No, see, OSDN has no excuse for not having the config of the 6509 done right the first time and properly backed up on at least one tftp server, so that the moment one supervisor card dies and fails to failover, you just download the config onto the backup card and you're back in 15 minutes or so... And I'll second that documentation. Lots of good, up-to-date documentation!
I'd say that hold time is probably tied to your support contract with them. I work for a large uni with a huge userbase and a pricey support contract. The network outage queue is never more than 5 minutes of hold time, if you end up on hold. For RMA or other non-urgent calls, I've waited a lot longer. Of course, our hefty contract means we're paying for that prompt response, but IMHO we more than get our money worth. Also, the professionalism, I could go on about that for days... Wonderful.
I've also watched an outage start with a fellow engineer on the phone with a router manufacturer who shall remain nameless (not Cisco) where the support tech managed to give advice so erroneus as to cause a network outage that took down our entire core during the middle of the day. Not very fun.
You know, I love Benzes. And MGs, and Triumphs, and Ferraris. But I drive a 1966 Dodge Coronet 500. She's fast with a 318ci v-8. With a 440 or a 426 hemi, she'd eat an M5 for lunch. The best part is that the Coronet 500 wasn't built to be a supercar, and it was affordable. I would love to drive an AMG Hammer, or a 456gt, but I'm just not counting on having that kind of cash anytime in the next year or so. In 1966, buying a mopar with a 426 hemi was something almost anybody could afford to do, and 425 hp and 490 lb/ft of torque is certainly enough to perform. Of course, a 1966 mopar will likely handle like a pig (mine does)...
You opted in. Above.net has a responsibility as a backbone provider. Not every packet that crosses their routers is going to or from someone who opted in. I certainly didn't opt in to such ineffective, petty, childish strongarm tactics. Fortunately, I have access to a variety of good backbone providers, so it wasn't an issue for me. Not everyone is so lucky. Don't impose your morals/personal choices/political beliefs/paranoia/etc on my life.
Behind this statement is the attitude that brought us the CDA, banned books, mandatory filtering policies, and book burning. What's offensive or troublesome to me is nobody's decision but my own. My ISP doesn't get a say, and if they tried to, I'd find another ISP. Above.net is just as morally wrong to do this as Fred Phelps is with book banning attempts in public libraries. If they has just blocked mail traffic on their mailservers, and only for those above.net customers who had opted in to such a scheme, it might be morally acceptable, but as it is, they are encouraging the invocation of Godwin's law every time their name is mentioned.
Right, but this is still throwing the baby out with the bathwater. More than that, it's throwing out the whole school because a fly landed in a waterglass. If you have a problem with spam, deal with SMTP and just SMTP. Pressure your government to pass and enforce laws limiting and restricting unsolicted email. Use procmail filters. Use the RBL to control mail inbound to your mailserver. Using the RBL to null router IP blocks in BGP is irresponsible, petty, and childish. Take the moral high ground here (esp. if you're going to have Ghandi in your sig;) ). Nobody has ever suffered a fatal spamming, and I doubt that it will be happening soon...
The Canadian government already says that - they are very reluctant to extradite U.S. criminals who are facing the death penalty. I think most countries take that stance, in fact.
Could you please tell me what is more important than human life? I'd say that the satisfaction/suffering ratio of the individual living that life is more important to them than their life. Assisted suicide wouldn't be an issue otherwise.
The fact that everyone involved in Saving Private Ryan was not executed is clearly an oversight - making a film that full of plot holes and that silly/cheesy/bad is a crime against humanity. Having said that, Enemy at the Gates was a better movie, though it was not perfect. For a really good movie set during WWII, I suggest A Midnight Clear, which is set in France around the Battle of the Bulge.
More on topic, I think that it was readily apparent how Zaitsev escaped from each of the situations. I also saw snow. Not mid-winter Stalingrad snow, but then the movie was mostly set in September and October. Certainly there would more snow over the course of the Battle of Stalingrad, but then the fight for Stalingrad continued for several months after the end of the movie.
If the industry weren't so stupid as to treat identifiers like secret keys, and we weren't so paranoid about it, it would be a heck of a lot easier to verify information, and the power provided by the credit bureaus' monopoly on your credit history would be destroyed.
If I can lookup your identifiers, how can you prevent me from pretending to be you? 1-800-buystuff can't tell you and I apart over the phone. In fact, if we both know the same ID information, I would bet that relatively few retailers would know (or care) who was who as long as we bought stuff. Secrets are not inherently evil - everyone tells small, social lies, and those are a good thing.
The reason errors occur so much and are so hard to catch is that there is very little disincentive to keep the credit agencies from ignoring errors. Also, the credit agencies reinforce each other's errors - I call up Experian and fix an error, but then Experian can get the same data back from Equifax. If I don't catch every instance of the error with all of the credit agencies simultaneously, then the error will never get fixed. This is obviously a problem, and there needs to be some way of structuring credit reporting so that this isn't an issue.
My thoughts on a fix for this problem - harsh penalties for errors in data, even harsher penalties for identity theft, and a mandatory audit of an individual's credit record after identity theft has been proven. Most important - free (beer & speech) access to your own credit record, on demand. J Random Credit Agency doesn't know what you do with your credit, but you do. If anyone is going to catch errors, it will be you. Once the error is caught, the credit agency needs to pass along the corrected info, and corrections need to be flagged within the respective databases along with the error, so that the error can't be re-introduced.
proxomitron! It'll filter just about anything out of the page...
that is all.
itachi
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I dunno, I sort of thought of the book ending as
5. Both 1 and 4
because I think it was as much Starling seducing Lecter & taking the place of his sister as it was Lecter seducing Starling and taking the place of her father. They both get what they want - someone taking the place of the person that has haunted them throughout the various stories. Either way, the movie totally sucked, ending wise. The book ending was the only way to end it that leaves both of them alive and the viewer/reader satisfied.
But the ending was the best part! I mean, the thing that made Silence of the Lambs so horrifying and wonderful was that Lecter was such a charming romantic (at times) when interacting with Starling, and the fact that she was drawn to him despite knowing what he was (psycho killer). The two of them coming together, esp. with Starling getting forced out of the FBI and each of them saving the other's life, it just makes sense. Sure, Lecter is twisted and immoral, but he's also the hero - look at those who oppose him, they're all clearly villanous characters, with the exceptions of Starling and Crawford. Really, if you look at their interactions with Lecter, they aren't even antagonistic towards him, they get along better with him than they do with other FBI/DoJ characters. But then, it's just a book...
As for the tax breaks, the tax code is extremely UNFAIR. There should never have been a "sliding rule" for taxation. They should tax the money not the people that earn it... Made clearer: A FLAT TAX RATE or TAXATION based upon CONSUMPTION.
Dude, that is biased in favor of people who have greater amounts of disposable income. Under consumption-based taxes, poorer people have to pay a greater share of income that richer people. The way to set up a flat tax that hits everyone equally is to set all incomes to be equal. Otherwise, flat taxes are unfair and everyone is better off with a graduated tax rate. The people who benefit from flat taxes in a capitalist economy are the very wealthy - most flat tax plans don't count earned interest income or other non-salary incomes. Most of the U.S. doesn't have a whole lot of that sort of income... Additionaly, cutting taxes in the face of a recession may not encourage spending, which is what GWB needs. In the face of a recession, the reasonable person might save for that looming rainy day, which would result in a situation where a recession happens but the govt. has fewer cash reserves with which to combat the recession. The drop in interest rates may have helped prevent this. Citing two tax cuts hardly makes your case, esp. since the two cited were under circumstances so different from each other and from the current situation.
Well, it was better than what will replace it, I'm thinking. Going after rock throwing protestors with tanks and helicopters is bad, but Sharon makes Barak look tame, and Sharon is partly responsible for the current problems in the peace process. Besides, who ever said that political issues were black and white?
No, there is a parallel - an overly oppresive government has no qualms about shooting unarmed protestors. Resurrect Nixon, then impeach him. Oppose U.S. aid to Israel as long as Israel opposes the peace process. Mourn the passing of Barak's government.
Well, assuming that you are speculating within a reasonable distance of their actual motivations, there is a logical flaw in their reasoning. There is no guarantee that the flaw will be found by listmembers. If the flaw is found by J. Random Blackhat, then such a list is more likely to be a hindrance than a help. Although I'm thinking that your second speculation is about as likely as your first...
That might be 47 hours too late for your nameserver, eh? BIND is one of those Bugtraq all-stars, making early notification of it's users all the more important.
Well, your DNS and HTTP servers are in the dmz, of course, and you don't want internal services (ie CVS, print server, etc) out in the dmz. Certainly CVS and the print server might safely share a box, but together they will still be low-load. For that box, I would want to implement some power saving stuff, esp. for off hours.
In any market interaction, there is room for negotiation. Unions are nothing more than workers getting together so that they have as much bargaining power as management. This is a Good Thing. Unions mean weekends, 8 hour days, health care, living wages, and other things that make life possible for approximately 10-15% of the workforce in the U.S. alone, and many more worldwide.
Ironically enough, the pricey BMW/Benz cars are assembled by non-union workers who are paid far better than the union workers employed by the Big Three. Unions are also responsible for the 8 hour day and the weekend off. Sure, they aren't perfect, but who is? I think the place where the computer industry needs unions is tech support. More of a guild system, really, than unions - better wages and so forth, but also better training.
How are you differentiating between virtual child porn and child porn erotica/fiction? Both have nothing to do with real children, and the distinction between art (ooh, pretty) and smut (mmm, smut!) is very vague for both media. And I'd suggest that your definition of sick is really broad.
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No, see, OSDN has no excuse for not having the config of the 6509 done right the first time and properly backed up on at least one tftp server, so that the moment one supervisor card dies and fails to failover, you just download the config onto the backup card and you're back in 15 minutes or so... And I'll second that documentation. Lots of good, up-to-date documentation!
itachi
I'd say that hold time is probably tied to your support contract with them. I work for a large uni with a huge userbase and a pricey support contract. The network outage queue is never more than 5 minutes of hold time, if you end up on hold. For RMA or other non-urgent calls, I've waited a lot longer. Of course, our hefty contract means we're paying for that prompt response, but IMHO we more than get our money worth. Also, the professionalism, I could go on about that for days... Wonderful.
I've also watched an outage start with a fellow engineer on the phone with a router manufacturer who shall remain nameless (not Cisco) where the support tech managed to give advice so erroneus as to cause a network outage that took down our entire core during the middle of the day. Not very fun.
itachi
You know, I love Benzes. And MGs, and Triumphs, and Ferraris. But I drive a 1966 Dodge Coronet 500. She's fast with a 318ci v-8. With a 440 or a 426 hemi, she'd eat an M5 for lunch. The best part is that the Coronet 500 wasn't built to be a supercar, and it was affordable. I would love to drive an AMG Hammer, or a 456gt, but I'm just not counting on having that kind of cash anytime in the next year or so. In 1966, buying a mopar with a 426 hemi was something almost anybody could afford to do, and 425 hp and 490 lb/ft of torque is certainly enough to perform. Of course, a 1966 mopar will likely handle like a pig (mine does)...
itachi
You opted in. Above.net has a responsibility as a backbone provider. Not every packet that crosses their routers is going to or from someone who opted in. I certainly didn't opt in to such ineffective, petty, childish strongarm tactics. Fortunately, I have access to a variety of good backbone providers, so it wasn't an issue for me. Not everyone is so lucky. Don't impose your morals/personal choices/political beliefs/paranoia/etc on my life.
itachi
Behind this statement is the attitude that brought us the CDA, banned books, mandatory filtering policies, and book burning. What's offensive or troublesome to me is nobody's decision but my own. My ISP doesn't get a say, and if they tried to, I'd find another ISP. Above.net is just as morally wrong to do this as Fred Phelps is with book banning attempts in public libraries. If they has just blocked mail traffic on their mailservers, and only for those above.net customers who had opted in to such a scheme, it might be morally acceptable, but as it is, they are encouraging the invocation of Godwin's law every time their name is mentioned.
itachi
Right, but this is still throwing the baby out with the bathwater. More than that, it's throwing out the whole school because a fly landed in a waterglass. If you have a problem with spam, deal with SMTP and just SMTP. Pressure your government to pass and enforce laws limiting and restricting unsolicted email. Use procmail filters. Use the RBL to control mail inbound to your mailserver. Using the RBL to null router IP blocks in BGP is irresponsible, petty, and childish. Take the moral high ground here (esp. if you're going to have Ghandi in your sig ;) ). Nobody has ever suffered a fatal spamming, and I doubt that it will be happening soon...
itachi
The Canadian government already says that - they are very reluctant to extradite U.S. criminals who are facing the death penalty. I think most countries take that stance, in fact.
itachi
It's not. A good definition of comedy/tragedy (I forget whose definition):
Tragedy is when I stub my toe.
Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole and break your leg.
itachi
Could you please tell me what is more important than human life?
I'd say that the satisfaction/suffering ratio of the individual living that life is more important to them than their life. Assisted suicide wouldn't be an issue otherwise.
itachi
The fact that everyone involved in Saving Private Ryan was not executed is clearly an oversight - making a film that full of plot holes and that silly/cheesy/bad is a crime against humanity. Having said that, Enemy at the Gates was a better movie, though it was not perfect. For a really good movie set during WWII, I suggest A Midnight Clear, which is set in France around the Battle of the Bulge.
More on topic, I think that it was readily apparent how Zaitsev escaped from each of the situations. I also saw snow. Not mid-winter Stalingrad snow, but then the movie was mostly set in September and October. Certainly there would more snow over the course of the Battle of Stalingrad, but then the fight for Stalingrad continued for several months after the end of the movie.
itachi
If the industry weren't so stupid as to treat identifiers like secret keys, and we weren't so paranoid about it, it would be a heck of a lot easier to verify information, and the power provided by the credit bureaus' monopoly on your credit history would be destroyed.
If I can lookup your identifiers, how can you prevent me from pretending to be you? 1-800-buystuff can't tell you and I apart over the phone. In fact, if we both know the same ID information, I would bet that relatively few retailers would know (or care) who was who as long as we bought stuff. Secrets are not inherently evil - everyone tells small, social lies, and those are a good thing.
The reason errors occur so much and are so hard to catch is that there is very little disincentive to keep the credit agencies from ignoring errors. Also, the credit agencies reinforce each other's errors - I call up Experian and fix an error, but then Experian can get the same data back from Equifax. If I don't catch every instance of the error with all of the credit agencies simultaneously, then the error will never get fixed. This is obviously a problem, and there needs to be some way of structuring credit reporting so that this isn't an issue.
My thoughts on a fix for this problem - harsh penalties for errors in data, even harsher penalties for identity theft, and a mandatory audit of an individual's credit record after identity theft has been proven. Most important - free (beer & speech) access to your own credit record, on demand. J Random Credit Agency doesn't know what you do with your credit, but you do. If anyone is going to catch errors, it will be you. Once the error is caught, the credit agency needs to pass along the corrected info, and corrections need to be flagged within the respective databases along with the error, so that the error can't be re-introduced.
itachi
proxomitron! It'll filter just about anything out of the page...
that is all.
itachi
I dunno, I sort of thought of the book ending as
5. Both 1 and 4
because I think it was as much Starling seducing Lecter & taking the place of his sister as it was Lecter seducing Starling and taking the place of her father. They both get what they want - someone taking the place of the person that has haunted them throughout the various stories. Either way, the movie totally sucked, ending wise. The book ending was the only way to end it that leaves both of them alive and the viewer/reader satisfied.
itachi
But the ending was the best part! I mean, the thing that made Silence of the Lambs so horrifying and wonderful was that Lecter was such a charming romantic (at times) when interacting with Starling, and the fact that she was drawn to him despite knowing what he was (psycho killer). The two of them coming together, esp. with Starling getting forced out of the FBI and each of them saving the other's life, it just makes sense. Sure, Lecter is twisted and immoral, but he's also the hero - look at those who oppose him, they're all clearly villanous characters, with the exceptions of Starling and Crawford. Really, if you look at their interactions with Lecter, they aren't even antagonistic towards him, they get along better with him than they do with other FBI/DoJ characters. But then, it's just a book...
itachi
As for the tax breaks, the tax code is extremely UNFAIR. There should never have been a "sliding rule" for taxation. They should tax the money not the people that earn it... Made clearer: A FLAT TAX RATE or TAXATION based upon CONSUMPTION.
Dude, that is biased in favor of people who have greater amounts of disposable income. Under consumption-based taxes, poorer people have to pay a greater share of income that richer people. The way to set up a flat tax that hits everyone equally is to set all incomes to be equal. Otherwise, flat taxes are unfair and everyone is better off with a graduated tax rate. The people who benefit from flat taxes in a capitalist economy are the very wealthy - most flat tax plans don't count earned interest income or other non-salary incomes. Most of the U.S. doesn't have a whole lot of that sort of income...
Additionaly, cutting taxes in the face of a recession may not encourage spending, which is what GWB needs. In the face of a recession, the reasonable person might save for that looming rainy day, which would result in a situation where a recession happens but the govt. has fewer cash reserves with which to combat the recession. The drop in interest rates may have helped prevent this. Citing two tax cuts hardly makes your case, esp. since the two cited were under circumstances so different from each other and from the current situation.
itachi
Well, it was better than what will replace it, I'm thinking. Going after rock throwing protestors with tanks and helicopters is bad, but Sharon makes Barak look tame, and Sharon is partly responsible for the current problems in the peace process. Besides, who ever said that political issues were black and white?
itachi
No, there is a parallel - an overly oppresive government has no qualms about shooting unarmed protestors. Resurrect Nixon, then impeach him. Oppose U.S. aid to Israel as long as Israel opposes the peace process. Mourn the passing of Barak's government.
itachi
Well, assuming that you are speculating within a reasonable distance of their actual motivations, there is a logical flaw in their reasoning. There is no guarantee that the flaw will be found by listmembers. If the flaw is found by J. Random Blackhat, then such a list is more likely to be a hindrance than a help. Although I'm thinking that your second speculation is about as likely as your first...
itachi
That might be 47 hours too late for your nameserver, eh? BIND is one of those Bugtraq all-stars, making early notification of it's users all the more important.
itachi
Well, your DNS and HTTP servers are in the dmz, of course, and you don't want internal services (ie CVS, print server, etc) out in the dmz. Certainly CVS and the print server might safely share a box, but together they will still be low-load. For that box, I would want to implement some power saving stuff, esp. for off hours.
itachi
Tech Support.
Tech Support.
Tech Support.
itachi
In any market interaction, there is room for negotiation. Unions are nothing more than workers getting together so that they have as much bargaining power as management. This is a Good Thing. Unions mean weekends, 8 hour days, health care, living wages, and other things that make life possible for approximately 10-15% of the workforce in the U.S. alone, and many more worldwide.
itachi
Ironically enough, the pricey BMW/Benz cars are assembled by non-union workers who are paid far better than the union workers employed by the Big Three. Unions are also responsible for the 8 hour day and the weekend off. Sure, they aren't perfect, but who is? I think the place where the computer industry needs unions is tech support. More of a guild system, really, than unions - better wages and so forth, but also better training.
itachi
How are you differentiating between virtual child porn and child porn erotica/fiction? Both have nothing to do with real children, and the distinction between art (ooh, pretty) and smut (mmm, smut!) is very vague for both media. And I'd suggest that your definition of sick is really broad.
itachi
I only wish there was an Apple hardware story on today's front page to make the sarcasm even drippier. Thank you.
itachi