It's really more due to the fact that pay phones (Bell called them "public phones") are no longer considered a "public resource" the way they once were. A whole city block used to be able to use public phones to receive phone calls and whoever answered the ringing phone would usually be gracious enough to run to the next house to inform the callee that the telephone was for them. However, after deregulation, instead of getting a special pay phone line from the phone company, anybody could buy a fortress phone from a catalog (COCOT), connect it to a regular phone line (POTS), and start billing callers. These private owners did not want anybody to use their property without paying a stiff fee, and successfully used the "drug dealer office" argument to remove incoming call ability from virtually all pay phones, including telco-owned ones. This act really spelled the end for the "public resource" paradigm. Many COCOT owners also ignored regulations outlawing billing customers for toll-free calls, and after a while, people got used to the idea. Now, pay phones are only used by the poor, and everybody else has a cell phone for use on the go.
Maybe...decades ago, there was a reason for unions to exist. Nowadays, they're just a big drag. They're corrupt as hell. Your union dues go to whoever the Democratic candidate is in any election. Maybe if unions were just about better working conditions, they'd make more sense, but they're mostly about politics and raw power, because for some strange reason the union people will vote en masse for whichever candidate the union boss chooses. Unions are inefficient, too. An old co-worker once related a story of how things were when he had to go onsite to another location...he couldn't even move a stack of boxes from one side of the room to the other without getting a union guy to do it. He would have gotten in trouble if he moved the boxes himself. It ended up taking three days to get someone to move the boxes for him, and it was all due to union rules. Rah unions.
I don't want someone fighting for my job when labor costs are cheaper in another country. What about the poor Russians who will be enriched by new jobs in their devastated economy? If they want to move development elsewhere, it's not my concern...I'll find another job. Big deal. I'm fully aware I'm expendable...so is my employer, it's a two-way street. I can quit any day I want to and blow a big hole in their plans. Frankly, losing a job is more of an opportunity to get a better job than any kind of negative thing. Is having a job some kind of a right? I don't remember reading anything about it in the Constitution.
Hey, that's what happens when you get a fat, lazy union that only knows how to do one thing. The Rust Belt industries were all transplanted to cheap labor countries, due to impossibly high labor costs in the USA. You can't make the same analogy with companies failing due to lack of capital or moronic management.
This is going to sound like a con, but in fact IT WORKS! The person
who
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days ago.
Five dollars is a small investment in your future. Forget the lottery
for a week, and give this a try. It can work for ALL of us.
You can edit this list with a word processor or text editor and then
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Good Luck!!
Dear Friend:
My name is Dave Rhodes. In September 1988 my car was repossessed and
the
bill collectors were hounding me like you wouldn't believe. I was
laid
off and my unemployment checks had run out. The only escape I had
from
the pressures of failure was my computer and my modem. I longed to
turn
my advocation into my vocation.
In January 1989 my family and I went on a ten day cruise to the tropics.
I bought a brand new Lincoln Town Car with CASH in February 1989.
I am
currently building a new home on the west coast of Florida, with
a private
pool, boat slip, an a beautiful view of the bay from my breakfast
room
table and patio. I will never have to work again. Today I am RICH!
I have
earned over $400,000.00 (Four Hundred Thousand Dollars) to date and
will
become a millionaire within 4 or 5 months. Anyone can do the same.
This
money making program works perfectly every time, 100% of the time.
I have
NEVER failed to earn $50,000.00 or more whenever I wanted. Best of
all,
you never have to leave home except to go to your mailbox or post
office.
In October 1988, I received a letter in the mail telling me how I
could
earn $50,000.00 or more whenever I wanted. I was naturally very skeptical
and threw the letter on the desk next to my computer. It's funny
though,
when you are desparate, backed into a corner, your mind does crazy
things.
I spent a frustrating day looking through the want ads for a job
with a
future. The pickings were sparse at best. That night I tried to unwind
by booting up my computer and calling several bulletin boards. I
read
several of the messages posted and then glanced at the letter laying
next
to the computer. All at once it became clear to me. I now had the
key to
my dreams.
I realized that with the power of the computer I could expand and
enhance
this money making formula into the most unbelievable cash flow generator
that has ever been created. I substituted the computer bulletin boards
in
place of the post office and electronically did by computer what
others
were doing by mail. Now only a few letters are mailed manually. Most
of
the hard work is speedily downloaded to other bulletin boards throughout
the world. If you believe that someday you deserve that lucky break
that
you have waited for all of your life, simply follow the easy instructions
below. Your dreams WILL come true.
Yeah, I think the author was just cranking out an article just for the sake of hearing himself talk, or he's required to write so many articles per month, or something similar. Computer security for some reason lends itself to this sort of posturing.
It's the hurt-light in the Big Room. Avoid it if you can, it's radioactive and insufficientlyshielded individuals will receive radiation burns after exposures of as little as 30 minutes.
Yup, you don't know what you're talking about. Linear speed is simply not an issue at all...the us-ii "maxing out" at 450 vs. the "average piii-700"...jesus. Repeat after me...CPU speed means NOTHING. It's the BOTTLENECK, stupid. Intel has spent millions in advertising (apparently successfully) convincing the public that "faster=better", and people that should know better have swallowed this hook, line, and sinker.
Hey, it's better than a "quad-processor Sun E220r", which doesn't exist. Sun hardware is fantastically good, fantastically expensive stuff, but these guys obviously had no idea what they were doing. What moron tries to run MySQL on a Sun server? Silly geek, Oracle is for Sun boxes. A lot of times, it's best to go with what you know, rather than try for a solution that's out of your league.
I would suggest forgery. To generate the forged credentials, you may choose to use Adobe Photoshop (a pirated copy, of course), or something as simple as MacPaint (generated convincing grade reports that fooled my parents for years...of course at the time the capabilities of laser printers were not well known).
If people are "so used" to.com, they're morons. The internet is a rich quilt of variation, not a mindless drone of profitmaking enterprises. A.org address is for a non-profit organization. A school is not a non-profit organization, it is an educational organization. If you want to take the extra time to be right, there is a K-12 heirarchy in the.us TLD that is the correct place for most American primary and secondary schools. Taking the quick and easy way out sets a bad example, pollutes the namespace even more, and leads to the Dark Side.
University of Deleware NTP is indeed nice software, however if you run it under linux or any x86 arch, be aware that a hole was found last week. A "panic fix" is availible, but a stable fix is not yet availible. Indeed, I saw a post on comp.protocols.time.ntp today where it was confirmed that the quick panic fix had in fact introduced new bugs. Here's the CERT advisory and the original Bugtraq post that started it all.
Part of me is incredulous that slashdot staff would recommend installing a system daemon with a known unfixed vulnerability, but hey, these guys aren't journalists, and have no obligation to us.
Actually, now that I look at it, my parent post seems to be making an allusion to being hacked due to running NTP on a home linux box hosted on a DSL line. Not bad, but parent has a long way to go before getting close to the sublety of a real USENET troll.
What is it about Windows users that lets them completely obviate someone's good point with "it works fine for me". Someone else said he had problems...the response is, "no, you're not having any problems because it works fine for me". Windows crashes a lot..."no it doesn't it's stable because it works fine for me". God...
The.us TLD is extremely hard to get domains registered into. Many contacts refuse to answer email regarding their areas of responsibility, and some charge outrageous fees (>$400/yr) to register. All in all, the.us TLD is a bust, in my humble opinion.
I'm glad only accredited 4-year institutions are supposed to get.edu domains. I was once requested to register an.edu for an MCSE-generating mill, one of the places that promises if you spend $5000 on its classes, that you will pass the MCSE exam or your money back, plus you got a free palm III for registering. I tried to register it with Internic (the only registrar at the time), and was asked to provide documentation for their accreditation status. I let the salesdroid know about it, and the customer ended up getting the same name with a.com instead. Entirely more appropriate, in my opinion.
This assumes Microsoft is an honest company that can be relied upon to keep its word and not reneg on agreements it makes. How's Microsoft's track record on this?
An unnoticed server is a stable server. Folks raised with Phoenix BIOS, IDE drives, and Microsoft operating systems have no idea what "stability" actually means. Power utilities and phone companies have servers that have been on continuously for decades without needing attention.
They didn't put it up inadvertently, someone told them, "put a wall there", so they did. Whoever was responsible for the inadvertence didn't wear a blue collar.
They aren't uninformed, they just don't give a shit. You tell them to do something, and they do it. You didn't think about the fact that there's a server there? Tough, you didn't tell them to do anything about it. They think of themselves as the hands of the body, not the brain. The brain tells the hands to grab that burning hot poker, they do it...the hands don't think.
the class-action suit was just a few lawyers smelling money. no actual awful damages were incurred, it was just one of those "sue for $10,000,000, settle for $100,000" things that lawyers always do.
Hey, it was only property damage. In Europe and South America, people kill each other (and themselves) if their favorite team loses. In America, all you need to worry about is sports stars killing you.
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It's really more due to the fact that pay phones (Bell called them "public phones") are no longer considered a "public resource" the way they once were. A whole city block used to be able to use public phones to receive phone calls and whoever answered the ringing phone would usually be gracious enough to run to the next house to inform the callee that the telephone was for them. However, after deregulation, instead of getting a special pay phone line from the phone company, anybody could buy a fortress phone from a catalog (COCOT), connect it to a regular phone line (POTS), and start billing callers. These private owners did not want anybody to use their property without paying a stiff fee, and successfully used the "drug dealer office" argument to remove incoming call ability from virtually all pay phones, including telco-owned ones. This act really spelled the end for the "public resource" paradigm. Many COCOT owners also ignored regulations outlawing billing customers for toll-free calls, and after a while, people got used to the idea. Now, pay phones are only used by the poor, and everybody else has a cell phone for use on the go.
no watch in /usr/bin /usr/ucb /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/ccs/bin /usr/xpg4/bin
What on Earth are you doing running a web browser on a production machine?
I don't want someone fighting for my job when labor costs are cheaper in another country. What about the poor Russians who will be enriched by new jobs in their devastated economy? If they want to move development elsewhere, it's not my concern...I'll find another job. Big deal. I'm fully aware I'm expendable...so is my employer, it's a two-way street. I can quit any day I want to and blow a big hole in their plans. Frankly, losing a job is more of an opportunity to get a better job than any kind of negative thing. Is having a job some kind of a right? I don't remember reading anything about it in the Constitution.
Hey, that's what happens when you get a fat, lazy union that only knows how to do one thing. The Rust Belt industries were all transplanted to cheap labor countries, due to impossibly high labor costs in the USA. You can't make the same analogy with companies failing due to lack of capital or moronic management.
damn, what a good analysis of this whole article. lousy grammar and spelling, insightful as hell.
Fellow Debtor:
This is going to sound like a con, but in fact IT WORKS! The person who
is now #8 on the list was #9 when I got it, which was only a few days ago.
Five dollars is a small investment in your future. Forget the lottery
for a week, and give this a try. It can work for ALL of us.
You can edit this list with a word processor or text editor and then
convert it to a text file.
Good Luck!!
Dear Friend:
My name is Dave Rhodes. In September 1988 my car was repossessed and the
bill collectors were hounding me like you wouldn't believe. I was laid
off and my unemployment checks had run out. The only escape I had from
the pressures of failure was my computer and my modem. I longed to turn
my advocation into my vocation.
In January 1989 my family and I went on a ten day cruise to the tropics.
I bought a brand new Lincoln Town Car with CASH in February 1989. I am
currently building a new home on the west coast of Florida, with a private
pool, boat slip, an a beautiful view of the bay from my breakfast room
table and patio. I will never have to work again. Today I am RICH! I have
earned over $400,000.00 (Four Hundred Thousand Dollars) to date and will
become a millionaire within 4 or 5 months. Anyone can do the same. This
money making program works perfectly every time, 100% of the time. I have
NEVER failed to earn $50,000.00 or more whenever I wanted. Best of all,
you never have to leave home except to go to your mailbox or post office.
In October 1988, I received a letter in the mail telling me how I could
earn $50,000.00 or more whenever I wanted. I was naturally very skeptical
and threw the letter on the desk next to my computer. It's funny though,
when you are desparate, backed into a corner, your mind does crazy things.
I spent a frustrating day looking through the want ads for a job with a
future. The pickings were sparse at best. That night I tried to unwind
by booting up my computer and calling several bulletin boards. I read
several of the messages posted and then glanced at the letter laying next
to the computer. All at once it became clear to me. I now had the key to
my dreams.
I realized that with the power of the computer I could expand and enhance
this money making formula into the most unbelievable cash flow generator
that has ever been created. I substituted the computer bulletin boards in
place of the post office and electronically did by computer what others
were doing by mail. Now only a few letters are mailed manually. Most of
the hard work is speedily downloaded to other bulletin boards throughout
the world. If you believe that someday you deserve that lucky break that
you have waited for all of your life, simply follow the easy instructions
below. Your dreams WILL come true.
Sincerely yours,
Dave Rhodes
Yeah, I think the author was just cranking out an article just for the sake of hearing himself talk, or he's required to write so many articles per month, or something similar. Computer security for some reason lends itself to this sort of posturing.
It's the hurt-light in the Big Room. Avoid it if you can, it's radioactive and insufficientlyshielded individuals will receive radiation burns after exposures of as little as 30 minutes.
Yup, you don't know what you're talking about. Linear speed is simply not an issue at all...the us-ii "maxing out" at 450 vs. the "average piii-700"...jesus. Repeat after me...CPU speed means NOTHING. It's the BOTTLENECK, stupid. Intel has spent millions in advertising (apparently successfully) convincing the public that "faster=better", and people that should know better have swallowed this hook, line, and sinker.
Hey, it's better than a "quad-processor Sun E220r", which doesn't exist. Sun hardware is fantastically good, fantastically expensive stuff, but these guys obviously had no idea what they were doing. What moron tries to run MySQL on a Sun server? Silly geek, Oracle is for Sun boxes. A lot of times, it's best to go with what you know, rather than try for a solution that's out of your league.
I would suggest forgery. To generate the forged credentials, you may choose to use Adobe Photoshop (a pirated copy, of course), or something as simple as MacPaint (generated convincing grade reports that fooled my parents for years...of course at the time the capabilities of laser printers were not well known).
If people are "so used" to .com, they're morons. The internet is a rich quilt of variation, not a mindless drone of profitmaking enterprises. A .org address is for a non-profit organization. A school is not a non-profit organization, it is an educational organization. If you want to take the extra time to be right, there is a K-12 heirarchy in the .us TLD that is the correct place for most American primary and secondary schools. Taking the quick and easy way out sets a bad example, pollutes the namespace even more, and leads to the Dark Side.
Part of me is incredulous that slashdot staff would recommend installing a system daemon with a known unfixed vulnerability, but hey, these guys aren't journalists, and have no obligation to us.
Actually, now that I look at it, my parent post seems to be making an allusion to being hacked due to running NTP on a home linux box hosted on a DSL line. Not bad, but parent has a long way to go before getting close to the sublety of a real USENET troll.
That's just it, every .us region/state/whatever is different, and can set whatever policies they want, good or bad.
What is it about Windows users that lets them completely obviate someone's good point with "it works fine for me". Someone else said he had problems...the response is, "no, you're not having any problems because it works fine for me". Windows crashes a lot..."no it doesn't it's stable because it works fine for me". God...
The .us TLD is extremely hard to get domains registered into. Many contacts refuse to answer email regarding their areas of responsibility, and some charge outrageous fees (>$400/yr) to register. All in all, the .us TLD is a bust, in my humble opinion.
I'm glad only accredited 4-year institutions are supposed to get .edu domains. I was once requested to register an .edu for an MCSE-generating mill, one of the places that promises if you spend $5000 on its classes, that you will pass the MCSE exam or your money back, plus you got a free palm III for registering. I tried to register it with Internic (the only registrar at the time), and was asked to provide documentation for their accreditation status. I let the salesdroid know about it, and the customer ended up getting the same name with a .com instead. Entirely more appropriate, in my opinion.
This assumes Microsoft is an honest company that can be relied upon to keep its word and not reneg on agreements it makes. How's Microsoft's track record on this?
No way, man...1.2.13...stable as hell.
An unnoticed server is a stable server. Folks raised with Phoenix BIOS, IDE drives, and Microsoft operating systems have no idea what "stability" actually means. Power utilities and phone companies have servers that have been on continuously for decades without needing attention.
They didn't put it up inadvertently, someone told them, "put a wall there", so they did. Whoever was responsible for the inadvertence didn't wear a blue collar.
They aren't uninformed, they just don't give a shit. You tell them to do something, and they do it. You didn't think about the fact that there's a server there? Tough, you didn't tell them to do anything about it. They think of themselves as the hands of the body, not the brain. The brain tells the hands to grab that burning hot poker, they do it...the hands don't think.
the class-action suit was just a few lawyers smelling money. no actual awful damages were incurred, it was just one of those "sue for $10,000,000, settle for $100,000" things that lawyers always do.
Hey, it was only property damage. In Europe and South America, people kill each other (and themselves) if their favorite team loses. In America, all you need to worry about is sports stars killing you.