name those cultures. prove it's a sin. you can't just say random weird stuff like that to rationalize your own weak arguments without backing it up. nobody will take you seriously.
for example, i think a lot of cultures actively endorse masturbation, and in fact, in these unnamed cultures, your kid can't get into heaven unless they jerk it at least once a week.
Our oil fields are not dry. Our demand outstrips domestic production. It's just easier to buy refined oil from other countries. The bottleneck has been our craptacular refineries for some decades, now.
We have lots of choices of where to get oil, including the choice to stop using oil. It's just easier to pay someone else to do it for us.
I assume the same is true of these rare earth metals.
what are you talking about? a very small percentage of people have the ability to choose between two, or even three providers! the system is obviously NOT flawed./sarcasm
i agree with your sentiment, they'll never actually LOWER prices. my experience with comcast is that they will raise prices by at least a dime every month, just to condition you to it.
So large corporations and governments use IE6, but why should content providers cater to them? If their only reason for using IE6 is for the horrible legacy apps, then by all means, let them keep IE6 around to continue to use their horrible legacy apps.
This is no way justifies, however, everyone else in sane-people's world having to jump through hoops to support the terrible abomination of a web browser that is IE6. If they want to screw around at work watching youtube, let them do it in an unsupported fashion. Everyone else is ready to move on.
microsoft has no obligation to port programs to other OS's. Their history of anti-competitive suits, fines, and complaints relates to keeping other companies from running software on Windows.
hopefully they do sue. amazon would be able to stand up to them in court, and hopefully through the legal process get their objection thrown out. at any rate, what basis does the RIAA have to sue, anyway? if an artist is unsigned, and not part of the industry, the RIAA does not 'represent' them, never had a claim on them, and has no business stinking this up with the fetid zombie stench.
I'm hoping that this venture will actually work out, and produce viable material. I would gladly join you with paying for news that was actually well made, and not the crap/fluff that passes for news, these days.
Precisely. It wasn't "one broken router" that took out half the net, it was thousands of substandard routers using obsolete code run by incompetent admins that took out half the net.
the people who actually know what they're doing were unaffected by this.
It's a nice idea, but ultimately confusing. Every solaris install I've ever worked on (from 2.6 to 10) already was GNU/Solaris... any admin who was forced to use Solari's standard UNIX utilities quickly and covertly installed a bevy of GNU utilities.
they've actually discussed that at length on the radio shows Off the Wall, and Off the Hook. You can find links to both at the 2600 website.
Emmanuel basically created a very thorough play on words. Right now, the "Last Hope" is the last Hope... as in, the hope that previously happened. The next hope will be called the "Next Hope". Both names are entirely accurate now, but by the time the Next Hope comes around, it'll be incredibly confusing, by design.
I'm surprised the 2600 guys were able to keep this joke running for so long, with very few people catching on (myself included). Emmanuel resisted the requests for clarification until, or after, the conference.
So, he basically took the chance to, in a way, hack language. And pull a fast one over on a lot of people.
I'm surprised i haven't seen a post about what should be so blindingly obvious...
A scientist's only oath need be the scientific method. If their behaviour or research can't stand up to that, then it's immediately suspect, invalid, unethical, and unscientific. Any other extraneous oath or pledge is just meaningless words, recited to make someone (who?) feel better. If a scientist won't live up to following through the scientific method, i fail to see how a silly bunch of (wow, overly-longwinded) words will make any difference.
Gadi Evron, while undeniably prolific, is questionably informed. Take what he has to say with a grain of salt, and don't for a second believe there's anything more involved here than using well-known industry best-practices for evaluating vulnerable infrastructure and dealing with this type of traffic.
We now return to your regularly scheduled cross-post flame-fest between nanog and full-disclosure.
Oh, I agree completely it would be a terribly unfair mess, and that there's not really any clear way to fix it. Being one of the little guys, i'm more than aware of that.
That being said, however, I'm still in favour of turning off SMTP. It may be an extreme and irrational solution, but what we have now isn't really SMTP anymore, anyway. E-mail is a horrible drain on power, bandwidth, and support resources. Estimates vary, but maybe 75%-95% of all e-mail traffic is worthless; we're throwing money away by supporting it. Not to mention what a popular infection vector it is for malware.
The problem is that we're trying to shoe-horn solutions onto a base protocol that was never designed to accomodate them. I think, quite realistically, if we turned off e-mail NOW, we'd have a better ability to design a solution to the problem, without having to support all the legacy junk that is already in place.
Wait, you're going from Linux php4 to win32 php5? or is it the other way around? Either way, that's atroscious. Why did you think you/wouldn't/ have a horrible time with it?
Nothing inherently wrong with PHP in this scenario; you've been forced to inherit somebody else's disaster. THAT'S your problem.
I can second the above statement, since I've seen the exact same traffic.
Unfortunately, this sort of thing will continue to crop up. E-mail is fundamentally broken, and it's too easy to take advantage of any e-mail system. To combat spam, mail admins have had to take many unorthodox and RFC-bending practices (if not out-right ignoring RFCs all together). Otherwise, users complain about too much spam. The down side, users then complain about e-mail delays or non-deliverables. So, you get systems setting up certain ways to bypass filters for hopefully trusted domains. And then this whole new problem comes up when people figure out new ways to abuse the system, its safeguards, and hidden/implicit trusts.
Ugh. At this point, I just want to turn SMTP off completely. This is a losing battle.
The first distro I ever installed, and the one that's changed the least over the years. You may say that is a bad thing, but Slack is the only distro i can think of that hasn't succumbed to bloat, rot, ego, or the all-things-to-all-people syndrome. It may have stagnated for a while, but it's good to see it get back to a more regular release schedule.
I found ReiserFS to be rock solid for over a year... until it hosed my data. I still have the original drive and images of that one, basically as a reminder for this very situation.
Anecdotes aren't proof, that is correct. However, they are perfectly valid dis-proof. Assertion: ReiserFS is stable and won't destroy your data. Reality: there is at least one person (me) who has proof that this is not the case. I'm sure we could find several hundred people to say the same thing. When do anecdotes turn into a pattern that you have to be concerned about?
At any rate, you're never going to convince anyone that was bitten by the problems with ReiserFS to reconsider. I heartily recommend that you migrate any data you actually care about off of ReiserFS, and onto a sane file system. Do it before it's too late. You won't be able to say that you weren't warned.
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name those cultures. prove it's a sin. you can't just say random weird stuff like that to rationalize your own weak arguments without backing it up. nobody will take you seriously.
for example, i think a lot of cultures actively endorse masturbation, and in fact, in these unnamed cultures, your kid can't get into heaven unless they jerk it at least once a week.
see, it doesn't really stand much on its own.
Our oil fields are not dry. Our demand outstrips domestic production. It's just easier to buy refined oil from other countries. The bottleneck has been our craptacular refineries for some decades, now.
We have lots of choices of where to get oil, including the choice to stop using oil. It's just easier to pay someone else to do it for us.
I assume the same is true of these rare earth metals.
feel free to believe whatever you want.
for instance, i believe you're an ignorant, simplistically idealistic, buffoon with your head buried in the sand.
what are you talking about? a very small percentage of people have the ability to choose between two, or even three providers! the system is obviously NOT flawed. /sarcasm
i agree with your sentiment, they'll never actually LOWER prices. my experience with comcast is that they will raise prices by at least a dime every month, just to condition you to it.
that's an unpopular opinion, but very true nonetheless.
So large corporations and governments use IE6, but why should content providers cater to them? If their only reason for using IE6 is for the horrible legacy apps, then by all means, let them keep IE6 around to continue to use their horrible legacy apps.
This is no way justifies, however, everyone else in sane-people's world having to jump through hoops to support the terrible abomination of a web browser that is IE6. If they want to screw around at work watching youtube, let them do it in an unsupported fashion. Everyone else is ready to move on.
microsoft has no obligation to port programs to other OS's. Their history of anti-competitive suits, fines, and complaints relates to keeping other companies from running software on Windows.
massive read the freaking article before posting FAIL on your part, dude.
kthxbai
hopefully they do sue. amazon would be able to stand up to them in court, and hopefully through the legal process get their objection thrown out. at any rate, what basis does the RIAA have to sue, anyway? if an artist is unsigned, and not part of the industry, the RIAA does not 'represent' them, never had a claim on them, and has no business stinking this up with the fetid zombie stench.
... you're a fanboy, aren't you?
i updated IE8 manually on like 20 machines yesterday. it asked every time. it didn't kill my default browser selection.
it there something i'm overlooking, like does automatic updates apply it and not ask you? am i missing something from TFA?
more likely: will fork furiously and retain aggregate popularity while neither being quite compatible nor actually, ah, storing data reliably.
So, business as usual, then?
"I would pay...", you say? Well, have I got good news for you!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/announcing-the-launch-of-_b_180543.html
I'm hoping that this venture will actually work out, and produce viable material. I would gladly join you with paying for news that was actually well made, and not the crap/fluff that passes for news, these days.
Precisely. It wasn't "one broken router" that took out half the net, it was thousands of substandard routers using obsolete code run by incompetent admins that took out half the net.
the people who actually know what they're doing were unaffected by this.
It's a nice idea, but ultimately confusing. Every solaris install I've ever worked on (from 2.6 to 10) already was GNU/Solaris ... any admin who was forced to use Solari's standard UNIX utilities quickly and covertly installed a bevy of GNU utilities.
too bad it's (FF3 on gentoo) the most unstable browser i've ever used, even worse than cello (anyone remember cello?)
/. had for long been one of the last holdouts against this type of "journalistic" garbage.
glad to see you lasted so long, guys. sad to see you give in and publicize this useless junk.
articles like this with absolutely no substance at all don't belong here. i may as well just go look at reddit or fark for this type of stuff.
they've actually discussed that at length on the radio shows Off the Wall, and Off the Hook. You can find links to both at the 2600 website.
Emmanuel basically created a very thorough play on words. Right now, the "Last Hope" is the last Hope ... as in, the hope that previously happened. The next hope will be called the "Next Hope". Both names are entirely accurate now, but by the time the Next Hope comes around, it'll be incredibly confusing, by design.
I'm surprised the 2600 guys were able to keep this joke running for so long, with very few people catching on (myself included). Emmanuel resisted the requests for clarification until, or after, the conference.
So, he basically took the chance to, in a way, hack language. And pull a fast one over on a lot of people.
I'm surprised i haven't seen a post about what should be so blindingly obvious ...
A scientist's only oath need be the scientific method. If their behaviour or research can't stand up to that, then it's immediately suspect, invalid, unethical, and unscientific. Any other extraneous oath or pledge is just meaningless words, recited to make someone (who?) feel better. If a scientist won't live up to following through the scientific method, i fail to see how a silly bunch of (wow, overly-longwinded) words will make any difference.
I'm sorry, but ... wait, no I'm not.
Gadi Evron, while undeniably prolific, is questionably informed. Take what he has to say with a grain of salt, and don't for a second believe there's anything more involved here than using well-known industry best-practices for evaluating vulnerable infrastructure and dealing with this type of traffic.
We now return to your regularly scheduled cross-post flame-fest between nanog and full-disclosure.
Oh, I agree completely it would be a terribly unfair mess, and that there's not really any clear way to fix it. Being one of the little guys, i'm more than aware of that.
That being said, however, I'm still in favour of turning off SMTP. It may be an extreme and irrational solution, but what we have now isn't really SMTP anymore, anyway. E-mail is a horrible drain on power, bandwidth, and support resources. Estimates vary, but maybe 75%-95% of all e-mail traffic is worthless; we're throwing money away by supporting it. Not to mention what a popular infection vector it is for malware.
The problem is that we're trying to shoe-horn solutions onto a base protocol that was never designed to accomodate them. I think, quite realistically, if we turned off e-mail NOW, we'd have a better ability to design a solution to the problem, without having to support all the legacy junk that is already in place.
Wait, you're going from Linux php4 to win32 php5? or is it the other way around? Either way, that's atroscious. Why did you think you /wouldn't/ have a horrible time with it?
Nothing inherently wrong with PHP in this scenario; you've been forced to inherit somebody else's disaster. THAT'S your problem.
I can second the above statement, since I've seen the exact same traffic.
Unfortunately, this sort of thing will continue to crop up. E-mail is fundamentally broken, and it's too easy to take advantage of any e-mail system. To combat spam, mail admins have had to take many unorthodox and RFC-bending practices (if not out-right ignoring RFCs all together). Otherwise, users complain about too much spam. The down side, users then complain about e-mail delays or non-deliverables. So, you get systems setting up certain ways to bypass filters for hopefully trusted domains. And then this whole new problem comes up when people figure out new ways to abuse the system, its safeguards, and hidden/implicit trusts.
Ugh. At this point, I just want to turn SMTP off completely. This is a losing battle.
The first distro I ever installed, and the one that's changed the least over the years. You may say that is a bad thing, but Slack is the only distro i can think of that hasn't succumbed to bloat, rot, ego, or the all-things-to-all-people syndrome. It may have stagnated for a while, but it's good to see it get back to a more regular release schedule.
I found ReiserFS to be rock solid for over a year ... until it hosed my data. I still have the original drive and images of that one, basically as a reminder for this very situation.
Anecdotes aren't proof, that is correct. However, they are perfectly valid dis-proof. Assertion: ReiserFS is stable and won't destroy your data. Reality: there is at least one person (me) who has proof that this is not the case. I'm sure we could find several hundred people to say the same thing. When do anecdotes turn into a pattern that you have to be concerned about?
At any rate, you're never going to convince anyone that was bitten by the problems with ReiserFS to reconsider. I heartily recommend that you migrate any data you actually care about off of ReiserFS, and onto a sane file system. Do it before it's too late. You won't be able to say that you weren't warned.