Re:Political commentary at the Key Bridge in DC
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Reverse Graffiti
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Your point is what? The Baltimore Key bridge is a toll bridge, the Virginia/DC Key bridge is free. Baltimore also has a Washington Monument, guess which Washington Monument is on more postcards.
From my observations at telcoms, in today's job market, starting at a help desk is an excellent way to get your foot in the door and work up to an engineer position. People who currently work for a company have great advantage when applying for another job with that company and the networking opportunities are invaluable. In the meantime; you have a job in industry, you are able to pay your rent and car payments, your employer is probably paying for more specialised training, you are networking, and you are gaining personal experience. There are ways for stellar college grads to 'get your foot in the door', but the vast majority of today's IT college grads are just SOL and may have to get a job that they may feel is beneath them. Learning to answer an ACD phone is probably better than learning to say "do you want fries with that?". With the competition for IT jobs due to the glut of IT workers, perhaps IT grads should have chosen a different field of study.
There is hope that if a vulnerable box is hijacked that it will serve as a wake up call to the owner of the box and that the owner will do the Right Thing. BUT, from what I have been observing lately, all that will happen is that the owner will whine about his computer being slow as they happily go to another game/smiley/music/wallpaper/screensaver web site that loads more spyware on their box.
I normally use Opera but I just installed Firefox 0.9 and had a bit different experience from yours.
Firefox has a menu button in under the Help button for IE users called "For Internet Explorer Users" which seems to answer many migration issues (and tells how to import IE setting environment).
I find the default theme to be very clean and nice.
I don't consider any plugin to be "essential". Some are nice and some are required to view certain websites, if you want a certain plugin, what is the big deal to install it?
It's very possible that the settings aren't very newbie friendly, they are logically layed out and easy to find (even for somebody who usually doesn't use Firfox or Mozilla). I have a HUGE problem with IE because I have to modify OS system setting to configure my web browser.
What error messages do you want to see, and why?
The button bar has 5 buttons, plus the "GO" button on the top bar. It is very easy to customize the toolbar to add the items that you mention. The only thing that I would add is a "New Tab" button.
Google search defaults to normal search.
Firefox imports your existing settings from Internet Explorer.
I found the loading time to be very short and I usually find splash screens to be annoying.
The Firefox Help system seems to be pretty good at explaining how to do things.
Why are the users not blamed for allowing this crap to be installed? The age of PC innocence is OVER. There is no reason that users should not KNOW that using computers can be dangerous.` Users should at least read enough of the EULAs to see that something is being loaded on their machine. Clicking through EULAs is just as stupid as running mail attachments. I realise that it is possible that some of the malware is 'stealthy' or are cookies, but the vast majority of it is legitimate software in the sense that it DOES require that a user click through a EULA. Why is it that these users are always seen as victims and are not held responsible for their actions?
This page is on a site for Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Topeka, Kansas.
A web page showing a memorial plaque for Matthew Shepard who was murdered in 1998. The plaque reads in part: "Entered Hell October 12, 1998..."
http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/shepard_monument. html
If you have ever driven an old Buick and observed the momentum of MS you would know that his anology is reasonably accurate. One possible nit is that technically you would not be driving the engine block back into the driver's compartment, you would be wrapping the driver's compartment around the engine.
I don't think that the average consumer is smart enough to avoid buying this crap in the future, even after being burned. One of several things could happen with the sheep-like consumers after buying a DRM'ed CD: 1. The "copy protection" will not affect them. 2. They will not realize that the problems that they experiencing are a deliberate degradation of the CD. 3. They will blame the problems on their computer. 4. They are already immune to this sort of assault and will simply accept it. 5. They find out how they can very easily bypass the "copy protection" features. None of these will affect future buying habits, nor will they significantly reduce piracy (either real or perceived). If the studios ever do add effective "copy protection" to CDs, I believe that the sheep-like consumers will perceive that CDs as being broken and will not buy the CDs. I believe that it is safe to assume that adding this software to CDs costs a significant amount of money. Someday the studios will realize that ineffective "copy protection" of CDs is a waste of money and that efective "copy protection" will alienate buyers.
What does this have to do with missionaries littering a country with plastic bags. Do the N. Koreans shoot litterbugs? The Liberator Pistols, although crap, seem to have been built just fine for their intended use. The most prevelant handgun ammunition in N. Korea would be either 7.63mm Mauser or 9x19mm. The prevelant caliber of ammunition in N. Korea is probably irrelevant as the 10.45 cal. rounds included with the Liberator Pistol are probably more than adequate for the pistol's intended use. The oppressor depicted on the instruction sheet was much more likely to have been Japanese than Nazi as most of the Liberator Pistols were distributed to China and the Phillipines.
Just because the technology is being developed doesn't mean that people will actually buy it. Even though the studios have a semi-monopoly, the sheep will not necessarily buy DVDs that self destruct, except as a replacement for rentals. If the studios upset the current pricing structure too much they run the risk of giving the golden goose a hysterectomy.
It very well may be that these degrading DVDs will eventually replace rentals. The only problems I can see with that are the environmental problems and that there will be fewer previously rented DVDs available for purchase. There are upsides to these degrading DVDs replacing DVD rentals: They should be available in a greater variety of stores, the new releases area of video stores will not empty out on Friday evening, there is less chance of receiving a defective DVD, and there will be no late fees. This would also make DVD vending machines practical. If there were still mom and pop video rental stores around I would feel sorry for them. It would be a Good Thing if the current mega-store rental outfits have to change their business model because people start buying these degrading DVDs at other stores instead of renting DVDs.
Killing wildlife to spread Bible verses
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Japanese Balloon Battle
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Scattering Bible verse covered plastic bags is littering. Beside being unsightly, plastic bags can also be deadly to wildlife. Littering Korea (either North or South) with plastic bags is not constructive.
Unixware is still used by several organizations, including the US govt and some restaurants. The former Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) at one time had a failry popular major Unix distribution. Most corporate PHBs didn't realize that SCO was being a shit until SCO started suing it's former customers. It is not at all unusual for companies and their brand names to go through a succession of owners with little impact to customers.
Some just don't talk much about using FreeBSD. I myself admin boxes for a large ISP that runs Solaris on enterprise production boxes. I run FreeBSD on several non-enterprise production servers. I have also tried several Linux distros and run some of them to test dialer support and I still don't like Linux for some reason. FreeBSD is more stable for one thing, and the ports system runs rings around the various Linux package systems. I find it frustrating when an RPM package refuses to install because I have a library or other dependancy that is a LATER version than the one that the package wants. Ports just seems to iron all that crap out for me.
Hydroelectric power can have severe environmental impact. The building of dams can be devestating to the people and animals who lived in the flooded area. Dams and hydroelecric plants kill fish, both from the increased difficulty of migration and from being chewed up in turbines. Dams fail and cause catastraphic floods. Dams cause damage to wetland areas both upstream and downstream of the dam. There are many other bad effects caused by dams depending upon their location. Dams can cause concentration of pcb's, mercury and other toxins, dams cause the retention of silt, there are many ways that dams can cause reduction in water quality.
Show me any large database that is 100% accurate. The rbl's that list dynamic IPs accept corrections from ISPs (and sometimes from users), some will also accept entire lists of dynamic ports from ISPs. This means that an ISP can send a list of IP blocks for listing and the rbl will only list those blocks as being dynamic IPs (unless it is found that the ISPs are trying to scam them). If a provider provides shitty service, then the customers should either get their provider to change or the customer should change providers. Your original post indicated that there were rbl's that reported that all of Verizon's IP space was being reported as being dynamic. Now you are saying that there are ERRORS in the dynamic rbl lists, this is a big difference.
The rbl's that list dynamic IPs will correct their listings if the DNS information for the IPs is correct and they are informed by the ISP that the listing is incorrect. The rbl's that list dynamic IP space are not listing all of Verizon's IP space, only the dynamic space.
The stament about some rbl's listing all of Verizon's IP space has nothing at all to do with the blocking of mail from dynamic space.
Many of the more clued ISPs, mail filtering services, and corporate mail servers either block or mark incoming mail from dynamic IPs. I believe that more servers will block mail from dynamic IPs as time goes on unless all of the cable companies do something drastic to block spam from their users.
I am sorry to hear that your monopoly ISP provides such poor service. Perhaps you could get smart host mail service from another provider (perhaps via SSH or VPN to bypass port 25).
And I thought that I was a hard ass mail admin. BellSouth seems to be going WAY overboard. Filtering port 25 outgoing on dynamic IPs and blocking mail from dynamic IPs are Good Things. Blocking incoming port 25 seems to be going a bit far.
The current malware does not use the ISP's mail relays. If malware does start using ISPs' mail relays, the ISPs can easily throttle email and detect infected machines. Detecting and throttling spam is MUCH more difficult to do if port 25 is not filtered.
Moving your mail servers to port 26 is a good way to work around a filtered port 25 AND it will stop spam. The problem comes in when you need to send email to a mail server outside of your own network.
Filtering port 25 on dynamic IPs is the Right Thing To Do, I think that filtering port 25 from static IPs is a bit too drastic.
There is no need to receive mail from dynamic IPs
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If mail servers would start blocking all mail coming from dynamic IPs, they would block the vast majority of spam and block almost no legitimate mail. Yeah, I know that some folks running mail servers on dynamic IPs aren't going to like that, they can still send mail through their provider's mail servers. The arguments against blocking mail from dynamic IPs are pretty much the same as when people were arguing about open mail servers. This is just one mor ething that spammers have ruined.
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Your point is what? The Baltimore Key bridge is a toll bridge, the Virginia/DC Key bridge is free. Baltimore also has a Washington Monument, guess which Washington Monument is on more postcards.
From my observations at telcoms, in today's job market, starting at a help desk is an excellent way to get your foot in the door and work up to an engineer position. People who currently work for a company have great advantage when applying for another job with that company and the networking opportunities are invaluable. In the meantime; you have a job in industry, you are able to pay your rent and car payments, your employer is probably paying for more specialised training, you are networking, and you are gaining personal experience. There are ways for stellar college grads to 'get your foot in the door', but the vast majority of today's IT college grads are just SOL and may have to get a job that they may feel is beneath them. Learning to answer an ACD phone is probably better than learning to say "do you want fries with that?". With the competition for IT jobs due to the glut of IT workers, perhaps IT grads should have chosen a different field of study.
There is hope that if a vulnerable box is hijacked that it will serve as a wake up call to the owner of the box and that the owner will do the Right Thing. BUT, from what I have been observing lately, all that will happen is that the owner will whine about his computer being slow as they happily go to another game/smiley/music/wallpaper/screensaver web site that loads more spyware on their box.
What IE really needs is to be shit canned. That would probably be the most effective fix.
I normally use Opera but I just installed Firefox 0.9 and had a bit different experience from yours.
Firefox has a menu button in under the Help button for IE users called "For Internet Explorer Users" which seems to answer many migration issues (and tells how to import IE setting environment).
I find the default theme to be very clean and nice.
I don't consider any plugin to be "essential". Some are nice and some are required to view certain websites, if you want a certain plugin, what is the big deal to install it?
It's very possible that the settings aren't very newbie friendly, they are logically layed out and easy to find (even for somebody who usually doesn't use Firfox or Mozilla). I have a HUGE problem with IE because I have to modify OS system setting to configure my web browser.
What error messages do you want to see, and why?
The button bar has 5 buttons, plus the "GO" button on the top bar. It is very easy to customize the toolbar to add the items that you mention. The only thing that I would add is a "New Tab" button.
Google search defaults to normal search.
Firefox imports your existing settings from Internet Explorer.
I found the loading time to be very short and I usually find splash screens to be annoying.
The Firefox Help system seems to be pretty good at explaining how to do things.
Why are the users not blamed for allowing this crap to be installed? The age of PC innocence is OVER. There is no reason that users should not KNOW that using computers can be dangerous.` Users should at least read enough of the EULAs to see that something is being loaded on their machine. Clicking through EULAs is just as stupid as running mail attachments. I realise that it is possible that some of the malware is 'stealthy' or are cookies, but the vast majority of it is legitimate software in the sense that it DOES require that a user click through a EULA. Why is it that these users are always seen as victims and are not held responsible for their actions?
This page is on a site for Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Topeka, Kansas. A web page showing a memorial plaque for Matthew Shepard who was murdered in 1998. The plaque reads in part: "Entered Hell October 12, 1998 ..."
http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/shepard_monument. html
If you have ever driven an old Buick and observed the momentum of MS you would know that his anology is reasonably accurate. One possible nit is that technically you would not be driving the engine block back into the driver's compartment, you would be wrapping the driver's compartment around the engine.
I don't think that the average consumer is smart enough to avoid buying this crap in the future, even after being burned. One of several things could happen with the sheep-like consumers after buying a DRM'ed CD: 1. The "copy protection" will not affect them. 2. They will not realize that the problems that they experiencing are a deliberate degradation of the CD. 3. They will blame the problems on their computer. 4. They are already immune to this sort of assault and will simply accept it. 5. They find out how they can very easily bypass the "copy protection" features. None of these will affect future buying habits, nor will they significantly reduce piracy (either real or perceived). If the studios ever do add effective "copy protection" to CDs, I believe that the sheep-like consumers will perceive that CDs as being broken and will not buy the CDs. I believe that it is safe to assume that adding this software to CDs costs a significant amount of money. Someday the studios will realize that ineffective "copy protection" of CDs is a waste of money and that efective "copy protection" will alienate buyers.
What does this have to do with missionaries littering a country with plastic bags. Do the N. Koreans shoot litterbugs? The Liberator Pistols, although crap, seem to have been built just fine for their intended use. The most prevelant handgun ammunition in N. Korea would be either 7.63mm Mauser or 9x19mm. The prevelant caliber of ammunition in N. Korea is probably irrelevant as the 10 .45 cal. rounds included with the Liberator Pistol are probably more than adequate for the pistol's intended use. The oppressor depicted on the instruction sheet was much more likely to have been Japanese than Nazi as most of the Liberator Pistols were distributed to China and the Phillipines.
Just because the technology is being developed doesn't mean that people will actually buy it. Even though the studios have a semi-monopoly, the sheep will not necessarily buy DVDs that self destruct, except as a replacement for rentals. If the studios upset the current pricing structure too much they run the risk of giving the golden goose a hysterectomy.
It very well may be that these degrading DVDs will eventually replace rentals. The only problems I can see with that are the environmental problems and that there will be fewer previously rented DVDs available for purchase. There are upsides to these degrading DVDs replacing DVD rentals: They should be available in a greater variety of stores, the new releases area of video stores will not empty out on Friday evening, there is less chance of receiving a defective DVD, and there will be no late fees. This would also make DVD vending machines practical. If there were still mom and pop video rental stores around I would feel sorry for them. It would be a Good Thing if the current mega-store rental outfits have to change their business model because people start buying these degrading DVDs at other stores instead of renting DVDs.
Scattering Bible verse covered plastic bags is littering. Beside being unsightly, plastic bags can also be deadly to wildlife. Littering Korea (either North or South) with plastic bags is not constructive.
Unixware is still used by several organizations, including the US govt and some restaurants. The former Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) at one time had a failry popular major Unix distribution. Most corporate PHBs didn't realize that SCO was being a shit until SCO started suing it's former customers. It is not at all unusual for companies and their brand names to go through a succession of owners with little impact to customers.
And FreeBSD patch day is the first Tuesday of every quarter (if needed).
Some just don't talk much about using FreeBSD. I myself admin boxes for a large ISP that runs Solaris on enterprise production boxes. I run FreeBSD on several non-enterprise production servers. I have also tried several Linux distros and run some of them to test dialer support and I still don't like Linux for some reason. FreeBSD is more stable for one thing, and the ports system runs rings around the various Linux package systems. I find it frustrating when an RPM package refuses to install because I have a library or other dependancy that is a LATER version than the one that the package wants. Ports just seems to iron all that crap out for me.
Hydroelectric power can have severe environmental impact. The building of dams can be devestating to the people and animals who lived in the flooded area. Dams and hydroelecric plants kill fish, both from the increased difficulty of migration and from being chewed up in turbines. Dams fail and cause catastraphic floods. Dams cause damage to wetland areas both upstream and downstream of the dam. There are many other bad effects caused by dams depending upon their location. Dams can cause concentration of pcb's, mercury and other toxins, dams cause the retention of silt, there are many ways that dams can cause reduction in water quality.
Show me any large database that is 100% accurate. The rbl's that list dynamic IPs accept corrections from ISPs (and sometimes from users), some will also accept entire lists of dynamic ports from ISPs. This means that an ISP can send a list of IP blocks for listing and the rbl will only list those blocks as being dynamic IPs (unless it is found that the ISPs are trying to scam them). If a provider provides shitty service, then the customers should either get their provider to change or the customer should change providers. Your original post indicated that there were rbl's that reported that all of Verizon's IP space was being reported as being dynamic. Now you are saying that there are ERRORS in the dynamic rbl lists, this is a big difference.
The rbl's that list dynamic IPs will correct their listings if the DNS information for the IPs is correct and they are informed by the ISP that the listing is incorrect. The rbl's that list dynamic IP space are not listing all of Verizon's IP space, only the dynamic space.
The stament about some rbl's listing all of Verizon's IP space has nothing at all to do with the blocking of mail from dynamic space.
Many of the more clued ISPs, mail filtering services, and corporate mail servers either block or mark incoming mail from dynamic IPs. I believe that more servers will block mail from dynamic IPs as time goes on unless all of the cable companies do something drastic to block spam from their users.
I am sorry to hear that your monopoly ISP provides such poor service. Perhaps you could get smart host mail service from another provider (perhaps via SSH or VPN to bypass port 25).
And I thought that I was a hard ass mail admin. BellSouth seems to be going WAY overboard. Filtering port 25 outgoing on dynamic IPs and blocking mail from dynamic IPs are Good Things. Blocking incoming port 25 seems to be going a bit far.
The current malware does not use the ISP's mail relays. If malware does start using ISPs' mail relays, the ISPs can easily throttle email and detect infected machines. Detecting and throttling spam is MUCH more difficult to do if port 25 is not filtered.
Moving your mail servers to port 26 is a good way to work around a filtered port 25 AND it will stop spam. The problem comes in when you need to send email to a mail server outside of your own network.
Filtering port 25 on dynamic IPs is the Right Thing To Do, I think that filtering port 25 from static IPs is a bit too drastic.
If mail servers would start blocking all mail coming from dynamic IPs, they would block the vast majority of spam and block almost no legitimate mail. Yeah, I know that some folks running mail servers on dynamic IPs aren't going to like that, they can still send mail through their provider's mail servers. The arguments against blocking mail from dynamic IPs are pretty much the same as when people were arguing about open mail servers. This is just one mor ething that spammers have ruined.