This point is moderated as funny, but is actually quite serious. Has anyone thought of the privacy concerns of static IP addressing?
If DoubleClick et al know that all users have static IP addresses, it won't be enough to just turn off cookie support in your browser.
Granted, it isn't a catch-all... companies will still use proxy servers etc for efficiency, and geeks will still use JunkBuster, but it does raise an interesting point.
I just went to have a look... wtf is a dropbear?:)
Well, I have a free subdomain anyway... *.obsidian.darker.net - except it makes people think I'm a goth (nothing wrong with that, I'm just not), as well as my own *.distortedreality.net
I have a 1.8gb swap partition, and i've seen 400mb in use - don't tell me to upgrade - proprietary mb, i have 160mb ram and it only gets used at home:)
3am error, forgetting an RS.MoveNext to step through a recordset and generate static html (for CD burning - no lectures on dynamics!) -
CPU dutifully chugs off, hard drive going like a bat out of hell. Robert comes back in a few hours and sees a lovely message on the NT Server - "Disk Full" - WTF? I had eight gb free.
Investigate. Find a lovely 8.2gb HTML file composed of one MONSTER table.
No. I work for a company *very* closely tied to MS - they actually invited three of our guys to help them spec. out the "Designed for 2000" criteria.
The deadline is being pushed back because it IS vapourware - Yes, it IS coming, but Microsoft knew they had no hope of getting it out by its supposed delivery date.
Speaking as an Australian who will shortly be affected by the Censorship Legislation, I'd like to make the following points:
As everyone knows, it will be unworkable and an administrative nightmare. Previously, when Telstra (our ex-monopoly telco) controlled the vast majority of bandwidth into Australia, this could have been 'enforced' by the use of transparent proxying and cache hierarchies.
Now, life is a bit more difficult - the large and small ISPs (Ozemail, Connect, Optus/C&W, et al) are and have been laying cable for several years. Distributed networks mean distributed administration and exponential problems.
This is also an issue in terms of who is an ISP or not - it is the ISP meant to respond to the request to block a site. Telstra's range of Internet Services are called Big Pond xxx (Home - self explanatory, Cable - high speed, horrendous price, and Direct - ISP intercommunication/reselling). I have Big Pond Direct (BPD) for a permanent connection which means I could probably argue that I should be classed as an ISP (I don't have anyone connecting through me, but I do host one or two websites;) ) and therefore I should be responsible for administering any site blocking requests - given that these requests are meant to come from the Broadcasting Authority or my customers (*cough*), this'd make my life easy. So many holes for sneaking through - faked log files, filtersets which are inactive, etc etc. After all, who is going to notice and complain that my "ISP" isn't blocking sites?
This is just going to collapse in a heap, and rightly so. Last night, we had a TV show (Sex In The City) use the C word. But I can't look at R (your NC17) porn without breaking a law?
No coincidence that this is being pushed by those with a vested interest... the filter authors here in AU have been leaning quite heavily on "The New Source Of Evil That Is The Internet" and the "won't somebody *please* think of the children?" lines.
I should make a comment that this doesn't mean I spend my time surfing for pr0n *lol*
LOL. The problem still in Australia is monopolisation... though Telstra has been privaced, it is just so far ahead of the competition infrastructure-wise.... Latency is still an issue, though not as much... Packets still have to traverse the Pacific Ocean or bounce via satellite.
I shouldn't mention the name (*sigh*, clue, huge multinational with common two letter initials, who make everything from calculators to computers and medical equipment. Oh, and it isn't TI), but I used to maintain large WANs for our clients - one had a network of approximately 250 ISDN lines around Australia, some very long length. Uptime was superb (99.985%+) and most outages were, as the above said, cable cuts (and powerfailures)
I doubt it... a few years back, Telstra controlled 90% of AU's incoming bandwidth, at approximately 127MBps (don't laugh, we only have a population of 19 million for an area the size of the US - the most sparsely populated country on earth outside Antarctica. Nowadays, with the springing up of Optus (C&W), AOL, and a few other big names, i think our capacity is approaching 400MBps.
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If DoubleClick et al know that all users have static IP addresses, it won't be enough to just turn off cookie support in your browser.
Granted, it isn't a catch-all... companies will still use proxy servers etc for efficiency, and geeks will still use JunkBuster, but it does raise an interesting point.
You wanna be careful you don't PGP sign that thing ;)
Well, I have a free subdomain anyway... *.obsidian.darker.net - except it makes people think I'm a goth (nothing wrong with that, I'm just not), as well as my own *.distortedreality.net
I remember several cases of "S Hussein"s in Australia getting harrassing phone calls. :-\
In Australia, they have a subdomain called .id.au for individual IDs... have only very rarely seen it used though.
MS has a 19 point plan which is extremely pedantic in the install requirements:
- Install Win NT 4.0 Standalone;
- Install SP3;
- Install IE4.01SP1 (not5, not 4.00);
- Install Option Pack (but NOT FP Server extensions;
- Install Server Extensions (WTF?);
- Install SP4;
- If you want, Install IE5;
- Install SQL 7.0;
- Install SQL-SP1;
- Configure DTC;
- Install MDAC 2.1.3711.11 (!?!);
- Build SiteServer Databases;
- Install SiteServer;
- Install SiteServer SP2;
- Install ADSI 2.5;
- Install SP5;
- Install FrontPage.
What was that quote again? "The average administrator doesn't want to install [xxx] individual fixes"?That bastard took five hours to install on a Dual P-III, 256mb ram.
I have a 1.8gb swap partition, and i've seen 400mb in use - don't tell me to upgrade - proprietary mb, i have 160mb ram and it only gets used at home :)
*Removes tongue from cheek*
The ASX survived pretty well and was one of the very few that did. If we fell on our arses now, I can guarantee you in the US would feel the effects.
and like no American would ever make a comment without adhering to a burden of proof? ;P
was, last time I heard, not an Australian
I wasn't arguing whether it worked or not, just that the original poster's logic was flawed (imnsho) :)
"The Internet has come along in huge leaps and bounds since its invention two or three years ago" (this was mid 98).
This guy is the government minister of all things internet-related *cry*
Moderators who disagree with things, so mark them as flamebait.
This bites.
CPU dutifully chugs off, hard drive going like a bat out of hell. Robert comes back in a few hours and sees a lovely message on the NT Server - "Disk Full" - WTF? I had eight gb free.
Investigate. Find a lovely 8.2gb HTML file composed of one MONSTER table.
I'd love to see Netscape 3 handle that...
The deadline is being pushed back because it IS vapourware - Yes, it IS coming, but Microsoft knew they had no hope of getting it out by its supposed delivery date.
Anybody?
No matter how you look at it, that's gotta be pretty tempting ;-)
It just ain't half a billion dollars :)
As everyone knows, it will be unworkable and an administrative nightmare. Previously, when Telstra (our ex-monopoly telco) controlled the vast majority of bandwidth into Australia, this could have been 'enforced' by the use of transparent proxying and cache hierarchies.
Now, life is a bit more difficult - the large and small ISPs (Ozemail, Connect, Optus/C&W, et al) are and have been laying cable for several years. Distributed networks mean distributed administration and exponential problems.
This is also an issue in terms of who is an ISP or not - it is the ISP meant to respond to the request to block a site. Telstra's range of Internet Services are called Big Pond xxx (Home - self explanatory, Cable - high speed, horrendous price, and Direct - ISP intercommunication/reselling). I have Big Pond Direct (BPD) for a permanent connection which means I could probably argue that I should be classed as an ISP (I don't have anyone connecting through me, but I do host one or two websites ;) ) and therefore I should be responsible for administering any site blocking requests - given that these requests are meant to come from the Broadcasting Authority or my customers (*cough*), this'd make my life easy. So many holes for sneaking through - faked log files, filtersets which are inactive, etc etc. After all, who is going to notice and complain that my "ISP" isn't blocking sites?
This is just going to collapse in a heap, and rightly so. Last night, we had a TV show (Sex In The City) use the C word. But I can't look at R (your NC17) porn without breaking a law?
No coincidence that this is being pushed by those with a vested interest... the filter authors here in AU have been leaning quite heavily on "The New Source Of Evil That Is The Internet" and the "won't somebody *please* think of the children?" lines.
I should make a comment that this doesn't mean I spend my time surfing for pr0n *lol*
LOL. The problem still in Australia is monopolisation... though Telstra has been privaced, it is just so far ahead of the competition infrastructure-wise.... Latency is still an issue, though not as much... Packets still have to traverse the Pacific Ocean or bounce via satellite.
If you use a credit card, you accept the conditions that go therewith. *shrug*
The companies name was Vermeer. And they sure as shit did not get paid $500M. $50M maybe.
I shouldn't mention the name (*sigh*, clue, huge multinational with common two letter initials, who make everything from calculators to computers and medical equipment. Oh, and it isn't TI), but I used to maintain large WANs for our clients - one had a network of approximately 250 ISDN lines around Australia, some very long length. Uptime was superb (99.985%+) and most outages were, as the above said, cable cuts (and powerfailures)
I doubt it... a few years back, Telstra controlled 90% of AU's incoming bandwidth, at approximately 127MBps (don't laugh, we only have a population of 19 million for an area the size of the US - the most sparsely populated country on earth outside Antarctica. Nowadays, with the springing up of Optus (C&W), AOL, and a few other big names, i think our capacity is approaching 400MBps.
Which moderator dipshit marked this at insightful??? For christ's sake.