Damn! I knew I should have ended that with a winky emoticon;-)
To your point, it's best to be running a local Apache returning 404 Not Found if you're using hosts to block certain sites. Avoids timeouts. I find Adblock Plus does a faster job.
The slippery slope was a looooong ways back. Like maybe RICO or the "war" on drugs. After 9/11, Bush and Ashcroft cheerfully pushed us off the cliff into this ever-expanding police state.
Citizen, you are in error and clearly in need of retraining. Air travel is a privilege, not a right. The only way to prevent terrorist attacks is to notify the government, several days in advance, of your intention to travel between different parts of the country; and to submit to physical searches, document checks and property seizures at the various government checkpoints while in transit.
This is just moderator abuse, plain and simple. Parent is most emphatically NOT a "troll", he's repeating what was a front-page story here on Slashdot within the last two weeks.
And ten years before that, there was the ASCII "Bambi VS Godzilla" that ran on 1200 baud "VDT"s. (That's "Video Display Terminal", as opposed to a teletype/DecWriter (paper) terminal)
Q: is there any other 30-year-old technology still present in current computers?
Sigh. Kids these days.
32-bit IP adresses, TCP-IP, the whole Berkeley stack
FAT-32
The x86 Instruction set*
Winchester hard-disc drives
SCSI*
CRTs
Switching power supplies
Dynamic RAM
Getting bored now
You get the idea. More things are the same (with minor evolutionary improvements) than are different.
* OK, yes, they've been updated/added to, but the basic technology is unchanged.
I'm with you. I think the guy's a genius. Better than the Recipie Troll, Helen Keller and the SCO licensing guy all rolled into one. Dr. Bob is funny, on-topic (in his hilariously off-topic way) and damn smart. Plus, he's somehow got a gift for frist-psotting, as well. I hope he keeps visiting us for a long time to come.
I think you're missing the OP's point. When (10Mb) Ethernet was specced, 500GB was more data storage than there was on the planet, and by a lot, not by a little. In a way, 10Mb/s is like the 32-bit IP address thing, it was way-mega overkill at the time, but seems kind of puny today on a global scale, yet still works perfectly adequately on small to medium sized networks.
but sticking a disk in a plastic box witih no ventilation and no cooling? Yeah, _no_.
Exactly. I've lost to heat-death enough external USB/Firewire drives mounted in too-tiny boxes to have sworn a mighty oath that I'm never ever buying another. Plus the joy of having yet another wall-wart power supply to find a home for.
This is just the camel's nose in the tent to do away with all that awful, yucky anonymity on teh Internets. Monitored, controlled, non-anonymous citizens don't file-share, among other things. Think of the children!!
What makes you so sure that a "new, improved" government-only "Internet" would use TCP/IP? Seems likely enough you could spec special blessed and approved network hardware as part of the overall plan.
I haven't wanted anything to do with them since they signed that deal with Microsoft. They're a bunch of fucking sellouts, and I don't want anything to do with them or Suse. I damn sure don't care if they've come up with some crazy new drive technology.
I was going to subscribe to your newsletter, but then I thought about how many dead uppity stewardesses would result from armed passengers, and then I really wanted to subscribe to your newsletter.
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Damn! I knew I should have ended that with a winky emoticon ;-)
To your point, it's best to be running a local Apache returning 404 Not Found if you're using hosts to block certain sites. Avoids timeouts. I find Adblock Plus does a faster job.
I always assumed that when I checked the "Do Not Track" box, they set a special cookie.
The slippery slope was a looooong ways back. Like maybe RICO or the "war" on drugs. After 9/11, Bush and Ashcroft cheerfully pushed us off the cliff into this ever-expanding police state.
If, by "white people", you mean "Republican fat cats", then yes.
Citizen, you are in error and clearly in need of retraining. Air travel is a privilege, not a right. The only way to prevent terrorist attacks is to notify the government, several days in advance, of your intention to travel between different parts of the country; and to submit to physical searches, document checks and property seizures at the various government checkpoints while in transit.
This is just moderator abuse, plain and simple. Parent is most emphatically NOT a "troll", he's repeating what was a front-page story here on Slashdot within the last two weeks.
And ten years before that, there was the ASCII "Bambi VS Godzilla" that ran on 1200 baud "VDT"s. (That's "Video Display Terminal", as opposed to a teletype/DecWriter (paper) terminal)
Sigh. Kids these days.
32-bit IP adresses, TCP-IP, the whole Berkeley stack
FAT-32
The x86 Instruction set*
Winchester hard-disc drives
SCSI*
CRTs
Switching power supplies
Dynamic RAM
Getting bored now
You get the idea. More things are the same (with minor evolutionary improvements) than are different.
* OK, yes, they've been updated/added to, but the basic technology is unchanged.
I'm with you. I think the guy's a genius. Better than the Recipie Troll, Helen Keller and the SCO licensing guy all rolled into one. Dr. Bob is funny, on-topic (in his hilariously off-topic way) and damn smart. Plus, he's somehow got a gift for frist-psotting, as well. I hope he keeps visiting us for a long time to come.
Mods, Dr. Bob deserves an "informative"!
I think you're missing the OP's point. When (10Mb) Ethernet was specced, 500GB was more data storage than there was on the planet, and by a lot, not by a little. In a way, 10Mb/s is like the 32-bit IP address thing, it was way-mega overkill at the time, but seems kind of puny today on a global scale, yet still works perfectly adequately on small to medium sized networks.
You are missing the point entirely. Steve Jobs has invented acceleration! That's what all the fuss is about.
Absolutely. Daytime IT workers get more fame, recognition, money, glory, slack and poontang than you chubby 3rd shifters could possibly dream of.
Ouch. I guess you haven't heard the old proverb: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me FOUR times..."
Exactly. I've lost to heat-death enough external USB/Firewire drives mounted in too-tiny boxes to have sworn a mighty oath that I'm never ever buying another. Plus the joy of having yet another wall-wart power supply to find a home for.
Three words: Japanese bagpipe music.
You DO remember going to the gate at the airport to see someone off, don't you? Seems rather slippery to me.
This is just the camel's nose in the tent to do away with all that awful, yucky anonymity on teh Internets. Monitored, controlled, non-anonymous citizens don't file-share, among other things. Think of the children!!
What makes you so sure that a "new, improved" government-only "Internet" would use TCP/IP? Seems likely enough you could spec special blessed and approved network hardware as part of the overall plan.
Yup. This is just Clipper chip / Trusted Computing / HDMI / 'show us your papers' all over again, in new clothing.
All those people who want to violate their privacy on Facebook — let them continue to play — we'll violate their privacy everywhere else.
Yeah, I think the current dosage might be suppressing your sense of humour a bit. Course, the mods don't seem to be getting it, either.
I haven't wanted anything to do with them since they signed that deal with Microsoft. They're a bunch of fucking sellouts, and I don't want anything to do with them or Suse. I damn sure don't care if they've come up with some crazy new drive technology.
I was going to subscribe to your newsletter, but then I thought about how many dead uppity stewardesses would result from armed passengers, and then I really wanted to subscribe to your newsletter.
There's a little black spot on the sun today.
It's the same old thing as yesterday.
In space, no-one can hear you (scream).