Its different cause.. well...
believe it or not... its a social thing.
kinda.
Its more fun to kill people when you can hear their real life counterparts cursing at you, and roger wilco just doesnt cut it. It also gives a "good" excuse to get away from your husbands, wives, kids, or whatever and have a few beers.
The best part is picking out the loser for the event. That poor soul who is so excited to come over, only to find out that somehow his peachy-keen brand new Pentium VI-4GHZ decided to divide by zero for eternity SOMEWHERE between Jefferson St, and Lavalle Ave. The rest of the event for him, is figuring out what went wrong and why it happened to him of all people. You can't buy fun in such volumes as that. Except if you lived in Los Vegas... you can buy anything there.
Im in Cincinnati to, and have Zoomtown. I've had basically the same experience. Good bandwidth, low rate, low fuss, pretty good reliability, and semi-prompt service(about as good as a baby bell can get I suppose). I've been running a Tribes server for quite a while and they have yet to fuss at me.
I've never had an ISP, through dial-up or DSL that provided a good newsfeed. Either they were slow as hell, timed out constantly, lacked retention, or just plain missed headers altogether.
What I want to know is, do any of these people use third party news services like newsfeeds or newscene? If they are still getting throttled then I would be inclined to bitch about it. I always thought it was a basic ISP rule to provide a "bare-minimum" newsfeed, and if you really wanted the gigs and gigs of kitty pr0n you would shell out the cash for a real server.
To: intelforum@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: Update on JYA site From: John Young Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:08:55 -0400 Reply-To: intelforum@xxxxxxx Sender: owner-intelforum JYA and Cryptome are fully loaded and running under their IP addresses, awating hostname switchover. Thetwin pages: JYA 216.167.120.49/crypto.htm Cryptome 216.167.120.50
Bookmarks using hostnames will not work just yet.
There's a brief account of what seems to have caused the outage on the opening page -- from the viewpointof Digital Nation and Verio.
If port 80 was shut off, it was not at our request. Here is the Drudge-munged URL:
Yes, a back to back embedded link under the visible, correct URL. Those who figured out the mistake typed in the correct URL rather than madly pounding the clicker.
The favicon.ico attack did not seem supported by the error logs -- the great bulk of those accrued before the outage. And we never saw them as a bother, but, listen, we have little idea of what goes on in the embedded-code Internet, or the embedded-code world.
We have indeed received much advice, consolation and ridicule over this teapot, and appreciate all of it, the ridicule mostso for its apt match of our rogue state.
John Young
----------------------------------------- The explanation is about 3/4 of the way down the page.
On-line voting would allow a lot of people who do not regularly vote to vote. Currently (in US at least) a small percentage of people (I'll keep them nameless) basically control the voting in this country. Not through any weird conspiracy, but by virtue of actually getting out there and voting. So the minority that votes gets to control the majority that doesn't. The "fear" in on-line voting would be that the status quo achieved by these people would be broken. No longer would they be able to control elections by simply taking advantage of the apathy of the masses. Authentication is probably just an excuse to those who fight on-line voting to try to keep themselves and their interests in power.
There is a 3rd category as well. Data filtration. This is not about going to Macy's (or whatever) and walking away with a brand new sweater.
Radio is the prime advertising venue for record labels. Radio stations (at least in my city) are controlled basically by very few companies. They all play the same CRAP. Song rotations are set for 2.5 hours. They have their wonderfully modelled playlists(A,B,and C lists) and you get such a diverse range of options with these stations.
A)Bubble gum pop
B)Classic Rock
C)Hip Hop/Rap
D)"Alternative" (commercialized)
E)Easy Listenting/Soft Rock
Since my music tastes dont fall into any one of those categories I have to go elsewhere to find music that appeals to me.
This is where.mp3 comes in. I can download 1 or 2 songs of a band I've never heard of, and make my decision then on whether or not I think they are great or suck.
If they are great, I buy the CD. If its just okay, I will probably burn it to CD and play it at some point in the future as background music or something, like a radio station, but I'm picking the music.
And I DO buy the CD. Some things are so good, they are worth the money. Antiloop, Innocence Mission, and Trailer Bride are NOT bands your going to hear regularly on your local radio station (at least not around here), but they are now a part of my cd collection and its all because of MP3. The same is true with software. I download ISO's of crap all the time, but the really good ones, get rewarded with me going out and buying the CD. OpenBSD, BeOS, and Starsiege Tribes fall into this category.
I have a hard time trying to label this as pure stealing, maybe you feel differently. In the end however, my money is going to the musicians/developers that are truly inspiring and offering of real value. The rest is crap I wouldn't being buying anyway so the money they are "losing" is money I wouldn't be spending.
Slashdot Mirror
Its different cause.. well...
believe it or not... its a social thing.
kinda.
Its more fun to kill people when you can hear their real life counterparts cursing at you, and roger wilco just doesnt cut it. It also gives a "good" excuse to get away from your husbands, wives, kids, or whatever and have a few beers.
The best part is picking out the loser for the event. That poor soul who is so excited to come over, only to find out that somehow his peachy-keen brand new Pentium VI-4GHZ decided to divide by zero for eternity SOMEWHERE between Jefferson St, and Lavalle Ave. The rest of the event for him, is figuring out what went wrong and why it happened to him of all people. You can't buy fun in such volumes as that. Except if you lived in Los Vegas... you can buy anything there.
rosie_bhjp
Im in Cincinnati to, and have Zoomtown. I've had basically the same experience. Good bandwidth, low rate, low fuss, pretty good reliability, and semi-prompt service(about as good as a baby bell can get I suppose). I've been running a Tribes server for quite a while and they have yet to fuss at me.
BW is 768k down, 384k up for 29.99 a month.
rosie_bhjp
What I want to know is, do any of these people use third party news services like newsfeeds or newscene? If they are still getting throttled then I would be inclined to bitch about it. I always thought it was a basic ISP rule to provide a "bare-minimum" newsfeed, and if you really wanted the gigs and gigs of kitty pr0n you would shell out the cash for a real server.
rosie_bhjp
Pulled this from here
To: intelforum@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: Update on JYA site
From: John Young
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:08:55 -0400
Reply-To: intelforum@xxxxxxx
Sender: owner-intelforum
JYA and Cryptome are fully loaded and running under their IP addresses, awating hostname switchover. Thetwin pages: JYA 216.167.120.49/crypto.htm Cryptome 216.167.120.50
Bookmarks using hostnames will not work just yet.
There's a brief account of what seems to have caused the outage on the opening page -- from the viewpointof Digital Nation and Verio.
If port 80 was shut off, it was not at our request. Here is the Drudge-munged URL:
http://jya.com/crypto.htmhttp:// jya.com/crypto.htm
Yes, a back to back embedded link under the visible, correct URL. Those who figured out the mistake typed in the correct URL rather than madly pounding the clicker.
The favicon.ico attack did not seem supported by the error logs -- the great bulk of those accrued before the outage. And we never saw them as a bother, but, listen, we have little idea of what goes on in the embedded-code Internet, or the embedded-code world.
We have indeed received much advice, consolation and ridicule over this teapot, and appreciate all of it, the ridicule mostso for its apt match of our rogue state.
John Young-----------------------------------------
The explanation is about 3/4 of the way down the page.
rosie_bhjp
On-line voting would allow a lot of people who do not regularly vote to vote. Currently (in US at least) a small percentage of people (I'll keep them nameless) basically control the voting in this country. Not through any weird conspiracy, but by virtue of actually getting out there and voting. So the minority that votes gets to control the majority that doesn't.
The "fear" in on-line voting would be that the status quo achieved by these people would be broken. No longer would they be able to control elections by simply taking advantage of the apathy of the masses.
Authentication is probably just an excuse to those who fight on-line voting to try to keep themselves and their interests in power.
Rosie_bhjp
I see now where you are coming from and I agree completely.
rosie_bhjp
There is a 3rd category as well. Data filtration. This is not about going to Macy's (or whatever) and walking away with a brand new sweater.
Radio is the prime advertising venue for record labels. Radio stations (at least in my city) are controlled basically by very few companies. They all play the same CRAP. Song rotations are set for 2.5 hours. They have their wonderfully modelled playlists(A,B,and C lists) and you get such a diverse range of options with these stations.
A)Bubble gum pop
B)Classic Rock
C)Hip Hop/Rap
D)"Alternative" (commercialized)
E)Easy Listenting/Soft Rock
Since my music tastes dont fall into any one of those categories I have to go elsewhere to find music that appeals to me.
This is where .mp3 comes in. I can download 1 or 2 songs of a band I've never heard of, and make my decision then on whether or not I think they are great or suck.
If they are great, I buy the CD. If its just okay, I will probably burn it to CD and play it at some point in the future as background music or something, like a radio station, but I'm picking the music.
And I DO buy the CD. Some things are so good, they are worth the money. Antiloop, Innocence Mission, and Trailer Bride are NOT bands your going to hear regularly on your local radio station (at least not around here), but they are now a part of my cd collection and its all because of MP3. The same is true with software. I download ISO's of crap all the time, but the really good ones, get rewarded with me going out and buying the CD. OpenBSD, BeOS, and Starsiege Tribes fall into this category.
I have a hard time trying to label this as pure stealing, maybe you feel differently. In the end however, my money is going to the musicians/developers that are truly inspiring and offering of real value. The rest is crap I wouldn't being buying anyway so the money they are "losing" is money I wouldn't be spending.
rosie_bhjpCert published an advisory not to long ago regarding scans on port 137 (netbios)
the advisory
rosie_bhjp
http://xempt.darpa.org/dcypher/FAQ/
Unfortunately its timing out right now from here at work... but I believe the information your looking for is contained there.
From personal experience the Dcypher client is ~2x faster than D.net's
Rosie_BHJP