... since.com wasn't ever really very well monitored with respect to child porn and criminal activity
That's because it's not a registrar's job to regulate content. When content is illegal it's actually the host's job -- or, if necessary, the police's job -- to remove it. Allowing registrars to regulate content is dangerous and ultimately undesirable.
Tell that to GoDaddy. They'll take your domain if they don't like your politics.
If the device has a USB port, you can just plug in a USB optical drive and use any old AV boot disk. there's no reason to restrict yourself to just thumb drives.
You do realize around that same time they switched from IE to Firefox as their rendering engine. I don't think it was ever actually anything unique. Their proxies did mangle content however.
Neither was a "factory" version. AOL hacked their released versions to add truly psychotic handling of headers and pulled all kinds of other childish nonsense like ignoring no-cache and physically resizing images to reduce their bandwidth usage.
Caching DNS servers that hold longer than the zone SOA specifies are common and you should prepare for them anyway. Why are you moving servers without multihoming them for that month anyway? Thats not a new problem, its been that way for as long as I can remember.
The worst offenders in my experience were AOL and BT Internet, which locked refresh to upwards of 30 days. That's simply irresponsible. Fortunately, that practice is almost non-existent for commercial ISPs these days. Running duplicate hosts to ride out DNS lag is not possible when dealing with refugees from defunct hosting companies or people who got suckered into "unlimited" hosting plans and then got booted for "excessive resource usage". Back then, half the "web hosts" were idiot teenagers running a wheezing PIII on their parent's DSL, who got bored after a couple of months and vanished.
So about the fraud and proxies servers... you're contradicting yourself. You're complaining that the proxies make it hard to track individuals, but then complaining that you had to add a whole bunch of address ranges to block... having dealt with AOL customers in the past I know the didn't have that many proxy servers... and they were pretty much all in a few easy to list blocks... of course you could have just got a list of all their address assignments via any one of the hundred or so websites that allow you to lookup assignments by various bits of information. Of course the fact that it was AOL/TimeWarner for a while means you would have had a LOT of address space to block considering they were probably the largest consumer of IPs in the US for a few years.
AOL proxy addresses gave every appearance of being intermingled with their other services (dns, mail, search). They were also a tier-1 transit provider (AS1668) and handled a hell of a lot of general traffic. Blocking their/8s or large swaths of their general proxy ranges would have most likely resulted in undesirable side-effects. Fortunately, they bailed before I got around to implementing full blocking. Since the vast majority of their userbase was on dialup, the entire internet sped up about 10% when they "moved on to other things".
Yes, AOL was/is/will be shit, but you just sound like a shitty admin who thinks 'admining a unix machine' is using cpanel on some Linux VM.
Judging by your rambling and poorly-argued comments above, I'll assume that you live in mommy's basement and spend most of your time chronically masturbating and playing video games that allow you to "kill" other players. Have fun with that.
I've operated a media distribution system (mostly video ppv) for about a decade. About 7 years ago, I ended up blocking the AOL browser completely. It was a worthless piece of shit that caused 50% of our customer service issues. Coupled with their idiotic "no refresh for 30 days" DNS servers (which means any time you moved a website to a new IP, it "vanished" for a month for all AOLosers) and their proxy servers that made tracking large-scale credit card fraud extremely difficult, it literally cost us money to even have AOLosers in the customer base. I was in the process of compiling a list of AOL IP ranges and had plans to block them completely when they finally rolled over and died in the dial-up market. Almost overnight, they became 99% irrelevant and my life got so much easier, I was able to start taking regular vacations.
In summation, GO TO HELL, AOL! You're nothing but a festering boil on the ass of the internet and your rotting corpse needs to be dumped into an active volcano.
Don't know (or care) about Scumcast, but I have Business FIOS internet (35/35) and Consumer FIOS TV, both over the same fiber. I also have a Verizon POTS phone line. I get 3 different monthly invoices from 3 different Verizon divisions. No bundling, which means I can change any of the services without affecting the others.
Big fan of Oki. I paid $300 for a 3200n about 5-6 years ago. They use wax in the toner so prints are glossy. I use it to crank out full-color DVD wraps and they look like they came from a print shop. 5000-page cartridges are about $45.
More propaganda from the left-wing, politically-correct, pro-ugly/fugly/trans-ugly movement.
Wake up, people. Ugly is a lifestyle choice! I'm so sick of the "ugly agenda" being forced on normal society by these radicals, demanding to be married, adopt kids, etc. They're destroying the institution of marriage!
I can have a torqueflight on the ground in 45 minutes. I can clean everything and replace all friction parts in about 2-3 hours. Since anyone with a brain will also remove and resurface the flywheel when changing a manual clutch disk & pressure plate, both jobs take roughly the same amount of time.
This assumes a decent-sized vehicle, which is what smart people drive. People who buy microscopic economy cars so they can "save money on gas" will eventually give it all back on maintenance because they are impossible to work on efficiently.
Yeah, a stick is awesome in a place like Seattle or San Francisco where 50% grades with stoplights in the middle are common. Nothing I enjoy more than some hipster stick-driving douchebag rolling back 10 feet into my grill.
I'll state at a high level that I work for a Credit Union, and there are a lot of us that believe in a model such as the one you are describing. Can I take this discussion in a slightly different direction? Rather than "where can I get this today", how about "what would you want from a service like this"? Reply with a list of features and describe the problem you are trying to solve.
Do you want to only access your own account, or offer a service to multiple customers of the financial institution?
Are you thinking along the lines of web services?
What type of transactions would you want - realtime (i.e. what's my account balance now) or batch (show me all transactions for the last 6 months)?
Are you talking about wire transfers, ACH, checks, etc?
Are you thinking a pull model, where you query into the data or a push model, where you are alerted when things happen?
Don't get dragged down in any pricing or cost at this point - just tell me in more detail what you want.
At certain intervals throughout the calendar month, I want to open a CURL SSL connection with a Perl script (running on my PCI-compliant server), read the current balances on all of my accounts, then transfer a specified amount from business account A and a specified amount from business account B into business account C.
at 12:01 am on the 10th of each month, I want to open a CURL SSL connection with a Perl script (running on my PCI-compliant server), send a csv list of payments to be made to pre-registered recipients (amount, recipient, type of payment [wire, dd, check], invoice number) from business account C, and receive a csv list of success/fail responses. (alternately, I'd be OK with doing each transaction individually)
I want to sleep through all of the aforementioned processes, because there's absolutely no reason for any human being to be involved in this kind of computationally-trivial transaction. My fully-automated systems submit thousands of credit card transactions a day to various online gateways. It's ridiculous that my own bank can't seem to provide the exact same functionality so I can move money in and out of my own accounts.
The Domain Name system is nothing but "human-friendly" window dressing. It's completely unnecessary. As long as the server is configured to allow it, a virtual named hosting space on a shared IP can be accessed as http://xxx.xxx.xxx./~username. Hosting space on a server (at least for non-toy operating systems) is defined by usernames, not domain names. DNS is essentially "speed dial" for websites, but it's not the only way to get there.
For example, the United States considers something to be porn if it meets the Miller test: prurient, indecent, and lacking serious artistic value. This breast cancer stunt would be indecent but would have artistic value.
The Miller Test is used for OBSCENITY, not pornography. Two entirely different concepts for anyone with an IQ over 80.
I have a rack full of Asus quad-core/4-bay 1U machines that are about half the price of equivalent Dell, HP, etc. I get them from NewEgg. I don't know why "service and support" is such a big deal to everyone. I've never had a single hardware failure of any kind in 3 years of using these commodity boxes, but if I did, I'd just swap the drives into another chassis and get on with my life. (I have hot spares in the rack) If both RAID1 drives failed or were irretrievably corrupted, I'd restore to a spare machine from either the 3rd onboard daily backup drive or the redundant weekly offsite backups. (these are cPanel web servers - account restoration from backups is trivial and completely automated)
I especially don't understand why people insist on OS support from their hardware vendor. I use CentOS exclusively and have never had any kind of problem that wasn't an easy fix with info from a Google search. Are they trying to run an IT department without any IT people or something? Exactly what kind of "support" are they getting from the likes of Dell? Are they trying to use Dell CS as their sysadmins? Are they adding bleeding-edge hardware with no available drivers or kernel support?
I'll only be going to one/24 that they'll know about - my colocated servers, where I'll proxy out to any damned place I want to over my multi-homed connection.
ARIN had a booth at Interop last week. I asked them why they don't confiscate the/8 that's assigned to Haliburton, which is mostly wasted. They said they don't want to get shot.
You should use a better ISP then. Verizon has no problem selling me business FIOS (35/35) in the Seattle suburbs. If you don't have any other connection options besides TW, sell your house and move to a better neighborhood.
What "cablecard hell"? They work perfectly. Plug them into a digital-tuner Tivo, call the head-end, punch in a few dozen numbers, and you're done. I've set up a half-dozen for family members with Comcast and for my own Verizon FIOS service. None of them took over 5 minutes. In the Seattle area, you can go down to the Comcast office and get the card from them, then install it yourself. No idiot company installers involved at all.
There's also no reason to pay for monthly DVR service. Except for a brief period a few years ago, Tivo has always offered lifetime subs. When I bought my first analog box in 1999, the lifetime sub was $200. That machine has been upgraded a few times (new drives and the ethernet mod) and is still working after 11 years. (took it to my condo in Vegas because Cox still has an analog tier down there) The lifetime subs on the new ones are about $400 retail, but you can get them for $300 if you can rattle off the serial number of an old one with a lifetime sub. (this just qualifies you for the long-term customer discount. The lifetime sub on the old box is not disabled.)
Lastly, how the hell does the article relate to ANYONE besides a couple of luddites who are too cheap to join the rest of us here in the digital 21st century. You want me to care because your decades-old JUNK video technology has become more difficult to use? Don't hold your breath.
That's the nice thing about driving in Washington state. Here, you are required by state law to "keep right except when passing" so assholes dragging ass in the left lane are subject to getting tickets if they are seriously impeding the flow of traffic. Since we have statistically the worst traffic in the country in the Seattle area, it's critical to keep things moving. The state patrol does take self-righteous left-laners seriously and does issue tickets.
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Current cannot be "pushed". A device presents a load on an electrical circuit and will DRAW a certain amount of current depending on that load.
That's because it's not a registrar's job to regulate content. When content is illegal it's actually the host's job -- or, if necessary, the police's job -- to remove it. Allowing registrars to regulate content is dangerous and ultimately undesirable.
Tell that to GoDaddy. They'll take your domain if they don't like your politics.
The fact that in the year 2010, the videos on the USPTO website require RealPlayer pretty much explains the mentality at the patent office.
Exactly. Who gets to define "porn"? Larry Flint? Fred Phelps? The Pope?
If the device has a USB port, you can just plug in a USB optical drive and use any old AV boot disk. there's no reason to restrict yourself to just thumb drives.
What's with the whole nonsensical hair splitting about theft or infringement?
Theft is a criminal matter. Infringement is a civil matter.
You do realize around that same time they switched from IE to Firefox as their rendering engine. I don't think it was ever actually anything unique. Their proxies did mangle content however.
Neither was a "factory" version. AOL hacked their released versions to add truly psychotic handling of headers and pulled all kinds of other childish nonsense like ignoring no-cache and physically resizing images to reduce their bandwidth usage.
Caching DNS servers that hold longer than the zone SOA specifies are common and you should prepare for them anyway. Why are you moving servers without multihoming them for that month anyway? Thats not a new problem, its been that way for as long as I can remember.
The worst offenders in my experience were AOL and BT Internet, which locked refresh to upwards of 30 days. That's simply irresponsible. Fortunately, that practice is almost non-existent for commercial ISPs these days. Running duplicate hosts to ride out DNS lag is not possible when dealing with refugees from defunct hosting companies or people who got suckered into "unlimited" hosting plans and then got booted for "excessive resource usage". Back then, half the "web hosts" were idiot teenagers running a wheezing PIII on their parent's DSL, who got bored after a couple of months and vanished.
So about the fraud and proxies servers ... you're contradicting yourself. You're complaining that the proxies make it hard to track individuals, but then complaining that you had to add a whole bunch of address ranges to block ... having dealt with AOL customers in the past I know the didn't have that many proxy servers ... and they were pretty much all in a few easy to list blocks ... of course you could have just got a list of all their address assignments via any one of the hundred or so websites that allow you to lookup assignments by various bits of information. Of course the fact that it was AOL/TimeWarner for a while means you would have had a LOT of address space to block considering they were probably the largest consumer of IPs in the US for a few years.
AOL proxy addresses gave every appearance of being intermingled with their other services (dns, mail, search). They were also a tier-1 transit provider (AS1668) and handled a hell of a lot of general traffic. Blocking their /8s or large swaths of their general proxy ranges would have most likely resulted in undesirable side-effects. Fortunately, they bailed before I got around to implementing full blocking. Since the vast majority of their userbase was on dialup, the entire internet sped up about 10% when they "moved on to other things".
Yes, AOL was/is/will be shit, but you just sound like a shitty admin who thinks 'admining a unix machine' is using cpanel on some Linux VM.
Judging by your rambling and poorly-argued comments above, I'll assume that you live in mommy's basement and spend most of your time chronically masturbating and playing video games that allow you to "kill" other players. Have fun with that.
I've operated a media distribution system (mostly video ppv) for about a decade. About 7 years ago, I ended up blocking the AOL browser completely. It was a worthless piece of shit that caused 50% of our customer service issues. Coupled with their idiotic "no refresh for 30 days" DNS servers (which means any time you moved a website to a new IP, it "vanished" for a month for all AOLosers) and their proxy servers that made tracking large-scale credit card fraud extremely difficult, it literally cost us money to even have AOLosers in the customer base. I was in the process of compiling a list of AOL IP ranges and had plans to block them completely when they finally rolled over and died in the dial-up market. Almost overnight, they became 99% irrelevant and my life got so much easier, I was able to start taking regular vacations.
In summation, GO TO HELL, AOL! You're nothing but a festering boil on the ass of the internet and your rotting corpse needs to be dumped into an active volcano.
I even have Sony Vegas video editing software running under it.
What version though? 9 Pro requires .NET v3.5. Are you using a pre-NET version like 5?
Don't know (or care) about Scumcast, but I have Business FIOS internet (35/35) and Consumer FIOS TV, both over the same fiber. I also have a Verizon POTS phone line. I get 3 different monthly invoices from 3 different Verizon divisions. No bundling, which means I can change any of the services without affecting the others.
Big fan of Oki. I paid $300 for a 3200n about 5-6 years ago. They use wax in the toner so prints are glossy. I use it to crank out full-color DVD wraps and they look like they came from a print shop. 5000-page cartridges are about $45.
Shoulda thought of that before being born ugly.
More propaganda from the left-wing, politically-correct, pro-ugly/fugly/trans-ugly movement.
Wake up, people. Ugly is a lifestyle choice! I'm so sick of the "ugly agenda" being forced on normal society by these radicals, demanding to be married, adopt kids, etc. They're destroying the institution of marriage!
I recall someone positing a way to soak a paperback in nitro. Reading material + match = boom.)
Nitroglycerin does not explode when ignited. It just burns slowly.
I can have a torqueflight on the ground in 45 minutes. I can clean everything and replace all friction parts in about 2-3 hours. Since anyone with a brain will also remove and resurface the flywheel when changing a manual clutch disk & pressure plate, both jobs take roughly the same amount of time. This assumes a decent-sized vehicle, which is what smart people drive. People who buy microscopic economy cars so they can "save money on gas" will eventually give it all back on maintenance because they are impossible to work on efficiently.
Yeah, a stick is awesome in a place like Seattle or San Francisco where 50% grades with stoplights in the middle are common. Nothing I enjoy more than some hipster stick-driving douchebag rolling back 10 feet into my grill.
13) FREE Global access to a reliable and widespread ATM network
14) Credit cards @ credit market rates.
15) built-in line of credit on checking accounts and no-fee overdraft advances
16) account approval require passing a test that shows at least a basic understanding of personal finances and credit
I'll state at a high level that I work for a Credit Union, and there are a lot of us that believe in a model such as the one you are describing. Can I take this discussion in a slightly different direction? Rather than "where can I get this today", how about "what would you want from a service like this"? Reply with a list of features and describe the problem you are trying to solve.
Do you want to only access your own account, or offer a service to multiple customers of the financial institution? Are you thinking along the lines of web services? What type of transactions would you want - realtime (i.e. what's my account balance now) or batch (show me all transactions for the last 6 months)? Are you talking about wire transfers, ACH, checks, etc? Are you thinking a pull model, where you query into the data or a push model, where you are alerted when things happen?
Don't get dragged down in any pricing or cost at this point - just tell me in more detail what you want.
At certain intervals throughout the calendar month, I want to open a CURL SSL connection with a Perl script (running on my PCI-compliant server), read the current balances on all of my accounts, then transfer a specified amount from business account A and a specified amount from business account B into business account C.
at 12:01 am on the 10th of each month, I want to open a CURL SSL connection with a Perl script (running on my PCI-compliant server), send a csv list of payments to be made to pre-registered recipients (amount, recipient, type of payment [wire, dd, check], invoice number) from business account C, and receive a csv list of success/fail responses. (alternately, I'd be OK with doing each transaction individually)
I want to sleep through all of the aforementioned processes, because there's absolutely no reason for any human being to be involved in this kind of computationally-trivial transaction. My fully-automated systems submit thousands of credit card transactions a day to various online gateways. It's ridiculous that my own bank can't seem to provide the exact same functionality so I can move money in and out of my own accounts.
The Domain Name system is nothing but "human-friendly" window dressing. It's completely unnecessary. As long as the server is configured to allow it, a virtual named hosting space on a shared IP can be accessed as http://xxx.xxx.xxx./~username. Hosting space on a server (at least for non-toy operating systems) is defined by usernames, not domain names. DNS is essentially "speed dial" for websites, but it's not the only way to get there.
For example, the United States considers something to be porn if it meets the Miller test: prurient, indecent, and lacking serious artistic value. This breast cancer stunt would be indecent but would have artistic value.
The Miller Test is used for OBSCENITY, not pornography. Two entirely different concepts for anyone with an IQ over 80.
I have a rack full of Asus quad-core/4-bay 1U machines that are about half the price of equivalent Dell, HP, etc. I get them from NewEgg. I don't know why "service and support" is such a big deal to everyone. I've never had a single hardware failure of any kind in 3 years of using these commodity boxes, but if I did, I'd just swap the drives into another chassis and get on with my life. (I have hot spares in the rack) If both RAID1 drives failed or were irretrievably corrupted, I'd restore to a spare machine from either the 3rd onboard daily backup drive or the redundant weekly offsite backups. (these are cPanel web servers - account restoration from backups is trivial and completely automated)
I especially don't understand why people insist on OS support from their hardware vendor. I use CentOS exclusively and have never had any kind of problem that wasn't an easy fix with info from a Google search. Are they trying to run an IT department without any IT people or something? Exactly what kind of "support" are they getting from the likes of Dell? Are they trying to use Dell CS as their sysadmins? Are they adding bleeding-edge hardware with no available drivers or kernel support?
I'll only be going to one /24 that they'll know about - my colocated servers, where I'll proxy out to any damned place I want to over my multi-homed connection.
ARIN had a booth at Interop last week. I asked them why they don't confiscate the /8 that's assigned to Haliburton, which is mostly wasted. They said they don't want to get shot.
You should use a better ISP then. Verizon has no problem selling me business FIOS (35/35) in the Seattle suburbs. If you don't have any other connection options besides TW, sell your house and move to a better neighborhood.
What "cablecard hell"? They work perfectly. Plug them into a digital-tuner Tivo, call the head-end, punch in a few dozen numbers, and you're done. I've set up a half-dozen for family members with Comcast and for my own Verizon FIOS service. None of them took over 5 minutes. In the Seattle area, you can go down to the Comcast office and get the card from them, then install it yourself. No idiot company installers involved at all. There's also no reason to pay for monthly DVR service. Except for a brief period a few years ago, Tivo has always offered lifetime subs. When I bought my first analog box in 1999, the lifetime sub was $200. That machine has been upgraded a few times (new drives and the ethernet mod) and is still working after 11 years. (took it to my condo in Vegas because Cox still has an analog tier down there) The lifetime subs on the new ones are about $400 retail, but you can get them for $300 if you can rattle off the serial number of an old one with a lifetime sub. (this just qualifies you for the long-term customer discount. The lifetime sub on the old box is not disabled.) Lastly, how the hell does the article relate to ANYONE besides a couple of luddites who are too cheap to join the rest of us here in the digital 21st century. You want me to care because your decades-old JUNK video technology has become more difficult to use? Don't hold your breath.
That's the nice thing about driving in Washington state. Here, you are required by state law to "keep right except when passing" so assholes dragging ass in the left lane are subject to getting tickets if they are seriously impeding the flow of traffic. Since we have statistically the worst traffic in the country in the Seattle area, it's critical to keep things moving. The state patrol does take self-righteous left-laners seriously and does issue tickets.