Chick Tracts, the product of the diseased mind of Jack Chick. A collector's item amongst social atheists... but one must be handed the Chick Tract. You cannot request one yourself or you violate the rules.
I have that one, and a few others. the Evolution and Halloween ones are the funniest. The man is demented, and his cartoons show it.
Most users don't care about ads. A few, like pop-up and pop-under are worthy of a Casino style cornfield beat down to their inventor... but in general they are not a problem. However, since they load SO slow, adblocker is a popular tool for speeding up web browsing.
Before Adblocker was installed, a particular page I visit daily took 10-25 seconds to load in the morning. After the install, it takes less than 3 seconds to load.
That alone is reason enough to block ads. If they exceed their ability to serve ads, they deserve the lost revenue.
Anyone else turned on the the image of every spammer and infinite popup creator getting beat down in a cornfield?
Wow. Your dictionary is defective. Free does not equal "booger eating moron." as you seem to think it does.
A)Deregulation is OK, if done for the right reasons. If done to remove roadblocks to monopolies, then that's just stupid. How many cable companies serve your town? How many broadband providers can you get that compete directly with each other? Far, far fewer than before deregulation, I assure you. If you can find any to compete. We pay more for a DSL connection in the US than Europeans pay for commercial broadband connections. Because they have competition.
B) By not re-confirming an existing ban, he's the great white hope? It just means no one paid him to renew it. I'll concede he has failed to bork this one while he has been in power. Term ain't over yet.
C) Tax cuts? We are fighting two wars, and he's cutting taxes? And you see this as a good thing? Money doesn't grow on trees, though he's printing it like it does. War is expensive. We had the infrastructure to pay for it, but he chose ti dismantle that instead. This is not the act of a wise man.
D) Removing a dictator. Hooray. And why, exactly, did we need to start a second war when we were enmeshed in a war with people that had attacked us already? That is not smart. That is not freedom. That is just plain stupid.
I don't want a Democrat in office, I'd be happy with a Republican for a change. We haven't had one of those in 30 years. We've had some wearing a Republican mask, but none who actually try to be Republicans. Sadly, Clinton came the closest with a balanced economic policy. Pay as you go and balanced budgets are a Republican tenet. Something else to hate Clinton for, this dastardly un-Democratic behavior.
I dropped out of high school. I am by no means rich, and don't have the standard internet success story of 6 cars, 2 wives, 3 houses and $100,000 a month income as claimed by 90% of all 13 year olds queried.... but I ain't hurting.
Now, I did, after 10 years, go ahead and grab a double major in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration.... but that was to get past a glass ceiling I was encountering.
When I started in IT, there were no relevant degrees, and we were all self taught. A few had degrees of some field or another, and they moved a little faster. Times change, there are degrees in the field, and us old dinosaurs, no matter how many years experience we had, found advancements being filled by PFY's fresh out of college. (And, as it turns out, hand-holding them through a job that the company decided we weren't qualified to do... yet we were good enough to do our won job and this inexperienced punk's as well)
If he does not lose all the money he made spamming, then no. He needs to be deprived of his ill gotten gains. Life in prison would do that effectively.
If they can find out how much he has made, and confiscate it all, as well as enough to hit his initial value hard (the deterrent part of the punishment) then he need only serve a year or two and come out poor, with a federal injunction against ever using the internet again.
"(By the way, I'm a Christian, and one who holds to the young-earth ideas. I'm working on a Physics minor and have a great deal of interest in Quantum theory (I hate string theory, hope it dies a horrible painful death) and physics in general."
Leave school before you waste anymore of daddy's money. Go to Seminary, where your utter lack of the basics of science will actually help you instead of hinter you.
My concern is the apparent desire to not hold people responsible for their actions.
Kids know the sites are blocked, and not allowed in school.
They know circumventing the blocks to get there is wrong.
They choose to brave the consequences and do it anyway.
And now you want to take those consequences away? Please don't have children; we don't need any more self-centered thugs.
Yes, the school needs to also update their security. They aren't in the clear either. but they are perfectly right, just, and performing a needed and necessary act by holding these kids responsible for their choices.
I used to think the same way. Then I showed up for work at a new job. I worked a couple of weeks, learned the layout of various sites. I was horrified to find that a 150 person office was running off a business cable internet connection. VOIP and all.
I looked at the records. It had been running for 3 years without a single interruption of service. I was willing to call bullshit, but the boss wanted to leave it be. So I did.
2 years later, it is still running, and we had 1 interruption... a junior accountant forgot to send the checks for 3 months so they cut it off. Back on within an hour with the promise that all fines and back fees are on the way.
The accountant is expected to make a full recovery with therapy and a new butt implant.
Myspace, Facebook, etc have been used for bullying since day 1. There is no educational content on any of them. Why are they (and all the proxies) not nullrouted at the firewall already? I bet playboy.com and stormfront.org already are.
Any site that is nothing but trouble should be nullrouted by default (both by name and IP block) at a school. Myspace sits squarely in that category.
Let the little turds look at it from home.
They have such a policy. They have banned accounts in the 100,000 range thus far.
The issue is they give out those 14 day free accounts, and the Chinese farmers use those to bot and farm till they are banned and make another free account. They need to quit slitting their own throat and end that practice.
When it costs you $39US to get banned, it becomes self regulating. I lost my first account because I screwed around with the tools and bots out of curiosity. $40 and a do-over later I won't touch them.
Wowglider = cheating. Agreed.
Blizz doing whatever it wants to stop it = asinine. There are limits to anything, and this is too far.
I have a reserved parking space. If someone parks in it, I have the right to have them towed. I do not have the right to sue them for their car.
I seriously doubt this is the case. The warranty does state that you will have to perform troubleshooting, up to and uncluding a full re-install to factory spec. The warranty is not void, as is bandied about here a lot, the user refused service by refusing to troubleshoot as per the warranty. They will be happy to warranty the unit as soon as the user resumes troubleshooting, which would require the original configuration.
I worked as a support tech for HP for more years than I care to admit, up to management before I moved on. I saw this issue often, and it was always the same. It might be running anything, but HP cannot vouch for the drivers they did not provide, including keyboard drivers.
As a workaround I have been known to 'suggest' that a user booted in to a Xp/2000 LiveCD could continue troubleshooting.... as long as they failed to mention that config to the tech.
If the user dual-booted it back in to the original OS HP would troubleshoot with her and provide service.
there are Linux supported hardware in HP, but it is all servers and very high end workstations. No non-professional/end-user aimed hardware when I left in 2005.
The RBL blocks nobody.
No one. Not a single person, place, or thing.
Nada.
They publish a blackhole list. ISP's choose to use that list or not to block.
Also, they are an organization dedicated to spam control. It is not their place nor goal to filter everything. It is a matter of focus. You don;t expect an ambulance to show up and put out your fire.... Injury and fire are both things that need attention, but you focus on one or the other and let the others handle the leftover.
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Chick Tracts, the product of the diseased mind of Jack Chick. A collector's item amongst social atheists... but one must be handed the Chick Tract. You cannot request one yourself or you violate the rules. I have that one, and a few others. the Evolution and Halloween ones are the funniest. The man is demented, and his cartoons show it.
Anybody?
Most users don't care about ads. A few, like pop-up and pop-under are worthy of a Casino style cornfield beat down to their inventor... but in general they are not a problem. However, since they load SO slow, adblocker is a popular tool for speeding up web browsing. Before Adblocker was installed, a particular page I visit daily took 10-25 seconds to load in the morning. After the install, it takes less than 3 seconds to load. That alone is reason enough to block ads. If they exceed their ability to serve ads, they deserve the lost revenue. Anyone else turned on the the image of every spammer and infinite popup creator getting beat down in a cornfield?
Can I punish them to get pleasure from their suffering?
For my Prius. Instead of smelling like french fries like a biodiesel, would it smell like a banana beer float?
Wow. Your dictionary is defective. Free does not equal "booger eating moron." as you seem to think it does.
A)Deregulation is OK, if done for the right reasons. If done to remove roadblocks to monopolies, then that's just stupid. How many cable companies serve your town? How many broadband providers can you get that compete directly with each other? Far, far fewer than before deregulation, I assure you. If you can find any to compete. We pay more for a DSL connection in the US than Europeans pay for commercial broadband connections. Because they have competition.
B) By not re-confirming an existing ban, he's the great white hope? It just means no one paid him to renew it. I'll concede he has failed to bork this one while he has been in power. Term ain't over yet.
C) Tax cuts? We are fighting two wars, and he's cutting taxes? And you see this as a good thing? Money doesn't grow on trees, though he's printing it like it does. War is expensive. We had the infrastructure to pay for it, but he chose ti dismantle that instead. This is not the act of a wise man.
D) Removing a dictator. Hooray. And why, exactly, did we need to start a second war when we were enmeshed in a war with people that had attacked us already? That is not smart. That is not freedom. That is just plain stupid.
I don't want a Democrat in office, I'd be happy with a Republican for a change. We haven't had one of those in 30 years. We've had some wearing a Republican mask, but none who actually try to be Republicans. Sadly, Clinton came the closest with a balanced economic policy. Pay as you go and balanced budgets are a Republican tenet. Something else to hate Clinton for, this dastardly un-Democratic behavior.
Alan Ralsky Andrew Brunner Sanford Wallace Jeff Slaton A few I remember from my term at the mailserver helm.
Yes, you are the only one. My concept of justice looks like the cornfield scene in Casino....
I dropped out of high school. I am by no means rich, and don't have the standard internet success story of 6 cars, 2 wives, 3 houses and $100,000 a month income as claimed by 90% of all 13 year olds queried.... but I ain't hurting. Now, I did, after 10 years, go ahead and grab a double major in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration.... but that was to get past a glass ceiling I was encountering. When I started in IT, there were no relevant degrees, and we were all self taught. A few had degrees of some field or another, and they moved a little faster. Times change, there are degrees in the field, and us old dinosaurs, no matter how many years experience we had, found advancements being filled by PFY's fresh out of college. (And, as it turns out, hand-holding them through a job that the company decided we weren't qualified to do... yet we were good enough to do our won job and this inexperienced punk's as well)
Yes and no.
If he does not lose all the money he made spamming, then no. He needs to be deprived of his ill gotten gains. Life in prison would do that effectively.
If they can find out how much he has made, and confiscate it all, as well as enough to hit his initial value hard (the deterrent part of the punishment) then he need only serve a year or two and come out poor, with a federal injunction against ever using the internet again.
"(By the way, I'm a Christian, and one who holds to the young-earth ideas. I'm working on a Physics minor and have a great deal of interest in Quantum theory (I hate string theory, hope it dies a horrible painful death) and physics in general."
Leave school before you waste anymore of daddy's money. Go to Seminary, where your utter lack of the basics of science will actually help you instead of hinter you.
My will says "Give away any parts anyone wants, burn the rest."
My concern is the apparent desire to not hold people responsible for their actions. Kids know the sites are blocked, and not allowed in school. They know circumventing the blocks to get there is wrong. They choose to brave the consequences and do it anyway. And now you want to take those consequences away? Please don't have children; we don't need any more self-centered thugs. Yes, the school needs to also update their security. They aren't in the clear either. but they are perfectly right, just, and performing a needed and necessary act by holding these kids responsible for their choices.
I used to think the same way. Then I showed up for work at a new job. I worked a couple of weeks, learned the layout of various sites. I was horrified to find that a 150 person office was running off a business cable internet connection. VOIP and all. I looked at the records. It had been running for 3 years without a single interruption of service. I was willing to call bullshit, but the boss wanted to leave it be. So I did. 2 years later, it is still running, and we had 1 interruption... a junior accountant forgot to send the checks for 3 months so they cut it off. Back on within an hour with the promise that all fines and back fees are on the way. The accountant is expected to make a full recovery with therapy and a new butt implant.
Former SSgt, USMC... there are ex Marines. They usually end their career in leavenworth though. (A dishonorably discharged Marine is an Ex Marine....)
Well, to be Nazi like he would have to become a Christian, then gas people and bury them in mass graves. Just for historical accuracy, you know.
Myspace, Facebook, etc have been used for bullying since day 1. There is no educational content on any of them. Why are they (and all the proxies) not nullrouted at the firewall already? I bet playboy.com and stormfront.org already are. Any site that is nothing but trouble should be nullrouted by default (both by name and IP block) at a school. Myspace sits squarely in that category. Let the little turds look at it from home.
thank you.
Your source? Any attempt I have seen to get info on what Warden is doing has been met with a stony silence.
They have such a policy. They have banned accounts in the 100,000 range thus far. The issue is they give out those 14 day free accounts, and the Chinese farmers use those to bot and farm till they are banned and make another free account. They need to quit slitting their own throat and end that practice. When it costs you $39US to get banned, it becomes self regulating. I lost my first account because I screwed around with the tools and bots out of curiosity. $40 and a do-over later I won't touch them.
Wowglider = cheating. Agreed. Blizz doing whatever it wants to stop it = asinine. There are limits to anything, and this is too far. I have a reserved parking space. If someone parks in it, I have the right to have them towed. I do not have the right to sue them for their car.
Tapes? You had tapes? Coddled bum. you don't know pain until you've dropped a box of punch cards.
I seriously doubt this is the case. The warranty does state that you will have to perform troubleshooting, up to and uncluding a full re-install to factory spec. The warranty is not void, as is bandied about here a lot, the user refused service by refusing to troubleshoot as per the warranty. They will be happy to warranty the unit as soon as the user resumes troubleshooting, which would require the original configuration. I worked as a support tech for HP for more years than I care to admit, up to management before I moved on. I saw this issue often, and it was always the same. It might be running anything, but HP cannot vouch for the drivers they did not provide, including keyboard drivers. As a workaround I have been known to 'suggest' that a user booted in to a Xp/2000 LiveCD could continue troubleshooting.... as long as they failed to mention that config to the tech. If the user dual-booted it back in to the original OS HP would troubleshoot with her and provide service. there are Linux supported hardware in HP, but it is all servers and very high end workstations. No non-professional/end-user aimed hardware when I left in 2005.
The RBL blocks nobody. No one. Not a single person, place, or thing. Nada. They publish a blackhole list. ISP's choose to use that list or not to block.
Also, they are an organization dedicated to spam control. It is not their place nor goal to filter everything. It is a matter of focus. You don;t expect an ambulance to show up and put out your fire.... Injury and fire are both things that need attention, but you focus on one or the other and let the others handle the leftover.