From a business standpoint, it's neccessary (the training, not the outsourcing), but it's still evil.
Kinda makes you want to have some fun with crontab and shell/perl scripts.
Like keep randomly changing posix group, ou, or dn info in the LDAP directory.;)
There was a perl script I wanted to write a while back called "jackass-milter" for sendmail. (a take off of spamass-milter, for spamassassin).
All it was designed to do was take each message that passes through the exchanger, constrain to body text (not attachments, or headers), then run a series of regex's on the body based on what the author wants to do to the message.
Example? Regex searching for things like/[\w|\n]yours truly\n/i/[\w|\n]cordially,\n/, change it with "I find you strangely attractive".
A good regex that searches for nouns and verbs and randomly replaces it with the f-bomb. Another good one is to search for all instances of "the", but only randomly replace it with "teh". Spell-checkers be damned!;)
What does this have to do with Indian-outsourcing? Sabotage. Make sure you do enough damage on the way out the door. Nobody gets out alive.
Wolverine: Hey bub. *snict*, I got adamantium coated bones and claws. Magneto: *bzzt* Now you don't. Wolverine: Don't knock me out, I'll be knocked out enough when I hit the big sleep (bleeds everwhere).
I really really *REALLY* wish you hadn't gone there with this, but there you gone and dunnit, so...
Presuming any of what you say has any bearing at all (we'd all have to be networked in the head!), then the solution is quite simple:
Don't operate yourself as root, and for god's sakes man, don't go giving out shell accounts in your noggin!
Sudo if you must, but always run from userland, and just have kind of a fuzzy bearing of everything that's going on around you, but don't operate in a way that you can actually impact anything. ie, you see your arm bleeding, but only a superuser can apply a bandage.;)
What we're dealing with is a land-grab of people who have no reasonable claim for any of these zones, but buy them all up to keep others from grabbing them.
Now, I could go on and on about ticket scalpers who pull the same lame BS in real-life, and you and I both know that is precisely what it is. If Stub Hub had an arrangement with Pearl Jam to buy those floor seats to resell at a higher price, so be it, but otherwise they're just scalpers.
Feh, I keep seeing comments like this, but you know exactly what I and the others in this thread mean.
Google has a legitimate business use for their domain. They registered it, and yes, if they ever choose to relinquish it, then that name would sell for millions or more.
That is NOT what we're discussing. We're discussing names that aren't being used for any practical purpose, but merely squatted to try to make a buck off of someone else that really does want to use it.
All domains are worth precisely $12. No more, no less.
If someone has registered a domain, and is offering to sell it to you for more than that, they're nothing but leeching parasites, or as the PC like to call them, "cyber-squatters".
Seriously! I mean, with only 1-D, it's really going to suck. I know people have accused Final Fantasy of being too linear in the past, but this is getting a bit silly...now, we're stuck at a single point!
I don't mean to be so obvious, but really...if the opportunity is worth it (sounds like it is), then move. I know pulling children out of schools, or asking your spouse to find a different job seems cruel and unfair, but it happens. I've been through the cross-country move-for-a-job thing twice now. It sucks, I won't lie to you, but it will wear on you far less in the long run than trying to commute like that and not have time with your spouse.
Well, the thing about Blitz is that it is not to be compared with 2K or Madden. 2K attempted to be a realistic football simulation, and I guess Madden attempts to be, but turns out more like an arcade game with over-the-top play style.
Blitz was the football answer to NBA Jam. It has 7 players to a side (as opposed to 11), and thus plays more like arena ball then NFL. The game's working title was Blitz: Playmakers and thus attempts to be more like ESPN's TV show than reality.
Still no mention of Visual Concepts (Take Two) releasing it's non-NFL-banded "Legends of Football 2K7".:(
Ever since EA got their exclusivity deals on anything that smells like football, the genre has sucked horribly. There have been rumors flying high that we'd see something from VC/T2, but so far nothing.:\
Here's what I mean: dsl has overhead added by reselling the Bells' service. It's not profitable AT ALL to be a dsl reseller these days.
The cable companies have a lock on cable modem. Fiber? Well, yeah, but there's a serious overhead of getting it to your front door.
Wireless mesh? There we go...but takes a long time to get out there. We have no problem selling unsupported throughput, and I can do it cheap, but getting it to your front door is the real problem. If you want throughput in my data center I can give it to you dirt cheap and unsupported, no problem. It's getting it to your home that's expensive.
So yeah, if you're in St. Louis and want dirt cheap unsupported throughput, I can do that (in very limited areas, but working on it!), but if you want SLA and support of any kind, unfortunately you have to pay the same as everyone else.:\
We hard cap throughput based on what our clients have paid for. ie, if they've paid for 1.5 down, 768k up, those hard caps are put into place.
Second, yes, we shape traffic. VOIP traffic gets top priority, ssh second, http third, and bittorrent, or any other p2p app get the lowest priority.
These prioritizations are shared across our client base. That way, if anyone is doing ANYTHING that isn't p2p, it gets priority over p2p traffic. We think this is fair. If you want to run your p2p app overnight when no one else is on, then have fun. If you're doing it during the day, don't expect to get priority over everyone else. Note that we DO offer to sell dedicated services, and we do note up front to our customers that what we sell them is BURSTABLE throughput and that they are buying something like 256k symmetrical dedicated, and the 1.5MB/768k is burst. they aren't buying that in dedicated chunks. If they want dedicated, we can sell them that, but they have to pay for it.
It just doesn't make sense to pay for 1.5Mbit symmetrical dedicated unless you're going to saturate that pipe ALL THE TIME.
Seriously, OpenVPN would do the trick, and I do it right now. The only thing that bugs me about OpenVPN is that you either have to set up a key signing authority, or use pre-shared keys. The key signing authority process is well documented, it's just that I've never actually been able to make it work. Pre-shared keys works just fine though. The protection isn't as good however.
Once I get key signed OpenVPN working then this solution is a no-brainer.
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Y'know, I don't generally care what I'm modded, but that is just the most brain-dead moderating I've ever seen. I had to say something.
Someone pirates a bunch of DS Lites. Quite literally so.
I crack a joke about piracy.
But I'm offtopic. WTF mods? Come on....
*Looks at RIAA/MPAA*
:P
*points*
THOSE ARE PIRATES! GOT IT!?!?!?!!
Sheesh. I'm gonna go get some coffee now.
renice 4 know-it-alls ./know-it-alls
Much better. I think the argument here should be whether or not the know-it-alls were slow to begin with or not...
Purely evil.
;)
/[\w|\n]yours truly\n/i /[\w|\n]cordially,\n/, change it with "I find you strangely attractive".
;)
From a business standpoint, it's neccessary (the training, not the outsourcing), but it's still evil.
Kinda makes you want to have some fun with crontab and shell/perl scripts.
Like keep randomly changing posix group, ou, or dn info in the LDAP directory.
There was a perl script I wanted to write a while back called "jackass-milter" for sendmail. (a take off of spamass-milter, for spamassassin).
All it was designed to do was take each message that passes through the exchanger, constrain to body text (not attachments, or headers), then run a series of regex's on the body based on what the author wants to do to the message.
Example? Regex searching for things like
A good regex that searches for nouns and verbs and randomly replaces it with the f-bomb. Another good one is to search for all instances of "the", but only randomly replace it with "teh". Spell-checkers be damned!
What does this have to do with Indian-outsourcing? Sabotage. Make sure you do enough damage on the way out the door. Nobody gets out alive.
EVERYBODY GET DOWN!!!!111one one one
(here he comes....here comes speed ra-cer...)
Wolverine: Hey bub. *snict*, I got adamantium coated bones and claws.
Magneto: *bzzt* Now you don't.
Wolverine: Don't knock me out, I'll be knocked out enough when I hit the big sleep (bleeds everwhere).
LATER...
Woverine: *splurch* Hey bub, I got bone claws...
*snap* now you don't...
I really really *REALLY* wish you hadn't gone there with this, but there you gone and dunnit, so...
;)
Presuming any of what you say has any bearing at all (we'd all have to be networked in the head!), then the solution is quite simple:
Don't operate yourself as root, and for god's sakes man, don't go giving out shell accounts in your noggin!
Sudo if you must, but always run from userland, and just have kind of a fuzzy bearing of everything that's going on around you, but don't operate in a way that you can actually impact anything. ie, you see your arm bleeding, but only a superuser can apply a bandage.
I know you're trying to be funny, but the first thoughts that come to my mind when I saw this were:
1. This means at some point we'll be able to control electronics with our brain.
2. This means at some point electronics will be able to control us.
I/O is a funny thing like that. Who is telling who what to do?
That's a more complicated arrangement.
What we're dealing with is a land-grab of people who have no reasonable claim for any of these zones, but buy them all up to keep others from grabbing them.
Now, I could go on and on about ticket scalpers who pull the same lame BS in real-life, and you and I both know that is precisely what it is. If Stub Hub had an arrangement with Pearl Jam to buy those floor seats to resell at a higher price, so be it, but otherwise they're just scalpers.
Feh, I keep seeing comments like this, but you know exactly what I and the others in this thread mean.
Google has a legitimate business use for their domain. They registered it, and yes, if they ever choose to relinquish it, then that name would sell for millions or more.
That is NOT what we're discussing. We're discussing names that aren't being used for any practical purpose, but merely squatted to try to make a buck off of someone else that really does want to use it.
Leeching parasites.
It's very simple really.
All domains are worth precisely $12. No more, no less.
If someone has registered a domain, and is offering to sell it to you for more than that, they're nothing but leeching parasites, or as the PC like to call them, "cyber-squatters".
Don't feed the parasites.
Seriously! I mean, with only 1-D, it's really going to suck. I know people have accused Final Fantasy of being too linear in the past, but this is getting a bit silly...now, we're stuck at a single point!
I don't mean to be so obvious, but really...if the opportunity is worth it (sounds like it is), then move. I know pulling children out of schools, or asking your spouse to find a different job seems cruel and unfair, but it happens. I've been through the cross-country move-for-a-job thing twice now. It sucks, I won't lie to you, but it will wear on you far less in the long run than trying to commute like that and not have time with your spouse.
company's???
Nope, companies.
Grr....
"Please select your fighting style!"
"Grammar nazi-ism"
(Why oh why did they call fighting styles "ism"s in SFZ3 anyway?)
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You're of course aware that I mean the Gov's intervention, right? :P
Bullshit.
Think of the possibilities.
Get yours.
Mickey-D's is usually hiring. ;P
Okay, it was coming, you knew it was, get the first post out of the way and make way for the insightful ones.
What?
Oh, there's nothing insightful to be said here?
Oops.
DUPE.
1 23283
:P
:D
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182998&cid=15
I know, I know, that one said "distributed". Sheesh. My answer remains the same. OpenVPN, like 90% of the answers here.
I'm not being cynical. I'm just tired.
Well, the thing about Blitz is that it is not to be compared with 2K or Madden. 2K attempted to be a realistic football simulation, and I guess Madden attempts to be, but turns out more like an arcade game with over-the-top play style.
Blitz was the football answer to NBA Jam. It has 7 players to a side (as opposed to 11), and thus plays more like arena ball then NFL. The game's working title was Blitz: Playmakers and thus attempts to be more like ESPN's TV show than reality.
Just not my style of game. I'm still playing 2K5.
Still no mention of Visual Concepts (Take Two) releasing it's non-NFL-banded "Legends of Football 2K7". :(
:\
Ever since EA got their exclusivity deals on anything that smells like football, the genre has sucked horribly. There have been rumors flying high that we'd see something from VC/T2, but so far nothing.
That's because it is so difficult to provide.
:\
Here's what I mean: dsl has overhead added by reselling the Bells' service. It's not profitable AT ALL to be a dsl reseller these days.
The cable companies have a lock on cable modem. Fiber? Well, yeah, but there's a serious overhead of getting it to your front door.
Wireless mesh? There we go...but takes a long time to get out there. We have no problem selling unsupported throughput, and I can do it cheap, but getting it to your front door is the real problem. If you want throughput in my data center I can give it to you dirt cheap and unsupported, no problem. It's getting it to your home that's expensive.
So yeah, if you're in St. Louis and want dirt cheap unsupported throughput, I can do that (in very limited areas, but working on it!), but if you want SLA and support of any kind, unfortunately you have to pay the same as everyone else.
We hard cap throughput based on what our clients have paid for. ie, if they've paid for 1.5 down, 768k up, those hard caps are put into place.
Second, yes, we shape traffic. VOIP traffic gets top priority, ssh second, http third, and bittorrent, or any other p2p app get the lowest priority.
These prioritizations are shared across our client base. That way, if anyone is doing ANYTHING that isn't p2p, it gets priority over p2p traffic. We think this is fair. If you want to run your p2p app overnight when no one else is on, then have fun. If you're doing it during the day, don't expect to get priority over everyone else. Note that we DO offer to sell dedicated services, and we do note up front to our customers that what we sell them is BURSTABLE throughput and that they are buying something like 256k symmetrical dedicated, and the 1.5MB/768k is burst. they aren't buying that in dedicated chunks. If they want dedicated, we can sell them that, but they have to pay for it.
It just doesn't make sense to pay for 1.5Mbit symmetrical dedicated unless you're going to saturate that pipe ALL THE TIME.
So far, no complaints.
Next question? :D
Seriously, OpenVPN would do the trick, and I do it right now. The only thing that bugs me about OpenVPN is that you either have to set up a key signing authority, or use pre-shared keys. The key signing authority process is well documented, it's just that I've never actually been able to make it work. Pre-shared keys works just fine though. The protection isn't as good however.
Once I get key signed OpenVPN working then this solution is a no-brainer.