I don't see anything wrong with that proposal. If a customer wants to have a filter for "Oh, think about the children!" reasons, let them. It's for a niche market and niche ISP's that want this. It doesn't make it possible to circumvent net neutrality for commercial reasons.
It depends on the definition of "ideological". If your religion is "capitalism", then requiring content providers to pay you for transmission of signal is perfectly "ideological".
Then the customer still has to request it first... I know I won't request such a thing...
It did go something like that. As votes go, this one was a bit more disorganised than what we are used to...
That said, I think the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. The Netherlands is one of the first countries in the world where net neutrality is becoming a law. This after telecom companies speculated that they wanted to charge extra for certain types of traffic (Skype, What's app, etc.) as they were starting to see their income fall when people would use those tools on their smartphones instead of making regular calls or sendings SMS text messages. They also speculated that traffic to google or youtube might be charged at a premium, etc.
The 'accident' that happened on this vote was that an amendment made by a small conservative Christian party was also voted in. This amendment allows an ISP to offer filtering to their customers provided that this happens both at the customers initiative and that the ISP is not allowed to charge *less* for it than an unfiltered connection. This so the telco's can't use it as an excuse to provide cheap filtered plans and expensive unfiltered plans.
I don't see anything wrong with that proposal. If a customer wants to have a filter for "Oh, think about the children!" reasons, let them. It's for a niche market and niche ISP's that want this. It doesn't make it possible to circumvent net neutrality for commercial reasons.
No... a liter is a liter, no matter what the size of the protons. You're actually getting 4% more protons than you thought, as they're smaller in size and you thus need more of them to get a liter.
One thing I never saw mentioned, and which I am curious about... what if the controller flies out of your sweaty hands while swinging that bat? I wonder how many broken tv's, windows, or fish bowls will result from this and how long it'll be till someone sues Nintendo after being accidentally thrown a controller at their head.
Can you please back that statement up with a few examples? I'm having a hard time figuring out how capitalist scams are taking place in a communist country that isn't all that favourable to foreign business. IIRC you need government approval to do business in China as a foreigner. Which Chinese banks are transfering the profits back to the US? Which hosting companies are doing this?
I suspect that this "china is to blame for all our woes" is simply just plain racism. It is slashdot after all...
Well... that is just lovely... calling me a liar and a racist when you don't even know me at all. And what is even worse is that your comment suggested that I am just making things up when it is you that is making things up out of thin air.
Since you asked for examples, I'll just point you to http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=inprogress;type= www which lists all the spamvertised sites which were recently submitted to spamcop. Just have a look and see how many are China based at any given time.
My advice to people is, if you want something easy and are willing to spend $100, get SuSE in the box. There are a ton of applications to help you configure your system. You can use SuSE to run a server, and not worry about downtime (unlike Mandrake which will crash, I have seen it happen at a linux fest, where 12 of us stood in disbelief looking at the new blue screen of death). I knew another guy who had a webserver and ssh set up on SuSE and it ran for over 200 days without a glitch (he took it down when he upgraded his system).
For someone not wanting to start a distro war you do an amazingly good job of starting one using little more than anecdotal evidence. My Mandrake box which I use for all my computer work has been running for almost 420 days now without a reboot. Just goes to show how much a single experience is worth.
China is well known for being one of the biggest origins of spam, with as much as 20% of all junk e-mail originating from within its borders.
But what about the so called "bullet proof" hosting that you can get in China? A lot of the Viagra spammers have their ordering site in China and no number of complaints filed make any difference. I think that might be a bigger issue than spam originating *from* China.
I don't disagree with you that there should be an opportunity for free speech on the internet. I agree that it is important that everyone, no matter where from, has a chance to say what they want to say.
However, this is not what tor is about, no matter what nice sugar coated stories people come up with. I've seen tor being abused in order to instigate fights, flood as well as other unlawful activities.
Is it a good idea that people can use tor to spam freely? I don't think so, and I'm surprised that people would be willing to accept all possible abuses for so little positive opportunities. If it can be used to send child porn without being traced, is that what we really want? How many of us are appaled by such things? And how many of us actively seek out the people in dictorial countries in order to listen to their opinion or cause?
It is a weak argument that tor is needed to protect free speech on the internet. There are plenty of decent ISP's that are willing to protect free speech at all costs without causing any of the problems that networks such as tor brings with it.
You might be high and noble by saying "I may disagree with you but will defend to death your right to say it", but when the use of tor is 95% abuse, and only 5% legit use, I think that it is more a sign of being out of touch with reality.
Furthermore, I also find it a remarkable irony that someone who doesn't agree with the majority opinion on a "free speech" issue is moderated down and marked troll for offering his honest opinion. This last comment is not directly related at you, but at the moderators who are trigger happy.
While I can see the need for people to be able to be "anonymous" online, I think there are more down- than upsides to this. As it is, I already feel that the internet suffers from too much anonimity rather than too little. There is no accountability and both law enforcement and ISP's are not interested enough in taking needed steps against abuse. When people can still DOS sites without consequences, flood newsgroups without as much as a slap on the wrist, and make death threats that get laughed off at by the police, I say that we need more responsibility and not more anonimity.
About the interface: Opera confused the hell out of me. It took me some getting used to, and even then I still wished it was better organized. The beef I have is the tabs ABOVE the address bar. Ain't gonna cut it for me, and that "new window" button is kind of in my way.
Have it your way then:)
Right click on the toolbar and select customize. Untick the box for "address bar" to make it disappear completely. Any buttons from the address bar you would have liked to keep, like the address field itself, you can add to one of the other bars. Just go to the "buttons" tab, select "browser view" and drag your address field to any of the toolbars where *you* want to have it.
6.0 was amazing, as is 7, havent upgraded to 8 yet (i customized 7 so much im scared to upgrade.. same with 6 but i eventually did it)
Just install 8 on top of 7 (do make a back up to avoid Murphy's law from hitting you!). From 7 to 8 was a very smooth upgrade for me, and all my customisations stayed between the two versions too. It was a no brainer really.
I tried Opera when it first came out - a light fast browser that fit on half a floppy disk, and was good competition to Netscape. I liked Netscape's user interface better, so I wasn't going to pay for the non-demo version of Opera, but it really was small and fast and worked well on underpowered machines. I haven't actually used modern versions of Opera, but I gather it's no longer small and minimalist.
It most definately not minimalist as it comes with lots of features other browsers don't have. As for small, it won't fit on a floppy but is definately smaller than either IE or Firefox (without any extensions installed). For this, you get the full browser, a mail and news client, IRC client, RSS reader, notepad, awesome customisation and heaps more.
What are we going to have to do to convince "ordinary users" to visit WindowsUpdate once in a while?"
I fear there is little that can be done about "ordinary users" who simply don't care. Only the continuing spread of virusses like these, and possibly ones with more destructive qualities, will hopefully wake them up and make them take notice. However, as past experiences have taught is, this is not something we should be keeping or breathe for.
What good is a $5 million fine when the spammer can't even pay a $50,000 one? At some point the punishment seems to lack a base in reality. A fine that someone can pay and recover from will serve a better lesson to them than a 'nothing to lose' scenario.
I haven't tried it myself, but there is an extention for Firefox which claims to let you resize the searchbox
Am I the only one finding it strange that you need an extension to resize a box? FireFox is suffering from feature underkill and extensions overkill. Can't wait for the day that you need the HTML-extension to browse the net.
You might be interested in a new linux distribution which I am starting which will hopefully combine some of the features people are looking for.
It is going to be based on the.deb package format but unlike Debian will have regulary scheduled releases. We intend to support older releases as we make them for up to 5 years to provide them with security updates and provide seemless upgrades between releases without requiring or recommending fresh installs. People interested can sign up for the mailinglist on http://www.serene-linux.org/
Their principles are that they don't care what you do with your server for the most part. They are more of a common carrier than anything else, and if they did block adult webmasters or hamas members they would simply be impinging on someones free speech. The only time they appear to cut off accounts is when the AUP is broken, the bill isn't paid, or law enforcment asks them to hand over a box that may have been used in a crime. This seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Back when they were still called rackshack, they changed their AUP without communicating it to their customers. While at first their website explicitly allowed chat servers to be run from their servers, later on they changed it and took servers offline without any prior notice. This was done even when said server was not causing any problems. You would only find out this happened to your server when you'd go and ask them why you can't reach your server anymore. That is a lousy service and a great disservice to their clientele.
No, we don't need 64 bit on the desktop. We haven't for the last decade or so, and it won't have that big of an impact immediately.
For gaming? What, you need 64bit color and 64bit sound? No, 24bit is already more colors than the eye can distinguish.. Even if you did, that's the realm of the GPU/APU. For writing emails?
One of the reasons to do use the new amd 64 bit chips is that since you'll have to recompile your software for it anyways to use the 64 bit mode efficiently, AMD has been kind enough to add some extra registers to the CPU. As the x86 has traditionally been a bit starved registerwise, this is a very nice addition and by itself can account for a 20 - 30% increase in speed. Compilers have more registers available to them which results in less 'slow' accesses of reading and writing to memory.
The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list.
The part about this story that gets to me is that a single person finds 7 (!) holes/exploits by himself. Makes one wonder just how many things are left open simply because no one has looked at them yet. Scary.
No one said it was spelled or pronounced the English way. Those who are capable of speaking more than one language --and no, Python and C don't count-- (which thus excludes 80% of the slashdot population) Xouvert is not hard to pronounce and is a very smart name even.
> So I send mail with my ISP account, but with the headers of my University account. If my University implemented a RMX record, I could no longer to that.
Untrue. This is not how RMX would work. If you send mail from home using your Uni email address, you change the "From: Kjella@uni.edu". However, the envelope sender (normally not displayed in email programs but an integral part of each email) would not be changed, no matter what email address you put as your from.
So the question becomes not if your Uni supports RMX, but if your ISP does. If it does, you only need to ensure the envelope sender is valid, and you'll be able to use any "From:" that you'd like.
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I don't see anything wrong with that proposal. If a customer wants to have a filter for "Oh, think about the children!" reasons, let them. It's for a niche market and niche ISP's that want this. It doesn't make it possible to circumvent net neutrality for commercial reasons.
It depends on the definition of "ideological". If your religion is "capitalism", then requiring content providers to pay you for transmission of signal is perfectly "ideological".
Then the customer still has to request it first... I know I won't request such a thing...
It did go something like that. As votes go, this one was a bit more disorganised than what we are used to...
That said, I think the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. The Netherlands is one of the first countries in the world where net neutrality is becoming a law. This after telecom companies speculated that they wanted to charge extra for certain types of traffic (Skype, What's app, etc.) as they were starting to see their income fall when people would use those tools on their smartphones instead of making regular calls or sendings SMS text messages. They also speculated that traffic to google or youtube might be charged at a premium, etc.
The 'accident' that happened on this vote was that an amendment made by a small conservative Christian party was also voted in. This amendment allows an ISP to offer filtering to their customers provided that this happens both at the customers initiative and that the ISP is not allowed to charge *less* for it than an unfiltered connection. This so the telco's can't use it as an excuse to provide cheap filtered plans and expensive unfiltered plans.
I don't see anything wrong with that proposal. If a customer wants to have a filter for "Oh, think about the children!" reasons, let them. It's for a niche market and niche ISP's that want this. It doesn't make it possible to circumvent net neutrality for commercial reasons.
No... a liter is a liter, no matter what the size of the protons. You're actually getting 4% more protons than you thought, as they're smaller in size and you thus need more of them to get a liter.
Time spent: 16 billion minutes.
Time wasted: All of it
One thing I never saw mentioned, and which I am curious about... what if the controller flies out of your sweaty hands while swinging that bat? I wonder how many broken tv's, windows, or fish bowls will result from this and how long it'll be till someone sues Nintendo after being accidentally thrown a controller at their head.
Can you please back that statement up with a few examples? I'm having a hard time figuring out how capitalist scams are taking place in a communist country that isn't all that favourable to foreign business. IIRC you need government approval to do business in China as a foreigner. Which Chinese banks are transfering the profits back to the US? Which hosting companies are doing this?
= www which lists all the spamvertised sites which were recently submitted to spamcop. Just have a look and see how many are China based at any given time.
I suspect that this "china is to blame for all our woes" is simply just plain racism. It is slashdot after all...
Well... that is just lovely... calling me a liar and a racist when you don't even know me at all. And what is even worse is that your comment suggested that I am just making things up when it is you that is making things up out of thin air.
Since you asked for examples, I'll just point you to
http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=inprogress;type
My advice to people is, if you want something easy and are willing to spend $100, get SuSE in the box. There are a ton of applications to help you configure your system. You can use SuSE to run a server, and not worry about downtime (unlike Mandrake which will crash, I have seen it happen at a linux fest, where 12 of us stood in disbelief looking at the new blue screen of death). I knew another guy who had a webserver and ssh set up on SuSE and it ran for over 200 days without a glitch (he took it down when he upgraded his system).
For someone not wanting to start a distro war you do an amazingly good job of starting one using little more than anecdotal evidence. My Mandrake box which I use for all my computer work has been running for almost 420 days now without a reboot. Just goes to show how much a single experience is worth.
China is well known for being one of the biggest origins of spam, with as much as 20% of all junk e-mail originating from within its borders.
But what about the so called "bullet proof" hosting that you can get in China? A lot of the Viagra spammers have their ordering site in China and no number of complaints filed make any difference. I think that might be a bigger issue than spam originating *from* China.
I don't disagree with you that there should be an opportunity for free speech on the internet. I agree that it is important that everyone, no matter where from, has a chance to say what they want to say.
However, this is not what tor is about, no matter what nice sugar coated stories people come up with. I've seen tor being abused in order to instigate fights, flood as well as other unlawful activities.
Is it a good idea that people can use tor to spam freely? I don't think so, and I'm surprised that people would be willing to accept all possible abuses for so little positive opportunities. If it can be used to send child porn without being traced, is that what we really want? How many of us are appaled by such things? And how many of us actively seek out the people in dictorial countries in order to listen to their opinion or cause?
It is a weak argument that tor is needed to protect free speech on the internet. There are plenty of decent ISP's that are willing to protect free speech at all costs without causing any of the problems that networks such as tor brings with it.
You might be high and noble by saying "I may disagree with you but will defend to death your right to say it", but when the use of tor is 95% abuse, and only 5% legit use, I think that it is more a sign of being out of touch with reality.
Furthermore, I also find it a remarkable irony that someone who doesn't agree with the majority opinion on a "free speech" issue is moderated down and marked troll for offering his honest opinion. This last comment is not directly related at you, but at the moderators who are trigger happy.
While I can see the need for people to be able to be "anonymous" online, I think there are more down- than upsides to this. As it is, I already feel that the internet suffers from too much anonimity rather than too little. There is no accountability and both law enforcement and ISP's are not interested enough in taking needed steps against abuse. When people can still DOS sites without consequences, flood newsgroups without as much as a slap on the wrist, and make death threats that get laughed off at by the police, I say that we need more responsibility and not more anonimity.
About the interface: Opera confused the hell out of me. It took me some getting used to, and even then I still wished it was better organized. The beef I have is the tabs ABOVE the address bar. Ain't gonna cut it for me, and that "new window" button is kind of in my way.
:)
Have it your way then
Right click on the toolbar and select customize. Untick the box for "address bar" to make it disappear completely. Any buttons from the address bar you would have liked to keep, like the address field itself, you can add to one of the other bars. Just go to the "buttons" tab, select "browser view" and drag your address field to any of the toolbars where *you* want to have it.
6.0 was amazing, as is 7, havent upgraded to 8 yet (i customized 7 so much im scared to upgrade.. same with 6 but i eventually did it)
Just install 8 on top of 7 (do make a back up to avoid Murphy's law from hitting you!). From 7 to 8 was a very smooth upgrade for me, and all my customisations stayed between the two versions too. It was a no brainer really.
and when you do register that space is just blank (kinda annpyed me i though they would let me use it for toolbars and crap)
They do let you use it for just that. You can customise to your hearts delight. Just right click on the now empty space and select "customize".
I tried Opera when it first came out - a light fast browser that fit on half a floppy disk, and was good competition to Netscape. I liked Netscape's user interface better, so I wasn't going to pay for the non-demo version of Opera, but it really was small and fast and worked well on underpowered machines. I haven't actually used modern versions of Opera, but I gather it's no longer small and minimalist.
It most definately not minimalist as it comes with lots of features other browsers don't have. As for small, it won't fit on a floppy but is definately smaller than either IE or Firefox (without any extensions installed). For this, you get the full browser, a mail and news client, IRC client, RSS reader, notepad, awesome customisation and heaps more.
What are we going to have to do to convince "ordinary users" to visit WindowsUpdate once in a while?"
I fear there is little that can be done about "ordinary users" who simply don't care. Only the continuing spread of virusses like these, and possibly ones with more destructive qualities, will hopefully wake them up and make them take notice. However, as past experiences have taught is, this is not something we should be keeping or breathe for.
What good is a $5 million fine when the spammer can't even pay a $50,000 one? At some point the punishment seems to lack a base in reality. A fine that someone can pay and recover from will serve a better lesson to them than a 'nothing to lose' scenario.
You might be interested in a new linux distribution which I am starting which will hopefully combine some of the features people are looking for.
.deb package format but unlike Debian will have regulary scheduled releases. We intend to support older releases as we make them for up to 5 years to provide them with security updates and provide seemless upgrades between releases without requiring or recommending fresh installs. People interested can sign up for the mailinglist on http://www.serene-linux.org/
It is going to be based on the
Their principles are that they don't care what you do with your server for the most part. They are more of a common carrier than anything else, and if they did block adult webmasters or hamas members they would simply be impinging on someones free speech. The only time they appear to cut off accounts is when the AUP is broken, the bill isn't paid, or law enforcment asks them to hand over a box that may have been used in a crime. This seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Back when they were still called rackshack, they changed their AUP without communicating it to their customers. While at first their website explicitly allowed chat servers to be run from their servers, later on they changed it and took servers offline without any prior notice. This was done even when said server was not causing any problems. You would only find out this happened to your server when you'd go and ask them why you can't reach your server anymore. That is a lousy service and a great disservice to their clientele.
One of the reasons to do use the new amd 64 bit chips is that since you'll have to recompile your software for it anyways to use the 64 bit mode efficiently, AMD has been kind enough to add some extra registers to the CPU. As the x86 has traditionally been a bit starved registerwise, this is a very nice addition and by itself can account for a 20 - 30% increase in speed. Compilers have more registers available to them which results in less 'slow' accesses of reading and writing to memory.
The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list.
The part about this story that gets to me is that a single person finds 7 (!) holes/exploits by himself. Makes one wonder just how many things are left open simply because no one has looked at them yet. Scary.
No one said it was spelled or pronounced the English way. Those who are capable of speaking more than one language --and no, Python and C don't count-- (which thus excludes 80% of the slashdot population) Xouvert is not hard to pronounce and is a very smart name even.
This story was posted before! See here for the original!
You may want to pay for your fun instead like others do. Alternatively, you can find fun which is free of charge but within the boundaries of the law.
> So I send mail with my ISP account, but with the headers of my University account. If my University implemented a RMX record, I could no longer to that.
Untrue. This is not how RMX would work. If you send mail from home using your Uni email address, you change the "From: Kjella@uni.edu". However, the envelope sender (normally not displayed in email programs but an integral part of each email) would not be changed, no matter what email address you put as your from.
So the question becomes not if your Uni supports RMX, but if your ISP does. If it does, you only need to ensure the envelope sender is valid, and you'll be able to use any "From:" that you'd like.