Oh yes it will solve a lot. The major problem with IPv4 and NAT, from a security standpoint, is that you have most of the internet behind a proxy to begin with - their own ISP. That means that, if you are trying to run a website or a server, you cannot block specific IPs from accessing your server without accidentally taking out a bunch of people who are not malicious.
If everyone had their own IP, then we could easily IP ban all the troublemakers.
I'm working on a start-up at the moment (Virtual Village Square), and you NEED to be open with your soon-to-be customers. It will do you a lot of good, from getting feedback to building up good relationships with your customers, and it makes them feel like they're on the inside, too.
If linux had better graphics support, I think that linux would take off more - on both the laptop and desktop - as a development platform for console-style games. Think of it this way: If you are developing a game, you currently have to develop the game for windows, mac, linux, etc. if you want it to be on all platforms. However if you were to use a live linux distro as the base for a game, you could make it so that all you have to do is restart your computer, put the CD in your drive and the game runs automatically - no need to mess with installing it on the hard drive, no need to have to port the game, nothing! It will run on any processor that it is designed for that has a fast cd-rom drive (which is pretty much all computers these days), and with network support built into linux you could very easily set it up to connect to the internet and get to a gaming server for lan parties or just regular internet play.
I never used BBSes back in their heyday, because I was a youngin. But I am wondering, to what extent are they like current forum systems, did people post messages and so on or were they more like usenet?
Jason
Well... at least they can't say "Based on Firefox"
on
Netscape Reborn?
·
· Score: 1
... without the Mozilla Foundation's permission. Remember, the logo and name are trademarked by the foundation, same way the netscape logo and name are trademarked by AOL. This is good - unlike what some people have said, AOL *cannot* make a crappy netscape, say it's "based on firefox" and then dilute the firefox brand. jason
You do that and you're going to kill people's incentive to use high-bandwidth applications, which will in-turn kill the incentive for network operators to build bigger and faster networks.
Not necessarily. Make people pay per kilowatt for electricity, and then that will kill peoples' incentive to run factories in their living rooms... right? If the price is negiligible, like electricity amounts, then the IP network providers - the ISP - turns into a utility company. People will still do things the same as they do now, they might just download a little less music from kazaa. High bandwith will then just cost a little more and people will have to take that into account.
Taxing the Internet is like erecting tolls across the Interstate highway system. You're going to kill all the incentive the use it. If anything, the trend over the past 50 years has been to REMOVE tolls, not add new ones.
You mean paying for things? I say taht we should pay per amount of bandwith used, and then the government can tax THAT - not internet phone calls or emails sent.
Ideally, we shouldn't be paying per-month fees for our access to IP networks. (Let's not even call it the "internet" anymore, please. It's just a network for sending and receiving IP packets) We should be paying for bandwith. Just like we have an electric bill where we pay per kilowatt, and a water bill where we pay per gallon, we should pay per megabit sent and received over the IP networks. That way all this traffic - is already taxed. We could have one tax on IP traffic fees, and after that it's fair game to do whatever you want with that IP traffic. So VOIP calls wouldn't be "free", they would cost a certain amount depending on the bitrate you send and receive at. And they would be taxed based on how much bandwith you use for it. Jason
This is actually a REALLY good idea - but instead of giving them a slow connection, say, "You have (insert amount) of bandwith allowance per month/week/etc)", and in the same way as a money allowance, you can up it as the kids get older. Downloading porn takes up a lot of bandwith; if they run out of bandwith and come complain, just say that they need to budget their time on the computer more. This also will help them to not spend all day on the computer, and find real people to hang out with.
I know that personally I ran through multiple GBs per month at home...
If Apple released OS X for x86, it would erode and eventually eliminate a majority of their hardware revenue.
That's true. But it also would greatly eliminate Microsoft's revenue from Windows, because just think of how many people would love to use OSX, but don't want to shell out the money for the hardware? I know that I would use OSX, if I didn't have to buy a new computer to get it.
The autocomplete in jEdit is great! I use it a LOT, when editing both XML documents, and also HTML.
Also, jEdit has support for DTDs, and if you have a valid DTD for your document, it will find and show you errors in your document so that you can fix it properly if you ever break the XML rules.
If MS killed Office on Mac, it wouldn't be the end of the world - there are other office/productivity suites for the Mac (Open Office, Apple Works, etc).
Actually, if they killed Office for Mac, Apple would just drop the OSX-for-x86 bomb and destroy microsoft.
--Jason
Problem is, 3/26/2003 *is* a long time ago. It's almost been two months! Considering that there have been no reports or anything on progress, for all we know the author of Spammunition (which is a great tool, I use it) has fallen off the face of the earth.
I've emailed him about perhaps open-sourcing the code so that we can help him with bugs and stuff, but haven't gotten a reply.
This website has such a great interface. It has sound, it has one simply Flash object, it is actually funny, and it's so easy to use that my parents can figure it out!
OK. So we were actually just discussing the whole "10000000 monkeys + 1000000 typewriters = shakespeare (given enough time)" thing, and I was thinking - now, if we just set up a random number generator, and then it constantly generated random numbers, or went from 1 to like 10000000000000000, and then took that number, converted it to binary, and then made that printed out that binary using ascii codes, would we eventually get to Shakespeare, and other works?
I think it's a possibility. Bat man... those would be some *big* numbers... thing 2^(number of characters in Hamlet*8).....
Its like a giant non-profit company owned by the federal government.
That's the way to go! When they nationalize things like the phone industry, or even (eventually) the ISP industry, then they shouldn't make it into another agency (then we'll just have more bureacracy), but basically non-profits owned by the gov't. We pay them money (as opposed to it coming out of taxes), and they provide us with a service. Their goal isn't necessarily to make money, but to provide the best service for the least money, and better society.
Google IS the best. During the war, I used Google News to get the news all the time... I just typed in "Iraq" into the search, and refreshed it constantly, sorted by date. The latest news, up to five minutes old, from all over the world, popped up. And, as opposed to watching the news or reading the paper, I could get the info from sources ALL OVER THE WORLD -- not just CNN and NBC, but Arab News, the BBC, Chinese and Indian newspapers, the works! -- which gave me a much more well-rounded and much less biased view of what is going on over there.
(I am not a student at UB)... but I did take some classes there, and have had a lot of experience with their IT guys. And while they *do* offer lots of "free" MS software to students, almost all of their computer systems on the IT end of things are run on UNIX.
Slashdot Mirror
... or, you will run a web server. With that kind of bandwith, you could run a server and not have to pay for hosting!
Oh yes it will solve a lot. The major problem with IPv4 and NAT, from a security standpoint, is that you have most of the internet behind a proxy to begin with - their own ISP. That means that, if you are trying to run a website or a server, you cannot block specific IPs from accessing your server without accidentally taking out a bunch of people who are not malicious.
If everyone had their own IP, then we could easily IP ban all the troublemakers.
Jason
I'm working on a start-up at the moment (Virtual Village Square), and you NEED to be open with your soon-to-be customers. It will do you a lot of good, from getting feedback to building up good relationships with your customers, and it makes them feel like they're on the inside, too.
jason
If linux had better graphics support, I think that linux would take off more - on both the laptop and desktop - as a development platform for console-style games. Think of it this way: If you are developing a game, you currently have to develop the game for windows, mac, linux, etc. if you want it to be on all platforms. However if you were to use a live linux distro as the base for a game, you could make it so that all you have to do is restart your computer, put the CD in your drive and the game runs automatically - no need to mess with installing it on the hard drive, no need to have to port the game, nothing! It will run on any processor that it is designed for that has a fast cd-rom drive (which is pretty much all computers these days), and with network support built into linux you could very easily set it up to connect to the internet and get to a gaming server for lan parties or just regular internet play.
... pandimensional hyperintelligent beings?
If not then they aren't good enough for me.
I never used BBSes back in their heyday, because I was a youngin. But I am wondering, to what extent are they like current forum systems, did people post messages and so on or were they more like usenet?
Jason
... without the Mozilla Foundation's permission. Remember, the logo and name are trademarked by the foundation, same way the netscape logo and name are trademarked by AOL. This is good - unlike what some people have said, AOL *cannot* make a crappy netscape, say it's "based on firefox" and then dilute the firefox brand.
jason
You do that and you're going to kill people's incentive to use high-bandwidth applications, which will in-turn kill the incentive for network operators to build bigger and faster networks. Not necessarily. Make people pay per kilowatt for electricity, and then that will kill peoples' incentive to run factories in their living rooms... right? If the price is negiligible, like electricity amounts, then the IP network providers - the ISP - turns into a utility company. People will still do things the same as they do now, they might just download a little less music from kazaa. High bandwith will then just cost a little more and people will have to take that into account. Taxing the Internet is like erecting tolls across the Interstate highway system. You're going to kill all the incentive the use it. If anything, the trend over the past 50 years has been to REMOVE tolls, not add new ones. You mean paying for things? I say taht we should pay per amount of bandwith used, and then the government can tax THAT - not internet phone calls or emails sent.
Ideally, we shouldn't be paying per-month fees for our access to IP networks. (Let's not even call it the "internet" anymore, please. It's just a network for sending and receiving IP packets) We should be paying for bandwith. Just like we have an electric bill where we pay per kilowatt, and a water bill where we pay per gallon, we should pay per megabit sent and received over the IP networks. That way all this traffic - is already taxed. We could have one tax on IP traffic fees, and after that it's fair game to do whatever you want with that IP traffic. So VOIP calls wouldn't be "free", they would cost a certain amount depending on the bitrate you send and receive at. And they would be taxed based on how much bandwith you use for it.
Jason
What about this anti-phishing tool? It's worked pretty well for me.
Jason
This is actually a REALLY good idea - but instead of giving them a slow connection, say, "You have (insert amount) of bandwith allowance per month/week/etc)", and in the same way as a money allowance, you can up it as the kids get older. Downloading porn takes up a lot of bandwith; if they run out of bandwith and come complain, just say that they need to budget their time on the computer more. This also will help them to not spend all day on the computer, and find real people to hang out with.
I know that personally I ran through multiple GBs per month at home...
If Apple released OS X for x86, it would erode and eventually eliminate a majority of their hardware revenue.
That's true. But it also would greatly eliminate Microsoft's revenue from Windows, because just think of how many people would love to use OSX, but don't want to shell out the money for the hardware? I know that I would use OSX, if I didn't have to buy a new computer to get it.
--Jason
The autocomplete in jEdit is great! I use it a LOT, when editing both XML documents, and also HTML.
Also, jEdit has support for DTDs, and if you have a valid DTD for your document, it will find and show you errors in your document so that you can fix it properly if you ever break the XML rules.
--Jason
If MS killed Office on Mac, it wouldn't be the end of the world - there are other office/productivity suites for the Mac (Open Office, Apple Works, etc).
Actually, if they killed Office for Mac, Apple would just drop the OSX-for-x86 bomb and destroy microsoft. --Jason
THANK YOU for linking to e2!
Now for the next hour - or maybe the next few - I will waste my time going to pages such as this.
Once again, thanks!
--Jason
Problem is, 3/26/2003 *is* a long time ago. It's almost been two months! Considering that there have been no reports or anything on progress, for all we know the author of Spammunition (which is a great tool, I use it) has fallen off the face of the earth.
I've emailed him about perhaps open-sourcing the code so that we can help him with bugs and stuff, but haven't gotten a reply.
... Homestar Runenr!!!
This website has such a great interface. It has sound, it has one simply Flash object, it is actually funny, and it's so easy to use that my parents can figure it out!
OK. So we were actually just discussing the whole "10000000 monkeys + 1000000 typewriters = shakespeare (given enough time)" thing, and I was thinking - now, if we just set up a random number generator, and then it constantly generated random numbers, or went from 1 to like 10000000000000000, and then took that number, converted it to binary, and then made that printed out that binary using ascii codes, would we eventually get to Shakespeare, and other works?
I think it's a possibility. Bat man... those would be some *big* numbers... thing 2^(number of characters in Hamlet*8).....
--Jason
It's "Lynx", not "Links". "Links" are those underlined-thingys that you click in "Lynx"...
--Jason
... will he still be able to unlock the door when he gets home from work?
Its like a giant non-profit company owned by the federal government.
That's the way to go! When they nationalize things like the phone industry, or even (eventually) the ISP industry, then they shouldn't make it into another agency (then we'll just have more bureacracy), but basically non-profits owned by the gov't. We pay them money (as opposed to it coming out of taxes), and they provide us with a service. Their goal isn't necessarily to make money, but to provide the best service for the least money, and better society.
And what's wrong with that?
--Jason
Google IS the best. During the war, I used Google News to get the news all the time... I just typed in "Iraq" into the search, and refreshed it constantly, sorted by date. The latest news, up to five minutes old, from all over the world, popped up. And, as opposed to watching the news or reading the paper, I could get the info from sources ALL OVER THE WORLD -- not just CNN and NBC, but Arab News, the BBC, Chinese and Indian newspapers, the works! -- which gave me a much more well-rounded and much less biased view of what is going on over there.
--Jason
The question is, does Amazon's REST take into account the Evil Bit? Remember, if you're evil we need to wash your mouth out with SOAP!
(I am not a student at UB) ... but I did take some classes there, and have had a lot of experience with their IT guys. And while they *do* offer lots of "free" MS software to students, almost all of their computer systems on the IT end of things are run on UNIX.
Why is this "Go Mexico"??
They're extending copyright and abolishing the copyright domain.
Let's fix that typo: BOO MEXICO!