It sounds good but what have people benefitted really? We still have to work to live, but now we work to buy bits of plastic we have been trained to want. We are all still peons.
If people werent buying $200 nikes that were made for $5 by a 10 year old sweat shop worker i'd agree with your rosy picture.
I laughed that a blog is complaining about useless garbage on the internet:-)
What its all the hype about blogs anyway, even the technical ones are shite. The real change in community on the internet was the springing up of forums, every site that was important suddenly developed forums.
Of course the clueless tech journalists never noticed and just kept repeating their mantra about blogs.
Its the kind of justice somethingawful would give out too. Look at their forum policies.
Never been a member just pointing out that they are hardly blameless when it comes to draconian measures even when the people are paying.
I think they realise sometimes you just have to cut people off.
Still I do see the other side of the argument, personally razor works great for me - no need for things like spews really. If I go for a blacklist I will try to be careful.
I don't know, I am tired of over zealous spam lists, network admins, strange anti-spam mechanisms.
You were running an open relay, what do you expect.
If they had never blocked you I take it you'd never have bothered securing your server.
Sorry but this is down to your own incompetence. Worse, you potentially affected many internet users thanks to your lax security. Yes you claim it wasn't used for "nefarious" purposes but TBH I don't believe that coming from someone who was set up incorrectly in the first place.
I've been running my own mail server for no more than two weeks and have checked at least twice that its not susceptible to relaying exploits and I don't have paying customers I'm responsible to.
Thats not pedantic because thats exactly how I read it. Seems like a case of someone trying to use words they don't understand and then getting it backwards.
Have you missed the x month old palestinians the israelis have murdered (thanks to our tax dollars)? Or are they the wrong racial background for you to give a shit.
look at the figures, more palestinians have been killed than israelis, and it is their land after all.
So you really think disconnecting all the comps from the network, downloading and burning the patches then physically going round all the computers with a CD (tip: many corporate pcs dont have a cd drive) is easier then typing (or I suppose scripting!) shutdown/a.
Of course it would be racist, are you a retard or something. Do brown people not need fertiliser?
As for liberal bias in the US media all I can say as a Briton is ROFL, you will never (want to) understand but fellow Britons who have watched a few US news channels will probably know what I mean:-)
Read this post carefully. But as for your other points, thanks for sharing them. I read at -1 for a bit but I some of that stuff puts me off my dinner;)
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Yeah that doesn't need documenting.
Good example.
It sounds good but what have people benefitted really? We still have to work to live, but now we work to buy bits of plastic we have been trained to want. We are all still peons.
If people werent buying $200 nikes that were made for $5 by a 10 year old sweat shop worker i'd agree with your rosy picture.
I laughed that a blog is complaining about useless garbage on the internet :-)
What its all the hype about blogs anyway, even the technical ones are shite. The real change in community on the internet was the springing up of forums, every site that was important suddenly developed forums.
Of course the clueless tech journalists never noticed and just kept repeating their mantra about blogs.
Its the kind of justice somethingawful would give out too. Look at their forum policies.
Never been a member just pointing out that they are hardly blameless when it comes to draconian measures even when the people are paying.
I think they realise sometimes you just have to cut people off.
Still I do see the other side of the argument, personally razor works great for me - no need for things like spews really. If I go for a blacklist I will try to be careful.
booooo, that should have been +5 funny ;-)
notice the
I googled his email address before posting, its already out on the internet (and worse on usenet!).
You know what mjec@bigpond.com , I agree with you
You were running an open relay, what do you expect.
If they had never blocked you I take it you'd never have bothered securing your server.
Sorry but this is down to your own incompetence. Worse, you potentially affected many internet users thanks to your lax security. Yes you claim it wasn't used for "nefarious" purposes but TBH I don't believe that coming from someone who was set up incorrectly in the first place.
I've been running my own mail server for no more than two weeks and have checked at least twice that its not susceptible to relaying exploits and I don't have paying customers I'm responsible to.
Thats not pedantic because thats exactly how I read it. Seems like a case of someone trying to use words they don't understand and then getting it backwards.
OMG Access?
That piece of shit can't be relied on to keep accurate data even if its NOT being hacked.
Have you missed the x month old palestinians the israelis have murdered (thanks to our tax dollars)?
Or are they the wrong racial background for you to give a shit.
look at the figures, more palestinians have been killed than israelis, and it is their land after all.
poor bastards.
Yeah that damn worm wandering around the internet breaching copyright protection.
oh.. sorry you were just spouting shit weren't you?
They are sometimes.
If you had SARS what do you think they would do?
If your computer is infecting others with the digital equivalent what should be done? Nothing?
Yeah, I some moderators are very easily led. Doesnt say much for the general slashdot population does it.
They probably read their emails and say "I can enlarge my penis - cool where do I sign up!".
(sly attempt to redeem post)
Sure I might be modded down for saying it but its what I think.
So you really think disconnecting all the comps from the network, downloading and burning the patches then physically going round all the computers with a CD (tip: many corporate pcs dont have a cd drive) is easier then typing (or I suppose scripting!) shutdown /a.
retard.
The people that annoy tech support are "I can't set my own VCR" clueless not "I can't perform brain surgery" clueless.
Of course it would be racist, are you a retard or something. Do brown people not need fertiliser?
:-)
As for liberal bias in the US media all I can say as a Briton is ROFL, you will never (want to) understand but fellow Britons who have watched a few US news channels will probably know what I mean
Maybe they want ximians expertise that was gained from reverse engineering the MS exchange protocol.
Just a wild guess.
It takes a while to load true... I have noticed it eats my cpu but I think thats to do with the EPIC perl plugin I use rather than eclipse itself.
Been pretty happy with it though I found optiperl to be an amazing looking perl IDE (not free in any sense though!).
When the worlds most populous democracy is taking on IT work from around the world you should realise 1 billion is not a lot.
As others have said NAT is not a long term solution any more than using DACS on telephone lines (or party lines before that) is.
Read this post carefully. ;)
But as for your other points, thanks for sharing them.
I read at -1 for a bit but I some of that stuff puts me off my dinner
Post logged in if you want a serious discussion.
You can stick to your name calling and hate though if you'd prefer.
Dude I think hes a troll. He even thought the article was about cold fusion at the start.
With your help he's filled this thread with shit.
Do what I've just done, but him on your foe list and set them a negative modifier.
Cheers.
But theres nothing easier than doing
UPDATE results SET candidate1votes = candidate2votes +1000;
Dry weight of lettuce?
Who eats dry lettuce?
Why does that seem odd?
When i'm at home I read mail with mozilla mail, at work via mutt over SSH.
Now i'll just grumble over the annoying 2 minute slashdot rule for a bit...