While you have some good ideas there, unfortunately some of them are a lot easier said than done.
Consider the *Billions* of packets going over some larger ISPs' networks hourly. Many ISPs block a few select ports for various reasons, but the larger the access list on the routers, the more processing power it takes to examine every packet.
Whether they block everything, and then allow only a few ports, or vice versa, any more than a couple of entries would totally bog down high volume gateway routers at ISPs.
Some Cable internet companies have the right idea. Cox actually uses the port blocking capabilities in the cable modems to block certain ports inbound on modems that support it. This offloads the processing to the individual modems rather than placing responsibility on the routers.
Add in attempts to analyze packet contents so that blocking of particular sites can be done, and you have to have one hell of a powerful router.
Now, IANAL, but I believe this would also raise potential legal issues. Some could say the ISP is then "responsible" for any security breeches to their subscribers' PCs, as they are presenting a "false" sense of security by taking action in the first place. (Don't you love our legal system these days?)
There is a similar reason behind why the company I work for refuses to put security cameras monitoring the employee parking lot -- they could then be liable.
Maybe the vote for Mayor was not the only election those machines were used for that day? Multiply 80 * the number of total elections, and you end up with a significantly larger potential number. Nevermind that only 36 or 37 people voted.
I was going to use "thru" instead of "thrue", however (correct me if I am wrong) that would probably break the present English language rules by not resulting in a "long u" sound. A weird alternative might be "thruu."
Some of the components of "leet" or "text" speak could be a good thing. Consider that languages usually do evolve over time. If we can express ideas and thoughts using less space and effort, isn't that a good thing? As long as it does not introduce ambiguity, it may be a more efficient way to communicate. Will future generations really miss the extra letters? Books would get smaller without being abridged, and people may even be able to read more in the same amount of time.
Remember that not all of these shortened versions of common words break the rules of the english language. For example, if thrue were used in place of through, you save on letters and still end up with a properly formed word, pronounced the same way.
It would be an interesting project for someone to transform English words (within the rules) to see how much space could be saved.
"Verizon already restricts people using Verison DSL. SMTP traffic is filtered unless it goes through their server and if it does go through their server, you can only use a verison.net email address."
Not true. VOL Does filter so you cannot use other SMTP servers in some places, but You CAN use non VOL addresses with their servers. You only have to make sure you are authenticating with it.
"Really? God has helped you? You have any sort of demonstratable evidence, some indication that is beyond chance and unexpected events, besides your "gut feeling" and "dogmatic passion"? No?"
You think that's air you're breathing?
I haven't seen those announcements myself... but That's just stupid.
The actors get filthy rich, and the stunt man's family starves?
If that's not a lie, the people involved in the contracts, are morons.
At first glance I was thinking "Wow, MS is actually starting to worry about their image..." Then I snapped back to reality and realized how handy it would be for MS to install software on the PCs of the pirates which could collect enough information for MS to find them out and prosecute them.
My suggestion is to watch the license agreement carefully.
Also, it's not that tough to get a key. A tech I know that works for an ISP was helping a customer call MS to get a sockets problem in XP fixed... They got MS to help her for free, and, after the MS tech learned it was a burned copy (the customer came right out and told them), the tech put her on hold, and got a key for her.
I dunno, I still don't trust MS with this. Beware.
A solution similar to AV software would simply not work... Why?
First of all, AV software doesn't work well enough... We still end up with pandemics because of the people with outdated AV, and new viruses coming out all the time.
Second, Viruses are illegal. Spyware is not, therefore it is trivial to write a new spyware program with a new signature, and new ways of evading the detection software.
What needs to be done, is a law passed requiring a Privacy rating on all software distributed on the Internet. If it leaves any software running silently on your systen at any time, or modifies any software that is not part of the package, they should have to Say so in BIG RED LETTERS on the install screen, by itself... not list in the EULA sea.
You know what bothers me about these kinds of things? Just about ANYTHING is preventable.
If there was gross misconduct or neglect involved, then sure it is something to be concerned about. However, mistakes will always be made. It happens. Get over it. Try to prevent it from happening again.
No, I wasn't a part of the blackout... and I know it affected a lot of people adversly. But to think that something like this will not happen once in awhile is naive at best.
I've managed to capture a glimpse once when not really trying... have not been able to duplicate it though... Forced-dominance of the lazy eye is annoying, and messes up all sorts of stuff.:(
AFAIK, I fusion bomb us an uncontrolled reaction. In order to control a reaction, you need things such a Powerful magnetic field to keep it from expanding beyond what the fusion chamber can handle.
Also keep in mind that the reaction that takes place in a nuke explosion is not a constant reaction. Starting a reaction that way is easy, but the reaction is not sustained. It is very difficult to actually sustain a reaction like that.
Talk about bad things being said about him... He just gave everything credence by bringing up those ridiculous lawsuits. At the end of the day, he is going to look 10 times worse than the Google results alone could make him appear... Add to that, that it is going to be much more widely known?
I mean, honestly... Does this guy think that the slim chance of getting lots of cash out of these companies is really worth the REAL damage this is going to do to him and his company?
Lawyers that represent frivelous lawsuits are scummy... The People that hire the lawyers are scummier.
Too bad I used my last mod point this morning, or I would mod you up. Calling names and personal attacks on people is a BAD way to express disappointment.
I am disappointed in the company, but I am not about to all-out attack the CEO, as that is just childish.
On one hand, this is a good thing. I really don't like the kind of people that sue every chance they get. They are worse than the lawyers that represent them.
On the other hand, this could lead to bias. If a doctor that was rightfully sued entered the patient into his database, that would only do more harm (Hippocratic oath, anyone?)
Somewhere in the middle would be to have an independent organization that investigates the legal proceedings, and takes into account not only the verdict, but the evidence and whether it was won on a technicality, and then add to the database with supporting information.
That would be far less damaging, but also useful for the doctors that need it.
"signing off on the fact that this ane was not a referral."
Most typos are made by leaving out letters, or hitting a letter next to the one you meant to. I assume 'ane' was supposed to be 'one', but 'a' is nowhere near 'o' on the keyboard. The only letter in 'one' that is, is the last one, 'e'...
That is one heck of a typo...
There are others, such as the addition of letters to words, that were not typos, but misspellings, because the keys were nowhere near any of those being pressed. Notice "componients" here:
"The will help us a lot and if we execute we could exit and Unix componients we have build potentially back to Microsoft or MCS."
The letter 'i' is nowhere near any of the adjacent letters on the standard keyboard, so it appears that it is a misspelling rather than a typo, which is hard to believe his spelling would be that bad.
I'm not saying it that is enough to call it a fake, but it just looks a little suspicious, as if some of the 'typos' were too specifically placed.
These arguments have been around for a very long time. It is just one of those things that will not go away.
Do video games desensitize people? I'd have to say yes. But then desensitization is not the same thing as making someone more prone to violent tendencies. Many people join the armed forces, to pay their way through college or whatnot. Part of the training is meant to prepare you to kill. Everyone I know who has been through it come back more serious about life and death, but not more violent.
Another thing they are missing here is that maybe it is just that a larger number of people who are lazy, or mean play these kinds of games. Think about it. If you are a lazy person, are you going to be more apt to play sports for entertainment, or play video games and watch TV? Myself, after sitting for awhile gaming, I sometimes feel restless and need to get up for awhile and do something else.
Same with mean people... Are they more likely to play a game of Chess, or to play something where they get to take out their "meanness" on characters in a game?
"Most people who are mean play violent games" and "most people who play violent games are mean" do NOT mean the same thing.
I also feel like I should mention, that I knew who the mean ones in my high school were. How can you not? Now did they tend to be the ones playing violent games? Yes. Football. Most of them never touched PCs, and mostly played sports games on consoles if at all.
Honestly, most of the people I know that play games like UT, ET, and Quake, like to get together and play socially, and tend to be some of the nicer, more cooperative and reliable people.
Lastly. Parents: Letting your children play a game that you feel is harmful to them is tantamount to allowing them to play with your.45 in the closet. Don't try to force your views on every one else, after all, it is YOUR most important job to look out for your children.
After all, it is not the "Village" that raises a child, it is the parents.
"YOU are the minority. There are people on this planet OUTSIDE the USA, do you know that?"
Irrelevent. This is between the FCC, and power companies in the US. Unless you are afraid Joe User's BPL service in Kansas is going to interfere with Claude User's HAM in France...
If transmissions that are unintentional can affect an area that far away, power companies ought to get into the broadcasting business.
Besides all that, have you heard about the experiments in the UK with BPL? You think that the US is the first to do this? Talk about ignorance. Go read http://www.hydro.co.uk/broadband/index.asp or http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27221.html
I could be wrong about the distance that the interference reaches, but if you are wanting to blame something on Americans, find something else.
That said, there has been much fear and apprehension to many new technologies being deployed. I welcome the rollout of these services, as they will confirm those, or belay them for good.
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While you have some good ideas there, unfortunately some of them are a lot easier said than done. Consider the *Billions* of packets going over some larger ISPs' networks hourly. Many ISPs block a few select ports for various reasons, but the larger the access list on the routers, the more processing power it takes to examine every packet. Whether they block everything, and then allow only a few ports, or vice versa, any more than a couple of entries would totally bog down high volume gateway routers at ISPs. Some Cable internet companies have the right idea. Cox actually uses the port blocking capabilities in the cable modems to block certain ports inbound on modems that support it. This offloads the processing to the individual modems rather than placing responsibility on the routers. Add in attempts to analyze packet contents so that blocking of particular sites can be done, and you have to have one hell of a powerful router. Now, IANAL, but I believe this would also raise potential legal issues. Some could say the ISP is then "responsible" for any security breeches to their subscribers' PCs, as they are presenting a "false" sense of security by taking action in the first place. (Don't you love our legal system these days?) There is a similar reason behind why the company I work for refuses to put security cameras monitoring the employee parking lot -- they could then be liable.
Maybe the vote for Mayor was not the only election those machines were used for that day? Multiply 80 * the number of total elections, and you end up with a significantly larger potential number. Nevermind that only 36 or 37 people voted.
I was going to use "thru" instead of "thrue", however (correct me if I am wrong) that would probably break the present English language rules by not resulting in a "long u" sound. A weird alternative might be "thruu."
Aahhh, but add SSID Broadcast into the mix, and then you have an "Invitation to come in." Of course, most of these analogies are pointless anyway.
Some of the components of "leet" or "text" speak could be a good thing. Consider that languages usually do evolve over time. If we can express ideas and thoughts using less space and effort, isn't that a good thing? As long as it does not introduce ambiguity, it may be a more efficient way to communicate. Will future generations really miss the extra letters? Books would get smaller without being abridged, and people may even be able to read more in the same amount of time.
Remember that not all of these shortened versions of common words break the rules of the english language. For example, if thrue were used in place of through, you save on letters and still end up with a properly formed word, pronounced the same way.
It would be an interesting project for someone to transform English words (within the rules) to see how much space could be saved.
"Verizon already restricts people using Verison DSL. SMTP traffic is filtered unless it goes through their server and if it does go through their server, you can only use a verison.net email address."
Not true. VOL Does filter so you cannot use other SMTP servers in some places, but You CAN use non VOL addresses with their servers. You only have to make sure you are authenticating with it.
"Really? God has helped you? You have any sort of demonstratable evidence, some indication that is beyond chance and unexpected events, besides your "gut feeling" and "dogmatic passion"? No?" You think that's air you're breathing?
I haven't seen those announcements myself... but That's just stupid. The actors get filthy rich, and the stunt man's family starves? If that's not a lie, the people involved in the contracts, are morons.
At first glance I was thinking "Wow, MS is actually starting to worry about their image..." Then I snapped back to reality and realized how handy it would be for MS to install software on the PCs of the pirates which could collect enough information for MS to find them out and prosecute them.
My suggestion is to watch the license agreement carefully.
Also, it's not that tough to get a key. A tech I know that works for an ISP was helping a customer call MS to get a sockets problem in XP fixed... They got MS to help her for free, and, after the MS tech learned it was a burned copy (the customer came right out and told them), the tech put her on hold, and got a key for her.
I dunno, I still don't trust MS with this. Beware.
A solution similar to AV software would simply not work... Why?
First of all, AV software doesn't work well enough... We still end up with pandemics because of the people with outdated AV, and new viruses coming out all the time.
Second, Viruses are illegal. Spyware is not, therefore it is trivial to write a new spyware program with a new signature, and new ways of evading the detection software.
What needs to be done, is a law passed requiring a Privacy rating on all software distributed on the Internet. If it leaves any software running silently on your systen at any time, or modifies any software that is not part of the package, they should have to Say so in BIG RED LETTERS on the install screen, by itself... not list in the EULA sea.
Just my 2 cents.
You know what bothers me about these kinds of things? Just about ANYTHING is preventable.
If there was gross misconduct or neglect involved, then sure it is something to be concerned about. However, mistakes will always be made. It happens. Get over it. Try to prevent it from happening again.
No, I wasn't a part of the blackout... and I know it affected a lot of people adversly. But to think that something like this will not happen once in awhile is naive at best.
Just my 2 cents.
I've managed to capture a glimpse once when not really trying... have not been able to duplicate it though... Forced-dominance of the lazy eye is annoying, and messes up all sorts of stuff. :(
AFAIK, I fusion bomb us an uncontrolled reaction. In order to control a reaction, you need things such a Powerful magnetic field to keep it from expanding beyond what the fusion chamber can handle. Also keep in mind that the reaction that takes place in a nuke explosion is not a constant reaction. Starting a reaction that way is easy, but the reaction is not sustained. It is very difficult to actually sustain a reaction like that.
Everyone should look at this as a lesson.
Talk about bad things being said about him... He just gave everything credence by bringing up those ridiculous lawsuits. At the end of the day, he is going to look 10 times worse than the Google results alone could make him appear... Add to that, that it is going to be much more widely known?
I mean, honestly... Does this guy think that the slim chance of getting lots of cash out of these companies is really worth the REAL damage this is going to do to him and his company?
Lawyers that represent frivelous lawsuits are scummy... The People that hire the lawyers are scummier.
In that case, I would consider Windows 2000 2.0... Why it came out before XP? I dunno :P
Too bad I used my last mod point this morning, or I would mod you up. Calling names and personal attacks on people is a BAD way to express disappointment.
I am disappointed in the company, but I am not about to all-out attack the CEO, as that is just childish.
On one hand, this is a good thing. I really don't like the kind of people that sue every chance they get. They are worse than the lawyers that represent them.
On the other hand, this could lead to bias. If a doctor that was rightfully sued entered the patient into his database, that would only do more harm (Hippocratic oath, anyone?)
Somewhere in the middle would be to have an independent organization that investigates the legal proceedings, and takes into account not only the verdict, but the evidence and whether it was won on a technicality, and then add to the database with supporting information.
That would be far less damaging, but also useful for the doctors that need it.
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Now how exactly does that happen? I think somebody needs to brush up on their math
"signing off on the fact that this ane was not a referral."
Most typos are made by leaving out letters, or hitting a letter next to the one you meant to. I assume 'ane' was supposed to be 'one', but 'a' is nowhere near 'o' on the keyboard. The only letter in 'one' that is, is the last one, 'e'...
That is one heck of a typo...
There are others, such as the addition of letters to words, that were not typos, but misspellings, because the keys were nowhere near any of those being pressed. Notice "componients" here:
"The will help us a lot and if we execute we could exit and Unix
componients we have build potentially back to Microsoft or MCS."
The letter 'i' is nowhere near any of the adjacent letters on the standard keyboard, so it appears that it is a misspelling rather than a typo, which is hard to believe his spelling would be that bad.
I'm not saying it that is enough to call it a fake, but it just looks a little suspicious, as if some of the 'typos' were too specifically placed.
Someone has no sense of humor. I thought it was funny :P
Is it just me, or does that Mobygames link to Sam & Max Hit the Road list the price as $517.99???
It was a good game, but come on...
Redundant? Would someone mind pointing out where everything I said was said before over and over?
Seems to me someone is abusing their mod privelages...
Too bad they didn't use it:
"Well, we were going to sue someone today, but they Paid us off (EV1.Net)."
These arguments have been around for a very long time. It is just one of those things that will not go away.
.45 in the closet. Don't try to force your views on every one else, after all, it is YOUR most important job to look out for your children.
Do video games desensitize people? I'd have to say yes. But then desensitization is not the same thing as making someone more prone to violent tendencies. Many people join the armed forces, to pay their way through college or whatnot. Part of the training is meant to prepare you to kill. Everyone I know who has been through it come back more serious about life and death, but not more violent.
Another thing they are missing here is that maybe it is just that a larger number of people who are lazy, or mean play these kinds of games. Think about it. If you are a lazy person, are you going to be more apt to play sports for entertainment, or play video games and watch TV? Myself, after sitting for awhile gaming, I sometimes feel restless and need to get up for awhile and do something else.
Same with mean people... Are they more likely to play a game of Chess, or to play something where they get to take out their "meanness" on characters in a game?
"Most people who are mean play violent games" and "most people who play violent games are mean" do NOT mean the same thing.
I also feel like I should mention, that I knew who the mean ones in my high school were. How can you not? Now did they tend to be the ones playing violent games? Yes. Football. Most of them never touched PCs, and mostly played sports games on consoles if at all.
Honestly, most of the people I know that play games like UT, ET, and Quake, like to get together and play socially, and tend to be some of the nicer, more cooperative and reliable people.
Lastly. Parents: Letting your children play a game that you feel is harmful to them is tantamount to allowing them to play with your
After all, it is not the "Village" that raises a child, it is the parents.
"YOU are the minority. There are people on this planet OUTSIDE the USA, do you know that?"
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Irrelevent. This is between the FCC, and power companies in the US. Unless you are afraid Joe User's BPL service in Kansas is going to interfere with Claude User's HAM in France...
If transmissions that are unintentional can affect an area that far away, power companies ought to get into the broadcasting business.
Besides all that, have you heard about the experiments in the UK with BPL? You think that the US is the first to do this? Talk about ignorance. Go read http://www.hydro.co.uk/broadband/index.asp or http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/2722
I could be wrong about the distance that the interference reaches, but if you are wanting to blame something on Americans, find something else.
That said, there has been much fear and apprehension to many new technologies being deployed. I welcome the rollout of these services, as they will confirm those, or belay them for good.