Replying to myself: if testing the UA or the IP in the httpd itself was too much load, you could have also just nullrouted the IP blocks the Bing spider was coming from, either in the kernel table, or in your router.
Seems like a better solution would have been to setup a test for the either the User-Agent, or the IP/blocks that Bing was attacking your site from, and dropping those requests in
windowsonly proprietary-garbage.
You left out the 'could have been' part. None of these were stated as being the reasons for certain.
Maybe your cheap Windows laptop can't play Disney movies, but my (non-Windows) laptop does just fine.
As long as the non-terrorists vastly outnumber the terrorists
Of course, they could always fill an entire plane with terrorists.. I suppose I shouldn't be giving them any ideas, but it probably wouldn't be cost-effective (both in terms of ticket prices and whatever you measure 'suicidal-martyrs-per-terror-induced' in)
with the AT&T reps manner of presenting this, trying to make it sound as if the problems is the caller/potential customer's fault.
Its not that "you (the caller, or New York residents) doesn't have enough towers", its that "We (AT&T) don't have enough towers (in New York)"
My suggestion to the caller, would be to make their next question something along the lines of "So when will AT&T be putting up more towers then?" I mean heck, its not like they even have to build actual *towers* - there are skyscrapers all over the place to stick cells on top of or out the windows at lower floors.
It was good enough 'then', and would still work the same way.
If he is put off by it, perhaps LOGO (Yes, the one with the little 'turtle' that you program to move around and draw lines.
Just a quick comment - the "postal service" is *NOT* remotely related to a 'public option'.
The US Postal Service is *NOT* funded by taxpayer dollars.
You might be able to patent a *particular* implementation of the protocol, but if you think you can patent a 'protocol', you don't understand what a protocol is.
Its like patenting a language. Can you imagine someone patenting English, or French, and then in order to speak it, you'd have to pay a license fee? I'm not talking about books on learning the language, or video courses, or whatever, I'm talking about the language itself.
The review mentions AT&T 3G, but I couldn't find any mention of whether a new AT&T contract is required to buy the device at the stated price. If it is, then fsck that. If it isn't, then 'meh'. Its still pretty expensive. Wait for v 2.0.
Also, if one plugs its USB in, does it appear as 'USB storage', that one can copy PDF's to and be able to read them? Or is one required to use its proprietary software on a proprietary platform to load only special files with DRM?
And how about on wifi? Can one use any sort of standard protocol (ssh, ftp, smb) to copy PDF's in (or out) and/or can it navigate to an arbitrary URL and download a PDF, or does it only support the device accessing company-specified websites to 'buy' books?
Bottom line - Mandatory contract bad. Mandatory proprietary software bad.
The first thing anyone should do after buying a used computer should be to format the drive, and reinstall from scratch. Using someone else's leftover OS setup is just stupid. Of course if I were ever to sell a computer (unlikely, since I save parts and re-use stuff, especially drives) I would certainly wipe the machine before it left my hands.
What I think, is that the world could use a wakeup call about monocultures and software monopolies.
Just imagine if people used arc welders or battleships the way MS encourages people to use their computers. The point is its a tool, not a toy or an appliance, and pretending it isn't allows things like that to happen.
Just because most viruses/trojans don't generally go scorched-earth on the host computer doesn't mean your files are secure.
Want you pictures/videos/novels/papers/"goddamn things" to be secure?
Don't store them on a Windows computer.
The point there, was that if some virus did this, millions of people would learn this, and learn it well.
Sometimes learning is painful. Sometimes people don't learn even after repeated lessons.
(And just so you can feel safe, I don't write viruses or trojans. That would require using a Windows computer, which I don't)
Ah I see you subscribe to the 'popularity myth'.
Thoroughly debunked here:
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
