Does anyone here have personal experience with Jeremy Porter, ICANN member?
He used to own freeside ISP in Austin, Texas before he sold out. I had the misfortune of having professional contact with him, after my company bought his. He used PROFANITY on an OFFICIAL COMPANY MAILING LIST when one of his employees (not co-worker, he was very quick to point out the distinction) made a bonehead configuration error on a router which required a trip to the office to sort out. His solution to pretty much any problem was "Install a FreeBSD box"...despite the fact that no company staff but himself had any kind of BSD experience at all.
When I hear of ICANN's current-day problems, I just think..."Jeremy Porter", and it all becomes crystal-clear.
The reason is simple - writers need to know they're working for a classy publication that agrees with their political views. An office in San Francisco is very reassuring, as one can then say, "I work for an online publication based in progressive San Francisco." This kind of posturing among writers is far, far more important than anyone gives it credit for. Who the heck wants to work for a "virtual company" with a secretary and mailing address in Des Moines, Iowa? You'll quickly find yourself disinvited from all the right art openings and cocktail parties.
The truly sad part is, this isn't flamebait or trolling!
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Hello - web-cluebie! Everybody knows if you want to drink from the firehose of porn, you go to USENET alt.binaries.erotica newsgroups. If you want your credit card (Ha! who uses his own credit card to subscribe to porn sites?) repeatedly charged even after "cancelling", and newsgroups are "too hard", then sure, subscribe to a pay site.
This is a real issue. I was involved in a court case recently, where an email server had fallen down after receiving a mere 14,000 emails. The mail server (a 4x450 CPU Sun E4500) had really bad mail processing software. The cluebies who set it up caused sendmail to spawn a shell process and a SQL script for *each incoming email*. That's right, two expensive processes just to get one email injected into the database. Needless to say, after the first 500 mails or so, the system load was above 100 and the machine was not doing anything but processing mail (needless to say, it was an "all-in-one" server, that had Oracle, apache web interface, OAS, DNS running). The FBI prosecuted the guy for "executing a remote command to do damage" and "unauthorized access".
Was he wrong? All he did was send some email. It's not his fault the machine fell down, it was an unscalable design.
Bzzt. You're one of the folks who moved in to Austin the past few years, right?
For years Austin's sole VHF station was Channel 7 KTBC, a CBS affiliate. Of course, everyone knows VHF beats UHF hands down in quality...that's why all of Houston's network affiliates are VHF, and the crappy stations (I'm sorry, but Fox and WB and other "networks" that broadcast a grand total of 2 hours of programming a day do NOT qualify) are UHF. KTBC was owned by the Johnson family for many years, and they used their leverage with the Feds to keep any and all competing stations off VHF. If you wanted to broadcast in LBJ's territory, you got shunted off to the UHF ghetto.
Whew. Good to hear that with the firing, the problems are gone.
I'm also glad things like this only happen to American companies. The European economy is apparently immune to these sorts of scandals, which is a breath of fresh air.
Legal questions only end up in front of a judge or jury when lawyers have dropped the ball. No lawyer likes rolling the dice when it comes to protecting his company's interests.
This story is a "red herring". Suppose a breakthrough law is passed, allowing all U.N. citizens to own their own biometric data. All of the sudden, consent forms appear everywhere, and you are required to consent to the ownership of your personal data. Persons rejecting this deal would not be able to do business with any of the institutions required in daily life (banks, drivers licenses, etc). Nothing would change.
That autoporn site SUCKS. It's just a bunch of links to free pictures on the WEB(yuck). The descriptions make you not want to click on any of the links. Real geeks drink their porn from the firehose of USENET.
Hey, hey...this is MIT we're talking about, not some crass corporation only responsible to its stockholders. MIT students don't use crass corporate software. MIT students create the future!
I wouldn't go so far as saying the first Mac changed the world - perhaps it made things easier for a few well-off individuals, but its impact was limited, at best. Macs were *expensive*.
911 calls are free from pay phones. Wait, they're free from American pay phones. Heaven forbid I should tell Canadians how to run a telephone system.
Pay phone calls are not 25 cents, and haven't been for several years. The Verizon pay phones down the street from me are 50 cents. Many pay phones do not even accept loose change, as it's just easier to restrict your customer base to those customers who have credit cards or calling cards.
The "what if someone dies because 911 can't be called from a cell phone" argument sounds suspiciously close to "won't somebody please think of the children!!", which we all know is crap.
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He used to own freeside ISP in Austin, Texas before he sold out. I had the misfortune of having professional contact with him, after my company bought his. He used PROFANITY on an OFFICIAL COMPANY MAILING LIST when one of his employees (not co-worker, he was very quick to point out the distinction) made a bonehead configuration error on a router which required a trip to the office to sort out. His solution to pretty much any problem was "Install a FreeBSD box"...despite the fact that no company staff but himself had any kind of BSD experience at all.
When I hear of ICANN's current-day problems, I just think..."Jeremy Porter", and it all becomes crystal-clear.
The parent post was misleading, slanted, and patently unfair. I couldn't have put it better what the grandparent post was complaining about.
Go to hell!
Damn, it felt good to say that.
The truly sad part is, this isn't flamebait or trolling!
Hello - web-cluebie! Everybody knows if you want to drink from the firehose of porn, you go to USENET alt.binaries.erotica newsgroups. If you want your credit card (Ha! who uses his own credit card to subscribe to porn sites?) repeatedly charged even after "cancelling", and newsgroups are "too hard", then sure, subscribe to a pay site.
b) Culture is more than "being able to eat at dozens of cusines". Hard to believe, I'm sure, but it's true.
Was he wrong? All he did was send some email. It's not his fault the machine fell down, it was an unscalable design.
Not to mention we have no idea what city this channel 13 was in.
For years Austin's sole VHF station was Channel 7 KTBC, a CBS affiliate. Of course, everyone knows VHF beats UHF hands down in quality...that's why all of Houston's network affiliates are VHF, and the crappy stations (I'm sorry, but Fox and WB and other "networks" that broadcast a grand total of 2 hours of programming a day do NOT qualify) are UHF. KTBC was owned by the Johnson family for many years, and they used their leverage with the Feds to keep any and all competing stations off VHF. If you wanted to broadcast in LBJ's territory, you got shunted off to the UHF ghetto.
You sure you didn't just make this all up, just to scratch some sort of itch you got due to reading too much kuro5hin.org and salon.com?
You're KIDDING, right? You actually miss the automated, off-topic crap denying the Armenian genocide? Jeez! Who else do you miss, Cantor & Siegel?!
Man, I knew there were some lousy Ask Slashdots in the past, but this one takes the cake.
I'm also glad things like this only happen to American companies. The European economy is apparently immune to these sorts of scandals, which is a breath of fresh air.
Legal questions only end up in front of a judge or jury when lawyers have dropped the ball. No lawyer likes rolling the dice when it comes to protecting his company's interests.
Or for that matter, anywhere it doesn't have a clear view of the sky. Such as in your pocket.
People actually think there is a difference between the republicrats and demoblicans? Rather like the difference between Oceania and Eastasia.
This story is a "red herring". Suppose a breakthrough law is passed, allowing all U.N. citizens to own their own biometric data. All of the sudden, consent forms appear everywhere, and you are required to consent to the ownership of your personal data. Persons rejecting this deal would not be able to do business with any of the institutions required in daily life (banks, drivers licenses, etc). Nothing would change.
More irritating fluff from timothy. At least it's not a duplicate story.
That autoporn site SUCKS. It's just a bunch of links to free pictures on the WEB(yuck). The descriptions make you not want to click on any of the links. Real geeks drink their porn from the firehose of USENET.
Remember, we're talking about MIT here.
Only hicks, rednecks, and other trailer trash fly on Southwest Airlines. I think Slashdot readers will be safe enough.
I wouldn't go so far as saying the first Mac changed the world - perhaps it made things easier for a few well-off individuals, but its impact was limited, at best. Macs were *expensive*.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
911 calls are free from pay phones. Wait, they're free from American pay phones. Heaven forbid I should tell Canadians how to run a telephone system.
Pay phone calls are not 25 cents, and haven't been for several years. The Verizon pay phones down the street from me are 50 cents. Many pay phones do not even accept loose change, as it's just easier to restrict your customer base to those customers who have credit cards or calling cards.
The "what if someone dies because 911 can't be called from a cell phone" argument sounds suspiciously close to "won't somebody please think of the children!!", which we all know is crap.
You know, I've totally forgotten about the Katz guy. I filtered him out a long time ago, and the silence is golden.