I can't believe the ignorance amongst the slashdot community...
Ok, maybe I can, but listen...once you lose your right to use currency, you lose your right to everyone. Everything will be owned by someone who is not you. If you can find my other post in this thread, you'll have an insight as to why going purely electronic is the worst possible thing for you.
Learn something before you go off on a subject about which you know nothing.
Listen up because I'm only going to say this once.
You obviously don't understand that every electronic transaction costs you an additional fee. Before you start foaming around your pie hole receptacle, understand that someone, somewhere has to pay attention to the electronic transaction, end-to-end, and you will pay them for the privilege of performing that awesome electronic transaction even if you don't pay any banking "fee" on that particular transaction...you are paying somehow. Do you even know that when you pay by credit card that the vendor absorbs the fee? Yep...3% to 4% on every transaction...Visa or MC get $4 per $100 on every single goddamn transaction they process. This is sucking the life-blood out of our planet, and no one seems to care, especially you. If no one used a CC, prices at the store would be cheaper...go ahead, ask any retailer or vendor, they'll tell you...not only that, but they'll also tell you that they aren't supposed to talk about it...YES, that's in the rules that they have to live by to continue to access credit cards.
Moving on, once you lose the right to carry currency, you lose all of your power of self determination, and as a citizen of your country. Every single penny (or ruble, or peso, or whatever) you take or give will be tracked and traced. The government AND some punk bank will know every person and business with which you conduct business. If you associate with a suspected terrorist, guess who else goes on the watch list...guess who else goes on the no fly list...guess who else gets harassed by police. Guess who will have his wonderful awesome rainbow and puppies bank account turned off. Then try to buy food. Good luck, start begging on a street corner and rest well knowing that you don't have annoying-as-fuck cash in your pocket...which of course means you won't ever get a penny from the generous people walking down the street, because they won't have any to give you, and you sure as hell won't be able to accept visa or mastercard, will you?
Don't forget, you'll be subject to fucked up laws like transfer limitations, surcharge taxes (get ready for the carbon tax and carbon rationing once cash is gone). They will most certainly have black lists for money transfers, and they'll be ohhh way more accurate than the no-fly list.
So, besides being loaned your money (credits? the idea of currency and cash would die) at interest, in debt to your Satan-and-friends equivalent to the Federal Reserve, you will also will have the luxury of paying the bankers more...
Zombo! That's awesome. The first time I saw that site (probably 11 years ago by now) I nearly pissed myself laughing -- "Welcome...to Zombo com. You can do -anything-, at Zombo com...the only limit is yourself!". What's most amazing is that it's the exact same...and that anyone else on the planet knows about it.
Is it safe to do that on a mounted filesystem?
(I'm not trolling, I'm seriously curious to know...I thought that accessing a mounted fs in such a way might be disastrous)
The only virtual-server setup that I've seen involves a separate (dedicated) IP address for each virtual domain on the server.
If you set up a free account with some web-host that gives you a subdomain, then yes, you would run into this problem, but any decent paid hosting plan (one that presumably involves a registered domain) gives said domain a separate IP.
I do agree with you on absolute paths though...
That's a tough one, as all the hosting services out there are trying to conserve IPv4 addresses. I say each site deserves its own IP, but, who am I to say...We have a major telecom ISP that hosts thousands upon thousands of sites off of one IP address.
Using an IP address also doesn't help if the website's designer uses absolute paths (gawd, yes, it still happens).
"/story/" is an absolute path, since it takes you to the document root of the webserver. I think you are referring to a fully qualified path, where the domain name (and perhaps protocol) are also included.
In any case,/etc/hosts is your friend and will easily help you work around both problems without having to build your own HTTP headers or rewrite any URLs.
True! My mistake, I did indeed mean to say 'fully-qualified'.
Modifying/etc/hosts will work, but, can you imagine the hassle that would create? As an aside, the Internet originally had no DNS servers...all names were resolved using/etc/hosts...and now, what's old is new again...let's devolve everyone! Thanks be to the democratic/republican governments loaded with tyrants!
Removing the main DNS entry is really quite pointless: anyone who really wants to get to the site can just enter the IP into the browser. DNS is simply "syntactic sugar" to make websites easier to remember.
While it's true that removing a DNS entry will stop a lot of people from getting to the site at first, eventually the IP will start going around, and anyone who really wants to will be able to access it again.
Not true. While many sites have a dedicated IP, a great deal are hosted on a virtual server where the IP address is the same for a large number of sites. If one attempts to connect to the website via its IP address, the browser will be given the default site for that server (depending on how the admin set it up).
In a case where an admin wants to be reached by both domain name AND IP address, the IP address would have to be dedicated.
Using an IP address also doesn't help if the website's designer uses absolute paths (gawd, yes, it still happens).
An excellent idea! But I think getting an identical hash match is a bit harder than that. One bit of difference (literally!), and it won't work...unfortunately...
Excellent idea! But why designate a local master? (it could be off, then no one can get a cached copy) The whole idea of torrent technology is decentralization. Nominate no one! Any client with desire to download data would send a broadcast packet, without a local reply, out to public servers it goes. Should a local device respond, local download ahoy...what could be better?
Or outside of a free-speech zone
This type of sequestering of free speech is an affront to our supposed inalienable rights. Our rights are endangered, but we aren't that concerned as long as we have our McDonald's hamburgers and American Idol on TV.
"93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74"
That's way too short to encode very much more than anything informational. I'll bet it just says "Hey guys, happy birthday" or something.
Yes, the Russian message is far too short to transmit anything useful.
Execute order 66...even shorter...even less information...can't possibly be anything useful there either....
always wait for the check to clear before assuming that money is yours.
Thing is, there's no way to know when the funds clear without calling the bank every day...
Banks should have a customer level query system whereby a customer can determine which funds are truly theirs...sort of a cash caching system -- a "side" account that shows money not-yet-cleared, providing full details. It'd be relatively easy for a bank to set it up for their websites...what year are we in boys?
Have you tested your XP only apps in the VM? Have you ensured it'll work as expected/required? It sounds like you haven't. It seems you are somewhat cavalier.
...(XP didn't have the same kind of just-show-ui-quickly-while-its-loading thing either)
The hell it didn't! If one logs into the computer as soon as the login screen is displayed, (if the "welcome screen" is enabled) you'll see the "Welcome" line rise in a jerky fashion. That will disappear, and the taskbar is displayed right away. Because XP uses Terminal Services to show you your desktop, you'll see that the Start button, QuickLaunch area, and system tray will be blank (for only a few seconds, or longer) while your hard drive grinds away trying to furiously load everything at the same time. Win NT4 took a while to give the login screen (on slow computers), but at least when it did, one knew the OS was loaded completely.
I do like the idea of 'delayed automatic startup' in Vista (and 7 I hope)...
I remember the good old days of 'the operating system loaded', then 'you can use your computer'...now, it's a mash. So many people I know start clicking stuff and don't understand that their computer is still loading (there's no clear indication that services/apps are still loading damnit!), and they ask me why it's taking so long...then they click it again. Sure, there's a HD light that few (as in 10-15% of all computer users) people understand, and the hour glass sometimes...but nothing definitive...why is that so hard?
Actually, more than one homing pigeon exists in the world...so they could create a full-duplex "connection" in the same sense that the Internet is full-duplex.
Wow! What a coincidence...I was mayor of a few small and a few large cities a few years back...oh, it was great fun...well, usually. Most of the citizens I presided over demanded cleaner energy all the time...I found a perfect way to appease them...all I had to do was construct some power lines that go to the next county, or whatever (I don't really know, I never ventured that far away from my ol' stomping ground). Once I did that, the government (I guess...I don't really know about that either because we didn't communicate that well) just asked if I wanted to connect my city into the national grid...I said "Sure, why not?!" Once connected, sure, power was a bit expensive, but I never had to worry about from where it came and how it was produced. I connected all my cities into their neighbors, and I guess it all just piggy-backed onto each other, and all was well.
The accounting of all the deals I had between my cities was kinda wonky. One city would be buying water like crazy, but the other city never got the money...I have no idea why.
The biggest problem I had was with the garbage guys...they never knew how to fill up the dumps properly...they'd say they were full, but in fact there was plenty of space...friggin dough heads...
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I can't believe the ignorance amongst the slashdot community...
Ok, maybe I can, but listen...once you lose your right to use currency, you lose your right to everyone. Everything will be owned by someone who is not you. If you can find my other post in this thread, you'll have an insight as to why going purely electronic is the worst possible thing for you.
Learn something before you go off on a subject about which you know nothing.
Listen up because I'm only going to say this once.
You obviously don't understand that every electronic transaction costs you an additional fee. Before you start foaming around your pie hole receptacle, understand that someone, somewhere has to pay attention to the electronic transaction, end-to-end, and you will pay them for the privilege of performing that awesome electronic transaction even if you don't pay any banking "fee" on that particular transaction...you are paying somehow. Do you even know that when you pay by credit card that the vendor absorbs the fee? Yep...3% to 4% on every transaction...Visa or MC get $4 per $100 on every single goddamn transaction they process. This is sucking the life-blood out of our planet, and no one seems to care, especially you. If no one used a CC, prices at the store would be cheaper...go ahead, ask any retailer or vendor, they'll tell you...not only that, but they'll also tell you that they aren't supposed to talk about it...YES, that's in the rules that they have to live by to continue to access credit cards.
Moving on, once you lose the right to carry currency, you lose all of your power of self determination, and as a citizen of your country. Every single penny (or ruble, or peso, or whatever) you take or give will be tracked and traced. The government AND some punk bank will know every person and business with which you conduct business. If you associate with a suspected terrorist, guess who else goes on the watch list...guess who else goes on the no fly list...guess who else gets harassed by police. Guess who will have his wonderful awesome rainbow and puppies bank account turned off. Then try to buy food. Good luck, start begging on a street corner and rest well knowing that you don't have annoying-as-fuck cash in your pocket...which of course means you won't ever get a penny from the generous people walking down the street, because they won't have any to give you, and you sure as hell won't be able to accept visa or mastercard, will you?
Don't forget, you'll be subject to fucked up laws like transfer limitations, surcharge taxes (get ready for the carbon tax and carbon rationing once cash is gone). They will most certainly have black lists for money transfers, and they'll be ohhh way more accurate than the no-fly list.
So, besides being loaned your money (credits? the idea of currency and cash would die) at interest, in debt to your Satan-and-friends equivalent to the Federal Reserve, you will also will have the luxury of paying the bankers more...
Great idea, let's go electronic.
Zombo! That's awesome. The first time I saw that site (probably 11 years ago by now) I nearly pissed myself laughing -- "Welcome...to Zombo com. You can do -anything-, at Zombo com...the only limit is yourself!". What's most amazing is that it's the exact same...and that anyone else on the planet knows about it.
Is it safe to do that on a mounted filesystem? (I'm not trolling, I'm seriously curious to know...I thought that accessing a mounted fs in such a way might be disastrous)
Dude, if you have to neg your sack surprises, you have some pretty big issues to take care of with your wife.
The only virtual-server setup that I've seen involves a separate (dedicated) IP address for each virtual domain on the server. If you set up a free account with some web-host that gives you a subdomain, then yes, you would run into this problem, but any decent paid hosting plan (one that presumably involves a registered domain) gives said domain a separate IP. I do agree with you on absolute paths though...
That's a tough one, as all the hosting services out there are trying to conserve IPv4 addresses. I say each site deserves its own IP, but, who am I to say...We have a major telecom ISP that hosts thousands upon thousands of sites off of one IP address.
Using an IP address also doesn't help if the website's designer uses absolute paths (gawd, yes, it still happens).
"/story/" is an absolute path, since it takes you to the document root of the webserver. I think you are referring to a fully qualified path, where the domain name (and perhaps protocol) are also included. In any case, /etc/hosts is your friend and will easily help you work around both problems without having to build your own HTTP headers or rewrite any URLs.
True! My mistake, I did indeed mean to say 'fully-qualified'. Modifying /etc/hosts will work, but, can you imagine the hassle that would create? As an aside, the Internet originally had no DNS servers...all names were resolved using /etc/hosts...and now, what's old is new again...let's devolve everyone! Thanks be to the democratic/republican governments loaded with tyrants!
Removing the main DNS entry is really quite pointless: anyone who really wants to get to the site can just enter the IP into the browser. DNS is simply "syntactic sugar" to make websites easier to remember. While it's true that removing a DNS entry will stop a lot of people from getting to the site at first, eventually the IP will start going around, and anyone who really wants to will be able to access it again.
Not true. While many sites have a dedicated IP, a great deal are hosted on a virtual server where the IP address is the same for a large number of sites. If one attempts to connect to the website via its IP address, the browser will be given the default site for that server (depending on how the admin set it up). In a case where an admin wants to be reached by both domain name AND IP address, the IP address would have to be dedicated. Using an IP address also doesn't help if the website's designer uses absolute paths (gawd, yes, it still happens).
Actually, people did get hurt. People died, it just wasn't anybody you know, so it doesn't matter, right?
An excellent idea! But I think getting an identical hash match is a bit harder than that. One bit of difference (literally!), and it won't work...unfortunately...
Excellent idea! But why designate a local master? (it could be off, then no one can get a cached copy) The whole idea of torrent technology is decentralization. Nominate no one! Any client with desire to download data would send a broadcast packet, without a local reply, out to public servers it goes. Should a local device respond, local download ahoy...what could be better?
Or outside of a free-speech zone This type of sequestering of free speech is an affront to our supposed inalienable rights. Our rights are endangered, but we aren't that concerned as long as we have our McDonald's hamburgers and American Idol on TV.
Hand in your geek card as well.
"93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74" That's way too short to encode very much more than anything informational. I'll bet it just says "Hey guys, happy birthday" or something.
Yes, the Russian message is far too short to transmit anything useful. Execute order 66...even shorter...even less information...can't possibly be anything useful there either....
I think the GP knows that...dude was being funny...
If I had mod points, I'd hand you a funny mod...I don't know what it is, someone else doesn't have a sense of humor.
Ssshhhh! Give him a plane ticket and a scanner and let him go. It's one less neanderthal that will be left on this planet.
cashier's checks are always good
Unless the cashier's check is a fake...
always wait for the check to clear before assuming that money is yours.
Thing is, there's no way to know when the funds clear without calling the bank every day... Banks should have a customer level query system whereby a customer can determine which funds are truly theirs...sort of a cash caching system -- a "side" account that shows money not-yet-cleared, providing full details. It'd be relatively easy for a bank to set it up for their websites...what year are we in boys?
Have you tested your XP only apps in the VM? Have you ensured it'll work as expected/required? It sounds like you haven't. It seems you are somewhat cavalier.
...(XP didn't have the same kind of just-show-ui-quickly-while-its-loading thing either)
The hell it didn't! If one logs into the computer as soon as the login screen is displayed, (if the "welcome screen" is enabled) you'll see the "Welcome" line rise in a jerky fashion. That will disappear, and the taskbar is displayed right away. Because XP uses Terminal Services to show you your desktop, you'll see that the Start button, QuickLaunch area, and system tray will be blank (for only a few seconds, or longer) while your hard drive grinds away trying to furiously load everything at the same time. Win NT4 took a while to give the login screen (on slow computers), but at least when it did, one knew the OS was loaded completely.
I do like the idea of 'delayed automatic startup' in Vista (and 7 I hope)...
I remember the good old days of 'the operating system loaded', then 'you can use your computer'...now, it's a mash. So many people I know start clicking stuff and don't understand that their computer is still loading (there's no clear indication that services/apps are still loading damnit!), and they ask me why it's taking so long...then they click it again. Sure, there's a HD light that few (as in 10-15% of all computer users) people understand, and the hour glass sometimes...but nothing definitive...why is that so hard?
Yeah...boom mic in the frame, clock in the background (on the stove) skipping huge gaps of time....essentially 1 hour over the 6 minutes.
Btw...I own the exact same microwave that's in the background...it's annoying as hell...anybody want it?
Fuzzy dice, on the Bel Air's dashboard at 1:04...who else noticed?
Actually, more than one homing pigeon exists in the world...so they could create a full-duplex "connection" in the same sense that the Internet is full-duplex.
Wow! What a coincidence...I was mayor of a few small and a few large cities a few years back...oh, it was great fun...well, usually. Most of the citizens I presided over demanded cleaner energy all the time...I found a perfect way to appease them...all I had to do was construct some power lines that go to the next county, or whatever (I don't really know, I never ventured that far away from my ol' stomping ground). Once I did that, the government (I guess...I don't really know about that either because we didn't communicate that well) just asked if I wanted to connect my city into the national grid...I said "Sure, why not?!" Once connected, sure, power was a bit expensive, but I never had to worry about from where it came and how it was produced. I connected all my cities into their neighbors, and I guess it all just piggy-backed onto each other, and all was well.
The accounting of all the deals I had between my cities was kinda wonky. One city would be buying water like crazy, but the other city never got the money...I have no idea why.
The biggest problem I had was with the garbage guys...they never knew how to fill up the dumps properly...they'd say they were full, but in fact there was plenty of space...friggin dough heads...