The first sentence you quote is not a run-on sentence at all, terribly formatted as it may be.
But I won't, because that reads like shit. So, we're going to say "Registerfly and its parent company have split, and there is some doubt as to which company holds which accounts. Registerfly's SSL certificate has also expired, adding to their users' confusion."
You probably mean something like:
I won't, because that reads like shit. So we're going to say "Registerfly and its parent company have split, and there is some doubt as to what company holds which accounts."
I would not recommend starting a sentence with a conjunction, but that is only a matter of preference.
Oh good, the principals. Wait, what the fuck are you talking about? Nothing, that's what. This sentence doesn't even deserve to be rewritten.
This sentence is barely legible. I suspect you meant something like this:
Oh, good -- the principals. Wait. What the fuck are you talking about? Nothing, that's what. This sentence doesn't even deserve rewriting.
Well that's easy to read! Let's boil it down to the tasty data, keeping in mind that websites aren't people, can't make friends, and are generally not alive at all. That ought to help out the cavalier handling of grammar here. "Independent website registerflies.com [registerflies.com], once created to host users' complaints about Registerfly's service, now contains information useful for getting domain problems solved."
why do you want apache to access users' home directories?
all of my web stuff goes under/var/www.
a public_html symlink in each home directory points to/var/www/users/*/public_html (you can use randomly generated ids for the sake of username obfuscation, if you like).
userdirs are chmodded 700.
the directory structure is like this:/var root:root 755/var/www www:www 755/var/www/users www:users 750/var/www/users/* $USER:www 750
The people with real DoS capability are not "crooks," despite what ever fantasy you may have been fed by the news and media.
These people are fifteen year old kids on EFNet. The reason you DoS the root-servers is because they're one of the hardest targets you can attack.
I have taken down one root server before. I can't say I wouldn't love to be able to do the same with the other twelve, if not just for the sake of being able to grasp the amount of throughput that amounts to.
I like numbers, and that's all there is to it.. especially numbers whose descriptions end in 'gigabits.'
This is a remarkable achievement, being able to take down even there of the root servers. The ORG TLD servers were impacted as well. I noticed this last night almost immediately.
The inconsistency within his post is appalling (first he uses "not," while 'not' using "not" the second time), as well.
If you want to talk about ambiguity, then the whole ''It's something'' thing would be the first point of discussion.
Personally, I would first do a rough rewrite of that statement as follows:
It's "I," not "i," and it's "Nazis," not "Nazi's."
Finally, I would scrap the piece all-together and put something like this:
i didn't want to get bitched at by the grammar Nazi's.
You probably meant something like this:
I didn't want to be bitched at by the grammar Nazis.
There is no such word as "alot," and if there is, there shouldn't be. It's "a lot." Two words, not one.
There is no such word as "alot," and, if there is, there shouldn't be. It [the word you're probably looking for] is 'a lot' -- [it is] two words, [and] [it is] not one.
His defenses to the industry's lawsuit include that he never sent copyrighted music to others, that the recording companies promoted file sharing before turning against it, that average computer users were never warned that it was illegal, that the statute of limitations has passed, and that all the music claimed to have been downloaded was actually owned by his sister on store-bought CDs.
I managed to maintain an IP address (216.78.153.161) with Bellsouth for about 4 years.
their DHCP server also allowed me to lease multiple IPs from the same MAC, and I had two MACs registered in the server, so I could basically have any number of public IP addresses I wanted on the 216.78.152.0/23 network.
I would set up Linux 2.4 with iptables to DNAT/SNAT and map each LAN IP to a public IP.
this was long before Bellsouth ever offered static IP addresses over residential DSL.
ha. I don't even use FlashBlock (though I usually just don't install flash, but I happen to have it installed now), and I can load some 100 myspace pages in tabs without issue on four year old hardware. I don't understand what the issue is here. maybe this guy should close photoshop and unreal tournament.
sometimes I'll have 150 tabs loaded in firefox and another 50 in a new firefox window with mIRC, gaim, and ssh.com's ssh client (a nice alternative to SecureCRT, and more functional than PuTTY) loaded in the background.
I have an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton, 512KiB, 400MHz) with 2x 256MB PC3200 @ 2.5CL, currently running some ancient Maxtor (DiamondMax?) 20GB, 7200RPM, UDMA/66 drive, and an ATi Radeon X1600PRO. it's not magic; it's ancient hardware by today's standards, and I just don't have the issues these guys are describing.
and before some retard criticizes my post (not likely, considering Slashdot threads all but vanish into nothing after the first 2 hours of the fucking story being posted):
1) slashdot doesn't do nl2br. I'm getting tired of that shit. lame. (yes, I also know that nl2br is a PHP function)
2) I'm not necessarily saying the OC-3s were in 1997, but somewhere around 2000, most likely. I got a little carried away.
3) it is still true that writing to hard drives can be slow (and slower than exceptionally fast internet connections [which were never meant for endpoint links], in some cases), and it is also true that a lot of sources on the internet will not be able to supply information as fast as you are capable of receiving it. however, the only people who actually continually spew this crap for no good argumentative reason whatsoever are those who have NO DIRECT EXPERIENCE WITH LARGE NETWORKS AT ALL, and cannot fully localize the concept of networks meaningfully. it has always been very apparent and amusing to me how disillusioned these guys are.
honestly, if you don't have experience with the tech, then shut the hell up.
yeah, some expert has once said that 'other links are slower,' but you can't just take that out of context and inject it into random replies on every slashdot page thinking it holds some kind of profound meaning. it's a stupid, childish argument that should be reserved for people who know how to use it.
in fact, it's like the old shitty anti-religious argument: 'IF GOD LUVZ ME THEN Y DOES HE MAKE ME SICK.'
that's the stupidest fucking argument ever. if you're five years old, it might seem amazingly brilliant, yes, but, as far as I'm aware, most people here aren't supposed to be five years old (although, I'd wager a good deal that a majority of you are 13 or so [which has no bearing on your capacity for reason or intelligence, I posit]).
it's easily refuted, ancient, simple, and dumb. it should only be used in serious debate as a foundation for further gradations in argumentation, and so is the same with the topic at hand, here.
in adult conversations, rebuttals as infantile as that should be assumed and not assumed at the same time; an adult should never counter with something so trivial, as it should be assumed, but the adult creating the original argument should expect other adults to be stupid, because most people probably are.
if you are only getting 800Kbps (100KiB/s) on a connection ten times as fast (8Mbps or 1MiB/s (1024KiB/s)), then something is severely wrong.
I really don't understand why so many people on Slashdot, the self proclaimed 'geek site of the internet,' are so horribly misinformed about almost everything.
what's the fucking deal with 'the internets will break,' 'lol u mite have a 290149Gigglebitz connexion but ULL NEVER DL THAT FAST BCUZ 1) it RREQUIRES THA OTHER PARTIES 2 Have a gigglebits kunex and B) lol bcuz ur hard drives is slowe?'
whoever the hell writes that shit is fucking stupid. I had a 10Mbps cable modem in bumfuck, tennessee, united states of america in NINETEEN NINETY SEVEN, and I routinely downloaded at 1MB/s from random servers on the internet.
similarly, I had access to a couple of servers that could push out 20MB/s easily (OC-3 to Gigabit) and tons of 100Mbps servers that would easily attain 11MB/s or so.
on torrent sites, things are slow sometimes, and, yes, cable modems and DSL lines are really shitty, but they're getting to be pretty fast, and the only reason torrents go so slowly is because of all the retard warez kiddies ratelimiting their upstream with stupid programs like uhh well whatever that stupid program is called.
you guys must just be really bad at setting up your internet access, or you are just extremely unlucky or something.
you forgot to tell him that no one is worried about PHP code being passed to $_GET, as well. that code will not likely be executed, unless someone eval()s it (or maybe if a GET value is a URL which the script somehow manages to remotely include).
why are metaphors needed? people _aren't_ stupid. I just tell them straight up. I explained all but the entire DNS system to my dad in about five minutes once, and I'm confident I'd gotten the point across concisely. I find it particularly easy to explain any foreign terminology that I introduce, but maybe I'm more deft with language. I think the bigger problem is whether people are willing to listen; I'm not sure my dad was.
there could be a slight issue of general education*, however. in america, not many people are, and, for the ones who are, it doesn't seem to make any difference as far as their ability to reason goes, not to mention that they don't even seem particularly bright in the things they've studied, more often than not.
the bright young kids who happen to be more open minded and willing to learn (pretentious as they may be sometimes), in my opinion, are able to grasp new concepts much easier than those brought up in the public schooling system to not have a care (atleast about anything except their looks and the latest britney spears album).
* I don't mean education so much as I mean there is an issue with people being "educated" to not want to learn, so I do not contradict my earlier statement of people not being stupid, which, I believe, does not necessarily equate to ignorance, anyway.
It is much stupider on an intranet. A man in the middle attack is much less likely on the internet (though neither impossible nor improbable), but atleast encryption sans authentication can actually do _something_ meaningful over the internet.
This is where the SSL standard falls FLAT ON ITS FACE. It is only acceptable for PUBLIC FACING, INTERNET BASED SIDES. It is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE for intranet based solutions.
Now, this really is not totally an SSL problem.
It is absolutely not an SSL problem. SSL is a cryptographic protocol; HTTPS is the secure web protocol (actually, I don't think there's an official name for SSL+HTTP).
well, I guess SSL may be partially responsible, but you make the implication that SSL was only ever intended for the web.
private IP address ranges (172.16/16, 192.168/16, 10/8, etc. )
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I would not recommend starting a sentence with a conjunction, but that is only a matter of preference. This sentence is barely legible. I suspect you meant something like this: Oh, good -- the principals. Wait. What the fuck are you talking about? Nothing, that's what. This sentence doesn't even deserve rewriting. Well, that's easy to read!
no, it doesn't.
It is Daylight Saving Time, and not Daylight "Savings" Time.
The above poster is right. It also doesn't cost extra money to use BIND views, ACLs, or any similar concept in any other popular DNS server.
why do you want apache to access users' home directories? all of my web stuff goes under /var/www.
a public_html symlink in each home directory points to /var/www/users/*/public_html (you can use randomly generated ids for the sake of username obfuscation, if you like).
userdirs are chmodded 700.
the directory structure is like this: /var root:root 755 /var/www www:www 755 /var/www/users www:users 750 /var/www/users/* $USER:www 750
Mostly, Tor is used for evading bans and hostname masquerading on websites and IRC networks.
The people with real DoS capability are not "crooks," despite what ever fantasy you may have been fed by the news and media. These people are fifteen year old kids on EFNet. The reason you DoS the root-servers is because they're one of the hardest targets you can attack. I have taken down one root server before. I can't say I wouldn't love to be able to do the same with the other twelve, if not just for the sake of being able to grasp the amount of throughput that amounts to. I like numbers, and that's all there is to it.. especially numbers whose descriptions end in 'gigabits.' This is a remarkable achievement, being able to take down even there of the root servers. The ORG TLD servers were impacted as well. I noticed this last night almost immediately.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_
The inconsistency within his post is appalling (first he uses "not," while 'not' using "not" the second time), as well.
If you want to talk about ambiguity, then the whole ''It's something'' thing would be the first point of discussion.
Personally, I would first do a rough rewrite of that statement as follows:
It's "I," not "i," and it's "Nazis," not "Nazi's."
Finally, I would scrap the piece all-together and put something like this: You probably meant something like this:
I didn't want to be bitched at by the grammar Nazis.
Ultimately, he did break the law by copying music he didn't have a right to
And your source for this claim is
uh.. the article?
I managed to maintain an IP address (216.78.153.161) with Bellsouth for about 4 years. their DHCP server also allowed me to lease multiple IPs from the same MAC, and I had two MACs registered in the server, so I could basically have any number of public IP addresses I wanted on the 216.78.152.0/23 network. I would set up Linux 2.4 with iptables to DNAT/SNAT and map each LAN IP to a public IP. this was long before Bellsouth ever offered static IP addresses over residential DSL.
you're a retard.
haha. you're full of shit. this crap is worse than the fucking 'gay bashers are probably gay themselves' garbage. shut the hell up.
your post should, probably, also have read something like this:
No. The point was outside of the speech marks, so, by convention, it was not part of the reported speech.
um, no. it will return a TCP RST.
Doom was also a Nintendo 64 title. According to Wikipedia, though, it wasn't anything close to a direct port.
ha. I don't even use FlashBlock (though I usually just don't install flash, but I happen to have it installed now), and I can load some 100 myspace pages in tabs without issue on four year old hardware. I don't understand what the issue is here. maybe this guy should close photoshop and unreal tournament. sometimes I'll have 150 tabs loaded in firefox and another 50 in a new firefox window with mIRC, gaim, and ssh.com's ssh client (a nice alternative to SecureCRT, and more functional than PuTTY) loaded in the background. I have an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton, 512KiB, 400MHz) with 2x 256MB PC3200 @ 2.5CL, currently running some ancient Maxtor (DiamondMax?) 20GB, 7200RPM, UDMA/66 drive, and an ATi Radeon X1600PRO. it's not magic; it's ancient hardware by today's standards, and I just don't have the issues these guys are describing.
1) slashdot doesn't do nl2br. I'm getting tired of that shit. lame. (yes, I also know that nl2br is a PHP function)
2) I'm not necessarily saying the OC-3s were in 1997, but somewhere around 2000, most likely. I got a little carried away.
3) it is still true that writing to hard drives can be slow (and slower than exceptionally fast internet connections [which were never meant for endpoint links], in some cases), and it is also true that a lot of sources on the internet will not be able to supply information as fast as you are capable of receiving it. however, the only people who actually continually spew this crap for no good argumentative reason whatsoever are those who have NO DIRECT EXPERIENCE WITH LARGE NETWORKS AT ALL, and cannot fully localize the concept of networks meaningfully. it has always been very apparent and amusing to me how disillusioned these guys are.
honestly, if you don't have experience with the tech, then shut the hell up. yeah, some expert has once said that 'other links are slower,' but you can't just take that out of context and inject it into random replies on every slashdot page thinking it holds some kind of profound meaning. it's a stupid, childish argument that should be reserved for people who know how to use it.
in fact, it's like the old shitty anti-religious argument: 'IF GOD LUVZ ME THEN Y DOES HE MAKE ME SICK.' that's the stupidest fucking argument ever. if you're five years old, it might seem amazingly brilliant, yes, but, as far as I'm aware, most people here aren't supposed to be five years old (although, I'd wager a good deal that a majority of you are 13 or so [which has no bearing on your capacity for reason or intelligence, I posit]). it's easily refuted, ancient, simple, and dumb. it should only be used in serious debate as a foundation for further gradations in argumentation, and so is the same with the topic at hand, here.
in adult conversations, rebuttals as infantile as that should be assumed and not assumed at the same time; an adult should never counter with something so trivial, as it should be assumed, but the adult creating the original argument should expect other adults to be stupid, because most people probably are.
and you guys are.
if you are only getting 800Kbps (100KiB/s) on a connection ten times as fast (8Mbps or 1MiB/s (1024KiB/s)), then something is severely wrong. I really don't understand why so many people on Slashdot, the self proclaimed 'geek site of the internet,' are so horribly misinformed about almost everything. what's the fucking deal with 'the internets will break,' 'lol u mite have a 290149Gigglebitz connexion but ULL NEVER DL THAT FAST BCUZ 1) it RREQUIRES THA OTHER PARTIES 2 Have a gigglebits kunex and B) lol bcuz ur hard drives is slowe?' whoever the hell writes that shit is fucking stupid. I had a 10Mbps cable modem in bumfuck, tennessee, united states of america in NINETEEN NINETY SEVEN, and I routinely downloaded at 1MB/s from random servers on the internet. similarly, I had access to a couple of servers that could push out 20MB/s easily (OC-3 to Gigabit) and tons of 100Mbps servers that would easily attain 11MB/s or so. on torrent sites, things are slow sometimes, and, yes, cable modems and DSL lines are really shitty, but they're getting to be pretty fast, and the only reason torrents go so slowly is because of all the retard warez kiddies ratelimiting their upstream with stupid programs like uhh well whatever that stupid program is called. you guys must just be really bad at setting up your internet access, or you are just extremely unlucky or something.
you forgot to tell him that no one is worried about PHP code being passed to $_GET, as well. that code will not likely be executed, unless someone eval()s it (or maybe if a GET value is a URL which the script somehow manages to remotely include).
why are metaphors needed? people _aren't_ stupid. I just tell them straight up. I explained all but the entire DNS system to my dad in about five minutes once, and I'm confident I'd gotten the point across concisely. I find it particularly easy to explain any foreign terminology that I introduce, but maybe I'm more deft with language. I think the bigger problem is whether people are willing to listen; I'm not sure my dad was.
there could be a slight issue of general education*, however. in america, not many people are, and, for the ones who are, it doesn't seem to make any difference as far as their ability to reason goes, not to mention that they don't even seem particularly bright in the things they've studied, more often than not.
the bright young kids who happen to be more open minded and willing to learn (pretentious as they may be sometimes), in my opinion, are able to grasp new concepts much easier than those brought up in the public schooling system to not have a care (atleast about anything except their looks and the latest britney spears album).
* I don't mean education so much as I mean there is an issue with people being "educated" to not want to learn, so I do not contradict my earlier statement of people not being stupid, which, I believe, does not necessarily equate to ignorance, anyway.
how many is a brazilian?
It is much stupider on an intranet. A man in the middle attack is much less likely on the internet (though neither impossible nor improbable), but atleast encryption sans authentication can actually do _something_ meaningful over the internet.
well, I guess SSL may be partially responsible, but you make the implication that SSL was only ever intended for the web.
You mean 172.16.0.0/12.