His theater is:
The Rude Mechanicals
http://www.rudemechanicals.com/
(check his/. journal)
And I agree-- I have a small business and advertising is very difficult and costly-- you'd think a searchable site that lists businesses, locations, what they do, and consumer reviews would be out there-- Hmmm, maybe I just thought of something to do with my domains...
The problem is sorting through the crap, incorrect information, etc. I don't know if I exactly agree with you, you should post links to sites with that information.
I agree that people are the problem-- though if you just look at the cancer trend over the past, say, 500 years, I believe it has risen steeply over the past 100 years (gee, just when we started REALLY screwing with the environment, ourselves, etc). Of course, I just made up that figure, but if someone can verify...? </offtopic>
Imagine a well-constructed honeypot framework capturing a worm, redirecting worm traffic to fake services, and launching counter attacks to clean infected hosts
Yeah, the honeypot could proactively install patches to systems that it deemed infected, all around the world!
Sounds like Skynet. Run for the hills!
If Verisign doesn't like the way the Internet works, and wants to make it more product-oriented, he should go build himself his own Internet. The last thing I want is to be surrounded by "added value". Do you know what I see as "added value" Big frickin' pop-up ads, flash-ads that you can't get past, Windows 2009 with 4000 new viruses coming out each day to exploit the crap that they shovel down consumers throats in the name of "added value". It's all a crock. Yes, the Internet wouldn't be where it is without commerce, but lets face it, commerce joined the team, it didn't start it, it has no right to take it over just because it wants to rely on it more. Fuck that.
I find it odd that no one has been discussing the Sitefinder TOS. Specifically, paragraph 6, which states: 6. Modification by VeriSign.
At any time VeriSign may modify or terminate these terms of use, its websites and the VeriSign Services and may at any time discontinue your use of the VeriSign Services without any notice to you, and without liability to you, any other user or any third party. Please review these Terms of Use from time to time so that you will be aware of any changes. Your continued use of the VeriSign Services constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
So I can be found to a "Terms of Use" agreement simply by mistyping a domain name? How is this legal? And are there any situations where a user could be caught in violation of this "agreement"?
I use mc (ported to NT) on my w2k box. I can manipulate files an order of magnitude faster than dragging, right-clicking (and the subsequent inexplicable 2-3 second wait sometimes), not to mention windows' caching. I used mc for all of my development (JSP) up until about a month ago when I transitioned to Eclipse.
Oh wait, this was about hardware. I had a hardware dvd card in until a few months ago (Creative DXR-3 or something like that), and I've had the same Gamepad for at least 10 years now.
I use two monitors, and I agree, it's a big help, but I find that a larger monitor helps more. I have two 17"s at work, save resolution and everything, but the 3" beige division between desktops isn't always easy to forget about. I have a 19" at home, and it's much better for coding, since the screen holds more text (duh), but all of the toolbars, nav frames, etc take up precious space, and splitting that up between two monitors throws off the eye. I'm planning on a 21" monitor soon, I assume that'll be a big improvement as well.
Also, for those of you who have your monitor refresh rate set at 40 hz or something, change it-- if you stare about 6" above the top of your monitor and look for the monitor in your peripheral vision, you can see the refreshing, it's weird-- that throws me off.
Also, big comfy chairs and a raise tend to raise my productivity too;)
How is this a problem? The URL is not dynamic, so unless there is a back-end conspiracy between the dnc list and AT&T, what the hell is AT&T going to do with 50 million IP addresses? They can't look them up to people unless they get info from elsewhere. If AT&T and the dnc list were sleeping together, then the dnc list could give AT&T the IP/name/phone/etc ANYWAY, and that would be a MAJOR betrayal of trust. It's probably just for web-traffic analysis-- pretty standard these days, so the dnc people can say, ooh, 3000 people per second are signing up, and the such.
I just installed a spam filter for the first time, SpamPal. However, of the 50-70 spam messages I get per day (and perhaps 10-15 non-spam), it flags non-spam around 1% of the time, and lets spam through about the same percent. I can handle a few spams a week.
So my question really is, is the state of spam-filtering still improving, or have we reached a plateau where the spammers will just find more and more ways of defeating them. Much of the spam I receive contains characters like:
Viagra so the filtering is a bit harder.
As the price of this technology continues to dwindle, I expect 10-100 Mbps rates aren't too far ahead. Of course, that would sort of necessitate on-demand video or something of these other imaginary future things. I don't notice a difference between my 100 MBps line at work and my cablemodem. For once, the cable companies aren't actually screwing their customers. Oh wait, I "need" a new cablemodem and $45/month for each computer in my house. Thanks Cablevision.
How cool would it be if there was evidence that the Direct Marketing Association was behind the SoBig worm? We could sick the RIAA on them, and maybe tell SCO that the DMA was using Linux to develop it. With any luck, they could all come together and ignite like a small star, ridding the world of the lot of them!
I'd use the 80/20 rule here. If 80% of the spam is sent by 20% of the people, and we kill--err- i mean, sue, those 20%, then the problem is much reduced. I'd be fine with getting a *few* spam messages a week, but not 100+ a day. I say let the lawyers deal with the spammers, technology can handle the rest.
(from )
At any time VeriSign may modify or terminate these terms of use...Your continued use of the VeriSign Services constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
So, essentially, typos now enter everyone into a license?
Why not just have a "legit" business (like mp3.com) set up service in canada? Offer my unlimited downloads from a collection of say, 150,000 mp3s for $10/month and I'm in, baby.
Any VCs out there want to spot me? (echo echo echo echo...)
Real geeks don't use GUIs. I'm telnetted into port 80 on slashdot.org right now. I don't even have PF-keys. Just wires that I touch together to send an impulse right into my AT-keyboard slot on my 286.
I'm sure it will, a million billion times better than anyone else offers it. I can just imagine the meeting room: MARKETING DUDE: I think we should offer a blogging server. We have a billion terabytes of storage available. Based on market studies, we could make $150,000 a month from $5/month fees. REST OF ROOM: (silence) MARKETING DUDE:...Orrrr we can give it away for free? REST OF ROOM: YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
Oh, and those who are talking about polluting the main index with crap about my getting pulled over last week, I think it'll occur to the Google-folk to put blog data into a separate index--
Slashdot Mirror
Don't worry buddy, we got your back!
/. journal)
His theater is:
The Rude Mechanicals
http://www.rudemechanicals.com/
(check his
And I agree-- I have a small business and advertising is very difficult and costly-- you'd think a searchable site that lists businesses, locations, what they do, and consumer reviews would be out there-- Hmmm, maybe I just thought of something to do with my domains...
You mean V1agra?
The problem is sorting through the crap, incorrect information, etc. I don't know if I exactly agree with you, you should post links to sites with that information.
I agree that people are the problem-- though if you just look at the cancer trend over the past, say, 500 years, I believe it has risen steeply over the past 100 years (gee, just when we started REALLY screwing with the environment, ourselves, etc). Of course, I just made up that figure, but if someone can verify...?
</offtopic>
Do you mean a Dyson Sphere? link Actually, scientists have been planning since 1991 to blow up the moon, so maybe the sun is just the next step.
Imagine a well-constructed honeypot framework capturing a worm, redirecting worm traffic to fake services, and launching counter attacks to clean infected hosts
Yeah, the honeypot could proactively install patches to systems that it deemed infected, all around the world!
Sounds like Skynet. Run for the hills!
If Verisign doesn't like the way the Internet works, and wants to make it more product-oriented, he should go build himself his own Internet. The last thing I want is to be surrounded by "added value". Do you know what I see as "added value" Big frickin' pop-up ads, flash-ads that you can't get past, Windows 2009 with 4000 new viruses coming out each day to exploit the crap that they shovel down consumers throats in the name of "added value". It's all a crock. Yes, the Internet wouldn't be where it is without commerce, but lets face it, commerce joined the team, it didn't start it, it has no right to take it over just because it wants to rely on it more. Fuck that.
I find it odd that no one has been discussing the Sitefinder TOS. Specifically, paragraph 6, which states:
6. Modification by VeriSign.
At any time VeriSign may modify or terminate these terms of use, its websites and the VeriSign Services and may at any time discontinue your use of the VeriSign Services without any notice to you, and without liability to you, any other user or any third party. Please review these Terms of Use from time to time so that you will be aware of any changes. Your continued use of the VeriSign Services constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
So I can be found to a "Terms of Use" agreement simply by mistyping a domain name? How is this legal? And are there any situations where a user could be caught in violation of this "agreement"?
I use mc (ported to NT) on my w2k box. I can manipulate files an order of magnitude faster than dragging, right-clicking (and the subsequent inexplicable 2-3 second wait sometimes), not to mention windows' caching. I used mc for all of my development (JSP) up until about a month ago when I transitioned to Eclipse.
Oh wait, this was about hardware. I had a hardware dvd card in until a few months ago (Creative DXR-3 or something like that), and I've had the same Gamepad for at least 10 years now.
Happy Birthday!
I use two monitors, and I agree, it's a big help, but I find that a larger monitor helps more. I have two 17"s at work, save resolution and everything, but the 3" beige division between desktops isn't always easy to forget about. I have a 19" at home, and it's much better for coding, since the screen holds more text (duh), but all of the toolbars, nav frames, etc take up precious space, and splitting that up between two monitors throws off the eye. I'm planning on a 21" monitor soon, I assume that'll be a big improvement as well.
;)
Also, for those of you who have your monitor refresh rate set at 40 hz or something, change it-- if you stare about 6" above the top of your monitor and look for the monitor in your peripheral vision, you can see the refreshing, it's weird-- that throws me off.
Also, big comfy chairs and a raise tend to raise my productivity too
How is this a problem? The URL is not dynamic, so unless there is a back-end conspiracy between the dnc list and AT&T, what the hell is AT&T going to do with 50 million IP addresses? They can't look them up to people unless they get info from elsewhere. If AT&T and the dnc list were sleeping together, then the dnc list could give AT&T the IP/name/phone/etc ANYWAY, and that would be a MAJOR betrayal of trust. It's probably just for web-traffic analysis-- pretty standard these days, so the dnc people can say, ooh, 3000 people per second are signing up, and the such.
I just installed a spam filter for the first time, SpamPal. However, of the 50-70 spam messages I get per day (and perhaps 10-15 non-spam), it flags non-spam around 1% of the time, and lets spam through about the same percent. I can handle a few spams a week.
So my question really is, is the state of spam-filtering still improving, or have we reached a plateau where the spammers will just find more and more ways of defeating them. Much of the spam I receive contains characters like: Viagra so the filtering is a bit harder.
I noticed that too, sorry, I'm normally hungrier at this hour, and my stapler is broken.
As the price of this technology continues to dwindle, I expect 10-100 Mbps rates aren't too far ahead. Of course, that would sort of necessitate on-demand video or something of these other imaginary future things. I don't notice a difference between my 100 MBps line at work and my cablemodem. For once, the cable companies aren't actually screwing their customers. Oh wait, I "need" a new cablemodem and $45/month for each computer in my house. Thanks Cablevision.
How cool would it be if there was evidence that the Direct Marketing Association was behind the SoBig worm? We could sick the RIAA on them, and maybe tell SCO that the DMA was using Linux to develop it. With any luck, they could all come together and ignite like a small star, ridding the world of the lot of them!
Only in my dreams...
I'm sure the speed of a kernel-level logger will be amazing. I bet WinXP comes with one already running and recording everything.
Actually, doesn't Windows come with some pretty fancy-schmancy documented (and undocumented) kernel-level logging APIs?
Or is this *nix? I should RTFA.
How about a DVD box-set of TOS?
I would sure like to purchase legal videos of this series.
I still have crappy copies I made from the SCI-FI channel, I want good quality ones on DVD.
I'd use the 80/20 rule here. If 80% of the spam is sent by 20% of the people, and we kill--err- i mean, sue, those 20%, then the problem is much reduced. I'd be fine with getting a *few* spam messages a week, but not 100+ a day. I say let the lawyers deal with the spammers, technology can handle the rest.
It seems that a growing trend is that everything is better/fairer/etc outside of the US.
Don't mention the war!
</obligatory Fawlty Towers reference>
(from )
At any time VeriSign may modify or terminate these terms of use...Your continued use of the VeriSign Services constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
So, essentially, typos now enter everyone into a license?
Why not just have a "legit" business (like mp3.com) set up service in canada? Offer my unlimited downloads from a collection of say, 150,000 mp3s for $10/month and I'm in, baby.
Any VCs out there want to spot me?
(echo echo echo echo...)
Real geeks don't use GUIs. I'm telnetted into port 80 on slashdot.org right now. I don't even have PF-keys. Just wires that I touch together to send an impulse right into my AT-keyboard slot on my 286.
I'm sure it will, a million billion times better than anyone else offers it. I can just imagine the meeting room: ...Orrrr we can give it away for free?
MARKETING DUDE: I think we should offer a blogging server. We have a billion terabytes of storage available. Based on market studies, we could make $150,000 a month from $5/month fees.
REST OF ROOM: (silence)
MARKETING DUDE:
REST OF ROOM: YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
Oh, and those who are talking about polluting the main index with crap about my getting pulled over last week, I think it'll occur to the Google-folk to put blog data into a separate index--
M
Google: 10^100
Everyone else: 0
Google just can't stop kicking ass!