Paypal has gotten quite a bit of bad press here on slashdot, but were chosen to handle Slashdot's subscriptions anyway.
Why is Slashdot in bed with these slimeballs when they do not have to be?
Screw subscriptions. Screw banner ads. Use Galeon or Mozilla and turn off image downloads. (Or use lynx or w3m...). Because even if you get the payment service you like, Slashdot will still resort to it's shameless eyeball-whoring in stupid misleading article writeups, etc.
An outfit that intentionally targets civilians is miles away from one that goes after combatants but also hits civilians, as an unintended consequence, as inevitably happens. The first are scum who are to be eliminated without mercy or regret. The second is anyone who ever fought a war.
To maintain that these are equivalent is idiocy.
And sometimes war is inevitable. Was the world to just bend over to the Nazis, because if we killed any German civilians while fighting the Nazis, we would be "as bad as them"? NONSENSE. Chamberlain showed the wrong way to deal that ilk; Churchill showed the right way.
No Automated Querying: You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google.
The mean it. The version of
WWW::Search::Google on CPAN sends a User-Agent header of "WWW::Search/2.33", which Google rejects, saying: "Your client does not have permission to get URL...". Changing the User-Agent to "lynx" allows the query to be answered.
Of course, the question of how their terms of service become binding upon us is yet to be answered. They say: By using Google's search engine services ("Google Search Services"), you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (the "Terms of Service"). Yeah, right. I don't accept that from microsloth, and I don't accept it from Google.
Sorry folks, this is a complete non-starter. I decide when I'll upgrade, not some programmer who can only hazard a guess as to when it will actually be necessary, or when I will want to. Like I really want my system to just stop working for no good reason - if that was what I wanted, I'd use Microsoft.
"Theoretically, if 'A' were to disappear, we could pick it up from one of the other servers," Crain said. "Moving the place where the zone is picked up is very simple."
Although the functions of the A root server could be moved elsewhere, Rippe said that VeriSign is well aware that it makes a much more visible target than the other root servers, which perform their functions in comparative anonymity around the world.
From now on, I'm viewing slashdot with images turned off. Fuck this shit.
I'm confused - hasn't this sort of thing been outed already? How could the initial settlement not take care of this?
To me, this issue seemed to be the plainest example of Microsoft's abusive monopoly, something even the technically unsavvy could understand.
Understanding is not the issue. Will and desire to do ANYTHING MEANINGFUL to MS is the issue. DOJ, as commanded by Bush, has no will or desire to do anything to MS except make the antitrust suit go away. The lameness of the agreement and the fact that DOJ now acts like they are Microsoft's lawyers in trying to sell this piece of crap demonstrates that conclusively.
I agree it was exactly like the terrorism carried out in Afghanistan by the US government
The Afghanistani government had almost a month to hand over the terrorists and disband the terrorist training camps, to head off coalition action. They did neither. And I'm still waiting for the first shred of evidence that USA delberately targetted civilians, whereas terrorists nearly always do so.
The palestinians are the fathers and mothers of terrorism. Thier policies are the direct cause of their problems. They had the best chance they could ever expect to resolve their issues, get a Palestinian state, get Israel to withdraw from 97% of the land they took (in self-defense) in '67 - and they turned it down. Why? Because that agreeement still would have left an Israel in existence, which is against the PLO charter and not tolerable to the Palestinians. It's a same their people pay for the evil of their leaders, but it IS their leaders who have borught this on them.
The client has already resolved the IP address, using whatever DNS roots it wanted. Because this is a proxy for folks who don't have proxies configured (hence 'transparent' to the user), the client actually tried to connect to the IP address it got from DNS. It's just that the proxy saw the connect on port 80 and intercepted it, but the IP destination address was in the initial SYN packet.
Okay, as much as they fucked up with the whole "mutation" thing, you can't say that their refusal to use the word "terrorist" is not noble, at least within the context of journalism.
Yes I can, you dipshit. IT IS NOT NOBLE. It is beneath contempt. A suicide bomber who kills 3000 innocent cilvilians of all races, genders, ages, religions and nationalities is fucking terrorist. Get your head out of your ass.
This dickhead salesman sat in a meeting with us, including my boss, and told us we could run this product (DSS PRO for WinNT) with the 'agent' (which captures the packets) and the 'snifview' program (which lets you see the packets and run the agent) on the same machine.
The first goddamn time anything went wrong, the techies told us this wan't a supported configuration.
I sent the saleshit the URL for Ethereal, which I'm going to evaluate as replacement for all (or all but one) of our over-priced sniffers. He had to have one of his techies explain it to him.
But the real question is: how incompetent are your programmers when you can't run server and client on the same machine, but can do so on different machines? Isn't usually the other way around?
True, but now you must modify both clients and the proxy. Also, how many roots are there, anyhow? One hopes this number doesn't get too big. Anyhow, after rereading other posts, I think using the IP address the client uses in the SYN packet, possibly only in the event that the proxy's own DNS lookup fails, is actually the better solution. That's the result of using the DNS the client uses.
The proxy server is enhanced to try multiple DNS servers, (even in event of NOXDOMAIN), including some in the 'standard' tree and some from OpenNIC. This solution has the advantage of only needing mods to the proxy, not the clients.
Cases like this should show companies it is worth the money to hire competent systems administrators.
What's the point in that when stupid laws written by ignorant legislators (oops - redundancy) let you shoot the messenger instead?
On a tangent, my experience with Notes (aka Domino) is that it may be good for something, but that something is not email. It sucks for email.
Google should drop any page with a redirect
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The worst abuses I've seen is where many entires that come back in a search are redirects to some common site (Example: at one time, searching for 'discount airline tickets' brought back many links, the majority of which were redirects to priceline.com, even though the domain name had nothing apparent to do with priceline.com (another reason, beyond the pathetic Shatner ads, to hate them). If they just refused to index pages with redirects, one massive source of abuse goes away.
The answer is that in that 1M of address space we had to accommodate RAM [random access memory], ROM [read-only memory], and I/O addresses [Input/Output addresses used for "peripherals" like keyboards, disk drives, and hard drives],
BZZT! As I recall, Intel doesn't use memory-mapped I/O. The I/O address space and the memory address space are separate.
Also, even if Billy could get the technical points right, should we trust what he says? Past history shows him to be very veracity-challenged.
These patches also block the mass-mailers, so the only reason the mass-mailers exist is that people are running older versions of Outlook
<sarcasm>Must be the new AI feature that automagically separates spam from legitimate mail.</sarcasm>
This last is a pretty broad claim. Seriously, though, what is this and how does it work? Spammers may be the only group on the planet that I hate more than MS (in the 'technical' arena, anyhow).
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Paypal has gotten quite a bit of bad press here on slashdot, but were chosen to handle Slashdot's subscriptions anyway.
Why is Slashdot in bed with these slimeballs when they do not have to be?
Screw subscriptions. Screw banner ads. Use Galeon or Mozilla and turn off image downloads. (Or use lynx or w3m...). Because even if you get the payment service you like, Slashdot will still resort to it's shameless eyeball-whoring in stupid misleading article writeups, etc.
An outfit that intentionally targets civilians is miles away from one that goes after combatants but also hits civilians, as an unintended consequence, as inevitably happens. The first are scum who are to be eliminated without mercy or regret. The second is anyone who ever fought a war.
To maintain that these are equivalent is idiocy.
And sometimes war is inevitable. Was the world to just bend over to the Nazis, because if we killed any German civilians while fighting the Nazis, we would be "as bad as them"? NONSENSE. Chamberlain showed the wrong way to deal that ilk; Churchill showed the right way.
No Automated Querying: You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google.
The mean it. The version of WWW::Search::Google on CPAN sends a User-Agent header of "WWW::Search/2.33", which Google rejects, saying: "Your client does not have permission to get URL...". Changing the User-Agent to "lynx" allows the query to be answered.
Of course, the question of how their terms of service become binding upon us is yet to be answered. They say: By using Google's search engine services ("Google Search Services"), you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (the "Terms of Service"). Yeah, right. I don't accept that from microsloth, and I don't accept it from Google.
- cable line-out of CD player to line-in of computer.
- start analog to digital software on computer (I like wavrec)
- play cd
- encode to mp3
- upload the fuck out of that thing
Oh, yeah, copy protection will keep this of the Internet. Right.This is just cover for the real agenda: to convince people that they don't own what they just paid for, and must have the RIAA's permission to use it.
Pay per play is the ultimate goal and this is just a step in that direction.
Sorry folks, this is a complete non-starter. I decide when I'll upgrade, not some programmer who can only hazard a guess as to when it will actually be necessary, or when I will want to. Like I really want my system to just stop working for no good reason - if that was what I wanted, I'd use Microsoft.
This war is brought about by MS's actions, not ours. They have adopted a search and destroy approach.
From now on, I'm viewing slashdot with images turned off. Fuck this shit.
I'm confused - hasn't this sort of thing been outed already? How could the initial settlement not take care of this?
To me, this issue seemed to be the plainest example of Microsoft's abusive monopoly, something even the technically unsavvy could understand.
Understanding is not the issue. Will and desire to do ANYTHING MEANINGFUL to MS is the issue. DOJ, as commanded by Bush, has no will or desire to do anything to MS except make the antitrust suit go away. The lameness of the agreement and the fact that DOJ now acts like they are Microsoft's lawyers in trying to sell this piece of crap demonstrates that conclusively.
Funny. That seems to be Bin Laden's attitude as well.
Your attempts to lend legitimacy to Bin Laden are pathetic. If you can't see the difference, I'm glad I don't have to deal with you.
I agree it was exactly like the terrorism carried out in Afghanistan by the US government
The Afghanistani government had almost a month to hand over the terrorists and disband the terrorist training camps, to head off coalition action. They did neither. And I'm still waiting for the first shred of evidence that USA delberately targetted civilians, whereas terrorists nearly always do so.
The palestinians are the fathers and mothers of terrorism. Thier policies are the direct cause of their problems. They had the best chance they could ever expect to resolve their issues, get a Palestinian state, get Israel to withdraw from 97% of the land they took (in self-defense) in '67 - and they turned it down. Why? Because that agreeement still would have left an Israel in existence, which is against the PLO charter and not tolerable to the Palestinians. It's a same their people pay for the evil of their leaders, but it IS their leaders who have borught this on them.
you can't say that their refusal to use the word "terrorist" is not noble, at least within the context of journalism.
Oh, yeah, there was at least one daycare center at WTC. Still think this wasn't terrorism, fuckface?
The client has already resolved the IP address, using whatever DNS roots it wanted. Because this is a proxy for folks who don't have proxies configured (hence 'transparent' to the user), the client actually tried to connect to the IP address it got from DNS. It's just that the proxy saw the connect on port 80 and intercepted it, but the IP destination address was in the initial SYN packet.
Ooops - screwed up the URL, that should be http://www.ethereal.com/ . DOH!
Okay, as much as they fucked up with the whole "mutation" thing, you can't say that their refusal to use the word "terrorist" is not noble, at least within the context of journalism.
Yes I can, you dipshit. IT IS NOT NOBLE. It is beneath contempt. A suicide bomber who kills 3000 innocent cilvilians of all races, genders, ages, religions and nationalities is fucking terrorist. Get your head out of your ass.
This dickhead salesman sat in a meeting with us, including my boss, and told us we could run this product (DSS PRO for WinNT) with the 'agent' (which captures the packets) and the 'snifview' program (which lets you see the packets and run the agent) on the same machine.
The first goddamn time anything went wrong, the techies told us this wan't a supported configuration.
I sent the saleshit the URL for Ethereal, which I'm going to evaluate as replacement for all (or all but one) of our over-priced sniffers. He had to have one of his techies explain it to him.
But the real question is: how incompetent are your programmers when you can't run server and client on the same machine, but can do so on different machines? Isn't usually the other way around?
True, but now you must modify both clients and the proxy. Also, how many roots are there, anyhow? One hopes this number doesn't get too big. Anyhow, after rereading other posts, I think using the IP address the client uses in the SYN packet, possibly only in the event that the proxy's own DNS lookup fails, is actually the better solution. That's the result of using the DNS the client uses.
Solution 3:
The proxy server is enhanced to try multiple DNS servers, (even in event of NOXDOMAIN), including some in the 'standard' tree and some from OpenNIC. This solution has the advantage of only needing mods to the proxy, not the clients.
Cases like this should show companies it is worth the money to hire competent systems administrators.
What's the point in that when stupid laws written by ignorant legislators (oops - redundancy) let you shoot the messenger instead?
On a tangent, my experience with Notes (aka Domino) is that it may be good for something, but that something is not email. It sucks for email.
The worst abuses I've seen is where many entires that come back in a search are redirects to some common site (Example: at one time, searching for 'discount airline tickets' brought back many links, the majority of which were redirects to priceline.com, even though the domain name had nothing apparent to do with priceline.com (another reason, beyond the pathetic Shatner ads, to hate them). If they just refused to index pages with redirects, one massive source of abuse goes away.
Electric Guitars! Yeah, Baby!
From the letter puportedly by Bill Gates:
The answer is that in that 1M of address space we had to accommodate RAM [random access memory], ROM [read-only memory], and I/O addresses [Input/Output addresses used for "peripherals" like keyboards, disk drives, and hard drives],
BZZT! As I recall, Intel doesn't use memory-mapped I/O. The I/O address space and the memory address space are separate.
Also, even if Billy could get the technical points right, should we trust what he says? Past history shows him to be very veracity-challenged.
OK, by mass-mailer you mean a virus. I thought mass-malier was referring to spammers. "Never mind." ;-)
These patches also block the mass-mailers, so the only reason the mass-mailers exist is that people are running older versions of Outlook
<sarcasm>Must be the new AI feature that automagically separates spam from legitimate mail.</sarcasm>
This last is a pretty broad claim. Seriously, though, what is this and how does it work? Spammers may be the only group on the planet that I hate more than MS (in the 'technical' arena, anyhow).
rewrite
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This is a cool idea, but, if you do this, doesn't it make your machine the source of the request to www.microsoft.com?
Just curious.