Thanks guys I appreciate your replies. It just makes me sooo mad. Had a hit and run near my house a while back. Killed some people and the asshole got 3 months with time served. How is this fair? Poor guy selling mod chips lands in jail. I still cannot believe it for real.
I cannot believe this is real. I mean really a guy got JAIL TIME and a CRIMINAL RECORD for selling these devices which do not even fall under the DMCA. The mod chips do not let people bypass copywriten materials and now the guy has 5 months in the pokey with a big biker rommate named Florence.
What THE FUCK is going on here? I am so glad I love in Canada. Is the U.S. really turning into the Orwellian state that it seems to be? I have always considered moving to the States. My wife and I were discussing this a few months back. Forget it. Just goes to show that money is power. I guess the RIAA will be running your elections pretty soon. Arnold Swartzenegger for President anyone?
How do these things get so far? Well its time to start hitting them where it hurts. I was going to go buy an X-Box today. Well fuck that. You hear me Microsoft you dirty slimey bastards? You will never, ever get one flat dime out of me EVER again. Mark my words. You won't have a few hundred of my dollars to put poor saps like this in jail.
I want a TiVo soooo bad. I am in Canada and the bastards won't let us have one. (Built a Linux set top box out of parts ordered from Taiwan but thats neither here nor there). I would rather keep my old VCR and watch commercials then give these assholes a red freakin' cent.
And this is in US$$$? If it is more than half that they can go piss up a rope. The same price as CDs only half the sounds quality. I would pay $0.50. The cost of diribution has just gone down nearly 100% by having us download them off their site.
Ever get the sneaky suspicion that these boneheads are trying to screw us even more royally? Man I hate these guys. They really have no good marketing strategy for these services either. There is a really good internet radion station here in Canada called Moontaxi (listen to it at work since it uses *ugh* Media Player but it is pretty unobtrusive with subtle ads only). Lots of channels and they play great music. Lets just say for instance they started providing this service and I could download their songs (and every other damn song I want) for 4 bits. I would be all over that if that file was mine to do with as I choose. Burn it, mp3 player or what have you.
See the good thing is I can hear a lot of tunes while I browse and maybe I'll hear something really good that I want to buy. They should intersperse free tunes from upcoming artists and make us feel like we are getting what we pay for (for a change ARE YOU LISTENING YOU BASTARDS?).
I like the idea of sending the artists money when you download their tunes until these idiots quit trying to fuck us
Sorry...lost my cool there for a minute.
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It seems that it has always been part of our primal programming to attempt turn the tide on Ma Nature from day one. I really don't think we will ever "win". We have diseases, storms, doughts, etc. for a reason. If we did not have these things there would be 25 billion people on the Earth and we would all suffer and perish.
Someone in one of these posts gave an analogy about deer and wolves. People tend to forget that we are animals too. We like to forget that we are subject to the same laws of nature as even the lowliest of animals upon the Earth.
AIDS, cancer, heart disease these are all horrible things. Truly they are, but they are necessary to the survival of all in that they thin our herd which is left oft times unchecked by anything but virus and disease. When we cure AIDS and cancer there will be something to take its place, I assure you all.
I for one do not want to live forever. I will live my days and after those are done I will rest in whichever place we go when we leave here. I sometimes wonder if scientists ponder whether or not what they do is in vain sometimes. As learned individuals you would have to realise that curing one thing is great but what will replace it? Why make the bed when you're just going to mess it up again.
The way that humans pursue scientific research with such gusto is sometimes a little scary. We can't leave things alone when we should. I think this is the case with genetic engineering. I think we will really have to fuck something up before we either stop and say "Maybe we were wrong" or kill ourselves. Hoping that humans will be responsible in these endevours is a huge risk to the planet and countless lives.
I think it depends on what kind of services you give your clients. For instance if you are offering shared hosting and the client gets killed by bandwidth baddies I would think it is the ISP's fault for not protecting the equipment. However if you are providing colo or complex colo and are merely providing bandwidth, then the client should be responsible for every byte of traffic that goes in and out. They are responsible for the hardware and software. How can the company be expected to look after that?
I work for a managed service provider. We would never charge our clients for the slammer virus if it had affected them (fortunately it didn't) but our colo customers would be looking at a very large bill about now.
Yes I know I can set my threshold higher. It gives you a better all around view of what the other dumbasses are thinking though. Its like building software. You need to design it for the dumbest guy you know, not the smartest.
But I sure wouldn't put this in production. Like someone else said: A bunch of OO zealots who haven't worked on anything in production.
This is relying way too much on hardware. Not to mention that what happens if your memory fails for whatever reason? Poof! There goes my mortgage payment, stock trade, bank deposit.
After having worked in the biz for 7 years I still am a little nervous about on-line transactions because even a little downtime could mean my money just got lost. Or if I am a heavy stock trader and I use an on-line service. Stocks don't wait for people. You could easily lose thousands because you could not access the site when you wanted to buy/sell.
I'll keep working to make it better but until that time, I'll call my broker, thanks.
Leave the poor poster alone. So what if he loved the game. Big deal. We all have our opinions. He isn't even saying anything trollish or stupid. He just loved the game.
Does it make you all feel big to say something completely irrelevent to try to make another guy feel stupid (even though I see no proff in the post) just so you can make yourselves feel better about not having a girlfriend?
No one is as elite as you make yourselves out to be.
Mod me down because I don't give a shit anymore. I always think its funny that the worst offenders are some guy named "Anonymous Coward". Man that guy is an asshole!
"I don't see how effective this could be. How long before spammers get smart and set their SMTP program to give up after X seconds?
Who cares?!? Let them give up after x seconds. I want them to give up and stop sending my server spam. Thats just fine by me. If they give up I don't get any spam. How more perfect can you get?
The original post I believe had a talk about POPFile as well, which is a client proxy that you run your email through. I am pretty sure it is the same guy that made both. It filters out all the crap and "learns" as it goes. Since I installed it I have managed to take my daily 100 spam emails down to about 2 or 3 tops and I am still training it.
Something of this importance is not the realm of second rate open source projects. I would hope they are using Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server. (though the recent version of MySQL is starting to really shape up and may become viable soon, its progress truly is astounding). Not trolling, for all of you zealots who will jump in and say "shouldn't bite" or something witless to that effect.
Man, are you serious when you said MS SQL Server?? Well it makes me glad I am a Canadian because of our government was keeping such a huge piece of data on me I sure as hell wouldn't want it running on SQL Server. My heart goes out to you all. God's speed and good luck with that.
On the other hand...if they do run SQL Server it shouldn't be too hard for some terrorists to knock out with some new virus.
I am not sure if its that so much as routing of the support calls. I mean we have the premium service. Not sure what the contract is called. I usually just have to give them the part# too. I have just been having issues with them as of late. The biggest problem I find is with sales. They drive me nuts.
Then again delivery dates on Dells aren't the greatest either and they apparently don't keep everything in one database. I do some contracting on the side and I had a big mix-up when the client ordered the hardware and did not bother to order all the office software for their workstations nor did they order the corporate anti-virus. They got all that ordered and should have been fine. When the software got there they had not included the activation codes for *yuck* Office XP. The sales rep would not return calls. I called sales several times and each time they had no record of the sale. I had to fax them a copy of the check that they cashed to PROVE they bought the software. I finally got in touch with someone who told me that software and hardware sales exist in separate databases. Basically it took me about 4 hours to shake them down for the stupid codes so I could install the software!
If computer vendors could improve basic customer service and stop treating us all like idiots or as if we are a bother to them, I would bet that company would improve sales and market share.
I hate it when you speak to someone in tech support who thinks you are stupid while they read off you from a script. If I get asked one more time if I have rebooted my PC I will have to hurt something.
I had to comment because I saw quite a few posts on the ability of Sun's slaes staff to reduce you too feeling like a non-human, loser who isn't worthy of their products because you are only spending 25, 50 or 75K worth of gear.
I work for an MSP and we do a lot of business with Sun (although we have sold more Dell/Linux solutions that Sun Solaris at the 3:1 ratio in the last 9 months). I am really tired of dealing with them. I even get attitude fromt heir teir 1 support! When a tier 1 peon asks me if I am sure that the drive is broken 3 times, and then tells me to get someone else to check it I get very angry and feel like cramming that drive down his stupid throat!
I mean really....I was supporting this stuff since before he was even a twinkle in his father's eyes. Am I not a repeat and well paying customer? Did we not spend several million dollars with Sun in the past? Do they not want to continue this relationship? I ask my sales rep these questions everytime I call....and he promptly hangs up on me.....BASTARDS!
This is a very nice piece of work. Not to mention I have "modded" a few things in my lifetime. Well maybe not so much modded as built something just for the cool factor. Well that almost true. I mean the one thing that I have thought in the past few years that needed to be produced but still hasn't was a really good set top box for the PC. This device is almost what I was thinking although I will not pay the X-Box game prices.
I built a nice little set top out of a very small flex case, ATI All-In-Wonder, Linux, wireless LAN etc. It works unbelieveably well but I wish I could build something as nice as this. I am not the hardware geek that this guy is but I wish I were because I think I would be building some (non-proprietory systems and selling them. I'd buy his work. The level of craftmanship is beyond reproach in this case.
I work for a MSP (managed service provider) and one of the issues we have faced of late is that some of our less scrupulous clients are apparently spamming, although they deny this. We have found that some of our sub-nets have now been blocked by Real-Time block lists and this has affected far more than just these people who are spamming. In effect they are hurting the company (who is addressing the situation however it has been only a week since the complaint was filed with us and we DO have contracts with these people. It takes time to solve this issue. Not to mention we received only 1 AUP complaint from one source), other completely innocent clients and our staff who will lose their jobs if we start losing clients.
My question is: Do you think that SPAM vigilante's are hurting their cause more than helping in these instances? And furthermore does this kind of IP hostage taking make them as bad as the spammers, when they effectively shutdown other organization's networks like this without any solid proof? Even if they do prove it how can they simply shutdown another organization's email like that?
He inadvertantly brings up one decent point although he did this indirectly: The "average" person just cannot keep up with computer technology. I mean, we laugh at the fact that this guy can't even operate a Mac but there are a lot more of him than there are of us.
It is still not fair to pick on Apple for his ineptitude. I'd hate to see him try to run MS or Linux. I would sure hate to be his neighbor or pal he uses to fix his problems. He seems like a needy kind of PC guy
Mac is definately the closest thing that a consumer can get to easy to use. But when I talk to my elderly aunt she just wants something where she points at something and it works. She does not need the configuration options we techies want. When are the PC companies going to realise that there is a huge market out there of guys like this weiner who want a PC black box. Just a simpe to use, flip it on and go sort of machine. I would not even say this type of thing would be a computer. Rather more of a PDA style box that allows internet, word processing and maybe a few other things like picture and video viewers and allow him to Sync his Palm.
Maybe it sounds stupid to us but my aunt would buy it in a second.
I know there were things like the Audry but I guess I mean something with a little more beef than that. I am sure she wold like to write a few letters once in a while and put some pictures in it but not much more than that.
Maybe some thing like an embedded Linux set top box. But the interface is the main thing. I mean she can't even program her VCR and her DVD player has dust on it because she can't use it so this thing would need to just be turned on, have like 4 or 5 huge icons that told her what she could do, she pushes them and then it just does its thing.
Thanks. I appreciate that. Sometimes I can't help getting reminded of the movie "High Fidelity" when I cruise through Slashdot.
They walked around thinking they were unappreciated scholars and when you get right down to it, they were nerds with singular interests, and because no one had a grasp of musical works as they did that meant that everyone else was wrong. Not only were they wrong but the people needed to know they were wrong and be ridiculed for their unknowingness
I am a nerd in so much as I work in a "nerd" business but I like to think I have a sense of humour and I definately have other interests, even *oh my God* SPORTS.
I feel that people get punished for that here sometimes. Down with elitest snobbery I say. I could have been the hot chick next door that won't go out with you now because you called me a troll when I was juts making a stupid joke =)
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Thanks guys I appreciate your replies. It just makes me sooo mad. Had a hit and run near my house a while back. Killed some people and the asshole got 3 months with time served. How is this fair? Poor guy selling mod chips lands in jail. I still cannot believe it for real.
I cannot believe this is real. I mean really a guy got JAIL TIME and a CRIMINAL RECORD for selling these devices which do not even fall under the DMCA. The mod chips do not let people bypass copywriten materials and now the guy has 5 months in the pokey with a big biker rommate named Florence.
What THE FUCK is going on here? I am so glad I love in Canada. Is the U.S. really turning into the Orwellian state that it seems to be? I have always considered moving to the States. My wife and I were discussing this a few months back. Forget it. Just goes to show that money is power. I guess the RIAA will be running your elections pretty soon. Arnold Swartzenegger for President anyone?
How do these things get so far? Well its time to start hitting them where it hurts. I was going to go buy an X-Box today. Well fuck that. You hear me Microsoft you dirty slimey bastards? You will never, ever get one flat dime out of me EVER again. Mark my words. You won't have a few hundred of my dollars to put poor saps like this in jail.
See you in hell!
Didn't Homer Simpson have a theory about a donut shaped universe?
"Homer, your theory of a donut shaped universe is intriguing..." - Stephan Hawking
I want a TiVo soooo bad. I am in Canada and the bastards won't let us have one. (Built a Linux set top box out of parts ordered from Taiwan but thats neither here nor there). I would rather keep my old VCR and watch commercials then give these assholes a red freakin' cent.
GET BENT CORPORATE SHILLS!
And this is in US$$$? If it is more than half that they can go piss up a rope. The same price as CDs only half the sounds quality. I would pay $0.50. The cost of diribution has just gone down nearly 100% by having us download them off their site.
Ever get the sneaky suspicion that these boneheads are trying to screw us even more royally? Man I hate these guys. They really have no good marketing strategy for these services either. There is a really good internet radion station here in Canada called Moontaxi (listen to it at work since it uses *ugh* Media Player but it is pretty unobtrusive with subtle ads only). Lots of channels and they play great music. Lets just say for instance they started providing this service and I could download their songs (and every other damn song I want) for 4 bits. I would be all over that if that file was mine to do with as I choose. Burn it, mp3 player or what have you.
See the good thing is I can hear a lot of tunes while I browse and maybe I'll hear something really good that I want to buy. They should intersperse free tunes from upcoming artists and make us feel like we are getting what we pay for (for a change ARE YOU LISTENING YOU BASTARDS?).
I like the idea of sending the artists money when you download their tunes until these idiots quit trying to fuck us
Sorry...lost my cool there for a minute.
It seems that it has always been part of our primal programming to attempt turn the tide on Ma Nature from day one. I really don't think we will ever "win". We have diseases, storms, doughts, etc. for a reason. If we did not have these things there would be 25 billion people on the Earth and we would all suffer and perish.
Someone in one of these posts gave an analogy about deer and wolves. People tend to forget that we are animals too. We like to forget that we are subject to the same laws of nature as even the lowliest of animals upon the Earth.
AIDS, cancer, heart disease these are all horrible things. Truly they are, but they are necessary to the survival of all in that they thin our herd which is left oft times unchecked by anything but virus and disease. When we cure AIDS and cancer there will be something to take its place, I assure you all.
I for one do not want to live forever. I will live my days and after those are done I will rest in whichever place we go when we leave here. I sometimes wonder if scientists ponder whether or not what they do is in vain sometimes. As learned individuals you would have to realise that curing one thing is great but what will replace it? Why make the bed when you're just going to mess it up again.
The way that humans pursue scientific research with such gusto is sometimes a little scary. We can't leave things alone when we should. I think this is the case with genetic engineering. I think we will really have to fuck something up before we either stop and say "Maybe we were wrong" or kill ourselves. Hoping that humans will be responsible in these endevours is a huge risk to the planet and countless lives.
The wheel. Been moving things around since forever.
I think it depends on what kind of services you give your clients. For instance if you are offering shared hosting and the client gets killed by bandwidth baddies I would think it is the ISP's fault for not protecting the equipment. However if you are providing colo or complex colo and are merely providing bandwidth, then the client should be responsible for every byte of traffic that goes in and out. They are responsible for the hardware and software. How can the company be expected to look after that?
I work for a managed service provider. We would never charge our clients for the slammer virus if it had affected them (fortunately it didn't) but our colo customers would be looking at a very large bill about now.
Yes I know I can set my threshold higher. It gives you a better all around view of what the other dumbasses are thinking though. Its like building software. You need to design it for the dumbest guy you know, not the smartest.
But I sure wouldn't put this in production. Like someone else said: A bunch of OO zealots who haven't worked on anything in production.
This is relying way too much on hardware. Not to mention that what happens if your memory fails for whatever reason? Poof! There goes my mortgage payment, stock trade, bank deposit.
After having worked in the biz for 7 years I still am a little nervous about on-line transactions because even a little downtime could mean my money just got lost. Or if I am a heavy stock trader and I use an on-line service. Stocks don't wait for people. You could easily lose thousands because you could not access the site when you wanted to buy/sell.
I'll keep working to make it better but until that time, I'll call my broker, thanks.
Leave the poor poster alone. So what if he loved the game. Big deal. We all have our opinions. He isn't even saying anything trollish or stupid. He just loved the game.
Does it make you all feel big to say something completely irrelevent to try to make another guy feel stupid (even though I see no proff in the post) just so you can make yourselves feel better about not having a girlfriend?
No one is as elite as you make yourselves out to be.
Mod me down because I don't give a shit anymore. I always think its funny that the worst offenders are some guy named "Anonymous Coward". Man that guy is an asshole!
Who cares?!? Let them give up after x seconds. I want them to give up and stop sending my server spam. Thats just fine by me. If they give up I don't get any spam. How more perfect can you get?
The original post I believe had a talk about POPFile as well, which is a client proxy that you run your email through. I am pretty sure it is the same guy that made both. It filters out all the crap and "learns" as it goes. Since I installed it I have managed to take my daily 100 spam emails down to about 2 or 3 tops and I am still training it.
Download it here.
Man, are you serious when you said MS SQL Server?? Well it makes me glad I am a Canadian because of our government was keeping such a huge piece of data on me I sure as hell wouldn't want it running on SQL Server. My heart goes out to you all. God's speed and good luck with that.
On the other hand...if they do run SQL Server it shouldn't be too hard for some terrorists to knock out with some new virus.
I am only sorry that I don't have any mod points to mod you up further. You are so right.
I am not sure if its that so much as routing of the support calls. I mean we have the premium service. Not sure what the contract is called. I usually just have to give them the part# too. I have just been having issues with them as of late. The biggest problem I find is with sales. They drive me nuts.
Then again delivery dates on Dells aren't the greatest either and they apparently don't keep everything in one database. I do some contracting on the side and I had a big mix-up when the client ordered the hardware and did not bother to order all the office software for their workstations nor did they order the corporate anti-virus. They got all that ordered and should have been fine. When the software got there they had not included the activation codes for *yuck* Office XP. The sales rep would not return calls. I called sales several times and each time they had no record of the sale. I had to fax them a copy of the check that they cashed to PROVE they bought the software. I finally got in touch with someone who told me that software and hardware sales exist in separate databases. Basically it took me about 4 hours to shake them down for the stupid codes so I could install the software!
If computer vendors could improve basic customer service and stop treating us all like idiots or as if we are a bother to them, I would bet that company would improve sales and market share.
I hate it when you speak to someone in tech support who thinks you are stupid while they read off you from a script. If I get asked one more time if I have rebooted my PC I will have to hurt something.
Moderate this thread or comment on it....hmmmm
I had to comment because I saw quite a few posts on the ability of Sun's slaes staff to reduce you too feeling like a non-human, loser who isn't worthy of their products because you are only spending 25, 50 or 75K worth of gear.
I work for an MSP and we do a lot of business with Sun (although we have sold more Dell/Linux solutions that Sun Solaris at the 3:1 ratio in the last 9 months). I am really tired of dealing with them. I even get attitude fromt heir teir 1 support! When a tier 1 peon asks me if I am sure that the drive is broken 3 times, and then tells me to get someone else to check it I get very angry and feel like cramming that drive down his stupid throat!
I mean really....I was supporting this stuff since before he was even a twinkle in his father's eyes. Am I not a repeat and well paying customer? Did we not spend several million dollars with Sun in the past? Do they not want to continue this relationship? I ask my sales rep these questions everytime I call....and he promptly hangs up on me.....BASTARDS!
This is a very nice piece of work. Not to mention I have "modded" a few things in my lifetime. Well maybe not so much modded as built something just for the cool factor. Well that almost true. I mean the one thing that I have thought in the past few years that needed to be produced but still hasn't was a really good set top box for the PC. This device is almost what I was thinking although I will not pay the X-Box game prices.
I built a nice little set top out of a very small flex case, ATI All-In-Wonder, Linux, wireless LAN etc. It works unbelieveably well but I wish I could build something as nice as this. I am not the hardware geek that this guy is but I wish I were because I think I would be building some (non-proprietory systems and selling them. I'd buy his work. The level of craftmanship is beyond reproach in this case.
I work for a MSP (managed service provider) and one of the issues we have faced of late is that some of our less scrupulous clients are apparently spamming, although they deny this. We have found that some of our sub-nets have now been blocked by Real-Time block lists and this has affected far more than just these people who are spamming. In effect they are hurting the company (who is addressing the situation however it has been only a week since the complaint was filed with us and we DO have contracts with these people. It takes time to solve this issue. Not to mention we received only 1 AUP complaint from one source), other completely innocent clients and our staff who will lose their jobs if we start losing clients.
My question is: Do you think that SPAM vigilante's are hurting their cause more than helping in these instances? And furthermore does this kind of IP hostage taking make them as bad as the spammers, when they effectively shutdown other organization's networks like this without any solid proof? Even if they do prove it how can they simply shutdown another organization's email like that?
I'll put a point towards saying that this was a waste of Slashdotter's time.
He inadvertantly brings up one decent point although he did this indirectly: The "average" person just cannot keep up with computer technology. I mean, we laugh at the fact that this guy can't even operate a Mac but there are a lot more of him than there are of us.
It is still not fair to pick on Apple for his ineptitude. I'd hate to see him try to run MS or Linux. I would sure hate to be his neighbor or pal he uses to fix his problems. He seems like a needy kind of PC guy
Mac is definately the closest thing that a consumer can get to easy to use. But when I talk to my elderly aunt she just wants something where she points at something and it works. She does not need the configuration options we techies want. When are the PC companies going to realise that there is a huge market out there of guys like this weiner who want a PC black box. Just a simpe to use, flip it on and go sort of machine. I would not even say this type of thing would be a computer. Rather more of a PDA style box that allows internet, word processing and maybe a few other things like picture and video viewers and allow him to Sync his Palm.
Maybe it sounds stupid to us but my aunt would buy it in a second.
I know there were things like the Audry but I guess I mean something with a little more beef than that. I am sure she wold like to write a few letters once in a while and put some pictures in it but not much more than that.
Maybe some thing like an embedded Linux set top box. But the interface is the main thing. I mean she can't even program her VCR and her DVD player has dust on it because she can't use it so this thing would need to just be turned on, have like 4 or 5 huge icons that told her what she could do, she pushes them and then it just does its thing.
That was very funny. I am so not attracted to men that I can't even believe that women sleep with them. You obviously don't have that hang-up.
Thanks. I appreciate that. Sometimes I can't help getting reminded of the movie "High Fidelity" when I cruise through Slashdot.
They walked around thinking they were unappreciated scholars and when you get right down to it, they were nerds with singular interests, and because no one had a grasp of musical works as they did that meant that everyone else was wrong. Not only were they wrong but the people needed to know they were wrong and be ridiculed for their unknowingness
I am a nerd in so much as I work in a "nerd" business but I like to think I have a sense of humour and I definately have other interests, even *oh my God* SPORTS.
I feel that people get punished for that here sometimes. Down with elitest snobbery I say. I could have been the hot chick next door that won't go out with you now because you called me a troll when I was juts making a stupid joke =)
Everyone else does it and gets points.
I get to be first to say it.....Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Earth Simulators.