A voluntary.xxx TLD would be a good idea. The second it becomes required, it's totally unconstitutional.
I think there's already a.kids or something crazy. The problem is... Where do you draw the line? Slashdot has trolls linking to stuff like tubgirl and goatse all the time. So it probably shouldn't be.safe.
You can apply the same logic -- occasional, not-so-kid-friendly things -- to most any site. And soon,.safe is about as popular as.museum.
The reason? Spammers are able to publish their own records, too.
From the moment SPF was implemented, people knew that this could happen. SPF doesn't aim to stop spam outright, it aims to HELP stop spam.
First off, if SPF is used, it cuts out 'joe jobs.' I can't send you mail purporting to be from Yahoo through a mass mailer on my desktop, because SPF will catch it.
I see two issues with spam: a.) Annoying commerical advertisements b.) The above, sent fraudulently
SPF helps to cut out the second. If spammers send me spam, but do it from their own domain, it's still not hard to block them.
No one (that knew what they were talking about) ever claimed that SPF was a cure-all for spam. All it aimed to do was make spammers stop forging their addresses. And it sounds like it's succeeding.
Free? I doubt you'll find it. Cheap? Depends on your definition.
A friend and I have been sharing a Virtual Private Server for a while now. $35/month gets us 6 GB of disk space (don't recall the memory limit, but we're on a dual 2.8 GHz Xeon with 4 GB RAM, and I think they have 30 people as their maximum. The thing *FLIES*), and 75 GB of bandwidth. (We're hosting with Dinix.) You can probably find a lot cheaper soon, especially when EV1Servers (formerly RackShack) rolls out their Virtuozzo licenses for something like $1 apiece.
Anyway, it might be pricier than you're looking for, but in the grand scheme of things, you get full root access to a 'real' server in a 'real' data center, and can do whatever you please. I didn't come close to the disk/bandwidth limits at my old host, but I moved solely because I'd finally have root, and be able to change whatever I wanted.
I think you just discounted one of its advantages. I'm sure there are groups out there that are itching for more CPU power, but don't have a ton of money to burn.
And remember that in a data center, it's not "time is money," it's "space is money." Something this size could end up saving a lot if you're paying for rack space, and can go from several racks of desktop cases to this. (Granted, if you're smart, you'd be using rackmounts, not desktop cases, but I digress.)
Based on some of the pictures I've found the Internet to have, I think the Internet's gay.
The poor thing is probably trying to get married; it's just that it's not a legal resident of San Francisco or Massachusetts. Just give it some time, and maybe it'll be able to at least get a civil union.
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Ipv4 running out of room is a bit of a myth -- there's still plenty of companies and uninversities with huge blocks of ipv4 address space that they have for historical reasons.
Rather than debunk the myth, you've proved it.
The whole reason we're "running out of room" is that "old" companies have massive netblocks they're not even beginning to use.
This is like saying, "There's still plenty of land left in the city. Big companies bought it all up to hold onto." There's plenty of unused IPs out there. The problem is that they'll probably never be assigned.
I once wrote a script to do a whois on every Class A, and lump them into a text file. I was surprised to find that the United States Government owns something like 30 Class A's.
It's not a lack of unused IPs. It's a lack of allocatable IPs.
Joshua Kinberg is now being charged with vandalism. -- Third comment down.
He was arrested, and charged with vandalism. I suppose you're correct: he wasn't arrested for vandalism; he was arrested, and later charged with vandalism. (Although, the remainder of the post I'm quoting makes it sound as if the police arrested him for vandalism, and just didn't state the charge when he was arrested.)
A screenshot I found (images.google.com) of Win2K.
Curiously, the Japanese version seems to have a Poland. The page it's on suggests that it's Win9x that has Poland. Meaning they actively removed Poland from the map?
(I'm trying to find a good article explaining it, though I swear I read it here. Essentially, a bug in Nextel phones caused them to lock up whenever the GPS was turned on. Dialing 911 was one way to ensure this happened, so, effectively, it was impossible to call 911.)
My VB teacher learned, thanks to me, that teaching the concept of "loops" at the same time as the "beep" command wasn't a good idea. Particularly when the loops we created tended to be infinite.
This brought a smile to my face. Just thinking of chucking a cellphone like a grenade does that.
Yesterday I was driving along, and gently swerved to miss some grey thing in the road. I ended up hitting it anyway, probably because, as I got close, I started trying to get a good glimpse of what it was. It looked like a cell phone.
Made a nice loud crunch, and then I saw a car on the side of the road backing up to try to retreive what I'd just flattened for them.
I'm still trying to figure out how you might 'accidentally' chuck your cell phone out the window. Must be that they had one of these phones?
Most of history's genocides were caused by smart (MENSA smart) people who were highly literate
More accurately, most of history's genocides were orchestrated by geniuses. Not all of the people who carried out their wishes were as intelligent.
It's been said before that Hitler was among the best orators in the history of the world. I think this is entirely correct. IMHO, Hitler did a master job of brainwashing thousands into thinking that mass murder was the right thing to do. I'd argue that those who actually did Hitler's work weren't the "MENSA smart" people you refer to.
Morals are important, I'm not contesting that. But I don't think the majority of Nazis were geniuses.
Did we just equate a school board's request to not cover a book with the massacre of millions of Jews?
Censorship is bad. But if someone gives into the school board's request, rather than putting up a fight and getting herself fired, I fail to see the parallels to the Holocaust.
Okay, so the Nazis banned some stuff. I think the similarities end there.
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A voluntary .xxx TLD would be a good idea. The second it becomes required, it's totally unconstitutional.
.kids or something crazy. The problem is... Where do you draw the line? Slashdot has trolls linking to stuff like tubgirl and goatse all the time. So it probably shouldn't be .safe.
.safe is about as popular as .museum.
I think there's already a
You can apply the same logic -- occasional, not-so-kid-friendly things -- to most any site. And soon,
I think this is what happened to me.
Now, whenever I view this part of Slashdot, my screen looks all washed out! All the colors are really light, and I have to squint really hard.
It's funny you should mention computer problems.
Whenever I view this it.slashdot.org site, everything on my screen is all washed-out.
Is this a symptom of being a zombie PC?
The reason? Spammers are able to publish their own records, too.
From the moment SPF was implemented, people knew that this could happen. SPF doesn't aim to stop spam outright, it aims to HELP stop spam.
First off, if SPF is used, it cuts out 'joe jobs.' I can't send you mail purporting to be from Yahoo through a mass mailer on my desktop, because SPF will catch it.
I see two issues with spam:
a.) Annoying commerical advertisements
b.) The above, sent fraudulently
SPF helps to cut out the second. If spammers send me spam, but do it from their own domain, it's still not hard to block them.
No one (that knew what they were talking about) ever claimed that SPF was a cure-all for spam. All it aimed to do was make spammers stop forging their addresses. And it sounds like it's succeeding.
Who else read this and thought it was another PostNuke- or PHPNuke-type application? C'mon, admit it!
Free? I doubt you'll find it. Cheap? Depends on your definition.
A friend and I have been sharing a Virtual Private Server for a while now. $35/month gets us 6 GB of disk space (don't recall the memory limit, but we're on a dual 2.8 GHz Xeon with 4 GB RAM, and I think they have 30 people as their maximum. The thing *FLIES*), and 75 GB of bandwidth. (We're hosting with Dinix.) You can probably find a lot cheaper soon, especially when EV1Servers (formerly RackShack) rolls out their Virtuozzo licenses for something like $1 apiece.
Anyway, it might be pricier than you're looking for, but in the grand scheme of things, you get full root access to a 'real' server in a 'real' data center, and can do whatever you please. I didn't come close to the disk/bandwidth limits at my old host, but I moved solely because I'd finally have root, and be able to change whatever I wanted.
What advantage does this have (except for cost)?
I think you just discounted one of its advantages. I'm sure there are groups out there that are itching for more CPU power, but don't have a ton of money to burn.
And remember that in a data center, it's not "time is money," it's "space is money." Something this size could end up saving a lot if you're paying for rack space, and can go from several racks of desktop cases to this. (Granted, if you're smart, you'd be using rackmounts, not desktop cases, but I digress.)
Does that mean the Internet can drink now?
Getting off-topic, but have you ever wondered how some of the more basic things were discovered?
Who discovered smoking? What possessed them to rip plants up, set fire to them, and inhale the vapors?
And how about sex? Falling in love might be a natural reaction, but how the hell did they figure that one out? What else went on?
Based on some of the pictures I've found the Internet to have, I think the Internet's gay.
The poor thing is probably trying to get married; it's just that it's not a legal resident of San Francisco or Massachusetts. Just give it some time, and maybe it'll be able to at least get a civil union.
Ipv4 running out of room is a bit of a myth -- there's still plenty of companies and uninversities with huge blocks of ipv4 address space that they have for historical reasons.
Rather than debunk the myth, you've proved it.
The whole reason we're "running out of room" is that "old" companies have massive netblocks they're not even beginning to use.
This is like saying, "There's still plenty of land left in the city. Big companies bought it all up to hold onto." There's plenty of unused IPs out there. The problem is that they'll probably never be assigned.
I once wrote a script to do a whois on every Class A, and lump them into a text file. I was surprised to find that the United States Government owns something like 30 Class A's.
It's not a lack of unused IPs. It's a lack of allocatable IPs.
I come up with -35.
Seems like a substantial difference. Maybe it's just round-off errors or something.
Please tell me you didn't put "KY JellY" and "Darl McBride" in the same paragraph.
Joshua Kinberg is now being charged with vandalism. -- Third comment down.
He was arrested, and charged with vandalism. I suppose you're correct: he wasn't arrested for vandalism; he was arrested, and later charged with vandalism. (Although, the remainder of the post I'm quoting makes it sound as if the police arrested him for vandalism, and just didn't state the charge when he was arrested.)
[I]t shall be presumed that the vendor of the specified product... placed such advertisement... upon the property.
"SCO was here!"
Uhh, in XP Home, Poland still doesn't exist.
Map of Europe for the uninitiated.
A screenshot I found (images.google.com) of Win2K.
Curiously, the Japanese version seems to have a Poland. The page it's on suggests that it's Win9x that has Poland. Meaning they actively removed Poland from the map?
Babelfish still translates it as "to take again the school".
;) So what if it didn't exist yet?
Should've just used Babelfish.
If deafened, just call 911 on a Nextel phone.
(I'm trying to find a good article explaining it, though I swear I read it here. Essentially, a bug in Nextel phones caused them to lock up whenever the GPS was turned on. Dialing 911 was one way to ensure this happened, so, effectively, it was impossible to call 911.)
My VB teacher learned, thanks to me, that teaching the concept of "loops" at the same time as the "beep" command wasn't a good idea. Particularly when the loops we created tended to be infinite.
This brought a smile to my face. Just thinking of chucking a cellphone like a grenade does that.
Yesterday I was driving along, and gently swerved to miss some grey thing in the road. I ended up hitting it anyway, probably because, as I got close, I started trying to get a good glimpse of what it was. It looked like a cell phone.
Made a nice loud crunch, and then I saw a car on the side of the road backing up to try to retreive what I'd just flattened for them.
I'm still trying to figure out how you might 'accidentally' chuck your cell phone out the window. Must be that they had one of these phones?
That's more or less what I was saying. :)
Most of history's genocides were caused by smart (MENSA smart) people who were highly literate
More accurately, most of history's genocides were orchestrated by geniuses. Not all of the people who carried out their wishes were as intelligent.
It's been said before that Hitler was among the best orators in the history of the world. I think this is entirely correct. IMHO, Hitler did a master job of brainwashing thousands into thinking that mass murder was the right thing to do. I'd argue that those who actually did Hitler's work weren't the "MENSA smart" people you refer to.
Morals are important, I'm not contesting that. But I don't think the majority of Nazis were geniuses.
Interesting. I just went to find the exact quote to reply with, and found the full exact quote:
"and that you shall not kill - for that is forbidden by Allah - except for a just cause."
I'd, previously, only see "And that you shall not kill - for that is forbidden by Allah."
I guess I wasn't quite as correct as I thought I was.
What a wimp. I lost all respect for her for not fighting it.
Standing up for what you believe in is a good thing.
But if something goes to the school board, it's probably already gone through a department head, and the school's administration.
I have a feeling that the school board's going to get its way, the only question was whether she'd still have a career in teaching or not.
Did we just equate a school board's request to not cover a book with the massacre of millions of Jews?
Censorship is bad. But if someone gives into the school board's request, rather than putting up a fight and getting herself fired, I fail to see the parallels to the Holocaust.
Okay, so the Nazis banned some stuff. I think the similarities end there.