This is just a press release so some company's stock goes up. "Look! We can sell hardware that can save the cable companies upwards of 30 million a year!"
Whoopdie-freaking-doo. What they fail to mention
is that there is _ZERO_ ability to block someone from putting a real NAT behind their bogus "Cable-NAT" and continuing to do the exact same thing.
I'd say "since when does/. post this kind of sales tripe", but the answer is "since day one."
One thing I notice not mentioned here is that
with a decent filesystem (even ext2 with recent
non-standard patches) a single massive directory
is much faster then 2 or 3 (or 20 or 30) smaller
directories when you want to execute something.
There were e2 problems with large numbers of files
in a directory (ask any tradspool USENET administrator) but somehow I don't think that applies to only a few thousand.
That said, I would prefer symlinks in/usr/bin to
actual programs. Debian is 'close' to that, in
it has an 'alternatives' system... I.E. vi points to elvis, vim, nvi, ae, etc, depending on what you have installed. Misses the point in that all 'alternative' binaries are in/usr/bin.
However, if one cared, it's not too hard to
fix debian, since it's moving to a more hierarchial structure:/etc/samba/* rather then/etc/smb.conf, etc.
so, with a quick script, you can take the output
of dpkg -L and move all the custom
directories to/opt/packagname-version/*, and all
the bins to/opt/bla-1.0/bin
/bin should, of course, contain real files. Things in there are required to boot. Symlinking
to a seperate filesystem != good.
It was left out... the.14 patch deleted deactivate_page from other places, but missed loop.c. Since it was a straight deletion everywhere else (not replaced with anything) that's the correct
answer.
find the real culprit who signed up this person.. because if that was their intent, JUST TO SIGN UP SOMEONE ELSE AND HARRASS SOMEONE ELSE, surely, there lies the possibility that they'll just do it again.
Which would work, except despite the fact you get thousands of complaints, you never block the ones
abusing your system. Now, if that's an invitation for me to come hax0r your servers and put the blocking code in for you, I'll accept. However, since you refuse to do it, you're the bad guy here. Putting a submit-form 'MAILBOM THIS ADDRESS' on the web and saying "Hey, it's not our fault! W.X.Y.Z submitted it!" means (da dum!) you're a twit.
BTW, thanks for pointing out the fact your company is a spamhaus, I'll be sure to add it to the block list for another 10000 customers. Enjoy!
When acetylene combusts, two acetylene molecules ideally combine with three oxygen molecules to form two carbon dioxide molecules and one water. Let's assume that oxygen, in this little chemical analogy, represents lawyers....
Since acetylene is c2h2, and oxygen is o2, you've got c4 + h4 + o6 floating around, to make up
2x CO2 + H2O... I think what you meant is
2 acetylene + 5 oxygen for 4 CO2 + 2 H2O, which
actually balances.
As for the metaphor, do you really think Gates and Stallman will share the same lawyer? Or is 'O' in this case an indication of N Lawyers...
First of all, PNG graphics are larger than GIF files. Sometimes the
difference is only minimal (file sizes are ~5-1-% larger for images that look like advertisements/banners/few colors) but can be MUCH MUCH larger
(several times as large) in photographic uses (full color).
Bzzt, bozo filter engaged. GIFs are 8 bit, lossless (256 colors) PNG is either 8 bit lossless, or 24/32 lossless. (Possibly other color depths, as well. Those are the two I commonly use)
Comparing lossless 24 bit color with lossless 8 bit color is stupid... recompress a.gif as a.png and the size will remain the same (or smaller)
take a raw 24 bit image, compress in JPEG and PNG, and JPEG will generally be smaller, since it's a lossy format.
However, I don't know of any patent issues with jpegs, so there's no real problem using them.
Cripes! That's it! Better than Radio Liberty! We compile a list of pagers and SMS capable devices in use in China and begin sending messages into the email
addresses corresponding to them on a frequent basis. It can be a great way of spreading information freely! That or their government will move in and kill all the
pager and cellphone users in one fell swoop.
I do seem to recall that in recent history of a chineese neighbor, wearing glasses was an offense punishable by death. I wouldn't joke about it too much, it's not that improbable that we'll see it on the nightly news in the near future.
It's interesting how much of Kubrick's vision actually made it into the movie,
including a world populated only by machines.
What, you mean that aside from some ham-handed changes by spielburg, it's 100% an *UNFINISHED* kubrick film? Let's face it, about the biggest change Speilburg made was to turn alcohol into coffee. Note the wierd obsession with "making coffee". The original was about an alchoholic mother and a robotic son who learned to mix a drink exactly how she wanted it... pleasing her and destroying her at the same time. Turn it to coffee and you're left scratching your head. "Huh?"
His other big influence on the film was that pathetic batman 4 neon chase sequence. I highly doubt stan was looking for something quite that... garish. It clashed so badly with the rest of the film.
The whole thing screams "rough draft". The fact it works at all is because he's been writing at it since 1969! But he could never get it to "work" the way he wanted it... so it got shelved again and again.
The ending(s) especially could use some work. His story-advisor was dismissed because she was adamant that the final ending (losing his mother forever) made for a horrible story. The fact that the plot hacks needed to MAKE him regain his mother for one day were horribly ugly lend credence to the idea that it was a quick idea that hadn't been well thought out.
Kubrick tackled an idea that got too big, too unwieldy. It might have made an interesting collaberation, but he was too enamoured with certain 'scenes' that he invisioned and kept trying to hang a movie around them. "It has to have this scene. It has to end This way." (which it did... them in bed together... hello oedepus) to the exclusion of a coherent story. He asked for help from many people, and dismissed them if they trod on any sacred cows. Arthur C. Clarke got dumped for his "Hey, let's take them out into the galaxy and have robots colonize known worlds... Rightfully so, I think. The last segment was already too overloaded with changes from the underwater fade-out that it killed the suspension of disbelief.
Speilburg did kubrick a great disservice by filming A.I. "as-is" and not finishing the unfinished parts. He did an even greater disservice by using "John Williams' Patented Emotional Glue" to patch together the disjoints, leaving a rather nasty taste in my mouth as I left the theater. (I hate when they use formula-stock tone sequences to cause emotional response. Forced tears are doubly ugly when someone else is doing the forcing.)
Mmm. Of course, since the cisco was rebooted, the
logs would indicate a reboot... right after all the error messages. What, you don't run current IOS on decent hardware? It dosn't have persistant logs?!? Yikes, I'm sorry.
If it's ECC errors, you can ignore it. Sure,
"standard" ripping programs won't handle it,
but CD sectors are actually 2352 bytes long (2048
if formatted for CD-ROM). A CD is recorded at 75 sectors/second (588 samples * 75 = 44100 sample/sec) A CD-rom reader (like CDparanoia)
checks for things like buffer overruns, data consistancy, and sample 'jitter'. There's no ECC involved. ECC is the 304 bytes/sector that are removed when you burn 2048 byte sectors on a CD.
(This is also why VCD images are well over 650 meg and require kernel patches to play... they drop the ECC since the mpeg stream can handle bit errors and write 2352 byte sectors)
Whew. Longwinded, eh?
Anyway, it's only a matter of time (days, probably hours) before one of the cd-ripper authors has a fix for the defective CDs.
The average American WANTS to drive a car that only give 6 miles to the gallon.
Are you stupid? 6 miles to the gallon? I've got an 80's era land yacht and I still get near 20. Even the "EVIL SUVs" you hear so much about do better then that. I think you're thinking of some other country. Try again.
The average American WANTS to "buy-and-throw-away",
Bzzt again. I'd prefer to not have a few cubic feet of food wrappers in my car, to not have to fight with 5 layers of wrapping on my purchaces. Blame "negligence" lawsuits for forcing people to put up with insane amounts of waste. Do you really think we buy something based on how much trash comes with it? Try again.
Oh yea. And thanks a lot, greenes, for getting rid of foam peanuts. They take up 1% of the space
in the landfills that crushed-paper filler does.
Let's keep trying.
the average American WANTS to only pay a buck for a gallon of gas (ok that part is changing a LITTLE, but not because of people insisting on paying more),
And that is just people whining that they pay 5x as much as we do for gas. So I'll ignore that.
the average american WANTS a heated swimmingpool (ok, maybe the "a-little-more-than-average" american, but You get the picture).
Bwahahaha! Now _THAT_ is clueless. Guess how you generally heat a swimming pool? That's right, solar energy. Oh, those evil americans! Using the fusion power of the sun to heat their pool.
There's only a fraction of a percent of the US population that can afford to use gas or electric
heaters on their pools.... and even then,
it's enclosed in a greenhouse. Solar insulating
covers are common.
In short the Average American dosn't want to be concerned with the environment, and while that's true, no president needs to concern
himself with getting elected on those premises. After all, there are no votes in it for him, so why do it ? It's not like the politicians of today
actualy has moral values....
Not according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Reactor Safety Study...
Well, gee, that was published in '74. Here we
are in 2001, 27 years later. They had already
had 200 reactor-years without incident by then.
How many reactor-years have we racked up since?
Had anyone bothered to do the basic research, they might have found out that there's a number (too many, like 8 I believe) of forms you can fill out to be removed from all junkmail lists. Occupant, Resident, Our Neighbor, Our Friend, and direct-mail with your name on it (CC offers, etc)
Takes about 6-8 weeks (long lead time on direct mailings) and then it goes away. It's not a very publicized thing, but direct-mail opt-out does
work. (in order to get cheaper bulk mail rates, there's rules you have to follow.) Contrast to email opt-out, which does not work. No incentives to abide by it, no penalties for not doing it.
An O flag to see if someone whois'd an oper? I don't know where you got this idea, but you managed to
get a laugh from me.
The source is open, go check it before posting ridiculous assertions like this.
Actually, you're wrong. The code is NOT open, it's a hack. I know it's an undernet hack because I've known undernet Os. I've watched him do precicely that, too. G-line an entire network because someone/whois'd him.
Oh yes. And he got his O status by giving blowjobs to the admins of the server. Gotta love the good job they're doing on filtering admins.
Mind you, efnet's just as bad. Invisible servers
with PRIVMSG snooping capability. That always amused me. (Obviously, only things routed through the server they leached off of. But, close enough to the hub...)
How bad is IRCnet these days? Someone on my netblock pissed them off and I've never been bored
enough to get around it.
Mind you, I don't think this is a good thing. DoS
skriptkiddies should be put to work in something useful, like medical experimentation. Still, having had to deal with Undernet Opers before, I can see where he's coming from. They are far and away the most arrogant, self-centered assholes I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. Of course, that seems to be the case with all the big networks. But only undernet had audacity of putting in an O flag to track if someone/whois'd and Oper... for the purpose of G-lining them.
Perhaps if you're borrowing peoples servers and bandwidth, you shouldn't be quite such an ass to everyone around. I know when I'm house-sitting I don't go inviting trouble.
So let's kill the little twerp involved, and not give any sympathy where it's NOT due.
What really bothers me about this is that they're blocking all traffic to and from the IP addresses. Seems to me
like blocking port 25 (sending and recieving) would be plenty-- then, if they get a few innocent web sites that
don't do email it's no big deal.
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Cluebat time.
RBL just lists IPs. There's two forms. One, a reverse-DNS lookup. Two, a realtime BGP4 feed.
Most ISPs (myself included) configure sendmail to check incoming IPs against their reverse DNS. Therefore, it only blocks email coming from those specific IPs, and not email going to them.
A few ISPs use the realtime BGP4 feed to blackhole
all traffic from those IPs.
Mind you, they are not REQUIRED to blackhole those IPs. They might just use it to divert to a seperate mailserver for extra spam checking. The fact is, the ISPs that do it agree with Paul Vixie and the rest of MAPS that Spammers, Spam-tolerators, Spammer-services and the hosts of spammer-services are NOT good for their network.
However, I doubt most people on slashdot are impacted by this. The worst you might be is
unable to recieve email from peacefire. Darn.
Perhaps Peacefire should choose a provider NOT
activly supporting 21 spammers.
Yea, I'm aware that people block port 25. And guess what? The second you do that you start losing accounts. People have corperate mailservers, people have multiple ISPs (And M$ convieniently neglected to make all ISP settings switch when you hit a different profile. Macs had that 4-5 years ago when I first started doing support). And I've had to get people off national ISPs unto local ones because of their anti-spam policy blocked legitimite uses..
No direct SMTP access, and they bounce any "forged" mail, so you can only use your @nationalISP.com address. No way around it. Period. Except, of course, to ditch the account as unusable.
Thanks, but I value my customers a bit more then you apparently do. Unlike most ISPs, when I say "unlimited internet access" I mean it. If you violate our AUP, I can you. Until then you are unrestricted. (Well, at least from any legitimite
activity. Source-forged packets are still blocked)
Now, for a REAL solution, I've been looking into
L4 routers. Already in use to transparently cache
HTTP for DSL, it may be a solution for proxying
email abuse. Run it through accounting to count
the number of recipients/bodies and set off alarms
when thresholds are reached.
A DVD cannot do anything on it's own, it's simply
a storage medium. The new "copy protection" so touted is nothing more then a hack around firmware bugs in "region-free" players. A ROM update later and they'll work fine. (There's a reason
I use software. It's more readally patchable)
So while your heavally shielded monitor is blocking the 35 hz to 90 KHZ emissions, that
crappy HD15 connector is happily broadcasting over
top of your favorite radio stations.
Twisted pair actually sends a positive signal on one side, and a negative on the other. If you
sent it out and had it reflected on the other, it
would in fact double the RF emmission.
Would'nt this have some interference? I mean it might be flat for a reason. Maybe like the way ethernet cable has 8 wires but only uses 4? Theres a reason for that.
For the clue impaired, ethernet does use all 8 wires. Unless you're using castrated half-duplex ethernet. If you have a collision light, you're cutting your bandwidth in 1/3! And your bidirectional bandwidth in 1/6! Buy a 10/100 switch rather then a hub, set all the ports to full duplex, and watch your data scream.
1) You get credit for content you publish so there is an incentive to publish lots of random crap.
This is untrue. You do not get Mojo to posting content, you get Mojo for reselling blocks of data to others. In fact, in Mojo
Nation there is a minor cost imposed for publication to prevent people from doing the sorts of stupid attacks which you
mention. Mojo Nation is built assuming a society of dishonest, distrustful agents. Your agent doesn't get paid (by my agent)
until you deliver the goods.
Interesting. However, what's to prevent me from
publishing to myself? There's a minimal cost
to store the maps, and to publish the content description, but (using a custom agent) I simply
keep the three gig on hand as a real file (And construct the blocks requested on the fly, to boot)
Now we have a situation much like the fake gnutella links... a fast way to procure mojo.
In fact, storing and offering from your own system
(paying yourself to upload) is probably going to be required for things like freenapscourtella (.com) gateways.
I don't know the underlying technology of mojo well enough yet to see if that's possible. (On freenet, it's possible, but the data migrates off your system rapidly based on the closeness of it's content hash)
A system like this would make sure that an inappropriate document (Like, say, the Constitution and the first ten ammendments) dosn't accidentally get lost. One (or more) interested parties can always make sure they have it, likely at a higher price. "mirrors" can download "popular" data and offer it at a cheaper price.
I didn't see a hardcore technical document on mojo's underlying topology, so I'm gonna go back
to reading dox and source now.
I do not disagree that taxes were paid by
sombody. But that glossy Annual report which
you got from MS says that they have 33c earnings
per share (or whatever). Whereas, when it comes
to the IRS, they claim they have made *zero*
profit. If this is not stupid/hypocritical
tell me what is..
Clues for the clueless: M$ (Or any public corp, for that matter) Dosn't really make any money. Amazing, that. See what you said? 33c earnings per share? That goes to the shareholders. NOT to the corperation. Cool, that.
So, it kind of makes sense that the tax is applied where the money actually ends up, no?
Slashdot Mirror
Whoopdie-freaking-doo. What they fail to mention is that there is _ZERO_ ability to block someone from putting a real NAT behind their bogus "Cable-NAT" and continuing to do the exact same thing.
I'd say "since when does /. post this kind of sales tripe", but the answer is "since day one."
--Dan
There were e2 problems with large numbers of files in a directory (ask any tradspool USENET administrator) but somehow I don't think that applies to only a few thousand.
That said, I would prefer symlinks in /usr/bin to
actual programs. Debian is 'close' to that, in
it has an 'alternatives' system... I.E. vi points to elvis, vim, nvi, ae, etc, depending on what you have installed. Misses the point in that all 'alternative' binaries are in /usr/bin.
However, if one cared, it's not too hard to fix debian, since it's moving to a more hierarchial structure: /etc/samba/* rather then /etc/smb.conf, etc.
so, with a quick script, you can take the output of dpkg -L and move all the custom directories to /opt/packagname-version/*, and all
the bins to /opt/bla-1.0/bin
--Dan
It was left out... the .14 patch deleted deactivate_page from other places, but missed loop.c. Since it was a straight deletion everywhere else (not replaced with anything) that's the correct
answer.
--Dan
Which would work, except despite the fact you get thousands of complaints, you never block the ones abusing your system. Now, if that's an invitation for me to come hax0r your servers and put the blocking code in for you, I'll accept. However, since you refuse to do it, you're the bad guy here. Putting a submit-form 'MAILBOM THIS ADDRESS' on the web and saying "Hey, it's not our fault! W.X.Y.Z submitted it!" means (da dum!) you're a twit.
BTW, thanks for pointing out the fact your company is a spamhaus, I'll be sure to add it to the block list for another 10000 customers. Enjoy!
--Dan
Since acetylene is c2h2, and oxygen is o2, you've got c4 + h4 + o6 floating around, to make up 2x CO2 + H2O ... I think what you meant is
2 acetylene + 5 oxygen for 4 CO2 + 2 H2O, which
actually balances.
As for the metaphor, do you really think Gates and Stallman will share the same lawyer? Or is 'O' in this case an indication of N Lawyers...
--Dan
Bzzt, bozo filter engaged. GIFs are 8 bit, lossless (256 colors) PNG is either 8 bit lossless, or 24/32 lossless. (Possibly other color depths, as well. Those are the two I commonly use)
Comparing lossless 24 bit color with lossless 8 bit color is stupid... recompress a .gif as a .png and the size will remain the same (or smaller)
take a raw 24 bit image, compress in JPEG and PNG, and JPEG will generally be smaller, since it's a lossy format.
However, I don't know of any patent issues with jpegs, so there's no real problem using them.
--Dan
I do seem to recall that in recent history of a chineese neighbor, wearing glasses was an offense punishable by death. I wouldn't joke about it too much, it's not that improbable that we'll see it on the nightly news in the near future.
--Dan
What, you mean that aside from some ham-handed changes by spielburg, it's 100% an *UNFINISHED* kubrick film? Let's face it, about the biggest change Speilburg made was to turn alcohol into coffee. Note the wierd obsession with "making coffee". The original was about an alchoholic mother and a robotic son who learned to mix a drink exactly how she wanted it... pleasing her and destroying her at the same time. Turn it to coffee and you're left scratching your head. "Huh?"
His other big influence on the film was that pathetic batman 4 neon chase sequence. I highly doubt stan was looking for something quite that... garish. It clashed so badly with the rest of the film.
The whole thing screams "rough draft". The fact it works at all is because he's been writing at it since 1969! But he could never get it to "work" the way he wanted it... so it got shelved again and again.
The ending(s) especially could use some work. His story-advisor was dismissed because she was adamant that the final ending (losing his mother forever) made for a horrible story. The fact that the plot hacks needed to MAKE him regain his mother for one day were horribly ugly lend credence to the idea that it was a quick idea that hadn't been well thought out.
Kubrick tackled an idea that got too big, too unwieldy. It might have made an interesting collaberation, but he was too enamoured with certain 'scenes' that he invisioned and kept trying to hang a movie around them. "It has to have this scene. It has to end This way." (which it did... them in bed together... hello oedepus) to the exclusion of a coherent story. He asked for help from many people, and dismissed them if they trod on any sacred cows. Arthur C. Clarke got dumped for his "Hey, let's take them out into the galaxy and have robots colonize known worlds... Rightfully so, I think. The last segment was already too overloaded with changes from the underwater fade-out that it killed the suspension of disbelief.
Speilburg did kubrick a great disservice by filming A.I. "as-is" and not finishing the unfinished parts. He did an even greater disservice by using "John Williams' Patented Emotional Glue" to patch together the disjoints, leaving a rather nasty taste in my mouth as I left the theater. (I hate when they use formula-stock tone sequences to cause emotional response. Forced tears are doubly ugly when someone else is doing the forcing.)
--Dan
--Dan
Whew. Longwinded, eh?
Anyway, it's only a matter of time (days, probably hours) before one of the cd-ripper authors has a fix for the defective CDs.
--Dan
Yes, it will cause radio interference. Besides, I think a 1 ton battlebot is just a bit over the weight requirement.
--Dan
Are you stupid? 6 miles to the gallon? I've got an 80's era land yacht and I still get near 20. Even the "EVIL SUVs" you hear so much about do better then that. I think you're thinking of some other country. Try again.
The average American WANTS to "buy-and-throw-away",
Bzzt again. I'd prefer to not have a few cubic feet of food wrappers in my car, to not have to fight with 5 layers of wrapping on my purchaces. Blame "negligence" lawsuits for forcing people to put up with insane amounts of waste. Do you really think we buy something based on how much trash comes with it? Try again.
Oh yea. And thanks a lot, greenes, for getting rid of foam peanuts. They take up 1% of the space in the landfills that crushed-paper filler does.
Let's keep trying.
the average American WANTS to only pay a buck for a gallon of gas (ok that part is changing a LITTLE, but not because of people insisting on paying more),
And that is just people whining that they pay 5x as much as we do for gas. So I'll ignore that.
the average american WANTS a heated swimmingpool (ok, maybe the "a-little-more-than-average" american, but You get the picture).
Bwahahaha! Now _THAT_ is clueless. Guess how you generally heat a swimming pool? That's right, solar energy. Oh, those evil americans! Using the fusion power of the sun to heat their pool.
There's only a fraction of a percent of the US population that can afford to use gas or electric heaters on their pools.... and even then, it's enclosed in a greenhouse. Solar insulating covers are common.
In short the Average American dosn't want to be concerned with the environment, and while that's true, no president needs to concern himself with getting elected on those premises. After all, there are no votes in it for him, so why do it ? It's not like the politicians of today actualy has moral values....
*yawn*
--Dan
Well, gee, that was published in '74. Here we are in 2001, 27 years later. They had already had 200 reactor-years without incident by then. How many reactor-years have we racked up since?
--Dan
Takes about 6-8 weeks (long lead time on direct mailings) and then it goes away. It's not a very publicized thing, but direct-mail opt-out does work. (in order to get cheaper bulk mail rates, there's rules you have to follow.) Contrast to email opt-out, which does not work. No incentives to abide by it, no penalties for not doing it.
Junkmail free,
--Dan
The source is open, go check it before posting ridiculous assertions like this.
Actually, you're wrong. The code is NOT open, it's a hack. I know it's an undernet hack because I've known undernet Os. I've watched him do precicely that, too. G-line an entire network because someone /whois'd him.
Oh yes. And he got his O status by giving blowjobs to the admins of the server. Gotta love the good job they're doing on filtering admins.
Mind you, efnet's just as bad. Invisible servers with PRIVMSG snooping capability. That always amused me. (Obviously, only things routed through the server they leached off of. But, close enough to the hub...)
How bad is IRCnet these days? Someone on my netblock pissed them off and I've never been bored enough to get around it.
--Dan
Perhaps if you're borrowing peoples servers and bandwidth, you shouldn't be quite such an ass to everyone around. I know when I'm house-sitting I don't go inviting trouble.
So let's kill the little twerp involved, and not give any sympathy where it's NOT due.
--Dan
Cluebat time.
RBL just lists IPs. There's two forms. One, a reverse-DNS lookup. Two, a realtime BGP4 feed.
Most ISPs (myself included) configure sendmail to check incoming IPs against their reverse DNS. Therefore, it only blocks email coming from those specific IPs, and not email going to them.
A few ISPs use the realtime BGP4 feed to blackhole all traffic from those IPs.
Mind you, they are not REQUIRED to blackhole those IPs. They might just use it to divert to a seperate mailserver for extra spam checking. The fact is, the ISPs that do it agree with Paul Vixie and the rest of MAPS that Spammers, Spam-tolerators, Spammer-services and the hosts of spammer-services are NOT good for their network.
However, I doubt most people on slashdot are impacted by this. The worst you might be is unable to recieve email from peacefire. Darn.
Perhaps Peacefire should choose a provider NOT activly supporting 21 spammers.
--Dan
No direct SMTP access, and they bounce any "forged" mail, so you can only use your @nationalISP.com address. No way around it. Period. Except, of course, to ditch the account as unusable.
Thanks, but I value my customers a bit more then you apparently do. Unlike most ISPs, when I say "unlimited internet access" I mean it. If you violate our AUP, I can you. Until then you are unrestricted. (Well, at least from any legitimite activity. Source-forged packets are still blocked)
Now, for a REAL solution, I've been looking into L4 routers. Already in use to transparently cache HTTP for DSL, it may be a solution for proxying email abuse. Run it through accounting to count the number of recipients/bodies and set off alarms when thresholds are reached.
--Dan
--Dan
Vertical Refresh: 35-150 HZ
Horizontal Refresh: 35-90+ KHZ
Dot Clock: 20-200 MHZ.
So while your heavally shielded monitor is blocking the 35 hz to 90 KHZ emissions, that crappy HD15 connector is happily broadcasting over top of your favorite radio stations.
--Dan
And all pairs in cat5 have the same TPI.
Clue people. Get one. Quit Karma whoring.
--Dan
For the clue impaired, ethernet does use all 8 wires. Unless you're using castrated half-duplex ethernet. If you have a collision light, you're cutting your bandwidth in 1/3! And your bidirectional bandwidth in 1/6! Buy a 10/100 switch rather then a hub, set all the ports to full duplex, and watch your data scream.
--Dan
Yea, simple. They deny you access to their customers. "Oops? Did our firewall block your SSL? I'm SO sorry."
I'm just concerned that they'll try something monumentally stupid, like sneaking their own CA into the next gen mozilla so they can proxy SSL.
--Dan
Interesting. However, what's to prevent me from publishing to myself? There's a minimal cost to store the maps, and to publish the content description, but (using a custom agent) I simply keep the three gig on hand as a real file (And construct the blocks requested on the fly, to boot)
Now we have a situation much like the fake gnutella links... a fast way to procure mojo.
In fact, storing and offering from your own system (paying yourself to upload) is probably going to be required for things like freenapscourtella (.com) gateways.
I don't know the underlying technology of mojo well enough yet to see if that's possible. (On freenet, it's possible, but the data migrates off your system rapidly based on the closeness of it's content hash)
A system like this would make sure that an inappropriate document (Like, say, the Constitution and the first ten ammendments) dosn't accidentally get lost. One (or more) interested parties can always make sure they have it, likely at a higher price. "mirrors" can download "popular" data and offer it at a cheaper price.
I didn't see a hardcore technical document on mojo's underlying topology, so I'm gonna go back to reading dox and source now.
--Dan
Clues for the clueless: M$ (Or any public corp, for that matter) Dosn't really make any money. Amazing, that. See what you said? 33c earnings per share? That goes to the shareholders. NOT to the corperation. Cool, that.
So, it kind of makes sense that the tax is applied where the money actually ends up, no?
--Dan