Oh, you'll be sorry. I once posted something negative about groklaw and the great unwashed linux hordes descended upon me like a swarm of blind locusts....
I mean, geez folks... You come out with a license for your source code. A company _obeys_ the license to the letter, and you're still not happy? Change your license.
Cox to Google: "From now on you must pay us $10,000,000/month for bandwidth into our network."
Google to Cox: "That's no problem. But first you must agree to pay us $10,000,000/month so your customers may access our services."
Cox wouldn't have customers very long if none of them could get to Google. This doesn't address the real goal of defeating net neutrality.
Linux got off the ground and started incorporating everything anyone contributed... grabbing features and drivers like there was no tomorrow. NetBSD was rejecting stuff because it wasn't written right. So it took ages for NetBSD to get audio until someone did it right; while everyone else went with OSS. Over and Over this happened. NetBSD was criticized for being useless because it didn't support all the stuff Linux/FreeBSD did.
That's great in the ideal universe in which you clearly live. In the reality in which the rest of us live, it is a stupid situation. I can very easily find all the sites that use Google AdSense and run click-scripts against them thus, in the perfect universe, eventually putting google out of business...
That seems hardly a sustainable 'business plan' from Google's perspective.
Some friends and I run a small but popular community portal for a specific model of vehicle. We host mailing lists, archives that go back to the late 90's, FAQ's, galleries, forums, etc. Lots of model specific info. The site has always been funded by paypal donations; typically by the same 50 or so members who donate $5-200 each once a year. We got tired of begging our users and the fact that out of several thousand, only the same 50 ever donate; and signed up with AdSense. One of our lesser intelligent users setup a click script thinking he was going to do us a favor (unbeknownst to us). Within a couple of hours, Google cancelled our AdSense account. We tried to appeal to them but there are no humans available to speak to. So we gave up and tried to pursue other online advertisers and lo-behold, discovered that no one would speak to us because we were apparently on some sort of blacklist hosted by Google. Now, almost 2 years later, we're still around and still trying to get signed up with advertisers but apparently once you're on the blacklist, you don't get taken off.
Our only choice is to keep going the way we have been, or change our domain name, into which we have invested a lot of brand-recognition...
I don't associate spammers with the sort of people who have brains. This means that the spammers are hiring brains (not that it takes much brainpower to write php but I digress)... The sort of brains they'd hire are probably slashdot geeks....
The student missed his chance. He should have used the first 4 minutes to wander off somewhere, returning with a cold beer and a lawn chair. Then spent the next 6 minutes sitting in the lawn chair sipping the beer while everyone stands, mouths agape... At 10 minutes, he springs into action.
[Crap. Accidentally hit instead of ]
> From: "BlueFrog member"
> Date: May 2, 2006 5:19:45 AM MDT (CA)
> To:
> Subject: FW:Prevent spam, by participying is a DDOS attacks against
> spam sites
>
>
> The trackback URL for this blog entry is:
> http://community.bluesecurity.com/
>
> Bringing spammers to Their Knees:
> Bluesecurity.com hopes you'll join thousands of others in an army
> capable
> of crippling spammers' Web sites.
>
> A few thousand spammers have ruined our internet. They've clogged our
> mailboxes with filth. Already, 90% of email traffic is made up of
> spam. Let us no longer blind ourselves to the irrefutable facts:
> current measures have failed to stop spammers. The experience of the
> past several years has proven that passive measures are just not the
> answer.
>
> Retribution is the only real answer to spam. We must punish spammers
> ourselves to prevent them from taking over cyberspace. We must reclaim
> our territory. We need direct action to eliminate spammers for good.
>
> The magnitude of the task which lies before us is great. We are
> fighting
> for the future of the Internet. What we need to do now is get as many
> users as possible into our community. We already have a botnet with
> hundreds of thousands of computers working together to induce
> commercial
> loss on spammers and their ISPs. We have launched numerous
> Denial-of-Service Attacks on Chinese spam networks with great success,
> and plan many more!
>
> We have excellent financiers who allow us continued success with
> our botnet
> growth and Denial-of-Service Attacks. We thank the government agencies
> involved
> for their continued cooperation. We thank our leader, Eran Reshef,
> for continued strategies of DoS attack operations. Also, US-based
> Rembrandt
>
> Ventures & Skybox Security for their extensive funding & continued
> support.
> And a
> very special thanks to Douglas Schrier who has helped our botnet
> come to
> life.
>
> If you haven't signed up with the registry and installed a blue
> frog yet,
> please sign up now.
> If your friends have not yet joined us, we will convince them to do
> so.
>
> Let's stop filtering spam and start eliminating spammers.
> Together, we will reclaim the Internet, One ddos at a time.
>
> Please Contact Us for any questions on signup via the following info:
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>
>
> -----
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> From: "BlueFrog member"
> Date: May 2, 2006 5:19:45 AM MDT (CA)
> To:
> Subject: FW:Prevent spam, by participying is a DDOS attacks against
> spam sites
>
>
> The trackback URL for this blog entry is:
> http://community.bluesecurity.com/
>
> Bringing spammers to Their Knees:
> Bluesecurity.com hopes you'll join thousands of others in an army
> capable
> of crippling spammers' Web sites.
>
> A few thousand spammers have ruined our internet. They've clogged our
> mailboxes with filth. Already, 90% of email traffic is made up of
> spam. Let us no longer blind ourselves to the irrefutable facts:
> current measures have failed to stop spammers. The experience of the
> past several years has proven that passive measures are just not the
> answer.
>
> Retribution is the only real answer to spam. We must punish spammers
> ourselves to prevent them from taking over cyberspace. We must reclaim
> our territory. We need direct action to eliminate spammers for good.
>
> The magnitude of the task which lies before us is great. We are
> fighting
> for the future of the Internet. What we need to do now is get as many
> users as possible into our community. We already have a botnet with
> hundreds of thousands of computers working together to induce
> commercial
> loss on spammers and their ISPs. We have launched numerous
> Denial-of-Service Attacks on Chinese spam networks with great success,
> and plan many more!
>
> We have excellent financiers who allow us continued success with
> our botnet
> growth and Denial-of-Service Attacks. We thank the government agencies
> involved
> for their continued cooperation. We thank our leader, Eran Reshef,
> for continued strategies of DoS attack operations. Also, US-based
> Rembrandt
>
> Ventures & Skybox Security for their extensive funding & continued
> support.
> And a
> very special thanks to Douglas Schrier who has helped our botnet
> come to
> life.
>
> If you haven't signed up with the registry and installed a blue
> frog yet,
> please sign up now.
> If your friends have not yet joined us, we will convince them to do
> so.
>
> Let's stop filtering spam and start eliminating spammers.
> Together, we will reclaim the Internet, One ddos at a time.
>
> Please Contact Us for any questions on signup via the following info:
[ Contact info deleted.]
>
>
> -----
> Fight back spam! Join our Botnet today.
> Download our.EXE here: http://www.bluesecurity.com/blue-frog/
>
I have a mythbackend and 2 frontends. I'm building a new backend for my DVB card. Ignoring installation issues and everything, if a pre-built box were to just show up, it would still be a little too arcane for the general public to use. I see my parents as "general public". My dad has a laptop and knows how to use various MS productivity things... The myth recording profiles, and schedules, and so forth, are poorly designed so an average run of the mill person has no idea what any of it means. MythTV is still a product by geeks for geeks. For example,
In the mythweb page "recorded_programs", how is a non-geek supposed to know what "has commflag: Yes" means? "has cutlist: No". How bout "recgroup"?
Don't get me wrong. I mythtv. In fact, I never watch livetv anymore and don't think I've seen a commercial in over a year. My wife has an xbox on 'her TV' as a mythfrontend to the backend. It's relatively wife-friendly. But it's not ready for the 'out of the box' market yet.
Ok, I'm an old guy. (38). I've been a geek longer than most of you have been alive. I don't "need" a cellphone and I certainly don't "need" lots of features. So I have a cellphone because I want one. I always hated the thought of cellphones with phones and mp3 players. One day I was at the end of a long line of the cheapest most basic cellphones and decided to go with an SE K750i. Why? Because my T610 (inherited from a friend of mine in Europe) crapped out; I wanted a phone that was approximately the same size and form factor. The K750i met that. It also had a better camera so I could document things like car accidents, plumbing fixtures at the local super-outlet-hardware-chain, and cute things that my kid did when I wasn't carrying the family camera. When I had a PDA, I used it to store my phone list, my TODO lists, shopping lists, and part numbers. Now my cellphone does that. Even better, my cellphone has a browser, so I zip up an html dump of my personal Wiki and blast it onto my cellphone using bootoof. If I need to carry a few hundred MB's of data home, I don't scp it. I put it on my phone. I don't need a USB keychain flash device. The battery lasts me about a week unless I talk a lot on the phone, which is rare. The phone is unlocked so when I go to europe, I can swap in a SIMM from a local carrier.
My phone is a decent enough phone for me. It doesn't replace my digital camera but it serves to document things. It serves the purpose of a keychain flash device. It doesn't require that I stay within 50 feet of a charger at all times. It doesn't cause an embarassing lump in my pocket. It's perfect.... for me...
Is that kind of like when Linus accused the NetBSD folks of being idiots for insisting on sync'ing errno values across platforms? I think *BSD has been ignoring his little tantrums since then.
They are only assisted by 'glow plugs' in order to heat the intake air enough to start compression-ignition. Glow plugs are used primarily (only?) on indirect-injection diesels in which there is a small pre-chamber in the top of the cylinder. The injector blows fuel into that little chamber where coincidentally the glow-plug also lives. After ignition, the flame front leaves the chamber to push the piston down. Once the engine is started, the glow plugs typically remain on for a short time in order to facilitate further ignition until the engine is warm enough to burn the vast majority of fuel without the use of the glow plug. This is why old-style diesels smoke after startup on a cold day. Direct injection diesels don't benefit from the use of glow plugs and as such use a glow-screen plumbed inline of the intake air. If some of your glow plugs are dead, you can still generally start the engine but it gets more difficult as it gets colder. If your glow system is completely non-functional, and you're stuck, and freezing, a shot of ether into the intake can be used to cause very expensive damage to your engine with the occasional side-effect that no damage will be caused but the engine will start without glow plugs.
My 1993 Toyota Diesel truck is indirect injection, and can get 27mpg (imperial, not colonial) on straight canola oil without modification. Pretty good for a 6000lb un-aerodynamic SUV. If only americans weren't so afraid of diesels....
I went to do some prints the other day using my favourite browser (Safari); and when I get a "browser incompatibility" page, I ban the company forever... I think these guys get my business by default:
The time was..... 12:00.... 12:00.... 12:00..... 12:00.... 12:00.... 12:00
(Apologies to those of you who are 30yo and have no idea what I'm talking about).
I inherited some X-10 (the protocol, and the brand) stuff... I use about 5% of the stuff I inherited for boring stuff like a couple of lights with inconveniently placed switches... But the primary use is to power cycle my cable-modem. A cow-orker clued me in on this. Our provider essentially SNMP queries our cable modems periodically for traffic assessment (only on the Docsys side)... However, a certain brand of modem doesn't store this data in NVRAM so power cycling the modem clears the counts... If I'm doing a lot of torrenting , then I start a simple while() loop to power cycle the cable modem every 20 minutes. Bittorrent survives this quite well and I've never got a nastygram from my provider.
That's a qualitative statement and not a fundamental misunderstanding. I've worked in/with embedded sw/hw for 21 years across a half dozen companies (large and small). I know a good hardware team from a bad hardware team. Generally, unless there's religion, the software guys are OS agnostic. Good software guys are OS agnostic. Sure, everyone has their personal preferences, but you do what the product needs. On a good hardware project, you choose your primary devices based on the performance level/features vs. cost. OS development comes as part of the cost, but _only_ cost. If you let your software guys choose the OS first before you get to choose the part, you're screwed. Once you've chosen a cpu, then you see what BSP's are available or choose your OS based on features/performance.
(btw, I'm a software guy but I can read a schematic). I've done embedded NetBSD, Linux, QNX, and only a little bit of VxWorks.
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Any of you Petaphiles have a picture of how this is supposed to work?
I mean, geez folks... You come out with a license for your source code. A company _obeys_ the license to the letter, and you're still not happy? Change your license.
Cox wouldn't have customers very long if none of them could get to Google. This doesn't address the real goal of defeating net neutrality.
"Do not stare into laser with remaining eye"
I take it you haven't really worked with QNX all that deeply then ... Nice theory but only works in its tightly confined and well defined place.
Nice house. Did you build it yourself?
Next project?
That seems hardly a sustainable 'business plan' from Google's perspective.
Our only choice is to keep going the way we have been, or change our domain name, into which we have invested a lot of brand-recognition...
Google _is_ Evil after all.
So which of you scumbags is responsible for this.
The student missed his chance. He should have used the first 4 minutes to wander off somewhere, returning with a cold beer and a lawn chair. Then spent the next 6 minutes sitting in the lawn chair sipping the beer while everyone stands, mouths agape... At 10 minutes, he springs into action.
I'm just losing today. Not enough cold medication. Back to bed with me.
[Crap. Accidentally hit instead of ] > From: "BlueFrog member" > Date: May 2, 2006 5:19:45 AM MDT (CA) > To: > Subject: FW:Prevent spam, by participying is a DDOS attacks against > spam sites > > > The trackback URL for this blog entry is: > http://community.bluesecurity.com/ > > Bringing spammers to Their Knees: > Bluesecurity.com hopes you'll join thousands of others in an army > capable > of crippling spammers' Web sites. > > A few thousand spammers have ruined our internet. They've clogged our > mailboxes with filth. Already, 90% of email traffic is made up of > spam. Let us no longer blind ourselves to the irrefutable facts: > current measures have failed to stop spammers. The experience of the > past several years has proven that passive measures are just not the > answer. > > Retribution is the only real answer to spam. We must punish spammers > ourselves to prevent them from taking over cyberspace. We must reclaim > our territory. We need direct action to eliminate spammers for good. > > The magnitude of the task which lies before us is great. We are > fighting > for the future of the Internet. What we need to do now is get as many > users as possible into our community. We already have a botnet with > hundreds of thousands of computers working together to induce > commercial > loss on spammers and their ISPs. We have launched numerous > Denial-of-Service Attacks on Chinese spam networks with great success, > and plan many more! > > We have excellent financiers who allow us continued success with > our botnet > growth and Denial-of-Service Attacks. We thank the government agencies > involved > for their continued cooperation. We thank our leader, Eran Reshef, > for continued strategies of DoS attack operations. Also, US-based > Rembrandt > > Ventures & Skybox Security for their extensive funding & continued > support. > And a > very special thanks to Douglas Schrier who has helped our botnet > come to > life. > > If you haven't signed up with the registry and installed a blue > frog yet, > please sign up now. > If your friends have not yet joined us, we will convince them to do > so. > > Let's stop filtering spam and start eliminating spammers. > Together, we will reclaim the Internet, One ddos at a time. > > Please Contact Us for any questions on signup via the following info: [ Contact info deleted.] > > > ----- > Fight back spam! Join our Botnet today. > Download our .EXE here: http://www.bluesecurity.com/blue-frog/
>
In the mythweb page "recorded_programs", how is a non-geek supposed to know what "has commflag: Yes" means? "has cutlist: No". How bout "recgroup"?
Don't get me wrong. I mythtv. In fact, I never watch livetv anymore and don't think I've seen a commercial in over a year. My wife has an xbox on 'her TV' as a mythfrontend to the backend. It's relatively wife-friendly. But it's not ready for the 'out of the box' market yet.
My phone is a decent enough phone for me. It doesn't replace my digital camera but it serves to document things. It serves the purpose of a keychain flash device. It doesn't require that I stay within 50 feet of a charger at all times. It doesn't cause an embarassing lump in my pocket. It's perfect.... for me...
Then I would have posted the link now, wouldn't I? I remember it because I was involved in it.
(from a co-worker)
My 1993 Toyota Diesel truck is indirect injection, and can get 27mpg (imperial, not colonial) on straight canola oil without modification. Pretty good for a 6000lb un-aerodynamic SUV. If only americans weren't so afraid of diesels....
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060328 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Worked fine. No issues.
http://blacks.pnimedia.com/disclaimers/browser_sup port.aspx
(you may have to view it with a non-IE browser).
The time was ..... 12:00 .... 12:00 .... 12:00 ..... 12:00 .... 12:00 .... 12:00
(Apologies to those of you who are 30yo and have no idea what I'm talking about).
I inherited some X-10 (the protocol, and the brand) stuff... I use about 5% of the stuff I inherited for boring stuff like a couple of lights with inconveniently placed switches... But the primary use is to power cycle my cable-modem. A cow-orker clued me in on this. Our provider essentially SNMP queries our cable modems periodically for traffic assessment (only on the Docsys side)... However, a certain brand of modem doesn't store this data in NVRAM so power cycling the modem clears the counts... If I'm doing a lot of torrenting , then I start a simple while() loop to power cycle the cable modem every 20 minutes. Bittorrent survives this quite well and I've never got a nastygram from my provider.
(btw, I'm a software guy but I can read a schematic). I've done embedded NetBSD, Linux, QNX, and only a little bit of VxWorks.