I've seen this complaint many times and I don't really understand it. Suppose you want some 2kg item costs $8 to send via UPS, and you can't find it anywhere except on Ebay where it's going for $2. If the item is worth $10 to you, what's the problem? Would you be happier to pay $17 ($9 for the item + $8 for shipping) than $10? Seems to me you should just look at the total price (bid + shipping) and decide if it's worth that much to you. The ratio between bid price and shipping price should be irrelevant.
Never, ever, EVER! buy anything on Ebay that you could get at a store. If you can buy it at a store, either brick&mortar or web, then do so -- it'll be cheaper, faster, and more reliable. Anything on Ebay that's priced below retail is a scam; anything that's not a scam is priced at or above retail (plus excessive S&H, of dubious quality, with effectively no warranty).
The ONLY items you should EVER buy on Ebay are things that you can't find anywhere else. For that, Ebay can be excellent. I'm very happy with all the obsolete technology I picked up through Ebay.
Ah yes, "The executions will continue until the suicide bombings cease."
Killing everybody who looks like a terrorist will not in any way reduce terrorism. It'll just reduce the number of people who look like terrorists. That's not pragmatic; it's just dumb. Considering the amount of terrorism in Israel, it's debatable whether their "pragmatic" approach is really so pragmatic either.
John Gilmore was not "screwed for running a mail server". His IP address was listed as being a wide open SMTP relay. I for one do not accept mail from wide open relays, due to the vast potential for spam and other abuse. If that "screws" John Gilmore, too bad for him, but he brought it upon himself. There is no good reason to run a wide open SMTP relay on the Internet today.
Only on Slashdot? The same thing has been happening on Usenet for at least 20 years. More commonly the argument turns to gun control or abortion, but marijuana is popular too.
No, we need to keep bitching about it in web fora while contacting congress. The letters to DC get the action (in theory anyway), but the bitching on the web fora gets the public awareness that can generate thousands more letters.
I would say most people who vote for Nader not only don't expect him to win, they don't even want him to win. You're absolutely right, he would almost certainly be a lousy president. But by voting for Nader you show that his positions have popular appeal. The Democrats would be wise to adopt some of those positions to get those votes. Nader is far more Democratic than the Democratic Party, which is really just an alternate Republican Party.
Consider: In a Democracy the people make all the decisions about governance -- the government does exactly what the people want, no more or less. In a Republic the people delegate governance to trusted leaders; those leaders are to do what is best for the people, whether the people actually want it or not. By taking "special interests" into account, the Republicans, in theory, will help the nation as a whole prosper and provide a better quality of life for all the people. The Democrats, on the other hand, must do what the people want even if it will lead the nation into ruin.
The Democratic Party as it stands is according to the above definitions Republican. Democracy may not be a good idea but it certainly isn't what the "Democratic" Party stands for.
Nader promises to ignore special interests, tear down existing power structures, and follow a plan approved by the people who vote for him. If the majority did approve and were to vote for him (hypothetical of course!) then he would be a true Democratic leader, leading the nation willy-nilly into ruin (or great success, who knows?) at the behest of his democratic constituents (i.e. the people, the voters, not the corporate campaign financiers).
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Same here, separate address for every untrusted recipient. For the most part all of them kept the address private, with the following exceptions:
Philips was the worst -- I sent one email to their published tech support address concerning a problem with their sound card in Windows 2000, and within hours started getting spam. Never got any reply from Philips either. That earned them an eternal boycott from me.
A "revolution" isn't like a football game, or a textbook war between neighboring states, with winners and losers -- a revolution is just the collapse of an existing social order and its replacement by a new order. Sometimes this is accomplished by hoarding "assualt rifles" (is there any such thing?), sometimes by "terrorism", sometimes by refusal to pay taxes or obey laws. Sometimes a badly structured society just collapses under its own weight without any overt action by anyone. Widespread violence and lawbreaking could potentially be enough to make a weak society collapse, and "assault rifles" or even small handguns could certainly be useful tools to that end, even if (or even especially if) the people wielding such weapons are massively outgunned by opposing forces. Provoking the government into massive retaliation can do a lot to bring about revolution. Governments that routinely firebomb their own citizens do not have long to live.
SCO's recent financial statement only covers the quarter ending January 31. So EV1 could have paid more than $20,000 sometime in February. Or EV1 could have agreed to pay more, but not actually made full payment yet.
SCO also didn't claim $1 million "worth" -- they claimed 7 figures, which could mean up to $9 million "worth", or about 10,000 CPU licenses at full retail "value". That seems roughly consistent with EV1's Linux server count.
But this all assumes that SCO is in some twisted sense telling a kind of truth, and that's so unlikely that it's really not worth considering....
"Movieoke" is a linguistic monstrosity. Can we please call it something like "karaeiga" instead?
karaoke = kara (empty) + okesutra (orchestra, from English)
karaeiga = kara + eiga (movie)
Seems like an appropriate name, as I'd imagine such a performance would tend to empty a theater quickly. But then again, people seem to enjoy karaoke against all reason, so maybe not.
RTFA! It's not about spam coming out of UUnet IP addresses, it about UUnet hosting spammers. Those spammers relay their spam through 0wn3d PCs on Comcast and Adelphia. But the spammers themselves are getting their connectivity through UUnet.
No, it isn't. He's no more protected from SCO now than he was before he paid. Even if he really were protected from SCO now, he's definitely not protected from everyone else. Anyone in the world could make the same claims against him, with just as much credibility. And now that he's proven himself spineless, they will come out of the woodwork. Will he pay them all?
EV1 is a cash pipeline from Microsoft to SCO. Instead of EV1 paying MS for all their Windows licenses, and MS handing the money over to SCO to further the anti-Linux FUD campaign, EV1 just takes Windows and pays SCO directly. The "IP licensing" BS is pure sleight-of-hand.
Oh sure, they're "protected" from TSG now (except that they aren't, but we won't mention that). But what about everyone else? Anyone could sue them at any time, with just as much credibility as TSG. "Our unspecified Intellectual Property was added to Linux without our permission." Anyone could say that! If I threaten the possibility of a lawsuit someday will they pay me $1,000,000+ to go away? If not, why not?
No, there's more to it than "protection". EV1 got Win2003 for free, and megabucks to TSG is how they're paying Microsoft back.
Are you using Verizon's ISP service as well? A friend of mine switch from Verizon (the ISP) to a small local ISP, and latency and packet loss went through the roof. Apparently the Verizon's backhaul to other ISP sucks ass and costs the ISP per bit. Can't blame the ISP in question for this either -- I used the same ISP with a Covad DSL and latency was beautifully low with 0% packet loss.
The lesson is, if you want to get good performance out of a Verizon DSL you have to go with the Verizon ISP as well.
I bought my house before any phone lines were installed in it, so Qwest wouldn't say yes or no on whether DSL was available. I knew it was in a DSL service area, so I went ahead with it. After the line was installed: "Sorry, go fuck yourself." So I got ISDN, and called weekly or so about DSL... same story. Finally got Covad DSL. Five years later, still no DSL from Qwest.
It's probably better not to have to deal with those idiots on a regular basis, but Covad sure is damned expensive ($200/month for 768K SDSL).
Oh yeah, I also have @Home^H^H^H^H^H ATTBI^H^H^H^H^H Comcrap, and it's OK. The price is climbing steadily though.
I've measured the actual power drawn, at the AC power plug, by many PCs. It's never anywhere near 300W, that's just the power supply's rating. 60-120W is typical, with a real monster machine (dual CPUs, SCSI RAID, etc) pulling maybe 200W.
1. Heat: If they expect to have 1200 people sitting in the bleachers with 1300+ MHz laptops running at 100% for the duration of a real benchmark, they'll have to expect a lot of burned laps.
2. Theft: If they have a designated hookup area for the computers (much more logistically feasible, ethernet-wise at least) they'll have a hard time getting all 1200 computers successfully reunited with 1200 owners. It'd be very easy to grab the wrong one "accidentally". Given that this is San Francisco I'd expect vultures looking for any opportunity in such a huge computer thief buffet.
I don't know what the maximum power draw of a fast notebook at 100% CPU is, but I do know that a desktop is nothing like 300W. More like 90-120W -- sans monitor of course, since a cluster would never have one monitor per node. And that's a real full-power CPU, not the throttled down "mobile" version. You simply cannot put a 70W CPU in a notebook, it would melt. So notebook CPUs have to be slower even on AC power than standard CPUs. Notebooks are not going to give a very big computron/watt advantage, if any.
30x40 meters doesn't sound like an unusually large gym. (Soccer fields are quite a bit larger than 30x40.) University gymnasiums can generally hold more than 1200 spectators, not even including the playing areas.
I'd be very surprised if they hadn't considered power requirements. Part of the experiment might be to see how long the "supercomputer" can run on its own batteries, though for logistical ("cat-herding") reasons that's likely to fail -- half the nodes will be out of juice before the other half are ready to start. Most likely they really do have 600 amps available in the facility.
Their web store, where you have to go to buy the "license" or even find out how much it costs, is heavily slashdotted already. Get ready for Darl to claim, "Interest in the Linux licensing program has been huge! We've had 438 billion inquiries in the last 3 days!"
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I've seen this complaint many times and I don't really understand it. Suppose you want some 2kg item costs $8 to send via UPS, and you can't find it anywhere except on Ebay where it's going for $2. If the item is worth $10 to you, what's the problem? Would you be happier to pay $17 ($9 for the item + $8 for shipping) than $10? Seems to me you should just look at the total price (bid + shipping) and decide if it's worth that much to you. The ratio between bid price and shipping price should be irrelevant.
Never, ever, EVER! buy anything on Ebay that you could get at a store. If you can buy it at a store, either brick&mortar or web, then do so -- it'll be cheaper, faster, and more reliable. Anything on Ebay that's priced below retail is a scam; anything that's not a scam is priced at or above retail (plus excessive S&H, of dubious quality, with effectively no warranty).
The ONLY items you should EVER buy on Ebay are things that you can't find anywhere else. For that, Ebay can be excellent. I'm very happy with all the obsolete technology I picked up through Ebay.
Killing everybody who looks like a terrorist will not in any way reduce terrorism. It'll just reduce the number of people who look like terrorists. That's not pragmatic; it's just dumb. Considering the amount of terrorism in Israel, it's debatable whether their "pragmatic" approach is really so pragmatic either.
John Gilmore was not "screwed for running a mail server". His IP address was listed as being a wide open SMTP relay. I for one do not accept mail from wide open relays, due to the vast potential for spam and other abuse. If that "screws" John Gilmore, too bad for him, but he brought it upon himself. There is no good reason to run a wide open SMTP relay on the Internet today.
On other words: See Rule #3.
Only on Slashdot? The same thing has been happening on Usenet for at least 20 years. More commonly the argument turns to gun control or abortion, but marijuana is popular too.
No, we need to keep bitching about it in web fora while contacting congress. The letters to DC get the action (in theory anyway), but the bitching on the web fora gets the public awareness that can generate thousands more letters.
Consider: In a Democracy the people make all the decisions about governance -- the government does exactly what the people want, no more or less. In a Republic the people delegate governance to trusted leaders; those leaders are to do what is best for the people, whether the people actually want it or not. By taking "special interests" into account, the Republicans, in theory, will help the nation as a whole prosper and provide a better quality of life for all the people. The Democrats, on the other hand, must do what the people want even if it will lead the nation into ruin.
The Democratic Party as it stands is according to the above definitions Republican. Democracy may not be a good idea but it certainly isn't what the "Democratic" Party stands for.
Nader promises to ignore special interests, tear down existing power structures, and follow a plan approved by the people who vote for him. If the majority did approve and were to vote for him (hypothetical of course!) then he would be a true Democratic leader, leading the nation willy-nilly into ruin (or great success, who knows?) at the behest of his democratic constituents (i.e. the people, the voters, not the corporate campaign financiers).
- Directron
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- Openlinx
- Philips
Philips was the worst -- I sent one email to their published tech support address concerning a problem with their sound card in Windows 2000, and within hours started getting spam. Never got any reply from Philips either. That earned them an eternal boycott from me.Same here, constant LEDs flashing ever since ATTBI took over from @Home. How I miss @Home.... They sure knew how to run a large high speed network.
A "revolution" isn't like a football game, or a textbook war between neighboring states, with winners and losers -- a revolution is just the collapse of an existing social order and its replacement by a new order. Sometimes this is accomplished by hoarding "assualt rifles" (is there any such thing?), sometimes by "terrorism", sometimes by refusal to pay taxes or obey laws. Sometimes a badly structured society just collapses under its own weight without any overt action by anyone. Widespread violence and lawbreaking could potentially be enough to make a weak society collapse, and "assault rifles" or even small handguns could certainly be useful tools to that end, even if (or even especially if) the people wielding such weapons are massively outgunned by opposing forces. Provoking the government into massive retaliation can do a lot to bring about revolution. Governments that routinely firebomb their own citizens do not have long to live.
www.studioqb.com has address 69.57.153.168
CIDR: 69.57.128.0/19
OrgName: Everyones Internet, Inc.
NameServer: NS1.EV1.NET
I think we already established that EV1 has enough bandwidth to survive a slashdotting.
Are you saying there is a line of work that never involves having to deal with obnoxious idiots? Please share!
SCO also didn't claim $1 million "worth" -- they claimed 7 figures, which could mean up to $9 million "worth", or about 10,000 CPU licenses at full retail "value". That seems roughly consistent with EV1's Linux server count.
But this all assumes that SCO is in some twisted sense telling a kind of truth, and that's so unlikely that it's really not worth considering....
"Movieoke" is a linguistic monstrosity. Can we please call it something like "karaeiga" instead?
karaoke = kara (empty) + okesutra (orchestra, from English)
karaeiga = kara + eiga (movie)
Seems like an appropriate name, as I'd imagine such a performance would tend to empty a theater quickly. But then again, people seem to enjoy karaoke against all reason, so maybe not.
RTFA! It's not about spam coming out of UUnet IP addresses, it about UUnet hosting spammers. Those spammers relay their spam through 0wn3d PCs on Comcast and Adelphia. But the spammers themselves are getting their connectivity through UUnet.
EV1 is a cash pipeline from Microsoft to SCO. Instead of EV1 paying MS for all their Windows licenses, and MS handing the money over to SCO to further the anti-Linux FUD campaign, EV1 just takes Windows and pays SCO directly. The "IP licensing" BS is pure sleight-of-hand.
No, there's more to it than "protection". EV1 got Win2003 for free, and megabucks to TSG is how they're paying Microsoft back.
The lesson is, if you want to get good performance out of a Verizon DSL you have to go with the Verizon ISP as well.
It's probably better not to have to deal with those idiots on a regular basis, but Covad sure is damned expensive ($200/month for 768K SDSL).
Oh yeah, I also have @Home^H^H^H^H^H ATTBI^H^H^H^H^H Comcrap, and it's OK. The price is climbing steadily though.
I've measured the actual power drawn, at the AC power plug, by many PCs. It's never anywhere near 300W, that's just the power supply's rating. 60-120W is typical, with a real monster machine (dual CPUs, SCSI RAID, etc) pulling maybe 200W.
1. Heat: If they expect to have 1200 people sitting in the bleachers with 1300+ MHz laptops running at 100% for the duration of a real benchmark, they'll have to expect a lot of burned laps.
2. Theft: If they have a designated hookup area for the computers (much more logistically feasible, ethernet-wise at least) they'll have a hard time getting all 1200 computers successfully reunited with 1200 owners. It'd be very easy to grab the wrong one "accidentally". Given that this is San Francisco I'd expect vultures looking for any opportunity in such a huge computer thief buffet.
30x40 meters doesn't sound like an unusually large gym. (Soccer fields are quite a bit larger than 30x40.) University gymnasiums can generally hold more than 1200 spectators, not even including the playing areas.
I'd be very surprised if they hadn't considered power requirements. Part of the experiment might be to see how long the "supercomputer" can run on its own batteries, though for logistical ("cat-herding") reasons that's likely to fail -- half the nodes will be out of juice before the other half are ready to start. Most likely they really do have 600 amps available in the facility.
Their web store, where you have to go to buy the "license" or even find out how much it costs, is heavily slashdotted already. Get ready for Darl to claim, "Interest in the Linux licensing program has been huge! We've had 438 billion inquiries in the last 3 days!"