I mean, why don't these "couples who are having difficulties with conception" just fucking adopt a child? It's cheaper and you don't go around playing god or whatever.
I work at a place called Kernel Redes (spanish for Kernel Networks), but "red" in spanish is both "net" and "network".
So one day a guy asks (place full of LAN switches, gigabit nics, kilometers of UTP, etc) for a tennis net. A WHAT? my friend asks. A tennis net! You know, for the middle of the court, to pass the ball from side to side?
The clock is OK, it auto-sets from the Caller ID data. In case you didnt know, a Caller ID packet looks just like when your modem shows it to you:
DATE = 0518 TIME = 2230 NMBR = 4449384
optional:
NAME = JOHN DOE
Nice trick. It eliminates the need of an actual clock in the receiver side, and it makes sure you have the right time all the time (+/- 1 minute because it doesnt have seconds).
that's your mistake, you suppose that the ISPs ARE responsible. they are not, not outside the US/EU anyway. I live in Argentina. I'm a customer of Telecom Argentina, the largest telecom carrier with 200.000 ADSL customers (it's not that big, as you can see). They are NOT responsible. They don't give a shit about spam or whatever. Once, I asked one of the tech support guys why don't they do anything about spam. He told me, we do. We blocked outgoing traffic to port 25, other than that we can't do anything else, we are too few to handle all of this, we get blocked in every spam blacklist, and we can't do anything to get out. In order to do this we must close the customer's account and tell the guys at the blacklist we did, and we will make sure this person will never be a customer of us again, and that we are very sorry for all the damage we caused and a lot of crap. Also, as soon as they remove 1 or 2 of our netblocks, we get 20 more blocked.
That's basically the situation in every "third world" country. Legislation won't help, I don't know why people insist with that. It didn't work inside the US, where they enforce the legislation, it will work even less in countries such as mine. You know, in my country (and most others) we spend a lot of time just trying to survive to worry about "stupid things as spam". I'm usually an anti-Telecom (Telecom Argentina), but I understand them. They get robbed every single day. The price of raw copper is extremely high nowadays here, so thieves go and steal phone wires. You think telecom is going to worry about spammers, when they have to replace tens of thousands of kilometers of phone wires that were stolen? To get you in perspective: Pirelli re-opened their cable factories in Argentina to supply Telecom with their extremely high demand of phone cables.
so, we users have to defend ourselves because the telcos won't help.
Let's be realistic: It's not. The system is not designed to bomb the spammers, just to send spam back at them IN THE SAME AMOUNT they send spam at us. That is, if a spammer sends you 1 spam message, you send him 1 spam at him. But if he sends you 500.000 spam messages... well, you do the math. I don't see anything illegal on that. Put it this way: if you have 500.000 people in a "club", who take the time every day to do that exact thing manually, would that be illegal? I don't think so. Neither writing a program for doing just that would be "illegal".
I'm into the electronics repair business. I've been doing that for a few years now. It's a fact that the company is supposed to give you the spare parts for free, and pay you for the work you do on the device. That's how most companies work here anyway. Not Sony. They expect you to BUY the parts, then repair, and then they, at the end of the month, will pay you for the parts and labor. That's ridiculous if you ask me. That happens here in Argentina.
Also, a salesman of some imported chinese crap told me once, he was very good so Sony wanted him. He went to talk to Sony Argentina, and was received by the president (it's not that big of a company here. They don't even import the PS2). So the guy asks, what is the salary? Well.. the same you are getting now. Ermm... what are the benefits then? Well... the same you get now. So why on earth would I want to come to work at Sony and quit my old job? Well... because this is Sony! Can you believe it? I think they get some heavy brainwashing in that company.
I receive the PACKET magazine (or I did, when it was free. I'm not going to pay for a subscription to a cisco catalog, damn it), and already in 2004 they advertised the CRS-1 CARRIER ROUTER SYSTEM, with the tagline "What would you do with 92 terabits per second?". Damn! I think that should be enough for a more than a few HD videos. The ISPs don't wanna spend more money in infrastructure? Though shit. TV broadcasters had to upgrade to HD, the consumer had to upgrade, well it's their turn too. I've heard enough bullshit about "triple play", and I know ISPs will make enough money out of it. They just want to delay it as much as they can...
that we can basically say that Apple's success is a fact of Microsoft compatibility? duh! It's like dressing like the cool guys to be "popular" instead of trying to make your own trend...
You can close down a site, and another will take its place.
Anyway I wonder, how many "children" out of those "millions" are actually attacked, and how many children are kidnapped every day from "real life" playgrounds, schools, houses. Even abused by their own babysitters.
But hey, it's easy to attack a single place and say "we managed to save millions of children of potential abuse by sexual predators by forcing an internet site to require age verification..."
You know what blue security needs? They need to borrow hosting from slashdot. Man, I'm pretty sure they can whithstand it. After all they get like 50 million geeks a day, whats a botnet of 50000 going to do?
Second, M$ CANNOT do anything they want to with their OS. Didn't the Netscape and other antitrust laws convince you of that? The antitrust laws are there for a reason. Its so monopolies like M$ can't try to use their market dominance in one area to push an inferior product into another area. Its to keep the market competetive in order to foster innovation and creativity.
I don't know. I couldn't care less about the US or EU antitrust laws, as I'm not under them. I live in Argentina and no one has sued Microsoft here, so as far as I'm concerned, in my country, microsoft is NOT a monopoly and they are not criminals ( "Innocent until proven guilty" ). Microsoft lost a court battle (or war) in your country but it doesn't mean they are actually criminals. Lawyers can take rapists and murderers out of jail, and put inocent people in. So they can make microsoft look like criminals too. Maybe they are, maybe they are not. But hey, let me take the antitrust laws for a minute. The logic behind these laws is that huge corporations don't run like mom and pop store. If mom made homemade peach preserves and pop stopped selling brand name preserves to favor their own product, they won't be ruining anyone else's businesses. But if Wal-Mart made their own peach preserves and stopped selling others, that will surely ruin more than a few people.
But back to reality, will defaulting IE7's search box ruin google or anyone else? What should microsoft do then? Remove the search bar, and be victims of criticism for having an outdated browser that doesn't even have a search bar? Or default their search to google (and be sued by yahoo)? Or default to yahoo (and be sued by google). Or ask during the install "which search engine do you like the most" and alienate the user. And in that case they could be sued because more women and gay people would choose MSN because of that colorful butterfly instead of the ridiculous, childish-looking google logo.
You know what we can do? Just fucking don't give a shit and leave microsoft and google alone. For years yahoo had the search engine market dominated and soon google took over, because PEOPLE switched to google. Because no search bar was taking you to google while they were going to the top. You can't underestimate the power of people! So it's easy to understand, just let the market fix itself. Start applying the antitrust laws when it's just too obvious that they are commiting a crime, but come on! Suing them over a stupid search box? Damn!
And to finish, has anyone sued and won to Apple for monopolizing their computers? When was the last time you saw those UMAX Apple clones? Why aren't they out there anymore? Why has no one made a scandal out of that? APPLE IS A MONOPOLY but you see, nobody is going after them.
so basically you say microsoft is commiting a crime by removing their competition from their product and changing it for their own product? do you see a puma franchise selling adidas shoes? i thought so.
Microsoft owns the OS, they can do anything they want to it. If they think they have the right to change the default search engine, well good for them. People will use whatever search engine works. In the good ol' days I used altavista (which was a spider instead of an index like yahoo) but it got crappy and google came along so I switched. I tried MSN search. Didn't like it. It doesn't give you as relevant results as google does.
If people use a search engine that doesn't work they will switch. Besides it's not that hard to make them switch either. Just a few TV ads (I'm sure google can buy a lot of air time for their commercials) to make people know about google and they will start using it.
IMHO, what makes a crappy (laptop) computer different frin a great computer is the hard drive. The biggest bottleneck is the hard drive, no matter if you have a Pentium 4 or a 486, if you put a fast drive, the machine will work great, but if you put a slow drive performance hits the bottom, even if you have a dual, quad or 64-core computer...
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OK, artificial sperm. What's next? Artificial people?
I mean, why don't these "couples who are having difficulties with conception" just fucking adopt a child? It's cheaper and you don't go around playing god or whatever.
I work at a place called Kernel Redes (spanish for Kernel Networks), but "red" in spanish is both "net" and "network".
So one day a guy asks (place full of LAN switches, gigabit nics, kilometers of UTP, etc) for a tennis net.
A WHAT? my friend asks.
A tennis net! You know, for the middle of the court, to pass the ball from side to side?
The clock is OK, it auto-sets from the Caller ID data.
In case you didnt know, a Caller ID packet looks just like when your modem shows it to you:
DATE = 0518
TIME = 2230
NMBR = 4449384
optional:
NAME = JOHN DOE
Nice trick. It eliminates the need of an actual clock in the receiver side, and it makes sure you have the right time all the time (+/- 1 minute because it doesnt have seconds).
what abouth the "etc"?
Bah, the real nerd revenge is AK-47s and UZIs (Columbine, etc).
I think many nerds will think this game is offensive. I mean, they are the main victims of wedgies...
that's your mistake, you suppose that the ISPs ARE responsible. they are not, not outside the US/EU anyway. I live in Argentina. I'm a customer of Telecom Argentina, the largest telecom carrier with 200.000 ADSL customers (it's not that big, as you can see). They are NOT responsible. They don't give a shit about spam or whatever. Once, I asked one of the tech support guys why don't they do anything about spam. He told me, we do. We blocked outgoing traffic to port 25, other than that we can't do anything else, we are too few to handle all of this, we get blocked in every spam blacklist, and we can't do anything to get out. In order to do this we must close the customer's account and tell the guys at the blacklist we did, and we will make sure this person will never be a customer of us again, and that we are very sorry for all the damage we caused and a lot of crap. Also, as soon as they remove 1 or 2 of our netblocks, we get 20 more blocked.
That's basically the situation in every "third world" country. Legislation won't help, I don't know why people insist with that. It didn't work inside the US, where they enforce the legislation, it will work even less in countries such as mine. You know, in my country (and most others) we spend a lot of time just trying to survive to worry about "stupid things as spam". I'm usually an anti-Telecom (Telecom Argentina), but I understand them. They get robbed every single day. The price of raw copper is extremely high nowadays here, so thieves go and steal phone wires. You think telecom is going to worry about spammers, when they have to replace tens of thousands of kilometers of phone wires that were stolen? To get you in perspective: Pirelli re-opened their cable factories in Argentina to supply Telecom with their extremely high demand of phone cables.
so, we users have to defend ourselves because the telcos won't help.
Let's be realistic: It's not. The system is not designed to bomb the spammers, just to send spam back at them IN THE SAME AMOUNT they send spam at us. That is, if a spammer sends you 1 spam message, you send him 1 spam at him. But if he sends you 500.000 spam messages... well, you do the math. I don't see anything illegal on that. Put it this way: if you have 500.000 people in a "club", who take the time every day to do that exact thing manually, would that be illegal? I don't think so. Neither writing a program for doing just that would be "illegal".
dude, that was so lame... you tried to make a fp and clicked on the wrong article. LOL!
What's a terrabyte? I know about TERABYTES (1000 GIGABYTES), but a terrabyte? Is that a byte about as big as the earth? (earth=terra).
well, yes, whatever dude. you're right and I am wrong because I'm defending microsoft and you're bashing them . this is slashdot after all.
I'm into the electronics repair business. I've been doing that for a few years now. It's a fact that the company is supposed to give you the spare parts for free, and pay you for the work you do on the device. That's how most companies work here anyway. Not Sony. They expect you to BUY the parts, then repair, and then they, at the end of the month, will pay you for the parts and labor. That's ridiculous if you ask me. That happens here in Argentina. Also, a salesman of some imported chinese crap told me once, he was very good so Sony wanted him. He went to talk to Sony Argentina, and was received by the president (it's not that big of a company here. They don't even import the PS2). So the guy asks, what is the salary? Well.. the same you are getting now. Ermm... what are the benefits then? Well... the same you get now. So why on earth would I want to come to work at Sony and quit my old job? Well... because this is Sony! Can you believe it? I think they get some heavy brainwashing in that company.
I receive the PACKET magazine (or I did, when it was free. I'm not going to pay for a subscription to a cisco catalog, damn it), and already in 2004 they advertised the CRS-1 CARRIER ROUTER SYSTEM, with the tagline "What would you do with 92 terabits per second?". Damn! I think that should be enough for a more than a few HD videos. The ISPs don't wanna spend more money in infrastructure? Though shit. TV broadcasters had to upgrade to HD, the consumer had to upgrade, well it's their turn too. I've heard enough bullshit about "triple play", and I know ISPs will make enough money out of it. They just want to delay it as much as they can...
that we can basically say that Apple's success is a fact of Microsoft compatibility? duh! It's like dressing like the cool guys to be "popular" instead of trying to make your own trend...
Bah, you can always blame it on Windows anyway...
You need the AGEIA PhysX then.
You can close down a site, and another will take its place.
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Anyway I wonder, how many "children" out of those "millions" are actually attacked, and how many children are kidnapped every day from "real life" playgrounds, schools, houses. Even abused by their own babysitters.
But hey, it's easy to attack a single place and say "we managed to save millions of children of potential abuse by sexual predators by forcing an internet site to require age verification
Yeah, right.
AC is in every blog I visited from slashdot. It's the russian spammer trying to confuse people. Please people mod parent down!
You know what blue security needs? They need to borrow hosting from slashdot. Man, I'm pretty sure they can whithstand it. After all they get like 50 million geeks a day, whats a botnet of 50000 going to do?
But back to reality, will defaulting IE7's search box ruin google or anyone else? What should microsoft do then? Remove the search bar, and be victims of criticism for having an outdated browser that doesn't even have a search bar? Or default their search to google (and be sued by yahoo)? Or default to yahoo (and be sued by google). Or ask during the install "which search engine do you like the most" and alienate the user. And in that case they could be sued because more women and gay people would choose MSN because of that colorful butterfly instead of the ridiculous, childish-looking google logo.
You know what we can do? Just fucking don't give a shit and leave microsoft and google alone. For years yahoo had the search engine market dominated and soon google took over, because PEOPLE switched to google. Because no search bar was taking you to google while they were going to the top. You can't underestimate the power of people! So it's easy to understand, just let the market fix itself. Start applying the antitrust laws when it's just too obvious that they are commiting a crime, but come on! Suing them over a stupid search box? Damn!
And to finish, has anyone sued and won to Apple for monopolizing their computers? When was the last time you saw those UMAX Apple clones? Why aren't they out there anymore? Why has no one made a scandal out of that? APPLE IS A MONOPOLY but you see, nobody is going after them.
so basically you say microsoft is commiting a crime by removing their competition from their product and changing it for their own product? do you see a puma franchise selling adidas shoes? i thought so.
Microsoft owns the OS, they can do anything they want to it. If they think they have the right to change the default search engine, well good for them. People will use whatever search engine works. In the good ol' days I used altavista (which was a spider instead of an index like yahoo) but it got crappy and google came along so I switched. I tried MSN search. Didn't like it. It doesn't give you as relevant results as google does.
If people use a search engine that doesn't work they will switch. Besides it's not that hard to make them switch either. Just a few TV ads (I'm sure google can buy a lot of air time for their commercials) to make people know about google and they will start using it.
Just ask Harry Potter, he's got an invisibility cloak. And a magic wand. And sends messages via owl.
Invisibility cloak. What a bunch of morons.
IMHO, what makes a crappy (laptop) computer different frin a great computer is the hard drive. The biggest bottleneck is the hard drive, no matter if you have a Pentium 4 or a 486, if you put a fast drive, the machine will work great, but if you put a slow drive performance hits the bottom, even if you have a dual, quad or 64-core computer...
you must be new here.