yeah, especially since Microsoft has the Xbox Live people BAN anyone who upgrades their Xbox with better hardware. They "say" it's to stem piracy but, personally, I think it's to dissuade upgrades so they can force people to buy the new Xbox when it finally comes out.
I have the same opinion of other console makers, so this isn't specifically an anti-MS rant.
I have about $~1,000 in cash sitting in a scottrade account that's not tied up in stocks currently. If Cisco fails to push this off the agenda, I might buy a few hundred shares and give my proxy to someone voting for the Human Rights policy.
That's just what they're planning to do. The problem is that the current format can only be understood by a particular type of obsolete computer that NASA is about to scrap.
I had a letter somewhere that explained the problem in detail but I must have tossed it (I'm a member of the society, so I get the occasional mailing). They're planning to port the data to a modern format so it can be examined properly.
I've been downloading this sucker at 1,500kbps for 10 friggin minutes. Either they're uploading the entire movie or something has gone wrong with my quicktime plug-in. Or it's one BIG friggin trailer
Revoke the key, assuming you're using PGP. Then nobody gets into the files. I'm just spiteful that way.
It's not like this is going to help them find terrorists anyway. They speak in codewords. "Weather is fine here. Ready to deliver to market" etc. I doubt they actually bother to use encryption.
I don't think anyone considers that to be evil at all. The problem is not with cookies from the web site being visited. The problem is with cookies which are set by third party ads. Many people do not want a DoubleClick server to record their surfing from site to site. So they "opt out" by removing or blocking the cookies.
In the end, this is my machine. I decide whether or not I want to keep a file someone else placed on it.
People are surprised because Eminent Domain is meant to serve the public interest by taking property to build a highway or pipeline or something useful.
These people's government just seized their property to hand it over to a corporation to build an office tower. The only interests being served there is someone's bank account.
I applaud the effort to seize Souter's property. I doubt it will actually happen but I'm glad to see it. Maybe if those justices had been personally under threat of being sold into slavery themselves, the Dred Scott case would have turned out differently.
Are you sure you replied to the right comment? I've read and reread your comment, its parent and all it's children/grandchildren a good 10 times now and I honestly still cannot figure out why you made your comment. All I can figure is that either you badly misunderstood the comment you replied to or you simply replied to the wrong one.
He wasn't so much as hinting that a crime should go unpunished because encryption was used. At all. I don't see that anywhere in his comment. He was pointing out how lazy and apathetic "I have nothing to hide" is. And he's right about that.
I spent an hour in line on Thursday just to have it sold out before I got to the ticket booth. Two hours the next day with the same result. I took a lawn chair and sat there four hours yesterday, next to a hundred annoying kids running around acting like...... kids, just as many giggling teenage girls and finally got a ticket.
When I finally sat down and watched 15 minutes of trailers and commercials, I had to strain to concentrate over the babbling of the 100 kids I mentioned earlier and the constant "can I get through?" of people taking those kids to the bathroom, plus at least two people whispering into their cell phones.
All in all, now I wish I'd spent those hours downloading it instead of going through all that. Better yet, I wish they'd start releasing these movies straight to DVDs when they come out and to hell with the theaters it puts out of business.
> 1. America got all the designs for the jet engine, supersonic flight and the computer (all invented in England first) in a one-way technology "exchange".
Well that's true. I forgot about that, although that really wasn't considered payment. Two friends and allies exchanging information. I believe the armor on our current battle tanks also came from an English weapons program.
> 2. America had a majorly vested interested in helping England, ie keeping the barrier against Naziism in place (nukes uncertain at the time)
Plus, we liked England more:)
> 3. What evidence do you have that it wasn't paid back?
History books? I've never read about a payment for the material we sent over and we certainly had no use for the equipment that survived the war. The point is that "lending" the warships, ammunation, tanks and whatever else was just a euphamism for giving it away without "technically" violating neutrality. Roosevelt REALLY wanted to declare war but knew Congress wouldn't have it.
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_Selling_ material was how we justified it to an isolationist Congress and population. Actually, we _lent_ most of what went over because England was running out of money. And we didn't want it back once the war was over.
Plus several squadrons worth of American figher pilots went over to help before we declared war.
Plus our navy was fighting an unofficial war with the German U-boats for about a year before we went to war while we escorted the convoys heading from Canada to England.
FYI, we're just as grateful to England for remaining a friend ever since. Although personally I wish your government would try to hold mine in check rather than just going along with everything Bush does. Your government may be our friend but I don't think your people like us very much at this point.
Most of the filtering was done by globalservers. They have a bunch of very serious routers specifically designed to block DDoS attacks and they have more bandwidth than God.
Once the traffic passed through their routers, it went through the proxy and the proxy would pull the data from my webserver.
My host wrote a script that he installed somewhere (on his switch I think) that filtered out a specific type of HTTP GET. Whoever wrote the attack bot made a mistake because it generated some weird error (408 or 508 or something). His script filtered that out and then the webserver would return data to the proxy servers and from there to the end client.
It was a little glitchy and it nearly ruined my message board (all the users had the same 6 IP addresses and that played hell with session IDs), but it kept the site going despite the attacker's best efforts. He/they eventually moved on to attack other antispyware web sites with less resources.
Starting Feb 2004, my site was hit by a powerful DDoS attack. It knocked out my web server and it nearly took out my web host's switch in the data center. I never got any demands or letters or figured out who caused it.
Anonymizer.net tried to help me by putting my domain behind a series of rotating proxy servers. Their whole network crashed after 6 hours and they had to stop helping me.
Finally my web host hit on the right idea. I set up a half dozen virtual private servers (VPS) at Globalservers.com (same company that hosts about.com and freeservers) and my host installed a proxy server on each one called twhttpd and set them all to route traffic to and from my web server at his data center.
Then I set up an account at ZoneEdit and added all the IPs for the proxy servers with a failover system. Every time the bastards knocked out one of the proxy servers, ZoneEdit would detect that the server was borked and switch to another one. With the load reduced, the dead proxy came back on its own a few minutes later.
After about 6 months of this, they finally gave up and I won.
"Scientists have clear evidence of the evolutionary process throughout history via these fossils...where exactly did they come from if the planet is in fact only 6000-odd years old?"
That's easy. Slartibartfast and crew buried those there when they were building the planet.:D
Are you just posting flamebait to see who bites or are you really that fucking stupid?
What the hell is uncertain and untrustworthy about a newsletter someone subscribes to?
Why would you tell people to file a false spam report instead of unsubscribing if they want to unsubscribe from a newsletter? If the report is believed, everyone else on that ISP who subscribes won't get their newsletter.
You do that with my newsletter and so help me god I'll have your dumb ass in court for libel.
First, you're an ass for not handing it over. Second, a gift is the property of whoever you give it to. If she does sue you, 5 minutes after the judge sits down he's going to order you to transfer it, so you might as well do it now and save the hassle.
"turning it off is a small "fuck you" to the people looking at your page"
No, it isn't, and I can't warp reality far enough to understand how you'd believe that. They can still browse the site if they wish. Nothing is blocking them if they click the link to see what's there. So it loads in 2 secs instead of 1 (or 20 secs vs 10 for dialup), so what?
Clearly you don't have a high-ranking site yourself. I do. It is an antispyware site that ranks highly on literally hundreds of terms relating to spyware, malicious file names, memory processes, BHOs, toolbars, etc etc etc.
When someone becomes infected with any sort of adware, spyware, viruses, etc and they realize something is wrong, or find a suspicious file name or memory process, they go googling. The same 2 or 3 dozen antispy message boards come up in most of those searches, with mine usually near the top.
Considering that millions of non-geek web surfers are hit with one sort of crap or another, millions of people search for these terms. Considering that nearly all antispyware sites are run as hobbies on the cheapest web hosting the owners can find and generally don't run advertising, they really can't afford millions of people prefetching their sites every day. Even worse, these are people who probably won't be able to block the prefetching as they don't control their shared web servers and may have hosts that restrict.htaccess functions.
Now of course, people infected with spyware are unlikely to be using Mozilla or Firefox anyway, but it should be obvious that the same thing could happen to other hobby sites with other search terms.
This is a bad move by Google and I will be blocking all prefetching requests. Which is a shame really, because I was actually using prefetching commands myself for some of the multipage articles on two of my sites.
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yeah, especially since Microsoft has the Xbox Live people BAN anyone who upgrades their Xbox with better hardware. They "say" it's to stem piracy but, personally, I think it's to dissuade upgrades so they can force people to buy the new Xbox when it finally comes out.
I have the same opinion of other console makers, so this isn't specifically an anti-MS rant.
Question. Why does every single link on that site insist on opening in a pop-up window? Christ that's annoying.
I have about $~1,000 in cash sitting in a scottrade account that's not tied up in stocks currently. If Cisco fails to push this off the agenda, I might buy a few hundred shares and give my proxy to someone voting for the Human Rights policy.
That's just what they're planning to do. The problem is that the current format can only be understood by a particular type of obsolete computer that NASA is about to scrap.
I had a letter somewhere that explained the problem in detail but I must have tossed it (I'm a member of the society, so I get the occasional mailing). They're planning to port the data to a modern format so it can be examined properly.
Well good lord, no wonder. I canceled and chose the "download" option instead of "view" and it started downloading a 140MB zip file.
I've been downloading this sucker at 1,500kbps for 10 friggin minutes. Either they're uploading the entire movie or something has gone wrong with my quicktime plug-in. Or it's one BIG friggin trailer
I didn't realize that. In that case, it's a feature that should be implemented then.
I wonder if that's something anyone could do or only NAI. PGP is open source isn't it?
Revoke the key, assuming you're using PGP. Then nobody gets into the files. I'm just spiteful that way.
It's not like this is going to help them find terrorists anyway. They speak in codewords. "Weather is fine here. Ready to deliver to market" etc. I doubt they actually bother to use encryption.
I don't think anyone considers that to be evil at all. The problem is not with cookies from the web site being visited. The problem is with cookies which are set by third party ads. Many people do not want a DoubleClick server to record their surfing from site to site. So they "opt out" by removing or blocking the cookies.
In the end, this is my machine. I decide whether or not I want to keep a file someone else placed on it.
People are surprised because Eminent Domain is meant to serve the public interest by taking property to build a highway or pipeline or something useful.
These people's government just seized their property to hand it over to a corporation to build an office tower. The only interests being served there is someone's bank account.
I applaud the effort to seize Souter's property. I doubt it will actually happen but I'm glad to see it. Maybe if those justices had been personally under threat of being sold into slavery themselves, the Dred Scott case would have turned out differently.
The justices in the Dred Scott case were just interpreting the law too. It doesn't mean they made the right decision.
Are you sure you replied to the right comment? I've read and reread your comment, its parent and all it's children/grandchildren a good 10 times now and I honestly still cannot figure out why you made your comment. All I can figure is that either you badly misunderstood the comment you replied to or you simply replied to the wrong one.
He wasn't so much as hinting that a crime should go unpunished because encryption was used. At all. I don't see that anywhere in his comment. He was pointing out how lazy and apathetic "I have nothing to hide" is. And he's right about that.
I spent an hour in line on Thursday just to have it sold out before I got to the ticket booth. Two hours the next day with the same result. I took a lawn chair and sat there four hours yesterday, next to a hundred annoying kids running around acting like ...... kids, just as many giggling teenage girls and finally got a ticket.
When I finally sat down and watched 15 minutes of trailers and commercials, I had to strain to concentrate over the babbling of the 100 kids I mentioned earlier and the constant "can I get through?" of people taking those kids to the bathroom, plus at least two people whispering into their cell phones.
All in all, now I wish I'd spent those hours downloading it instead of going through all that. Better yet, I wish they'd start releasing these movies straight to DVDs when they come out and to hell with the theaters it puts out of business.
> 1. America got all the designs for the jet engine, supersonic flight and the computer (all invented in England first) in a one-way technology "exchange".
:)
Well that's true. I forgot about that, although that really wasn't considered payment. Two friends and allies exchanging information. I believe the armor on our current battle tanks also came from an English weapons program.
> 2. America had a majorly vested interested in helping England, ie keeping the barrier against Naziism in place (nukes uncertain at the time)
Plus, we liked England more
> 3. What evidence do you have that it wasn't paid back?
History books? I've never read about a payment for the material we sent over and we certainly had no use for the equipment that survived the war. The point is that "lending" the warships, ammunation, tanks and whatever else was just a euphamism for giving it away without "technically" violating neutrality. Roosevelt REALLY wanted to declare war but knew Congress wouldn't have it.
Well, domains yes, specific pages, no. And they even let you turn off the autoupdater if you want. First time I've ever seen that from Google.
What I'd to know is how this helps a broadband connection but not dial-up. My connection already loads most pages nearly instantly.
They wanted me gone and I'm still here despite all they could do. I consider that a win.
_Selling_ material was how we justified it to an isolationist Congress and population. Actually, we _lent_ most of what went over because England was running out of money. And we didn't want it back once the war was over.
Plus several squadrons worth of American figher pilots went over to help before we declared war.
Plus our navy was fighting an unofficial war with the German U-boats for about a year before we went to war while we escorted the convoys heading from Canada to England.
FYI, we're just as grateful to England for remaining a friend ever since. Although personally I wish your government would try to hold mine in check rather than just going along with everything Bush does. Your government may be our friend but I don't think your people like us very much at this point.
Most of the filtering was done by globalservers. They have a bunch of very serious routers specifically designed to block DDoS attacks and they have more bandwidth than God.
Once the traffic passed through their routers, it went through the proxy and the proxy would pull the data from my webserver.
My host wrote a script that he installed somewhere (on his switch I think) that filtered out a specific type of HTTP GET. Whoever wrote the attack bot made a mistake because it generated some weird error (408 or 508 or something). His script filtered that out and then the webserver would return data to the proxy servers and from there to the end client.
It was a little glitchy and it nearly ruined my message board (all the users had the same 6 IP addresses and that played hell with session IDs), but it kept the site going despite the attacker's best efforts. He/they eventually moved on to attack other antispyware web sites with less resources.
Starting Feb 2004, my site was hit by a powerful DDoS attack. It knocked out my web server and it nearly took out my web host's switch in the data center. I never got any demands or letters or figured out who caused it.
Anonymizer.net tried to help me by putting my domain behind a series of rotating proxy servers. Their whole network crashed after 6 hours and they had to stop helping me.
Finally my web host hit on the right idea. I set up a half dozen virtual private servers (VPS) at Globalservers.com (same company that hosts about.com and freeservers) and my host installed a proxy server on each one called twhttpd and set them all to route traffic to and from my web server at his data center.
Then I set up an account at ZoneEdit and added all the IPs for the proxy servers with a failover system. Every time the bastards knocked out one of the proxy servers, ZoneEdit would detect that the server was borked and switch to another one. With the load reduced, the dead proxy came back on its own a few minutes later.
After about 6 months of this, they finally gave up and I won.
"Scientists have clear evidence of the evolutionary process throughout history via these fossils...where exactly did they come from if the planet is in fact only 6000-odd years old?"
:D
That's easy. Slartibartfast and crew buried those there when they were building the planet.
Are you just posting flamebait to see who bites or are you really that fucking stupid?
What the hell is uncertain and untrustworthy about a newsletter someone subscribes to?
Why would you tell people to file a false spam report instead of unsubscribing if they want to unsubscribe from a newsletter? If the report is believed, everyone else on that ISP who subscribes won't get their newsletter.
You do that with my newsletter and so help me god I'll have your dumb ass in court for libel.
The most objectionable software doesn't fit ANY definition of spyware. Outlaw the behavior and let Webster worry about defining words.
First, you're an ass for not handing it over. Second, a gift is the property of whoever you give it to. If she does sue you, 5 minutes after the judge sits down he's going to order you to transfer it, so you might as well do it now and save the hassle.
"turning it off is a small "fuck you" to the people looking at your page"
.htaccess functions.
No, it isn't, and I can't warp reality far enough to understand how you'd believe that. They can still browse the site if they wish. Nothing is blocking them if they click the link to see what's there. So it loads in 2 secs instead of 1 (or 20 secs vs 10 for dialup), so what?
Clearly you don't have a high-ranking site yourself. I do. It is an antispyware site that ranks highly on literally hundreds of terms relating to spyware, malicious file names, memory processes, BHOs, toolbars, etc etc etc.
When someone becomes infected with any sort of adware, spyware, viruses, etc and they realize something is wrong, or find a suspicious file name or memory process, they go googling. The same 2 or 3 dozen antispy message boards come up in most of those searches, with mine usually near the top.
Considering that millions of non-geek web surfers are hit with one sort of crap or another, millions of people search for these terms. Considering that nearly all antispyware sites are run as hobbies on the cheapest web hosting the owners can find and generally don't run advertising, they really can't afford millions of people prefetching their sites every day. Even worse, these are people who probably won't be able to block the prefetching as they don't control their shared web servers and may have hosts that restrict
Now of course, people infected with spyware are unlikely to be using Mozilla or Firefox anyway, but it should be obvious that the same thing could happen to other hobby sites with other search terms.
This is a bad move by Google and I will be blocking all prefetching requests. Which is a shame really, because I was actually using prefetching commands myself for some of the multipage articles on two of my sites.
Just FYI, that space pen story is just an urban legend.