This is interesting. If I hit it in Mozilla, I immediately get service unavailable. If, however, I just telnet in, I get the page after a few minutes of waiting.
Well, try again and I don't:
mdchaney@fractal:~/taxi$ telnet blog.seanalexander.com 80 Trying 66.226.14.131... Connected to blog.seanalexander.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: blog.seanalexander.com
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable Content-Type: text/html Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:49:42 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 28
Service UnavailableConnection closed by foreign host.
Until they do that, it is THEIR problem, not ours.
Um, this is a regime that is actively trying to build nukes, and may have already done so. Guess what, genius- when they have nukes they are everybody's problems.
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I hate to say it, but what do you think you need 10GHz for anyway?
When I bought a 160GB drive a couple of years ago, my linux kernel only saw 130GB of it. I laughed, since it didn't matter. I wasn't going to use 130GB, either.
Right? Right?
Well, wrong.
I bought a DV camcorder, and started pulling in all of our old tapes, even my wedding tape. Now I have 250GB or so of video on the LAN and I'm adding more HD space.
What will I use a 10GHz processor for? I'll find out when I get one. Probably something with video...
"Killing in the name of religion" means someone kills because of their own religion, not the religion of the other person. That's why your other statement was wrong.
Bollocks, the Nazis were Christians. Why do you think the Catholic church helped them get rid of the Jews?
1. The Nazis weren't Christians. Christians are, by definition, followers of the teachings of Jesus Christ. That in and of itself is enough to refute you. However, I can go on to point out that the Nazis were atheistic.
2. Polish Catholics were the second to Jews in numbers killed in the death camps.
Bullshit. Communist (atheistic) states were responsible for about 100,000,000 murders in the 20th century. Hitler's atheistic Nazis killed another 11,000,000. It's amazing to me that people still push this stupid notion.
Ironically, Christmas Day marked 5 years since we bailed them out on the domain name registration fee. A couple of months ago I got a second check for $500 from them since I never cashed the first one (they sent a letter earlier this year saying "hey, we $500 that belongs to you"). I never thought it would get very far past Hotmail, looks like I was right...
Aren't there more black-box ways of determining whether I've done my job without gathering extraneous information that invades my privacy?
What privacy? Seriously? I pay you work for me, then, dammit, you work for me. Why is this so difficult for people to understand? You can have your privacy in the john or off the clock.
I see problems with the Big Brother approach as not dealing with root cause.
There's some truth to that. But I think it makes sense to use a complete approach, and that may include monitoring of activity. Note, too, that the 1984 reference is silly. We're not talking about putting a camera in the employee's house.
A store for you: I worked in a store for 4 years. Guess what- the manager would often stop by and observe us working. He also had the ability to turn our phone into an intercom without us knowing, and there were some cameras around that could watch the store.
Know what? He wrote the paychecks. And frankly most of my coworkers goofed off for half the shift even when they knew that they might be monitored. I cannot imagine what it would have been like if they thought nobody was watching them. If they did think they were being watched, they'd just go take a 15-minute shit break (on the clock) to have a smoke and dope up on speed.
Little things can make a big difference when multiplied by many employees. Get used to it. Everybody working more efficiently can only boost your paycheck.
In 2001, three Clinton Township, N.J., police officers were suspended from their jobs, and charged with falsifying records, after a disparity was discovered between the officers' written logs and GPS data.
I hate to sound like an employer, but I really get the feeling that the only people opposed to this sort of stuff are those who are used to taking a little personal time now and then while working. The article above goes on to deal with FOP complaints. I don't personally understand why people think their job should be unsupervised, particularly those who work for the public.
"Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both end up in a pit?"
Also in Matthew 15:14, NIV: "If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
Jesus apparently liked the analogy, and it was probably good for a few laughs. This is the basis of the modern analogy of "the blind leading the blind".
Everytime I see this sort of drivel from Microsoft, and think of their intended audience (i.e. those gullible enough to believe it), I think of the blind leading the blind.
What the MPAA is doing is cracking down on people who pirate and help people pirate movies. Big whoop.
Agreed. The MPAA is doing *exactly* what they should be doing: going after the infringers (don't bother trying to separate out a list of links from infringement, it's like saying the getaway driver didn't rob a bank) instead of the technology.
Though I have my own ideas on how the movie studios could save money. STOP PAYING THEM SO MUCH. I mean how many studios are there? A dozen at most? If they all colluded and salary capped the stars to say 50,000$ per movie [give or take] we wouldn't have "multi-million dollar movies" where most of the money goes to the actors and not the actual crew behind the scenes WHO ACTUALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Well, people being as they are, stars are worth money. Let's talk about your favorite whipping boy, Keanu. My wife saw the Matrix with me for one reason: Keanu. She had no interest in the movie, but she likes his acting. Say what you want, a good celebrity will draw people to a film. If a star is going to draw 5 million people to see a film who wouldn't have watched it otherwise, then, I'm sorry, they should share in the profits. And unlike the other behind-the-scenes people, they're not easily replaced. When was the last time you heard "I'm going to see The Polar Express because John Smith was the key grip"?
The same goes for professional athletes. You have 10 guys on a basketball team bringing in a couple hundred million each year collectively. Shouldn't they share in that? Particularly those who do the most?
I'll never understand how they can get off and say things like "oh the Olsen twins are worth 20 million dollars"... um to who? They're a pair of uneducated no-talent actors who ride their "being twins and decently good looks". Let's see what they're upto in 20 years shall we?
They're worth about $350,000,000. In 20 years they'll be doing business and getting richer. I'm guessing you'll still be doing oh-so-important protests at WTO meetings. Let me know how that works out for you.
Same goes for all the other little "artistes". They poperzize their music, everything is staged, etc, then think they're worth a couple million per performance...
Well, if a band can convince 20,000 people to fill a stadium and pay $100 per ticket, then they are worth a couple million per performance. There are a few such bands in existance today. Get over it.
that's bullshit. my tax dollars hard at work and yet i'm not able to see what's going on?
Right. So I'll frivolously sue your company, supoena all kinds of shit that has nothing to do with my lawsuit, and you'll agree that anything that I subpoena should automatically be put into the public record? Right?
Time for the world to know the recipe for Coca Cola. Hey, and how about the Colonel's secret recipe?
IBM has the right to keep stuff secret in this trial. The lawsuit is bullshit, anyway.
Drugs for obesity. None of these result from real societal problems...
My wife talks to diabetics all day on the phone as her job. Most of them are 200+ pounds, many in the 400+ range.
Obesity is one of the biggest problems facing our society today. People lose their eye site, limbs, mobility, and quality of life. All for a cheeseburger.
This problem isn't invented by the pharmaceutical industry, it's invented by gluttons.
In the case of TiVo, it appears that they will now have pop-up ads.
Sure, but in the case of Tivo the money is going to Tivo, not to the stations themselves. Tivo is more akin to Gator in attaching popups to other people's content. (They're not like Gator in other ways, of course).
Why do people have so much trouble understanding this? TV stations sell advertising air time to pay for content. This stuff costs money.
There's no good alternate except for "embedding" products into shows, or doing sponsorships a la "Pat Boone's Chevy Showroom". Hallmark often does the same with their "Hall of Fame" series, one of which included showing Schindler's List in its entirety with no commercial interuptions.
Tivo isn't creating a revenue stream for stations, just for themselves.
To see what Wikipedia is like I chose a single article, the biography of Alexander Hamilton. I chose that topic because I happen to know that there is a problem with his birth date, and how a reference work deals with that problem tells me something about its standards. The problem is this: While the day and month of Hamilton's birth are known, there is some uncertainty as to the year, whether it be 1755 or 1757. Hamilton himself used, and most contemporary biographers prefer, the latter year; a reference work ought at least to note the issue.
The Wikipedia article on Hamilton (as of November 4, 2004) uses the 1755 date without comment.
So click the edit button and fix it. I run across little stuff like that ofen in wikipedia, and I simply fix it. That's the idea.
This isn't a drawback of wikipedia, you're just not putting 2 and 2 together...
I wonder if Lexmark was smart enough to somehow encrypt or sign the data going back. I doubt it. I don't own any of their stuff, and never will due to their silly lawsuit, but I would be more than happy to feed their little servers plenty of interesting usage data. Plenty. We could distribute a program to allow like-minded folk to send over some good usage data whenever the urge hits (or in a cron job).
Anyone want to start deciphering packets? Can someone with a Lexmark do some capturing? Seriously, this could be fun, and their illegal database could become, shall we say, useless.
People in Nevada and any other states with spyware laws also need to contact their state AG's immediately. If you're in NY, you might want to get Spitzer's office on the phone. That guy can *find* a law that they broke.
I don't know how you got modded up. You are confused.
The DMCA case was about toner carts. Just as stupid, sure, but a different market.
If you want an ink-jet that is easily refillable, some of the high-end models feature this. Of course, they don't cost $30 and come free with your Dell.
Your best bet is always going to be laser, anyway. My marginal cost per page printed is under a penny. The new color lasers can be had for under $1000 and produce better quality at a much higher print speed than ink-jet.
BTW. when I buy blank CDs I am forced to pay a tax on it to 'help the artists'. Shit, I don't even care about any artists anymore, why am I forced to help them?
Because you don't realize that your government is representative? Seriously. The tax is bullshit, why not get some folks together and get it overturned. The music industry just isn't big enough to be buying laws like that.
You (and many others) may have missed the fact that Lynddie and her fuck buddy are rotting in a military prison awaiting trial, and some of their accomplices have already been sentenced.
Compare this country to anywhere on earth. Go ahead. Some Israeli soldier put 20 bullets through the head of a 13-year-old girl (who had already been shot in the leg and was struggling to get away) last month and he got a reprimand for losing the confidence of his subordinates. That's par for the course.
When was the last time you heard of any other country that disciplined its military people for war crimes? Seriously.
I'm not saying the US Army is perfect, and I think that too many innocent people have died that could have been avoided. But you people act like it was a fucking frat party with Saddam in power until we came and messed it all up.
Making men do fake sex acts is disgusting, but compared to Saddam's meat grinder, electrocution rooms, chemical baths, Uday's iron maiden, and the rest of it, this seems a bit tame. And our soldiers are still facing charges over it. Which is how it should be.
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This is interesting. If I hit it in Mozilla, I immediately get service unavailable. If, however, I just telnet in, I get the page after a few minutes of waiting.
Well, try again and I don't:
mdchaney@fractal:~/taxi$ telnet blog.seanalexander.com 80
Trying 66.226.14.131...
Connected to blog.seanalexander.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: blog.seanalexander.com
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:49:42 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 28
Service UnavailableConnection closed by foreign host.
Until they do that, it is THEIR problem, not ours.
Um, this is a regime that is actively trying to build nukes, and may have already done so. Guess what, genius- when they have nukes they are everybody's problems.
I hate to say it, but what do you think you need 10GHz for anyway?
When I bought a 160GB drive a couple of years ago, my linux kernel only saw 130GB of it. I laughed, since it didn't matter. I wasn't going to use 130GB, either.
Right? Right?
Well, wrong.
I bought a DV camcorder, and started pulling in all of our old tapes, even my wedding tape. Now I have 250GB or so of video on the LAN and I'm adding more HD space.
What will I use a 10GHz processor for? I'll find out when I get one. Probably something with video...
"Killing in the name of religion" means someone kills because of their own religion, not the religion of the other person. That's why your other statement was wrong.
Bollocks, the Nazis were Christians. Why do you think the Catholic church helped them get rid of the Jews?
1. The Nazis weren't Christians. Christians are, by definition, followers of the teachings of Jesus Christ. That in and of itself is enough to refute you. However, I can go on to point out that the Nazis were atheistic.
2. Polish Catholics were the second to Jews in numbers killed in the death camps.
A policy of "kill people because they are jewish" is still killing in the name of religion.
1. No it's not.
2. Not all Jews are religious. The word applies to both a religion and an ethnicity. The Nazis killed ethnic Jews.
People have killed more in the name of religion
Bullshit. Communist (atheistic) states were responsible for about 100,000,000 murders in the 20th century. Hitler's atheistic Nazis killed another 11,000,000. It's amazing to me that people still push this stupid notion.
HOW MANY DID COMMUNIST REGIMES MURDER?
Ironically, Christmas Day marked 5 years since we bailed them out on the domain name registration fee. A couple of months ago I got a second check for $500 from them since I never cashed the first one (they sent a letter earlier this year saying "hey, we $500 that belongs to you"). I never thought it would get very far past Hotmail, looks like I was right...
Not that it justifies stealing from Wal-Mart, but note that at $250,000,000,000/year, $1,500,000 is less than 2 minutes of Wal-Mart's revenue.
What privacy? Seriously? I pay you work for me, then, dammit, you work for me. Why is this so difficult for people to understand? You can have your privacy in the john or off the clock.
There's some truth to that. But I think it makes sense to use a complete approach, and that may include monitoring of activity. Note, too, that the 1984 reference is silly. We're not talking about putting a camera in the employee's house.
A store for you: I worked in a store for 4 years. Guess what- the manager would often stop by and observe us working. He also had the ability to turn our phone into an intercom without us knowing, and there were some cameras around that could watch the store.
Know what? He wrote the paychecks. And frankly most of my coworkers goofed off for half the shift even when they knew that they might be monitored. I cannot imagine what it would have been like if they thought nobody was watching them. If they did think they were being watched, they'd just go take a 15-minute shit break (on the clock) to have a smoke and dope up on speed.
Little things can make a big difference when multiplied by many employees. Get used to it. Everybody working more efficiently can only boost your paycheck.
Monitoring Law Enforcement
Choice quote:
I hate to sound like an employer, but I really get the feeling that the only people opposed to this sort of stuff are those who are used to taking a little personal time now and then while working. The article above goes on to deal with FOP complaints. I don't personally understand why people think their job should be unsupervised, particularly those who work for the public.
Is it that difficult to use Google?
Anyway, Luke 6:39, NIV:
"Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both end up in a pit?"
Also in Matthew 15:14, NIV:
"If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
Jesus apparently liked the analogy, and it was probably good for a few laughs. This is the basis of the modern analogy of "the blind leading the blind".
Everytime I see this sort of drivel from Microsoft, and think of their intended audience (i.e. those gullible enough to believe it), I think of the blind leading the blind.
And they're already in the pit.
Great quote from Jesus: "If a blind man follows a blind man, won't they both end up in a ditch?"
Agreed. The MPAA is doing *exactly* what they should be doing: going after the infringers (don't bother trying to separate out a list of links from infringement, it's like saying the getaway driver didn't rob a bank) instead of the technology.
Well, people being as they are, stars are worth money. Let's talk about your favorite whipping boy, Keanu. My wife saw the Matrix with me for one reason: Keanu. She had no interest in the movie, but she likes his acting. Say what you want, a good celebrity will draw people to a film. If a star is going to draw 5 million people to see a film who wouldn't have watched it otherwise, then, I'm sorry, they should share in the profits. And unlike the other behind-the-scenes people, they're not easily replaced. When was the last time you heard "I'm going to see The Polar Express because John Smith was the key grip"?
The same goes for professional athletes. You have 10 guys on a basketball team bringing in a couple hundred million each year collectively. Shouldn't they share in that? Particularly those who do the most?
They're worth about $350,000,000. In 20 years they'll be doing business and getting richer. I'm guessing you'll still be doing oh-so-important protests at WTO meetings. Let me know how that works out for you.
Well, if a band can convince 20,000 people to fill a stadium and pay $100 per ticket, then they are worth a couple million per performance. There are a few such bands in existance today. Get over it.
that's bullshit. my tax dollars hard at work and yet i'm not able to see what's going on?
Right. So I'll frivolously sue your company, supoena all kinds of shit that has nothing to do with my lawsuit, and you'll agree that anything that I subpoena should automatically be put into the public record? Right?
Time for the world to know the recipe for Coca Cola. Hey, and how about the Colonel's secret recipe?
IBM has the right to keep stuff secret in this trial. The lawsuit is bullshit, anyway.
Drugs for obesity. None of these result from real societal problems...
My wife talks to diabetics all day on the phone as her job. Most of them are 200+ pounds, many in the 400+ range.
Obesity is one of the biggest problems facing our society today. People lose their eye site, limbs, mobility, and quality of life. All for a cheeseburger.
This problem isn't invented by the pharmaceutical industry, it's invented by gluttons.
In the case of TiVo, it appears that they will now have pop-up ads.
Sure, but in the case of Tivo the money is going to Tivo, not to the stations themselves. Tivo is more akin to Gator in attaching popups to other people's content. (They're not like Gator in other ways, of course).
Why do people have so much trouble understanding this? TV stations sell advertising air time to pay for content. This stuff costs money.
There's no good alternate except for "embedding" products into shows, or doing sponsorships a la "Pat Boone's Chevy Showroom". Hallmark often does the same with their "Hall of Fame" series, one of which included showing Schindler's List in its entirety with no commercial interuptions.
Tivo isn't creating a revenue stream for stations, just for themselves.
To see what Wikipedia is like I chose a single article, the biography of Alexander Hamilton. I chose that topic because I happen to know that there is a problem with his birth date, and how a reference work deals with that problem tells me something about its standards. The problem is this: While the day and month of Hamilton's birth are known, there is some uncertainty as to the year, whether it be 1755 or 1757. Hamilton himself used, and most contemporary biographers prefer, the latter year; a reference work ought at least to note the issue.
The Wikipedia article on Hamilton (as of November 4, 2004) uses the 1755 date without comment.
So click the edit button and fix it. I run across little stuff like that ofen in wikipedia, and I simply fix it. That's the idea.
This isn't a drawback of wikipedia, you're just not putting 2 and 2 together...
if you are really so scared take your aluminum hat off and wrap the drugs in it.
Tinfoil, dude, apparently why yours isn't working...
I wonder if Lexmark was smart enough to somehow encrypt or sign the data going back. I doubt it. I don't own any of their stuff, and never will due to their silly lawsuit, but I would be more than happy to feed their little servers plenty of interesting usage data. Plenty. We could distribute a program to allow like-minded folk to send over some good usage data whenever the urge hits (or in a cron job).
Anyone want to start deciphering packets? Can someone with a Lexmark do some capturing? Seriously, this could be fun, and their illegal database could become, shall we say, useless.
People in Nevada and any other states with spyware laws also need to contact their state AG's immediately. If you're in NY, you might want to get Spitzer's office on the phone. That guy can *find* a law that they broke.
I don't know how you got modded up. You are confused.
The DMCA case was about toner carts. Just as stupid, sure, but a different market.
If you want an ink-jet that is easily refillable, some of the high-end models feature this. Of course, they don't cost $30 and come free with your Dell.
Your best bet is always going to be laser, anyway. My marginal cost per page printed is under a penny. The new color lasers can be had for under $1000 and produce better quality at a much higher print speed than ink-jet.
Anyway, do your homework.
I've considered opening a call center in my hometown in Indiana on a number of occassions. It just makes more sense than sending the jobs to India.
BTW. when I buy blank CDs I am forced to pay a tax on it to 'help the artists'. Shit, I don't even care about any artists anymore, why am I forced to help them?
Because you don't realize that your government is representative? Seriously. The tax is bullshit, why not get some folks together and get it overturned. The music industry just isn't big enough to be buying laws like that.
you are profoundly ignorant about what goes on in the the rest of the world... or for that matter, right next door
You're a moron. I know plenty of what goes on in this world. There's no bluster to my post, just simple truth. If you don't like it, don't read it.
You (and many others) may have missed the fact that Lynddie and her fuck buddy are rotting in a military prison awaiting trial, and some of their accomplices have already been sentenced.
Compare this country to anywhere on earth. Go ahead. Some Israeli soldier put 20 bullets through the head of a 13-year-old girl (who had already been shot in the leg and was struggling to get away) last month and he got a reprimand for losing the confidence of his subordinates. That's par for the course.
When was the last time you heard of any other country that disciplined its military people for war crimes? Seriously.
I'm not saying the US Army is perfect, and I think that too many innocent people have died that could have been avoided. But you people act like it was a fucking frat party with Saddam in power until we came and messed it all up.
Making men do fake sex acts is disgusting, but compared to Saddam's meat grinder, electrocution rooms, chemical baths, Uday's iron maiden, and the rest of it, this seems a bit tame. And our soldiers are still facing charges over it. Which is how it should be.
But get a grip, people.