Back in the early two thousands, we had V.P. level access to Paypal, because a client of ours was kind of a big deal. It was a multi-million dollar deal -- and Paypal HAD to turn it down. Why? They stoned lipped us at the time and didn't tell us why. We got the story from the V.P. after he left the company later.
You see, Paypal once wanted to be a bank. In order to be a bank, they had to be FDIC insured. And therein lies the hitch. You see, back then, the Bush administration frowned on certain adult orientated entertainment. The US government told Paypal, under no uncertain terms, that if they wanted to even be considered for FDIC insurance, they had to give up all monetary benefits from adult orientated entertainment.
I would speculate that this is less bank or Paypal driven (Banks don't have any problem taking porn money, after all, they just charge the porn companies more for taking it) then it does government driven and Paypal having inked a deal with the US government.
Of course, this is pure speculation and heresy and I'm sure if you asked any of the parties involved, everyone would deny it.
Likely, you forgot to adjust for inflation. $350K a year in the 70's was about $2,000,000 a year in todays term. Also, I have no idea where you found that salary and I'd like to see the source.
Bill Gates might had have rich parents, but Steve Jobs certainly didn't. He was adoption child and really poor in his young adult years, even up to the point that he collected money for food by returning empty bottles to a store. He also dropped out of school.
No, but he did have an angel investor named Mike Markkula. Funny how that is also neglected. He didn't just "build it from the ground up in his garage" as is often touted. He received a serious dose of cash from his angel investor.
... those of us who use google apps (and we tend to be early adopters and push new technology and/or high tech business entities) still don't have access to google+.
Essentially, as long as you don't pay google, you'll get google+. If you fork over money to google, you won't. It's really quite bizarre.
When asked, all we hear is "Soon.. no really, SOON!". They also provide this "helpful" hint:
If you already signed up for Google+ with your Google Apps email address, you've created a conflicting account -- essentially a personal Google Account that uses the same email address as your Google Apps account. In the future, you'll be prompted to rename this conflicting account to an email address that is not already associated with an existing Google Account, for example a new Gmail address.
Sigh. So, as much as I would love to join this discussion about the merits or demerits of google+, I can't.
Verizon: Verizon launched its FiOS Video service in Keller, Texas on September 22, 2005. FiOS TV[18] uses an optical fiber network to deliver more than 500 total channels, more than 180 digital music channels, more than 95 high-definition channels, and 10,000 video-on-demand titles. Verizon also provides DirecTV service as well. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon#Video)
AT&T: U-verse TV is delivered via IPTV from the head-end to the consumer's Total Home DVR or standard set-top box.[2] U-verse uses H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) encoding which compresses video more efficiently than the traditional MPEG-2 codec. Broadcast channels are distributed via IP multicast, allowing a single stream (channel) to be sent to any number of recipients. The system is also designed for individual unicasts for video on demand, central time shifting, start-over services and other programs desired by only one home at that particular time. The set-top box does not have a conventional tuner, but is an IP multicast client which requests the stream desired. In the IP multicast model, only the streams the customer uses are sent. The customer's connection need not have the capacity to carry all available channels simultaneously. U-Verse TV, however, only supports up to 4 active streams at once. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-verse#U-verse_TV)
Time Warner: Time Warner (formerly AOL Time Warner) is one of the world's largest media companies(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner)
blah blah blah, this hurts consumers, blah blah blah, developers are stupid because the put DRM in expecting to end piracy, blah blah blah.
Developers aren't stupid; they know the bottom line. That DRM drives away a certain type of customer. And guess what? That's fine with them. They aren't interested in customers who are gamers. They are interested in customers who put up with their shit and still pay for it. You aren't their target market. Their target market is Grandma who buys whatever little Johnny wants. Or the guy who doesn't care about archiving games because he'll be onto the next one within a week.
One of the ones I use for linux is if you are on a compromised system and suspect the PS (but not the kernel) have been compromised:
awk '{print $1, $2}'/proc/[0-9]*/stat ain't pretty but it gets the job done.
For directories where I need to do something to all the files, I do:
find . | while read -r file; do echo $file; done
you can use -iname or other misc things to find to limit the files. Replace echo with whatever you want to do. This is mostly done for something more complicated then -exec or xargs for me.
Another pretty common one but maybe some don't know about is:
cd - takes you back to the previous directory you were last in.
I would think the ISPs would be more concerned with the perception that they are somehow responsible for policing for this kind of content. Once you open the door to that kind of expectation, how can you close it again?
I guess the only way for ISPs to insure that we are getting good, wholesome, content is to provide that content to us that is directly under their control. I personally can't wait for "LIVE! Reality Internet! In this episode, Joey learns MSN with an UNEXPECTED twist! It's a laugh riot! Brought to you by: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese!"
but ideas peddled and then rejected are a CLEAR sign that some one or some organization is going beyond free-speech guarantees.
No such thing. Free speech is free speech. Saying that going 'beyond' is placing a limit on it somewhere. Once a limit is in place, it's trivial to adjust it. I'd rather have someone yelling at me with a microphone and be annoyed then someone whispering quietly to me and remaining ignorant.
Well, it doesn't look like anything OVERLY bad is happening there.. except for this little tidbit:
Appendix G
Camp Echo
This annex is classified and available to those individuals that have a requirement to have it. All requests for copies of this annex are to be submitted to JDOG Operations.
So, camp echo is where the bad things happen, I imagine. Maybe that document is next?
Sorry, but I do not believe the living out of his car story one bit. People that do that do it as a last resort. Nobody lives in their car and walks around with 9000k in their pockets and runs a business. Being homeless is very very dangerous.
Okay, you don't know much about humans. People do odd things all the time. Billy Corgan lived in a storage unit when he had over a million dollars in the bank. (source: http://billycorgan.livejournal.com/ Apr. 23rd, 2005|12:00 pm)
Your premise that people don't live beneath (Or WAY beneath) their means unless they NEED to is clearly wrong.
So they say they have a mathematical description of the parallel universe theory. One can construct a mathematical model that describes the geocentric solar system perfectly well, but the the heliocentric version is much simpler.
So, which is simpler?
(1) Shit happens.
(2) Shit happens. Parallel universes are created.
Well, the alternative being the copenhagen interpretation. Which is really interesting, because it states that a concious observation is what determines the collapse. So your list is more acurately described like this:
(1) Shit happens. But only if a concious entity observes it.
(2) Shit happens. Parallel universes are created.
IANAQP.
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I would have anonymously figure out a way to rig his computer to send all his kiddy porn to a "public" printer. The biggest fucking color printer in the place. Maybe one of those big ass HP with paper rolls on it. For extra kick I would have set it to go off when the office prude or church lady was standing next to it. Then I would fire the bitch off and stand back and watch the fun.
Yes, please do vigilante justice. It's not like you'd ruin anyones life if you were wrong.
Any worse than how Verisign and Cameroon have modified how a DNS server is expected to respond (IE: with a NXDOMAIN)?
No, not in my opinion. But that was the crux of the flamewar on nanog. At least with that particular change, it was optional, and by default turned off.
Network engineers are at the very bottom of the computer industry food chain; I think you need something like a GED and a pulse to get that kind of job. (So what are you waiting for? Apply now!)
Right. That's why CCIEs earn (on average) $100K+ a year. Don't confuse "network engineers" with "first level support". Or, as we call them, noc monkeys.
1) His (windows) desktop uses the default XP background. Odd that the world's richest man doesn't change his background picture.
No, if you are using the default windows XP background, you are using the worlds richest mans favorite background picture.;)
In fact, most routers probably work off even broder rules, with (just making this up, now), all address starting with 129.17-129.32 should be pushed out towards OAR net, then OARnet would do more focused routing in house.
Absolutely correct. But it's still possible. You assign a whole ipv6 subnet that goes to/people/. Then that particular network deals with the joy of routing to people -- much like a cell phone network. (patent pending;)
Finally, there is also the fact that a lot of people have poor communication skills and don't put their message across as well and because text is much more limited than face to face communication, subtlties are often lost.
I disagree, an "eloquent" person can get just as much meaning across with text as not.;)
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple, and others.
Well, as strange as this may seem, these aren't the only sites on the net. I hardly see how these sites failing constitutes a "the sky is falling due to uncentralized DNS servers!" mentality.
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Back in the early two thousands, we had V.P. level access to Paypal, because a client of ours was kind of a big deal. It was a multi-million dollar deal -- and Paypal HAD to turn it down. Why? They stoned lipped us at the time and didn't tell us why. We got the story from the V.P. after he left the company later.
You see, Paypal once wanted to be a bank. In order to be a bank, they had to be FDIC insured. And therein lies the hitch. You see, back then, the Bush administration frowned on certain adult orientated entertainment. The US government told Paypal, under no uncertain terms, that if they wanted to even be considered for FDIC insurance, they had to give up all monetary benefits from adult orientated entertainment.
I would speculate that this is less bank or Paypal driven (Banks don't have any problem taking porn money, after all, they just charge the porn companies more for taking it) then it does government driven and Paypal having inked a deal with the US government.
Of course, this is pure speculation and heresy and I'm sure if you asked any of the parties involved, everyone would deny it.
Likely, you forgot to adjust for inflation. $350K a year in the 70's was about $2,000,000 a year in todays term. Also, I have no idea where you found that salary and I'd like to see the source.
Bill Gates might had have rich parents, but Steve Jobs certainly didn't. He was adoption child and really poor in his young adult years, even up to the point that he collected money for food by returning empty bottles to a store. He also dropped out of school.
No, but he did have an angel investor named Mike Markkula. Funny how that is also neglected. He didn't just "build it from the ground up in his garage" as is often touted. He received a serious dose of cash from his angel investor.
... those of us who use google apps (and we tend to be early adopters and push new technology and/or high tech business entities) still don't have access to google+.
Essentially, as long as you don't pay google, you'll get google+. If you fork over money to google, you won't. It's really quite bizarre.
When asked, all we hear is "Soon.. no really, SOON!". They also provide this "helpful" hint:
If you already signed up for Google+ with your Google Apps email address, you've created a conflicting account -- essentially a personal Google Account that uses the same email address as your Google Apps account. In the future, you'll be prompted to rename this conflicting account to an email address that is not already associated with an existing Google Account, for example a new Gmail address.
Sigh. So, as much as I would love to join this discussion about the merits or demerits of google+, I can't.
Henry Rollins tells a great and funny story about working with you on a musical project (here and here)
What is your perspective on the story?
Well, that's that then.
That'll do, Taco, that'll do.
Verizon: Verizon launched its FiOS Video service in Keller, Texas on September 22, 2005. FiOS TV[18] uses an optical fiber network to deliver more than 500 total channels, more than 180 digital music channels, more than 95 high-definition channels, and 10,000 video-on-demand titles. Verizon also provides DirecTV service as well. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon#Video)
AT&T: U-verse TV is delivered via IPTV from the head-end to the consumer's Total Home DVR or standard set-top box.[2] U-verse uses H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) encoding which compresses video more efficiently than the traditional MPEG-2 codec. Broadcast channels are distributed via IP multicast, allowing a single stream (channel) to be sent to any number of recipients. The system is also designed for individual unicasts for video on demand, central time shifting, start-over services and other programs desired by only one home at that particular time. The set-top box does not have a conventional tuner, but is an IP multicast client which requests the stream desired. In the IP multicast model, only the streams the customer uses are sent. The customer's connection need not have the capacity to carry all available channels simultaneously. U-Verse TV, however, only supports up to 4 active streams at once. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-verse#U-verse_TV)
Time Warner: Time Warner (formerly AOL Time Warner) is one of the world's largest media companies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner)
So, how about five out of five?
1) Cisco is naturally the big boy. Most companies come close to emulating ios. Learning it won't hurt.
2) I wouldn't do courses. Based on (admittedly old) experience, they are a joke.
3) Sign up to NANOG, it won't help your knowledge directly, but will keep you updated on the latest trends/concerns/flame wars.
4) If you thought there were "more than one way to do it" in programming, you are going to love networking.
5) A host is a host, From coast to coast And nobody talks to a host that's close, Unless the host that isn't close Is busy, hung, or dead.
blah blah blah, this hurts consumers, blah blah blah, developers are stupid because the put DRM in expecting to end piracy, blah blah blah.
Developers aren't stupid; they know the bottom line. That DRM drives away a certain type of customer. And guess what? That's fine with them. They aren't interested in customers who are gamers. They are interested in customers who put up with their shit and still pay for it. You aren't their target market. Their target market is Grandma who buys whatever little Johnny wants. Or the guy who doesn't care about archiving games because he'll be onto the next one within a week.
One of the ones I use for linux is if you are on a compromised system and suspect the PS (but not the kernel) have been compromised:
/proc/[0-9]*/stat ain't pretty but it gets the job done.
awk '{print $1, $2}'
For directories where I need to do something to all the files, I do:
find . | while read -r file; do echo $file; done
you can use -iname or other misc things to find to limit the files. Replace echo with whatever you want to do. This is mostly done for something more complicated then -exec or xargs for me.
Another pretty common one but maybe some don't know about is:
cd - takes you back to the previous directory you were last in.
I would think the ISPs would be more concerned with the perception that they are somehow responsible for policing for this kind of content. Once you open the door to that kind of expectation, how can you close it again?
I guess the only way for ISPs to insure that we are getting good, wholesome, content is to provide that content to us that is directly under their control. I personally can't wait for "LIVE! Reality Internet! In this episode, Joey learns MSN with an UNEXPECTED twist! It's a laugh riot! Brought to you by: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese!"
but ideas peddled and then rejected are a CLEAR sign that some one or some organization is going beyond free-speech guarantees.
No such thing. Free speech is free speech. Saying that going 'beyond' is placing a limit on it somewhere. Once a limit is in place, it's trivial to adjust it. I'd rather have someone yelling at me with a microphone and be annoyed then someone whispering quietly to me and remaining ignorant.
Here's a blog from a smaller band regarding an record company trying to get them on board.. and the amusing result.
Well, it doesn't look like anything OVERLY bad is happening there.. except for this little tidbit:
Appendix G
Camp Echo
This annex is classified and available to those individuals that have a requirement to have it. All requests for copies of this annex are to be submitted to JDOG Operations.
So, camp echo is where the bad things happen, I imagine. Maybe that document is next?
Sorry, but I do not believe the living out of his car story one bit. People that do that do it as a last resort. Nobody lives in their car and walks around with 9000k in their pockets and runs a business. Being homeless is very very dangerous.
Okay, you don't know much about humans. People do odd things all the time. Billy Corgan lived in a storage unit when he had over a million dollars in the bank. (source: http://billycorgan.livejournal.com/ Apr. 23rd, 2005|12:00 pm) Your premise that people don't live beneath (Or WAY beneath) their means unless they NEED to is clearly wrong.
So they say they have a mathematical description of the parallel universe theory. One can construct a mathematical model that describes the geocentric solar system perfectly well, but the the heliocentric version is much simpler. So, which is simpler? (1) Shit happens. (2) Shit happens. Parallel universes are created.
Well, the alternative being the copenhagen interpretation. Which is really interesting, because it states that a concious observation is what determines the collapse. So your list is more acurately described like this:
(1) Shit happens. But only if a concious entity observes it.
(2) Shit happens. Parallel universes are created.
IANAQP.
I would have anonymously figure out a way to rig his computer to send all his kiddy porn to a "public" printer. The biggest fucking color printer in the place. Maybe one of those big ass HP with paper rolls on it. For extra kick I would have set it to go off when the office prude or church lady was standing next to it. Then I would fire the bitch off and stand back and watch the fun.
Yes, please do vigilante justice. It's not like you'd ruin anyones life if you were wrong.
Any worse than how Verisign and Cameroon have modified how a DNS server is expected to respond (IE: with a NXDOMAIN)?
No, not in my opinion. But that was the crux of the flamewar on nanog. At least with that particular change, it was optional, and by default turned off.
So, this option will preemptively avoid all jerkwads like Verisign and Cameroon. The only question is, why this isn't enabled by default.
Because it modifies how a DNS server is expected to respond (IE: with the truth). There was a huge flamewar about even ADDING the feature on nanog.
Network engineers are at the very bottom of the computer industry food chain; I think you need something like a GED and a pulse to get that kind of job. (So what are you waiting for? Apply now!) Right. That's why CCIEs earn (on average) $100K+ a year. Don't confuse "network engineers" with "first level support". Or, as we call them, noc monkeys.
1) His (windows) desktop uses the default XP background. Odd that the world's richest man doesn't change his background picture. No, if you are using the default windows XP background, you are using the worlds richest mans favorite background picture. ;)
In fact, most routers probably work off even broder rules, with (just making this up, now), all address starting with 129.17-129.32 should be pushed out towards OAR net, then OARnet would do more focused routing in house.
/people/. Then that particular network deals with the joy of routing to people -- much like a cell phone network. (patent pending;)
Absolutely correct. But it's still possible. You assign a whole ipv6 subnet that goes to
Finally, there is also the fact that a lot of people have poor communication skills and don't put their message across as well and because text is much more limited than face to face communication, subtlties are often lost.
;)
I disagree, an "eloquent" person can get just as much meaning across with text as not.
Take Expedia.com
Interestingly enough, MS owns the trademark for Expedia. Serial NO: 75085568 Reg NO: 2224559, in case this link doesn't work.
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple, and others.
Well, as strange as this may seem, these aren't the only sites on the net. I hardly see how these sites failing constitutes a "the sky is falling due to uncentralized DNS servers!" mentality.