"We want to bomb you before we have time to actually think about it."
The faster the planes can bomb, the faster the damage is done. Do you really want to live in a world where: a ruler can do something imprudent yet, not worthy of anhiliation and have his entire country bombed before dinner.
The Road To El Dorrado had to face similar challenges with the water and gold (and it had the music of Elton John *swoon*). Gold also tends to be very hard to animate because of it's luster.
You can keep all denied mails in a seperate folder instead of going to/dev/null (which is what I do), works pretty well when you're bored and want to see if anything automated was of interest to you.
In any case, any automated message worth something should have the domain you were at when you "signed-up" _somewhere_ in the headers. Either in the From: or the Reply-To: or elsewhere. You can whitelist based on any header.
But you're telling me, you'd rather have all your spam than occassionally not get the receipt for the dvds you just ordered online? Spam is the most evil of evil things to me. If a system works and not getting one or two significant emails immediately is the trade-off, I'm sorry, but I'll take it with open arms.
Let's not forget the fact that, this exists now.. RIGHT NOW! You don't have to wait for an act of god like a SARS virus that targets spammers or legistation or the looney-toon concept of signing each packet to be implemented.
But the bottom line is whatever, dude, it's your email!
I see a slew of people saying "blah blah blah, they'll automate the response blah blah blah". And apparently, to alot of you, this is all new.
This is something that's been around for a few years and gee, spammers haven't gotten around it yet. C/R antispam systems work because spammers don't use valid Reply-to: or To: addresses.
If they did and the spam gets through the system, then great! There's one more point where we can nail them on when/if we go to hunt them down. Oh, you used your dialup with an SMTP server to auto-respond to the challenge (which is probably alot of work for the average evil spammer), great, email abuse@isp and have his account shutdown.
Since I have started using ASK to C/R my email. -zero- spams have gotten in my Inbox (which is what annoyed me the most about spam, the false positive I got when the little sound would ring telling me I had new mail.)
Intrusive? PLEASE! How lazy are you? Hit reply -once- and you'll never have to see it again when sending email to me. I'd say getting pelted with 200 spams a day is slightly more intrusive to me than what you're going to have to do to send an email to me.
Creating websites already _is_ easy. Creating a website that is good, well, that's alot harder. Static html pages are pretty unattractive nowadays. You need to be able to incorporate php or other scripting into your site in order for it to become truely useful and/or attractive to the passer-by.
But for your simple mom and pop shop anyway, they probably really only _need_ a simple html page to put their menu on or what have you, which let's face it, can be taught to a monkey how to do that in very little time.
Oh, simpler times...
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My dad took me to the good ol' hamvention every year for about 8 years. I went since I was 7 or so. Good times. I remember when it was held in the middle of April and you froze your butt off at your table space trying to sell your old nintendo games. Not that gradually nudging it into May helped that much with the weather.
In any case, this is hardly new so if you're just learning about this for the first time, where have you been?
But seriously, my experience is that this event as with most ham radio things has been dwindling over the years. Anyone else feel that way?
It's a shame too because the community spirit of the ham radio operators rivals that of the early days of the Internet. But the Internet has lost its spark (or at least it's friendliness) far faster than amatuer radio.
For those of you bitching that sun4u sucks and yada yada, I'm willing to bet you have never seen anything bigger than an Ultra 10.
Sun Fires are massive boxes. Will all the options that PC's could only dream about: System partitioning, Hot swap _everything_, killer backplane speeds (quad-port fast ethernet cards anyone?)..
True the lone UltraSPARC processor is fairly unimpressive, but in an E12K you can have up to 256 of them if I recall. That's on one single, operating system. So take your silly 48-node Athlon clusters and go home.
Just trying to come to the defense of an arch that really isn't bad when you're not trying to run Lunix on it and play games with WineX.
Guess who won't ever work for On, or buy any of their parts unless I absolutely have to...
Because the economy was bad and they didn't hire you, you're spiteful? Bizarre how people think they're owed things in life. But anyway...
There _used_ to be demand for people in the tech industry, hence the paid internships. But if you've tried to get a job lately, you'll know the demand is pretty low at the moment. The only effect this has really had on internships is that there are less available. Maybe because the companies haven't caught on that free intern labor is better than no paid intern labor. Or maybe because the companies know this, but just realize that nobody thats smart enough to do the job will work for free.
Will NASA be forced to temporarily unground one shuttle for the mission, keeping everyone on pins and needles during the entire flight?
I wouldn't exactly say "pins and needles" considering there have been a hundred and some odd missions and most of them haven't had any seriously dangerous problems. Just from an odds point of view, sending up one shuttle on one mission wouldn't be horribly risky.
But anyway, just about every post on here includes the word "sad". Sad doesn't even begin to describe it.
Space exploration is not a luxury, it's a necessity and unfortunately, the people that believe we're wasting our time with the space program when we could be growing food or some such nonsense with the money will now have more "ammo" against the space program.
But again, the track record is very good in reality considering the challenges that have been overcome. Accidents happen and only three fatal accidents in well over 40 years, quite frankly, isn't that bad.
Think of all the plane crashes in the past 40 years. Are we going to stop flying because of them? Even though there are, what, at least 10000% more accidents involving standard airplanes than space vehicles. After all, space flight is rocket science.:)
I'm just summing up my thoughts here. I'm so depressed by this. This will undoubtedly set back the space program years. The tight spot is that now that NASA has more of an argument for new vehicles (VentureStar, etc.) however, by the same coin, Congress and other people with no vision will not want to fund the program because of the accident.
I sincerely hope we can get back on track as soon as possible while always remember those that gave their lives for the good of science, exploration, and maybe that one day that we'll all be humans in space and not black, white or any other label.
People flock to cheap hardware, especially when it's Joe Consumer. Just look how well consoles perform. I have to think it's somewhat related. Now people can actually have computers they can do real "work" with even cheaper than a console. Sounds yummy. Make loverly Christmas presents too for that special someone that still has the last, lone 386 still running.
I recently started selling web hosting.. after looking around I realized I'm not going to get rich off of this. It's insanely hard to compete anymore. Similar to the dial-up wars of the late 90s, web-hosting did the exact same "drive the price lower until we're free".
Well, since it's actually on-topic, I'll spam my little web hosting company. For $9.95/mo, you get unlimited emails, 100MB space, 6GB of transfer (for small sites this is more than adequate, additional GBs are just $2.50/GB, which is actually pretty cheap.).
By far the biggest selling point is the control panel. You can add your own emails and tailor virtually every aspect of your service through there.
Since this is a fairly tech savvy crowd, I won't dumb this down too much. Anyway, the website for the hosting is www.linkexp.net. If you wanna give it a look, be my guest.;)
I played the beta for about a week... this was a few weeks ago, like three I think. The experience of the Sims Online is going downhill fast. I realize it's still beta but Maxis seems to enjoy making the game harder and harder.
For those that aren't hip to the Sims, you have to build your Sim's skills up by doing a multitude of different things that increase one of 5 or 6 skills. Now, this idea isn't bad. But in the week that I played it, they made skills build slower and do I mean sloooower.
Now to get one point of a skill (say creativity by playing a guitar) I have to sit and watch my Sim play.. for an hour. AN HOUR. You can't do anything else with your Sim obviously while you're doing it so during that time, the Sims Online becomes pretty much a glorified chat room with annoying text bubbles and no scrollback.
Yes, you can get up and leave your computer while you're doing that but.. after 10-15 minutes of inactivity, you're kicked from the service. Great stuff.
And if that wasn't bad enough, skills ratings decay while you're offline, pretty severely too. Factor in that they keep up'ing the prices for all the items and the fact that once it goes live, you can expect to pay at least $9.95/mo to waste your life in their virtual world and have zero to show for it.
Rave on, raver. I think I'll stick to RCT2 if I really have to play a Sim game.
I'm so tired of ISP's whining about subscribers using bandwidth. If we can't use it, then what are they selling? "Bandwidth costs" blah blah blah, well, you should've use a little better formula when computing your prices.
On the bright side, this irresponsibility may once again give rise to smaller ISPs. Especially with wireless technology advancing daily, it may be time to dethrone greedy cable ISPs. At least, I can only hope.
Yeah, because after all, we wouldn't want to hire employees and stimulate the economy! We'd rather get support from one company that oversubs their support to about a billion to one. Riiiight.
Why do broadband companies cap bandwidth at all? Why not just divide up the available bandwidth evenly among all the requesting users. Lets say that there's a 100 users and that the ISP can offer 100MB/s of bandwidth total.
Bandwidth on the backbone end isn't so cheap when you need an OC-3 for every 150 customers. There's no profit, hence your cable provider would lose money and not survive. This is the primary factor for capping to begin with.
Besides that fact, I would _not_ want every Joe Blow user and trojaned Windows box having 100Mbit/s, even if it's shared and yada, yada. The DDoS problem the Internet faces would be much more serious if average cable modems and dsl users were given the full amount of bandwidth technology can deliver.
To summarize, bandwidth (true bandwidth, kids, not your dsl, not your cable) is still too expensive and with the collapse of virtually all NSPs, it doesn't look like it will get cheaper any time soon.
The users wanted to change that - but not pay the increased costs.
I have not seen one cable company yet that has different plans for power users that want more bandwidth. Who's to say the user wouldn't pay the increased costs if there were an option available?
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Unless they can't spell other things like...
inklude
dephine
retern
brake... etc.
"We want to bomb you before we have time to actually think about it."
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The faster the planes can bomb, the faster the damage is done. Do you really want to live in a world where: a ruler can do something imprudent yet, not worthy of anhiliation and have his entire country bombed before dinner.
I don't.
The Road To El Dorrado had to face similar challenges with the water and gold (and it had the music of Elton John *swoon*). Gold also tends to be very hard to animate because of it's luster.
Step 1. Buy seemingly useless Segway.
Step 2. ???^H^H^HRent Segway
Step 3. Profit!!
Shouldn't all copies of The Hot Chick be destroyed after 48 hours?
Read that article again. It is not domain-wide. It is per-user.
You can keep all denied mails in a seperate folder instead of going to /dev/null (which is what I do), works pretty well when you're bored and want to see if anything automated was of interest to you.
In any case, any automated message worth something should have the domain you were at when you "signed-up" _somewhere_ in the headers. Either in the From: or the Reply-To: or elsewhere. You can whitelist based on any header.
But you're telling me, you'd rather have all your spam than occassionally not get the receipt for the dvds you just ordered online? Spam is the most evil of evil things to me. If a system works and not getting one or two significant emails immediately is the trade-off, I'm sorry, but I'll take it with open arms.
Let's not forget the fact that, this exists now.. RIGHT NOW! You don't have to wait for an act of god like a SARS virus that targets spammers or legistation or the looney-toon concept of signing each packet to be implemented.
But the bottom line is whatever, dude, it's your email!
I see a slew of people saying "blah blah blah, they'll automate the response blah blah blah". And apparently, to alot of you, this is all new.
This is something that's been around for a few years and gee, spammers haven't gotten around it yet. C/R antispam systems work because spammers don't use valid Reply-to: or To: addresses.
If they did and the spam gets through the system, then great! There's one more point where we can nail them on when/if we go to hunt them down. Oh, you used your dialup with an SMTP server to auto-respond to the challenge (which is probably alot of work for the average evil spammer), great, email abuse@isp and have his account shutdown.
Since I have started using ASK to C/R my email. -zero- spams have gotten in my Inbox (which is what annoyed me the most about spam, the false positive I got when the little sound would ring telling me I had new mail.)
Intrusive? PLEASE! How lazy are you? Hit reply -once- and you'll never have to see it again when sending email to me. I'd say getting pelted with 200 spams a day is slightly more intrusive to me than what you're going to have to do to send an email to me.
Creating websites already _is_ easy. Creating a website that is good, well, that's alot harder. Static html pages are pretty unattractive nowadays. You need to be able to incorporate php or other scripting into your site in order for it to become truely useful and/or attractive to the passer-by.
But for your simple mom and pop shop anyway, they probably really only _need_ a simple html page to put their menu on or what have you, which let's face it, can be taught to a monkey how to do that in very little time.
My dad took me to the good ol' hamvention every year for about 8 years. I went since I was 7 or so. Good times. I remember when it was held in the middle of April and you froze your butt off at your table space trying to sell your old nintendo games. Not that gradually nudging it into May helped that much with the weather.
In any case, this is hardly new so if you're just learning about this for the first time, where have you been?
But seriously, my experience is that this event as with most ham radio things has been dwindling over the years. Anyone else feel that way?
It's a shame too because the community spirit of the ham radio operators rivals that of the early days of the Internet. But the Internet has lost its spark (or at least it's friendliness) far faster than amatuer radio.
But at least we have the memories.
For those of you bitching that sun4u sucks and yada yada, I'm willing to bet you have never seen anything bigger than an Ultra 10.
Sun Fires are massive boxes. Will all the options that PC's could only dream about: System partitioning, Hot swap _everything_, killer backplane speeds (quad-port fast ethernet cards anyone?)..
True the lone UltraSPARC processor is fairly unimpressive, but in an E12K you can have up to 256 of them if I recall. That's on one single, operating system. So take your silly 48-node Athlon clusters and go home.
Just trying to come to the defense of an arch that really isn't bad when you're not trying to run Lunix on it and play games with WineX.
Guess who won't ever work for On, or buy any of their parts unless I absolutely have to...
Because the economy was bad and they didn't hire you, you're spiteful? Bizarre how people think they're owed things in life. But anyway...
There _used_ to be demand for people in the tech industry, hence the paid internships. But if you've tried to get a job lately, you'll know the demand is pretty low at the moment. The only effect this has really had on internships is that there are less available. Maybe because the companies haven't caught on that free intern labor is better than no paid intern labor. Or maybe because the companies know this, but just realize that nobody thats smart enough to do the job will work for free.
/.'ing image sites is bad, mmmmkay.
Want to how well it runs in 64-bit mode?
Of course, I want to how well it runs!
DUH!
Will NASA be forced to temporarily unground one shuttle for the mission, keeping everyone on pins and needles during the entire flight?
:)
I wouldn't exactly say "pins and needles" considering there have been a hundred and some odd missions and most of them haven't had any seriously dangerous problems. Just from an odds point of view, sending up one shuttle on one mission wouldn't be horribly risky.
But anyway, just about every post on here includes the word "sad". Sad doesn't even begin to describe it.
Space exploration is not a luxury, it's a necessity and unfortunately, the people that believe we're wasting our time with the space program when we could be growing food or some such nonsense with the money will now have more "ammo" against the space program.
But again, the track record is very good in reality considering the challenges that have been overcome. Accidents happen and only three fatal accidents in well over 40 years, quite frankly, isn't that bad.
Think of all the plane crashes in the past 40 years. Are we going to stop flying because of them? Even though there are, what, at least 10000% more accidents involving standard airplanes than space vehicles. After all, space flight is rocket science.
I'm just summing up my thoughts here. I'm so depressed by this. This will undoubtedly set back the space program years. The tight spot is that now that NASA has more of an argument for new vehicles (VentureStar, etc.) however, by the same coin, Congress and other people with no vision will not want to fund the program because of the accident.
I sincerely hope we can get back on track as soon as possible while always remember those that gave their lives for the good of science, exploration, and maybe that one day that we'll all be humans in space and not black, white or any other label.
People flock to cheap hardware, especially when it's Joe Consumer. Just look how well consoles perform. I have to think it's somewhat related. Now people can actually have computers they can do real "work" with even cheaper than a console. Sounds yummy. Make loverly Christmas presents too for that special someone that still has the last, lone 386 still running.
I recently started selling web hosting.. after looking around I realized I'm not going to get rich off of this. It's insanely hard to compete anymore. Similar to the dial-up wars of the late 90s, web-hosting did the exact same "drive the price lower until we're free".
;)
Well, since it's actually on-topic, I'll spam my little web hosting company. For $9.95/mo, you get unlimited emails, 100MB space, 6GB of transfer (for small sites this is more than adequate, additional GBs are just $2.50/GB, which is actually pretty cheap.).
By far the biggest selling point is the control panel. You can add your own emails and tailor virtually every aspect of your service through there.
Since this is a fairly tech savvy crowd, I won't dumb this down too much. Anyway, the website for the hosting is www.linkexp.net. If you wanna give it a look, be my guest.
I played the beta for about a week... this was a few weeks ago, like three I think. The experience of the Sims Online is going downhill fast. I realize it's still beta but Maxis seems to enjoy making the game harder and harder.
For those that aren't hip to the Sims, you have to build your Sim's skills up by doing a multitude of different things that increase one of 5 or 6 skills. Now, this idea isn't bad. But in the week that I played it, they made skills build slower and do I mean sloooower.
Now to get one point of a skill (say creativity by playing a guitar) I have to sit and watch my Sim play.. for an hour. AN HOUR. You can't do anything else with your Sim obviously while you're doing it so during that time, the Sims Online becomes pretty much a glorified chat room with annoying text bubbles and no scrollback.
Yes, you can get up and leave your computer while you're doing that but.. after 10-15 minutes of inactivity, you're kicked from the service. Great stuff.
And if that wasn't bad enough, skills ratings decay while you're offline, pretty severely too. Factor in that they keep up'ing the prices for all the items and the fact that once it goes live, you can expect to pay at least $9.95/mo to waste your life in their virtual world and have zero to show for it.
Rave on, raver. I think I'll stick to RCT2 if I really have to play a Sim game.
This is what you will look like if you spam!!
That should scare some people straight... I hope! DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN.
... or it means you're a flaming anonymous troll, one of the two.
Odd... It didn't say low-priced commodity Internet access when I signed up!
I'm so tired of ISP's whining about subscribers using bandwidth. If we can't use it, then what are they selling? "Bandwidth costs" blah blah blah, well, you should've use a little better formula when computing your prices.
On the bright side, this irresponsibility may once again give rise to smaller ISPs. Especially with wireless technology advancing daily, it may be time to dethrone greedy cable ISPs. At least, I can only hope.
Yeah, because after all, we wouldn't want to hire employees and stimulate the economy! We'd rather get support from one company that oversubs their support to about a billion to one. Riiiight.
Why do broadband companies cap bandwidth at all? Why not just divide up the available bandwidth evenly among all the requesting users. Lets say that there's a 100 users and that the ISP can offer 100MB/s of bandwidth total.
Bandwidth on the backbone end isn't so cheap when you need an OC-3 for every 150 customers. There's no profit, hence your cable provider would lose money and not survive. This is the primary factor for capping to begin with.
Besides that fact, I would _not_ want every Joe Blow user and trojaned Windows box having 100Mbit/s, even if it's shared and yada, yada. The DDoS problem the Internet faces would be much more serious if average cable modems and dsl users were given the full amount of bandwidth technology can deliver.
To summarize, bandwidth (true bandwidth, kids, not your dsl, not your cable) is still too expensive and with the collapse of virtually all NSPs, it doesn't look like it will get cheaper any time soon.
The users wanted to change that - but not pay the increased costs.
I have not seen one cable company yet that has different plans for power users that want more bandwidth. Who's to say the user wouldn't pay the increased costs if there were an option available?