I'm trying to translate what you've said and I've failed so I'm going to offer my own translation.
You get net neutrality. If you fuck up and don't secure your machine and you get pwned the life guard makes you sit on the side of the pool for 15 minutes until you get your problem fixed. Then you get to jump back in the pool.
It's neutrality, but if you're doing harm by attacking others (by being pwned yourself) you get cut off all together and they can call you and tell you why.
BTW - a NAT device is sort of a natural firewall. It's not 100% effective but it's a heck of a lot safer than just sticking a Windows 98 box out on the bare web. Your NAT device argument goes more for supporting my side of the argument than the block it crowds.
I'm of the opinion one of the biggest problems with 1st world elections is popular vote. Instead of voting for the person you want you should get a stack of votes of varying point values to drop on multiple candidates you like the best (can't go all on 1) that way you come up with a vote against system. If voters for person A hate person B and voters for person B hate person A, yet nobody really hates C even though he's not really in the spotlight, he has a better chance of winning that way. The rabid division down the middle of a party system is killing most first world nations.
I was too. I set my nat device to forward port 80, along with very specific other ports, to the machine(s) I wanted them to go to. Pretty secure, I only had the ports I needed active on the machine doing the serving, and on top of that the NAT device caught any ports other than the ones I purposely forwarded.
Cut off infected users. ISP's outside of the US do it, ISPs in the US ignore you if you're under constant siege from one of their users, I know, I sent emails with log info and made phone calls etc...
Yes, some botnets do use port 80 for that. Cut the morons off and make them get their stuff fixed. I've been on the web since 97 and never been pwned into a botnet on one of my machines. I have fixed other peoples. You can't tell me it's outlandish to expect people not to get pwned on a regular basis or to fix it if they do.
I ran my own server off of SouthWestern Bell then later Time Warner for years with not a single spam message bounced off my server, nor issue from it. Seriously, hosting the occasional Fark photoshop pic and having a photo album hosted on my own equipment with passwords for my family along with a small vanity site, where's the problem with that? I did it for years and find it nearly impossible to do now because of people with your mindset.
I know a lot of people abuse it and run porn sites and push malware, but I shouldn't have to pay the price for them.
The "send" part eludes most U.S. discussions. Most major ISPs in the US block many outgoing ports to prevent you from running a server. What I do with my bandwidth is my business thank you very much, including serving up HTML.
I was just to quick to jump to the conclusion Microsoft was being a bunch of assholes again and I immediately started gathering links for the diode bridge.
Bottom row middle - my great, great, great, great grandfather or uncle or something. I've been told there's a family tree in New Mexico or something that shows we're direct descendants of him. The feds lost track of the family, according to the Wikipedia article he didn't have any sons that survived so I'm guessing I'm not a direct descendant since the last name is in tact - or he had a son post office/feds keeping track. Unless there was some cousin marrying or something.
Hmm, way prior art and even previous commerical application. According to the Wikipedia article:
Prior to the availability of integrated circuits, a bridge rectifier was constructed from "discrete components", i.e., separate diodes. Since about 1950, a single four-terminal component containing the four diodes connected in a bridge configuration became a standard commercial component and is now available with various voltage and current ratings.
Also from the same article on very basic electronics - something I learned at a 15 month tech school when I was 18 (1997):
In each case, the upper right output remains positive and lower right output negative. Since this is true whether the input is AC or DC, this circuit not only produces a DC output from an AC input, it can also provide what is sometimes called "reverse polarity protection". That is, it permits normal functioning of DC-powered equipment when batteries have been installed backwards, or when the leads (wires) from a DC power source have been reversed, and protects the equipment from potential damage caused by reverse polarity.
I also know some early model/prototype charging mats used this tech - at least a decade ago.
Tomorrow, I'm going to file a patent on using a potato for a battery!
(I know where I would like to insert a car battery on Balmer)
I moved to Kubuntu recently because Debian kept breaking stable where my notebook was concerned. I went slowly from a fully working system, to broken firewire, to no longer working bluetooth devices, to broken sound.
When I switched to Kubuntu everything but the firewire worked and one bluetooth device. I stayed on it for a good 8 months and decided to try Debian again to see if those issues were fixed. I went back to the newer version of Kubuntu and everything worked, even the stuff that was broke before.
I've been a Debian guy for year, and I used to think Ubuntu felt like Linux on training wheels, but it's getting better. I want to go back to Debian, sort of, but the way Kubuntu is improving and Debian appears to be content to break stable then not move forward, the longer I wait the happier I become staying with Kubuntu.
In fairness, my Toshiba could have a weird hardware combination, but Centrino based notebooks tend to be rather standard overall.
When she first got it, it only worked with Windows XP, Vista and OS X Tiger. Nothing else. It wasn't long until Leopard support was added.
To this day I'm not sure if it supports anything else or not, I left my parents on Tiger for classic reasons. It does NOT use any generic standard filters or drivers, Linux printing at last check was just a pipe dream, it might work now, I haven't bothered checking.
I wouldn't mind having a printer that doesn't gouge me on ink, but I'm not changing operating systems to print, and I really want to limit my hacking around the problem time.
We have different types of IT and they're incredibly well woven into the general infrastructure. We have the non-critical workstation people who have the primary shared network the whole site uses for the most part, they have most of the machines on that network, but I there are "guest" and "user owned" machines allowed. This is where email and general day to day work happens. They report to the company that has their contract that reports to NASA. Then we have mission critical networks and computers, the area I work on - we are part of the "Mission Operation Division". In other words we fall into the same organization as the ground controllers, however we have a separated division that has different layers of management for different departments that eventually reports to the head of the organization, which reports to the company that has the contract, that reports to NASA. Other areas have similar setups. Fortunately being a government entity that focuses on technology IT isn't seen as "wasted resources", it's an integral part of sending people to orbit and back, even the non-mission critical guys on the first group I mentioned.
I don't think I overstepped the privileged information lines here, that's how most government contracts work.
I have worked in organizations that see IT as a necessary evil and have seen every dime sent our way as wasted money. Heck, I worked at a company that focused on manufacturing that saw every dime spent on the people doing the work or making the end product happen as wasted, apparently that company existed to keep engineers and office workers employed and the actual product was a necessary evil.
They're adapting the wrong games. They're adapting the best sellers, which of course sells on name.
I can only think of a few game franchises I would actually like to see as movies:
The Gabriel Knight series. The Tex Murphy Series - maybe The Broken Sword series
These games of course have a common element, they're basically movies to begin with. The Oddworld series was designed to be a video game and movie series to begin with, nobody has actually taken the plunge to make the movies. I think they could work out, but I'm not sure. I still think the Alice game could have made an awesome movie with the right director at the helm, however I fear the crap fest that was the recent Disney Alice in Wonderland ruined any chance of American McGee's movie getting an interest boost on name recognition.
I've lived in Houston for over a decade now. While I agree the speed limits are obnoxiously low in some cases, and profiteering is usually the reason that comes to mind, I must disagree with the "intelligently designed merging sections". Seriously, what is this "zipper effect" merging lane crap they have where 59 and 527 come together? It seems like there's another one of those somewhere - it's a very very bad design. What's with all of the sudden lane drops? "Oh traffic flows too smooth here so we're going to drop a couple of lanes". Again, think where 59 and 45 come together. Don't get me started on how horrible the 290, 10 and 610 area used to be, it's better than it was but it still isn't great now. If you're on I-45 and you want to stay on I-45 and you drive straight through Houston there's all sorts of zig-zagging to be done, due to obnoxiously stupid exit/merging setups. If you don't zig-zag you wind up on the wrong rode, or in a concrete barricade.
No, the freeway design around here was drawn up by a couple of drunk chimps. Improvements are happening, it's a lot better than it was when I moved here in 98, and what do you know, that section of Beltway 8 I used to drive all the time when I first moved her, well, it's still incomplete, but now at least the road construction equipment isn't sitting idle. They're actually putting up a bunch of orange cones and the bridges that used to be a 1/4 complete pile of dirt in 98 are now 3/4 complete structure with a little concrete on them.
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They sure as to fuck don't advertise limited access. They advertise Internet access.
If the ISP's went around advertising "Browse only access" instead of "Internet access" I probably wouldn't have such a strong opinion on the matter.
To continue your road analogy we don't pay taxes to maintain a road system that's mostly toll roads.
LOL wut?
I'm trying to translate what you've said and I've failed so I'm going to offer my own translation.
You get net neutrality. If you fuck up and don't secure your machine and you get pwned the life guard makes you sit on the side of the pool for 15 minutes until you get your problem fixed. Then you get to jump back in the pool.
It's neutrality, but if you're doing harm by attacking others (by being pwned yourself) you get cut off all together and they can call you and tell you why.
BTW - a NAT device is sort of a natural firewall. It's not 100% effective but it's a heck of a lot safer than just sticking a Windows 98 box out on the bare web. Your NAT device argument goes more for supporting my side of the argument than the block it crowds.
I'm of the opinion one of the biggest problems with 1st world elections is popular vote. Instead of voting for the person you want you should get a stack of votes of varying point values to drop on multiple candidates you like the best (can't go all on 1) that way you come up with a vote against system. If voters for person A hate person B and voters for person B hate person A, yet nobody really hates C even though he's not really in the spotlight, he has a better chance of winning that way. The rabid division down the middle of a party system is killing most first world nations.
I was too. I set my nat device to forward port 80, along with very specific other ports, to the machine(s) I wanted them to go to. Pretty secure, I only had the ports I needed active on the machine doing the serving, and on top of that the NAT device caught any ports other than the ones I purposely forwarded.
Cut those morons off. Obviously if you don't secure your stuff you're doing harm.
That's easy.
Cut off infected users. ISP's outside of the US do it, ISPs in the US ignore you if you're under constant siege from one of their users, I know, I sent emails with log info and made phone calls etc...
Yes, some botnets do use port 80 for that. Cut the morons off and make them get their stuff fixed. I've been on the web since 97 and never been pwned into a botnet on one of my machines. I have fixed other peoples. You can't tell me it's outlandish to expect people not to get pwned on a regular basis or to fix it if they do.
You work for Comcast don't you?
I ran my own server off of SouthWestern Bell then later Time Warner for years with not a single spam message bounced off my server, nor issue from it. Seriously, hosting the occasional Fark photoshop pic and having a photo album hosted on my own equipment with passwords for my family along with a small vanity site, where's the problem with that? I did it for years and find it nearly impossible to do now because of people with your mindset.
I know a lot of people abuse it and run porn sites and push malware, but I shouldn't have to pay the price for them.
Do you work for Verizon?
The "send" part eludes most U.S. discussions. Most major ISPs in the US block many outgoing ports to prevent you from running a server. What I do with my bandwidth is my business thank you very much, including serving up HTML.
Surely the number of midichlorines in the blood stream fluctuates as you use the force?
Good point.
Exploits and loopholes ruined our government. Guess Windows isn't the only thing vulnerable.
Plus a new law that states all new laws must have a sunset (five years max) and must be voted into renewal each sunset.
(save for actual amendments)
In all fairness I looked at the pictures......
I was just to quick to jump to the conclusion Microsoft was being a bunch of assholes again and I immediately started gathering links for the diode bridge.
Wow, never mind, the older history article I read on him must have been wrong.
Bottom row middle - my great, great, great, great grandfather or uncle or something. I've been told there's a family tree in New Mexico or something that shows we're direct descendants of him. The feds lost track of the family, according to the Wikipedia article he didn't have any sons that survived so I'm guessing I'm not a direct descendant since the last name is in tact - or he had a son post office/feds keeping track. Unless there was some cousin marrying or something.
I the video game C.R.U.S.H isn't art, then no game is art.
Ebert really should have varied his example pictures to include things other than medieval RPGs.
Hmm, way prior art and even previous commerical application. According to the Wikipedia article:
Also from the same article on very basic electronics - something I learned at a 15 month tech school when I was 18 (1997):
I also know some early model/prototype charging mats used this tech - at least a decade ago.
Tomorrow, I'm going to file a patent on using a potato for a battery!
(I know where I would like to insert a car battery on Balmer)
I moved to Kubuntu recently because Debian kept breaking stable where my notebook was concerned. I went slowly from a fully working system, to broken firewire, to no longer working bluetooth devices, to broken sound.
When I switched to Kubuntu everything but the firewire worked and one bluetooth device. I stayed on it for a good 8 months and decided to try Debian again to see if those issues were fixed. I went back to the newer version of Kubuntu and everything worked, even the stuff that was broke before.
I've been a Debian guy for year, and I used to think Ubuntu felt like Linux on training wheels, but it's getting better. I want to go back to Debian, sort of, but the way Kubuntu is improving and Debian appears to be content to break stable then not move forward, the longer I wait the happier I become staying with Kubuntu.
In fairness, my Toshiba could have a weird hardware combination, but Centrino based notebooks tend to be rather standard overall.
You forgot
anything Ubuntu Debian
My mom has a Kodak printer.
When she first got it, it only worked with Windows XP, Vista and OS X Tiger. Nothing else. It wasn't long until Leopard support was added.
To this day I'm not sure if it supports anything else or not, I left my parents on Tiger for classic reasons. It does NOT use any generic standard filters or drivers, Linux printing at last check was just a pipe dream, it might work now, I haven't bothered checking.
I wouldn't mind having a printer that doesn't gouge me on ink, but I'm not changing operating systems to print, and I really want to limit my hacking around the problem time.
We have different types of IT and they're incredibly well woven into the general infrastructure. We have the non-critical workstation people who have the primary shared network the whole site uses for the most part, they have most of the machines on that network, but I there are "guest" and "user owned" machines allowed. This is where email and general day to day work happens. They report to the company that has their contract that reports to NASA. Then we have mission critical networks and computers, the area I work on - we are part of the "Mission Operation Division". In other words we fall into the same organization as the ground controllers, however we have a separated division that has different layers of management for different departments that eventually reports to the head of the organization, which reports to the company that has the contract, that reports to NASA. Other areas have similar setups. Fortunately being a government entity that focuses on technology IT isn't seen as "wasted resources", it's an integral part of sending people to orbit and back, even the non-mission critical guys on the first group I mentioned.
I don't think I overstepped the privileged information lines here, that's how most government contracts work.
I have worked in organizations that see IT as a necessary evil and have seen every dime sent our way as wasted money. Heck, I worked at a company that focused on manufacturing that saw every dime spent on the people doing the work or making the end product happen as wasted, apparently that company existed to keep engineers and office workers employed and the actual product was a necessary evil.
Considering it was made by Lucas Arts, yeah, they should give one a shot.
They're adapting the wrong games. They're adapting the best sellers, which of course sells on name.
I can only think of a few game franchises I would actually like to see as movies:
The Gabriel Knight series.
The Tex Murphy Series - maybe
The Broken Sword series
These games of course have a common element, they're basically movies to begin with. The Oddworld series was designed to be a video game and movie series to begin with, nobody has actually taken the plunge to make the movies. I think they could work out, but I'm not sure. I still think the Alice game could have made an awesome movie with the right director at the helm, however I fear the crap fest that was the recent Disney Alice in Wonderland ruined any chance of American McGee's movie getting an interest boost on name recognition.
I've lived in Houston for over a decade now. While I agree the speed limits are obnoxiously low in some cases, and profiteering is usually the reason that comes to mind, I must disagree with the "intelligently designed merging sections". Seriously, what is this "zipper effect" merging lane crap they have where 59 and 527 come together? It seems like there's another one of those somewhere - it's a very very bad design. What's with all of the sudden lane drops? "Oh traffic flows too smooth here so we're going to drop a couple of lanes". Again, think where 59 and 45 come together. Don't get me started on how horrible the 290, 10 and 610 area used to be, it's better than it was but it still isn't great now. If you're on I-45 and you want to stay on I-45 and you drive straight through Houston there's all sorts of zig-zagging to be done, due to obnoxiously stupid exit/merging setups. If you don't zig-zag you wind up on the wrong rode, or in a concrete barricade.
No, the freeway design around here was drawn up by a couple of drunk chimps. Improvements are happening, it's a lot better than it was when I moved here in 98, and what do you know, that section of Beltway 8 I used to drive all the time when I first moved her, well, it's still incomplete, but now at least the road construction equipment isn't sitting idle. They're actually putting up a bunch of orange cones and the bridges that used to be a 1/4 complete pile of dirt in 98 are now 3/4 complete structure with a little concrete on them.