Now, if you were offering 100gb/month, I would go with you over the unlimited guys. I don't claim to be the typical customer, but by god 100gb sounds pretty damn good, and you can't later call me an abuser for using 40gb of that in a month.
But let's take a value more reasonable, say 25gb in a month... I might approach that 8 out of 12 months, for at least the last 3 years. Even then, I would choose you over the "unlimited" but really 100gb-before-I-get-warnings ISP. I mean, I can manage that, and unlike a windows loser, I can keep track of that and throttle back at the end of the month if I'm close to exceeding it.
Being a non-idiot consumer, am I always going to be ignored? Are they ever going to sell the things I need and want?
Real men have 8port Comtrol serial cards (with a few extra 4port cards in the closet, just in case). My only gripe is, I can't find a 4(+) port ECP parallel port card.
Though in all honesty, I wouldn't cry if PS/2 mouse/kb ports died a horrible, ugly death...
This sounds like bullshit. Cite even a single example of running it on non-Apple hardware. I don't even know what that would be, except maybe some RS/6000.
Yes, because that's what linux has been missing all along! The Windows Add Hardware Wizard!!!
Jesus cockgobbling Christ, am I the only one that thinks this guy should get karma-bombed back to -50 for this cretinish piece of ass-stinky opinion?
Menuconfig is about as simple and consistent as it gets, and unlike some other un-named operating system, linux doesn't have a "ports" category that only sometimes includes 3rd party serial cards or USB busses. Drivers have a certain category they belong in (barring some truly innovative/bizarre piece of hardware), and you'd do good to learn them. As for kudzu, get a real distro.
Probably not. Video data has a small lifetime where it's useful, but computer data, if its 3ms late, still useful. Plus, any lost packets are resent, at least for TCP (hell, they might even have retransmission at layer 2, for all I know).
It will still affect it, mind you. But it will be lag, rather than missing the last 3 seconds of the superbowl's last touchdown.
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Now, think very carefully with me. Let's imagine something almost unbelievable. That thing being SCO winning a case against linux. Maybe bribery, or bought laws, or stupid judges, the "how" isn't important.
Do you think that when this happens, can you imagine it in your head, that SCO would allow BSD to escape? Do you think that BSD would somehow be immune to these magical voodoo judgement powers that Darl has acquired?
I thought this was rather straightforward. In case it's not clear enough, I'll say this explicitly. In any logical, reasonable, or fair trial, SCO would be laughed literally out of the courtroom. It's senior executives charged with multiple SEC violations, perjury, and quite possibly even fraud (in the courtroom no less), none of the guilty would be allowed to go free. There would be an FBI investigation to see if there were other culprits too (maybe starting in Redmond?).
All of that said, it should still be obvious to anyone, that in whatever bizarre parallel universe it is that would allow SCO to win, BSD would be no safer.
C'mon guys, think just for a few seconds. I promise it won't hurt. If they beat the 0.00000001% odds that let them win against linux, the odds for them then beating BSD in court would be much higher (maybe not guaranteed though?)... maybe 60, or even 80%.
This should be so obvious, that people should be making fun of me for having to say it. It's a given.
So go find a friend outside the US that would like this, and clue him in.;)
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Haha.
Maybe it was the BSD zealots who modded me down, instead of the linux zealots.
Now, think very carefully with me. Let's imagine something almost unbelievable. That thing being SCO winning a case against linux. Maybe bribery, or bought laws, or stupid judges, the "how" isn't important.
Do you think that when this happens, can you imagine it in your head, that SCO would allow BSD to escape? Do you think that BSD would somehow be immune to these magical voodoo judgement powers that Darl has acquired?
You're still stuck in "users will like it just as much land". Duh, I never said they wouldn't. Only that that option will be denied them also.
Am I the only non-stupid person on planet earth?
Am I the only one who doesn't fail to anticipate simple things like this?
What the fuck gives? Honestly. Mod me down if you must, but let it stay at 2 long enough that a smart person might reply. Or at least someone not *too* stupid....
How is this modded -1 troll? It's taken close to 5 years to convince corporate america that linux is worthwhile, and they're STILL hesitant. A shitty windows may be shitty, but they can count on that, allow for it. If linux were somehow to be harmed by SCO, they wouldn't just magically "switch to BSD". We very well might only have one opportunity to convince them that windows is bad, and if we miss out, it's far from certain that we'd ever get another.
And that doesn't even take into account that if SCO bribes the right appeals judge, that BSD would be no safer (sure it's in no way infringing... but neither is linux). So modbomb me all you like, you'll be nailed in metamoderation, you stupid fucking zealots.
Still wouldn't work. It becomes a "smart user" issue, where if Grandma Luddite doesn't know how to use it, the spammer doesn't get charged. Besides, won't she feel bad stealing from an honest businessman trying to make a buck?
Mailing lists will be DoS'd out of existence, or exempted (leading spammers to somehow trick officials into giving an exemption, if not outright bribery).
Can we trust even the geeks to charge them the 30 cents? I mean, if I could wail on them with a baseball bat for 3 minutes, I'd never pass it up. But when I have 100 spams in my inbox.. I don't have time to do anything other than cntrl+a and delete.
And even if I'm wrong about everything so far, the spammers would have a lawsuit filed 3 femtoseconds after the first person charged them 30 seconds, and an injunction would be granted until someone could prove the fee is fair. Which might be years. And lord knows theres an infinite number of shades of gray here, from slimy offwhite down to heart-withering gooey blackness... those offwhite spammers would give judges just enough pause to bring the entire scheme tumbling down.
As for a computational puzzle, can't do that without reinventing SMTP from scratch. Imagine we code a nice feature into mozilla mail. A 120x30 imagebox, suitable for displaying an arbitrary jpeg. When we send a mail, our SMTP server sends this smallish jpeg (created on the fly). It displays some string, at least 6 chars long, that OCR can't fathom. Boom, we've slowed it down tremendously. Right? Except, this is at the beginning of the SMTP journey (most users use their ISP's smtp, and are attempting to reach someone not on that same SMTP). How can the destination smtp server know that the protection was really in place? Spammers always have their own smtp's, and I have no doubt that they'd falsely claim to have performed the anti-robot thing.
And this doesn't even take into account something mass mailed... what if I have to send it to the 20 people I work with? You don't want to only do a single image, or maybe a person could keep up. So now I have to do this 20 times over? I have some ideas that might work, but not on the internet... just on my small experimental network. A central server dishing out these anti-OCR jpegs, and the client would recieve a digital certificate (for that single email) proving that they completed the task. But hell, even that amounts to making it one giant SMTP server, doesn't it? Without centralizing the task somehow, spam isn't preventable.
Assume that they don't have to provide benefits. Lower average wages in the area after Walborg moves in, means they can afford less. They get sick more often. No health care, or at least little health care, and their children start getting sick, they start getting sick, contagious diseases are worse of it.
It snowballs, until the government has to step in, and pay for it all.
I mean, when you choose to not get their "company sponsored medical insurance", they don't give you a raise to make up the difference, do they?
The illusion that wages could and would increase with a "no benefits" scheme is stupid, and the worst kind of idealism. Not to mention that things like medical ins. are cheaper when purchased in volume, and that even if they did get the raises you imply, they'd pay even more for it, having to buy it on their own.
Militant libertarian bullshit isn't going to fix this mess. I'm still not sure what will...
Yeh. Until you happen to be the unlucky bastard that gets a junk fax, maybe even on your voice line, just the one moment in your life you need to dial 911.
How many seconds long does it have to be, to kill you?
My network would choke and die on mp3 sharing, let alone the bigger files people trade. More of a free speech thing, I suppose.
The metanet you found, is ran by Isomer on undernet. Some of the same ideas (semi-private, vpn), but not built for anonymity. I've shared some ideas with him in the past.
PS I wouldn't wait until the goverment decides you can't share your own crappy singing... by then, maybe it would be a little late.
I work in a company that small. I have 4 bosses over me (this for a 20 person team on a specific project) not including the head honcho (VP, top guy at the virginia location).
Incredibly top heavy, and few know what they're doing. I keep hoping the economy will pick up, so that I might find another job. Isn't going to happen though, I'm pretty much the loser...
Could still offer hashes of the thing, pre-mangled. Use public key crypto for the hash exchange. If their file title sounds good, open a private secure channel, and check with the hash. I dunno.
If you're interested in these things, I'd enjoy hearing from you privately.
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Upfront: I am a Comcast customer.
Now, if you were offering 100gb/month, I would go with you over the unlimited guys. I don't claim to be the typical customer, but by god 100gb sounds pretty damn good, and you can't later call me an abuser for using 40gb of that in a month.
But let's take a value more reasonable, say 25gb in a month... I might approach that 8 out of 12 months, for at least the last 3 years. Even then, I would choose you over the "unlimited" but really 100gb-before-I-get-warnings ISP. I mean, I can manage that, and unlike a windows loser, I can keep track of that and throttle back at the end of the month if I'm close to exceeding it.
Being a non-idiot consumer, am I always going to be ignored? Are they ever going to sell the things I need and want?
Real men have 8port Comtrol serial cards (with a few extra 4port cards in the closet, just in case). My only gripe is, I can't find a 4(+) port ECP parallel port card.
Though in all honesty, I wouldn't cry if PS/2 mouse/kb ports died a horrible, ugly death...
This sounds like bullshit. Cite even a single example of running it on non-Apple hardware. I don't even know what that would be, except maybe some RS/6000.
Yes, if parallel ports aren't meant for networking, then why are the drivers for p port ethernet devices in windows?
He certainly is living in the stone age.
Yes, because that's what linux has been missing all along! The Windows Add Hardware Wizard!!!
Jesus cockgobbling Christ, am I the only one that thinks this guy should get karma-bombed back to -50 for this cretinish piece of ass-stinky opinion?
Menuconfig is about as simple and consistent as it gets, and unlike some other un-named operating system, linux doesn't have a "ports" category that only sometimes includes 3rd party serial cards or USB busses. Drivers have a certain category they belong in (barring some truly innovative/bizarre piece of hardware), and you'd do good to learn them. As for kudzu, get a real distro.
Better yet, when you do need to replace it, there are any number of cheap, high quality 9-volt batteries to choose from.
Take some advice from my wise old grandpa, keep a spare 9-volt in the glove compartment, just in case...
Probably not. Video data has a small lifetime where it's useful, but computer data, if its 3ms late, still useful. Plus, any lost packets are resent, at least for TCP (hell, they might even have retransmission at layer 2, for all I know).
It will still affect it, mind you. But it will be lag, rather than missing the last 3 seconds of the superbowl's last touchdown.
Do you think that when this happens, can you imagine it in your head, that SCO would allow BSD to escape? Do you think that BSD would somehow be immune to these magical voodoo judgement powers that Darl has acquired?
I thought this was rather straightforward. In case it's not clear enough, I'll say this explicitly. In any logical, reasonable, or fair trial, SCO would be laughed literally out of the courtroom. It's senior executives charged with multiple SEC violations, perjury, and quite possibly even fraud (in the courtroom no less), none of the guilty would be allowed to go free. There would be an FBI investigation to see if there were other culprits too (maybe starting in Redmond?).
All of that said, it should still be obvious to anyone, that in whatever bizarre parallel universe it is that would allow SCO to win, BSD would be no safer.
C'mon guys, think just for a few seconds. I promise it won't hurt. If they beat the 0.00000001% odds that let them win against linux, the odds for them then beating BSD in court would be much higher (maybe not guaranteed though?)... maybe 60, or even 80%.
This should be so obvious, that people should be making fun of me for having to say it. It's a given.
So go find a friend outside the US that would like this, and clue him in. ;)
Haha.
Maybe it was the BSD zealots who modded me down, instead of the linux zealots.
Now, think very carefully with me. Let's imagine something almost unbelievable. That thing being SCO winning a case against linux. Maybe bribery, or bought laws, or stupid judges, the "how" isn't important.
Do you think that when this happens, can you imagine it in your head, that SCO would allow BSD to escape? Do you think that BSD would somehow be immune to these magical voodoo judgement powers that Darl has acquired?
You're still stuck in "users will like it just as much land". Duh, I never said they wouldn't. Only that that option will be denied them also.
Am I the only non-stupid person on planet earth?
Am I the only one who doesn't fail to anticipate simple things like this?
What the fuck gives? Honestly. Mod me down if you must, but let it stay at 2 long enough that a smart person might reply. Or at least someone not *too* stupid....
Too bad it doesn't fucking work. My own network is invitation only, and 8 months later we're struggling along at 50 people.
As it is, I still have half a dozen slots open for anyone outside of US borders... want to invite yourself?
How is this modded -1 troll? It's taken close to 5 years to convince corporate america that linux is worthwhile, and they're STILL hesitant. A shitty windows may be shitty, but they can count on that, allow for it. If linux were somehow to be harmed by SCO, they wouldn't just magically "switch to BSD". We very well might only have one opportunity to convince them that windows is bad, and if we miss out, it's far from certain that we'd ever get another.
And that doesn't even take into account that if SCO bribes the right appeals judge, that BSD would be no safer (sure it's in no way infringing... but neither is linux). So modbomb me all you like, you'll be nailed in metamoderation, you stupid fucking zealots.
The masses might, corporate america would just switch back to windows on the few things they use linux for.
Link.
Never bothered to change my sig after Hurricane Isabel powered my cable modem off for 11 days.
Here, let me help you... just copy this script and use it with libwww.
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Apparently his server is made out of $TOPIC too..."
Still wouldn't work. It becomes a "smart user" issue, where if Grandma Luddite doesn't know how to use it, the spammer doesn't get charged. Besides, won't she feel bad stealing from an honest businessman trying to make a buck?
Mailing lists will be DoS'd out of existence, or exempted (leading spammers to somehow trick officials into giving an exemption, if not outright bribery).
Can we trust even the geeks to charge them the 30 cents? I mean, if I could wail on them with a baseball bat for 3 minutes, I'd never pass it up. But when I have 100 spams in my inbox.. I don't have time to do anything other than cntrl+a and delete.
And even if I'm wrong about everything so far, the spammers would have a lawsuit filed 3 femtoseconds after the first person charged them 30 seconds, and an injunction would be granted until someone could prove the fee is fair. Which might be years. And lord knows theres an infinite number of shades of gray here, from slimy offwhite down to heart-withering gooey blackness... those offwhite spammers would give judges just enough pause to bring the entire scheme tumbling down.
As for a computational puzzle, can't do that without reinventing SMTP from scratch. Imagine we code a nice feature into mozilla mail. A 120x30 imagebox, suitable for displaying an arbitrary jpeg. When we send a mail, our SMTP server sends this smallish jpeg (created on the fly). It displays some string, at least 6 chars long, that OCR can't fathom. Boom, we've slowed it down tremendously. Right? Except, this is at the beginning of the SMTP journey (most users use their ISP's smtp, and are attempting to reach someone not on that same SMTP). How can the destination smtp server know that the protection was really in place? Spammers always have their own smtp's, and I have no doubt that they'd falsely claim to have performed the anti-robot thing.
And this doesn't even take into account something mass mailed... what if I have to send it to the 20 people I work with? You don't want to only do a single image, or maybe a person could keep up. So now I have to do this 20 times over? I have some ideas that might work, but not on the internet... just on my small experimental network. A central server dishing out these anti-OCR jpegs, and the client would recieve a digital certificate (for that single email) proving that they completed the task. But hell, even that amounts to making it one giant SMTP server, doesn't it? Without centralizing the task somehow, spam isn't preventable.
Not all "invitation-only" schemes are elitist. Check out my own dumb idea, if you believe otherwise.
;)
Hmm, I must admit this one seems to strive for the "exclusive for exclusivity's sake" element.
PS I've still got slots open for 6 networking-savvy people outside the USA.
Socialism? Nice try.
Assume that they don't have to provide benefits. Lower average wages in the area after Walborg moves in, means they can afford less. They get sick more often. No health care, or at least little health care, and their children start getting sick, they start getting sick, contagious diseases are worse of it.
It snowballs, until the government has to step in, and pay for it all.
I mean, when you choose to not get their "company sponsored medical insurance", they don't give you a raise to make up the difference, do they?
The illusion that wages could and would increase with a "no benefits" scheme is stupid, and the worst kind of idealism. Not to mention that things like medical ins. are cheaper when purchased in volume, and that even if they did get the raises you imply, they'd pay even more for it, having to buy it on their own.
Militant libertarian bullshit isn't going to fix this mess. I'm still not sure what will...
Meaning as an article, that guy is me. I generally see less than 100 links, when posted as a comment.
;)
Don't worry.
PS Suppose I have to make that a bit more clear.
Us real men used srv4 unix on our 32-bit Ataris. You 8-bit weenies make me sick....
Check out this.
There is a way to be safe on a somewhat public network. I want to see how big it can be built....
Yeh. Until you happen to be the unlucky bastard that gets a junk fax, maybe even on your voice line, just the one moment in your life you need to dial 911.
How many seconds long does it have to be, to kill you?
New link.
My network would choke and die on mp3 sharing, let alone the bigger files people trade. More of a free speech thing, I suppose.
The metanet you found, is ran by Isomer on undernet. Some of the same ideas (semi-private, vpn), but not built for anonymity. I've shared some ideas with him in the past.
PS I wouldn't wait until the goverment decides you can't share your own crappy singing... by then, maybe it would be a little late.
I work in a company that small. I have 4 bosses over me (this for a 20 person team on a specific project) not including the head honcho (VP, top guy at the virginia location).
Incredibly top heavy, and few know what they're doing. I keep hoping the economy will pick up, so that I might find another job. Isn't going to happen though, I'm pretty much the loser...
Could still offer hashes of the thing, pre-mangled. Use public key crypto for the hash exchange. If their file title sounds good, open a private secure channel, and check with the hash. I dunno.
If you're interested in these things, I'd enjoy hearing from you privately.