Who do I trust? A typical Slashdot user (even one modded up for some reason) or dictionary.com?
The below is taken from dictionary.com
piracy/parsi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pahy-ruh-see] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation -noun, plural -cies. 1. practice of a pirate; robbery or illegal violence at sea. 2. the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc.: The record industry is beset with piracy. 3. Also called stream capture. Geology. diversion of the upper part of one stream by the headward growth of another.
I guess I will go with FSM. So far he has not let me down on the topic of pirates and global warming.
Nah, you just have to set your DNS server to either be just a caching DNS server or else do something else like query every possible record on their zones as fast as possible. Yes, send 10,000,000 queries per second to their server to try and get all of the records by hand. I think they would like this a lot more than zone transfers! Zone transfers are a very bad idea, especially incrementals...
Oh but Intel does support porn. I bet over half of the porn sites out there are running on Intel hardware! Intel is actually the mack daddy of porn supporters if you think about it in this way.
Jay: All these assholes on the Internet are calling us names because of this stupid fucking movie. Banky: That's what the Internet is for. Slandering others anonymously. Stopping the flick isn't gonna stop that.
So what would it take for you to legally buy music? Or are you using the unrealistic "I'm never buying until I can get a 512kbps Ogg track for a penny" rationalization?
So you obviously did not read my comment. I said I do buy music, the occasional independent CD. I am also open to purchasing music online (mp3, ogg, whatever format) but I will not accept it if I have to be locked into a particular program or hardware player to use the purchased and downloaded music file(s).
Hahaha, you just purchased $200 in CDs? I have not been buying CDs for about 8 or 9 years with the occasional exception for some independent artists.
What is it going to take before all consumers simply say "enough of this hassle, no more music purchases?"
Well, it will take all of the consumers who don't read slashdot (which is probably an overwhelming majority of people) to be made aware of all these things the RIAA is doing and then to understand and comprehend what it all means and how that might affect their behavior.
Yeah, status quo is fine. Let's not try to push our children into learning important things at a younger age. Let's continue to do the same exact things forever and ever because that is the best way; live inside the box, outside of the box is a bad place.
Come on. You have no sense of adaptability and expect the next generation of humans not to excel and surpass you? Kids in the 20's were learning different things then they are in todays world. Do you think we should go back to the 20's education programs?
Computers are going to be so embedded into almost every single thing in the world, why would you drag your feet so much to get them exposed to computers to be build a solid foundation of experience and comfort? They will be using computers to make the next wave huge technological advancements in engineering, biology, etc.
I use a Bayesian filter, perhaps you've heard of it? It filters about 300 messages a day. That's down, from about 3000 a day a year ago. Filter the content, not the source.
Good for you. Bayesian filters work great for some scenarios, but they do not work well for everyone. Do you think companies like Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, etc can use Bayesian filters? They have to be trained by the end user which is not an easy task or even possible in some cases like where people outsource their anti-spam to other companies because they do not have the capabilities or resources to do it themselves.
Why should I waste all of my time looking and and handling spam emails I never wanted, requested, or occasionally specifically asked to not to receive?
No idea. Why DO you? I don't.
I don't do this either, I use multiple public SBL's, signature based, surbl, and a self tweaking and auto expiring local SBL. I do not have much spam getting to me. I then get a daily digest of all "spam" sent to me that shows me the subject and mailfrom of all emails the day before or at any time I can log into my "quarantine" and view, release, delete, or forward these "spam" from the quarantine.
If you don't like block lists, don't use them.
I was unable to email my own mother for over 3 months because her ISP uses RBL and my IP was in a banned block. So yes, I wasn't using it, but the recipient was, without her knowledge or even informed consent. The fact is, we don't GET a choice. We're at the mercy of rabid sysadmins.
You and your mom DO get a choice, use a mail service other than your ISP. Besides, if you think your general ISP is not using an SBL then you obviously are not in touch with reality. 99% of ISPs probably use SBLs. Deal with with or move.
Well then you obviously are not on the receiving end of millions of spam emails every day that *COULD* have been rejected outright if only you'd been using an SBL. Or you have so much free time to delete all of the junk emails, in which case where do you work? I would like a job? The whole basis of your argument gives no explanation as to how block lists are flawed morally. Technically flawed, yes. Morally flawed, I'd say no. Why should I waste all of my time looking and and handling spam emails I never wanted, requested, or occasionally specifically asked to not to receive? Just so I can be morally superior to spammers?
Let's pretend I agree that SBL's are immoral, I'd gladly take the hit to my moral standing if it means the (even less moral) spammers can't get as much of their crap to my inbox.
No one sane has ever said that block lists are the ultimate solution for the fight against spam, it is a very useful and very effective supplement to other measures. If something better comes along, I'd gladly use it.
True the city of minneapolis is an anchor tenant of the service at large, especially with the deployment of the 4.9ghz public safety frequency. This is for police, ambulances, etc. use only. But on top of all of that there are plenty of residential and transient/nomad users already signed up and probably some businesses too.
Making a profit doesn't actually happen until the huge initial up front capital investment is recouped from service subscriptions, which may take several years.
Great intuition:) In the forum thread, linked from the story, they mention it seems like an inside job multiple times, including once where they claim the detective on the case stated it as well. Are there other data centers in Chicago that get robbed? I have never heard of this kind of thing happening before. I work for an ISP / data center in the upper midwest (not in Chicago or even IL).
Win95, Win98, and WinME all can't handle more than 512MB of RAM anyways
SYMPTOMS If a computer that is running any of the versions of Windows that are listed above contains more than 512 megabytes (for example, 768 megabytes) of physical memory (RAM), you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:
You may be unable to open an MS-DOS session (or command prompt) while Windows is running. The computer may stop responding (hang) while Windows is starting, or halt and display the following error message:
Here is one of their suggested workarounds:
Reduce the amount of memory that is installed in your computer to 512 MB or less.
If you were living in a box would you prefer to keep it that way and not make improvements (changes), even in the option was available to you? They are ready to make major improvements and you feel that is not necessary? Well consider this, they are still Beta as can be seen from the Gmail logo on every Gmail screen. If you don't like change to Beta software you should consider using something classified production ready software (you know, non Beta). Just a thought.
Also just about everything in life changes eventually. If that is not for you then maybe you should consider not living.:)
Relax, don't take what I am saying to heart, I am just a slashdotter.
They also appear to be blocking protocols other than HTTP. I was troubleshooting SMTP connection problems with a company in China. During the transmission of the body of email from an SMTP server in China to an SMTP server in the US we were getting RSTs, this was completely reproducible. The company in China had a private link to a carrier outside of China and when they routed their outbound SMTP traffic across this link they did not have any problems delivering the mail. Switched back to their regular chinese connection and they were getting RSTs again. We never spent the time trying to narrow it down to specific content within the message body, but that might have been interesting to see what it was as the content seemed to be rather innocuous.
If you want to look for a well supported wifi chipset just look at this list: http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html. If you pick something off that list then run OpenBSD you get a fully functional and supported open source driver and as an added benefit you get to use OpenBSD.:)
Good thing Earthlink was not picked to handle the wifi for Minneapolis. Minneapolis seems to be fairly functional, though still not finished there are a bunch using it that are generally satisfied from what I understand.
And you forget the most important reason for them to write OpenCVS. Each developer works on whatever project or program that he or she wants to. Theo and others might encourage others onto certain projects but he does not dictate programmer XYZ needs to work on program ABC. They do what interests them and what is useful for them. Now, if it happens that your needs/desires matches up with 1 or more programmers' desires then you are in luck and likely good things will happen on what it is you're interested in. Fortunately for those of us that are interested in having an overall secure OS, we're in luck as all or more of the OpenBSD developers also have security as a key design and implementation goal in all of their programming for the OS.
There are not a lot of carriers with POPs in the middle of the desert (or frozen forests) I am guessing. Or power, or easy access to diesel fuel providers, or hardware vendors, or a million other useful things colo providers like to be around.
Yeah there would never be any sand getting into the AC filters nor pounding sun raising the temp.
I guess you'd have a lot less random crazy people visiting and causing trouble out there more some from the random scorpions acting as security.:)
I am not arguing for SF to be used as a colo facility, but come on, there is a lot of wealthy people with money to spend in the SF area. If people are willing to spend their money, people will come up with stuff to sell them.
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Who do I trust? A typical Slashdot user (even one modded up for some reason) or dictionary.com?
/parsi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pahy-ruh-see] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
The below is taken from dictionary.com
piracy
-noun, plural -cies.
1. practice of a pirate; robbery or illegal violence at sea.
2. the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc.: The record industry is beset with piracy.
3. Also called stream capture. Geology. diversion of the upper part of one stream by the headward growth of another.
I guess I will go with FSM. So far he has not let me down on the topic of pirates and global warming.
Wow. It was not meant to be taken literally, it was laced with sarcasm.
Nah, you just have to set your DNS server to either be just a caching DNS server or else do something else like query every possible record on their zones as fast as possible. Yes, send 10,000,000 queries per second to their server to try and get all of the records by hand. I think they would like this a lot more than zone transfers! Zone transfers are a very bad idea, especially incrementals...
Bunch of dumbasses!
Oh but Intel does support porn. I bet over half of the porn sites out there are running on Intel hardware! Intel is actually the mack daddy of porn supporters if you think about it in this way.
Jay: All these assholes on the Internet are calling us names because of this stupid fucking movie.
Banky: That's what the Internet is for. Slandering others anonymously. Stopping the flick isn't gonna stop that.
So what would it take for you to legally buy music? Or are you using the unrealistic "I'm never buying until I can get a 512kbps Ogg track for a penny" rationalization?
So you obviously did not read my comment. I said I do buy music, the occasional independent CD. I am also open to purchasing music online (mp3, ogg, whatever format) but I will not accept it if I have to be locked into a particular program or hardware player to use the purchased and downloaded music file(s).
What is it going to take before all consumers simply say "enough of this hassle, no more music purchases?"
Well, it will take all of the consumers who don't read slashdot (which is probably an overwhelming majority of people) to be made aware of all these things the RIAA is doing and then to understand and comprehend what it all means and how that might affect their behavior.
Yeah, status quo is fine. Let's not try to push our children into learning important things at a younger age. Let's continue to do the same exact things forever and ever because that is the best way; live inside the box, outside of the box is a bad place.
Come on. You have no sense of adaptability and expect the next generation of humans not to excel and surpass you? Kids in the 20's were learning different things then they are in todays world. Do you think we should go back to the 20's education programs?
Computers are going to be so embedded into almost every single thing in the world, why would you drag your feet so much to get them exposed to computers to be build a solid foundation of experience and comfort? They will be using computers to make the next wave huge technological advancements in engineering, biology, etc.
Good for you. Bayesian filters work great for some scenarios, but they do not work well for everyone. Do you think companies like Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, etc can use Bayesian filters? They have to be trained by the end user which is not an easy task or even possible in some cases like where people outsource their anti-spam to other companies because they do not have the capabilities or resources to do it themselves.
Why should I waste all of my time looking and and handling spam emails I never wanted, requested, or occasionally specifically asked to not to receive?
No idea. Why DO you? I don't.
I don't do this either, I use multiple public SBL's, signature based, surbl, and a self tweaking and auto expiring local SBL. I do not have much spam getting to me. I then get a daily digest of all "spam" sent to me that shows me the subject and mailfrom of all emails the day before or at any time I can log into my "quarantine" and view, release, delete, or forward these "spam" from the quarantine.
If you don't like block lists, don't use them.
I was unable to email my own mother for over 3 months because her ISP uses RBL and my IP was in a banned block. So yes, I wasn't using it, but the recipient was, without her knowledge or even informed consent. The fact is, we don't GET a choice. We're at the mercy of rabid sysadmins.
You and your mom DO get a choice, use a mail service other than your ISP. Besides, if you think your general ISP is not using an SBL then you obviously are not in touch with reality. 99% of ISPs probably use SBLs. Deal with with or move.
Well then you obviously are not on the receiving end of millions of spam emails every day that *COULD* have been rejected outright if only you'd been using an SBL. Or you have so much free time to delete all of the junk emails, in which case where do you work? I would like a job? The whole basis of your argument gives no explanation as to how block lists are flawed morally. Technically flawed, yes. Morally flawed, I'd say no. Why should I waste all of my time looking and and handling spam emails I never wanted, requested, or occasionally specifically asked to not to receive? Just so I can be morally superior to spammers?
Let's pretend I agree that SBL's are immoral, I'd gladly take the hit to my moral standing if it means the (even less moral) spammers can't get as much of their crap to my inbox.
No one sane has ever said that block lists are the ultimate solution for the fight against spam, it is a very useful and very effective supplement to other measures. If something better comes along, I'd gladly use it.
If you don't like block lists, don't use them.
"In space no one can eat ice cream" from KKFOS
or the more critically acclaimed
"In space no one can hear you scream" from Alien
True the city of minneapolis is an anchor tenant of the service at large, especially with the deployment of the 4.9ghz public safety frequency. This is for police, ambulances, etc. use only. But on top of all of that there are plenty of residential and transient/nomad users already signed up and probably some businesses too.
Making a profit doesn't actually happen until the huge initial up front capital investment is recouped from service subscriptions, which may take several years.
Great intuition :) In the forum thread, linked from the story, they mention it seems like an inside job multiple times, including once where they claim the detective on the case stated it as well. Are there other data centers in Chicago that get robbed? I have never heard of this kind of thing happening before. I work for an ISP / data center in the upper midwest (not in Chicago or even IL).
Win95, Win98, and WinME all can't handle more than 512MB of RAM anyways
SYMPTOMS
If a computer that is running any of the versions of Windows that are listed above contains more than 512 megabytes (for example, 768 megabytes) of physical memory (RAM), you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:
You may be unable to open an MS-DOS session (or command prompt) while Windows is running.
The computer may stop responding (hang) while Windows is starting, or halt and display the following error message:
Here is one of their suggested workarounds:
Reduce the amount of memory that is installed in your computer to 512 MB or less.
Here is their support article on it http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q253912&ID=KB;EN-US;Q253912
This is how REAL programmers program
If you were living in a box would you prefer to keep it that way and not make improvements (changes), even in the option was available to you? They are ready to make major improvements and you feel that is not necessary? Well consider this, they are still Beta as can be seen from the Gmail logo on every Gmail screen. If you don't like change to Beta software you should consider using something classified production ready software (you know, non Beta). Just a thought.
:)
Also just about everything in life changes eventually. If that is not for you then maybe you should consider not living.
Relax, don't take what I am saying to heart, I am just a slashdotter.
They also appear to be blocking protocols other than HTTP. I was troubleshooting SMTP connection problems with a company in China. During the transmission of the body of email from an SMTP server in China to an SMTP server in the US we were getting RSTs, this was completely reproducible. The company in China had a private link to a carrier outside of China and when they routed their outbound SMTP traffic across this link they did not have any problems delivering the mail. Switched back to their regular chinese connection and they were getting RSTs again. We never spent the time trying to narrow it down to specific content within the message body, but that might have been interesting to see what it was as the content seemed to be rather innocuous.
If you want to look for a well supported wifi chipset just look at this list: http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html. If you pick something off that list then run OpenBSD you get a fully functional and supported open source driver and as an added benefit you get to use OpenBSD. :)
Good thing Earthlink was not picked to handle the wifi for Minneapolis. Minneapolis seems to be fairly functional, though still not finished there are a bunch using it that are generally satisfied from what I understand.
Stupid Slashdot linking. If you have the "show domain" Slashdot prefence for links ignore the '[yourdomainhere]' part.
Just fix it for them like this, that way you don't even have to bother with a warning page or anything
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://youdomainhere/$1 [R,L]
And you forget the most important reason for them to write OpenCVS. Each developer works on whatever project or program that he or she wants to. Theo and others might encourage others onto certain projects but he does not dictate programmer XYZ needs to work on program ABC. They do what interests them and what is useful for them. Now, if it happens that your needs/desires matches up with 1 or more programmers' desires then you are in luck and likely good things will happen on what it is you're interested in. Fortunately for those of us that are interested in having an overall secure OS, we're in luck as all or more of the OpenBSD developers also have security as a key design and implementation goal in all of their programming for the OS.
unless of course you are of the opinion that BSD is dying.
There are not a lot of carriers with POPs in the middle of the desert (or frozen forests) I am guessing. Or power, or easy access to diesel fuel providers, or hardware vendors, or a million other useful things colo providers like to be around.
... if they have many feeds 30 miles south of the Hwy 264 sign on this map:. 133575&spn=0.988434,1.867676&t=h&z=9&om=1
:)
Ask Qwest or Verizon or AT&T or
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.851213,-111
Yeah there would never be any sand getting into the AC filters nor pounding sun raising the temp.
I guess you'd have a lot less random crazy people visiting and causing trouble out there more some from the random scorpions acting as security.
I am not arguing for SF to be used as a colo facility, but come on, there is a lot of wealthy people with money to spend in the SF area. If people are willing to spend their money, people will come up with stuff to sell them.