This is so funny. I work for an ISP, we already have those things in place, called an AUP. Anyone caught abusing their connection for illegal activity is dealt with. Of course, the RIAA just doesn't like the burden of proof being on them.
This has always made me want to fill a file with random bytes from/dev/urandom let's say, call it "newest_crappy_song_from_jenifer_lopez.mp3", have it just the right size, and send it from myself to myself on several of my colo boxes on my domain(s). Then for the fun of it, null route all of the RIAAs ips from my personal web/mail servers for when they try and contact me. Then when they snailmail me (or call my isp on the phone, again me because I am my isp), I can show them the bogus file and waste plenty of their time and prove to them just how big of asses they really are.
Ya know, kinda like honeynet for the *AAs. Well, maybe not.
Ok all of you folks who wrote "I've gone X years without a TV!" and "cancel your cable!"... quick question... do you have a family? The people I live with would lynch me if I removed the TV.
My wife likes TLC because sometimes it has some good ideas, every once in a while, and they have a genuine appeal to make people happy. (ie, look we took this slob and redid his wardrobe or gave him $1000 for his neighbor to remodel a room, and now he's happy!).
Her son likes his shows. Me, I like comedy or news. But I usually find myself watching something they're watching, getting annoyed and getting up and doing something else.
The PVR gets used quite a bit and commercials are pretty funny when you whiz by them at 8x speed and make your own fake chipmunk-sounding voiceovers to them.
Well, I read the first few pages. Let me start out with a disclaimer, lately, I've come to hate TV. There's very few shows I watch and most are a waste of time.
I've always thought... isn't there some technical way to find out what people are watching, anonymously? Like, from PVR prefs or recordings, draw on broadcast antennas (radio or broadcast tv/cable)? I mean, I know my website sucks because it gets like 150 hits a month if I'm lucky. And that's only the ones I probably do myself.
Hell throw out incentive. My grocery store gets my "vote" for what sort of laundry detergent I like because our family buys it all the time, amd obviously its popular because there's tons of coupons for it. Can't they do that with TV? I'll sign up for HBO if you knock a couple of bucks off the bill every month for having me do some (online and accurate) poll.
Maybe this is some kinda weird test by the NYT. Since when did they start having articles you could read without going through their silly registration process?
I'm not a "car" person. I can't stand them and don't understand them. Unfortunately everyone uses them and I'm forced to use one everyday, even at work! They're stupid devices which just annoy me. All this techno mumbo jumbo. "Steering Wheel" and "accelerator pedal" and "right-of-way". It's all just a mess. And it's only for Nascar fans anyhow. Why must I do the "speed limit"? What's a "turn signal"? And worse of all, my "gas meter" is on E! What's that mean? Noone told me I'd have to take it to someplace and get it "filled up"... and the prices of gasoline! WOW! Also, I don't understand "oil changes"? I thought it came ready for me to go, I don't want to take it every 3 months or 3,000 miles. That's ridiculous!
And all I can say is... "SHRED THOSE CHECKS, DUMMY!". I have a discover card and get those all the time. I *Do NOT* toss them out. They get shredded in about 1 million little pieces.
I shred just about anything that might have any information about me, my family, or my bills or creditors/debtors. This guy coulda saved himself some grief. The kid prolly saw him check his mail from a PO box and then shake his head and toss the checks in the trash, where he retrieved them.
In fact, it bugs me Discover sends me those checks all the time. I never use them, probably never will, and wish they wouldn't send them so frequently.
as for afp.com? a quick null route of 158.50.0.0/16 solves the problem for me.
Bravo. I don't know where I would stand in this, but it's good that google is cooperating. I believe it was that world of ends site that said the Internet was an agreement. If those of us who do not agree with this AFP's actions were to null route it, drop it in our firewalls, blacklist it from our webservers and mail servers, maybe they'd get the point when the rest of the world (or at least portions of it) does not "agree" with them.
Some boycotting and bad publicity can go a long way. If news outlets like NYT are their clients, well, you are their clients' clients. A loud enough voice would be heard eventually. In the end, if I were to pick a product that supported Google or supported these AFP folks, I would go with Google, personally.
I work for an ISP/Communications company in my area. I recently switched my number over to a beta voip test network we've been playing with. I seriously have no idea if 911 will work correctly. (Seeing as I'm geographically close to our switch, maybe it will).
So I'm a tad concerned about this.
On the other hand, I did have to dial 911 in the last year (or two?), *before* I had the VoIP service, while I had a traditional land line.
An electrical cable outside my house was about 60 years old and it decided it would short in the middle of the night. (Think this was last April or the year before). This was the main power to the house. I went out to investigate, and it was smoldering. I had no idea if the house was burning on the inside of the walls or not.
I run back inside and dial 911. Guess what? The girl didn't know my address. She fumbled for a few minutes and finally I gave it to her.
So if I know 911 had problems beforehand, why would I worry about my voip service? I've tried to make it completely clear to my family if something goes awry, we would need to use our cell phones...
Hmm... isn't the government one of Microsoft's biggest customers? Do they pay them with taxpayer money? Are taxpayers then allowed to "see" source of products from Microsoft?
It's always bugged me that our elected officials hand our money to any vendor they'd like, but then on the flipside, one could argue, that's why they're elected officials.
No no no. I'm afraid I have already patented both breathing and peace. See patent no 0.95, which I like to call "Everything". I'm just a nice guy who won't sue anyone.
Exactly! I try and explain this to people all the time. Some folks label me (incorrectly) as a "Microsoft Hater" but it just isn't so.
When you use a computer and you get to a certain point when you're figuring things out, sometimes you hit a brick wall. Then you're like WTF? and figure it out. Sometimes that brick wall was put there purposefully.
That's the fundamental difference between Linux and Windows. Windows won't let you do *anything* . Linux won't either, but they're less likely to put obsticles in the way.
Don't believe me? I purchased a PDA recently. An HP Ipaq... I just fell in love with it.
I wanted to learn all about it and see what I could use it for. It came with the most recent version of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition (actually there was a ROM update I did on friday as well.)
There were some things missing... granted, I could go get them. But ssh? Nope. Term services? (Not inlcuded, but easliy downloadable). Out of the box, the machine won't play mp3s. I'm still working on breaking the mold of what is the expected use for this device.
I was thrilled when I could browse network shares on my family's XP machines at home, wirelessly. I go to my Slackware 10 machine running the latest Samba... no go. Kinda odd, isn't it? Scour the web... come to find out there's no real solution to it. (This can be circumvented other ways).
I administrate both Linux and Windows servers, use Linux and Windows at home on a regular basis, and have had some exposure to OSX (friends' machines). I just can't help but feel like I'm being held back sometimes. MS likes to smile at you and say "Look it's easy!", but what are they thinking inside their heads?
...how hard I try, I just can't get Microsoft AntiSpyware installed. It's frustrating! I'd like to know if I have any spyware installed (definitely have Firefox, using it right now).
I guess I'll go "unprotected" for a while, using my dangerous browser. Someone please let me know when this AntiSpyware thing works in Linux?
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This is so funny. I work for an ISP, we already have those things in place, called an AUP. Anyone caught abusing their connection for illegal activity is dealt with. Of course, the RIAA just doesn't like the burden of proof being on them.
/dev/urandom let's say, call it "newest_crappy_song_from_jenifer_lopez.mp3", have it just the right size, and send it from myself to myself on several of my colo boxes on my domain(s). Then for the fun of it, null route all of the RIAAs ips from my personal web/mail servers for when they try and contact me. Then when they snailmail me (or call my isp on the phone, again me because I am my isp), I can show them the bogus file and waste plenty of their time and prove to them just how big of asses they really are.
This has always made me want to fill a file with random bytes from
Ya know, kinda like honeynet for the *AAs. Well, maybe not.
Ok all of you folks who wrote "I've gone X years without a TV!" and "cancel your cable!" ... quick question... do you have a family? The people I live with would lynch me if I removed the TV.
My wife likes TLC because sometimes it has some good ideas, every once in a while, and they have a genuine appeal to make people happy. (ie, look we took this slob and redid his wardrobe or gave him $1000 for his neighbor to remodel a room, and now he's happy!).
Her son likes his shows. Me, I like comedy or news. But I usually find myself watching something they're watching, getting annoyed and getting up and doing something else.
The PVR gets used quite a bit and commercials are pretty funny when you whiz by them at 8x speed and make your own fake chipmunk-sounding voiceovers to them.
Well, I read the first few pages. Let me start out with a disclaimer, lately, I've come to hate TV. There's very few shows I watch and most are a waste of time.
I've always thought... isn't there some technical way to find out what people are watching, anonymously? Like, from PVR prefs or recordings, draw on broadcast antennas (radio or broadcast tv/cable)? I mean, I know my website sucks because it gets like 150 hits a month if I'm lucky. And that's only the ones I probably do myself.
Hell throw out incentive. My grocery store gets my "vote" for what sort of laundry detergent I like because our family buys it all the time, amd obviously its popular because there's tons of coupons for it. Can't they do that with TV? I'll sign up for HBO if you knock a couple of bucks off the bill every month for having me do some (online and accurate) poll.
Maybe this is some kinda weird test by the NYT. Since when did they start having articles you could read without going through their silly registration process?
Hey man, maybe the astronauts were just trying to...
...oh no...
... get high.
ugh. moan.
In my submission for this story, I put "In Soviet America, the OS uses YOU!" ... guess that bunked it for me.
I'm not a "car" person. I can't stand them and don't understand them. Unfortunately everyone uses them and I'm forced to use one everyday, even at work! They're stupid devices which just annoy me. All this techno mumbo jumbo. "Steering Wheel" and "accelerator pedal" and "right-of-way". It's all just a mess. And it's only for Nascar fans anyhow. ... and the prices of gasoline! WOW! Also, I don't understand "oil changes"? I thought it came ready for me to go, I don't want to take it every 3 months or 3,000 miles. That's ridiculous!
Why must I do the "speed limit"? What's a "turn signal"? And worse of all, my "gas meter" is on E! What's that mean? Noone told me I'd have to take it to someplace and get it "filled up"
Leave it to /. to spell "" wrong.
Cracked it already... it's "Bob" encrypted.
Ovid: I apologize for my (other) post. ... s/DUMMY/SILLY/ ... Please consider it friendly banter. Good detective work!
And all I can say is ... "SHRED THOSE CHECKS, DUMMY!". I have a discover card and get those all the time. I *Do NOT* toss them out. They get shredded in about 1 million little pieces.
I shred just about anything that might have any information about me, my family, or my bills or creditors/debtors. This guy coulda saved himself some grief. The kid prolly saw him check his mail from a PO box and then shake his head and toss the checks in the trash, where he retrieved them.
In fact, it bugs me Discover sends me those checks all the time. I never use them, probably never will, and wish they wouldn't send them so frequently.
as for afp.com? a quick null route of 158.50.0.0/16 solves the problem for me.
Bravo. I don't know where I would stand in this, but it's good that google is cooperating. I believe it was that world of ends site that said the Internet was an agreement. If those of us who do not agree with this AFP's actions were to null route it, drop it in our firewalls, blacklist it from our webservers and mail servers, maybe they'd get the point when the rest of the world (or at least portions of it) does not "agree" with them.
Some boycotting and bad publicity can go a long way. If news outlets like NYT are their clients, well, you are their clients' clients. A loud enough voice would be heard eventually. In the end, if I were to pick a product that supported Google or supported these AFP folks, I would go with Google, personally.
For every Good Thing, there are at least 100 different ways to abuse it.
I work for an ISP/Communications company in my area. I recently switched my number over to a beta voip test network we've been playing with. I seriously have no idea if 911 will work correctly. (Seeing as I'm geographically close to our switch, maybe it will).
So I'm a tad concerned about this.
On the other hand, I did have to dial 911 in the last year (or two?), *before* I had the VoIP service, while I had a traditional land line.
An electrical cable outside my house was about 60 years old and it decided it would short in the middle of the night. (Think this was last April or the year before). This was the main power to the house. I went out to investigate, and it was smoldering. I had no idea if the house was burning on the inside of the walls or not.
I run back inside and dial 911. Guess what? The girl didn't know my address. She fumbled for a few minutes and finally I gave it to her.
So if I know 911 had problems beforehand, why would I worry about my voip service? I've tried to make it completely clear to my family if something goes awry, we would need to use our cell phones...
Hmm... isn't the government one of Microsoft's biggest customers? Do they pay them with taxpayer money? Are taxpayers then allowed to "see" source of products from Microsoft?
It's always bugged me that our elected officials hand our money to any vendor they'd like, but then on the flipside, one could argue, that's why they're elected officials.
So, in Microsoft Land,
:o/
- people are stupid
- third world people with little money are even stupider
Oops... missed one.
Onety-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-oneth.
Then 111111111 must be onety-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-oneth ...
Happy Onety-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-oneth !!!
That means I get a refund for uploads, right?
Shouldn't we be asking SCO about this, I mean after, all they... aww hell, nevermind.
Reply to my latest journal entry please.
No no no. I'm afraid I have already patented both breathing and peace. See patent no 0.95, which I like to call "Everything". I'm just a nice guy who won't sue anyone.
Yet.
Exactly! I try and explain this to people all the time. Some folks label me (incorrectly) as a "Microsoft Hater" but it just isn't so.
When you use a computer and you get to a certain point when you're figuring things out, sometimes you hit a brick wall. Then you're like WTF? and figure it out. Sometimes that brick wall was put there purposefully.
That's the fundamental difference between Linux and Windows. Windows won't let you do *anything* . Linux won't either, but they're less likely to put obsticles in the way.
Don't believe me? I purchased a PDA recently. An HP Ipaq... I just fell in love with it.
I wanted to learn all about it and see what I could use it for. It came with the most recent version of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition (actually there was a ROM update I did on friday as well.)
There were some things missing... granted, I could go get them. But ssh? Nope. Term services? (Not inlcuded, but easliy downloadable). Out of the box, the machine won't play mp3s. I'm still working on breaking the mold of what is the expected use for this device.
I was thrilled when I could browse network shares on my family's XP machines at home, wirelessly. I go to my Slackware 10 machine running the latest Samba... no go. Kinda odd, isn't it? Scour the web... come to find out there's no real solution to it. (This can be circumvented other ways).
I administrate both Linux and Windows servers, use Linux and Windows at home on a regular basis, and have had some exposure to OSX (friends' machines). I just can't help but feel like I'm being held back sometimes. MS likes to smile at you and say "Look it's easy!", but what are they thinking inside their heads?
...how hard I try, I just can't get Microsoft AntiSpyware installed. It's frustrating! I'd like to know if I have any spyware installed (definitely have Firefox, using it right now).
I guess I'll go "unprotected" for a while, using my dangerous browser. Someone please let me know when this AntiSpyware thing works in Linux?
"$5 should be enough for anybody."
Or was that 640k? I can't remember.
Everytime there's an SCO story, I feel obligated to comment.
Hmm.. oral hearing? Will I be able to find pictures of Daryl with the kneepads on, on the web soon?