It would add 5 years, since demand in North America is now pretty stable. Cut most of China off (a "reverse great wall of china") and you will free up even more - AND get rid of Chinese spammers.
This will force them to move to IPv6. Now, what's the problem with that again?
the date it was going to happen over Europe was not predictable, but that a volcanic event was going to happen someday was predictable. Hopefully they'll learn some lessons because there WILL be a next time.
s/it was going to happen over Europe/the big one hits California/;
You'll have 30 MILLION people all whining about how they deserve yet another handout for their overpriced under-water McMansions.
Or with any luck, California will just split off from the continental USA and sink into the sea.
Seriously though, it's as dumb as rebuilding NOLA. You know it's just going to happen again.
Self-hosting doesn't necessarily mean you have to host it at home - you can lease space on a server. Lots of people do it. Get 10 friends and family together, get a cheap shared hosting plan, give each of them their own vanity domain (it's not like domain name registrations are expensive - $10 a year), and there you go. Or even cheaper, register one domain and give them all their own vanity subdomain. And their own web space. And their own webmail.
> But you'd better either have a way to reset those answers, or a fool-proof way to remember them. Everyone's sometimes a fool.
For the bank, walk in and show my drivers license and ask for a password reset.
For facebook, who gives a ****? It's facebook. 5 years from now it'll be gone, since you can only make so much $$$ from suckering in people with zango and other crap.
They've reserved a./10 in each block just for IPv4to6 translation, so there will still be millions of individual IPv4 addresses available to do that back-and-forth.
And almost everyone has an OS that is IPv6 compatible.
GE - 3.nnn.nnn.nnn
IBM - 9.nnn.nnn.nnn
AT&T Bell Labs 12.nnn.nnn.nnn
Xerox 13.nnn.nnn.nnn
HP 15.nnn.nnn.nnn
DEC 16.nnn.nnn.nnn
Apple 17.nnn.nnn.nnn
MIT 18.nnn.nnn.nnn
Ford 19.nnn.nnn.nnn
CSC 20.nnn.nnn.nnn
Halliburton 34.nnn.nnn.nnn
Eli Lilly Co 40.nnn.nnn.nnn
Bell Northern Research 47.nnn.nnn.nnn
Prudential 48.nnn.nnn.nnn
UK Work and Pensions 51.nnn.nnn.nnn
Dupont 52.nnn.nnn.nnn
Cap Debis 53.nnn.nnn.nnn
Merck 54.nnn.nnn.nnn
USPS 56.nnn.nnn.nnn
Defense doesn't need 7 - count them - 7 all to itself!
That's 26 - more than 10% - that can be mostly harvested.
I wonder how long today's better batteries and lower-power circuits would run on a "basic" phone... maybe get a month of stand-by and a full day of talk-til-you-drop? There might be a market for that.
Might I recommend you get a jitterbug? It even comes in 3 colors: black, red, white.
It's nowhere near that - only 3 hours of talk time. 8 days standby. Lots of phones beat that while still offering all sorts of other features.
You missed the point - why would you put REAL personal information in a security question?
I don't - anyone who knows my mother's maiden name will NOT be able to answer what I put in as the response to that question. Ditto for elementary school, favourite game or sport, etc.
Fill them u with non-sequiturs:
Example:
Q: Favorite color?
A:Thanks for the fish.
Q: Mother's maiden name?
A: 42
Q: Favorite sport?
A: TANSTAAFL
Putting REAL crap in there is dumb. I won't do it with my bank, I certainly won't do it with some crap social networking site that has ZERO reason to have that sort of information about me.
Python 2.5.2:/usr/bin/python Sat Apr 24 13:50:18 2010
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred./home/jonathan/mirror/ajax/server.cgi in ()
220 print_palette_frame()
221 elif get_cgi(u'page') == u'showcase':
222 print_showcase_frame()
223 elif get_cgi(u'page') == u'text':
224 print_text_frame() print_showcase_frame = <function print_showcase_frame at 0xfbcec1ec>/home/jonathan/mirror/ajax/server.cgi in print_showcase_frame()
149 css = styles[get_style()]
150 text = get_cgi(u'text')
151 link = commands.getoutput(u'/usr/local/bin/link')
152 timestamp = time.asctime(time.gmtime()) + u' UTC'
153 print u'''<html> link undefined, global commands = <module 'commands' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.pyc'>, commands.getoutput = <function getoutput at 0xfbce6fb4>/usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.py in getoutput(cmd=u'/usr/local/bin/link')
42 def getoutput(cmd):
43 """Return output (stdout or stderr) of executing cmd in a shell."""
44 return getstatusoutput(cmd)[1]
45
46 global getstatusoutput = <function getstatusoutput at 0xfbcec02c>, cmd = u'/usr/local/bin/link'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.py in getstatusoutput(cmd=u'/usr/local/bin/link')
51 """Return (status, output) of executing cmd in a shell."""
52 import os
53 pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
54 text = pipe.read()
55 sts = pipe.close() pipe undefined, os = <module 'os' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/os.pyc'>, os.popen = <built-in function popen>, cmd = u'/usr/local/bin/link'
Neither do phones really. When's the last time you saw a cell phone that ONLY did phone calls and text messages?
Take fancy phone
Drop in toilet
Repeat until phone only makes and receives phone calls..
Just saying... we have the technology to FLUSH away those extra bits that get in the way of basic functionality:-)
I wonder how long today's better batteries and lower-power circuits would run on a "basic" phone... maybe get a month of stand-by and a full day of talk-til-you-drop? There might be a market for that.
I definitely see your point, and I agree with it. The problem is that sooooo many people are in the "don't wanna know" category. If everyone were to get a cluestick tomorrow, a lot would change. But we both know that "the masses is asses"...
The 5% of the world who live in the USSRA have forgotten what it was like back in the good old days of the former USA.
Your life is already online for public review by anyone with letterhead, a fax machine, a business license, and a few bucks a month for access to ostensibly public-but-controlled databases like MERLIN.
Not in countries that don't allow such things. We don't all live in the USSRA. Some of us live in countries that have laws prohibiting the government giving out your drivers license info or any criminal history, or credit reporting companies or banks giving out your financial history, without your WRITTEN authorization. Some even forbid private investigators from following you around - they're now stuck doing crapwork like making sure stuff doesn't fall off the back of trucks in company loading docks.
Not everyone... and even if I wanted to use web-based email, I wouldn't use a freemail-based one. There's no reason you can't self-host. Pool resources with family and friends, get your own domain, and host your own. It'll cost you what, 25 cents a month each? Isn't being ad-free worth that much?
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It would add 5 years, since demand in North America is now pretty stable. Cut most of China off (a "reverse great wall of china") and you will free up even more - AND get rid of Chinese spammers. This will force them to move to IPv6. Now, what's the problem with that again?
Yes, you're way off base - because by the time you detect it, you're already IN it. It's not like, at 600 mph, you can suddenly stop.
s/it was going to happen over Europe/the big one hits California/;
You'll have 30 MILLION people all whining about how they deserve yet another handout for their overpriced under-water McMansions.
Or with any luck, California will just split off from the continental USA and sink into the sea.
Seriously though, it's as dumb as rebuilding NOLA. You know it's just going to happen again.
Don't tell that to American Airlines and here. It's up to the manufacturer to give the go-ahead for polishing instead of painting.
Not painting the plane saves the weight of 2 or more passengers. Plus the cost of the paint.
You seem to be suffering from amnesia. Let me remind you of two older, more-hated failures: the <BLINK> tag and the <MARQUEE> tag.
Or hitting multiple servers to ftp different parts of the same file by using "skip" to skip over a portion, then just cat them all together.
Blocked by intelligent people - the site doesn't pass the smell test.
And there's no reason to believe they didn't log the data.
Self-hosting doesn't necessarily mean you have to host it at home - you can lease space on a server. Lots of people do it. Get 10 friends and family together, get a cheap shared hosting plan, give each of them their own vanity domain (it's not like domain name registrations are expensive - $10 a year), and there you go. Or even cheaper, register one domain and give them all their own vanity subdomain. And their own web space. And their own webmail.
> But you'd better either have a way to reset those answers, or a fool-proof way to remember them. Everyone's sometimes a fool.
For the bank, walk in and show my drivers license and ask for a password reset.
For facebook, who gives a ****? It's facebook. 5 years from now it'll be gone, since you can only make so much $$$ from suckering in people with zango and other crap.
And almost everyone has an OS that is IPv6 compatible.
First you have to clean it up. telnet 127.0.0.0 and delete everything you see in your IP space.
GE - 3.nnn.nnn.nnn
IBM - 9.nnn.nnn.nnn
AT&T Bell Labs 12.nnn.nnn.nnn
Xerox 13.nnn.nnn.nnn
HP 15.nnn.nnn.nnn
DEC 16.nnn.nnn.nnn
Apple 17.nnn.nnn.nnn
MIT 18.nnn.nnn.nnn
Ford 19.nnn.nnn.nnn
CSC 20.nnn.nnn.nnn
Halliburton 34.nnn.nnn.nnn
Eli Lilly Co 40.nnn.nnn.nnn
Bell Northern Research 47.nnn.nnn.nnn
Prudential 48.nnn.nnn.nnn
UK Work and Pensions 51.nnn.nnn.nnn
Dupont 52.nnn.nnn.nnn
Cap Debis 53.nnn.nnn.nnn
Merck 54.nnn.nnn.nnn
USPS 56.nnn.nnn.nnn
Defense doesn't need 7 - count them - 7 all to itself!
That's 26 - more than 10% - that can be mostly harvested.
You missed the point - why would you put REAL personal information in a security question?
I don't - anyone who knows my mother's maiden name will NOT be able to answer what I put in as the response to that question. Ditto for elementary school, favourite game or sport, etc.
Fill them u with non-sequiturs:
Example:
Q: Favorite color?
A:Thanks for the fish.
Q: Mother's maiden name?
A: 42
Q: Favorite sport?
A: TANSTAAFL
Putting REAL crap in there is dumb. I won't do it with my bank, I certainly won't do it with some crap social networking site that has ZERO reason to have that sort of information about me.
Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
/home/jonathan/mirror/ajax/server.cgi in () /home/jonathan/mirror/ajax/server.cgi in print_showcase_frame() /usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.py in getoutput(cmd=u'/usr/local/bin/link') /usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.py in getstatusoutput(cmd=u'/usr/local/bin/link')
Sat Apr 24 13:50:18 2010
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
220 print_palette_frame()
221 elif get_cgi(u'page') == u'showcase':
222 print_showcase_frame()
223 elif get_cgi(u'page') == u'text':
224 print_text_frame()
print_showcase_frame = <function print_showcase_frame at 0xfbcec1ec>
149 css = styles[get_style()]
150 text = get_cgi(u'text')
151 link = commands.getoutput(u'/usr/local/bin/link')
152 timestamp = time.asctime(time.gmtime()) + u' UTC'
153 print u'''<html>
link undefined, global commands = <module 'commands' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.pyc'>, commands.getoutput = <function getoutput at 0xfbce6fb4>
42 def getoutput(cmd):
43 """Return output (stdout or stderr) of executing cmd in a shell."""
44 return getstatusoutput(cmd)[1]
45
46
global getstatusoutput = <function getstatusoutput at 0xfbcec02c>, cmd = u'/usr/local/bin/link'
51 """Return (status, output) of executing cmd in a shell."""
52 import os
53 pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
54 text = pipe.read()
55 sts = pipe.close()
pipe undefined, os = <module 'os' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/os.pyc'>, os.popen = <built-in function popen>, cmd = u'/usr/local/bin/link'
<type 'exceptions.OSError'>: [Errno 35] Resource temporarily unavailable
args = (35, 'Resource temporarily unavailable')
errno = 35
filename = None
message = ''
strerror = 'Resource temporarily unavailable'
Just saying ... we have the technology to FLUSH away those extra bits that get in the way of basic functionality :-)
I wonder how long today's better batteries and lower-power circuits would run on a "basic" phone ... maybe get a month of stand-by and a full day of talk-til-you-drop? There might be a market for that.
I definitely see your point, and I agree with it. The problem is that sooooo many people are in the "don't wanna know" category. If everyone were to get a cluestick tomorrow, a lot would change. But we both know that "the masses is asses" ...
The 5% of the world who live in the USSRA have forgotten what it was like back in the good old days of the former USA.
Not in countries that don't allow such things. We don't all live in the USSRA. Some of us live in countries that have laws prohibiting the government giving out your drivers license info or any criminal history, or credit reporting companies or banks giving out your financial history, without your WRITTEN authorization. Some even forbid private investigators from following you around - they're now stuck doing crapwork like making sure stuff doesn't fall off the back of trucks in company loading docks.
Remember, the Internet routes around damage - IF you let it.
Want to avoid government wire-sniffing or wireless-sniffing detection? Make use of RFC 2549.
Not everyone ... and even if I wanted to use web-based email, I wouldn't use a freemail-based one. There's no reason you can't self-host. Pool resources with family and friends, get your own domain, and host your own. It'll cost you what, 25 cents a month each? Isn't being ad-free worth that much?
You put real information in there? I don't even put real info in there for my on-line banking.
... already happened - Citibank blocking the bank account for fabulis.
Two words: "Palm Pilot"
For a long time, EVERY PDA was called a Palm Pilot, they pretty much defined the category.
Now Lenovo has Palm in the palm of their hands ...
Better not say "Eat shit and die!" either ...
Next up - legal liability for someone going blind because you once told them to "go f*ck yourself" - and they did, over and over.