What I don't get is how you can get a Court Order when it's your own damn mistake for conducting a legal sell.
Suppose I walked around all day proclaiming I will shine shoes for $5 tomorrow. Then, I shined your shoes TONIGHT for $5. How on earth can I come after you with a court order proclaiming you have to dirty your shoes up a bit? Wtf?
Sure, I'll take it. What's shipping look like to Delaware? Email me... I can give it a good home, I do a lot of old system maintenance
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The solution to that is to block inappropriate DHCP packets where you can, and monitor for them where you can't block them. That's what my school (udel.edu) does. If you accidentally run dhcpd, bam, your network port gets turned off and you have to talk to NSS (network&system services) and convince them you didn't intend to cause any trouble.
I wonder how they count a 'site'. If there are two hundred domain names of the form hot-sex-women-frankenfurter.com that all redirect to teenzexpozed.com, does that count as one, or two hundred?
That's because there's very few english words that end in com, net, or org: intercom, bassinet, bayonet, bluebonnet, bonnet, cabinet, clarinet, cornet, coronet, dragnet, hornet, magnet, planet, signet, sonnet, subnet, sunbonnet---all of them taken. (No common word ends in org, unless you count Borg!) There's lots of.us word-play domains, since lots of english words end in.us. (I'm surprised hotfu.ck and hotbu.nz aren't registered... but hotsh.it is!) We will probably see cartel, chattel, mantel, and pastel registered quickly. (Hotel, motel, and betel probably don't have enough characters before the tel, but don't be surprised to see discountho.tel---and we already know of one *mo.tel...)
I still maintain that having a dynamic IP and port filters is like having a phone which can't receive most incoming calls and whose number changes every day. It's next to useless. Sure, people can leave messages for you elsewhere (via your ISP's email), but if you want to have your own answering machine (maybe your ISP blocks large attached files), you can't. Perhaps you don't need all of your ISP's services (webspace that doesn't have PHP, unreliable e-mail, whatever) and just want a network connection so you can manage your communication as you see fit---what good is a major broadband ISP then?
The server-client infrastructure relies on some VERY powerful servers that can handle tons of connections. If there are six billion humans online sometime down the road, they aren't all going to be able to be on AIM at the same time. Duh. The ARPANET was more of a redundant network with a handful of nodes (which were all servers with local access) on equal footing. We moved away from that. Now, we're moving into an age of P2P communications. ISPs need to realize that although a lot of people surf the web, the Internet is more than just a giant TV. It's not just about centralized content.
I'm on Speakeasy. It may be a bit more costly, but, if I add up the cost of cheap broadband and PHP webhosting with tons of disk space, I'm saving buttloads of money. Hell, they even give me whatever reverse-DNS entry I want for my IP address for free.
Movie encoding. As long as you have the memory and memory bandwidth for it, send each processor several megs of video to encode down to a few blocks---however much you can squeeze in a processor's individual cache. If you stagger the transfer, you should be able to max out the memory bandwidth constantly, which would be optimal.
Haven't you seen star wars? You know all those "psssshww!" and "KABOOM!" sounds? There really is sound in space. It travels through the aether, the thing that makes the speed of light the same everywhere. But, normal sound doesnt travel in space---only the sounds emitted by lasers and light sabers.
Selective? Well, of course. I don't encrypt every single homework assignment or shell script I write!
I do encrypt things like bank records, sensitive databases, private letters, etc.
Of course, it's easier to just encrypt your whole $HOME directory. Put it on an encrypted partition. Then you can say, "I keep all of my data encrypted so my identity can't be stolen, so people can't poke into my private life, etc."
Maybe in fact I *should* encrypt my homework. At the university of delaware, the policy is, if someone cheats off of you, both them and you get in trouble. If I leave my laptop unguarded for a moment someone else in my class scp's the data to his computer, I'll get in trouble for it, when I've really done nothing wrong**. In that case, an encrypted $HOME directory would be useless, since if you're logged in, the whole directory would be unencrypted.
(** = Some may argue I should not leave my laptop unattended. Why? How about this---you leave your car parked unattended in your driveway, so it's okay for me to just walk up and take the engine out? Just because something's unattended doesn't make it OK to tinker with!)
Before the BSOD, it was the General Protection Fault. Before the GPF, it was the Unrecoverable Application Error. Was there anything prior to the UAE, or did the system just lock up?
Who has seen a real-live Guru Meditation Error? I'm sure we've all seen linux oopses and unix panics, just to be fair...
I haven't used dired mode much. Can you give me a URL that would kickstart me into using it? If you can get me hooked on it, I'll love you forever. --os
Tab completion;) Globbing, wildcards, tab completion, and regexes are good tools to handle different situations where you need to quickly get the computer to pin down certain files without much effort from the user. Clicking with the mouse can be useful, but sometimes CLI will actually be faster.. depends on what you're doing. One really nice GUI feature is copying+pasting of files. I like it. I would like more, though, the ability to gather files as I maneuver around the filesystem and then deposit them various places. It's tough to think of both source and destination in a filesystem tree for me.. it's easier to use the get/put type inventory system in RPGs, which i s similar to file copy+paste.
[If you mean the flawed notion that "evolution can't happen because it means decreasing entropy," I completely understand that evolution is an open system (what we gain when we evolve is matched by the losses around us): the universe is inherently spiritual and meaningful, as a whole. That's what usually comes up in these kinds of discussions, but that's not what I'm referring to. I don't think you're referring to it either, but it doesn't hurt to check.]
I just mean that, if someone says our universe has some innate complexity S(0) = k, then k is the "Creator." This is known as pantheism (it's generally considered an abomination by the Church, because it is seen as "worshipping the creation, not the creator," but I digress). At any rate, entropy is always measured relative to something (like anything in physics); we only have delta-S, never absolute S. Basically, if you want to believe in God, let God = S(0). Worship Nature; plant some trees and fall in love life.
That's true. Creator isn't really the best word to use, because I don't think humans, planets, and stars were created by anything other than Nature herself. But, I like to call Nature a Creator, so I have "someone" to thank for being alive =)
Complexity *does* spring into existence without cause. Entropy is forever increasing. We are moving toward zero complexity. Either entropy hasn't always been increasing, or the universe started with full complexity.
I simply define the "Creator" as the complexity of the universe at t=0. I don't try to come up with intelligent creature with some sort of pseudo-existence that "built" the universe.
If you make the argument that our perception occurs in the timewise direction of increasing entropy because that is the direction that supports causation, that's fine (who says which way is "forward" in time?). It just means that our perception of causality and the Creator are one and the same.
I'm sure I'll get a thousand people saying "What an idiot," "Study some philosophy," "You premise is flawed," etc. I'm not going to argue with you, because I don't HAVE an argument; I have a definition. (And, btw, I have taken Honors Philosophy courses at Univ. of Del. Also, if you haven't studied Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations, please do.)
Yeah. Plus, the font belongs to a distinctly separate part of the document than the content or formatting. It's like, if microsoft included the gcc package with windows, sure, they would have to give a link to the source and any modifications they've made, but, they don't have to open-source the windows kernel, unless they used gcc code in the kernel itself. They can distribute both together, though.
If a document just had a note that said, this document includes GPL fonts that are distinct from the content and formatting, wouldn't that cover it? IANAL, so please correct me if i'm wrong!
People? I thought they were written by computer programs!
Seriously, I thought were already some form of worm. User surfs web, is infected by code. Code signs up for an account under the user's name and starts posting lots of "omg lol w00t" garbage intermixed with copies of itself. I mean, nobody really WRITES like that, right? It HAS to be some sort of glitch...
Actually, if you get into signal processing and transmission line theory, you will see that cables make a difference, for the same reasons that you wouldn't use CAT3 wiring for gigabit networking or indoor extension cords outdoors in a thunderstorm. Of course, paying $50-$200 for a pair of headphones to use in a professional recording studio isn't unreasonable. Paying $2,000 for a pair of headphones to wear while jogging, on the other hand, is quite unreasonable. Sanity has a sliding scale.
But, yeah, there is a point at which you can't justify the extra cost, and you're just throwing away your money. It's like Joe Sixpack buying vintage wine when he can't tell the difference between it and the cheap stuff.
But, back on topic:
My experience with flac is that it is VERY quick to encode and decode. Compression isn't an order of magnitude like MP3, of course, but you might be able to shrink files by a significant quantity (not quite a clearance rack or going-out-of-business sale, but definitely like black Friday). Since it's so damn fast, it's trivial to re-encode flac to other formats.
When you type http://foo.bar.pro/sucks.html into your browser, firefox connects to foo.bar.pro, requests/sucks.html, and sends another header which says the full url requested is foo.bar.pro/sucks.html.
You can override hostnames from DNS in/etc/hosts if your search order is files before bind. That's how a lot of people block the servers where ad banners are stored.
If you run a local apache and specify virtual hostnames like foo-test that point to the disk tre/web/foo.bar.pro, and add 127.0.0.1 foo-test to/etc/hosts, then you can go to foo-test in your browser and you'll get the foo.bar.pro test site hosted locally.
Hope that answers your question.
I would like to play with vhost within firefox, though, just because I don't like modifying/etc/hosts and sometimes my server's DNS is having problems but I'm more focused on altering a few webpages on a vhost of mine before fixing the DNS (I know, backward priorities, but still)
What's very interesting is that many comments have been made for how P2P scales or doesn't scale, especially if it's partly decentralized, fully decentralized, encrypted, and/or anonymized beyond immediate neighbors.
Why is this NOT a legitimate use of I2? Sure, copyright violations are illegal either way, but, if I2 is not very efficient for me to snag Slackware via torrents, then perhaps bittorrent could be improved to function better over higher-bandwidth connections.
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What I don't get is how you can get a Court Order when it's your own damn mistake for conducting a legal sell.
Suppose I walked around all day proclaiming I will shine shoes for $5 tomorrow. Then, I shined your shoes TONIGHT for $5. How on earth can I come after you with a court order proclaiming you have to dirty your shoes up a bit? Wtf?
Sure, I'll take it. What's shipping look like to Delaware? Email me... I can give it a good home, I do a lot of old system maintenance
The solution to that is to block inappropriate DHCP packets where you can, and monitor for them where you can't block them.
That's what my school (udel.edu) does. If you accidentally run dhcpd, bam, your network port gets turned off and you have to talk to NSS (network&system services) and convince them you didn't intend to cause any trouble.
I wonder how they count a 'site'.
If there are two hundred domain names of the form hot-sex-women-frankenfurter.com that all redirect to teenzexpozed.com, does that count as one, or two hundred?
I was about to sign up then I realized they didn't offer an over-the-Web home-treatment program.
That's because there's very few english words that end in com, net, or org: intercom, bassinet, bayonet, bluebonnet, bonnet, cabinet, clarinet, cornet, coronet, dragnet, hornet, magnet, planet, signet, sonnet, subnet, sunbonnet---all of them taken. (No common word ends in org, unless you count Borg!) .us word-play domains, since lots of english words end in .us. (I'm surprised hotfu.ck and hotbu.nz aren't registered... but hotsh.it is!)
There's lots of
We will probably see cartel, chattel, mantel, and pastel registered quickly. (Hotel, motel, and betel probably don't have enough characters before the tel, but don't be surprised to see discountho.tel---and we already know of one *mo.tel...)
I still maintain that having a dynamic IP and port filters is like having a phone which can't receive most incoming calls and whose number changes every day. It's next to useless. Sure, people can leave messages for you elsewhere (via your ISP's email), but if you want to have your own answering machine (maybe your ISP blocks large attached files), you can't. Perhaps you don't need all of your ISP's services (webspace that doesn't have PHP, unreliable e-mail, whatever) and just want a network connection so you can manage your communication as you see fit---what good is a major broadband ISP then?
The server-client infrastructure relies on some VERY powerful servers that can handle tons of connections. If there are six billion humans online sometime down the road, they aren't all going to be able to be on AIM at the same time. Duh. The ARPANET was more of a redundant network with a handful of nodes (which were all servers with local access) on equal footing. We moved away from that. Now, we're moving into an age of P2P communications. ISPs need to realize that although a lot of people surf the web, the Internet is more than just a giant TV. It's not just about centralized content.
I'm on Speakeasy. It may be a bit more costly, but, if I add up the cost of cheap broadband and PHP webhosting with tons of disk space, I'm saving buttloads of money. Hell, they even give me whatever reverse-DNS entry I want for my IP address for free.
Now I can combine my two dream jobs into one exciting career path: art thief and data pirate!
Oh man, I can't wait for a high-brow credit card company to install some of these in their art gallery / server room.
Yeah, I was about to say, what about those damned FOOD and WATER addictions?
Uh... I'm thinking Disney World with two kids.
Mom and Dad can each go with one kid to wherever that kid wants to go, be able to find each other later, no need for cell phones.
Movie encoding. As long as you have the memory and memory bandwidth for it, send each processor several megs of video to encode down to a few blocks---however much you can squeeze in a processor's individual cache. If you stagger the transfer, you should be able to max out the memory bandwidth constantly, which would be optimal.
DVD->DivX;-) just got a whole lot quicker.
Haven't you seen star wars? You know all those "psssshww!" and "KABOOM!" sounds? There really is sound in space. It travels through the aether, the thing that makes the speed of light the same everywhere. But, normal sound doesnt travel in space---only the sounds emitted by lasers and light sabers.
(thats all sarcasm btw)
Selective? Well, of course. I don't encrypt every single homework assignment or shell script I write!
I do encrypt things like bank records, sensitive databases, private letters, etc.
Of course, it's easier to just encrypt your whole $HOME directory. Put it on an encrypted partition. Then you can say, "I keep all of my data encrypted so my identity can't be stolen, so people can't poke into my private life, etc."
Maybe in fact I *should* encrypt my homework. At the university of delaware, the policy is, if someone cheats off of you, both them and you get in trouble. If I leave my laptop unguarded for a moment someone else in my class scp's the data to his computer, I'll get in trouble for it, when I've really done nothing wrong**. In that case, an encrypted $HOME directory would be useless, since if you're logged in, the whole directory would be unencrypted.
(** = Some may argue I should not leave my laptop unattended. Why? How about this---you leave your car parked unattended in your driveway, so it's okay for me to just walk up and take the engine out? Just because something's unattended doesn't make it OK to tinker with!)
Before the BSOD, it was the General Protection Fault. Before the GPF, it was the Unrecoverable Application Error. Was there anything prior to the UAE, or did the system just lock up?
Who has seen a real-live Guru Meditation Error? I'm sure we've all seen linux oopses and unix panics, just to be fair...
Hah, emacs is an operating system ;)
I haven't used dired mode much. Can you give me a URL that would kickstart me into using it? If you can get me hooked on it, I'll love you forever.
--os
Tab completion ;)
Globbing, wildcards, tab completion, and regexes are good tools to handle different situations where you need to quickly get the computer to pin down certain files without much effort from the user. Clicking with the mouse can be useful, but sometimes CLI will actually be faster.. depends on what you're doing.
One really nice GUI feature is copying+pasting of files. I like it. I would like more, though, the ability to gather files as I maneuver around the filesystem and then deposit them various places. It's tough to think of both source and destination in a filesystem tree for me.. it's easier to use the get/put type inventory system in RPGs, which i s similar to file copy+paste.
Shit, whoops. I even used preview but I missed it! The ": the universe is" should come in the second paragraph, after "degress)"
[If you mean the flawed notion that "evolution can't happen because it means decreasing entropy," I completely understand that evolution is an open system (what we gain when we evolve is matched by the losses around us): the universe is inherently spiritual and meaningful, as a whole. That's what usually comes up in these kinds of discussions, but that's not what I'm referring to. I don't think you're referring to it either, but it doesn't hurt to check.]
I just mean that, if someone says our universe has some innate complexity S(0) = k, then k is the "Creator." This is known as pantheism (it's generally considered an abomination by the Church, because it is seen as "worshipping the creation, not the creator," but I digress). At any rate, entropy is always measured relative to something (like anything in physics); we only have delta-S, never absolute S. Basically, if you want to believe in God, let God = S(0). Worship Nature; plant some trees and fall in love life.
That's true. Creator isn't really the best word to use, because I don't think humans, planets, and stars were created by anything other than Nature herself. But, I like to call Nature a Creator, so I have "someone" to thank for being alive =)
Complexity *does* spring into existence without cause.
Entropy is forever increasing. We are moving toward zero complexity.
Either entropy hasn't always been increasing, or the universe started with full complexity.
I simply define the "Creator" as the complexity of the universe at t=0. I don't try to come up with intelligent creature with some sort of pseudo-existence that "built" the universe.
If you make the argument that our perception occurs in the timewise direction of increasing entropy because that is the direction that supports causation, that's fine (who says which way is "forward" in time?). It just means that our perception of causality and the Creator are one and the same.
I'm sure I'll get a thousand people saying "What an idiot," "Study some philosophy," "You premise is flawed," etc. I'm not going to argue with you, because I don't HAVE an argument; I have a definition. (And, btw, I have taken Honors Philosophy courses at Univ. of Del. Also, if you haven't studied Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations, please do.)
Yeah. Plus, the font belongs to a distinctly separate part of the document than the content or formatting. It's like, if microsoft included the gcc package with windows, sure, they would have to give a link to the source and any modifications they've made, but, they don't have to open-source the windows kernel, unless they used gcc code in the kernel itself. They can distribute both together, though.
If a document just had a note that said, this document includes GPL fonts that are distinct from the content and formatting, wouldn't that cover it? IANAL, so please correct me if i'm wrong!
People? I thought they were written by computer programs!
Seriously, I thought were already some form of worm. User surfs web, is infected by code. Code signs up for an account under the user's name and starts posting lots of "omg lol w00t" garbage intermixed with copies of itself. I mean, nobody really WRITES like that, right? It HAS to be some sort of glitch...
Actually, if you get into signal processing and transmission line theory, you will see that cables make a difference, for the same reasons that you wouldn't use CAT3 wiring for gigabit networking or indoor extension cords outdoors in a thunderstorm. Of course, paying $50-$200 for a pair of headphones to use in a professional recording studio isn't unreasonable. Paying $2,000 for a pair of headphones to wear while jogging, on the other hand, is quite unreasonable. Sanity has a sliding scale.
But, yeah, there is a point at which you can't justify the extra cost, and you're just throwing away your money. It's like Joe Sixpack buying vintage wine when he can't tell the difference between it and the cheap stuff.
But, back on topic:
My experience with flac is that it is VERY quick to encode and decode. Compression isn't an order of magnitude like MP3, of course, but you might be able to shrink files by a significant quantity (not quite a clearance rack or going-out-of-business sale, but definitely like black Friday). Since it's so damn fast, it's trivial to re-encode flac to other formats.
When you type http://foo.bar.pro/sucks.html into your browser, firefox connects to foo.bar.pro, requests /sucks.html, and sends another header which says the full url requested is foo.bar.pro/sucks.html.
/etc/hosts if your search order is files before bind. That's how a lot of people block the servers where ad banners are stored.
/web/foo.bar.pro, and add 127.0.0.1 foo-test to /etc/hosts, then you can go to foo-test in your browser and you'll get the foo.bar.pro test site hosted locally.
/etc/hosts and sometimes my server's DNS is having problems but I'm more focused on altering a few webpages on a vhost of mine before fixing the DNS (I know, backward priorities, but still)
You can override hostnames from DNS in
If you run a local apache and specify virtual hostnames like foo-test that point to the disk tre
Hope that answers your question.
I would like to play with vhost within firefox, though, just because I don't like modifying
What's very interesting is that many comments have been made for how P2P scales or doesn't scale, especially if it's partly decentralized, fully decentralized, encrypted, and/or anonymized beyond immediate neighbors.
Why is this NOT a legitimate use of I2? Sure, copyright violations are illegal either way, but, if I2 is not very efficient for me to snag Slackware via torrents, then perhaps bittorrent could be improved to function better over higher-bandwidth connections.