I make US$23k a year living in Southeastern Michigan, and I qualify for government assisted housing.
I know. I live in West Michigan, where, along with the rest of the state, our taxes provide the financial support that allows Southeastern Michigan to continue to exist...
Sigh. We've even offered y'all to Canada, but they ain't that dumb.:-)
That one is such a bold-faced lie that someone SHOULD sue SBC over it. I'm shocked that they would make such an outrageous claim.
Not so outrageous. My @Home service not only does not "support" the use of any kind of server, they'll immediately terminate your account if they catch you. And they portscan me on a continual basis just to be sure.
$5,000 per screen name? If the corporate bastards had just treated people right in the first place, they wouldn't be out there saying nasty shit about them!
This should be upsetting. If you want people to be happy, and purchase your product/service, you must serve their needs. You must treat them with respect. You must not lie to them.
But, no... instead, it will be business as usual, crappy service and support, an unending cacaphony of marketing lies, and investigations and harassment of those who complain.
Mark my words - they DO intend to "make the web safe for business", and this means nothing less than the complete muzzling of unapproved content. In the eyes of the "new economy e-commerce high priesthood", the web is a wonderful thing - except for that annoying little matter of just anybody being able to distribute content/speech of any sort. They simply cannot have that. They, along with the clueless lawmakers they buy, are taking steps to fix this minor flaw.
...but I guess after phony leaked Quake screenshots, and another chunk of internet-as-3rd-world-panacea tripe, this vaporware-conspiracy-involving-spam-and-domain-nam es story is just what the doctor ordered. Expect a follow-up detailing NSI involvement...
They could use the internet to order food from WebVan.:)
And a flush toilet from Home Depot. Which they could perch precariously above the open sewer running past the back door. And what's a little hunger and dysentry when you have access to deeply discounted airfares?
How much do you think you have to drink before it occurs to you to run around the house with camera and empty soda bottles in hand making "leaked screenshots" of Quake IV?
About as drunk as Taco had to be to post this as a story instead of saving it for the next batch of Quickies?
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When I caught him going to Yahoo first and typing www.amazon.com, it opened my eyes. I've since learned that very many people use portals and indexed catalogues as namespace locators, even using them as URL entry forms.
My mind still boggles at this. I have a web hosting client, an attorney who is a bright guy. A while back he registered several related domain names and I pointed them at his site.
About two weeks later, he calls me and he's pissed, claiming I haven't done the job he's paying me to do! The domains don't come up, he complains. But they do! Just type it in your browser, I say. In frustration, I have him describe EVERY step he is taking, and discover that this is EXACTLY what he does, everytime - he goes to Yahoo! and types into the search field.
I am dumbstruck! This makes as much sense to me as putting on pants to take a shit! And this horrible glimpse of another reality dawns and hits me square in the face - he totally lacks distinctions with regard to technology. In fact, in a very real sense, technology=computer=internet for him, no distinctions. He doesn't distinguish the Yahoo! document from the browser it is displayed in from the OS running the browser from the machine running the OS. He can't. Not because he's stupid. He's never needed to. Or known he could. Now considering all of that, he has still managed to make this web shit useful for himself. Confronted with an undistinguished jumble of computer, monitor, browser, preset home page and a lot of text, he DOES distinguish the button labelled "Search", and it produces useful results for him. And it has worked quite well for many months. Until something he wanted couldn't possibly exist yet in the search engines. And he, in the year 2K, is a veritable technogeek compared to most of the population.
But the most stunning aspect of this was what it said about me! About the assumptions I make everywhere: in performing services for people, in delivering information to people, in my day to day conversations with people around me. About how very, very different the same thing can appear, depending on who is doing the perceiving.
...isn't it the natural thing to become involved with the community, learn what they do, what worries them, and such? Local AM talk radio is usually a great way to learn this kind of thing.
Yeah! Remember the AM talk station playing at the beginning of Children Of The Corn?
Our bird managed to figure out how to break out of the cage. For years he never tried, then when the other one died, it started trying to lift the cage door with its beak.
He managed to get out in another manner eventualy. I guess he got pretty bored without a friend.
Shit no! He did JUST what you would have done. Caged for all those years, uncertain of his fate, now his only companion mysteriously dead. Poor fucker just figured he was next.
Now this isn't just problem solving, this is knowing what's going on and planning ahead.
I like to explore the two-tracks in the national forest areas nearby. Many times I have noticed that a vehicle will attract a hawk, who will circle around and swoop out low ahead of it repeatedly. I wondered at this. One day, a hawk dropped down right in front of the jeep and nailed a vole or other small rodent. I realized, the hawks have figured out that vehicles tend to startle and flush a lot of small, tasty morsels from undercover, they overfly the trail just ahead keeping an eye out.
And we all know how useful that network would be...
In there eyes of, oh, say, Mattel, or AOL/Time Warner, or the RIAA/MPAA - the PERFECT NETWORK. Or at the least, a step towards the perfect network. The perfect network being a one-way path for the delivery of useless content surrounded by propoganda and advertising, all of which can be relentlessly pushed down the pipe, and where control of content/criticism and speech is absolute. What better place to start than in the schools? Today's users will never accept it, but the next generation...?
the failure of various software packages to effectively classify network flows based on content (for the purpose of QoS) shows how difficult it is to do something like this. Simple pattern matching ain't gonna do the job, and more complex heuristics would still be error prone, and less efficient. How do you identify a Napster packet from any other, which simply contains two 16-bit shorts with a command and length, and a payload? Search for two sets of 16-bit shorts at the start of a packet which are within a given range? What happens if I happen to be transferring a binary file that looks like that? Do I get blocked? In other words, this ain't an easy job.:)
Yes! It seems I recently read about some fabulous new technology that is able to detect "excess fleshtones" (and thus, supposedly, pr0n) by examining a binary stream. This could never work! But that doesn't stop CorporationMan{tm} from pitching it to a clueless public.
On the other hand, wouldn't it be funny if Word 2002 documents turned out to look in binary exactly like a damp, sweaty orgy?
VAXman wrote in his Talkback - er, um, I mean post:
They do not understand the issues they are discussing, but they know when they put up articles about hot topics, that it will line their pockets even further from all of the click throughs.
So, what you are saying is, we are witnessing the birth of another ZDNet?
If we could somehow eliminate these two problems, then Americans wouldn't see taxes as a four-letter word.
America was founded by the actions of tax protestors. The American people have a looooong history of resisting taxation. Can you imagine what we'd be paying if it were otherwise?
Most Americans grumble, but don't begrudge local sales and property tax, because they can see the results of paying it (police, fire, streets, libraries, schools, etc).
Most Americans deeply despise and strongly resist federal income tax, because they can see the results of paying it (pork-barrel programs, overflowing welfare rolls, vast and unresponsive bureaucracy, corrupt legislators, Oval Office blowjobs, etc).
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I recently registered a second domain with a different registrar.
I do some web hosting for small businesses and individuals. Since I read about Dotster here on/., I've registered 19 domains with them. It's been problem-free and the web interface is light years better than NSI's stupid email-based crap. I am concerned, however, about 3 personal domains I've had for some time that are still over at NSI. I'd like to move them, but I don't want them to disappear into a black hole, and NSI just seems to be getting more aggresive about losing existing domains to other registrars.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
It's inconvenient to treat plants with respect as well, but no one seems to have any problem with that. In fact, people go out of their way to be cruel to plants...
No shit, man. I just tore up a sticky budlet, jammed it in my pipe, and after applying fire several times, I could hear faint screams of agony from in there. D00d, it was weird.
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I make US$23k a year living in Southeastern Michigan, and I qualify for government assisted housing.
I know. I live in West Michigan, where, along with the rest of the state, our taxes provide the financial support that allows Southeastern Michigan to continue to exist...
Sigh. We've even offered y'all to Canada, but they ain't that dumb. :-)
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Didja check out the way that Rubber Bandit page kept going back and reloading banners every few seconds? Weird. Must suck on a modem connection.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
That one is such a bold-faced lie that someone SHOULD sue SBC over it. I'm shocked that they would make such an outrageous claim.
Not so outrageous. My @Home service not only does not "support" the use of any kind of server, they'll immediately terminate your account if they catch you. And they portscan me on a continual basis just to be sure.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
This should be upsetting. If you want people to be happy, and purchase your product/service, you must serve their needs. You must treat them with respect. You must not lie to them.
But, no... instead, it will be business as usual, crappy service and support, an unending cacaphony of marketing lies, and investigations and harassment of those who complain.
Mark my words - they DO intend to "make the web safe for business", and this means nothing less than the complete muzzling of unapproved content. In the eyes of the "new economy e-commerce high priesthood", the web is a wonderful thing - except for that annoying little matter of just anybody being able to distribute content/speech of any sort. They simply cannot have that. They, along with the clueless lawmakers they buy, are taking steps to fix this minor flaw.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
They could use the internet to order food from WebVan.
And a flush toilet from Home Depot. Which they could perch precariously above the open sewer running past the back door. And what's a little hunger and dysentry when you have access to deeply discounted airfares?
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
How much do you think you have to drink before it occurs to you to run around the house with camera and empty soda bottles in hand making "leaked screenshots" of Quake IV?
About as drunk as Taco had to be to post this as a story instead of saving it for the next batch of Quickies?
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
When I caught him going to Yahoo first and typing www.amazon.com, it opened my eyes. I've since learned that very many people use portals and indexed catalogues as namespace locators, even using them as URL entry forms.
My mind still boggles at this. I have a web hosting client, an attorney who is a bright guy. A while back he registered several related domain names and I pointed them at his site.
About two weeks later, he calls me and he's pissed, claiming I haven't done the job he's paying me to do! The domains don't come up, he complains. But they do! Just type it in your browser, I say. In frustration, I have him describe EVERY step he is taking, and discover that this is EXACTLY what he does, everytime - he goes to Yahoo! and types into the search field.
I am dumbstruck! This makes as much sense to me as putting on pants to take a shit! And this horrible glimpse of another reality dawns and hits me square in the face - he totally lacks distinctions with regard to technology. In fact, in a very real sense, technology=computer=internet for him, no distinctions. He doesn't distinguish the Yahoo! document from the browser it is displayed in from the OS running the browser from the machine running the OS. He can't. Not because he's stupid. He's never needed to. Or known he could. Now considering all of that, he has still managed to make this web shit useful for himself. Confronted with an undistinguished jumble of computer, monitor, browser, preset home page and a lot of text, he DOES distinguish the button labelled "Search", and it produces useful results for him. And it has worked quite well for many months. Until something he wanted couldn't possibly exist yet in the search engines. And he, in the year 2K, is a veritable technogeek compared to most of the population.
But the most stunning aspect of this was what it said about me! About the assumptions I make everywhere: in performing services for people, in delivering information to people, in my day to day conversations with people around me. About how very, very different the same thing can appear, depending on who is doing the perceiving.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Yeah! Remember the AM talk station playing at the beginning of Children Of The Corn?
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Our bird managed to figure out how to break out of the cage. For years he never tried, then when the other one died, it started trying to lift the cage door with its beak.
He managed to get out in another manner eventualy. I guess he got pretty bored without a friend.
Shit no! He did JUST what you would have done. Caged for all those years, uncertain of his fate, now his only companion mysteriously dead. Poor fucker just figured he was next.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Now this isn't just problem solving, this is knowing what's going on and planning ahead.
I like to explore the two-tracks in the national forest areas nearby. Many times I have noticed that a vehicle will attract a hawk, who will circle around and swoop out low ahead of it repeatedly. I wondered at this. One day, a hawk dropped down right in front of the jeep and nailed a vole or other small rodent. I realized, the hawks have figured out that vehicles tend to startle and flush a lot of small, tasty morsels from undercover, they overfly the trail just ahead keeping an eye out.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
And we all know how useful that network would be...
In there eyes of, oh, say, Mattel, or AOL/Time Warner, or the RIAA/MPAA - the PERFECT NETWORK. Or at the least, a step towards the perfect network. The perfect network being a one-way path for the delivery of useless content surrounded by propoganda and advertising, all of which can be relentlessly pushed down the pipe, and where control of content/criticism and speech is absolute. What better place to start than in the schools? Today's users will never accept it, but the next generation...?
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Oh, yeah. Banks have lots of credibility. :-)
"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?" ---Bertold Brecht
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
I wonder which phone company can get me one of those
Any of them, as soon as they are damn good and ready!
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
the failure of various software packages to effectively classify network flows based on content (for the purpose of QoS) shows how difficult it is to do something like this. Simple pattern matching ain't gonna do the job, and more complex heuristics would still be error prone, and less efficient. How do you identify a Napster packet from any other, which simply contains two 16-bit shorts with a command and length, and a payload? Search for two sets of 16-bit shorts at the start of a packet which are within a given range? What happens if I happen to be transferring a binary file that looks like that? Do I get blocked? In other words, this ain't an easy job.
Yes! It seems I recently read about some fabulous new technology that is able to detect "excess fleshtones" (and thus, supposedly, pr0n) by examining a binary stream. This could never work! But that doesn't stop CorporationMan{tm} from pitching it to a clueless public.
On the other hand, wouldn't it be funny if Word 2002 documents turned out to look in binary exactly like a damp, sweaty orgy?
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
VAXman wrote in his Talkback - er, um, I mean post:
They do not understand the issues they are discussing, but they know when they put up articles about hot topics, that it will line their pockets even further from all of the click throughs.
So, what you are saying is, we are witnessing the birth of another ZDNet?
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
that girl in the burgundy in the dress is SOOOOOOOOO hot!
That is Tammy. Tammy has a webcam.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
If we could somehow eliminate these two problems, then Americans wouldn't see taxes as a four-letter word.
America was founded by the actions of tax protestors. The American people have a looooong history of resisting taxation. Can you imagine what we'd be paying if it were otherwise?
Most Americans grumble, but don't begrudge local sales and property tax, because they can see the results of paying it (police, fire, streets, libraries, schools, etc).
Most Americans deeply despise and strongly resist federal income tax, because they can see the results of paying it (pork-barrel programs, overflowing welfare rolls, vast and unresponsive bureaucracy, corrupt legislators, Oval Office blowjobs, etc).
======
"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I recently registered a second domain with a different registrar.
I do some web hosting for small businesses and individuals. Since I read about Dotster here on /., I've registered 19 domains with them. It's been problem-free and the web interface is light years better than NSI's stupid email-based crap. I am concerned, however, about 3 personal domains I've had for some time that are still over at NSI. I'd like to move them, but I don't want them to disappear into a black hole, and NSI just seems to be getting more aggresive about losing existing domains to other registrars.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
yeah, too bad it requires corporate spyware in order to view it.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Corrected URL
No "Informative" karma please. A dufus could have figured this out.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
It's inconvenient to treat plants with respect as well, but no one seems to have any problem with that. In fact, people go out of their way to be cruel to plants...
No shit, man. I just tore up a sticky budlet, jammed it in my pipe, and after applying fire several times, I could hear faint screams of agony from in there. D00d, it was weird.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16