The best thing about broadband in my view is the ability to have real networking in the home.
The isn't true for some/most DSL connections... but for cable, you get it, boot up an install diskette for and it works!
Years ago when I first tried linux it didn't go anywhere with me because dialup seemed to gosh darn hard for me. I said this was years ago dammit!
Even windows likes it! Anything opens out of the box... and thats nice. My grandparents would have so much fun with cable if they'd just shell out the money.
Plus with bb you can see what an alternate OS like linux is really like. It seemed I got waaaaaay better download speeds in linux, of course.
I think any publically funded school should be required to run linux. I don't want my tax money to pay for a bunch of licenses (some of your tax already goes to M$ via corporate welfare) so script kiddies can install ftp servers in the background and host pr0n or what ever.
The biggest problem I ever heard when I was in school (about computers) was the security issue... and we don't need to bring that up on/. for the 79437594375943 time. Simply put... I can't find the setting in windows9x to not let a certain person run a certain program. Hell, I can't even keep someone out of my 'my documents'
I've talked to plenty of people on IRC who turned out to be 14-15 years old who are running a plethora of severs on their schools computers. These kids know windows, and they know how to hide this or that. Stick linux in front of them and I wish them luck! Maybe they will actually learn something about the computers they are using - and not just use them for evil. [one person used his whole schools network to ddos his principles home cable connection and other faculty members - and the user has no idea how it 'werks' what so ever]
But the real issue is the cost. I'm sure that they get discounts, but does that beat one cd, no license and the ability to legally install it anywhere? Did I mention that CD could cost you as little as 30 cents? I know my ex-roomate got a copy of office for $5 from his university... but it was a waste because I already had Star Office, abi word... and so on. [note: when i rebuilt my pc, and reformatted he lost his 'license' because M$ says that office was installed on another PC-- we were told by their piracy dept. he could only run it the limited 50 times or whatever]
Write to your senator. Tell him/her that its not fair that we/you all must pay for bs software. Its not safe... has no educational value... and simply costs a bundle.
Next we'll work on the rest of the government, until then lets try to help the teachers learn linux. Until they learn... any volunteer from the 'community' with 5 extra mins could ssh on in and fine tune the settings.
How are they even going to tell what I'm downloading? Are they going to pick ip packets from transit to my machine? How are they going to idenitify them as copyrighted?
How are they going to tell if I'm sending to myself (another machine in Germany maybe... linus backup plan?). I believe some materials give you the ability to make as many PERSONAL copies as you'd like.
Why don't we just end piracy in its tracks! Only let the gov't and businesses (Free Software companies don't count!) access the internet in any way. Everyone else gets a webTV.
The problem with the internet is that no matter how you are connected now a days... there is always someone higher on the bandwidth wagon than you telling you that this and that traffic is not allowed.
Who is watching the watchers? And are they lawyers with teams of paralegals looking up every copyright? There must be trillions!
I personally know OF an @home employee (don't bother asking the 5W's) who serves plenty of copyrighted materials from @homes own server machines! He's made plenty of friends in the company from around the country, and is always bragging about their little network. ("47 1337 servers all over the US, most on OC3 backbones..." note:this is a waste when they could be hosting a distro or something!!)
Finally, I want to ask... who is going to make sure while they are snooping they don't get my passwords? FTP isn't very secure... and not all shells (work or personal) use SSH. I'm not ULTRA-paranoid about security - I report to dshield and use encryption when I can among other things - but sometimes your only as secure as the 'other side'.
It's like people using a proxy to log into pr0n or personal ftps... and having their passwords stolen because it was logged.
I know this is in aussie-land, but I think there is plenty of ISP's doing this here in the USA. Hopefully this isn't going to be tolerated. Even the guilty have rights, believe it or not.
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Now thats just uncalled for.
I simply meant that MS even got Dell and others to sign those contracts, don't you think Wal-Mart will simply say 'ok'.
I really don't mean that as a slur - I just wanted to get your attention.
Japanese kids, and even adults play waaaaay more games (console mostly right?) than we do. I'm betting the tests showed that it actually improved their skills, but were too dum in the USA to recreate the tests to find out the real answer.
This is what bothers me: "prevents development of the front lobe, leading to violent behavior." Is that true at all? I thought if the 'frontal' lobe wasn't developed you would just drool all over yourself.
I'm glad to see a new version of MDK so soon. I've a lot of problems since going to 8.0 from 7.2
I lost full video card support, couldn't update the kernel without killing the machine, and worse than all... my favorite xscreensavers wouldn't work.
I'm looking forward to this huge download, mostly because I would like to see the new 'Control Center'. Every other distro I've used never had a tool that worked so well.
I hope the software update is 100% working though...
And how come no one investigates why my local console shop (funcoland) and many others like it (even large chains like w-mart) carry (-ied) thousands of shit games for PSX and now PS2, but no other console?
I know Sony is huge, and a big name which is easy for a store to hang onto - but 3 out of 4 walls don't need to be covered with sony products. This is true! When I called the store about specific DC games they told me "it's not out" or "there is a PS2 version". Which really pissed me off since I knew it was out... you could download it! (In this example the game is Ready To Rumble 2)
So why did the best console ever to come out die? People saw Sony and said "wow, this has to be great" when in all reality - the games were usually either a Tomb Raider rip off or worse.
Do you think the XBox will fetch $1200? I know you think that no one will pay that much for a console, but no, people will see Microsoft and open their wallets - it'll be amazing to see how this plays out.
PS: THiS is the 5th time i've tried to submit this lame comment....
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And when you can't find Merchant B?
MS has the power... don't think stores WON'T knuckle under.
I don't even look at the first 20 or so pixels of a web page because I know it's going to be an ad. Actually, the only ones I look at are on slashdot, and the only ones I click on are for ThinkGeek. Even though they've tricked me into thinking they have new stock.
In windows I use McAfee Virus Scan, which works wonders for blocking internet access to sites such as doubleclick.net .
Although, there are a few sites which use these new 'pop-under' adverts. There is a simple solution to those also. I send 1000 e-mails to x10, usually some spam that was sent to me from them. I know this isn't going to help get rid of those ads, but it makes me happy.
Other than that, either get something to block the ads (which will just take up more memory, cpu cycles, disk space...) or ignore them. I get up and go snack or something when TV commercials come on, it's in my generation's (x) blood. We've evolved.
Didn't the TV networks want to sue when VCRs (PVRs too) came out because people can 'skip' the commercials? Will this ever go away?
"In turn, the foundation has granted rights to a biotechnology company, Geron Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif., giving that company considerable say over who ultimately profits from stem cell therapies."
Of course you can't believe what other people are posting, no one is going to regulate sexual reproduction etc. The problem would be, who is going to be helped because of the research. Your local HMO and drug company is going to be helped way more than your Parkinsons striken mother.
More? Read on:
"I don't want people to see us as an 800-pound gorilla," Carl Gulbrandsen, the foundation's managing director, said. "We will work very hard with the government to make sure that there is access to this technology and that our patents are not an impediment to researchers."
Then why did you patent it in the first place? More? Read on:
"As far as experts know, the United States is the only nation to have issued a patent on human embryonic stem cells" [from the article]
Of course we are! And we'll be the first to reward a patent [if you read on, you are legally bound not to take my patent idea] for breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth!
And what tells me pro-life groups [Pat Robertson] will try to buy the patent holders out?
Too bad I'm not going to submit a comment to them so they can track me down and kill me.
As soon as I went to that page my hotmail address was sitting in the first form field.
The sad, sick, and cruel thing is: I'm using Mozilla! I'm sure I know how they did this [compared the IP addresses] but I still don't like it one bit.
This is worse than hotmail.com opening my MSN mess-ang-err when I login. [I never could figure out why it was sitting there next to my clock... I blocked it from running on start up, and why the hell would I run it]
ZoneAlarm has logged over 10,000 hits to port 80 on my machine. This has caused me much distress, although not much of a slow down.
My log file has grown from about 80k, to over a megabyte. Services such as IRC and streaming video haved lagged now and then, but nothing to complain about.
The sad thing is, I'm on a RoadRunner network and most hits are from @home users, which are the dumbest users [usually] I've run into. Maybe it's the water in those areas. But RR people, like me are assholes, so it's fair.
But why run a web-server from home? Get a geocities account, pirate windows2000 workstation next time, and stop hitting my box with port 80 requests.
Worst of all, its been the same 500+ ip addresses hitting my box. @home, block the IP's not the port. Maybe it's time to start e-mail abuse@home.com .
What dog breeders say would fit this situation: "Punish the deed, not the breed"
Most people I know in piracy circles don't even know the meaning of 'open source'. Of course if they did they wouldn't waste their time pirating windows XP - and other crap MS products. They are pirating copies of Office, which they could be using star office for free. They are pirating WindowBlinds, and DesktopX by stardock, both are programs that would have no purpose in the *nix (or *bsd) circles since windows is the closed system. And so on, you get the point.
I loved looking for TV episodes in mpeg format on IRC (now i use an unnammed P2P system) and having people tell me to use this and that FTP server. The servers always had bad performance, if they were up, because they were running on Win9x and not a OS built for that task.
Why would the opensource community need to pirate anything?
Maybe just the 7 lines of code which would let users watch DVD's in their choice of OS because the industry ignored a whole market.
Next, writting a device driver under linux will be deemed reverse engineering and spreading that driver will result in jail time.
[For US citizens only:] What ever happened to "I bought something, it's mine, I can do what I want"? I guess thats a different debate for a different article.
The best is still Quantum Leap. Even though I'm a guy I find Sam (Scott Bakula) sexy. Even more because on the show he's got like 7 doctorate degrees or something.
The more I watched it, the more I liked to nit-pick at the science of it, but that is only half the show.
It's the only show with science, drama, and a revolving storyline that changes from week to week. I know that Star Trek has some hidden metaphores and the first interracial kiss on television, but not enough of the show was really dedicated to the human condition.
Hands down, Quantum Leap. In fact, you'll see me in front of the TV everyday at four o'clock watching sci-fi.
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The funny thing is, I've been on IRC all day, and after basically turning my cable connection off my Windows firewall software (zonealarm) logged a lot of hits, HTTP in nature from 65.26.*, and 24.* .
I'm a RoadRunner customer, and my ip is 65.26.ha.ha [hostname: gdubyabush.cinci.rr.com], so I thought at first these attacks where from other customers (which it could be) but soon realized most attacks where from RR servers!
I've been hit by their own server 227 times on port 427, which is usually used to probe for services correct? This is just one IP on their network, not the customer network [sorry I'm not going to give ips]. Other IPs, usually one off, are hitting me about 40-50 times.
I noticed this only one other time, and thats when I played around with Apache and proftpd. I guessed then it was because they `noticed' the traffic to and from my port 80 and 21. I only had a few people to log in to test, and my sister to download family pics to test. But those hits slowly stopped.
So we've been hit also. The 24.* is shared by RR customers elsewhere in the country and @home. Although I've not really noticed any slowdowns, these attacks to my pc have ruined a CD I was writing because ZoneAlarm couldn't log them fast enough and the HD just pooped for a second.
Good time to reboot to redhat i guess. And this whole time I thought my ISP was snooping or some software I was using had a backdoor that someone was trying to hit after I closed it.
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The best thing about broadband in my view is the ability to have real networking in the home.
The isn't true for some/most DSL connections... but for cable, you get it, boot up an install diskette for and it works!
Years ago when I first tried linux it didn't go anywhere with me because dialup seemed to gosh darn hard for me. I said this was years ago dammit!
Even windows likes it! Anything opens out of the box... and thats nice. My grandparents would have so much fun with cable if they'd just shell out the money.
Plus with bb you can see what an alternate OS like linux is really like. It seemed I got waaaaaay better download speeds in linux, of course.
I think any publically funded school should be required to run linux. I don't want my tax money to pay for a bunch of licenses (some of your tax already goes to M$ via corporate welfare) so script kiddies can install ftp servers in the background and host pr0n or what ever.
/. for the 79437594375943 time. Simply put... I can't find the setting in windows9x to not let a certain person run a certain program. Hell, I can't even keep someone out of my 'my documents'
The biggest problem I ever heard when I was in school (about computers) was the security issue... and we don't need to bring that up on
I've talked to plenty of people on IRC who turned out to be 14-15 years old who are running a plethora of severs on their schools computers. These kids know windows, and they know how to hide this or that. Stick linux in front of them and I wish them luck! Maybe they will actually learn something about the computers they are using - and not just use them for evil. [one person used his whole schools network to ddos his principles home cable connection and other faculty members - and the user has no idea how it 'werks' what so ever]
But the real issue is the cost. I'm sure that they get discounts, but does that beat one cd, no license and the ability to legally install it anywhere? Did I mention that CD could cost you as little as 30 cents? I know my ex-roomate got a copy of office for $5 from his university... but it was a waste because I already had Star Office, abi word... and so on. [note: when i rebuilt my pc, and reformatted he lost his 'license' because M$ says that office was installed on another PC-- we were told by their piracy dept. he could only run it the limited 50 times or whatever]
Write to your senator. Tell him/her that its not fair that we/you all must pay for bs software. Its not safe... has no educational value... and simply costs a bundle.
Next we'll work on the rest of the government, until then lets try to help the teachers learn linux. Until they learn... any volunteer from the 'community' with 5 extra mins could ssh on in and fine tune the settings.
What? Texas is in the USA right? DMCA? etc?
And if u break that down there... u get fried.
Sounds like paradise huh?
One problem is though... its not very safe in S.America. I'm not saying brazil... but other surrounding areas.
Get a gun before you go.. and read playboy a few months back. There is a great article about how safe things are.
Crocodile Dundee is going come to my home, rip my hands off my keyboard and carry me back to aussie land on his back.
I thought after the Olympics and Survivor we wouldn't have to hear about that giant Texas they call a continent.
oops... am i in trouble now?
So now I need to call a quantum physicist to get tech support... great....
And to let known shoppers not to go there....
How are they even going to tell what I'm downloading? Are they going to pick ip packets from transit to my machine? How are they going to idenitify them as copyrighted?
How are they going to tell if I'm sending to myself (another machine in Germany maybe... linus backup plan?). I believe some materials give you the ability to make as many PERSONAL copies as you'd like.
Why don't we just end piracy in its tracks! Only let the gov't and businesses (Free Software companies don't count!) access the internet in any way. Everyone else gets a webTV.
The problem with the internet is that no matter how you are connected now a days... there is always someone higher on the bandwidth wagon than you telling you that this and that traffic is not allowed.
Who is watching the watchers? And are they lawyers with teams of paralegals looking up every copyright? There must be trillions!
I personally know OF an @home employee (don't bother asking the 5W's) who serves plenty of copyrighted materials from @homes own server machines! He's made plenty of friends in the company from around the country, and is always bragging about their little network. ("47 1337 servers all over the US, most on OC3 backbones..." note:this is a waste when they could be hosting a distro or something!!)
Finally, I want to ask... who is going to make sure while they are snooping they don't get my passwords? FTP isn't very secure... and not all shells (work or personal) use SSH. I'm not ULTRA-paranoid about security - I report to dshield and use encryption when I can among other things - but sometimes your only as secure as the 'other side'.
It's like people using a proxy to log into pr0n or personal ftps... and having their passwords stolen because it was logged.
I know this is in aussie-land, but I think there is plenty of ISP's doing this here in the USA. Hopefully this isn't going to be tolerated. Even the guilty have rights, believe it or not.
Now thats just uncalled for.
I simply meant that MS even got Dell and others to sign those contracts, don't you think Wal-Mart will simply say 'ok'.
Who is going to up against them?
I really don't mean that as a slur - I just wanted to get your attention.
Japanese kids, and even adults play waaaaay more games (console mostly right?) than we do. I'm betting the tests showed that it actually improved their skills, but were too dum in the USA to recreate the tests to find out the real answer.
This is what bothers me: "prevents development of the front lobe, leading to violent behavior." Is that true at all? I thought if the 'frontal' lobe wasn't developed you would just drool all over yourself.
Play games! Dammit, they're wrong!
I'm glad to see they don't use 'Banjo" on the MDK forums.
I'm glad to see a new version of MDK so soon. I've a lot of problems since going to 8.0 from 7.2
I lost full video card support, couldn't update the kernel without killing the machine, and worse than all... my favorite xscreensavers wouldn't work.
I'm looking forward to this huge download, mostly because I would like to see the new 'Control Center'. Every other distro I've used never had a tool that worked so well.
I hope the software update is 100% working though...
And how come no one investigates why my local console shop (funcoland) and many others like it (even large chains like w-mart) carry (-ied) thousands of shit games for PSX and now PS2, but no other console?
I know Sony is huge, and a big name which is easy for a store to hang onto - but 3 out of 4 walls don't need to be covered with sony products. This is true! When I called the store about specific DC games they told me "it's not out" or "there is a PS2 version". Which really pissed me off since I knew it was out... you could download it! (In this example the game is Ready To Rumble 2)
So why did the best console ever to come out die? People saw Sony and said "wow, this has to be great" when in all reality - the games were usually either a Tomb Raider rip off or worse.
Do you think the XBox will fetch $1200? I know you think that no one will pay that much for a console, but no, people will see Microsoft and open their wallets - it'll be amazing to see how this plays out.
PS: THiS is the 5th time i've tried to submit this lame comment....
And when you can't find Merchant B?
MS has the power... don't think stores WON'T knuckle under.
I don't even look at the first 20 or so pixels of a web page because I know it's going to be an ad. Actually, the only ones I look at are on slashdot, and the only ones I click on are for ThinkGeek. Even though they've tricked me into thinking they have new stock.
In windows I use McAfee Virus Scan, which works wonders for blocking internet access to sites such as doubleclick.net .
Although, there are a few sites which use these new 'pop-under' adverts. There is a simple solution to those also. I send 1000 e-mails to x10, usually some spam that was sent to me from them. I know this isn't going to help get rid of those ads, but it makes me happy.
Other than that, either get something to block the ads (which will just take up more memory, cpu cycles, disk space...) or ignore them. I get up and go snack or something when TV commercials come on, it's in my generation's (x) blood. We've evolved.
Didn't the TV networks want to sue when VCRs (PVRs too) came out because people can 'skip' the commercials? Will this ever go away?
The sick thing is, people trust this software in the first place. [or any]
I'm not going to let any application store my passwords - even if they are only passwords for slashdot.
It would be much safer to just use "LOVE" everywhere.
Simply not true.
... blah blah blah"
I don't have gator installed, because when it asks "Would you like to install Gator the best software for
The real problem is, users don't even know what the word 'install' means.
These people who are just plain dumb, get what they deserve.
This is what I'm worried about:
"In turn, the foundation has granted rights to a biotechnology company, Geron Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif., giving that company considerable say over who ultimately profits from stem cell therapies."
Of course you can't believe what other people are posting, no one is going to regulate sexual reproduction etc. The problem would be, who is going to be helped because of the research. Your local HMO and drug company is going to be helped way more than your Parkinsons striken mother.
More? Read on:
"I don't want people to see us as an 800-pound gorilla," Carl Gulbrandsen, the foundation's managing director, said. "We will work very hard with the government to make sure that there is access to this technology and that our patents are not an impediment to researchers."
Then why did you patent it in the first place? More? Read on:
"As far as experts know, the United States is the only nation to have issued a patent on human embryonic stem cells" [from the article]
Of course we are! And we'll be the first to reward a patent [if you read on, you are legally bound not to take my patent idea] for breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth!
And what tells me pro-life groups [Pat Robertson] will try to buy the patent holders out?
Too bad I'm not going to submit a comment to them so they can track me down and kill me.
As soon as I went to that page my hotmail address was sitting in the first form field.
The sad, sick, and cruel thing is: I'm using Mozilla! I'm sure I know how they did this [compared the IP addresses] but I still don't like it one bit.
This is worse than hotmail.com opening my MSN mess-ang-err when I login. [I never could figure out why it was sitting there next to my clock... I blocked it from running on start up, and why the hell would I run it]
ZoneAlarm has logged over 10,000 hits to port 80 on my machine. This has caused me much distress, although not much of a slow down.
My log file has grown from about 80k, to over a megabyte. Services such as IRC and streaming video haved lagged now and then, but nothing to complain about.
The sad thing is, I'm on a RoadRunner network and most hits are from @home users, which are the dumbest users [usually] I've run into. Maybe it's the water in those areas. But RR people, like me are assholes, so it's fair.
But why run a web-server from home? Get a geocities account, pirate windows2000 workstation next time, and stop hitting my box with port 80 requests.
Worst of all, its been the same 500+ ip addresses hitting my box. @home, block the IP's not the port. Maybe it's time to start e-mail abuse@home.com .
What dog breeders say would fit this situation: "Punish the deed, not the breed"
They just don't want to admit it.
.mil domain... but that could be anyone, and not the actual military trying to take me out.
I've actually caught one attempt to hit that port by a
Most people I know in piracy circles don't even know the meaning of 'open source'. Of course if they did they wouldn't waste their time pirating windows XP - and other crap MS products. They are pirating copies of Office, which they could be using star office for free. They are pirating WindowBlinds, and DesktopX by stardock, both are programs that would have no purpose in the *nix (or *bsd) circles since windows is the closed system. And so on, you get the point.
I loved looking for TV episodes in mpeg format on IRC (now i use an unnammed P2P system) and having people tell me to use this and that FTP server. The servers always had bad performance, if they were up, because they were running on Win9x and not a OS built for that task.
Why would the opensource community need to pirate anything?
Maybe just the 7 lines of code which would let users watch DVD's in their choice of OS because the industry ignored a whole market.
Next, writting a device driver under linux will be deemed reverse engineering and spreading that driver will result in jail time.
[For US citizens only:] What ever happened to "I bought something, it's mine, I can do what I want"? I guess thats a different debate for a different article.
The best is still Quantum Leap. Even though I'm a guy I find Sam (Scott Bakula) sexy. Even more because on the show he's got like 7 doctorate degrees or something.
The more I watched it, the more I liked to nit-pick at the science of it, but that is only half the show.
It's the only show with science, drama, and a revolving storyline that changes from week to week. I know that Star Trek has some hidden metaphores and the first interracial kiss on television, but not enough of the show was really dedicated to the human condition.
Hands down, Quantum Leap. In fact, you'll see me in front of the TV everyday at four o'clock watching sci-fi.
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Let's see who can post the letters first!
The funny thing is, I've been on IRC all day, and after basically turning my cable connection off my Windows firewall software (zonealarm) logged a lot of hits, HTTP in nature from 65.26.*, and 24.* .
I'm a RoadRunner customer, and my ip is 65.26.ha.ha [hostname: gdubyabush.cinci.rr.com], so I thought at first these attacks where from other customers (which it could be) but soon realized most attacks where from RR servers!
I've been hit by their own server 227 times on port 427, which is usually used to probe for services correct? This is just one IP on their network, not the customer network [sorry I'm not going to give ips]. Other IPs, usually one off, are hitting me about 40-50 times.
I noticed this only one other time, and thats when I played around with Apache and proftpd. I guessed then it was because they `noticed' the traffic to and from my port 80 and 21. I only had a few people to log in to test, and my sister to download family pics to test. But those hits slowly stopped.
So we've been hit also. The 24.* is shared by RR customers elsewhere in the country and @home. Although I've not really noticed any slowdowns, these attacks to my pc have ruined a CD I was writing because ZoneAlarm couldn't log them fast enough and the HD just pooped for a second.
Good time to reboot to redhat i guess. And this whole time I thought my ISP was snooping or some software I was using had a backdoor that someone was trying to hit after I closed it.
mIRC bye bye, X-chat, hello again.
Mozilla bye by..ahh.. oh yeah,