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That's awfully nice of the Slashdot editors. Lets Slashdot the living hell out of these important servers at the very point and time they are supposed to be used. Can you be any more inconsiderate? It could only be worse if the Slashdot editor did it on Tuesday! What the hell are they thinking? Are they thinking? I swear I never will understand the thinking of the Slashdot editors, or utter lack thereof. The must get off on DoSing servers.
I like the feel of the Wusthof. It feels good in my mitts. I'm not sure what the carbon content is like. At this point I think anything is better than the Chicago Cutlery set my mother has been using. The wooden handle is slippery when wet. It's also a health hazzard. I haven't been on ATK's site in a while. I haven't been able to keep up.
I don't have time to argue with you, troll. You are, however, so vehemently anti-racism that you have in fact become a racist. My last job was lost to outsourcing so I think that would make me more than a little aware of what's going on. Amazon is outsourcing their after-hours customer support. That's a fact. That was confirmed on the phone today by an Amazon CS supervisor when I called in to have the problem corrected. He, BTW, spoke perfect Amercian-English because he was in fact an American. I don't have a damned thing against a foreigner (to America) working customer service but I do have a major beef against someone working the English-speaking lines who can't speak the fucking language! It's that simple. If for some reason I, an English speaker, was working in a call-center for Spanish-speaking customers of Company ABCI would also expect them to have a beef with me and my inability to speak Spanish properly, even though I had two years of Spanish instruction. I would expect no less. I would expect them to feel like their business isn't worth the time of Company ABC because they put some schmuck on the line who can't speak the language. That's exactly what I felt like last night. To me Amazon clearly didn't think much of my considerable business because they forwarded my call to an foreign call center who had a nominal grasp of the English language.
I said I didn't have time to argue and now I have even less. You are in fact a racist and an idiot, troll. Troll somewhere else.
My ass. Both of the individuals I spoke with sounded Malaysian to me. I used to have a Malaysian coworker and his speech had many of the same intricacies. He however had lived in the US for over a decade and spoke English much better than the two people I spoke with last night. Based on their speech I don't believe either of them have lived in the US or been in the US longer than for perhaps the duration of a vacation. My foreign friends from college used English better their 2nd week of school that either of these two individuals. The fact that I got two in a row makes me certainly believe that my CS call was routed to a foreign land.
Thanks for the info. I'll have to take a look at them. I wonder if America's Test Kitchen has reviewed these other brands. Their insight is most helpful when buying culinary items.
My mother tends to do that, although not at a Dollar Store. She buys Chicago Cutlery knives which are much better than Dollar Store knives and infinitely worse than any decent knife. They have a low carbon content and thus lose their edge easily. They also have a wodden handle which as any cook will tell you is a big no no. Wooden anything and raw meat is food poisoning waiting to happen, or worse. You really do get what you pay for when it comes to cutlery. Buy crap and it will perform like crap. Buy something decent and it may last you the rest of your life. Would you buy a generic crap IDE drive for your server or would you rather buy a nice Seagate or Maxtor? Why? Don't you think a quality knife is as important to someone who cooks as a quality hard drive is to someone who wants to run a reliable server?
BTW, to anyone that read the lines I cite, yes Slashdot stripped off a lot of it. I didn't catch it until just now but I thought I'd mention it anyways.
I just spent over an hour and a half on the phone with Amazon Customer Service (or utter and complete lack thereof). I bought a set of Wusthof knives for my mother for X-mas (Hi mom! Hope she doesn't read/. and ruin the surprise). The Wusthof Grand Prix 7-piece set contained 5 knives and two other items (wooden storage block and sharpening rod or "steel"). When it got here the set was short a knife and contained a set of shears. The advertising text clearing said it should have contained an 8" carving knife and instead it contained a pair of Wusthof come-apart shears. The shears kick ass; I own a pair myself and I ordered a pair to go with the knife set because there's a slot made for the shears to slip in to. Unfortunately this means I have an extra pair of shears. I submitted the tech support form for Amazon on the 22nd detailing the problem. On the 23rd they replied and said they'd check into it and resend. The replacement came today. It has the same problem. The knife is gone and the shears are in its place. Now both boxes have a black & white sticker on the side that gives you a wire frame picture of each item in the box. The sticker matches the contents but no what's on Amazon's website. I spent at least 45 minutes on the phone today trying to explain to the customer service woman that answered what the problem was. Towards the end of the 45 minutes she finally asked if the knives weren't sharp enough. I about screamed. She said she'd talk to her supervisor about the sharpness right away. I told her to do that and to bring her super back with her so we could attempt to fix the problem. 10 minutes later her "team leader" gets on the line and I begin to explain the problem to him. I could barely understand her. Every other sentence I said was "could you please repeat that" or "say again please." I was really hoping that her super would speak English better or that I might even get forwarded back to the US for further assistance. She obviously couldn't understand me anymore than I could her. Unfortunately her super wasn't from the US and his English was almost as bad. Finally we got to the point where he thought he understood the problem and was ready to refund my $$. He said he would forward the problem on to another group who would look into the advertising snafu and hopefully fix it within the week. Or at least I think that's what he said.
I'm still going to buy the set of knives for my mother. I've been able to handle these knives for a week now and I've got to say they feel absolutelty teriffic. The weight and balance of this full tang knife is amazing. I wonder if Slashdot would take a review on a set of cooking knives... When it comes to good quality knives there's Wusthof and Henckels. There was an enormous discount on them at the time so I got an excellent deal on this stellar set of knives ($180 bucks I think). I think I'm going to buy another set for myself as a present too. Hell I might just make that my general purpose X-mas gift for all my family this year. That's a damned good idea! If anyone happens to buy them, though, make sure you don't buy a set of shears too unless you just want your own set. For the foreseeable future t
It looks like an automatic form letter to me. First look at the From address:
From: Stop IP Infringement
Next take a peak at the actual To addres:
To: "'spooky@suicidegirls.com'"
The From address isn't from an individual. It certainly makes me think it's a bot. The To address contains the actual recipient address in quotes. I've never seen a MUA automatically use the email address in the double-quoted area. I've seen mass mailers do this before though.
"spooky@suicidegirls.com" is also the administrative contact address for the domain "suicidegirls.com." Their site's help page contains many other contact addresses, yet the one from WHOIS was what they used. It's easy for a bot to harvest an address from WHOIS. It's next to impossible to find the right address on some random website.
In addition to that the form letter notes the ARIN contact address of suicidegirls.com ISP. Again this is easily harvested via WHOIS.
The form letter also makes no attempt to name the site administrator by name or even address the letter to common responsible roles. Instead it repeated the address it harvested from WHOIS.
I say it's a bot, plain and simple. I'd contact a lawyer for some free advice. They'll probably tell you to ignore it. I'd also make sure your ISP also realizes it's a bot and that what your site member is doing is certainly not illegal (not even remotely, even in communist China). That would be my IANAL advice.
Kick ass! My alma mater is ranked 15th. And ya'll think we're a bunch of hillbillies and rednecks around these parts.;-) I'm happy to see that KU (Univeristy of Kansas) didn't even make the list. Serves them right for beating us this year in football. I guess even a one-armed, deaf, blind, dyslexic, quadriplegic squirrel finds a nut once a decade or so.:-)
Don't forget VLANsm. Yes, I know they didn't technically invent them but it their entirely fucked up implementation that we're stuck using today. Use of Cisco's pre-standard implementation of VLANs was so widespread that the IEEE working group for 802.1Q had to more or less disregard all other implementations, some superior and some not, and give a thumbs up to to Cisco or they risked writing a standard that no one would use because the world's largest LAN infrastructure company wanted to do it their own way. Think of it like Microsoft deciding to ignore the W3C's newest HTML or XML standard and writing their entire suite of applications to embrace their own competing standard. In the end Cisco's VLAN implementation is what we're stuck with and it sucks when compared to what we could have had. Cisco's implementation didn't even have rudimentary authentication built into the standard. 802.1Q devices implicitly trust the VLAN advertisements they get on a trunk port as gospel. Thanks Cisco for fucking this up. We netadm's sure do appreciate it.
Just one thing... whether CmdrTaco uses his keyboard correctly or incorrectly no one profits from death.
Just a sec. I'm trying to decipher the meaning of your comment. I think I've got it. Morticians benefit from death. So do the grave diggers, casket makers, headstone carvers, flower shops, and all the industries that support those entities with raw materials.
Oh, I suppose what you are really insinuating is that firearm manufacturers profit from death. Well no, they really don't. It is impossible for a firearm to kill a person. A firearm doesn't have the intellectual awareness to know when to operate a safety and trigger in sucession or for that matter the physical ability to perform either task. If a firearm can't actually fire itself then a firearm can't kill a person. That makes sense. So if a firearm can't kill someone who can? Obviously it must be an entity with the intelligence to operate both the firearm's safety(^Hies) and trigger, unless of course the firearm is a true single action in which case the entity would also have to know how to operate the hammer. That level of intelligence is the bare minimum required to operate the firearm. Then there's the physical requirements. The entity not only has to know how to operate the many facets of a firearm but it also has to posess the physical ability to operate the firearm. Now we've narrowed it down significantly. It has to have a certain level of intelligence, posess the physical features necessary to operate a firearm, and the coordination to put both skills together. Well, that rules out fish. It doesn't entirely rule out birds but for the sake of this discussion lets just say it does. That leaves us with mammals. Interesting. Well the various members of the the suborder Anthropoid could pull it off, albeit with a lot of practice and training. Lets ignore them for a moment too. That pretty much leaves us with humans. Humans... Interesting. So the only way a firearm can kill a human is at the hands of another human. No that's painting a clearer picture. Well wait a second. I, a human, can easily kill a person with any number of tools. My neighbor is in his backyard right now build a small addition around his hot tub. I could go over there, take his hammer from him, and procede to beat him to death with it. The hammer wouldn't be killing him though; I would. I could hop in my car and drive 1/2 block to the nearest school and take off driving through a playground full of kids. My car wouldn't be killing those children; I would be. I could use an infinite number of tools to cause blunt-force trauma to any number of humans, causing their death. I could order a defibrillator off of the 'Net and have it over-nighted to my house. Then I could take it to my local shopping mall shock unsuspecting early X-mas shoppers with it, causing cardiac arrest in my victims and their untimely death. Wait a second. Isn't the defibrillator designed to save lives. Yes, it is. It's just a tool though. I can use it to kill people too. Looking around my computer desk I have counted over 4 dozen items that could be lethal if used with such intent. That's within arm's reach, keeping my ass in my seat, and ignoring any firearms and ammunition within reach. That count of 4 dozen includes a plastic prescription bottle of amoxicillin and a salt shaker. I could kill someone with either of them.
So, boys and girls, what have learned today? *as I'm removing my cardigan sweater and replacing it with a suit jacket, and removing my comfortable house shoes and replacing them with loafers (cowboy boots for me instead)* We've learned that firearms really don't kill people. People kill people. We've also learned that anything can be turned into a weapon for killing people. Now everyone sing along...
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
It's a neighborly day in this beautywood,
A neighbo
Bad analogy. Keeping spam out of your inbox is comparable to keeping audible advertisements out of your ears. I as an anti-spammer and mail admin can't keep a spammer from trying to send me their crap but I can not accept it when it gets to me. The same goes for audible advertisements in a public place (or on someone else's property). I can't stop the advertiser from sending me the sound waves of their advertisement but I don't have to accept them. I can stick my fingers in my ears and block them out. That's the correct analogy. Anti-spammers don't mess with someone else's property. Turning off someone else's TV is messing with someone else's property. That's not your right.
I like that. I always refer to it as the God Needs Your Money Channel. Real religious folks can't take those channels seriously, can they? I've gone as far as to program my TV to skip them when scrolling by just so I won't have to wear out my channel buttons skipping over them myself.:-)
It makes you want to be waiting around the next turn standing in the middle of the road with a 12-gauge in hand. "My music is louder than your's, punk. Dance, biatch."
A paintball gun tends to get their attention. Personally I'd love to build a herfgun. I always wanted to lay into the car of one of those jackasses that would stop at the stoplight outside my apartment complex and crank up the bass. I swear I could see my alarm clock shaking. A herf gun would have made all the difference.
Son of a bitch. That didn't take long. The Troll GOP Moderators have camped out on our discussion thread and are just waiting for us to post another message so they can mod it down too. Figures.
I used to think Arnold would be a good CA Governor. Frankly I'm not so sure anymore. After watching him on TV and listening to his proposals I don't think he will be a good governor. He is so far to the right his shorts no longer fit.
What's will all these damn troll moderators? If the discussion turned to politics then this thread is not off-topic. I wonder if the GOP has invaded/. and is using mod points to negatively affect posts that don't show the GOP in a favorable light. It could be worse. We could be one of the Vegas residents who re-registered as a Democrat with one particular GOP-funded group and had our registration forms torn up and thrown out. GOP didn't know about that my ass.
While it may be true that many individuals would leave a bank for charging a fee they didn't agree with, I entirely disagree with the notion that all banks are equal. I previously had Commerce Bank (midwest bank) and had nothing but problems with them. At one point and time I had 5 accounts with them and still wasn't more than just a number to them. I sent them packing and switched to Bank of America when I moved and haven't looked back. I'm very impressed with BOA and I highly recommend them. Everyone I know that has BOA is also quite pleased. My parents have a couple accounts at Citizens State Bank (probably a commonly reused name). They've had numerous problems over the years and have swore they'd leave on many an occasion but haven't. They have a construction loan at another local bank and have had nothing but positive experiences with them. Not all banks are made alike. Contrary to popular belief the smaller banks can be less personable and more of a pain in the ass than the large conglomerates like Bank of America (#2 in the US) and visa versa. Nothing is consistent.
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That's awfully nice of the Slashdot editors. Lets Slashdot the living hell out of these important servers at the very point and time they are supposed to be used. Can you be any more inconsiderate? It could only be worse if the Slashdot editor did it on Tuesday! What the hell are they thinking? Are they thinking? I swear I never will understand the thinking of the Slashdot editors, or utter lack thereof. The must get off on DoSing servers.
I like the feel of the Wusthof. It feels good in my mitts. I'm not sure what the carbon content is like. At this point I think anything is better than the Chicago Cutlery set my mother has been using. The wooden handle is slippery when wet. It's also a health hazzard. I haven't been on ATK's site in a while. I haven't been able to keep up.
I said I didn't have time to argue and now I have even less. You are in fact a racist and an idiot, troll. Troll somewhere else.
My ass. Both of the individuals I spoke with sounded Malaysian to me. I used to have a Malaysian coworker and his speech had many of the same intricacies. He however had lived in the US for over a decade and spoke English much better than the two people I spoke with last night. Based on their speech I don't believe either of them have lived in the US or been in the US longer than for perhaps the duration of a vacation. My foreign friends from college used English better their 2nd week of school that either of these two individuals. The fact that I got two in a row makes me certainly believe that my CS call was routed to a foreign land.
Thanks for the info. I'll have to take a look at them. I wonder if America's Test Kitchen has reviewed these other brands. Their insight is most helpful when buying culinary items.
My mother tends to do that, although not at a Dollar Store. She buys Chicago Cutlery knives which are much better than Dollar Store knives and infinitely worse than any decent knife. They have a low carbon content and thus lose their edge easily. They also have a wodden handle which as any cook will tell you is a big no no. Wooden anything and raw meat is food poisoning waiting to happen, or worse. You really do get what you pay for when it comes to cutlery. Buy crap and it will perform like crap. Buy something decent and it may last you the rest of your life. Would you buy a generic crap IDE drive for your server or would you rather buy a nice Seagate or Maxtor? Why? Don't you think a quality knife is as important to someone who cooks as a quality hard drive is to someone who wants to run a reliable server?
BTW, to anyone that read the lines I cite, yes Slashdot stripped off a lot of it. I didn't catch it until just now but I thought I'd mention it anyways.
I'm still going to buy the set of knives for my mother. I've been able to handle these knives for a week now and I've got to say they feel absolutelty teriffic. The weight and balance of this full tang knife is amazing. I wonder if Slashdot would take a review on a set of cooking knives... When it comes to good quality knives there's Wusthof and Henckels. There was an enormous discount on them at the time so I got an excellent deal on this stellar set of knives ($180 bucks I think). I think I'm going to buy another set for myself as a present too. Hell I might just make that my general purpose X-mas gift for all my family this year. That's a damned good idea! If anyone happens to buy them, though, make sure you don't buy a set of shears too unless you just want your own set. For the foreseeable future t
From: Stop IP Infringement
Next take a peak at the actual To addres:
To: "'spooky@suicidegirls.com'"
The From address isn't from an individual. It certainly makes me think it's a bot. The To address contains the actual recipient address in quotes. I've never seen a MUA automatically use the email address in the double-quoted area. I've seen mass mailers do this before though.
"spooky@suicidegirls.com" is also the administrative contact address for the domain "suicidegirls.com." Their site's help page contains many other contact addresses, yet the one from WHOIS was what they used. It's easy for a bot to harvest an address from WHOIS. It's next to impossible to find the right address on some random website.
In addition to that the form letter notes the ARIN contact address of suicidegirls.com ISP. Again this is easily harvested via WHOIS.
The form letter also makes no attempt to name the site administrator by name or even address the letter to common responsible roles. Instead it repeated the address it harvested from WHOIS.
I say it's a bot, plain and simple. I'd contact a lawyer for some free advice. They'll probably tell you to ignore it. I'd also make sure your ISP also realizes it's a bot and that what your site member is doing is certainly not illegal (not even remotely, even in communist China). That would be my IANAL advice.
No BSing. I don't know what it is. What is it and why's it bad?
Speak into my good ear. I didn't quite catch that. ;-)
PEBCAK Error. Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. Been around for some time, even back when I was in the helpdesk biz.
Nice comment. I couldn't have put it better myself, although I did try.
Kick ass! My alma mater is ranked 15th. And ya'll think we're a bunch of hillbillies and rednecks around these parts. ;-) I'm happy to see that KU (Univeristy of Kansas) didn't even make the list. Serves them right for beating us this year in football. I guess even a one-armed, deaf, blind, dyslexic, quadriplegic squirrel finds a nut once a decade or so. :-)
Don't forget VLANsm. Yes, I know they didn't technically invent them but it their entirely fucked up implementation that we're stuck using today. Use of Cisco's pre-standard implementation of VLANs was so widespread that the IEEE working group for 802.1Q had to more or less disregard all other implementations, some superior and some not, and give a thumbs up to to Cisco or they risked writing a standard that no one would use because the world's largest LAN infrastructure company wanted to do it their own way. Think of it like Microsoft deciding to ignore the W3C's newest HTML or XML standard and writing their entire suite of applications to embrace their own competing standard. In the end Cisco's VLAN implementation is what we're stuck with and it sucks when compared to what we could have had. Cisco's implementation didn't even have rudimentary authentication built into the standard. 802.1Q devices implicitly trust the VLAN advertisements they get on a trunk port as gospel. Thanks Cisco for fucking this up. We netadm's sure do appreciate it.
Just a sec. I'm trying to decipher the meaning of your comment. I think I've got it. Morticians benefit from death. So do the grave diggers, casket makers, headstone carvers, flower shops, and all the industries that support those entities with raw materials.
Oh, I suppose what you are really insinuating is that firearm manufacturers profit from death. Well no, they really don't. It is impossible for a firearm to kill a person. A firearm doesn't have the intellectual awareness to know when to operate a safety and trigger in sucession or for that matter the physical ability to perform either task. If a firearm can't actually fire itself then a firearm can't kill a person. That makes sense. So if a firearm can't kill someone who can? Obviously it must be an entity with the intelligence to operate both the firearm's safety(^Hies) and trigger, unless of course the firearm is a true single action in which case the entity would also have to know how to operate the hammer. That level of intelligence is the bare minimum required to operate the firearm. Then there's the physical requirements. The entity not only has to know how to operate the many facets of a firearm but it also has to posess the physical ability to operate the firearm. Now we've narrowed it down significantly. It has to have a certain level of intelligence, posess the physical features necessary to operate a firearm, and the coordination to put both skills together. Well, that rules out fish. It doesn't entirely rule out birds but for the sake of this discussion lets just say it does. That leaves us with mammals. Interesting. Well the various members of the the suborder Anthropoid could pull it off, albeit with a lot of practice and training. Lets ignore them for a moment too. That pretty much leaves us with humans. Humans... Interesting. So the only way a firearm can kill a human is at the hands of another human. No that's painting a clearer picture. Well wait a second. I, a human, can easily kill a person with any number of tools. My neighbor is in his backyard right now build a small addition around his hot tub. I could go over there, take his hammer from him, and procede to beat him to death with it. The hammer wouldn't be killing him though; I would. I could hop in my car and drive 1/2 block to the nearest school and take off driving through a playground full of kids. My car wouldn't be killing those children; I would be. I could use an infinite number of tools to cause blunt-force trauma to any number of humans, causing their death. I could order a defibrillator off of the 'Net and have it over-nighted to my house. Then I could take it to my local shopping mall shock unsuspecting early X-mas shoppers with it, causing cardiac arrest in my victims and their untimely death. Wait a second. Isn't the defibrillator designed to save lives. Yes, it is. It's just a tool though. I can use it to kill people too. Looking around my computer desk I have counted over 4 dozen items that could be lethal if used with such intent. That's within arm's reach, keeping my ass in my seat, and ignoring any firearms and ammunition within reach. That count of 4 dozen includes a plastic prescription bottle of amoxicillin and a salt shaker. I could kill someone with either of them.
So, boys and girls, what have learned today? *as I'm removing my cardigan sweater and replacing it with a suit jacket, and removing my comfortable house shoes and replacing them with loafers (cowboy boots for me instead)* We've learned that firearms really don't kill people. People kill people. We've also learned that anything can be turned into a weapon for killing people. Now everyone sing along...
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
It's a neighborly day in this beautywood,
A neighbo
Bad analogy. Keeping spam out of your inbox is comparable to keeping audible advertisements out of your ears. I as an anti-spammer and mail admin can't keep a spammer from trying to send me their crap but I can not accept it when it gets to me. The same goes for audible advertisements in a public place (or on someone else's property). I can't stop the advertiser from sending me the sound waves of their advertisement but I don't have to accept them. I can stick my fingers in my ears and block them out. That's the correct analogy. Anti-spammers don't mess with someone else's property. Turning off someone else's TV is messing with someone else's property. That's not your right.
I like that. I always refer to it as the God Needs Your Money Channel. Real religious folks can't take those channels seriously, can they? I've gone as far as to program my TV to skip them when scrolling by just so I won't have to wear out my channel buttons skipping over them myself. :-)
Nice sig.
It makes you want to be waiting around the next turn standing in the middle of the road with a 12-gauge in hand. "My music is louder than your's, punk. Dance, biatch."
A paintball gun tends to get their attention. Personally I'd love to build a herf gun. I always wanted to lay into the car of one of those jackasses that would stop at the stoplight outside my apartment complex and crank up the bass. I swear I could see my alarm clock shaking. A herf gun would have made all the difference.
Son of a bitch. That didn't take long. The Troll GOP Moderators have camped out on our discussion thread and are just waiting for us to post another message so they can mod it down too. Figures.
What's will all these damn troll moderators? If the discussion turned to politics then this thread is not off-topic. I wonder if the GOP has invaded /. and is using mod points to negatively affect posts that don't show the GOP in a favorable light. It could be worse. We could be one of the Vegas residents who re-registered as a Democrat with one particular GOP-funded group and had our registration forms torn up and thrown out. GOP didn't know about that my ass.
Fortunately Arnold can never be President.
While it may be true that many individuals would leave a bank for charging a fee they didn't agree with, I entirely disagree with the notion that all banks are equal. I previously had Commerce Bank (midwest bank) and had nothing but problems with them. At one point and time I had 5 accounts with them and still wasn't more than just a number to them. I sent them packing and switched to Bank of America when I moved and haven't looked back. I'm very impressed with BOA and I highly recommend them. Everyone I know that has BOA is also quite pleased. My parents have a couple accounts at Citizens State Bank (probably a commonly reused name). They've had numerous problems over the years and have swore they'd leave on many an occasion but haven't. They have a construction loan at another local bank and have had nothing but positive experiences with them. Not all banks are made alike. Contrary to popular belief the smaller banks can be less personable and more of a pain in the ass than the large conglomerates like Bank of America (#2 in the US) and visa versa. Nothing is consistent.