So does this mean it will be an 'integral part of the OS' like they tried to do with IE. I dont install Flash, which makes the amount of ads popping up on web pages drastically reduced.
Really though, this wont be much of a problem. Being the last new version of windows I put on any of the computers I use was Win98. I guess MS is offering up every reason it can to get people to move away form it as quickly as possible.
Reminds me of the girl I dont like calling me 6X a day. Guess MS is insecure in more ways than we thought.
While this is a nice idea for someone to come up with after putting down the hooka...is it a joke?
A logo for hackers? Sure why not, these are the kinds of people just looking to attach themselves to some sort of social structure, because they care so much what other people think of their social standings.
Of course Ill be defensive of the claims you made. No I do not work for SBC. Yes I am a business customer of theirs. As I stated earlier, they provide a service Im more than happy with.
Its great that they are so aggressive in selling their product, in economies of scale you need to develop a large customer base very quickly and I understand that.
Im not sure what it is you expect out of them, but personally I expect what I was looking for, and what they now provide, a fat pipe to the internet on which I can run and manage any kind of service I want. I dont have to call tech support for anything, ever. Perhaps Im in the minority of technically inclined people, but there has not been a single problem I have had that I didnt figure out myself.
As for you claims of annoying telemarketers, just give up your addiction to the telephone. Dont get up and stop what your doing everytime it rings, get an answering machine and screen your calls. Make the decisions that make your life easier, but dont bitch about the decisions you dont want to make while your making your life harder in the process. I cant remember the last time I was 'bothered' by a telemarketer. Its just not an issue.
This is a business, thats it. Its not an entity to overlay on to what you think the world should be. Thats the job of your own business. I can appreciate your wanting for something better, but you cant honestly think that sitting back waiting for it to happen is the way that its gonna get done.
ok ok...about the only thing I find remotley factual in this article is the fact that this guy works for a 'company'...however it looks like he works for a company doing exactly the things he is asking about.
First of all, lack of any knowledge of partion or disk utilities to prevent such an occurance is unacceptable. I would not admit that in public about my company even if I used the phrase 'a company I work for', just on the off chance my negligence would be able to be tracked back to me.
Second, why are you not able to offer these services yourself? You make a claim that these people know what they are doing, so if you are at such a level to recognise what they are doing, how come you havent done it already? Did customer service become just a novelty to you? so I doubt this line very much...
While I welcome anything that lets our customers use the internet effectively
Doing hosting myself, Im well aware of the tactics you speak of, being that I get bounce mail for nonexistant addresses sent to such titles as; president, ceo, owner, support, tech...and so on. And Im not sure exactly what you mean by 'choked up' your mail server. How do 40k NONEXISTANT addresses manage to slow down your mail server? Is it a 286?
The whole article just smells funny to me, as it seems like you are just pretending to care about the ISP's end and more concerned about the backlash of doing these things. What do you mean how far is to far? Again, if the people in charge cant figure these things out on their own, I would be very hesitant to admit that in a public forum.
Get your technical skills and decision making in line...THEN question how to outsource it..
Im in the chicagoland area as well, and have my DSL serv ice through DSL. Personally, you sound like an angry ex-employee since thats all Ive ever heard from people who work there. But honestly, I could care less how people react to the way they provide the services they do. And dont go drawing any parallels between not caring and slave labor or killing kittins, thats NOT whats going on and you damn well know it.
My bottom line, I used to have broadband through the local cable company, and when I started a small web hosting company a few years back, I found out the REAL difference between cable and DSL. The people at the cable company told me that no servers were allowed and I could only be garaunteed use of three ports, those being 25,80, and 110 and only outgoing. Thats about.00004% of the 'internet'. Pretty crappy service. So I looked into DSL and found myself on the phone with SBC. After making it a point to ask the question about what kind of restrictions there were, I was told "We just provide you the pipe, anything you put on there is your problem, but you can do it."
Now you tell me, what option sounds more like the internet, and less like a modified for of TV?
They may be getting good publicity from this, but thats not because they changed any sort of policy to make themselves look good. In my experience, they have always just been about providing a bare-bones service, no stupid frills or restrictions.
And FYI, it wasnt SBC who screwed everything, it was the piss-poor contractors they hired. If you want to blame someone for what happened dont point at them. Go down to the bar and tell all the guys laying the cables and doing the maintenance how crappy of a job they do when its -30F, so you can sit in your comfy chair and download 1's and 0's.
So tell either you or your friend who got upset at the way SBC runs a business that thats whats happens when your actually expected to dig in and do some work. And when you dont they dont let you just sit around, your gone, end of story. Im a business customer, and Ive found nothing but loyalty from them, as well as setting me up with good deals for how much I bring in from outside accounts signing up for DSL in the locations I contract out. Perhaps they provide worse service for the residential customers, or maybe its just the biz and res networks are seperate and the res gets clogged up with joe six pack spewing virii everywhere, who knows.
I noticed this too. After the update downloads, the application tripped my firewall on port 80. Nowhere in the update does it specify that this will be needed.
This bothers me for several reasons; 1) I administer many machines that are off site. They have been set up as tight as can be which keeps me from having to drive to the furthest ones which are over 200 miles away. Now I have to allow a program downloaded from a NON-SECURED web site to run freely while accesing the internet? How did this strike anyone as a good idea?
2) Well, there is no 2 just yet as I havent had time for all the negative consequences to hit yet.
Im sure with a little tinkering, this can be resolved, hell Ill just put that IP into my routing table and hit it to a local box or something...
You do realise that the RIAA will win this war, don't you?:-)
So by win do you mean never having a large majority of people listen to any of their prepackaged crap? This time I cant help but feed the troll...I share PLENTY of files online, and the plain fact is all of it is LEGAL. There is not ONE single piece of music I own, or listen to that will support that trade group or their member labels. Sure its a hard line position, but Im thankful that my standard for what is good music has gone up by orders of magnitudes since that time. What am I missing again? when I turned off the crap it was all brittney spears and eminem.
Although your rephrasing another party on their own viewpoints is a little presumptious, its not all that suprising. FACT is, the statement is not to ADMIT to illegally sharing files. Its a strongarm tactic, nothing new. If you are arrested and cave into the threats of cops on the beat and admit to a crime just to get them to leave you alone even though you are innocent, you can still be tried and found guilty based on that confession. The legal ignorance in this country is frightening.
Im sure many have posted cimilar threads, but Im greedy and want my own...
To the point though, why is there a problem in blocking ports when most users only use at most 3 EVER(25,80,110). However, the best this would do would to be a temporary gain. Its always been a game of cat and mouse, and it always will be. By taking an upper hand, all that would be accomplished is that new viruses would take advantage of ports that are allowed by the majority of ISP's.
Would a better approach be to let that user have full availability of all inbound traffic to let them see the 'naked net' and then just have restrictions on what goes out? It would still leave the responsibility on the end user to avoid complacency, as well as block anyone not able to fix the problem at hand from infecting others. I provide the resources of an ISP for VERY few people, and this is the way I have chosen to handle it personally.
Do I think that this should be legislated? absolutly not! It would serve no meaningful advance, and be nothing more than another regulation that would have a fine attached to it in an already worn thin atmosphere.
In the final alalysis, nothing will compare to technically competent people at those ISP's. Even if the net gain is to stay just barely ahead.
You provided a nice link, but I still fail to see how that isnt a modern society. India at least has the decency to call it what it is, whereas the rest of the 'modern world' still uses fudiciary and educational background to discriminate on a much larger scale.
Reading the link you posted describing how people in cities dont care that much of the caste system, whereas in rural communities they often keep seperate. Explain how that is different than much of the US. You make it sound like the US(Im assuming thats where your from) has solved all the problems of discrimination. As if no minorities are ever taken advantage of by the majority, gays and lesbians arent discriminated in rural areas? Homeless people arent looked down upon by the busy masses? Even as a new bias against any religion that is not the 'unofficial' christian majority is taking hold in your country right now.
My quesiton sitll stands though, why do you think india doesnt have a modern society? It may be a different society, but to claim it as not modern is to ignore the facts of both the present and the past.
technology =! modern
I do not want to sound like an apologist, as india has its share of problems like any other spot on this planet, but to look at something different and automatically assume it is beneath you shows a very narrow viewpoint
what is it that you define as a modern society, and why is it that you think india doesnt have one? Perhaps it was the word 'impoverished' that confused you. You seem to equate large amounts of wealth with 'success'.
The history of India-Pakistan in just the past 75 years should answer your question if you want to look into that aspect.
I find it disturbing that you arent aware of that history, although I can see why it wouldnt be common knowledge these days
First they will come for the scientists, then the artists, and the poets, then whoever else is left to shatter the world-view of the people in power...
At first glance, the concept of history repeating itself is a casual amusement...now its becoming a scary reality
Was it just me, or did the link to that story contain an ad for Microsoft Server 2003? For all of you that didnt RTFA, this would be a good time to do so...its good for a laugh, in whats going to be a serious problem for all the crack(power) addicted unwashed.
No, mars is not really red. Its more of a tint of orange, but thats not the reason you dont see color.
You should be complaining about your eyes, not the telescopes you were using. Your eye is made up of rods and cones(HS biology). For numerous reasons, you cant see colors under normal nighttime conditions. In low light conditions, you are using your rods, which only detect black and white shades. While mars might be incredibly bright throught the telescope, you are still only using your low light optics, which explains why you percieve it as being white. In fact much of the sky, save some binary stars is mostly wisps of black and white through a telescope, with the rare dull pastel showing up once and awhile.
If you dont believe me, take a picture of it through that same telescope and tell me if the color on the picture is the same as what you saw(it wont be)
Every time I read this sort of story, I wonder how it is that these people responsible for maintaining these networks are still employed. It seems these peoples employers are even more clueless than the twit that doesnt upgrade their systems. If your boss accepts your excuse for this occuring in your company, they are morons.
A patch to fix this was out several weeks before this hit, as most already know. So what exactly is the reason anyone can give that this critical part of their job didnt get done in WEEKS! I had a friend of mine who works in the IT dept of a fairly large company telling me he was pissed about this because he was going to get called in early saturday when this worm hit, as they knew large numbers of their systems were infected. He was almost to the point of bragging that it was such a major situation...at which point I reminded him that he was bragging about the fact that their dept let a MAJOR hole go unfixed for almost 4 weeks.
To drag the open source argument into this a bit, even if linux and windows had the exact same amount of vulnerabilities, which group is it that doesnt seem to have as much of a problem applying a simple 'patch'. Perhaps this is just the result of 'certification'. Where you learn enough to get some documentation saying you learned what was needed for that document...but most of these monkeys are not much better than the moron who drives for miles while the oil light is on in the car..."If the car is still running, it couldnt be that big of a problem"...
Your not amazed, your just making a mistake. See, the internet as you know it consisting of a bunch of www adresses and p2p apps is just the result of what has been going on on networks long before your parents screwed to pop you out. Its called free exchange of thought.
Yes, I do agree with your point of it being a utopia of sorts, and thats exactly the point! When all those people you consider geeks and nerds were telling you this was going to change the world, they were right. The world is now changing, take a step back 20 years and think about how people would react if you told them that in 20 years most media(books,court records, music, etc) would be available to anyone, anywhere for FREE! This does have the potential to change the world, and it already has in many ways.
Dont fall for newsspeak so easily...example...it was called the.com bust, not the.org,.edu,.gov, bust. why? because commercialism is in reality(whatever that is).com is a very small subset of the useful information available to you, unless your just replacing one phosphorous tube for another(TV -> PC)
War zone? hardly, just because your ignorance gets you in trouble doesnt mean it needs to be changed for everyone to satisfy your need for security. Networks were a lot more 'dangerous' as you like to call it, years ago than they are now. Cops and robbers, cat and mouse, call it what you will...but the more things change the more they stay the same. Most NOCenters were lucky to have one person to maintain and police their subnets...now every jackass that can write a C+ script gets a job to watch over the traffic on subnets. that to me is more dangerous than whatever it is you think is so threatening about the internet.
At some point you are going to have to realize that nobody cares what you think everyone needs to realize.
How the hell did you make it this far in school and not know how to get things done? Your doing contract work?? I can only imagine the quality of your work. Your barking up the wrong tree as well...asking other people how to do it is just leading you further away from achieving it.
Sometimes I think the editors at slashdot have no sense of humor...then they go and nullify my fears by posting an article like this:)
Highway 375 in nevada is interesting. Driving north out of Las Vegas you will first drive through Indian Springs AFB where you have a good chance of seeing an F-117a taking off in front of you. Also further along on hwy 375 you will come to a town called rachael,NV. Stop at the Ale'e'inn and grab some food. You will run into interesting people in that place, I can assure you. Also near you is an very small ghost town called warm springs NV. Stop there, back off the road a bit is a warm spring coming out of the mountain running down into a small creek. Its not marked anywhere, but its an interesting place in the middle of nowhere.
I hope this same attitude will take hold in the US,
You had better be careful about wishing a certain 'attitude' takes hold anywhere. Especially one like this. After all, once everyone doing this is a criminal and all 'dealt with', a new bunch of over the mountain sherrifs will come in to make what you do perfectly legally now into a 'criminal act'...and maybe then you will see the increasing gap between morality and law, since so many like to equate file-sharing with some sort of moral character.
I remember being very young and going to a RV show up in chicago, I went into quite a large vehicle and started to listen to the radio, even turning it up to see how it would sound. Suddenly the salesman walked(ran) up to me and said I couldnt listen to the radio here. He explained that it was illegal to play music in a public place at a volume for others to hear. Back then it was ASCAP running around like todays RIAA. Needless to say, I was confused. In my years I have gone from being confused by stupid laws, to realizing they were written by stupid people. Enjoy
in danger of the creative people who bring us movies and records going bankrupt
This is capitalism, duh! If your product is horrible you loose money, if people like it, you gain money. We dont need Milton Freedman here to explain this do we? I could care less that the company that makes music I dont even listen to goes bankrupt. As it seems the ones that DONT treat their fans like criminals are doing quite nicely in the digital age. Ill leave it up to you to find the work Im referring to.
By the time these companies are dragged kicking and screaming into the reality that the PC has made, some other intelligent person will have already been there for years, making people happy, which also makes them give that person money...again, duh!
since the original poster was out in the left-field of reality, Ill quote the same line again for the purposes of demonstrating how out of touch the post was...
creative people who bring us movies and records going bankrupt due to all of the digital pirating of their content.
And its obvious that before the internet came along all the creative people and artists in the world were just rolling in dough, in fact it was general knowledge of the day: Parents would become dissapointed at their sons and daughters for wanting to be a doctor, lawyer, etc. and wonder why they didnt go for the big bucks of the creative and art industries.
One of the worst scenarios that I am haunted by is getting into a serious accident, through no fault of my own, and being seriously f-ed because I was over the limit
The other option being that, through fault of your own you get in an accident and kill someone or yourself, and then get REALLY fucked.
There are two possible final outcomes to your current behavior, neither one I think you like or would like to see anyone you know involved in. Yet for some reason, you think it 'wont happen to you'
And one of the worst scenarios I am haunted by is people who are fully aware of the negative consequences of their actions, but still let their ego rationalize it as a good thing
Obviously this isn't fair, but what are the alternatives in this down economy, where jobs are hard to find
There are sectors of the economy on FIRE right now, find your self into one of those. For those still brainwashed by TV-news, people made just as much money 'betting' a stock would go down, as they did that it would go up in the tech bubble days. You make just as much if a stock goes from $100 to $.01 as you do if it goes from.01 to $100. You simply have to know the rules of the game and do your research. For example the housing market is still in its bubble phase for those of you interested in the quick buck. If you cant find a way to make money by selling your services to real-estate related sectors, perhaps a 40-hr week, peon job is the best you will ever have.
If you pigeon-hole YOURSELF into a particluar sector of the economy, then its simply your lack of flexibility, not the economy, that is the source of all your 'problems'. Oh, but you say you want the big reward without the big risk? right step in line, I think there are 5 billion others in front of you...
Worse off, your asking career advice on a community board. If you worked at my company you would have been 'let-go' long ago for a simple inability to make your own decisions and deal with the consequences of them, good or bad.
Do the majority of americans think their job is gauranteed?
This is what happens when people with an absolute love for what they do go into a situation expecting everyone to see things the way they do. Bottom line is you joined a company whos ONLY purpose is to make money. They could give a shit that you find a deep sense of satisfaction in being able to do what you love for a living. It not a pleasant way to live, but you thought it was worth the good money and could deal with the circumstances, well the 'good-life' pendulum is swinging the other way, now what are you going to do?
I think there are other groups of people like this...oh yea, they are called TEACHERS! Now either face the music or not, but dont complain about it over and over again. Nobody else makes your choices for you, and your treating it like they are supposed to.
Maybe you will think twice next time you look down on the person with a smile on their face but who makes half as much as you...it seems they DO know something that you dont.
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Other than stocking up on hair dye and botox, what steps can I take to prepare for the future?
You can start by not whining about how other peoples decisions have such a major impact on your life. If you dont like the situation your in, start your own company and tell your boss to go fuck himself.
Oh, but its not so simple you say. I have all these bills, car, house, insurance, etc. Well chief, its your life and its your choices. For some people their materialism will always outweigh the desire to be their own person. No matter how good it sounds to be able to be in control of your own destiny, most people will cave into having the nice car and big house. Only you can decide where in your life heirarchy being more independent comes in.
You started on the rat-race path because you wanted the 'good-life', dont be afraid that its coming to its natural conclusion as it has for EVERYONE before you.
Apple used the term in conjunction with its Mac OS X marketing
have the Unix trademark declared invalid because the term has become generic
At least it seems that apple has now realized its product is generic and is using terms to describe it that way. So much for brand recognition. I find it amusing that the suit and tie crowd in advertising is getting PAID to declare their product generic.
Something else for people to bitch about. Its a good thing there arent more important things in the world, like an overly aggresive american legal system, terrorist attacks, suicide bombings, and invisible weapons of mass distruction in Iraq.
Thank god someone has finally found something worthy to put effort into stopping
Why? Without sounding to cocky...I gave up the addiction of glowing phosphorous and frequency modulation long ago and cant tell you the myriad of ways my outlook has improved.
Im not concerned that every zombie in a lazy-boy is getting all their information from one source. Was that the kind of mentality I would have been able to convince outside of this new regulation...no, and I gave up caring about that lifestyle long ago. Just because your not on welfare doesnt mean your not still sucking on the governments tit.
In fact its almost its own form of entertainment when I run into 'normal' people. The morons that think every day of their lives will be exactly like the day before. Its a sedentary form of existance that I have no desire to even be in the company of. How many times have I seen expressions of shock when I tell people like that I work with computers and they wonder why I have a tan...simply because they have been fed an image over and over again that people who work with computers are pasty white freaks with no social life...
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So does this mean it will be an 'integral part of the OS' like they tried to do with IE. I dont install Flash, which makes the amount of ads popping up on web pages drastically reduced.
Really though, this wont be much of a problem. Being the last new version of windows I put on any of the computers I use was Win98. I guess MS is offering up every reason it can to get people to move away form it as quickly as possible.
Reminds me of the girl I dont like calling me 6X a day. Guess MS is insecure in more ways than we thought.
While this is a nice idea for someone to come up with after putting down the hooka...is it a joke?
A logo for hackers? Sure why not, these are the kinds of people just looking to attach themselves to some sort of social structure, because they care so much what other people think of their social standings.
Your kidding, right?
Of course Ill be defensive of the claims you made. No I do not work for SBC. Yes I am a business customer of theirs. As I stated earlier, they provide a service Im more than happy with.
Its great that they are so aggressive in selling their product, in economies of scale you need to develop a large customer base very quickly and I understand that.
Im not sure what it is you expect out of them, but personally I expect what I was looking for, and what they now provide, a fat pipe to the internet on which I can run and manage any kind of service I want. I dont have to call tech support for anything, ever. Perhaps Im in the minority of technically inclined people, but there has not been a single problem I have had that I didnt figure out myself.
As for you claims of annoying telemarketers, just give up your addiction to the telephone. Dont get up and stop what your doing everytime it rings, get an answering machine and screen your calls. Make the decisions that make your life easier, but dont bitch about the decisions you dont want to make while your making your life harder in the process. I cant remember the last time I was 'bothered' by a telemarketer. Its just not an issue.
This is a business, thats it. Its not an entity to overlay on to what you think the world should be. Thats the job of your own business. I can appreciate your wanting for something better, but you cant honestly think that sitting back waiting for it to happen is the way that its gonna get done.
ok ok...about the only thing I find remotley factual in this article is the fact that this guy works for a 'company'...however it looks like he works for a company doing exactly the things he is asking about.
First of all, lack of any knowledge of partion or disk utilities to prevent such an occurance is unacceptable. I would not admit that in public about my company even if I used the phrase 'a company I work for', just on the off chance my negligence would be able to be tracked back to me.
Second, why are you not able to offer these services yourself? You make a claim that these people know what they are doing, so if you are at such a level to recognise what they are doing, how come you havent done it already? Did customer service become just a novelty to you? so I doubt this line very much... While I welcome anything that lets our customers use the internet effectively
Doing hosting myself, Im well aware of the tactics you speak of, being that I get bounce mail for nonexistant addresses sent to such titles as; president, ceo, owner, support, tech...and so on. And Im not sure exactly what you mean by 'choked up' your mail server. How do 40k NONEXISTANT addresses manage to slow down your mail server? Is it a 286?
The whole article just smells funny to me, as it seems like you are just pretending to care about the ISP's end and more concerned about the backlash of doing these things. What do you mean how far is to far? Again, if the people in charge cant figure these things out on their own, I would be very hesitant to admit that in a public forum.
Get your technical skills and decision making in line...THEN question how to outsource it..
Im in the chicagoland area as well, and have my DSL serv ice through DSL. Personally, you sound like an angry ex-employee since thats all Ive ever heard from people who work there. But honestly, I could care less how people react to the way they provide the services they do. And dont go drawing any parallels between not caring and slave labor or killing kittins, thats NOT whats going on and you damn well know it.
My bottom line, I used to have broadband through the local cable company, and when I started a small web hosting company a few years back, I found out the REAL difference between cable and DSL. The people at the cable company told me that no servers were allowed and I could only be garaunteed use of three ports, those being 25,80, and 110 and only outgoing. Thats about .00004% of the 'internet'. Pretty crappy service. So I looked into DSL and found myself on the phone with SBC. After making it a point to ask the question about what kind of restrictions there were, I was told "We just provide you the pipe, anything you put on there is your problem, but you can do it."
Now you tell me, what option sounds more like the internet, and less like a modified for of TV?
They may be getting good publicity from this, but thats not because they changed any sort of policy to make themselves look good. In my experience, they have always just been about providing a bare-bones service, no stupid frills or restrictions.
And FYI, it wasnt SBC who screwed everything, it was the piss-poor contractors they hired. If you want to blame someone for what happened dont point at them. Go down to the bar and tell all the guys laying the cables and doing the maintenance how crappy of a job they do when its -30F, so you can sit in your comfy chair and download 1's and 0's.
So tell either you or your friend who got upset at the way SBC runs a business that thats whats happens when your actually expected to dig in and do some work. And when you dont they dont let you just sit around, your gone, end of story. Im a business customer, and Ive found nothing but loyalty from them, as well as setting me up with good deals for how much I bring in from outside accounts signing up for DSL in the locations I contract out. Perhaps they provide worse service for the residential customers, or maybe its just the biz and res networks are seperate and the res gets clogged up with joe six pack spewing virii everywhere, who knows.
I noticed this too. After the update downloads, the application tripped my firewall on port 80. Nowhere in the update does it specify that this will be needed.
This bothers me for several reasons; 1) I administer many machines that are off site. They have been set up as tight as can be which keeps me from having to drive to the furthest ones which are over 200 miles away. Now I have to allow a program downloaded from a NON-SECURED web site to run freely while accesing the internet? How did this strike anyone as a good idea? 2) Well, there is no 2 just yet as I havent had time for all the negative consequences to hit yet.
Im sure with a little tinkering, this can be resolved, hell Ill just put that IP into my routing table and hit it to a local box or something...
Insightful? Come on...how about troll
You do realise that the RIAA will win this war, don't you? :-)
So by win do you mean never having a large majority of people listen to any of their prepackaged crap? This time I cant help but feed the troll...I share PLENTY of files online, and the plain fact is all of it is LEGAL. There is not ONE single piece of music I own, or listen to that will support that trade group or their member labels. Sure its a hard line position, but Im thankful that my standard for what is good music has gone up by orders of magnitudes since that time. What am I missing again? when I turned off the crap it was all brittney spears and eminem.
Although your rephrasing another party on their own viewpoints is a little presumptious, its not all that suprising. FACT is, the statement is not to ADMIT to illegally sharing files. Its a strongarm tactic, nothing new. If you are arrested and cave into the threats of cops on the beat and admit to a crime just to get them to leave you alone even though you are innocent, you can still be tried and found guilty based on that confession. The legal ignorance in this country is frightening.
Im sure many have posted cimilar threads, but Im greedy and want my own...
To the point though, why is there a problem in blocking ports when most users only use at most 3 EVER(25,80,110). However, the best this would do would to be a temporary gain. Its always been a game of cat and mouse, and it always will be. By taking an upper hand, all that would be accomplished is that new viruses would take advantage of ports that are allowed by the majority of ISP's.
Would a better approach be to let that user have full availability of all inbound traffic to let them see the 'naked net' and then just have restrictions on what goes out? It would still leave the responsibility on the end user to avoid complacency, as well as block anyone not able to fix the problem at hand from infecting others. I provide the resources of an ISP for VERY few people, and this is the way I have chosen to handle it personally.
Do I think that this should be legislated? absolutly not! It would serve no meaningful advance, and be nothing more than another regulation that would have a fine attached to it in an already worn thin atmosphere.
In the final alalysis, nothing will compare to technically competent people at those ISP's. Even if the net gain is to stay just barely ahead.
You provided a nice link, but I still fail to see how that isnt a modern society. India at least has the decency to call it what it is, whereas the rest of the 'modern world' still uses fudiciary and educational background to discriminate on a much larger scale.
Reading the link you posted describing how people in cities dont care that much of the caste system, whereas in rural communities they often keep seperate. Explain how that is different than much of the US. You make it sound like the US(Im assuming thats where your from) has solved all the problems of discrimination. As if no minorities are ever taken advantage of by the majority, gays and lesbians arent discriminated in rural areas? Homeless people arent looked down upon by the busy masses? Even as a new bias against any religion that is not the 'unofficial' christian majority is taking hold in your country right now.
My quesiton sitll stands though, why do you think india doesnt have a modern society? It may be a different society, but to claim it as not modern is to ignore the facts of both the present and the past.
technology =! modern
I do not want to sound like an apologist, as india has its share of problems like any other spot on this planet, but to look at something different and automatically assume it is beneath you shows a very narrow viewpoint
wow, this is going to be hard...
what is it that you define as a modern society, and why is it that you think india doesnt have one? Perhaps it was the word 'impoverished' that confused you. You seem to equate large amounts of wealth with 'success'.
The history of India-Pakistan in just the past 75 years should answer your question if you want to look into that aspect.
I find it disturbing that you arent aware of that history, although I can see why it wouldnt be common knowledge these days
First they will come for the scientists, then the artists, and the poets, then whoever else is left to shatter the world-view of the people in power...
At first glance, the concept of history repeating itself is a casual amusement...now its becoming a scary reality
PAX AMERICANA
Was it just me, or did the link to that story contain an ad for Microsoft Server 2003? For all of you that didnt RTFA, this would be a good time to do so...its good for a laugh, in whats going to be a serious problem for all the crack(power) addicted unwashed.
No, mars is not really red. Its more of a tint of orange, but thats not the reason you dont see color.
You should be complaining about your eyes, not the telescopes you were using. Your eye is made up of rods and cones(HS biology). For numerous reasons, you cant see colors under normal nighttime conditions. In low light conditions, you are using your rods, which only detect black and white shades. While mars might be incredibly bright throught the telescope, you are still only using your low light optics, which explains why you percieve it as being white. In fact much of the sky, save some binary stars is mostly wisps of black and white through a telescope, with the rare dull pastel showing up once and awhile.
If you dont believe me, take a picture of it through that same telescope and tell me if the color on the picture is the same as what you saw(it wont be)
Every time I read this sort of story, I wonder how it is that these people responsible for maintaining these networks are still employed. It seems these peoples employers are even more clueless than the twit that doesnt upgrade their systems. If your boss accepts your excuse for this occuring in your company, they are morons.
A patch to fix this was out several weeks before this hit, as most already know. So what exactly is the reason anyone can give that this critical part of their job didnt get done in WEEKS! I had a friend of mine who works in the IT dept of a fairly large company telling me he was pissed about this because he was going to get called in early saturday when this worm hit, as they knew large numbers of their systems were infected. He was almost to the point of bragging that it was such a major situation...at which point I reminded him that he was bragging about the fact that their dept let a MAJOR hole go unfixed for almost 4 weeks.
To drag the open source argument into this a bit, even if linux and windows had the exact same amount of vulnerabilities, which group is it that doesnt seem to have as much of a problem applying a simple 'patch'. Perhaps this is just the result of 'certification'. Where you learn enough to get some documentation saying you learned what was needed for that document...but most of these monkeys are not much better than the moron who drives for miles while the oil light is on in the car..."If the car is still running, it couldnt be that big of a problem"...
Fix your shit people...its that simple
Your not amazed, your just making a mistake. See, the internet as you know it consisting of a bunch of www adresses and p2p apps is just the result of what has been going on on networks long before your parents screwed to pop you out. Its called free exchange of thought.
Yes, I do agree with your point of it being a utopia of sorts, and thats exactly the point! When all those people you consider geeks and nerds were telling you this was going to change the world, they were right. The world is now changing, take a step back 20 years and think about how people would react if you told them that in 20 years most media(books,court records, music, etc) would be available to anyone, anywhere for FREE! This does have the potential to change the world, and it already has in many ways.
Dont fall for newsspeak so easily...example...it was called the .com bust, not the .org, .edu, .gov, bust. why? because commercialism is in reality(whatever that is) .com is a very small subset of the useful information available to you, unless your just replacing one phosphorous tube for another(TV -> PC)
War zone? hardly, just because your ignorance gets you in trouble doesnt mean it needs to be changed for everyone to satisfy your need for security. Networks were a lot more 'dangerous' as you like to call it, years ago than they are now. Cops and robbers, cat and mouse, call it what you will...but the more things change the more they stay the same. Most NOCenters were lucky to have one person to maintain and police their subnets...now every jackass that can write a C+ script gets a job to watch over the traffic on subnets. that to me is more dangerous than whatever it is you think is so threatening about the internet.
At some point you are going to have to realize that nobody cares what you think everyone needs to realize.
How the hell did you make it this far in school and not know how to get things done? Your doing contract work?? I can only imagine the quality of your work. Your barking up the wrong tree as well...asking other people how to do it is just leading you further away from achieving it.
Sometimes I think the editors at slashdot have no sense of humor...then they go and nullify my fears by posting an article like this :)
Highway 375 in nevada is interesting. Driving north out of Las Vegas you will first drive through Indian Springs AFB where you have a good chance of seeing an F-117a taking off in front of you. Also further along on hwy 375 you will come to a town called rachael,NV. Stop at the Ale'e'inn and grab some food. You will run into interesting people in that place, I can assure you. Also near you is an very small ghost town called warm springs NV. Stop there, back off the road a bit is a warm spring coming out of the mountain running down into a small creek. Its not marked anywhere, but its an interesting place in the middle of nowhere.
Ok, Ill bite, but for different reasons.
I hope this same attitude will take hold in the US,
You had better be careful about wishing a certain 'attitude' takes hold anywhere. Especially one like this. After all, once everyone doing this is a criminal and all 'dealt with', a new bunch of over the mountain sherrifs will come in to make what you do perfectly legally now into a 'criminal act'...and maybe then you will see the increasing gap between morality and law, since so many like to equate file-sharing with some sort of moral character.
I remember being very young and going to a RV show up in chicago, I went into quite a large vehicle and started to listen to the radio, even turning it up to see how it would sound. Suddenly the salesman walked(ran) up to me and said I couldnt listen to the radio here. He explained that it was illegal to play music in a public place at a volume for others to hear. Back then it was ASCAP running around like todays RIAA. Needless to say, I was confused. In my years I have gone from being confused by stupid laws, to realizing they were written by stupid people. Enjoy
in danger of the creative people who bring us movies and records going bankrupt
This is capitalism, duh! If your product is horrible you loose money, if people like it, you gain money. We dont need Milton Freedman here to explain this do we? I could care less that the company that makes music I dont even listen to goes bankrupt. As it seems the ones that DONT treat their fans like criminals are doing quite nicely in the digital age. Ill leave it up to you to find the work Im referring to.
By the time these companies are dragged kicking and screaming into the reality that the PC has made, some other intelligent person will have already been there for years, making people happy, which also makes them give that person money...again, duh!
since the original poster was out in the left-field of reality, Ill quote the same line again for the purposes of demonstrating how out of touch the post was...
creative people who bring us movies and records going bankrupt due to all of the digital pirating of their content.
And its obvious that before the internet came along all the creative people and artists in the world were just rolling in dough, in fact it was general knowledge of the day: Parents would become dissapointed at their sons and daughters for wanting to be a doctor, lawyer, etc. and wonder why they didnt go for the big bucks of the creative and art industries.
One of the worst scenarios that I am haunted by is getting into a serious accident, through no fault of my own, and being seriously f-ed because I was over the limit
The other option being that, through fault of your own you get in an accident and kill someone or yourself, and then get REALLY fucked.
There are two possible final outcomes to your current behavior, neither one I think you like or would like to see anyone you know involved in. Yet for some reason, you think it 'wont happen to you'
And one of the worst scenarios I am haunted by is people who are fully aware of the negative consequences of their actions, but still let their ego rationalize it as a good thing
Obviously this isn't fair, but what are the alternatives in this down economy, where jobs are hard to find
There are sectors of the economy on FIRE right now, find your self into one of those. For those still brainwashed by TV-news, people made just as much money 'betting' a stock would go down, as they did that it would go up in the tech bubble days. You make just as much if a stock goes from $100 to $.01 as you do if it goes from .01 to $100. You simply have to know the rules of the game and do your research. For example the housing market is still in its bubble phase for those of you interested in the quick buck. If you cant find a way to make money by selling your services to real-estate related sectors, perhaps a 40-hr week, peon job is the best you will ever have.
If you pigeon-hole YOURSELF into a particluar sector of the economy, then its simply your lack of flexibility, not the economy, that is the source of all your 'problems'. Oh, but you say you want the big reward without the big risk? right step in line, I think there are 5 billion others in front of you...
Worse off, your asking career advice on a community board. If you worked at my company you would have been 'let-go' long ago for a simple inability to make your own decisions and deal with the consequences of them, good or bad.
Do the majority of americans think their job is gauranteed?
This is what happens when people with an absolute love for what they do go into a situation expecting everyone to see things the way they do. Bottom line is you joined a company whos ONLY purpose is to make money. They could give a shit that you find a deep sense of satisfaction in being able to do what you love for a living. It not a pleasant way to live, but you thought it was worth the good money and could deal with the circumstances, well the 'good-life' pendulum is swinging the other way, now what are you going to do?
I think there are other groups of people like this...oh yea, they are called TEACHERS! Now either face the music or not, but dont complain about it over and over again. Nobody else makes your choices for you, and your treating it like they are supposed to.
Maybe you will think twice next time you look down on the person with a smile on their face but who makes half as much as you...it seems they DO know something that you dont.
Mod me flamebait because it pisses you off that you cant change your life by yourself.
Other than stocking up on hair dye and botox, what steps can I take to prepare for the future?
You can start by not whining about how other peoples decisions have such a major impact on your life. If you dont like the situation your in, start your own company and tell your boss to go fuck himself.
Oh, but its not so simple you say. I have all these bills, car, house, insurance, etc. Well chief, its your life and its your choices. For some people their materialism will always outweigh the desire to be their own person. No matter how good it sounds to be able to be in control of your own destiny, most people will cave into having the nice car and big house. Only you can decide where in your life heirarchy being more independent comes in.
You started on the rat-race path because you wanted the 'good-life', dont be afraid that its coming to its natural conclusion as it has for EVERYONE before you.
find the marketing genius that came up with this.
Apple used the term in conjunction with its Mac OS X marketing
have the Unix trademark declared invalid because the term has become generic
At least it seems that apple has now realized its product is generic and is using terms to describe it that way. So much for brand recognition. I find it amusing that the suit and tie crowd in advertising is getting PAID to declare their product generic.
Something else for people to bitch about. Its a good thing there arent more important things in the world, like an overly aggresive american legal system, terrorist attacks, suicide bombings, and invisible weapons of mass distruction in Iraq.
Thank god someone has finally found something worthy to put effort into stopping
Woopie-Doo.
This will effect my life in this many ways: 0
Why? Without sounding to cocky...I gave up the addiction of glowing phosphorous and frequency modulation long ago and cant tell you the myriad of ways my outlook has improved.
Im not concerned that every zombie in a lazy-boy is getting all their information from one source. Was that the kind of mentality I would have been able to convince outside of this new regulation...no, and I gave up caring about that lifestyle long ago. Just because your not on welfare doesnt mean your not still sucking on the governments tit.
In fact its almost its own form of entertainment when I run into 'normal' people. The morons that think every day of their lives will be exactly like the day before. Its a sedentary form of existance that I have no desire to even be in the company of. How many times have I seen expressions of shock when I tell people like that I work with computers and they wonder why I have a tan...simply because they have been fed an image over and over again that people who work with computers are pasty white freaks with no social life...