What you are missing is that it fundamentally comes down to good vs. evil in the minds of the democrats challenging this. I really didn't understand it until I thought of it in that light. Bush is evil, Gore is the good guy. We can't let the bad guy win can we? The ends justify the means right? We'll spend 10 years in court if we must but good must triumph in the end or our entire concept of our fairytale liberal existence must come to an end. Not to mention, you really do see the conservative vs. liberal stints of the two parties. The GOP asks for a strict interpretation of the Constitution while the Democrats want it more fluid and changing to the "will of the people". The democrats will be happy with nothing less than Al Gore being declared the winner. That's a sad fact but it's true. Come on guys, we had to live through 8 years of Clinton for christ sakes. You can live through 4 years of W. Bush! The sky will not fall, the world will not end, Social Security and medicare will not go away. In fact, if anything happens our stock market will get back on track and we'll all get a tax cut out of it. If Gore wins I wouldn't want to have any money in the markets because your stock is going to tank.
So, theoretically, your margin of error would have made Gore win the first manual recount. He didn't. Bush has been ahead in every recount, even after recounts were done in only 3 heavily democratic counties. I am sorely waiting for the US Supreme Court to hand the Florida State Supreme Court an ass whoopin for violating the United States Constitution and the 14th ammendment.
If machine recounts are more accurate than hand recounts, why was there a difference of 1400 votes after the second machine recount? Sure as hell doesn't sound like "two votes in a million" to me.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the ballot boxes that kept turning up that poll workers had just "forgot" to turn in. Woopsie. "Hey.. I realize this is like.. my ONLY obligation in this whole process.. to turn in this box.. but I just plum forgot. Hey look at that.. 95% of the votes happen to be for Al Gore. Isn't it a good thing I found this box of ballotsin my trunk?"
You do make a very good point. At more than $40k US per year it costs quite a bit per inmate. I would say if we're going to start killing them we start with the hard offenders. Murderers on life sentences, rapists, etc. Basically the sh*t of human existence. The people that don't deserve to breath the same air as their victims. Do we really need to subsidize the prison life of a life sentence inmate? I mean, what's the point anyway?
Of course, if that machine is exploited then your soft-gooey inside network is open to attack as well. Best to place your DMZ on the third interface of a firewall and seperate the traffic. Your bastion host shouldn't be trusted by any of your internal hosts. Course.. I guess if we're just talking home systems there's not much to lose. Maybe your checkbook in Quicken or something.:-)
Actually, Napster is more like a directory server and nothing more. Sure there are chat rooms and such but those are secondary to the main purpose of providing a directory service.
Broker the connection in some way that magically splices together two client-initiated TCP sessions.
What the flying fuck was that sentence about?
Well, it sounds like they were trying to say that many firewalls these days block all incoming traffic except to designated server hosts. The rest can still usually initiate outbound connections (but even this is starting to change as default deny inbound AND outbound starts becoming the norm). They'd connect to this magical relay host which would act as a "broker". i.e. In non-idiot speak, it sounds like they're talking about a client-server proxy which just passes traffic between two connecting hosts. Big deal.
And now:
I was sure Napster didn't do relaying, that would require massive bandwidth
Please! Help me! I am *paid* to know about networking. What is this "relaying" thing that 'requires massive bandwidth'? Am I going to lose my job?
You're paid to know about networking and don't understand relaying? How about proxies? Client A connects to Server A which in turn connects to Server B. Server A passes traffic between Client A and Server B. Again, what it sounds like they're talking about is instead, Client A and Client B would connect to Server A and Server A would pass traffic between Client A's socket and Client B's socket. Actually that'd be a pretty simple daemon to write. Listen for two connections and pass any incoming traffic from one socket to the other and handle flow control.
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Well, if you had enough old boxes you could make a nice Beowulf cluster. Ooh shit, I'm going to get moderated down for that one. Seriously though, you can do a lot of things with an old box. Low cost X terminal, personal mail server, squid proxy cache, etc. You're obviously not going to be playing a lot of 3D games like Quake on a 486 but it's fine for text browsing the web with lynx or read mail with mutt.:-)
If there's anything our good friends the French should have learned, it's that building an impenetrable defensive line is ludicrous. Why? Because you'll just have them go around your defenses through Belgium.
Well, from a business perspective it doesn't really matter. Most companies are already paying maintenance fees on their software licenses anyway. I don't see much difference between paying a maintenance fee to get upgrades with products and paying a subscription. For example, on our firewall software we pay X number of dollars per year and get upgrades whenever they become available. It's perpetual and we never really buy any "new" software versions since they're part of our subscription service. Now, I really couldn't care less about MS Office since Staroffice works just fine for my needs.;-)
You can run fiber to your ISP and get 1-10Gb/sec as well. Unfortunately you're going to face the same problem as you would with this wireless service. Somewhere, your ISP is going to have to connect its fat pipes into someone else's fat pipes. Unless they're peering they're going to pay a fat fee and pass it back to you. The Internet is no longer free.:-)
Why don't you just get a wireless 802.11b card then? We were playing with some Xircom cards at a conference and they work pretty well. Only problems that start arising is when there are more than about 25-30 people accessing an access point at once (I guess it really IS the limit), all hell breaks lose and ping times shoot up to 850 ms and you get about 85% packet loss. You can get one of these cards for about $160-$170 on the web. Plug and play with Win2k. Stuck the card in my laptop, stuck in the cd for it to copy the drivers, rebooted and was synced up to the Cisco access point without changing anything.
I would've tried the Linux WLAN support with my older ZoomAir 802.11 card (Harris Prism chipset) but I can never connect to the ftp site where the drivers are to download them. Actually, I guess now they have it working via http so I'll have to give that a shot at home. Maybe then I can replace Win98 on my adhoc based 802.11 access point I built painfully out of a P5-90 with 16 megs of ram with Linux. Though, oddly enough I get decent performance out of Win98 as an accesspoint if you turn ip forwarding on and don't have the box doing ANYTHING else.:-)
Please, it would be better if you would not bring up such delicate issues involving intellectual property. I am hoping to get out of any future English classes I may have to take on the grounds that I may mistakenly recall a poem or two and violate the intellectual property rights of the author and publisher.
Why does this really suprise anyone though? I don't know about your library, but mine never had any porn magazines around. I think the closest thing we found were National Geographic... and maybe a biology book that had the human reproductive system explained in it. The Internet is a fine resource, but should we really expect the library to provide us high speed unrestricted access so we can browse porn? What's next? 36" TVs in a secluded room so we can watch adult movies? Hustler back issues? What your library does and doesn't filter with regards to content comes down to community standards more than it comes down to the Illuminati in a smoke filled room deciding to keep information from being freely available. If you got enough people from the city to sign a petition asking for unrestricted Internet access I don't see why they wouldn't comply with your wishes. At the very least they'd setup a private room where the browsing could be done in a less open environment where the public and kids wouldn't be exposed to it, etc.
This isn't really about censoring anyone, it's about controlling a network resource IMHO. We use Smartfilter at a site with about 4000 users and after a few grumbling at the start, we barely get 1 request for an exemption to a blocked site per week. Generally Secure Computing does a decent job of keeping their list updated. I would say if you stick to a short list of categories to block (I think our main ones are sex, drugs, criminal skills (have to exempt securityfocus.com and 2600.com though!;-), gambling, and a couple of others) you shouldn't have much trouble. Again, this isn't about censorship is general, it's about controlling the network resource for business reasons. After adding the filters the amount of superfluous porn browsing dropped by over 95%. Like it or not, it WAS eating up a lot of our bandwidth. Call it poor management, call it dumb users, call it whatever you want, but there's no reason workers should be sitting browsing porn while on the job.
Now, as for the anonymizer sites and the proxies, I don't think there is anything that can be done about them. Their main purpose it to be setup to bypass "censorware" so they must be blocked. It's a losing battle of course.. kind of like playing whack-a-mole. Once you kill one another pops up right away. I'm sure there are thousands out there that people have just setup that aren't on the list. You just have to take decent precautions against flagrant abuse and hope the rest of the people aren't abusing your resources. The only other way to fix it is to have strenuous reviewing of the logs, authenticating to the proxy for tracking purposes, etc. We don't have the time to do #1 and the users would scream bloody murder if we did #2.
I must be missing something here, but I remember my Atari 7800 played my friend's Atari 2600 games just fine. I guess I never tried playing ALL the games out there but I never found one I had a problem with. That's the reason I got a 7800 instead of the newer version of the 2600 anyway. I could play his games and still play the newer games for the 7800.
I'm sure there are more than a few parent-oriented volunteer organizations that could police it for them.. at least.kids. Personally I see nothing wrong with that. Instead of leaving it wide open like.com, insist they have a viable web site plan, sign a waver to follow the rules (and face termination if they disobey them), etc. Generally weed out all the lusers registering vanity domains and porn sites. Now, all that's really left would be Disney.kids but hey.. what else do kids want?
Ohhh, maybe they will sell this technology too. Then I can finally categorize all my mp3's. I've got a couple that I can't tell whether they're Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears. With this cool technology I could just run it and it'd go grab some info from cddb.com and voila. This rules! heh.;-)
I guess you can test that theory about infinite monkeys being able to reproduce the complete works of Britney Spears.:-) "I swear to god, that link was/dev/random. I have no idea how it completely reproduced that song!"
That's a typo right? The Soviets concentrated their forces on their *western* borders. Actually, you're also neglecting to mention that the soviet union was preparing to push deep into Japan from the north up in Mongolia. If that had happened we would have faced a similarly divided Japan (except North being communist, south being free) as we saw in Germany after WWII. By dropping the two bombs they also didn't have to execute a full scale invasion of the island.. something that would have cost BOTH sides millions of lives, civilian and military. If you're going to spout revisionist history, at least study the actual events so you can sound more convincing.
After getting some cheap 802.11 2 meg wireless cards for my laptop I don't EVER want to go back to dragging that 50 ft ethernet cable around anymore.:-) It is so nice to be able to kick back on the couch without any wireless dangling around for someone to trip on (taking your $2500 laptop along with them right out of your hand!:-).
You mean you don't have a phone jack and power outlet near your toilet? Do you have an outhouse or something? Though, having a phone in the bathroom would suck. Nothing like getting a call while on the toilet. I would imagine it being much worse than having dinner interrupted by a telemarketer.:-)
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What you are missing is that it fundamentally comes down to good vs. evil in the minds of the democrats challenging this. I really didn't understand it until I thought of it in that light. Bush is evil, Gore is the good guy. We can't let the bad guy win can we? The ends justify the means right? We'll spend 10 years in court if we must but good must triumph in the end or our entire concept of our fairytale liberal existence must come to an end. Not to mention, you really do see the conservative vs. liberal stints of the two parties. The GOP asks for a strict interpretation of the Constitution while the Democrats want it more fluid and changing to the "will of the people". The democrats will be happy with nothing less than Al Gore being declared the winner. That's a sad fact but it's true. Come on guys, we had to live through 8 years of Clinton for christ sakes. You can live through 4 years of W. Bush! The sky will not fall, the world will not end, Social Security and medicare will not go away. In fact, if anything happens our stock market will get back on track and we'll all get a tax cut out of it. If Gore wins I wouldn't want to have any money in the markets because your stock is going to tank.
So, theoretically, your margin of error would have made Gore win the first manual recount. He didn't. Bush has been ahead in every recount, even after recounts were done in only 3 heavily democratic counties. I am sorely waiting for the US Supreme Court to hand the Florida State Supreme Court an ass whoopin for violating the United States Constitution and the 14th ammendment.
If machine recounts are more accurate than hand recounts, why was there a difference of 1400 votes after the second machine recount? Sure as hell doesn't sound like "two votes in a million" to me.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the ballot boxes that kept turning up that poll workers had just "forgot" to turn in. Woopsie. "Hey.. I realize this is like.. my ONLY obligation in this whole process.. to turn in this box.. but I just plum forgot. Hey look at that.. 95% of the votes happen to be for Al Gore. Isn't it a good thing I found this box of ballotsin my trunk?"
You do make a very good point. At more than $40k US per year it costs quite a bit per inmate. I would say if we're going to start killing them we start with the hard offenders. Murderers on life sentences, rapists, etc. Basically the sh*t of human existence. The people that don't deserve to breath the same air as their victims. Do we really need to subsidize the prison life of a life sentence inmate? I mean, what's the point anyway?
Of course, if that machine is exploited then your soft-gooey inside network is open to attack as well. Best to place your DMZ on the third interface of a firewall and seperate the traffic. Your bastion host shouldn't be trusted by any of your internal hosts. Course.. I guess if we're just talking home systems there's not much to lose. Maybe your checkbook in Quicken or something. :-)
Actually, Napster is more like a directory server and nothing more. Sure there are chat rooms and such but those are secondary to the main purpose of providing a directory service.
Broker the connection in some way that magically splices together two client-initiated TCP sessions.
What the flying fuck was that sentence about?
Well, it sounds like they were trying to say that many firewalls these days block all incoming traffic except to designated server hosts. The rest can still usually initiate outbound connections (but even this is starting to change as default deny inbound AND outbound starts becoming the norm). They'd connect to this magical relay host which would act as a "broker". i.e. In non-idiot speak, it sounds like they're talking about a client-server proxy which just passes traffic between two connecting hosts. Big deal.
And now:
I was sure Napster didn't do relaying, that would require massive bandwidth
Please! Help me! I am *paid* to know about networking. What is this "relaying" thing that 'requires massive bandwidth'? Am I going to lose my job?
You're paid to know about networking and don't understand relaying? How about proxies? Client A connects to Server A which in turn connects to Server B. Server A passes traffic between Client A and Server B. Again, what it sounds like they're talking about is instead, Client A and Client B would connect to Server A and Server A would pass traffic between Client A's socket and Client B's socket. Actually that'd be a pretty simple daemon to write. Listen for two connections and pass any incoming traffic from one socket to the other and handle flow control.
Well, if you had enough old boxes you could make a nice Beowulf cluster. Ooh shit, I'm going to get moderated down for that one. Seriously though, you can do a lot of things with an old box. Low cost X terminal, personal mail server, squid proxy cache, etc. You're obviously not going to be playing a lot of 3D games like Quake on a 486 but it's fine for text browsing the web with lynx or read mail with mutt. :-)
If there's anything our good friends the French should have learned, it's that building an impenetrable defensive line is ludicrous. Why? Because you'll just have them go around your defenses through Belgium.
I think it's on the Windows CD. It's a free Word document viewer (for Windows of course). I'm sure you can also download it from M$'s site.
You know as well as I do that it was just some dumb marketing gimmick so they could call it "Windows ME". ;-)
Well, from a business perspective it doesn't really matter. Most companies are already paying maintenance fees on their software licenses anyway. I don't see much difference between paying a maintenance fee to get upgrades with products and paying a subscription. For example, on our firewall software we pay X number of dollars per year and get upgrades whenever they become available. It's perpetual and we never really buy any "new" software versions since they're part of our subscription service. Now, I really couldn't care less about MS Office since Staroffice works just fine for my needs. ;-)
You can run fiber to your ISP and get 1-10Gb/sec as well. Unfortunately you're going to face the same problem as you would with this wireless service. Somewhere, your ISP is going to have to connect its fat pipes into someone else's fat pipes. Unless they're peering they're going to pay a fat fee and pass it back to you. The Internet is no longer free. :-)
I would've tried the Linux WLAN support with my older ZoomAir 802.11 card (Harris Prism chipset) but I can never connect to the ftp site where the drivers are to download them. Actually, I guess now they have it working via http so I'll have to give that a shot at home. Maybe then I can replace Win98 on my adhoc based 802.11 access point I built painfully out of a P5-90 with 16 megs of ram with Linux. Though, oddly enough I get decent performance out of Win98 as an accesspoint if you turn ip forwarding on and don't have the box doing ANYTHING else. :-)
Please, it would be better if you would not bring up such delicate issues involving intellectual property. I am hoping to get out of any future English classes I may have to take on the grounds that I may mistakenly recall a poem or two and violate the intellectual property rights of the author and publisher.
Why does this really suprise anyone though? I don't know about your library, but mine never had any porn magazines around. I think the closest thing we found were National Geographic... and maybe a biology book that had the human reproductive system explained in it. The Internet is a fine resource, but should we really expect the library to provide us high speed unrestricted access so we can browse porn? What's next? 36" TVs in a secluded room so we can watch adult movies? Hustler back issues? What your library does and doesn't filter with regards to content comes down to community standards more than it comes down to the Illuminati in a smoke filled room deciding to keep information from being freely available. If you got enough people from the city to sign a petition asking for unrestricted Internet access I don't see why they wouldn't comply with your wishes. At the very least they'd setup a private room where the browsing could be done in a less open environment where the public and kids wouldn't be exposed to it, etc.
Now, as for the anonymizer sites and the proxies, I don't think there is anything that can be done about them. Their main purpose it to be setup to bypass "censorware" so they must be blocked. It's a losing battle of course.. kind of like playing whack-a-mole. Once you kill one another pops up right away. I'm sure there are thousands out there that people have just setup that aren't on the list. You just have to take decent precautions against flagrant abuse and hope the rest of the people aren't abusing your resources. The only other way to fix it is to have strenuous reviewing of the logs, authenticating to the proxy for tracking purposes, etc. We don't have the time to do #1 and the users would scream bloody murder if we did #2.
I must be missing something here, but I remember my Atari 7800 played my friend's Atari 2600 games just fine. I guess I never tried playing ALL the games out there but I never found one I had a problem with. That's the reason I got a 7800 instead of the newer version of the 2600 anyway. I could play his games and still play the newer games for the 7800.
I'm sure there are more than a few parent-oriented volunteer organizations that could police it for them.. at least .kids. Personally I see nothing wrong with that. Instead of leaving it wide open like .com, insist they have a viable web site plan, sign a waver to follow the rules (and face termination if they disobey them), etc. Generally weed out all the lusers registering vanity domains and porn sites. Now, all that's really left would be Disney.kids but hey.. what else do kids want?
Well NOW you tell them. It may have also saved us from the "Oops I did it again" album(really "crap").
Ohhh, maybe they will sell this technology too. Then I can finally categorize all my mp3's. I've got a couple that I can't tell whether they're Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears. With this cool technology I could just run it and it'd go grab some info from cddb.com and voila. This rules! heh. ;-)
I guess you can test that theory about infinite monkeys being able to reproduce the complete works of Britney Spears. :-) "I swear to god, that link was /dev/random. I have no idea how it completely reproduced that song!"
That's a typo right? The Soviets concentrated their forces on their *western* borders. Actually, you're also neglecting to mention that the soviet union was preparing to push deep into Japan from the north up in Mongolia. If that had happened we would have faced a similarly divided Japan (except North being communist, south being free) as we saw in Germany after WWII. By dropping the two bombs they also didn't have to execute a full scale invasion of the island.. something that would have cost BOTH sides millions of lives, civilian and military. If you're going to spout revisionist history, at least study the actual events so you can sound more convincing.
After getting some cheap 802.11 2 meg wireless cards for my laptop I don't EVER want to go back to dragging that 50 ft ethernet cable around anymore. :-) It is so nice to be able to kick back on the couch without any wireless dangling around for someone to trip on (taking your $2500 laptop along with them right out of your hand! :-).
You mean you don't have a phone jack and power outlet near your toilet? Do you have an outhouse or something? Though, having a phone in the bathroom would suck. Nothing like getting a call while on the toilet. I would imagine it being much worse than having dinner interrupted by a telemarketer. :-)