Some engineer is not doing their job if they can't handle arbitrary data input to their device.
I am not an electrical engineer, but I wonder, can this data be captured, made avaiable and reproducable in mp3 format, then inserted into say, Britanny Spears or BackStreet Boys MP3's, then 'made available' to teeny boppers everywhere, with the intention of damaging their equipment?
Be careful! Your example demonstrates every mistake it possibly could. One, it requires putting your email address in the HTML, where a spammer could find it. Two, it does not appear to restrict the recipient, meaning it is effectively an open relay. Three, there is no indication that it performs effective logging, meaning it is effectively an anonymous open relay.
Not to mention that any programmer so thoughtless probably didn't think much about security, so you may be creating a new vulnerability without solving the old one.
Or you could simply do what has been working for me; I set up an AOL account that is not allowed to recieve any email. The mail is directed there, and then it bounces back to me on my root hosting account as a "failure". I get the email, no account names are revealed.
Sure, the wire in some cases is there, but everyone knew about the bottlenecks.
XDSL (what I have) seems to be better; I don't have the "every one in the 'hood sharing one connection" problem. Given the choice between dial up and Cable, I stuck with dial up until XDSL became available (our town was built 10 yrs ago with fibre optic, I think they had to retro-fit us with copper or something).
Have you thought about getting cable, but maintaining a dial up back up? Or can you sweat it out until XDSL is available?
Other options include getting a burner at work (assuming work has a decent connection) and downloading large needed files there.
Releasing something as unpredictably huge as a massively-multiplayer roleplaying game is a horribly complicated affair. Suddenly, resources get slammed with not twice, not triple, but orders of magnitude more demands. And while I'm sure many network and software engineers would sneer and say they could manage theoretical scalability problems of this order easily, they either lying to themselves or not going to work for these companies.
NO... they've had more than four years (since the launch of UO...what a nightmare) to learn how to deal with this. It is completely INEXCUSABLE.
Somebody obviously hasn't learned that releasing a buggy product receives BAD REVIEWS and NEGATIVE FEEDBACK! Censoring that feedback isn't going to change the quality of the game.
Someone mod that back up, he's not a troll.
Censoring feedback? Screaming at customers? Banning them for disagreeing with you? But it works for Everquest made by Verant and Ultima Online...why not AO, too?
If there was more time spent improving the game rather than trying to engineer public opinion, they wouldn't have this problem.
And if people didn't stop buying games they Knew weren't ready, they should not buy them or continue to support the companies. WWII online was so bad, and was returned so much that some stores put up signs saying they would not take returns under any circumstances!
I really am surprised that given the number of us geeks who game, there aren't more stories on slashdot about the general idiocy and crappiness of MMOG staff and software and hardware. Ignorance is bliss, or in the case of these companies, profitable.
Where I think the most important use comes in is in the opportunities this opens up for Indy writers and zine publishers. This way, seemingly anyone can get a "professional" looking hardcopy of their own material, whereas previously they would be confined to the copying machine at Staples.
Exactly. I've been struggling for years as a poor writer and have realised that I better serve as an editor and wish to be a publisher...but I lack the funds to start a major publishing company. Looking at prices from my local full press printer, I cry. THIS I could save up for or get a mortgage on and kick start my publishing company into high gear with minimal (the price of a car! I can drive my Escort forever!) investment... put the books on the 'net:)
Could bulk email software manuracturers be liable? Should they have to program in checks to make sure its not being used to spam? (at least once some of this pending legislation passes, hopefully). Its something that should be able to be done. If spamcop can determine spoofed IPs, why cant these programs do it beforehand?
The problem is, you can write scripts and auto responders and "email programs" that spam with a little bit of effort, mostly just by scanning a few script sites, or so it seems. I've been looking for a way to implement web-based email for my self and family members for our family site, it doesn't look that hard to implement some freeware and then add in stuff to spoof IP addresses and bounce it off of open relays.
The best way to combat these types of spam is to shift the cost of spamming onto the spammer.... Charge those who send emails, based on the volume of email sent. Again, have a maximum "free" amount of email that can be sent before being charged for it.
The problem is finding those who send the emails. A lot of folks bounce them through open relays, using web-based mail systems that are never necessarily seen by an ISP. Who charges them... the ISP who magically "sees" email going out via a web-based service? Or do they simply sit at the recieving ISP or hosting company until the bill has been paid?
Umm. No. Anyone who has taken Economics 101 would know that supply is the cost of the hunks of metal plus the costs of the people hired to put them together. That's unskilled labor, and the supply curve is extremely elastic.
Nope, it's not unskilled labor necessarily for the entire process. The guys who make the dies make mucho bucks (40 dlrs US per hour or more) and the assembly, even if handled by a temp through an agency can run up to 20 dlrs US an hour. These aren't little light switches they are assembling, they are big heavy pieces of metal.
And there is no give on these suckers, they have to be EXACT and that doesn't come cheap.
I've worked at factories where we only made plastic parts for cars, which is somewhat similar, just different materials, but believe you me, even a millimetre off can really ruin a huge run of material, time, etc.
I guess the only problem is that X10 actually has to honor their own cookies.
I did the X10 thing here at work, and again at home. Both systems are set up to accept cookies in the same way, with the same Settings for the browsers... however, I still get the ads at some sites (but not the original site I read about it on (abcnews.com about two weeks ago).
I don't know about that... I recall a double drive through at Taco Cabana... I think it used a chain-driven lift system on the second lane, like a dumbwaiter of years past, but I dont nkow if it made a big circle like a Ferris Wheel or what.... The food went from the restaurant, over the first drive through, to the second drive through.
The building was built in 1994, they had the tube system built in. Put in your tube, pick a button and off it goes. Moves orders from the order desk to the wareheouse, to accounting and back again.
Hell, my bank still uses them at the drive-thru...
Now, if there are cases where you can be salaried *and* get overtime, well, then that's a different story... I've just never seen that actually happen.
Seen it. Roomate is salaried (too low, IMHO). Some times he'll come in Sundays or late nights... they have negotiated that they will get the equivalent of 1 1/2 hrs pay for sundays or all weekend things and comp-time.
I know I will get flamed for this, because it sounds too much like a labor union, but remember there is strength in numbers. If you go it alone, you will probably be ignored, but if you can get a few or better yet all of your co-workers who are in the same situation to confront your employer at the same time, you are more likely to get results, after all 1 person is easy to replace, 10 are not.
Flame Flame Flame Flame. Happy?
But seriously, yes. Get several solutions and all of you hammer it out and approach as a group. Do it in writing. But yeah, if they want to fire you and replace you with recently laid off hungry under-qualified punks, they might, so don't burn bridges.
You aren't a slave, you've got to act as though you are not. Either get paid for this or don't do it. I worked for too long at companies for too little a wage...slave labor. Never again. Stick together and be ready to be canned if they don't like it.
The Tax on the Censorware. Lemmie see... that'll be under $2, right?
Most nerds on/. can easily afford $2000 machines and are whining about paying an extra $2? I'll eat at McDonalds for a lunch instead of a nice restaraunt today. That should cover my next two or three computers if this bill ever passes.
I don't mean to troll, but if you are truely a nerd in the computer industry, you *should* be well paid (if not, just look for a job with your qualifications on Monster.com and see what you could be paid). Whining about $2 on a $2k purchase? Geez...
1. Not everyone who has or wants or needs a computer is a well paid nerd in the computer industry.
2. This is as stupid as the federally mandated censorware at public libraries... politicians and nosy incompetent parents trying to make up for their lack of parental/computing skillz.
3. It may cost the software industry $2.00 but what makes you think they would only charge the consumer $2.00?
4. This is about stupid laws written to "protect" criminally stupid people...
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I am not an electrical engineer, but I wonder, can this data be captured, made avaiable and reproducable in mp3 format, then inserted into say, Britanny Spears or BackStreet Boys MP3's, then 'made available' to teeny boppers everywhere, with the intention of damaging their equipment?
-Mynn the Museless
Actually, I heard somewhere that Scully was going to experiment with lesbianism...
-Mynn the Museless
I have to second the idea to check out sinfest. It is silly, irreverent, and interesting. Well worth the few moments a day to read.
-Mynn the Museless
Or you could simply do what has been working for me; I set up an AOL account that is not allowed to recieve any email. The mail is directed there, and then it bounces back to me on my root hosting account as a "failure". I get the email, no account names are revealed.
-Mynn the Museless
S/he could sell Tee-shirts... but that would be an awful lot of tee-shirts...
-Mynn the Museless
Sure, the wire in some cases is there, but everyone knew about the bottlenecks.
XDSL (what I have) seems to be better; I don't have the "every one in the 'hood sharing one connection" problem. Given the choice between dial up and Cable, I stuck with dial up until XDSL became available (our town was built 10 yrs ago with fibre optic, I think they had to retro-fit us with copper or something).
Have you thought about getting cable, but maintaining a dial up back up? Or can you sweat it out until XDSL is available?
Other options include getting a burner at work (assuming work has a decent connection) and downloading large needed files there.
-Mynn the Museless
Your lawyers, http://www.prepaidlegal.com appear to have left the server.
404! Get yer fresh 404 page here! 404, it's not just an area code anymore!
-Mynn the Museless
Been getting my news lately from this site, who listed the shower curtain story on July tenth.
-Mynn the Museless
NO... they've had more than four years (since the launch of UO...what a nightmare) to learn how to deal with this. It is completely INEXCUSABLE.
-Mynn the Museless
Someone mod that back up, he's not a troll.
Censoring feedback? Screaming at customers? Banning them for disagreeing with you? But it works for Everquest made by Verant and Ultima Online...why not AO, too?
And if people didn't stop buying games they Knew weren't ready, they should not buy them or continue to support the companies. WWII online was so bad, and was returned so much that some stores put up signs saying they would not take returns under any circumstances!
I really am surprised that given the number of us geeks who game, there aren't more stories on slashdot about the general idiocy and crappiness of MMOG staff and software and hardware. Ignorance is bliss, or in the case of these companies, profitable.
-Mynn the Museless
Exactly. I've been struggling for years as a poor writer and have realised that I better serve as an editor and wish to be a publisher...but I lack the funds to start a major publishing company. Looking at prices from my local full press printer, I cry. THIS I could save up for or get a mortgage on and kick start my publishing company into high gear with minimal (the price of a car! I can drive my Escort forever!) investment... put the books on the 'net
-Mynn the Museless
-Mynn the Museless
The problem is finding those who send the emails. A lot of folks bounce them through open relays, using web-based mail systems that are never necessarily seen by an ISP. Who charges them... the ISP who magically "sees" email going out via a web-based service? Or do they simply sit at the recieving ISP or hosting company until the bill has been paid?
-Mynn the Museless
Nope, it's not unskilled labor necessarily for the entire process. The guys who make the dies make mucho bucks (40 dlrs US per hour or more) and the assembly, even if handled by a temp through an agency can run up to 20 dlrs US an hour. These aren't little light switches they are assembling, they are big heavy pieces of metal.
And there is no give on these suckers, they have to be EXACT and that doesn't come cheap.
I've worked at factories where we only made plastic parts for cars, which is somewhat similar, just different materials, but believe you me, even a millimetre off can really ruin a huge run of material, time, etc.
-Mynn the Museless
I did the X10 thing here at work, and again at home. Both systems are set up to accept cookies in the same way, with the same Settings for the browsers... however, I still get the ads at some sites (but not the original site I read about it on (abcnews.com about two weeks ago).
Anyone else have this problem?
-Mynn the Museless
I just saw this at the mall for like $100 bucks or something....
I guess they were slashdotted. Check it in a few hours. Think I've got some 'splaning to do...
Just published today in fact, a nice little piece about Cal Ripkin, Jr.
"Cal Ripken eats his vegetables"
I don't know about that... I recall a double drive through at Taco Cabana... I think it used a chain-driven lift system on the second lane, like a dumbwaiter of years past, but I dont nkow if it made a big circle like a Ferris Wheel or what.... The food went from the restaurant, over the first drive through, to the second drive through.
Been too long since I've been to Taco Cabana
Excuse me, that's Moose Jaw thankyouverymuch.
The building was built in 1994, they had the tube system built in. Put in your tube, pick a button and off it goes. Moves orders from the order desk to the wareheouse, to accounting and back again. Hell, my bank still uses them at the drive-thru...
Seen it. Roomate is salaried (too low, IMHO). Some times he'll come in Sundays or late nights... they have negotiated that they will get the equivalent of 1 1/2 hrs pay for sundays or all weekend things and comp-time.
Flame Flame Flame Flame. Happy?
But seriously, yes. Get several solutions and all of you hammer it out and approach as a group. Do it in writing. But yeah, if they want to fire you and replace you with recently laid off hungry under-qualified punks, they might, so don't burn bridges.
You aren't a slave, you've got to act as though you are not. Either get paid for this or don't do it. I worked for too long at companies for too little a wage...slave labor. Never again. Stick together and be ready to be canned if they don't like it.
upon further research, it seems you are correct *this* time.
1. Not everyone who has or wants or needs a computer is a well paid nerd in the computer industry.
2. This is as stupid as the federally mandated censorware at public libraries... politicians and nosy incompetent parents trying to make up for their lack of parental/computing skillz.
3. It may cost the software industry $2.00 but what makes you think they would only charge the consumer $2.00?
4. This is about stupid laws written to "protect" criminally stupid people...