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that is a great idea, now anyone want to take that task on? Maybe just what you do...a script that blocks those hosts... I have blocked many ad hosts on my own but I do not know where to acquire the gator addresses...is there somewhere I can get a list of these kinds of addresses?
Personally I think this idea is crazy, it's also a little scary. The whole idea that these people are giving schools computers for students to view adds, that seems a bit dumb to me. Why don't school just go out and hire some IT person and then go get a deal from some company like intel or whatever, schools get a large discount for computer products. Now that this company, ZapMe is going out on their free-computer like deal not only are the dumb schools who signed up for their computers kind of screwed, they're gonna pay for them or they're gonna take them away. Yet that part is the plain part. Now why would a school force or make students view ads to use their computers. Thats a bit atrocious, not that people wouldn't find ways to get around it, but the idea of that kind of target advertising in a school...it's sort of absurd. The company even says it reserved the right to track where students were going individually, even though they supposedly never collected more than age, sex and ZIP. What kind of company is this, it sounds like a damned advertising agency that gives schools computers in exchange for schools giving their students info to the advertisers.
Finally we're going back to the red rock. and maybe after this mission Hollywood can stop making horror movies about strange aliens and heroic missions to the damned planet. We don't even know whats there, and maybe after these missions we'll have a better idea of what kind of rocks dust and other stuff is there. Also we can find out if those aliens we insist on making movies about actually existed at one time, or if they still exist maybe we'll lose contact with our robots...again. I just hope that this time we can get things right and not make complete fools of ourselves and get some things done.
If I only had something better than my 56k modem to download that movie with. I think that maybe a transcript would help for those who don't have eitheir the time or the high bandwidth to download it. Now on the actual subject of Carnivore. I don't advocate it's implementation knowing what I do about it, yet im not very knowledgable about it. I do know though that it's currently used by the FBI and I hope it isn't implemented on my ISP or I will be getting a call very soon...anyhow I think ill go over to my friends house, he happens to have an 8mbit connection, unlike my poor ass.
I think it's a good idea, and a good proposal. I like te idea because it's more than just the same old domains. I would really like to have a ".obey" TLD. I think it would be great, it could be used for all the people who obey the corporations and the government, or be used to make fun of them. I also like the ".not" idea, very much, good stuff.
a good idea, or maybe do some mushrooms. that is another mind opening substance, or if you could get your hands in Psylocin that would be even better, but thats so rare I wouldn't count on it. When I get completely fucked up I ask myself questions similar to this. Although the universe is a complex place you can figure out some very cool things when you're seeing more than you should be.
His assumption seems to be that, if you bind the various system components into an irreducible glob like Mac OS or Windows, you have built an operating system, but it you keep the components changeable, interchangeable, and freewheeling, you are merely providing "a kernel with a shell and some services on top."
a rather interesting point. This being that all systems are a kernel with a shell and some services on top. Thats what I got the impression of. I think that you can't really say that UNIX isn't an OS, thats absurd. Anyhow that author makes lots of points, which essentially boil down to the same point; UNIX is an OS. I wish I had more time to discuss this but as of right now I am being kicked out of my high schools computer lab...bye bye
first of all both of the candidates said exactly what the woman wanted to hear, of course. Then since they both don't know really what they're talking about they praised filtering software. Anyone who's had any experiences with this kind of software knows that it doesn't only filter out porn and other "offensive materials" but it also filters out half the sites you go to. Although out of the two of them Gore actually had ideas about new stuff to do with them:
"I've been involved myself in negotiating and helping to move along the negotiations with the Internet service providers to get a parents' protection page every time 95 percent of the pages come up. And a feature that allows parents to automatically check, with one click, what sites your kids have visited lately."
Can't you do this with Internet Explorer anyhow? Good stuff, good stuff
Question to George W. and to Al Gore. Do you think it was unfair not to let Nader in to the debates? I doubt that was very fair, I think we should let Nader debate, and maybe even let some of the other parties debate. Now an issue that has been bothering me. The tax issue. Question, why do George W. and Al Gore BOTH have nice and complicated tax cut plans, we've gone back and forth on this issue, and they both of course say that theirs is better. Yet if you acually look at both of them they are selectively choosing who gets a tax cut. I agree with funkman when he said "Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?" This is one reason I don't think we really need a tax cut. I think that sure it sounds good that if we elect Bush we ALL get tax cuts, and the middle class is quite attracted by the Gore tax cut plan because he promises to give most of the tax cut to the middle class. Now once I tohught about both these plans and then another alternative, the one that funkman brings up I see that the most sense resides in what neither candidate did, but thats probably because they have to compete, I mean if Gore all of a sudden said "we're going to put this surplus into the debt. Anyhow thats all I have right now. That was just festering since the last debate and funkman put words into my mouth with what he said. Thanks funk.
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that is a great idea, now anyone want to take that task on? Maybe just what you do...a script that blocks those hosts...
I have blocked many ad hosts on my own but I do not know where to acquire the gator addresses...is there somewhere I can get a list of these kinds of addresses?
Personally I think this idea is crazy, it's also a little scary. The whole idea that these people are giving schools computers for students to view adds, that seems a bit dumb to me. Why don't school just go out and hire some IT person and then go get a deal from some company like intel or whatever, schools get a large discount for computer products. Now that this company, ZapMe is going out on their free-computer like deal not only are the dumb schools who signed up for their computers kind of screwed, they're gonna pay for them or they're gonna take them away. Yet that part is the plain part. Now why would a school force or make students view ads to use their computers. Thats a bit atrocious, not that people wouldn't find ways to get around it, but the idea of that kind of target advertising in a school...it's sort of absurd. The company even says it reserved the right to track where students were going individually, even though they supposedly never collected more than age, sex and ZIP. What kind of company is this, it sounds like a damned advertising agency that gives schools computers in exchange for schools giving their students info to the advertisers.
Finally we're going back to the red rock. and maybe after this mission Hollywood can stop making horror movies about strange aliens and heroic missions to the damned planet. We don't even know whats there, and maybe after these missions we'll have a better idea of what kind of rocks dust and other stuff is there. Also we can find out if those aliens we insist on making movies about actually existed at one time, or if they still exist maybe we'll lose contact with our robots...again. I just hope that this time we can get things right and not make complete fools of ourselves and get some things done.
If I only had something better than my 56k modem to download that movie with. I think that maybe a transcript would help for those who don't have eitheir the time or the high bandwidth to download it. Now on the actual subject of Carnivore. I don't advocate it's implementation knowing what I do about it, yet im not very knowledgable about it. I do know though that it's currently used by the FBI and I hope it isn't implemented on my ISP or I will be getting a call very soon...anyhow I think ill go over to my friends house, he happens to have an 8mbit connection, unlike my poor ass.
I think it's a good idea, and a good proposal. I like te idea because it's more than just the same old domains. I would really like to have a ".obey" TLD. I think it would be great, it could be used for all the people who obey the corporations and the government, or be used to make fun of them. I also like the ".not" idea, very much, good stuff.
a good idea, or maybe do some mushrooms. that is another mind opening substance, or if you could get your hands in Psylocin that would be even better, but thats so rare I wouldn't count on it. When I get completely fucked up I ask myself questions similar to this. Although the universe is a complex place you can figure out some very cool things when you're seeing more than you should be.
His assumption seems to be that, if you bind the various system components into an irreducible glob like Mac OS or Windows, you have built an operating system, but it you keep the components changeable, interchangeable, and freewheeling, you are merely providing "a kernel with a shell and some services on top." a rather interesting point. This being that all systems are a kernel with a shell and some services on top. Thats what I got the impression of. I think that you can't really say that UNIX isn't an OS, thats absurd. Anyhow that author makes lots of points, which essentially boil down to the same point; UNIX is an OS. I wish I had more time to discuss this but as of right now I am being kicked out of my high schools computer lab...bye bye
first of all both of the candidates said exactly what the woman wanted to hear, of course. Then since they both don't know really what they're talking about they praised filtering software. Anyone who's had any experiences with this kind of software knows that it doesn't only filter out porn and other "offensive materials" but it also filters out half the sites you go to. Although out of the two of them Gore actually had ideas about new stuff to do with them: "I've been involved myself in negotiating and helping to move along the negotiations with the Internet service providers to get a parents' protection page every time 95 percent of the pages come up. And a feature that allows parents to automatically check, with one click, what sites your kids have visited lately." Can't you do this with Internet Explorer anyhow? Good stuff, good stuff
Question to George W. and to Al Gore. Do you think it was unfair not to let Nader in to the debates? I doubt that was very fair, I think we should let Nader debate, and maybe even let some of the other parties debate. Now an issue that has been bothering me. The tax issue. Question, why do George W. and Al Gore BOTH have nice and complicated tax cut plans, we've gone back and forth on this issue, and they both of course say that theirs is better. Yet if you acually look at both of them they are selectively choosing who gets a tax cut. I agree with funkman when he said "Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?" This is one reason I don't think we really need a tax cut. I think that sure it sounds good that if we elect Bush we ALL get tax cuts, and the middle class is quite attracted by the Gore tax cut plan because he promises to give most of the tax cut to the middle class. Now once I tohught about both these plans and then another alternative, the one that funkman brings up I see that the most sense resides in what neither candidate did, but thats probably because they have to compete, I mean if Gore all of a sudden said "we're going to put this surplus into the debt. Anyhow thats all I have right now. That was just festering since the last debate and funkman put words into my mouth with what he said. Thanks funk.