I'm also puzzled by this differeniating between blocking e-mail traffic only (acceptable) and blocking all traffic (unacceptable). There is no qualitative difference. Only quantitative. Such blocking helps the quality of the Internet by making it difficult (or impossible, or unaffordable) to spam.
The difference is, you couldn't go to macromedia.com for a while if you routed via above.net. And before that, peacefire.org.
the sad thing is you'll get modd'ed up to +5 Informative by the blind moderators.
Consumers have the choice of moving to a provider that doesn't opt-in if they desire to.
Someone always raises this. This would be fine if this was just mail blocking, but this is total IP traffic blocking if you happen to route via above.net. Usually you have little choice as a consumer on who your ISP routes through, and your ISP often has little choice too -- what if above.net is a backup route, and ___Net is down today, so you get filtered IP access? In addition, most ISP's are loathe to disclose routing information, so you have to get what you can from traceroute, and have no idea if above.net is a backup route.
You are missing the whole point in your post -- probably due to not reading the whole article -- in this case, it wasn't just a matter of RBL blocking email. It was a matter of censored access to www sites.
This has been mentioned about 10^6 times in respect to censorship here before, but by selectively filtering IP traffic to places they don't like (for political and ideological reasons, not for network integrity reasons) does above.net lose any possible status as a common carrier, and are they now responsible for filtering traffic to meet US law? That is, are they going to have to filter out stuff like DeCSS, porn that violates decency standards, and whatever anyone can get a court order on?
I don't think that cooperatives based on advertising only are going to suceed...the ad market has been drying up for a long time and still is.
More likely to suceed would be a gaming site like this:
- A co-op based on membership fees, where visitors to the site would pay like $5 a year
- The co-op as a whole sells merchandise --
computer parts and stuff of interest to gamers at good prices
- Individual sites within the co-op provide real content and little duplication (i.e. don't need 5 cut-and-paste news sites). No vanity sites either (you know what I mean).
- The sites within the coop are run by paid staff at a fixed (and reasonable, i.e. not enough to buy porsches and stuff).
- a small amount may be made by the co-op by selling advertising.
- excess revenue from hardware sales etc. is either distributed back to the membership (i.e. the people who visit the co-op sites) yearly or used to build the site.
It'd be really, really hard to run such a thing without some big time corruption or someone getting in there to skim funds off. But it could work.
Came across this while randomly looking at the MSSS gallery -- view the "full size image".
Notice some parts look like the "tubes" that people show from mars photos, but when you see them merging into large dune areas they appear to be just sand dunes?
Here's an example of the tubes -- look at the high res version, lower left corner.
One thing to note when we look at stuff that's come back from mars is that the most of the planet has not been viewed with the narrow angle camera at all -- for example, go here, select a region, then look at the clickable map -- the little light blue tracks are the places where the narrow angle views are available.
Quake 3 Arena, yesterday's game, is a poor demonstration of the capabilities of a new card like the GeForce 3. Perhaps a game which is pushing the limits of graphics cards and CPU's, like Tribes 2, should have been used (with detail, distance, and texture settings maxed).
Quake3Arena gets easily 100 fps on the previous generation of GeForce 2, what do you expect, 200?
I really doubt that OpenBSD by default turns on any services that are useful...this is like saying MS-DOS is 15 years without a remote root exploit.
What I'd find interesting with OpenBSD: are there any remote non-root exploits, that can be escalated to root by a seperate exploit after normal user access is granted, in the last 4 years?
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No identifying information, EXCEPT:
http-referrer
user-agent
YOUR IP
that's pretty identifying if you're on a dedicated connection, i.e. surfing from work.
Just right-click the report window and disable "popup when webbug found".
Yep, not really a bug unless it pulls a cookie from you--it'd be nice to have the a checkbox for this int he options.
Err, just right click and turn off pop-up if you don't like it, nevermind.
A beta of IE5 between 5.01 and 5.5 had the same feature, "Accept third-party cookies" Always/Prompt/Never, but they took it out in 5.5
Okay, you can resize it to like a single line (or 1 pixel) at the bottom of the page if you want, so it's not that annoying.
If you do the one pixel high thing, just watch the toolbar in IE5 for when the bug turns red if you want to know if you're being bugged...
It's a pretty cool tool.
/. annoying (since every page is bugged).
;)
Just one annoying thing:
Every time it finds a web bug (definite web bug), it brings up the report. Makes reading
STOP TRACKING ME YOU COMMIES!
Did a yahoo search for David Hahn, and pulled up this.
http://goatlocker.exis.net/fy01e7.txt
(search for Hahn).
Same person?
Unless it's 99.9% pure, you can't use it to make Nitroglycerin, or you make it like 10x as dangerous (as if it wasn't bad enough).
A bit of the wrong heavy metal contamination makes nitroglycerin very, very sensitive.
For some reason, /. insists on inserting spaces randomly into comments
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Mod that guy up. Then mod me down.
I'm also puzzled by this differeniating between blocking e-mail traffic only (acceptable) and blocking all traffic (unacceptable). There is no qualitative difference. Only quantitative. Such blocking helps the quality of the Internet by making it difficult (or impossible, or unaffordable) to spam.
The difference is, you couldn't go to macromedia.com for a while if you routed via above.net. And before that, peacefire.org.
mod that down to -1, Troll, please.
You obviously didn't read it at all. The RBL is supposed to be only for mail, but Above.net likes to use it to block EVERYTHING.
the sad thing is you'll get modd'ed up to +5 Informative by the blind moderators.
Consumers have the choice of moving to a provider that doesn't opt-in if they desire to.
Someone always raises this. This would be fine if this was just mail blocking, but this is total IP traffic blocking if you happen to route via above.net. Usually you have little choice as a consumer on who your ISP routes through, and your ISP often has little choice too -- what if above.net is a backup route, and ___Net is down today, so you get filtered IP access? In addition, most ISP's are loathe to disclose routing information, so you have to get what you can from traceroute, and have no idea if above.net is a backup route.
You are missing the whole point in your post -- probably due to not reading the whole article -- in this case, it wasn't just a matter of RBL blocking email. It was a matter of censored access to www sites.
This has been mentioned about 10^6 times in respect to censorship here before, but by selectively filtering IP traffic to places they don't like (for political and ideological reasons, not for network integrity reasons) does above.net lose any possible status as a common carrier, and are they now responsible for filtering traffic to meet US law? That is, are they going to have to filter out stuff like DeCSS, porn that violates decency standards, and whatever anyone can get a court order on?
I don't think that cooperatives based on advertising only are going to suceed...the ad market has been drying up for a long time and still is.
More likely to suceed would be a gaming site like this:
- A co-op based on membership fees, where visitors to the site would pay like $5 a year
- The co-op as a whole sells merchandise --
computer parts and stuff of interest to gamers at good prices
- Individual sites within the co-op provide real content and little duplication (i.e. don't need 5 cut-and-paste news sites). No vanity sites either (you know what I mean).
- The sites within the coop are run by paid staff at a fixed (and reasonable, i.e. not enough to buy porsches and stuff).
- a small amount may be made by the co-op by selling advertising.
- excess revenue from hardware sales etc. is either distributed back to the membership (i.e. the people who visit the co-op sites) yearly or used to build the site.
It'd be really, really hard to run such a thing without some big time corruption or someone getting in there to skim funds off. But it could work.
Actually there was a post on /. about such a disk about 3 months ago, but it was at least a year away.
What we're lacking here is information. Are these disks readable on CD-ROM drives? How about DVD-ROM drives, perhaps with a firmware upgrade?
Came across this while randomly looking at the MSSS gallery -- view the "full size image".
Notice some parts look like the "tubes" that people show from mars photos, but when you see them merging into large dune areas they appear to be just sand dunes?
Here's an example of the tubes -- look at the high res version, lower left corner.
One thing to note when we look at stuff that's come back from mars is that the most of the planet has not been viewed with the narrow angle camera at all -- for example, go here, select a region, then look at the clickable map -- the little light blue tracks are the places where the narrow angle views are available.
This is the isotope carbon-14, not a 14 carbon hydrocarbon. Nice try.
A GeForce2 MX is perfectly good for UT or Q3A -- GeForce 3 is aimed at something better, something that does not yet exist perhaps.
Quake 3 Arena, yesterday's game, is a poor demonstration of the capabilities of a new card like the GeForce 3. Perhaps a game which is pushing the limits of graphics cards and CPU's, like Tribes 2, should have been used (with detail, distance, and texture settings maxed).
Quake3Arena gets easily 100 fps on the previous generation of GeForce 2, what do you expect, 200?
Why don't they put Win ME and XP on the same laptop too? Then it'd be win-win for everyone.
Score: -1 (Flamebait)
I really doubt that OpenBSD by default turns on any services that are useful...this is like saying MS-DOS is 15 years without a remote root exploit.
What I'd find interesting with OpenBSD: are there any remote non-root exploits, that can be escalated to root by a seperate exploit after normal user access is granted, in the last 4 years?