The point is that the ISP has a way they can keep your one machine from dorking up the rest of the internet, without simply unplugging your entire connection.
So it's not about saving your sorry-assed machine from getting owned, just limiting the annoyance to others without having to take drastic measures that would probably also interrupt service to bystanders. Talk about a cure worse than the disease...
You sound like someone who doesn't run any servers.
I'm not keen on losing access to my home server while I'm away on travel just because my roommate/kid/wife/wardriver downloaded some bad attachment on their toy laptop.
ISPs should be responsible for filtering out bot activity, but it's not really fair to anyone to cut them off entirely. After all, it's not entirely their fault they got infected... hell even if they're responsible with updates and activity they could have been compromised by some new vulnerability.
Has firewall technology not been able to keep up with bulk ISP traffic or something?
I understand that users ought to control their own home firewall, but ISPs should have firewalls / filters they control further upstream, where they can add rules to block certain types of traffic only when necessary. But I guess if they have it, then that means they're kinda liable for configuring it effectively and can thus be held responsible for attack traffic that does get through.
Anyway, I don't like the idea of being cut off from network access without at least a few weeks' advance notice and time to respond. Which is virtually an eternity in botnet time... which makes that whole approach somewhat pointless.
I've been through a fair share of cheap inkjets and multifunctions... Epson, Brother, Lexmark, Dell, etc. They'd get gummed up and burn through ink and have all kinds of problems... Not the least of which includes driver support. It can be a real pain to get older hardware (5 year old Dell laptops with Intel 855 GPU?!) to work in newer versions of Windows when the drivers were only signed for XP/2K
So yeah, I do my research, checking out reviews at http://cnet.com/ as well as scoping out the Linux support situation. To me it's a sign of quality and maturity... some hobbyist saw the product was 133+ enough to spend the time getting it working. And sometimes the manufacturer invests their time into better interoperability as well, and I appreciate that (but tend to trust the hobbyist packages more).
I run a mixed shop, so Linux is just another *NIX (as opposed to a Windows "replacement"). I do have a Windows box or two to play games. Most of the transition pain is felt on the Windows side... like having to tweak a bunch of registry settings to connect to the samba file server with Vista/Win7... or getting legacy programs to work on 64-bit Windows since they had the *brilliant* idea to move legacy apps to "C:\Program Files (x86)" and put the new 64-bit stuff in the old "C:\Program Files" location.
Obviously we've had different life experiences, but interoperability weighs in pretty heavily with mine, and I laugh if you really think the Windows world is all the compatibility and stability you say it is... you really haven't been in the field that long:P But at least it seems like we both enjoy tinkering with the tech... by all indications there will be plenty more where that came from;-)
Well under $200 mono laser, supports auto duplexing, network printing. Threw in some old laptop RAM for the lulz.
In Ubuntu Gnome under System | Administration | Printing, I just pointed it to the printer's IP address, and it was done! Even easier than trying to install the Windows driver.
Huh, I'm kinda pissed off about text messaging plans for the opposite reason... I already pay between $10 - $25 extra for unlimited data... why would I have to pay another $10 / mo. just to send and receive SMS messages? SMS messages are low priority traffic that pretty much ride on the excess bandwidth available to the carrier basically for free, for crying out loud.
I ended up getting a google voice account, and use an app to send/receive SMS messages through that instead, for the handful of friends who insist on texting for some silly reason (even though they all have smartphones).
So the internally-consistent Queen's British version "couldn't care less" sounds fine, but in reality admit that you'd just ream the guy by pointing out "ha! You cared/enough/ to write a post about it!" and gloat in your fine ability to feel superior at picking at the pointless flaws of others.
The sarcastic yankee-yiddish version "could care less" would be used by the more rebellious folk, if only to allow them to weasel out of that kind of predicament by varying the degree of sarcasm implied depending upon the listener. I like it.
Uh, hate to break it to you, but just about any car can get that kind of mileage at ~45mph... pretty much by "coasting" at the slowest speed you can go while staying in your top gear. I am a bit impressed that they apparently swapped drivers once an hour for over 17 hours, but wondering if they actually had to come to a complete stop for this.
If you really drove it like it was fun to drive instead of "hypermiling", I'm sure the gas mileage would drop straight down to 20MPG again. Though I guess that's still better than your average sporty car... and I suppose you could save a lot more gas by making the gas guzzlers 50% more efficient than you could save by making a an already efficient hybrid 50% more efficient.
An interesting common thread among terrorists and other suicide rampagers like the Columbine kids is having had suffered some kind of humiliation in the past. Just food for thought;-)
Wow, that looks like it's right out of Legoland! The sub was funny enough, I didn't even realize it was a full scale rocket until I saw the pictures of the dummy (with a cosmonaut helmet, no less!) standing in the nose cone...
yeah, I know a lot of the stuff there is ripped from 4chan. I'd say fark is a good way to experience some of the best of 4chan without actually having to visit 4chan.
Oh, I think it's useful... but in regards to 2) I've only seen pedobear pop up in forums posted by third parties to indicate that interactions between other people are getting that kind of creepy. So in that respect, if you see a lot of pedobears being posted, someone on the channel is acting creepy (not necessarily the guy who is posting the pedobear).
Hmm, according to the map of the universe I have hanging on my cube ( http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/ ) there are just over a dozen stars closer than 30 light years (~9 parsecs). Yeah, that fact is noted in TFA as well.
Oh, well, it's a start... there are quite a lot of stars in the 100parsec range if they can somehow refine their technique. Or maybe just move the JWST closer to the galactic center?!;-)
Yep, yay for the "job security clearance" for providing us with unexportable work opportunities. Like escorting / watching over the shoulders of uncleared contractors while they do the real work:-P Oh, and verifying all the export compliance and foreign visitor paperwork! Fun times to be had by all!
It has a multiplicative effect on the economy... sort of like how bad schools lead to more prisoners which leads to more lucrative prison warden and supply contractor jobs!
Word up... I'd much rather Nokia improve their US market penetration by emulating Google (or possibly even Apple, ech) than Microsoft. Merging Maemo and Moblin probably was already a good start.
But really, for me, GMM was simply one of those killer apps that really changed my quality of life, and the only thing I missed from my old blackberry that I had for work years ago. Didn't look like Ovi maps would be able to match the functionality and the user community (pics & reviews for nearby restaurants and attractions, etc.).
Hopefully with Moblin they'll survive as a pocketable computer manufacturer even if they don't "make it" as a smartphone manufacturer. Android still has a ways to go before I even stop carrying around my Palm TX:P But at least it has a decent SSH and VNC client so I can use it to get to a real computer when I need to.
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The point is that the ISP has a way they can keep your one machine from dorking up the rest of the internet, without simply unplugging your entire connection.
So it's not about saving your sorry-assed machine from getting owned, just limiting the annoyance to others without having to take drastic measures that would probably also interrupt service to bystanders. Talk about a cure worse than the disease...
You sound like someone who doesn't run any servers.
I'm not keen on losing access to my home server while I'm away on travel just because my roommate/kid/wife/wardriver downloaded some bad attachment on their toy laptop.
ISPs should be responsible for filtering out bot activity, but it's not really fair to anyone to cut them off entirely. After all, it's not entirely their fault they got infected... hell even if they're responsible with updates and activity they could have been compromised by some new vulnerability.
Has firewall technology not been able to keep up with bulk ISP traffic or something?
I understand that users ought to control their own home firewall, but ISPs should have firewalls / filters they control further upstream, where they can add rules to block certain types of traffic only when necessary. But I guess if they have it, then that means they're kinda liable for configuring it effectively and can thus be held responsible for attack traffic that does get through.
Anyway, I don't like the idea of being cut off from network access without at least a few weeks' advance notice and time to respond. Which is virtually an eternity in botnet time... which makes that whole approach somewhat pointless.
I just bought an add-on resistive touchscreen kit for my eeePC 901
http://www.slashgear.com/touchscreen-eee-pc-901-mod-2312854/
Haven't installed it yet, but it comes with Linux drivers. Will post on my /. journal if I reach any success with it later this week.
... soon to be followed by the evercookiemonster by same "security" guy, right?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/119/299000164_4d7398dbf6.jpg?v=0
Oops, sorry if I struck a nerve :P
I've been through a fair share of cheap inkjets and multifunctions... Epson, Brother, Lexmark, Dell, etc. They'd get gummed up and burn through ink and have all kinds of problems... Not the least of which includes driver support. It can be a real pain to get older hardware (5 year old Dell laptops with Intel 855 GPU?!) to work in newer versions of Windows when the drivers were only signed for XP/2K
So yeah, I do my research, checking out reviews at http://cnet.com/ as well as scoping out the Linux support situation. To me it's a sign of quality and maturity... some hobbyist saw the product was 133+ enough to spend the time getting it working. And sometimes the manufacturer invests their time into better interoperability as well, and I appreciate that (but tend to trust the hobbyist packages more).
I run a mixed shop, so Linux is just another *NIX (as opposed to a Windows "replacement"). I do have a Windows box or two to play games. Most of the transition pain is felt on the Windows side... like having to tweak a bunch of registry settings to connect to the samba file server with Vista/Win7 ... or getting legacy programs to work on 64-bit Windows since they had the *brilliant* idea to move legacy apps to "C:\Program Files (x86)" and put the new 64-bit stuff in the old "C:\Program Files" location.
Obviously we've had different life experiences, but interoperability weighs in pretty heavily with mine, and I laugh if you really think the Windows world is all the compatibility and stability you say it is... you really haven't been in the field that long :P But at least it seems like we both enjoy tinkering with the tech... by all indications there will be plenty more where that came from ;-)
Hey! Did you know if you type in your root password into the search bar, it can list your computer in the search results?
It works on Slashdot too... see, here's mine: ********
/ accidentally his password in the google search bar the other day
// it's different now
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-ML-2851ND-Network-Ready-Monochrome-Printer/dp/B000XZ1LJG
Well under $200 mono laser, supports auto duplexing, network printing. Threw in some old laptop RAM for the lulz.
In Ubuntu Gnome under System | Administration | Printing, I just pointed it to the printer's IP address, and it was done! Even easier than trying to install the Windows driver.
Huh, I'm kinda pissed off about text messaging plans for the opposite reason... I already pay between $10 - $25 extra for unlimited data... why would I have to pay another $10 / mo. just to send and receive SMS messages? SMS messages are low priority traffic that pretty much ride on the excess bandwidth available to the carrier basically for free, for crying out loud.
I ended up getting a google voice account, and use an app to send/receive SMS messages through that instead, for the handful of friends who insist on texting for some silly reason (even though they all have smartphones).
'sigh'
"I'm a banana"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejected
Wow, I had no idea that this particular nitpick had gotten so polarized.
The best reference I've found is from http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm
So the internally-consistent Queen's British version "couldn't care less" sounds fine, but in reality admit that you'd just ream the guy by pointing out "ha! You cared /enough/ to write a post about it!" and gloat in your fine ability to feel superior at picking at the pointless flaws of others.
The sarcastic yankee-yiddish version "could care less" would be used by the more rebellious folk, if only to allow them to weasel out of that kind of predicament by varying the degree of sarcasm implied depending upon the listener. I like it.
Uh, hate to break it to you, but just about any car can get that kind of mileage at ~45mph ... pretty much by "coasting" at the slowest speed you can go while staying in your top gear. I am a bit impressed that they apparently swapped drivers once an hour for over 17 hours, but wondering if they actually had to come to a complete stop for this.
If you really drove it like it was fun to drive instead of "hypermiling", I'm sure the gas mileage would drop straight down to 20MPG again. Though I guess that's still better than your average sporty car... and I suppose you could save a lot more gas by making the gas guzzlers 50% more efficient than you could save by making a an already efficient hybrid 50% more efficient.
Why did the Model T Ford look like that?
For the love of God make one of these horseless carriages look like a damn horseless carriage.
Probably trolling about this kind of tactic http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.asp , which I guess has been making its rounds among conservative chain mails.
An interesting common thread among terrorists and other suicide rampagers like the Columbine kids is having had suffered some kind of humiliation in the past. Just food for thought ;-)
Wow, that looks like it's right out of Legoland! The sub was funny enough, I didn't even realize it was a full scale rocket until I saw the pictures of the dummy (with a cosmonaut helmet, no less!) standing in the nose cone...
... and a frequent one at that...
yeah, I know a lot of the stuff there is ripped from 4chan. I'd say fark is a good way to experience some of the best of 4chan without actually having to visit 4chan.
/ also foobies.
// slashies!
Oh, I think it's useful... but in regards to 2) I've only seen pedobear pop up in forums posted by third parties to indicate that interactions between other people are getting that kind of creepy. So in that respect, if you see a lot of pedobears being posted, someone on the channel is acting creepy (not necessarily the guy who is posting the pedobear).
Also, more awareness of memes could at least help avoid situations like this: http://boingboing.net/2010/02/06/pedobear-official-ma.html
Actually, the Pedobear character had pretty innocuous roots.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pedobear
It wasn't until later that he got perverted into a frequent fark.com meme.
Also, awesome irony if he was originally created as the Safety Bear.
Probably feeding the trolls, but http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Anyway, your wife leaving you should be a good thing.
And sure, she's probably taking half of what you own and half of what you'll be making for the foreseeable future. But hey! You have your life back!
(addressed to GP)
Ooh, thanks... that's a sweet map of the neighborhood!
Hmm, according to the map of the universe I have hanging on my cube ( http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/ ) there are just over a dozen stars closer than 30 light years (~9 parsecs). Yeah, that fact is noted in TFA as well.
Oh, well, it's a start... there are quite a lot of stars in the 100parsec range if they can somehow refine their technique. Or maybe just move the JWST closer to the galactic center?! ;-)
Yep, yay for the "job security clearance" for providing us with unexportable work opportunities. Like escorting / watching over the shoulders of uncleared contractors while they do the real work :-P Oh, and verifying all the export compliance and foreign visitor paperwork! Fun times to be had by all!
It has a multiplicative effect on the economy... sort of like how bad schools lead to more prisoners which leads to more lucrative prison warden and supply contractor jobs!
Just a shirt? C'mon, you really want to go for the tattoo!
http://joey.kitenet.net/blog/entry/ouch__33__/
Word up... I'd much rather Nokia improve their US market penetration by emulating Google (or possibly even Apple, ech) than Microsoft. Merging Maemo and Moblin probably was already a good start.
But really, for me, GMM was simply one of those killer apps that really changed my quality of life, and the only thing I missed from my old blackberry that I had for work years ago. Didn't look like Ovi maps would be able to match the functionality and the user community (pics & reviews for nearby restaurants and attractions, etc.).
Hopefully with Moblin they'll survive as a pocketable computer manufacturer even if they don't "make it" as a smartphone manufacturer. Android still has a ways to go before I even stop carrying around my Palm TX :P But at least it has a decent SSH and VNC client so I can use it to get to a real computer when I need to.
The only reason I just bought an Android phone instead of an N900 was for Google Maps Mobile :-/ Things could have been so different...