One imagines it was made by Asus and sold by Amazon.com, since that's what he said. They sold it misconfigured, because Asus apparently doesn't have a QA department, or something.
Note, though, that the name change from System 7 to Mac OS happened officially with version 7.6 (and unofficially with 7.5.1) because of the clones; this name change had nothing to do with ending the clone program.
That current fiber will get SLOW. Not today, but down the road. By the city owning the full thing, they will not want to upgrade. OTH, if they control from some greenbox (either block or even subdivision level), then allow companies to come in with new updated tech from the box back to their service area. That would encourage new tech all the time. The hard part is the house to the Block level box.
Do you mean that as more people begin using the service, demand will exceed capacity and speeds will slow down for existing users? Or do you mean that as people's expectations increase, the speeds currently offered will begin to seem inadequate?
Who doesn't keep all their data on a seperate drive these days?
Most people.
Come on, saving your data to a second hard drive isn't going to protect you from a virus. If it's actually a second hard drive you've physically installed, it'll save you from a hard drive crash on your C: drive, but not from a hard drive crash on your D: drive which isn't any less likely to occur. If it's just a second partition, it won't even save you from that.
I realize that Slashdot is an exception, but among the general population, most people don't even have that much data. They could fit everything on a 4GB Flash drive except for pirated music and movies. The smarter ones do exactly that, making regular backups of anything they consider important.
Reinstalling Windows, on the other hand, takes a lot longer than two hours. It's two hours just to get Windows installed, all the necessary drivers working, and critical updates downloaded from Windows Update. Once that's done, then you have to reinstall all your applications, one at a time, some of which require a reboot after installation. There's your antivirus software, Microsoft Office, a decent web browser, all the little things like Java and Flash and a PDF viewer, a couple of video player apps (I like the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack which bundles Media Player Classic, and of course VLC), your audio player of choice (I use iTunes)... and that's just the standard stuff any PC needs in the 21st century. Then you're looking at reinstalling any applications you've purchased, and downloading and installing the updates and patches for those. Then there are all those little utilities and things you've downloaded over the years to make your life easier, some of which you won't even remember until you notice them missing (and then you have to remember the name of it so you can download it, unless the download site has disappeared because the developer closed up shop six months ago).
For most users, this is a daunting task. For many, it's something best left to professionals.
Of course if you're NOT talking about changing operating systems after a year, there's backup software that can save you from all this pain, but there are so many to choose from and most of them look like they might be complete crap and none of them are free. And of course, that's something you have to take care of BEFORE you have a problem, then continue doing regularly.
The city of Ashland in southern Oregon operates a fiber-optic network that's open to multiple ISPs. The city does not operate its own ISP at all, and they don't sell Internet access directly to residents; you have to sign up with an ISP, and the ISP pays the city for access to the fiber network. The city sets the speed and charges the ISP more for faster speeds, but the ISP provides the Internet connection, tech support, etc.
This sounds an awful like what Jobs did when he decided to kill off the clone makers after he came back as CEO. They had a license for OS 8, so he just changed the name to OS 9.
To be fair, it's not like going from 7.5 to 7.6 to 8.0 to 8.1 to 8.5 to 8.6 to 9.0 was a completely shocking progression.
If a military base is attacked, would it be a proportional, legitimate response to bring down the attacker's power grid if that would also shut down its hospital systems, its air traffic control system, or its banking system?
Give me a break.
If a US military base is attacked by a foreign government, whether physically or online, it is an act of war, and should be treated as such. A military response may be appropriate, and that could include an online attack as one component of the military strategy.
If a US military base is attacked by foreign teenagers in their parents' basements, it is a criminal act carried out by individual citizens, and should be treated as such. The perpetrators should be prosecuted by their own government in their own country, or extradited to our country to stand trial, depending on international treaties. No retaliation against the government of that country, or its infrastructure, is appropriate unless they refuse to take law enforcement action. If existing treaties don't allow things to work this way, then it's time to work on negotiating some new ones.
The whole notion of a "proportional response" is insane.
Ah, but do you remember AltaVista before they bought the altavista.com domain name? It used to be altavista.digital.com! Of course DEC became Compaq which became HP, and as others have corrected you, Yahoo! now owns AltaVista.
Earthlink? AOL? "...the late '90s"? Where the fuck were you in 1990 when I was downloading pr0n from a Usenet dialup BBS? Huh?
According to Wikipedia, fount of all human knowledge, GeoCities was created in late 1994, so what you may have been doing in 1990 has no bearing on this discussion.
You bring up an excellent point, about using unsubscribe forms to maintain the appearance of compliance.
Despite all the criticism, CAN-SPAM really wasn't a bad law. It would have been easy to write an anti-spam law that trampled all over freedom of speech rights, and I'm thankful that CAN-SPAM didn't do that. However, the law was never really enforced at all, and now that the spammers have figured out the loopholes, the law wouldn't really be effective anymore even if we did start enforcing it.
So, we could change CAN-SPAM to close the loopholes, but what would be the point? There's still no enforcement, and until that changes, nothing else really matters.
I get MASSIVE amounts of spam from the United Arab Emirates.
I have never been there and never intend to go there.
Do you think I opted in EVEN ONCE to these people who are claiming that I did?
No, of course not. I haven't had problems with spam from the UAE in particular, but I've configured my mail servers to flat-out refuse all mail from certain other countries (China, Korea and Nigeria, if I remember correctly).
I love some companies who feel the need to start emailing you simply after you bought something there once - and they never ask you if it's ok.
PLEASE don't lump this into the same category. It's a problem, but it's a completely different problem, with a different solution, and confusing the two just makes both problems harder to solve. I know you're angry, and you have a right to be, but try to make a distinction between lying thieving spammers spewing crap all over the Internet, and legitimate businesses exercising poor judgment.
It's a common practice, and perfectly legitimate, to ask if you'd like to subscribe to a newsletter when you make a purchase, and a lot of people might be interested in that. There are a couple of these that I'm subscribed to, that I want to receive, because they tell me about new products I might genuinely want to buy and sometimes give me discounts. It is not OK to sign you up for these things without asking first, but it's only a minor annoyance, not a huge problem. If it really bothers you, unsubscribe from the list, write to the company and complain, take your business elsewhere, and encourage your friends to do the same. Fine. I don't care.
But when you call them spammers, you're doing a huge disservice to the anti-spam community, by making it sound like real spammers aren't any worse than those guys. The real spammers are the ones who lie, cheat, steal, defraud, and ultimately cost the economy BILLIONS of dollars. They're the ones who make mail server administrators' lives a living hell, and who make e-mail on the whole less useful to everyone.
The company that failed to ask permission before adding its customers to a newsletter is merely annoying to its customers, but that's an easy problem to fix. Spammers are seriously detrimental to society, and that's a very difficult problem to fix.
Right Click -> Bounce works in Mail.app on OSX, I assume any other competant mail client will have a similar option.
The issue with bouncing them is the headers are probably forged anyway, so the bounce usually doesn't go anywhere useful:(
That option doesn't really work any better than clicking the Reply button and saying "I don't accept your message." To a casual observer, it looks very similar to a real bounce message from Sendmail, but for someone who knows what they're doing it's not hard to spot the fake (for example, there's an "X-Mailer: Apple Mail" header on the bounce message itself). It sets the return address to postoffice@(your domain), which is conspicuous by itself (it's not postmaster or MAILER-DAEMON).
If your intention is to fool an average human, go ahead and try it, but if your intention is to fool a spammer, you'll do more harm than good.
Although Linux is better than most systems out there...
Did you mean to say, "Windows is worse than most systems out there"? I don't think Linux is particularly more secure than any other non-Windows operating system...
You're kidding, right? Only tech enthusiasts want to watch YouTube? Tech enthusiasts are the ones using features like Spotlight (and whatever Microsoft calls their version of it in the Vista start menu)? Tech enthusiasts want to preview their documents before opening them, because they can't remember the name of the file they want but they know what it looks like?
Please. Tech enthusiasts are the ones who don't need these features, because we can get along just fine without them (although YouTube has some pretty awesome stuff on it). It's the non-technical users who need indexing and previews.
The only mainstream artist I know that uses flatulence is "Weird Al", you might want to check to see if your rump-riff is already copyrighted.
The noises you're thinking of (prominent in several of Al's older songs such as "Another One Rides The Bus" and "I Love Rocky Road") aren't really flatulence; they're hand noises created by "Musical Mike" Kieffer. He can be seen in the video for Headline News; the hand noises start at 2:39 and Musical Mike can be seen making them at 2:48 and 3:04.
I slept but my heart was awake.
Listen! My lover is knocking:
"Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove, my flawless one.
My head is drenched with dew,
my hair with the dampness of the night." I have taken off my robe--
must I put it on again?
I have washed my feet--
must I soil them again? My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening;
my heart began to pound for him.
Slashdot Mirror
Sort of like how Slashdotters oppose electronic voting machines. We know how stuff works, and why it's a bad idea!
Until you realize your VPN is using SSL which has recently become trivial to hack.
This is false; the linked article even says so (it cites SSL as an example of how MITM attacks can be prevented).
One imagines it was made by Asus and sold by Amazon.com, since that's what he said. They sold it misconfigured, because Asus apparently doesn't have a QA department, or something.
PS: not that this matters in any way, the Version number change that killed the clones was from 7.x to 8.0.
You are correct.
Note, though, that the name change from System 7 to Mac OS happened officially with version 7.6 (and unofficially with 7.5.1) because of the clones; this name change had nothing to do with ending the clone program.
That current fiber will get SLOW. Not today, but down the road. By the city owning the full thing, they will not want to upgrade. OTH, if they control from some greenbox (either block or even subdivision level), then allow companies to come in with new updated tech from the box back to their service area. That would encourage new tech all the time. The hard part is the house to the Block level box.
Do you mean that as more people begin using the service, demand will exceed capacity and speeds will slow down for existing users? Or do you mean that as people's expectations increase, the speeds currently offered will begin to seem inadequate?
No, but Klingon is an option for the Google web site itself.
Who doesn't keep all their data on a seperate drive these days?
Most people.
Come on, saving your data to a second hard drive isn't going to protect you from a virus. If it's actually a second hard drive you've physically installed, it'll save you from a hard drive crash on your C: drive, but not from a hard drive crash on your D: drive which isn't any less likely to occur. If it's just a second partition, it won't even save you from that.
I realize that Slashdot is an exception, but among the general population, most people don't even have that much data. They could fit everything on a 4GB Flash drive except for pirated music and movies. The smarter ones do exactly that, making regular backups of anything they consider important.
Reinstalling Windows, on the other hand, takes a lot longer than two hours. It's two hours just to get Windows installed, all the necessary drivers working, and critical updates downloaded from Windows Update. Once that's done, then you have to reinstall all your applications, one at a time, some of which require a reboot after installation. There's your antivirus software, Microsoft Office, a decent web browser, all the little things like Java and Flash and a PDF viewer, a couple of video player apps (I like the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack which bundles Media Player Classic, and of course VLC), your audio player of choice (I use iTunes)... and that's just the standard stuff any PC needs in the 21st century. Then you're looking at reinstalling any applications you've purchased, and downloading and installing the updates and patches for those. Then there are all those little utilities and things you've downloaded over the years to make your life easier, some of which you won't even remember until you notice them missing (and then you have to remember the name of it so you can download it, unless the download site has disappeared because the developer closed up shop six months ago).
For most users, this is a daunting task. For many, it's something best left to professionals.
Of course if you're NOT talking about changing operating systems after a year, there's backup software that can save you from all this pain, but there are so many to choose from and most of them look like they might be complete crap and none of them are free. And of course, that's something you have to take care of BEFORE you have a problem, then continue doing regularly.
The city of Ashland in southern Oregon operates a fiber-optic network that's open to multiple ISPs. The city does not operate its own ISP at all, and they don't sell Internet access directly to residents; you have to sign up with an ISP, and the ISP pays the city for access to the fiber network. The city sets the speed and charges the ISP more for faster speeds, but the ISP provides the Internet connection, tech support, etc.
This sounds an awful like what Jobs did when he decided to kill off the clone makers after he came back as CEO. They had a license for OS 8, so he just changed the name to OS 9.
To be fair, it's not like going from 7.5 to 7.6 to 8.0 to 8.1 to 8.5 to 8.6 to 9.0 was a completely shocking progression.
If a military base is attacked, would it be a proportional, legitimate response to bring down the attacker's power grid if that would also shut down its hospital systems, its air traffic control system, or its banking system?
Give me a break.
If a US military base is attacked by a foreign government, whether physically or online, it is an act of war, and should be treated as such. A military response may be appropriate, and that could include an online attack as one component of the military strategy.
If a US military base is attacked by foreign teenagers in their parents' basements, it is a criminal act carried out by individual citizens, and should be treated as such. The perpetrators should be prosecuted by their own government in their own country, or extradited to our country to stand trial, depending on international treaties. No retaliation against the government of that country, or its infrastructure, is appropriate unless they refuse to take law enforcement action. If existing treaties don't allow things to work this way, then it's time to work on negotiating some new ones.
The whole notion of a "proportional response" is insane.
Did you mean Yanni?
Perhaps you missed where I said "What's impressive about this story is NOT how awesome hams are"...
Heh, I've had that happen too. One of the perils of pissing people off on the Internet. Well worth it.
uhh, hello, myspace.com?
Ah, but do you remember AltaVista before they bought the altavista.com domain name? It used to be altavista.digital.com! Of course DEC became Compaq which became HP, and as others have corrected you, Yahoo! now owns AltaVista.
Earthlink? AOL? "...the late '90s"? Where the fuck were you in 1990 when I was downloading pr0n from a Usenet dialup BBS? Huh?
According to Wikipedia, fount of all human knowledge, GeoCities was created in late 1994, so what you may have been doing in 1990 has no bearing on this discussion.
You bring up an excellent point, about using unsubscribe forms to maintain the appearance of compliance.
Despite all the criticism, CAN-SPAM really wasn't a bad law. It would have been easy to write an anti-spam law that trampled all over freedom of speech rights, and I'm thankful that CAN-SPAM didn't do that. However, the law was never really enforced at all, and now that the spammers have figured out the loopholes, the law wouldn't really be effective anymore even if we did start enforcing it.
So, we could change CAN-SPAM to close the loopholes, but what would be the point? There's still no enforcement, and until that changes, nothing else really matters.
I get MASSIVE amounts of spam from the United Arab Emirates.
I have never been there and never intend to go there.
Do you think I opted in EVEN ONCE to these people who are claiming that I did?
No, of course not. I haven't had problems with spam from the UAE in particular, but I've configured my mail servers to flat-out refuse all mail from certain other countries (China, Korea and Nigeria, if I remember correctly).
I love some companies who feel the need to start emailing you simply after you bought something there once - and they never ask you if it's ok.
PLEASE don't lump this into the same category. It's a problem, but it's a completely different problem, with a different solution, and confusing the two just makes both problems harder to solve. I know you're angry, and you have a right to be, but try to make a distinction between lying thieving spammers spewing crap all over the Internet, and legitimate businesses exercising poor judgment.
It's a common practice, and perfectly legitimate, to ask if you'd like to subscribe to a newsletter when you make a purchase, and a lot of people might be interested in that. There are a couple of these that I'm subscribed to, that I want to receive, because they tell me about new products I might genuinely want to buy and sometimes give me discounts. It is not OK to sign you up for these things without asking first, but it's only a minor annoyance, not a huge problem. If it really bothers you, unsubscribe from the list, write to the company and complain, take your business elsewhere, and encourage your friends to do the same. Fine. I don't care.
But when you call them spammers, you're doing a huge disservice to the anti-spam community, by making it sound like real spammers aren't any worse than those guys. The real spammers are the ones who lie, cheat, steal, defraud, and ultimately cost the economy BILLIONS of dollars. They're the ones who make mail server administrators' lives a living hell, and who make e-mail on the whole less useful to everyone.
The company that failed to ask permission before adding its customers to a newsletter is merely annoying to its customers, but that's an easy problem to fix. Spammers are seriously detrimental to society, and that's a very difficult problem to fix.
Right Click -> Bounce works in Mail.app on OSX, I assume any other competant mail client will have a similar option.
The issue with bouncing them is the headers are probably forged anyway, so the bounce usually doesn't go anywhere useful :(
That option doesn't really work any better than clicking the Reply button and saying "I don't accept your message." To a casual observer, it looks very similar to a real bounce message from Sendmail, but for someone who knows what they're doing it's not hard to spot the fake (for example, there's an "X-Mailer: Apple Mail" header on the bounce message itself). It sets the return address to postoffice@(your domain), which is conspicuous by itself (it's not postmaster or MAILER-DAEMON).
If your intention is to fool an average human, go ahead and try it, but if your intention is to fool a spammer, you'll do more harm than good.
Although Linux is better than most systems out there...
Did you mean to say, "Windows is worse than most systems out there"? I don't think Linux is particularly more secure than any other non-Windows operating system...
You're kidding, right? Only tech enthusiasts want to watch YouTube? Tech enthusiasts are the ones using features like Spotlight (and whatever Microsoft calls their version of it in the Vista start menu)? Tech enthusiasts want to preview their documents before opening them, because they can't remember the name of the file they want but they know what it looks like?
Please. Tech enthusiasts are the ones who don't need these features, because we can get along just fine without them (although YouTube has some pretty awesome stuff on it). It's the non-technical users who need indexing and previews.
What's impressive about this story is not how awesome hams are, but how swiftly the local authorities turned to them for help.
Yes you did...
The only mainstream artist I know that uses flatulence is "Weird Al", you might want to check to see if your rump-riff is already copyrighted.
The noises you're thinking of (prominent in several of Al's older songs such as "Another One Rides The Bus" and "I Love Rocky Road") aren't really flatulence; they're hand noises created by "Musical Mike" Kieffer. He can be seen in the video for Headline News; the hand noises start at 2:39 and Musical Mike can be seen making them at 2:48 and 3:04.
Yes, I am white & nerdy, how did you know?
I slept but my heart was awake.
Listen! My lover is knocking:
"Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove, my flawless one.
My head is drenched with dew,
my hair with the dampness of the night."
I have taken off my robe--
must I put it on again?
I have washed my feet--
must I soil them again?
My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening;
my heart began to pound for him.
Song of Solomon 5:2-4 (NIV)
I'm sure it loses something in translation.