Actually, rural Kansas (at least Kiowa county) makes pretty good use of that USF surcharge on our cellphone bills. I know for a fact that several folks outthere have DSL at about 1.5mbit speeds, and Haviland telco offers this at least 20miles outside Mullinville, KS.
In addition, I can recall several students discussing the relative merits of PCs vs. Macs in an intelligent fashion, reminiscing about growing up with 2 PC's in their classroom, and a media lab near the library. They were from Greensburg, Kansas. That's near Joy, and Protection. Okay, forty minutes from Dodge.
My point? Not every community in rural Kansas is sans net access and lacking PCs.
Think of it in those terms, and one has no choice but to agree (unless one subscribes to the idea of "IP" being bad-mmkay). The presidential seal is like a trademark; it cannot be used without approval. To allow use in unofficial printed/published matter (a la The Onion) dilutes its efficacy. Therefore this letter, to which The Onion properly responded by requesting formal permission to use said seal.
The great point, which the NYT dutifully points out, is that someone in Washington with access to powerful ears reads The Onion. Whether or not this individual has a sense of humour is another story entirely.
It would be HUGELY expensive to move them. That's an argument right there. It would be INCREDIBLY fraught with difficulty. That's another reason. Who's going to cover that cost? Who's going to do the work?
If the EUN wants it's own toys, fine. They can build them out, just like Ma Bell / AT&Tdid with the US phone network. Then they can compete with the US roots, and (I would imagine) eventually outclass the current system, especially because of the greater population densities / greater broadband saturation.
And Italians invented telephone? Perhaps you meant radio?
In what terms? Landmass? Economically? Population? Military? Helium Production? I'm not saying "Might makes right" I'm saying "Why should we alter the way a fundamental communication system works when it's not broken, and there is no perceived benefit to doing so." What is -wrong- that a change of this enormous nature will make right?
...basically it amounts to "EU and UN say 'Give us the root servers" and the US says "No, we invented and paid for them and we're keeping them." All this seems to boil down to the E(U)N having to establish their own set of roots, which is where we started from, is it not? Wouldn't it have been a lot easier to just set up an alternate root system without all the political grandstanding? Does anyone in the E(U)N honestly think the US was going to invest billions in something, only to invest billions more to hand it over because Tunisia thought they should?
-theGreater.
PS: Yes, I realize only the -summit- was in Tunisia; I needed a smaller country to make my point.
Did you forward all three sets, or just a single port? I know a lot people have made the mistake of allowing 6881 and 6999 only, 6112 only, 3724 only, or some combination thereof. I have had nothing but good speeds when updating -- obviously YM(H)V'ed. It's 3724, 6112, and 6881 THROUGH 6999. And yes, I think that's a ridiculous number of ports to have to leave open.
I'm glad to see someone discuss all these various spam issues with some degree of authority. It is nice to see someone differentiate between the different types of statistical filtering out there, and talk about the interactions between different levels of spam filtering.
How sad that most of the next 300 replies are likely to be attacks on his personal faith.
Queue up all the conspiracy theories about MS releasing the original sample exploit code in order to get people to migrate away from Server2000 and 2000pro. The -reason- companies still rely on win2k is because it a) works very nicely, b) can use most of the drivers released for XP, and c) is a lot lighter on system resources. Of course, finding out that major media outlets still don't have SP4 or a good antivirus solution makes me want to send out a few resumes...
... to corporations not protecting me enough. Let's pretend for a second that this case did -not- involve Teh Intarweb; which scenario is then more likely:
GEICO sues the Wall Street Journal, because Progressive places an ad in said WSJ invoking GEICO's name without the proper attribution (usually a "* Blah is trademark and copyright of CompanyCo").
-or-
GEICO sues Progressive for placing said ad in the WSJ and thereby diluting the GEICO trademark.
Actually, I know for certain that the concept of "smash the stack" AKA "buffer overrun" was well-known at least as far back as 1990, when it made an appearance in the Jargon File.
"people didn't really understand buffer overruns and port 80 and I/O issues 10 years ago."
That's the part that caught my attention. Is he seriously suggesting that 10 years ago no one had ever heard of a buffer overrun? That no one had heard of network security in 1995? Maybe they should have thought of that BEFORE they forcibly tied a Browser into their Flagship product.
Hey AC (and the rest of/.): when did being a person of faith, a boyscout, and FBLA become an object of ridicule? Why not add 4H and FFA in there as well, and anyone else that doesn't automatically yes-man your narrow-minded paranoia?
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Unless you live in Soviet Russia. I hear there they really -did- have command-side economics.
-theGreater.
M2Z Networks, Inc. 2800 Sand Hill Road, Suite 150 Menlo Park, CA 94025
M2Z's website
M2Z FCC application
-theGreater.
Actually, rural Kansas (at least Kiowa county) makes pretty good use of that USF surcharge on our cellphone bills. I know for a fact that several folks outthere have DSL at about 1.5mbit speeds, and Haviland telco offers this at least 20miles outside Mullinville, KS.
In addition, I can recall several students discussing the relative merits of PCs vs. Macs in an intelligent fashion, reminiscing about growing up with 2 PC's in their classroom, and a media lab near the library. They were from Greensburg, Kansas. That's near Joy, and Protection. Okay, forty minutes from Dodge.
My point? Not every community in rural Kansas is sans net access and lacking PCs.
-theGreater.
http://www.hep.wisc.edu/cms/trig/welcome-trigger.h tml
-theGreater.
That's the part that confused me enough to make me read it twice. The CHAIR of the Religous Studies Dept. was saying things like:
- referring to religious individuals as "fundies"
- "a nice slap in their big fat face"
- others described as "repugnant and vile"
That boggles the mind. No excuse for beating the man, for any reason.-theGreater.
Marathon? That's what it looks like to me.
-theGreater.
Lenovo Thinkpad x41 Unreviewx 41.ars
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/thinkpad-
-theGreater.
Think of it in those terms, and one has no choice but to agree (unless one subscribes to the idea of "IP" being bad-mmkay). The presidential seal is like a trademark; it cannot be used without approval. To allow use in unofficial printed/published matter (a la The Onion) dilutes its efficacy. Therefore this letter, to which The Onion properly responded by requesting formal permission to use said seal.
The great point, which the NYT dutifully points out, is that someone in Washington with access to powerful ears reads The Onion. Whether or not this individual has a sense of humour is another story entirely.
-theGreater.
O'Reilly Radar Entryr ce_licenses_from_micro.html
-theGreater.http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10/new_sou
Hector de J. Ruiz, Ph.D.
-theGreater.
It would be HUGELY expensive to move them. That's an argument right there. It would be INCREDIBLY fraught with difficulty. That's another reason. Who's going to cover that cost? Who's going to do the work?
If the EUN wants it's own toys, fine. They can build them out, just like Ma Bell / AT&Tdid with the US phone network. Then they can compete with the US roots, and (I would imagine) eventually outclass the current system, especially because of the greater population densities / greater broadband saturation.
And Italians invented telephone? Perhaps you meant radio?
-theGreater.
In what terms? Landmass? Economically? Population? Military? Helium Production? I'm not saying "Might makes right" I'm saying "Why should we alter the way a fundamental communication system works when it's not broken, and there is no perceived benefit to doing so." What is -wrong- that a change of this enormous nature will make right?
-theGreater.
...basically it amounts to "EU and UN say 'Give us the root servers" and the US says "No, we invented and paid for them and we're keeping them." All this seems to boil down to the E(U)N having to establish their own set of roots, which is where we started from, is it not? Wouldn't it have been a lot easier to just set up an alternate root system without all the political grandstanding? Does anyone in the E(U)N honestly think the US was going to invest billions in something, only to invest billions more to hand it over because Tunisia thought they should?
-theGreater.
PS: Yes, I realize only the -summit- was in Tunisia; I needed a smaller country to make my point.
Sorry, I don't have a torrent hosting setup -- someone else want to grab these?
-theGreater.
...they appear to eat their own dogfood.
-dhbarr.Did you forward all three sets, or just a single port? I know a lot people have made the mistake of allowing 6881 and 6999 only, 6112 only, 3724 only, or some combination thereof. I have had nothing but good speeds when updating -- obviously YM(H)V'ed. It's 3724, 6112, and 6881 THROUGH 6999. And yes, I think that's a ridiculous number of ports to have to leave open.
-theGreater.
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a =159811,00.asp
Printable Version
-theGreater.
I'm glad to see someone discuss all these various spam issues with some degree of authority. It is nice to see someone differentiate between the different types of statistical filtering out there, and talk about the interactions between different levels of spam filtering.
How sad that most of the next 300 replies are likely to be attacks on his personal faith.
-theGreater.Homer: In this house, we obey the laws of [physics].
Queue up all the conspiracy theories about MS releasing the original sample exploit code in order to get people to migrate away from Server2000 and 2000pro. The -reason- companies still rely on win2k is because it a) works very nicely, b) can use most of the drivers released for XP, and c) is a lot lighter on system resources. Of course, finding out that major media outlets still don't have SP4 or a good antivirus solution makes me want to send out a few resumes...
... to corporations not protecting me enough. Let's pretend for a second that this case did -not- involve Teh Intarweb; which scenario is then more likely:
GEICO sues the Wall Street Journal, because Progressive places an ad in said WSJ invoking GEICO's name without the proper attribution (usually a "* Blah is trademark and copyright of CompanyCo").
-theGreater.-or-
GEICO sues Progressive for placing said ad in the WSJ and thereby diluting the GEICO trademark.
Actually, I know for certain that the concept of "smash the stack" AKA "buffer overrun" was well-known at least as far back as 1990, when it made an appearance in the Jargon File.
-tG.
"people didn't really understand buffer overruns and port 80 and I/O issues 10 years ago."
That's the part that caught my attention. Is he seriously suggesting that 10 years ago no one had ever heard of a buffer overrun? That no one had heard of network security in 1995? Maybe they should have thought of that BEFORE they forcibly tied a Browser into their Flagship product.
-theGreater.
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review_print. php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xMzE3
This is filler. This is more filler. This is even more filler. This is a rant about the captcha.
-theGreater.
Hey AC (and the rest of /.): when did being a person of faith, a boyscout, and FBLA become an object of ridicule? Why not add 4H and FFA in there as well, and anyone else that doesn't automatically yes-man your narrow-minded paranoia?