In countries that are more repressive, it's not the "professional journalists" they have a hard time muzzling, but the bloggers and independents. The "professionals" aren't a real threat - they're easy to control. Ask China. Or just remember the Bush whitehouse press corps with their self-censorship.
I think people believe that good reporting appears out of nowhere, or something of that sort. They also seem to think that bloggers are the equivalent to professional journalists, instead of simply being the web equivalent of "talking heads".
So groklaw.net isn't up to the standards of "professional journalism?"
Maybe you should talk to a few professional journalists... they'll tell you about the on-the-job office politics, the ass-kissing, the stories that get spiked because someone's favourite ox is getting barbequed, the "we want to slant it differently", the "our stories have to reflect our new owners core values"... amateurs can do as good a job, or better, simply because they don't have to kiss ass to keep their paycheck.
Don't count on any newspapers being around in 10 years.
You know how it is... someone has to justify their job, so they come up with YAPP - Yet Another Paywall Platform.
The columnists HATE these things, because it reduces their readership, and it's their numbers that give them relevance, so expect to see most of the columnists jumping ship for other venues.
Safe bet: Netcraft will confirm it, the NYT Online is dying.
Or the newspapers will all just fold and die. Or be banned because they pollute too much.
Why should I bother reading about what the NYT has to say about Haiti when there are people there right now who are blogging about it in more detail than any non-local reporter ever could?
Now extend that to every news story. ALL news is ultimately local to somebody - and there are going to be people who are going to write about it because it's important to them, not because "it's their job." And if you say it can't work, just look at groklaw - far better coverage than any of the paid media.
In 10 years newspapers will be gone, completely bypassed. Same as AM Radio (and many of the "Talk Radio" airheads) is dying out because nobody's buying radios that can receive AM any more. I don't read the free newspapers that get dumped on my doorstep every week because the format sucks, the stories suck, its one-way, not interactive, and it's mostly advertising - sites like groklaw have spoiled me.
So no, I won't miss the newspapers, and I won't miss their presence on the web - something else WILL take their place - it's the nature of the beast.
Come off it - they could have just shoved an off-the-shelf laptop motherboard in it - no "miniaturization" necessary. Ditto any optical drive, hard drive, etc.
People aren't going to buy a MUCH lower-spec desktop - which they still need to supply the screen, webcam, mic, keyboard, mouse, wireless adapter (heck, even the Wii does wireless Internet) for more than a much better laptop just because it's "free". There's no market for this stupidity.
You're a day late to the party - you didn't see my follow-up post -=- I'll save you the bother of clicking on it.
And the follow-up campaign will be "Baaaahhhh! Goat, sheep, it's all ewes to me, you nanny, I mean ninny:-)"
Special video on how to milk just the "mommy cow", and not the "daddy cow", at no extra charge.
But WAIT - THERE'S MORE!
For a limited time, we'll throw in this educational video (that we stole off youtube) at no extra cost!
"Why squirrels hide their nuts - transgenderism in the animal kingdom!"
... or for those whose religious views condemn such things, we can substitute...
"It's only a sin when others do it! - the Fundamentals of Fundamentalism for Fundamentalists."
It's *supposed* to be a campaign for illiteracy. I'm a bit disappointed that others didn't run with it and redo things like "pi = 3", etc.;-)
I can get an AMD Athlon X2 Dual-core 2ghz laptop with 4 gigs of ram, a 250 gig hd, AND built-in display, mouse pad, keyboard, hdmi, 4 usb, 8x dvd, gigabit ethernet, b/g/n wireless, webcam, mic, speakers, UPS good for several hours (it IS a laptop), card reader, etc., for less.
And that includes the Microsoft tax (Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit).
Shouldn't a box that isn't a laptop, has lower specs, no battery, no display, less ram, smaller disk capacity on a cheaper hard drive, no webcam, no M$TAX, etc., be CHEAPER?
And the follow-up campaign will be "Baaaahhhh! Goat, sheep, it's all ewes to me, you nanny, I mean ninny:-)"
Special video on how to milk just the "mommy cow", and not the "daddy cow", at no extra charge.
But WAIT - THERE'S MORE!
For a limited time, we'll throw in this educational video (that we stole off youtube) at no extra cost!
"Why squirrels hide their nuts - transgenderism in the animal kingdom!"
... or for those whose religious views condemn such things, we can substitute...
"It's only a sin when others do it! - the Fundamentals of Fundamentalism for Fundamentalists."
Book publishers today announced that they are launching a new educational campaign targeted at the people who steal their intellectual property by reading books they didn't buy.
Their "Campaign to Promote Illiteracy" will be mandatory in most schools in the next semester. Students will be treated to videos with titles such as "Johnny Can't Read"; older classes will be subjected to aversion therapy with pop-up books such as "My Pet Goatse" and "Animal Farm-sex".
They'll also be promoting their new android-based phone, which enables illiterates to send "text" messages using only pictures, so that texting becomes a game of rebus. For example, he message "Can I see you tonight?" becomes
"picture of a tin can" = "can", +
"picture of an eye" = "eye", +
"picture of waves" = "sea", +
picture of a female goat" = "ewe", +
"picture of dog poop" = "number 2" +
"picture of a knight on a horse" = "knight"
"can eye sea ewe 2 knight" = "can I see you tonight"
Maybe 'example.com' points to my mail server, because I am an email company. That means I must use a subdomain, and it must be one my visitors KNOW IN ADVANCE
Route your traffic to the right server based on the port requested. "cat/etc/services" for the list. No need for subdomains.
All they need to know is example.com.
Q: What's your domain name?
A: example.com
Q: So what's the name of your ftp server?
A: example.com.
Q: What's the smtp mail server?
A: example.com.
Q: What's your pop3 server?
A: example.com.
Q: So they're all on one machine?
A: No. We use magic pixie dust.
Reserve the extra stuff for subdomains. like blog.example.com, clients.example.com, specials.example.com, ads.example.com (so we can block that one more easily <:-0
We already know by the $PROTO http:/// portion that it's web traffic, not ftp or ssh or telnet or...
Google has already interpreted the "sharing with the fuzz" the way I stated. They hand over the info without a warrant, because, under the TOS you agreed to, it only requires the expectation that the requester could obtain a warrant.
You just posted something nasty about Eric Schmidt? He "could" try get a warrant, so google has the legal right to let him see your info w/o a warrant.
Like I said, they've already done this.
Also, if I may ask, who do you do business with? Who's got a better policy? Not that I doubt one exists, I'm just curious.
My sites, and my email are hosted in Canada, and so is my ISP. Both PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act - federal) and provincial legislation guarantees that they may NOT ship personal information outside the borders of the country without my express consent, and that any release even inside Canada requires a warrant except in immediate emergency, which they have to explain afterwards.
Remember - faced with being banned in both Canada and Australia, facebook backed down. It's sad how Americans continue to tolerate intercepts without a warrant.
If you want something safe from prying eyes, email encryption doesn't do it - people forward stuff all the time. Encrypt the attachment instead...
The kind of idiot who would forward something like that is probably the same kind of idiot who would forward the password, too.
Which is why I said to use the telephone to give them the password. Always use a different channel of communications for the password. Phone. Fax. SMS. If you have to put it in an email, reference something that is specific but not to them only - "Second letter of each word in the first paragraph. You already know which book to use." The recipient knows it's not even a book, it's the obituaries in today's paper - a real one-time pad.
As another poster pointed out, showing websites without the www or other hostname portion goes agent RFC rules
No, it doesn't. The rfc the poster quoted was about naming machines in general, NOT specifically about naming web servers. The title was "Choosing a name for your computer".
The pertinent part says"
Avoid domain names.
For technical reasons, domain names should be avoided. In
particular, name resolution of non-absolute hostnames is
problematic. Resolvers will check names against domains before
checking them against hostnames. But we have seen instances of
mailers that refuse to treat single token names as domains.
For example, assume that you mail to "libes@rutgers" from
yale.edu. Depending upon the implementation, the mail may go
to rutgers.edu or rutgers.yale.edu (assuming both exist).
In other words, don't name your machine "slashdot" and expect it to work all the time.
And:
Avoid domain-like names.
Domain names are either organizational (e.g., cia.gov) or
geographical (e.g., dallas.tx.us). Using anything like these
tends to imply some connection. For example, the name "tahiti"
sounds like it means you are located there. This is confusing
if it is really somewhere else (e.g., "tahiti.cia.gov is
located in Langley, Virginia? I thought it was the CIA's
Tahiti office!"). If it really is located there, the name
implies that it is the only computer there. If this isn't
wrong now, it inevitably will be.
And, as I point out, it's only a suggestion, now rendered obsolete by 20 years of practice:
This FYI RFC is a republication of a Communications of the ACM
article on guidelines on what to do and what not to do when naming
your computer [1]. This memo provides information for the Internet
community. It does not specify any standard.
Jesus was an unemployable bum, same as most of todays religious leaders couldn't hold a real job if their life depended on it. They're charity cases, con artists living off the proceeds of fleecing their flock.
For the record, you will find that God hates homosexuality but loves the people
Really? You wouldn't know it seeing how many gays are in positions of leadership in xian churches.
He must also love gossips and rumour-mongers, seeing as most fundie churches are SO busy telling everyone else how they should live or they're going to hell.
What next? Condemning transsexuals as "just men in dresses"? Or that divorced people can never remarry? Or that I'll go to hell for saying that i am absolutely convinced there is no possibility of god existing in this universe, and people who claim otherwise should put up or shit up?
And no, your book (which should be classified as hate literature) doesn't count as "proof", any more than Star Wars would prove the existence of "the force."
Of course, you presume that the gateway is smart enough to route all traffic to the correct device or sub-domain, and that the under-budgeted admin actually knows how to do that.
I've seen a number of small companies with a very active digital presence for which the owner/president also manages the gateway and has the entire company running on a bank of repurposed workstation towers - each providing a specific service. The gateway box at domain.com doesn't provide anything but traffic cop services. The system named 'WWW' provides ONLY the HTTPd service. Likewise separate boxen provide POP, SMTP, etc...
You don't need the "www" prefix to figure out that requests for port 80 are http, port 21 are ftp, 443 are https, 25 are smtp, and 110 is pop3.
For those wanting to try this at home and work around their providers' traffic blocking: You also don't need a the power consumption of a repurposed box for that when you can use port forwarding on a router. It'll even let you use one of your boxes on your home lan as a public-facing web/ftp/mail/whatever server (and you can set them up to listen to alternate ports, like 8080 for http, and 2525 for running your own private mail server). Throw in a redirect to your external ip from a known web page, and you're in business. You can even run a proxy that way.
Who the h*** are YOU that I should trust you, a stranger, to mess around with MY computer?
If it's a corporate environment, I'm your IT guy, and I already have Admin access to your computer. In fact, you don't.
Come off it. Many of us have to know how to get root on any box we can get our grubby paws on. Comes in handy when passwords get lost or the "admin" quits in a huff.
Besides, good developers administer their own machines, and their own networks. If you can't admin your own linux and bsd boxes, you're simply not qualified to be develop on them. You're an admin? YOU do not touch the developer boxes, YOU do not touch the svn server. YOU do not touch the test servers. Heck, YOU probably don't have root on the external servers, to keep you from screwing things up.
You're an admin for things like setting up email? Fine - go bug the Windows users. Or do you want to find a picture of yourself having gay sex in a cheap motel circulating on the net (historical note: the last time, it took the boss 3 weeks to find out they weren't real pics, but that I had GIMPed them).
If you want something safe from prying eyes, email encryption doesn't do it - people forward stuff all the time. Encrypt the attachment instead, and use another channel to communicate the password to ONLY the intended reader. This way, it doesn't matter how many people it gets forwarded to who can read the email itself.
Haven't read your agreement, have you? I have, and that's one reason I removed ALL of google's stuff from all my computers.
We may combine the
information you submit under your account with information from other Google services or third parties
When you send email or other communications to Google, we may retain those communications
Google processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party,
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request
Read that last one twice - it means that they only have to believe that the request for information COULD be enforced, that the requester could get a warrant, not that they actually have one.
Also, you've agreed to them being able to process your data outside the US, where different laws apply. Forget about suing - you've already said they can do it.
I wouldn't trust them with anything business-related, not with such a one-sided agreement.
Slashdot Mirror
In countries that are more repressive, it's not the "professional journalists" they have a hard time muzzling, but the bloggers and independents. The "professionals" aren't a real threat - they're easy to control. Ask China. Or just remember the Bush whitehouse press corps with their self-censorship.
So groklaw.net isn't up to the standards of "professional journalism?"
Maybe you should talk to a few professional journalists ... they'll tell you about the on-the-job office politics, the ass-kissing, the stories that get spiked because someone's favourite ox is getting barbequed, the "we want to slant it differently", the "our stories have to reflect our new owners core values" ... amateurs can do as good a job, or better, simply because they don't have to kiss ass to keep their paycheck.
Don't count on any newspapers being around in 10 years.
You know how it is ... someone has to justify their job, so they come up with YAPP - Yet Another Paywall Platform.
The columnists HATE these things, because it reduces their readership, and it's their numbers that give them relevance, so expect to see most of the columnists jumping ship for other venues.
Safe bet: Netcraft will confirm it, the NYT Online is dying.
Or the newspapers will all just fold and die. Or be banned because they pollute too much.
Why should I bother reading about what the NYT has to say about Haiti when there are people there right now who are blogging about it in more detail than any non-local reporter ever could?
Now extend that to every news story. ALL news is ultimately local to somebody - and there are going to be people who are going to write about it because it's important to them, not because "it's their job." And if you say it can't work, just look at groklaw - far better coverage than any of the paid media.
In 10 years newspapers will be gone, completely bypassed. Same as AM Radio (and many of the "Talk Radio" airheads) is dying out because nobody's buying radios that can receive AM any more. I don't read the free newspapers that get dumped on my doorstep every week because the format sucks, the stories suck, its one-way, not interactive, and it's mostly advertising - sites like groklaw have spoiled me.
So no, I won't miss the newspapers, and I won't miss their presence on the web - something else WILL take their place - it's the nature of the beast.
Come off it - they could have just shoved an off-the-shelf laptop motherboard in it - no "miniaturization" necessary. Ditto any optical drive, hard drive, etc.
People aren't going to buy a MUCH lower-spec desktop - which they still need to supply the screen, webcam, mic, keyboard, mouse, wireless adapter (heck, even the Wii does wireless Internet) for more than a much better laptop just because it's "free". There's no market for this stupidity.
You're a day late to the party - you didn't see my follow-up post -=- I'll save you the bother of clicking on it.
It's *supposed* to be a campaign for illiteracy. I'm a bit disappointed that others didn't run with it and redo things like "pi = 3", etc. ;-)
"This time it's different!"
Yes, it is. Much more competition, the Great Recession, high unemployment. 3 more reasons to fail.
The industry needs massive consolidation - like maybe 90% of the print papers folding.
I can get an AMD Athlon X2 Dual-core 2ghz laptop with 4 gigs of ram, a 250 gig hd, AND built-in display, mouse pad, keyboard, hdmi, 4 usb, 8x dvd, gigabit ethernet, b/g/n wireless, webcam, mic, speakers, UPS good for several hours (it IS a laptop), card reader, etc., for less.
And that includes the Microsoft tax (Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit).
Shouldn't a box that isn't a laptop, has lower specs, no battery, no display, less ram, smaller disk capacity on a cheaper hard drive, no webcam, no M$TAX, etc., be CHEAPER?
Nobody's going to buy one of these.
I wouldn't say big - I need to lose 5 pounds, but that's normal after Christmas.
And the follow-up campaign will be "Baaaahhhh! Goat, sheep, it's all ewes to me, you nanny, I mean ninny :-)"
Special video on how to milk just the "mommy cow", and not the "daddy cow", at no extra charge.
But WAIT - THERE'S MORE!
For a limited time, we'll throw in this educational video (that we stole off youtube) at no extra cost!
... or for those whose religious views condemn such things, we can substitute ...
"Why squirrels hide their nuts - transgenderism in the animal kingdom!"
"It's only a sin when others do it! - the Fundamentals of Fundamentalism for Fundamentalists."
Most people aren't saturating 10gps uplinks. Also, most people ARE doing NAT anyway. So what's your point?
This message was brought to you by the Fed.
Their "Campaign to Promote Illiteracy" will be mandatory in most schools in the next semester. Students will be treated to videos with titles such as "Johnny Can't Read"; older classes will be subjected to aversion therapy with pop-up books such as "My Pet Goatse" and "Animal Farm-sex".
They'll also be promoting their new android-based phone, which enables illiterates to send "text" messages using only pictures, so that texting becomes a game of rebus. For example, he message "Can I see you tonight?" becomes
"picture of a tin can" = "can", +
"picture of an eye" = "eye", +
"picture of waves" = "sea", +
picture of a female goat" = "ewe", +
"picture of dog poop" = "number 2" +
"picture of a knight on a horse" = "knight"
"can eye sea ewe 2 knight" = "can I see you tonight"
Route your traffic to the right server based on the port requested. "cat /etc/services" for the list. No need for subdomains.
All they need to know is example.com.
Q: What's your domain name?
A: example.com
Q: So what's the name of your ftp server?
A: example.com.
Q: What's the smtp mail server?
A: example.com.
Q: What's your pop3 server?
A: example.com.
Q: So they're all on one machine?
A: No. We use magic pixie dust.
Thank you!
Reserve the extra stuff for subdomains. like blog.example.com, clients.example.com, specials.example.com, ads.example.com (so we can block that one more easily <:-0
We already know by the $PROTO http:/// portion that it's web traffic, not ftp or ssh or telnet or ...
Google has already interpreted the "sharing with the fuzz" the way I stated. They hand over the info without a warrant, because, under the TOS you agreed to, it only requires the expectation that the requester could obtain a warrant.
You just posted something nasty about Eric Schmidt? He "could" try get a warrant, so google has the legal right to let him see your info w/o a warrant.
Like I said, they've already done this.
My sites, and my email are hosted in Canada, and so is my ISP. Both PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act - federal) and provincial legislation guarantees that they may NOT ship personal information outside the borders of the country without my express consent, and that any release even inside Canada requires a warrant except in immediate emergency, which they have to explain afterwards.
Remember - faced with being banned in both Canada and Australia, facebook backed down. It's sad how Americans continue to tolerate intercepts without a warrant.
Which is why I said to use the telephone to give them the password. Always use a different channel of communications for the password. Phone. Fax. SMS. If you have to put it in an email, reference something that is specific but not to them only - "Second letter of each word in the first paragraph. You already know which book to use." The recipient knows it's not even a book, it's the obituaries in today's paper - a real one-time pad.
No, it doesn't. The rfc the poster quoted was about naming machines in general, NOT specifically about naming web servers. The title was "Choosing a name for your computer".
The pertinent part says"
In other words, don't name your machine "slashdot" and expect it to work all the time.
And:
And, as I point out, it's only a suggestion, now rendered obsolete by 20 years of practice:
Jesus was an unemployable bum, same as most of todays religious leaders couldn't hold a real job if their life depended on it. They're charity cases, con artists living off the proceeds of fleecing their flock.
Really? You wouldn't know it seeing how many gays are in positions of leadership in xian churches.
He must also love gossips and rumour-mongers, seeing as most fundie churches are SO busy telling everyone else how they should live or they're going to hell.
What next? Condemning transsexuals as "just men in dresses"? Or that divorced people can never remarry? Or that I'll go to hell for saying that i am absolutely convinced there is no possibility of god existing in this universe, and people who claim otherwise should put up or shit up?
And no, your book (which should be classified as hate literature) doesn't count as "proof", any more than Star Wars would prove the existence of "the force."
So god is NOT sovereign? We kind of figured that out already, but thanks for agreeing.
You don't need the "www" prefix to figure out that requests for port 80 are http, port 21 are ftp, 443 are https, 25 are smtp, and 110 is pop3.
For those wanting to try this at home and work around their providers' traffic blocking: You also don't need a the power consumption of a repurposed box for that when you can use port forwarding on a router. It'll even let you use one of your boxes on your home lan as a public-facing web/ftp/mail/whatever server (and you can set them up to listen to alternate ports, like 8080 for http, and 2525 for running your own private mail server). Throw in a redirect to your external ip from a known web page, and you're in business. You can even run a proxy that way.
Come off it. Many of us have to know how to get root on any box we can get our grubby paws on. Comes in handy when passwords get lost or the "admin" quits in a huff.
Besides, good developers administer their own machines, and their own networks. If you can't admin your own linux and bsd boxes, you're simply not qualified to be develop on them. You're an admin? YOU do not touch the developer boxes, YOU do not touch the svn server. YOU do not touch the test servers. Heck, YOU probably don't have root on the external servers, to keep you from screwing things up.
You're an admin for things like setting up email? Fine - go bug the Windows users. Or do you want to find a picture of yourself having gay sex in a cheap motel circulating on the net (historical note: the last time, it took the boss 3 weeks to find out they weren't real pics, but that I had GIMPed them).
If you want something safe from prying eyes, email encryption doesn't do it - people forward stuff all the time. Encrypt the attachment instead, and use another channel to communicate the password to ONLY the intended reader. This way, it doesn't matter how many people it gets forwarded to who can read the email itself.
Haven't read your agreement, have you? I have, and that's one reason I removed ALL of google's stuff from all my computers.
Read that last one twice - it means that they only have to believe that the request for information COULD be enforced, that the requester could get a warrant, not that they actually have one.
Also, you've agreed to them being able to process your data outside the US, where different laws apply. Forget about suing - you've already said they can do it.
I wouldn't trust them with anything business-related, not with such a one-sided agreement.
Did YOU even read RFC 1178?
You've made the classical mistake of mistaking the name of a thing with the thing itself.
It's 2 decades out of date, and more importantly, specifically states It does not specify any standard.
So don't quote an obsolete non-standard that doesn't even have anything to do with the current situation, which is getting rid of an anachronism.