Okay, lets see if I can explain a dictionary to you.
You see, a dictionary, like websters, lists multiple definitions, including older less used ones. Dictionaries do not tend to go on deleting sprees, instead they put a number in front and have multiple definitions.
You know, I've been here for years, I've never attacked a person directly without them attacking me first. Yet you seem to think that your behavior is somehow acceptable.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Websters defines the following:
One entry found for militia.
Main Entry: militia Pronunciation: m&-'li-sh& Function: noun Etymology: Latin, military service, from milit-, miles 1 a : a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency b : a body of citizens organized for military service 2 : the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service
I still say it declares that you CAN form and serve in an armed service when it is necessary for the protection of the country. Not 'you can keep and bear arms' without any set purpose.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Ok, please point out where obscene and offensive speech is listed in there.
And while I'm at it, This one is for your sig
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed
Does not mean that the average joe user gets to own a small arsenal.
If you close off ports, allow knowledgeable users to open them if they agree to suffer the consequences.
You are absolutely right!
I wasn't saying block ports and don't allow people to open them. I'm saying block ports by default. Give instructions on how to unblock.
A good example is TimeWarner. They sell cable modems and high speed connections, then they make a firewall an optional add-on. Force the firewall, problem solved. Give the users an instruction sheet on how to edit it, 90% will never go near it anyway.
ISPs need to be responsible on many levels. The same way the phone company doesn't let you run rampant on their network, ISPs shouldn't just dump you on the Internet.
Wasn't IPv6, combined with proper filtering supposed to curb these problems?
Alot of the blame falls on the ISP, they helped turn the Internet into a always-on appliance, now they have to make it robust.
Why does my ISP allow packets off my network that obviously don't originate from it? Is it considered a feature to allow DoS attacks? Why is port 25 open by default? Why isn't NetBIOS closed by default? Where is the IPv6 testbed that my ISP was supposed to have had 3 years ago?
Granted, the average Joe User can be an idiot, but part of the ISP's job is to make the Internet more idiot-proof.
I would really like to see a worm/virus/trojan that makes the user's hard drive rip itself out of the computer, beat the user with a bat and run screaming down the hall.
Can someone code that feature?
Seriously, I would love to see one of these programs that just turns the victims internet connection OFF. Granted, I don't think it would spread very well.
I tried Hostway... but quit using them when I realized they had several "we can charge you an indeterminate amount" clauses in their domain registration agreement
Your credit card has protections for places like this. Many CC companies offer single-use virtual cards now for no extra charge. If you have a dispute, you close the virtual card and contact your CC company to file a dispute of charges.
Remember, this is a last resort. You have to make an effort to resolve the problem first.
Well, duh. Of course they are not going to transfer you to the president of the company. The important thing is that you make it known that you are extremely dissatisfied. And the idea is not to have just one person complaining, it's to have lots of people complaining, over and over and over.
Eventually, it does make a difference.
By the way, these were examples, not a rulebook. Do you always take everything that literally, or do you run a customer service center?
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As you can see, this ties in nicely with the recent Ask Slashdot item The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had?
Worst job ever: Slashcode developer.
Does anyone remember the old MSNBC web game Dark Horse, where you ran a presidential campaign?
Granted, this will be more complex. Either way, it's good to see Pol/Econ turn based games becoming more popular again.
There's also some systems that have artifical memory caps. A RAM drive/swapfile would be nice when your main system can't go over 384 or 512mb.
(Thanks Intel, love that 815 chipset, and you wonder why I'm switching to AMD...ok, granted, that was 2 systems ago, but I hold grudges)
I worked for a company in a similar situation, and yes, I too argued with marketing over opt-in vs opt-out.
And they boiled it down to a simple formula.
If the person is a current customer, they get a monthly newsletter, they can opt-out at any time.
If the person never ordered, they can opt-in to the newsletter.
If the person was a customer, but has not ordered in over a year, they stop getting newsletters, and can opt-in to keep getting them.
Personally, I don't think it's the best solution, but it works, and we rarely get complaints.
Fake TLDs. Why are they considered fake? Because they are not included in the default install of BIND?
Please, point out the RFC where it specifically says, "the following TLD servers MUST be used"?
Please don't attribute that song to Wierd Al, he didn't write or sing it.
I have heard it several times and it's not anywhere near Wierd Al's level of quality, how someone thought it was him is beyond me.
I believe it was done by Bob Rivers at twistedtunes.com, but I could be wrong about that.
WOW! This TV has words on it!
Like pretty much every other new technology standard, it's going to take a few revs before people get the full benefits of PCI Express and DDR2.
It will happen, the same way PCI made ISA video cards go away. It took a while, but it happened. Then came AGP, and PCI video went away.
Last time I checked (late last year) Slashdot didn't do IPv6
Last time I checked, Slashdot didn't do valid HTML either.
Okay, lets see if I can explain a dictionary to you.
You see, a dictionary, like websters, lists multiple definitions, including older less used ones. Dictionaries do not tend to go on deleting sprees, instead they put a number in front and have multiple definitions.
You know, I've been here for years, I've never attacked a person directly without them attacking me first. Yet you seem to think that your behavior is somehow acceptable.
You are a sad excuse for a person.
You spelled felons wrong in your last comment.
So, your point was?
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Websters defines the following:
One entry found for militia.
Main Entry: militia
Pronunciation: m&-'li-sh&
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, military service, from milit-, miles
1 a : a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency b : a body of citizens organized for military service
2 : the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service
I still say it declares that you CAN form and serve in an armed service when it is necessary for the protection of the country. Not 'you can keep and bear arms' without any set purpose.
Okay, please explain how "Well Regulated Militia" = "Joe User's arsenal".
Well regulated means well regulated, it doesn't mean every yahoo can go buy a AK-47.
It does mean every yahoo can apply to join the Armed forces or Police Force.
Now, if it read:
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state; the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
or
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state. The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Then everyone gets a gun, thank you, drive thru.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Ok, please point out where obscene and offensive speech is listed in there.
And while I'm at it, This one is for your sig
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed
Does not mean that the average joe user gets to own a small arsenal.
I don't usually reply to my own messages, but there were too many of the same message replied over and over.
I said the ISP should block some ports by default.
"BY DEFAULT" are the key words here.
I didn't say close and keep closed, which is what many of you read.
I said the average Joe should have a choice and default to more locked down connection.
If you close off ports, allow knowledgeable users to open them if they agree to suffer the consequences.
You are absolutely right!
I wasn't saying block ports and don't allow people to open them. I'm saying block ports by default. Give instructions on how to unblock.
A good example is TimeWarner. They sell cable modems and high speed connections, then they make a firewall an optional add-on. Force the firewall, problem solved. Give the users an instruction sheet on how to edit it, 90% will never go near it anyway.
ISPs need to be responsible on many levels. The same way the phone company doesn't let you run rampant on their network, ISPs shouldn't just dump you on the Internet.
Wasn't IPv6, combined with proper filtering supposed to curb these problems?
Alot of the blame falls on the ISP, they helped turn the Internet into a always-on appliance, now they have to make it robust.
Why does my ISP allow packets off my network that obviously don't originate from it? Is it considered a feature to allow DoS attacks? Why is port 25 open by default? Why isn't NetBIOS closed by default? Where is the IPv6 testbed that my ISP was supposed to have had 3 years ago?
Granted, the average Joe User can be an idiot, but part of the ISP's job is to make the Internet more idiot-proof.
Writing an OS so that one process can't stomp on other processes it doesn't have permission to.
I agree 100%. The windows developer community needs to totally and outright kill 95/98/Me support, and start using the built in security in 2000/XP.
Having absolutely everything running as an administrator is a huge mistake.
I would really like to see a worm/virus/trojan that makes the user's hard drive rip itself out of the computer, beat the user with a bat and run screaming down the hall.
Can someone code that feature?
Seriously, I would love to see one of these programs that just turns the victims internet connection OFF. Granted, I don't think it would spread very well.
Well, after finding a list of local Restaurants, I was then able to take that data and pull up a list of their latest Dept. Of Health inspections...
Now, I'm really wondering why I did that. I don't think I'll eat out anytime soon.
I think the next god up is Jeff, the god of biscuits.
(With apologies to E.I. for stealing his line.)
I tried Hostway ... but quit using them when I realized they had several "we can charge you an indeterminate amount" clauses in their domain registration agreement
Your credit card has protections for places like this. Many CC companies offer single-use virtual cards now for no extra charge. If you have a dispute, you close the virtual card and contact your CC company to file a dispute of charges.
Remember, this is a last resort. You have to make an effort to resolve the problem first.
I would say it's more like saying Ford can not bundle a radio with their car. But to each their own.
I'm under a NDA regarding Service Pack 2, so I won't go into any details about it.
I can say that you shouldn't trust everything you read about beta software as true. (This applies to all beta software)
Well, duh. Of course they are not going to transfer you to the president of the company. The important thing is that you make it known that you are extremely dissatisfied. And the idea is not to have just one person complaining, it's to have lots of people complaining, over and over and over.
Eventually, it does make a difference.
By the way, these were examples, not a rulebook. Do you always take everything that literally, or do you run a customer service center?
Tech support is horrible because the customers are letting it get horrible.
Complain. Often, constantly, daily. Write letters, not email, call every day.
Tie up their support phone lines to the point where nothing gets done. Tie up their sales lines as well.
Demand to speak to the president of the company.
File complaints with every consumer group you can find.
Write to magazines, tell them how horrible the support is, tell them you hate the products.
If the company has 12,000 unresolved complaints filed with the BBB in a 2 month period, what do you think will happen to their customer service?
More important to them, what do you think will happen to their stock price?