DSL has very good connection speeds, and we can do what the heaven we want with our connection (with the exception of enabling bridging on your modem).
With DSL your data charges are calculated by where you are plugged into the DSLAM at the exchange. I can't wander down to the local exchange and stick my DSL plug into my neighbour's port, because it has a lock on the door.
I think we can look a bit closer to home at user #235929, however we can't be sure an opportunist just registered that account moments after the story was posted.
I wouldn't trust Pearl 9 Design at all. Their "accreditation" is using Netscape and some Adobe programs, but interestingly their website is done in Frontpage (which they aren't accredited to use).
I just this afternoon noticed that they were not using qmail as they normally do.
This was in the header of a message I received from a Hotmail user:
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:45:31 -0700 Received: from 202.14.100.58 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.m sn.com with HTTP; Wed, 02 Aug 2000 GMT
Another from the same Hotmail user is using qmail.
Each individual paper copy would have to be printed differently, so that the barcode could include the UID. It would be totally uneconomical, as to actually break even on the cost of filmwork, plates, setup cost, you have to make many thousands of copies of the exact same thing. To print the UID in later by sending the paper through a laser printer would be very difficult, as shuffling so many thousand copies, and keeping track of them so someone didn't get someone elses UID would be near to impossible. So, nice paranoia, but not practical in the least. (And don't even think of using one of those Xerox machines that prints and binds the books in one easy step, because that would never be economical.)
If you don't find the Web site, surely you will bump into a book relating to Web design by Lynda Weinman. It's not that Lynda is everywhere --she is just everywhere that Web developers want to go.
As a matter of fact, I have never heard of her.
Does that mean I'm not a web developer?
Or does that mean someone is fabricating (using a ~random number generator) some hype?
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to one of the infinite number of experiments of the universe gone mad.
infinite number? How? There has been a finite amount of time since the universe started, and the billions of years usually tossed around as the standard age of the universe are frankly, too short a time for an 'infinite' number of experiments to have occured.
And who would have done these 'infinite' number of experiments as well?
Just recently I received an unsolicited snail mail message inviting me to "Billings Solutions 2000, Moving Towards e-Billing".
Beside their blatant abuse of the letter 'e', I should also point out that the image that appeared on every single page was a shot of Netscape Navigator 4, obviously caught in the act of paying bills online.
What worries me is that the address shown in the location bar is a plain 'http' address - no https, no nothing.
If these market leaders who are teaching business how to perform commercial transactions using the internet use straight plain HTTP sans encryption, I am seriously worried.
Every person or company who uses database records to contact you or in any other way influence your life is required to disclose (at their expence) the source of their information.
Person at door: This is Jim from the CIA, we've got a search warrant to come and find all that illegal stuff you've been doing over the last few years.
You: Please disclose the source of your information.
Jim: You see that house across the street over there? We've got someone watching you from there. See that light shade, it's got a bug in it. See that harmless looking telephone interchange there, it's got wiretaps in it. You know that...
Dude, if DoubleClick changes their privacy policy without giving anyone notification as they promised, what more chance is there they are going to disclose this information to you?
"This banner advert collected your IP address and links your browsing habits to profile #293-2995488-22312"
Most people use only 3-5 of the icons on their Windows desktop, without ever delving into any of the menus. AOL, Word, Internet Explorer is all they know.
Actually, I rarely touch the 3-5 standard icons (Internet Exploder, My Confuser, My Dorkuments, Notwork, Recycle Bin).
I find the desktop is a great place to drop URLs that I want to come back to later. If I'm reading an email, I'll drop important addresses onto the desktop.
The icons that stay around and get used a lot are the ones down on the taskbar thingy. They hide out of the way until I want them. They are handy.
When you desert one host or modify your site, why don't you leave forwarding messages (or 302 responses) to tell people where to find your new content?
other stories that CNN (who, imho, are possibly the worst, most parochial, most self serving news organ I've ever seen in a free country) failed to bother with
I think you must have missed seeing the New Zealand Herald if you think CNN is self-serving.
The biggest news they have had for a long time is how they are in a court battle to get the name of Peter Lewis who was arrested on drugs charges.
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I run my own proxy, and I set this up in my ACL list then denied them.
Sure it looks freaky with stacks of "ERROR" messages appearing in place of adverts, but is saves my limited DSL bandwidth.
This also has the advantage of catching adverts from the same domain as legitimate domains (eg mp3.com/RealMedia) acl advert_dblclick dstdomain .doubleclick.net
acl advert_mp3com urlpath_regex RealMedia/ads
acl advert_slashdot urlpath_regex /banner/
acl advert_zdnet dstdom_regex ad.*\.zdnet\.com
acl advert_ucomics dstdom_regex ad.*\.ucomics\.com
acl advert_assorted dstdomain .aaddzz.com .adbureau.com .admaximize.com .admonit
or.net .avenuea.com .enliven.com .flycast.com .focalink.com .hitbot.com .imgis.c
om .link4ads.com .linksynergy.com ads.mircx.com ads.msn.com .ngadcenter.net .pre
ferences.com ngads.smartage.com .track-star.com .valueclick.net ad.vert.net .web
ads.co.nz .webtracker.com
Now you can deny this at your leisure. eg:
http_access deny advert_dblclick http_access deny advert_mp3com http_access deny advert_zdnet http_access deny advert_ucomics http_access deny advert_assorted(The trick is putting the deny lines in the correct order.)
F-cked Company managed to register a domain with that naughty word in it.
I understand that they registered it with Tucows/OpenSRS.
Have you guys ever played that game Descent where you fly a remotely controlled craft through a mine?
And the mine is full of lots of robots that have had their firmware affected by a strange virus and are doing all sorts of wierd stuff.
There's lots of havoc, and you have to destroy all the entire mine to get rid of the infected robots.
Maybe just a game, but lets not make this reality.
The Windows Media Player license for developers of software that plays WM says that the software cannot apply any filters after the WM decoder.
You can't use your reverb filter on a WM file, you can't use your remix-o-matic filter, you can't use your save-to-disk filter, etc, etc.
No link sorry, although you can read the WinAmp changelog for some details.
Hey mate, move over to New Zealand.
DSL has very good connection speeds, and we can do what the heaven we want with our connection (with the exception of enabling bridging on your modem).
Yes data transfers (upstream and downstream) are metered and we get charged extra if we go over 'n' megabytes, where 'n' is one of 400, 600, 1200, or whatever you signed up for.
With DSL your data charges are calculated by where you are plugged into the DSLAM at the exchange. I can't wander down to the local exchange and stick my DSL plug into my neighbour's port, because it has a lock on the door.
As a Telecom Jetstream customer I change my "context" on the modem so I get unmetered (though limited) 'net access.
How it works I don't know, as the phone co. bills me for data transfers, not my ISP.
I think we can look a bit closer to home at user #235929, however we can't be sure an opportunist just registered that account moments after the story was posted.
I wouldn't trust Pearl 9 Design at all. Their "accreditation" is using Netscape and some Adobe programs, but interestingly their website is done in Frontpage (which they aren't accredited to use).
Yeah, just grab a copy of my book "Signatures for Dummies" and you'll be all set!
I just this afternoon noticed that they were not using qmail as they normally do.
This was in the header of a message I received from a Hotmail user:
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:45:31 -0700
Received: from 202.14.100.58 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.m sn.com with HTTP; Wed, 02 Aug 2000 GMT
Another from the same Hotmail user is using qmail.
Each individual paper copy would have to be printed differently, so that the barcode could include the UID. It would be totally uneconomical, as to actually break even on the cost of filmwork, plates, setup cost, you have to make many thousands of copies of the exact same thing. To print the UID in later by sending the paper through a laser printer would be very difficult, as shuffling so many thousand copies, and keeping track of them so someone didn't get someone elses UID would be near to impossible. So, nice paranoia, but not practical in the least. (And don't even think of using one of those Xerox machines that prints and binds the books in one easy step, because that would never be economical.)
Does that mean I'm not a web developer?
Or does that mean someone is fabricating (using a ~random number generator) some hype?
And who would have done these 'infinite' number of experiments as well?
Beside their blatant abuse of the letter 'e', I should also point out that the image that appeared on every single page was a shot of Netscape Navigator 4, obviously caught in the act of paying bills online.
What worries me is that the address shown in the location bar is a plain 'http' address - no https, no nothing.
If these market leaders who are teaching business how to perform commercial transactions using the internet use straight plain HTTP sans encryption, I am seriously worried.
Like so
I can't remember the specifics, but Carey College has their lesson plans available at their site.
100% is not "fair use". That's more like "theft".
Person at door: This is Jim from the CIA, we've got a search warrant to come and find all that illegal stuff you've been doing over the last few years.
You: Please disclose the source of your information.
Jim: You see that house across the street over there? We've got someone watching you from there. See that light shade, it's got a bug in it. See that harmless looking telephone interchange there, it's got wiretaps in it. You know that...
Dude, if DoubleClick changes their privacy policy without giving anyone notification as they promised, what more chance is there they are going to disclose this information to you?
"This banner advert collected your IP address and links your browsing habits to profile #293-2995488-22312"
Actually, I rarely touch the 3-5 standard icons (Internet Exploder, My Confuser, My Dorkuments, Notwork, Recycle Bin).
I find the desktop is a great place to drop URLs that I want to come back to later. If I'm reading an email, I'll drop important addresses onto the desktop.
The icons that stay around and get used a lot are the ones down on the taskbar thingy. They hide out of the way until I want them. They are handy.
When you desert one host or modify your site, why don't you leave forwarding messages (or 302 responses) to tell people where to find your new content?
How's that for a great idea?
1GHz? That'll help my distributed.net ranking.
Looks like the same guy. You are right. Unless there are two people of that exact same name who worked at Hybrid Networks.
Even plain text formats change over time.
Go to rfceditor.org and have a look at the format of the early RFCs and compare that to the current RFCs.
There is a lot of difference. (Ugly!)
I think you must have missed seeing the New Zealand Herald if you think CNN is self-serving.
The biggest news they have had for a long time is how they are in a court battle to get the name of Peter Lewis who was arrested on drugs charges.
None of them are gurus and they are all alive now, so are you sure you don't have a duplicate Dan Steimle?