The article doesn't provide a whole lot of info, but I guarantee you that purchases you make with your "disposable" CC numbers will show up on your regular Amex bill. Not that the IRS gets copies of peoples' Amex bills to begin with.
Jeffrey's right, a closed-source network isn't going to help. Napster has already shown us what (lawsuits) happens (courts) to (judges) closed-source filesharing networks. Is that really what we need, another scapegoat?
The US Post Office and all it's operations were turned over to the Rockefeller Foundation. And they are not a part of the U. S. government. That is why they do not go by the name "United States Post Office" anymore.
Maybe you've been asleep, but the United States Postal Service indeed goes by that name. Have you actually gone to the post office (or usps.com) lately? Their original website was usps.gov, and non-government agencies don't get those. The official site was changed to usps.com due to a misprint on a huge stock of Priority Mail boxes.
They've been back under federal subsidy for several years now.
Annoyance in the sense that I very often receive emails regarding posts I made months (or years) ago. Harassment in the sense that these emails are often from people who are expressing themselves in a less-than-mature manner. I run into the following situation pretty often: 1. Post message to Usenet, 2. Someone finds it on Deja months later and writes me, 3. I delete the message, 4. They start sending vulgar mails or attacking me in the group (via a mydeja account, of course) because they know I'm there but I'm not responding to them. I delete these messages without replying, but it takes time to screen them - it's no different from spam.
I don't act childish, I don't spam, I don't troll, I don't post porn or warez. The bulk of my time is spent answering questions or giving advice in comp.os.linux.*, alt.hackintosh, and alt.2600. But the time I choose to spend in Usenet is just that - time I choose. I don't mind answering questions when I decide that I'm capable and have the time - I do mind when other people flood my inboxes, assuming that I have the time. Deja presents an inconvenience in that it generates uninvited email and unwanted discussion. It gives people the opportunity to dig up and attempt to re-start threads I was involved in months ago (and they always do this via email; if they'd post to the group, I'd be more inclined to respond). It's for this reason that you won't find any of my recent posts in Deja, because these days I make every effort to keep myself out. If there was a way to remove my old postings, I'd do that as well.
Usenet and the web are separate entities. Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I wish they'd stay that way, without Deja (or whomever) interfering.
And you're basing this statement upon...? New groups are being added daily, and contrary to popular belief, they aren't all binaries groups:) I read and post to a number of alt.* and comp.os.* groups and if anything, traffic is increasing.
I hate being the one to point this out (although I'm usually the one who points this out): Usenet wasn't built to be permanent. Deja has long been an annoyance for many, myself included. Participating in Usenet isn't supposed to involve having your words forever etched in stone - and it shouldn't involve having to opt-out of that kind of situation, either. Forgetting an "X-No-Archive: Yes" here and there can cause you a whole shitload of trouble, harassment, etc.
I for one am glad to see Deja's pre-99 stuff broken down. I wish they'd switch their entire site over to consumer advocacy, or whatever their business model is this week, and get rid of the Usenet archives entirely.
I wouldn't mind seeing C|Net's help.com, which posts messages to Usenet without the poster having a clue as to what Usenet is, die off as well.
but this release doesn't even warrant a copy of our home game.
You've got to at least give them credit for trying. And although I can't believe it myself, I don't see any built-in advertisements (or even space for them) in the screenshots.
And the answer is no, it's not sending anything more than pings. The source shows the unique_id being written to and read from the registry (though it wasn't written on my machine). My guess is that it helps the system keep track of multiple copies if they're all running at startup, by telling each instance which host it should ping. Though I'm a bit stumped, as I don't see a "run at startup" option within the program anywhere, and it didn't put itself into HKLM\...\CurrentVersion\Run.
I ran NSMon for 20 minutes and it didn't generate any traffic other than a UDP->DNS and lots of ICMP pings. I do agree it's missing a Quit button.
I'm certainly with you in principle. I don't use drugs, but I agree, this isn't a drug issue - it's about censorship, it's about unlawful search and seizure.
This time it's drugs, and America will cheer in glee at another battle won in the war on drugs. But next time it'll be porn, or liberalism, or whatever the current White House administration thinks is the enemy. And then we'll be in trouble.
The mere fact that our lawmakers have to bury such legislation within the text of unrelated bills is evidence enough that something's wrong. The bill didn't pass the first (or second, or third...) time around, for a reason - the people don't WANT laws like this. And apparently, a majority of the politicians don't either, because the bill keeps trying to die.
Does anyone have links to whitepapers or other references explaining the increased security that's purported to come with IPv6? I too am guilty of not doing much research into this topic, but I've heard several rumors that IPv6 addresses will be much more easily "traced" to their owner.
Any insight?
Shaun
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Redirection should take place on the server side whenever possible. All it takes is one line of Perl:
print "Location: path/to/new.html\n\n";
or PHP:
header("Location: path/to/new.html\n\n");
Hitting the back button after being redirected on the server side will have the desired effect; you'll go back to wherever you were before you were redirected.
That said, there are times when a designer will want to "lock in" their viewers, and after visiting a few of the sites listed, I think their design was intentional. Ask anyone who's dealt with some of the popular CGI-based shopping carts, and they'll tell you that their worst enemy is the back button. At a lot of shopping sites, the developers do everything in their power to make the customer's shopping experience a forward-moving process.
Unfortunately, sometimes warning users "don't press the back button, click (wherever) to continue" just isn't effective.
Unfortunately, poor wearcomp.org is already unreachable, so I can't get the whole story. But I tend to think the computers-as-clothing market isn't going to get anywhere until we can pack more bang into wireless.
Don't get me wrong, I like the technology. WAP is showing me what I could do with my cellphone today that I couldn't do a year ago. But until devices are able to utilize some sort of wireless networking protocol on their own - and until such a protocol is both fast and reliable - I'm not impressed.
Whatever happened to Jini? It was being developed by Sun, I think, and somehow enabled common devices with Java and wireless networking. Your cellphone didn't just deliver stock quotes, it also checked you into hotels, reserved your rental car when you walked off a plane into the airport, etc. Now *that's* the kind of personal networking that would impress me.
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>The income tax people will FREAK on this.
The income tax people have nothing to do with it.
The article doesn't provide a whole lot of info, but I guarantee you that purchases you make with your "disposable" CC numbers will show up on your regular Amex bill. Not that the IRS gets copies of peoples' Amex bills to begin with.
Shaun
Jeffrey's right, a closed-source network isn't going to help. Napster has already shown us what (lawsuits) happens (courts) to (judges) closed-source filesharing networks. Is that really what we need, another scapegoat?
Shaun
Maybe you've been asleep, but the United States Postal Service indeed goes by that name. Have you actually gone to the post office (or usps.com) lately? Their original website was usps.gov, and non-government agencies don't get those. The official site was changed to usps.com due to a misprint on a huge stock of Priority Mail boxes.
They've been back under federal subsidy for several years now.
I don't act childish, I don't spam, I don't troll, I don't post porn or warez. The bulk of my time is spent answering questions or giving advice in comp.os.linux.*, alt.hackintosh, and alt.2600. But the time I choose to spend in Usenet is just that - time I choose. I don't mind answering questions when I decide that I'm capable and have the time - I do mind when other people flood my inboxes, assuming that I have the time. Deja presents an inconvenience in that it generates uninvited email and unwanted discussion. It gives people the opportunity to dig up and attempt to re-start threads I was involved in months ago (and they always do this via email; if they'd post to the group, I'd be more inclined to respond). It's for this reason that you won't find any of my recent posts in Deja, because these days I make every effort to keep myself out. If there was a way to remove my old postings, I'd do that as well.
Usenet and the web are separate entities. Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I wish they'd stay that way, without Deja (or whomever) interfering.
Shaun
Shaun
I for one am glad to see Deja's pre-99 stuff broken down. I wish they'd switch their entire site over to consumer advocacy, or whatever their business model is this week, and get rid of the Usenet archives entirely.
I wouldn't mind seeing C|Net's help.com, which posts messages to Usenet without the poster having a clue as to what Usenet is, die off as well.
Shaun
Shaun
Well, the source is included...
And the answer is no, it's not sending anything more than pings. The source shows the unique_id being written to and read from the registry (though it wasn't written on my machine). My guess is that it helps the system keep track of multiple copies if they're all running at startup, by telling each instance which host it should ping. Though I'm a bit stumped, as I don't see a "run at startup" option within the program anywhere, and it didn't put itself into HKLM\...\CurrentVersion\Run.
I ran NSMon for 20 minutes and it didn't generate any traffic other than a UDP->DNS and lots of ICMP pings. I do agree it's missing a Quit button.
Shaun
I'm certainly with you in principle. I don't use drugs, but I agree, this isn't a drug issue - it's about censorship, it's about unlawful search and seizure.
This time it's drugs, and America will cheer in glee at another battle won in the war on drugs. But next time it'll be porn, or liberalism, or whatever the current White House administration thinks is the enemy. And then we'll be in trouble.
The mere fact that our lawmakers have to bury such legislation within the text of unrelated bills is evidence enough that something's wrong. The bill didn't pass the first (or second, or third...) time around, for a reason - the people don't WANT laws like this. And apparently, a majority of the politicians don't either, because the bill keeps trying to die.
We have to speak out and keep fighting.
Shaun
Does anyone have links to whitepapers or other references explaining the increased security that's purported to come with IPv6? I too am guilty of not doing much research into this topic, but I've heard several rumors that IPv6 addresses will be much more easily "traced" to their owner.
Any insight?
Shaun
Redirection should take place on the server side whenever possible. All it takes is one line of Perl:
print "Location: path/to/new.html\n\n";
or PHP:
header("Location: path/to/new.html\n\n");
Hitting the back button after being redirected on the server side will have the desired effect; you'll go back to wherever you were before you were redirected.
That said, there are times when a designer will want to "lock in" their viewers, and after visiting a few of the sites listed, I think their design was intentional. Ask anyone who's dealt with some of the popular CGI-based shopping carts, and they'll tell you that their worst enemy is the back button. At a lot of shopping sites, the developers do everything in their power to make the customer's shopping experience a forward-moving process.
Unfortunately, sometimes warning users "don't press the back button, click (wherever) to continue" just isn't effective.
Shaun
Unfortunately, poor wearcomp.org is already unreachable, so I can't get the whole story. But I tend to think the computers-as-clothing market isn't going to get anywhere until we can pack more bang into wireless.
Don't get me wrong, I like the technology. WAP is showing me what I could do with my cellphone today that I couldn't do a year ago. But until devices are able to utilize some sort of wireless networking protocol on their own - and until such a protocol is both fast and reliable - I'm not impressed.
Whatever happened to Jini? It was being developed by Sun, I think, and somehow enabled common devices with Java and wireless networking. Your cellphone didn't just deliver stock quotes, it also checked you into hotels, reserved your rental car when you walked off a plane into the airport, etc. Now *that's* the kind of personal networking that would impress me.