Gee, thanks for making all number of assumptions on how I do my parenting, and stopping just short of calling me a hypocrite.
It's not as if I said I haven't taken an easy way out of a couple of situations, hell - my wife's the one that spends most of the time with the kids while I'm at work. As for your calculator/wristwatch example, WTF?!?!
FWIW, our household doesn't even have television, just a VCR and monitor. When the time is right, and the boy has been good, he gets to watch one of his favourite movies. And we're totally in control of that. No, I can't agree that the square-eyes device has merit or use. I've you've got the willpower to let the shoes tell you when you can watch TV, let it go all the way, and enforce your own TV habits, that's the only way it's going to work.
The purchase of firearms is case by case here in NZ anyway, felon or not. Since I've made the mistake of letting my GP diagnose me as depressed, I could probably no longer get a firearms licence and hence purchase them either.
I think employers should also have the right to refuse employment to a convicted robber when operating, for example, a amoured van company.
But the right to vote!? I mean, what harm could a crim do by voting, even he tried to vote 'maliciously'.
Last Olympic games a guy called S. Pounceby was in training to represent NZ in the boxing, but the fact the he was an ex-convicted manslaughter divided the nation on opinion. But what's the point of jailing someone for x number of years if we're still not going to be happy with them around when that time is up?
Or even
copy & paste other people's comments instead of thinking of their own! Seriously man, if you're going to do that, pull them from another story, but not from five comments up the page!
Reminds me of a device sold in the 80's to "help" people stop smoking. It was in the form of a plastic box with a lockable top and an electronic timer. The time between being "allowed" a smoke got increasingly larger, until one was supposedly weaned off. Of course, you still had to buy your smokes (in an insecure cardboard box) and responsibly chuck all 20 inside the locking box when that packet ran out.
Guess how well that worked...
Pity, I was a kid at the time, you'd think the pity I had on the smokers at the time would have kept me miles away from them.
Ditto. I am a parent of two, and hope there's plenty more people like 'peculiarmethod' still around.
What is it with high-tech solutions to low-tech problems? I remember being asked (as a sysadmin at my last job) what a guy could do to stop his kid being exposed to naughty stuff on the net. My answer, "Be a parent to your son, not a sysadmin"
Then you'll assign whatever other styles you want in your CSS to the strong tag.
The purpose of <strong> over <b> is that text-to-speech readers will read it "strongly". The <strong> tag is not really intended for text markup, but it's default action if not defined otherwise is to bold the text, and - if we're reading to a blind surfer - speak the text strongly so they're aware of some sort of emphasis on it.
There's a hundred and one things hand html coders could do for the impaired browser with html that doesn't otherwise affect people viewing the page normally.
Nice idea, noble cause, and a crisp hundie to bet that it won't ever happen.
IE is not the most popular browser because it's the best. Apathy, zealotry, ignorance. That's what fuels the beast. Oh, and the quintillion web pages that only work in IE. Maybe not the majority of web pages, but the company I just left develop using.NET - and all of the webapps need IE. Anything else and you've got a page full of XML, or a few hundred buttons all laid over one-another.
It doesn't have to be running as a task to be preloaded. While I won't endeavour to prove to that IE is preloaded - I don't care - if looking for it in the tasklist is as far as you've gone, what would you know either?
Good point, but consider this. The ISP is providing their end of the deal. They're accepting your outbound mail, queueing it, and sending it on to it's destination.
It's completely beyond their control that the destination refuses it because they subscribe to SPEWS. A destination not subscribing to SPEWS would recieve your mail, one that does doesn't.
So the ISP's lawyer would maintain that the connection is usable and provided in good faith. That they have spammers for customers and are listed with SPEWS is another matter entirely.
Yeah, you're right. My postfix install listens on a couple of high-numbered ports for local processes to inject mail straight into the Q without spam/virus checking.
But I have to listen on Port 25 somewhere, or my company can't recieve mail without informing everyone of the other port number to use.
I'm guessing the original poster meant running a production, email server on a different port, maybe he didn't.
Back on topic, none of the Zombies on the infected machines could be expected to connect to ports other than 25. So blocking 25 outbound should go a long way to stopping them from working. The only case it would be useless is if the zombies in turn used another open relay running on a different port.
As the headline said, it had blacklisted them, not blocked them. When you list entire networks of IPs, you effectively blacklist many addy's at many domains.
DRM just doesn't make sense in my understanding of computers & operation. Even if the file is encrypted, I can listen to it. That means at some stage, the audio passes unencrypted over some bus in my machine, perhaps even hang around in RAM for a while.
There's no reason I can't capture this, unless my OS and hardware prevent me. I DO NOT WANT AN OS OR A PLATFORM THAT WILL/CAN DO THAT.
Just like the copy controlled CD's, they only piss me off. For a minute I thought the industry had indeed found an effective way to stop me from listening to my fav. bands, even if I buy their CDs. But no, turns out I can copy them, and play the copies, while the originals don't work in my Linux box, Phillips discman (old) or (again old) Apple PowerMac.
So I just take the originals back for a refund, after all, they're useless to me. And I still have the Album! Bright critters, those industry folk.
why wouldn't OGG get taxed? They are not taxing the actual file format are they?
Well, due to a technicality, OGG players probably wouldn't get taxed as soon as MP3 players. All the bigwigs know what an MP3 player is, and probably won't have any idea what an OGG anything is in the near future. You'd have to, between wiping the drool, teach them that OGG is conceptually no different than MP3 except for design differences.
You're right though, in then end they'd legislate to tax anything that plays music outright. It'd be easier for everyone, removes the element of doubt. In, say 5 years time, won't the recording industry be doing nothing but collecting taxes?
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Exactly the same thing has happened with the iTrip - it is illegal to sell or use here in the UK but so many have been imported, that they are turning a blind eye to the selling now.
It's legal to carry it, but, but, but that doesn't matter, because, get a load of this. If you get stopped by a cop in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean that's a right the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
It always was, really. All it ever meant was, - well, I don't need to say it do I?
VOIP is a general term whereas specific protocol identifiers exist, such as SIP and IAX which define exactly how the 'voice' travels.
Also, VOIP is unfortunately sometimes used where the voice doesn't travel over IP, or be encapsulated in it at all. Sooner or later, when such things are so commonplace, they'll just be called 'voice calls'; there won't be any clear difference between the softphone on my PC and the cellphone in my pocket, they're just ways of delivering my voice to some destination, and how I don't care.
What I'm saying is that your post is not interesting, as you put it, at all.
Okay, so I might not have pointed out a total contradiction between your post and.sig. I suppose since your post lacks any point at all, there can be no contradiction.
Consider that, if you install, say, fingerd, you'd expect it to work, right? But if you only want it work for people on your LAN, and not everybody, you'd either not forward incoming connections to the Solaris box, or at least block what wasn't necessary.
Do you seriously think a Solaris admin would install everything+OEM, and then plug the box unfirewalled on the net and give it a public IP?
Part of any servers job actually involves accepting some connections. Part of any admins job is not installing what you don't need, and allowing what you do.
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It's not as if I said I haven't taken an easy way out of a couple of situations, hell - my wife's the one that spends most of the time with the kids while I'm at work. As for your calculator/wristwatch example, WTF?!?!
FWIW, our household doesn't even have television, just a VCR and monitor. When the time is right, and the boy has been good, he gets to watch one of his favourite movies. And we're totally in control of that. No, I can't agree that the square-eyes device has merit or use. I've you've got the willpower to let the shoes tell you when you can watch TV, let it go all the way, and enforce your own TV habits, that's the only way it's going to work.
I think employers should also have the right to refuse employment to a convicted robber when operating, for example, a amoured van company.
But the right to vote!? I mean, what harm could a crim do by voting, even he tried to vote 'maliciously'.
Last Olympic games a guy called S. Pounceby was in training to represent NZ in the boxing, but the fact the he was an ex-convicted manslaughter divided the nation on opinion. But what's the point of jailing someone for x number of years if we're still not going to be happy with them around when that time is up?
Or even copy & paste other people's comments instead of thinking of their own! Seriously man, if you're going to do that, pull them from another story, but not from five comments up the page!
Guess how well that worked...
Pity, I was a kid at the time, you'd think the pity I had on the smokers at the time would have kept me miles away from them.
What is it with high-tech solutions to low-tech problems? I remember being asked (as a sysadmin at my last job) what a guy could do to stop his kid being exposed to naughty stuff on the net. My answer, "Be a parent to your son, not a sysadmin"
Thanks for that link. I've always wondered how to find the changelogs...
Then you'll assign whatever other styles you want in your CSS to the strong tag.
The purpose of <strong> over <b> is that text-to-speech readers will read it "strongly". The <strong> tag is not really intended for text markup, but it's default action if not defined otherwise is to bold the text, and - if we're reading to a blind surfer - speak the text strongly so they're aware of some sort of emphasis on it.
There's a hundred and one things hand html coders could do for the impaired browser with html that doesn't otherwise affect people viewing the page normally.
IE is not the most popular browser because it's the best. Apathy, zealotry, ignorance. That's what fuels the beast. Oh, and the quintillion web pages that only work in IE. Maybe not the majority of web pages, but the company I just left develop using .NET - and all of the webapps need IE. Anything else and you've got a page full of XML, or a few hundred buttons all laid over one-another.
Exactly what I was thinking. Now the wife will want of of those. Thanks, guys.
Anything, read anything. To save you the hassle, they're all taking about whether the mini would have been better off with 3.5" hard disks.
Not only have Apple stopped shipping them, hardly anybody else even speaks of them any more.
Or you're trolling or trying to be funny. Oh well.
It doesn't have to be running as a task to be preloaded. While I won't endeavour to prove to that IE is preloaded - I don't care - if looking for it in the tasklist is as far as you've gone, what would you know either?
It's completely beyond their control that the destination refuses it because they subscribe to SPEWS. A destination not subscribing to SPEWS would recieve your mail, one that does doesn't.
So the ISP's lawyer would maintain that the connection is usable and provided in good faith. That they have spammers for customers and are listed with SPEWS is another matter entirely.
But I have to listen on Port 25 somewhere, or my company can't recieve mail without informing everyone of the other port number to use.
I'm guessing the original poster meant running a production, email server on a different port, maybe he didn't.
Back on topic, none of the Zombies on the infected machines could be expected to connect to ports other than 25. So blocking 25 outbound should go a long way to stopping them from working. The only case it would be useless is if the zombies in turn used another open relay running on a different port.
Nobody else would guess that you're running an SMTP server on port, say 34225, and DNS has no way of telling them that.
So you'd get no spam at all, but you'd get nothing else either.
So I think you've been a bit pedantic.
There's no reason I can't capture this, unless my OS and hardware prevent me. I DO NOT WANT AN OS OR A PLATFORM THAT WILL/CAN DO THAT.
Just like the copy controlled CD's, they only piss me off. For a minute I thought the industry had indeed found an effective way to stop me from listening to my fav. bands, even if I buy their CDs. But no, turns out I can copy them, and play the copies, while the originals don't work in my Linux box, Phillips discman (old) or (again old) Apple PowerMac.
So I just take the originals back for a refund, after all, they're useless to me. And I still have the Album! Bright critters, those industry folk.
I seen 'em do it man, they fucken drown em in that shit.
Well, due to a technicality, OGG players probably wouldn't get taxed as soon as MP3 players. All the bigwigs know what an MP3 player is, and probably won't have any idea what an OGG anything is in the near future. You'd have to, between wiping the drool, teach them that OGG is conceptually no different than MP3 except for design differences.
You're right though, in then end they'd legislate to tax anything that plays music outright. It'd be easier for everyone, removes the element of doubt. In, say 5 years time, won't the recording industry be doing nothing but collecting taxes?
It's legal to carry it, but, but, but that doesn't matter, because, get a load of this. If you get stopped by a cop in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean that's a right the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
I'm f_kin going man, that's all there is to it.
VOIP is a general term whereas specific protocol identifiers exist, such as SIP and IAX which define exactly how the 'voice' travels.
Also, VOIP is unfortunately sometimes used where the voice doesn't travel over IP, or be encapsulated in it at all. Sooner or later, when such things are so commonplace, they'll just be called 'voice calls'; there won't be any clear difference between the softphone on my PC and the cellphone in my pocket, they're just ways of delivering my voice to some destination, and how I don't care.
Only our chicks are much hotter.
Can you tell me more about the cafes? From your description so far I've narrowed it down to about 100,000 of them, can you give me any more clues?
If only they were able to twist the rails around each other, they'd be able to get even better throughput.
Okay, so I might not have pointed out a total contradiction between your post and .sig. I suppose since your post lacks any point at all, there can be no contradiction.
Learn anything?
Consider that, if you install, say, fingerd, you'd expect it to work, right? But if you only want it work for people on your LAN, and not everybody, you'd either not forward incoming connections to the Solaris box, or at least block what wasn't necessary.
Do you seriously think a Solaris admin would install everything+OEM, and then plug the box unfirewalled on the net and give it a public IP?
Part of any servers job actually involves accepting some connections. Part of any admins job is not installing what you don't need, and allowing what you do.