It does Telstra no good when AOL users report spam to AOL... because AOL doesn't forward the abuse complaint to the end-ISP unless that ISP has called AOL and set up a "feedback loop" to explicitly request copies of abuse compaints.
It's a crappy policy that assures that AOL will continue to arbitrarily (From the ISPs point of view) block whole ISPs without any real recourse (other than customers cancelling to to to AOL to E-mail their friends).
That's what we ended up doing where I work. We installed jabber, made it auth out of our company LDAP directory, then closed all other IM ports on our firewall. We admins are loving the security it added (we're using SSL to connect) and Management likes the control it brings them (no non-work related chatting on company time, etc). To those who would say the company has no right to control your chatting I would say this: It's their network. While I agree that it is unethical to monitor your chats without your knowledge, not letting you get to site a b or c is their choice.
Actually, the flux capacitor is a real thing. The term was borrowed for the movie cause it sounded cool. Obviously the real one isn't related to time travel;).
It was the point of many jokes for the quarter of my electronics class when we dealt with capacitors and inductors.
>Heck, BugBear is such a big deal only because nobody bothered to apply a security patch that was issued 18 months ago [microsoft.com]!
...Which only fuels microsoft's argument towards automagic, behind-your-back updates to your computer. "We need to do it for the general stability of the internet (and will make it DRM compliant while we're in there)"
I was in a theater watching the first trailer for this. There was a lady next to me who I overheard say "He's not dead!?!" once they showed Gandalf alive. I was instantly very upset that they showed that. That's the kind of scene that's best left to be experienced when you're watching the actual movie.
Just got done reading Chronoliths (Slashdot review Here) Thought it was an odd coincidence this was mentioned just after I read it, as the book.. written from the perspective of 20-40 years in the future.. mentions in passing the second wave of moon expiditions.
The irony being that the book is all about coincidences, time travel, and how the two don't play well together.
Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it's just late and my mind needs sleep. Maybe.. it's.. just... a coincidence..
No kidding. As a sysadmin, it seems that the only time anyone ever attempts to communicate with you is when something is broken, and needs to be fixed. It will be hard to get over that feeling of "something's broke" while people are talking to you all day, even if they're trying (in their own way) to be appreciative....just leave a case of caffienated beverage outside my door, and leave it at that. I'll find it when I get up to fix something;)
I swear this isn't a brand-spanking-new thing. I remember seeing a "consumer report" on 20/20 (or a similar newsprogram) about this device being put in new cars without the knowledge of the buyers. It was also illegal to remove it. Anyone have any better memory than I and can provide more detail?
It's sickening, isn't it? As a relatively conervative Christian, I can't believe that these "Christians" don't think for themselves. WWJD is replaced with WWMPD (What would my priest do?), at least with most of the Catholics I know.
My friends and I had always planned (but never got around to) making a "WWDLD?" bumper sticker or t-shirt or whatever (What Would the Dalai Lama Do?)
The idea would be that he's still around to ask (unlike Jesus) and is more likely to be a better role model than more than a few Catholic Priests (cough altarboys cough).
If that estimate they gave for "loss of income" for 20 days is justifiable (which of course, it may not be), it is likely that SPAM is NEVER going away. Not if you can recur the cost for a good SPAM server w/in the first week of operations.
However, those numbers are probably bloated, and this is all speculation. But still, the fact that they can *still* make money off of SPAM indicates a greater problem than just the inconvenience of unwanted mail in your mailbox. It means lots of people are paying attention, and spending money, and supporting the whole system.
It's a small comfort to those of us in Tech Support for and ISP, but.. man.. it's good to see that it didn't TOTALLY go unnoticed.
That stupid AOL Dialup Adapter caused us more headaches then all the people who couldn't remember their e-mail passwords in the history of the internet ever did.
From the article:
"The police officer waiting in the lobby while the technician works away on the computer does not in any way safeguard anyone's Fourth Amendment rights," the brief said.
But having the Officer watch the admin run a bunch of queries from a database or some logs that look like Gibberish to anyone but the admin will ASSURE that no tampering was committed?
I had always thought that, despite their popularity, Sci-Fi books never ranked high on Review Editors' radar because of their "Pulp" popularity. There's a stigma that goes w/ Sci-Fi books I think. Editors assume that they're a niche market, and reviews would be wasted because fans (in their opinion) are going to either buy Sci-Fi or not, regardless of their reviews.
This is probably the same reason they avoid reviewing Danielle Steele and other "romance novel" type books. I mean does anyone believe that THOSE aren't still selling bajillions of copies yearly?
Yeah, the biggest reason everyone where I work is getting exited is because the View Source bug was finally fixed a week or so ago, and this is the first major release that will incorporate the code.
Um, we ARE the isp.... we have to keep those IPs open for relaying, and actively shut down any abusers. The problem is the time between their abuse and being caught gets us on those lists.... and it is very hard to get off of some of them.
Slashdot Mirror
It does Telstra no good when AOL users report spam to AOL... because AOL doesn't forward the abuse complaint to the end-ISP unless that ISP has called AOL and set up a "feedback loop" to explicitly request copies of abuse compaints.
It's a crappy policy that assures that AOL will continue to arbitrarily (From the ISPs point of view) block whole ISPs without any real recourse (other than customers cancelling to to to AOL to E-mail their friends).
On you're way home? I've got 2 words for ya buddy, "CRON job"
Something tells me the hosts file would be get a little big here.
/root]# grep ^zone /etc/named.conf|wc -l /root]# wc -l /var/named/*|tail -1
[root@xxx
1375
[root@xxx
88642 total
I thought war = peace, freedom = slavery, etc.
That's what we ended up doing where I work. We installed jabber, made it auth out of our company LDAP directory, then closed all other IM ports on our firewall.
We admins are loving the security it added (we're using SSL to connect) and Management likes the control it brings them (no non-work related chatting on company time, etc).
To those who would say the company has no right to control your chatting I would say this: It's their network. While I agree that it is unethical to monitor your chats without your knowledge, not letting you get to site a b or c is their choice.
Actually, the flux capacitor is a real thing. The term was borrowed for the movie cause it sounded cool. Obviously the real one isn't related to time travel ;).
It was the point of many jokes for the quarter of my electronics class when we dealt with capacitors and inductors.
>Heck, BugBear is such a big deal only because nobody bothered to apply a security patch that was issued 18 months ago [microsoft.com]!
...Which only fuels microsoft's argument towards automagic, behind-your-back updates to your computer. "We need to do it for the general stability of the internet (and will make it DRM compliant while we're in there)"
I was in a theater watching the first trailer for this. There was a lady next to me who I overheard say "He's not dead!?!" once they showed Gandalf alive.
I was instantly very upset that they showed that. That's the kind of scene that's best left to be experienced when you're watching the actual movie.
My question is, where did they get that positive rating on the download page? It doesn't show up on the ratings from the slashdot article link.
Hmm...
Just got done reading Chronoliths (Slashdot review Here)
Thought it was an odd coincidence this was mentioned just after I read it, as the book.. written from the perspective of 20-40 years in the future.. mentions in passing the second wave of moon expiditions.
The irony being that the book is all about coincidences, time travel, and how the two don't play well together.
Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it's just late and my mind needs sleep. Maybe.. it's.. just... a coincidence..
Ok, so maybe you had to read the book?
No kidding. ...just leave a case of caffienated beverage outside my door, and leave it at that. I'll find it when I get up to fix something ;)
As a sysadmin, it seems that the only time anyone ever attempts to communicate with you is when something is broken, and needs to be fixed. It will be hard to get over that feeling of "something's broke" while people are talking to you all day, even if they're trying (in their own way) to be appreciative.
Ok, so google is once again my friend6 44.htm
http://detnews.com/2001/editorial/0112/04/a13-356
I swear this isn't a brand-spanking-new thing.
I remember seeing a "consumer report" on 20/20 (or a similar newsprogram) about this device being put in new cars without the knowledge of the buyers. It was also illegal to remove it.
Anyone have any better memory than I and can provide more detail?
It's sickening, isn't it? As a relatively conervative Christian, I can't believe that these "Christians" don't think for themselves. WWJD is replaced with WWMPD (What would my priest do?), at least with most of the Catholics I know.
My friends and I had always planned (but never got around to) making a "WWDLD?" bumper sticker or t-shirt or whatever (What Would the Dalai Lama Do?)
The idea would be that he's still around to ask (unlike Jesus) and is more likely to be a better role model than more than a few Catholic Priests (cough altarboys cough).
>One final point, Mr. Chairman, and then I am through and I have taken more time than I should have, but I am so fascinated by what I am saying --
Sixth paragraph from the end of Valenti's speach, just before Clint Eastwood begins.
"I am fascinated by what I am saying".
Weird
If that estimate they gave for "loss of income" for 20 days is justifiable (which of course, it may not be), it is likely that SPAM is NEVER going away.
Not if you can recur the cost for a good SPAM server w/in the first week of operations.
However, those numbers are probably bloated, and this is all speculation. But still, the fact that they can *still* make money off of SPAM indicates a greater problem than just the inconvenience of unwanted mail in your mailbox. It means lots of people are paying attention, and spending money, and supporting the whole system.
It's a small comfort to those of us in Tech Support for and ISP, but.. man.. it's good to see that it didn't TOTALLY go unnoticed.
That stupid AOL Dialup Adapter caused us more headaches then all the people who couldn't remember their e-mail passwords in the history of the internet ever did.
"right up to the latest, as yet unreleased games from the likes of Nintendo, Sony, Sega and XBox."
So, how is this not a "themed" trade show?
From the article:
"The police officer waiting in the lobby while the technician works away on the computer does not in any way safeguard anyone's Fourth Amendment rights," the brief said.
But having the Officer watch the admin run a bunch of queries from a database or some logs that look like Gibberish to anyone but the admin will ASSURE that no tampering was committed?
What should they base it on? Random sampling?
I had always thought that, despite their popularity, Sci-Fi books never ranked high on Review Editors' radar because of their "Pulp" popularity.
There's a stigma that goes w/ Sci-Fi books I think. Editors assume that they're a niche market, and reviews would be wasted because fans (in their opinion) are going to either buy Sci-Fi or not, regardless of their reviews.
This is probably the same reason they avoid reviewing Danielle Steele and other "romance novel" type books. I mean does anyone believe that THOSE aren't still selling bajillions of copies yearly?
Yeah, the biggest reason everyone where I work is getting exited is because the View Source bug was finally fixed a week or so ago, and this is the first major release that will incorporate the code.
Woohoo!!
Actually, they described the waves as "wind generated".
Yeah, that was a good article, and here is a link to the real url, no typos ;)
Um, we ARE the isp.... we have to keep those IPs open for relaying, and actively shut down any abusers. The problem is the time between their abuse and being caught gets us on those lists.... and it is very hard to get off of some of them.