Congrats on your sleuthy detection and exposition of the karma whores in our midst. May Allah grant you eternal bliss and seks with lots of Elle MacPhearson clones.
Ever notice how if a/. story is about anything Linux related that the zealots come out en masse and mod down almost 50% of the comments? This thread is a good example.
The growing trend of censorship by the left (which Linux advocates certainly qualify for) is frightening. We rely on the Left to provide progressive and enlightened contributions to the betterment of society. Censorship, in any form, flies directly in the face of this.
What are the Linux zealots so afraid of? To read that someone thinks their OS sucks? This is ridiculous. Regardless of your choice of an OS, there are millions of geeks ready and chomping at the bit to inform you that your choice sucks, is miguided, ignorant, facsist, criminal, etc...
Linux is failing because the Linux community has been growing increasingly dysfunctional and childish. It was a compelling option for a desktop OS a few years ago but for some reason things have gotten seriously broken in the open source world.
I am advocate for open source and the philosophy behind it. We need to leverage our democratic right for the public to own its own property. But there needs to be a serious reality injection into the open source community. They need to understand the dynamics that make software appeal to the mass market. They have utterly and completely missed the ball on this one, imho.
If you say you have somehow found some strange new "ad-free Internet" (without using AdAware that causes every page to crash), then I award you two cookies. Truly, I am not worthy.
Sites have a right to pursue revenue. The sites that are the worst abusers of pop-ups and pop-downs are generally pron and warez sites, anyhow. For the mainstream sites -- well, if such-and-such.com annoys you with their advertising model, there are dozens and dozens of alternative competitor sites that you can choose from. I'm sure that amongst those somewhere you will find the content you desire without the ads that you don't.
Pop-Up Blocker is a great piece of software that you can turn on and off pretty quickly if you happen to be trying to find some good porn (or warez).
No, troll, I mean the fact that I enjoy a whole slew of Internet apps that fill every conceivable desire I have right now and not a one of them pops up ads or spies on me.
No one is putting a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to use Kazaa. Show some individuality, for God's sake!
If it bothers you so much then why do you use the software? I personally hate popups and spyware so guess what I do? This may shock you: I SEEK OUT ALTERNATIVES!!
Bravo. Trolls are viewed upon here as agitators and even vandals but no one ever seems to judge whether or not a majority of/. stories are in and of themselves textbook definition trolls.
There are other laws anyway that regulate a child being able to buy a computer program that has explicit sexual content. They are the same laws that protect children from being able to access adult programming on television, purchase pornographic magazines, books, videos, etc; etc..
"things are quiet these days, not much news stories.. lets post a "story" about DMCA and mention "child porn" with video games and see if we can hit the 1000 post mark! Our advertisers would be most pleased."
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HTTP and XML have become my favorite way of data communication between client and servers. Its a fine protocol for many different uses. Plus it is a protocol that just about every firewall lets through.
Still working on perfecting this as only recently have I begun to really start paying attention to "activating" that "Zone" you speak of.
The most important factor for me being able to enter the zone is my emotional health. Any drama from home and such can quickly render me completely useless.
The second most important factor to me is people staying out of my face and just letting me work. When I get sucked into the "status meeting" bullshit and have a bunch of little weenies watching over my shoulder (and getting jealous and snitty and backstabbing) then that'll fuck my game up for sure.
Of course my work environment is important but my biggest complaint with this is the noise level that can rise in cubicle land.
Wish I could have a private office but I'm not a manager so I'm relegated to the "pit".
Finally, one last big thing -- I have a habit, particuarly these days, of compulsively look again and again at news sites, expecting the End of the World to happen at any second. This generally raises my anxiety level the longer I do it and requires some self discipline and control to break out of this habit.
Its not the hardware that really matters with the Tivo, its the software and the back-end services from Tivo that make it so cool.. And lets not forget about the little Tivo remote control thats ooh-so-sexy!
(Scene: Verisign Data Center inside Washington DC. Huge explosion on top floor of red brick office building, sending flaming servers flying through the night sky)
(Cut to home of Verisign CEO, he is in bed with his fat wife, snoring loudly. The phone rings, and he wakes up, wiping the slobber from his chin while answering)
Verisign CEO: "What you want!"
Voice on the phone: "Somebody set us up the bomb!"
CEO: "What you say!"
Phone voice: "We get signal!"
(static on phone, all of a sudden a voice breaks in)
Arabian voice: "How are you gentlemen? By the Grace of Allah, All your A Root Servers are belonging to us! You have no chance to survive, make your time!"
CEO: "It's YOU! Restore backup! Implement Emergency Response Plan A! Move every server! For great justice!"
These people's mastery of the 'Net didn't even extend to being able to discern Evil Bert.
A lot of good wanking in that article but I wouldn't be too worried about the A Root Server being a very realistic prime target for terrorists. After all, I'm sure the A root service would be back online within hours operating a different location and although there might be a few hiccups, things would return to normal fairly quickly.
Much better to remain horribly paranoid about nuclear facilities, dirty bombs, EMPs, smallpox, etc..
Maybe this will end up finally bringing the real estate prices in the Bay Area down to the level of the middle class... A shame that its one of the most beautiful cities on Earth and has been made so utterly impossible to live in decently without being a millionaire.
It's great news for me -- I hope it happens, because I'd really like to have a child but my wife steadfastly refuses to go through the pregnancy ordeal again (she almost died during childbirth with her daughter from prev marriage)
Yeah, well, first they have to pay the massive amount of fees required to go battle the army of Microsoft attorneys (which are most definitely the cream of the crop and have an infinite budget)
Be doesn't stand a chance.
Hope I'm wrong, I really do, but I doubt it.. not in this day and age!
Be may be whining about this now but long ago they had their own box, one that was quite impressive, and failed (utterly) to market it.
Sorry, but yes we all know about M$'s licensing with their vendors, but this does not count as a valid excuse for their business failing the way it has. Exclusive Licensing is a common business practice in all industries, after all.
There's a fantastic book out there called the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. It's a fascinating read and contains many case studies to back up these "Laws".
The place for #3 in any market is always small, but obtainable. Linux now owns this space in the desktop OS market (with Apple being #2). Be failed to really develop themselves and build what is known as "mind share". How many people have even HEARD of Be? Not many.
As entertaining as it might be to generate conspiracy theories that somehow the big evil M$ "kept them down", there are other more down-to-earth reasons why Be has always been doomed.
Linux squashed Be. This is because Linux caught onto a market wave as it was happening (the open source movement).. Be tried to catch on to this as well but it was too little too late.
Is a cell phone like they have in Europe where I can switch providers by simply changing a small chip inside it, instead of buying a new frickin phone. (Fixing to have to do this due to the supreme suckage of Sprint PCS in my area)
I saw no mention of this in that article, so.. whatever.. I never use the silly wireless web features of my phone anyway. Maybe someday when I get a GPS phone and I can find good restaurants near me, I will.. But this is happening with or without Microsoft and their circle wanking with Intel.
I also believe the Laws of Marketing will hold true and Nokia will grind M$'s grubby little nose in their pathetic attempt to apply their business tactics to a completely (imho) unrelated market.
Well, this is where government regulation is necessary.
The Internet is quickly becoming a public resource and should be regulated just the same (well, hopefully better than) other public resources.
Enforcing digital signatures would be a great way to a) fix the spam and trojan abuse while b) maintaining personal privacy.
There are trusted authorities where you can get free private certs, I thought -- doesn't Thawte (hey I made a pun!) give free certs for personal email use?
That doesn't matter anyway because government regulation would (should) provide it for the people for a nominal fee (like they do a driver's license or passport)
Everytime I see a thread pop up on/. regarding spamming or other email abuse, I find myself compelled to repeat my suggestion for how we can effectively battle against these forces which leech the life out of the 'Net.
My suggestion is quite simple: All SMTP servers should put in place policies which reject mail that is not digitally signed with a certificate trusted by a root authority. Personal email certs should be free, commercial (for marketing purposes) should cost a reasonable amount.
This would enforce accountability behind emails by guaranteeing the identity of the sender. Do this and things will clean up considerably, imho.
Although there is so much supposed controversy around global warming I for one can attest to witnessing it first hand growing up in Austin, Texas. Every year consistently since I was a boy the summer temperatures have hit new record highs and for longer and longer periods of time. Last summer there was three weeks where the daily high temp did not drop below 100.
Twenty years ago it was not unusual for the 90s during the summer but 100 rarely hit and only for a day or two.
Also, we had a real live swimming hole near where I lived. Although it was always dry during the summer, in the spring year after year it was full of nice cool fresh water.
That stopped happening ever since the late 80's and it is now a perpetual stink hole of stagnant run off water.
We need hydrogen and we need more nuclear power plants and we need them NOW! At the rate things are going, we are going to have MAJOR PROBLEMS in the year 2020.
And I'd personally rather run the risk of a nuclear meltdown in a rural area than thousands of fossil fuel burning powerplants filling the atmosphere with God knows how many thousands of tons of carcinogens (sp?) per year.
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Whats the point of karma whoring with a troll if you do it as an AC? *sigh* What is this world coming to?
Congrats on your sleuthy detection and exposition of the karma whores in our midst. May Allah grant you eternal bliss and seks with lots of Elle MacPhearson clones.
Ever notice how if a /. story is about anything Linux related that the zealots come out en masse and mod down almost 50% of the comments? This thread is a good example.
The growing trend of censorship by the left (which Linux advocates certainly qualify for) is frightening. We rely on the Left to provide progressive and enlightened contributions to the betterment of society. Censorship, in any form, flies directly in the face of this.
What are the Linux zealots so afraid of? To read that someone thinks their OS sucks? This is ridiculous. Regardless of your choice of an OS, there are millions of geeks ready and chomping at the bit to inform you that your choice sucks, is miguided, ignorant, facsist, criminal, etc...
Linux is failing because the Linux community has been growing increasingly dysfunctional and childish. It was a compelling option for a desktop OS a few years ago but for some reason things have gotten seriously broken in the open source world.
I am advocate for open source and the philosophy behind it. We need to leverage our democratic right for the public to own its own property. But there needs to be a serious reality injection into the open source community. They need to understand the dynamics that make software appeal to the mass market. They have utterly and completely missed the ball on this one, imho.
Oh boy. A video game Jesse Ventura endorses. We all know what a techno connosieur HE is, don't we!
*yawn*
If you say you have somehow found some strange new "ad-free Internet" (without using AdAware that causes every page to crash), then I award you two cookies. Truly, I am not worthy.
Sites have a right to pursue revenue. The sites that are the worst abusers of pop-ups and pop-downs are generally pron and warez sites, anyhow. For the mainstream sites -- well, if such-and-such.com annoys you with their advertising model, there are dozens and dozens of alternative competitor sites that you can choose from. I'm sure that amongst those somewhere you will find the content you desire without the ads that you don't.
Pop-Up Blocker is a great piece of software that you can turn on and off pretty quickly if you happen to be trying to find some good porn (or warez).
No, troll, I mean the fact that I enjoy a whole slew of Internet apps that fill every conceivable desire I have right now and not a one of them pops up ads or spies on me.
No one is putting a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to use Kazaa. Show some individuality, for God's sake!
If it bothers you so much then why do you use the software? I personally hate popups and spyware so guess what I do? This may shock you: I SEEK OUT ALTERNATIVES!!
egads the humanity!!
Bravo. Trolls are viewed upon here as agitators and even vandals but no one ever seems to judge whether or not a majority of /. stories are in and of themselves textbook definition trolls.
There are other laws anyway that regulate a child being able to buy a computer program that has explicit sexual content. They are the same laws that protect children from being able to access adult programming on television, purchase pornographic magazines, books, videos, etc; etc..
"things are quiet these days, not much news stories.. lets post a "story" about DMCA and mention "child porn" with video games and see if we can hit the 1000 post mark! Our advertisers would be most pleased."
HTTP and XML have become my favorite way of data communication between client and servers. Its a fine protocol for many different uses. Plus it is a protocol that just about every firewall lets through.
Still working on perfecting this as only recently have I begun to really start paying attention to "activating" that "Zone" you speak of.
The most important factor for me being able to enter the zone is my emotional health. Any drama from home and such can quickly render me completely useless.
The second most important factor to me is people staying out of my face and just letting me work. When I get sucked into the "status meeting" bullshit and have a bunch of little weenies watching over my shoulder (and getting jealous and snitty and backstabbing) then that'll fuck my game up for sure.
Of course my work environment is important but my biggest complaint with this is the noise level that can rise in cubicle land.
Wish I could have a private office but I'm not a manager so I'm relegated to the "pit".
Finally, one last big thing -- I have a habit, particuarly these days, of compulsively look again and again at news sites, expecting the End of the World to happen at any second. This generally raises my anxiety level the longer I do it and requires some self discipline and control to break out of this habit.
Its not the hardware that really matters with the Tivo, its the software and the back-end services from Tivo that make it so cool.. And lets not forget about the little Tivo remote control thats ooh-so-sexy!
Bah you are just jealous cause my karma whoring just scored me a good solid 5 points and you didn't think of it first!!! BOO YAH, BABY!!!
IN AD 2002 WAR WAS BEGINNING
(Scene: Verisign Data Center inside Washington DC. Huge explosion on top floor of red brick office building, sending flaming servers flying through the night sky)
(Cut to home of Verisign CEO, he is in bed with his fat wife, snoring loudly. The phone rings, and he wakes up, wiping the slobber from his chin while answering)
Verisign CEO: "What you want!"
Voice on the phone: "Somebody set us up the bomb!"
CEO: "What you say!"
Phone voice: "We get signal!"
(static on phone, all of a sudden a voice breaks in)
Arabian voice: "How are you gentlemen? By the Grace of Allah, All your A Root Servers are belonging to us! You have no chance to survive, make your time!"
CEO: "It's YOU! Restore backup! Implement Emergency Response Plan A! Move every server! For great justice!"
Arabian voice: "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"
These people's mastery of the 'Net didn't even extend to being able to discern Evil Bert.
A lot of good wanking in that article but I wouldn't be too worried about the A Root Server being a very realistic prime target for terrorists. After all, I'm sure the A root service would be back online within hours operating a different location and although there might be a few hiccups, things would return to normal fairly quickly.
Much better to remain horribly paranoid about nuclear facilities, dirty bombs, EMPs, smallpox, etc..
Unless you are entering into an AIRPORT with strange things attached to your body!!! Sheesh.
Sorry old chap but the rules have changed. Stop whining like a baby and play by the rules like everybody else.
Maybe this will end up finally bringing the real estate prices in the Bay Area down to the level of the middle class... A shame that its one of the most beautiful cities on Earth and has been made so utterly impossible to live in decently without being a millionaire.
It's great news for me -- I hope it happens, because I'd really like to have a child but my wife steadfastly refuses to go through the pregnancy ordeal again (she almost died during childbirth with her daughter from prev marriage)
Yeah, well, first they have to pay the massive amount of fees required to go battle the army of Microsoft attorneys (which are most definitely the cream of the crop and have an infinite budget)
Be doesn't stand a chance.
Hope I'm wrong, I really do, but I doubt it.. not in this day and age!
Be may be whining about this now but long ago they had their own box, one that was quite impressive, and failed (utterly) to market it.
Sorry, but yes we all know about M$'s licensing with their vendors, but this does not count as a valid excuse for their business failing the way it has. Exclusive Licensing is a common business practice in all industries, after all.
There's a fantastic book out there called the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. It's a fascinating read and contains many case studies to back up these "Laws".
The place for #3 in any market is always small, but obtainable. Linux now owns this space in the desktop OS market (with Apple being #2). Be failed to really develop themselves and build what is known as "mind share". How many people have even HEARD of Be? Not many.
As entertaining as it might be to generate conspiracy theories that somehow the big evil M$ "kept them down", there are other more down-to-earth reasons why Be has always been doomed.
Linux squashed Be. This is because Linux caught onto a market wave as it was happening (the open source movement).. Be tried to catch on to this as well but it was too little too late.
Is a cell phone like they have in Europe where I can switch providers by simply changing a small chip inside it, instead of buying a new frickin phone. (Fixing to have to do this due to the supreme suckage of Sprint PCS in my area)
.. whatever .. I never use the silly wireless web features of my phone anyway. Maybe someday when I get a GPS phone and I can find good restaurants near me, I will.. But this is happening with or without Microsoft and their circle wanking with Intel.
I saw no mention of this in that article, so
I also believe the Laws of Marketing will hold true and Nokia will grind M$'s grubby little nose in their pathetic attempt to apply their business tactics to a completely (imho) unrelated market.
I wonder how the XBox sales are going......
Well, this is where government regulation is necessary.
The Internet is quickly becoming a public resource and should be regulated just the same (well, hopefully better than) other public resources.
Enforcing digital signatures would be a great way to a) fix the spam and trojan abuse while b) maintaining personal privacy.
There are trusted authorities where you can get free private certs, I thought -- doesn't Thawte (hey I made a pun!) give free certs for personal email use?
That doesn't matter anyway because government regulation would (should) provide it for the people for a nominal fee (like they do a driver's license or passport)
Everytime I see a thread pop up on /. regarding spamming or other email abuse, I find myself compelled to repeat my suggestion for how we can effectively battle against these forces which leech the life out of the 'Net.
My suggestion is quite simple: All SMTP servers should put in place policies which reject mail that is not digitally signed with a certificate trusted by a root authority. Personal email certs should be free, commercial (for marketing purposes) should cost a reasonable amount.
This would enforce accountability behind emails by guaranteeing the identity of the sender. Do this and things will clean up considerably, imho.
And precisely 10 milliseconds per decade.
Although there is so much supposed controversy around global warming I for one can attest to witnessing it first hand growing up in Austin, Texas. Every year consistently since I was a boy the summer temperatures have hit new record highs and for longer and longer periods of time. Last summer there was three weeks where the daily high temp did not drop below 100.
Twenty years ago it was not unusual for the 90s during the summer but 100 rarely hit and only for a day or two.
Also, we had a real live swimming hole near where I lived. Although it was always dry during the summer, in the spring year after year it was full of nice cool fresh water.
That stopped happening ever since the late 80's and it is now a perpetual stink hole of stagnant run off water.
We need hydrogen and we need more nuclear power plants and we need them NOW! At the rate things are going, we are going to have MAJOR PROBLEMS in the year 2020.
And I'd personally rather run the risk of a nuclear meltdown in a rural area than thousands of fossil fuel burning powerplants filling the atmosphere with God knows how many thousands of tons of carcinogens (sp?) per year.