Huh? Why did you have to? How massive could these logs have been to require rotation every 8 hours?
This was in 1999-2000 (much smaller disks than are available today) and we were getting one million uniques a day. A million uniques translates into an utter shitload of page views when it's porn you are serving. The logs grew at very scary pace.
When I was there, this company was in the top 50 in the world in terms of bandwidth and visits. Amazingly, they went out of business even though porn was and still is one of the only profitable web enterprises out there.
Does it mean they're going to hire people to go through all porn and judge which is legal?!
I used to work for a free adult host. One thing I did was write a system to monitor the bandwidth usage of individual users and display the results, sorted high to low by megabits, everyday. The regular users were obvious, you knew who they were and what their sites consisted of. But pretty much everyday, 1 or 2 sites would jump to the top of the list. These sites were always newly created and they were always child porn. I would then go and delete the accounts and the files. The FBI, US Customs and local PD all told me it was illegal to delete, move or even shut down child porn sites. We had to rotate our logs 3 times a day, so by the time the authorities came by (on their own investigations) the evidence was always long gone. We hated the CP for what it was, but it also consumed huge amounts of bandwidth so we couldn't afford to keep it around.
This shit popped up every single day of the week. I used to roam the CP bbses which advertised the new sites and post stuff like "THE FBI IS MONITORING (the company I worked for.)" It would freak the shit out them.
Heh, I still have an old file cabinet from that company that is labeled "The PedoFile."
I install all of my operating systems on avrage of once ever 1 - 3 months. All except for two that is:)
Windows XP Pro, Windows 98 SE, SuSE Linux, and Knoppix
The only case where I have had to reinstall linux with the same version of linux was when I a server I was running got infected with Lion in 2001. Otherwise, I have reinstalled only to switch or upgrade (I never us upgrade in the installation procedure, I always install clean.) I have been using linux as a desktop daily for 4 or 5 years and have set up at least 100 machines in that time.
When I used windows regularly (win 98 was the last version I used daily.), I reinstalled every three months or so. I know it is better know, but 'os degradation' or whatever the term was, was a fact of life for me and is ingrained in my head as a fixall solution for windows problems.
I'm not blaming OSS for this, only pointing out that their conclusion is obvious. I'm sure you could pick 5 random closed source commercial projects and find (nearly) the same thing.
it is going to transform the way we computer simply out of the sheer computing power we'll be able to throw at things.
Yep. After that no more thinking will be required. Just brute force everything. Chess, unsolved equations, protein folding, you name it. We won't need science any more.
Cite: CNN circa 2002 During the film's opening week, the studio might take 70 to 80 percent of gross box office sales. By the fifth or sixth week, the percentage the studio takes will likely shrink to about 35 percent.
Unfortunately for you, the rest of your tired rant does not follow.
What's your point? My post points out the fact that theatres get some take of the door and your post confirms it. The post I was replying to states that the theatre gets nothing from the door receipts. I called bullshit on that and pointed out that you can't just make up facts to justify your actions. This being Slashdot and all, I fully expect that if more than three slashbots read this comment (it being posted 10 hours after the story hit the main page), one of them is going post some crap about George Bush making up facts to justify the war and that post will get modded up.
The theater charges ten dollars to walk through the door, all of which goes to the movie producer. The theater doesn't get to keep those ten dollars.
Utter bullshit. No theatre would run without some take of the door. You slashbots can sit around and make shit up all day, but that doesn't make it true or right or the law or a logical interpretation of the constitution. All it is, is you trying to justify criminal acts. Downloading movies or music off the net without consent is theft. There are no two ways about it.
Bad example, as movie theatres make most of their cash off of the concessions and not the ticket prices.
Ah...see, you are slowly shifting to the 'why it's okay to steal music' argument. "Artists make most of their money from concerts, not cds so that justifies stealing music off the web. If it's good enough, people will go see them live, if not well, they suck and deserve nothing." Your argument only holds water if the movies are free to begin with. Even if they make most of their money off concessions, they still charge $10 to get through the door.
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Huh? Why did you have to? How massive could these logs have been to require rotation every 8 hours?
This was in 1999-2000 (much smaller disks than are available today) and we were getting one million uniques a day. A million uniques translates into an utter shitload of page views when it's porn you are serving. The logs grew at very scary pace.
When I was there, this company was in the top 50 in the world in terms of bandwidth and visits. Amazingly, they went out of business even though porn was and still is one of the only profitable web enterprises out there.
Does it mean they're going to hire people to go through all porn and judge which is legal?!
I used to work for a free adult host. One thing I did was write a system to monitor the bandwidth usage of individual users and display the results, sorted high to low by megabits, everyday. The regular users were obvious, you knew who they were and what their sites consisted of. But pretty much everyday, 1 or 2 sites would jump to the top of the list. These sites were always newly created and they were always child porn. I would then go and delete the accounts and the files. The FBI, US Customs and local PD all told me it was illegal to delete, move or even shut down child porn sites. We had to rotate our logs 3 times a day, so by the time the authorities came by (on their own investigations) the evidence was always long gone. We hated the CP for what it was, but it also consumed huge amounts of bandwidth so we couldn't afford to keep it around.
This shit popped up every single day of the week. I used to roam the CP bbses which advertised the new sites and post stuff like "THE FBI IS MONITORING (the company I worked for.)" It would freak the shit out them.
Heh, I still have an old file cabinet from that company that is labeled "The PedoFile."
I install all of my operating systems on avrage of once ever 1 - 3 months. All except for two that is :)
Windows XP Pro, Windows 98 SE, SuSE Linux, and Knoppix
The only case where I have had to reinstall linux with the same version of linux was when I a server I was running got infected with Lion in 2001. Otherwise, I have reinstalled only to switch or upgrade (I never us upgrade in the installation procedure, I always install clean.) I have been using linux as a desktop daily for 4 or 5 years and have set up at least 100 machines in that time.
When I used windows regularly (win 98 was the last version I used daily.), I reinstalled every three months or so. I know it is better know, but 'os degradation' or whatever the term was, was a fact of life for me and is ingrained in my head as a fixall solution for windows problems.
Reinstall windows.
I was joking but given the paradigms embraced here at Slashdot, I am not surprised that it was modded both insightful and interesting.
Find a site you like (there are literally millions to choose from.)
Copy the html.
Change the content to match your company.
Bingo....cheap website.
And only a few days ago we were asked, "Where have all the cycles gone?" Sheesh.
The University of Washington (my alma) has had a Bio Engineering Department since 1967. They have undergrad and grad programs.
What's this Usenet thing again?
Please check out alt.usenet.newbies for more information and answers to your questions.
I'm not blaming OSS for this, only pointing out that their conclusion is obvious. I'm sure you could pick 5 random closed source commercial projects and find (nearly) the same thing.
One need only peruse the source code of 5 randomly picked source forge projects to figure this one out.
Here is the psuedo code:
if ( 1 ) {
create_new_product();
}
Why would you do this?
Let me guess... emacs is covered in 74 of those pages and the vi page simply reads: Use emacs.
I always thought 'Gay'.
And with poorly designed e-commerce sites, your credit card number, password, etc.
LOL, sensitive info sent in a GET. It happens. Still.
Not quite. IP addresses will only give you slashdot.org. URL's can tell which stories you went to/posted to.
And a single IP address can resolve to tens of thousands of hostnames/urls by using virtual hosts.
Do you really believe that this theorem has been proved with "just" brute force, without the use of "science"?
Well, I am not really sure about the answer to your question, so let me brute force it:
Yes
Maybe
No
Google defines Excellence as the "the state or condition of being invented and owned by Google."
it is going to transform the way we computer simply out of the sheer computing power we'll be able to throw at things.
Yep. After that no more thinking will be required. Just brute force everything. Chess, unsolved equations, protein folding, you name it. We won't need science any more.
Cite: CNN circa 2002
During the film's opening week, the studio might take 70 to 80 percent of gross box office sales.
By the fifth or sixth week, the percentage the studio takes will likely shrink to about 35 percent.
Unfortunately for you, the rest of your tired rant does not follow.
What's your point? My post points out the fact that theatres get some take of the door and your post confirms it. The post I was replying to states that the theatre gets nothing from the door receipts. I called bullshit on that and pointed out that you can't just make up facts to justify your actions. This being Slashdot and all, I fully expect that if more than three slashbots read this comment (it being posted 10 hours after the story hit the main page), one of them is going post some crap about George Bush making up facts to justify the war and that post will get modded up.
The theater charges ten dollars to walk through the door, all of which goes to the movie producer. The theater doesn't get to keep those ten dollars.
Utter bullshit. No theatre would run without some take of the door. You slashbots can sit around and make shit up all day, but that doesn't make it true or right or the law or a logical interpretation of the constitution. All it is, is you trying to justify criminal acts. Downloading movies or music off the net without consent is theft. There are no two ways about it.
Bad example, as movie theatres make most of their cash off of the concessions and not the ticket prices.
Ah...see, you are slowly shifting to the 'why it's okay to steal music' argument. "Artists make most of their money from concerts, not cds so that justifies stealing music off the web. If it's good enough, people will go see them live, if not well, they suck and deserve nothing." Your argument only holds water if the movies are free to begin with. Even if they make most of their money off concessions, they still charge $10 to get through the door.
According to your logic, I should be able to walk into a movie theater and watch a movie without paying. What does the theater lose? Nothing material.
You can justify your theft however you like, but taking something, anything (physical or electronic) that isn't yours without consent is theft.