I also only pay for cable internet access but not TV. I think it'd only be like, $20 a month more to get basic cable TV, but I'm not $20 worth of interested in television and won't pay for it.
Most people are reasonable, but some aren't. And the only way to deal with unreasonable people is in whatever term they understand. If their first instinct is to skip straight to violence, then you must meet them on those terms. Does that mean there will never be world peace and bullshit star trek harmony? Yup.
And you know what? I don't really think I see the problem. This just seems to be how humans have always been. It's why there's war. Some people are assholes. Some countries and cultures have more than others and start shit with their neighbors, and eventually they're going to find a bigger, badder country that just isn't going to put up with that crap.
But just because you're part of the bigger, badder country/culture/gang/posse/whatever, doesn't mean that if you strike out on your own and pull some fucked up move that you're not going to get what's coming to you.
No, I'm just saying if you stick your hand in the fire, don't be sorry if you get burned. But by the same token, maybe if the cops just looked the other way and let National Front types take care of the situation in Denmark then we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit now. Some people need to be hurt before they learn not to piss off others.
You must not ever have worked for a web hosting company or ISP before if you think its all about legal liability, because it isn't really. Part of it is civil liability. There have been cases where hosting companies of been successfully sued for providing hosting for knock-off louis vitton merchandise and/or pirated software.
Using "not our fault" doesn't fly when some email marketers skirt in and then start dropping tonnes of spam and get an entire/24 added to SpamHause, pissing off every other customer in the IP block who now can't send legitimate mail to most places.
The company I worked for hosted some particularly controversial content at one point, until the number of calls from the ADL and the constant DDoS attacks became too much, we kicked off the site in question and re-worked the TOS.
From the point of view of the host, its much less headache to kick this guy to the curb than deal with the non-legal fallout of complaints, bad press, hackers, DDoSers, etc.
Rackspace isn't the phone company. They're not a public utility. They don't have a monopoly on web hosting. This is more like a pub owner who constantly has to take down nasty fliers from a bulletin board finally just banning the jackass who posts them from the premises. He's free to try and find somewhere else to host is crap, and those hosts are free to tell him to beat it, too.
If a group of Neo-Nazis was going to burn a bunch of copies of the Talmud in Skokie, would anyone really care if a bunch of local Jewish teens came out and beat the living shit out of them? I don't really think so. Not trying to Godwin the thread, just saying -- what asshole is going to defend the "rights" of the Nazis to do that? And who's going to care when they get what's coming to them? And book burning is fairly well associated with the NSDAP... and 1950s America, with their Elvis hate.
The Mohamed cartoons in Denmark were artistic expression and satire intended to highlight a division in theology between those who understand why Muslims aren't supposed to depict Mohamed and those who think no one should ever, as well as bring attention to the fact that in classical Islamic culture, they often times did it anyway. There was something socially redeeming in the act.
This, on the other hand, is just stirring up the hornets nest to provoke a reaction to "prove" a point on the anniversary of the 911 terrorist attacks for political purposes.
He picked the day and the action specifically to arouse the most emotions in all parties as possible, knowing full well that what he's going to do is going to upset and enrage more than just the "extremist" Muslims. Holding it over the heads of the people who might ACTUALLY be affected by the NY mosque issue, basically saying "do what I want, or I'm going to go smack the hornets nest and watch the shit storm" isn't free speech, its black mail at best and terrorism at worst.
And at any rate, its not as if the government is stopping him. This is about one company deciding not to host his content. As a system admin at a web hosting company in a previous position, I put the smack down on all kind of TOS violators. Actually, it was sort of my favorite part of the job.
I think people say common carrier a lot when they mean safe harbor. Safe harbor protection is basically legal indemnification for providers who are legally required to be CALEA compliant, and who take the necessary steps to become CALEA compliant from being hassled for transiting data as long as the cops can get what they need. The common carrier statute is written in such a way as it basically means they can't refuse service to you for being black or Mexican and still claim to be a common carrier. It's not neutrality of content, its non-discrimination of service.
So, some backwoods yokel can make threats of religious violence in Florida and affect the outcome of a local zoning issue in New York County (Manhattan)? Sounds like terrorism to me, dude.
Individuals have no requirement to respect the "free speech" of others, nor do owners of private property have to put up with anything they don't like. Free speech means the government can't lock you in jail for protesting or publishing against government policies and it doesn't guarantee that anyone else even has to listen. Is the government locking him up? No. Did the government raid Rackspace and seize the server? No.
The book burning is barely a real political statement, its not an artistic performance, and its certainly not warranted. It's some groaty, pissed-off redneck reminiscent of the side-character Skeeter in South Park -- the guy who hangs out in the bar going "we don't take kindly to your kind around here." In this case its "hey, intolerant Muslims! we don't take kindly to your kind around here!" Just because he has a legal right to proceed with his moronic plan, the irony of which, I'm sure, is probably much too subtle to have an impression on him, doesn't mean that, you, I, Rackspace, or anyone else has to facilitate his stupidity.
I've worked construction, demolition, hay farming, etc, during summers when I was in school. There's nothing wrong with honest work, even if doing it sort of sucks.
I'd rather be a coal miner than be called out in the international press for having no job and bitching about video games.
True, and I suppose the economy in WV was never really the best to begin with, but there's got to be a coal mine or something he can go work in. Pays better than minimum wage, and its exercise.
I think they think he hates gay people and was calling his lame town gay or something. Also, that if an actual gay person saw his town and thought he was using gay as an insult then they might get offended, and next thing you know, MS will have a color-coordinated protest on their hands. Or something.
The truly sad part is some unemployed guy who plays video games all day ends up getting AP coverage thereby legitimizing his unproductive ways.
Clearly, the CIA got to him and has convinced him it would be in his best interest to quit saying that they were trying to smear him with rape allegations. Isn't it obvious?
I think you mean "schmuck." Also, it could just be that my sense of proportion was dramatically altered when i was 14 and drove to Alaska and back from Virginia with my dad, but is Sweden really that big?
Well, about the time I gave away the EeePC, I also sold my Toshiba, and you're right, the Toshiba laptop felt a lot crappier than the EeePC. I consolidated on a MacBook Pro 13", which gave me more screen real estate than the EeePC and more power than the Toshiba. I have FreeBSD, Linux and Windows VMWare images available to me to to everything I need/want to do. That seemed to make the most sense for me in my situation, but I really just can't figure a reason why I'd want an iPad at all.
Last summer I bought an EeePC because I was sick of lugging my full-size laptop to and from work to give myself additional screen space to watch Nagios in addition to other work I had going on. That was possibly one of the worst purchases I ever made. The keyboard was too small to type on, and the screen was barely big enough for passive activities, let alone if I required anything "real" to happen on it. I ended up just giving it away to a female friend who's only around 5ft tall (where as I'm 6'4") and thus better proportioned to using such a device.
They only thing they really have going for them is that they're cheap, and it shows in the construction of the things. I haven't yet handled an iPad, but don't expect it to suffer from a feeling of flimsiness, like the scene in Jurassic Park where the lawyer tells the kid if the goggles are heavy, then that means they're expensive and so to put them down. But I think I could find more situations where I would benefit from having a pair of night vision goggles than an iPad. But maybe I'm not really in the target market for either of these things.
Well, those job listings/employers who require or say they require all sorts of certifications and knowledge of areas that you never actually end up using in the job probably cause a lot of people who "inflate" their resumes or outright lie, hoping to just get past the filter and sort it out later. The thing about certs from vendors like Cisco or RedHat is its pretty easy to check on the veracity of the claim as to whether the candidate even has the certificate or not, even without doing your own skills assessment. Unfortunately, for those people who have say, RHCE-level knowledge but don't have the time and money to tuck down to Raleigh for the exam/lab, likely because of their current lack of employment, what are they going to do? Lie and hope HR doesn't know to check their RHCE number? Hope that they get a skills test and can prove their ability?
I haven't personally had to deal with this myself. I just list the truth of what education and experience I have, hope to to get an interview anyway. It's worked alright so far, so whatever. Safely employed for now.
No, we can't secure the whole internet. What we can do, however, is make highly critical segments more secure. Part of that is physical security, part of it is better monitoring infrastructure, such as fiber tap splitters off to an IDS system at a backbone peering point. vendors such as Net Optics make just such a device, among others.
It would probably make more sense to run new lines, or light up some dark fiber, and move all the government stuff onto that, then have a few border crossings, like peerage points, where "real" internet access can be controlled and monitored to prevent breach of systems which aren't already on separate networks. They might do that already, I can't really say for sure.
Although, it still doesn't keep some random employee from doing something stupid on the inside, you can at least mitigate the impact. Then maybe, just leave much of the rest of the infrastructure as-is and have fend for ourselves, or whatever.
But yeah, we can just be picky and pedantic instead of just agreeing that there's a point of "good enough" that's more secure than what we have but less secure than just not having the system in the first place, or locking it away in a concrete bunker with no power.
No, I hadn't seen the portable version of KeePass, I guess since I just install it from ports or the package repository and don't actually get it from the website. This is much handier though.
DNSSec is intended to prevent query cache poisoning. It's not a catch-all silver bullet and its not meant to be. Similarly, requiring IPSec in IPv6 solves certain problems, while leaving others untouched.
There will likely never be 100% security, for if there were, then you would have a 100% unusable system. But that doesn't mean that the current situation can't be made better. I just get the impression that a lot of people around here equate freedom with a reasonable expectation of getting away with a crime and have greasemonkey scripts to auto-respond with the Franklin security/liberty quote.
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I also only pay for cable internet access but not TV. I think it'd only be like, $20 a month more to get basic cable TV, but I'm not $20 worth of interested in television and won't pay for it.
Most people are reasonable, but some aren't. And the only way to deal with unreasonable people is in whatever term they understand. If their first instinct is to skip straight to violence, then you must meet them on those terms. Does that mean there will never be world peace and bullshit star trek harmony? Yup.
And you know what? I don't really think I see the problem. This just seems to be how humans have always been. It's why there's war. Some people are assholes. Some countries and cultures have more than others and start shit with their neighbors, and eventually they're going to find a bigger, badder country that just isn't going to put up with that crap.
But just because you're part of the bigger, badder country/culture/gang/posse/whatever, doesn't mean that if you strike out on your own and pull some fucked up move that you're not going to get what's coming to you.
Excuse me for not being a hippie.
No, I'm just saying if you stick your hand in the fire, don't be sorry if you get burned. But by the same token, maybe if the cops just looked the other way and let National Front types take care of the situation in Denmark then we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit now. Some people need to be hurt before they learn not to piss off others.
You must not ever have worked for a web hosting company or ISP before if you think its all about legal liability, because it isn't really. Part of it is civil liability. There have been cases where hosting companies of been successfully sued for providing hosting for knock-off louis vitton merchandise and/or pirated software.
Using "not our fault" doesn't fly when some email marketers skirt in and then start dropping tonnes of spam and get an entire /24 added to SpamHause, pissing off every other customer in the IP block who now can't send legitimate mail to most places.
The company I worked for hosted some particularly controversial content at one point, until the number of calls from the ADL and the constant DDoS attacks became too much, we kicked off the site in question and re-worked the TOS.
From the point of view of the host, its much less headache to kick this guy to the curb than deal with the non-legal fallout of complaints, bad press, hackers, DDoSers, etc.
Rackspace isn't the phone company. They're not a public utility. They don't have a monopoly on web hosting. This is more like a pub owner who constantly has to take down nasty fliers from a bulletin board finally just banning the jackass who posts them from the premises. He's free to try and find somewhere else to host is crap, and those hosts are free to tell him to beat it, too.
If a group of Neo-Nazis was going to burn a bunch of copies of the Talmud in Skokie, would anyone really care if a bunch of local Jewish teens came out and beat the living shit out of them? I don't really think so. Not trying to Godwin the thread, just saying -- what asshole is going to defend the "rights" of the Nazis to do that? And who's going to care when they get what's coming to them? And book burning is fairly well associated with the NSDAP... and 1950s America, with their Elvis hate.
The Mohamed cartoons in Denmark were artistic expression and satire intended to highlight a division in theology between those who understand why Muslims aren't supposed to depict Mohamed and those who think no one should ever, as well as bring attention to the fact that in classical Islamic culture, they often times did it anyway. There was something socially redeeming in the act.
This, on the other hand, is just stirring up the hornets nest to provoke a reaction to "prove" a point on the anniversary of the 911 terrorist attacks for political purposes.
He picked the day and the action specifically to arouse the most emotions in all parties as possible, knowing full well that what he's going to do is going to upset and enrage more than just the "extremist" Muslims. Holding it over the heads of the people who might ACTUALLY be affected by the NY mosque issue, basically saying "do what I want, or I'm going to go smack the hornets nest and watch the shit storm" isn't free speech, its black mail at best and terrorism at worst.
And at any rate, its not as if the government is stopping him. This is about one company deciding not to host his content. As a system admin at a web hosting company in a previous position, I put the smack down on all kind of TOS violators. Actually, it was sort of my favorite part of the job.
I think people say common carrier a lot when they mean safe harbor. Safe harbor protection is basically legal indemnification for providers who are legally required to be CALEA compliant, and who take the necessary steps to become CALEA compliant from being hassled for transiting data as long as the cops can get what they need. The common carrier statute is written in such a way as it basically means they can't refuse service to you for being black or Mexican and still claim to be a common carrier. It's not neutrality of content, its non-discrimination of service.
So, some backwoods yokel can make threats of religious violence in Florida and affect the outcome of a local zoning issue in New York County (Manhattan)? Sounds like terrorism to me, dude.
Individuals have no requirement to respect the "free speech" of others, nor do owners of private property have to put up with anything they don't like. Free speech means the government can't lock you in jail for protesting or publishing against government policies and it doesn't guarantee that anyone else even has to listen. Is the government locking him up? No. Did the government raid Rackspace and seize the server? No.
The book burning is barely a real political statement, its not an artistic performance, and its certainly not warranted. It's some groaty, pissed-off redneck reminiscent of the side-character Skeeter in South Park -- the guy who hangs out in the bar going "we don't take kindly to your kind around here." In this case its "hey, intolerant Muslims! we don't take kindly to your kind around here!" Just because he has a legal right to proceed with his moronic plan, the irony of which, I'm sure, is probably much too subtle to have an impression on him, doesn't mean that, you, I, Rackspace, or anyone else has to facilitate his stupidity.
I've worked construction, demolition, hay farming, etc, during summers when I was in school. There's nothing wrong with honest work, even if doing it sort of sucks.
I'd rather be a coal miner than be called out in the international press for having no job and bitching about video games.
Try your search again... it now gets result, but its this post.
True, and I suppose the economy in WV was never really the best to begin with, but there's got to be a coal mine or something he can go work in. Pays better than minimum wage, and its exercise.
I think they think he hates gay people and was calling his lame town gay or something. Also, that if an actual gay person saw his town and thought he was using gay as an insult then they might get offended, and next thing you know, MS will have a color-coordinated protest on their hands. Or something.
The truly sad part is some unemployed guy who plays video games all day ends up getting AP coverage thereby legitimizing his unproductive ways.
Not to mention, no indication of what a boffin is. Had to look that bit up.
Clearly, the CIA got to him and has convinced him it would be in his best interest to quit saying that they were trying to smear him with rape allegations. Isn't it obvious?
I think you mean "schmuck." Also, it could just be that my sense of proportion was dramatically altered when i was 14 and drove to Alaska and back from Virginia with my dad, but is Sweden really that big?
Well, about the time I gave away the EeePC, I also sold my Toshiba, and you're right, the Toshiba laptop felt a lot crappier than the EeePC. I consolidated on a MacBook Pro 13", which gave me more screen real estate than the EeePC and more power than the Toshiba. I have FreeBSD, Linux and Windows VMWare images available to me to to everything I need/want to do. That seemed to make the most sense for me in my situation, but I really just can't figure a reason why I'd want an iPad at all.
Last summer I bought an EeePC because I was sick of lugging my full-size laptop to and from work to give myself additional screen space to watch Nagios in addition to other work I had going on. That was possibly one of the worst purchases I ever made. The keyboard was too small to type on, and the screen was barely big enough for passive activities, let alone if I required anything "real" to happen on it. I ended up just giving it away to a female friend who's only around 5ft tall (where as I'm 6'4") and thus better proportioned to using such a device.
They only thing they really have going for them is that they're cheap, and it shows in the construction of the things. I haven't yet handled an iPad, but don't expect it to suffer from a feeling of flimsiness, like the scene in Jurassic Park where the lawyer tells the kid if the goggles are heavy, then that means they're expensive and so to put them down. But I think I could find more situations where I would benefit from having a pair of night vision goggles than an iPad. But maybe I'm not really in the target market for either of these things.
And knowing is half the battle...
Well, those job listings/employers who require or say they require all sorts of certifications and knowledge of areas that you never actually end up using in the job probably cause a lot of people who "inflate" their resumes or outright lie, hoping to just get past the filter and sort it out later. The thing about certs from vendors like Cisco or RedHat is its pretty easy to check on the veracity of the claim as to whether the candidate even has the certificate or not, even without doing your own skills assessment. Unfortunately, for those people who have say, RHCE-level knowledge but don't have the time and money to tuck down to Raleigh for the exam/lab, likely because of their current lack of employment, what are they going to do? Lie and hope HR doesn't know to check their RHCE number? Hope that they get a skills test and can prove their ability?
I haven't personally had to deal with this myself. I just list the truth of what education and experience I have, hope to to get an interview anyway. It's worked alright so far, so whatever. Safely employed for now.
PGP is pretty good, ...
Well, yeah... isn't that the point? /sarcasm (note to the uninitiated: PGP == Pretty Good Privacy).
No, we can't secure the whole internet. What we can do, however, is make highly critical segments more secure. Part of that is physical security, part of it is better monitoring infrastructure, such as fiber tap splitters off to an IDS system at a backbone peering point. vendors such as Net Optics make just such a device, among others.
It would probably make more sense to run new lines, or light up some dark fiber, and move all the government stuff onto that, then have a few border crossings, like peerage points, where "real" internet access can be controlled and monitored to prevent breach of systems which aren't already on separate networks. They might do that already, I can't really say for sure.
Although, it still doesn't keep some random employee from doing something stupid on the inside, you can at least mitigate the impact. Then maybe, just leave much of the rest of the infrastructure as-is and have fend for ourselves, or whatever.
But yeah, we can just be picky and pedantic instead of just agreeing that there's a point of "good enough" that's more secure than what we have but less secure than just not having the system in the first place, or locking it away in a concrete bunker with no power.
No, I hadn't seen the portable version of KeePass, I guess since I just install it from ports or the package repository and don't actually get it from the website. This is much handier though.
DNSSec is intended to prevent query cache poisoning. It's not a catch-all silver bullet and its not meant to be. Similarly, requiring IPSec in IPv6 solves certain problems, while leaving others untouched.
There will likely never be 100% security, for if there were, then you would have a 100% unusable system. But that doesn't mean that the current situation can't be made better. I just get the impression that a lot of people around here equate freedom with a reasonable expectation of getting away with a crime and have greasemonkey scripts to auto-respond with the Franklin security/liberty quote.
A typo is not the same thing as a flawed argument, unless you're losing.