In the long run, content is going to be free. Commercials and conventional advertising is going to die, and the only way to get adverts to the end user is going to be via content. Songs about Pepsi, Trojan brand condoms in love scenes. This sucks for Hollywood and RIAA because it means a paradigm shift away from their models.
It would also be great to be able to edit a document even when you're in a remote terminal, and prevent that remote document from being stored in an untrusted computer.
Hah, so not only do google get to index all the web content, they get to index private documents as they are created.
Nice.
If you want to create a browser based document editing system, then why not use your own servers and TinyMCE ? At least then you can make it private (using SSL for example).
How exactly, other than a groovy interface, is google mail any different from all the other webmail services since year dot ? It's pretty obvious that you don't have secret conversations where they get stored on someone elses system.
I have a gmail account but it's only used for conversations with suppliers and "first contact" situations. For everything else I have various other email addys running on my own server. It's not rocket science.
Yes, my own server could be hacked, subpoenaed or whatever, but at least I'm not handing control over to a third party before I start. Always look and listen before crossing the street.
I mean let's face it, what is a "window" if not a hole with a fragile layer keeping the outside out and the inside in. They may as well rechristen it "catflap". Heh.
No, the real problem is systems like Windows, which promote the idea that end-users can administrate computers. It simply doesn't work, any more than it works for every driver to be their own car mechanic.
Or the idea that anybody can be a driver, let alone a mechanic too. But, as with Windows, if everybody else is doing it, then it has to be done. It's part of society now. If the test is too difficult, tone it down, because you can't alienate consumers from society.
Ok, I'm a complete Matrix troll, but I think The Matrix was the best real sci-fi film in 20 years (at least). I don't care about "bullet time" or the superman trick at the end. The acting was sketchy and the dialogue was hesitant and badly put together.
But...
The whole premise of humans not actually knowing the state of their own existence, and the mere fact that you can't actually disprove the main idea (ie we are all inside a computer program) makes it riveting. It is so religeous without being about god. I wish I could find words to describe the inate correctness of the whole hypothesis.
No, I haven't tried leaping off buildings or dodging bullets, but is that air I'm breathing ? I have no real way of knowing. and thats what makes it fun.
Of course I might add that I do believe that the whole purpose of computing is to create some kind of sentient life. We will never travel to the stars as flesh and blood, but as electricity in one form or another. I don't expect this to happen next week or next century, but I think that it will be the future. And that is why the Matrix hits home. If every thing real is in fact just computer programming, then real can be anything and anywhere you want. It won't matter that you're not really standing on Mars if you think you are, and there is nobody to say any different.
Imagine if you could construct a silicon chip that held your conciousness. Attach it to cameras, sensors, what have you, and then send you off to the stars with a nice nuclear power pack to last a few thousand years. What a life.
I used to work for a company called AVX (part of the Kyocera group) where we made tantalum caps. When some of those went wrong, they were quite nasty.
I remember seeing a Motorola phone that had some of our caps in and when they went, they made a nice black sqishy mess out of the phones back casing.
Another thing about burning tantalum caps, the only thing that will put them out is salt. The manufacturing process is pretty involved with each cap taking about 1 to 2 weeks to go through all the processes. The chemicals were pretty shitty too. Phosphoric acid, glycolic acid, acetic acid, manganese and many other horrible mixtures. I remember one day I was working on the manganese section (Black dip) where the anodes were dipped into the manganese solution up to the shoulder, then blotted to remove excess fluid. After that, they went into an oven with a water bath for an hour. The dozy QA came walking round and was opening each oven door in turn and big clouds of green (highly toxic) smoke was pouring from the ovens. Apparently she was "checking that I had put water in the baths" ! I think she ended up in management...
I'm glad I got away from that place.
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perhaps even by the V1 which was strictly speaking a remote operated vehicle?
Depends how strict you want to be. If you mean strict as in "completely false" then what you said makes sense.
The V1 rocket wasn't even a rocket, and it definately wasn't "programmed" in any electronic sense. Its launch ramp was aimed towards London, and it had just enough fuel to make the trip. When the fuel ran out, it fell out of the sky. That was why people talk about hearing the engine stop and wondering where it was going to land. It was ok if the engine kept going past where you were.
The V2 on the other hand, was a true ballistic rocket, and because it was supersonic the explosion was heard before the engines, effectively making it silent when it fell, and thus far more frightening.
You can read a bit more about the V1 or doodlebug flying bomb here.
If I worked at Fox and got an inkling of how popular that show was on P2P, I might've done something to speed along its revival.
Don't they have the internet at Fox then ?
WRT to illegal downloading stats, all the media firms have to do is go to a torrent site or download the relevant software, and they'll see whats happening. In fact I can't believe that they haven't done this already.
The government is supposed to do the will of the people, and as I'm sure you are aware, you can never please all the people all of the time. So you have to deal with the wishes of the majority.
If the majority of people find something offensive, whether it be speech or actions, then the government is bound to their wishes. I think race related crime and descrimination stinks, and I'm fully in support of the government when they try to do something about it.
There seem to be a lot of posters here who think that freedom of speech gives you carte blanche to say, or publish anything you damn well please with no fear of recrimination. Well you obviously have no idea of what society wants or needs. If you allow (for example) Neo -Nazis to organise, hold meetings, publish newspapers, host websites etc, where the sole purpose is to promote hate against other races, then you are sending a message to the public at large that such opinions and attitudes are ok and you can join such an organisation with the blessing of society. Where as I'm sure you agree, nothing could be further from the truth.
We, as a society have certain rules of conduct, that help us to get along with each other without tearing each other to bits. For example, I don't imagine anybody here would say that sex with an 8 year old is acceptable, nor would they tolerate a website devoted to describing someones wishes in that regard, especially if it had pictures.
Imagine if a major game company produced a FPS game where all the enemy were quite distinctly black or asian or $insert_ethnic_group . They would be forced to withdraw it. Would we be seeing an infringment of their "freedom of speech" , or maybe we'd be seeing society saying "No, we don't tolerate shit like that here". The game producers could say "well it's not real, no-one gets hurt in real life", but the impression it would give is that ethnic hate and violence is acceptable - which it isn't. What's going to happen when WoW allows a Nazi guild to exist and go around attacking the openly gay guilds ? Will they be within their rights to close them down ?
I guess I'm saying that I agree with the policy of preventing hate speech being published in an organised fashion. One thing about extremist groups is that they mostly are not grass-roots movements. They exist because the most extreme person decides to attract followers to their cause, and some people in this world need to be led, so they follow any damn idiot, just to feel part of something.
So, the logical thing to do in such cases, is to remove the mouthpiece (the leader) and prevent idiots from being swept along. Every time extremism rears its ugly head, you cut it off. By not doing so, you are saying to the greater population that such activities are ok, and the groups grow in popularity.
I don't care what people do or say in private, but to profess violent extremist views in public is tantamount to a recruitment drive.
Of course the dilemma which most posters are having trouble with here, is that of how far do you allow society (read "the government") to censure such expression ?
I would say that if the government is truly representative of the peoples wishes, then there wouldn't be a problem. If you feel that the government is not serving society as a whole, then use your vote ! Make the government representative, and then you can have no complaints - unless you think democracy is a waste of time, in which case, join your local branch of Nazis uber alles !
Surely Tripwire would catch any attempts to move the OS into a VM ?
I don't think you can move a running OS into a VM so there would have to be a reboot, at which point Tripwire would start screaming at you. Unless they find a way around the key based access that Tripwires dbase uses.
Tripwire is included in FC4s Extras repository BTW.
I actually like ebooks. I don't like the DRM, but even that isn't too bad. I have an RSS link to Manybooks and there are more books added almost hourly. And they are all free. Now, I like a new book as much as the next person, but there are thousands of old titles that I have never read, and the ebook gives me that choice.
Currently on my Palm I have:-
20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Sea.pdb
Accelerando.pdb
Adventures_of_Sally,_The.pdb
A_Strange_Manuscript_Found_i.pdb
Beowulf.pdb
Canterbury_Tales_and_Other_P.pdb
Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar,_Th.pdb
Celtic_Fairy_Tales.pdb
Concrete_Jungle,_The.pdb
Cyberpunk_Fakebook,_The.pdb
dracula.pdb
earthbnd.pdb
Eves_Diary.pdb
Food_of_the_Gods_and_How_It_.pdb
Frankenstein.pdb
GNU_Manifesto,_The.pdb
History_of_China,_A.pdb
Human_Machine,_The.pdb
Land_That_Time_Forgot,_The.pdb
lexal.pdb
lost.pdb
Moby_Dick.pdb
New_Hackers_Dictionary,_The.pdb
Oldest_Code_of_Laws_in_the_W.pdb
pbound.pdb
plague.pdb
Relativity_-_The_Special_and.pdb
Report_on_Unidentified_Flyin.pdb
Runaway_Skyscraper,_The.pdb
Scorched_Earth.pdb
Secret_of_the_Ninth_Planet,_.pdb
Silas_Marner.pdb
Stephen R. Donaldson - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - 7+ ebooks
Strange_Manuscript_Found_in_.pdb
The_Arabian_Nights.pdb
The_Emancipatrix.pdb
The_Raven__The_Masque_of_the.pdb
The_Voyage_of_the_Beagle.pdb
The_War_of_the_Worlds.pdb
Ulysses.pdb
Wailing_Asteroid,_The.pdb
War_and_Peace.pdb
and I have still got 25 MB free out of my 51MB built in memory.
I had an issue with the appearance of the text on the screen, but after a little judicious tinkering with the text and background colours, plus adjusting the brightness slightly, I now have it set up so that I can read at least as long as I can with a real book. I like using my thumb to turn the page with just a touch, and I like having a selection available when I finish a "book" while on public transport.
In short, there is really nothing wrong with the concept, it's just the usual attitude adjustment that need to take place.
Windows is for people who value their time and Linux isn't.
It's precisely because I do value my time that I use linux over windows.
No fighting with virus infections, no Genuine Advantage hassle with a genuine registered version of XP, no spyware/malware/direct_to_the_stored_creditcard_ba ckdoors.
Plus I get to set it up how I want it, I can script repetitive tasks, there is a meaningful command line environment, it updates itself regularly in the background without needing a reboot etc etc.
Linux is fully network aware, and designed that way, so I can perform the same tasks over SSH as I do locally. Multiple desktops, slews of free software, interested users, true multi-user environment....
I have 2 old windows machines. Win98SE, relegated to providing dvb tv, and encoding xvid etc. Also a Win XP laptop, which has all my email backed up on it, plus various tools for accessing my servers. This is designed for emergency use, ie. if there is a fire, I can grab it and run without losing all the important stuff. It could run linux permanently (in fact it does via knoppix et al) but there is some handy (windows only)software for video capture living on it.
Sorry for the rant, but as far as I'm concerned, windows is for the proles(1), macs are for posers(2) and the rest (ie. *nix) are for the real power users / hackers / whatever(3).
(1)Don't know, don't care - just do it !
(2)Oooh, look at me !
(3)Now, I wonder if I can make it do this ?
Small example, when I have the tv prog running on the win98 box, I output to a projector, and continue working (heh) on the linux box via the monitor (they are both using the same monitor through a KVM). However, as I don't have remote for the tv card, to change channel I have to stop what I'm doing and switch the KVM over to the windows box, come out of full screen, find the channel, click it or type the number then go fullscreen and switch back again. At least I used to have to do that. Now I have VNC running on the windows box, and I just switch desktops ( ctrl+alt+arrow ) on the linux box to enter a channel number in a terminal window. Ok, you could do that windows to windows easily too. What wouldn't be so easy would be writing a small shell script that takes your simplified input and converts that to the correct channel numbers before sending. So instead of the history channel being 128 (it's not btw, but eg) it is now just 8. And so on for the rest of the unmemorable channel numbers. Ok, it took maybe an hour to set up and test, but it has saved that time over and over ever since. Plus I don't have vnc running on the linux box all the time (which would still entail memorising the correct channel numbers), I just use this.
I equate the "My time is more valuable" attitude to "I don't need to know simple car mechanics, if it breaks down I'll get someone else to fix it". Then they spend 3 hours by the side of the road waiting for a mechanic because a plug lead has come loose !
IMHO, the best way to control your ports is to close all of them, then open only the ones you know you need.
On linux this can be done with iptables, with the last line as -
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP
The previous lines would allow incoming connections to those ports/services you require access to be enabled to, ie.
# Allow incoming port 22 (ssh) connections on LAN/wan interface iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --destination-port 22 -j ACCEPT # Allow incoming port 80 (http) connections on LAN/wan interface iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --destination-port 80 -j ACCEPT #Drop all other traffic iptables -A INPUT -j DROP
You could also use DENY but that actually replies to the port scan which reveals the presence of something interesting to the scanner. With DROP the packets go straight to the bit bucket and from the scanners perspective, they just disappear.
Here is a basic howto for iptables, google for the rest.
Holy shit, of course you do! Then you go get funding for the next thing by saying 'My team cured Cancer, fuck you'. Do you really think Bruce Willis auditions anymore?
Err, no you get fired for costing your employers billions in lost profits - then you can't work in the field again because you've got a reputation as someone who is disloyal to your employer.
Bruce Willis has never, AFAIK, cured a major illness - he brings his (successful) name to a project, and that's all the studios really want.
OT, I accidentally pressed both mouse buttons while typing this reply in firefox, and it opens up file:/// (showing the root filesytem in linux). Is this a bug ? Strangely, when I try it again, it opens up http://www.agriculture.com/ which I'm pretty sure I've never been to before. odd.
Person B: "You know, you're right. Let me look at why I'm unhappy with my situation, and see if I can do something to change it."
Therefore, my advice is, fuck what everybody else [ has | does | buys ] - deal with your own life and quit bitching. If you don't end up with a $200k car then you obviously didn't really want one.
Why anybody would want to pay $200k for a piece of shitty metal and plastic that is only going to cost more in the long term is beyond me anyway.
It seems to me that persons A & B in your example are just at opposite ends of the consumer food chain. Maybe it's time to get off the damn treadmill, and just aim to have enough !
Greed and jealousy, it's what makes the corporations rich... and the rest of us sad.
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Wary means cautious.
Message ends.
Since when has the primary purpose of "content" been advertisement delivery ?
Did Homer write his Odyssey to promote a fucking Cruise ship or Eric Arthur Blair pen 1984 to promote his new word processor ?
Or is it just Art for Art's sake (money for gods sake) as 10cc would have it ?
Let's see, you could have Spam, chips, egg and Spam, that's not got much Spam in it !
Nice.
If you want to create a browser based document editing system, then why not use your own servers and TinyMCE ? At least then you can make it private (using SSL for example).
I have a gmail account but it's only used for conversations with suppliers and "first contact" situations. For everything else I have various other email addys running on my own server. It's not rocket science.
Yes, my own server could be hacked, subpoenaed or whatever, but at least I'm not handing control over to a third party before I start. Always look and listen before crossing the street.
Porous
Excellent way of describing it, thanks !
I mean let's face it, what is a "window" if not a hole with a fragile layer keeping the outside out and the inside in. They may as well rechristen it "catflap". Heh.
But...
The whole premise of humans not actually knowing the state of their own existence, and the mere fact that you can't actually disprove the main idea (ie we are all inside a computer program) makes it riveting. It is so religeous without being about god. I wish I could find words to describe the inate correctness of the whole hypothesis.
No, I haven't tried leaping off buildings or dodging bullets, but is that air I'm breathing ? I have no real way of knowing. and thats what makes it fun.
Of course I might add that I do believe that the whole purpose of computing is to create some kind of sentient life. We will never travel to the stars as flesh and blood, but as electricity in one form or another. I don't expect this to happen next week or next century, but I think that it will be the future. And that is why the Matrix hits home. If every thing real is in fact just computer programming, then real can be anything and anywhere you want. It won't matter that you're not really standing on Mars if you think you are, and there is nobody to say any different.
Imagine if you could construct a silicon chip that held your conciousness. Attach it to cameras, sensors, what have you, and then send you off to the stars with a nice nuclear power pack to last a few thousand years. What a life.
(or should that be "get a life" ;-)
More beer please...
I remember seeing a Motorola phone that had some of our caps in and when they went, they made a nice black sqishy mess out of the phones back casing.
Another thing about burning tantalum caps, the only thing that will put them out is salt. The manufacturing process is pretty involved with each cap taking about 1 to 2 weeks to go through all the processes. The chemicals were pretty shitty too. Phosphoric acid, glycolic acid, acetic acid, manganese and many other horrible mixtures. I remember one day I was working on the manganese section (Black dip) where the anodes were dipped into the manganese solution up to the shoulder, then blotted to remove excess fluid. After that, they went into an oven with a water bath for an hour. The dozy QA came walking round and was opening each oven door in turn and big clouds of green (highly toxic) smoke was pouring from the ovens. Apparently she was "checking that I had put water in the baths" ! I think she ended up in management...
I'm glad I got away from that place.
The V1 rocket wasn't even a rocket, and it definately wasn't "programmed" in any electronic sense. Its launch ramp was aimed towards London, and it had just enough fuel to make the trip. When the fuel ran out, it fell out of the sky. That was why people talk about hearing the engine stop and wondering where it was going to land. It was ok if the engine kept going past where you were.
The V2 on the other hand, was a true ballistic rocket, and because it was supersonic the explosion was heard before the engines, effectively making it silent when it fell, and thus far more frightening.
You can read a bit more about the V1 or doodlebug flying bomb here.
Oh, wait ...
And the answer is...
WRT to illegal downloading stats, all the media firms have to do is go to a torrent site or download the relevant software, and they'll see whats happening.
In fact I can't believe that they haven't done this already.
The government is supposed to do the will of the people, and as I'm sure you are aware, you can never please all the people all of the time. So you have to deal with the wishes of the majority.
If the majority of people find something offensive, whether it be speech or actions, then the government is bound to their wishes. I think race related crime and descrimination stinks, and I'm fully in support of the government when they try to do something about it.
There seem to be a lot of posters here who think that freedom of speech gives you carte blanche to say, or publish anything you damn well please with no fear of recrimination. Well you obviously have no idea of what society wants or needs. If you allow (for example) Neo -Nazis to organise, hold meetings, publish newspapers, host websites etc, where the sole purpose is to promote hate against other races, then you are sending a message to the public at large that such opinions and attitudes are ok and you can join such an organisation with the blessing of society. Where as I'm sure you agree, nothing could be further from the truth.
We, as a society have certain rules of conduct, that help us to get along with each other without tearing each other to bits. For example, I don't imagine anybody here would say that sex with an 8 year old is acceptable, nor would they tolerate a website devoted to describing someones wishes in that regard, especially if it had pictures.
Imagine if a major game company produced a FPS game where all the enemy were quite distinctly black or asian or $insert_ethnic_group . They would be forced to withdraw it. Would we be seeing an infringment of their "freedom of speech" , or maybe we'd be seeing society saying "No, we don't tolerate shit like that here". The game producers could say "well it's not real, no-one gets hurt in real life", but the impression it would give is that ethnic hate and violence is acceptable - which it isn't. What's going to happen when WoW allows a Nazi guild to exist and go around attacking the openly gay guilds ? Will they be within their rights to close them down ?
I guess I'm saying that I agree with the policy of preventing hate speech being published in an organised fashion. One thing about extremist groups is that they mostly are not grass-roots movements. They exist because the most extreme person decides to attract followers to their cause, and some people in this world need to be led, so they follow any damn idiot, just to feel part of something.
So, the logical thing to do in such cases, is to remove the mouthpiece (the leader) and prevent idiots from being swept along. Every time extremism rears its ugly head, you cut it off. By not doing so, you are saying to the greater population that such activities are ok, and the groups grow in popularity.
I don't care what people do or say in private, but to profess violent extremist views in public is tantamount to a recruitment drive.
Of course the dilemma which most posters are having trouble with here, is that of how far do you allow society (read "the government") to censure such expression ?
I would say that if the government is truly representative of the peoples wishes, then there wouldn't be a problem. If you feel that the government is not serving society as a whole, then use your vote ! Make the government representative, and then you can have no complaints - unless you think democracy is a waste of time, in which case, join your local branch of Nazis uber alles !
Plus there's nothing worse than being in a crisis and finding your backups are fucked !
I don't think you can move a running OS into a VM so there would have to be a reboot, at which point Tripwire would start screaming at you. Unless they find a way around the key based access that Tripwires dbase uses.
Tripwire is included in FC4s Extras repository BTW.
And they are already available in a variety of forms.
After we've just read this ( Blizzard CEO Lays Gay Guild Issue To Rest ) surely this should be entitled " Review of Colour " ?
Currently on my Palm I have :-
20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Sea.pdb
Accelerando.pdb
Adventures_of_Sally,_The.pdb
A_Strange_Manuscript_Found_i.pdb
Beowulf.pdb
Canterbury_Tales_and_Other_P.pdb
Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar,_Th.pdb
Celtic_Fairy_Tales.pdb
Concrete_Jungle,_The.pdb
Cyberpunk_Fakebook,_The.pdb
dracula.pdb
earthbnd.pdb
Eves_Diary.pdb
Food_of_the_Gods_and_How_It_.pdb
Frankenstein.pdb
GNU_Manifesto,_The.pdb
History_of_China,_A.pdb
Human_Machine,_The.pdb
Land_That_Time_Forgot,_The.pdb
lexal.pdb
lost.pdb
Moby_Dick.pdb
New_Hackers_Dictionary,_The.pdb
Oldest_Code_of_Laws_in_the_W.pdb
pbound.pdb
plague.pdb
Relativity_-_The_Special_and.pdb
Report_on_Unidentified_Flyin.pdb
Runaway_Skyscraper,_The.pdb
Scorched_Earth.pdb
Secret_of_the_Ninth_Planet,_.pdb
Silas_Marner.pdb
Stephen R. Donaldson - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - 7+ ebooks
Strange_Manuscript_Found_in_.pdb
The_Arabian_Nights.pdb
The_Emancipatrix.pdb
The_Raven__The_Masque_of_the.pdb
The_Voyage_of_the_Beagle.pdb
The_War_of_the_Worlds.pdb
Ulysses.pdb
Wailing_Asteroid,_The.pdb
War_and_Peace.pdb
and I have still got 25 MB free out of my 51MB built in memory.
I had an issue with the appearance of the text on the screen, but after a little judicious tinkering with the text and background colours, plus adjusting the brightness slightly, I now have it set up so that I can read at least as long as I can with a real book. I like using my thumb to turn the page with just a touch, and I like having a selection available when I finish a "book" while on public transport.
In short, there is really nothing wrong with the concept, it's just the usual attitude adjustment that need to take place.
No fighting with virus infections, no Genuine Advantage hassle with a genuine registered version of XP, no spyware/malware/direct_to_the_stored_creditcard_ba ckdoors.
Plus I get to set it up how I want it, I can script repetitive tasks, there is a meaningful command line environment, it updates itself regularly in the background without needing a reboot etc etc.
Linux is fully network aware, and designed that way, so I can perform the same tasks over SSH as I do locally. Multiple desktops, slews of free software, interested users, true multi-user environment ....
I have 2 old windows machines. Win98SE, relegated to providing dvb tv, and encoding xvid etc. Also a Win XP laptop, which has all my email backed up on it, plus various tools for accessing my servers. This is designed for emergency use, ie. if there is a fire, I can grab it and run without losing all the important stuff. It could run linux permanently (in fact it does via knoppix et al) but there is some handy (windows only)software for video capture living on it.
Sorry for the rant, but as far as I'm concerned, windows is for the proles(1), macs are for posers(2) and the rest (ie. *nix) are for the real power users / hackers / whatever(3).
(1)Don't know, don't care - just do it !
(2)Oooh, look at me !
(3)Now, I wonder if I can make it do this ?
Small example, when I have the tv prog running on the win98 box, I output to a projector, and continue working (heh) on the linux box via the monitor (they are both using the same monitor through a KVM). However, as I don't have remote for the tv card, to change channel I have to stop what I'm doing and switch the KVM over to the windows box, come out of full screen, find the channel, click it or type the number then go fullscreen and switch back again. At least I used to have to do that. Now I have VNC running on the windows box, and I just switch desktops ( ctrl+alt+arrow ) on the linux box to enter a channel number in a terminal window. Ok, you could do that windows to windows easily too. What wouldn't be so easy would be writing a small shell script that takes your simplified input and converts that to the correct channel numbers before sending. So instead of the history channel being 128 (it's not btw, but eg) it is now just 8. And so on for the rest of the unmemorable channel numbers. Ok, it took maybe an hour to set up and test, but it has saved that time over and over ever since. Plus I don't have vnc running on the linux box all the time (which would still entail memorising the correct channel numbers), I just use this.
I equate the "My time is more valuable" attitude to "I don't need to know simple car mechanics, if it breaks down I'll get someone else to fix it". Then they spend 3 hours by the side of the road waiting for a mechanic because a plug lead has come loose !
Todays mood == troll ;-)
On linux this can be done with iptables, with the last line as -
The previous lines would allow incoming connections to those ports/services you require access to be enabled to, ie.
You could also use DENY but that actually replies to the port scan which reveals the presence of something interesting to the scanner. With DROP the packets go straight to the bit bucket and from the scanners perspective, they just disappear.Here is a basic howto for iptables, google for the rest.
Bruce Willis has never, AFAIK, cured a major illness - he brings his (successful) name to a project, and that's all the studios really want.
OT, I accidentally pressed both mouse buttons while typing this reply in firefox, and it opens up file:/// (showing the root filesytem in linux). Is this a bug ? Strangely, when I try it again, it opens up http://www.agriculture.com/ which I'm pretty sure I've never been to before. odd.
Therefore, my advice is, fuck what everybody else [ has | does | buys ] - deal with your own life and quit bitching. If you don't end up with a $200k car then you obviously didn't really want one.
Why anybody would want to pay $200k for a piece of shitty metal and plastic that is only going to cost more in the long term is beyond me anyway.
It seems to me that persons A & B in your example are just at opposite ends of the consumer food chain. Maybe it's time to get off the damn treadmill, and just aim to have enough !
Greed and jealousy, it's what makes the corporations rich ... and the rest of us sad.
I say skip the commercials and the damn "food" !