<<the people who are responsible for causing it, i.e. spam-friendly ISPs>>
Why is it that nobody on this comments board has thought to mention that (well, nobody above Score: 1) its not the ISP's or the spammers, its the CONSUMERS clicking away at every damn commercial that comes their way?
If you didn't ask for it, don't click it. The monkey running accross the screen turns your pointer to a hand? Don't click.
Educate the masses, tell your mom, your kids, your neighbour. Spammers only do this because they make money from it. The war is won when there is no profit for the agressor.
Why is it that the government feels the need to penalise car drivers when the job they really should undertake is reinstating the traffic awareness programs that we (I'm 28) had at school?
Remeber the "Green Cross Code"? The jolly green giant that came round and explained that you had to stop at the kerb, look left, look right, then look left again.
His parting words were: "Remember, I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the green cross code!" That stuck with me and my peer group all these years, and stopped me from crossing roads when stupid boy racers in their ridiculous Ford Clitoris' (Every C*nt Has One) Mark 3 went chasing up the street at better than 60mph.
I have never thought much of the UK.gov's attempts at speed control, road humps, fake cameras, mobile police speed traps and signs for cameras that every local knows are decoys. Speed humps are SO wrong, let me explain:
The city council puts tenders out for speed humps to be built round the city, and maintenence of them. The contracters put them in in the wrong place, and have to move them within a month. They build them with such low wuality that they need repairing every 6 months, and they then change the design of them to conform with European legislation on them. The cost to the tax payer is enormous and the current design is ineffective, in a speed controlled 30 mph zone, my car can comfortably do 50+ miles per hour without noticable detriment nor percieved damage.
I say that parents should be the ones responsible for teaching their poor little darlings road sense.
So now the only way to send email to AOL is to use a server that is Echelon monitored?
Isn't it bad enough that most people in the world use AOL or Hotmail, Yahoo or another major email providor with large wedges of mistrust hanging round their necks?
I see a solution to this as being for everyone with the ability to do so, giving everyone they knwo with AOL an account on their server. Remember quotas, and make sure your server is secure, get your IP blocking fingers ready and lets peer2peer email!
Its our internet, why let AOL and MS and all those big guys tell us how to use it?
I read back to my post and I was relieved that I didn't say anything... bad <g>
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ROTT was pretty neat =)
The annoying thing was that you couldn't ever collect all those damn coins... Ankhs, weren't they? I never made a full cull of them.
Random maps were awesome. One reason SoF2 is a fave of mine still (That and the fact that its one of the few games that will play on a Radeon 8500 =/ )
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[From Grandparent]: One reason I think Doom stands above Wolf as the real father of first person shooter games is because it broke ground with internet multiplayer "deathmatch" type gaming that you could actually use
Your last paragraph is important here too, Because you are wrong in one sense. Wolf Gave Birth to the FPS, Doom Spanked Life into it.
Doom gave birth to LAN parties and pizza/Coke nights trying to install IPX networks with LSL ODI and linkers all on 720 floppies and stupid little BNC networks that would only allow 4 people at a time to play.
At wich point you lost all rights to complain about anythign to do with your income, career, working conditions, public perception and feelings. You became a pariah, outcast by all who use the internet for more than 20 minutes a day, and some that don't.
<<but then lost my income as a result of an anti-spam hacker>>
Live by the sword, die by the sword. If only all spam-sending computers had a chip built in that could wipe their hard drives remotely. Or better still, crash the heads so they have to go to the inconvenience of buying a new unit every two days.
Your post is mis-modded. Saying you were a spammer should have got you a flamebait mod.
If you didn't like that article, you will hate the rest of the site too.
I bookmarked it and will be a regular visitor
It isn't meant to be truthful, it isn't meant to be accurate, its about making people laugh and taking the piss out of so many things that both you and I take seriously.
I think its nice once in a while to kick back and laugh at everything that I spend all day being uptight about, and the review of Sims Online woke my GF up wondering what I was howling at.
eBay buyers and sellers are retarded in that they consider a deal done as "A++++++++++" rather than as a normal transaction that went OK and they paid for something and came away with it.
When was the last time you went into McDonalds and bought a burger, then proceeded to scream to everyone on the street "HEY!!! LOOK! THEY SOLD ME A BURGER A++++++++++++ BUY HERE AGAIN!!!!!" or something equally as stupid?
Neutral for every day "won, paid, recieved" and Good for "won, paid, mess up, fixed, got goods even though someone was moosing araound with us" or "came second, emailed, paid, recieved second set that were going to be auctioned next week".
Or is this too much of an ass kissing world where we expect to get ripped off online that if we don't we feel the need to stroke the guy who didn't even think of ripping us off with a long list of A+++++++++++++'s?
That way the people doing the deal and handling the money have the pickup point and drop off signature to prove transactions.
And from a consumer POV, we could say that all their Ex-McDonalds staff delivery guys dropped our goods and they would have to have large insurance we could claim on... Oh Wait, I'm pretending to be nice today =/
To be fair, there are only so many fixes and patches for Windows (non)Operating Systems, and they are ALL kept at Windows Update, a centralised and coherent searchable site that will answer your question and give you the downloadable solution in less than 5 minutes usually.
With any Linux OS you have to figure out which package is broken, then phone your Linux Guru to see if you were right, find the URL of the package maker, find out which version number, dependencies, libraries and kernel version your box is running/will support, then go through and try and install the package.
I love doing this, and I love that sometimes I *AM* the Linux Guru that people call. But in the absence of a coherent package management system a la Windows(why didn't we fix this before release?)Update, covering all releases and stages of patching, Linux Patching will require Google and Patience. Or maybe $350K of RedHat Support.
That was my main worry in submitting the article, I still check out Tom's every day, but it seems that it heads more towards the gaming market every month.
I think this proves that/. doesn't judge the source, onlly the article submitted.
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<<the people who are responsible for causing it, i.e. spam-friendly ISPs>>
Why is it that nobody on this comments board has thought to mention that (well, nobody above Score: 1) its not the ISP's or the spammers, its the CONSUMERS clicking away at every damn commercial that comes their way?
If you didn't ask for it, don't click it. The monkey running accross the screen turns your pointer to a hand? Don't click.
Educate the masses, tell your mom, your kids, your neighbour. Spammers only do this because they make money from it. The war is won when there is no profit for the agressor.
Why is it that the government feels the need to penalise car drivers when the job they really should undertake is reinstating the traffic awareness programs that we (I'm 28) had at school?
Remeber the "Green Cross Code"? The jolly green giant that came round and explained that you had to stop at the kerb, look left, look right, then look left again.
His parting words were: "Remember, I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the green cross code!"
That stuck with me and my peer group all these years, and stopped me from crossing roads when stupid boy racers in their ridiculous Ford Clitoris' (Every C*nt Has One) Mark 3 went chasing up the street at better than 60mph.
I have never thought much of the UK .gov's attempts at speed control, road humps, fake cameras, mobile police speed traps and signs for cameras that every local knows are decoys.
Speed humps are SO wrong, let me explain:
The city council puts tenders out for speed humps to be built round the city, and maintenence of them. The contracters put them in in the wrong place, and have to move them within a month. They build them with such low wuality that they need repairing every 6 months, and they then change the design of them to conform with European legislation on them. The cost to the tax payer is enormous and the current design is ineffective, in a speed controlled 30 mph zone, my car can comfortably do 50+ miles per hour without noticable detriment nor percieved damage.
I say that parents should be the ones responsible for teaching their poor little darlings road sense.
So now the only way to send email to AOL is to use a server that is Echelon monitored?
Isn't it bad enough that most people in the world use AOL or Hotmail, Yahoo or another major email providor with large wedges of mistrust hanging round their necks?
I see a solution to this as being for everyone with the ability to do so, giving everyone they knwo with AOL an account on their server. Remember quotas, and make sure your server is secure, get your IP blocking fingers ready and lets peer2peer email!
Its our internet, why let AOL and MS and all those big guys tell us how to use it?
Sorry, I was wrong.
I read back to my post and I was relieved that I didn't say anything... bad <g>
ROTT was pretty neat =)
The annoying thing was that you couldn't ever collect all those damn coins ... Ankhs, weren't they? I never made a full cull of them.
Random maps were awesome. One reason SoF2 is a fave of mine still (That and the fact that its one of the few games that will play on a Radeon 8500 =/ )
[From Grandparent]:
One reason I think Doom stands above Wolf as the real father of first person shooter games is because it broke ground with internet multiplayer "deathmatch" type gaming that you could actually use
Your last paragraph is important here too, Because you are wrong in one sense. Wolf Gave Birth to the FPS, Doom Spanked Life into it.
Doom gave birth to LAN parties and pizza/Coke nights trying to install IPX networks with LSL ODI and linkers all on 720 floppies and stupid little BNC networks that would only allow 4 people at a time to play.
Unreal Tournament Spanked Life into Internet MP
You're forgetting Spy Vs Spy and Jet Set Willy, and you didn't even give lipservice to Space Invaders on the Atari wooden console.
wolf3d.exe was the executable file for "Castle Wolfenstein"
You're actually on the same page as the rest of us =)
<< I worked briefly as a spammer>>
At wich point you lost all rights to complain about anythign to do with your income, career, working conditions, public perception and feelings. You became a pariah, outcast by all who use the internet for more than 20 minutes a day, and some that don't.
<<but then lost my income as a result of an anti-spam hacker>>
Live by the sword, die by the sword. If only all spam-sending computers had a chip built in that could wipe their hard drives remotely. Or better still, crash the heads so they have to go to the inconvenience of buying a new unit every two days.
Your post is mis-modded. Saying you were a spammer should have got you a flamebait mod.
There is nothing more for you here.
<<I can smell them coming.>>
I thought semen was odourless?
If you didn't like that article, you will hate the rest of the site too.
I bookmarked it and will be a regular visitor
It isn't meant to be truthful, it isn't meant to be accurate, its about making people laugh and taking the piss out of so many things that both you and I take seriously.
I think its nice once in a while to kick back and laugh at everything that I spend all day being uptight about, and the review of Sims Online woke my GF up wondering what I was howling at.
To sum up: Let your hair down =)
eBay buyers and sellers are retarded in that they consider a deal done as "A++++++++++" rather than as a normal transaction that went OK and they paid for something and came away with it.
When was the last time you went into McDonalds and bought a burger, then proceeded to scream to everyone on the street "HEY!!! LOOK! THEY SOLD ME A BURGER A++++++++++++ BUY HERE AGAIN!!!!!" or something equally as stupid?
Neutral for every day "won, paid, recieved" and Good for "won, paid, mess up, fixed, got goods even though someone was moosing araound with us" or "came second, emailed, paid, recieved second set that were going to be auctioned next week".
Or is this too much of an ass kissing world where we expect to get ripped off online that if we don't we feel the need to stroke the guy who didn't even think of ripping us off with a long list of A+++++++++++++'s?
That would work if eBay/PayPal bought UPS.
That way the people doing the deal and handling the money have the pickup point and drop off signature to prove transactions.
And from a consumer POV, we could say that all their Ex-McDonalds staff delivery guys dropped our goods and they would have to have large insurance we could claim on ... Oh Wait, I'm pretending to be nice today =/
To be fair, there are only so many fixes and patches for Windows (non)Operating Systems, and they are ALL kept at Windows Update, a centralised and coherent searchable site that will answer your question and give you the downloadable solution in less than 5 minutes usually.
With any Linux OS you have to figure out which package is broken, then phone your Linux Guru to see if you were right, find the URL of the package maker, find out which version number, dependencies, libraries and kernel version your box is running/will support, then go through and try and install the package.
I love doing this, and I love that sometimes I *AM* the Linux Guru that people call. But in the absence of a coherent package management system a la Windows(why didn't we fix this before release?)Update, covering all releases and stages of patching, Linux Patching will require Google and Patience. Or maybe $350K of RedHat Support.
/me cuts off the offending finger that made the typo.
/me proceeds to put it in a padded box and send it to the esteemable proofreader.
/me will not let it happen again.
That was my main worry in submitting the article, I still check out Tom's every day, but it seems that it heads more towards the gaming market every month.
I think this proves that /. doesn't judge the source, onlly the article submitted.
I run Apache 2 on XP Pro , and in certain reproducable circumstances I can induce this (admittedly beta) software to fall over.
I get up a windows message box with an error, and Apache smoothly restarts and continues serving.
Its not uncommon to have cascaded errors and Apache still serving pages.
[Off Topic] "Defenestration" is to throw out of a window; what's a word for throwing 'Windows' out of something? "OpenSourcing" [/Off Topic]