I'm in the same camp as the parent poster. I refuse to go near AV stuff. I have been connected to the net for many, many years and I have yet to be infected. "How do you know that?" you ask? Well, on occasion I have run one of the web-based scanners just to silence naysayers. It has never found a single thing. Since I also don't do the reinstall treadmill, if I had ever been infected once in the last 2 or 3 years it would have shown up.
Step one is never using a MS product for email.
Step two is filtering out all of the junk on the web.
Step three is never clicking on "yes" or "agree" unless you understand what's happening.
You've got it backwards. Copying the ROM image is what's illegal. Copyright does not govern the *use* of the item. (In fact it provides everyone with the specific right to copy a program from e.g. the hard disk to RAM for the purpose of running it.) Presuming that you had legally obtained the ROM image there is no law that would prevent you from using it with an emu.
This does about the same thing, except it's a little nicer to the server (pausing randomly between 0 and 20 seconds between each request and limiting the max rate to 30kB/s.) It also enables timestamping, so any static content will retain its proper date/timestamp. This one places the root of the mirror in the current directory. Remove --cut-dirs=1 and it will create it in a subdirectory named webmonkey. I change the user-agent on the off chance that anybody reads their logs, they will know that someone was interested in saving their site for posterity. (And yes, I know there are shorter versions of many of those command line parameters.)
It's a real shame that that site stopped being updated in 2000. It used to be a good site to read/browse, and point designers at. But it's been so long since there were any updates that it's mostly just a museum piece now.
The thing you have to remember is that just because you'd never used dellorders@mydomain.com before and now it's being spammed does NOT mean that Dell sold your email address. It's just as likely that a spammer used a dictionary attack on your server, randomly trying addresses composed of dictionary words. That is, unless your domain accepts wildcards for the local_part. In that case Dell probably supplied it to a parter who supplied it to a partner who supplied it to a partner, etc. Not that that doesn't make them all spammers, of course, but it does explain how you could get on someone's spam list even if Dell itself had a strict no-spam policy.
Hey dipshit, quit with the bizarro line-wrap. My screen is wider than yours, apparently, and so your post looks like crap. Try "Plain Old Text" next time.
I totally agree. Ease of listening should be their #1 concern.
But as much as I hate RealPlayer, this change is a step backwards, from my point of view. In their old format, each.RA file was offered as a HTTP download. So, I had a cronjob that fetched them all for easy offline listening every Monday when they were posted. It used wget. It was simple. The.RA files could be played in RealPlayer, yes, but also RealAlternative. Plus, if you download "RealPlayer" and not "Real One" or whatever the latest version is, it's completely and totally unencumbered by advertising crap and popups. You just have to configure it properly, which, admittedly, is not always easy.
However, now with this WindowsMedia garbage, the files are offered over the MMS: style links (RTSP I believe.) I can't use wget or curl to download them. I managed to find a very bare bones program called 'mms_client' but it barely works. On last week's show there was one segment that just locked up this program completely. The other 9 were fetched fine. And on top of that, after it's done downloading, it still an.ASX file which I can only play using MS's WMP.
So from my viewpoint this is a considerable step backwards. Where before I had a very nice system that automatically downloaded and stored each week's audio for easy listening, now it's much harder. I was not pleased at this change at all. I'm now especially angry that their reason for the change was because of wanting to ditch a bad software company. If that were the case then why can't they just offer STANDARD STREAMING MP3 files? Everyone can play them. There are dozens and dozens of apps out there to handle them. No special downloads are required. You don't have to sell your soul to EITHER Bill G or RealNetworks and download their scummy software. It's a standard format that works very well. I just can't understand their logic here...
Yeah but at least with a little warning you could try things like shutting off gas supply lines at strategic points so that stuff doesn't go up in huge balls of fire from the natural gas spewing from broken pipes. Or turn off the water mains so that streets aren't flooded when the plumbing beneath ruptures. Or secure large heavy upright objects so that they don't unexpectedly fall and crush people standing nearby.
Now, obviously you'd need a pretty good indication of the timing as it's not very practical to say "We're going to shut off the gas supply for this block for a week or two because we suspect an earthquake might happen then." But, if you could narrow it down to a day or two there are plenty of things that could possibly be done to help mitigate damage or injury.
Yeah, unless they're also inventing the hydraulic presses to turn one key against another I think you'd pretty much hit a wall of usefulness after someone made a steel key.
Can't anyone spot a troll anymore? There is no such thing as a.nu Debian mirror. You can check the list if you don't believe me. The entire nation of Niue has around 1500 people, I seriously doubt that there are more than a handful of Debian users there, if any.
My point wasn't that the public shouldn't have concerns over budgetary waste, or that people have no rights to determine where their tax dollars go. Indeed the public has every right to demand that their viewpoint be considered. My objection was to the specific notion that a taxpayer has control over every specific penny of their money. Or alternatively, the notion that "Government is spending $X on project foo, and I paid $Y of that and therefore I should be able to request (or dictate) some aspect of the project's operation." THe point is that once you pay taxes it's public money, it is no longer yours. You can affect the course of that project, certainly, and you have every right to do so. But it's not on the basis that X number of dollars are yours and that entitles you to a say. Hopefully you can see all the questionable outcomes that would result if that were the case.
I hope the USAF doesn't spend too much of my money without considering extending that research.
Sorry to break it to you but taxpayer dollars are not "your money." It ceases to be yours when you pay taxes. Otherwise, I would be able to say, "No, you can't build that road, I won't allow it since it's my money that you're using." It's part of the implicit social contract between government and its citizens: The people recognise that there are certain things that require public funding for the good of everyone, and so grant our elected representatives the right to decide how to use that money. You have control over it insomuch as you can vote for your representatives and in referendums, but you cannot take the attitude that you get to control where every dollar that you pay in taxes goes. If that were the case then nothing would ever get done, because projects are -always- beneficial to some people and worthless to others. If people could say e.g. "No, you can't use my tax money to build that school as I don't have kids and so I'm not getting anything out of it" or "No, I don't want my tax dollars going into road construction, I don't even own a car" then there would be no schools, no roads, no public facilities, etc. So, yes, you are certainly entitled to have a say in how tax dollars are spent, but it's in the context of your representative or through voter initiatives, and not on the basis of "that's my money you're spending there."
It's even less important than that. The only time the serial number is really used is when you are doing an IXFR from a secondary or mirroring DNS server, so that it can sync up to the master server by retrieving the updated zone data. Well guess what, Verisign runs the master and all the slave servers. This only affects Verisign machines, nothing else. I'm sure it's conceivable that someone at some point in time wrote some app that uses the serial number of the com and net zones (such as a company that checks for newly registered domains) but unless those scripts were very poorly written this should have no effect. Each zone update will still have a unique serial number that's incremented each time it's updated. There's of course a single discontinuity when they switch formats, but its a one-time thing. And, the new method allows for more than 100 updates per day (a limitation of the YYYYMMDDNN format), so it could eventually mean domain info propagating much faster.
In short, this is a non-issue. There was some hoopla in NANOG because some readers misunderstood the implications. But in actuality, this won't break anything and it's quite an overreaction to compare this to SiteFinder -- which was despicable and deserved to die.
The problem with a one-way mission isn't so much the hard reality of someone dying. It's that you have to ask. Implicit in such a mission is that the state asks the qualified citizens that it has, "Are there any of you that will give your life for this?" And for something this significant, I'd say it's nearly guaranteed that you would be able to eventually find qualified people willing to do this. So it's kind of a tricky situation. The government can't really just say "Will anyone do this?" because they know someone will. So it basically amounts to the state killing some of their "brightest and best" in the name of science. We don't let scientists kill people for medical research, and I really don't think you'd be able to make this fly.
But, that aside, it's a PR NIGHTMARE. You have to admit that a large part of having a space program is nationialism, generating pride in your citizenry, "look at what we can do", "we are so awesome", etc. No matter how logically you try to explain it the truth is a lot of people will be very put off by the notion that the state is going to end someone's life like that. It's a downer no matter how cold you try to approach it. Imagine if the Apollo 13 crew had all died. There would have been memorials out the wazoo, and the nation would have collectively cried and mourned like you can't imagine. Surely you recall how the entire nation was so completely breathless and mortified when even the *notion* of the crew perishing came up. To send men in space that you know damn well are going to die would be even worse, in terms of public perception. There's no way around it. You just can't do it.
A server is a program that listens on a socket, accepts connections, and services requests. Is that not a reasonable definition of a server? Well, that's exactly what BitTorrent does, BTW. It's listening on a port. Clients (remote peers) connect to that port. They then send requests for parts of the file, and your computer responds by transmitting the data. I don't see how you could consider that NOT a server... even though its main purpose is to download files to your computer, that doesn't mean that in the act of doing that it's not also acting as a server to others.
New Zealand, AUstralia, the UK, etc... It's got nothing to do with the states. Bandwidth costs money. (It's actually more costly in places like.au due to getting shafted on the peering agreements.)
I think your math is off. Most of the spam that I get average around 5 to 7kB in size, some are a lot larger. By your calculations it would take 2.5 to 3.5 months to send each one to that many recipients. A typical spamrun does not last nearly that long.
You're wrong. Images can be included in the body of the message. Each one is a mime-attachment, and has an ID to which the IMG tag referrs. You can get a whole HTML-email full of images and have it completely self-contained in a single email message, without the need to contact any external server.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm in the same camp as the parent poster. I refuse to go near AV stuff. I have been connected to the net for many, many years and I have yet to be infected. "How do you know that?" you ask? Well, on occasion I have run one of the web-based scanners just to silence naysayers. It has never found a single thing. Since I also don't do the reinstall treadmill, if I had ever been infected once in the last 2 or 3 years it would have shown up.
Step one is never using a MS product for email.
Step two is filtering out all of the junk on the web.
Step three is never clicking on "yes" or "agree" unless you understand what's happening.
You've got it backwards. Copying the ROM image is what's illegal. Copyright does not govern the *use* of the item. (In fact it provides everyone with the specific right to copy a program from e.g. the hard disk to RAM for the purpose of running it.) Presuming that you had legally obtained the ROM image there is no law that would prevent you from using it with an emu.
Here's the one I used:
wget -nv --limit-rate=30k -w 10s --random-wait -nH --cut-dirs=1 -U "WebmonkeyArchiver/1.0" --convert-links --backup-converted --mirror --page-requisites --no-parent http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/index.html
This does about the same thing, except it's a little nicer to the server (pausing randomly between 0 and 20 seconds between each request and limiting the max rate to 30kB/s.) It also enables timestamping, so any static content will retain its proper date/timestamp. This one places the root of the mirror in the current directory. Remove --cut-dirs=1 and it will create it in a subdirectory named webmonkey. I change the user-agent on the off chance that anybody reads their logs, they will know that someone was interested in saving their site for posterity. (And yes, I know there are shorter versions of many of those command line parameters.)
It's a real shame that that site stopped being updated in 2000. It used to be a good site to read/browse, and point designers at. But it's been so long since there were any updates that it's mostly just a museum piece now.
Ummm, coincidence maybe? There is no relation between the releases.
foonet thread on WHT
As an aside, most forums have a search, and it doesn't take but three seconds to type "foonet" and look at the results.
The thing you have to remember is that just because you'd never used dellorders@mydomain.com before and now it's being spammed does NOT mean that Dell sold your email address. It's just as likely that a spammer used a dictionary attack on your server, randomly trying addresses composed of dictionary words. That is, unless your domain accepts wildcards for the local_part. In that case Dell probably supplied it to a parter who supplied it to a partner who supplied it to a partner, etc. Not that that doesn't make them all spammers, of course, but it does explain how you could get on someone's spam list even if Dell itself had a strict no-spam policy.
Hey dipshit, quit with the bizarro line-wrap. My screen is wider than yours, apparently, and so your post looks like crap. Try "Plain Old Text" next time.
...arch enemy of TUBCAT.
Please note that this is indeed not Seth FinkELstein, with whom you may be familiar, but rather somebody 'name squatting' for attention.
Hear that whoosing sound? That's the sound of the reference by the parent post flying completely over your head.
It was a quote by John Hurt's character in Contact.
I totally agree. Ease of listening should be their #1 concern.
.RA file was offered as a HTTP download. So, I had a cronjob that fetched them all for easy offline listening every Monday when they were posted. It used wget. It was simple. The .RA files could be played in RealPlayer, yes, but also RealAlternative. Plus, if you download "RealPlayer" and not "Real One" or whatever the latest version is, it's completely and totally unencumbered by advertising crap and popups. You just have to configure it properly, which, admittedly, is not always easy.
.ASX file which I can only play using MS's WMP.
But as much as I hate RealPlayer, this change is a step backwards, from my point of view. In their old format, each
However, now with this WindowsMedia garbage, the files are offered over the MMS: style links (RTSP I believe.) I can't use wget or curl to download them. I managed to find a very bare bones program called 'mms_client' but it barely works. On last week's show there was one segment that just locked up this program completely. The other 9 were fetched fine. And on top of that, after it's done downloading, it still an
So from my viewpoint this is a considerable step backwards. Where before I had a very nice system that automatically downloaded and stored each week's audio for easy listening, now it's much harder. I was not pleased at this change at all. I'm now especially angry that their reason for the change was because of wanting to ditch a bad software company. If that were the case then why can't they just offer STANDARD STREAMING MP3 files? Everyone can play them. There are dozens and dozens of apps out there to handle them. No special downloads are required. You don't have to sell your soul to EITHER Bill G or RealNetworks and download their scummy software. It's a standard format that works very well. I just can't understand their logic here...
Yeah but at least with a little warning you could try things like shutting off gas supply lines at strategic points so that stuff doesn't go up in huge balls of fire from the natural gas spewing from broken pipes. Or turn off the water mains so that streets aren't flooded when the plumbing beneath ruptures. Or secure large heavy upright objects so that they don't unexpectedly fall and crush people standing nearby.
Now, obviously you'd need a pretty good indication of the timing as it's not very practical to say "We're going to shut off the gas supply for this block for a week or two because we suspect an earthquake might happen then." But, if you could narrow it down to a day or two there are plenty of things that could possibly be done to help mitigate damage or injury.
Yeah, unless they're also inventing the hydraulic presses to turn one key against another I think you'd pretty much hit a wall of usefulness after someone made a steel key.
Can't anyone spot a troll anymore? There is no such thing as a .nu Debian mirror. You can check the list if you don't believe me. The entire nation of Niue has around 1500 people, I seriously doubt that there are more than a handful of Debian users there, if any.
My point wasn't that the public shouldn't have concerns over budgetary waste, or that people have no rights to determine where their tax dollars go. Indeed the public has every right to demand that their viewpoint be considered. My objection was to the specific notion that a taxpayer has control over every specific penny of their money. Or alternatively, the notion that "Government is spending $X on project foo, and I paid $Y of that and therefore I should be able to request (or dictate) some aspect of the project's operation." THe point is that once you pay taxes it's public money, it is no longer yours. You can affect the course of that project, certainly, and you have every right to do so. But it's not on the basis that X number of dollars are yours and that entitles you to a say. Hopefully you can see all the questionable outcomes that would result if that were the case.
I hope the USAF doesn't spend too much of my money without considering extending that research.
Sorry to break it to you but taxpayer dollars are not "your money." It ceases to be yours when you pay taxes. Otherwise, I would be able to say, "No, you can't build that road, I won't allow it since it's my money that you're using." It's part of the implicit social contract between government and its citizens: The people recognise that there are certain things that require public funding for the good of everyone, and so grant our elected representatives the right to decide how to use that money. You have control over it insomuch as you can vote for your representatives and in referendums, but you cannot take the attitude that you get to control where every dollar that you pay in taxes goes. If that were the case then nothing would ever get done, because projects are -always- beneficial to some people and worthless to others. If people could say e.g. "No, you can't use my tax money to build that school as I don't have kids and so I'm not getting anything out of it" or "No, I don't want my tax dollars going into road construction, I don't even own a car" then there would be no schools, no roads, no public facilities, etc. So, yes, you are certainly entitled to have a say in how tax dollars are spent, but it's in the context of your representative or through voter initiatives, and not on the basis of "that's my money you're spending there."
It's even less important than that. The only time the serial number is really used is when you are doing an IXFR from a secondary or mirroring DNS server, so that it can sync up to the master server by retrieving the updated zone data. Well guess what, Verisign runs the master and all the slave servers. This only affects Verisign machines, nothing else. I'm sure it's conceivable that someone at some point in time wrote some app that uses the serial number of the com and net zones (such as a company that checks for newly registered domains) but unless those scripts were very poorly written this should have no effect. Each zone update will still have a unique serial number that's incremented each time it's updated. There's of course a single discontinuity when they switch formats, but its a one-time thing. And, the new method allows for more than 100 updates per day (a limitation of the YYYYMMDDNN format), so it could eventually mean domain info propagating much faster.
In short, this is a non-issue. There was some hoopla in NANOG because some readers misunderstood the implications. But in actuality, this won't break anything and it's quite an overreaction to compare this to SiteFinder -- which was despicable and deserved to die.
Worst. Motto. Ever.
The problem with a one-way mission isn't so much the hard reality of someone dying. It's that you have to ask. Implicit in such a mission is that the state asks the qualified citizens that it has, "Are there any of you that will give your life for this?" And for something this significant, I'd say it's nearly guaranteed that you would be able to eventually find qualified people willing to do this. So it's kind of a tricky situation. The government can't really just say "Will anyone do this?" because they know someone will. So it basically amounts to the state killing some of their "brightest and best" in the name of science. We don't let scientists kill people for medical research, and I really don't think you'd be able to make this fly.
But, that aside, it's a PR NIGHTMARE. You have to admit that a large part of having a space program is nationialism, generating pride in your citizenry, "look at what we can do", "we are so awesome", etc. No matter how logically you try to explain it the truth is a lot of people will be very put off by the notion that the state is going to end someone's life like that. It's a downer no matter how cold you try to approach it. Imagine if the Apollo 13 crew had all died. There would have been memorials out the wazoo, and the nation would have collectively cried and mourned like you can't imagine. Surely you recall how the entire nation was so completely breathless and mortified when even the *notion* of the crew perishing came up. To send men in space that you know damn well are going to die would be even worse, in terms of public perception. There's no way around it. You just can't do it.
A server is a program that listens on a socket, accepts connections, and services requests. Is that not a reasonable definition of a server? Well, that's exactly what BitTorrent does, BTW. It's listening on a port. Clients (remote peers) connect to that port. They then send requests for parts of the file, and your computer responds by transmitting the data. I don't see how you could consider that NOT a server... even though its main purpose is to download files to your computer, that doesn't mean that in the act of doing that it's not also acting as a server to others.
New Zealand, AUstralia, the UK, etc... It's got nothing to do with the states. Bandwidth costs money. (It's actually more costly in places like .au due to getting shafted on the peering agreements.)
You only get free karma if you can play the user-id-dicksize game. So unless Taco himself replies I'd say that's about the end of it.
I think your math is off. Most of the spam that I get average around 5 to 7kB in size, some are a lot larger. By your calculations it would take 2.5 to 3.5 months to send each one to that many recipients. A typical spamrun does not last nearly that long.
You're wrong. Images can be included in the body of the message. Each one is a mime-attachment, and has an ID to which the IMG tag referrs. You can get a whole HTML-email full of images and have it completely self-contained in a single email message, without the need to contact any external server.