LOL you got me too. By the end of the first paragraph I could feel the veins near my brain starting to pop. I'm glad I read the whole thing. Now to take care of this aneurysm...
Maybe it is time for all of us to be a bit more open to the idea that others have very good reason to review the actions of us all just as we should have the ability to review their actions.
You are probably the stupidest person ever born. If you want to bend over and take it up the ass from the "authorities", be my guest. Don't pull me into your complicity - how dare you speak for me. The Founding Fathers would spin in their graves upon hearing your treachery towards the fundamental raison d'etre of the US - personal freedom.
Fucking rat bastard.
I would be interested in the possible reasons one could come up with that would have your ISP say "oh, OK, that's fine - exit node away" At least in the US, an ISP will be far more concerned with maintaining good relations with the Gov't than with an individual end user...
"Posting anonymous for obvious reasons" is fairly close to the truth.
*** What does the average Slashdotter do to preserve their privacy (or what's left of it) while still making the most out of what the web has to offer? *** asked the submitter.
1. Easy - sit at home and do your normal internetting.
2. If you are going to do something sketchy online, go to your local coffeehouse four towns away and do it there. Alternatively, go for a wardrive.
3. If you are going to do anything massively sketchy, think long and hard about doing it in the first place. If you are still justified in doing said deed, buy a USB wireless card and use a CD based Knoppix. Proceed to step 2 as described above.
4. If you are going to do something insanely illegal, don't do it. Kiddie pr0n, DDOSes, etc fall into this category. Chances are great that you'll be looking at felonies when (not if - just a matter of time) you get pinched.
I was wondering the same thing, and I'm about as savvy as the next guy here on/. I've practiced all of those in the workplace, just never heard that acronym...
On another note, I used to work for a hosting company, and they gave us an employee account. My login still works for it, seven long years after I left there. Seven. I don't host anything out of it - I just use it for testing purposes from a remote location not associated with my local ISP.
I haven't logged into it in about a year, for fears arising what TFA alludes to, but the DNS still resolves, so it is still an active account. It's a bit scary that they haven't done an audit of employee accounts in nearly a decade...makes me wonder what other internal balls are being dropped.
Having had the misfortune to be a Windows SysAdmin for a web hosting company last year, I can attest that the D: is where the website(s) is/are stored and served out from.
Kali forever indeed! I never played Duke Nukem on it, but I played a he'll of a lot of Decent 2 on there with my squadron, the Wildcards. Man good times good times...
Maybe someone will start to work on the long abandoned Descent 4. How there isn't a similar game like that on the market baffles me.
It's possible - sure. You can throttle it from a server admin end, an hosting provider end, an upstream provider end, a Tier 1 end...a damn shame. Almost makes me want to see the Internet partially regulated, so stuff like this doesn't happen.
Of course, that opens a million questions. Who regulates it? The G8? One country, one vote? Companies? A "non partisian" governing body a la IETF or the IEEE? What if you or I or Mohammad or Jorge or Masahari doesn't like the way it is regulated in their country? Look at all the news stories that China and North Korea generate about their methods of throttling aka information dispersal.
OTOH, what about companies that have invested zillions into their piping infrastructure, only to have smaller competitors take advantage of it...
I have no idea what the answer is - man things were easier back in the day of BBSs and Lynx.
(disclaimer, I'm not arguing with the parent poster - it just made me think a little bit about the whole thing, and the many different angles involved)
Regrettably I must agree with my anonymous colleague. Looking for compassionate, helpful posts for a topic like this on./ is like seeking legal advice on the WoW boards.
I looked into the google money tree scam a few weeks ago after my girlfriend got a cellphone text message from a suspicious (and non requested) source trying to get her to sign up for it. She is not tech savvy, but she knows when something smells fishy. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of people who are not tech or street savvy have gotten pulled into this scam, being charged 80 dollars a month for freely available information and having a difficult (practically impossible) time canceling the service, let alone getting their money back.
The only out the shadow company has is in their fine print, as always - even that is obscured as some of the shell sites have a timer running on their T&C page - it redirects you back to the entry page shortly after you start top read the T&Cs. Of course the rates are listed at the bottom of the page. Using noscript will allow you to view them at your leisure, but how many average Americans are using noscript and researching this in the first place?
A shame really - just one more example of how P.T Barnum was right, but also more disgusting is how some folks are willing to dup others out of their cash.
Is our lap supposed to represent the T-1000? Or does it stand in for a liquid nitrogen truck? Either way it seems the results would be less than pleasant...
I'll second KeePass and its UNIXy-OSXy variant KeepassX (the DB file that it stores passwords in can be read on all three platforms). In addition to its password generating abilities, it makes a handy home for my network/web logins. Sourceforge has both programs in all their gleaming, open source goodness.
Whatever I end up doing has to be reasonably lucrative (or at least have the potential to be so), not require any specific time commitment, and be doable equally well from home or from a hotel room. I'm also keen that it should be sufficiently different to my day job to keep my interest up, so the most obvious things like bidding for programming projects on Rentacoder.com, or fixing up neighbors' PCs, aren't really on.
Based on your stated goals and desires, allow me to be the first to welcome you to the exciting and lucrative world of drug dealing!
0/10 troll. Come on man - seriously. I'd pick out the myriad of flaws in this, but it's late here. If you fucked up your Mac to the point to which you described, it's your own fault. Either that or you need to attend a GUI 101 learning annex class.
You'll start off with exciting missions like applying for visitor badges and credentials, and escorting your foreign colleagues to the bathroom every time.
If completed successfully, you'll gain entry to exciting office buildings and drab, windowless conference rooms where you can see powerpoint presentations and plot secret strategies to gain research funding and evade red tape.
Woohoo! I can't wait to play this one!</quote>
I hope they have a janitor class I can play. A Forsaken janitor yeahhh that'd be the shit...
is it better to farm motes or mop floors in an MMO?
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LOL you got me too. By the end of the first paragraph I could feel the veins near my brain starting to pop. I'm glad I read the whole thing. Now to take care of this aneurysm...
Maybe it is time for all of us to be a bit more open to the idea that others have very good reason to review the actions of us all just as we should have the ability to review their actions.
You are probably the stupidest person ever born. If you want to bend over and take it up the ass from the "authorities", be my guest. Don't pull me into your complicity - how dare you speak for me. The Founding Fathers would spin in their graves upon hearing your treachery towards the fundamental raison d'etre of the US - personal freedom. Fucking rat bastard.
They called that the Moon. All kidding aside, it looks like a shot of good 'ol Luna to these untrained eyes.
I would be interested in the possible reasons one could come up with that would have your ISP say "oh, OK, that's fine - exit node away" At least in the US, an ISP will be far more concerned with maintaining good relations with the Gov't than with an individual end user...
"Posting anonymous for obvious reasons" is fairly close to the truth.
*** What does the average Slashdotter do to preserve their privacy (or what's left of it) while still making the most out of what the web has to offer? *** asked the submitter.
1. Easy - sit at home and do your normal internetting.
2. If you are going to do something sketchy online, go to your local coffeehouse four towns away and do it there. Alternatively, go for a wardrive.
3. If you are going to do anything massively sketchy, think long and hard about doing it in the first place. If you are still justified in doing said deed, buy a USB wireless card and use a CD based Knoppix. Proceed to step 2 as described above.
4. If you are going to do something insanely illegal, don't do it. Kiddie pr0n, DDOSes, etc fall into this category. Chances are great that you'll be looking at felonies when (not if - just a matter of time) you get pinched.
5. ???
6. Profit!
Wooooshhhh......
I was wondering the same thing, and I'm about as savvy as the next guy here on /. I've practiced all of those in the workplace, just never heard that acronym...
On another note, I used to work for a hosting company, and they gave us an employee account. My login still works for it, seven long years after I left there. Seven. I don't host anything out of it - I just use it for testing purposes from a remote location not associated with my local ISP.
I haven't logged into it in about a year, for fears arising what TFA alludes to, but the DNS still resolves, so it is still an active account. It's a bit scary that they haven't done an audit of employee accounts in nearly a decade...makes me wonder what other internal balls are being dropped.
Having had the misfortune to be a Windows SysAdmin for a web hosting company last year, I can attest that the D: is where the website(s) is/are stored and served out from.
Kali forever indeed! I never played Duke Nukem on it, but I played a he'll of a lot of Decent 2 on there with my squadron, the Wildcards. Man good times good times...
Maybe someone will start to work on the long abandoned Descent 4. How there isn't a similar game like that on the market baffles me.
It's possible - sure. You can throttle it from a server admin end, an hosting provider end, an upstream provider end, a Tier 1 end...a damn shame. Almost makes me want to see the Internet partially regulated, so stuff like this doesn't happen.
Of course, that opens a million questions. Who regulates it? The G8? One country, one vote? Companies? A "non partisian" governing body a la IETF or the IEEE? What if you or I or Mohammad or Jorge or Masahari doesn't like the way it is regulated in their country? Look at all the news stories that China and North Korea generate about their methods of throttling aka information dispersal.
OTOH, what about companies that have invested zillions into their piping infrastructure, only to have smaller competitors take advantage of it...
I have no idea what the answer is - man things were easier back in the day of BBSs and Lynx.
(disclaimer, I'm not arguing with the parent poster - it just made me think a little bit about the whole thing, and the many different angles involved)
Is it possible that there has always been error, but it is just more noticeable now given that reporting is more accurate?
Regrettably I must agree with my anonymous colleague. Looking for compassionate, helpful posts for a topic like this on ./ is like seeking legal advice on the WoW boards.
I looked into the google money tree scam a few weeks ago after my girlfriend got a cellphone text message from a suspicious (and non requested) source trying to get her to sign up for it. She is not tech savvy, but she knows when something smells fishy. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of people who are not tech or street savvy have gotten pulled into this scam, being charged 80 dollars a month for freely available information and having a difficult (practically impossible) time canceling the service, let alone getting their money back.
The only out the shadow company has is in their fine print, as always - even that is obscured as some of the shell sites have a timer running on their T&C page - it redirects you back to the entry page shortly after you start top read the T&Cs. Of course the rates are listed at the bottom of the page. Using noscript will allow you to view them at your leisure, but how many average Americans are using noscript and researching this in the first place?
A shame really - just one more example of how P.T Barnum was right, but also more disgusting is how some folks are willing to dup others out of their cash.
Gee I dunno - anyone who has or wants an iPhone, a G1 or a Blackberry for starters...
A shame - I used to be an Apple Genius and I never once heard that advice dispensed. This is in Boca Raton - sounds like YMMV at your local store.
Is our lap supposed to represent the T-1000? Or does it stand in for a liquid nitrogen truck?
Either way it seems the results would be less than pleasant...
Are the unicorns flying, or what? 'Cause that'll bite into journalistic integrity if they are flying.
Now I have Majel Barrett's voice ringing in my head...
I'll second KeePass and its UNIXy-OSXy variant KeepassX (the DB file that it stores passwords in can be read on all three platforms). In addition to its password generating abilities, it makes a handy home for my network/web logins. Sourceforge has both programs in all their gleaming, open source goodness.
Whatever I end up doing has to be reasonably lucrative (or at least have the potential to be so), not require any specific time commitment, and be doable equally well from home or from a hotel room. I'm also keen that it should be sufficiently different to my day job to keep my interest up, so the most obvious things like bidding for programming projects on Rentacoder.com, or fixing up neighbors' PCs, aren't really on.
Based on your stated goals and desires, allow me to be the first to welcome you to the exciting and lucrative world of drug dealing!
0/10 troll. Come on man - seriously. I'd pick out the myriad of flaws in this, but it's late here. If you fucked up your Mac to the point to which you described, it's your own fault. Either that or you need to attend a GUI 101 learning annex class.
It should be Lock only.
*note to self - new /. form renders HTML poorly, even after clicking preview...*
... it should be a super-awesome game!!!
You'll start off with exciting missions like applying for visitor badges and credentials, and escorting your foreign colleagues to the bathroom every time.
If completed successfully, you'll gain entry to exciting office buildings and drab, windowless conference rooms where you can see powerpoint presentations and plot secret strategies to gain research funding and evade red tape.
Woohoo! I can't wait to play this one!</quote>
I hope they have a janitor class I can play. A Forsaken janitor yeahhh that'd be the shit...
is it better to farm motes or mop floors in an MMO?
Gave me a good chuckle there. Mod this up!