An absolute joke. First off, the stories that they're putting out are ludicrious. "4 Tiers, billions of dollars, hard criminals... blah blah blah". Weren't we at War?
I'm sure glad the US government is sinking undoubtedly billions in to this.. (I'm exagerating? Perhaps, but isn't this exactly what the government is doing when they inflate the "BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PROBABLY LOST"?) Nobody killed anyone in the name of piracy. No nations were brought to the ground by this. No corporations have gone bankrupt. NOTHING HAS HAPPENED.
Yet, the governments of the world insist on fighting this element that doesn't kill anyone and doesn't make anyone starve out on the street and this is something that probably NEVER will end.
From the government standpoint, this can't look much better for them. They get to tell you who the bad guy is and what wrong things they're doing, AND they get to say "LOOK! We caught them too!". They also get paid, they get to keep all the hardware they've confinsacted (whether it was involved in "wrong doing" or not), and it looks like they've gotten off their lazy asses and done something.
The FBI and other federal agents are the one's stealing, they've stolen hardware and alot of it. They've stolen taxpayer money wasting time on this instead of going after drug dealers and murderers. They've also stolen many people's time.
The authorities are no different than some other people that recently "struck" on a Tuesday as well. If you get what I mean.
This is the one of three remaining.edu servers. US EFnet at one point in time was made up over 50% edu's.
A list of dead EFnet servers can be viewed at http://outcaste.shits.in.the.pigpond.com/dead.html
Notice that.edu makes up about 50%:) IRC got it's start with colleges, that is a fading trend however as major ISPs are mostly the ones holding the torches. This does seem to parallel the Internet itself though, doesn't it? Starting with educational institutions and then being supported by commercial endeavours.
Some peoples comments here have been a little misinformed/out-of-date but, I'll spout some knowledge for your enjoyment.
Chanfix, a sort of ChanServ, has been put into operation on EFnet. Making packeting for channels relatively pointless. As of late, I've noticed less DoS, but I may just not be feeling it.
There is no, and probably never will be, any variation of NickServ. The "nicks/channels aren't owned" philosophy that EFnet was famous for is dying out. But, I don't think it will ever die out so much as to put in some type of NickServ solution.
As for EFnet politics, they're still there. But some progress has been made. The efnet.org website is the most official, functional website the network has ever had. There's been attempts to put comittees together for various area's, such as CoderCom. The voting site is functional and got some use where I had access to it, I don't know about it now.
But there still is work to be done. I personally haven't seen much in the way of enforcement of most things that were "voted" on by the admins. But this could be my not-in-the-know fault. All in all, EFnet and IRC in general is surviving. EFnet has remained at a stable, if not very slightly growing, lower to mid 70k users. Other networks have grown to surpass us, last I checked DALnet had over 100k users and they're doing quite well.
IRC is far from dead. All servers delink eventually, it's just the way of things. But the network is still the same stuborn machine it's always been and will continue to be.
How did the software (say the Operating System and Office) get to be about 4 times as much as the PC hardware itself? Hardware is the stuff that actually takes materials to make right? And Software is the stuff that they make 100000x as much off of it as it took to produce it? Maybe I should just go read the article again.
The Amiga is dead. The Amiga was far superior to anything of the day. Do you see where I'm getting at? Just because something is dead, doesn't mean it's not better and won't continue to be better than the competitor for a while. Bottom line, FreeBSD is still being developed and used by more people with clue than I can count.
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There will be no valid comments to a post that was already not valid. For example, anything by Jon Katz. Well, that's just my opinion anyway. Perhaps some would agree with me.
I don't know much about the new IBMs but if you want suggestions for HDs, I have 3 Maxtor 80GBs and 2 WD 100GBs to name a few. The Maxtors I've had for more than a year and all is cool, they're workhorses. The Western Digitals obviously I haven't had that long but no problems thus far. Good Luck.
The theory of selling an IRC "network" is not really funny. Considering the boxes aren't owned by the network the daemon is connected to. But hey, whatever floats your bored butt's boat. (Say that 5 times fast for an April Fool's joke, its funnier.)
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The "All your base" crap as the slogan is enough to make me never look at this software.
An absolute joke. First off, the stories that they're putting out are ludicrious. "4 Tiers, billions of dollars, hard criminals... blah blah blah". Weren't we at War?
I'm sure glad the US government is sinking undoubtedly billions in to this.. (I'm exagerating? Perhaps, but isn't this exactly what the government is doing when they inflate the "BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PROBABLY LOST"?) Nobody killed anyone in the name of piracy. No nations were brought to the ground by this. No corporations have gone bankrupt. NOTHING HAS HAPPENED.
Yet, the governments of the world insist on fighting this element that doesn't kill anyone and doesn't make anyone starve out on the street and this is something that probably NEVER will end.
From the government standpoint, this can't look much better for them. They get to tell you who the bad guy is and what wrong things they're doing, AND they get to say "LOOK! We caught them too!". They also get paid, they get to keep all the hardware they've confinsacted (whether it was involved in "wrong doing" or not), and it looks like they've gotten off their lazy asses and done something.
The FBI and other federal agents are the one's stealing, they've stolen hardware and alot of it. They've stolen taxpayer money wasting time on this instead of going after drug dealers and murderers. They've also stolen many people's time.
The authorities are no different than some other people that recently "struck" on a Tuesday as well. If you get what I mean.
Wouldn't this then be unnatural natural selection?
This is the one of three remaining .edu servers. US EFnet at one point in time was made up over 50% edu's.
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.edu makes up about 50% :) IRC got it's start with colleges, that is a fading trend however as major ISPs are mostly the ones holding the torches. This does seem to parallel the Internet itself though, doesn't it? Starting with educational institutions and then being supported by commercial endeavours.
A list of dead EFnet servers can be viewed at http://outcaste.shits.in.the.pigpond.com/dead.htm
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Some peoples comments here have been a little misinformed/out-of-date but, I'll spout some knowledge for your enjoyment.
Chanfix, a sort of ChanServ, has been put into operation on EFnet. Making packeting for channels relatively pointless. As of late, I've noticed less DoS, but I may just not be feeling it.
There is no, and probably never will be, any variation of NickServ. The "nicks/channels aren't owned" philosophy that EFnet was famous for is dying out. But, I don't think it will ever die out so much as to put in some type of NickServ solution.
As for EFnet politics, they're still there. But some progress has been made. The efnet.org website is the most official, functional website the network has ever had. There's been attempts to put comittees together for various area's, such as CoderCom. The voting site is functional and got some use where I had access to it, I don't know about it now.
But there still is work to be done. I personally haven't seen much in the way of enforcement of most things that were "voted" on by the admins. But this could be my not-in-the-know fault. All in all, EFnet and IRC in general is surviving. EFnet has remained at a stable, if not very slightly growing, lower to mid 70k users. Other networks have grown to surpass us, last I checked DALnet had over 100k users and they're doing quite well.
IRC is far from dead. All servers delink eventually, it's just the way of things. But the network is still the same stuborn machine it's always been and will continue to be.
Yes, we saw that. We just lowered our head and shook it. This is another case of dumbed down news for people that use aol. Nothing less, nothing more.
How did the software (say the Operating System and Office) get to be about 4 times as much as the PC hardware itself? Hardware is the stuff that actually takes materials to make right? And Software is the stuff that they make 100000x as much off of it as it took to produce it? Maybe I should just go read the article again.
The Amiga is dead. The Amiga was far superior to anything of the day. Do you see where I'm getting at? Just because something is dead, doesn't mean it's not better and won't continue to be better than the competitor for a while. Bottom line, FreeBSD is still being developed and used by more people with clue than I can count.
There will be no valid comments to a post that was already not valid. For example, anything by Jon Katz. Well, that's just my opinion anyway. Perhaps some would agree with me.
Dude! Check this out! They just made a version of Netscape for Windows!
Amen.
If we do not carry on, they will have won.
I don't know much about the new IBMs but if you want suggestions for HDs, I have 3 Maxtor 80GBs and 2 WD 100GBs to name a few. The Maxtors I've had for more than a year and all is cool, they're workhorses. The Western Digitals obviously I haven't had that long but no problems thus far. Good Luck.
If one more cloobie responds with "They make 486's still??? HOW STUPID LOLOLOL.", I swear I will throw my junk in their general direction.
If Calif. Supreme Courts just ruled victims can't sue gun makers, how in the heck can Adobe even THINK of sueing Dimitry?
The theory of selling an IRC "network" is not really funny. Considering the boxes aren't owned by the network the daemon is connected to. But hey, whatever floats your bored butt's boat. (Say that 5 times fast for an April Fool's joke, its funnier.)