I don't condone the bombing, but I also feel pretty strongly that if you knowingly work for a company widely known for being a bunch of creepy scumbags (which paypal is with ample documentation) then you are complicit even if you aren't directly involved in the 'creepiness'. If more people grabbed a spine and refused to work for creepy scumbags, then said scumbags would have trouble sustaining their business. I refused to take a job at the local telco due to some things they'd done to a former employer of mine. In my refusal, I also told them why. I doubt it had any effect, but I feel better about it. Not everyone can choose to turn down jobs, but if more of us (who can afford to make these choices) did, the message sent would be strong.
(1) bug-blocking. ie: get rid of the channel identifier. It's annoying and gratuitous. Most of them are semi-transparent. There ought to be some way to xor them away.
(2) pop-up blocking. Those annoying animations that some networks are starting to put up on the bottom or right side of the screen right in the middle of a show, that are not related to the show.
(3) auto unsquish. When the network squishes the credits to the left 1/3 of the screen to put in some talking head telling you what's next. I want to squish the talking head.
(4) kill the talking head's overdubbed voice.
I know. I'm dreaming. Usual complaint applies: "I already pay through the nose for this. Stop making me get TV the way _I_ want it (from the torrent channel)."
What I mean is that if the networks had their collective poop in a group, you would be able to access your monthly TV subscription via some 'iTunes' thing no matter where you were but as it is, you have to buy this extra piece of hardware and potentially violate the AUP of your broadband provider (for setting up a server on your connection).
I have some simple scripts that make it easy for me to automatically grab shows from my mythbackend at home, while I'm in my hotel room 12 hops away. I just watch them manually with vlc, laptop plugged into the hotel room's TV, and cellphone as a bluetooth remote... I keep thinking it would be fairly trivial to convince mythtv to do all this seamlessly...
Of course it doesn't sit well with you, Mr. Computer Professional. But we're getting to the point where Grandma just needs a kernel with a browser in a ramdisk. She doesn't even really need a 'disk'. She doesn't need a grandchild sysadmin to de-worm her computer every 6 months. Everything she wants to do can practically be done online now.
For this one you have to carefully RTFA. You actually have to do it. Not just pretend. A simple google search, plus some whois sleuthing to confirm you have the right one, will turn up a company that currently has it's "support.html" disabled (404), but the wayback machine has an old (2005) copy of "support.htm" which has a list of error codes, FAQ, etc, for the machine in question. It's not too much of a stretch to believe that someone put the manual up for download at some point.
No, I don't have the manual. I don't really care either, it was an interesting academic exercise.
Up here in the 51st state of the union (Canuckistan), we have to wait a whole year before we get to see the BSG episodes after you see them. Same with the Sopranos. etc.
I work for a SIP hardware provider. We have a whole department dedicated to interoperability testing with other vendors of SIP infrastructure and user agents. Asterisk is approximately the least SIP compliant bit of software out there. It's great if all you want to do is basic calls but the reason why it's perceived as working so well is because vendors (like us) have to hack our software to work with it because our customers demand it, even if it makes us non-RFC compliant. Why has Asterisk never shown up at a Sipit bakeoff despite having been repeatedly invited? Asterisk has unfortunate momentum.
I watch TV via mythtv and bitorrent. I haven't actually seen a commercial in a couple of years but yet, I see them all the time. I see the Nike runners that Geoff House puts on in 'House'. I see the AOL search engine that no self-respecting mythbuster would _choose_ to use if his paycheck wasn't riding on it. This is why the period piece is a dying art. They can't afford to make them anymore due to the lack of product placement opportunities.
Is it just me or is anyone else disappointed by the fact that after the show, they go their own seperate ways? I sort of pictured them hanging out after a long day of filming, sitting on the couch in the back of the shop with a couple cold ones just shooting the shit...
Personally, if I saw one of them on the street, I wouldn't stare dumbounded... I'd offer my hand and say a genuine thanks. Thanks for giving me something interesting to watch on tv, and occasionally giving me something to think about. So, Thanks Jamie and Adam.
The airport in my city used to block (and subsequently redirect) all ports except 53/udp for some reason. When I discovered I could make direct DNS queries against my own nameserver, I setup a pppd with a netcat running on 53/udp. Weeee! Free wifi! Somebody fixed it though.
To all you greylisters, I don't know what part of the interweb you're from but when I survey my spam, I find that great tracts of it come from zombies via their ISP's mail server which means greylisting is no longer effective. It was effective last year but I think you folks missed the boat. I moderate a mailing list for a popular open source operating system project that uses greylisting and I still get about 100 spam per day as owner-listname...
Spammers are having their zombies dig through the windows configurations to find the owners email relay and using that to send their spam. It's not that difficult and combats greylisting.
Ignore the other self-righteous wankers. I am continuously amused by the things you get up to, and enjoy your little pieces in popsci.. My favourite is still the Iridium incident with the batshit crazy russians....
Eventually your IRD will stop working. The updates include things like changes to the tiers and encryption, etc. Sadly, you do need the updates but you can probably go a year at least without them.
It's very popular among artists, to quote Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: "Their products are used and endorsed by artists such as James Hetfield of Metallica, Matthew Bellamy of Muse, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, and The Edge of U2."
So, all it would take is for the above artists to tell Apple to 'back off' (assuming apple chooses to go after Line 6) 'or else we won't let you sell our music in your itms'.
I figured out how to optimize the standard keyboard for speed and space utilization. It can also be used one-handed, popular for those late night IM sessions. Requires only a little bit of memorization and is easily interfaced to the 1-wire PC Keyboard interface. Can even be used by the limbless: As long as you have a forehead, you can still use a computer.
I had one of these speed demons. I grew up playing on my dad's Apple ][ (not plus) but played a lot of games. So he got me a 5150, fresh off the line. It had cassette ports even! But he splurged and got me the dual floppies. I still have my DOS1.0b diskettes and manual here, along with the other 3 manuals that came with it but sadly, the machine itself is no longer. In a bid to ensure that I wouldn't play games on it, my parents did not buy me the color graphics adapter and monitor. I had the monochrome monitor and adapter. I was a sad, sad boy. I couldn't even understand its assembly language. Sad, Sad boy of 15. Eventually I ended up getting a 300baud acoustic modem, shortly thereafter upgrading to 1200, and eventually ending up with an email address starting at !ihnp4!.... Life became more interesting around then...
Yup. Happened to us too. (a small community run special interest portal). What's worse is that it put us on some sort of 'internet advertising blacklist' that, 2 years later, we are still on so no other internet advertiser will touch us with a barge pole. The only way around this is to change our domain name but we already have significant investment in our brand (stickers, shirts, etc) and can't afford to do that. So we continue to run by soliciting donations from our user community.
Greylisting was predicted to work for only a short time and that's how it worked out. Greylisting works only against zombies who try to send mail directly to your server via port 25. As more and more ISP's get smart and start blocking outbound 25 from their dynamic pools, greylisting (and relying on rDNS pattern matching to filter for dynamic pools) is becoming less and less effective. I am a mailing list owner for a large free open source operating system project. This project uses greylisting on its mail server. I get a lot of spam from zombies relayed through their ISP's mail relays, that has bypassed greylisting. In short, enjoy greylisting while it lasts. It will be almost completely inaffective inside of a year. Spammers are learning how to route through the mail relays they find configured in the users' mail client. They're also learning how to authenticate with those mail relays using your credentials. They're learning how to adapt to rate limiting enforced by your ISP's mail servers. I predict within a few years, those of us on broadband, will only be able to relay mail to our ISP's port 587, using authentication, be limited to 20 emails per day, no more than 2 per hour, and only from a set of 4 pre-configured sender addresses. I predict there will be an RBL to identify those ISP's who do not implement such a sane policy.
There are lots of you with little pet techniques for filtering spam that you think are effective. Some of you claim to be able to rid yourself of 90% of all spam using one single technique. You should consider that any moron can get easily get rid of 90% of spam. Probably even 95% for lesser morons. Especially on personal mailboxes where you can arbitrarily choose to cut out huge geographical regions and don't care about a few false positives. All the work is in that last 5% while still offering useful mail service to a large and diverse user community.
John Graham Cumming has been tracking anti-spam tool spam/ham strike/hit rates according to published studies that meet certain dataset criteria. You can find it here: http://www.jgc.org/astlt/
I agree. Doctorow is over-rated and also largely an idiot. He regularly froths at the mouth about the industry claiming that 'copying IP is not theft because no one has been deprived of its use after it was copied" and then in another pro-author incident, blatantly accuses the antagonist for "stealing IP"... (I can't find the references on boingboing right now).
I might also add that I use mp3's on my ipod and none of them are DRM'd so I'm hardly "locked in".
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I don't condone the bombing, but I also feel pretty strongly that if you knowingly work for a company widely known for being a bunch of creepy scumbags (which paypal is with ample documentation) then you are complicit even if you aren't directly involved in the 'creepiness'. If more people grabbed a spine and refused to work for creepy scumbags, then said scumbags would have trouble sustaining their business. I refused to take a job at the local telco due to some things they'd done to a former employer of mine. In my refusal, I also told them why. I doubt it had any effect, but I feel better about it. Not everyone can choose to turn down jobs, but if more of us (who can afford to make these choices) did, the message sent would be strong.
(1) bug-blocking. ie: get rid of the channel identifier. It's annoying and gratuitous. Most of them are semi-transparent. There ought to be some way to xor them away.
(2) pop-up blocking. Those annoying animations that some networks are starting to put up on the bottom or right side of the screen right in the middle of a show, that are not related to the show.
(3) auto unsquish. When the network squishes the credits to the left 1/3 of the screen to put in some talking head telling you what's next. I want to squish the talking head.
(4) kill the talking head's overdubbed voice.
I know. I'm dreaming. Usual complaint applies: "I already pay through the nose for this. Stop making me get TV the way _I_ want it (from the torrent channel)."
I have some simple scripts that make it easy for me to automatically grab shows from my mythbackend at home, while I'm in my hotel room 12 hops away. I just watch them manually with vlc, laptop plugged into the hotel room's TV, and cellphone as a bluetooth remote... I keep thinking it would be fairly trivial to convince mythtv to do all this seamlessly...
Of course it doesn't sit well with you, Mr. Computer Professional. But we're getting to the point where Grandma just needs a kernel with a browser in a ramdisk. She doesn't even really need a 'disk'. She doesn't need a grandchild sysadmin to de-worm her computer every 6 months. Everything she wants to do can practically be done online now.
No, I don't have the manual. I don't really care either, it was an interesting academic exercise.
Up here in the 51st state of the union (Canuckistan), we have to wait a whole year before we get to see the BSG episodes after you see them. Same with the Sopranos. etc.
I work for a SIP hardware provider. We have a whole department dedicated to interoperability testing with other vendors of SIP infrastructure and user agents. Asterisk is approximately the least SIP compliant bit of software out there. It's great if all you want to do is basic calls but the reason why it's perceived as working so well is because vendors (like us) have to hack our software to work with it because our customers demand it, even if it makes us non-RFC compliant. Why has Asterisk never shown up at a Sipit bakeoff despite having been repeatedly invited? Asterisk has unfortunate momentum.
I watch TV via mythtv and bitorrent. I haven't actually seen a commercial in a couple of years but yet, I see them all the time. I see the Nike runners that Geoff House puts on in 'House'. I see the AOL search engine that no self-respecting mythbuster would _choose_ to use if his paycheck wasn't riding on it. This is why the period piece is a dying art. They can't afford to make them anymore due to the lack of product placement opportunities.
Personally, if I saw one of them on the street, I wouldn't stare dumbounded... I'd offer my hand and say a genuine thanks. Thanks for giving me something interesting to watch on tv, and occasionally giving me something to think about. So, Thanks Jamie and Adam.
The airport in my city used to block (and subsequently redirect) all ports except 53/udp for some reason. When I discovered I could make direct DNS queries against my own nameserver, I setup a pppd with a netcat running on 53/udp. Weeee! Free wifi! Somebody fixed it though.
Spammers are having their zombies dig through the windows configurations to find the owners email relay and using that to send their spam. It's not that difficult and combats greylisting.
For each client, send a series of captchas: "solving" "captchas" "formoney?" "one" "thousand" "usdollar" "reward" "for-arrest" "of-your" "employer".
http://georgelazenby.livejournal.com/195942.html
So hey, Thanks.
Eventually your IRD will stop working. The updates include things like changes to the tiers and encryption, etc. Sadly, you do need the updates but you can probably go a year at least without them.
I give you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_key
I had one of these speed demons. I grew up playing on my dad's Apple ][ (not plus) but played a lot of games. So he got me a 5150, fresh off the line. It had cassette ports even! But he splurged and got me the dual floppies. I still have my DOS1.0b diskettes and manual here, along with the other 3 manuals that came with it but sadly, the machine itself is no longer. In a bid to ensure that I wouldn't play games on it, my parents did not buy me the color graphics adapter and monitor. I had the monochrome monitor and adapter. I was a sad, sad boy. I couldn't even understand its assembly language. Sad, Sad boy of 15. Eventually I ended up getting a 300baud acoustic modem, shortly thereafter upgrading to 1200, and eventually ending up with an email address starting at !ihnp4!.... Life became more interesting around then...
dude, your TRS-80 had a Z-80. Not an 8088
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Police_in_Britain_clai m_to_have_disrupted_a_terrorist_attack
The blacklist isn't some gigantic state secret. What is secret is how to get removed from the blacklist.
We need to stop making copper umbilical cords and start making more batteries that explode and drool toxic waste into our land fills.
Google do no evil? Hardly.
Greylisting was predicted to work for only a short time and that's how it worked out. Greylisting works only against zombies who try to send mail directly to your server via port 25. As more and more ISP's get smart and start blocking outbound 25 from their dynamic pools, greylisting (and relying on rDNS pattern matching to filter for dynamic pools) is becoming less and less effective. I am a mailing list owner for a large free open source operating system project. This project uses greylisting on its mail server. I get a lot of spam from zombies relayed through their ISP's mail relays, that has bypassed greylisting. In short, enjoy greylisting while it lasts. It will be almost completely inaffective inside of a year. Spammers are learning how to route through the mail relays they find configured in the users' mail client. They're also learning how to authenticate with those mail relays using your credentials. They're learning how to adapt to rate limiting enforced by your ISP's mail servers. I predict within a few years, those of us on broadband, will only be able to relay mail to our ISP's port 587, using authentication, be limited to 20 emails per day, no more than 2 per hour, and only from a set of 4 pre-configured sender addresses. I predict there will be an RBL to identify those ISP's who do not implement such a sane policy.
There are lots of you with little pet techniques for filtering spam that you think are effective. Some of you claim to be able to rid yourself of 90% of all spam using one single technique. You should consider that any moron can get easily get rid of 90% of spam. Probably even 95% for lesser morons. Especially on personal mailboxes where you can arbitrarily choose to cut out huge geographical regions and don't care about a few false positives. All the work is in that last 5% while still offering useful mail service to a large and diverse user community.
John Graham Cumming has been tracking anti-spam tool spam/ham strike/hit rates according to published studies that meet certain dataset criteria. You can find it here: http://www.jgc.org/astlt/
I might also add that I use mp3's on my ipod and none of them are DRM'd so I'm hardly "locked in".
Yes. "Have you ever tried to sell a diamond"? http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond