Not subsidized, as I understand it. Regulated. A fair difference in terms of tax dollars being spent.
My understanding is the gov't just said "high speed access is a requirement, therefore it may not cost more than $x". Since the companies know that getting a little less profit is better than none at all, they suck it up, and we benefit.
Sure, but that MANY 40/80/160's are pretty big. Take a gander at the pictures and you can see we're talking 500+ hard drives. At a pound each (which is probably light), that's 500 pounds of stuff to move, without mixing them up or hard shocks... and the nightmare of recabling them all.
insane guy kills Sam, I don't believe you think that a Just outcome exists: if Sam is prosecuted, it is unjust because he is insane; if Sam is not prosecuted, it is unjust because the victim has not been treated fairly
I suspect Taco is also including the asses from the Firebird DB side, who decided it would be a smart thing to spam the crap out of the mozilla developers with pretty much the same stuff this woman's whining about.
Turnabout is fair play et al... but they're all still asses.
He never said -whose- users are being asses, did he?
IMO, there's a small group of users [b]from both projects[/b] being asses, and the rest of the people are going "Christ, get over yourselves, one's a browser the others a database."
You mean I could play Asheron's Call, but as a Klingon wearing a T-tunic, since it's close enough, and I don't have to pay, unless I want to be the King or run something big?
I won't go into the getting blotto drunk or chasing tail all over while putting on an atricious accent... let's just leave it at "SCA == everyone is absolutely into the role playing" strikes me as rather amusing... and I'm a kingdom webmaster.
IMO, you can also eliminate a substantial reason for them not wanting to use your mail servers, if your mail servers support TLS.
To me, end-to-end email encryption is valuable... enough so to run my own mailserver at home. Sure, 90% of the servers out there don't talk TLS and my transmission ends up going in the clear anyways, but my ISP's server won't talk TLS at all - which would make it 100% in the clear.
By running TLS, you can short-circuit at least some of their concerns, AND provide a more valuable service to boot.
The rant about STO isn't that the obscurity is completely useless.
It's that trying to depend on obscurity, and obscurity ALONE, is useless.
Fort Knox isn't just depending on obscurity (your example of the lack of knowledge of the internal layout). It also has armed guards, locks, alarms, etc, etc. The obscurity is just another layer on top of everything.
In these computing cases, however, some people already know a way to avoid the guards, the locks, and the alarms. They have the complete plans, but since "only a couple guys" have it - there's no need to change anything, right?
THAT is depending on the obscurity alone, and is obviously not going to work.
To me, a guru is somebody damn near godlike with the system. A geeks geek who can recite the entire structure of the filesystem tables because he can hand-edit them with a binary editor to fix issues.
Reading the manual and having basic SA skills does NOT make one a guru. It makes you a basic system admin.
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This one I'll definitely give you. Some OSS documentation is abhorrent - but then again so is some closed source stuff.
All the above items, though, I'd say fit into the "good docs" territory, and I've basically just followed the instructions and had no problem setting them up.
Yes, I do consider myself approaching gurudom in some ways, but not in any way did I need to approach what I consider "guru" or even "really technical" skills to set them up. Just standard A then B then C, and presto it's up.
So now, somebody who can RTFM is considered a guru?
And I thought I only needed to be worried about GPA inflation... now I have to call the guys that really are what I thought of as "gurus" something else... demigod, maybe?
How would I know what steps to take, to get notification to an admin in Russia, or Korea, or Egypt, that he has a compromised host that is attacking my netblock, if I can't read his verification email, because it's in Russian/Korean/Egyptian?
He may not expect to need to communicate with somebody that speaks a different language, but it's possible that it might happen anyways.
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Actually, most feather dusters just stir the dust up again, so it falls elsewhere - like on the carpet, so it can be vacuumed up.
If they wet-wipe, then the dust gets trapped, but only a brand new feather duster will grab the dust, I've always found.
Not subsidized, as I understand it. Regulated. A fair difference in terms of tax dollars being spent.
My understanding is the gov't just said "high speed access is a requirement, therefore it may not cost more than $x". Since the companies know that getting a little less profit is better than none at all, they suck it up, and we benefit.
My spam is up 20% over the 1st quarter of 2003!
So how can I get spam futures into my portfolio? Something going up 20% a quarter is just what the stockbroker ordered!
Sure, but that MANY 40/80/160's are pretty big. Take a gander at the pictures and you can see we're talking 500+ hard drives. At a pound each (which is probably light), that's 500 pounds of stuff to move, without mixing them up or hard shocks... and the nightmare of recabling them all.
insane guy kills Sam, I don't believe you think that a Just outcome exists: if Sam is prosecuted, it is unjust because he is insane; if Sam is not prosecuted, it is unjust because the victim has not been treated fairly
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Leave Sam alone, the poor guy's dead.
I suspect Taco is also including the asses from the Firebird DB side, who decided it would be a smart thing to spam the crap out of the mozilla developers with pretty much the same stuff this woman's whining about.
Turnabout is fair play et al... but they're all still asses.
He never said -whose- users are being asses, did he?
IMO, there's a small group of users [b]from both projects[/b] being asses, and the rest of the people are going "Christ, get over yourselves, one's a browser the others a database."
So what you're after is an online version of SCA?
You mean I could play Asheron's Call, but as a Klingon wearing a T-tunic, since it's close enough, and I don't have to pay, unless I want to be the King or run something big?
I won't go into the getting blotto drunk or chasing tail all over while putting on an atricious accent... let's just leave it at "SCA == everyone is absolutely into the role playing" strikes me as rather amusing... and I'm a kingdom webmaster.
IMO, you can also eliminate a substantial reason for them not wanting to use your mail servers, if your mail servers support TLS.
To me, end-to-end email encryption is valuable... enough so to run my own mailserver at home. Sure, 90% of the servers out there don't talk TLS and my transmission ends up going in the clear anyways, but my ISP's server won't talk TLS at all - which would make it 100% in the clear.
By running TLS, you can short-circuit at least some of their concerns, AND provide a more valuable service to boot.
Rotor falls on string
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's actually the seatbelt. It's certainly more of a strap than a string.
The rant about STO isn't that the obscurity is completely useless .
It's that trying to depend on obscurity, and obscurity ALONE, is useless.
Fort Knox isn't just depending on obscurity (your example of the lack of knowledge of the internal layout). It also has armed guards, locks, alarms, etc, etc. The obscurity is just another layer on top of everything.
In these computing cases, however, some people already know a way to avoid the guards, the locks, and the alarms. They have the complete plans, but since "only a couple guys" have it - there's no need to change anything, right?
THAT is depending on the obscurity alone, and is obviously not going to work.
Here's the "summary" page I'm using these days. Reasonably complete, I've found.
http://www.moensted.dk/spam/
As it says, "It check most of the 466 lists shown below."
Still didn't help with the AOL dainbramage, though, and I've had to put in a smtproute through the Telus mailserver for them. Ah, well, that's life.
And the Yokohama Landmark Tower was designed for this from day one.
I rather suspect a two-hundred year old building wouldn't put up with that abuse for very long.
When's the last time you nudged a building effectually?
No, but the assertion was that it took a -guru-.
To me, a guru is somebody damn near godlike with the system. A geeks geek who can recite the entire structure of the filesystem tables because he can hand-edit them with a binary editor to fix issues.
Reading the manual and having basic SA skills does NOT make one a guru. It makes you a basic system admin.
This one I'll definitely give you. Some OSS documentation is abhorrent - but then again so is some closed source stuff.
All the above items, though, I'd say fit into the "good docs" territory, and I've basically just followed the instructions and had no problem setting them up.
Yes, I do consider myself approaching gurudom in some ways, but not in any way did I need to approach what I consider "guru" or even "really technical" skills to set them up. Just standard A then B then C, and presto it's up.
Last time I did, about three hours.
So now, somebody who can RTFM is considered a guru?
And I thought I only needed to be worried about GPA inflation... now I have to call the guys that really are what I thought of as "gurus" something else... demigod, maybe?
I wasn't talking crazy talk now... I just mean something like go spend the day on kuroshin or fark or something other than slashdot.
Outside? Gods, that's... that's just... inconceivable.
Since you know it happens - why not just take a day off of Slashdot?
How would I know what steps to take, to get notification to an admin in Russia, or Korea, or Egypt, that he has a compromised host that is attacking my netblock, if I can't read his verification email, because it's in Russian/Korean/Egyptian?
He may not expect to need to communicate with somebody that speaks a different language, but it's possible that it might happen anyways.
Actually, I believe many of these shops operate out of Montreal. Can't recall the source though.
But then you can't get high off the whiteboard markers! ;)
You know, you can PAY for a direct newsfeed too, and thus get news before papers or TV's choose to run it, if they choose to run it at all.
You talk like Taco's humping your dog or something. Give me a break, letting paying subscribers see stories a little bit in advance is No Big Deal.
Why would you want a rock solid network failure system? ;)
I've never seen NFS be really, really stable. There's almost always stupid issues with clients and servers that get comms interrupted between them.