I have three girls (1,3,4 ATM) and have had to start wondering how I'll play things in a few years. Your setup is very similar to what I've been toying with in my head - good to know it has worked well for you:)
(I live in Australia; and heartily disagree with the 'clean feed' filter proposed - but fully agree with parents filtering their children's internet, their own way).
I looked at the page in question, and closed it before it had even finished loading the first couple of images.
It even freaked me out for a few seconds - but, I figured before I looked that it probably would, given the context.
I would never host such a thing on my own website, and would be quite happy if nobody ever did so on theirs.
BUT, I don't want the government blocking it. What's it going to prove? Where are we heading with this, block anything that's "offensive" or "disgusting"? Where will it end, if we start?
I don't want to live in a world where VPN access is outlawed and the internet operates on a non-P2P, "whitelist-only" model.
Make the filter optional; I might even sign up for it - I do have small kids, and it'd be nice as a little extra protection from accidents. But they'll be using a computer in a public area of the house, supervised. And if there's no filter, I'll just install one on a home proxy instead.
I am an Australian adult, a parent. Give me my choice.
I'm happier than ever to NOT be a part of this particular clusterfuck.
That's cool, as far as I'm concerned. I've asked people if they're on Facebook - if not, oh well, it just makes things easier...
I want online tools that SAVE time, not CONSUME more and more of it.
That's the point of Facebook, as far as I'm concerned. In order to actually "touch base" with the friends I care about, I'd have to be talking to them on a fairly regular basis, just to see if anything interesting is happening in their life.
If they're on FB, I just skim through what they've said and can decided if (and how) I want to respond. Often, I just ignore it. Sometimes, I make an occasional wisecrack:). But it means that I get to "keep in touch" and have friends, without spending any significant amount of time doing it.
I never finished my degree, yet I have been able to pursue a computing career without it being a roadblock.
I work at a well-respected ISP here in Australia, and there are a lot of people here who don't have a degree. (Quite a few started one, but that's another story!:)
It helps, but it's not a show-stopper if you have some experience behind you.
"# Overblocking (the proportion of content that was blocked that should not have been blocked) was between 1% and 6%, with most falling under 3%. The median overblocking rate was significantly improved from the previous trial."
Read the other dot-points at the end - performance hit was between 2% and over 75%... All to block "between 88% and 97%" of "bad" content.
Somehow, the tradeoffs don't seem worth it to me.
(Disclaimer: personal opinion; I work at an Australian ISP;...)
You see, every time you want to change the bandwidth cap, you have to upload a new BIN file and reboot the cable modem.
So do the capping somewhere other than the modem?
It shouldn't be too hard to cap the bandwidth as it enters the network proper, rather than messing around with modem rates.
Most Australian ISPs have a quota (typically 500MB to 150GB, depending on the ISP and plan); above that you'll get shaped to either 64k or 128k (depending on the ISP and plan).
(NB.- only talking residential plans here; talking for myself not my employer, yada yada)
Its possible to run an IT staff for several hours durring a coffee supply disruption.
The office I'm in now has a disaster recovery plan for when the coffee machine breaks down (which is recently did). Head down a floor (network operations) and use theirs:)
Yes it does. Because it places a content provider onto a special tier.
Anybody that wants the same treatment as LLN (and Akamai for that matter), can just put servers in the datacentres of all major ISPs. That's really what's made a difference here, not some sort of back-room deal that's going to disturb Net Neutrality.
(personal opinion, not speaking official for my employer, yada yada)
A dedicated rack server is upwards of $300/month most places
You must not have shopped around a lot! We're paying ~$160/mo for some really nice Core2Duo machines with healthy specs (2GB RAM / 160GB HDD / 2TB quota, I think).
You SOLD to your own parents? I can't imagine that. Has America become so materialistic that we sell things to our own parents now?
I sell to my parents, on odd occasions. I also buy from them, trade with them, and freely exchange things of less value* with them.
* Not in a dollar sense, but a desirability sense.
I see no problem with it at all - we certainly don't use anything like RRP. Usually (depending on the item) if we use money, it's in the 10%-50% of current "real" value.
Some stuff (like I said) we just pass around (usually dealing with it like it's a perpetual loan; offering it back as a first option if we want to get rid of it). Other stuff (of greater "real" value) we'll deal closer to the mark (80-90%).
It just depends on what seems fair for each thing. We work it out ourselves, and everybody has always been happy with the arrangement.
When you use a normal certificate they are proving that they can now recive your packets and they could at another time much earlier when they contacted the cerfificate authority
Assuming you check how recently the cert was issued...
(I still agree that it's more useful than not, but it's not *great*)
So what does VA/OSDL do to protect their interest in the domain name - which could otherwise be lost or stolen if CmdrTaco was malevolent or hit by a bus? What does happen to the domain?
That benefit was negated by the selling of registrar logins, as I've said twice in this thread.
The site you're on may well not exist right now if it weren't possible?
You're suggesting that we should remove flexibility from the current structure of the internet and inhibit legal trade of domain names, and you failed to address my other point that anyone intending in advance to sell the name will just use a separate account with their registrar, and sell the account instead.
All your suggestion does is harm people trying to do the right thing. What does it bring as an advantage?
This isn't about building or running a site for a third party from the start. It's about Rob Malda selling his home grown blog 'Slashdot' to VA/OSDL/etc.
Umm, all you have to do is make sure the company owns the domain. That doesn't stop you doing all the setup, development and hosting for them.
No, I think you misunderstood. He said that he would be running it, but that they may want to sell the entire property later down the track.
The company I work for runs a large forum in the digital arts area; we recently acquired a smaller forum operating in a related niche from someone who didn't have the time and manpower to run it the way they wanted. Under the suggested scheme (of not allowing transfers), we'd have to 100% rely on the original owner(s) forever, including relying on them not dying (or otherwise losing ownership of the domain).
Not to mention, everyone would just create separate logins for their registrar for each domain they bought, and sell the login details instead of the domains...
Most people keep their car's manual in the glove box, which tends to have the radio's code stamped somewhere therein.
Yeah, our manual was stolen one night (along with the rest of the glove box), when we forgot to lock our car up. And we've since had battery troubles - argh! We did convince the guy to just give us the code (pitfully simple - I wonder how many are the same...)
For most large companies, email is not their main focus. It's just a distraction, something they need in order to do their real business. I'd think that offloading that headache would be a relief.
I think you'll find that it's even more of the case for SMEs (like where I work). Mail was being a headache for us, we offloaded it to Google, and we've been pretty happy since then*. As the poor guy handling the home-grown mail setup part-time**, I was certainly relieved!
(* my perspective, obviously, not my employer's) (** duties-wise. I am employed full-time, but am usually busy with other stuff)
Or have something that would plausibly be worth protecting. I'm sure you could find plenty of specs or requirements documents that aren't sensitive at all, for example, but that you could believably claim are terribly valuable trade secrets.
Or you could show your stash of pr0n that you've encrypted so your partner doesn't find out;)
Slashdot Mirror
So you receive a letter on your mailbox saying that you were fined in AUD $11,000 , for linking to a site that you didn't know you could link
You are given a day or so to remove it, after you have been notified, before the fine takes place.
Hope you can find your source files quickly enough ;)
Good on you.
I have three girls (1,3,4 ATM) and have had to start wondering how I'll play things in a few years. Your setup is very similar to what I've been toying with in my head - good to know it has worked well for you :)
(I live in Australia; and heartily disagree with the 'clean feed' filter proposed - but fully agree with parents filtering their children's internet, their own way).
I looked at the page in question, and closed it before it had even finished loading the first couple of images.
It even freaked me out for a few seconds - but, I figured before I looked that it probably would, given the context.
I would never host such a thing on my own website, and would be quite happy if nobody ever did so on theirs.
BUT, I don't want the government blocking it. What's it going to prove? Where are we heading with this, block anything that's "offensive" or "disgusting"? Where will it end, if we start?
I don't want to live in a world where VPN access is outlawed and the internet operates on a non-P2P, "whitelist-only" model.
Make the filter optional; I might even sign up for it - I do have small kids, and it'd be nice as a little extra protection from accidents. But they'll be using a computer in a public area of the house, supervised. And if there's no filter, I'll just install one on a home proxy instead.
I am an Australian adult, a parent. Give me my choice.
What proportion of Dell Inspirons are running pirated XP? My guess - around 32%.
But, how many are bought with XP and then loaded up with Linux?
I installed Ubuntu from a USB stick the moment* I left the store; you can't buy Linux-based computers from Dell in Australia.
(* No, seriously - I was waiting for my bus to arrive to take me home when I started :)
My home ISP (oblig. disclaimer: I now work for them too) has blocked port 25 outbound by default on 'Home' ADSL connections for a while now.
It's all configurable from the online webtools, so you can turn it back on if you want it.
And there's even an in-depth FAQ about it on the site.
IMHO it's a great idea, and I wish more ISPs did it.
I'm happier than ever to NOT be a part of this particular clusterfuck.
That's cool, as far as I'm concerned. I've asked people if they're on Facebook - if not, oh well, it just makes things easier...
I want online tools that SAVE time, not CONSUME more and more of it.
That's the point of Facebook, as far as I'm concerned. In order to actually "touch base" with the friends I care about, I'd have to be talking to them on a fairly regular basis, just to see if anything interesting is happening in their life.
If they're on FB, I just skim through what they've said and can decided if (and how) I want to respond. Often, I just ignore it. Sometimes, I make an occasional wisecrack :). But it means that I get to "keep in touch" and have friends, without spending any significant amount of time doing it.
I never finished my degree, yet I have been able to pursue a computing career without it being a roadblock.
I work at a well-respected ISP here in Australia, and there are a lot of people here who don't have a degree. (Quite a few started one, but that's another story! :)
It helps, but it's not a show-stopper if you have some experience behind you.
wtf? How do I emerge that?
It's like emerging Debian, but with a custom overlay...
Even the tests show it was at least as bad as 1%...
http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2008/060
1% is wishful thinking.
http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2008/060
"# Overblocking (the proportion of content that was blocked that should not have been blocked) was between 1% and 6%, with most falling under 3%. The median overblocking rate was significantly improved from the previous trial."
Read the other dot-points at the end - performance hit was between 2% and over 75%... All to block "between 88% and 97%" of "bad" content.
Somehow, the tradeoffs don't seem worth it to me.
(Disclaimer: personal opinion; I work at an Australian ISP; ...)
You see, every time you want to change the bandwidth cap, you have to upload a new BIN file and reboot the cable modem.
So do the capping somewhere other than the modem?
It shouldn't be too hard to cap the bandwidth as it enters the network proper, rather than messing around with modem rates.
Most Australian ISPs have a quota (typically 500MB to 150GB, depending on the ISP and plan); above that you'll get shaped to either 64k or 128k (depending on the ISP and plan).
(NB.- only talking residential plans here; talking for myself not my employer, yada yada)
Its possible to run an IT staff for several hours durring a coffee supply disruption.
The office I'm in now has a disaster recovery plan for when the coffee machine breaks down (which is recently did). Head down a floor (network operations) and use theirs :)
Yes it does. Because it places a content provider onto a special tier.
Anybody that wants the same treatment as LLN (and Akamai for that matter), can just put servers in the datacentres of all major ISPs. That's really what's made a difference here, not some sort of back-room deal that's going to disturb Net Neutrality.
(personal opinion, not speaking official for my employer, yada yada)
You must not have shopped around a lot! We're paying ~$160/mo for some really nice Core2Duo machines with healthy specs (2GB RAM / 160GB HDD / 2TB quota, I think).
I sell to my parents, on odd occasions. I also buy from them, trade with them, and freely exchange things of less value* with them.
* Not in a dollar sense, but a desirability sense.
I see no problem with it at all - we certainly don't use anything like RRP. Usually (depending on the item) if we use money, it's in the 10%-50% of current "real" value.
Some stuff (like I said) we just pass around (usually dealing with it like it's a perpetual loan; offering it back as a first option if we want to get rid of it). Other stuff (of greater "real" value) we'll deal closer to the mark (80-90%).
It just depends on what seems fair for each thing. We work it out ourselves, and everybody has always been happy with the arrangement.
I hate replying to myself, but I forgot of course the old can't-do-proxy-MITM-attacks aspect. Duh.
Assuming you check how recently the cert was issued...
(I still agree that it's more useful than not, but it's not *great*)
So what does VA/OSDL do to protect their interest in the domain name - which could otherwise be lost or stolen if CmdrTaco was malevolent or hit by a bus? What does happen to the domain?
That benefit was negated by the selling of registrar logins, as I've said twice in this thread.
The site you're on may well not exist right now if it weren't possible?
You're suggesting that we should remove flexibility from the current structure of the internet and inhibit legal trade of domain names, and you failed to address my other point that anyone intending in advance to sell the name will just use a separate account with their registrar, and sell the account instead.
All your suggestion does is harm people trying to do the right thing. What does it bring as an advantage?
This isn't about building or running a site for a third party from the start. It's about Rob Malda selling his home grown blog 'Slashdot' to VA/OSDL/etc.
I'd wager that VB6 is probably fairly safe.
Fundamentally flawed language in many ways, definitely :). But probably fairly safe.
No, I think you misunderstood. He said that he would be running it, but that they may want to sell the entire property later down the track.
The company I work for runs a large forum in the digital arts area; we recently acquired a smaller forum operating in a related niche from someone who didn't have the time and manpower to run it the way they wanted. Under the suggested scheme (of not allowing transfers), we'd have to 100% rely on the original owner(s) forever, including relying on them not dying (or otherwise losing ownership of the domain).
Not to mention, everyone would just create separate logins for their registrar for each domain they bought, and sell the login details instead of the domains...
Yeah, our manual was stolen one night (along with the rest of the glove box), when we forgot to lock our car up. And we've since had battery troubles - argh! We did convince the guy to just give us the code (pitfully simple - I wonder how many are the same...)
I think you'll find that it's even more of the case for SMEs (like where I work). Mail was being a headache for us, we offloaded it to Google, and we've been pretty happy since then*. As the poor guy handling the home-grown mail setup part-time**, I was certainly relieved!
(* my perspective, obviously, not my employer's)
(** duties-wise. I am employed full-time, but am usually busy with other stuff)
Or you could show your stash of pr0n that you've encrypted so your partner doesn't find out