that this isn't used for "black helicopter" surveillance. They don't give a flip about the data they accidentally collect that has your credit card number paying for that adult website and they don't care about that email you sent to your friend about the meeting. If anything, the stuff that is accidentally captured is taking up disk space where REAL forensic data could be.
Most of the FBI people who deal with carnivore aren't out to find anyone who's committing a crime. They're not out to invade the privacy of internet users. They're people with computer and networking backgrounds like you or me and they dig through the electronic clues to provide reports to higher-ups that are clueless about the technology.
It's a good thing. Let's try to look at both sides.
It is virtually impossible for ISPs to get inexpensive DSL modems in quantity. The ones that are 50-100 are usually PCI, which ISPs don't want to support. For some reason, the Ethernet ones (bridges and particularly routers) just aren't coming down in price despite their simplicity.
Sure, it's one thing for a tech-head to go on eBay and get a modem for his or her DSL line cheap that may have seen a little use, but an ISP can't get 80 of them to sell to their users that way.
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Uh huh. And why not? Should people also be encouraged/forced to play their own species, race, and career in games? Am I some sort of deviate because my main character is a 300-pound orc who's probably too dumb to memorize an alphabet? Then why should it be a problem for someone to role play a gender they're not? The whole point of RPGs is pretending to be something different for a little while.
Anything for the Warchief.
One guildie relates this story:
"My coworkers and I were in a particularly heated meeting recently. Our management team had thrown a ridiculous project our way, and later yelled at us for not completing it to their non-existant specifications. When we met to discuss possible ways to satisfy this lose-lose situation, no one had any plausible ideas. During a break in conversation, I said, 'What we need to do is five-man the Baron'.
At least four people present laughed, including my boss."
I know I saw the TeamSpeak icon on a coworker's laptop the other day, and came very close to asking him what game it was for. Boy, it would be disturbing finding out he was on the same server; especially if he were a member of the other faction...
As far as i can tell, they don't offer the $20/unlimited bytes a la carte plan anymore, you have to be grandfathered into it. I went to change my plan options about a month ago and noticed it wasn't listed, so I stuck with the one you describe. I've been using it for almost two years over three sony/ericsson phones.
And they won it all back when every reader of slashdot bought a macbook pro and/or intel imac after being brainwashed with Apple stories for four consecutive days.
"To me the great hope is that now these little video recorders are around and people who normally wouldn't make movies are going to be making them. And suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camcorder and for once, the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed, forever, and it will really become an art form." -- Francis Ford Coppola, "Hearts of Darkness"
Sounds like you're saying the same thing.
...once I get to my parents' anyway. But the 6 hour flight is gonna kill me. I gotta find some way to get WoW on the plane. Please, stewardess, you don't want to make me stop using my cellphone. If I miss the MC raid, I'll cry.
*twitch*
I can feel the withdrawal symptoms manifesting already.
Someone buy the /. staff a dictionary.
> And don't be surprised, its gonna go up and
:)
> down like a yo yo as we fix things.
How is that any different from REGULAR slashdot over the past couple weeks?
-Chris
While everyone will be quick to point out the nuclear applications, "Energy research" also includes a lot of complex modeling for fossil fuels. They do a lot of number crunching on undersea oil/gas deposits and modelling said deposits to determine the best way to get at the fuels.
-Chris
Maybe us open source folk should write a new Code Red version that uses the same explot and installs a service pack after it gets in, and then erases all the nasty things out of the scripts directories that the other code reds put there...
...then it automatically sends the maintainer a bill for our services.
-Chris
Slashdotter: I wish to complain about
:)
this company what I read about not half an
hour ago on this very website.
Me: Oh yes, the, uh, the Workstation manufacturer...What's,uh...What's
wrong with it?
S: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. it's dead,
that's what's wrong with it!
M: No, no, it's uh,...it's resting.
S: Look, matey, I know a dead company when I see one, and
I'm looking at one right now.
M: No no it's not dead, it's, it's restin'! Remarkable company,
the SGI, idn'it, ay? Powerfull CPUs!
S: The CPUs don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
M: Nononono, no, no! It's resting!
S: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up!
(shouting)
'Ello, Mister Bob Bishop! I've got a lovely fresh government
contract for you if you show...
M: There, it moved!
S: No, it didn't, that was you faking a press release!
M: I never!!
S: Yes, you did!
M: I never, never did anything...
S: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO SGI!!!!!
Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine
o'clock alarm call!
See, guys, I told you they still had life left!
-Chris
Seriously.
I'm both a customer of residential broadband and an employee at a DSL ISP -- and I'm not a customer of my own company. For my DSL line, I accept the fact that it's a consumer product and shouldn't be expected to have all the functionality of a product for which someone else (e.g. a business) is paying 4 to 10 times as much. It's ridiculous to assume that your $50/mo connection (which the company is probably losing money on, if not breaking even) can run a web server and a DNS server and what-have-you. If you think that you're entitled to everything and entitled to it for free, get over yourself, get a job and pay for what you use.
On the other hand, where I work, I didn't hesitate to block inbound port 80. It's the first large-scale compulsory filtering of any kind we've done on dialup or broadband. It sort of hurt to do so, but with Code Red et al propogating like rabbits, it had to be done. If (business) users contact us and explain that they're running apache or a patched IIS server, I'll gladly set up an exception for them. But with something like Code Red, everyone has to do their part to stop it from spreading. Despite near-domination by commercial entities, it's still a community which requires upkeep by all participants.
Just my $0.04.
-Chris
> Getting bored with the latest distribution?
/. nowadays.)
What?! Since when did your OS become a style choice? It's not something you should change just because you "get bored" with it! It's a tool that you select based on your needs. (That's not to say anything of the other "tools" which seem to frequently post stories to
-Chris
As a DSL provider, I have to say that PPPoX is the *only* way to easily scale to huge DSL deployments and maintain at least a limited degree of security without sacrificing tons of bytes per user in configuration. By using PPPoE or PPPoX, despite the "overhead" the user has to deal with, you suddenly can treat all your DSLs just like dialup users -- and configure every DSL PVC identically and then deal with bandwidth allocation, IP address assignment, etc through RADIUS. The alternative is extremly painful for anything more than a few dozen users.
And it's not all that big of a headache on the user end, no matter how much people like to gripe about it.
-Chris
Don't you ever read that EULA before you install?
MS (and every other software company) have you agree not to hold them responsible for any loss of any kind (and due to any cause... even negligence). If I were a computer company, I'd have you agree to the same thing.
Now, the question for the lawyers is if the negligence is to the point that they are in breach of their portion of the EULA, which would put the users in a position to demand something in return (service, patches, upgrades, money, bill's head on a platter, etc).
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I want to buy a decomissioned submarine -- a diesel one -- and sneak around the globe snipping transoceanic cables. Cyberterrorism of the physical kind. Cut them in two places, several miles apart so that repair is virtually impossible. After ruining a few gigabits worth of transcontinental traffic, start demanding money from the data carriers who own and operate the cables. Boy would it be fun. And profitable.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
> I lost a character whose name players today
> (and this is 5 years later) still grab whenever
> it comes available.
The game had nothing to do with the fact that "CowboyNeal" is just a popular handle.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
Ricochet was FAR from a "wireless networking" access technology. Ricochet was more like "wireless dialup that happens to be about as fast as ISDN, maybe a bit faster if you're lucky." Sure, they used 802.11 in their distribution network but it was 900mhz serial for the "last mile."
Pretty much the only way to cost-effectively enter a market with wireless *BROADBAND* internet access is by being a small company with knowledge of the economic climate and physical characteristics of a region. Trying to develop a business plan that encompasses offering wireless service on the rolling, treeless hills of Southern California and also the dense brush of New England is virtually impossible.
If you want information about the ISPs who are offering wireless broadband service using 802.11 and other technologies (personally, I think wireless ATM would make a lot more sense than wireless Ethernet, but that's a topic for another day), go to where the WISPs talk about it themselves... ISP Planet's isp-wireless mailing list (and associated archives) at www.isp-wireless.com.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
As if content providers didn't have enough problem
s as it is, with hits coming in at innundating rates, imagine what they'll have to do when the limiting factor on all data transactions becomes the bandwidth of their hard drives and memory in the servers? I mean, "last mile ethernet" may sound great, but who's going to upgrade the backbones to multiple OC-4098 circuits to handle the new traffic? And what do the providers do once they've spent their entire start up capital on their own gigabit connection (you know, something with more QoS than Ethernet and therefore a higher pricetag) just so people don't bitch about their service being slow?
It's a double-edged sword. Rapidly increasing the bandwidth at the fringes of the Internet instead of the core is going to cause some serious problems and side-effects.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
While for a long time I've agreed with John Q. Slashdotuser that Carnivore is an invasion of privacy and the like, I've recently changed my view.
I work for a medium-sized ISP. Not too long ago, we had a server that was broken into and used for launching DDOS attacks, despite being well-maintained with security patches and intrusion detection systems. While rummaging through the system after the break-in was detected, the logs pointed to a couple other ISPs, as would be expected.
When I went to contact the other providers, one of them responded *much* quicker than usual for a major hosting company. We exchanged six emails in the course of an hour regarding the specifics of the system compromise, and shortly thereafter I received a call from our boys in the bureau.
It turns out that there had been a carnivore system at the other provider watching specifically for the perpetrator of the attack on our server. The traffic that was captured there helped diagnose the breakins (along with many others).
In talking with the agent, I *quickly* realized that this isn't used for "black helicopter" surveillance. They don't give a flip about the data they accidentally collect that has your credit card number paying for that adult website and they don't care about that email you sent to your friend about the meeting. If anything, the stuff that is accidentally captured is taking up disk space where REAL forensic data could be.
Most of the FBI people who deal with carnivore aren't out to find anyone who's committing a crime. They're not out to invade the privacy of internet users. They're people with computer and networking backgrounds like you or me and they dig through the electronic clues to provide reports to higher-ups that are clueless about the technology.
It's a good thing. Let's try to look at both sides.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
It is virtually impossible for ISPs to get inexpensive DSL modems in quantity. The ones that are 50-100 are usually PCI, which ISPs don't want to support. For some reason, the Ethernet ones (bridges and particularly routers) just aren't coming down in price despite their simplicity.
Sure, it's one thing for a tech-head to go on eBay and get a modem for his or her DSL line cheap that may have seen a little use, but an ISP can't get 80 of them to sell to their users that way.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
...is spent on websites operated by CmdrTaco, CowboyNeal, Dem Bones, Hemos, et al.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
> rabbits in australia, zebra mussels in the
> great lakes, killer bees in the southern US.
Besides animals, look at Kudzu.
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
"What the fuck's a triffid?"
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...