"child sexual molestation is committed against perhaps 20 percent of girls and 5 to 10 percent of boys under the age of consent in the United States."
If that is news to you, or you find it hard to understand true society-burdening effects of child sexual molestation, check out this award-winning film and its website:
...Angela drove around the country meeting other 'Angela Sheltons', only to discover that a majority had been raped, beaten or molested just like herself as a child. In the film she confronts her child-molesting father and eventually goes thru a massive emotional breakdown.
Her story is pretty amazing, and seeing her film and how it touches survivors really helps non-survivors understand sexual traumas.
Not until I had spent lots of time around Angela did I finally realize that as I child I had been abused by a baby sitter who thought it was OK to let a 11-yr-old suckle on her breats...
"I'm a free-software publisher who has dealt with similar license issues, even so far as bringing up concerns about the GPLv2 with Bradley Kunz and in turn, Eben Moglen."
My appologies to Mr. Kuhn. I had met him at the open source convention in San Diego, and spoke with him about the FSF, which he is Vice President of -- the man on the street, if you will. He was extremely helpful and quite expedient in helping me with my GPL'd project and understanding license issues. (Thanks Brad - My bad!)
While on Road Rules Latin America, we spent about two and a half weeks in Belize, right on the Yellow River at the Lamani Outpost. Shortly thereafter I noticed that my (blue?) CDRs started getting 'spots' and little by little they started sounding worse and worse, if they worked at all.
Has anyone else out there sort of grown up with Perl during this dot.compost era and now started to check out C and the real guts behind ''world domination?''
I'm finally getting into C by taking a night class at UCLA, and my god, this stuff only gets cooler and cooler. To see the community RFC type thing go on with Perl6 and to watch/hear/readof the ISO committee floundering with other languages is very interesting too.
Of all the uninspiring things happening with government, the economy, environment, etc these days, I really recommend that any inclined kid such as myself out there get back to basics and check out what their local community college/college extension has to offer. I have, and every time I walk out of class it's like "oh, no shit, that's friggin sweet." Maybe it's just me, but for some of these things, it's just easier to be in an engaging classroom environment rather than to be all by your lonesone with Conway's ''OOP.''
Use MySQL for web development and want a graphical management interface much like what Enterprise Manager is to MSSQL? Check out 'the tool' -- http://dajoba.com/projects/mysqltool
Disclaimer: my brother wrote MysqlTool, but it still kicks arse and we need more users/testers so we can get closer to version 1.0...
-Abe
I could be wrong in my opinion, but I find it kind of fitting that Katz would choose an incident in Lancaster to examplify the blight of school informants...
Forget bind and Mr. Vixie's shenanigans -- get Dan Bernsteins awesome replacement: djbdns. You've heard of qmail and how famously reliable and secure it is, right? Well Dan's done the same thing with DNS as he's done with email. Anyone still running BIND on a authorative nameserver had really ought to consider switching. I did, and it's made my DNS life much much simpler.
I'm using Netscape 4.76 on RH7, and nothing but the main lordoftherings.net page works for me. All I get are a bunch of javascript errors and a white page.
Wouldn't expect less though -- I used to work for the company that was contracted for the original lordoftherings.net site. (The site that got slashdotted with 8Mbps of traffic after the first trailer was released..) From my point of view at the time, it seemed the folks at New Line Cinema were complete retards when it came to anything that wasn't flash and wasn't mainstream.
In late August I became a Tucow OpenSRS Registration service provider and accordingly transfered my domains from Network Solutions to Tucows.
One domain transfer was specifically completed on 9/22/00. Part of the transfer process is that the new registrar contacts the old registrar to notify them of the request and asks for their approval. (Is the domain paid for and not caught up in a dispute?) Network Solutions ACKNOWLEDGED this transfer request, allowing it go thorugh.
Now, a full two and a half months later, I get a nasty "FINAL NOTICE" bill from Network Solutions for the same domain that they acknowledged the transfer of. The envelope even has big bold writing on the front "Urgent: Your domain name is vital. Don't lose it." I'm not that stupid, and am not about to give Netsol another dime for a domain they're not even the registrar of, but what about non-techs who don't know any better?
I think whomever's going after Netsol with a class action suit should go after them for this shady billing scheme. I'd be willing to bet that at least 30% of the folks who get one of Netsol's bogus 'FINAL NOTICE' invoices pays it even though they've transfered the domain to a different registrar.
If you're looking for more info on duped out of $35 yourself, a long discussion about Netsol's hoaky billing system has taken place on the OpenSRS mailing lists. See http://www.opensrs.org/archives/mailing.index.shtm l...
California population = 33.4 million, 54 electoral votes.
Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, South and North Dakota, Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, West Virginia, Nebraska and New Hampshire = population
just 18.9 million, same 54 electoral votes.
Each Californian is now worth just.56 of a citizen in these other (Bush) states. Since under the original Constitution, a slave counted as.60 of a person, the California voter today is less relevant in picking a modern President than a non-voting slave in 1800.
But wait! If just one out of every thousand California Gore voters got angry enough to park a trailer in Nevada as their official residence, and voted there, they could give Nevada to Gore. Then even if Bush won Florida, he would have lost the Electoral College.
Hear this, every rancher, Klanner, and NRA nut from Reno to Savannah: after this farce of an election, frustrated, wealthy California environmentalists, Jews, perverts and liberals are coming to turn some beautiful corner of your
state into an absentee-landlord community like Tahoe, Taos or Aspen. Since you don't believe in property taxes, you're not even going to get much
revenue out of us. As a bonus, we're inviting illegal immigrant service workers to live in nearby shantytowns, either breeding or having many
abortions, and collecting welfare in the off-season.
If you don't like the idea, you can join us in abolishing the unfair Electoral College. Then we'll stay home with our once-again meaningful vote.
After getting frustrated with the perl module Net::Whois (or more, the guy who maintains it), I rewrote it with an extensible registrar and parsing system that follows Whois referrals as currently delivered by NSI Registry. If you're interested in perl modules and whois, please check out the beta Net::ParseWhois module, and help me extend it to correctly parse your favorite ICANT accredited registrar.
Anyone remember the WTO protests? Yeah..well, the layout of the Marina -- especially the street just in front of the Marina Marriot -- would make it fairly easy for a couple hundred geeks to block the driveways and delay the meeting, if not just draw a big chunk of media attention. If anyone wants to throw together a organizational website and a mailing list, I'd be more than happy to help coordinate.
If anyone has the time but not the cash to blow on the Marina Marriot, Venice Beach and all of it's cheap accomodations are just a few blocks from the Marina.
(I can see the hotel and ICANN's building from my apt, which is in venice, ca...)
AT&T's not saying they're going to tax every single 'net initiated monetary transaction that passes through their network - they're just going to tax the transactions that they're directly responsible for facilitating, through something like their start page. Think Netscape's netcenter. Read the CNN article and you'll notice they use thier pocketnet wireless service as an example. (They're just selling prominent merchant placement just like Yahoo or Google would.)
In the past week I've had to get a producer setup to send back images, video and text via Satellite from the upcoming surfermag.com op boat challenge in Indonesia. This is my very recent first-hand account of getting a usable connection up and running.
The setup we're working with is an Thrane and Thrane Comsat Messenger (3680A?) M4 ($3000 laptop sized bag phone) attched to a Macintosh G3 via a standard Diva TA PCMIA ISDN card ($250.). It took me about three days to get it working, and then another half-day of TCP/IP stack tuning to get it going at a usable speed. (When you dial #92 you get the most laid-back technical support in the world -- from an aussie 30 miles north of Perth sitting next to giant array of sats that make up a LES/Land Earth Station..)
If you're going to be on a boat, you have to use a tracking attena that can deal with the movement. The default with the M4 is this folded flat cardboard looking thing that needs to be stationary. There are warnings throughout the manual and attached to the front of the attena that say to stand at lest 1.8meters back when in operation.
The ISDN connection is just one B channel (64Kbits/second) and raw speed, even with tweaked TCP/IP settings to deal with the latency, is only about 2KB/sec. Round trip ping times from Inet hosts in the US back to the ISDN Sat connections are about 1200ms.
I wouldn't suggest trying this to anyone who doesn't have a lot of experience with dialup ISDN connections and a solid working knowledge of TCP/IP. Oh, the kicker - the ISDN connection is something like $8/minute, so make sure someone else is paying for it too. (Voice/regular 9600Bps connections are/only/ $2.90 or so per minute.)
After tracking down and analyzing the trinoo code and now (months later, I assume) seeing what sites are being hit by the current rash of DDoS shenanigans, what's your educated guess as to where these attacks are originating? Are there just a bunch of hapless teenage script kiddies turned tcp/ip coders out there who've decided "[corporate website here] SUCKS ASS", or - as some have speculated - is this distrubuted DOS system too complicated and thought out to be devised by anyone but an conspiracy of corporate & government interests?
Slashdot Mirror
"child sexual molestation is committed against perhaps 20 percent of girls and 5 to 10 percent of boys under the age of consent in the United States."
...Angela drove around the country meeting other 'Angela Sheltons', only to discover that a majority had been raped, beaten or molested just like herself as a child. In the film she confronts her child-molesting father and eventually goes thru a massive emotional breakdown.
If that is news to you, or you find it hard to understand true society-burdening effects of child sexual molestation, check out this award-winning film and its website:
Searching for Angela Shelton
Her story is pretty amazing, and seeing her film and how it touches survivors really helps non-survivors understand sexual traumas.
Not until I had spent lots of time around Angela did I finally realize that as I child I had been abused by a baby sitter who thought it was OK to let a 11-yr-old suckle on her breats...
Abe
"I'm a free-software publisher who has dealt with similar license issues, even so far as bringing up concerns about the GPLv2 with Bradley Kunz and in turn, Eben Moglen."
r ucefwebster.pdf
My appologies to Mr. Kuhn. I had met him at the open source convention in San Diego, and spoke with him about the FSF, which he is Vice President of -- the man on the street, if you will. He was extremely helpful and quite expedient in helping me with my GPL'd project and understanding license issues. (Thanks Brad - My bad!)
Anyway - I wish I had read this before I came down so soundly on MysqlAB's side: http://www.nusphere.com/misc_stuff/declarationofb
Why does the name Bruce Webster sound so familiar? He must have argued this GPL issue before?
Abe
Wierd.
While on Road Rules Latin America, we spent about two and a half weeks in Belize, right on the Yellow River at the Lamani Outpost. Shortly thereafter I noticed that my (blue?) CDRs started getting 'spots' and little by little they started sounding worse and worse, if they worked at all.
Pinche Fungi...
Has anyone else out there sort of grown up with Perl during this dot.compost era and now started to check out C and the real guts behind ''world domination?''
I'm finally getting into C by taking a night class at UCLA, and my god, this stuff only gets cooler and cooler. To see the community RFC type thing go on with Perl6 and to watch/hear/readof the ISO committee floundering with other languages is very interesting too.
Of all the uninspiring things happening with government, the economy, environment, etc these days, I really recommend that any inclined kid such as myself out there get back to basics and check out what their local community college/college extension has to offer. I have, and every time I walk out of class it's like "oh, no shit, that's friggin sweet." Maybe it's just me, but for some of these things, it's just easier to be in an engaging classroom environment rather than to be all by your lonesone with Conway's ''OOP.''
Anywho, back to coding..
What do you think of New.net and their plans to "circumvent" ICANN?
Hey -
Use MySQL for web development and want a graphical management interface much like what Enterprise Manager is to MSSQL? Check out 'the tool' -- http://dajoba.com/projects/mysqltool
Disclaimer: my brother wrote MysqlTool, but it still kicks arse and we need more users/testers so we can get closer to version 1.0...
-Abe
Lancaster California, from my (detached) view, seems to be a town full of iodine seeking crank junkies and intolerant white-folk --
...
NAZI GANG CALLED KEY PLAYER IN DRUG TRADE
California town sees rash of hate crime
Grammy Min discuesses trial for not keeping records on crystal iodine sales
I could be wrong in my opinion, but I find it kind of fitting that Katz would choose an incident in Lancaster to examplify the blight of school informants
Forget bind and Mr. Vixie's shenanigans -- get Dan Bernsteins awesome replacement: djbdns. You've heard of qmail and how famously reliable and secure it is, right? Well Dan's done the same thing with DNS as he's done with email. Anyone still running BIND on a authorative nameserver had really ought to consider switching. I did, and it's made my DNS life much much simpler.
..
Real soon now, we'll be releasing a management interface that plugs right into djbdns too -- http://dajoba.com/projects/nictool/
Abe
I'm using Netscape 4.76 on RH7, and nothing but the main lordoftherings.net page works for me. All I get are a bunch of javascript errors and a white page.
Wouldn't expect less though -- I used to work for the company that was contracted for the original lordoftherings.net site. (The site that got slashdotted with 8Mbps of traffic after the first trailer was released..) From my point of view at the time, it seemed the folks at New Line Cinema were complete retards when it came to anything that wasn't flash and wasn't mainstream.
So go figure..
In late August I became a Tucow OpenSRS Registration service provider and accordingly transfered my domains from Network Solutions to Tucows.
m l...
One domain transfer was specifically completed on 9/22/00. Part of the transfer process is that the new registrar contacts the old registrar to notify them of the request and asks for their approval. (Is the domain paid for and not caught up in a dispute?) Network Solutions ACKNOWLEDGED this transfer request, allowing it go thorugh.
Now, a full two and a half months later, I get a nasty "FINAL NOTICE" bill from Network Solutions for the same domain that they acknowledged the transfer of. The envelope even has big bold writing on the front "Urgent: Your domain name is vital. Don't lose it." I'm not that stupid, and am not about to give Netsol another dime for a domain they're not even the registrar of, but what about non-techs who don't know any better?
I think whomever's going after Netsol with a class action suit should go after them for this shady billing scheme. I'd be willing to bet that at least 30% of the folks who get one of Netsol's bogus 'FINAL NOTICE' invoices pays it even though they've transfered the domain to a different registrar.
If you're looking for more info on duped out of $35 yourself, a long discussion about Netsol's hoaky billing system has taken place on the OpenSRS mailing lists. See http://www.opensrs.org/archives/mailing.index.sht
-Abe
After getting frustrated with the perl module Net::Whois (or more, the guy who maintains it), I rewrote it with an extensible registrar and parsing system that follows Whois referrals as currently delivered by NSI Registry. If you're interested in perl modules and whois, please check out the beta Net::ParseWhois module, and help me extend it to correctly parse your favorite ICANT accredited registrar.
Abe
Anyone remember the WTO protests? Yeah ..well, the layout of the Marina -- especially the street just in front of the Marina Marriot -- would make it fairly easy for a couple hundred geeks to block the driveways and delay the meeting, if not just draw a big chunk of media attention. If anyone wants to throw together a organizational website and a mailing list, I'd be more than happy to help coordinate.
If anyone has the time but not the cash to blow on the Marina Marriot, Venice Beach and all of it's cheap accomodations are just a few blocks from the Marina.
(I can see the hotel and ICANN's building from my apt, which is in venice, ca...)
venice cotel
venice beach hostel
--ai
Uhh .. what's the fuss?
AT&T's not saying they're going to tax every single 'net initiated monetary transaction that passes through their network - they're just going to tax the transactions that they're directly responsible for facilitating, through something like their start page. Think Netscape's netcenter. Read the CNN article and you'll notice they use thier pocketnet wireless service as an example. (They're just selling prominent merchant placement just like Yahoo or Google would.)
--aai
In the past week I've had to get a producer setup to send back images, video and text via Satellite from the upcoming surfermag.com op boat challenge in Indonesia. This is my very recent first-hand account of getting a usable connection up and running.
/only/ $2.90 or so per minute.)
The setup we're working with is an Thrane and Thrane Comsat Messenger (3680A?) M4 ($3000 laptop sized bag phone) attched to a Macintosh G3 via a standard Diva TA PCMIA ISDN card ($250.). It took me about three days to get it working, and then another half-day of TCP/IP stack tuning to get it going at a usable speed. (When you dial #92 you get the most laid-back technical support in the world -- from an aussie 30 miles north of Perth sitting next to giant array of sats that make up a LES/Land Earth Station..)
If you're going to be on a boat, you have to use a tracking attena that can deal with the movement. The default with the M4 is this folded flat cardboard looking thing that needs to be stationary. There are warnings throughout the manual and attached to the front of the attena that say to stand at lest 1.8meters back when in operation.
The ISDN connection is just one B channel (64Kbits/second) and raw speed, even with tweaked TCP/IP settings to deal with the latency, is only about 2KB/sec. Round trip ping times from Inet hosts in the US back to the ISDN Sat connections are about 1200ms.
I wouldn't suggest trying this to anyone who doesn't have a lot of experience with dialup ISDN connections and a solid working knowledge of TCP/IP. Oh, the kicker - the ISDN connection is something like $8/minute, so make sure someone else is paying for it too. (Voice/regular 9600Bps connections are
Abe
After tracking down and analyzing the trinoo code and now (months later, I assume) seeing what sites are being hit by the current rash of DDoS shenanigans, what's your educated guess as to where these attacks are originating?
Are there just a bunch of hapless teenage script kiddies turned tcp/ip coders out there who've decided "[corporate website here] SUCKS ASS", or - as some have speculated - is this distrubuted DOS system too complicated and thought out to be devised by anyone but an conspiracy of corporate & government interests?