Oh, stuff it. And don't pull a muscle patting yourself on the back.
You may be a 'hacker' in the true hardware/soldering iron/tweaking sense of the word, but don't use that to cover up the fact that you're just a motherfucker who won't pay the 30 bucks a month for satellite TV.
You think that DirecTV got to launch that bird for free? You think their transmitter facilities are running off of hope and love? Well, if you do, i've got news for you.
I can only see if this is fair if the ISP's pay metered rates for their traffic. If they get all you can eat and then charge metered, they're being rather shitty.
But hey, it's their business. If you want to go to Ryan's Steakhouse and fill your pockets with pork chops and then go sell 'em on the corner for a buck apiece, sure. go for it. but don't be amazed if they get their pork chops somewhere else once they realize you're paying 6 bucks for thirty of them.
The Interstate highway system is a method of transferring materials, data and persons from one place to another.
Many people use that to visit their grandparents and to go to work. But many people also speed, drive under the influence, and transport drugs using that same interstate system. There are illegal and legal uses for this network, and it is impractical to police which goes on and which is stopped 100 percent of the time.
Advertisers use that network to put up billboards advertising their wares. Are they supporting drug dealers because drug dealers happen to use their network?
No.
Now, what this company is doing is secretly attaching a tow hitch to your ride and using your resources to transport their trailers full of whatever from place to place without telling you. That's wrong.
How the fuck do you think that all these things hook up? Bluetooth?
If you have the gear, be prepared to set up (AND MAINTAIN) a cable arrangement that simplifies things and organizes them. Get a couple of packs of those cable ties and label BOTH ENDS of every cable, even down to the L and R of each stereo pair (sometimes colors get mixed up).
I've got eight computers, a TV/VCR/DVD setup, turntable, CD player, MD player and three game systems. I don't get mixed up. Label and tie off everything. Don't use forty foot RCA cables for stereo components on top of each other. Coiling it up may seem OK, but you're losing signal and when that coil gets undone, you're still fucked.
Ummm, last time I checked, breaching TOS or AUP is not a criminal offense. Immoral? Maybe, if they're aware of them. Prosecutable? Decidedly not.
Now, once it enters the realms of harassment, theft or fraud, THAT is illegal. I work at an ISP, and have gotten several informational lectures as to what laws apply where.
To hear some of the more ardent computer security advocates tell it, the days of sneaking in some online shopping on company time, mass-emailing your pals a Flash-powered shoot-'em-up game or even downloading screensavers could be a thing of the past.
If your employees are fucking stupid enough to download "Flash-powered shoot-'em-up games' and 'screensavers', not only have you not properly trained them in network usage and respect for their machines, but you might need to find them some actual WORK to do.
Mind you, if they do their work and want to view non-flash websites, i don't have a problem in the world with that.
I'm getting paid to do a fucking job. If I am on salary, and I do that job, then by god, if I get projects done on time (or preferably early) and get everything else taken care of, then you're goddamn right i'm going to reload slashdot and give my brain a much-needed break from intense thinking.
What? Are you clinging to the past? Who the hell needs bbs's and ftpsearch when you have p2p?
I do. I'm not much on struggling to download a mislabeled, incomplete 300mb ISO from a guy that claims to be "t3" but is giving me and three other people 1.5k/second, while using a shitty spyware client that constantly reminds me to buy the new Elton John CD.
Think about download.com and tucows and freshmeat and napster, and gnutella and kazaa, don't they provide the same functionality as the older tools?
Hell no! Let's see, banner ads ad nauseam, mandatory "membership" for every site, broken links that you can't tell (god forbid download.com have an A HREF to a.zip file, they've got to have a fucking 120 character URL so they can target ads to you or some shit),etc, etc.
Aren't ICQ and AIM and MSIM just like IRC and talk, and chat?
Absolutely not. One-on-one chatting versus global chatrooms that you can be basically anonymous in, solid download bots, a highly redundant network. You can find good shit in IRC. I know two people that have successfully gotten worthwile software over any IM client.
To me all these things are evolutionary steps forward. None of them really represent new ideas, just new ways of doing old things.
Wrong. Evolution - making things easier and more efficient.
Going from ftpsearch and IRC to stupid banner-ad laden warez sites that are all just circular links to each other, "Top 50" lists, ratio ftp sites on 56k, passworded zip files, warez sites just offering legal demo versions and lying about it, the horrendous popups on astalavista.box.sk, etc. is NOT progress.
We have gone from being the consumers of a service to the product of the service. The sites are selling our eyes, our time, our screen space to the real customers, the porn banner ad purchasers.
Should you be 'forced' to modify your habits by being careful and not driving around town at 2am on New Year's Eve because there are tons of drunkards driving around? No, but you should for your own well-being, and your hardheadedness may, (notice I said *may*, not *will*) put you at a higher risk for being killed.
Well, then, that's *your* fault for not having a:some sort of trash bin or non-permanent delete in your mail client or, b:the lack of some sort of filter.
If you get email that's so important that you get one email deleted and wail and gnash your teeth about it, keep your messages on your server if you use POP3 or set up a filter to copy all incoming mail to a separate, properly chmoded file.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, stuff it. And don't pull a muscle patting yourself on the back.
You may be a 'hacker' in the true hardware/soldering iron/tweaking sense of the word, but don't use that to cover up the fact that you're just a motherfucker who won't pay the 30 bucks a month for satellite TV.
You think that DirecTV got to launch that bird for free? You think their transmitter facilities are running off of hope and love? Well, if you do, i've got news for you.
I can only see if this is fair if the ISP's pay metered rates for their traffic. If they get all you can eat and then charge metered, they're being rather shitty.
But hey, it's their business. If you want to go to Ryan's Steakhouse and fill your pockets with pork chops and then go sell 'em on the corner for a buck apiece, sure. go for it. but don't be amazed if they get their pork chops somewhere else once they realize you're paying 6 bucks for thirty of them.
Bearings and headings are measured in degrees, not inches. Angle, not distance.
Nice, but wrong.
The Interstate highway system is a method of transferring materials, data and persons from one place to another.
Many people use that to visit their grandparents and to go to work. But many people also speed, drive under the influence, and transport drugs using that same interstate system. There are illegal and legal uses for this network, and it is impractical to police which goes on and which is stopped 100 percent of the time.
Advertisers use that network to put up billboards advertising their wares. Are they supporting drug dealers because drug dealers happen to use their network?
No.
Now, what this company is doing is secretly attaching a tow hitch to your ride and using your resources to transport their trailers full of whatever from place to place without telling you. That's wrong.
just wait until Canada turns into a barren desert and then you'll be sorry.
You sure about that, eh?
SSH's encryption would be against the rules, but you can use it in compression-only mode to gain a bit of throughput.
To hell with this company. I've been harassing them for TWO YEARS to get on their beta test list, and they kept ignoring me. :)
How the fuck do you think that all these things hook up? Bluetooth?
If you have the gear, be prepared to set up (AND MAINTAIN) a cable arrangement that simplifies things and organizes them. Get a couple of packs of those cable ties and label BOTH ENDS of every cable, even down to the L and R of each stereo pair (sometimes colors get mixed up).
I've got eight computers, a TV/VCR/DVD setup, turntable, CD player, MD player and three game systems. I don't get mixed up. Label and tie off everything. Don't use forty foot RCA cables for stereo components on top of each other. Coiling it up may seem OK, but you're losing signal and when that coil gets undone, you're still fucked.
I work for an ISP. We don't log that shit. Seriously.
At best, by default (e.g. no investigation being performed) ISP's log dialup sessions, and Caller ID strings.
It's...illegal (against the terms of service)...
Ummm, last time I checked, breaching TOS or AUP is not a criminal offense. Immoral? Maybe, if they're aware of them. Prosecutable? Decidedly not.
Now, once it enters the realms of harassment, theft or fraud, THAT is illegal. I work at an ISP, and have gotten several informational lectures as to what laws apply where.
Quote from the article:
To hear some of the more ardent computer security advocates tell it, the days of sneaking in some online shopping on company time, mass-emailing your pals a Flash-powered shoot-'em-up game or even downloading screensavers could be a thing of the past.
If your employees are fucking stupid enough to download "Flash-powered shoot-'em-up games' and 'screensavers', not only have you not properly trained them in network usage and respect for their machines, but you might need to find them some actual WORK to do.
Mind you, if they do their work and want to view non-flash websites, i don't have a problem in the world with that.
I'm getting paid to do a fucking job. If I am on salary, and I do that job, then by god, if I get projects done on time (or preferably early) and get everything else taken care of, then you're goddamn right i'm going to reload slashdot and give my brain a much-needed break from intense thinking.
:)
Don't forget the "goodguys" that geet taken down with them. i.e. Square lost a lot of money they could have spent to make final fantasy XXX better.
:D
Now that's a movie or game that i'd pay GOOD money to see.
Don't bitch about the difficulty of an OS install on an older machine because you dont know how to figure out how to upgrade the RAM to decent specs.
"Windows 2000 sucks! I got it to install on my p133 with 32mb of RAM, but now i can't use any of the services, and it's really slow!"
Rather unfortunate, that. How long did they keep it up before the pasty theater geeks squawked, "It's INIGO, not INDIGO, you meat-headed brutes!"
Because 'replusive' isn't a fucking word.
Repulsive is, however.
C'mon, Taco. it's your website. you should have known not to click it.
:)
And at least have the decency to post logged in.
Comments make Slashdot what it is. What is it, like three percent of /. readers post?
WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I HAVE TO PAY MONEY to have the PRIVILEGE of generating Slashdot's content and appeal for them?
Once again, the patented DotCom Business Strategy (tm) fails.
1: Get cool-sounding name.
2: ??????
3: Profit!
NOOOO! NOT THE COMFY CHAIR!
Next thing, you'll be asking for a SOFT PILLOW to put your feet up on.
What? Are you clinging to the past? Who the hell needs bbs's and ftpsearch when you have p2p?
I do. I'm not much on struggling to download a mislabeled, incomplete 300mb ISO from a guy that claims to be "t3" but is giving me and three other people 1.5k/second, while using a shitty spyware client that constantly reminds me to buy the new Elton John CD.
Think about download.com and tucows and freshmeat and napster, and gnutella and kazaa, don't they provide the same functionality as the older tools?
.zip file, they've got to have a fucking 120 character URL so they can target ads to you or some shit),etc, etc.
Hell no! Let's see, banner ads ad nauseam, mandatory "membership" for every site, broken links that you can't tell (god forbid download.com have an A HREF to a
Aren't ICQ and AIM and MSIM just like IRC and talk, and chat?
Absolutely not. One-on-one chatting versus global chatrooms that you can be basically anonymous in, solid download bots, a highly redundant network. You can find good shit in IRC. I know two people that have successfully gotten worthwile software over any IM client.
To me all these things are evolutionary steps forward. None of them really represent new ideas, just new ways of doing old things.
Wrong. Evolution - making things easier and more efficient.
Going from ftpsearch and IRC to stupid banner-ad laden warez sites that are all just circular links to each other, "Top 50" lists, ratio ftp sites on 56k, passworded zip files, warez sites just offering legal demo versions and lying about it, the horrendous popups on astalavista.box.sk, etc. is NOT progress.
We have gone from being the consumers of a service to the product of the service. The sites are selling our eyes, our time, our screen space to the real customers, the porn banner ad purchasers.
That's a really cool idea. Good work!
:)
sound forge and cooledit can easily generate dtmf sequences.....and i'm sure there's some open source/*nix solution too.
Should you be 'forced' to modify your habits by being careful and not driving around town at 2am on New Year's Eve because there are tons of drunkards driving around? No, but you should for your own well-being, and your hardheadedness may, (notice I said *may*, not *will*) put you at a higher risk for being killed.
Well, then, that's *your* fault for not having a:some sort of trash bin or non-permanent delete in your mail client or, b:the lack of some sort of filter.
If you get email that's so important that you get one email deleted and wail and gnash your teeth about it, keep your messages on your server if you use POP3 or set up a filter to copy all incoming mail to a separate, properly chmoded file.