I spoke with either you or another person about this awhile back. I don't have the e-mail right now, nor do I want to post it in public w/o your permission, however about 3-5 months ago this was still a project in its infancy and the CTO (I believe that would be you) were in college.
I'll keep it short and sweet - if this is legit, where did you get the money, what are your approximate costs, and how many customers do you have presently? In addition, most customers utilizing a service such as the one you provide have serious concerns about physical integrity of their server: a physical compromise of the system can rarely be detected remotely. What are your plans for ensuring mutual tamper-proof systems (ie, you cannot tamper with them without your customer knowing and vice versa)?
you can compress the entire RF spectrum into the color red.. in a manner of speaking. The frequencies that the visible spectrum operates at means there is ALOT more bandwidth available in it. So yes, our eyes are capable of absorbing more information than the most sophisticated antenna... remember.. we're talking nanometers here..
Thomas Jefferson, shortly after the ratification of the Constitution, said that even at the time corporations were already defying the government and the ideals of the constitution.
So long as people believe money is an end, instead of a means towards an end, we will continue to experience social unrest, the systematic elimination of our basic human rights, and the virtual enslavement of the working class.
It has always been this way. Such was the decision of the aristocrats when creating this country, and it was the intended result. The freedoms enumerated in the constitution were placed their as spite against the British. Everyone in the US knows the preamble, the Declaration of Independence, and the first 10 amendments of the constitution.. but how many read the rest?
Here we have enshrined a brief moment of civil unrest, transcribed on paper, detailing the crimes of the king, the request for a redress of grievances... a generation passing the torch from one to another.. but what of the similarities between then and now? The technology has changed, but the people have not - if we do not exploit, we in turn will be exploited. Such competition...
How many read between the lines, how many realized that this was not a document for personal freedom but for economic freedom?
I am troubled by the turn of events.. people are ignorant of their history, are unwilling to change, and regard the temporary equilibriums of our existance as eternally functioning parts.. they are afraid of change because they are afraid that it might shatter whatever is holding back the forces of change and chaos.. that it might jeopardize the crumbs of material wealth they have had bestowed on them.
Interesting you should mention Ender's Game, I always thought that was a largely irrelevant subplot other than to demonstrate Ender was, infact, seriously clued.
But it does underscore a very serious problem that even the Greeks had - it is very obvious that for democracy to succeed that the elected officials need to be educated to a level where they do not embarass the issues, themselves, or their constituents. I disrecall the exact quote, but I believe Plato said something about this when talking about rhetoric. Probably the first moral relativists (and unfortunately I also forget the name of the group!) they decided that any position could be made valid with enough work, and as such it didn't particularily matter what your position was so long as you could argue it well.
And how very true that statement is, because most people (I would say 75%) respond to emotion - that is how they judge and perceive things. If someone is emotional about something, it must mean it is something important.. or so goes the train of thought. This can often lead to people charging into the sea like lemmings because a charismatic individual led them. How do you "fix" that?
I arrived at the conclusion awhile back that democracy is a failed system - it can never work in a large group. Small groups amongst peers sharing similar goals, YES. But not in a large group. The reason is because a few people will control and manipulate the masses by appealing to their emotions instead of their brains. Ask a man who he voted for and he'll probably tell you.. ask him why and vagueness is all. Unfortunately, I have no better system to offer - communism failed, facism failed, anarchy definately failed, feudalism failed, monarchy failed, and benevolent dictators are all but impossible to find. Left with that, I decided awhile ago that if I ever feel the need to participate in politics, I would appeal to people's hearts instead of their brains.. it's more likely to succeed.
Innovation died when it smacked into commercialism at 186,000 MPH on the 'net. The autopsy revealed that it died after taking a massive overdose of patents and copyright law at the same time. Doctors report that he double-twitched to death on his bed after claiming the single-twitch death was patented by PreferredOne.
Bad attempt at humor aside, the reason innovation died is because we can't! I can't link to another site without being sued, I can't talk bad about a product without being sued, I can't be controversial, can't talk in politically incorrect ways, can't have opinions, and can't hack together something obvious because Some Other Guy(tm)(r)(c) already patented it and I don't have the money to fight!
Innovation is hampered every time there is a delay while research is done for patents, everytime an idea is scrapped because someone else happened to patent the obvious, everytime a meeting is held, every press release made we are slowing down the rate of progress in this country. If we continue at this rate, we may well wind up reaching a social and legal impasse where no progress can be made because there are too many cooks in the kitchen.
Sir, my job is not to police slashdot or tell other people how to do things. I am one poster, and just like everyone else am governed by the same rules under this system.
Your replies on this have been nothing more then thinly veiled hatred and contempt and I will not continue to cater to your insecurities by replying anymore to your posts. Good day.
Sir, you may moderate however you want. If you feel it is offtopic mark it as such. If you feel it's a troll, mark it as such. That's what the controls are there for, but do so fairly, and according to the guidelines.
HOWEVER, if you mark something meant to be funny as TROLL that is bad moderation. Do it repeatedly and I will have no sympathy for you when your account -1's and vanishes from slashdot.
It is YOUR responsibility to moderate appropriately, not mine!
You know, there's a reason they don't publish stuff like that on their homepage. There's this thing called "mirroring" that can't happen if the primary site gets slashdotted. Secondly, it is completely irresponsible to post a link to a directory that may not even be fully populated and ready for download. Anyone remember the Service Pack 6 fiasco?
Well, I've been using ReiserFS on my linux workstation, and on my server now for the past 4-6 months now without serious problems. I've had no complaints about it - it manages small files exceptionally well - and won't bork if you power the server off suddenly during a kernel compile... assuming of course you enable journalling. File I/O performance is right on par with ext2 in my experience, both with slower 5400 RPM drives (my server has 4 IDE drives on it) and the Quantum Atlas IV 9.1 gigger I got now - 7200 RPMs of Ultra160 lovin'. I have had no problems with either of them
I think the filesystem got off to a bad start with some political / personal issues, and there was apparently alittle snafu on the main kernel list, but I'm glad to see it is all working out - the "beta" reiserfs was more than stable enough for the worst I could deal up with it - I stuck qmail on it and pumped in about 500,000 e-mails over the course of an hour... they all came back out, minus three which blackholed and one which was a dup. Not bad, considering it did all that/very/ quickly.. and the system was even kinda-sorta responsive while I was doing that.:)
It's also being funded by mp3.com so I rather expect it to reach industrial strength reliability.. but I took the plunge and didn't regret it. Then again, I don't do massive data warehousing.. so YMMV.
Do not be confused by my evil twin - for he is quick to post and did not read the article!
The way I see it, this IMPROVES 'net access as it is adding more bandwidth between points and taking stress off the backbones. This has nothing to do with greed per se... only Another Random Business Decision(tm).
PUC: Unless MediaOne is offering phone service (which they have in a couple trial markets) they aren't going to do jack. The PUC has no power over them
Hmmm.... we got that.:)
Media: Best Bet. Local TV Stations already view the cable company as something that cuts into their ratings. Only problem is they like sensationalism. You MAY get labeled a HACKER.
Currently, most every AUP has a clause that says it can terminate your account for any reason, or no reason. Usually for legal reasons you are entitled to the unused portion of your account in the form of a refund, but that is the extent of your remedy.
This poses a particular problem in an area that lacks competition. Take me, for example. I am a Mediaone subscriber. This happens to be the only high speed 'net access available to me. If Mediaone decided to terminate my account, where would I go for high speed access? Now, if I was on a modem around here, there are hundreds of providers.
So, legally there might not be much I can do. However, I already have a plan for if/when this happens to me - I don't trust Mediaone. They are a bad ISP, and I have had go-arounds with them over their "security" scans on my computer (I later gave up and installed a firewall) up to where they tried to kick me off the network after a 15 minute e-mail notice for posting DeCSS. I later re-established my account there after 2 wks of going back and fourth with management and the magic words "restraint of trade" finally got them to reinstate my account after I took out DeCSS. Curiously enough they didn't think any of this was related to DeCSS. So much the better, I guess.. but I digress.
What I plan to do if/when Mediaone pulls the plug: First, contact the better business bureau and file a complaint. Second, contact the public utilities commissioner and file a complaint specifically outlining their monopoly on high speed access combined with their AUP as having an adverse impact on the marketplace, 3) file a complaint with the commerce department in my state, 4) go to the local press if they do something really stupid (like what happened to these poor guys - who didn't do anything). In short, my strategy will be to generate so much bad PR and get so many people calling mediaone and asking about it that they take the better part of valor and give me my account back. I may not have legal remedies, but that is no reason not to make things difficult for them. In short, there are other options...
A worm propagates automatically without user intervention - like the Great Internet Worm.. or, more recently, remote explorer. This is a trojan horse. Get your definitions right, ZDNet.
Second, be very grateful the author was nice enough to make this a benign bug.. it could have had CIH as its payload.
That's exactly what economics does. It says that if the demand increases and the supply does not, that the price will rise.
I'm not going to go any further into this - there is nothing further to be gained.
You can either believe the government's CPI, or you can compare the cost of commodities against wages.
Hmmm... and what commodities should I look at? Cost of housing? price of bread? Transportation? We can play the numbers game if you'd like, I'm willing to entertain. In the end, however, the numbers can only be manipulated so far before it becomes a meaningless endeavor.
How did you come to that conclusion?
Common knowledge.
Of course not. You didn't do research. You went answer-grabbing, and lo and behold, you grabbed at the wrong answers.
The wrong answers, or the ones that disagree with your conclusions? For someone who's done nothing so far except make one-liner quotes and essentially call me an idiot, you seem to be remarkably unhindered by the facts so far. I've made a good faith attempt to buffet my position with research and statistics.. so far all I've seen from you is alot of thunder and lightning. Perhaps the good wizard would step out from behind his curtain and show the audience how the machine works?
Reading their journal, it's up for approval later this month... and if they don't pass the resolution it will raise political questions than ICANN(t) does not want to address right now.
YOU ARE NOT A LAWYER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
Whups.. sorry.. I didn't know I wasn't qualified to say anything about anything unless I have dead trees pinned up to my office wall. Well, you're not logged in and haven't been certified by the moderation system, so you can't post. Slashdot can't exist because it is run by a bunch of non-journalists. We can't talk about the DMCA or the CDA because we're not lawyers, and we can't criticize society because we're social deviants who choose not to conform. Oh, and I can't buy anything because I'm not an economist.
I think I'll just not post this because I'm not qualified, and then go starve to death because I'm not qualified to purchase food products in an informed fashion.
About that letter may I recommend you consider another registar?
Pathetic attempt at a rhyme aside, I'd like to point out two things - first, different registar's have different policies. The.god domain, for example, says "first come, first serve".. and that is the registration policy. The second point is that "Barbie" and "The Barbies" are two distinct and seperate trademarks under US trademark law. This is why there can be "Engree Systems" and "Engreen Systems" and they can't sue each other. If you want to make maximum brownie points with the judge.. classify your trademark under another category that doesn't conflict with the existing Barbie trademark. I can register "Barbie Electronics" and they can't do a damn thing because it is a seperate category. Just my $0.02.
which would obviously preclude him from being an engineer
Hmm, I didn't know age had anything to do with one's knowledge of a subject. Maybe there's some hidden law I don't know about that makes it so I can't be trained until I'm older. Oh, by the way - here's the definition of an engineer. Strangely enough, I have this driver's license.. and of all things, my car has an engine in it too.. which seems to fit definition 2 quite well. Even stranger - my driver's license says I'm 20 years old. The government must have made a mistake - I can't be an engineer and "only" be 20... I think I'll have to return my license...
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I'll keep it short and sweet - if this is legit, where did you get the money, what are your approximate costs, and how many customers do you have presently? In addition, most customers utilizing a service such as the one you provide have serious concerns about physical integrity of their server: a physical compromise of the system can rarely be detected remotely. What are your plans for ensuring mutual tamper-proof systems (ie, you cannot tamper with them without your customer knowing and vice versa)?
you can compress the entire RF spectrum into the color red.. in a manner of speaking. The frequencies that the visible spectrum operates at means there is ALOT more bandwidth available in it. So yes, our eyes are capable of absorbing more information than the most sophisticated antenna... remember.. we're talking nanometers here..
So long as people believe money is an end, instead of a means towards an end, we will continue to experience social unrest, the systematic elimination of our basic human rights, and the virtual enslavement of the working class.
It has always been this way. Such was the decision of the aristocrats when creating this country, and it was the intended result. The freedoms enumerated in the constitution were placed their as spite against the British. Everyone in the US knows the preamble, the Declaration of Independence, and the first 10 amendments of the constitution.. but how many read the rest?
Here we have enshrined a brief moment of civil unrest, transcribed on paper, detailing the crimes of the king, the request for a redress of grievances... a generation passing the torch from one to another.. but what of the similarities between then and now? The technology has changed, but the people have not - if we do not exploit, we in turn will be exploited. Such competition...
How many read between the lines, how many realized that this was not a document for personal freedom but for economic freedom?
I am troubled by the turn of events.. people are ignorant of their history, are unwilling to change, and regard the temporary equilibriums of our existance as eternally functioning parts.. they are afraid of change because they are afraid that it might shatter whatever is holding back the forces of change and chaos.. that it might jeopardize the crumbs of material wealth they have had bestowed on them.
*grumble* They killed holodeck5. Bastards.
Yes.
But it does underscore a very serious problem that even the Greeks had - it is very obvious that for democracy to succeed that the elected officials need to be educated to a level where they do not embarass the issues, themselves, or their constituents. I disrecall the exact quote, but I believe Plato said something about this when talking about rhetoric. Probably the first moral relativists (and unfortunately I also forget the name of the group!) they decided that any position could be made valid with enough work, and as such it didn't particularily matter what your position was so long as you could argue it well.
And how very true that statement is, because most people (I would say 75%) respond to emotion - that is how they judge and perceive things. If someone is emotional about something, it must mean it is something important.. or so goes the train of thought. This can often lead to people charging into the sea like lemmings because a charismatic individual led them. How do you "fix" that?
I arrived at the conclusion awhile back that democracy is a failed system - it can never work in a large group. Small groups amongst peers sharing similar goals, YES. But not in a large group. The reason is because a few people will control and manipulate the masses by appealing to their emotions instead of their brains. Ask a man who he voted for and he'll probably tell you.. ask him why and vagueness is all. Unfortunately, I have no better system to offer - communism failed, facism failed, anarchy definately failed, feudalism failed, monarchy failed, and benevolent dictators are all but impossible to find. Left with that, I decided awhile ago that if I ever feel the need to participate in politics, I would appeal to people's hearts instead of their brains.. it's more likely to succeed.
Bad attempt at humor aside, the reason innovation died is because we can't! I can't link to another site without being sued, I can't talk bad about a product without being sued, I can't be controversial, can't talk in politically incorrect ways, can't have opinions, and can't hack together something obvious because Some Other Guy(tm)(r)(c) already patented it and I don't have the money to fight!
Innovation is hampered every time there is a delay while research is done for patents, everytime an idea is scrapped because someone else happened to patent the obvious, everytime a meeting is held, every press release made we are slowing down the rate of progress in this country. If we continue at this rate, we may well wind up reaching a social and legal impasse where no progress can be made because there are too many cooks in the kitchen.
That's just my $0.02.
Your replies on this have been nothing more then thinly veiled hatred and contempt and I will not continue to cater to your insecurities by replying anymore to your posts. Good day.
My justification is the 500 karma points I earned due to good posting, including the times I used my +2 bonus.
That's fine - but DON'T spray your drivel in places where others have to see it.
You know, there's this thing.. called the moderation system.. and it was designed specifically to address that problem. Use it!
HOWEVER, if you mark something meant to be funny as TROLL that is bad moderation. Do it repeatedly and I will have no sympathy for you when your account -1's and vanishes from slashdot.
It is YOUR responsibility to moderate appropriately, not mine!
The new crusoe slogan?
Pull the story guys.
Not a bad idea.. but I got xbill, so I'm happy.
I think the filesystem got off to a bad start with some political / personal issues, and there was apparently alittle snafu on the main kernel list, but I'm glad to see it is all working out - the "beta" reiserfs was more than stable enough for the worst I could deal up with it - I stuck qmail on it and pumped in about 500,000 e-mails over the course of an hour... they all came back out, minus three which blackholed and one which was a dup. Not bad, considering it did all that /very/ quickly.. and the system was even kinda-sorta responsive while I was doing that. :)
It's also being funded by mp3.com so I rather expect it to reach industrial strength reliability.. but I took the plunge and didn't regret it. Then again, I don't do massive data warehousing.. so YMMV.
The way I see it, this IMPROVES 'net access as it is adding more bandwidth between points and taking stress off the backbones. This has nothing to do with greed per se... only Another Random Business Decision(tm).
Hmmm.... we got that. :)
Media: Best Bet. Local TV Stations already view the cable company as something that cuts into their ratings. Only problem is they like sensationalism. You MAY get labeled a HACKER.
I don't think that'll be a problem anymore. >:)
This poses a particular problem in an area that lacks competition. Take me, for example. I am a Mediaone subscriber. This happens to be the only high speed 'net access available to me. If Mediaone decided to terminate my account, where would I go for high speed access? Now, if I was on a modem around here, there are hundreds of providers.
So, legally there might not be much I can do. However, I already have a plan for if/when this happens to me - I don't trust Mediaone. They are a bad ISP, and I have had go-arounds with them over their "security" scans on my computer (I later gave up and installed a firewall) up to where they tried to kick me off the network after a 15 minute e-mail notice for posting DeCSS. I later re-established my account there after 2 wks of going back and fourth with management and the magic words "restraint of trade" finally got them to reinstate my account after I took out DeCSS. Curiously enough they didn't think any of this was related to DeCSS. So much the better, I guess.. but I digress.
What I plan to do if/when Mediaone pulls the plug: First, contact the better business bureau and file a complaint. Second, contact the public utilities commissioner and file a complaint specifically outlining their monopoly on high speed access combined with their AUP as having an adverse impact on the marketplace, 3) file a complaint with the commerce department in my state, 4) go to the local press if they do something really stupid (like what happened to these poor guys - who didn't do anything). In short, my strategy will be to generate so much bad PR and get so many people calling mediaone and asking about it that they take the better part of valor and give me my account back. I may not have legal remedies, but that is no reason not to make things difficult for them. In short, there are other options...
Just stay online for a few more minutes and I'll have the answer for you. Also, pay no attention to the new icon in your system tray...
Second, be very grateful the author was nice enough to make this a benign bug.. it could have had CIH as its payload.
I'm not going to go any further into this - there is nothing further to be gained.
You can either believe the government's CPI, or you can compare the cost of commodities against wages.
Hmmm... and what commodities should I look at? Cost of housing? price of bread? Transportation? We can play the numbers game if you'd like, I'm willing to entertain. In the end, however, the numbers can only be manipulated so far before it becomes a meaningless endeavor.
How did you come to that conclusion?
Common knowledge.
Of course not. You didn't do research. You went answer-grabbing, and lo and behold, you grabbed at the wrong answers.
The wrong answers, or the ones that disagree with your conclusions? For someone who's done nothing so far except make one-liner quotes and essentially call me an idiot, you seem to be remarkably unhindered by the facts so far. I've made a good faith attempt to buffet my position with research and statistics.. so far all I've seen from you is alot of thunder and lightning. Perhaps the good wizard would step out from behind his curtain and show the audience how the machine works?
Still in school, eh?
Reading their journal, it's up for approval later this month... and if they don't pass the resolution it will raise political questions than ICANN(t) does not want to address right now.
Whups.. sorry.. I didn't know I wasn't qualified to say anything about anything unless I have dead trees pinned up to my office wall. Well, you're not logged in and haven't been certified by the moderation system, so you can't post. Slashdot can't exist because it is run by a bunch of non-journalists. We can't talk about the DMCA or the CDA because we're not lawyers, and we can't criticize society because we're social deviants who choose not to conform. Oh, and I can't buy anything because I'm not an economist.
I think I'll just not post this because I'm not qualified, and then go starve to death because I'm not qualified to purchase food products in an informed fashion.
Pathetic attempt at a rhyme aside, I'd like to point out two things - first, different registar's have different policies. The .god domain, for example, says "first come, first serve".. and that is the registration policy. The second point is that "Barbie" and "The Barbies" are two distinct and seperate trademarks under US trademark law. This is why there can be "Engree Systems" and "Engreen Systems" and they can't sue each other. If you want to make maximum brownie points with the judge.. classify your trademark under another category that doesn't conflict with the existing Barbie trademark. I can register "Barbie Electronics" and they can't do a damn thing because it is a seperate category. Just my $0.02.
Hmm, I didn't know age had anything to do with one's knowledge of a subject. Maybe there's some hidden law I don't know about that makes it so I can't be trained until I'm older. Oh, by the way - here's the definition of an engineer. Strangely enough, I have this driver's license.. and of all things, my car has an engine in it too.. which seems to fit definition 2 quite well. Even stranger - my driver's license says I'm 20 years old. The government must have made a mistake - I can't be an engineer and "only" be 20... I think I'll have to return my license...