And how does switching away from AOL changes this ?
It minimizes the hastle. Moving away from companies that you know will be a problem is a big help. We've done that with my other grandmother and I do sleep easier knowing it.
But they don't want to cancel it, so that's immaterial.
Not to conjure it up somehow, but the fun will just wait until they die. When my grandmother died, I had to deal with many a crappy company to get them to stop charging her for things. Death certificates and all, it was a drag and some companies would "lose" the documentation over and over again. Think it'll just go away because they're dead? The coompanies can sue the estate (your inheritance?) to get the money. They can also collect (harass) from next of kin. You'll just cancel the credit cars then? That can take just as long (interest still accrues).
Again, I hope your grandparents live to be 500, but when anyone gets around the 80s you should be thinking very seriously and often about how things will be handled. I wouldn't wish the ugly ways it can go on anyone.
I started a similar schedule working rotating shifts as a mainframe operator long ago (10 years or so). I've always been a night owl, but working a day shift then a swing then two graves then a day made it possible for me to experiment. To this day, I'm most comfortable being awake 24-28 hours then sleeping for 6-10 (it seems to rotate seasonally). I also have to force myself to sleep and have trouble getting up. Apparently, Frank Zappa was a similar sleeper to us.
First the blunt: Welcome to Real Life(tm). This is a situation you will see over and over again. For futher information, see Office Space.
Second: There are two ways out... Hook up with a temp agency to pay the bills and quit or save enough cash to cover a couple months of bills and quit. Either way, move toward quitting. Others have mentioned vacation/sick time but these may lead to "absenteeism" and burnt bridges.
Now that you're in your new job, communicate your workload better so you don't get piled on again. If you notice, the people who get away with doing nothing amplify the weight of their workload (whine). Also, ask about "mandatory overtime" and such in future interviews.
Try turning logging on in Windows for all files when you've got a few million of them. You won't have a storage logging space problem - you'll have a maxed out server problem.
I wasn't endorsing blanket logging. Selective logging is the way to go, but it's not foolproof. The thing is, someone needs to really consider what needs to be logged and log storage for any real security to work. In the mainframe world, some companies even have a person dedicated to this and monitoring the logs.
With the use of a log server, I've seen auditing tunred on for the whole $SYSROOT$. It can be helpful for a server that is very important, but must be done with care. There are Windows remote logging applications available even though MS doesn't implement it fully to my knowledge. Under *nix, it's a no brainer because remote logging is thought of from the earliest days.
Typical conundrum of the business world - when something propagates beyond your consent, you must show loss to justify demands for more control. It may be a freudian slip for "loss of control". For further reading, see "Content Industry".
Auditing of a filesystem is the best way to go here, IMHO. Drives are getting bigger, so capacity for log storage grows too. Currently you can set most filesystems that have granular security to audit file access, writing, creation and deletion. Perhaps there is some way to adit target actions ("copied to removable drive X", "opened by Microsoft Word") that will be developed eventually. Personally, I log access to important files as a matter of habit (mostly with NTFS). I've also found that the bigwig execs love it when you tell them you can see who tried to look in their directory.
I can't wait for these dinosaurs to kick off and shut the f*sk up.
People have been saying this for 30 years. It's not going to happen. It's a system. It won't just up and die one day, it has to be changed (which you also note). Young, ambitious people can be greedy too. Especially when they have teachers.
I think we're seeing the stranglehold on music being shaken, but there will always be greedy bastards trying to pull one over. For now it's an arms race between legislative gaming ("them") and consumer education ("us"-ish). Sadly, consumer education isn't as easy as it sounds in a media based nation like the US. I personally have almost given up on spamming congresscritters. I'm afraid it's white noise to them by now. What worries me more than these individual battles is the signs of democracy being injured in the process. As a whole, we're not long-term fighting very much. We're putting out legal fires where/when/if we can.
Oops! Didn't mean to troll. I'm not taking an opinion on either, but making light of the accusatory nature of modern times (albeit lamely). Hence the witch hunt link being a Google News search - There's always some kind of witch-hunt or someone claiming to be hunted. Drop jokes not trolls...
Yay, another Witch Hunt to keep track of. Finding people to blame is so much easier than trying to be an example to everyone else. Better yet, claiming to be oppressed is better than actually accomplishing something. Damn, which to be... I'll just claim to be a persecuted persecutor of persecuted people who do bad things (imho - and yours too if I have my way).
According to the 6PM news here in SF, AOL said no. The report cited the same MSN was vague info and had a nice graphic that had the companies listed with Yahoo holding a big green checkmark, AOL and Google having red "X" boxes and MSN with question marks. I haven't seen anything online that corroborates that... yet. Perhaps Google is the only one taking such a hard stand and AOL said a quiet "we can't do that until we confer with legal department". Or perhaps AOL hasn't complied promptly... Were they seeing if anyone else refused and bought time by placating the DOJ but not really providing anything.
It would be nice to see someone else stand with Google - even if it is AOL.
Does anyone else find the similarity between a mag-lev elevator and a rail gun just slightly disturbing?
Disturbing? Yeah, that elevator would be a bitch to aim... and you'd need a spare skyscraper next to you for ammo. Finally, SimTower becomes a FPS game!
The issue is at some point, Bellsouth is getting paid already. They don't operate the backbones networks out of the goodness of their heart. And at some point, Bellsouth customers are using other providers backbones. Should those providers start charging Bellsouth a premium to let their traffic on the Network?
BS provides for some content providers too. Talk about double-billing them! Please don't get me wrong, I think this whole idea is Pure Evil(tm). I'm just putting forth the arguments they are making from sources I trust. I guess I'm clarifying the "enemy" (IMHO) but if we geeks can't quantify what they are planning, you think a congresscritter will when it comes time to lobby them to make this law somehow?
I understand what you're saying, but it serves no purpose in this conversation.
Bellsouth is a backbone provider here in the US. Don't forget that SBC/AT&T or whoever they are today is thinking of doing this as well. How many content providers have servers on their networks? If they decided to both do this at the same time, that would be a major swath of the US backbone. I see your point about the captive consumer audience, but enough of the backbone here in the US has murmured about this that I think it's the direction they want to go in the future - they just don't want to be the first "asshole" about it. I agree that the backbone way of doing this is audacious and risky, but I think it's their endgame. I'm waiting for Sprint to dive in.
Then again, we have no real data on how they intend to work this new business model. We just know they're greedy enough to want to do it.
BTW: thanks for the BGP and AS Path-length idea. I'm off to read now after some googling:)
While I usually don't agree with software patents, I have to admit that in this case it's beneficial: at least it prevents Bellsouth from being too annoying to its users and to the world at large
I don't remember who said this but, "If you can't decide which side is evil, usually both are". Computer technology Patent/Profit catch 22s are becoming uncomfortably common nowadays.
Nice memory for that patent though. It should make this verrry interesting.
i am paying for a connection, my provider pays to be connected, to provide me with service.
The problem is, who does your provider pay for their connection? Is it the same company that connects to the end node (server)? The internet is not a train track of direct connections, but an amorphous mass of possible connections. The backbone providers are widely interconnected and currently data passes freely between them. Here's some topology to give you an idea. In fact, parts of a file may pass through completely different backbones during one download only to have all of the parts (hopefully) end up in the same place. This is fundamental to how TCP/IP works and how the internet can "route around failures" as it were.
Here's a fun experiment: tracert the same far away address once a week for a month and see how many different in-between networks you get. This used to be an exotic passtime in the early days when sometimes a packet would get routed around somplace bizarre every so often and there were so few network providers that you pretty much could identify them all in the tracert. Now, packets traveling through places with little infrastructure can have a similar effect. Try a.gh (Ghana) domain or some other african nation...
What would they do - require a fee per domain name to be consumed by a household (and enforce it how? That's one heck of an ACL - as if RBOC DSL service isn't sluggish enough already - Qwest can't get you down the street from home to serving wire center under 40-45 ms typically).
The scheme would probably work like this:
Cap all traffic from everywhere at a certain rate or usage limit
Charge either provider or subscriber for a higher bandwidth cap on a site. A subscriber could have a list of sites they would like as "premium" - maybe even submit a bookmark list on a micropayment per address scheme. The provider would of course pay for their sites or even individual files to be "premium".
Quite on the contrary, your subscribers are the ones pulling data across your network
They are talking about the space in the middle. These are the backbone providers. Try doing a tracert to somewhere far. If you're in the US try bbc.co.uk or vise-versa. These folks are talking about all of those "hops" your data makes getting from say the slashdot server to OSDN to backbone provider to your isp then to you. It's not a single connection downloading a file, it's hundreds of parts taking many paths that get put together on your end. Here's more basic info on how that works.
I wonder who they'll charge for the spam and worm traffic... MS? Spammers? Consumers with zombie machines? Will porn be super slow in the future or will they pay up?
Seriously though, these "charges" will of course be passed along to us end users somehow, much like the telcos do now with the fees they are charged (look at your phone bill). More plentiful/intrusive ads, registrations a la NYT (note from mom and teste req'd) or just a flat out service fee. The folks playing MMORPGs will probably see the spike most directly in their monthly fees. Of course this leaves us schleps with personal servers and such with yet one more bill to pay if they get aggressive enough about deciding who a content provider is. The bandwidth wars are begining, methinks.
Com TLD is about 75% of the domain names from your source.
If you notice, the example I cited also does not list all TLDs. I cited it to give an idea of how big the DNS database can be. According to this recent quarterly report form Verisign,.com is actually only 47% of the TLD landsacpe after including country codes (37%!) and the other non-previously-cited TLDs.
So, to further my previous example, knowing a domain is.com cuts the number of records to search by more than half. Can't do that with alpha numeric I bet (maybe close for the letter "S" - but I digress).
by techno-vampire (666512):Without TLDs, we'd have to come up with an entirely new way to resolve DNS, and I very much doubt it'd be as quick or as reliable as what we have now.
by Aardpig (622459):Can you explain why, in detail? Because I disagree with you.
Not much detail needed. Think of how big a domain name database is. If anything, the TLD can narrow the search within the database immensly. Instead of looking for one item in 62,473,494 you could narrow it down to one in 6,809,016 just by knowing it's.net and not something odd like www.mycompany.myownshinytld. Yes, for this advantage a TLD can be arbitrary (ie:.001,.002,.003 etc.) - but you have to admit the advantage is there. I wonder how many DNS database lookups happen per second worldwide... anyone know where to look up that stat for the rootservers?
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Again, I hope your grandparents live to be 500, but when anyone gets around the 80s you should be thinking very seriously and often about how things will be handled. I wouldn't wish the ugly ways it can go on anyone.
And that's my 4AM post...
Second: There are two ways out... Hook up with a temp agency to pay the bills and quit or save enough cash to cover a couple months of bills and quit. Either way, move toward quitting. Others have mentioned vacation/sick time but these may lead to "absenteeism" and burnt bridges.
Now that you're in your new job, communicate your workload better so you don't get piled on again. If you notice, the people who get away with doing nothing amplify the weight of their workload (whine). Also, ask about "mandatory overtime" and such in future interviews.
With the use of a log server, I've seen auditing tunred on for the whole $SYSROOT$. It can be helpful for a server that is very important, but must be done with care. There are Windows remote logging applications available even though MS doesn't implement it fully to my knowledge. Under *nix, it's a no brainer because remote logging is thought of from the earliest days.
Auditing of a filesystem is the best way to go here, IMHO. Drives are getting bigger, so capacity for log storage grows too. Currently you can set most filesystems that have granular security to audit file access, writing, creation and deletion. Perhaps there is some way to adit target actions ("copied to removable drive X", "opened by Microsoft Word") that will be developed eventually. Personally, I log access to important files as a matter of habit (mostly with NTFS). I've also found that the bigwig execs love it when you tell them you can see who tried to look in their directory.
I think we're seeing the stranglehold on music being shaken, but there will always be greedy bastards trying to pull one over. For now it's an arms race between legislative gaming ("them") and consumer education ("us"-ish). Sadly, consumer education isn't as easy as it sounds in a media based nation like the US. I personally have almost given up on spamming congresscritters. I'm afraid it's white noise to them by now. What worries me more than these individual battles is the signs of democracy being injured in the process. As a whole, we're not long-term fighting very much. We're putting out legal fires where/when/if we can.
Yay, another Witch Hunt to keep track of. Finding people to blame is so much easier than trying to be an example to everyone else. Better yet, claiming to be oppressed is better than actually accomplishing something. Damn, which to be... I'll just claim to be a persecuted persecutor of persecuted people who do bad things (imho - and yours too if I have my way).
It would be nice to see someone else stand with Google - even if it is AOL.
No apology needed. "We learn from humor when we can laugh at ourselves" - unknown
Then again, we have no real data on how they intend to work this new business model. We just know they're greedy enough to want to do it.
BTW: thanks for the BGP and AS Path-length idea. I'm off to read now after some googling :)
Nice memory for that patent though. It should make this verrry interesting.
Here's a fun experiment: tracert the same far away address once a week for a month and see how many different in-between networks you get. This used to be an exotic passtime in the early days when sometimes a packet would get routed around somplace bizarre every so often and there were so few network providers that you pretty much could identify them all in the tracert. Now, packets traveling through places with little infrastructure can have a similar effect. Try a .gh (Ghana) domain or some other african nation...
- Cap all traffic from everywhere at a certain rate or usage limit
- Charge either provider or subscriber for a higher bandwidth cap on a site. A subscriber could have a list of sites they would like as "premium" - maybe even submit a bookmark list on a micropayment per address scheme. The provider would of course pay for their sites or even individual files to be "premium".
- (obscene) Profit!!!
Think of it as a modified cable business model.Seriously though, these "charges" will of course be passed along to us end users somehow, much like the telcos do now with the fees they are charged (look at your phone bill). More plentiful/intrusive ads, registrations a la NYT (note from mom and teste req'd) or just a flat out service fee. The folks playing MMORPGs will probably see the spike most directly in their monthly fees. Of course this leaves us schleps with personal servers and such with yet one more bill to pay if they get aggressive enough about deciding who a content provider is. The bandwidth wars are begining, methinks.
So, to further my previous example, knowing a domain is .com cuts the number of records to search by more than half. Can't do that with alpha numeric I bet (maybe close for the letter "S" - but I digress).